#fuck it. be indecipherable

[colorpicked-flags-from-one-guy]

The unlabeled flag picked from this one frame of Zuko!!

[8pxl]

since AI has gotten prolific posting art on social media has been so fun 🤪

[skitskatdacat63]

2011 Italian Grand Prix - Vettonso

[9ine9ine9ine6ix]

so i worked thru the livestream and have been con crunching so much i haven't sailed the seven phseas yet for it, what lore and announcements did I miss?

Also, is the pre-show part of the package if you buy tickets to watch it prerecorded this week, or is that just the stage show?

[phantomrose96]

This is a covenant between me and my followers. If I post an image with some kind of fucked up indecipherable transparency, do in fact tell me in the same way you'd tell someone if they had broccoli in their teeth. My MS Paint is infected with the conniving wiles of the fae and will add transparency which, to me, just looks like white. If I post fucked up indecipherable transparency image I genuinely thought it was normal.

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

i'm ant *звуки неразборчивого писка*

вука

[dvdrip]

my bedroom, 2010

[closeted-goth]

i am so fucking locked in today, lads

[frenchfriedgiraffe]

dghda season 2 and childhood

this is adding on to this post i made a while ago. basically, i fully believe that the writers of this show set up the perfect opportunity to have the theme of s2 be about childhood, specifically exploring the effects of trauma (and escapism/maladaptive daydreaming). its already something that is featured or referenced to, however i think that there was a lot of potential for the show if they fully embraced the theme.

the biggest and most prominent example of the theme of childhood being present is in the character of francis (The Boy), who experiences severe childhood trauma and as a result creates a fantasy world that he can escape to. this world is full of stereotypes of a conventional children’s fantasy, with knights, a magic train, and even a crazy evil wizard guy. yet despite this, the world he created also contains elements from real life, specifically things that he found traumatic. francis witnesses his father get killed with a pair of scissors, and the main weapon used by the characters in wendimoor are a pair of giant scissors. also, in the house within the house, theres a copy of his kitchen, featuring the scissors and smashed flowerpot.

this is probably the most obvious display of the lasting effects of childhood trauma in a character, although there are a LOT more, though they are quite subtle.

dirk may be the second most obvious example of the presence of this theme. his very first scene in season 2 is set in blackwing, the organisation that took him and experimented on him as a child. blackwing is hinted to have abused him as a child, although we only see how they treat him as an adult. (there is a deleted scene of him when he was a child talking to the previous head of blackwing, meaning that there was a possibility we could have seen what it was like for him as a child too.)

however it is clear that he suffered trauma from his time at BW as a child, as many of his mannerisms throughout both season 1 and 2 mirror those of someone with c!ptsd. and having that trauma resurface in s2 also causes him to be more distant and get upset more frequently. (theres more but this is long enough already)

despite escaping blackwing early on in the season, dirk is obviously extremely shaken from his brief time back in there, and its pretty safe to say that the experience brought up a lot of bad memories. he is much more subdued throughout s2, and his previous optimism is rarely present, with his attitude towards the case being very different from s1.

like francis, there are a few tiny hints to escapism as a result of dirks trauma from blackwing (although im probably grasping at straws here). while in blackwing, he frequently dreams about being rescued by todd and farah. while being chased near the end of the season, dirk is lethargic and rather unresponsive, which could be some sort of dissociative state that he entered in order to escape from the reality of his situation.

while these are the most prominent examples where characters are shown to be effected by their childhood experiences, most of the other characters can be interpreted this way too.

farah is another good example, where she mentions the passing of her dad, and talks about how he wasnt a great father figure and caused her to often feel like a failure. she actually gets a resolution to this, with hobbs seeming to step in as her new father figure (yay!)

this was also something that seemed to be half set up for other characters. for example, todd and amanda having to learn to accept the changes in their relationship and amanda having to recontextualize her past. tinas frequent references to her struggles with addiction as well. farson and his whole family… thing. oh, and also like EVERY other blackwing subject. (more examples but again, this is a fucking long post)

essentially, the characters in this season struggle a lot, and a lot of this is because of things that happened (or possibly happened) because of their childhood experiences.

