#Standard Process

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ITS DONE. IM FREE. (Please do not use or repost my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you)

[lilislegacy]

i’m just gonna come out and say it

if luke comes back in a future book, i hope percy is taller than him now.

[yesloulou]

Charles goes surfing in Melbourne | AusGP 2024 🇦🇺🌊 via ariannaoioli on tiktok

[m-e-i-n-a-r-t]

some quick bible fanart (Bible moralisée) that turned into an unexpected study of rendering cloth (and by study i mean following my heart and trying my best)

alt version closeups beneath the cut where henry looks more like how i styled him in my playthrough

i love henry w/ brown eyes!!! also it looks like i just straight up didn't render his hair in that 1 pose? lol

i started this so long ago but i'm glad i took my time with it. next up i wanna work on getting their likenesses more accurate and maybe play around with an alternate painting technique to speed things along a lil bit

oh also the original drawing was so much fun, gg to whoever drew that and gave the 1 dude that killer outfit. this was a fun adaptation challenge, even if i originally intended to maintain the original style and almost immediately diverged

[biruesque]

winter

timelapse under the cut

[commsroom]

Okay! Obviously, I love Wolf 359. The available scripts for Wolf 359 are recording scripts, meaning they're inaccurate in a ton of places when it comes to finalized or improvised dialogue, and don't function well as transcripts (especially since the scripts for the live show and some of the mini episodes were never made available.) That said, I think everyone should read the scripts; the sheer amount of physical description that you can feel in the show, even if you can't see it... I guarantee it will enhance your listening experience. Most visual show to ever be an audio drama. So, in pursuit of both of these goals at once, I went over every word in the scripts, and wrote up new scripts for the unavailable ones. Some of the sound effects described - especially in early episodes - might not line up exactly, because I didn't want to mess with the non-dialogue portion of the show, but I hope this strikes a good balance and can be a useful resource.

[princema-k]

THE LIVING MUSEUM: CHAPTER 1

(interactive puzzle at the bottom!)

As luck would have it, the detective had a case that had just been given to her by the Chief Constable Barton (talk about a high order!) I watched as she leafed through the folders on her desk before slipping out a small stack of papers and bringing them over to me. Clearing her throat, Detective Layton ran over the details…

“At approximately 2:00pm, a fire alarm in the Natural History Museum sounded. Around 5 minutes later, visitors in the museum reported that they witnessed several exhibits, and I quote, ‘come to life before their eyes.’ There were visitors who told officials that the suits of armour on display had started to move and raise their weapons, visitors who reported that paintings on the walls started to melt and blink, and visitors who said that the dinosaur skeleton exhibits had opened their mouths and moved their heads. But the most damning of all seemed to be the Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit, who not just moved but assumed a lunging stance with its full body, as well as somehow roared.”

“Right, that’s odd. And?”

“Well, since the officials were only able to question the visitors outside of the museum due to everyone having been evacuated because of the fire alarm, naturally they went inside to check the exhibits themselves.”

“And they found…?”

“Nothing. They did a whole sweep of the area, but they found nothing out of place. All exhibits were in their normal places, the paintings were just fine, and everything was untouched.”

“Wow…”

“I assume the reason that Barton held onto what information they had on it and handed it to me was due to the witnesses. Despite the fact that the Yard found no obvious signs of tampering, everyone swears up and down the walls that the museum had seemingly come to life at that moment.”

“...That is a proper mystery. And these files are all we have on the matter?”

“Well, in a sense, yes. These are all the files we have,” Detective Layton muses as she taps the bottom of the stack on the coffee table. Then, getting up, she drops the stack back in their folder. “...Which is why I was thinking of heading over to the museum myself to do a bit of personal investigation.”

“As expected of the great Professor Layton,” I say cheekily as I stand and follow her to the front door, grabbing my jacket off the hanger in the process. The detective sighs lightly as she places her hat on her head, pulling the brim over her eyes in mock disappointment. “Please, Ms. Altava. It's just Detective.”

Now lifting the brim, she smiles brightly as she grabs her umbrella.

“So, Ms. Altava… let’s go investigate this living museum with our own two eyes, shall we?”

