#I gotta put these tags in.. just in case

[mossyscavern]

Do you know about the (somewhat) new game that Hellbent games released? Video Horror Society?

Didn't really know why I thought to ask

If so, what's your thoughts on it?

I do not know..

I’m unsure... I looked at the trailer but I completely forgot about it until today.. I’ll go check it again.

Ok I checked.

I’m not unsure anymore, it’s really creative, it adds to the 70’s 80’s-90’s vibe... (I had to check with my parents first to make sure i got the dates right.)

But I’m way too hyper fixated on the wick fandom to properly look into it.. so...

#asks #hellbent games #vhs #video horror society #I gotta put these tags in.. just in case #I don’t know what else to say

[darlingsart]

Some Skyros silliness!

I like to think that after the ‘my husband’ scene in the book, Achilles was absolutely insufferable about it, calling Patroclus his husband whenever he could and really playing up the whole married woman thing while they were there lmao

#tsoa #the song of achilles #patrochilles #angies art #even tho he’s making that face Patroclus finds it very sweet I promise lmao #he’s just gotta side eye Achilles’ dramatics #is this technically Pyrrha fan art bc this more like Achilles being a silly goose lmao #I’m still gonna put it in my Pyrrha tag in case it does count #Pyrrha

[turtledotjpeg]

when ur squad is size small-medium-large

#hxh #hunter x hunter #melody hxh #senritsu #kurapika #leorio paladiknight #'squad' in this case is mostly wishful thinking on my part but listen it could be so beautiful #and hey they existed in the same room together at least like... Three times in yorknew? #so that means they're basically bffs by now right ??? lol #anyway #feel free to read this platonically or romantically #but if it's romantic then melody better be in there somewhere :P #(i'm kidding it's not that serious) #(just gotta represent my weird little ot3 here haha) #...okay sorry to once again put a novel's worth of tags but i gotta say #writing alt text for this is so embarrassing lmao don't look at me #feels like a bad fanfiction 😂 #i just like it when fictional people hug each other ok

[catjest3r]

Btw if I add lots of piercings or new details to your character it's because I love you very much and I think your character is awesome

#/gen just in case #i just think piercings are awesome and i can put them all over for fun #i wish it was easier to put tattoos on furries but im still working on that #anyways um. id like to make more textposts #i want to talk to you guys #idk what kind of things to say tho im shy... >_< #people are afraid to interact with artists or ahatever but im just a little guy really #ill try to come up with things to say #mallowpeeps #also gotta change that tag soon

[thecryptidwizard]

The second intro for Dungeon Meshi makes me so emotional and giddy every time I see it y'all,,,

They're all so cute and holding hands and shit it makes me smile SO HARDDD 😭😭😭 I CARE THEMMMM

#i have not felt this way about any anime in so long and this series has an iron grip on my SOUL #just having fun with ur friends and the music being so cute and catchy and it ALL GOES SO WELL TOGETHERRR #me when i ignore the fucked up lore #I've gotta draw them eventually. IVE GOTTA #rambles #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #i'll put spoiler tags just in case #dungeon meshi spoilers #videos #Youtube

[nat-without-a-g]

I made the mistake of scrolling around on tumblr KNOWING I follow people who post about the new episodes soon after they come out and lemme just say.

#putting my prediction in the tags to hide them from people who also haven’t seen the whole episode yet in case I’m right #just gotta drown it out first so all the Dndads tags are after this I really wanna make sure it’s all hidden gjdhdjg #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads spoilers #dndads season 2 #dungeons and daddies season 2 #I have seen not one but TWO PEOPLE posting about Rebecca and one of them included me and my husband and the other said they were grieving #i may be worried about the wrong person here but as an oak family enjoyer #who has said VERY RECENTLY that I am going to commit hand to hand combat with Anthony Burch if he kills One of the twins #I’m terrified Sparrow Specifically is about to kick the bucket and I’m going to have to go about my day like nothing happened #MY BEAUTIFUL BOY!! #I stand by that he might have a homunculus/his real body is in Oakvale #you can not go missing in Oakvale and tell me it’s o-a-Kay it’s fucking OAKVALE #edit: it was worse than expected ;0;

[cjsees]

I hope your kidney transplant goes well man!

lots of love, 🐚 anon

Hello and thank you! you have inadvertently started what I think may be the most baffling and fascinating mystery I've stumbled onto in months

when I initially got this anon ask I assumed it was a one-off with a strange sentiment (as far as I know, I'm not going in for a kidney transplant anytime soon), but ultimately harmless, until

I was briefly on @dddeerbo's blog (sorry for the @!) when I came across this ask, with a very similar structure, except without the addition of an identifier (the "shell anon"). the only connecting thread/similarity aside from that is that both this artist and myself have posted tf2 content pretty recently. I did a cursory check with some of my friends and

@cabinette offered me this later the same night, with different wording and type of surgery but the same structure: a medical procedure that "went well". cabin also posts tf2 so that gives us something to go on, but it gets even more startling given a cursory tumblr search, because apparently this has been going on for some time:

