#i still kinda qm

[the-bite-of-87-lol]

Guys I put two Odysseus books in my donation the other day, I got them from my teacher (I accidentally brought it home. Twice.)

[chrzannekk]

Law Runners Au ! Max

au where QM kicks the bucket and max takes over the job of camp campbell's ground keeper ! i don't see max willingly coming back to camp campbell..so he returns not out of a want but because he kinda has to? neil created a biohazardous substance that ruined the local eco system of the city he was living in and it made it inhabitable for humans to live in. and now he's wanted by the government. and since max was a close accomplice, he's wanted by the feds too ! they get caught at some point, and nikki manages to bust them out of jail before they can be given any sentence. so now the three of them are on the run from the law !! what do they do ? hide at camp campbell, the place in the middle of no where, where no one can find them. its perfect !! why didn't anyone think of this before? (oh wait cameron campbell already did. but that's beside the point). i still need to draw up some neil and nikki sketches for this au ! honestly I'm kinda having fun thinking of whatever hijinks they'd get up to now that they're older

[anodymalion]

Oh man oh man I just saw an Outer Wilds fanart done in the style of a tarot card and I had to immediately drop everything I was doing to think through what an all-Outer-Wilds version of the major arcana would be. I think I have it, it's under the read more because it's long and also there are major major spoilers (unsurprisingly).

0. The Fool: The Hatchling This one is easy. The hatchling is at the beginning of their journey, stepping into the unknown.

1. The Magician: Pye Bringing intention and direction, choosing a path, and channeling cosmic power - yeah I think Pye of “science compels us to explode the sun” fame fits this pretty perfectly.

2. The High Priestess: The Nomai Statues Ok, I kinda struggled with this one, but I think it works. Hidden knowledge, dealing with the mind, the subsconscious vs conscious, veils between worlds. The statues are mysterious and they transmit your knowledge to your previous selves. That fits decently well and also I don’t have a better idea.

3. The Empress: Timber Hearth Ok, I really struggled with this one. I’m going for the themes of creation, life, nature, and nurturing by choosing Timber Hearth since it is literally where life in the solar system grew. I'm not happy with this but whatever.

4. The Emperor: The Vault Authority, establishment, control to the point of domination. They sealed the Prisoner in the vault for defying the system. Plus the Vault looks cool and imposing so we have that going for us.

5. The Hierophant: Solanum Connecting to the past, passing on wisdom, initiation into a spiritual practice (aka reaching the QM). Yeah this is Solanum.

6. The Lovers: Nomai Graveyard (Emotional damage pt 1) I’m so so sorry but it works so well. What says love besides holding your friends close as you all asphyxiate to death?

7. The Chariot: Your Ship Maybe this one is a little too literal but I still think it fits. Determination and drive, knowing where you want to go, overcoming obstacles. Also it's literally your ship. It works.

8. Strength: Chert I’m going to be honest.... Chert is here because they were the only traveler that didn’t have a card that clearly fit, and I couldn’t leave only them out when I gave all the other travelers cards, and I didn’t have another idea for what Strength should be. Hand-wavy explanation: view Strength as getting to the core of confronting your fear and anger and pain and coming out the other side, and, well, Chert having a existential breakdown and then coming to a place of calm acceptance about the inevitability of death sort of… fits…. look just pretend this one makes sense and let’s move along quickly -

9. The Hermit: Feldspar Self-explanatory. The literal solitude, yeah, but also Feldspar is this mentor figure who guides you on your journey, and is apparently happy to just sit and chill in the nightmare hell that is Dark Bramble. It works.

10. The Wheel of Fortune: The Advanced Warp Core in the ATP Change, fate, turning points, cycles - and the breaking of cycles. This is another easy one.

11. Justice: The Prisoner There are a lot of ways you can interpret this. You have the Prisoner defying their society’s rules in an attempt to do what is right, and the strangers believing they were dispensing justice by imprisoning them but actually causing harm. The more I think about this one the more I like it.

12. The Hanged Man: Gabbro Another easy one. Taking a pause to rest, passivity, acceptance, independence, seeing things differently. Plus you even get the literal imagery of them hanging on the hammock, floating in zero-g. This is a slam dunk.

13. Death: The skull + flower from the Strangers’ visions of the Eye Letting go to allow the world to change and let new things grow is literally what this vision is about. Plus it’s a skull! I mean it’s right there.

14. Temperance: Riebeck Steadiness, moderation, plus the duality of Riebeck being terrified of space but still choosing to go out into it.

15. The Devil: The Eye Signal Blocker Destruction, complicity in oppression, avoiding accountability, confronting fear (or avoiding doing so). Oh yeah I’m so on board with this being the Eye Signal Blocker.

