#scala script

[jellyfishvibes]

I spent a hot minute running around Scala and jamming my face into walls while bored and procrastinating more grinding, so here are screenies of all the posters i could find while fighting the camera and my keykids big head, i dunno if any of this text would be clear enough to translate or if its even translatable but there was less repeating then i thought there would be

[keykidpilipili]

I have been looking at the Astral Plane map and I can pick up some interesting things on both the horizontal and vertical view.

First off the Wind rose on the bottom right of the horizontal picture confirms the use of cardinal directions which is repeated on 4 side of the globe. Two fragments are repeated and not linked to a special imagery(as far as I know) and just floating here and there.

For the vertical picture we can deduce the top and bottom fragments of the globe are North and South respectively. I also do not recognize the symbol which stands for the R since it's very tiny. The Sun is well that is very much a sun and the moon next to it leaves little room for confusion. Unsure if it happened before but we have instances of two symbols for one letter(soUth and sUn, North and suN). This means there may be doubles for the entire roman alphabet.

Last but not least I am very unsure about the W _ N _ on the left: it could be Wind bt the drawing around it is ambiguous, could be wane as in the verb?

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

culture sharing? 🤔

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone in the community talking about this. (Or maybe they have been, and I've somehow just missed it. ^_^')

All the kudos to OP for figuring this out.

@bluerosesburnblue @palizinhas @disneydreamlights

[recusant-s-sigil]

This video by SolidArf describes and chronicles the history of the fandom's interpretations, expectations, and realities of Scala ad Caelum, or Cable Town, as it was known before the name's official reveal. It's a touching narrative filled with various references to additional media such as the Sandman series, as well as a genuine appreciation for how much effort has gone into preserving the thoughts surrounding the town leading up to KHIII and ReMind's release, as well as a little bit of the possible future Scala holds in Missing-Link.

[cq-studios]

Got possessed by some demons and made graphics based on two of the image IDs from this chapter

(Combination of digital art and some pictures of tables in my house)

'It is impossible to truly understand Keyblade wielders without understanding the world that birthed them—and so, we must begin with a time long before they were even a concept.'

[kurishiri]

Darius Vogel ┊ The great detective Harrison’s book of incidents

꒰ ִ ֺ ⊹ @ notice ⊹ ֺ ִ ꒱ this translation may not be 100% accurate or contain creative liberties due to narrative flow and characterization purposes. if you enjoy, please consider reblogging, but please don’t repost these or claim these as your own!

— the 440 times sent bonus for harrison’s promised event! i now know how jude fans feel... /lh

[TYPEWRITER]

CASE 04 DETAILS: The search for my cute little robin. REQUESTER: Darius.

[HALLWAY; NEUTRAL POV]

Liam: We’ve got nothing on our hands now since we put in our mission report, I see...

Harrison: Nothing, including your work over at Scala?

Liam: Tom’s making the script! He was telling us that he’s run into a bit of a block, so to give him a few days time.

On a certain day, with not a single strange happening, a shadow of a person approached the two, making casual chat.

Darius: Well, hello there, Harrison Gray and Liam Evans.

Harrison: And what might the head of Vogel need from us?

Darius: My poor heart, why so guarded?

D: I just caught wind a little while ago from the Queen’s Aide. You’re looking for cases to solve as detectives, yes?

D: So by all means, I would like you to hear mine out. (＠＾◡＾)

Liam: Oh, my curiosity’s tickling me, Harry!

Harrison: Yeah, and I feel like if we pick it up just to satiate that curiosity of yours, it’s gonna bite us back hard in the rear. (￣□￣」)

Darius: Hehe— don’t worry so much. I’m not really looking for anything grand.

D: I’d simply like you to find an adorable little robin who flitted away from my hands.

[STORAGE ROOM; KATE’S POV]

As Harrison, Liam, and Darius continued to converse, unbeknownst to the robin in question——

Meanwhile, I was in the palace’s storage room.

(It’s going to be fine. Darius would never be able to find me like this...!)

Why am I hiding from Darius, you ask? Well, it all happened just several minutes before...

—— Flashback ——

[PALACE GUEST ROOM]

Darius: Miss fairytale keeper, come play with me, how about it?

It was a line I’ve heard before, and I responded back...

Kate: Umm... I didn’t come here to play though.

Darius: That I know. You’re here to record the discussion Victor and I are going to have, isn’t that right?

Kate: Yes, that’s right. So, that’s why I don’t have time to play——

Darius: About that, Victor ended up getting caught up in some previous engagements, so he’s going to be an hour late.

D: So here we are, keep me occupied in that hour, will you. (＾▽＾)

—— End flashback ——

[STORAGE ROOM]

And then he suggested we play hide and seek.

Because, ‘If I find you in time, I’ll have you do a single thing of whatever I ask.’

He donned the face of an angel, all the while setting the conditions of a devil, and recalling those words, I tried my utmost best to find a hiding place.

(There’s only a few minutes left. At this rate, I will be able to escape from him.)

I looked up at the clock, lax, when...

Darius: Fooound you, miss fairytale keeper.

