#immersion procession

[townpostin]

Jamshedpur Gears Up for Spectacular Ganesh Puja Festival

106th Kadma Shri Shri Ganesh Puja Mahotsav promises grand celebrations and cultural extravaganza Jamshedpur’s 106th Ganesh Puja festival to feature elaborate rituals, star-studded inaugurations, and a vibrant fair from September 7-22, culminating in a grand immersion procession. JAMSHEDPUR – The city prepares for a 16-day Ganesh Puja extravaganza, featuring VIP guests, traditional rituals, and a…

[hailruth]

a siddur belonging to marilyn monroe, complete with her annotations in pencil. many remember her as a sex symbol who lived a difficult life, but few know of her conversion & devotion to judaism. "everybody's always out to get them, no matter what they do," said monroe. "like me."

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[dasketcherz]

when the vat7k concept arts/the creators said Hugo and Varian are equals—@dreadpirateurania13's And They Were Roommates fic understood the assignment and what that really meant and executed it so perfectly and masterfully that I have to stand up and give em a thousand applause cuz holy shit the True Hearts Day arc (part 3 specifically) just made history and changed lives (mine)

[sweetsylus]

also, can i just say that i love mc? especially my mc, but in general, mc just has a special place in my heart. i love actually seeing her in the story. i love the few times her lines are actually voiced. i love her personality. when she’s being a diva, when she’s silly, when she’s thriving despite her past—and present at times—i love it all. i especially love seeing her openly indulge in more childish things/activities because it’s WHAT SHE DESERVES.

and most of all: i love seeing the guys wholeheartedly support her in her endeavors. this game has been a wake up call for so many people. seeing mc be treated with such respect has allowed them to notice the lack of love, care, and support they’re getting from their partners.

all in all, it’s just so refreshing to see/play a game with such a delightful mc. i love you, my sweet girl.

[maggplays]

Bio? Something like that.

How did I start modding? Literally no one has asked this, but here's my story, don't worry it's not long... I guess that depends on what your definition of “long” is, haha! Hang on, here we go.

On a random day in January, 2024, a few days before my birthday, I might add... I woke up to stars in my right eye. A few days later, I was told I had a very rare injury and it would never heal. Those are not words an artist/gamer wants to hear! Long story short, I am now legally blind in my right eye. If you think, oh that's not a huge deal, you can still see. Humor me, get a cheap pirate eyepatch, put that on, then pour yourself a cup of coffee. Not as easy as you thought, right? Depth perception. It’s a thing. Anyway, on with the story. Suffice it to say, I was depressed. Majorly. Then, through some random conversation somewhere, I found Stardew Valley.

Perfect! 2D animation, cute pixel art, story that's not sugar-coated anime, I love it! Got to year 3, TBH I've never played past year 3 because ADHD, and realized the dialogue was quite lacking. Then I discovered mods. What the-, it's a freakin' goldmine! Downloaded a lot of things, mostly dialogue, and tossed half of them. While playing through a Sebastian run, I saw it. Oh. My. God. It's a coding error glaring at me in my dialogue box. This is NOT acceptable. I tried to ignore it, but then it happened again. Okay, time for some investigation. I opened the folder and found... json files. Interesting, I wasn't entirely clueless since I do know HTML code from back when the internet was a baby, Facebook had no ads, and dinosaurs roamed the earth. Okay, okay, the internet was more like a spoiled toddler. Yes, I'm old. Shut up. But I digress. It didn't take long to discover the misplaced punctuation and go on my merry reality-avoiding way. Until I got bored again.

I looked for more Seb mods, but there were like seven. Three were yandere, not my jam, and only 2 were updated for 1.6 and were dialogue-only. Solution? Make my own mod for myself. I spent six weeks downloading mods, learning code, Googling to very little effect, writing dialogue, learning how to make an event, discovering I knew nothing, and on and on. The perfect distraction from the whole eye thing. I finished a decent draft, loaded it up, and praise Yoba, it worked! And on we play. At some point, I saw a comment complaining about the lack of Sebastian dialogue mods. Huh, yep, they're right. Too bad. Oh. Well, I guess I could load this thing I made, it's really just my own internal story monologue while playing the game, I'm NOT a writer, and most people probably won't get it. But I did spend a lot of time on this, and maybe someone out there will like it. Heck, no skin off my nose since it's free. So I took a deep breath, made peace with my inner demons, and threw it out into the void of Nexus, expecting it to be swallowed up and ignored. That... didn't happen.

In the first few hours, several people downloaded it. Huh, Nexus must have a decent search algorithm. That was literally all I thought about it. The next day, 300 downloads. And comments! Mostly positive with the exception of one wild demand I subsequently ignored. At one week, it had 3,000 unique downloads. I was floored, 3,000 weirdos downloaded my mod. Add to that, people seemed to actually like it! I've never gotten so much positive feedback for anything in my life. Seriously. Apparently, my oddball internal monologue, thanks ADHD, is quite entertaining. Heck, might as well make another one... and here we are. Yes, I've gotten negative comments and unreasonable demands, but I do my best to ignore them and practice staying positive. Trolls be damned! It's a lot harder to do that for yourself than for other people, turns out.

So, bottom line, found something interesting? Try it! Does it make you happy? Keep doing it! Even if it's only for yourself, do the thing and let it make you smile. Share it with the world if you're so inclined. Get out there and kick ass!!