16. The Tower: The Interloper (Emotional damage part 2). The destruction of the status quo, disaster, tragedy, upheaval. There is no question here.

17. The Star: The Eye Searching for purpose, navigating a path, themes of renewal. Plus it even kinda has a star-like shape. It’s the Eye.

18. The Moon: The Quantum Moon Look, sometimes the literal choice works. Mystery, secrets, illusions? Yeah, that’s QM alright.

19. The Sun: The Sun Who could have seen this one coming??? ….The thing is… the meaning of the tarot Sun card absolutely doesn’t match the purpose the sun plays in Outer Wilds. But there is nothing else that could be the sun. It’s the sun!

20. Judgement: The Campfire in the Starry Forest Facing yourself, facing the truth, acceptance, ultimately letting go so that you can reach the end. Yeah.

21. The World: The Big Bang The end, and the beginning.

[lianhuajing]

this college au isn't getting out of my head so here y'all go, some headcanons

despite being the first in the world at age 15 LXY still ended up with crippling self-worth issues and imposter syndrome.. makes me think he'd be a burnt out fgli (first-generation low-income) student at a rich school.. university au (this has nothing to do at all with my experiences as a fgli student at an ivy league school lmaoo)

of course FDB is a shoo in legacy student and at first LLH is is incredibly annoyed bc FDB is clearly a rich kid who got in with his parents money

the name i picked for FDB is 择信 ("zéxìn" or "to choose faith"). his dad's name is 则仕 ("zéshì" literally "officer" the author is laugh at us so that zé didn't work, i picked another one to better fit my intention. same sound though.)

he's still called duobing as a nickname bc he was a sickly child, but fang zexin is what appears on official documents and his student id. of course his mom and his aunt still call him "xiaobao" and later on so does LLH

FDB abuses his "xiaohua" priviledges and when he extra wants something he'll pull out "xiaohua'er"

just them warming up to each other to deal with school stress. think of all the shenanigans!! i feel like 3am on a school campus is when you feel like you can do anything super well, even make empanadas when you've never made empanadas before (did i do this freshman year? yes.)

bonus: LXY has a phd in bio-med and is a famous researcher, but he's getting a herbology? nursing? (still deciding tbh) degree as LLH and passing it off as his first undergrad. he made a small fortune from his first go around so he can afford it, but i feel like he donated most of it and/or gave it to QMS + QP + SGD

yes i made LXY a genius progidy med student who got into college at 15 and wrangled a phd + patent at age 18. he's literally every asian parent's golden child wet dream. no wonder he disappeared and changed his name and only resurfaced 10 years later.

FDB is of course an engineering and business student (dual degree, our xiaobao is a champ) and he buys all the school swag cuz he has the spirit

bonus bonus: fdb is a professional college fencer lmaoo. do they have professional college martial arts?

bonus bonus li'er is a part of the family staff but the fang/he family pays handsomely so she's kinda uppity. she doesn't understand why her young master is hanging out with someone 1) obviously older and 2) obviously poorer

FDB of course falls in love at first sight bc LLH happens to be the most drop dead gorgeous person he's ever seen and reminds him vaguely of the researcher that helped with the cure to his childhood illness. surely there's no connection right..

FDB is 20 when he starts college bc he took a two year break to do an internship at his mother's company. it looks great on his resume and conveniently works well so i can line up canon ages

FDB finds out LLH is living in a van and immediately tries to move him into his dorm (freshman year). of course that doesn't work out, but i think around sophmore year, once they've started dating, he would've whittled down LLH enough for him to agree to live together in a house off-campus. LLH tries several times to convince the 20yo that he can do better than some old man who's just starting his undergrad at age 28 (my man breathes lies). FDB is literally signing their lease as he speaks.

bonus bonus bonus (and my fave): LLH makes those terrible tiktok recipes that never work but he keeps trying and the first couple of times FDB actually tries pretending that LLH's cooking is fantastic

bonus x4: DFS went to trade school and owns a handyman service (he makes bank doing it) and the jinyuan alliance is his crew of fixers. FDB is convinced DFS is a mob boss because LLH is always calling him Di 老大 (lǎo dà) when he comes around to fix LLH's rundown van. DFS gives LLH the i'm in love with u family discount but he'll never admit to it. the two of them have known each other since grade school.

bonus x5: DFS and LXY both did the same martial arts extracircular and were known rivals (affectionate) in those circles. they were constantly swapping between placing 1st and 2nd in tournaments.

bonus x5 extra bonus just for me: at one point LXY did call DFS "gege" before he grew out of it / they drifted a part. obvs they reconcillated bc LLH needed a van guy and DFS under all those scowls does care for LXY a lot.