And with that, our adventure into the peculiar museum begi-

“Ah, but before that, I have here the directions to the museum written for me by Barton, and it seems to be a puzzle of some sort. As you’re now my assistant, why don’t you give it a shot? Think of it as a warm-up of things to come.”

…Right. She’s Layton’s daughter, after all. How could I have forgotten? …And are we sure they're not really related by blood…?

PUZZLE 1: Where's The Museum?

Take your time and think about the answer, or Flora (and the puzzle master) will be very disappointed in you...!

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J (Need a hint?: 1 | 2 | 3)

(thanks to @justkillingthyme for beta reading, and several mutuals for puzzle testing!)

[2hoothoots]

alright, here's my hot take on the Sasha-Raz dynamic: i think Raz represents a wish fulfilment self-insert figure for Sasha just as much as Sasha does for Raz.

Raz wanting to be like Sasha and seeing him as an aspirational future self is self-explanatory, right. Sasha is his hero from his favourite comic books, he even dresses up like the guy – it’s cute! there’s a fun hero worship angle there. but i think there’s also an aspect of it going the other way: Sasha sees Raz as an idealised past self. he's an excuse for Sasha to recast his own troubled childhood in a more flattering light, to imagine a version of himself who was more confident, more capable, more driven; and to explore the fantasy of that version of himself getting support and training and recognition, instead of the way things really played out.

here's something. when you use clairvoyance on Sasha, he sees Raz as a younger version of himself:

not as his younger self – specifically, a miniature version of his current self. there's a difference.

here's something else: from what we see in the memory vaults, I don't think younger Sasha was actually like Raz at all.

this part is heavier on extrapolation, because all we see of younger Sasha is a single memory vault; but i think the expressions and the body language tell a clear story here. the boy we see in these vaults is shy, uncertain, estranged, lonely. the distance between him and his father is palpable, physical and emotional. 

think about the things that Sasha says to Raz: your talents will always set you apart. sometimes, isolation is a good thing. those are very weird things to say to a kid as “advice”, and they’re very revealing about Sasha’s own mindset! i think it’s very easy to read Sasha as someone who had a very troubled, lonely childhood, and then sought to retroactively redefine and romanticise it. it wasn’t grief that stopped him and his father from ever forming a meaningful bond; it was just his talents, his father didn’t understand. if he was lonely and isolated growing up, well, maybe that was a good thing. just look at where he is now!

and i think Raz serves as a vessel for Sasha to project all of that onto. because their experiences aren’t that similar, not really. Sasha left home because he was unable to connect with his father; Raz ran away because his family didn’t understand or support his gifts. Sasha pushed things too far with his powers, and was shocked and unsettled by what he saw; Raz pushed things too far with his powers, and was rewarded for it. Sasha left home uncertain and afraid; Raz left home on a mission. the two stories aren’t the same, but they rhyme – you can draw parallels, if you squint, if you’re willing to change a few details here and there. and one of these stories is much more alluring, more satisfying, more compelling than the other. 

when Sasha says to Raz in the shooting gallery, “I would have done the exact same thing at your age” – sorry, but i absolutely do not buy it. younger Sasha was meek and conflict-averse, he faced one single unexpected consequence and immediately noped out. i think he absolutely would not have done the same thing. but i bet Sasha wants to think that he would have, y’know? i bet he wants to see himself in this boy, who’s driven and confident and focused and such an eager student – who has so much promise, and is in an environment where that can be recognised and rewarded and nurtured. Raz isn’t just a promising student, to Sasha – he’s also an opportunity to live out that what if, to explore the wish fulfilment of his own younger self getting that kind of recognition and support, instead of being left, lonely and alone, to fend for himself. 

one final thing: one of the big reasons i really like this reading is that i feel like it makes the scene where Sasha scolds Raz for messing with Hollis’ mind way more interesting: [screenshots from this upload of the game's cutscenes]

"You thought you could manipulate another person's mind, to bend their will to your own! There are few things worse, Razputin."

i’m not the first to point out that this feels a little hypocritical coming from Sasha, especially when you consider that this is basically the exact same thing he encouraged Raz to do in his own mind! and besides that, you could argue that it isn’t even Sasha’s place to hand out this lecture – Hollis was the one whose mind was actually messed with, and her and Raz have already hashed things out.  but if you think about Sasha as projecting himself onto Raz, then i think there’s more depth here. this isn’t just Sasha being upset because his protégé did something bad – he’s shaken because Raz did something unexpected. suddenly, Raz has broken away from the model that Sasha had built up in his mind, of the perfect, confident young agent that Sasha could easily see himself in. now he’s having to realise that Raz isn’t perfect – and maybe he isn’t just like Sasha, either.