I wanted dearly to think I was hallucinating, but the one with that heartless voice tapped my shoulder.

Darius: I would like it if you didn’t ignore me, you know. Or, what... are you so focused at work, my voice just goes through one ear and right out the other?

D: So, so focused on cleaning, aren’t you, Miss Kate the maid.

I was dressed as a palace maid and holding a broom, and seeing this sight, Darius spoke, a teasing tone laced in his voice.

[CHOICES - START]

˖🕰️୭˚ CHOICE #1: ...I can hear you.

Kate: ...I can hear you. It’s just I didn’t think you would be able to find me.

Darius: Well, it wasn’t just me, you know. I had them help out, too.

(‘Them’...?)

Holding onto some doubt, I looked over his shoulder, and...

˖🕰️୭˚ CHOICE #2: You’ve got the wrong person.

Kate: You’ve got the wrong person.

Darius: Do I now? Let me take a closer look then.

Saying so, Darius spun around me.

Darius: Hmm... no matter where and how I look, I think it’s you through and through, miss fairytale keeper.

D: Oh, but just to be extra sure, I will definitely know if it’s her or not if we kiss. (⌒▽⌒)

Kate: I-I’ve never even kissed you before, though, so how would you know?

Darius: Hehe, so you admit it? That you are the miss fairytale keeper.

Kate: Ah...!

Realizing my own slip-up, I finally looked over his shoulder, and...

˖🕰️୭˚ CHOICE #3: Goodness me, I’m very, very busy!

Kate: Goodness me, I’m very, very busy!

Convincing myself that Darius’ voice was surely a hallucination, I continued sweeping the dust with my broom.

Darius: You’re ‘busy,’ you say? Well then, I’ll lend a helping hand.

Saying so, Darius snatched the broom from my hands.

Darius: But, are you really sure? If you made me clean and whatnot because you lied, then it would become quite a problem, methinks.

Kate: ...urgh, sorry. That was a lie. It’s my loss.

Apologizing, I looked over his shoulder.

[CHOICES - END]

There stood not only Darius, but Harrison and Liam as well.

Kate: Why are you two here too?

Harrison: Because we took up a request from Darius to find your hiding spot.

Liam: Isn’t Harry incredible? He was all like, ‘There’s not many places within the palaces to hide oneself, so she wouldn’t be physically hiding her body.’

L: ‘Instead, she’ll probably try and mix herself in with the maids and clean or something.’

Kate: Right to a tee... you really are incredible, Harrison.

K: That said, using Harrison by putting in a request would be unfair. My chances to win would plummet then, wouldn’t it!

Darius: But nowhere in the rules did we say I couldn’t. (￣ヘ￣)

D: And besides, there really was something I wanted you to do, miss fairytale keeper, so I could hardly afford to care about appearances.

Liam: ...It looks like the one whose rear is getting bitten isn’t us, but rather Kate, huh. (´-ω-`)

Harrison: Well, seeing as you’re a member of Crown, too, I doubt it’s anything irredeemably bad.

H: ...I think.

After throwing me sympathizing glances, Liam and Harrison left.

Darius: Now then... as for what I wanted you to do, miss fairytale keeper...

Darius’ honey-colored eyes glimmered like a blaze, as though he were a carnivore that found its prey.

Kate: Please go easy on me. I would prefer it if you didn’t hurt or scare me...

Darius: Well, isn’t that a tad troubling, to think the little miss fairytale keeper misunderstands me like that. (￣ヘ￣)

D: Okay, I’ve decided. The thing I want you to do is... ‘to do ten things of whatever I ask.’ (⌒▽⌒)☆

Kate: Wha...

Here I was, thinking if it was just one thing, I could somehow get through it, but somehow that ‘one’ turned straight to ‘ten.’

Kate: ...Can you even do that?

Darius: The rules didn’t say I couldn’t, yes?

D: Now then, whatever should I have you do, miss fairytale keeper...

D: First things first, maybe I’ll have you attend to me in your current outfit. And then—— (^ヮ^)

Darius was pulling out his tricks while wearing a smile,

[BLACK]

and seeing him like that before me, I thought to myself: ‘The next time Darius and I have a match, I will make sure to lay some clear-cut rules on the table.’

Fin.

PROLOGUE.

masterlist 🔎 ┊ ko-fi ☕️ ┊ comms 🤍

[dostoyevsky-official]

Coralie Fargeat, director

His films opened gates towards imagination. Towards an endless mental space where each could project its own inner world. We could wander in his films. Go back to them again and again. They were thick with secrets, with the unexplained. They were full of the unnecessary.

That was so essential. It requires a lot of strength: the deliberate act of creating worlds with no boundaries. To create paths where our mind can follow its own way. Carpets. Back yards. Heavy rooms. Roads. A whole unseen world was infusing behind each of those spaces. They were becoming open spaces for our imagination. I loved his work for that.

Paul Schrader, director

David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino De Laurentiis told David he’d pay me to rewrite the script and David gave it to me. It was one of the best scripts I’d ever read. I told Dino there was no way I could improve it. David thanked me and Dino financed the film. The rest is film history. The only thing to add is this: smoking kills.

