#time is weird...and an illusion!
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
au idea... tng but it's set in the 80s and the enterprise is an apartment building rather than a ship
other tenants of the building include: -Picard (the head of the college that Data attends) and Q (no one really knows what he does, he just pops in and out whenever he pleases) -Troi (high school guidance counselor) and Riker (personal trainer) and Worf used to live here too but he moved out -Beverly (still a doctor) and Wesley (burnt out college freshman) -Barclay (works at Blockbusters w/ Data and Geordi) -Guinan (bartender of a secretly gay bar)
the ds9 apartment is a whole other story
#not super happy with these drawings but i put too much effort/time to not share them anyways#its the idea that counts. not really the art#fellas is it gay to spend every waking moment of your life with your best friend? working with+ living with+ co-parenting his child?#geordi is fully under the illusion that data is aware that he's trans. but data is VERY sheltered. he wouldn't know the difference#dude talks about periods once and data's like “is it normal to do that? how come i do not? is something wrong with me?”#data got taught everything he needed to know about sex (dr soong was weird) but regular information like that? nope. definitely not.#data soong#geordi la forge#lal soong#star trek#star trek the next generation#alternate universe#tng#star trek fanart#fanart#art
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
Chujin's opinion of Starlo is that he is an immature loudmouth who only grew physically beyond middle/high school. He's a reckless moron that has no regard for the fact that he is poisoning the minds of monsterkind with his admiration for human culture. He thinks that Starlo's desire to bring a slice of the Underground is a waste of time and that if Starlo REALLY wanted to help monsterkind's situation, he'd try to figure out methods to escape the Underground instead of finding escapism in a pale imitation of the Surface. He is unable to conceive why Starlo even likes humans except out of some twisted, Stockholm Syndrome-esque fawning over monsterkinds' captors.
(Deep deep deep deep deep down, Chujin knows that Starlo is a kind person who doesn't have bad intentions. And, he can begrudgingly admit that if the Wild East prevents some monsters from falling into despair, (which is a death sentence for a monster,) then it does some good. But you'd basically have to dislocate his shoulder from twisting his arm so hard if you want Chujin to admit this.)
Starlo's opinion of Chujin is that he is some above-it-all asshole. He insists that he remained civil and respectful of Chujin ever since Chujin and Ceroba started dating and he started to get tangentially involved in Starlo's life, yet all Chujin's done is scoff at him for following his dreams. Chujin must think he's soooooooo great being some smarty-pants scientist instead of a nobody farmer/sheriff like he is and that's why he looks down on Starlo, what a snob! And as for Chujin's belief that all humans are evil? Greatly exaggerated! If humans were such wicked things, why would the westerns they make show such relatable concepts like justice and freedom and how cool revolvers are? Starlo's just trying to inject some fun into the Underground and distract everyone from how dire things are getting and Chujin has a massive stick up his ass about it.
(Deep deep deep deep deep down, Starlo knows that Chujin is a kind person who only wants the best for everyone. Chujin is beloved by Ceroba and the Sunnyside family and other residents of the Underground for a reason. The fact that he's such an admirable person drives him a bit nuts, because Starlo knows that he would never be able to measure up to him. It's no wonder that Ceroba fell for him so quickly. How could he ever compare? And as for Chujin's opinion on humans? While he strongly disagrees with Chujin's outright hatred, he does recognize that some humans can be dangerous.)
I would say that Chujin and Starlo would bitch at each other like two Southern belles backhand complimenting each other, except I feel like Starlo lacks the subtlety to be able to dish out those sorts of insults, let alone pick up on them. Instead, they'd try to be silent in each other's presence out of respect for Ceroba. It's a........... very tense silence, to say the least....
