#blargle ...

[ringosnoop]

blargle

[sheepyyyyyy]

did you miss him

[jsabaddict]

Hii coming in here to drop off some of my RW Lizard blargles :]

Current collection: Blue, Train, Red, Cyan, Eel

These are all pretty simple, but.. blargle :)

Bluergle, choogle, strawgle, cyargle, eelrgle

[namibozsu]

𝐵𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑔𝓁𝑒

[jesko-sansundertale]

Blargle

[thetrinitytest]

[leletha-jann]

Le'letha's Grand Unified* Theory of Timestop Creatures

*sorry, neither

Before canon catches up to us, let's fill in the blank:

This creature 

is ​​​​​​​​​​_____________...

1) ​an aspect of Lucrezia

Narratively this makes sense. Lucrezia's the main villain and we really only know the edges of her story yet. But what we do know does not even slightly rule out her being an angry interdimensional timestop creature at some point. We know that the entity originally known as Lucrezia is time-lost and stranded - and I'll take as another data point that she's somewhere without cake! (Does that creature look like it hails from a dimension with cake?) 

We know that a lot of time has elapsed for her and, while I can't find the quote at this exact moment, possibly at different angles - something the Castle describes this creature as traversing. We know that she has been changed by this, and appears throughout the known timeline in different aspects, appearances, and identities. 

And today's page has the Dreen telling us that "a monster must grow! Develop! Mature! ...to achieve its full fearsome potential...worthy of attention."

That sounds an awful lot like whatever Lucrezia has become. 

In fact, one of the very first things Lucrezia told us was "it's been so long since I was really human" (and even at the time, Tarvek went "um wait what", and then sensibly decided not to push.)

It's also distinctly ambiguous if the creature is reaching for the device as the source of the time distortion, or for Klaus. And while it doesn't mean much that I think it's going for Klaus, Gil thought it was. Gil's talent for intuitive leaps is the subject of a different post (I really must write it...), but he's very good at them. When Gil first saw the timestop creature, he didn't say "it's going for the device" or even for "it's going for the device my father used" (which would have moved the dialogue along as needed), he specifically said "it's heading for my father​." I trust Gil's intuition. Here, and in general.

I think the timestop creature is an aspect of Lucrezia. And she is, as far as we know (see option 5), the Big Bad of the series, so "This is probably Lucrezia's fault somehow" is a solid guess.

2) an aspect of Vapnoople

This has been clearly foreshadowed and it's definitely something that's going to come back to bite at some point. This could be that point, absolutely! Not that I didn't enjoy the storylines in the Society dome (I enjoy that phase of the story a lot!), but every storyline is here to do something and it could 100% be the origin story of the timestop creature we'd already seen, because time is not, and has never been, linear in this story! Right from the very beginning! (Yes, this is the infamous Page Four, of course.)

Vapnoople said he'd be back, and once we could talk to Kjarl, we learned that Vapnoople would probably appear very differently and be quite insane. 

Continuing with the idea that the creature is going for Klaus specifically, and not the device, it's possible Klaus cooperatively pinned himself to a board like a specimen and Vapnoople's taking the opportunity to get payback for, y'know, being lobotomized and turned into an object of scorn and pity. That being said, does a warped-by-the-monster-dimension Vapnoople care about that? And is Vapnoople a big enough presence to be the endpoint of the Second Journey? Is this his time to reappear in the story? Besides, he seemed quite happy to be heading off into the monster dimension. I don't think he'd be in a hurry to come back. 

But time is not linear between here and there (or any number of "there"s). So this is a workable second option, and I know it's one in favor with many readers.

3) a totally unconnected genuine interdimensional creature

A pleasingly random option, but one with precedent - we saw the Queen's Society do this earlier and Agatha clearly thought it was relevant to Mechanicsburg. 

One of the fantastic things about Girl Genius is that the world keeps happening. Not everything around us is about us. When you leave food on the floor, the ants that show up are probably not plotting against you. They're just doing ant things. 

(...probably. Although in a world of mad science, who knows?)

4) an aspect of Euphrosnia Heterodyne

An out-there option and the one most likely to elicit screaming from the fandom. (An argument in its favor, I'm sure.)

The mystery surrounding Euphrosnia has been building up in the background for years, a little bit at a time. She was the last female Heterodyne before Agatha. Her story parallels Agatha's, has shaped Agatha's, and keeps being mentioned. She vanished in strange circumstances. How did that happen? Where did she go? Is she coming back? She has too much of a narrative presence not to - there's something going on there. Agatha is returning to Mechanicsburg. Is Euphrosnia? Carson von Mekkhan did say that the Heterodynes always come home in the end...

(See, I'm looking for the ramp-up, the twist I can't see coming, like the two-and-a-half-year time skip was in the first place. I keep thinking recently, we've all been thinking recently, everything's going so well...and I had that feeling before, at the end of the siege...right before everything changed... What's coming for us this time? What evil, evil twist do the Foglios have planned?)

