#perhaps this is related

[rox-and-prose]

i love the french, i love the way they pronounce Rs like they're disgusted with them

[hasello]

Super Sonic doodles

[claraoswalds]

This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. 'Cause what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.

[dandp]

So during the tit premiere I made this jokey post and then the Phannie Statistic Brain popped out and said "actually is that even hyperbole or is that accurate" so naturally the only thing to do was rewatch tit and mark down every time they touched and do a statistical analysis. Yes this is an incredibly dumb concept/post. Results under the cut!

So I counted pretty much every touch, all of which are listed at the end for anyone curious. Boxing is kind of an outlier and I didn't count every single individual moment in that but am roughly considering it to be 13 touches. I'll include stats both counting it as just 1 and counting the full 13. Also counting Sister Daniel entrance because it's close enough with what Dan does with the cross necklace and I felt on principle it had to be counted. Here's what we ended up with:

Total number: 28 (40 if you count boxing)

Average: 1 touch every 3.36 minutes (2.35 minutes if you count boxing)

Total number of shoulder touches specifically: 12 (1 every 7.38 minutes)

All but 2 of the non-boxing touches were done by Dan

The largest amount of time without a touch was 16:24 - Dan did in fact beat the "needs to touch him every 10 minutes" allegations once! He made up for it in the averages though, where he certainly did not beat them. It should also be noted that this stretch of time was during parts of conspiracies and role model/nole model, where they are generally staged further apart from each other. Dan getting right up in Phil's space during the fake video conspiracy was also within that time period which, while it couldn't be technically counted as a touch, is in the spirit.

The staging overall did tend to play a role in the frequency of touches throughout the whole show. I've summed up this phenomenon in this very scientific and real graph.

In conclusion: Man, those boys really touch each other a lot! (Mostly Dan though. No one is surprised)

Full list of touches:

Shoulder touch 2:01

Shoulder touch 10:00

Arm grab 11:04

Shoulder touch 13:51

Shoulder touch 15:02

Wrist grab 15:22

Hand touch 21:27

Shoulder touch 37:51

Shoulder tap 43:17

Shoulder tap 44:27

Shoulder grab by Phil 46:44

Arm touch 47:40

Shoulder touch 48:09

Side bump 51:14

Hair tousle 52:05

Slap fight 52:07

(52:38-57:38 intermission)

Boxing 57:38-1:04:50

Shoulder touch 1:09:18

Hand slap 1:09:33

Shoulder touch 1:09:51

Arm touch 1:14:38

Shoulder touch 1:14:58

Grab + push 1:15:06

Sister Daniel entrance 1:20:30

Shoulder touch 1:25:53

Extended hand touch in song 1:35:49

Tit grab 1:35:56

Back to back 1:36:37

[littlespoonevan]

sorry but it's actually so funny that when eddie's in el paso he's all 'thanks buck 🥰' 'appreciate you buck 🥹' 'cook with me on facetime buck 🥰' 'tell me what to do about christopher buck 🥹' but as soon as they're back in the same room he's wound tighter than a coiled spring and picking fights and pulling the 'you're making it all about you' card bc there is so much they're not saying!!!!!! they're saying more than they ever have but there's still so much beneath the surface!!!!!!!!!!! and those feelings have only continued to build since 8x09!!!!! to the point that eddie is about to BURST bc he doesn't know how to deal with it!!!!!!!!!!!! buck being in the room has never caused eddie so much stress in his Life

[callsign-coolsquirrel]

mermaid penelope who just seen pirate Morgan 😔IF YOU HAVE THE EARS TO HEAR

[katescribblesabit]

Adventures of a Rat and a Bug!

Oh yeah, it's Ratcumber and Inchboy! B)

the vibes im trying to convert here is a mix of the game "It takes two" and the "American tail" movies haha

[kettle-bird]

If you’re still taking requests; maybe Bayker? I like how you draw hair and I love Bayker’s pigtails 💜

Someone please get them an air purifier and a benadryl

[hydrachea]

I've been thinking about it for a while, but the Mihoyo games fandoms are... Really less than courteous when it comes to spoilers.

I'm a loyal consumer of leaks myself, but I swear the fandom at large acts like everyone is - and not just is, but apparently should be.

There's been fanart in the HSR fandom regarding a certain character and a certain boss' relationship for weeks when not even the 3.1 main mission has touched upon it - because it comes from leaks regarding the future of the story. With the change in Genshin drip marketing schedule, it's quite literally impossible to find out who the new characters are officially because they're leaked at least a week prior and fanart (of course, untagged) starts flooding social media. There were also edits of the new 5.4 CGs everywhere as soon as the preload hit the servers, spoiling essentially everyone who wanted to wait for the version to, you know, actually be out.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but it makes for a very poor fandom experience when everyone acts like you're expected to follow leaks or you're the one responsible for getting things spoiled for you. It costs absolutely nothing to tag your leak-inspired or preload-datamined stuff as spoilers.

