#and I shuffle it ofc

[marlboro-barbie]

won't you come ? ☆

photos are from @celbrini web weave 🫶

[sleepsty]

AGHHHH BLACKHEAAARTSSS🔥🔥

I have some big ahh problems with drawing him so far

There're some (kinda a lot?) thoughts about and spoilers to "Oh, dear, did I get your card in a shuffle?" and "The remaining jester card" under this line!! ↓

Let's not mind the hair, but the (literal) mask?? There are a few different descriptions of it.

1. In "Oh, dear, did I get your card in a shuffle?" it's only this one, talking about Branzy:

Properly taking a look, Clown noticed that there was a scar mark on his left cheek, right underneath his eye. His eyes...

And there's a lot of moments when his emotions (smiles mostly) are shown in Cards Shuffle.

Yet, in "The remaining jester card" it's said Clown sees him fully unmasked for the first time, which is the 2nd quote:

But, the thing that first catches Clown’s attention isn’t any of those things. It is that this is the first time Clown is seeing him unmasked , completely. At least literally. He is without the silver mask that he always wears, concealing half of his face save for the eye ... scar ... has always been slightly visible beforehand on the uncovered part of his face, a small slit of a scar right below his right eye, though now the uncovered parts around his left eye revealed how bad it really is.

which not just implies, but states that he was wearing a mask all the time previously.

One more quote, 3-rd, on the television, part of Blackheart's description:

About three-fourths of their face is covered by a porcelain mask, leaving only one of their eyes visible along with a quarter of their face, including half of a charming smile which is set in a cheerful grin.

And another one, 4-th, closer to an end of the story, talking about Blackhearts:

The man in the middle with black hair, that classy black suit, and the mask covering three quarters of his face. At the open of the door, the man raises his head up to meet Clown’s gaze.

This one confused me even more than the previous one, cause, well... not the same thing as it before. Are these different masks.. maybe? Don't know, actually. But that's not the last quote though, it only gets puzzler!

5-th! From, probably, last pages of "The remaining jester card":

There is a certain charisma to the man's appearance. Well crafted, posed, polished. But despite the mask, the bland white porcelain marked by black markers, covering most of his face and anything human you could’ve gotten from his expression, his eyes are exposed.

Still staring at Clown as Clown stares at him, the man tilts his head. Then, Blackhearts smiles at him.

How do I even wrap my head around it? It may be a metaphor, it may be not

And, seeing the difference between all these descriptions, I got confused 🧑‍🦯

So now I'm trying to figure it all out. And it looks like this:

so far. ( Reminder! Me reading the whole thing was inspired by @shearfer, so the second design pictured here might resemble theirs, which I'm kind of sorry for(?) even though it wasn't intentional and I prolly will not stick to it anyway )

Another part of the story is how Branzy even looked! I mean, yeah, Blackhearts wears the mask, we get it. But Branzy, the one, whom we initially met in the Blackhearts' casino, in Cards Shuffle?? Was he wearing makeup? Was he wearing a literal mask too? Did he not have the scars at the time?

But we have a description of some scars at the time at least:

"Pierce! So nice to meet you!"

Reluctantly though with no option to decline, he accepted the hand, trying hard not to flinch at the skin-to-skin contact. He noticed remnants of scars littered starting from the host's hand going up to his upper arm. He pondered it for a second, before 'Pierce' retracted his hand back as fast as he could naturally.

But nothing about the face scars except for this one under the left eye (later on it's the right one btw)

Not hating or anything, pure /pos and curiousity!! But I sooo wanna know what actually was meant to picture it the closest to the fiction piece I've just read

And I'll continue to try to come up with something cool that fits

[djevelbl]

GUESS WHO I'M DRAWING NOOOOWWWWW~!!!!

[armandslestat]

A lesmand playlist for season three/the vampire lestat era

[thequietabsolute]

don’t laugh but after pinging about town and then making my way home (i live in the very centre of this city) one of my short-cuts is to slip through the cathedral side door at the back, exit the small chapel, cross this large nave and then pop out the main entrance smelling of incense and a borrowed piety.

it’s beautiful.

[thisbrilliantsky]

i currently have 30 poems in my queue……would u guys mind…….if i post more than 2 per day………im not a patient person……..

