#I dunno if that’s the right word

[catbeeper]

cool floors at a carnival i went 2

[thatonegaybrit]

; finding out you're neurodivergent is just an " oh " drawn out and progressively getting louder the more you learn about your neurotype.

[twerkyvulture]

imma let my kids say "crap". strong bad said it. weird al sang it. inoffensive word and yet strong enough language to perhaps satisfy the 10-and-under age need for cussin'

[pestilentbrood]

VERY long Ramble incoming

honestly now that I'm looking at the auraboa lore situation, I'm just disappointed. There was such POTENTIAL in the idea of the Loop and the horror of a new generation inexplicably being disconnected from it, forcing the newly hatched children into a world totally separate from that perceived by their parents (I mean, hell, they perceive TIME differently!).... but then the writer(s?) just fell ass backwards into Icky Tropes.

I feel like I can see what the idea was, especially with the recent alterations to the Encyclopedia entry... It seems like staff fundamentally understands the true Horror potential here, but... Instead, through the short story, they proposed it through the lens of a condescending outsider character, turning the fears of the older generation into something trivial. And also weirdly demeaning the Auroboa's situation by portraying them as overreacting.

Why... why would you do that? Like, from a storytelling perspective? What's gained from that? Why not embrace the true horror and even Emotional significance of that disruption? Why instead go for "ohh we NEED outsider help we NEED to be saved because we are so helpless and it is so Silly that we, creatures who have never experienced such things, do not know what sleep is"????

And if they WANTED to have a condescending outsider, I feel like they COULD have done that, but it would have to have that character realize the horror at some point. And make it obvious that their attitude towards distressed parents and children facing Eldritch Shit and the Sudden Deconstruction of it was not cool!

(or at the very least be a bit more...idk. Consistent with said outsider character? Juniper just goes from "omg I am so honored that the fascinating creatures of the behemoth have chosen me to speak to" to "oh their wasting my time because they don't know what sleep is. I'd rather be sleeping!! 🙄" like girl... c'mon now. Why are we trivializing it like this. Do you want me as the reader to be invested in their plight or not.)

I mean come on. They're beings connected through one networked hivemind-like system, yet each still maintains a silver of individuality that allows them to move freely throughout the Behemoth that they care for. And they've got an eldritch understanding of time that no other dragon could understand. They're seeing the future, past, and present unfold simultaneously. They're witnessing the birth and death of the world at the same time, and have no way to communicate it to other dragons. The best they can do is maintain their home, and even then, they see its roots spread and decay all at once.

And then the newest generation is suddenly disconnected. An inherent link between parent and child and all dragons in-between, that has existed since the creation of their species, is just suddenly GONE for the newest births. With NO explanation for it. The children have no easy way of communicating with their parents. The children are experiencing time in a way that was not meant for their species. They've forcefully been shoved into a circadian rhythm that they are Not! Built for!

The only way a parent could communicate properly with their child would be when the latter is sleeping, something that is also completely foreign to this species. It would be terrifying for all involved!!!

They are literally experiencing eldritch horror from the perspective of the eldritch being forced into the mortal.

Like why WOULDN'T there be panic!!! And why would that panic be trivialized! Why are we only shown the perspective of an outsider who looks at this situation and goes "Oh the silly tree beasts are being so silly over nothing, it's no big deal!"

That and the way the auraboas talk to outsiders. Like. There was such potential there. Real opportunity to explore how ancient, time-bending beings would communicate to someone who couldn't even BEGIN to understand the intricacies of it.

Instead we got what feels more like baby talk (even described as though they were hatchlings enunciating their first words, which... I dunno man, maybe we don't want to compare them to children like That) and less like... Beings that experience all of time at once. I mean, the hatchlings and the adults speak the exact same way, and that doesn't make any sense given the literal time barrier going on.

I totally get why people thought there was just a language barrier and that auraboas had their own language, thus causing the disjointed speak, and not that it was because They Do Not Experience Time Like We Do. And I feel it would've been far easier to get it across by just... I dunno. Do anything else?? I saw someone on here suggest they speak in the "wrong" tenses, or using multiple tenses in the same sentence, which I think would've been far more clear.

