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Pokepets: set 2

pokepets! set 2

i converted sprigs, pikachu, and bulbasaur for pokepets mod testing (which exploded) and then did up houndoom for an oc who has a houndoom. and then i was like 'thats enough for a pack right'.

anyways here we are

new mesh, ripped from various pokemon sources

requires cats and dogs

2 cats (pikachu and sprigatito), 1 small dog (bulbasaur), 1 big dog (houndoom)

each has normal and shiny swatches

included are tail removers for all pets

pikachu looks kind of messed up bc it was never meant to walk on four legs. dont worry about it

feel free to recolor or mesh edit, but please don't put any edits behind any form of paylink or paywall!

DL : SFS (no ads, as always)

[ritz-stimzz]

heyo! Just wanted to let u know, the snake in your last stim post isnt a ball python. That's actually an Emerald Tree Boa! 🐍

oh thank you for letting me know! the original post on instagram said thats what it was, but a boa makes a lot more sense!!

[arsanatomica]

Story from today. There is a local engineer that is a python breeder on the side.

Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world. They are massive snakes. They get to be like 25 ft long and thicker than a human thigh.

Anyway, a while back he gave me a 10 ft male.

This was a wild snake that he had imported from Indonesia and was trying to breed it to one of his females.

Breeders do this sometimes because animals in captivity tend to become inbred, so once in a while some breeders will hire someone in a foreign country to go out to the forest and catch a wild animal and then put it in a box and ship it to the United states.

That way it introduces fresh genes into the gene pool. bonus money if it has any special patterns or coloration.

Anyway he got the young male shipped in and put it together with one of the females and instead of having babies the female killed it.

So he gave it to me and I've had it in the freezer.

I pulled it out last night to thaw.

Males and females snakes need to be prepped and processed differently. The anatomy of male snakes requires special equipment.

So the day before I got all the equipment ready. I got up early, started work, cutting into the tail section.

It doesn't look normal on the inside.

I'm not seeing the structures that I'm supposed to see in male snakes.

I'm very confused..... does it have some sort of condition where it didn't develop correctly?

Maybe it's too young? It's 10 ft long. I don't think it's too young.

Could it be intersex? That's super rare but I've seen it a few times.

It's a FEMALE

So it turns out that this breeder had gotten someone on the other side of the world to catch and ship this snake to him for thousands of dollars and all this time it was a female.

And then he put this smaller female in with a much larger older female and she killed it.

Through the dozens of people who have handled the snake and imported it and worked with it, everybody has completely missed the fact that its been mistakenly sexed

Welp...

[ukelele-boy]

I was rereading some of my posts from 2021 and was reminded of how much meta I used to write so imma share my crazy headcanon/ theory which i thought up as plot for a revolution fic:

RR verse is on the "Olympus will fall" timeline and Zeus' actions are speeding it up.

In the recent decade there has been several great prophecies back to back. And people have remarked how weird it is that there have been so many. What if the reason is because of Zeus?

Remember, in greek mythology there is a major theme of how Your Fate Cannot Be Defied. And Zeus, king of Olympus, has a major Fate: being overthrown. However he managed to "defy" it by eating Metis.

My idea is that he has been forcefully clawing out a future where he is still king of Olympus. By doing this, he is literally changing the flow of fate. And obviously fate wants to correct itself, so the harder he fights it, the more counterforce he triggers. All prophecies meant to lead to his overthrowing are suddenly sped up. Olympus begins to lose power. Zeus is aware of this. He is also aware how people are becoming suspicious. And he needs a scapegoat. And who better than the god of prophecy who is also a threat to the throne?

Apollo mentions that Zeus blamed him for his oracle revealing a prophecy "too early" and therefore causing it to happen early. However, everyone knows it's not possible to actually cause a prophecy to happen early...so why would Zeus even have this weird line of thought? everyone probably dismissed it as Zeus being irrational, but there a juicier theory this ties into:

Apollo being the one to overthrow Zeus.

The idea of "fall of the sun, the final verse". What if this is the final prophecy that is meant to happen before Zeus is overthrown? And what if the fall this speaks of is actually when Apollo fell close to chaos? When he pulled himself together there?

What if he reformed different from his original godly form. He was literally almost gone, his body was disintegrating. Maybe he pulled himself together using the energies of chaos. Apollo himself isn't aware of this, due to a suspicious memory gap between him clawing up from the cliff and him waking up next to Artemis.

And this adds to another headcanon of mine, the fates choose Apollo to be the god of prophecy on purpose. At first glance, this is a horrible match. If they wanted a good servant, why would they choose someone so closely tied to his heart and so likely to fight fate? Someone who dares get them drunk just to extend a human's lifespan? UNLESS... they WANT him to eventually try and defy fate??

Imagine if fate was a compass and Zeus had forcefully wrenched the needle point at a bleak dark future where Olympus falls with him. And this river direction has been set so deeply in stone and run on for so long, it has worn a grove and become the mostly likely future.

you need someone willing to fight, someone to wrench the needle out. SOMEONE FAMILAR WITH FATE AND Prophecy. Someone who has the power to fight it and win. Someone who has the will. Perhaps a baby god who was willing to fight Python, and who would have likely died there. But if he successfully did take on the powers of prophecy, one day that same godling would fight Python again, would absorb the powers of chaos to recreate himself.

Perhaps not today and maybe not even for the next four thousand years

but one day that godling would stare down at that wretched compass hand and decide to yank the flow out of its place. And maybe, that godling means a chance for Olympus to have a different future.

Anyways that's my crazy theory i hope it wasn't too confusing. It also links up with my other story theme idea about fate, hope and apollo blah blah blah, which i rambled about in a different post.