[caeliflammae]

pspspsps

[chiimeramanticore]

Please god give me some ipod facts i NEED this

ok admittedly im not THAT insane abt ipods yet (but give me a month or two and i might be) but im kindasorta getting into collecting them so i wanna talk abt the little bit ive learned from that

i started out looking for gen 4 nanos bc i had an orange one as a kid (which i tried to get back from my parents but apparently they threw it away. rip) i wound up getting this listing for two ipods- one silver nano and one pink shuffle, bc they were dirt cheap overall BUT the seller v clearly didnt know anything abt ipods so it was a gamble

the nano worked! but only when plugged in cuz i guess the battery's too old. which is a shame bc it's otherwise in perfect condition, it's not even scratched anywhere. the shuffle worked even better, but it was pink and that's like the one color i didnt want an ipod in lmao. i named it breakfast bc it's pink and then i immediately got attached to it lmao

i wound up sending breakfast to packtion since they wanted to try an ipod too, and also bc i had ordered a second nano already dkfghk. this one works near perfectly (the hold switch is kinda busted but whatever) AND it's purple. which is my favorite color but it's also specifically my favorite ipod nano color bc depending on the lighting it can often look more blue than purple and i think that's a sick optical illusion. this one is named nova, and it's become my go-to for music listening now. i havent named the silver one bc im hoping i can sell it but nobody seems interested in my broken ass son sadly lol

anyway here's all 3 of them. family photo

ok now here's a fun fact for you since you read this far. apparently the ipod nano is like The Worst ipod to collect, especially gen 4 dkfhgk it's mostly because nanos are extremely hard to mod/repair given how small they are, so a lot of issues that can spring up w age aren't considered worth the effort to fix. this means if you have an ipod that's busted, it's an uphill battle to get it fixed, and also if you're searching for one online you have to keep an eye out for signs it might be broken. also since theyre so tiny if the battery inside swells even a tiny bit the screen starts getting fucked up bc it's already pressing against it lmao. sickly ass devices but theyre adorable so im gonna buy 80 more of them

[galadae]

what i would give to never have to be in charge of scheduling again. god

[torawro]

think i’m going to delete my taglist. or at least remove the link from my navi

[marlboro-barbie]

roots bloody roots ☆

[coriander-candlesticks]

I've felt like I should check in with Apollo the past few days and finally managed to clear enough space on my floor to feel alright with breaking out the tarot deck again so I did! Lit his candle, said as as formal a prayer as I could muster beforehand, asked Hermes to help with communication, the whole shebang. For further context: I've been wanting to ask Aphrodite something specific (also via tarot, it's the most grounding tool I've got) but I only have the one deck at the moment and, while I've used it to ask Hermes about things in tandem with Apollo, and Aphrodite introduced herself via it (with a card that also introduced Apollo), I wasn't sure if it would be cool for me to use it to ask her specifically something not in direct tandem with Apollo. I mentioned that in the prayer but also said that that might be a question for a different session, since trying to get an answer to that (on top of the general "hey how are we doing/do you have anything you want me to learn") might muddy my ability to understand the message.

Cue twelve cards falling out of my deck/poking out while I was shuffling. I usually pull ~3 cards on top of whatever falls out, but I ended up not feeling like it was needed. Seven of them fell out face-up, too.

Despite having some concerns about whether all of the cards were "supposed" to be pulled, it was pretty coherent! And covered quite a few things I've been thinking about recently, including sorting out anxiety vs a warning/displeasure, a follow-up of a card that was the focus of my last pull, and a reminder to look at outside/intellectual sources to combat the whatever-the-fuck-my-brain's-on. There were four cards that fell out face-up together in a pile: a card I associate with Apollo at the front and one associated with Artemis (the Moon) at the back, with cards related to unity & growth in the middle. I'd had a pretty bad experience attempting an offering to Artemis last month and have stepped back and avoided asking her for anything or specifically invoking her in prayers/offerings/etc. since (except for once when it involved a pregnant friend b/c it seemed odd and tbh a little disrespectful to ask Apollo for help and not her as well) because I took it as a sign that she didn't want me to work with her. I'm also aware, though, that that bad experience could have just been a meltdown/panic attack. Regardless of whether it was either of those two things, a "hey slow down" warning, or a combination, it was nice to have some clear reassurance & an official introduction. It's also significant, I think, that part of the Moon card's message is about not letting anxiety/"self-deception" (direct from the guide) cloud your intuition. I've been wanting to burn the candle I dedicated to her for a few days now- it's possible that was a sign from her as well.

As far as the deck-use question...the first card that fell out was the Empress (face-up, reversed). My initial thought was that it was a "no", but I decided to look at the meaning in case it wasn't that which was. probably a bad idea. It freaked me out a bit because I couldn't figure out what it was referring to. I ended up using my alphabet oracle tiles for a makeshift yes/no system after finishing with all the other cards and got clear confirmation that my instinct was, in fact, correct.

All in all it was really cool?? By far the most cards I've had in one pill iirc, and a good lesson in identifying how my intuition works.

[blueblurseptember]

feb. 2021: my xiaoaether anthem

april 2025: my wiseharu anthem

[brennacedria]

I don't have Spotify or anything else with an actual "Most Played" or "On Repeat" playlist option, but @pixiedurango tagged me for the Shuffle Meme and I don't want to leave them hanging, so! Here are the first ten Never-Skip songs that came up when I ran shuffle on my entire mp3 collection (~3800 tracks)

Ace of Base - Dancer In A Daydream (aka part of my favorite album when I was 11)

Straight No Chaser - Tainted Love (I have SO MANY covers of this song

Katamari Damacy - Sasasan Katamari

Final Fantasy V Piano Collection - Tenderness in the Air

Dope - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Final Fantasy X - Lulu's Theme

OutKast - Hey Ya!