@spengsart (sorry for the @!) posted this ask with, again, the same subject, but in august of 2022, almost exactly eight months ago, and due to their response it looks like they weren't exactly about to go in for a kidney transplant either. all very odd, especially considering the time discrepancy, until we come to the final piece in my search so far, which is by far the most intriguing and baffling one:

@pinkcowie offered me these asks, which implies several things:

you, the shell anon, are a mutual with cab, dddeerbo, spengsart, and me, but not pinkcowie

the only connecting thread I've been able to pin down is that all of the above post tf2 content/have posted it fairly recently

all of your mutuals are getting kidney transplants and/or brain surgeries, but none of your non-mutuals are???

so dear shell anon please know that you have absolutely perplexed me AND given me the most interesting afternoon I've had in months. please. please give me more crumbs. I need to find out who you are. I will find this out should it be the death of me. I'm in too deep. I love and fear you. I need to know

#WHO ARE YOUUUUUU #shell anon #<- tagging just in case this somehow becomes a saga #tf2 #team fortress 2 #sorry for putting this in the main tag but I need to know if anyone else emerges from the woodwork with a similar ask #find me. get in touch. I'm in too deep I gotta know more #who is the shell anon

[velaraffricate]

so I've been working on my latest conlang, irkan osla (or just osla for short), for a bit now and would like to showcase its writing system in this post! osla has a syllabic alphabet, not too dissimilar to korean hangul, where letters are stacked according to certain rules to make syllable blocks.

osla's syllable structure is (C)(C)V(V)(C), here's how the stacks work for each type of syllable:

all letters have small, wide, and tall forms depending on their position in the syllable. here are all the letters with their IPA value and romanization:

and here's an example text! i translated parts of the minecraft end poem into osla. maybe i'll make another post just focusing on the grammar when it's more developed. the poem says in english:

What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.

Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.

this post is getting long, so under the cut you'll find a "sans-serif" version as well as the poem in osla and its gloss if you're also a linguistics nerd and wanna know what's going on under the hood (the roman numerals stand for the 3 noun classes)! thanks for reading!

The way regular people would write something quickly on a piece of paper with a regular pen is an aspect of creating neographies that I feel is often overlooked, so I developed this sans-serif version that people would probably be more likely to use when writing their shopping lists or diary entries:

And, finally, here's the poem translation:

pak oṇḍul phan wimbakis?

DET.I.SG.PROX play-AGN what dream-PST.3SG.I?

pak oṇḍul lümaṇiuṣerothi han buloni an wimbakis. kaṣkhaothi han nilothi an. wimbakis, run sëmamkis. wimbakis, run xokthakis, han bumxokthakis. zöga an wimbakis.

DET.I.SG.PROX play-AGN sunlight-II.SG.DAT and tree-II.PL.DAT of dream-PST.3SG.I. Fire-II.SG.DAT and water-II.SG.DAT of. dream-PST.3SG.I, that create-PST.3SG.I. dream-PST.3SG.I, that hunt-PST.3SG.I, and PASS-hunt-PST.3SG.I. shelter of dream-PST.3SG.I.

ṭauraka, run kaak samare? run glutsüna flia?

know-NP.3SG.I, that 3SG.I.ABS love-NP.1PL? that universe kind?

imba ethamo, khaṣiŋli an ka’am hu’aŋni pitë, glutsüna ṣaraka, ti.

some time-NOM.III.PL, noise-ACC.II.SG of 3SG.I.GEN thought-NOM.III.PL through, universe hear-NP.3SG.I, yes.

#i hope the quality of the images isnt too unbearable :') #if you wanna write something with this script go for it and tag me!! but pls dont take it for your own projects and all that #i actually didnt notice its similarity to hangul until after i was done lol #id actually developed a completely different alphabet first but thought it was too boring #and like ngl i am literally so happy with how this came out lmao its so pretty and fun to write #definitely my 2nd if not most fave writing system ive ever developed for my clongs #(also btw technically not all small versions of consonants would actually be used #only those that appear in clusters. but i put them there anyways #like theoretically you could forgo all the wide and tall letters and block structure and just write the small letters in a line #like a more traditional alphabet. but this is more fun) #also hi if david peterson reads this i will literally die thx ily #i just realized universe in the last sentence is supposed to be accusative fml!!!!!!!!!!! always gotta doublecheck my cases man ah man whyy #conlang #conlangs #my conlangs #irkan osla #neography #conscript

[saintbleeding]

at the risk of this being a slightly spicy take like.

i kinda actively don’t want to see “our” jon n martin again unless it’s like. tapes we’ve heard? bc to me part of the fun of the narrative construct of parallel universes is that things cannot will not could not be as they were first time round. im not going to make assumptions or even predictions for a piece of media im not going to consume for months, but im a bit more interested conceptually in their first meeting going very differently - or, as frustrating as it might be, not happening at all. very nearly happening? maybe even them being aware of the other’s existence? but what if it actually was a happy accident with a snowball’s chance of repeating itself.

#EPHEMERALITYYYYY #this isn’t a well reasoned or thought out post im just riffing #hhhhh i gotta come up w a tag in case ppl dont wanna see tmagp posting bc i dont wanna put this In The Tags…….

