#and also evidenced by THIS

[cringelordofchaos]

Once i was watching a Ninjago lavashipping analysis on YouTube and i accidentally tapped the button that makes the video play on tv and so it connected to the tv my DAD WAS WATCHING AND I NEARLY GOT A HEART ATTACK

[littlenastieswewhispered]

“buffy ended the show single :)” ok but only because her current love interest just DIED!! (he near quite literally died in her arms! in sacrifice for her!) her last words of the entire series were telling him she loves him and then saying his name in admiration. she isn’t single; she’s a widow.

[shiverhohojiro]

the slightly unsettling realization that your ex-boss is also a person with wants and desires, and that those wants and desires are closer to your own than you might previously have imagined. aka "why does DJ Octavio get to be at the Grand Festival can you imagine how the octolings must feel about this"

Bonus doodle:

[pleuvoire]

please just ONE discussion about people's varying level of social/sex life on this site without the slightest hint of condescending insulting language just ONE. i'm BEGGING

[cor-lapis]

I know it's not super one-for-one, but does anyone else think that the fortress of meropide's design is meant to reference the Panopticon? Especially considering the map description of Wriothesley's office:

[isbergillustration]

Sometimes the traditional artist experience is sitting at your desk wobbling a piece of paper like a lunatic because you're impatient for the paint to dry so you can scan and post it for that sweet sweet digital validation of your life choices but then you used a lot of water, and so you gotta sit there for a while, staring at it till you half convince yourself that wobbling face is looking up at you and that hand is reaching for your face.

[essektheylyss]

So, we know now that the Apogee Solstice is perpetual. To no one's surprise, I've got thoughts.

First, I don't think this was an intentional effect of the Malleus Key. It's a massively wide-reaching effect. We know that the destruction of Domunas was a large effect, and more active, but it only took a single moment of power. Actually holding the leylines and planar boundaries in alignment seemingly across Exandria (which we can infer is happening, on a meta level) for this long is well beyond that single moment of power.

My guess is that Ludinus intended to shatter the prison in one massive blast, like destroying Domunas to destroy the primordials, and he didn't quite get it right due to the sabotage from the Hells and Beau and Caleb.

That being said, we know also that a number of magical effects aren't working. Anything that travels across a distance or among planes fails, including, as we've learned, the retrieval of souls. Spells that are working are ones that happen instantly and locally, and ones with ongoing effects have been failing over time.

Teleportation circles were suggested to have been destroyed pretty rapidly, whereas long-term wards and transmutations are eroding over time. (Has anyone checked on Lionel of the Darrington Brigade recently?) These longer-term passive magical effects may get some amount of phantom power from the weave/leylines, enough to maintain the effect once the effect is in place.

We also know that the gods are still there, but they feel more distant, less present. However, we know that the leylines are stuck in their aligned state, that the planes should be in fact more easily accessible, because we know what great workings of planar magic can be achieved during an Apogee Solstice.

And, to return to the beacon, we know that there was spatiotemporal magic involved in whatever effect presumably both scattered the Hells (and possibly everyone else in that cavern) and froze the leylines in their aligned state, which is in essence all that an Apogee Solstice is. And the beacon is an artifact that has a great deal of magical power, which is often beyond the capabilities to control of even the mages of the Age of Arcanum, if the notes from the T-Dock in Aeor were any indication.

My thought, then, is that perhaps the Material Plane is out of sync temporally with the rest of the universe. Whether this is a semi-conscious action of whatever the entity of the Luxon is, or a passive effect of the beacon, it's possible that magic is fizzling out into static not because there is no magic to be had, but because any magic that has to travel across the leylines to create an effect, or draw magic from the leylines, finds itself in a temporal morass.

[botchallthethings]

Small-size circulars?

Knitting people, do you have favorite circular needles? I'm struggling to find pertinent info. I have two requirements:

Not sharp. I routinely touch the point of my needle and even if it's easier to do fancy stitches with sharp needles, they just hurt for me to use

Smaller than a US size 4/ 3.5mm (ideally I'm looking for a 2.75 size needle, which just happens to be the size I always find myself reaching for)

Other things that would be nice would be:

metal (especially slick metal!)

interchangeable! (but I fear small-size, durable, well-made interchangeables are a fantasy unicorn, so my hopes are not up)

[frecklenog]

rewatching destiny is so funny but it also HURTS !!!!!!!!! jay has to hear his dad say he’d kill the destiny gang members, which includes little destiny, and i’m sure that finn would be understanding of jay and ld’s relationship but naturally since they’ve kept it a secret finn doesn’t fucking know and it clearly upsets the poor kid ,,, crying throwing up

[slashermary]

local lovesick vampire calls himself the big bad but is actually the most pathetic man alive. undead. whatever. it's spike🫶🏻

[kirby-the-gorb]

[francesderwent]

I hate video as a format generally because I’m a fast reader, but there is nothing worse to me than a theology video wherein the speaker looks directly into the camera. just a guy alone in a room staring at a camera telling it about Jesus. the dialogical aspect of the Word is totally absent. there’s no encounter. there’s no emptying of self to meet the beloved where they’re at. hate it so much.

[kujakumai]

Marik Ishtar will experience an emotion he doesn't want and go well there are two options. i can break everything in sight about it right now or i can bottle it in a neat little compartment for one thousand years. and if you try to explain to him there are more choices than that he simply will not hear you

[switchoffthestars]

2024 may/june knitting

details below the cut!

clown tamer socks (march 23 - may 16; hobbii happy feet in '120 mystic' & '15 gris')

shortie socks (april 27 - may 29; lana grossa meilenweit merino extrafine stella in '2541')

sheep socks (may 30 - june 12; drop fabel in '400 black' & '100 off white' & '116' & drops nord in '10 lemongrass mix')

baby elephant (may 13 - june 5; various acrylics; gift)

laulu shawl (june 15 - june 19; hobbii happy feet in '15 gris' & rohrspatz & wollmeise lace garn in 'silbrig'; gift)

WiPs: lindisfarne shawl (april 25); tolsta tee (lace cardigan edition) (may 24); golden orchids shawl (june 20); sunburst socks (june 20)

[teatitty]

I've seen so many people call Iruka the rabbit or cat to Kakashi's wolf and you are all so stupid he's clearly a tanuki because of his soft fluffy visage hiding a deep set trickster nature full of mischief and a savage temper

[y-rhywbeth2]

'Astarion outliving his friends and possibly SO' is angsty and good for those who like exploring the themes of bereavement and all, and it is a possible outcome (he's not helpless), but it is my firm opinion that there is still a damn good chance that guy is gonna die first and be outlived by them.