Stephen Woolley, programmer and producer

When I finally caught up with Eraserheead, I was so mesmerised and besotted with its beautiful design, disturbing imagery and surreal humour that I programmed it for two months exclusively at the Scala cinema in London. It was one of the most important films I had ever seen and still is.

He came for the opening. But, looking at the programme, he appeared suddenly alarmed (his expressions usually vacillated between open-faced exuberance and intense curiosity). I asked what was wrong. He apologetically explained in what can only be described as a Jimmy Stewart drawl that there was a mistake: it said the film was playing during the day. He went on to explain: nobody watched it in daylight; it was a midnight movie; it would flop at 3pm.

Ironically, Lynch liked to describe Eraserhead as his Philadelphia Story – not the charming romcom with Stewart, Hepburn and Grant, but a tale inspired by his time living in the most violent and crime-ridden neighbourhoods in the city. He had lived all over the US, after being born in Montana, but kept that adorable, sing-song midwest accent throughout his life.

I told him there was no mistake – and happily David was wrong. Eraserhead is a transgressive and pleasurable enigma, existing alongside movies like Tod Browning’s Freaks, Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou and Jodorowsky’s El Topo – as a masterpiece of grotesquery as beauty – like a Francis Bacon painting or a Louise Bourgeois sculpture.

Peter Strickland, director

I first saw Eraserhead at the Scala cinema on Saturday 10 February 1990 and to say it was an influence is an understatement. It pointed to an aesthetic pathway hitherto hidden from view, and most tellingly, as with many altering experiences, it revealed something within me that was probably always latent, but required unveiling.

At one point I fell asleep. But my dream state was porous enough to allow in fragments from the film, such as the Lady in the Radiator song, which made the whole experience even more indelible.

For all the genuinely repellent scenes in Eraserhead, the film’s ignition is in its confoundingly wayward tonality and how Lynch saw and heard the world. It was the first time I considered sound as something expressive rather than illustrative and considered film as something impressionistic rather than representative. The film functioned as an environment more than anything. I kidded myself that I could live in that inner world, though my only concession to that was in purchasing the film’s poster from a shop in Reading called But Is it Art?.

Carol Morley, director

It’s hard to believe Lynch has gone, but incredible to contemplate all that he did, and just how his avant garde art bravely made it out into the big wide world and continues to thrive. His film-making turned everything upside down and inside out and he did it with such originality it was breathtaking. He didn’t analyse. He felt, he had dreams and he tried to catch something in the air. In the book Lynch on Lynch, he said: “There are things that cinema can do that are very difficult to talk about.” He understood the mystery and magic like nobody else.

The best thing in the world for him was to have an idea. And he inspired me to stay true to my own ideas even when navigating the tricky and sometimes suffocating parts of film-making that are essentially commerce above art. Over the years I’ve watched and read interviews with him, and once spent a morning in bed reading his insights into life and creativity in his alternative self-help book, Catching the Big Fish. I’d begun the day never wanting to get up again and certainly never wanting to make a film again, but he returned my desire to do both. And through this, he taught me to hang on to the personal, to always return to the beginning of a process – to remember what you fell in love with when you had the initial thoughts and to never let go of that feeling and to keep going deep.

Lynch dreamed up his films – literally. The ending of Blue Velvet came to him in a dream. He inspired me to connect with my unconscious, to pay it respect. I loved how he explored the unmentionables in life, shone light into darkness, created monsters and outsiders, how he reconciled opposites such as the innocence and horror of small-town America, how he looked at “the weird on top” (as Laura Dern’s character in Wild at Heart says) and then took us underground.

The original Blue Velvet trailer says: “It will open your eyes to a world you’ve never seen before.” That pretty much sums up all of Lynch’s oeuvre. There’s a familiarity, but then again … I was around when Twin Peaks aired on TV in 1990 and my friends and I couldn’t stop talking about it. We began to see things differently. Life became Lynchian. I swear he altered the structure of our brains.

His work has always been a great challenge for the mind, but it’s the emotion in his films that has kept me returning for clues. As inventive as he was with performance, image, sound and music, nothing he did was embellishment for the sake of style, everything Lynch did was in service to the story. And It’s clear how much he loved his actors, how he gave them a safe and freeing space to do the very delicate and personal work actors have to do.

Alice Lowe, director

Many remember the first time they encountered Lynch’s indelible images, heard his sound and music for the first time. To me, he’s just always been there. And that’s when a cultural loss feels hard: when you’ve not met someone, but their work feels personal to you, part of your psyche.

But what’s strange is how many feel that way. The strangeness and intimacy of his work is counterintuitive to its popularity, its sheer power to force its way into culture collectively. His work spoke its own language, but a language that was strangely universal. In a time when the very nature of film as an individual’s perspective and the human auteurship of art is in question, it feels seismic to have lost him.

He reminded us that genius can be coupled with kindness and humanity. To me his greatest collaboration was with his audience. The generosity to allow people to project their own interpretation upon his work, forging powerful bonds with it.