Edit: just remembered my other crazy thought, what if ZEUS PURPOSEFULLY TRIED TO GET RID OF APOLLO NOT ONLY CAUSE HE IS A THREAT TO THE THRONE BUT ALSO BECAUSE AS THE GOD OF PROPHECY HE IS MOST LIKELY TO REALIZE SOMETHING IS WRONG AND THAT ZEUS IS MESSING WITH FATE?!???? Basically pulling a imma say you're the murderer before u realise im the murderer. (i cant remember the actual saying Lmaoo)

[bluespiderlully]

KNY - Fix it! AU (+ My Characters) Canon Hashiras

This is the first post of the modern AU series, where I'll share with you moodboards and headcanons, for this post I'll cover just the canon Hashiras and in the next ones we'll see the non-canon and the OCs ones. A little warning: some of these headcanons are angsty but the concept I want here is of course hurt/comfort and it's a "bad things happened in the past but things aren't going bad now, we're all friends" kind of things. Anyway angsty headcanons aren't the majority.

🌊 Giyu Tomioka

Knows how to play piano, likes classical music a lot

60s/70s/80s sci-fi books reader, would probably start a conversation about a random book he red and end up talking about philosophy, religion and politics (Enmu and Harriet are the only ones to have actual conversations about the topics and don't just stand there confused).

Loves marine biology but never succeded in making a goldfish survive for more than one week.

🌫 Muichiro Tokito

Definitely a cat person.

Suffers from sleep paralysis and nightmares but draws anything disturbing he sees as a copying mechanism, Giyu thinks his art is pretty cool.

Super skilled at snowboarding and skateboarding.

🌪 Sanemi Shinazugawa

Overprotective with everyone he becomes friend with.

He always has rage issues, but they used to scare Ayumi off so he started working on it and managed to become calmer.

He doesn't listen to music, he listen to NOISE, if a vocalist doesn't sound like a clogged sink he doesn't listen to it.

🐍 Obanai Iguro

Has a Glasgow smile after surviving a serial killer attack. In this AU he wears a mask too, he just doesn't like to show the scar. He doesn't eat in front of people for the same reason.

Owns a black ball python and a white hognose snake and spends a lot of time decorating his terrarium (but he is careful with the hognose one, he doesn't want him to get stuck stucked as they always do).

Interested in occultism, reads a lot about it.

🌸 Mitsuri Kanroji

She does ballet since when she was 4.

Very good at baking sweets, but likes few of them so she always ends up giving them to others.

Makes friends easily and very quickly, her and Kyojuro are best friends since they were at kindergarten.

☄️ Tengen Uzui

When he was a child he wanted to become an astronaut, now he found out about planetary defense and wants to become part of that organization because "diverting asteroids is cool".

Got in every kind of trouble at school.

Drives like he could respawn infinite times.

🦋 Shinobu Kocho

Could talk about chemistry for hours.

Listens to metalcore and hyper pop and ends up hyperfixating with a song and listening to it until she ends up hating it.

Friends with Obanai, enjoys spending time with him and helping with his terrariums.

🔥 Kyojuro Rengoku

Eats a lot but would set the kitchen on fire if he tries to cook anything.

Couldn't get a driving licence and gave up on trying for his and others safety lol.

Cancer survivor but still feels insecure about his scars and about the fact he has some extra weight. He doesn't like talking about that.

Parts: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

[ronnykins-needshelp]

Random silly reincarnation idea where Shen Qingqiu never thought of the mushroom and actually died trying to save Luo Binghe.

And then Luo Binghe tried his best to open the crypt but that never happened so once he gave up he went ballistic and ended up destroying half of the mortal realm, also the demon realm bc he doesn’t discriminate. Obviously he killed everyone besides his disciple siblings who were in the city that day. However he did end up destroying huan hua palace because if they didn’t kill whoever harmed what was his in the first place he would end up killing himself.

So hundred years later Shen Yuan gets reincarnated as a rich master of the Shen household [ let’s pretend they are his fathers immediate family descendants in which he SQQ never found out about ]. They have a huge agriculture and livestock empire and thus he’s a little farm boy. He doesn’t at all dabble into cultivation besides talismans and what not. He’s humble and helps out with his family’s inner farm [ personal animals ] and sometimes the commercial when management is running low. He loves goats but what he really loves are the beasts of the demon realm, which often roam after the merge of the two realms.

All Thanks to Luo Binghe. He was absolutely amazing, Shen yuan probably read all the books about him. Aswell as heard the plays, songs, and even folklore. He obsessed over his Heaven forsaken love with his old teacher. He didn’t understand why he loved him in the first place [ he’s rich, give him a break ] because his master made mistakes left and right. But nonetheless he loved it. The homos were cute in his opinion.

But anyways he had a knack for the beasts, he indulged in many books about them and had a very good intuition. He may not have a golden core but he definitely has a golden finger when it comes to knowledge on beasts.

So for at least 50 miles he’s known as the beast expert. Shen Yuan has been picked many times over next to a cultivator. Plus he’s free. These beasts can either: be tamed, fall in love with him, be scared of him, or run away. It depended but most of the demons loved him.

push comes to shove when he gets someone begging him to take care a black-moon Rhinoceros python that appeared at the border of a city. He is ecstatic to finally see one of them much to his elder brothers anguishes.

He travelled to the area and helped clear out the people. He knew a lot of information about this beast in particular because Luo Binghe had ridden one when he destroyed Huan Hua palace. Even if he wasn’t a cultivator there were other ways to calm it.

Calm he Did because he had it laying down with the python in its mouth begging for more pets within an hour.

Before he could indulge it with more something came tumbling out of the forest and killed it. There was only one sword who could kill a big beast in one swift movement and that was Xin mo. If it had been any other situation, Shen Yuan would have been fangirling over Luo Binghe blessing him with his presence. But it wasn’t, and the little[ huge ] boi he wanted to take home was dead.