bonus x6: LLH and JLQ absolutely know they are cousins (just bc it's hilarious for me if they do). they don't talk about it but JLQ hates him for "stealing" DFS's attention since their naptime days. he's her cousin timmy. LLH doesn't even know that he's seduced the love of her life, he's just vibing. DFS tries to explain to her that he's gay and has never been interested in women, but she doesn't believe in homosexuals exactly like in canon lmaoo

bonus x7: SGD and LXY were both in an orphanage before they got adopted by qi mushan and qin po. SGD protected LXY like an older brother, but got more bitter and jealous as LXY clearly displayed genius level academic excellence and as a by product got more attention (more care into selecting schools, more time dedicated to LXY's extracirculars, more time spent driving LXY to conferences and stuff as his research gained more traction)

can you imagine the pressure little xiangyi would've been put under to excel, and to excel bc he got this chance when all the other kids at the orphanage didn't? qi mushan and qin po weren't exacty rich, i imagine he must've felt so stressed being bombarded with scholarships and whatnot while his brother steadily closed himself off from xiangyi

nothing just imposter syndrome going off the charts when rumors started going around that a mistake in LXY's research cost someone their life. that no one should've trusted a teenager to be that smart. that some orphan kid just wanted attention and should've never been given a chance. it breaks him.

unintential pressure from qi mushan, qin po and SGD. why was he protected / saved / chosen if not to make their lives easier and to make them proud with his achivements. he's carrying his made-up expectations of their expectations and SGD's expectations

something something my dad was drunk one night and came on campus and told me i was the hope of our entire family bc i was the first to get into a good school and i could make something of myself. i was 18 at the time, same age as when LXY during his famous battle, and i just. feel some type of way. like. the man was carrying the expectations of the entire jianghu on his back. how was he not gonna be overwhelmed and break down?

bc this is a modern au i can make LXY go to therapy :) it takes a few years for him to be convinced to go (he is asian after all LOL), but he does go eventually and it helps him get the will to start again. FDB knows and actively encourages and praises LLH for taking care of himself.

LLH still carries the same self-hatred he has for his younger self bc he thinks his arrogance caused a mistake in his research and ended up causing ppl to die. he's working on it, okay, it's gonna take time

i'll end this with some crack: FDB accidentally hears DFS call LLH "xiangyi" and proceeds to give him an entire speech abt deadnames and such. it's bc he's seen LLH react to being called "xiangyi" before (come on, this guy was a prodigy and he's back at uni, some of the professors are bound to recognize him) and it's never pretty. he ends by saying "it's not like lianhua is running away from the law, he's not doing anything wrong" yes he thinks LLH is trans lmaoo. the entire time, DFS is giving him an incredious look. LXY was in fact running away from the law (or at least the press lmaoo). LLH is just standing there with an amused look on his face like "my xiaobao is a little confused, but he's got the spirit"

[minmin-vs-physics]

Min vs FA24

Now that I'm officially a college senior, I thought a post of what I will be up to is in order. (Especially since I was absconding last week) Gonna take some hard hitters for classes this semester, pray for me.

Intro to General Relativity: FINALLY. I've been waiting for this since before I was a physics major. I know it's gonna be good since my QM prof from last sem is teaching it. (Lowkey wanna switch to the grad version because my QM prof from last sem is teaching it)

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory: Another scary class but still highly anticipated! I've basically been doing QFT all summer, but the class is scarier because formalism. Of course, it will unlock some doors in particle theory.

Statistical Thermodynamics: lowkey im most nervous about this one. another beast of a topic in physics and i rlly want to learn it but idk we don't talk abt it much??? (except abt how much we're dreading it) the whole cohort will come together for this one.

Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology: always gotta throw one curveball in the schedule. not much to say bc im just taking it for a gen ed req.

Computational Physics: I should drop this bc taking four physics classes in grad apps season is kinda overkill. i wanted the lightest sem i could make but still ended up w this kraken. but no math class! (i had to pry out topology) this is the first and only semester i won't have a math class. in addition to courseload i also have

TAing for a CS class: ik my way around it so its not a problem but its still a time sink

TAing for a QM class: this is smth i def just do for the love of it, so another time sink basically but i look forward to it

Research: gotta work on that thesis y'all. i wanna make smth good out of it in time.

Physics GRE: broccoli on my plate

Grad Apps: waking nightmare. but it'll be fine i can drop out and become a finance bro.

but i also wanna make memories with all the other seniors because what? how are we seniors? (im writing this after going stargazing with my friends on a school night.)