[weepingfishturtledragon]

Imagine the Young Justice League finds out about Captain Marvel being able to eat anything and they decide to test it out with a bunch of different things. At first it starts off pretty tame with screws and bolts but then it slowly escalates to more extreme things like lava and bleach. Eventually after he ate a number of dangerous things with no effect on him they started to veer more towards extreme flavors and sensations.

First they buy the most spicy pepper The Carolina Reaper and of course Captain Marvel, happy to hang out with his friends, eats it without hesitation. His face slightly flushes, his eyes water a little, and he has a small cough, but generally he's fine. One day one of the YJL members is scrolling through tiktok and sees a drink called Battery Acid, which is a energy drink mixed with a LOT of sour candy, they immediately grab everyone to buy everything they need and make the drink. The moment Captain Marvel steps through the zeta-tube they shove the drink in his face and tell him to drink it and Billy with zero survival instinct does. The moment the drink touches his tongue his brain shuts down and an error message appears (⊙ _ ⊙). He comes back to himself and downs the entire thing in one go. (He might be addicted now)

[happy-snake-noises]

Dick Grayson dies alone.

A drug bust, a rogue show off, a gang war. It didn’t matter in the end—it should have been simple but a well timed explosion or gunshot or gas fucked everything up.

And Dick Grayson is left to die alone.

Well not truly alone.

He can hear the rest of his family in his ear piece; Oracle’s yelling instructions over the comm lines as everybody scrambles to wrap up their fights and find him before it’s too late.

Dick is bleeding out, he knows it and they know it too, but despite their worries they have hope. Because it’ll work out. It always works out.

Just hang on a little longer.

It’ll be fine, you hear?

Just keep talking. Don’t go to sleep, we’re almost there.

Dick entertains them, cracks poor jokes between bloody coughs and shallow breaths.

The realisation eventually sets in after a moment, when Oracle curses the trackers and the team looks out at the vast expanse of damage they have to cover.

Dick falls quiet too, listening to them come to the same conclusion he did.

Jason is the first to start speaking again as they begin their search through the city for their brother.

You did good, Dick. Don’t worry. We’ll find you.

Not a promise of how or if or when.

He will be found.

Softer words followed after Jason’s first, still reassurances but no longer the same promises of safety they were frantically making before.

Dick dies alone, listening to his friends and family speak to him softly over the comms.

They do find him, hours later, after his body’s gone cold and his blood as drained from his skin. They promise that they’ll keep him dead, let him rest in the grounds behind Wayne Manor, where he gets to find and rejoin his parents once again.

[sillygoofyqueer]

"You could have written this at any time during the day actually, what have you been doing?-" You know what why don't you mind your own business. Let me go through my many stages of Doing Things Is A Big Commitment in peace!!! MAD SCIENTIST AU. Why anyone would let either of the two psychopaths out of their sight is beyond Lan Wangji, but he's meditating and doesn't want to break his concentration as Wei Wuxian goes to check on the monster - better a Wen than anyone else, he supposes. He comes back all excited like "okay so the Wen cut the ropes BUT there is another way out through the lake I think. The monster is sleeping, and we just need someone to check it out." There's a lot of silence before Jiang Cheng (one day I'll fit him into the AU) is like "how certain are you?" Wei Wuxian mentions leaves in the pond and he sighs and goes "I can do it."

They all sneak back into the chamber to find the monster unmoving as promised, and Jiang Cheng just dives into the lake (fully clothed, there are ladies present) without so much as a ripple in the water. Everyone's holding their breaths, Lan Wangji keeps looking back at the beast and expecting it to wake up out of the blue, but then Jiang Cheng pops up and clambers back to shore with information of a hole out big enough for a few people to slip through at a time. Wei Wuxian, once again, takes almost natural control of the situation and starts organising everyone into groups based on how well they can swim.

