#Alas things are not so simple

[solenstelluna]

In the nick of time, I have finished @heropartnerweek Day 6, and Mace is returning to his senses after entering his lost form!

Wait, why is Suzy so far from away from him

[modmad]

TPoH: Update!

Update here on the TPoH website!

Read TPoH from the start here.

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[rexscanonwife]

Not me making a s/i for a game that I'm probably not even gonna play myself 😭🙏 here it is folks some simple ref of my bg3 tav!

She's a half-elf Paladin and a follower of Oghma, the God of Knowledge, with a sage background ♡ she's got an insatiable and somewhat macabre curiosity that leads her to explore things that are sometimes considered a bit disturbing but she finds fascinating! She has a bit of a manic edge that can make her seem a bit inconsiderate at times because she talks faster than she can think, but she means well and is very sweet! And of course she's catching feelings for a certain someone 😊

♡taglist♡: @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @changeling-selfship @crushes-georg @squips-ship @drjohndisco @adoredbyalatus

[wiltkingart]

“I don’t know who I am anymore, Grace. I don’t even know what I am.” “You are and always will be the man we love.”

Travis Wilder from The Last Rune by Mark Anthony

[beastoftheblackhole]

rewatching the 2011 ‘the thing’ and honestly if I were an emf/film major there’d be a dissertation in the comparison between it and other cg-heavy horror movies being so bloodless compared to practical effects, like the 1982 movie is so fucking goopy. Soggy. That movie drips, it oozes like a slug. It feels so much more visceral than the 2011 one, regardless of considerations of which aged better or looks more real or w/e. I know the 2011 one was pressured into the cg by the studio, but I cannot believe they were unable to stick some blood pumps up the actors’ shirts.

smth smth cg stuff is more divorced from the human animal, mirrors society’s increasing unwillingness to accept the animality of the human body, horror shaking hands w ‘everyone is beautiful and no one is horny’, idk

[supermarine-silvally]

Re-did my first ever Yara drawing... now complete with her hair down, sword attached, and left eye unveiled also changed her expression and her clothes a bit too but details, details lol

tagging: @auxiliarydetective @oneirataxia-girl @daughter-of-melpomene

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i could draw anything but i decided to draw this. carlo and rocco in 1932 aka my headache

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent game related things .. hrmm...

[artunderwraps]

ok so i was sorting through my binder from eighth grade and i found something very important

(yakkos world style narratoon) and now, the reasons why homework sucks, presented to you by me!

(written by my group and yours truly, sing this to the tune of old macdonald)

Homework all day is the worst,

Free me from this curse!

It always messes with my sleep,

Every night it hurts!

A question here

a question there

Here a question

there a question

Everywhere a question!

I wish homework dissappeared,

Every year its worse!

I'm sleep deprived and not okay,

free me from this curse!

I cannot take it anymore,

every night it hurts!

A minute's passed

ten minute's passed,

How long will this homework last?

I wish homework dissappeared,

EVERY YEAR ITS WORSE!

(yiu need to scream that last part its very important emphasis matteres)

[yoonyia]

my humanity in a book series now that I actually think about the premise is so weird.

the original concept is just to prove that all of humanity's pain and suffering and joys and gifts can be shown in just a few books, that a lot of our struggles are shared and a lot are unique but that they're all inherently human.

no matter what experience you go through it's going to be a human experience because you are a human, and no matter how isolated and alone or exiled you feel the rest of humanity you are still infact human and take that part of you everywhere

you will always be a step in some direction of humanity no matter what that deed is

it's not meant to be read as comforting, in all honesty most of the characters find the idea of never not being human to be sort of disturbing. But that's a part of the human experience too. To look at humanity and say "man we suck"

But now I'm looking at it and it's more then that

the book is set in the 32nd century

although because of my lack of imagination I can't think of what the language would be like I did haphazardly put together a culture that I personally felt like matched the common trend of development in humanity

everyone is given a livable space, concept of currency really isn't a thing (but that's less on humanity and just because the space colony is made up of roughly 10,000 people and trade is impossible, there's more reasons too but I won't get into them at this moment) and in all honesty the society is fundamentally different then most societies on earth.

It's what you would call a utopia but it's such an obvious system that no body even considers it good. They talk only about the unfairness of the council members and the inhuman layout the colony is built on to make it relatively fair between all people. (I say fair not equal because they do take children, occupation and just size of person into account, which yes is a nightmare for everyone invloved)

but I dont know if you see it but there's a disconnect

they don't value the things we value, they don't have the same desires the same ambitions the same secret indulges, many conflicts are the same as they are now but they have a completely different context, different reactions from people, different tones and no real recognizable side we usually see in modern debates.

it's worse then if it were completely different conflicts, then you could just do some narrative translation and make it based off of the modern lense but you can't do that because it's the same conflict. ofcourse it's not to a point where your brain thinks "I can't compherehend this at all" but actually that makes it worse, because it is compherehensible it just isn't common

it's a story trying to tell you that all human experiences are inherently human but it's showing you a humanity that you can't really quite connect with

things you think are basic desires exist but they're not considered the core things that makes someone human, there's something alien about these people that you can't really agree with the actions they take and can't make sense of the movements and words they make.