[cdmagic1408]

Hey peeps, Quest Masters, followers, and all!

I know I've been gone for like...a YEAR. Life's been super crazy, you have NO idea. But not gonna get into all that. Just gonna say I’ve been good, been healing, then really good, happy, and off social media (it’s never really been my thing, so…) 😄

But I promise you I'm not dead! Rather, I've come back from the dead to say that I looked at today's date and just so happened to realize— OMG! It has been exactly three years since I published the first chapter of my Onward fan-novel, If You Trust Me! Wow!

I have found myself in other fandoms as an observer in this last year (maybe I’ll share what they are someday, but not yet), but first, I just wanna say that Onward is still my favorite Pixar film AND my favorite film ever, that hasn’t changed. I still think about it everyday and love it very much. But yeah, I have moved on to other things these days…

Second, and most importantly— I have decided that today, on the anniversary of IYTM’s publishing phase, I wanted to make a very teeny tiny adjustment to its title…

I have always called it, If You Trust Me - An Onward Fanfiction. But in the now-three years since I first shared this story with you all, I’ve come to realize that it really is much more than just a fanfiction—it’s a fan-NOVEL. 33 chapters, plus a prologue and a mid-credits scene. A year and a half to write. A story I wanted to make as authentic as possible to the world of Onward we know and love. It is no mere fanfic.

That said, I hereby rename the long title of this story to If You Trust Me - An Onward Fan-Novel! And to my fellow QMs, if any of you are still out there and reading this, I have you all to thank for it. You guys were the first to really call it a "fan-novel" in the first place, and now in official type, it IS a fan-novel! I know we’ve all kinda moved on and everything, but seeing as it's been a while, I just wanna take the time to thank you all for being there for me in the Onward era of my life. You know who you are. Whenever I look back on all the times we had together, I think of only the good times. There were many good, if not great, things we did and accomplished together as a fellowship and I'll never forget that. As rough as life is and as strange as this world is and will continue to be, I can confidently say now that after taking some time, I only see the good in what we experienced in the end ❤️‍🔥

Lastly, there really aren’t enough words or thanks I can give to show how grateful I am of this fan-novel. Writing it, publishing it, having it read, shared, liked, and all that. I haven’t forgotten about that either.

I am still very proud of this story, and always will be. It helped me grow as a writer, and it was something I wanted to do for myself and for all Quest Masters/Onward fans out there. So to put it simply, thank you. And if there’s anyone who hasn’t read it yet and would like to, by all means! Trust me (no pun intended) when I say that it is a LOT better than all of the incest fics combined. If You Trust Me is a story for anyone who absolutely loves the world of Onward and is looking for something that totally feels like it! ✨

I guess the very last thing I’ll say is, I am well aware that this coming March, Onward will be turning 5 (AHHHHHH! I was Barley’s age (19) when this first came out, whaaaaaaaaaaat) and since that is a big year, I might want to do something special for that. I’m not sure what it will be yet, but I believe I could do something. A long in-hindsight written reflection perhaps? Or an ensemble cast drawing? Both? I haven’t decided yet.

But yeah, that’s it from me for now. I am not planning on posting anything more later, tomorrow, or anytime soon. This isn’t an “I’m back and here to stay” post necessarily. More like a “hello, it’s been a while, but I’m doing well and I just wanted to let you all know that, plus it's an anniversary” post 😊 That’s all folks!

[theghostbunnie]

Hey, I just want you to know I really like your work! It's beautiful and really creative, and I think you understand these characters to a T, cause your headcanons are extremely in character.

Speaking of which: do you have any headcanons for David and Gwen, both individually and as friends?

AAAAAAAAAAAA TYSM THAT'S SO SWEET 💖💖💖💖 I tried to awnser this the other day but realized I was multiple paragraphs into a character analysis and not HCs (if any of you guys left me an ask and I haven't awnsered it yet I still always appreciate it I probably just plan to draw something for it or haven't got the time rn)

When David says something like "before nature took me against her bosom I was in clown school in france" (I'm not kidding he says bosom lmaooo) but he knew he loved nature at age 10, so either he was there before age 10 or the nature not yet embracing him bit meant he was withheld from it. Either his mother sent him there (cannonicaly doesn't have a dad) or he had the WEIRDEST college "figure yourself out, experiment" phase and I'm guessing the latter. He had a sudden spark of a new special interest and wanted to try pursuing it but his clowning instructor(?) scared him out of it after awhile.

I HC David wanted to be a clown bc he loved all the family friendly etiquette rules especially, ontop of the obvious making people happy and entertained.

David cannonicaly loves the zodiac signs and allthat and potential hot take but that man is a Sagittarius ♐.