So he started ranting and ranting to no ends. Luo Binghe only had a bewildered expression. No one had treated him like this. Always respectful, or fearful, or both. The last person to get this snarky with him, he had been searching for the last 100 years.

“ Shizun. I found you. “ Luo Binghe said with a smile.

then straight up kidnaps Shen Yuan. He was dragged kicking and screaming. Obviously he didn’t want to meet his hero.

So now Shen Yuan was confused because Luo Binghe keeps calling him shizun? But he just shares his family name?? Why did he think he was his dead teacher????

And plus.

He killed his fucking Black moon Rhinoceros-Python. He has an absolute vendetta against this man. So he went around his harem [ yes he has a harem, it’s mostly to distract himself from the pain of losing his shizun and yes it still has hundreds of women ] and chatted with them, making friends, and gossiping. Since he was stuck here he decided to get back at the demon emperor. So he convinced a lot of the wives to leave. He used the fact that most haven’t even seen the man for a long time.

This leaves Luo Binghe outraged because !! He needs love!!! People!!! To love him!!! But his shizun is making that difficult. Was it because he vowed to find him after he reincarnated? He didn’t know

Cue shinanigens where Shen yuan makes Luo Binghes herum smaller and smaller and having those who stayed like him very much and prefer his readings more. Luo Binghe doesn’t know what to do with him because he acted so much like the man he yearns. And he’s jealous.

He is frustrated and turned on at the same time. Luo Binghe sees that this Shen yuan loves beasts so he deliberately leads them into his harem so he can watch from afar his gushes.

Luo Binghe still gets the cold shoulder whenever they are together. He really doesn’t say why, but he’s very petty and will refuse to talk to him until he gets a black-moon Rhinoceros-python pet. Yah that’s it. But Luo Binghe doesn’t know that. He really doesn’t. He just wants his shizun back

Idk an ending yet LMAO

This is a basic outline of the concept of my fanfic!! Starting writing later but def gonna be a good idea. I love Shen yuan getting blood off him and shamelessly saying he was beginning to know the creatures here in the sect. With Luo Binghe in the background freaking out [ he’s still going to bring more creatures, Shen Yuan looks way too cute with them ].

[lunarsilkscreen]

A Programming Hook

Object-Oriented Programming's strength is Modularity; and just about everything coded today follows the OOP design. Except Python and JavaScript--sometimes.

So I've coined a term "Hook"; not to be confused with a fishing-line-hook, or the literary tool where you write the most interesting part of your whole story into the first sentence.

A [Hook] in this regard is a [Space for Something]{to go} like a nook or a closet. You don't know *what* might go into that nook or closet; you just know there are *things* with which are properly displayed or stored in a Nook or in a Closet.

And this is the same concept.

There's a *whole* lot of features that we'd might *wish* to add to a coding project, yet time and funding constraints, oftentimes, makes it hard to include every feature one might want.

In this vein; we add space for the features we might want to add *after* we finish all the important bits.

This is very important in [Software Engineering], because there will be a time in a project where you make it to an important feature that you cannot implement *without* having had re-written the *whole* thing.

And so, you want options available when that inevitably comes to pass.

Now. I developed this whole making [Training Simulations] in the [Air Force] and when I tell you; one day somebody asked me to do something that may have added several weeks to the development time.

They asked "How long will this take to [fix]?" To which I responded; "I'm not sure. I think I remember adding some hooks that would make this easy, and it could be done tonight. But as it wasn't a requirement *at the time* this may take 2-4 weeks to implement if I have to rework it from scratch."

To which, they were very upset with my best time "4 hours, or the end of shift, whichever comes first" or "several weeks, because that would put us behind schedule."

"I'll get back to you at the end of day Chief!"

Non-developers, Maintenance Professionals like myself *actually* who're used to every little thing being documented and not *created on the fly* were rather upset with those timelines.

And I had already been reprimanded several times based on my timeline predictions.

Which uh. Were accurate. They just weren't particularly accurate *for me* whom'st {is/was} a very well educated developer... In a sea of maintainers who have not studied the code as I have done.

My timelines were usually off at this stage *because* I was getting my understanding of how the coders (who were also rather green) and the (maintainers become coders) would be able to understand the timelines.

I have to make clear; I was, in-fact, doing *my* job to the best of my ability, and even better than *your{my supervisor's}* ability despite them being very concerned about my time estimates being [too long].

Communication isn't bad on my side... Even when I appear to be bad at communicating.

One of these days I will not be so defensive! Yet the Anti-Trans sentiment remains, so will the SALT!

Anyway; these particular [Hooks] were contextual triggers. Things that would/should be called at certain times during certain steps in the simulation.

Custom CallBack functions mostly.

And these particular callbacks were rather complex for a simple one-function call event.

Luckily for my OCD brain; I had stopped to asked the question about this exact feature they wanted to add *now* that they had been worried about adding earlier, until the customer made it a [Need to have].

I had asked the question, at that time; "What happens if *this* particular feature *becomes* a Necessary addition."

Because my [awesome predictive abilities] were spot on about what they need that particular simulation to accomplish.

Luckily I had been stumbling through various frameworks and implementations of the Squadrons Honorable Historical Developments. (Part of the job was updating and modernizing old Adobe Flash 2.0 projects) And had stumbled across a few implementations of these features *both* before it was necessary *and* after it seems to have taken a week to tack on at the end.

And that's when I started adding the concept of "Hooks" to my personal development checklist. Everytime you ask yourself; "How might this feature be used outside this implementation" or "What happens if I need to add something *somewhere* that might break Modularity" is an opportunity to add in hooks.

