#Process of Selection

[astawionbwehehe]

[😠] astarion disapproves

[bixels]

I've gotten a ton of asks about this, so I'll answer all of them here (can only tag @imamwolf, sorry anons).

I will be making more worldbuilding comics, especially on the topic of magic and Canterlot. Here's the short of it, though.

Anyone could become a witch or magician (not just unicorn characters), but it takes intense studying, as it's a practice not natural or innate to humans. Some humans are more naturally attuned and gifted to using magic while others find it next to impossible. For example, Trixie desperately wants to be a real magician but for whatever reason can't.

However, there are two types of magic: the studied "standard magic" (spells and hexes and whatnot) and the unorthodox "chaos magic," which are random, uncontrollable outbursts of magic only a few are capable of emitting. Most people with chaos magic don't even realize when they're "using" it. Pinkie and Trixie are unwitting users of chaos magic, which operates on the "only when it's funny" rule. It explains Pinkie Sense and their slapstick moments of surviving falling pianos. Discord is the only one who can control chaos magic.

Anyone can become a witch in practice, but recognition by Canterlot's court must be earned by incredible, selfless feats of magic. Canterlot as a whole is a complete mystery, having been debated on by scholars, scientists, monks, writers, and psychologists throughout human history. From what we know, it's a parallel world that exists on same same planet as Earth. That's why both are affected by the same sun and moon. To cross into Canterlot, one must not only be invited but know the location of specific gateways strung out across Earth. The closest gate to Ponyville is in a wheat field in Kansas.

[bamsara]

Anyway I love the amount of AUs the DCA side fandom has. Everyone is so creative and there is something so endearing about people coming up with incredible worlds that could honestly be standalone stuff but wanting to protagonize their favorite characters and share writings and art that takes time and heart with the community

[albonoooo]

odette charles, the white swan & odile carlos, the black swan

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

quotes from alex turner's favourite authors that make me want to put my face through a wall:

"although i have never been an actor in the strict sense of the word, i have nevertheless, in real life, always carried about with me a small folding theatre" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"there is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts," - albert camus

"there is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself" - raymond chandler

"at eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air" - vladimir nabokov

"no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" - joseph conrad

"everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it" - david foster wallace

"we're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. how else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" - david foster wallace

"i turn over a new leaf every day, but the blots show through" - keith waterhouse

"the truth will set you free. but not until it's finished with you" - david foster wallace

"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" - vladimir nabokov

"i'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think i am or say i am, that's what i'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me" - alan sillitoe

"we live as we dream; alone” - joseph conrad

"i liked, as i like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unwares" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"whatever you get paid attention to for is never what you think is most important about yourself" - david foster wallace

"i continued to stir my tea long after it had done all it could with the milk” - vladimir nabokov, despair

"i remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind" - edgar allan poe

"all the information i have about myself is from forged documents" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"how odd i can have all this inside me and to you its just words" - david foster wallace

"you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life" - albert camus

[cryptocism]

i keep forgetting to record my art for speedpaint purposes so heres a progress gif instead:

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

[wild-magic-oops]

I like the idea of Durge retaining/regaining some of his memories, but they're all of Gortash. And not any that could considerably help him piece together what his life was like before, but only snippets of personal non-work related moments between them. So he's left with the longing for a lover which seems so at odds with all the fucked up shit he constantly learns about himself throughout the game.

[inamagicalhallucination]

if the ada members ever got settled down in life and like started to think about kids and shit; they'd choose godparents through intense games of go fish and unfortunately dazai and ranpo /would/ have a winning streak so unfortunately they /are/ the godparents to every kid

[uncanny-tranny]

There's something so insane to me about being able to create and recreate vintage or even ancient music, clothes, fabrics, building architecture, anything, really.

I watched this video about a lady who knit a WWII-era vest, and it was really unique, because the cable work would eat up yarn, when there were shortages of fibers. This pattern would have likely been used by people to send overseas to soldiers, and now it's being created in a time where this war has been over for generations. What were the people making this pattern thinking of? What about the people making the vest? Could they fathom a world where world wars didn't happen back to back? Could they imagine what peace felt like, or did it fade like a distant memory, a faint friend? All we have now are the remnants of their efforts, a "simple" vest that would warm the bodies of countless people the knitter would never have imagined were here on earth with them.

We're reaching across time to learn about other people - we're reaching our hands out just to grasp anything tangible. And when we've take hold of something, all we can do is say I love you I love you I love you

[arteliisa]

The Selection🩵👑

[filibusterfrog]

bugbear types available on patreon and kofi

[arabela25]

Non-qualifiers of semi-final 1

Dance (Our Own Party), The Busker - Malta 🇲🇹

Aijā, Sudden Lights - Latvia 🇱🇻

We Are One, Wild Youth - Ireland 🇮🇪

Tell Me, TuralTuranX - Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

Burning Daylight, Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - The Netherlands 🇳🇱

[yelenadelova]

i shouldn’t be allowed to make purchases when i’m tired and sick and stressed

i just accidentally purchased elden ring when i meant to buy bg3. dont even ask me how because i couldnt begin to explain myself

[bougiebutchbitch]

House was really like ‘hmmm I gotta choose a successor... somone who is truly like me, who can lead this department after I die/run away with Wilson... right, who from all my Fellows is a) the most annoying, b) commits the most hate crimes and c) has the most abusive father’

[phatcatphergus]

Can you post the full size versions of these ones 🥺..

Literally anything for you pookie

Also cropped them for you :3