#side note though

[finitevariety]

There is nothing more valuable to me than the long and solitary process of going from being really shit at something to slightly less shit. I'm not being sarcastic! i love making absolute garbage and believing in it and spending enough time gnawing on it that it becomes merely quite bad.

[brickcollector]

First test of my Christmas card block print!!! And dilly bean who is my vigilant helper (lap warmer)

[fandombrainrots]

People who wanna stay active in the summer, but have a terrible heat tolerance, just walk in circles in your kitchen!

I am slowly going insane. I’m started at 200 steps, I’ve been walking for three hours. I’m now at 8000 steps. Help

[abandoned-quiche]

I LOVE ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS BTW. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR HATE FOR THEM ON MY POST

[whenthewallfell]

Sometimes love is finally getting the courage to give flowers to the girl you like, because you found them growing in the meadows and they reminded you of her, wild and beautiful and free

Sometimes love is choosing to smell oniony for the day rather than telling the boy you like that you recognise the flowers he's picked for you

[curiouscatastrophe]

Decorated the frame for my beloved print from @illusioncanthurtme !!

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 3 of Alastor's really bad awful day~ What's worse than having to go on a fake date with your rival ? Your other rival (one-sided) deciding to play paparazzi, of course.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (end)

[therealsquiddo]

1 year since Lifesteal season 5 ended... can I admit a secret it breaks my heart a little bit every time i see pb&j. they were my first proper lifesteal team. we renamed the groupchat to pb&js. peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. i spend days and nights awake working on hacks for them just to be excluded...

[meii-jasmine]

We stan Filipino Miku! 🇵🇭

She has her own Mikutoda tricycle, eating kwek kwek before the rush hour

[windwenn]

Stop that right now jimothy

[rayroseu]

You know what's sick as hell about the design of the Briar Senates??? It's that their design mirrors the weapon of the Draconias 😭✨

I know they're getting flak rn bcs they feel like "boomers who's against any progress because they value toxic tradition" but i don't really think they're like... entirely evil lol or the root of every bad thing that happened in Malleus'/Lilia's life (though im side eyeing them as one of the perpetrators still lol)

Tbh, removing them would also cause more harm (just some social issues inside the fae society tbh) than good imo, (I know many ppl say this bcs they think removing the Senates would make it possible for the peace between human and faes, but the thing is, the Senates aren't the only group that thinks this way, almost the entirety of Briar Valley does lol so forcibly removing them now would only come off as "Malleus forcing "human ideals" on the faes just because he has spent 4 years with the humans"(plus is the understanding between humans and faes truly achieved if you try to silence one group(even if that group is kinda disagreeable with anything human related lol), plus realistically the faes would trust their fellow faes first rather than some humans,

so for me, Briar Senates doesn't give off the vibe of toxic old people who drags others down in their toxic practices (while that can be an accurate description i feel like it generalizes too much about their behaviour), rather than that, Briar Senates feels more like thorns, like thorns that surrounds Briar Valley, they're not exactly harmful unless you go against them, but ultimately they're still protection for Briar Valley.

Which makes it fitting that their design has a similarity with the Draconia's weapon, they're the thorns that protects the Draconias, even if it means sheltering them.

And, tbh, if the Senates other job is to ensure Draconias lives, they're kinda doing a "decent job"??? If we can assume through Maleficia's (and Malleus' case), since we didnt hear about her leaving the Senate's side, she managed to survive for so long, unlike Meleanor😭 Also could explain why they're so enraged when Lilia arrived with the news that Meleanor died and why they hated the weak bcs what would weakness could protect JJDSJD Kinda wish their hatred against Lilia wasnt that he was a weak bat fae, but rather they doubled down on the fact he failed protecting Meleanor, imagine if Gen. Lilia wasnt as great in magic as the fae nobles were, yet he still managed to earn a position beside the Princess, all that hard work only to fail at the most crucial time, it wouldve make sense in the Senates' side to say, "Meleanor shouldnt have appointed him" (because "he's weak from the start")

oh additionally, this is just my assumption, bcs I felt like the way the Senates recoiled when Lilia hatched the egg was kinda... random?? so this is my made up reason lol Remember, the Senates were adamant that Maleficia should only be the one to hatch the egg because she's a Draconia, but Lilia did it and he's not a Draconia, What if because Lilia hatched the egg, it also affected the development of Malleus?? Like maybe for instance, it affected Malleus' lifespan, maybe he still lives more than one thousand years but he won't live for another thousand years like a pure Draconia because he's been hatched by Lilia as opposed to who they wanted it to be, which is Maleficia, OF COURSE Lilia hatching the egg is heaps better than Malleus dying before being born, but this is just my auto thoughts regarding the random hate reaction the Senates did when Lilia hatched Malleus lol

