#technical grain

[foxyou-too]

Pioneer HDJ-700-K Over-Ear DJ Headphones

[soul-collectors]

Cloak & Dagger!

Side/background characters for Soul Collectors! StoryShift! Asriel and Chara variants! Dagger is an Anomaly SOUL that left their timeline with Cloak deciding to come with them.

More info on them;

Dagger;

Dagger was turned into an Anomaly SOUL after being attacked and killed by other Anomaly SOULs.

They were given the choice to either leave their timeline or wait until they inevitably get collected by a SOUL Collector or worse, they chose to leave.

Also, Since Anomaly SOULs softly glow, being one means they're a great nightlight-

Cloak;

Cloak made the choice to tag along with his sibling after they chose to leave their timeline to "protect" them.

He usually spends his time in the safe timeline they both live in, training to become a Royal knight, or roleplaying a normal timeline with other variants alongside Dagger.

(That timeline (not the Omega timeline) will be explored in the future <3)

[joy-jpg]

[telesodalite]

Never getting over Fulcrum being a project manager...

Idk why, but something about that is so funny to me. Not just because the title of "project manager" is inherently kinda funny for a Decepticon, but also because-

1. It's vague sounding and hard to explain irl because it technically exists in multiple fields, like healthcare or manufacturing, which surely translates into canon in some way.

2. In canon, it's simultaneously a really mundane, innocuous sounding job, yet it's also a super morally awful position to reside over depending on the context. (*cough* forced colonization and cyberforming *cough*)

And 3. It solidifies the fact that behind all the surface level militaristic work we get with both the Decepticons and Autobots, there's also Cons and Bots with "normal" jobs in both factions.

Like, sure yeah we get scientists and doctors, engineers and programmers, but usually in big important or warfront positions. (For plot reasons, understandably.) But it's also really funny and interesting to think of those that worked background positions, or minor jobs.

Like an Autobot working in their equivalent of an HR department, or a Decepticon who runs one of their outpost's or starship's kitchens.

Just all the pre-war jobs that didn't just disappear with the war, but instead evolved to exist within the factions.

It's particularly funny with the Decepticons though, because it could be a super mundane job or situation, but because it's them, it has to have an air of ~e v i l~ to it, either legitimately and/or merely for the vibes, like Tarn's "performance reviews".

[mythicalmagical-monkeyman]

S2E20: The Nerds and the Doom Domes

aka a quick run down about why it had to be Cooper to tell Mateo what he did

Ok so the lines:

Mateo: "[The Dream Realms] They're in the wrong places! This isn't right." Cooper: "But it's great- I mean look at it! It doesn't have to be exactly the same as it was before. I learned a lot of new stuff, I'm better!" Mateo: "But how do we know it'll be better?" Cooper: "We don't. We can hope for the best-"

Why are these lines so important? Why am I saying it had to be Cooper? Why am I making a whole post about said few lines-?

Well ok, first we have to understand that the narrative basically likes to play this game of tug-o-war with Cooper, it's constantly doing this; Mateo or Logan, his family or his friends, what he wants or what someone else wants of him, to stay the same and be perfect or change, etc.

That last one is actually pretty important because most other decisions and challenges he's faced with in the show can fit under it; ie. does he keep doing what he's been doing and listen to his family or does he change and go against that and do something else? Does he stay friends with Mateo and nothing changes or does he become friends with Logan and change, well, everything, basically? (Because Logan is actually a decently huge plot mover in season one and technically you could say he wouldn't even be a part of the group if not for Cooper but- I'm not going to get into that here).

Point is, throughout the entire show thus far Cooper has been tied to change, not only in the ways mentioned above but in other things too; like how his capture by the Night Hunter in episode one kind of sets everything off, because suddenly Izzie and Mateo have a stake in this their friend is in danger, so it goes from fun in the dream world to -> save our friend and start figuring everything out. Furthermore he even has a whole sub plot in season two about how the loss of his memories changed him and how else he changed his way of doing/thinking of things to make up for said lost memories. And honestly that's just the tip of the iceberg, I could go on-

But anyway.

So Cooper = Change in this, or at least the idea of change and the choice whether or not to accept change or go against it.

Sound familiar? As in maybe there's another character, or two, that really struggles to accept change-?

And I might make a post about this because it's really fascinating to me but I am in fact talking about Mateo!

Throughout the series Mateo's aversion to change is constantly popping up, and I guess you could really equate change to loss in some of these: but in S1E4 he doesn't want to go through the Dream Forge due to the idea of loosing Z-Blob. In part one of season two Mateo is constantly struggling with not only the fact that things changed and he lost Z-Blob to the point where everything he dream crafts is almost some subconscious attempt to recreate/get Z back but he also struggles immensely with the whole Jasmin situation because to some degree you can clearly tell he doesn't want the dynamic in his family to change, (I mean just look at how he reacted to the idea that Jasmin and Izzie were changing how they went about celebrating José's birthday-)

"Jasmin's changing everything!"