[smile-files]

it feels sort of silly being surrounded by all this layclaire stuff while in the throes of an obsession with a completely different set of layton characters. i acknowledge the tenderness and tragedy of it all but i'm just not in the headspace to engage with it in any meaningful way lol

[miirshroom]

Elden Ring - The Omen Curse is caused by Inbreeding

Hints that Morgott and Mohg's "cursed" blood is a result of incest/inbreeding:

1) Mohg would go on to try to create a "pureblood" dynasty. The horns that he has are a type of genetic abnormality such as is observed from inbreeding deer. He's totally on board with inbreeding, considering that he tried to make his own brother his consort. In humans, the Spanish branch of the Hapsburgs undertook extensive inbreeding from the 1500's to 1700's with 80% of marriages being consanguineous ("of the same blood"), resulting in deformities and cognitive decline. Gideon confirms that the Lord of Blood's mind is not so stable:

"Oh, so that's where the so-called Lord of Blood was hiding himself eh. A fitting little squat for that deluded maniac to bleat about the revival of his precious dynasty, while he turns our fellow Tarnished into Bloody Fingers. Let him stay there. That way, his delusions will remain as the are - distant and unattainable." - upon reaching Mohgwyn Dynasty Mausoleum

2) There is a blood disease called "Haemochromatosis" or "The Celtic Curse" for being common in people of Irish and Scottish ancestry. For a few data points, it is suspected to affect up to 1 in 133 people in the UK or 1 in 300 people in Canada, but is rarely talked about and generally under-diagnosed. For such genetic diseases, if it is already known to be present in a family line then the odds of it being passed on to offspring is greatly increased via incest/inbreeding. The disease is characterized by too much iron accumulating in the organs eventually leading to organ failure and one of the proven fixes is bloodletting over a long period of time to reduce iron levels.

There are a few visual clues that point to hemochromatosis specifically. Firstly, scattered examples of Celtic theming have been pointed out since game release, including that Godfrey's sword seen in his Stormveil portrait (unobtainable in game) appears to be a Celtic style sword.

Secondly, the "Chroma" in the name is a word meaning "purity of color" in English, although going back to the original Greek it more generally is a term for "colour". Morgott sealed his cursed blood into his blade, which exhibits veins of many vibrant colours.

Thirdly, bloodletting as treatment for the disease would give further insight into Mohg. His obsession with causing wounds would then be framed as misinterpreting the science and manifesting a blood god who wants blood from everyone rather than bloodletting being a specific treatment meant to alleviate symptoms of a disease that is in himself specifically.

[camojacketfag]

Just booked my ticket for the Hunger Games prequel tomorrow. The fact that we’re in the middle of a Hunger Games renaissance is mind-blowing to my childhood self. I’ve yet to miss a midnight premiere for the entire series and although they’re not a thing anymore, I still plan on viewing the earliest fucking showing tomorrow. This series helped me so much as a kid. I'm sure if someone looked they’d notice that there are small breadcrumbs of the series all throughout my little blog. It’s still incredibly personal to me. So much of my life mirrors Katniss’. How fucking special it was to have someone go through so much trauma at the same age as me and still try and maintain her humanity and strength throughout. I named my dog Primrose, as a reminder to keep going, and on days when I can’t give myself any care, I pour it all into her. I feel excited about something for the first time all year. I feel like a kid again. I feel stupid and slightly embarrassed but I'm so fucking glad Suzanne decided to expand this world and enrich its characters once more.

(heres my Primrose)

[la-galaxie-langblr]

me knowing logically that immersion will provide more long term gains for language learning vs 5 new vocab flashcards and some grammar exercises go brrrrrrrrr

[moonrpg]

up til the sun comes out playing deltas rune

[robin-5-technically]

huh. interesting. might have to think on that...

also "terrible misfortune of meeting us" hush you like us and you know it.

((hyperphantasia is actually so cool mun))

🐌

Yes. Both of you read them.

Blowing up 🐌 with mind

[skitskatdacat63]

Its so crazy when you play a game in dub(or watch smth ig) and you listen to the other ones(in this case, the intended language) and its like HUHHHH!?!?! My boy does NOT sound like that !!!

[lilypads17]

felix, who has english as his first language VS kagami, who has japanese as her first language. they are communicating in french to "work on their listening skills" VS marinette who can barely string a sentence together in english or mandarin but knows how to say "i speak french" in both

[orcelito]

Man though like having now gone through such a major personal loss, writing Vash having Wolfwood around again is... interesting.

It's like. You go through hell, your heart's been shredded by a scalpel, just the thought of this person is painful, not to mention any active reminders... and then in comes Wolfwood, the living breathing reminder of Vash's loss.

It'll get better in time. Easier. But at the same time, Vash is always going to remember Wolfwood dying, and that's just gonna have him fucked up forever, huh?

[chatdae]

Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby was really good at expressing different sides of the character. Sometimes Gatsby seems really mature and distant; other times he seems really adoring and earnest, yet still mature; other times he seems completely starry-eyed and naive. A lot of this comes from the script and visuals but still, I think Redford is a big part of it. By the end of the movie, Gatsby really seemed like a dreaming teenage boy in a man's body

Special nod to the way Redford delivers "Loved me...too?" during the argument at the hotel. It was palpable just how pitifully incapable Gatsby was of imagining Daisy in a way that wasn't absolutely perfect