#assembly and testing

[beanbagbuddies4life]

If you're enjoying this post, please send some money to a verified Palestinian family! Even an amount that's trivial to you can save a life.

Protoscorch inspired me to fix up the spoof pattern I made. I'm pretty much reworking it from scratch and I think it's coming along nicely but it's a lot of work!

[clockcower]

Hey is anyone else getting increasingly worried about sampos ties/mentions of HI3? Like he's appearing in the crossover event and as far as I can tell at least 3 of the curios from his pop-up shop event are herrscher references - herrscher of wind can "create the ideal fluid", which day 1s curio claims to let you control. herrscher of sentience's core was turned into a feather that could do a ton of mental manipulation stuff, which day 5s curio looks so, so similar to. The first herrscher of reason, before our welt yang, was welt Joyce. And joyce had a scarf that looked suspiciously like the weird infinity representing the 7th days curio. And his hair was that deep blue.

Combined with that one trailer featuring welt yang in front of the mech, all the belobog characters that are references to HI3 characters, and the really weird dialogue from the pop up shop? I have a lot of half baked theories, and if any of them are true then mr yangs gonna have a real bad time in 2.7

[lonestarflight]

"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."

Date: March 24, 1975

NASA ID: S75-24007, S75-24009

[rambunctioustoons]

they remember you from the observation office y'know :) !!

[domesticatingaliens]

Actively shielding my eyes from a bunch of aus and my own story ideas clattering around in my head lest I start actually writing them before domesticating aliens is finished

[rottkitt]

this has to be the shittiest storyboard on all of earth.

tap tap… tap tap…

[yamada-ryo]

gupla

[tamfana]

White People and Hexerei/Heathenism

"If the Ethnic European Folk cease to exist Asatru would likewise no longer exist. Let us be clear: by Ethnic European Folk we mean white people."

you have no idea how angry statements like these make me.

Asatru, Heathenism, Zauberei, Hexerei- are all modern terms to describe a contested folk paganism of Germanic areas. What so many seem to misunderstand is that just as land cannot be sanctioned to one skin color, neither can a practice.

It is unbelievably disrespectful to try to police our religion by race. It's as if some believe that they can control the gods, the land, or the spirits. We are all guests in their house. We are cherished not because of color but because we are created by the gods.

In the stories of our souls, we are knit together and sewn by the gods. A part of them remains inside of us. The Gods do not create just one group of people, but all people. Imagine trying to claim that the gods only love your ingroup! it's audacious. The gods create all, the gods can call upon anyone, they gods rule whom they see fit. You do not speak for the gods! You do not get to set rules for the gods! You are not their parent, you are their devotee. You listen to them, obey them- who are you to claim ownership over deities?

'Folk' is a broad term. I am from America, I was born in Minnesota. I am a Minnesotan, but I'm also German and Irish in ancestry. In this, my 'folk' is American, and German, and Irish. I claim all three. I find kinship with people from all of these places, I share day-to-day practices with all these people, I share experiences with these people, food, dance, belief, culture. A folk is just a group of people that share something. In that, all practitioners are folk with each other, because we share belief.

If a man was born in Germany to Turkish parents, but was raised in germany, he is German. He can identify with that culture. But, he can also interact with Turkish culture, because his parents are Turkish, and he shares experiences and stories and perspectives with them. By that same logic, if a Black woman is called to Hexerei, she is allowed to practice it. If her values align, if she shares common practices with other hexe, if she calls herself a Hexe? that's a Hexe.

In Anthropology, there's a concept of Cultural Exchange. In the terms of Globalization, we are liable to sharing many cultures. In this, so long as information about Hexerei or Asatru is available globally, the practitioners of it will be diverse. Trying to assert that only white people carry knowledge of Hexerei or Nordic/Germanic beliefs is unbelievably ignorant.

White European Folk did not invent the idea of Germanic or Norse Paganism. We cannot possibly know for sure that every person in every varied, vast, far spread Germanic/Norse tribe was white. How far back would we go? How many people would you consider Germanic or Norse? It's circular to assert that Asatru belongs to white people because only white people practiced Asatru. You don't know that!

Even if- EVEN IF- you could somehow confirm that white people invented Asatru and all asatruars were white- paganism is too small a world to be excluding anyone. If you want more temples, if you want better treatment, if you want more rights, stop infighting. Imagine being so fucking stupid that instead of being a Mogmaxxing Chad who welcomes new Asatruars you decide that you'd rather use your agarthan jellybrain negative canthal tilt cumstain complexion to further racism in the big 2025

TLDR: Beware the Asatru Folk Assembly, they are white supremacists.

[mumblelard]

lost in airspace or dinosaurs for scale

[lonestarflight]

Workers in the VAB replace the fins on the ASTP Saturn IB’s (SA-210) first stage.

Date: March 11, 1975

NASA ID: S75-23780

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

PLEASE LET ME INTO YOUR NONEXISTENT HAREM PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

give me ur credit card information first 🥰

[xxplastic-cubexx]

did u already read most of the cherik centered comics?

from @/bikenesmith's list specifically, i think ive gotten at least over a third of the way through the list, so i think that qualifies as most 🙂‍↕️

[lunnefisk]

things armored core six desperately needs:

infinite distance photo mode mod

option to pose your AC in photo mode

point down gesture

[rambunctioustoons]

chapter 4, some assembly required crumb! 🌱✨

[doodle-zine]

Timeline update: You may have noticed my sudden burst of productivity after leaving this project on the back burner for a while XD That's because this is the gap between my summer classes and the start of the fall semester, and I have latched onto this as something to keep me occupied in the meantime. I'm glad for it, because I was starting to worry this would stretch past being a summer project—but it's looking like the zine could very well be finished this weekend! I'm looking forward to sharing the finished product with everyone :)

[urlocalloser10191]

anyways chat....