#i feel like i went off track

[saturnvs]

art resolutions for 2024? or maybe art hopes for 2024

- draw at least one bella sara horse PLEASE

- draw more horses in general

- draw what i want to, not what i think i should

- RELAX

[whynotimtired]

Thinking about how there was like half a day where mike knew it was requited....

[delkios]

Still can't get over the fact that after a year (two?) with the Empire, Scorch makes commander while Boss led one of the top commando squads for three years with the Republic and never got promoted passed sergeant.

[smokestarrules]

I’ve thought a lot about how Kikimora absolutely gave Lilith permission to call her Kiki, because she isn’t scared of Lilith and there’s no way she’d let Lilith call her that if she didn’t want her to. And also about how of the people who canonically regularly call Kikimora that, Lilith’s the only one Kikimora isn’t afraid of. (Unfortunately for me I’m obsessed with them and I know full well that I’m probably going to get nothing in the finale.) But do you have any thoughts on them?

I didn't until now! But when I do think about it, there's definitely something there, especially if you bring Philip into the mix. So basically what you have there is:

The Emperor, who is a) a human pretending to be a witch b) pretending to be looking out for them all and c) pretending to respect and/or need both Lilith and Kikimora. He knows he can't hurt Lilith because she shows up in his past and helps him and so he keeps her close. He hates her, by the way. That's why he keeps her around. He hates her so much because I think he's a little bit scared of her. Lilith, who scarred him for life. He loathes her. Kikimora, though, he hardly has any feelings about at all. She's useful. That's it.

On the other hand there's Kikimora herself: she knows more about Philip than anyone else, and she prides herself on that. She thinks she's irreplaceable. She doesn't know why he keeps Lilith around, because she's incompetent. But she puts up with her. She hates her, too. She knows Philip hates her and so Kikimora hates Lilith, more than the rest. She's not scared of her in the slightest, because Lilith is Lilith and in Kiki's eyes, Lilith has no earned any of what she's gotten.

Then there's Lilith. She's... well, she's not doing too much. She has no idea the Emperor hates her. She knows Kikimora does, but Kikimora hates everyone, so it doesn't really bother her on a personal level. She thinks she was chosen to be the leader of the Emperor's Coven because of her talent. She thinks the Emperor's Coven appreciates her. She thinks the Emperor will heal her sister, will right the wrong that Lilith committed.

She has no idea.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

does the tone of this succinct email suggest my academic advisor is annoyed with me or is it just that I put off eating lunch for 3 hours? and other fun games to play

[sharkneto]

Nothing activates my fight or flight like the car wash does

[krourou2]

… y’know. I know it’s simply the nature of the Internet, but there’s something both oddly lovely and dreadful about how things can just… cease to be. Just stop being there. Vanish into dust, save perhaps hollowed ruins should anyone think to archive it, faint echoes of what once was.

Only ghosts remain.

[antigonesghosts]

Thinking about the Doctor's response to Daleks pre and post the Time War.

This is by No Means a hot take but I find it so incredibly interesting, I was listening to the Eighth Doctor's Time of the Daleks and Yes, he is aware of how dangerous Daleks are but when you compare it to how every later Doctor reacts- that is someone who is SCARED, someone who genuinely hates them in ways that even scares themself- something we don't really see normally and I love that the show acknowledges the Time War in this way it's IMPORTANT that the Doctor is closed minded about them (and is also clearly a PTSD response)- they have every right to be! They thought they killed them all along with their whole species but they Survived and why should they survive when their own people are dead- later trapped far away from their reach.

