#-balls up on the floor-

[skrunksthatwunk]

skwisgaar punished arc

[honeygrahambitch]

People: so what was the moment that scared you the most in Hannibal? One of the murders right?

Me: actually it was this moment

[opera-ghost]

the final performance of phantom on broadway - april 16th, 2023

[tickletails]

OC tickle art, I am cringe but I am free

[omegalomania]

it just really makes me feel a certain kind of way on tonight of all nights, when pete said this was the best tour ever, when patrick decided to do this exceedingly vulnerable thing and play a song they've never done live (and that pete said they wouldn't ever do live), dark alley and then following it up with what a catch and then transitioning into don't stop believing with the whole band - what kind of 8ball could compare to that?

bob dylan was the last song we really got from fall out boy until so much (for) stardust. they wrote it back during abap era but scrapped it. it was joe that pushed for its inclusion on believers never die volume 2, making it one of two tracks that were exclusive to that record. the second was dear future self, which was released as a single ahead of time to promote hellamegatour, so when we got the full bnd2 record...fob dylan was basically the last new music we got from fall out boy for a good five years. bnd2 was released in november 2019. it wouldn't be until january 2023 that we got "love from the other side". and it didnt feel like a potential "end" the way the hiatus did, at least not to me, but i did go into bnd2 knowing it'd probably be a while before we'd get new fall out boy music. so as much as i adored the song, there was a bittersweet tinge to it.

there's just something in that. something in beginnings and endings and "what ifs" and "never coulds." dark alley was a song that could've been left as a quiet footnote to a deeply unhappy time in pete wentz's life, but wasn't. what a catch could've marked the formal end of fall out boy's career and trajectory, but didn't. bob dylan could've been the last song we got from fall out boy ever, but it wasn't.

believers truly never die, do they?

[ollylotl]

a dream of home

[blinddivine]

Glow Up, part one: Glowing maxis recolors and defaults!

So, my birthday is on Saturday. I think y'all know I like glow in the dark/black light reactive things, like a lot. This extends into glow bowling. Therefore, I bring you some party gifts. This is the first part of a continuation of Night Glow. Hopefully this is the 3 part series I envision it to be. Part one is glowing and defaulted hobby objects:

Pinmaster 300: Recolored bowling alley with glowing decks, default chrome, bowling ball, and scorecard recolors:

Sidepocket pool table: Recolored felt, defaulted pool balls and a default pool cue: The default pool balls and pool table are for Sidepocket only. Lets you keep some normal pool balls if you don't plan on keeping the default pool cue.

Burled Wood Dartboard: Comes in two flavors: recolor and default recolor. The default recolor also defaults the darts your sims play the game with. For whatever reason the texture for the default dart accessory pulls the texture from the entire dartboard and not a small segment like the pool cues or bowling ball. Therefore the entire dartboard will default. If you choose the default, all darts will be replaced across your recolors. If you choose only the recolor the darts sims play with will not glow, but also your recolors won't have glowing darts for no reason:

Download

Find them all in hobbies >recreation

Please enjoy, let me know if you have any problems. Again, if you find any pspbrowse files just delete them. I'm sure I got them all though.

Happy Spooky Season, go forth and create!

Credits and special thanks:

Michelle's lack black recolors of the dartboard, pinmaster and sidepocket pool table were used as a starting point.

@mortia's default bowling ball because I don't know how to add an image to the bowling ball...yet.

@pforestsims for the scorecard and chrome defaults, before I figured out how to make defaults myself. Also for answering a question I had with kindness and for their "making objects glow" tutorial.

Finally @moyokean for trying to help me figure out how to recolor those darn pins.(Spoilers y'all, they can't even be defaulted in the normal way. As far as we could tell.) Also for helping me figure out where I was going wrong in trying to make my own defaults and their feedback!

[idyllic-idioms]

this morning, my partner went “i’m still riding that high of being proud of you for doing the dishes yesterday” and like i have to say its really nice to be in a boring relationship

[romansmartini]

aziraphale and crowley are literally the ladies who lunch as made famous by stephen sondheim’s company. by the way. if you even care

[whump-is-love-whump-is-life]

See, I'll be scrolling through whumpblr, whump stories, whump fanfiction, etc. and sometimes just go-- Your whumpee's are getting beds???

[wazzappp]

Ok @moosemonstrous here we fuckin go.

OK SO. I apologize if it comes off more Evangellion than Pacific Rim but I thought that making The Charger more slender would help to differentiate it and allow for a focus on agility (also helps it to look more skeletal and unsettling).

The Charger is built in layers. An outer layer that constitutes the armor, a thinner covering, metal scaffolding, secondary thin covering, and then finally the essential wiring that makes the 'nervous system' of the Jaeger. Most of the damage (corruption scars, nicks, paint chipping) is just cosmetic, and the structural nature of the Jaeger is intact.

HOWEVER. The same can not be said of the reactor core. At some point (maybe during Eli's death?) corruption made its way behind the main fans of the outer engine and into the main reactor that powers the Jaeger. In theory this should lead to a catastrophic failure, but in this instance Im thinking there was a chemical reaction that essentially stabilized the corrosive nature of the Corruption (were gonna circle back to that).

For the most part my version of Robbies suit is fairly standard. I added an orange tint to his helmet screen for flavor because hey. Why not.

The spine of the suit is probably newly integrated to allow for an updated interface, I imagine theres at least a little development in the technology between the time Eli dies and Robbie comes into play. That would make the suit a weird mishmash of past and new technology which could be VERY fun.