And it would be a heck of a ramp-up to have one of the old Heterodynes, and the legendary princess no less, take the field and change everything.

5) something else

Look. It's not my job to outguess the Foglios. (And if you think it's yours, you're wrong.) I look forward to being surprised!

And probably screaming. A lot.

[xxmikeymurderxx]

That’s now 2 Matt’s I know that are forklift certified

Matt:

[apocalypticnewt]

PRIDE MONTHHH IM GONNA DRAW SO MANY QUEER TURTLES

[fieriframes]

[BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.]

[isaacathom]

my friends and i have been watching the star trek movies and i have soooo many thoughts about first contact but its been like 3 years since i watched the borg episodes in tng and im like. fuck do i need to rewatch those rq to figure out if my faint gripe with first contact is valid or not? shit, man

[sheepyyyyyy]

Blargle on! It’s Friday! Don’t forget to be yourself!

I sent this early use it whenever you deem funniest

this ask was sent to me in october of 2023. and you know what? i think its finally time........

[outbreakperfected]

Destiny Hive Discord (Again)

Hello. (Again, if you have seen me before. I do not know what time this is.)

The Hive discord that I help run has been open for a few months now, and I feel it's fair time to create a public invite!

Whether you're a big fan of the murder bugs or are simply looking for a chill Destiny fandom space, we have room for you. We also are running raids/dungeons and playlist activities quite often if you'd like to ever join us for one! (If you don't know how, we have folks who can teach)

So. You Know What Time It Is. Time For Worm.

[dreamstruck-corvid]

Obligatory VERY simplified picture of Zhongli. I love my broke geo man <33333

[imnotleavinherewithoutyou]

YES there is interest!!! please post your wip of part 3. i do hope you come back to it one day.💕

ahhh okay i need to dust off my laptop and do a skim-edit. might be a minute because i've got two little ones

[three--rings]

I have Opinions on this.

Yes, you can show up and play a game of DND with very little concept of the rules. Other players and the GM will help you. But if you do this for more than a few sessions, people WILL begin to resent you.

If you do this forever, you will (in my direct experience) not get invited back to tables or campaigns. There are multiple people I know in my local dnd community who everyone likes and no one wants to play with because they do not so much as read their own characters' abilities.

You do NOT at any point as a dnd player need to know all the rules of dnd. You DO need to know all the rules that affect YOUR character. If you don't know what your character can do and what they can't, then you are NOT holding up your own end and you're letting the rest of your party and the GM carry your dead weight ass.

If you don't like learning complicated rules, play something simple. My husband won't play casters because he likes it to be simple so fighters and rogues are his thing. Cool. I stab them. Cool. Useful even. He doesn't know what metamagic is or how multiclass spellslots work! He doesn't NEED to. He leaves that to those of us (me!) who get bored if there's not enough STUFF in our character to mess with.

But if you show up and you don't know your own abilities or never remember to use them. If you get to level 12 and go "wait, I can DO that?" and we all have to die a little inside because you could have been helping but you weren't. Sorry, I don't want to play with you, no matter HOW much I like you.

I like playing healers! I like helping people and carrying people and having responsibility in a game! But if you make my job way way harder because you are lazy? Fuck you.

Again, because I'm being harsh, this does not apply to new players! New Players who are willing to learn are GREAT! Ask for help! We don't mind! But if you've been playing for a long time we also expect you to have read your character sheet like, idk AT ALL.

I think an important part of the "D&D is easy to learn" argument is that a lot of those people don't actually know how to play D&D. They know they need to roll a d20 and add some numbers and sometimes they need to roll another type of die for damage. A part of it is the culture of basically fucking around and letting the GM sort it out. Players don't actually feel the need to learn the rules.

Now I don't think the above actually counts as knowing the rules. D&D is a relatively crunchy game that actually rewards system mastery and actually learning how to play D&D well, as in to make mechanically informed tactical decisions and utilizing the mechanics to your advantage, is actually a skill that needs to be learned and cultivated. None of that is to say that you need to be a perfectly tuned CharOp machine to know how to play D&D. But to actually start to make the sorts of decisions D&D as a game rewards you kind of need to know the rules.

And like, a lot of people don't seem to know the rules. They know how to play D&D in the most abstract sense of knowing that they need to say things and sometimes the person scowling at them from behind the screen will ask them to roll a die. But that's hardly engaging with the mechanics of the game, like the actual game part.

And to paraphrase @prokopetz this also contributes to the impression that other games are hard to learn: because a lot of other games don't have the same culture of play of D&D so like instead of letting new players coast by with a shallow understanding of the rules and letting the GM do all the work, they ask players to start making mechanically informed decisions right away. Sure, it can suck for onboarding, but learning from your mistakes can often be a great way to learn.