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singing lessons

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corruption but not in a "sadistic pleasure from shattering someone's deeply held morals" way. more in a "jesus christ please have some fun for once in your life, idiot" way

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not now daddy, kitten has been afflicted by the horrors again

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Biting will continue until morale improves.

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What's with the recess in the wall like some poorly hidden matrix-ass portal to Broadway though? Is this a hidden bird teleporter they're going to?

his ass did not pay 2.90

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the opposite of that "orc can't read ulysses" is an elf who smugly delivers a lecture misinterpreting the Very Hungry Caterpillar

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decree

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Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people

Panel 1: A quintet grayscale people in grey, hooded robes are standing around a red light source with darkness above them, dramatically lit. They are saying:

"It is clear, fellow Hearers. By fortunate happenstance, the Cavern blesses our donors once more. Praise the Cavern! Praise the rule of Law!"

Panel 2: A news presenter is on TV, with an image of the Hearers emerging from their red cave onto a brown cliff with green grass, speaking down with the blue sky behind them.

Presenter: "Confusion hit the nation today, as the Hearers of the Whispering Caverns issued a new decree that colors… do not exist. While the legal ramifications of this remain uncertain, we are told this is a great victory against chroma ideology, and- the what? oh, uh, um, fuck, uh, well (in italics) get rid of the picture then, we're live, dipfuck-"

Panel 3: A leaf green person is sitting on their couch talking to a lime green person, who is standing against the wall. Next to them, a door frame opens into another room with some appliance in it, and a window showing a blue sky in the distance. The TV is on the right, the picture on the news now greyed out, the presenter looking extremely done with this shit.

Lime: "Yeah so that's what my parent was calling about."

Leaf: "…why"

Lime: "They're convinced I'm obligated to desaturate and start talking to them again."

Leaf: "wow that's. now how anything works."

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i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

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Looking at word documents and having to click a very precise, completely undefined section of an invisible table to get it to resize itself correctly after also dealing with excel deciding that certain invisible parts of the spreadsheet, right next to the box I'm trying to double click to type in, will fling me majestically the entire way down the fucking spreadsheet as I swear and once more try not to beat my laptop against a wall.

I am begging for basic fucking thought and care to be put into usability so my eyes do not squeeze-squint themselves out of my head before I reach "retirement" age

(Notice, 'retirement' consists of leaving my life behind and finding a place to die in the woods. Any resemblance the word possesses to the concept of historic old age luxury and care packages is entirely coincidental)

One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.

"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF

I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.

"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?

and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!

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do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often

anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now

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me when my disabilities disable me:

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cat summer begins the literal millisecond they see one (1) spot of sun

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how’s that house that raised you?

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Flower Lamps

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You know, the progress engine is a weird one. There is obvious friction between Elesh Norn and Jin Gitaxis in the stories. Her unyielding faith in her own divinity and what is 'the right thing to do' have led Jin to various plans and thoughts of betrayal or subversion to gain control of New Phyrexia himself so I wonder if he would have less strictness on re-compleation providing it serves his own agenda. However we do obviously see sanctioned collaboration between the two, particularly in panopticon style creatures like these two, keeping an eye to make sure every "Deviation" still follows their rules. The Deviants are literally policing not only "normal" one colour phyrexians but also themselves. Recouped and adapted back into their systems, their deviancy put to work for the state/orthodoxy.

We see little collaboration between black and blue, only 2 cards I found being a mindless puppet that either side can manipulate to their own ends, something both leaders would find useful, and a bat which I suppose works for Gin as an airborne spy? Nothing super of note here between the two sides.

Then there is black/red. Oddly, most of these are beasts who don't seem to have much higher conscious thought on the surface. Same again with Red/Green. Seems like it's mostly been tools either side could make use of for war.

Black/white. Not much deviance, but a definite theme of sadism and breaking of wills with Ria Ivor turning on her own people after being captured and broken, previously being a hero to them, and the vivisector which... well, that artwork speaks for itself. Deviance? No. Hot? Undeniably

Black green, mostly people who are then made cruel and work well in both the dross pits and the hunting grounds. They overlap enough in philosophy and practice that there isn't much deviance seen there.