Like, as opposed to "saplings wilt! saplings silent!" just "the saplings will wilt in silence, they've wilted in silence, they are wilting silently." Said all at once like all things are true simultaneously. And if we're going for hivemind, have each auraboa speak in a different tense, all at the same time, and have them switch it up every time. Have our outsider get confused and be like "which is it? are they wilting now, or have they already wilted?" and the cluster of auraboas respond in a cacophony of yes's, no's, and maybe's all at once.

Would've probably gotten across the "alien" vibe they were supposedly going for far better than wide-eyed desperation for an outsider's guidance conveyed through disjointed, in-world described as baby speech.

And also maybe would've had less accidental connotations. Because as it stands, I completely see why people have made the connections to the real world where they have. This doesn't read like eldritch timey-wimey intrigue, or even a respectful look at how younger generations can become detached from their families' cultures over time and the struggles that come with it. It reads like a culture being perceived by an ignorant outsider who (despite supposedly respecting these dragons) scoffs and rolls their eyes because the tree beasts with their funny words are being silly again, and that Hey, isn't it actually a great thing that the children are fundamentally different in all manners now? Because now they can join the rest of us in the "real world."

Yknow. Ick.

(I Personally think it would've been better to have the perspective be one of the Auraboas themselves, especially one of the children, to really understand what was going on here. Give us the full brunt of the mind of a creature experiencing all of time interwoven as one shape. The waters fall and the oceans crash with waves. They've now fallen to drought. The ocean has yet to be born. Caves have been carved out through the waters' currents. And when I break from this timeline, I open my eyes to see a child, the child not yet born, the child born now, the child born yesterday. Why can't I hear it? Why couldn't I hear it? Why won't I ever hear it?)

I dunno. People more qualified than me to speak on this matter have already torn the lore apart, I'm just... dropping my own two cents. Potential got weirdly squandered and we ended up instead with unfortunate implications and tropes that could be connected a liiiittle too awkwardly to irl situations.

*Also, before anyone points out: Yes, I know the hatchlings aren't COMPLETELY detached from the Loop and can join it when they sleep. But the fact is, these thangs never had to sleep before. That wasn't in their species' nature. So that's still weird and foreign for them on both sides. And since the hatchlings now have a circadian rhythm, they can't stay connected to the loop permanently. And also Also, seeing as the previous generations aren't experiencing time linearly, who's to say they even recognize when their child joins the loop? They'll speak with an echo of their child when that child was last asleep ages ago, not knowing that it's not them presently, because there is no 'present' for the older generations.

[roxtron]

Soo.. I finally got around to reading/watching L.O.V.E.

I really liked this frame in one of the animatics so I decided to try to redraw it. I thought about keeping the color palette but considering the.. I dunno, atmosphere? In the original animatic? I felt like the darker, dramatic lighting might go better. Though unfortunately it makes it difficult to tell the difference between some pieces. Anyway, @tapakah0 thanks for putting so much time and effort into the comics/animatics! I really liked the way certain parts of the timeline were presented that usually get ignored. (I mean, for fair reason, I imagine it's difficult to figure out how things could go from the turtles being fine to having an entire army to resist against the Krang..)

[wickjump]

hey gang, ive kinda had like the worst week of 2024 so far (would say of all time but in 2023 my cat died which tops this). anyway yeah sorry for rarely posting except from posting old drafts that i pretend are new and reblogging whenever i scroll mindlessly to distract myself. haven’t been able to pay as much attention to things as ive liked!!!! some shitty things have happened both to me and the people i care about so ive been trying to focus mostly on that rather than not. that’s life, c’est la vie.

hopefully things should clear up within a few days, but given i promised id be more active like twice before now i have no clue how true that one is. been going through a rough time and not dealing with it in the best of ways and i dunno how long it’ll take to get out of this one fellas. i might post some more cleaned up drafts but it’s hard to focus on a lot of things since anxiety is kicking my ass right now. with any luck ill bounce back sooner than expected though, or at least be more consistent with things. i tried to be more active yesterday but then A Really Bad Thing kinda caught me off guard and im doing a bit worse for wear at the moment. but ill be dandy and will get back soon enough, no longer than like two weeks if things go well!!!!

i also haven’t checked notifs just at all unless im actively expecting a response so if anyone @‘d me or anything of the sort i. did not see it. or any other important reblog. i get hundreds of notifs each day and normally i read through all the replies and reblogs because i like to see your thoughts!! but i haven’t done that much lately either. if something is seriously important, dm me and itll be easier to see it, but i can’t guarantee ill see or respond to it in a timely manner.