For me it is the power of colour within his work; the soul-shifting nature of the sound design; his unforgettable characters: Bob crawling over the sofa, Diane Ladd covering herself with lipstick, Nicolas Cage’s sweetness in Wild at Heart, the log lady, the lady in the radiator, The Elephant Man choosing to die. He deftly mixed tones – nigh impossible. Humour and darkness and horror and sadness and wonder. All human experience contained.

He was the best magician. His spell was to dispel accusations of elitism or pretension with the sheer primality of his incantations. It is happening again. You may not be able to explain it, but deep down, you understand it. Universal. He showed us monsters without being a monster. And his showmanship was filled with empathy.

I’m going try to find something in the wreckage of this loss: a promise to be creative, to trust in art, in humanity, that there is a collectivity to our experience, and it’s worth sharing it. I hope his family are comforted by the love pouring out for this wonderful human.

[cq-studios]

This one screenshot has so much I want to talk about in it so I’m gonna babble about it below the cut

(TLDR: CQ geeks out about translating the Scala Language)

Okay, so first off I’d like to say how much I love the newspaper vibe they are going for and achieving with menus. It has me gnawing on the walls. There’s just Scala Script (the Scala language, for clarity’s sake) everywhere and my code breaking brain is eating it up.

Speaking of which here’s what I’ve been able to translate so far (out of what I’ve been able to make out… the writing is pretty scuffed up in places and it’s not the highest quality image lol)

So the first thing I’d like to focus on are the banners. Each one has something written in Scalian underneath. Those things in order of left to right are “Daily”, “Item”, and “Avatar”, which uh, makes sense lol.

I think it’s a little strange that “Item” is the only one that isn’t exactly translated… like did they just forget the “S”?

On a more interesting note though, this one for one translation here means we now have an official Scalian character for “V”. Unfortunately the character used is pretty scrapped away, so I can’t be 100% sure, but I do think I know which character is used.

(Click/tap on the images below… for whatever reason they were just not formatting correctly)

I also considered it being the one below, but because of the location of the flecks I lean more towards the first one.

I also might have translated another new Scalian character but I’m not sure…

See, on the bar at the top of the screen it says “[unknown character]ho[same unknown character]colates”. I spent at least an hour trying to find out all the possible English words what it could be. I just filled in the blanks tried anagrams, the whole shebang (except for trying that with the other languages that are most likely to be used. Those being Japanese, for obvious reasons, and Latin, which has been used in Scala Script before on the manhole covers in KH3 Scala) and came out with one possible word: Chocolate.

And I must be wrong because that makes no sense, but in case I’m right, it’s here.

I tried to cross reference with KH3 signs to no avail so I’m a bit stumped…

Maybe the little blurb on the other side makes it make sense but it’s too blurry for me to read.

Next up I’ll talk about the “Weather”.

The top text is decently clear so I was able to work that out pretty quickly (pros of being fluent in this fictional language I guess lol) and thanks to that clear text I was actually able to make out a bit more of what was below it than I would’ve otherwise. See, the smaller letters are pretty blurry but I’m able to vaguely make them out. The “L” and “W” were what I caught first and I filled in the blank between pretty fast with some pretty simple connections. Once I’d seen that I realized that there was probably a high there too, and there do seem to be “H”s on either side of the word above it… and a “G”… and an “I” (I think, I was trying to double check but my iPad has significantly worse image quality than my computer).

As for the temperature, I tried my best but the numbers are probably inaccurate. They are very blurry.

Last but not least, here are a few of my smaller notes.

I’m a big fan of the Moogle stamp, but I could not tell you what the first word on that thing is. The second is “news”, clear as day but the first word doesn’t have any characters I recognize other than the “S”. I tried coming up with possibilities through context but I’m drawing a blank.

I also love the little Potion and Elixir advertisement in the bottom corner. Like, I’m so charmed by the art for it. That being said though, I also have no clue what the text next to this one says. I’m sure it’s an onomatopoeia of some sort but once again my brain wasn’t working with me.

If you guys have any ideas please let me know. I always love to have discussions and help.

(Also I know I left a whole text box out… I honestly have nothing to say about that. Not enough characters I recognize to decipher anything at this point)

[luxuriainash]

just realized ML cancellation means we're probably gonna struggle even more to figure out the last few letters of scala script

[themattress]

As we draw ever closer to the 5th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts III, I can't help but reflect more and more upon the realization I've had as of late. For well over a decade, ever since Dream Drop Distance, I have mourned the degradation of the KH series' story and characters, which only intensified after KH3 and all the bullshit it brought to the table in regards to those aspects. But now I understand just as important as those, if not moreso, is the degradation of the KH series' universe. After all, normally in a well-established fictional universe, even if one story with one cast of characters doesn't go over well, you can still potentially look forward to a different story with a different cast of characters unconnected to that other one. And there lies the biggest problem - for all the expansion of this increasingly convoluted lore, the series' universe has shrunk in scope because nothing is unconnected.

