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[springfieldnerv]

[vertigoartgore]

Neon Genesis Evangelion's Unit-01 by artist Mark Brooks. Source

NGE's first episode turns 29 today by the way.

[sourkreem]

ive finally been freed from the shackles of apple and got myself a new tablet

[doctorweebmd]

accidentally* brainstormed a very complete outline for chapters 4-8 for eih, which should theoretically take us through Part 1. which is. you know. a godsend or whatever.

*accidentally meaning i was just eating delicious pancakes and the thoughts happened. usually its me crying screaming and shitting myself in front of an empty word document where ideas manifest. this is notably much more pleasant.

[mmriesoftvat]

oh, it's sinday?

kami fucks

[americanrecord]

idk if i have a bigger pet peeve than people leaving the kitchen a fucking mess when they leave for the day

[kaizenmetals]

We manufacture a variety of Cable Glands Accessories, including blanking plugs, locknuts, earth tags, entry thread seals, and stopper plugs.

[actualaster]

I mean, this isn't because of streaming only. This is because the people in the fandoms don't seem to want to keep them going in off times.

There's fandoms out there that are still circulating content or pumping out new content for media that's 20+ years old that has been negleted by the company that owns it for most of that time. There's fandoms for games that have years between releases that keep the energy going. There's fandoms for one-off media that still have people active and producing fanworks and meta and theories over a decade later.

It's entirely possible to keep a decent chunk of the energy going between seasons of a TV show--the fans just have to want to, and be willing to put in the work to show their love onve the initial rush wears off.

fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television

[tired-and-unjellied]

my brother when the connection lags for him (like rn): 🤬

my brother when I tell him to try with an ethernet cable: 😇 (he didn't try)

[thisisafiction]

perhaps I don't fucking want to get better. maybe I don't want to stop being the contrary little girl who digs her heels in when people tell her what to do and how to do it. I think this is a problem and honestly my last therapy session had me thinking that maybe the reason I struggle so much is because I don't want to face that little girl and like. then why do I keep trying to make myself?

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Holy WOW.

Like, you think you know how badly Kris's life sucks. Divorced parents, brother off to college, no friends, some strange higher power hijacking their body and going off on adventures without them... but hey, at least they're able to take some control back from us sometimes! At least they can go off and eat all the pie in peace! At least they can open a dark fountain in their home so they can spend more time with their cool friend Susie! Yay! I'm sure they're just leaving the door open for the cops to get in so they can save the day!

And then. AND THEN. Chapter 4... happens. And everything we thought we knew about Kris crumbles to dust before our very eyes.

Those snatched moments from the player? They weren't the triumphant grasp at freedom we thought, but another, yet more insidious layer of control that has been exerted upon them. Because for the end of Chapter 3 to have happened, a few things had to be prepared - the TV had to be plugged in, Susie had to come over, the tires had to be slashed so the police would be called, and the door had to be left open so that the Knight could gain entry - not the police, but The Roaring Knight. The Enemy.

And make no mistake - they didn't want to do ANY of it. Drinking in the Holidays' kitchen... the way their head turns whenever Susie or Noelle mentions them... Carol's ice-cold hand on their shoulder ("in the shadow of the Knight's hand")... do any of these things indicate Kris as a willing co-conspirator? Or rather, a child who has fallen into the clutches of a very manipulative - and very real - authority figure, who is being groomed and coerced into performing dangerous acts that threaten the lives of not just their friends, but their family, their town, and quite possibly the whole world?

We knew that Kris Dreemurr's life sucked before this. But we could never have anticipated just how badly it sucked, just how little control and agency they truly have, in any aspect of their life. This situation has been going on for MUCH longer than we've been around - you can tell that much from the birdcage. Their situation is so utterly, catastrophically FUCKED that death seems the most preferable outcome for them.

Remember Susie noting how Kris responds to Queen's offer to "Perish" with enthusiasm?

Remember the way they crumple onto the floor when Spamton NEO is about to kill them and take their SOUL, not even attempting to fight back?

Remember them whispering in Susie's ear in "the_newest_girl_girl"?

...yeah. It's THAT bad.

And you have to wonder... if we were never shunted into Kris's body... if we didn't literally FORCE Kris to move, to go to the dark world, to Fight and Spare enemies - to FORCE them to play at being a hero, in spite of their situation... What would have happened?

Would Kris even be alive now, if not for us?

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

Man

This is the first time I've woken up since I started working and had it still be completely dark out

Not a fan

[dravidious]

How was the buying process for a new computer? How did you decide which one to get?

Honestly I kinda didn't decide at all. I went onto this site's PC Builder thingy and just clicked one of the cheaper options. I was ignorant and scared of messing something up so I just left all the preset stuff as-is, except removing the graphics card because I already have one. I also kept everything as-is because I was gifted $1000 specifically to get a better computer and wanted to splurge for something good. If I cared more about saving money or if I knew what I was doing, I'd probably have swapped out more stuff. The specific parts I bought are these, but some of them were on sale so I got them for cheaper; I got them for $730, and they're now $800 at the time of writing.

The buying process was easy enough, just scary because it's the biggest purchase I've ever made. The building process was a pain in the butt, but looking up video tutorials and instruction manuals made sure I knew what I was doing. Overall, it took me 24 hours to finally get it fully working. Transferring the files over was slow, painful, and tedious, but that's mainly because of my old computer locking up whenever I tried to transfer too many files to an external drive. There's probably way easier ways to do it.

[trickinabucket]

I bootlegged an array in blender’s material node editor. Idk if a pro would look at my shit and sth or whether im actually clever.

[neriumdelusion]

Yellow radio something something desert bluffs

[lavendertowerarchives]

I've finished my school quarter. I have no homework, no responsibilities, no impediments to my fun. I'm free to do whatever I want.

That's how I thought it'd be as I was finishing my exams and final projects. It's certainly true now, but I must add a qualifier: "no external impediments to my fun."

During the quarter, I had to postpone many projects, stop playing many games, and couldn't properly deal with the stress of asking people to hang out (also they're busy with school). I had work to do, and any second not spent completing my tasks was spent stressing over their incompleteness. Now that I have all the free time in the world to write, game, and talk, I find myself doing none of these things.

I just forget. I forget all the shit I wanted to do. That story I wanted to write? No inspiration right now. The things I wanted to tell my friends? Kinda just forgot. Games I wanted to play? I want to do something else.

The important part is that I never find that "something else" to do. I always keep looking, and nothing seems satisfying enough. I know from experience that I have to keep doing something for hours straight to get passionate about it (like my most recent work, check it out here), but that's still hard to get into, especially if I don't start out with that passion.

Long story short, I haven't done what I wanted to, because I no longer feel like I want to. This happens every break I get, whether it's summer break or a normal weekend. I just want to have fun. I kind of need it.