"Can I go back, and reuse this feature to make my job easier in the future?"

Or you know; Object-Oriented Design (And Modularity) in a nutshell.

[kastalani123]

Since I like the idea that Hera genuinely cares about Leo, I've also thought about ways she might show it and. And I've decided that, Understanding that becoming 16 is Important for mortals, she basically dropped a basket with a pair of peachicks in Leo's lap for his birthday

They're an Indian peacock and peahen pair from the same clutch that he's named Gear and Tinker and they are his babies

They're also, while mortal, not exactly Normal™ as they're smarter than an average peacock

They were also slightly confused about being Gryphons due to being raised alongside Heloise and Abelard's chick but have eventually stopped trying to collect chunks of gold bigger than them

Gear is more mischievous while Tinker is more aggressive and reserved

They will both jump on Leo's unsuspecting back, though

He started training his balance and awareness for the sake of not being constantly knocked to the ground

Georgie likes playing tag with them even though sometimes they peck too hard and leave marks

They both adore Annabeth but despise Thalia

Their opinion of other non-Waystation residents depends on how many treats they give them

Y'know how a lot of zoos have free-roaming peacocks?? Yeah, that's what happens once Leo and Calypso finally open up their store; wherever you look in the store, they're There

Leo also brings them along when hanging out with the local foster/homeless kids and they adore the attention

Tinker will steal food from your plate if you look away for one second (peafowl are, in fact, omnivores that will eat anything if given the chance)

Gear is more picky

Apollo really likes them because they will commit war crimes to get rid of any snake they see; he thinks they'd have been a big help against Python

Gear keeps trying to steal Lit's sword with the Gryphon chick's help

Josephine is adored above all but Leo for always sneaking them extra food

Emmie is mildly disliked because she keeps trying to stop it; she's very good at helping them preen, though, so she gets a pass

Sssssarah avoids them because they will attack her if no one else is around

Tinker dislikes Jamie for no known reason but Gear loves him

Calypso doesn't know how to act around them. She has tried everything to win them over. They don't seem to hate her, but they're certainly not fawning for her attention unless she has food either. Leo finds her concern about getting them to love her funny but tries to help anyway

Tinker will fight the battle ostriches if left unsupervised

I might add more if I come up with anything else

[montypythonswine]

Dangerous Film Club (1987)

This something that Graham did post python which I had no idea he actually did. I've never heard him talk about it or promote it and when I tried to find it online about it on Graham's list of TV shows and films he did I couldn't find it.

Anyway, here's my thoughts on it:

. I'm very confused on what the programme is meant to be about. Was it meant to be a sketch show? Was it meant to be films from the past that are considered to be 'dangerous'? It didn't really seem to have a theme or genre of programme. I guess the title of the programme is a reference to the fact that he was part of the dangerous sports club but many of the films or 'sketches' shown didn't seem particularly dangerous

. I didn't find it funny. There was one line which I did let out a chuckle. It was Graham saying that he's got fan mail from people about the show and most of the people who sent it are from Spain which was weird because the programme isn't shown in Spain. I did let out a laugh at that. The 'sketches' in the show were very slow and unfunny. I had to skip anything that didn't have Graham in because I found it boring

I feel like I'm being very negative in this review and I feel bad. The thing is is that I love Graham. I think he's awesome. It's just not his best work. I don't know whether he wrote the material himself or whether someone else did and he just starred in it. But I will say that I liked his outfits in it, they were very cool.

[yonderghostshistories]

Fanart in progress

w/photo reference(s) below (photo 1 being a zoomed in version of the OG screenshot photo, photo 2 being the OG screenshot photo) (to which thank you @gcballet for the OG screenshot photo you found, I very much appreciate it fr <33)

I’m basically doing a sorta Gender Swapped AU version of the character “Blaise Falconburger” from the tv show “Red Dwarf” (specifically in the episode “TimeSlides”), where (in my fanart) Graham Chapman played Blaise instead of Ruby Wax

It’s also a sorta deliberate/intentional reference to the fact that Graham WAS originally gonna play Blaise, but he unfortunately passed away before rehearsals and filming began, and Ruby Wax replaced him as Blaise at the last minute.

So in a way…I think it’s more or so accurately a “Gender Gender Swap” ig?? (What with Blaise originally being planned to be played by a man, then played by a woman in the actual episode, in which the fanart being a gender swap of the female version of the character who originally was a male version of the character (???)…lol this is getting too confusing smh but ANYWAY-)

I also combined parts of Ruby Wax/Blaise’s character design (such as the power suit and circular glasses) with parts of 80s (and bits of 60s/70s) Graham to give a rough idea of what I think Graham/Blaise would’ve looked like had he (Graham) not had cancer and took on the part as was originally planned, so basically….

…..Graham/Blaise essentially looks like a cross between some of his glasses-wearing characters from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, his character of the Cranky Art Teacher from the Iron Maiden music video “Can I Play With Madness?”, him in the “Opinions” video, and Ruby Wax/Blaise. Hope that illustrates what I meant once I’ve finished the fanart in its final form lol.

Also, do stay tuned for the Final Version of the fanart once I’ve finished it! I’m hoping it looks good! I’ll update y’all once I’ve finished it!!

