#wheezes and dies

[nerdydowntherabbithole]

Soo uhhhh was babysitting all today and didn't get a chance 2 write sooo. Posting this and then writing to avoid concequences but

Yeah made an iterator oc a while ago and here they are. Wishing on Falling Stars aka the king of cats. Long rambling lore under cut lmao

So! Star is a pretty young iterator who has,,,kinda abandoned their former purpose out of anger and spite. Star and her two brothers, Lands Unknown and Swiftly Rising Waters were built on VERY risky and unstable ground. The three are built next to (And INTO, in the case of Star) a mountain right next to the ocean. LU and SRW needed constant upkeep and adjustment. Due to this, shortly after the ascension, they both just completely collapsed from their own rains. Star, upon this happening, PANICKED. They adore their brothers, and was terrified of loosing them. So pretty quick, she started a breeding program for a ton of things to perform maintenance on the two. Which was the start of a...VERY slippery slope into crazy cat lady. Star is, generally, a VERY kind iterator. Helpful to a fault and far too caring. However, this made for some problems after ascension, because man she got lonely QUICK. Her brothers were the closest thing they had, and even while the two are similarly caring, it was tough. So when they started genetic engineering, they got. ATTACHED. So they bred more. And more. And uhhh woops! Suddenly Star's city is literally just full of creatures. Star is in no way unhappy with this. It was in their period of loneliness, however, that she got BITTER over the ancients abandoning them and leaving them to rot. INCREDIBLY so. In a fit of rage, she promised to never work on the Great Problem again, and has thus far stuck to it. Nowadays, she's still keeping busy! Realizing the whole thing with iterators slowly breaking down, she actually started a little program to send special units out to perform maintenance on iterators who request it, or scout out problems anybody thinks they may have. These units get around pretty much everywhere by using a smaller, faster, domesticated breed of vulture. NOW MORE RANDOM FACTS. -One of the smallest cans out there! Very tiny, in comparison. As such, their creators thought it funny to give them just a MASSIVE puppet. No specific height now but it could be anywhere from 10 feet or higher -Occasional fits of anger. She'll get masks to break nowadays since she already had all the art of the ancients torn down long ago. Never lets anyone see these. -Always has an overseer with their brothers at all times. -No less than 5 scugs in their chamber at all times. Occasionally babysits pups. -Has domesticated everything from aforementioned vultures to scavs to lizards to, well, most things. All too happy to send people blueprints and stuff of their process -Completely functional city! They grow and process food, make art, go about various jobs, it's kinda like it was before but with creatures. -Doesn't need payment for maintenance requests, but always appreciates whatever anybody gives. -Absolutely IMMACULATE can compared to a lot of iterators. Their creatures have learned to do their jobs well. -Trying to work on things to help the rot but it's slow going since she will NOT let any actual rot near her can, has to work with iterators who do have it remotely. -Sadder than you might think

[cantankerouscatfish]

mowing the lawn is a fun exercise in 'eyes get so gooped up that I can hardly see but after like 20 minutes it's fine'

[suntails]

governance

[lostforce132]

The gas leak was definitely strong lol

[casualavocados]

What are you proud of?

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 03 / Ep. 06

Bonus:

[cinder-starlight]

My friend and I finished season 1 and are a little through season 2 and here’s some random moments I’ve screenshotted that made us laugh so far

Goofy Limburger reactions

Modo and Throttle hittin the Victoria secret pose

My friend and I died laughing at this and she said

“It’s the equivalent of ‘I wear glasses so no one can tell what I’m looking at’ *insert very obviously looking at something*”

As well as “I know what you are 👁️👁️”

Needless to say I will recreate this meme at some point

If you don’t see it—we thought throttle was checking out Charley

This made my friend question why throttle is posed like that and I I wheezed so hard

My friend and I adore Throttle with sleeves

This is meme potential

If you couldn’t tell- Throttle is our favorite

We also wheezed our lungs out because she said Throttle had ‘a whole bakery’

I cried laughing

[sforzesco]

"In some such families, brothers practiced what is known as temporary marriages, where several brothers would marry a single wife, who would bear heirs to all of them in turn. While the Roman ideology of the univira, a woman's devotion to one husband, seems at odds with the practice of temporary marriage, the way Crassus stepped into his brother's marriage suggests that his family may have opted to allow only two sons to marry in order to secure the family's future. When his brother died, Crassus took the opportunity to move from uncle to husband, a move that may have served his own interests as well as fraternal pietas."

