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thresholdbb · 5 months

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what's the threshold theory

There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.

If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.

#every day is threshold day #tldr threshold cemented the time travel shenanigans #we're not counting her disparagement of time travel in relativity i know it's technically before threshold #but they've messed with the timeline so much that her past timeline is also changed.#Time travel is funny because the past is the future the future is the past #so while relativity comes before threshold in the prime timeline her timeline has also been changed in a way that it wasn't before threshol #we could chalk it up to a writing oversight but this is more interesting #not to mention her uncanny luck with the Borg which I think ties in as well #it's part of why her instinct is so strong #also the bio neural gel packs but that's a different theory #listen she's amazing with or without having seen all of time and space but she has seen all of time and that must have affected her somehow #those little salamander babies also have all of the cosmos in their mind #tried to explain as concisely as possible but it is part of my overarching theory #she doesn't second guess herself nearly as much following their jaunt into transwarp #I have more but I'm trying to be brief cause it's written up partially in my drafts somewhere and i have some things i need to do today lol #meta #Star Trek voyager #Kathryn janeway #threshold day #did you expect me thresholdbb to not have a serious threshold theory?#listen I can make anything nonsense and turn anything into a serious theory I was known for this kinda bs in grad school #I wrote a 25 page paper on NOTHING once #I wrote a paper about how corn fields were super gay and it made my professor cry I can spin the bullshit it is one of my skills

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robinfollies · 8 months

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KEEP THE DANGER OUT // KEEP THE DANGER IN

#billie bust up #bbu billie #bbu fantoccio #robin’s art #2024 art #COMPANION PIECES BABY!!! started these last year (month) and finally finished em!!! :33 #i could write an ENTIRE essay abt billie and fanto and their parallels and stuff #which actually i love tumblr tags. lets do some of that here!#okAY IM NOT GONNA GO INTO EVERYTHING BUT HERES A BASIC RUNDOWN OF SOME OF MY THOUGHTS #let’s start by looking at goatshire + the lost city of magic !!#both places have some kind of border around them keeping SOMETHING in/out #goatshire’s wall keeping the trolls/other danger out; keeping the villagers inside safe #and the city’s barrier keeping the curse inside; while keeping everyone outside safe from it #but in turn it’s also keeping billie and fanto trapped in their respective places #one moreso than the other i guess but ahahaha. haha. heh. OKAY MOVING FORTH #unrelated but how sick would it be if the barrier broke and let the curse out. just sayiiin.. a lil theory thats been on my mind recently #anyways back to THE POINT #okay this parts gonna sound insane BUT JUST HEAR ME OUT HERE #goatshire citizens / the cursed city citizens.#billie and fanto both kinda stick out in their respecitve homes; fanto being the only uncursed guy and billie with their magic #so theres like. a real disconnect between them and others there. u get what i mean.#theyre both outliers and like something something allegory for neurodivergence and struggling to connect with others probably #SORRY GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. idk how to explain it BUT DO U GET IT!!! DO U UNDERSTAND!!!!#also they were both abandoned by SOMEone stares at arthur #okay specifically whoever fanto’s cretaor was left him behind but u know me im such a fanto elmtwig jak #something something loneliness and being left behind and having ppl around you who kinds understand u but also not totally. kicks rock #someone get these siblings some THERAPY!!!!!!!#this was a very disjointed explanation bUT HOPEFULLY I GOT MOST OF MY THOUGHTS ACROSS GOOD. IM BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS SORRY #someone order me a yappuccino!!!!! BYE!!!!

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gotchibam · 9 months

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Commissioned piece for Gabriel!

#artists on tumblr #astarion #bg3 #bg3 astarion #gotchibam arts #commissioned piece #i'm welcoming 2024 w/ astarion art bc why not :3c #thank you for giving me the opportunity to draw him!!! 🥺🥺🥺#as much as I wanted to draw him I was also kinda worried bc i've been getting rusty w/ anatomy #I keep thinking idk how to draw ppl anymore & then I always surprise myself lol #I guess using refs really does help :0 #also! i've tried to draw astarion so many times before but I never like how they turn out skdjhfkjshsf #this one tho..... this is an exception #this is probably the best astarion i've drawn so far ;w;#me admiring him from afar: he's so pretty. he's so pretty. he's so pretty. he's so pretty... wHY IS HE SO PRETTY

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autisticandroids · 3 months

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CASTIEL: Stop. What's the point if you don't mean it? You fear me - not love, not respect, just fear.

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a godstiel pity party. i'd like to thank an anon i got way back in february of 2021.