[zipquips]

Hey very random feel free to ignore this but I saw in the toasty puter post in the tags that you mentioned coding! I love coding! So uh. What's it that you're coding on your hopefully soon to be less closer to its own heat death Laptop :)?

omg thank you for the reminder to actually change my computer settings!!! 🤞🤞🤞 my laptop chills the fuck out now (literally, lmao)

and thanks sm for the question!!! i've been doing some stuff in python for school assignments/research and html/css bc i want to remake my neocities website :)

(i haven't gotten anywhere with the neocities stuff tho bc my brain and eyes are usually fried after school, lmao)

my current research project feels very niche to me so i'm trying to figure out how i can describe it in a way that makes sense but also isn't too specific. this project is also new to me so i don't fully understand some of it. i also don't know what kind of coding experience you have. tldr: i'm sorry if this ends up being incoherent, lmao

it's essentially a couple of data analysis things?

i've been processing + plotting some data to look at the sun's intensity (power emitted per area) at different wavelengths. this gets me an intensity vs. wavelength graph. i'm doing this for really cool reasons but alas they are also really niche reasons :/

i've also been processing + plotting some images (this part has been the most difficult for me ;-;). they're essentially just images with some random and fake stars in the background. i'm isolating the parts of the image that occur at the wavelengths i'm interested in (this was the worst bc the images are just pixels so i had to figure out what pixels corresponded to what wavelengths etc. evil evil evil evil). anyway then i took my little isolated image and broke it up into even smaller pieces and averaged the intensities of all those (binned + averaged those bins). this was so i could go from a normal looking image to a graph with a single line of data (intensity vs. wavelength again)

from what i understand i'm supposed to compare these two intensity graphs and idk, have some revelations about my fake data? but idk how to do that so i will be asking my advisor for help on monday, lmao

anyway i hope this made sense? explained something? i think this would be so much easier to explain with images but i don't have anything other than my silly little niche graphs, sorry :(

lmk if you're confused or have questions about anything and i can try to clarify it :)

but! you like to code as well! what kind of stuff are you doing (or have done in the past)?

[sadwinning]

four job fiesta but on games other than ff5 because ff5 is good but idk if it was that good

partner and I have picked bravely default II (not to be confused with the second installment in the bravely default series, bravely second) (we are still playing through bravely second)

while it would have been easiest to go to one of any spin-the-wheel websites and type in all of the jobs and spin the wheel 4 times, instead I said "hold my beer" and started writing python code while trying to explain object-oriented programming to someone who has never written a line of code before (watched their eyes glaze over in real time)

quick and dirty for now, it just picks one job from the prologue, and then randomly selects 3 of the remaining chapters and picks one job from each of those chapters. we rolled monk, beastmaster, spiritmaster, and bravebearer which probably shouldn't be in the vanilla pool tbh but that's what the test run is for

1 hour in and our party has finally graduated from freelancers to all monks! partner did experiment with speedrunning this game before so that helps some (not that any of the speedrun strats are viable since they rely on broken class combos and such). when the switch 2 comes out they might revisit speedrunning since the console speedrun has 2 extra hours over the PC run just from load times, maybe the switch 2 could cut that

anyway that's what's up behind the scenes of my twitch channel mostly I just wanted to post here again

[toast-in-a-cowboy-hat]

So if Outlaw, Python, and Felix were stuck in the Tier 3 security stuff for 3 months did they have like

food?

I mean, it could have had them in some kind of stasis, but Michael said you could 'get trapped for years and die', so I'd assume that means there's still some sort of passage of time so is there like. Is there a fridge? Do they transport all the food in? Do they have Tier 3 DoorDash? Is there some kind of Fast Food system in there, à la the Pentagon KFC, like...?

And for that matter are there bathrooms? Like somewhere with a regular toilet, that's probably easy enough, but are there showers or were these people hanging around for 3 months unbathed?

And 3 months of hair growth too, which would be something like

≈ 1-2 inches/2-5cm, and depending on how long their hair was prior, this is either Extremely Noticeable or Entirely Unnoticeable, not to mention the potential for facial hair (though i refuse to believe Outlaw can grow a beard lmao, the other 2 might)

I just wonder how the meetup after went, for all sides of this excursion like

Felix had an appointment with some Ty before this (that he straight up just ditched lmao), and obviously the Compound is used to this type of thing, but if the other Ty's truly didn't know what was going on, it's still gonna be out of nowhere and a little bit confusing like

I'm imagining Ty trying to find where the hell Felix went, only for Felix to show up, hair slightly longer, also now w/beard, smells real bad, vhs in hand, slightly delirious

and Outlaw meeting up with Tex again, one of 'em needs a hair trim, the other got a leg trim, and they both definitely need a bath

and then Python... well, he's just living up to the Crust Punk name. Honestly, out of all of 'em, feels like the least likely to look noticeable different lol, but still quite an experience all around

But then they could also have looked exactly the same! Who knows!!

Anyways

[the-trinket-witch]

Yandere!OC Headcanons (TWST Edition)

So I may be not finding it in my orbit, but for a thought exercise I wanted to explore the toxic sides of my OCs. Thought it would be an interesting character exploration. So I figured I’d try to write headcanons for if any of my OCs went off the Yandere Deep End. (NOTE: I shouldn’t have to but apparently need to preface that writing this is not me condoning said behavior or idealizing it. If you recognize patterns like this in people in your real life, I cannot advise one way or another what you do with that information.) (divider by @/saradika)

Eugenio Hernandez (Yuu):

To preface, Yuu is Ace, but not Aro. Most likely they would be the Toxic bud ya keep around cause their life sounds awful. Nobody wants to be somebody’s 13th reason; you don't wanna add to the pile of 'shit going wrong in their life'/'be another one of those people that leaves'. But when they blow their top, it’s explosive. But even then, they’d still have a ways to go before ever attempting to lay a hand on you. No, they’d rather rant and rave and exhaust themselves with how shit of a hand the world has dealt them. Once they’ve let off steam, they’re all mumbled apologies and cooking dinner to make up for it.