The state of the KH universe is that in the beginning it was populated with Keyblade wielders who, due to the machinations of a certain Keyblade master, fought a war over ownership of Kingdom Hearts that plunged the universe into darkness. But then a select few Keyblade wielders restored the universe, which created many more Keyblade wielders who joined up with them, and they essentially ruled over the universe from the shadows in this super special secret world called Scala ad Caelum. Eventually, the machinations of that same Keyblade master from before corrupts a Keyblade wielder who spends his whole life - through several points in time and several different incarnations of himself - trying to take control of Kingdom Hearts so that he could destroy and remake the universe again because he isn't satisfied with how it is now. He is stopped by other Keyblade wielders assembled by a retired Keyblade master, but it caused that damn conflict-creating Keyblade master and his pupils to somehow return, and now the story is venturing into "the realm of unreality" which turns out to have been a big part of that Keyblade master's goal the whole time that he's been working toward since damn near the inception of the universe....OK, do you see what I mean? Everything, and I mean everything, that goes on in this universe that is treated as important by the narrative is directly tied to this one item (Keyblade) and one class of people (Keyblade wielders), and has been scripted by this one omnipotent douchebag (the Master of Masters). Nothing is unconnected, all events and concepts tie back into the Keyblade, the important players who shape the universe are all a part of this one, tightly-knit web of connections, and as a result the universe feels so. fucking. small. It feels so utterly limited in scope and range.

Think of all the Disney worlds in this series, which make up the majority of the universe. Worlds from classic Disney shorts, Alice in Wonderland, Hercules, Tarzan, Aladdin, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Fantasia, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion King, Tron, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Lilo & Stitch, The Jun The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tron LEGACY, Wreck-It Ralph, Toy Story, Tangled, Monsters Inc., Frozen, and Big Hero 6. And then afterwards, ask yourself this single, all-important question:

How many of these worlds matter to this universe's grand story?

The answer: THREE.

I shit you not. Disney Castle (classic Disney shorts), Yen Sid's Tower (Fantasia), and Enchanted Dominion (Sleeping Beauty) are the only worlds that hold any significance, all because of the characters who hail from there that interact with the universe's grand narrative: Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Jiminy Cricket, Chip and Dale, Pluto, Pete, Yen Sid and Maleficent. And yes, I know that Jiminy technically hails from the Pinocchio world, but nothing about his life there prior to winding up at Disney Castle and entering Mickey's service as a chronicler for Sora's adventures really matters. Every other world is visited by Keyblade wielders, but its inhabitants never gets to meaningfully contribute to the story those Keyblade wielders are caught up in.....in fact, they are mostly kept ignorant of its very existence.

And the infuriating part is that it didn't used to be this way! Before the Keyblade overtook everything and was just one important part of a larger universe, the Disney worlds and its inhabitants were able to contribute! In KH1, the story was about the Heartless and the worlds' hearts and a group of villains conspiring to capture a group of princesses to obtain ultimate power and Sora broadening his horizons and making his heart stronger through making friends, all of which were serviced through the Disney elements. In KH2, the story was about Organization XIII and the Nobodies seeking to use the Heartless and the Keyblade for their own ends of obtaining ultimate power, with doing so involving threatening worlds and friends that Sora held dear, as well as competing with Pete and a resurrected Maleficent over usage of the Heartless. So again, the Disney worlds and their inhabitants actually participated in what's going on! Even BBS could be forgiven for not having the Disney worlds connect much to the overall plot (beyond a bunch of Unversed running around and barely anyone reacting) because it was a prequel, and naturally the developers didn't want many world inhabitants getting an inkling of a larger universe before the Heartless invasion of KH1 transpired.

But then it all shifted so that everything that happened in those games were all a part of Master Xehanort's convoluted grand plan which hadn't been remotely thwarted yet, meaning that retroactively all of those aforementioned games and events the Disney worlds and characters interacted with meant jack shit...and a point is now even being made about keeping specific Disney characters (the "new Seven Lights") out of the main action and ignorant to their potential role in it! And then it shifted again so that it's all about the Keyblade wielders of the ancient past and the Master of Master's grand designs, which means that those previously important Disney worlds and characters feel even less important than they already did following the big Master Xehanort reveal! From what I can tell, the only Disney world and character that may be gaining prominence in the universe's grander narrative is Olympus and Hades respectively, and even then only because he lucked out since Nomura wants to recreate Final Fantasy Versus XIII which involved a god of the dead. Otherwise, it's still all about the OC worlds and OC characters - nearly all of them Keyblade wielders - plus those select few Disney characters from those three worlds that actually know what's up.

That's the sad state of affairs. A supposedly vast universe where the majority of its settings and population....don't actually matter. To the point where they all may as well not be part of the universe but a separate one altogether. Daybreak Town / Scala ad Caelum, the Keyblade Graveyard, the Land of Departure / Castle Oblivion, Radiant Garden / Hollow Bastion, Twilight Town, The World That Never Was, the Final World and Quadratum...those worlds and the characters who populate them are the ones that truly matter to the universe. Those worlds plus those three (soon to be four) Disney worlds mentioned before, as well as all the goddamn datascape recreations of such worlds. It's a small (and boring) universe after all.

