#A Dying Root

[stylized-corpse]

A Dying Root @ La Biu - 03/14/2025

[transranpoe]

touch-up

[aurinkomoukari]

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[afandomroom]

Just read book 9, decided to make a follow up to the book 8 memes.

Book 8 Memes

My singular book 7 meme

[elverrie]

spuffy brunette4brunette action when?? spuffy during quarantine (ot whatever situation when they cannot go out for a long period of time) when they can`t go to a salon and keep up their fake blondes appearance so they both go for a few months with really grown out roots and then decide fuck it and buy a brown box dye. even though spike mastered his bleaching job for himself, buffy doesn`t trust him to do her hair cause: "no, spike, you don`t know how to blend it seamlessly, and i want a light warm honey balayage blonde with really light highlights and a money piece, and you just put a huge blob of bleach on your head and smear your roots with it, praying that nobody looks close enough at the back of your head", so for a bit she just goes with her natural colour. and, being a great and supportive husband that he is, spike comes along with her on that journey. later they call this period their "dark ages".

[aardvaark]

love how samaritan’s highly personalised, extremely detailed, 7000 or so simulations could still never have predicted the actual outcome of shaw escaping and coming across root again. like "root threatens to kill herself if shaw dies and they both stand around pointing guns at their own heads" was not on the cards. no samaritan simulation could ever match their freak!!

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

this is my natural blond wash propaganda

[caffeinatedopossum]

THE BOY

My comfort character who has never experienced an ounce of comfort in his life 🩵

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Angela & Mark AU: Angela gets revenge

Context, more context

Mark’s blonde hair is too distinctive…so Angela dyes it. That’s what he gets for cutting her hair in TWTTIN i guess lol

[irlplasticlamb]

when the sun goes down and the moon comes up 🌗

[stylized-corpse]

A Dying Root’s full set at La Biu from last Friday.

[sparkp18]

Hey howdy hey, back to drawing and here to post my next design in my Magic Girl AU lineup! Today we have Soundwave my beloved! Magic Girl Lore under the cut :)

Soundwave was one of Dee’s first friends several years before the AU begins, and has a strong dislike of Orion once she enters the picture. Soundwave thinks that Orion is far too idealistic, and after Dee recovers the magical artifact, encourages her friend to take more forceful and immediate actions against the incoming Quintesson threat :)

She has a deep dislike of Starscream, and while she respects every decision the newly formed Megatron makes, she can’t help but feel like she’d make a better second in command…

Her design is deeply Miku inspired LMAOO which I had a ton of fun with!! Very specifically one of the racing mikus for sure ehehe

If there’s anyone you’d like to know about next, let me know in the tags! I’ve already got Starscream/Elite Trine and Rodimus cooking, but I’d absolutely love to hear from y’all :))

Seeya ✌️

[mydogatemymotivation]

I had a thought about Lasan. People tend to agree that Zeb is kind of looked down on or seen as less intelligent by the people around him, despite him obviously being very smart, and I was wondering why that was. I do think there's some underlying xenophobia in the rebellion, even if it's not as rampant, that when someone looks at Zeb they might see him as something 'other' or somehow more animal like and therefore unintelligent. But then why does Zeb so frequently look down on himself as well? Is it just a lack of confidence? Well, I was thinking and I came up with this idea: what if the foundation of knowledge itself is different on Lasan compared to the rest of the galaxy?

So, hear me out, I'm a historian, I love history and there was a history class I was in some time ago that was all about the Aztec, Inca, and Maya, major empires each during their heyday, and in one of the units, we learned about the Mayan calendar and their number system (you don't have to be a mathematician for this, I promise) (I can't do math) (also this whole post is an excuse for me to talk about this cuz I think it's neat).

The Mayans (and by extension most people in Central America) used a completely different number system to do math. They used what's called a vigesimal system, not a decimal system. A decimal system is a Base 10 system: 1's, 10's, 100's.  This is the way we learn math today.

(sorry for the shitty quality. and the. stains. i was snacking on salt an vinegar chips and they spilled. ignore that.)

However a vigesimal system is not Base 10, but Base 20, and this changes the most basic arithmetic. Actually, it flat out changes the way numbers are read.

It seems like Lasan was a fairly isolated planet, there weren't a lot of Lasat seen in the galaxy at large, and Lasan was neutral during the Clone Wars, so it could be that there wasn't a big push to learn how things are done in the rest of the galaxy unless you were specifically planning on leaving Lasan. And since Zeb was in the Honor Guard, I don't imagine he ever even wanted to leave, but rather was forced to. Which means he probably never would've learned the systems that the rest of the galaxy used.