David is stubborn and I feel this is an obvious fact about him but I wanna go further in depth with a HC that sometimes if he doesn't like something he won't just be in a general ol denial about it, he will full heartedly actually believe hisown truth instead.

Maybe not a "David as an individual" HC but I like to believe he respects, and likes QM's company alot! (When the man isn't being *too* off-putting) like when he's telling that ghost story about respecting your elders we see a cabin with a framed picture of silhouettes that look like QM were related to them and even the book in the story has that octopus God on it. So I assumed that was actually a real place somewhere in the woods David saw at one point/QM took him to. Either during his time as an employee or a camper himself. Also Quarter Master seems *at times* to be annoyed at David. Not like body language or facial exspressions I just get that vibe from his attitude and phrasing. He lied when he told him "fighting animals is apart of his culture" to get him to leave him alone about it I just know it.

Gwen is an anime watching "otaku" or atleast had a phase and has probably watched unheard of semi f*tish series that only lasted 10-12 episodes with really long title names. Genuinely rewatching the show so much of her screentime is hating her job in different ways or reading, writing, or playing VR 🌽. Or being a hopeless romantic. (She could've stayed with Graggle but only liked him for her monster f*tish and to romanticize herself as this YA novel MC)

She definitely LOVES x reader fics and takes on a slightly new persona in her fantasies.

I HC her with a bit of stage fright and her love for music being casual instead of a passion, that ontop of wanting to make something for herself is why she didn't piggyback off her dad's career and go into music. His career did atleast pay for whatever degree she wanted to persue (how she was able to get so many) and her fear of wasted potential is what made her have so many to begin with.

She partially willingly puts herself into positions where she gets burnt out to the point she's gotten kinda used to it.

So that's kinda why she can call it out early in David and tell him when he needs to have a break in that one EP.

David offering Gwen to read one of her stories she writes to the campers leads me to either believe he doesn't know what she writes is 🌽 or that and she also shares her sfw writing with him to get his opinion. (Which is nearly always positive but I feel like people forget David has his moments even if HE'S unaware of em) like "This chapter is excellent, Gwen!! Gosh, I'm just on the edge of my seat!! And there's only half the grammar mistakes of last time! :DD" and he fully means that as a compliment.

David also definitely got Gwen into astrology. She only cares about learning facts about her own, finding out the birthdays of celebrity and fictional characters and then seeing if they're compatible. Woman with identity issues? Eats it up.

They both loved Bob Ross before they met and it was one of the first things they bonded over as they were becoming friends. I HC Gwen was chipper at the job at the very first bit but it QUICKLY wore her down, David going off that first impression kept his excited team-loving liking of her, where as Gwen as she got to know him over those first weeks grew really annoyed with him as a coworker, but once getting to know him further than that the friendship started to become mutual.

[frankidacre]

hey can you help me understand haunting of the queen mary

Ofc!

Basically, a 1930s family of Vaudeville/Music Hall performers (the Ratches) wanted to immigrate to the US via the Queen Mary. Unfortunately, an ex-convict (Clarky/Edward Clarke) who was employed to help construct the ship was sacrificed as a way to ensure that the QM would be sturdy. Foundational sacrifices usually say that the person being offed would become the guardian/protector of the structure/place in the afterlife. Thus, Clarky’s ghost was out for revenge- wanting to escape the ship.

As David, Gwen, and Jackie/Cassandra were vulnerable emotionally, I think Clarky took this as an opportunity to hijack David and use him as a vessel of chaos to get rid of his enemies onboard (including Captain Carradine). Note that this movie also has themes of social class division.

Anyways David/Clarky goes on his spree, and during the evacuation scene, Carradine kills David- not knowing that Clarky’s ghost would be sent back to the ship. Also note that Carradine’s just kinda a mess in general and that he just somehow knows that the QM is haunted. He’s not too relevant although I love him as a character lol. Both Carradine and Gibson get shot somehow but neither of them die onboard as we don’t see any of their ghosts.

Anyways it seems that clarky stays onboard the QM for another however many years until the modern plot. I forgot the modern family’s name but David/Gwen/Jackie’s ghosts want to possess them because their family dynamic is similar and it would preserve the Ratch family’s own relationship.

Bittner is Clarky’s latest possession. He don’t really know about him otherwise but I loveeeeeee how he’s just jamming out to the drums during the phone call scene. Anyways, because Clarky is the original sacrifice of the ship, he’s more bound to the essence of the Queen Mary than the other ghosts- he is ONE with the ship. This is why he gets injured whenever the modern couple broke down a wall or something.

