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[swamina]

The Importance of Service Engineering in Industry

In today’s fast-moving industrial world, machines and systems must run smoothly. A single failure can stop operations and cause major losses. That’s why service engineering industries play such a key role—they ensure equipment is installed, maintained, and upgraded properly for safe and efficient operations.

Planned Maintenance: Shutdown Overhauling

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Installing Boilers and Heat Exchangers

Systems like boilers and heat exchangers are critical for heat production. Proper boiler heat exchanger installation by experts ensures these systems work safely and efficiently. Poor installation can lead to energy loss or dangerous situations.

Balance of Plant Control Systems

Industrial plants rely on various support systems—like air, water, and fuel supply—known as Balance of Plant Control Systems. Service engineers install and maintain these systems so that everything works together without issues.

Service Engineering: Beyond Repairs

Service engineering industries also help improve performance through system upgrades, automation, and energy-saving solutions. They offer fast emergency repair services, help meet environmental standards, and train staff on safety and maintenance.

In short, service engineering professionals are essential partners in keeping modern industries safe, efficient, and future-ready.

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What is Dataflow?

This post is inspired by another post about the Crowd Strike IT disaster and a bunch of people being interested in what I mean by Dataflow. Dataflow is my absolute jam and I'm happy to answer as many questions as you like on it. I even put referential pictures in like I'm writing an article, what fun!

I'll probably split this into multiple parts because it'll be a huge post otherwise but here we go!

A Brief History

Our world is dependent on the flow of data. It exists in almost every aspect of our lives and has done so arguably for hundreds if not thousands of years.

At the end of the day, the flow of data is the flow of knowledge and information. Normally most of us refer to data in the context of computing technology (our phones, PCs, tablets etc) but, if we want to get historical about it, the invention of writing and the invention of the Printing Press were great leaps forward in how we increased the flow of information.

Modern Day IT exists for one reason - To support the flow of data.

Whether it's buying something at a shop, sitting staring at an excel sheet at work, or watching Netflix - All of the technology you interact with is to support the flow of data.

Understanding and managing the flow of data is as important to getting us to where we are right now as when we first learned to control and manage water to provide irrigation for early farming and settlement.

Engineering Rigor

When the majority of us turn on the tap to have a drink or take a shower, we expect water to come out. We trust that the water is clean, and we trust that our homes can receive a steady supply of water.

Most of us trust our central heating (insert boiler joke here) and the plugs/sockets in our homes to provide gas and electricity. The reason we trust all of these flows is because there's been rigorous engineering standards built up over decades and centuries.

For example, Scottish Water will understand every component part that makes up their water pipelines. Those pipes, valves, fitting etc will comply with a national, or in some cases international, standard. These companies have diagrams that clearly map all of this out, mostly because they have to legally but also because it also vital for disaster recovery and other compliance issues.

Modern IT

And this is where modern day IT has problems. I'm not saying that modern day tech is a pile of shit. We all have great phones, our PCs can play good games, but it's one thing to craft well-designed products and another thing entirely to think about they all work together.

Because that is what's happened over the past few decades of IT. Organisations have piled on the latest plug-and-play technology (Software or Hardware) and they've built up complex legacy systems that no one really knows how they all work together. They've lost track of how data flows across their organisation which makes the work of cybersecurity, disaster recovery, compliance and general business transformation teams a nightmare.

Some of these systems are entirely dependent on other systems to operate. But that dependency isn't documented. The vast majority of digital transformation projects fail because they get halfway through and realise they hadn't factored in a system that they thought was nothing but was vital to the organisation running.

And this isn't just for-profit organisations, this is the health services, this is national infrastructure, it's everyone.

There's not yet a single standard that says "This is how organisations should control, manage and govern their flows of data."

Why is that relevant to the companies that were affected by Crowd Strike? Would it have stopped it?

Maybe, maybe not. But considering the global impact, it doesn't look like many organisations were prepared for the possibility of a huge chunk of their IT infrastructure going down.

Understanding dataflows help with the preparation for events like this, so organisations can move to mitigate them, and also the recovery side when they do happen. Organisations need to understand which systems are a priority to get back operational and which can be left.

The problem I'm seeing from a lot of organisations at the moment is that they don't know which systems to recover first, and are losing money and reputation while they fight to get things back online. A lot of them are just winging it.

Conclusion of Part 1

Next time I can totally go into diagramming if any of you are interested in that.

How can any organisation actually map their dataflow and what things need to be considered to do so. It'll come across like common sense, but that's why an actual standard is so desperately needed!

[queenie435]

THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC ROLLER COASTER

Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) introduced the “Figure Eight,” the world's first electric roller coaster, in 1892 at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York. Woods patented the invention in 1893, and in 1901, he sold it to General Electric.

Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.

In 1884, Woods received his first patent, for a steam boiler furnace, and in 1885, Woods patented an apparatus that was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "telegraphony", would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages through Morse code over a single wire. He sold the rights to this device to the American Bell Telephone Company.

In 1887, he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains by creating a magnetic field around a coiled wire under the train. Woods caught smallpox prior to patenting the technology, and Lucius Phelps patented it in 1884. In 1887, Woods used notes, sketches, and a working model of the invention to secure the patent. The invention was so successful that Woods began the Woods Electric Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, to market and sell his patents. However, the company quickly became devoted to invention creation until it was dissolved in 1893.

Woods often had difficulties in enjoying his success as other inventors made claims to his devices. Thomas Edison later filed a claim to the ownership of this patent, stating that he had first created a similar telegraph and that he was entitled to the patent for the device. Woods was twice successful in defending himself, proving that there were no other devices upon which he could have depended or relied upon to make his device. After Thomas Edison's second defeat, he decided to offer Granville Woods a position with the Edison Company, but Woods declined.

In 1888, Woods manufactured a system of overhead electric conducting lines for railroads modeled after the system pioneered by Charles van Depoele, a famed inventor who had by then installed his electric railway system in thirteen United States cities.

Following the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City Mayor Hugh J. Grant declared that all wires, many of which powered the above-ground rail system, had to be removed and buried, emphasizing the need for an underground system. Woods's patent built upon previous third rail systems, which were used for light rails, and increased the power for use on underground trains. His system relied on wire brushes to make connections with metallic terminal heads without exposing wires by installing electrical contactor rails. Once the train car had passed over, the wires were no longer live, reducing the risk of injury. It was successfully tested in February 1892 in Coney Island on the Figure Eight Roller Coaster.

In 1896, Woods created a system for controlling electrical lights in theaters, known as the "safety dimmer", which was economical, safe, and efficient, saving 40% of electricity use.

Woods is also sometimes credited with the invention of the air brake for trains in 1904; however, George Westinghouse patented the air brake almost 40 years prior, making Woods's contribution an improvement to the invention.

Woods died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Harlem Hospital in New York City on January 30, 1910, having sold a number of his devices to such companies as Westinghouse, General Electric, and American Engineering. Until 1975, his resting place was an unmarked grave, but historian M.A. Harris helped raise funds, persuading several of the corporations that used Woods's inventions to donate money to purchase a headstone. It was erected at St. Michael's Cemetery in Elmhurst, Queens.

LEGACY

▪Baltimore City Community College established the Granville T. Woods scholarship in memory of the inventor.

▪In 2004, the New York City Transit Authority organized an exhibition on Woods that utilized bus and train depots and an issue of four million MetroCards commemorating the inventor's achievements in pioneering the third rail.

▪In 2006, Woods was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

▪In April 2008, the corner of Stillwell and Mermaid Avenues in Coney Island was named Granville T. Woods Way.

[cavernfullofexistentialdread]

Describing my favorite musicals in the most convoluted ways

(Since no one got my “ah yes my favorite musicals” post and it’s funny to confused people)

Bleach cleans out red gunk (worst fucking person you’ve ever met) and indirectly causes two (allegedly gay) boys to get shot, traffic lights are the reason why a Highschool almost gets blown up. Blue girl and her homocidal boyfriend fight in a boiler room

Local Canadian magic mystery man and a rat torture children’s souls in the after life only to lead them all to realize a happier mentality and revive a mysterious female deer

The embodiment of capitalism and his philosophy assistant fight a widowed man and a bunch of children while a selfish woman starts a cult in order to build a giant door (Russia’s door causes Moscow to explode)

RANDOM ASS BLUE SHIT RUINS AUTISM RIZZ AND EVERYTHING GOES TO SHIT

An analysis of Highschool hierarchy, stereotypes, and systemic problems portrayed through the lens of a half sided murder mystery and children fighting elderitch horrors beyond their control …again. WITH GUNS AND A MAGIC BOOK THIS TIME!!

Using the fundamentally misogynistic ideology of female spectacle and the male gaze through hyper-femme pop stardom in a concert to evolves girl power into its final form. Casually keeping everything JUST A TEENSY BIT QUEERCODED

[weirdowithaquill]

Traintober 2024: Day 8 - Impact

The Impact of Duck Leaving Tidmouth:

This was meant to be serious, but then immediately became a shitpost...

Quite famously, the Big Engines did not react well to Thomas getting his own branchline, going on strike and nearly closing the railway because they did not want to shunt their own trains. Equally famously, the Big Engines did not react well when Duck arrived, being difficult for both engines until Duck and Percy forcibly blocked them from entering the sheds.