#spn #vid #spnamvarchive #so fun fact i started making this more than a year ago. got it 90% done. and then was like no this isn't working #i will come back to this later.#it turns out that i needed to make some videos about cas and angels (the love club + help i'm alive amvs)#in order to make this one. anyway this video is about french mistake robert singer voice season six #i really struggled with it because i could NOT find the thread until i realized that it needed to be literally godstiel pov #it's about love and desire and jealousy and hurt and omnidirectional rage <3 #it's about the fact that cas is so utterly dependent on dean for his self-image - however dean sees him that's it #it's about having a moment of reflection about lashing out before you do it but doing it anyway #it's about taking cruelty and dishing it out #and crucially. it's about being pregnant #mpregpocalypse #fun fact: i made a post about working on three season six amvs all the way back in nov. 2022 #and only now have they come to fruition (this one + love club + metric)#anyway. have you heard that cas is obsessed #the thing is i do kinda want to add some specific director's commentary here. like the first verse is about cas being like.#incredibly deeply emotionally vulnerable to dean. as in: his emotional state and self-image is totally dominated by what dean thinks of him #and if dean is mad at him. and then the second verse is about... dean upsetting him and him responding to that by Killing Everybody lol #like he has a moment of reflection ['certain regrettable things are now required of me' + killing rachel] where he's like i've 1) also done #bad things and 2) i feel bad about it so maybe i will regret Killing Everyone. but then he does it anyway due to everybody keeps turning #on him. i feel like the rest of the amv is self evident. i guess i should note that 'share a paradise' is about how both of them have #a nostalgic view of the early days of their relationship when it wasn't Like This lol. but everything else i think is self evident.#oh and the reason the other angels flash onscreen with their burned wings at the end is i'm EVOKING the image of cas' wings burning. even #though it doesn't happen. i'm evoking it

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sleep-nurse · 5 months

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after 3 centuries i finally managed to properly redesign my dumbass sona, i was gonna initially just change their hair for a more androgynous look but then i. changed their lore a bit too

basically they volunteer for various jobs like delivering mail and milk, nursing and gardening (even though that's also their hobby)

no one knows their gender or their real name but they go by various plant/nature related names (like willow or sunflower)

#tenka willow #<- that's their full name i guess even tho willow isn't their real one #some people only know their last name (tenka)#my sona #my art #GUESS MY BIGGEST KIN RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! /j #no but fr i. kinda fell out of himawari's design because she looked too girly for me #ever since i started questioning my gender and then came out as agender #also willow goes by any pronouns but primarily he/they #and they're an anxious wreck. his fingers turn cold and dead when they're nervous just like me fr #now when will i change my pfp? idk #also idk if they're gonna be a full robot but i'm keeping the wind-up key because i love it

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pondslime · 1 year

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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) dir. John Landis

#an american werewolf in london #aawil #horror #david naughton #griffin dunne #mine #I finally managed to download a decent quality copy of this fckin movie hjsdfhjhfds #which means I'm back on my bullshit. not that I ever left my bullshit. but we're so back 😌🔨💥#who would've guessed that higher quality footage yields higher quality gifs (answer: every giffing tutorial ever)#ofc these are still kinda wonky but there's?? marginal??? improvement??? and that's a win in my book lmao #pls be patient w/me in this trying time (as I slowly bamboozle and blunder my way thru learning gifmaking)#anyway. I ain't never seen two pretty best friends.#one always gotta be turned into a werewolf on the moors unwillingly #and the other? doomed to walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted #smh 😔...................................#(sidenote: not sure if it's intentional. but the blood? on the sheep next to jack? eating the symbolism up w/a spoon tysm for asking)

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hemlock-ghost · 6 months

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Just finished Betwixt the Bramblecracks and this line was so so sweet I love mudd so much

Alt version with leaves that I couldn't figure out if I liked or not:

#I guess this is becoming a series or something as I work through the different arcs #ive already started life and breath soooo maybe some bart next??#im so happy with how mudd turned out in this one because the last two drawings I made of him I didn't like it all #its actually kinda fucked up how i can hardly draw my favorite character but whatever im happy with this one #also ignore my handwriting i know its horrible #tales from the stinky dragon #tftsd #mudd tftsd #tftsd mudd #mudd bramblecrack #stinky dragon pod

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feralsteddie · 2 years

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Steve Harrington being nonbinary but thinking he was just too stupid to understand gender

#steve harrington #he/him nonbinaries my beloved #Steve: yeah idk it’s like I don’t really /feel/ like a man but I don’t feel like a girl either so I guess I just don’t get it lol #Robin: … Babe are you ready to possibly learn something about yourself real quick #I’m also a Rob and Steve share gender truther #like that one fic where they swapped middle names??? peak and I need that energy for them everywhere #Steve: Robin it’s my turn with the they/them you wanna trade for the he/him?#Robin: fine but it’s a he/him in a lipgloss kinda way #Steve: Understandable continue on #pyreposting

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bugsinshoes · 3 months

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WHAT'S THIS ??? NEW OC ALERT !!

OKAY. OKAY SO I CAVED. I CAVED AND I MADE A NEW GRAVITY FALLS OC.

his name is Aysel Themis Del Mar !! a fellow dimension hopper who stumbles upon ford during his travels !!! aughhh idk how to properly introduce her so AH. JUST ENJOY !!!

i really wanna post more aysel stuff since i REALLY like him. my fav space cowboy ❤️

uhhhh but yeah. that's it. if you want to know more about her just send an ask :3 (i always love receiving them !!)