[shushbyers]

i hate when people think people ship byler solely because we “hate to see women winning” or we “hate eleven” (when neither of those are true??)

no i need that girl to be freed immediately. i love her so much and i do NOT want that poor girl to suffer in a relationship that she is so obviously miserable in

[monofazz]

Swindle, that's a weird dog you have

[ugly-bug-starscream]

So a high guard member that me and edd wanted to add for funsies being Evac (tfone-ified version of Evac from tf cybertron) and edd made an interesting observation about Prima from tfone and Evac, their respective designs by showing me these two images….. I let you guys connect the dots

[ffigwit]

Celebrían meets Frodo fresh off the boat. The sands shield his feet from the harsh waves; he sinks deeper with each lap of the sea. She wonders why, with all the beauty of Valinor, does he still face the sea, still face Middle Earth. When she closes in, she can see the sadness in his eyes, the overwhelming hardship that passes behind his blue eyes like a new moon night. She sees Arwen in them for a moment, the inquisitiveness, such self-harming desire. But Celebrían sees herself in there as well. She sees pain that whimpers at the sight of healing, the waning fear. She takes Frodo’s hand--he holds tight--and pulls him from the sinking sand. And though no words are exchanged an understanding is formed. 

[bean-spring]

"Ekko is in love with Powder, not Jinx, so it wouldn't have worked out either way" is such a dumb argument against Timebomb.

Because yes, Ekko had a crush on Powder when they were kids. Yes, he tried to save Powder from her fate and ended up as rivals instead. Yes, he fell in love with Powder in another universe.

But that doesn't mean he was not willing to fall for Jinx too or that he didn't care about her. He continuously shows, despite not agreeing with her, full respect and acceptance for her decision. He agrees on Powder being dead but still cares enough to refuse to kill Jinx. He cares enough to go back and make amends with her and fight next to her. He cares enough to see her instead of Powder when he comes back from the alternate universe.

"But he still sees her as Powder and that's why he does this. He's driven by melancholy" aren't we all? Isn't Vi, too? And her love couldn't be questioned in any way, either.

Upon seeing the life they could've had together, Ekko goes back to team up with Jinx. Not the way he tried to do in season 1, seeking to save her and then becoming "savior boy". No. This time he goes to see Jinx and Jinx only.

People keep bringing the whole "he loves her past self" argument to fight this but it doesn't really mean anything when he was clearly willing to fall for the girl she is now. We keep forgetting that despite Powder and Jinx being different, they're two sides of the same coin and entity. Jinx is not Powder and viceversa, but Ekko knows that. People act as if he didn't but he's probably the one character respecting that the most while struggling with the change.

He ends up dressing with Jinx's colors. Mourning both Powder and Jinx.

To say he only loves Powder is to ignore his efforts to learn about Jinx because, if he only cared for her past self, he wouldn't have tried to help Jinx instead.

[maxladcomics]

Casual reminder (I have never reminded about it before) that Papyrus's brother did NOT make the Abandoned Quiche, he tried to make a Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie

[theinsideofablackhole]

(More) Rain World Pearl Writings

Now with some hit-or-miss doodles I made to visualize the pearls. They might be incredibly compressed idk...

Bicker

Interesting… It is a debate forum on the punitive ruling of a homicide. To thrust an enlightened individual across the cycle was considered abominable.

However, the presiding Just Order decided that the perpetrator embodied “The Remorsive Luminance Within”, and recommended her for temporary exile to a temple.

The discourse over the sentencing is… vulgar, to say the least. Many of my citizens did little else but talk, and thus the political landscape mutated into a frenzy of dozens of quarreling factions.

Most systems were commanded by the dynastic Concepts, so the remaining scraps of governance were subject to vicious competition by these factions. Power changed hands constantly.

The perpetrator was lucky. Had it been any other cycle, the ruling Order would throw her in a sensory deprivation tank or wipe her memory. Or perhaps she would be declared unsalvageable and turned into fodder for ritual combat.

It’s a bit baffling that they rarely just transcended their criminals in a Void Fluid bath instead. Probably because it would defeat the point of their bickering…

Mast

Oh? This contains a very old intellectual offering to the 52nd Great Mind, or the Aetherial Mast west of here. It consists of a very flattering, complex riddle.

Since you’ve been to Five Pebbles, I imagine that you’ve seen those grand towers piercing into the sky. They once formed a communication network between iterators, but a few of them - such as this particular one - are actually older than iterators like me.

After the Void Fluid Revolution, people quickly discovered that if any construct got complex enough, it would gain sapience.

So they threw as much computational power as they could into these towers, and waited. They expected the Aetherial Masts to quickly discover a method to implode the cosmos into the earth, achieving global transcension.

It inevitably failed. The 52nd Great Mind was later connected to a larger, more deliberate construct, and underwent apotheosis to become Looks to the Moon. Which is me!

The first of us iterators were reborn from these Great Minds. Afterward, most Masts were created with an iterator already in control.

Thank you, little creature, for this memento from my distant past.

Brain Tree

It's a treatise on memorykeeping. There’s a crypt nearby here, under Five Pebbles - piles and piles of cabinets, holding the legacies of my departed creators.

Through a complex bombardment procedure, the storage components of a person's mind would grow a twin lump, which contained cherished memories. The "memory fruit" was then removed and placed in a cabinet.

When the crypts began to acquire a hefty pile of cabinets, my creators discovered that all the fruits had united via a network of roots. The formation bulged outward endlessly, breaking into a factory far, far away. The cleanup effort was monumental.

Now, a microbe system continually expels the fruits' boundless energy, and kills them if the defenses fail to keep the fruits from getting too large.

Rare as they are, mass fractal neural emissions are a worrying phenomenon. Please keep your distance if you see a fruit that has grown into a tree.

Don't touch it - I don't know what might happen to you.