800 years is a long time and I wanted to show it but I made a story that's inherently ironic

it still fits the original theme, it might fit it even better since it's telling you no matter how much humanity changes its still going to be humanity

but I left my audience behind, I alienated them to show them that they are human, that despite the alienation they're still apart of this society that they're reading about that dosent feel quite right

it's a weird thing to do

I really thought this book was going to be simple to write but I'm already adding layers and I don't think I'm going to stop

and also the science aspect behind this story excites me so much

I'm no biology major so half the stuff I come up with for the alien planet's are probably going to be impossible but it's fun to write about

espicially the plants, I found the heat regulated Lilly pads to be really fun to think up of

also fox like creatures that glow under uv light, gosh that took so much research

they're adorable by human standards but they are deathly venomous so please don't pet them

this series isn't even the only one in this universe

there's a second story that I suddenly forgot the name of but it's something like 'Colony 1, Brother Lutangalo' or something similar.

oh and if you haven't noticed yes these books are heavily inspired by the enderverse and I just wanted to go more indepth into the parts of the books that was largely left unexplored. So this series is also inspired by the shadow series, so the humanity in a book is more morality, conceptual and personal in nature the col1 brother lutangalo books are more political and more grounded in the main society (the 2 main characters are sent to set up a colony on a different planet so they aren't really on the main colony themselves) the main narrator being lutangalo which is the son of the 108 year old colony leader Lau. (this society also has a euthanization law that all people over the age of 100 by law must die to prevent over population, but religious leaders are protected so they can live pass 100 indefinitely) and is currently 8 when you first meet him. Actually his books don't start until he's 12, we meet him when he's 8 because that's the year the 2 main characters comes back

his books, and I'm calling them his books because this series is heavily centered on the one character rather then the humanity series which is forced to jump between people in different time and space to get the message across because the 2 main characters litterally don't react to anyone else but eachother for the majority of book one, all of book 2 and half of book 3 (at least that's what my planning says but it may change when I get to writing the drafts)

anyways his books are very focused on the family that he's apart of and how they affect the colony, it also focuses on the personal perspective of this one kid which is honestly the closet thing the readers get to a instinctually relatable character, he has all the impulses and needs a person of the current age would have, because he basically lived in the 21st century because of his obsessive need to research about Mr ari who is notoriously a history nerd.

so you're finally getting a person that lives and breathes in the same patterns as you do.

and he's so miserable

he is one of the most troubled, impulsive people you have ever met

but also the calmest and kindest and gentlest person at the same time

he's a horrible liar until he isn't, he's intelligent and self aware until he's shockingly oblivious

just a ball of horrible contradictions that feels way too unstable and flipfloppy to be consistently relatable

yes of course in several moments you will exclaim "ha, he's just like me!" but it's going to be rather hard to admit that all of his experiences and actions are relatable or even compherehensible

unlike the first series it's not justifiable in any rational way

it's messy, it's complicated, it's convoluted and he's honestly awful in some scenes

but thats human too

[hauntingblue]

One of luffy's main traits being that he likes to eat and then making a story in a food themed island about his friend who makes him food is so fucked up

[brittlebutch]

some of the TOS uniforms do seem like they're made out of particularly uncomfortable fabrics but they still instill in me a sense of jealousy bc they are at their core simple tshirts that count as 'work appropriate'

[thebirdandhersong]

well darlings it is once again essay crunch time. I can't tell you how badly I want to sleep. but nevertheless the train chugs on........ it is only 1200 words so it is manageable it is manageable it is MANAGEABLE SONGBIRD............ it's only worth a fourth of your grade (WAILS)

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I was talking across the potluck table at one of the theatre girls (who is very cool and punk and has pink hair) today bc I know she works at the public library and I just went there yesterday (I was asking the name of the new librarian I chatted with), and as we were talking, the Theatre Boy heard me mention I had checked out The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and immediately started talking to me about how much he liked it and asking my initial opinions. is this a nudge

[cerealmonster15]

I’m watching a vid on how people run twitch streams bc A. I am curious about The Magic and B. I love deluding myself

[radio-4-is-static]

Happy Birthday Alex Kapranos 🎉🎂

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