Less well known is how the Big Engines reacted to Duck gained his own branchline and left them once again without a shunter. Admittedly, the entire incident was more subdued than when Thomas left – there was no strike this time – but it was still certainly memorable!

The first impact of Duck leaving was of course the fact that the engines had to shunt their own trains. Still hating the notion of shunting, the Big Engines all tried to come up with a new idea for how the Fat Controller could shunt the trains at Tidmouth without forcing them to enter the sidings. These ranged from the outdated (Gordon suggested getting some horses to do it) to the ridiculous (Henry thought a pulley system with a stationary boiler could shunt the trains) to the outright insane (James actually once suggested giving the trucks their own engines to shunt themselves!)

Naturally, the Fat Controller was not impressed with any of these ideas – not to mention Douglas quite tactlessly reminding James of an incident an engine had with some tar wagons – which led to the Big Engines being forced to think of a new idea. Percy chipped in to suggest using Terence the tractor as a temporary solution one time and was laughed out of the yards… only for Sir Charles to overhear the idea and decide to implement it! As such, two days later the Big Engines awoke to Terence the tractor trundling about the yard putting together freight trains. This was not received well by the Big Engines, however it was the passengers who eventually forced Sir Charles to send Terence home, as one day a little boy jumped onto Terence while he was trying to shunt the express. The number of complaints that incident got were astronomical!

Donald made a sly remark about converting the Fat Controller’s car into a small shunter – but that just got him put shunting duties himself. Donald thankfully was used to shunting and did not treat it like he was being forced to carry the weight of the world on his back like Atlas. James thought Donald was being petty because he’d made the comparison the week before.

In the end, Sir Charles was left with no other option but to find a new engine – thankfully, he managed to get a transfer from the Southern Railway named Rosie, as well as a Class 07 named Salty. The pair would prove themselves to be capable engines, although that’s a story for another day.

The slightly less obvious impact was how it changed the dynamics in the yard. Duck had very much been in charge of the yards and had kept it in order with a set of iron buffers – removing him opened the yard up to a new pecking order, one which made Tidmouth very interesting for a long while. It is no coincidence that its in the mid-to-late sixties that Henry, James and Gordon all take interest in new engines. Henry was the first to move, advocating for Bear and finding himself an ally in the process. Gordon responded by trying to get BoCo on his side – and by association hopefully Edward – though he was beaten by Donald and Douglas. All three Big Engines did their best to sway Oliver to their side by absolutely burying him in flattery – but in the end, none of it really mattered, much to Henry, Gordon and James’ surprise.

Of all the engines, it was Flying Scotsman who orchestrated the new yard order, doing so very quietly in the background while he was on the island. The world-famous engine had read all about his brother’s various exploits, and had not been overly pleased with Gordon’s behaviour. He arrived with Rosie and Salty in tow, and was met with a yard that was full of chaos.

Now, most yards in the steam era had a pecking order which revolved around express engines and shunting engines – but Tidmouth had no solid order due to both Thomas and Percy having no clue how to establish such a hierarchy and Duck being too late to pull the engines in line. So Flying Scotsman did instead, helping Duck, Donald and Douglas to assert themselves with the trucks, coaches and staff. By the time any of the Big Engines had a clue that Scott had had a buffer in reforming the trucks and curbing their influence, the world-famous engine was in the USA and couldn’t be yelled at.

Edward was rather pleased with Scott’s work – he had managed to finally instil some discipline in the trucks and get one over on Henry, James and Gordon! Bear and BoCo enjoyed the easier trains and the connections Scott had given the railway to get some of the diesels off their collective backs. And Duck managed to somehow keep his spot as head of the yards until he happily passed the position off to Rosie when she had settled in.

In the end, Duck leaving the Big Station had a pretty notable impact on Sodor, even if only indirectly. Almost every engine took note of what was happening at the Big Station – mostly to laugh at the ‘power plays’ the Big Engines thought they were making but also because it was basically a railway-themed Soap Opera. The only engine who really didn’t care was Thomas - who was convinced that the entire railway reacted to how his branchline ran - and Daisy, who was too busy trying to be noticed by the Flying Scotsman to care.

Back to the Master Post

[starqueen87]

THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC ROLLER COASTER

Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) introduced the “Figure Eight,” the world's first electric roller coaster, in 1892 at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York. Woods patented the invention in 1893, and in 1901, he sold it to General Electric.

Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.

In 1884, Woods received his first patent, for a steam boiler furnace, and in 1885, Woods patented an apparatus that was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph. The device, which he called "telegraphony", would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages through Morse code over a single wire. He sold the rights to this device to the American Bell Telephone Company.