Now, I will say that the decimal system only exists because humans have ten fingers, which is why it called Base 10. And the vigesimal system exists because humans have ten fingers and ten toes, which is why it's called Base 20. Lasat have neither, which means they probably didn't use a vigesimal system; but it also means they probably didn't use a decimal system either. Not unless they imported it. Like I said, I'm not a mathematician, so I'm not even going to try to figure out what a Base 8 or a Base 16 number system looks like, I'm not that good at math.

But imagine, if you will, being forced to step out into a world where you can't even read numbers (I'm going to keep using vigesimal as an example). How would people look at you? Say you're in a foreign market and you're trying to scrape together enough credits to buy food. You look at the characters the rest of the galaxy uses and you have to translate them, so you're stood there staring at this price tag, the guy behind the counter is getting impatient. So you manage to translate the characters into the ones you know and pull out your credits. It's a 2 and an 8. 2x20 is 40 and an 8, is, well, 8. So you try to pay 48 credits for the food. Your new traveling companion clears his throat and tells you that's almost double the price and you really can't afford to lose credits on a translation error. Then you remember, they use tens. So 2x10 is 20. Not 40. Now the shopkeeper's looking at you funny, and your companion is paying the proper price for the food. And you have to just stand there, embarrassed, that you can't even do basic math.

So you get back to your new ship and there's this thing there, it's metal, and it thinks with a system called binary. Which is somehow a language based on a number system that you don't understand. And it's yelling at you. Loudly. And a lot. Would anybody blame you if you tried to punt the little trash can into the sun? If that was your experience day-in, day-out would you offer yourself up when somebody asks for ideas? I wouldn't. And to go through some version of that repeatedly without really being able to explain because first of all, who wants to learn new math just for you, and second of all, this is your second language anyway so how are you supposed to explain new math sufficiently when you have to translate everything in your head first. That would be crushing, and isolating. And some days, maybe it's just easier to be the dumb brute.

As someone who grew up bad at math, all STEM actually, and blonde (which doesn't seem like it'd be a big deal, but people really do treat like you're stupider than everyone else. Far and away NOT the worst hair-based discrimination, but the stereotype does get under your skin eventually) I was genuinely convinced I was stupid. I know now that my brain is wired for arts and humanities and I am NOT stupid. But my inability to do simple math without a calculator is humiliating to this day and I can really empathize with Zeb about feeling like you're lacking something that comes naturally to everyone else. The self-doubt and the self-loathing that come with looking around you and realizing that if you ask for help, you open yourself up to mockery because what's hard for you is basic for everyone else. It sucks. I don't blame Zeb for being so down on himself.

Zeb could've had the best education on Lasan but it truly doesn't matter how quality your education is if everyone around you reads 28 differently than you do. It's not a lack of intelligence, it's a translation error coupled with a lack of grace from the people around you. I'd beat myself up, too.

I'm not saying that I think this is what the writers had intended or anything, in fact, I don't think they thought about Lasan and it's culture all that much, if I'm being honest, but that's a thought for later. I just, I had this idea and wanted to share.

Can you believe this post exists because my dad bought me a mug lol. I collect mugs and my dad found one that has Mayan hieroglyphs carved onto it and he knows that I can understand a handful of glyphs and thought I'd like it. I don't have it yet but it's en route. Anyway, it got me thinking about ancient Maya and I've got kalluzeb brainrot and they collided and made this.

[marsbotz]

quickly redid my addison designs + a tenna height reference. WAOW

my stupid freaks who i hate (love)

[coin-z3fs]

Obtain a brother as you journey to save your friend’s husband

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(If you wanna hear my short ramble about my take on these two then proceed under the cut)

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So, if for whatever reason some of you realized that the way I draw Dante’s hair is different from how I usually do it (undercut) on the top drawing, is because Aphmau styled his hair when they got back to Phoenix Drop as a way to repay him for giving her the winter clothes and her hair ribbon (before that she just let her hair loose). She asked Nicole for help since if Aphmau did it herself the result could be compared to how she builds ships (That’s also how Nicole and Dante met first time B:))

Dante didn’t mind the drastic haircut, it kind of made him look less like Gene, which he appreciated.

Here’s also the context of the scenes:

[justtrashperson]

I am not immune to the blue haired Richie idea