Xue Yang seems far too excited as he stands and says "I finally have a reason to piss off a huge flesh eating monster," because he isn't going to let Wei Wuxian do it! He's injured!! Plus this is literally his dream and he barely lets anyone say anything before he's throwing up fire talismans left, right, and centre to piss off this beast and draw its attention away from the groups quickly beginning to make so much noise diving into the water. Lan Wangji himself is reluctant to go ahead because he doesn't know what these two have planned by staying behind - especially Wei Wuxian, who has organised all of this for apparently 'no reason' when he could leave all of them to die.

Eventually, the rest of the groups are gone and Wei Wuxian practically pushes Xue Yang into the water before they can argue about who has to go first, and then this monster is lunging forwards for the bright red flash across its vision, mistaking him for bright, warm fire. It's a split second decision, an instinctive reaction to seeing someone in danger, but Lan Wangji is moving before he can process what's happening and then his leg is trapped in the maw of the beast. The pain is indescribable. This is it. He's going to die, his life thrown away to save a Wen, the ones who burned his home and killed his father and probably his brother and now him, trapped in a dingy cave with not even a glimpse of sunlight-

Lan Wangji looks up, ready to make eye contact with the monster responsible for his untimely death, only to find that he is looking at Wei Wuxian. Prying the jaws of the beast open. With nothing but his bare hands and feet. Yelling for him to move. He can't breathe as he immediately retreats from the jaw of the monster, watching his saviour barely escape being crushed as he was about to be. He feels dizzy as he is scooped onto Wei Wuxian's back, mouth too dry to even consider arguing against such treatment. The other man feels so warm against his chest.

It must be the blood loss.

[rookflower]

i think a pretty large part of the "um warrior cats isnt sexist what are you talking about LOL" sentiments people hold whenever the way women are written in the series is critcised is a result of other xenofiction and immersive fantasy literally driving the bar into the floor

[hoarding-stories]

Because I've been slowly rotating it in my head, here's a rough timeline for everything as far as I can guess:

~??~: The All Hammer, Law Bearer, and Platinum Dragon, at minimum, discuss the calamity/war and how it could end. The spark that would become the divine gate is lit

50-100 years before the fall of Aeor: the gods meant for the Aeor mission start to take their mortal forms (timespan based on Father Milo being an old man. Last god to become mortal is the Dawnfather, 15~ years before the fall)

The All Hammer also becomes mortal to begin the basis for the divine gate (likely as an acknowlement that it will 1) take time to accomplish and 2)it will be the only true way to end the Calamity)

The Fall of Aeor: the topic of distancing themselves from Exandria and the divine gate is fully broached to the majority of the Prime Deities, solidifying it as the solution

~??~: The Moonweaver casts her blessing that would keep the gods from finding mortal avatars. Simultaneously, the Lord of the Hells casts his curse that makes the avatars forget their true nature. (The Moonweaver's blessing could've been a way to protect Garen from any divine influence as prime deties had to be worked around to the idea, and the betrayers had to be kept from stopping it)

~60-70 years before Divergence: The Platinum Dragon, seeing the Lord of the Hells' curse, chooses to become mortal in order to find and protect his brother, having faith that they will be reunited despite forgetting himself. (Timespan based off of the 80 year dragonborn lifespan, Erro was old but not insanely so)

~25-30 years before Divergence: The Moonweaver becomes mortal in order to prove out how the gods' connections to their followers will be changed by the gate but not be blocked completely, as well as to experience the full depths of mortal love

The only event I couldn't roughly place on the timeline without more information is when exactly Garen is captured and imprisoned at Rybad Kol. He was there for a very long time so it could have been before or after the blessing & curse. Either acting as a catalyst for them in order to protect him from being found out, or with the confusion and probable power downgrade from them taking effect making him easier to capture (if not plain bad luck).

[the-painted-siren]

Can you draw Kai please?

Absolutely! I love drawing a good fire boy! :D

[muffinlance]

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