In 1887, he patented the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, which allowed communications between train stations from moving trains by creating a magnetic field around a coiled wire under the train. Woods caught smallpox prior to patenting the technology, and Lucius Phelps patented it in 1884. In 1887, Woods used notes, sketches, and a working model of the invention to secure the patent. The invention was so successful that Woods began the Woods Electric Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, to market and sell his patents. However, the company quickly became devoted to invention creation until it was dissolved in 1893.

Woods often had difficulties in enjoying his success as other inventors made claims to his devices. Thomas Edison later filed a claim to the ownership of this patent, stating that he had first created a similar telegraph and that he was entitled to the patent for the device. Woods was twice successful in defending himself, proving that there were no other devices upon which he could have depended or relied upon to make his device. After Thomas Edison's second defeat, he decided to offer Granville Woods a position with the Edison Company, but Woods declined.

In 1888, Woods manufactured a system of overhead electric conducting lines for railroads modeled after the system pioneered by Charles van Depoele, a famed inventor who had by then installed his electric railway system in thirteen United States cities.

Following the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City Mayor Hugh J. Grant declared that all wires, many of which powered the above-ground rail system, had to be removed and buried, emphasizing the need for an underground system. Woods's patent built upon previous third rail systems, which were used for light rails, and increased the power for use on underground trains. His system relied on wire brushes to make connections with metallic terminal heads without exposing wires by installing electrical contactor rails. Once the train car had passed over, the wires were no longer live, reducing the risk of injury. It was successfully tested in February 1892 in Coney Island on the Figure Eight Roller Coaster.

In 1896, Woods created a system for controlling electrical lights in theaters, known as the "safety dimmer", which was economical, safe, and efficient, saving 40% of electricity use.

Woods is also sometimes credited with the invention of the air brake for trains in 1904; however, George Westinghouse patented the air brake almost 40 years prior, making Woods's contribution an improvement to the invention.

Woods died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Harlem Hospital in New York City on January 30, 1910, having sold a number of his devices to such companies as Westinghouse, General Electric, and American Engineering. Until 1975, his resting place was an unmarked grave, but historian M.A. Harris helped raise funds, persuading several of the corporations that used Woods's inventions to donate money to purchase a headstone. It was erected at St. Michael's Cemetery in Elmhurst, Queens.

LEGACY

▪Baltimore City Community College established the Granville T. Woods scholarship in memory of the inventor.

▪In 2004, the New York City Transit Authority organized an exhibition on Woods that utilized bus and train depots and an issue of four million MetroCards commemorating the inventor's achievements in pioneering the third rail.

▪In 2006, Woods was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

▪In April 2008, the corner of Stillwell and Mermaid Avenues in Coney Island was named Granville T. Woods Way.

[probablyasocialecologist]

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[...]

Most of the cork produced in Portugal grows in the gently undulating hills and plains in the south of the country, in an ancient agroforestry system known as montado. This savannah-like ecosystem combines cork, holm oaks and olive trees with pastures, grazing livestock, crops and fallows. “The soil in southern Portugal is very poor, there is very little rain and temperatures are very high in the summer,” says Teresa Pinto-Correia, a professor at the University of Évora in Portugal specializing in rural landscapes and agricultural systems. “But this kind of system is productive even when resources are scarce and conditions are difficult.” For centuries, locals have preserved the montado because cork provided landowners with a source of income. This mosaic of habitats supports hundreds of species, including the Iberian lynx, the world’s most endangered wildcat, and the threatened Imperial eagle. One of the world’s oldest known cork oak trees, planted in 1783 in Águas de Moura, is known as “the whistler” because so many birds visit its large sprawling branches. Iberian pigs feed on acorns and goats graze the interwoven pastures. Interspersing cork oak trees with animals and crops can boost production and biodiversity, but also build soil, control erosion, retain water, combat desertification and sequester carbon, says Pinto-Correia.

[lxrd-ren]

Things I Wanna See In Rats SMP 2:

- Ofc the majority of the main cast returning, and I hope that those who were mainly asleep during the 1st season get a chance to be more active this time around, like Lizzie who was too busy at the time. Jimmy has already said that he will not be returning for Season 2, but we've yet to have confirmation on anyone else except for Oli, Owen and Apo

- Return of the SQUIIIIIIID

- More Martyn lore; especially because the last we saw of him he jumped into a portal

- Continuation of unfinished storylines, like Rusty and the weeping angels

- A mix of new characters and characters from the first season. Owen and Apo have both said how they're going to be playing new characters, and Oli said Trash Rat will probably be making a return, but we are still not sure on everyone else. This will likely be influenced by if the cc wants to continue their characters story or wants to play as a different character this time around

- For the returning characters, I'd love to see outfit changes / alterations, presumably either to hint at what happened to them in the time between the two seasons and / or influenced by French fashion considering where the 2nd season is taking place