OTHER STUFF

-The two ships on the wall in the Queen’s salon moving were originally supposed to signify the QM and her sister ship’s relative location to each other, but in HOTQM, it represents ghostly activity.

-No, we don’t know who Torres is still lmao😭

-Viktor/The Napoleon looking guy is just an irrelevant jerk. Nothing more to him.

-Clarky calls Jackie “Cassandra” because Clarky’s ghost only overheard Jackie stating her “new name” to her dad.

Anyways this is all I can think of rn! Hope it helped c:

[literaticat]

Do agents ever reach a point where they delete old QM data or emails or do they keep it all forever? I know QM allows agents to see how many times an author submitted (within the specific agency anyway) and the responses, etc. But does this data stay forever. Because on our side, the query eventually (and not always super long amount of time, maybe only a year?) shows up as Query Closed-Out/No Longer Available To View. This seems kind of unfair that the writer can't view what was sent/what the responses were etc. but the agent can? Also, while I do understand the practicality of an agent keep their old QM data and emails, it also feels like the author can never get a fresh start, even if they change emails? If they sent really bad queries/poor books back in, like, 2005 that still can be seen in 2024! It feels like they can't get a fresh start. I know you'll probably say agents don't care about that and understand writers get better, etc., and that's true - but it still kinda sucks authors can't get a fresh start and begin again with all this data out there? Is there anything an author can do about that?

Old queries just go in an archive. We don't SEE them unless we are looking for them. At some point I know that, presumably for space considerations, any attachments and query itself vanish, but I gotta be honest, I have never gone spelunking to find out how long that takes. A couple years maybe?

It DOES leave the basic data: Author, title, type of book, when queried, rejected or requested more, etc -- but if you click on it, it says "outdated query / no longer available to view". SO, if your concern is that we are going to go comparing what you write in 2017 with what you are writing in 2024, no worries, we can't.

(QM didn't exist in 2005 I don't think lol, so no fear THERE!)

If your concern is that we can tell that you queried in the past, well -- sorry? I don't know what to tell you about that. If you really don't want us to know that, I guess change your name, your email, and your IP address. But really, REALLY, I wouldn't go to those lengths -- when we say we don't mind, we mean it.

[linabirb]

Heya everyone <3 So sorry this is kinda late, I didn't see the ask game 😭 But I'd like to ask 🌈🌧️🌪️🌕 if that's okay!

it's okay it's okay!!

"🌈 - What are some common hobbies?"

a lot of my headmates are still kinda figuring it out and they're not sure what exactly they like, but pretty much all of us like listening to music (even though our tastes are very different)! also both me and cherry love editing and both me and winter like to make music.

"🌧️ - Does anyone have a favorite number?"

i immediately heard QM and honey go "what are numbers" so. t-that's a no from them. i personally like 5, 6 and 7 and winter seems to like numbers that have more than one digit because "they just look cool". okay dude

"🌪️ - What is the most liked food between everyone?"

pretty much all of us like chips or fries and a lot of us like sweet stuff and surprisingly, winter may actually have a bigger sweet tooth than i do??

"🌕 - What is your system dynamic (ex, family, friends, complete strangers, etc)"

a very loud and dysfunctional (but in a kinda wholesome way) family 😭😭 QM and honey seem to play the role of the younger sisters (QM is like a middle child and honey is the youngest one here) meanwhile winter, cherry and helen (another alter, she's not sure if she will post anything here but she's nicey :)) seem to play the role of the older siblings, even though i'm pretty sure all of them are younger than me? kinda makes me think.. i'm not sure what kind of role i play, QM just said that i'm like the family's cat 😭😭

[khiphop-discussions]

I just finished the diss episode in smtm11 and how the hell did QM lose 😵‍💫

+ justhis is starting to get on my nerves a bit and I loved him in the previous season but during this episode he has been kinda childish

Justhis got on my nerves during episode 1 tbh. The "mean" producer ALWAYS annoys me but Justhis REALLY annoyed me on this season's auditions.

I feel like a lot of team r-jus disses were childish. Basically calling QM fat and Damini ugly/fat/b-word. Like all you can do is call him fat in a million different ways when y'all had a WHOLE diss battle?! I feel QM came a lot harder and serious. I get that the point was probably "we don't take QM serious cause he isn't on our (maybe just Don x Justhis) level" but still.

It was mean which is the point but I feel like QM did it better and more "in-depth". I think he should have won.