[The brothers of Romulus: fraternal Pietas in Roman law, literature, and society by Bannon, Cynthia Jordan]

@p-clodius-pulcher showed me this crazy quote, wherein "his family may have opted to allow only two sons to marry" made me go "so you are saying in a later era, Crassus would be a priest".

OHHHH THIS IS DELICIOUS. every discussion revolving around Crassus' marriage to his sister-in-law is so so fun. we have archaic traditions & obligations, there's the matter of keeping the dowry in the family (which in turn lends to a fun exploration of the economy at the time, wrt to crassus' father's policy making), & combined together, there's something to be said for the reasoning that the brother-sister marriage records of roman egypt may have had more to do with keeping property in the family.

but now with fraternal pietas? HELLO!! new things to think about. I'm going to unpack this with a magnifying glass.

[mr-orion]

WHAT

Icarus is so full of angst... wet pizza roll of a man when hes not putting up a front tbh...

[doostyaudi]

Idk of anyone has noticed this yet but twisted Cosmo and sprout have the ichor in opposite sides of their arms

This. Could mean nothing

Edit: also i literally just noticed the same thing applies to their eyes.........

[toomanywatchers]

my new roman empire.

[biomic]

[daintydoilypon]

Do you remember?~

Unfortunately, yes.

[golswia]

MY STYLE GETS 🐱🐱🐱

[radaverse]

leaves this and dies

[icebrooding]

I was replaying What Lies Beneath (I had reasons. For a project).

And man, I'm not sure if it was a power specific to that Kryptis or not (perhaps not, since another Kryptis could use voice mimicry as seen in that one event in Bastion of the Obscure), but there is such an wealth I haven't yet tapped into of 'messed up things we can do here' regarding the ability to delude people into thinking they're seeing/hearing things that aren't there.

Like, it obviously has some limitations. The one in Gyala couldn't 'make' the visions say anything the Commander hadn't already heard; only 'repurpose and remix' things Comm already heard those people say. But let's face it, even if they were comforting and loving words, hearing those voices again saying things Comm hasn't heard in years in the exact same way could probably mentally destroy them just as badly as any kind of hatred a Kryptis could come up with.

[feroluce]

Wooooooooo. God. Just imagining Gep sitting there and having all those feelings flood right through him as he reads, knowing that Sampo's gone for good but still kinda hoping it's all a mistake.

Can't even begin to imagine how he'd feel gettin the next dream from him. Probably still thinking it false, that it's just his hopes influencing his subconscious. He's probs on duty when the day comes, somehow gravitating towards the shipyard not knowing what to think.

Then he sees him, on top of some wall he's not meant to be anywhere near - don't think Sampo's capable of making a normal entrance.

Dude would probably feel 10x lighter, not realising the weight of the new's burden until it was gone, soft smile on his face as he turns around - having seen nothing at all.

N in the next few chases, if he's a little slower than usual, takes safer patrols when he notices he'sbeing followed, then he's merely out of practice.

((The context: Lucid Dreamer ficlet part 1, part 2, and an ask))

AAAAAAA ANON YOU'RE SO SMART. I have thought the same thing about Gepard's reaction to the dream; I think he'd be wary. He would be worried it was just a regular dream and not a Dream-dream, and I don't think he would tell anyone about it, because he doesn't want to break anyone's heart all over again with false hopes.

The part of this that's really killing me though is GEPARD NOTICING SAMPO IS STALKING HIM and TAKING SAFER ROUTES TO PROTECT HIM, THAT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. Gepard feeling eyes on the back of his neck in a way he hasn't felt in so long, and instead of being alarmed like a normal person, he just feels at peace. Like ah, he missed this feeling, and he didn't realize how badly he did until just now...

Absolute freaks, the both of them. I adore them.