And I think it's so interesting how the Doctor only ever goes back to Gallifrey when they have to- but when it's gone that's EVERYTHING gone- and not only is it gone IT WASNT EVEN WORTH IT. The Daleks aren't even gone. But everything else is. The Daleks shaped the Doctor and exposed so much of their character- even in the first season they are shown to be opposites, and the Doctor being called a 'good Dalek' is SO important- and so is their aversion to soldiers which I think as much comes from their hatred for themself but also the Daleks- and I think they hate being exposed to what they perceive as the truth- that they are more like a Dalek than they will ever admit to anybody

Also the parallels of Danny Pink and the Twelfth Doctor in season eight are incredibly important to me. Their guilt, how they feel about Clara, etc, it might seem like she's choosing between Real Life and the Doctor but she isn't- when looking at Real Life she can only choose the Doctor because that is what her life and death(s) have always revolved around- she doesn't know anything different! And the Doctor cannot stand him because they see themself in him. They think Clara deserves better- an idealised version of themself perhaps but someone who it not them- not a soldier.

Anyway the Doctor hates the Daleks for many reasons but at least a little because they hate themself

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[thirsty-4-ghouls]

I splurged on genes for one of my Auraboa with some money I was saving for more den slots

and I'm being so, so, good at not spending ALL my money on the pearlcatcher I breed and have been saving for a breed change because he had nice coloration but looked too much like his dad to be really interesting as a keeper without changing

I already spent money on one of the babies I hatched to turn them into this:

(I'm going to give her branches sometime though) and I'm being so good not creating one of these with my pearlcatcher yet:

but he's just standing there, with great potential :(

[bisexual-birdy]

i want a meemaw like sheldon :////

[seariii]

Huh... /pos

[carebird]

[...XXL!?!]

Something similar had to have happened at least once, right? XD

[the-ark-awaits]

im well aware this is an irrational and stupid hill to die on, but again, i need to state, marble hornets is not creepypasta, at least in my opinion

this is what i think qualifies creepypasta ok? Written internet horror story. thats it. but the qualifier there is written. can there be a video series based on/to pair with a written creepypasta? hell yeah there can! can there be a larger story/arg elements around a creepypasta besides the main written story! hell the fuck yeah, just look at ben drowned! but i dont think marble hornets hits that qualifier, at least in my opinion

theres only really one written portion of the entire story, and well. you dont need it. its not a written story, its basically the exact same thing as the introduction video. i dont think it counts. marble hornets is something different, its a found footage horror and suspense series posted to youtube, its an arg, its what fans commonly refer to as ‘slenderverse’ (though i always thought that was a little funny considering its the only series with that term applied to it that isnt connected to any of the other series. im pretty sure multiple other slenderverse series have canonically stated that mh is a fictional series in their universes)

and heres another argument. ive never seen anyone argue that everymanhybrid is creepypasta. ive never seen anyone try and tell me that, idk, the walten files or mystery flesh pit national park are creepypasta. and heres why i think that is, and its just a theory but. back in 2009 and later when slenderman was new and marble hornets was new and creepypasta wasnt really a thing yet, the internet saw marble hornets clips out of context. fans of the series would post screencaps or clips of masky and hoodie, people would see them without knowing what it was from. in the nature of internet horror, someone saw a spooky image and ran with it, kind of like how jeff the killer happened. but marble hornets is its own horror story. so taking a character from that and just making them completely different from canon its like. well. if you took fucking, i dunno, spongebob, and were like ‘well i found out about this character from a story i read online which makes him the Internets Property!’ and someone else was like ‘hey just so you know, hes actually from an existing tv series, you should check it out if you like the character’ and then you were like ‘but hes my internet story character and i wanna keep him that way!’ like

like thats fine, i promise, but when yknow. its a character from something other people enjoy, theres like. a few common sense options to not be a dick here, yknow? either redeisgn the character enough that theres a clear difference between the original and the new version, or stop tagging the new version as the original. its not hard.

but yeah in conclusion, marble hornets isnt creepypasta imo, and once again id like to ask creepypasta artists to maybe please stop tagging your creepypasta posts as marble hornets, its a courtesy thing yknow? no ones asking you to stop using masky and hoodie, but we are literally begging you to stop tagging creepypasta posts with marble hornets. you know theres a difference, i know you do, and if you can look me in the eye and tell me a compelling argument for why there isnt and why you should be allowed to post about ticci toby and jeff in the mh tag ill eat my fucking hat

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Realizing I just want enough money to be able to pretend I'm rich for a few days and that's really it