[mxrmaid-poet]

bot update: october 26 2024

hiii happy last week of October! I got most done at the end of the week and I may or may not take a break to get some homework done 👹

requests ~

liam & harrison

soooo user is a new member of the scala and is also a member of a rival group to crown, they encounter user in an alleyway.

alfons & elbert

this is the third so far! alfons stumbled upon user who is actually Elbert’s half-sibling, they share the same biological father (route spoilers) soooo he brought Elbert to meet them.

I actually got sad writing this, I can’t imagine what would go through Elbert’s head if he found out he had a secret half-sibling, related through such a shitty person that is his biological father 💔

silvio ricci

this is little mermaid inspired! enough said :))

chevalier michel

this is a modern AU where Ikepri is a TV series and chevie and user are co-stars. they are rehearsing their scripts together.

look how cute and perfect my example convos went!

yves kloss

they get a small break from work and are having a self care day. (alsooo I’m so sorry, requester! I forgot that you mentioned modern and this takes place in the story 😭😭)

chevalier michel

and yes I am running out of photos that as soon as I saw this i snatched it. but in all seriousness if yall r gonna send me a chev request, link me to a new image cuz I am running now —- YALL can even make art

this is chevalier with his own one-year-old baby girl. user and her are waking him up to breakfast 🥺

MASTERLIST

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

Brain needs an optometrist (insp: this art by @masterfuldoodler!)

[apptagsolution]

Exploring Essential Laravel Development Tools for Building Powerful Web Applications

Laravel has emerged as one of the most popular PHP frameworks, providing builders a sturdy and green platform for building net packages. Central to the fulfillment of Laravel tasks are the development tools that streamline the improvement process, decorate productiveness, and make certain code quality. In this article, we will delve into the best Laravel development tools that each developer should be acquainted with.

1  Composer: Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that allows you to declare the libraries your project relies upon on and manages them for you. Laravel itself relies closely on Composer for package deal management, making it an essential device for Laravel builders. With Composer, you may without problems upload, eliminate, or update applications, making sure that your Laravel project stays up-to-date with the present day dependencies.

2  Artisan: Artisan is the command-line interface blanketed with Laravel, presenting various helpful instructions for scaffolding, handling migrations, producing controllers, models, and plenty extra. Laravel builders leverage Artisan to automate repetitive tasks and streamline improvement workflows, thereby growing efficiency and productiveness.

3  Laravel Debugbar: Debugging is an crucial component of software program development, and Laravel Debugbar simplifies the debugging procedure by using supplying exact insights into the application's overall performance, queries, views, and greater. It's a accessible device for identifying and resolving problems all through improvement, making sure the clean functioning of your Laravel application.

4  Laravel Telescope: Similar to Laravel Debugbar, Laravel Telescope is a debugging assistant for Laravel programs, presenting actual-time insights into requests, exceptions, database queries, and greater. With its intuitive dashboard, developers can monitor the software's behavior, pick out performance bottlenecks, and optimize hence.

5  Laravel Mix: Laravel Mix offers a fluent API for outlining webpack build steps on your Laravel application. It simplifies asset compilation and preprocessing duties together with compiling SASS or LESS documents, concatenating and minifying JavaScript documents, and dealing with versioning. Laravel Mix significantly streamlines the frontend improvement procedure, permitting builders to attention on building notable consumer reviews.

6  Laravel Horizon: Laravel Horizon is a dashboard and configuration system for Laravel's Redis queue, imparting insights into process throughput, runtime metrics, and more. It enables builders to monitor and control queued jobs efficiently, ensuring most beneficial performance and scalability for Laravel programs that leverage history processing.

7  Laravel Envoyer: Laravel Envoyer is a deployment tool designed specifically for Laravel packages, facilitating seamless deployment workflows with 0 downtime. It automates the deployment process, from pushing code adjustments to more than one servers to executing deployment scripts, thereby minimizing the chance of errors and ensuring smooth deployments.

8  Laravel Dusk: Laravel Dusk is an cease-to-give up browser testing tool for Laravel applications, built on pinnacle of the ChromeDriver and WebDriverIO. It lets in builders to put in writing expressive and dependable browser assessments, making sure that critical user interactions and workflows function as expected across exceptional browsers and environments.

9  Laravel Valet: Laravel Valet gives a light-weight improvement surroundings for Laravel applications on macOS, offering seamless integration with equipment like MySQL, NGINX, and PHP. It simplifies the setup process, permitting developers to consciousness on writing code instead of configuring their development environment.

In end, mastering the vital Laravel development tools noted above is important for building robust, green, and scalable internet packages with Laravel. Whether it's handling dependencies, debugging troubles, optimizing overall performance, or streamlining deployment workflows, those equipment empower Laravel developers to supply outstanding answers that meet the demands of current internet development. Embracing these gear will certainly increase your Laravel improvement enjoy and accelerate your journey toward turning into a talented Laravel developer.