- It's been hinted at that there will be new additions to the cast, and while I'd be happy with basicly anyone, I think it'll be more likely to be those who have participated in the previous season. Whether its people like Geminitay and Joel who voice acted NPC's or people like Tommy and Watermunch who played guest characters but might take on a different character, likely a rat, this time around. There is also a possibility of playtesters and those who controlled the npcs, like the cats, being added; such as MPR

- The 1st season lasted for around 12 weeks, starting in October and ending in January. It has been confirmed that Season 2 will be longer than this but we were not told exactly how long it'll go on for this time. Hopefully it's long enough to last until February; mainly because Valentine's day is in February and I wanna see what the cast do to celebrate, especially in regards to the couples

- Character arcs; continued ones from the 1st season, new ones from the time between the seasons and ones that we'll see in real time in the 2nd season

- Since people are speculating the new season will be in a hotel, it would be interesting to see npcs rotating with new ones checking in and the old ones checking out after a couple days

- Only Owen had a planned canon death in regards to the infested boiler room, so I think it would be cool if others did something similar if they wanted

- I'm guessing the life system will be replenished with the returning characters starting back on 3 but it would be interesting if they will be an explanation in-canon as to why they now have 3 lives again. Or, they could switch it up and give them more or less lives. Perhaps they'll give the returning ones 2 lives so those who were on their last one will be back up to 3, and those who died less will be rewarded in a way with having more than 3 lives to spare with this system

- Cameos; I've already mentioned how I think it would be fun to have the return of the squiiid, but it would also be cool to have other characters have a cameo or even just a painting that references them

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[bats-and-birds-24]

A Charming Life

Chapter 2:

Daring didn’t like the glint in his father’s eye, it never was a good sign of things to come. “Son, I’m going to give you the principality of Dragon’s head. Pack your things.”

That was how he found himself on a train to the wildest and most remote Charming principality. Part of him was glad for it, it meant that he wouldn’t have to face his relatives, some of which will be disappointed, and others who will revel gleefully at his loss as the Charming Golden child. He was actually glad that for once in his life, a plan of his actually worked. All he had to do was finish up some paperwork and keep his head down, and after everything that had happened, he would be more than happy to do that.

Of course, heaven forbid his life ever be that easy. The Castle he was sent to didn’t have any servants, or any running water or electricity for that matter. He groaned, how could it have slipped his mind that his exile was meant to be a punishment. Thank the throne that he had some wilderness knowledge. 

He cracked his knuckles and got to work. Having clean water was his first priority, he set out to create a makeshift water purifier and started a fire to get the somewhat clean water boiling. While that was getting started, he went up the castle to find the boiler room. It is summer right now, so the weather outside should be fine, but who knows how long his exile will be for? If it carries on into the autumn and winter months, it could get chilly fast, especially this far north. As a prince, he wasn’t trained in plumbing or electrical work, but there should be a user manual somewhere around here. He spotted a dusty old book beneath some cobwebs in the corner of the room. Once cleaned, the cover read, dummies guide to basic plumbing. 

The rest of the afternoon was spent following the guide and fixing as much of the castle’s plumbing as he could. Some of the machines were just too old, so he would have to spend some of his stipend on ordering new ones. That was a pity, he was hoping to save some of it in an account his father wouldn’t have any control over. Looks like that plan would have to wait.

He saved the clean water in a secure container and went up to the castle’s living room, if it could even be called that at this point. The furniture was old and dusty, and the carpet had mold growing on it. He would need to call a furniture restorer, but as he went to look them up, his phone showed that it had no signal. Daring wanted to bang his head against the wall, of course it wasn’t going to be that easy. As he scanned the room for anything that could help him he saw an old phonebook on an old coffee table. Flipping through the pages, he came across the number for a business that installed cable. By the end of the call, he was certain that he was being overcharged, but he had acquiesced as the day had been exhausting and he just wanted to go to sleep.

The next week or so went in much of the same way. Wake up, fix as much as he could by following what he now realized was a very outdated manual, and argue about the cost of fixing the many broken appliances and systems in his home for the near future.

By the time the weekend rolled around, and he was finally able to take a breath, he had come to two startling conclusions. The first was that most of the people at Dragon’s Head didn’t seem to like the Charming family. This was a drastic change from how people usually treated him when they found out that he’s a Charming. The fawning, the fake plastered on smiles the transactional relationships, along with the immense pressure to maintain all those connections. There was none of that here. 

People seemed to eye him warily, the half troll plumber who came to fix his water issue seemed genuinely surprised that he not only attempted to fix his plumbing issue by himself before calling  anyone else, but also that the attempt was not half bad. There were other examples that were not as flattering. He remembered fixing a fence by a dirt road, and the couple walking by saw him out and about and turned around and left immediately. Their body language went from open and cheerful to closed off and fearful, as if he was going to order them to kneel before him out of the blue.