which leads me onto my next point (oh god, theres more!?) about the missed opportunity with this set up. many people agree that a lot of season 2 felt rather… aimless? while things were loosely connected, they definitely felt a lot less connected than in season 1. events happened and because there were plots happening in different DIMENSIONS, there was often very little overlap. having an underlying theme like this would have made each plot connect much more seamlessly, and it would have been a nice opportunity to further develop and explore some characters.

for example, throughout his journey in season 2, dirk could be seen recognising the parallels between the case and his own internal conflict. as he sees the destruction caused by francis’ powers, he could mirror the events with his own experiences and perhaps realise the effects of what pushing down trauma does. i think it would have been nice to see a conversation between dirk and francis about blackwing, ending with francis telling dirk he needs to learn to face the shit he went through and stop trying to ignore his trauma. this would have been a good way to connect their characters more as well.

it would have been a good opportunity to connect ALL the characters, especially if the show embraced the idea of escapism and pushed it further through wendimoor. as they got closer to solving the case, we could have seen them recognising their own flaws and looking back at their pasts.

and they wouldn’t have really had to make any super drastic changes, because theres already so much material for this theme to be introduced!!

tl;dr: s2 set up a lot of cool themes and the season would have been a lot more well-rounded if they embraced them more.

dont even get me started on the concept of good and bad…

[twinstxrs]

thinking about how gorgug + kristen perceive both their own deaths & each other’s, and how that impacts their relationship. bc i feel like freshman year kristen was too caught up in her newfound knowledge of the nature of her own god to truly clock & process gorgug’s internal revulsion of where he went after he died, & freshman year gorgug wasn’t familiar enough with the complexities of other people to truly lock onto the sorrow buried within the chaos of kristen’s upward/downward/sideways spiral until she was seemingly on the other side of it. & i wonder if they’ve ever really talked about it (unlikely), or if they’ve just cracked very few jokes that didn’t land and decided to never quite do the work & dig through that part of their relationship. but there’s a kinship there; kristen specifically singles out gorgug to tell him she died again, and gorgug apologizes that he wasn’t there with her this time. gorgug takes one of the finger bones off kristen’s newly/long-time decayed corpse to have an anchor to something in the world. despite the fact that they were in different places after death, having been together during it means everything.

anyways what i’m trying to say is i think they should talk about it.

[polycephebi]

I just wanna say that if dri had a palace a la p5 it would be confusing as fuck

[oozeandgoo-art]

alex casey has a normal conversation with my normal oc

[uldahstreetrat]

cooking on some Ophianne lore this morning. think she should be more fucked up for being from the 13th actually.

[rezcowgirl]

everything about this video is perfect

[voidscarredadjudicator]

I'm trying to not make it a habit to literally wait a full month each time I post something on here, but what can ya do.

Anyways, uh, hey guys. I'm still breathing, and I hope y'all are doing the same. My 24th birthday is in three days, which is also slated to be the final session of that tabletop game I'm running. Because, like clockwork, my hypothesis of it ending in March/April was simply incorrect, as my players (love you guys) always find new and unique ways to take their time. But, for real this time, the 28th will unequivocally be the final session for this game I've ran for the better part of two years, so that's pretty cool.

Additionally, I'm in the midst of moving. I honestly don't have a huge amount of stuff, so it's not nearly as exhausting as it could be, but still pretty stressful to deal with as I'm sure any of you who's moved before can relate to. But, on the bright side, I'm just about done with that as well.

Now, I'm sure the burning question is, "What's all this mean for Act 2?"

Simple. Means that, as soon as I get the campaign's epilogue sorted and my furniture in the right spots, I can finally be in a position to actively work on it once more. How long will it take? Who the fuck knows. I'll burn that bridge when I get there. Hope y'all who've followed so far are willing to be patient for just a bit longer. I also hope that it'll be worth the wait once it's finally finished.

[cogcontrol]

apparently the guy (tm) is insane in very peculiar ways. like his gripes are with. modern architecture. sex toys. millionaires. the healthcare industry obviously. oil barons. the Woke Mob (tm). god I need to talk to him for like 20 hours and by the end of it one of us is gonna get irrevocably changed joker and harley quinn style and I do not know who.