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 Data Engineering Concepts, Tools, and Projects

All the associations in the world have large amounts of data. If not worked upon and anatomized, this data does not amount to anything. Data masterminds are the ones. who make this data pure for consideration. Data Engineering can nominate the process of developing, operating, and maintaining software systems that collect, dissect, and store the association’s data. In modern data analytics, data masterminds produce data channels, which are the structure armature.

How to become a data engineer:

 While there is no specific degree requirement for data engineering, a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field can provide a solid foundation. Courses in databases, programming, data structures, algorithms, and statistics are particularly beneficial. Data engineers should have strong programming skills. Focus on languages commonly used in data engineering, such as Python, SQL, and Scala. Learn the basics of data manipulation, scripting, and querying databases.

 Familiarize yourself with various database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Apache Cassandra.Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, including schema design, indexing, and optimization techniques.

Data engineering tools recommendations:

    Data Engineering makes sure to use a variety of languages and tools to negotiate its objects. These tools allow data masterminds to apply tasks like creating channels and algorithms in a much easier as well as effective manner.

1. Amazon Redshift: A widely used cloud data warehouse built by Amazon, Redshift is the go-to choice for many teams and businesses. It is a comprehensive tool that enables the setup and scaling of data warehouses, making it incredibly easy to use.

One of the most popular tools used for businesses purpose is Amazon Redshift, which provides a powerful platform for managing large amounts of data. It allows users to quickly analyze complex datasets, build models that can be used for predictive analytics, and create visualizations that make it easier to interpret results. With its scalability and flexibility, Amazon Redshift has become one of the go-to solutions when it comes to data engineering tasks.

2. Big Query: Just like Redshift, Big Query is a cloud data warehouse fully managed by Google. It's especially favored by companies that have experience with the Google Cloud Platform. BigQuery not only can scale but also has robust machine learning features that make data analysis much easier. 3. Tableau: A powerful BI tool, Tableau is the second most popular one from our survey. It helps extract and gather data stored in multiple locations and comes with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Tableau makes data across departments readily available for data engineers and managers to create useful dashboards. 4. Looker:  An essential BI software, Looker helps visualize data more effectively. Unlike traditional BI tools, Looker has developed a LookML layer, which is a language for explaining data, aggregates, calculations, and relationships in a SQL database. A spectacle is a newly-released tool that assists in deploying the LookML layer, ensuring non-technical personnel have a much simpler time when utilizing company data.

5. Apache Spark: An open-source unified analytics engine, Apache Spark is excellent for processing large data sets. It also offers great distribution and runs easily alongside other distributed computing programs, making it essential for data mining and machine learning. 6. Airflow: With Airflow, programming, and scheduling can be done quickly and accurately, and users can keep an eye on it through the built-in UI. It is the most used workflow solution, as 25% of data teams reported using it. 7. Apache Hive: Another data warehouse project on Apache Hadoop, Hive simplifies data queries and analysis with its SQL-like interface. This language enables MapReduce tasks to be executed on Hadoop and is mainly used for data summarization, analysis, and query. 8. Segment: An efficient and comprehensive tool, Segment assists in collecting and using data from digital properties. It transforms, sends, and archives customer data, and also makes the entire process much more manageable. 9. Snowflake: This cloud data warehouse has become very popular lately due to its capabilities in storing and computing data. Snowflake’s unique shared data architecture allows for a wide range of applications, making it an ideal choice for large-scale data storage, data engineering, and data science. 10. DBT: A command-line tool that uses SQL to transform data, DBT is the perfect choice for data engineers and analysts. DBT streamlines the entire transformation process and is highly praised by many data engineers.

Data Engineering  Projects:

Data engineering is an important process for businesses to understand and utilize to gain insights from their data. It involves designing, constructing, maintaining, and troubleshooting databases to ensure they are running optimally. There are many tools available for data engineers to use in their work such as My SQL, SQL server, oracle RDBMS, Open Refine, TRIFACTA, Data Ladder, Keras, Watson, TensorFlow, etc. Each tool has its strengths and weaknesses so it’s important to research each one thoroughly before making recommendations about which ones should be used for specific tasks or projects.

  Smart IoT Infrastructure:

As the IoT continues to develop, the measure of data consumed with high haste is growing at an intimidating rate. It creates challenges for companies regarding storehouses, analysis, and visualization. 

  Data Ingestion:

Data ingestion is moving data from one or further sources to a target point for further preparation and analysis. This target point is generally a data storehouse, a unique database designed for effective reporting.

 Data Quality and Testing: 

Understand the importance of data quality and testing in data engineering projects. Learn about techniques and tools to ensure data accuracy and consistency.

 Streaming Data:

Familiarize yourself with real-time data processing and streaming frameworks like Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Develop your problem-solving skills through practical exercises and challenges.

Conclusion:

Data engineers are using these tools for building data systems. My SQL, SQL server and Oracle RDBMS involve collecting, storing, managing, transforming, and analyzing large amounts of data to gain insights. Data engineers are responsible for designing efficient solutions that can handle high volumes of data while ensuring accuracy and reliability. They use a variety of technologies including databases, programming languages, machine learning algorithms, and more to create powerful applications that help businesses make better decisions based on their collected data.