The other fact he noticed was that Dragon’s Head had a large beast population. Nearly everyone he met had some beast ancestry, from trolls to goblins, the odd giant, and even a dragonborn. A dragonborn. Everyone in his family believed that they went extinct a long time ago, and yet here they were, right in front of him. 

If nothing else, it gave him the courage to explore his beast side. A side Daring had been suppressing for so long, he didn’t even know it existed for most of his life. 

That Saturday night he looked out into the vast wild forest and felt something stir in him. He wanted to tear his princely skin to shreds and jump into the wild and never come back. With all the work he had to complete upon his arrival, he’d never really had the time to look around at the splendor of nature that sat right outside his house.

Icy gray mountain peaks topped with millennia old glaciers, dark green trees that towered over him, and crystal clear lakes untouched in eons lay before him. Before he realized what he was doing, he had already leapt out the windows of his chambers and landed in the soft knee length grass outside.

Unbeknownst to him, his body had already begun to change into a beast as long snow white hair sprouted from his skin and his nails turned to claws. His perfectly whitened teeth sharpened, glinting in the moonlit night. 

As if possessed by a primal urge, he took off, running deep into the wilderness.

Daaring had never felt this alive in his life. This body of his never seemed to tire. In fact, if he thought about it, it had been this way since he was a child. While the other children tired themselves from a few hours of practice, he could continue for the whole day if need be. It hadn’t made him very popular with the other boys back then. They always scowled at him since they were constantly getting compared to Daring by their teachers, coaches, and even their own parents at times.

In hindsight, it was a very obvious example of the beast's blood in him. He supposed it was overlooked since he seemed to embody the ideal Prince Charming from fairytales. People envied his relentlessness until the root cause of it was revealed.

No point in dwelling on that nonsense now, no one here cared about him being a beast, no one here cared about Daring Charming.

Who was Daring Charming anyway? Was he that golden haired, bright smiled, flirtatious himbo everyone from Apple White, to his own mother thought of him as? Or was he emotionally fragile and narcissistic, which was how most of his detractors including Darling, his own sister, and formerly, Rosabella Beauty. As he looked at his reflection in a stream of glacial water, he wondered if he was the powerful, terrifying beast that everyone, including himself was disappointed in?

Was he disappointed in being a beast? Or was he just (rightfully) scared of the negative reaction from his family? 

He stared at his reflection some more, watching it change from beast back to a prince. His clothes were in tatters, the roots of his hair reverting to its traditional silvery white, and his eyes retaining their slight violet hue. 

Daring had seen his reflection many times. Hell, it was practically what he was known for back in Ever After High. However, this felt different. He usually checked for imperfections, a stray hair, food stuck in his teeth, or god forbid, a pimple. This time he was looking at himself, as just him. 

The old Daring would have been mortified in fear of being caught looking like a beast. But there was no one around to see him, that pressure, for once in his life, wasn't present. Now he was free to complain about anything about his appearance that displeased him. Surprisingly, nothing came to mind.

The white hair and violet eyes suited his pale skin better than the blonde haired blue eyed princes of the past he had originally modeled himself after. Maybe he really was always meant to be a beast.

Drained from chaotic thoughts swarming his mind, he laid down on the cool grass. Looking up at the ink black sky with a splash of the brightest stars Daring had ever seen in his life, he felt at peace. Who cared what he was, here he could finally rest. Maybe being forgotten has its benefits after all. He closed his eyes and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

[deadlyeyez]

persona 5 fandom i have come across a bad take and i need to talk about it or i’ll die. also dont like harrass the poster im just insane about akechi

like i KNOWWWW the reason they’re saying akechi sacrifices himself to escape the law is akechi’s little “you’re going to be a hero in the public eye and when people find out about me they’re going to leave me to rot” speech. which is just completely misunderstanding why he says this. he’s talking about his JEALOUSY there.

hes not GENUINELY afraid of the law he is JEALOUS that all his hard work since he was literally LIKE?? FIFTEEN?? (theres no canon age i think but w/e) is going to go down the drain. he’s talking about how he thinks akira is surpassing him in every way and that, essentially, “i couldnt have this ONE thing above you because you’re always going to surpass me.”

did we put on a blindfold thru rank 8?? did we put on earmuffs during boiler room?? actually no theres more to this because we’re also misunderstanding the POINT of akechi.

he’s a victim of circumstance. he is a victim of societal systems that do not care if he lives or dies. he is a pawn for a god who wants nothing more than to control everything in its reach. he is a victim of shido, most of all.

does that excuse him? NO! OF COURSE NOT!!! and we can absolutely sit and have a nuanced discussion about his redemption but we cannot forget yusuke talking about how lucky he is that the thieves found him when they did and how akechi’s character is linked to how important community is and how the lack of it leads to AWFUL roads. we are missing fundamental aspects of akechi that are beyond “you cannot ever save him.”