But anyway, back to blue and red! This nightmare is depicted in the furnace level and makes me wonder, seeing as it spawns goblins, if it too has broken from Jin and joined the furnace for the sake of it's own freedom of expression. It's described as a nightmare so it was probably quite important and only seems to have modded itself a little, with the end of it's staff and it's leg things being furnacy like. Heck the white covering screams orthodoxy more than anything. But there is is. Another oddity, and described as nightmarish.

And again we have a red/blue but in the white alighted sphere. Possibly stealing oil to use as a weapon again others based on the abilities it has? Also described specifically as a Chimera, a mixture of species. Again, given they seem misplaced in the white environment we could perhaps assume they defected to the furnace. Theming! *Waves jazz hands*

I went through all the phyrexian cards I could find of 2 colors or more. The last type I checked was land cards. There are various combo land type phyrexian cards, even white and red representing their direct conflict. But which type combo did I find nothing for? Blue/Red. They're homeless. There is no phyrexian plane combo where the two spheres themselves meet and fight. All we have is a Kaladesh invaded land card from March Of The Machines. So honestly I agree with you in that I don't know what is going on with Red/Blue either, but it's certainly something happening under the surface with their creatures being represented as outcast or obviously different in some way in a lot of their own cards.

My possibly-controversial opinion is that I don't think Phyrexians are actually that into compleation like, as a kink, on a population-wide scale

It's definitely recognized as potentially kinkable but for most of them it's just the thing they got done to get through puberty

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Like most non-phyrexian populations, completion/puberty is just regarded by the majority as that awkward weird time before you became One With Phyrexia/An Adult, with all the requisite cringing and nostaligia such things bring.

Where things get weird and freaky, is 2nd compleation/puberty.

Started off caught up in the religious fervour of Elesh Norn but then ended up converting partially to the hunt? - You are regarded as a kinky freak.

Which means this little religious lad deliberately rebuked the idea of transitioning. He really said 'Mummy said I'm not to do such things and to be a good boy. Now let me go!' Give her time and she might come around after being hunted for a week or two.

There are group projects of course such as Atraxa but they were compleated into multi colour creatures from the outset. There is a precedent set for this deviance already amongst the praetors.

However.... Atraxa makes Ixhel.

Now, Atraxa's perfectly normal, definitely not deviant child is still under the normal multi colour compleation rules, all fine so far bar having to gently 'correct' some deviant thoughts here and there. All very fine, nothing to see here. Until of course Ixhel makes Vishgraz.

Oh dear, our sweet, innocent little child has, instead of destroying the head of a traitor, one who sided with Urabrask no less and has been 'helping' those who failed or had otherwise botched compleations, consorted to combine the black aligned Geth with the green aligned Belaxis and other bits and pieces of phyrexians all mixed together. Not just one phyrexian has changed or expanded alignments but multiple have, all squished into one body. That's.... some hardcore blasphemy. Well done Ixhel, you have disappointed your mother in ways she couldn't even fathom.

There is a precedent for recycling bits of phyrexians into others, but only under the various praetors watchful gaze and approval. This is done outside of that and is, therefore, kinky as hell.

Also I don't think it is at all a coincidence that most of this kinky gender/mana bending is happening under the white machine orthodoxy in particular. They clearly have the strictest rules and punishements on such things and ooooooooooo boy if that doesn't breed the most kinkiest blending re-compleations I don't know what would.

TLDR: Completion: First puberty. Boring.

Re-Compleation: Deviant, kinky, you should absolutely do it more, it pisses off Elesh Norn and Atraxa. Do you need another reason?

My possibly-controversial opinion is that I don't think Phyrexians are actually that into compleation like, as a kink, on a population-wide scale

It's definitely recognized as potentially kinkable but for most of them it's just the thing they got done to get through puberty