2 Unlimited - Do What's Good For Me (2 Unlimited was SUPER formative--it was literally my Baby's First Techno)

Scott Pilgrim OST - Threshold

DJ Poly - Sweet Dreams are Made of Seven (oh yeah I have a thing for mashups)

Plus! One bonus track!

DJ SHARPNEL - SAMURAI HARDBEAT (this is the first of the Japanese techno tracks I mentioned that came up on shuffle tonight)

https://youtu.be/vUjnbqY_Rhc?si=WZ6fRh0uy5ni7Nl_ (I hit the limit for embedding videos so you'll have to open this one separately)

[moreaujeans]

spotify stop playing the wrong version of youth by daughter challenge

[mobbothetrue]

Spotify prompt! Knuckles and tails, an 19 :)

Oh hoho! You managed to land FightSong by EVE (<- YouTube link), a song that by all rights shoulda been #2 (<- I refuse to pay Spotify money).

Hmm…. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with Super Sonic Speed, but I always did intend to write follow-ups…

.•.•.•.

The city is unbelievably loud. They’re in what Sonic had called a shopping district, and it’s apparently very popular. Knuckles would kind of like to go home, a lot, actually, but Tails is flirting from one shop to another and he doesn’t have it in him to shut the kid down. Sonic is somewhere on the periphery of their little group— he and Tails had bonded, thick as thieves, and Knuckles— well, he tolerated the guy.

Tails gasps like he’s seeing the sun rise for the first time, excited enough that he’s lifting off the ground. Knuckles ambles over, grabs him by the ankle, and pulls him back down. He’s looking at some sort of… thing. Knuckles can’t make heads or tails of it, but it’s definitely saying something to Tails.

Hmm. He is, at least, familiar with the idea of shops. Chao liked to set them up, sometimes, selling fruit or handmade crafts for rings, but Knuckles has no idea if their idea of currency and everyone else’s aligns. Would the shopkeep accept a fruit? Most chao did. It isn’t like rings are a problem, so…

Knuckles turns, seeking out Sonic in the crowd. There he is— stiff as anything, glancing frantically back and forth between Knuckles and some other hedgehog, a pink one. One of his friends, maybe? They look irritated, maybe not. Knuckles steps away from Tails, invites himself into their conversation.

“and you just RAN OFF—“ the hedgehog is shouting. Sonic cracks his mouth open, a faint wheeze escaping.

“Hey,” Knuckles says.

“—do you have ANY IDEA how WORRIED I was—“

This looks like a battle Sonic is better off fighting on his own. Still, Knuckles needs his question answered. “Hey,” he repeats, slightly louder.

“—I mean, I knew you were alright because my cards said so, but—“

“Hey Knuckles,” Sonic manages to crack out, “this is Amy.”

Amy tilts her head at him, and then gives him a sharp, discerning once-over. “Are you one of his other friends?” She asks.

“Yeah, sure,” Knuckles says, and then “do rings work as currency down here?”

She blinks at him, as if this is a weird thing to ask. “Yes?” She says.

“Okay,” Knuckles says, nodding, “try not to scare him too bad.”

Any lingering confusion evaporates, and she whirls around to find Sonic trying to sneak away. “AGAIN!” she shouts, full of conviction, and Knuckles makes his way back to where he left Tails. He isn’t pressed up against the glass anymore, so Knuckles steps into the store. Yeah, there he is. Hovering— literally— over the same display.

Knuckles takes a moment to properly observe, rooting around for the terms Tails would use, in an attempt to ensure he gets the right thing. There’s a looping track, and a few other gadgets on the sides. A switch, one of them looks like, and some barricade, and a few blinking lights. On the track itself is a… sideways cylinder, set on wheels, connected to a few boxes, puffing out smoke— or steam, maybe. Tails is absorbed enough in watching it chug along that he doesn’t even realize Knuckles is standing right next to him. Knuckles’ll just have to make sure he comes up for air, occasionally.

He casts about the rest of the store, vaguely lost. There are a lot of displays, and a lot of colourful boxes. Knuckles picks up one, flips it over, and realizes swiftly he is out of his depth. He brings the box over to Tails, handing it to him. Tails holds onto it for a full few seconds, watching with bated breath as the cylinder switches tracks, before he looks down. His fur all along his spine puffs up, and he turns to look at Knuckles so fast he has to wonder if Sonic hasn’t started to rub off on him in more ways than one. That’s the right box, for sure.

“Really?” Tails asks, voice breathy with excitement, and Knuckles ruffles his fur instinctually.

“‘Course.”

Maybe the shopping district isn’t that bad.