[plasticfossil]

THORNTON GREY, 2.5K TRIS & 256x TEX

Worldbuilding and cg autism under the cut

This is Thornton Grey, a character of mine I've had for around 15 years now. He's from a more or less retired worldbuilding universe of mine, waiting to be either recycled or refactored. Thornton is one of the dearest characters from that setting (and in all honesty, one of my dearest characters in general) and I tend to keep him in my current brain palette of little men to doodle in various formats.

I've been doing these early cd-3d (aka psx /ps1 etc) styled models for some of my OCs with hopes of eventually ?? learning godot. I guess. I need to get my worldbuilding out to the world so it become property of the grand creative consciousness, aka to affect people with my art the same way people affected me.

The tri count is higher than many people tend to target for this style and i'll probably improve that over time as I make various kinds of assets related to my worldbuilding, but eh who cares lol. The textures are photobashed stock images with details painted over and posterized in photoshop.

Here's some bonus 'march of progress' of my art of him over time.

Lore? Well, many of my characters start out with me being bored or annoyed by a specific trope in media, and he is no exception. He's a few things, but primarily he's my take on the 'little pinocchio robot boy/man who wishes he was a Real human'. Thornton's character addresses more so the preoccupations we as humans have to classify and categories types of people or non-people.

The universe, with the codename Redverse, is set approximately 1920s/1930s alt-earth america. He was child to a pair of grandmaster clocksmiths in the early 1800s whom could not have children of their own, and spent decades producing an analog AI composed of millions of intricate gears assembled with a small cube which composes his brain. He has a small boiler in his trunk that provides power for the various hydraulic systems within his limbs and keeps his brain's clockwork properly wound.

After caring for his elderly parents until their deaths, he took his father's trenchcoat and gun and traveled the country. (why is his gun a german luger? i don't know, i was like 17. it looks cool.)

Computers, robots, ai, etc, are not really a thing in this universe, granted the targeted vague time period. So he's generally regarded by others as an advanced automaton (he basically is.) and as a curiosity. He however has no qualms about being artificial in nature, as he sees it, he has all the makings of the average man -- has parents, has to eat (hard coal for his boiler), and can love. To view him as nonhuman baffles him, and his matter of fact attitude about the issue tends to win over many people he gets to know. Regarded mostly with respect for his kind and empathetic nature within the communities he spends any amount of time in, he's eventually pulled into the underworld of armed resistance forming against the increasing power of a fascist authoritarian regime that has quickly possessed control of the tumultuous american politics.

A tl;dr of this universe is "but what if AMERICA was the nazis". Very clever 17yo me. I'm sure you had a shock of your life when you grew up and learned about america's rancid role in world politics. Thus the retirement and possible refactoring -- I think it can be a compelling alt history universe if I actually learn more about how do to it properly, if i ever revive it. I'm not the first person to do it but maybe I can offer something interesting if at least for the setting of a noir style vibe game.

Anyway, Thornton becomes very involved. So involved, in fact, he becomes essentially the poster child of the resistance movement. And is targeted for it.

Widely hailed as a martyr for his subsequent demise, the resistance movement gets his hands on his thankfully intact head and revive him the best they can. He is unfortunately damaged, and upon revival, starts channeling visions from beyond.

And that is about as far as I got with his story. Perhaps you will see more of him in the future.

[iridescentinferno]

@three-nations

After two weeks almost every lower ranked soldier and sailor was convinced the Golden Flame was either cursed or haunted. Perhaps both. It was barely noticeable, small things one would dismiss with the excuse of exhaustion or perhaps lingering effects of drinking. A female soldier passing by only never to be seen again by the same person. Silent with a smirk of deadly mischief playing on her lips as she walked past, her shadow, better said lack of it, wispy, almost nonexistent.

Night shift encountering pairs of orange hues staring from the rafters as lamplight swung to the dark corner, once fully illuminated nothing was there. Scorch marks within the metal hull of the ship like a savage beast had sunk its claws into it, the depth of the damage telling the force of the fire that has been used. Everyone except for the highest ranked officers went without food for three days to force a confession. The quartermaster made the mistake of saying what everyone has been thinking: Agni has forsaken this ship. He was thrown into the churning sea by the captain's orders.

The lead mechanic was in the infirmary with second degree burns covering almost his whole upper body, permanently blinded when the pressure of a valve suddenly skyrocketed and quite literally exploded into his face. Soldiers kept disappearing and the smell around the boiler room was unbearable after each. Paranoia crept around people like an invisible chokehold, resulting in a few accidental deaths if someone moved too soon out of the field of vision.