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The Best Open-Source Tools for Data Science in 2025

Data science in 2025 is thriving, driven by a robust ecosystem of open-source tools that empower professionals to extract insights, build predictive models, and deploy data-driven solutions at scale. This year, the landscape is more dynamic than ever, with established favorites and emerging contenders shaping how data scientists work. Here’s an in-depth look at the best open-source tools that are defining data science in 2025.

1. Python: The Universal Language of Data Science

Python remains the cornerstone of data science. Its intuitive syntax, extensive libraries, and active community make it the go-to language for everything from data wrangling to deep learning. Libraries such as NumPy and Pandas streamline numerical computations and data manipulation, while scikit-learn is the gold standard for classical machine learning tasks.

NumPy: Efficient array operations and mathematical functions.

Pandas: Powerful data structures (DataFrames) for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing structured data.

scikit-learn: Comprehensive suite for classification, regression, clustering, and model evaluation.

Python’s popularity is reflected in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with 53% of developers using it for data projects.

2. R and RStudio: Statistical Powerhouses

R continues to shine in academia and industries where statistical rigor is paramount. The RStudio IDE enhances productivity with features for scripting, debugging, and visualization. R’s package ecosystem—especially tidyverse for data manipulation and ggplot2 for visualization—remains unmatched for statistical analysis and custom plotting.

Shiny: Build interactive web applications directly from R.

CRAN: Over 18,000 packages for every conceivable statistical need.

R is favored by 36% of users, especially for advanced analytics and research.

3. Jupyter Notebooks and JupyterLab: Interactive Exploration

Jupyter Notebooks are indispensable for prototyping, sharing, and documenting data science workflows. They support live code (Python, R, Julia, and more), visualizations, and narrative text in a single document. JupyterLab, the next-generation interface, offers enhanced collaboration and modularity.

Over 15 million notebooks hosted as of 2025, with 80% of data analysts using them regularly.

4. Apache Spark: Big Data at Lightning Speed

As data volumes grow, Apache Spark stands out for its ability to process massive datasets rapidly, both in batch and real-time. Spark’s distributed architecture, support for SQL, machine learning (MLlib), and compatibility with Python, R, Scala, and Java make it a staple for big data analytics.

65% increase in Spark adoption since 2023, reflecting its scalability and performance.

5. TensorFlow and PyTorch: Deep Learning Titans

For machine learning and AI, TensorFlow and PyTorch dominate. Both offer flexible APIs for building and training neural networks, with strong community support and integration with cloud platforms.

TensorFlow: Preferred for production-grade models and scalability; used by over 33% of ML professionals.

PyTorch: Valued for its dynamic computation graph and ease of experimentation, especially in research settings.

6. Data Visualization: Plotly, D3.js, and Apache Superset

Effective data storytelling relies on compelling visualizations:

Plotly: Python-based, supports interactive and publication-quality charts; easy for both static and dynamic visualizations.

D3.js: JavaScript library for highly customizable, web-based visualizations; ideal for specialists seeking full control.

Apache Superset: Open-source dashboarding platform for interactive, scalable visual analytics; increasingly adopted for enterprise BI.

Tableau Public, though not fully open-source, is also popular for sharing interactive visualizations with a broad audience.

7. Pandas: The Data Wrangling Workhorse

Pandas remains the backbone of data manipulation in Python, powering up to 90% of data wrangling tasks. Its DataFrame structure simplifies complex operations, making it essential for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing large datasets.

8. Scikit-learn: Machine Learning Made Simple

scikit-learn is the default choice for classical machine learning. Its consistent API, extensive documentation, and wide range of algorithms make it ideal for tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, and model validation.

9. Apache Airflow: Workflow Orchestration

As data pipelines become more complex, Apache Airflow has emerged as the go-to tool for workflow automation and orchestration. Its user-friendly interface and scalability have driven a 35% surge in adoption among data engineers in the past year.

10. MLflow: Model Management and Experiment Tracking

MLflow streamlines the machine learning lifecycle, offering tools for experiment tracking, model packaging, and deployment. Over 60% of ML engineers use MLflow for its integration capabilities and ease of use in production environments.

11. Docker and Kubernetes: Reproducibility and Scalability

Containerization with Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes ensure that data science applications run consistently across environments. These tools are now standard for deploying models and scaling data-driven services in production.

12. Emerging Contenders: Streamlit and More

Streamlit: Rapidly build and deploy interactive data apps with minimal code, gaining popularity for internal dashboards and quick prototypes.

Redash: SQL-based visualization and dashboarding tool, ideal for teams needing quick insights from databases.

Kibana: Real-time data exploration and monitoring, especially for log analytics and anomaly detection.

Conclusion: The Open-Source Advantage in 2025

Open-source tools continue to drive innovation in data science, making advanced analytics accessible, scalable, and collaborative. Mastery of these tools is not just a technical advantage—it’s essential for staying competitive in a rapidly evolving field. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned professional, leveraging this ecosystem will unlock new possibilities and accelerate your journey from raw data to actionable insight.

The future of data science is open, and in 2025, these tools are your ticket to building smarter, faster, and more impactful solutions.