Interestingly, the placement of the stone of Draconia against the thorns (of the Senates) can also be hinted at their relationship with them??? In Meleanor's case, her stone is on top of the thorns, which may indicate that she's not under the Senate's commands or that its just telling she just lived distantly from the Senates, most importantly her stone is bigger than the thorns which may tell the fact that the Senates worships her because she's powerful and greater than them, and she's not someone who can be trapped/ordered around within the Senates. But, tragically, in Malleus' case, his stone is under the thorns, like its telling that he's under the Senates protection at all cost and his stone is little compared to Meleanor's because he's still young.

I also have a theory that the Senates are part of Briar Valley's land, like its been canonically said that they're the dead faes of Briarland, which makes think that their death is similar to the death of Conall from Maleficent 2, when Conall was buried, his body literally morphed to the land, which makes me think this is how the Senates used to be buried, when they die, they become one with the land, that's why you can't just remove them, when they are literally the Lands of Briar Valley,,,, get it lol

Though this is making me think that if this is the case then Maleficia's city,,, if the Senate's presence are the strongest there bcs that's where they're nearly buried, does that mean around Black Scale Castle is just lowkey a graveyard.... Is that why Halloween is special for Briar Valley bcs they have close ties/respect for the dead and Halloween is essentially about honoring the dead 😭✨

Off topic, but maybe the thorns part of the Draconia's staff may also tell about their age. Notice how Meleanor's staff has 3 twists which may tell that she's atleast 300~ years old, (if each twists signifies a century), while Malleus' staff only has one twist on its thorns which is accurate considering he's only 178 years old (one century).

If this is true, I'm kinda curious about Maleficia's staff... does that mean hers will be convered in thorns (she needs at least 7 twists (7 centuries~ and more) there on her staff 😭✨)

[bei-b]

SVT's honey badger resilient maknae

[hotvintagepoll]

I saw another vintage poll the other day where one of the actors was a guy currently in his 40s, so I just wanted to say thank you for keeping your vintage polls actually vintage.

[theysangastheyslew]

Hurray for more pre-war shenanigans 🥳

Feels kinda anti-climatic now considering how long I wrestled with this one but oh well! Who has time to learn how animate things anyways? 😆 Now would this have worked better time-wise if LH were talking to Magath and Pieck? Yes, but it’s hard to pass up the opportunity to call Yelena a bitch :)

[thewertsearch]

ROSE: Illumination of the road to victory for all is an asset considerably different from command over the outcomes of decisions made by individuals.

...so, for those unaware, there's a character in Worm known as Contessa, who happens to have one of the most hilariously powerful abilities in the setting: the infamous Path to Victory. Basically, Contessa can specify any arbitrary goal, and her power will inform her of the exact set of actions that will cause her to achieve that goal - and, yes, that's exactly as broken as it sounds.

For example, if her goal was to gain access to an encrypted computer, her power would simply tell her what password she needs to enter to unlock it. Similarly, if her goal was to win a debate with someone, her power could tell her exactly what arguments her opponent would be most receptive to. There aren't really upper limits to this ability, either - even if Contessa's goal is as ambitious as 'legally obtain a quadrillion dollars', or 'take over the world', her power will always be able to find a workable Path - provided there's at least one possible timeline where she can achieve this goal.

Anyway, Rose's new power sounds a hell of a lot like this ability. The only real difference seems to be that, while Contessa can see the Path to any arbitrary goal, Rose can only see a Path to the most 'favorable' outcome for the party.

Even with that restriction, this is still an astoundingly powerful ability. If Rose knows the most optimal actions to take, then she should be practically infallible, even more so than Doc Scratch - assuming, of course, that she's not blinded by the same 'dark pockets' that he was.

... although, that would be a good way to nerf her power down to a reasonable level. My theory is that those dark pockets are parts of Homestuck's plot that Hussie hasn't finished writing, so maybe Rose can only see Paths involving Homestuck lore that Hussie has thought of; in other words, she can't plan around future events that the author hasn't drafted yet.

That's how I think this probably works. If she tries to see, say, a Path to defeating English, then her power will only provide one if Hussie had already ironed out the details of Homestuck's endgame when this panel dropped. If that's still in flux - which, considering Hussie is a very seat-of-your-pants kind of author, is very likely to be the case - then all she'll get is static.

[theokusgallery]

Notes app doodle. The boy!

Sorry for the weird pixelization. I think it kept compressing the drawing every time I exited out of it