#so to Tumblr it goes instead

[4denthusiast]

Of the principles in Cultist Simulator, some seem easier than others to get a feeling for what the common thread is meant to be in their themes, and Heart seemed like one of the more confusing to me, but I feel like I have a better idea of it now after having thought about it in the context of literal hearts. I know in theory that the heart is made of a different kind of muscle from the skeletal muscle, and it's specialised to work continuously, but intuitively it feels weird that it never rests. It speeds up and slows down as needed, but it never stops. If you're lucky, your heart may beat continuously for a hundred years, never pausing once in all that time. If it's injured, it just heals while working. If it's not strong enough for the demands placed on it, it gets stronger while working. Normal muscles need a mixture of work and rest to get stronger, but not the heart, or at least not in the same way. If it pauses for just a minute, that's a life-threatening emergency. Occasionally (particularly if I have a blocked nose), I feel tired of breathing, and take a break for half a minute or so. I suppose there are even multiple sets of muscles that work the lungs, so if one can't be used, others can temporarily take over. With the heart that's not an option, it just has to keep going. If you think about all this, does your heart feel tired? Mine does. I assume it's just psychological. They're built for this after all. I can't remember if I've read anything about Heart Longs, but whatever it is they do, it must be exhausting, but perhaps they're built for it too. If Longs even have muscles, are all of a Heart Long's muscles cardiac muscle? I assume percussigants lack the ability to become tired. The heart must work continuously, because its work is the work of staying alive. It isn't the only part of the body with this property, but it is one of the most visible and obvious. This links in to another of the themes of Heart, vitality. Both Heart and Nectar relate to life, but I think a large part of the difference is that Heart is life like warm-blooded animals live it, needing to constantly keep going because if it stops it will never start again, while Nectar relates more to the much more chill lifestyle of plants. Vitality provides the ability to keep going through hardship, but the continuous act of living is also what creates vitality. Joy, too, inspires action over rest. Most of the game's curses can be overcome with Heart. I guess you just need to persevere and outlast them. The principles generally have something a bit creepy about them, something that's just too much. I think this is what that is for Heart, even though it's one of the more overtly positive Principles. Possibly I'm overgeneralising from a few examples. I'm not sure I can actually describe all the other principles this way. Perhaps it's silly to put too much thought into understanding the principle of Heart, given there is no deep truth to be discovered here in real life, it's just a bundle of associations that the authors put together. That doesn't mean it's not something that can be understood though. The games are well-written, with thought put into fitting things together in a way that makes sense.

[zorangezest]

humanformers au where these two get to bond because they’re both tech savvy programmer nerds or somethibg

more of this au!

[worstscholar]

I've been learning how to draw and I'm just getting into anatomy, like learning all the muscles and the names and shit. n'all i can think about is law and i, sitting on the floor in front of the couch. he's got his medical books open, refreshing his knowledge of anatomy for my sake. I'm sat right next to him with my dumb notebook out, listening to him talk about muscles and what they do as i sketch. it evolves into him leaning against me, hazy eyed and tired, pointing to different things as i sketch bodies, telling me shit like, "there's cartilage between these two muscles, so they should be further apart..." - "your missing the muscle there." - "there's a muscle connecting these two parts..." his voice is soft and comfortable, a tone that's only reserved for me. he's studying the side of my face, not bothering to look at what I'm doing until i turn to him, so he doesn't realize I've started drawing his tattoos onto all of my sketches, until i turn to him with a proud smile on my face. his cheeks bloom pink and he hides his fluster behind a light scoff and an eyeroll, but he likes that I'm always thinking of him, thinking of ways to insert him into whatever I'm doing. it fills his stomach with butterflies and makes his heart do funny things.

[qingwaaa]

In my "big scary adult man" Zim era 💔

[arcane-aries]

oath of vengeance paladin to ankarna bucky applebees is real and true to me

[leahnardo-da-veggie]

Look what I spent my weekend drawing :)

This here is Sra Brieanis, a Leah's Brain Special! (I've never written about her, unfortunately) She's a time travelling elf who was cursed by her brother's godly ex-boyfriend after she tried to help her brother retrieve his hoodie from said ex-boyfriend. The halo is a Long Story™.

Read on for more about her :)

Name: Sra Brieanis

Species: Alvarne (a subset of elves)

Age: 65 (about 32 in human years)

Pronouns: she/they

Once upon a time, their brother fell in love with a god. Then he and said god had a nasty, ugly breakup. So what does their brother do? Send little Sra, aged 15, to go collect his belongings from his ex-boyfriend.

Of course, because gods will be gods, poor Sra doesn't get to grab her brother's hoodie and leave. No siree. The god gets angry at her appearance and curses her to hurtle through space and time for the next 50 years, waking up in a new place every single month. And as a small mercy, she gets dumped near civilisation every time. Human civilisation, to be specific.

Thankfully, Sra is a clever child, and they quickly adapt. They dock their own ears to fit in, and spend what precious time they have hunting for someone — anyone, really — who might be able to help them.

They don't find anyone who can undo the curse, but they do collect a motley crew, including (but not limited to) an immortal oracle who finds their plight utterly hilarious and makes it her perogative to follow them across the time-space continuum, the freshly reincarnated and incredibly innocent Goddess of Dreams, an elven exile who accidentally binds himself to them while trying to undo the curse, and a demon who falls helplessly in love with them.

Oh, and they have a gender crisis.

Across five decades, they battle giant krakens, argue with greek philisophers, ride spaceships and beat Grug the caveman on the head several times, before finally being returned home, approximately half an hour after their adventure began. They go back to their brother, scarred, old and incredibly pissed off, and they tell him to fetch his own fucking hoodie.

Then they set off to reunite with their friends, just as they have every other month in the past 50 years.

Her favourite things in the world are soft beds, her Cursed Amulet Containing The Souls Of A Thousand Damned, and hummus. Her least favourite things are gods, demons, and irritating oracles. Unfortunately she gets a lot more of the latter than the former.

[mtl-blz]

sonic but it’s one punch man

sonic and saitama really are the guys ever

[roxygenize]

Be the isaac rarepair shipper u want to see in the world

TRUTH NUKE TAKE THIS FLASHFIRE I DREW MWAH

[starlingfawn]

i will lay down and hopefully my blood will feed my flowers

[incesthemes]

the problem is why would i watch more supernatural when i could instead talk about seasons 1-2 of supernatural for the rest of my life without ever exhausting all of the things i want to say

[sleepanonymous]

When you left I walked into the ocean. Not to drown but to be held by something reluctant to let go.

[stlilies]

Sumerus best 24/7 babysitting/daycare service on the go - Bestowed by Alice herself

look man if you're gonna be associated with the hexenzirkel even SLIGHTLY you're gonna babysit klee at some point.

[cherryrollarts]

So, with advice of the dead And a halo over my head At last "Honey, I'm home!" Three voices come all alone

[front-facing-pokemon]

[aspecbuddie]

I wish there was a way to simultaneously be active in fandom and NOT be active in fandom. To be able to speculate and scream about bts content and theories and read and write the spec fics between episodes AND still be able to go into the episode with absolutely no clue what's about to happen except maybe from the trailer.