(also this has been in my asks for a while. Sorry for the wait. As you can see I jist got around to watching the disses)

[stop-highblood-hate]

(qm) ah! olive who farms with my highblood friend; he usually doesnt farm himself, he gets lowbloods to do it. i just helped out when a couple of lowbloods were found dead in the field. (we used the bodies as fertilizer so it wouldnt go to waste) and now its kinda my hobby? i like it, but he doesnt force me to do his bidding, unlike the lowbloods. i know im one caste away from being in the gutter (pun intended), but... im kinda glad i wasnt one caste off haha! i still know my place, though.

and ass long ass you do, fatss all fat matterss! alternia would be a much better place if more trollss were like you

and fat makess a lot more ssensee - im ssure feress ssome highbloodss out fere who like to get handss on wif farming, but itss sstill definitely out of fe ordinary

[obiternihili]

random physics takes because idk i'm tired and bored (I am no more a physicist than I am the pope take nothing seriously)

dark matter is axions and sterile neutrinos both

dark energy is a quintessence field kinda like axions: the sequel

transactional interpretation of qm right.

baryon assymetry due to mirror universe

black holes are actually dark stars held up by some kind of final degeneracy pressure. it doesn't matter because the relativistic effects are still strong enough their apparent horizons are minimally different than event horizons

cyclic conformal cosmology is a thing

universe was already infinitely big at the big bang, gut soup just came into being like a blanket lifted off a mattress. gut soup then symmetry broke causing inflation (since quintessence) and modern physics

evolutionary cosmology explains fine-tuning, but, like via parameters extracted from CCC not black holes

there's probably a huge number of other interactions that are just disjunct from ours (no conservation preserving decay pathways into standard model and friends) effectively making a sort of parallel universe thing a thing, in addition to the mirror universe

the wavelengths of the SM+ particles set our uncertainty principle and by that our planck length and the entire sense of scale we experience on this round of CCC. The disjunct fields are like, smaller than planck length, bigger than the visible universe, but also fill in the gaps of the hierarchy problem

there are dx sized contributions from those fields to the SM from them via quantum tunneling of virtual particles and such. It appears continuous but also has small and large energy asymptotes due to the scale imposed by the SM. The interactions are essentially infinite contributions of dx sized contributions making the net attractive composite interaction this produces appear like a continuous (non-quantized) tensor field. This is gravity and why it's Like That

The missing 120 orders of magnitude of vacuum energy are off in disjunct physics land doing their own thing passing through us like neutrinos But More

We're in a false vacuum due to Lambda but that's no more a threat to the universe than pouring liquid nitrogen into the ocean is to the ocean

Transcendental logic is a thing. Systems of logic may be constructs or something but some things are truer than true.

The premise that nothing is more fundamental than something is actually a logical proposition that begs the question by presupposing logic. So it's the opposite of a tautology, it's wronger than wrong.

It's not like it's an easy task to reason into the standard model from first principles but basically existence is more primitive than non-existence in a sense. So something has to exist, whether it's the universe or not is a different question. But it doesn't seem that far fetched that our cosmology is an entailment of something transcendental.

There's also different kinds of real; in a sense preons are mathematically real, but i don't think they're physically real.

Fermi paradox: to some degree the rare earth/sun hypotheses contribute to the effect (so the average distance between civilizations like 10 parsecs instead of 1), but the bulk of it comes down to two things: it sucks to get beaned by a grain of sand going a significant portion of the speed of light, and machines in the vacuum like to do things like grow tin whiskers, cold weld, quantum tunnel into short circuiting, and over the time scales it takes to go 10 or so stars away without exploding to dust, just rot from other quantum effects. The voyager disc probably won't even be recognizable by the time it reaches anything of note assuming we don't recapture one of them.

Space is also probably dustier than we give credit. Not dark matter levels but enough that sending machines across stellar distances probably doesn't go well.

Even if they did make contact with radio or something most civilizations lose interest because a) most of what we have in common we'll have figured out by then b) establishing a communication system with a century long lag is a draaag

[dreamboatsandtrenchcoats]

My new job position has me literally waking up at 3 am and falling asleep at 8pm but honestly I'm loving it

[insertive-not-assertive]

Do you have any Advice on Changeling the lost?

make your changeling as sick as possible

jk jk sorry dude im not sure what you mean like, advice for the game in general? ive never played ctl so i guess all i can offer is what ive heard and read?

ok so, play the most recent version of the game (2e i think its called) because its better, but also take it with a grain of salt. everyone ive heard from so far improvises on the game and makes homebrews, and theres so much creative room in this game that its perfect for exploring what the fuck ever you like in a ttrpg.

its even the kind of game you could just spend time making shit up for yourself if you dont want to/cant play it, as ive been doing.

like i said ive never played so idk about the finer mechanics of gameplay and whats balanced and whats not, but when it comes to character creation i REALLY encourage you to dig into ur imagination and bring out a magic creature you wanna be or youd wanna make an oc out of

what kinda changeling do you wanna be/play as? what made your character that way? what do they do after they escape Arcadia?