Also I LOVED the white accents @cicada-candy added for their design but I didn't want to steal ideas so I just added it in my own places. Your art fucks severely bro I just wanted to make sure and let you know that <3

TIME FOR MY FAVORITE PART: SPECULATION ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND ITS THEORETICAL GENETIC EFFECTS IN DOSES ON A SUBJECT!!!!!! (AKA self indulgence part 2 electric boogaloo)

I believe you mentioned the Corruption being a Neurotoxin which would be Very fun and VERY cool but I also have a suggestion. Mainly because you also referenced an increase in Robbies strength, as well as another person who got fuckin deaded shortly after.

A rapid growth in muscle density to allow for this strength would be very interesting, but why would the Corruption cause that? Simple answer; it isn't. At least not intentionally. Whats actually happening is a kind of nerve damage that changes the brains regulation of muscular exertion. Our brains really only let us use a certain percentage of our real strength, because if we just let loose and used it all we would cause significant physical damage to ourselves. Like. ripping your own tendons free from their anchors. you could break your own bones. you would die SO fast bro.

Now it is POSSIBLE to access this strength in situations of extreme stress and thats how you get people lifting cars off of loved ones, but this does still cause damage. It also gets more complicated when you consider Fast Twitch muscle reactions but for the sake of simplicity: You Would Die.

So a release of cortisol and other stress hormones, combined with a lessened ability to control strength. This means they would be USING that strength A LOT against ANYONE AND EVERYONE. But maintaining this sort of metabolism is not reasonable. Someone suffering from Corruption would likely also suffer from Hypoglycemia fatally. So extremely strong, extremely scared, and extremely short lived is the kind of deal we would be talking about here.

SO. Having said ALL OF THAT. WHAT IS ROBBIES DEAL. Well heres my proposal: The Corruption is a virus that causes neurodegenerative disease.

If Robbie was exposed to very small amounts of it as a child, it's possible it was inactive or defective, which would have allowed for an immunization point. Its also highly possible that this is a virus that can not survive (well i say survive very lightly. theres significant debate as to wether viruses are actually alive at all but I digress) outside its usual area AKA Inside a demon. He could have been exposed through contaminated water, direct contact, maybe even breathing burned version through the air. Either way, he came into contact with a weakened version of the virus and it helps him later on.

As he comes into DIRECT contact with Corruption via plugging into The Charger this is when we would start to see some more interesting effects. This Corruption would still be different though because of the aforementioned stabilizing chemical reaction in the reactor. Also, because I think Eli's DNA would be integrated into it. This provides Robbie with genetic compatibility for the virus to jump off of. Remember, viruses don't want to kill a host, they just want to reproduce as much as possible (which does end up killing a host but still). And a fun fact about viruses is that we never actually get rid of them, we just get rid of the symptoms. Once you have it its in you forever.

SO. 1. Immune response from Robbies body begins to cause the nervous damage that would allow for his rapid increase in strength. 2.Immune system recognizes the genetic material is familiar (Eli doing something good even inadvertently I guess). 3. Immune system neutralizes the virus and incorporates it into Robbies genetic coding. All good right? Happy ending? WRONG.

BECAUSE WHEN THERE ARE COPYING ERRORS IN YOUR DNA (SOMETIMES FROM VIRUSES) WHAT DO WE CALL IT?? DING DING DING 10 POINTS TO THE MUTUAL THAT SAID ✨MUTATION✨

This virus still carries genetic material from demons, this would also be getting integrated into Robbies DNA. Places like his spine which would have the most regular contact with the Corruption would probably take the brunt of these changes. It's possible that the nerve damage never truly goes away and he continuously tears and then rebuilds those muscles, resulting in overall increased strength thats technically?? stabilized?? Also I could totally see his body going 'oh shit were finally growing with decent access to fuel? BET' and just. Reactivates the growth plates in his bones ('Look! I've fixed his runt of the litter insecurity!' 'YOU FUCKED UP A PERFECTLY GOOD PILOT IS WHAT YOU DID. LOOK AT HIM. HES GOT ANXIETY ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS HUMANITY').

Oh yeah its also worth noting that this would be like. Pretty painful. We're talking constant soreness, cramps, deep aches that just won't go away. General suffering <3

Of course tapetum lucidum OF COURSE TEEF obviously as if I could go without it. You can get funky with mutations because hey. fucky wucky demon genome integration whoop whoop. Also could be interesting to see damaged areas on the Charger manifest on Robbie as damaged tissue. His skin says 'AH. Damage' and copies itself as scar tissue instead of the usual.

Oh god Ive been writing for a solid hour and a half I was supposed to be asleep a while ago ok. Moose I love this au and its making me unwell thank you for sharing with the class I hope you will consider my virus proposal for body horror purposes.

[caldrea]

i know cal did not play about this song

[oll13v3r]

The newest X-men 97' episode hurt me. (This has happened plenty of times before)

[maxine-tenebris]

im going to cry over richas letter about q!quackity. "he always looks very lonely but being close to him makes you admire the smallest of things. dad quack's world is full of beautiful colors" (<- translation). im going to cry. hes loved by everyone even if he can't see it. richas especially loves him so so much, and quackity has been gone for so long and probably feels even more bitter and isolated than ever..

and RICHAS, imagine being richas and having one of your parental figures disappear. someone you love so much in spite of their flaws. having to watch them be replaced by some weird plastic clone that looks oh so similar but acts so cold. and no one else in your family goes looking for the real one, they stay gone.

[greeenchrysanthemums]

Etho building a guest room for himself at Iskall's base... So cute.

[undeadchestnut]

So, ah, I got all caught up with the Dragon Ball Super manga the other day and 😳