#The afterlife

[ashesfordayz]

The Meeting

Wanted to draw Morgan Blackhand and satisfy my Silverhand mood XD

[didyougaming]

Hi, gamers. I know the results of the Sandwich Poll have been gnawing at you. So many people wondering whether they answered correctly, which as a reminder is a very important factor in determining which afterlife you end up in when you die. Please understand that I needed a lot of time to internally process these poll results and also that I've been kinda busy/tired. But the people need to know, so here we go.

In total, we received 372 responses. I also spent a lot of my weekend annoying anyone who would listen to me in person about these questions, but I didn't write those answers down.

Question 1 was fairly non-controversial, as it should be. It is worth noting that 3.2% of respondents chose to write-in an answer, and most of these write-in answers were what scientists would call "bad" and "not really useful." So you can assume a 3.2% margin of error on everything in this survey. That's how statistics works.

Question 2 is where we see a real divide. Most respondents consider a sandwich cut into two separate but equal pieces to be one sandwich. This is a real shame, because it's the wrong answer. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Question 3 considers whether one piece of bread cut in half and used for sandwich-making results in a sandwich, and surprisingly the majority of respondents do consider this to be one sandwich. This is really interesting, because despite ending up with functionally and aesthetically the same result as one of the pieces of the sandwich from question 2, a significant number of respondents believe the results to be inherently different. I wish there was a way to better track how much overlap there was for those two seemingly contradictory answers, but the big Sheets page Google Docs is daunting and I don't feel like figuring out how to parse that data, so we just need to accept that we'll never have that exact number. That's how statistics works.

Question 4 mostly just cements the findings of the previous two questions. I do want to point out the one person who answered "who the fuck does this". Sandwich shops do this. Go to a sandwich shop for once in your life and really watch them do their work. Open your eyes.

Question 5 did not get me a lot of useful data, as it turns out having a question that only allowed for write-in answers was a bad idea. However, there are more or less two camps for people who really took these questions seriously and gave it their all. The first school of thought suggests that intent is the most important factor, and if you deem what you've made to be a sandwich, it's a sandwich. While I appreciate the critical thinking on display here, I believe in the other school of thought, which is that when you put ingredients between two breads that's a sandwich, baby. There is a sub-school of thought here that requires those two pieces to be whole pieces, but that's wrong.

One question that I should have included in the survey I think proves my point. If you order a sandwich platter from a deli and they use a single really long piece of bread (think like a several foot long hero) into multiple sections, you would say that you have sandwiches, plural. If you wanted to grab one, you wouldn't say "I'm going to grab a 64th of a sandwich" because you would sound deranged. Despite being parts of a larger whole, they are still ingredients between pieces of bread, and thus fit the definition of "sandwich."

Anyway, thank you for coming on this non-gaming detour with me. It was extremely important that I prove a friend wrong on this topic, and even though I don't think I did that and I think he's choosing to double down on his incorrect opinions, I'm still choosing to spin this as a personal and moral victory. New actual DidYouGamings will come out as soon as I discover any new facts about video games (right now there's only a couple hundred facts about video games at all and I've basically covered all of them.)

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[chevvy-yates]

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— Supporting shots taken for: /// CH02_ENCOUNTER_IN_THE_AFTERLIFE.file — Pics by @nervouswizardcycle. ♥️ Arki belongs to her, Vijay and Ryder belong to me. —

⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my friends art here or to any other platform, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated.

[rayrayor]

It’s no longer a WIP💕

The afterlife is complete and thank you @luluxa for this amazing piece of art for our angel and demon 😈

[fandoms-run-my-life]

The contrast between the uptightness of the afterlife workers and Death the Endless herself is hilarious. Everyone holding onto their sanity by a hairsbreath, having forms for every little thing and probably mainlining caffeine. They all probably cry at a scheduled time. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a designated room. Then, there is the Endless herself who wears a tank top and jeans and has the chillest personality. I need to see her interact with her workers. Just to see contrast. Especially since everything is shades of brown, and then she wears all black

[sillygonk]

proceed with caution indeed

[brrambleberry]

When V and Johnny burst back into the Afterlife, they begin to be known as the Cockroach. Affectionately, of course, anyone who sneered out the moniker would quickly find they weren’t able to eat solids for months or find welcome at the club.

Johnny didn’t like it at first, his ego sliced by the realisation that the people in his life did better without him in theirs. V threw humour over it when she reminded him of how he had pulled through to the other side of a nuclear devastation, and it was impossible for him to keep a straight face at any mention of it afterwards.

V was proud as fuck that her reputation was of someone difficult to kill, in spite of all the odds. Flattered as well, she took more care than was due to style and maintain her vibrant ‘ganic copper hair. Her whole schtick was being the fiery femme, the ruthless red-head, a babe serving brutal beat-downs.

Individually, they were pests. Forced proximity turned them into a fucking menace. Clair started stocking twice as much centzon as before, and Emmerick had to invest in cyberware to stabilise his blood pressure. If it had been anyone else, Rogue would have banned them long ago. As it stood, V was her best contractor, and life had become just a little bit brighter with them in it.

[the-misadventures-of-v]

welcome to the big leagues

[tabernacleheart]

The word for sin is hamartia, which originally had to do with shooting and literally means a missing of the target. The man who refuses to accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord has missed the target in life. He dies with life unrealized; and he therefore dies unfitted to enter into the higher life with God. 

William Barclay

[g0n3-rogue]

Happy Hour; smoking break at The Afterlife

It's been 9/10 years the last time I've made a gif for Tumblr and I was struggling

[skelligaladan]

2. Wisp I really like the reflections in the marsh water.

[chevvy-yates]

[NC_RES]_00002127 mercs_chigasaki_scharfenberg_steyr_001_AL_LC.file ///core:_team.file\\\ — Supporting shots taken for: /// CH02_ENCOUNTER_IN_THE_AFTERLIFE.file — 'Cybergram' template @jaymber —

⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my art here or to any other platform, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated.

I gotta add a bit more.

These are taken exclusively for chapter two to support the written texts bc I love the idea to have supporting pics to it.

Some of you may remember back in 2022 (when I practised using amm) I did some merged together Afterlife talk with Ry and Vijay even tho I had no npv of them back then. Its funny how I was immediately reminded of it when taking these shots above because it was in the same space and I used same expression for Ryder like back then. But since then there's been a lot of improvement (thanks to the major game update and me using reshade and being fond of using my tools):

Maybe I'll redo this old set one day bc it is indeed a part of the story just a bit later and only Ry and V.

Also gotta say, it is refreshing for me to take pics in a more cinematic style where my ocs aren't actively posing for the camera but just be like in their daily life and I am the invisible photographer.

[rayrayor]

Ok @guinguin1984 , you filled my brain on the demon chili cook off. So here it is .

Also while this piece is for the original fiction , The Afterlife, it’s always a good day to show off art by @luluxa

[wanderingaldecaldo]

jacket | boots

POV: You're five minutes late to your first meeting with the new Queen of the Afterlife.

[atheostic]

Question for Theist Jews, Christians, and Muslims

When you die, which version of you goes to the afterlife?

5-year-old you? 30-year-old you? Elderly you? You before you had brain damage that changed your personality? You after the brain damage? You before Alzheimer's changed your personality? You after Alzheimer's changed your personality?

Why that version?