Tidus Rhin:

His yandere extreme would turn him into The Love-B52. His size would be enough to intimidate any into not leaving his smothering, even if he never gives any indication he'd act with it. He'd prefer acting like a kicked puppy at the prospect of you needing space. Don’t you see, though? He’s utterly fascinated with you, adores you, it’s almost fetishistic. The more you pull away, the more he’s going to try lavishing you in any ways he can think of. If that doesn’t dissuade you, maybe if you just take this potion to come under the sea with him and meet his family…Just check first if the potion is permanent or temporary.

Lázaro Muertinez:

This man loves to talk. He loves to serenade you and talk you up just as you do for his music career. But you’d need to be able to pick up and leave at a moment’s notice-fame is something to chase and it doesn’t wait. What are your reservations against coming with him? It doesn’t matter, he’ll find a way around it, for you of course. If you stick to your guns, though, Laz is the yandere that knows how to orchestrate an oh so convenient health scare. If that doesn't dissuade from leaving his side, then comes the silent treatment. He'll completely drop off the planet. No posts on social media, not returning calls, nothing. For a second the idea he might have done something drastic is exactly what he'd be counting on.

Aadesh Sona: 

This snake’s AroAce, but he isn’t above doing most anything to advance his goals. Gaslight, gatekeep, ghost-mode. He’s a psych major, so he knows how to twist his words and drop tidbits of info to confuse and trap you. He’s not being manipulative, you are for daring to get away. But he’ll be able to see the writing on the wall. He’ll back off. Prey is more difficult to catch when it struggles, anyway. And like an actual python, he will have everything poised for when you are in the prime position to strike. What will he do when he gets you back? Well, you and he will just have to sleep on it.

Rajesh Khan: 

As far as yanderes go, He’s the only TWST OC of mine who isn’t above using physical means of keeping a potential partner in line. It’s only reserved, though, for when money can’t buy your happiness and obedience. It’s with that same money that makes him nigh untouchable in court, should you try bringing his aggression to light. It’s both money, and the friends in equally high places that make escape from the tiger’s jaws almost impossible.

Albert Eastwind:

Can one blame him for being the controlling type? Similar to how people headcanon Yan!Jade and Azul, He'll provide everything you need or want. Why would you want to leave? Oh don't say he's smothering, he'll pick up more work to 'offer space' but also stifle the idea of you needing or wanting your own financial independence. But while he may work himself tirelessly to keep your cage gilded and shining, he will have your schedule down to the minute. Any deviation will be met with smiles and polite inquiries, but don’t lie to him. And don’t promise you won’t try escaping again if you’re planning on it; he hates pie crust promises.

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Almighty (Leo Valdez xFem!Oc)

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XXXIX: I'm What the Kids Call 'Unwell'

"Honey cakes?"

"I hope you're not calling us that," Meg frowns.

"No, we need honey cakes. Did you bring them or did I?" 

Ara and Meg share a look. "You never said anything about honey cakes."

"But I just remembered! We need them for the snakes!"

"Snakes." Meg tenses. "Why would there be snakes?"

"Good question! I just know we're supposed to have honey cakes to appease them. So... we forgot the cakes?"

"You never said anything about cakes!"

"Well, that's a shame. Anything we can substitute? Oreos, perhaps?"

"Oh, you really are a pathetic little thing," Ara sighs, slinging her octopus off one shoulder. "Let me see if I've got something..."

"I ate the snacks you had there," Meg grumbles in frustration.

"Hmm. Okay. I guess we'll improvise." Lester hums.

"You show us how to improvise with snakes. We'll follow."

"I'll help!" Ara takes a step forward.

Meg grabs a hold of her shirt. "You're being weird."

"Yes, I know," She looks down at the girl. "Do you know what's wrong with me?"

"No. But don't follow him."

"I saw lots of people in my head," Ara continues while Lester guides them. "And they're not dead, I saw them because they were calling me."

"Calling how?"

Ara ponders. "Thinking about me. Dreaming and daydreaming. They need help."

"You can't help them right now, you're with me," Meg grunts as they push through a narrow corridor.

"I know why!" Lester interrupts them again.

"You know why what?"

"Why snakes! You asked me why we would find snakes, didn't you? Or was that someone else? Snakes are symbolic! They represent prophetic wisdom from deep in the earth, just as birds symbolize prophetic wisdom from the heavens."

"Uh-huh."

"So snakes are attracted to Oracles! Especially ones in caves!"

"Like that big snake monster we heard in the Labyrinth, Python?"

Lester frowns a bit, then smiles again. "Well, yes, I suppose it's like that. Anyway, the snakes should be right up ahead! That's why we need honey cakes. You have some, you said?"

"No, I—"

"Excellent!" 

Meg growls. "I hate him."

"He needs help," Ara shrugs.

"Ta-da!" Lester opens his arms showing what's ahead.

Meg blanches. "Apollo... you'd need a zillion honey cakes for that many snakes."

"Oh, but you see, we need to get to that little island in the center. That's where we'll receive our prophecy."

"But if we go into that water, won't the snakes kill us?"

"Probably! Let's find out!" 

Lester jumps in, so naturally, Ara follows without hesitation. The snakes surround them easily and Meg shouts at them to sing, but Ara doesn't know what to sing about, so someone else should sing first so she can help with harmonies or stuff.

"Sing that song you did in the ants' nest!" Meg pleads.

Ara remembers the day, but her ears were covered then so she doesn't remember the song. She looks between them, unsure of how to proceed. She looks at the snakes, but she isn't afraid of them, or what they could do to her.

"I think you should do something, Lester," Ara says with confused distress. "If you don't, I can't help you."

"Oh! You're worried about me! I'm about to die!" He laughs delightedly.

Meg starts singing, frustrated by the way they're acting. They listen to her, trying to understand her lyrics. Ara sings along, about some void she used to have, some hunger... but that's not relevant now, her demigods are. She sings of them, and she about the way she suffered loss, and how much she loves the ones who remain, and how much she wants to help them.