#undertale yellow#i get the vibes that while they never got into a physical altercations both Starlo and Chujin contemplated smashing#a bar stool over the other guy's head at least a few times in the span that they knew each other.#the only thing holding these two back from constantly feuding with each other is their mutual respect for Ceroba#(i mean both of them are in some ways correct about how they perceive the other but also the image they have of each other#are filtered through the hall of mirrors that is their internal biases and perceptions and opinions.#this is a bit of a weird tangent but stay with me here: if these two encountered a shapeshifter from Dungeon Meshi and the#shapeshifter made illusions of the other person they'd both look like laughably obvious caricatures of one another and even then#they'd still struggle to distinguish who's real and who's not)#(btw if you want to know who started the beef between these two the answer is that both of them started it. either side will claim#that it's the other guy who did but they both started this stupid feud between them. Ceroba wishes that they'd get along but knows#it's impossible at this point. she can be both Starlo's best friend and Chujin's wife and both of them are just gonna have to deal with it)#uty analysis#char: chujin ketsukane#char: starlo
74 notes
·
View notes
Text
Reading MW takes on Twitter is like reading a summary of the Bible from someone who only watched like a Family Guy family special about it
#did we play the same game? did we see the same themes yes themes as in plural#like my god get off ur fucking high horses or stop trying to make a unique theory just to be unique#like if it clearly doesn’t fit the plot it causes unnecessary arguments#people are weird and weirdly obsessed with making like the issues in the game solely interpersonal when it is clearly very institutional#with everything we learn about PE and how hard they make it to seek justice or safety#and ur treating it like the average person is a horrible troll monster#when the game really tries to show you how humans people become bad or can be enabled to do their worse through many different ways#but go ahead make it seem like all the men are like willingly Jimmy’s goon squad of predator enablers pls pls pls just look from another#view point I’m begging yall sometimes it’s good to leave those echo chambers#like taking parts of conversations out of context to make characters look better or worse is literally a tactic Jimmy uses ur using Jimmy#tactics to prove ur point dummy head#side tag tangent I am also very annoyed with how many people really do think Curly could’ve just had changes made to the ship during the#travel like a big point is that they barely had resources to just survive regularly#other than random scrap and wires for serious repairs they def didn’t just have locks laying about nor are the doors outside of medical and#the cockpit are suited to install locks like the whole point of the illusion of choice#is that at the end the options presented were never gonna be viable whether it was because of the time needed to execute them the standards#they were under or their lack of resources all mainly caused by PE no matter how much Curly#wanted to do something there’s very little he could’ve#even the ideas posed we have would have only happened after the assault and done little to actually stop the crash when you think about it#and it’s sad and sounds weird but that’s the case#mouthwashing
30 notes
·
View notes
Text
this took me like half an hour to make
#the hundred line#last defense academy#hiruko shizuhara#takumi sumino#deltarune#i couldn't find a high quality image of hiruko's acrylic anywhere so that's why it looks like that#sf looks misaligned but i double-checked it isn't it's an optical illusion#things took a weird route right now#the hiruko portrait is from her concept art#i just finished deltarune chapter 4 for the third time and got my hundredth ending in hundred line like a few days later so this felt right#the hundred line last defense academy
19 notes
·
View notes
Text
Time-related lyrics from Even in Arcadia













#sleep token#even in arcadia#there is no time btw....we have the illusion ill-lusion....whatever XD#somebody out there please tell me that you notice stuff like this too....I can't be the only weird one XD#give me a time and a date and I leave them cold...I forgot this one...noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo XD#lyrics collection
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
boy i need to reread dgm for real holy fuck
#you wake up and laven fated soulmates canon how do you keep on living#aside from that i wonder how that works#lavi called it an illusion but he was obviously there for real#so he's in the helix? but he's also part of allen?#he says 'well meet in the future' so he IS at least in part allen#is he also in part lavi and that's why they could meet like that?#but he tells lavi it's not his time to 'go there' yet so he IS dead/inside the helix#?????#haven't reread the chapter in a while but didn't he sacrifice all of himself to remake allen?#why's he in the helix?#what's the helix anyway...#like i know it's the energy that feeds the innocence and probably a visual representation of the cycle of life and death but#it looks like a dna helix right i wonder if that's ACTUALLY relevant#like it's the circle of life and also it's in everyone and everyone is made of it or something#so that's why lavi could see past lavi when he was about to die ? cause he's actually somehow part of him ?#no that makes nearly no sense why only lavi then#it's not like bookman has never been about to die during the manga I'd guess past lavi would go to him too#uh maybe he did tho...#no I don't know it's useless to think about#still weird how past lavi is with our lavi and inside allen and also in the helix tho#i wonder if our lavi speaks like past lavi cause he met him here or if he was doing that earlier too
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
My review of Miraculous Ladybug S5 so far is that it has a lot of scenes that I like in theory, but in action just end up being very silly and way over dramatic