Mateo very clearly struggles with the idea of change because if anything he probably ends up equating change to loss. Every time some big change has happened in his life he has lost something; his mom, Cooper, Z-Blob, which is no doubt related to why he seemed so bugged by the placement of the dream realms being changed. To him it probably looks something like "Positions of dream realms changed -> change = bad because it leads to loss -> this is wrong, something will go wrong!"

Thus that brings us the line: "They're in the wrong places! This isn't right."

With all this being said though, Mateo hating change and Cooper, in a way representing, the idea/choice that leads to change it all starts to add up.

Cooper was, from what we've seen, the first change that Mateo had to face that went right, Cooper came back and while their friendship had changed if anything it was for the better. In the grand scheme of things Cooper was probably what eventually led Logan to stop bullying Mateo. And if Cooper hadn't lost Mateo's comic in S1E13 who's to say Mateo ever would have gotten that semblance of courage from Mrs. Castillo to share his comic with people-? (albeit this one was a bit indirect on Cooper's part lol)

Cooper inspired small, good, changes in Mateo's life which have honestly seemed to snowball pretty well for Mateo. But at the same time Cooper also had to learn how to deal with his own problems with change and practically his whole life being flipped upside down thanks to his lost memories.

Both of them have been affected by change, in both good and bad ways, their entire relationship has changed but while Mateo views change as bad Cooper figured out that it wasn't all bad, that there is good in it and that maybe it, maybe they aren't the exact same as they were before but in spite of all that they're better now.

Anyone could have told Mateo this, if anything Izzie has tried, but, really, Cooper is the one that's going to help Mateo realize that change isn't always bad. That change is ok, because Cooper changed, their friendship changed, but they're both still there.

[thatwavephenomenon]

We don't talk enough about the fact that Solas placed a magic hidden mic in the Evanuris' lair so you can listen directly to what they're saying in the Crossroads. The real reason Solas' spies were fired was because he already could gather information on the main enemies by using AI (Audio Incantation)

[cconfusedkat]

Paloma, the Goddess of Tranquil and Grain: once a beloved figure, to being the one slain so quickly for refusing to give into War and Violence.

She stood by her people for 1,200 years, reassuring them not to give into the war, to not give into anarchy, and the messy crumbling society of The Old Faith.

Shamura was the one who had slain her. Their siblings could care less about one God who refused to let her people be guided to danger, but this deeply angered them. To prove yourself worthy to your people, you had to fight, to earn their respect.

Alas, Paloma believed the opposite… which was how all this led to her murder.

It wasn't an easy way out, either. Shamura made sure she understood, just as much as her people would entrust them. Bloodshed—a God going against her own word, to keep The Lamb's safe in her land—another obstacle out the way to prove The Prophecy wrong.

She of Tranquil: a Goddess that managed to split her own crown apart by not using its power correctly. To tolerate this set of foolish behavior, to corrupt your own crown rather for it to corrupt you, despicable.

[pico-o-malley]

I have two questions for the terror fandom.

1. What the heck is davechella?

2. Is it worth reading the book? I’ve heard things about it. Or do you guys recommend another book?

[ajthepeach]

magma boarded w my friends :3

my favorite closeups under cut :D

@angelonasher @foxpopz @artblock-addict

[junglejim4322]

are you drinking like dried powdered kombucha or did you brew it with a starter kit?

Neither its store bought however I do need to get into brewing kombucha I’ve just never fermented a liquid before.. but I need to be brave.. though it is disconcerting that so many recipes are like “yeah so your second ferment has a 50% chance of becoming a bomb,”

[lottieno9]

Exams are coming up so I'm either gonna continue my avid Talking Heads hyperfixation, develop one on either Chantal Arkerman or The Monkees or pass my exams.

[cookieofearthbread]

INCORRECT QUOTES - ACCEPTING

Anon / @ferretraised

✏️ / / from honey cookie @ mama grain !

*Honey falls over* First Grain: Honey! Are you alright? Honey: Is that you, God? First Grain: What? Honey: It's just, you sound a lot more like First Grain than I expected.

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First Grain: Damn, the power went out. Honey: Don’t worry, I got this. Honey: *shakes rapidly and starts to light up* First Grain: What-? Honey: I swallowed a glow stick! First Grain, on the verge of tears: WHY WOULD YOU-

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Honey: I need some help with my homework, First Grain. First Grain: What’s the assignment? Honey: I’m supposed to write a paper that presents both sides of an issue and then defends one of the arguments. First Grain: What’s your issue? Honey: That’s the problem. I can’t think of anything to argue. First Grain: That’s hard to believe. Honey: I’m always right and everybody else is always wrong! What’s to argue about?!

[hereticaas]

okay I have my favorites of course (nickel boys and conclave) but there are i think only two possible best picture winners that would truly deeply annoy me. unfortunately one of them is the current frontrunner and the other is the previous frontrunner :/

[foxyou-too]

peugeot fractal 2015

[bbq-potato-chip]

sorry unpopular opinion (?) i dont see ulquihime as enemies to lovers

[capinejghafa]

Reading The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal, maybe I'm being too critical, but it's a very slow start. I'm hopeful it picks up, but trying to also trying to temper my expectations lol