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[blue-creations28]

Héra Fanart • [Alternative Outfit]

[bunnieswithknives]

erm can we see more deer dale he's so silly

Deer Dale!!! Now with full antler face like I initially intended but could not figure out how to draw at the time

[radibe5]

I AM BACK BABY. sort of. i might rb a couple thousand team rocket posts but idk if ill scroll my dash lmao

[ultimateinferno]

Anyways. Finished Yumi atNP. The Realmatic theory wheels are turning so I'm doing a singular post vomiting my thoughts. Major spoilers. Not a book review.

So assuming the Machine (or even cosmere at large) didn't just schlorp most of Yumi's investiture upon its destruction, which is a valid assumption since she nearly died, she technically still is Very Fucking Invested. According to Design, Elantrian level.

Which side note, interesting how we got confirmation that Elantrians have more magic than Returned. The bastards have to die, see the future, come back and eat souls to persist, meanwhile the silver people just automatically get the cool shit with no maintenance. Making up for the 10 years a zombie, I guess. Is Endowment stingier than we thought?

This, honestly explains how Nikaro was able to bring her back with his painting given there's a direct correlation between the amount of investiture a cognitive shadow has and how long they persist upon death.

That does bring me to the thought of if the Machine's repeated amnesia prevented... let's go with the term Sprenification of Yumi's cognitive shadow. As Vasher explained to Kaladin, as cognitive shadows persist in time, they more they're made to embody core aspects of their Identity in order to survive. Yumi has been dead for 1700 years.

You can rationalize this as the Machine pruning her Cognitive development. Then again, her mastery of stacking (which honestly very fun talent, love that for her). I haven't read TLM (despite having it digitally), but it's been discussed that Kelsier may already be undergoing that process, and he's been dead for only <400 years, so 1700 is a lot.

If not, I wonder if Yumi is now immortal because she is (was?) more invested than a Returned. That does mean she might eventually undergo Sprenification, if it hasn't occurred already.

Speaking of, I like how... a lot of the magic is just... not really elaborated on. Unlike other Cosmere books, where their fight scenes live and die on how meticulous use of the magic by our protagonists, and Sanderson likes to stress that there is a correlation of an audience's understanding and narrative problem solving regarding magic. It's... a big reason why there was that pre-Sanderlanche exposition dump. I'm wondering if there was a better way to relegate that information.

Anyways, the pre-existing magic system's primary basis is built on the pre-existing foundation of Realmatics and Perception. Expectation and perception shapes outcome. If you image the Nightmare as bamboo, it is bamboo. If you shove the soul of a 19 year old highly invested yokihijo into the body of an art school drop out, shit dude, that's her's now. With the dissipation of the Shroud I'm curious as to how art can influence the world from there. Can paintings more readily dictate the shape of spirits, due to their similarities to the Nightmares? This magic system I think is the softest of the lot, and I actually find that pretty cool.

Lastly before I wrap this up, while Sanderson has introduced cosmere soceities inspired by non-european cultures, (on multiple planets, no less), it feels especially palpable with this setting. While Roshar is decidedly not European but it's also familiar enough that whitewashing is an active problem within fan spaces. Meanwhile, here, it's so in your face about being not European that people have no excuse (as if they had any to begin with), but maybe I'm too much of a weeb that catching details was easier for me than others. It's cool, though,, we get to see snapshots of the culture as it develops through time, which is only really exemplified in the Mistborn novels so far. Not really relevant to magic but a musing nonetheless.

[daftpatience]

hi!! im the artist whos hobonichi pages u just reblogged. just wanted to say i loved reading your tags and highly encourage u to try hobonichi if youre thinking about it! i had the same reservations about not being able to keep up w a daily planner, but even if u miss a day i find it fun to just go back and add doodles, or even leave a few of them blank. its been super rewarding to try to keep up w it over the last few years ^^

happy journaling! :)

WAOH ty im flattered u read my tags ehehe... i thinks i will be doing it cus its just so cute and fun looking!

[penwrythe]

Looking up the Devonian Period Dunkleosteus fish because SCARY MASSIVE JAWs:

Terrifying beautiful fish creature, it was.

[bosspigeon]

forgot to mention this but my one of my favorite things that happened when i got the chance to play bg3 was after the nautiloid crash when i told shadowheart we should part ways and she insisted we needed to work together to get rid of the tadpoles and it legit sounded like it hurt her to say it

[gatsby-system-folks]

I might've... given them some kids...

[erving-goffman]

sorry i can't stop thinking about this. i had a meeting at my old job a couple weeks back where the senior animator was explaining his animation process to my friend/the new hire (and i was there to contribute ig) but he explained that he? doesn't use arcs? because after effects interpolation is picky and will bug out. but the fix is just to put in hold frames. his reply was like "sure you can do that. or you can just not put in arcs :)" ok well now i know why his animations all look like shit too bad it's a conscious decision on his part

[selfawxre]

something that that character analysis on monika i watched rlly made sink in for me was the implications of her backstory and home life from her personality. she's a perfectionist, someone who always tries to present herself as put together and capable, from her handwriting to her role as club president, to the embarrassment she feels when sayori first finds her sleeping in the clubroom, and how all that characterisation is typical of someone who's always been set to a high standard and punished when they don't live up to that standard.

anyway gifted kid monika whose parents were well meaning but also put a sort of pressure on her because they wanted her to do well in life, only for it to backfire by making her terrified of failure. she's always apologising before she's even done something wrong, making light of herself, anything to prevent the sting of rejection.

to find out that everything she's ever known or been anxious about, lost sleep over even, is just a fabrication of some beings beyond her understanding for what? fun? experimentation?

well, that fucking breaks her.

[glimmerspirals]

 i am an animal nerd again, so i noticed

electric eels live in freshwater and don’t have teeth, so the eels in book 2 might as well have been electric/true eel hybrids that live in saltwater, can bite and shock people

i know that wouldn’t be possible irl, but that’s what animus magic is for!!! It would’ve been possible that there was an animus before Orca who enchanted the eels to be able to breed with each other.

and that first electric eels were taken from the rainforest. Bought or borrowed, perhaps?

[emotianallesbiansoup]

just be really REALLY nice, and act oblivious to any and all attempts to start something... they will eventually feel REAALLLLY guilty and either play off being mean as a joke, or doxx you, it worked for me so I haven't gotten doxxed!

yet.

this couldn’t be said any better

[trans-leek-cookie]

some ppl will see fictional characters being abusive and racist and just generally horrible ppl and they justify liking those characters bc "they're just fictional! It's not real life!" And yeah it's fine to like those characters but if you can't admit that the fake person who isn't real and therefore cannot care or react is racist and abusive and shit how are you gonna react when someone tells you someone you care about or trusts irl is abusive

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

ok idk if yall notice a difference but im liking this re-do version much better

[lottiefilestore]

Integer consulting logo Lottie JSON animation

[wishingprince]

This convention has been absolutely bonkers in bad ways but also in a LOT of good ones, very excited for tonight though and that I took off work tomorrow because I am completely beat and I need rest. Six days until my tattoo!