#that being said. i love them all the same#genuinely obsessed with this show#but man it handles everything in such an odd way#they always spend so much time talking about nothing for the first 75% of the episode#and then the last 25% hikes up the drama to 100 and its always so abrupt#'illusion' is an excellent example of this lol#that episode had such a strange and sudden tone shift#its bizarre that the episodes are 22 minutes long but still barely manage to say anything#this is all technically criticism but make no mistake. i wouldnt have it any other way#this is truly the peak of miraculous ladybug. this is what it should ALWAYS be#so far i dont think theres been an episode where ive been particularly BORED. theyve all got a little spice to them#which i appreciate#well. i kinda didnt like the first 2 episodes. those were just a lot of running around#but everything after that has been exactly what i wanted#tldr: the pacing is weird and i wouldnt change a thing#my notes document on this show is up to 8 pages. ive never had as many opinions on a show as I do this one#im a certified miraculous stan
78 notes
·
View notes
Text
some of the “this is bad design because it locked me out of the secret boss” for ch3 (AND 4?!?!?) are insane cause i replayed ch1&2 on the 3rd and I got locked out of Jevil because I forgot to check the elevator out of the prison again and went straight to the final boss
“I shouldn’t have to replay parts of the game to access secret parts of the game” do you hear yourself? You’re gonna replay it again next year anyway its not even a long game
#op do not play illusion of gaia 1993 where you dont get the chance to backtrack anywhere ever again#and where if you miss a gem milestone of 10 gems and try to get the prize at 11 gems they say Fuck you better luck next time#weird thing where people play a game ONCE and never again get your 25$ worth#you don’t even get locked out tho. it just gets really hard to win
3 notes
·
View notes
Note
piss your pants……pisss your pants………pisss yourself….oooo

:( i don't wanna :(
#i used to have a hyperfixation over optical illusions when i was younger too#like around 7 specifically#LMFAOAOA I HAVE SO MANY WEIRD HYPERFIXATIONS DUDE 😭#i was so obsessed with them though — how they were made ; what visuals they gave u staring at them for periods of time#all that sorta stuff#another like 3 week childhood hyperfixation from me#i swear tumblr is making me remember stuff i entirely forgot about#not complaining though#this did unlock a core memory of me staying up from 4 to 12 just staring at optical illusion videos as a child though
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
Goodness, apparently Argenti's One and Only is named in Chinese after Rocinante, which is so fitting for him, especially with Himeko's words about him in mind
#How she says maybe the beauty he seeks may disappoint him if he hound it#How he may not recognise it for what it is blinded by what he seeks#But overall his every act and his words fit so much#How his approach to knighthood is more a portrayal of a knight than a knight and so how is a little chimerical#And yet how precisely for that in the end after knowing him he feels more sincere‚ movingly sincere#And makes one regain hope and illusion in the world and everything seems more worth it‚ brighter and beautiful#Because yes he may be weird and deranged and risible but after spending some time with him one can't help but think he makes sense#Yes people can be and should be and even are kinder. Yes every little battle can be a joust that feels larger than life#because this is our life. His grandiose acts are silly but he is honestly trying to be helpful and fair and kind and he feels so sincere#that the silly acts end up being endearing first and admirable at last#And after everything‚ after meeting him‚ one can't help but regard the world with wonderstruck eyes again#Because everything is as beautiful as he said it was. How could I forget?#I talk too much#I should probably delete this later#Argenti#Traces#I'm sorry if this appears in the tag but I wanted to save the Rocinante reference#Edit: doesn't entirely fit but Velite has a bit of Sancho Panza in this context
33 notes
·
View notes
Text
well maybe i should try & sleep again. maybe itll work this time. praying
#PLEAAAAAASE let me rest#i will be thinking about absintheee. i think his parent had a way of keeping him looking relatively young up until they died#like a sort of weird illusion that dissipated along with their life. & he had to adjust to being Grown & looking Different very suddenly#ok fine.#nierposting#absinthe#even if the post itself isnt about him.#probably as part of like. magic they developed upon contracting wcs. keeping absinthe stuck in this 'idealised' version of him#& absinthe never really noticed he stopped growing until he was thrown into the body of an adult#this was not good for dysphoria. he spent a good amount of time making no real progress on anything bc he was that distraught#over killing them. & over very much feeling like hes in the wrong body bc it didnt happen gradually#& more or less working out it was his parent's doing Somehow... ahhh the complex feelings.
2 notes
·
View notes
Note
45. illusion ; for roger and cassandralique.
“Anyway,” said Miss Blair, looking at him curiously over the rim of her coffee-cup, “We ought not to give any credit to Mather – none of those old witch-hunters understood anything about the natural or supernatural world at all.” Roger Collins, absent-minded, stirred his own cup without adding anything to it; thinking the rungs of the conversational ladder had gotten – well – that the conversation had gotten away from him, as the day had, and that Cassandra Blair’s notes from Stokes’s course were taken in a fine strong hand that was familiar, somehow. Mather – of course he knew Mather – Magnalia Christi Americana – the ghost ship of New Haven harbor, the only thing in that old worthy’s opus he could remember at the moment – because of his four years there, or because of the professor’s lecture? Why had he even been there? His thoughts were cobwebs he couldn’t shake loose of, but Cassandra’s eyes were as wide and blue as that harbor must have been, three centuries before.