OK THATS ALL BYE SORRY 💔

[goathag]

How I spent my vacatition:

Pondering on my favorite topics

2. Being 25

3. Loving people especially when I never see them again

[hum--hallelujah]

I got love in my heart (so let's sneak in from the cheap seats, honey)

The Kids Aren't Alright lyrics in Pete's handwriting // Tourdust photo (edit by @pw-ps used with permission) // to you (unfinished, off the top of my head)

[longmaxsilvarg]

the topic of chloe and joyce and the way they went about living life after william died is such a tough one for my brain to wrap around cause a lot of the things that joyce did to support her and chloe were unfair to chloe so in that regard it's easy to side with chloe n be like "yeah her own mother should've been there for her and not continued on with a relationship that clearly was nothing but bad for chloe and should've just looked for support in other ways" BUT it's also like joyce also lost someone and all of a sudden became a single mom so in her mind what she was doing was best for both her and chloe and chloe (in some areas) could've been a little more cooperative (im not talking about getting her ROOM searched and pockets emptied) to make things easier on her mom BUT

[incorrect-fnaf-quotes]

Fantasy Springtrap AU time? Yes. Yes indeed. With everything going on in the AU, this is a version where Springtrap just happens to be completely innocent.

The Missing Children... go missing. What people assume happened is just... the canon stuff. They’re all gone, spirits, etc.

Someone (Henry) took the children, yes, but what people don’t know is that... he just went and turned them all into animals, and now they’re all wandering nearby, unable to do anything.

Springtrap would witness the initial capture—but not the transformations. And when Henry realized this, he made the decision to put a kind of curse on the rabbit.

People don’t know who really did it. They don’t really know what happened to the group—and all of the blame is put on the newly cursed Springtrap... who is currently missing two out of three kids.

Henry would happen to take Michael and Evan—leaving only Elizabeth, who Springtrap wants to make sure is safe—but people assume he must have done something to the two as well—and that Elizabeth is in danger.

And now, Springtrap is trying to fix what Henry caused, deal with the curse, get his sons, and keep Elizabeth safe.

[dumb-doll-lips]

So been like low key horny a bunch of the day. And I like when I have fun little games w it to involve tumblr some, that has been lots of fun. Been unsure of like what I wanna do since I think last time I got too overwhelmed. Gets a little annoying sometimes how little it can take to make me feel very overwhelmed, like my brain can’t keep up w too much going on. Idk how to figure out what would be easier.

[csoisoi]

how to care for your floof-lego

[ratguy-nico]

Gente I wanted to use this post one to tell you I'm super excited about the rare pair week, I wanted to share whit you the sketch I'm making for the Road Trip prompt

how come I already have a sketch if the prompts were released today? you may ask and that is cause I trust you people, and I knew you would do the right thing 😌

here the sketch:

(I let you guess which rare pair it is (it's not that rare i dont ship very rare pairs, just the common rare pairs... yeah))

Second thing I'll probably just made this one prompt for the RarePair Week cause I'm working on two commission (yeah I'm thriving) and I have to focus, work first!

[cherubdulce]

hii.. is anybody here ?

[kedicatt-cotl]

“ I always thought Narinder was the God of Death, but actually it might be you ”

An old cranky man taking in a cute kid that is better than him at every aspect of his own job. Then they may or may not get up to some shenanigans. The kid is the one having to do most of the job, though.

[radioroxx]

Do you know what'd be extra funny though?

If human Clover *was* already red/green colorblind, so Ceroba preparing up the courage ti finally have the 'colour talk', preparing them to be forced learn colours at age six, only for them to be like 'yeah?? I thought thats's what they looked like for everyone?'

EHEHHEEHEHEHEE HELP THATS SILLY

on one hand i think she would be relieved she wouldnt have to go through all the colours for them (that she was forced to learn….) but at the same time disappointed in the sense of. hey. how come i had to go through all that and you didnt??? what

(kanako would be jealous as well ofc NFKF)