#just for organization purposes

[fennel-tea]

I had some thoughts piling up in my brain so I pulled up that limbus shipping chart going around. Hear me out ok

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[soup-for-ghosts]

hey calc do you want an octopath 1 inbox fic

?? sure? though I should remind you I have not beaten ot1, and am currently just before therion chapter 3 level wise (grinding to 38s-40s before I start it) so… no spoilers pretty please?

[mebbrrr]

i actually made a little video a while back highlighting the way tobias differentiates the papas’ voices. not a Super consistent thing On Stage but just the lil differences that i think fit the characters :)

[galaghiel]

what remnant does to a mf

[ziptie-bouquet]

Capillaries. Myelin sheathing. Microglia.

I love how the game seems to take inspiration from those simplified cell drawings with bright colors and exaggerated shapes.

I love how the devs seem to have used microscopic images as a reference to make their alien world feel more alien.

I love the way the myelin sheathing is on the cables because it makes electric signals travel at a faster speed in real life... Those designs work and don't feel limited by what they took inspiration from.

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

[wildflowercryptid]

replaying scarlet is fun bc it's helping me w/ solidifying what florian's like during the main game. ya know, before the horrors™.

he likes to help where he can...

[codecicle]

for the longest time the biggest thing preventing charlie from logging on was the island reset. he couldn't join unless exile was a physical place he could be in, considering so much of his lore relied on him and codeflippa's home. for him to play on the server again, there would need to be a real legitimate reason for someone to return to the original island and find him there. currently, the finale horror trailer looks like it takes place on the original island (which tubbo and bbh have returned to as an admin gift at least once so we know it's still around), which means canonically all of his friends could return to the island. we have seen corrupted eggs, and codes surrounding the entire island through the trailers, and if you play into my insanity here: charlie might not have his real finale or any resolution to his lore, BUT there is the WORLDS SMALLEST CHANCE the stars have aligned for the finale and he could start stream in the corrupted exile and he could play a horror code monster. <- guy who's rocking back and forth in front of a board covered in red string like a murder mystery

[northern-passage]

goofing off in the dragon's dogma cc

[essektheylyss]

was reminded that people get riled up about this the way they get riled up about pineapple on pizza and honestly, as a knowledge org nerd, it is weird and unnecessary 😌

[unnamed-atlas]

I feel like we all need to start talking about the like. Artistry Bdubs puts into the ad reads in his videos.

Bc like

Hey man. What the fuck actually

[lesbianwillbond]

sunny-fying ghosts

[skyward-floored]

I can’t barely hold a pen with my right hand so I tried drawing leftie and... well. At least he’s somewhat recognizable.

[omeleting]

being active again means being able to gradually post art ive done

heres a piece from a 2020 galolio zine :)

[formosusiniquis]

Love when murph plays a big fucking loser, forget a terrarium I wanna put jens lyndelle under a microscope and study him