#also his last name is NOT a reference to the character ennis del mar from the popular 2005 movie brokeback mountain #no. what? no way. i would never.#/j #(i was watching brokeback while drawing aysel. so.)#aysel del mar #stanford pines #gravity falls #art tag #cw smoking #cw alcohol #? i guess?#they're alien drinks #but still #kinda heavily implied #also so happy with how lighting turned out on that last one #btw aysel uses he/she 👍#oc tag

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puppyeared · 10 months

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its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

#I have an assignment that was due a week ago and I really really dont want to do it. I have to but i dont want to #im probably making it worse because my brain has built a wall around it so now i can’t do literally anything else until thats done. but #because I don’t want to do it I’m just kinda stuck. turns out this is what they meant when they said emotional regulation is part of #exec dysfunction.. I’ll have a thought like if I get a little bit of it done now i can get it over with. I can just submit something #and then not even 5 minutes later itll be like ugh but I have to draw all the assets out. I have to write things and make spreads ugh #and its just flopping between those two things. i hate it when ppl are like well how much time do you need to work on one thing #because BOY id love to know too. I’d love to know exactly when my brain wants to cooperate with me and work around that but I cant #even my period can’t decide when it wants to punch me in the stomach. which is kinda funny in the grand scheme of things but still #its so weird im just lying on my bed thinking abt all this like damn.. the time will pass anyways no matter what I decide to do.. damn….#if I submit that assignment now and take the L I literally won’t die. it’ll just be a deduction on an assignment nobody will ask me about #I know this but I’m still stressing myself about it so my thoughts aren’t really connecting to my body. weird #maybe its because Im having a hard time looking forward to things. theres definitely a lot I should be living for but I don’t really feel #a strong attachment to it I guess? it’s been like this for a while with holidays and meeting with friends so I just don’t #I kinda figured its because im pretty passionless and its more like passing interest. but it’s not very fun when it feels like I’m going to #be living distraction to distraction for the next 70 years or so lol #idk it kind of feels like slowly bleeding out. which is funny because I actually did experience blood loss this week #had a 30 minute nosebleed and literally could not stand. also it felt like someone was pinching the back of my brain which was interesting #yapping #does this count as vent #vent #Ive just been making an oc carrd and contemplate changing my blog header for the past 3 days honestly

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feath-r-hopper · 2 months

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its just a quick procedure! find happiness through surgery!

#toontown #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #corporate clash #cogblr #spin doctor #scopophobia #eye contact #eyestrain #??? theres gotta be one for it just being kinda Spooky but idk how to word it #horror #disturbing content #I GUESS #any1 lmk if it needs anything else n_n #out of artfite season which means i get to focus on my sillies again!! yay!!#been studying heads & faces so i wanted to push myself n try out what ive learnt ^^ i like how it turned out #not as 3d as i wouldve hoped but its a start!! cant wait to learn more and make my mal art Even Worse #ted draws #mal practice

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nocterish · 1 year

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“And he smiles. He smiles like this is the first time he’s ever heard the name and recognised it as his own. Your heart clenches in pain, in unspoken emotions. It only eases up when he reaches out for your hand and suddenly it starts to beat faster than ever before. You close your knife and put it back into the pocket of your dungarees, then accept his hand in your paint-stained one. Once you feel the soft leather of his gloves against your skin, you relax against the window frame” -I Knew Nothing But Shadows: chapter 5 - The Last Line of the Picture

Finally got to draw my favorite scene from @writingjourney's fic because it's just so beautiful- I had to draw it! Please check it out! Worth a read!

Close up of Copia (because it's better seeing it up close with his smile)

#i have so many feelings about that scene that it just inspired me to draw it and im just aaa #it was supposed to be a quick draw but it kinda turned into a full blown one with different artstyle i guess? but yes that happened #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #cardinal copia #ghost fanart #ghost bc

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aroaessidhe · 7 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

A Tempest of Tea

first in a YA fantasy duology

follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night

when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city

fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism

#a tempest of tea #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has a really cool concept and worldbuilding and some fantastic characters!#I like the discussion of immigration and colonialism (I appreciate a story in this niche that’s not so white)#I like arthie and jin’s relationship and Arthie is a great character.#It definitely feels like the first half of a story - like is the arthurian stuff gonna come up more or is it just...#the mc is called arthie and has a gun she pulled out of a stone. Is there more to that lmao. it does end on a cliffhanger too.#The main thing I *didn't* like is that the middle kinda turns into…miscellaneous events purely to facilitate the characters being attracted #to each other. good for them I guess but i don’t care.#(I probably should have expected that based on the author’s other duology so that's on me I guess)#(the romances also feel on the older side of YA)#I also found that the audioboook narrator paused slightly too long between sentences.#I love having author interviews at the end of audiobooks!#which also directly called me out for guessing the obvious twist but not the multiple others directly after #(granted the obvious one I was like... genuinely confused whether it was supposed to be a twist bc I thought we already knew that)#also what's up with the coconut. lol. why that specifically

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likesdoodling · 1 month

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