Send me a number and two (or three!) characters, and get a five-sentence drabble!
#if i had a nickel every time i used mather's magnalia in a fic i'd have two nickels. which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice.#tortoisesshells unfortunately voted most likely to quote dead puritans she hates in a fic for the nth year running.#anyway the ghost ship of new haven isn't an illusion but an apparition but alas! i pretend i don't know for the sake of the drabble.#fic#my fic#ask meme
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
Is it just me or are we all stuck in Groundhog Day, but instead of Groundhog Day it's Ground Hog year, and instead of us being stuck in 2024 almost 2025 it's actually still 2020 and we are all still confined to our houses, doing tiktok challenges because what else is there to do? And We're all just barely starting high school or we're still preteens because there's no way it's been almost 5 fucking years and we're almost legally allowed to vote or we are already allowed to. Right???? RIGHT?????
#time is an illusion#time is running out#time is weird#funny#lmao#lol#there's no way#decade: 2020s#2020s#What do you mean I can operate a motorized vehicle without it being illegal?#What do you mean I have to apply for colleges? I'm literally 12????#What do you mean I'm old enough to date other teens? Aren't they too old? Aren't I too young?#Someone help#What do you mean I'm almost an adult?
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
update: while i am still height blind i have discovered that i am ALSO age blind
aka my supervisor had to explain to me that, in fact, for most people my age that do not have Incredibly Ancient Fathers, he is, in fact: dad-coded
me, who has siblings older than him: bizarre
#personal#in his defense my family is just weird#my sister is thirty years older than me#basically my dad had my sister at age 20 and me at age 50#so someone in their 40s?? sorry m8 u need more time to bake before you're dad-shaped to me i guess#this only came up because someone requested to see someone younger and my supervisor was like 'and they got me instead <3'#and i was like 'what?? you're young right?'#my supervisor out here being like: oh based on this person's age their grandfather may have lived through WW2#my ass: oh same. my granddad was drafted into WW2 (:#i feel i just occupy a very bizarre space temporally sometimes tbh#time is an illusion and existence is a prison i guess#generations are made up
14 notes
·
View notes
Text
Yessssss. Different fandoms for the win. A well-done borderline crack-treated-seriously crossover just HITS.
You mean to tell me there's bitches out there that look Red Hood and don't think "omg u poor bb such trauma, much sadness. Would a Spider-man fix you? Let's give it a whirl."
You're telling ME that Buffy Summers wouldn't have hated Dean Winchesters guts but in the funniest way imaginable?
Are you going to stand there, in front of my face, and tell me, right to my face, that shoving an weirdly well-equipped Xena the Warrior Princess into Game of Thrones where she and Sansa would obviously fall deeply in love doesn't sound like a blast to you? Don't play in my face. 🙄
i hate how non-canon ships have become so controversial nowadays, like i just miss how most people were multi-shippers. we even used to ship characters that were in different fandoms, what happened to that??
#season 8 sansa OBVIOUSLY dont make it WEIRD#or YA KNOW WHAT fuck it make it weird#they aren't real people and there are no rules.#time is an illusion and there are no bounds to ones imagination if you kill the cop in your head
169 notes
·
View notes
Text
rewatching 13 reasons why at the tender age of twenty-four. so many things are wrong with this show, and me.
#why is tony a full-on greaser in like 2017 & why is he beating up dudes in back-alleys & why is he a 35-year-old highschooler#what the fuck is up with clay's parents' shit-ass haircuts and weird attitudes and horrible-looking scrambled eggs#why is this written so clunkily too. the seams are visible all over#like clay's forehead injury which is sooo funny to me as a storytelling device (band-aid alert! we are back in the present)#it's effective but so so funny. also why is his hair like this. we get it he's an everyman boring dude. we get it#and this is just off the top of my head (greaser tony broke me)#but the thing. the thing that is truly terrible about me rewatching this is precisely that it's a REwatch#so i have no illusions. i know what happens#i see a character and i remember all the heinous shit they're about to do.#i see a character and i remember all the terrible things that will be done to them. on screen.#it took the breath out of me when bryce appeared. and again when monty was introduced as a random background character. fuck!#i'm probably not gonna do this to myself (psychological torture) for much longer. but it's sure having some sort of impact#i originally binged the show during an exam session years ago at a time i was already not doing well. guess who's not doing well now either#at least i'm like way more mentally stable this time around. at least there's that!#anyway. don't try this at home!#rambles
0 notes