"It's my fault," Meg's song trembles. "Your blood on my hands. The crushed rose I couldn't save."

Ara sings as a backup but her throat tightens a few minutes into the song. Her mind has landed on the things that are slipping away: The struggle to get here, the way sweat used to drip down her brow, how her stomach would grumble and muscles would stiffen. Training. Growing. Being human.

"No! No, Meg!" The snakes go away and Apollo pulls Ara against him. Around them, Meg's memories reflect on the wall: her father, what she lost, and Nero's abuse. 

Ara frows at the images. "Oh, that is no way to treat demigods..." Meg was alone like Ara had been. She has to help her.

"I need you to be more diligent in your studies, do you understand?" Nero's voice echoes around them. "Whatever the swords-master says, you must do. It would break my heart if something else happened, something even worse than this. Look. Remember."

New projections join Meg's, and they're all from Ara's memories, things she's thought, things she's heard.

"I gave up on having my own life to look after my loved ones forever, because that's what you do when your love is real."

"You can trust Ara to go above and beyond to keep anyone safe."

"She makes things happen."

"I think of all the friends I've lost, of how lonely they must've felt in their last moments. I think of all the lives it could save to have someone who shows up when we need them."

"You will lose, Ara Jackson, and that will be the beginning of the end."

"Meg, stop singing!" Lester screams. A bright flash of light pulls all the projections onto itself and forms a body. "Trophonius! Leave them alone!"

"Apollo," the swarm of bees forms a single eery voice. "I've waited a long time, Father."

"Please, my son. Meg and Ara are not your petitioners. I am!"

"If they are not my petitioner, why did they summon me with their song of grief? They have many unanswered questions. I could answer them, for the price of their sanity."

"No! They were—They were trying to protect me," the boy sobs. "They're my friends. I am the supplicant to your holy Oracle. Take me instead!"

"Take me instead," the voice repeats bemusedly. "The very prayer I made when my brother Agamethus was caught in a tunnel, his chest crushed, his life fading. Did you listen to me then, Father?"

"Don't punish the girls for what I did."

"Do you know how long I wandered the mortal world after killing my brother, Apollo? After cutting off his head, my hands still covered in his blood, I staggered through the wilderness for weeks, months. I pleaded to the earth to swallow me up and end my misery. I got half my wish. I dwell in darkness now because I am your son. I see the future because I am your son. All my pain and madness... Why should I not share it with those who seek my help? Does your help ever come without a price?"

Lester gets on his knees. "Please, Trophonius. I am mortal now. Take your price from me!"

"The girls have already volunteered! She opened her deepest fears and regrets to me," he points at Meg. "And this one, the daughter of Olympus... well, losing your mortality can be a tough process, I'm only being merciful like you were, speeding her process."

"No! No, Meg didn't drink of the two springs. Her mind is not prepared. She will die!"

"She is precious to you... Would you give your life in exchange for hers?"

"Yes. Yes, I would die to save Meg McCaffrey."

"Very good! Then promise me that you'll grant me a wish. Whatever I ask, you will do."

"Y-your wish?" Lester blinks. "Yes. I swear. Whatever you ask. Then we have an agreement? You will take me instead of the girl?"

"Oh, I didn't promise anything in return! I just wanted to exact that promise from you. The girl's fate is already decided." The bees fly to Meg and take her, surrounding her and leaving Ara alone.

She looks up, still not afraid, only annoyed. "Why spare me?"

"I did not spare you," Trophonius points at Meg. "You will take from her like the gods took from you—you will feed from the bad as much as they do."

Lester jumps back into the water and swims over to get Meg. "Trophonius, stop it!"

"This is not my doing. Your friend opened her mind to the Dark Oracle. She asked questions. Now she is receiving the answers."

"She asked no questions!"

"Oh, but she did. Mostly about you, Father. What will happen to you? Where must you go? How can she help you? These worries are foremost in her mind. Such misplaced loyalty..."

Ara swims to Meg too. "It's okay, sweetheart," she pants. "I'll help..."

"Meg, stay with us. Concentrate on my voice."

Ara presses a hand on the girl's forehead and shines pink, white, then purple. "Oh, this is disturbing her deeply, Lester. We must get the poison out. Would a song work?"

"So about this favor you promised—"

"Shut up!" Lester snarls at his son. "Not you, Ara, you keep talking. Use charmspeak, keep her afloat."

"Meg, you are feeling sleepy," she absorbs some of Meg's nonsensical emotions. "You're sweating the illness away..."

"She's just fallen into a deeper trance. That's not necessarily a good sign. She could still die," the oracle says casually.

"Meg, don't listen to Trophonius. He's all about fear and pain. He's just trying to make us lose hope." Lester says.

"Hope. Interesting word. I had hope once—that my father might act like a father. I got over it after a few centuries of being dead."

"Don't blame me for you robbing the king's treasury!" He barks back. "You are here because you messed up."

"I prayed to you!"

"Well, perhaps you didn't pray for the right thing at the right time! Pray for wisdom before you do something stupid! Don't pray for me to bail you out after you follow your worst instincts!"

"Did I follow my worst instincts?" Ara mumbles deep in thought, taking more of Meg's grief.

"Ara..." Lester chokes out, not knowing what to do. "No, you two are one of the best, you... I wouldn't be here without you... Meg, flowers grow back. You have deep roots. You have strong stems. You have... Your face is green. Why is her face green?"

"Interesting. Perhaps she's dying—Ah. They're here, waiting for you," Trophonius mentions a second later. "The emperor's servants. Blemmyae. An underwater tunnel just there... it leads into the rest of the cavern system, the part known to mortals. The blemmyae have learned better than to come into this chamber, but they're waiting for you on the other end. That's the only way you can escape."

