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I finally finished my comic ovo It took me like a year to actually finish it, but in terms of time spent making it, it maybe?? took 2ish months. Day jobs will kill u

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I've been playing Stellaris for 8 years and this is absolutely the wildest fucking galaxy I've ever seen

I'll try to explain this so people who don't know the game will understand it.

my empire, the Fen, spawned in a totally isolated part of the galaxy, sandwiched between, on one side, an ancient empire with technology centuries ahead of mine and no interest in letting me through their borders, and on the other, a "devouring swarm" species that kept trying to eat me. so I basically hunkered down behind a whole bunch of defense platforms and didn't meet anyone else until halfway through the game.

that situation lured me into a false sense of calm.

about an hour into the game, another ancient empire from the other side of the galaxy "awakened", slaughtered the devouring swarm in less than five minutes, and started closing in on my borders right around the time a violent warlord popped into the middle of my territory through a wormhole.

shortly after this I accidentally imploded my home planet into a black hole.

then, because apparently I had accidentally set the "crisis" option to "ALL", the galaxy was attacked by:

ghost invaders from the dimension where telepathy happens

a rogue AI that made half the robots in the galaxy turn evil

a "scourge" from outside the galaxy intent on consuming everything, including my ships

another rogue AI that wants to erase all consciousness from the universe

in response to this I leaned hard on my bioengineering technology and created a sort of space Godzilla the size of a planet. the entire galactic community then decided that makes me the real problem, and every single civilisation declared war on me.

I evolved my space Godzilla until it got big enough to eat planets, at which point a sort of space Cthulhu emerged and started rampaging through the galaxy trying to challenge it for dominance.

so now, I'm just running around eating planet after planet trying to make my space Godzilla strong enough to fight space Cthulhu, basically doing ranked competitive genocide with the other remaining crisis factions. the galactic population has dropped by like 70%. a dozen empires have fallen. my economy is crashing because apparently this situation is bad for trade and general citizen morale. somewhere there's a planet that keeps sending me notifications because the indigenous species is about to achieve FTL travel and I'm just like. oh buddy. pal. you do not want to be out here.

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you ever think about how isat initially introduces bonnie and odile as the iconic child and adult duo -- odile is bonnie's favorite adult, the one they respect and look up to most, the one they look to for guidance, etc...

but that was actually originally siffrin's role and siffrin's dynamic with bonnie. and then siffrin got permanently injured because of bonnie. and it made them so guilty that they couldn't look him in the eye anymore. so they had to find a new favorite adult to latch on to, someone they didn't have complicated feelings towards. and that new adult happened to be odile. you ever think about that

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Y'know Dracula got lucky with the fact that his name is still reasonable backwards. Imagine if Godzilla, Frankenstein, or Mothman had to do that shtick? Allizdog, Nietsneknarf, and Namhtom would not be very inconspicuous. Any you can think of that could pull it off?

I can't come up with a cogent response because I'm stuck on the mental image of Godzilla needing to adopt an alias in order to buy real estate.

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I love how elias's fatal flaw that he repeats over and over again is that he has the ability to know basically everything about everyone around him, but he's just. not that curious about it. he assumes he already knows everything by surface-level personality judgements alone and doesn't care to Actually Check. he doesn't care enough to look into tim's past, he doesn't care enough to check if he's underestimating martin, and he doesn't care enough to consider whether jon might actually be willing to kill him. pitch perfect representation of an academic with almost unimaginable access to information who simply does not give a shit about his professed area of expertise. even jon at his absolute rock bottom worst is still interested in learning new things.

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always torn between "this is fanfiction, it doesn't need to be 100% realistic" and "if i get even a single fact about this obscure thing wrong, i am going to be violently killed with hammers"

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Lol. Lmao

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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

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the researcher needs at least one night per week fully alone or they'll explode

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I wanted to ask, is there a reason why there is so much french symbolism in the game? Between the fleur-de-lis and the ennemies being named in French, it was really surprising to see so much of it.

aucune idée. mais alors, vraiment aucune. cela restera un mystère

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the native anglophone does not know that the concept of translation and 200 papers in 50 different languages already exist

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This is still one of the greatest things ever made.

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Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

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this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

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spoken for with kris deltarune…

I also dropped it on youtube :3 shameless plug I fear

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ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ💬 sani's new message : bnha icons!

☀︎︎ like/reblog if use! don't repost!

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its like the dead middle of my finals but i have yet to finish this if i got the right brain chemicals so leaving this up because why the hell not (i really need to sleep properly 😭)