check out seemings/kiths/courts and then mess that dude UP, give them sick powers and weaknesses

you can be kithless lmao, some people are just too nebulous to categorize

the courts all have a different emotion for how they deal with being a changeling. you dont have to pick a court, but if u do id say to ask your character what being in that court means to them.

oh also if youre making up a Fae, try to make it as fucked up and cool as possible. theyre so weird and monstrous at times. i just picked my changelings keeper from the ones already made (because hes awful in a great way) but i think itd be cool if more people made their own?

ppl have explained this better than me, but the thing that changelings have that fae will almost never have is the support of other changelings. fae are so concerned with themselves they cant understand banding together to live like changelings do (which makes them still human). so i wanna say keep in mind that the best weapon changelings have against fae is ironically the power of bonds (motleys, freeholds, and courts) this is the heart of the game imo.

im bullshitting my way thru this here, i dont know how much you know about ctl already, but i can point you towards the stuff ive found these last two weeks ive been fixated on it, if you wanna look at all that stuff? you can skip all that junk i said above and just go thru this stuff. its kinda dead out there but still good:

one of the forums!

a forum post with a bunch of supplementary material!

codex site that i havent rly explored yet but its probably excellent

this guy made character sheets for almost every white wolf game

book 1e(quality might vary)

book 2e

theres other books but i havent found them yet! like winter masques!

@qm-vox's essays about seemings and courts and changeling stuff!!! link to their summer court post because thats my favorite one obviously

im always hesitant to recommend reddit to anyone, but i like reading the whitewolfrpg subreddit to read other ppls takes on ctl sometimes x]

i dont like video essays or watching ppl play ttrpgs, but if you do i guess i recommend that if you wanna hear more about it? im sure theres stuff on youtube

read the white wolf wiki if you want, but just know the info there is a little scattered and hard to put together. i started reading the books bc i wanted to put it together

sorry if you wanted to know something specific? i can only vaguely point you in a direction! im still learning abt all the finer points of this game myself

[that-milo-kid]

i hope u enjoy the batman!! let us know how it is 🙏

ty so much for the ask!! I really liked the movie, and I typed up a whole bunch of thoughts about it lol

MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE BATMAN MOVIE!!!

- the way they did good old eddy was so interesting?? like he still had that flair and pizazz thats important for Gorham villains, but it was done in such a different way than the early batman comics. like, it was in more of an unhinged way than a fun way and I don't know whether I like it or not, but it certainly fits with wb's whole edgy superhero thing. also the way that he was painted as a villain but not evil?? gorgeous show stopping incredible

- the parachute scene was so fucking funny like look at this stupid fuck dressed like a bat

- batman showing up out of nowhere and scaring the shit out of people was also really funny

- I knew it wouldn't happen, but while he was giving his whole I am the shadows speech at the beginning I half expected him to go like "im not in every shadow. but my kids are" and then nightwing or red hood or someone steps into frame and beats the shit out of the criminal or something

- bruce doing his own smudgy eye-liner before going out as bats and listening to emo music while bat-manning are both cannon

- selina calling Wayne Pet names!!! im qm melting also I love her and zoe kravitz played her so well omg

- the penguin bringing the drama. this man single-handedly made this movie funny AND more interesting he was literally so good I loved it

- the jokers cameo at the end and the second chances thing sets up the next movie perfectly!! the next joker seems so much better than Jared leto so I'm excited

- the set-up with nygma and "second chances" and batman needing a guiding light is a perfect way to introduce recently orphaned dick grayson!!! the parallels between him and riddler!! the parallels between him and Bruce!!! it's so good!!!

- Alfred's rougher english accent was an interesting point, and it made me laugh but im not sure how good of a choice it was. Alfred always had that certain degree of class and high level education, does that get lost with the accent?? I'm really not sure

- on the topic of Alfred, I absolutely love how he was able to have a personality!!! like, he was passive aggressive and made snide remarks and had emotions and secrets, which he hasn't gotten in any other movies so im glad to see that aspect of the comics coming through

- the cinematography in this movie was fucking gorgeous, but I think they sacrificed the plot for it? It was a bit difficult to follow at times and the pacing was a little bit strange, but I really liked a lot of scenes and I can't get them out of my head. specifically, the shot of batman leading the gothamites out of the flood like an avenging angel??? incredible

- the fact that there were more shirtless rpats scenes than there were sexy zoe kravitz scenes was kinda funny to me ngl

that's mostly my thoughts!! feel free to reply or reblog with how you guys felt about the movie :D