"Then we will."

"Doubtful. Even if your young friend survives, the blemmyae are preparing explosives."

"WHAT?"

"Oh, Commodus probably told them to use the explosives only as a last resort. He likes having me as his personal fortune-teller. He sends his men in here from time to time, pulls them out half-dead and insane, gets free glimpses of the future. What does he care? But he'd rather destroy this Oracle than allow you to escape alive."

Ara fixes her posture and checks Meg's pulse, a lavender tone forming as she mixes some blessings. "Lester, the same way it went in, it can go out."

"I have no idea what you mean with your crazy talk!" He snaps at her.

"Suck out the venom!" Ara urges him. "I'll help you!"

"Sorry, Meg!" He presses his mouth to Meg's and pulls in. 

Ara glows teal and pictures the venom in her mind, Lester starts to choke, so Ara places her other hand on his back and teal mixes with purple. Three people in a single mind hive, Ara sees everything, Lester processes it, and Meg collects it. Voices speak their prophecy, an unfiltered power Ara's only been vaguely close to throughout the years now seeping through her veins.

Lester and Meg are begging for rest, one way or another, and Ara is trying to carry them out. She thinks one sentence at the same time as them, and it resonates so strongly it saves them."I cannot give up. They need me."

Ara yanks Lester away from Meg and he falls beside her, panting and pale. Meg faints, but she lives. Lester glances up at Ara through heavy eyelids. "I love you."

"Thank you," Ara's mind starts to go back to normal now that she's halfway done with the process.

"Oh, well," the oracle sighs with disappointment. "The little girl might still be insane for the rest of her life. That's some consolation."

Ara and Lester glare at him. "Some consolation?"

"Yes. You'd best hurry. You'll have to carry the girl through the underwater tunnel, so I suppose you might both drown. Or the blemmyae might kill you at the other end. But if not, I want that favor."

Lester laughs dryly. "You expect a favor? For attacking a defenseless girl?"

"For giving you your prophecy. It's yours, assuming you can extract it from the girl on the Throne of Memory. Now my favor, as you promised: Destroy this cave."

A pause. "Say what, now?"

"This location is too exposed. Your allies at the Waystation will never be able to defend it from the Triumvirate. The emperors will just keep attacking. I do not wish to be used by Commodus anymore. Better that the Oracle is destroyed."

"I can understand not wanting to be used," Ara nods approvingly. "I'll destroy you."

"But, Trophonius... what will happen to you?" Lester wonders.

"Perhaps my Oracle will reappear somewhere else in a few centuries—under better circumstances, in a more secure location. Maybe that will give you time to become a nicer father."

"How do we destroy this place?"

"I may have mentioned the blemmyae with explosives in the next cave? If they do not use them, you must."

"And Agamethus? Will he disappear as well?"

"Eventually. Tell Agamethus... Tell him I love him, and I'm sorry this has been our fate. That's more than I ever got from you."

"What about Georgina? Where did Agamethus find her? Is she my child?"

The ghost laughs. "Ah, yes. Consider that mystery my last gift to you, Father. I hope it drives you insane!"

Ara watches him fade, fully sober now. "Can you carry Meg?"

"Yeah..." He eyes her. "Are you okay?"

The girl examines herself, bone dry even though she was soaking wet a minute ago. "Yeah, I just... yeah. Let's go get those explosives."

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[krakenbait]

bragging rights bracket update #4

helloooo bracketeers!

i'm baaaack! and that means we've got some busted brackets :)

well, not necessarily, a team can be eliminated without eliminating any participants, but that's not what happened. last night, the rangers shut the door on the canes and moved on to the eastern conference finals. the tone of this update is too cheery for how i feel about this result.

(i also realized i never updated about the end of the first round when the stars eliminated the golden knights, but that's neither here nor there.)

anyway! roasts & commentary under the cut as always.

101 points

Le $$ Beans ( @stromesquad) - first person in triple digits! it feels like betrayal that you picked the rags though...

91 points

t-birds for the win ( @shea-theodore) - your shaming has been delayed long enough

eldest daughter w ( @puck--off) - how'd you get up here?

88 points

amelidek's bracket - your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

86 points

abeja's bracket - now leave, or i shall taunt you a second time! (is it really a brag-cket if i don't pull out the monty python quotes at least once?)

85 points

cause chaos ( @andreisvechnikov) - looks like the chaos is over... or perhaps just beginning. rip canes, and rip charlotte's bracket

82 points

win for quinn ( @morganfrost) - you and 'eldest daughter w' switched positions for quinn-hughes-inspired canucks brackets and confused me

81 points

Rats! (aaaahwhoah) ( @circle--of--confusion) - i didn't realize just how fucked your western conference was

71 points

Pizza Rats (aokayinspace) - oh look, the rats are hanging out

please happen. ( @builthebobder) - you're a bruins fan with a bruins bracket, i think that makes you an honorary rat

69 points

homer like the iliad (me) - nice. i'd be totally fine pulling an AJ and staying here (not really i want the avs to win please)

66 points

Been Bragging ( @natashastarkk) - oh how the mighty fall

63 points

brack that et ( @nastybastian) - whooops i nearly left your bit blank! you get a gold star instead 🌟

53 points

kindanerdy's bracket - i still don't know who this is! please reply/message me so i can direct my roasts commentary accordingly

45 points

Do It For JEdwards ( @patron-saint-of-boston-hockey) - ignore the bruins, focus on the fact that pwhl boston is in the finals!

43 points

hellybracket ( @arsonandhockey) - at least you're not last again!

40 points

jt's kombucha tap ( @assistantcaptainmitchmarner) - now this is just sad.