Captain Shu refused to entertain such foolish superstitions, choosing blissful ignorance until he couldn't. The changes in his quarters were subtle yet prominent enough to be noticed. His letters, maps, scrolls all read, placed slightly to the left. No matter how he had officers who could've had access whipped, they never confessed. Once he returned to the great map on his wall being eaten by flames, along with the Fire Nation flag. He never saw the twin orange hues reflecting the sinister glow crouched above him on the support beam.

The intel about the supposed arrival of a small Southern Water Tribe fleet came as relief, slippery ships frequented that route, and the Captain requested two smaller battleships as assistance and departed from the main fleet to eliminate the threat. The upcoming battle with a tangible enemy boosted morale, even the supernatural strange activities had ceased.

Blue sails were spotted on the horizon near sundown. The Glory and the Comet has closed the trap from both sides. A wave of excitement rippled through the upper deck, waiting for the Captain to give the sign. His hand moved.

But so did a soldier without a shadow. Rust red armor clattered to the metal deck, the Captain froze mid gesture as the woman spun and effortlessly speared the control tower with one precise surge of ravenous inferno. His footing disappeared into the burning void.

Fire flowed, moved with her so unlike how most have been taught, fluid, controlled and absolutely devastating. A brilliant blue kick rendered catapults useless before they could've been launched at the Water Tribe ships, the arc of the fire cutting through metal. The infernal traitor- what else could've she been, no one dared nor had time to dwell on it further- never stopped her deadly dance, many jumped or were knocked overboard to escape her flames. Near boiling water and sinking catapults dragged those into their watery grave.

The remaining crew of the Golden Flame witnessed ghastly wings of a phoenix appear as the creature launched herself into the air in an azure torrent. An unforgiving, vicious grin. The boiler room and the heating system had exploded after a well aimed piercing strike.

The main ship was gone, but the remaining two still prowled through the waves to reach the carefully, expertly maneuvered smaller ones. She needed footing to combat the Glory, damage from midair had the possibility of not penetrating deep enough to reach the engines. Golden eyes flicked to the leading Water Tribe ship, the angle from its deck should be perfect.

She didn't have time to properly ask for permission for landing; better apologize later than waste precious seconds arguing. Her torso twisted and whipped around, a jet of indigo flames crashing against the fast approaching metal hull; it wasn't enough. The sun's last rays sparkled on the graveyard turned sea.

A dual hand twist recalled the fire, now burning bright violet, the Fire Nation ship split in half with a violent groan as the strengthened flames ripped through it upon return. The inferno now speeding towards the smaller wooden ships were halted into a barrier snaking around them, wings burning more prominent with the effort and concentration it took to keep such tremendous power under control.

It swirled between ships, roaring whenever debris or projectile turned to ashes upon contact with the wall of fire. She only hoped the confrontation could wait till she wasn't weaving a living shield in such delicate space. She kept feeding it, dancing across deck with merciless elegance; almost sundown. Ghostly phoenix wings carried the being into the air once again, whirlwind of fire eagerly following her wordless command, gathering around arms and wings once withdrawn from the surface of water.

Her body curled into itself with her wings as a deceitful shield; then they snapped open, unleashing destruction for the last time, only stopping once the brutalized wreckage of the Comet was swallowed by the sea.

She slowly drifted back to sturdy surface- a wave of boiling hot water threatened to bury one of the Water Tribe warriors. She didn't think when she instinctively shoved him out of the way and ripped the heat from water, leaving a chunk of ice clinging to the ship instead, while her palms vibrated with the scalding air.

She released a breath she didn't realize she was holding, slowly feeding the appropriate heat back to the water for it to return into liquid form and be reclaimed by the sea once again. Soft pants fell from her lips, she usually timed such feats around high noon to harness enough energy, whoever captained this ship had enough cunning to attempt crossing so close to dusk.

Wings vanished, the now exposed back muscles trembled from overexertion. Her mind slowly caught up with a situation and mentally winced; she may have saved them...but she did it with fire. Which she had to learn to anticipate was almost akin as if she wanted to take their lives. She really didn't think this part of the plan through: with the sun nearly set, no possible way she could reach land by her own and she happened to sink every enemy vessel she could've haunted till port.

“Is everyone alright?” a question of courtesy, she knew her control was extraordinary, besides she probably already would've been skewered if someone was accidentally burned. The fire drained from her eyes, gold giving way to light jade, exhaustion creeping deeper into her body as dusk darkened and she was silently searching for the Captain or a similar figure of authority.

“I was on the main ship, they knew you were coming. I didn't have an opening for all three till now. One could've escaped and brought more significant reinforcement.”