[yucca-moth]

I'm doing a new playthrough and it's getting me thinking about stuff. I find it incredibly harrowing that Victor basically has a dead guy's brain copied into him and has to do whatever House tells him to do.

Trudy is telling me how 'it's' hiding something, and doesn't trust Victor at all. Easy Pete telling me how he's harmless and "a broken down relic with no place to be."

Got me thinking again about how Victor's just been rolling around every so often in Goodsprings (while I'm assuming every so often switching consciousness to another robot). Why? Why keep watch over Goodsprings? It's not like it's instrumental to the strip or House at all to hang around there for 10 years.

Which leads me to the deeper questions like how much humanity remains in him? How much of the person he's based on remains specifically? Does he still think like a human, or are all the processes now... hmm filtered through machine like reasoning?

What got me thinking about Victor in this way again was suddenlyremembering how I asked him to help us defend Goodsprings in my first playthrough, and he didn't show up. Feeling disappointed. Then I think I used science skill when I next saw him to determine 'someone' (obv House in retrospect) had shut him down to prevent him showing up to help.

Incredibly horrifying to think that someone who owns you could shut you down like that, no matter their relationship when he was human. If House can shut him down, and gets him to do things like follow me around but not get involved, then how much free will does he have over his actions? Has Victor changed in the last 200 years? Or is he stuck exactly as he was when his brain was scanned, except that he has no choice in what he does now if House doesn't like it. Does he get to die if he wants to? Or is he too useful to House to be allowed that? Can House mess around with his artificial brain or just simply manipulate him into doing what he wants the old fashioned way? Is his compliance with House out of habit from when he was human, choice because he still agrees with House's ideas, or is there no choice for him?

I vaguely remember the explanations he gave me in the Lucky 38 in a previous playthrough making me sad. I can't even remember what he said exactly about himself, but I remember lots of questions feeling left unanswered. Which is part of the fnv experience of course... But, in this case I just couldn't even look at Victor standing outside the Lucky 38 without feeling bad. And now seeing him rolling around Goodsprings it's bringing back some of the sadness

I know part of the fun of FNV is creating your own ideas, roleplaying, deciding how to take situations where it isn't fully fleshed out or the constraints of the game are showing. So idk, I hope maybe I'm thinking about it all in a certain way, and maybe I come across or reason out another way to think about these Victor questions in my current playthrough. But for now he's a bunch of unanswered questions to me.

#fallout new vegas #fnv #if any of this gets a very specific answer in game pls just let me discover it myself. I'm sure I've misremembered some details but maybe #when I replay it this time I'll learn something new and it'll put a different light on it all. maybe less sad #uhhh #fnv spoilers #in case someone who just started the game is excitedly looking through the tag. bc that realization of why Victor dug courier out of the #grave is something you gotta experience firsthand imo. not see it in the fnv tags #i'll make a fnv rambles tag at some point but for now. eh

[smalltimidbean]

Hey Bean, you got a little- A little something- Right there- Yeah

#oc: bean #sona tag #this was vent art bc I was in a very shit mood yesterday but I looked at it again and I decided it's cool so up it goes #sometimes you just gotta draw your sona covered in an obscene amount of blood with the implication they just beat the shit out of someone #for the catharsis #I do feel better than yesterday even tho the thing that put me in such a bad mood is still an issue #there is not much I can do about it right now unfortunately #but back to silly arts I guess! #cw tags: #blood #implied violence #eye strain #just in case bc it was pretty bright when I was drawing #but all the blood is much pinker and softer on my other screen now that I am posting but still

[brittlebutch]

it's actually so fascinating to me that Brennan has created a character that maintains a pretty relaxed and mild-mannered demeanor and has said multiple times that the absolute Core of her is "FEAR" and how often we see this Fear manifest specifically in Avoidance; it really nails a relationship to that mentality where your brain fully Stops recognizing the emotion properly out of like, sheer self-defense from the stress of having to carry it all the time

I think this is also perfectly showcased in the way we tend to see Tula swing so suddenly from 'level and steady' to 'snarling Panic' and then back again - Just because your brain has detached itself from the Conscious Recognition of the emotion doesn't mean it can Actually stop itself from experiencing it. So the Fear is always there and always acting as a stressor, but because of that inability to Identify it there's no way to recognize or address it before that final straw hits and your bodymind jumps Straight into Full Meltdown Mode; but then once again, once you drop even a Little bit below that Peak Terror your brain ceases to process the emotion; it's like the most exhausting form of Poor Object Permanence in the world

And even if Tula is aware of this happening to her, that doesn't really make it any easier to deal with / address. Even if you're able to spot the symptoms Around the emotion -- chest pain, irritation, nausea, whatever -- because the Emotion Itself is basically impossible to find, you can't really Successfully Pin Down what the problem is OR a way to cope with it. If you can't figure out That You Are Anxious, then figuring out What Is Making You Anxious is impossible, which makes Find A Way To Make Peace With That incomprehensible. That's where the Avoidance comes in: you can no longer identify what might be a Dangerous Situation, which means that Anything New has a big potential to be Really Bad in a variety of ways (ranging "I don't Feel Good" to "Fully Lashing Out bc you've entered Fight/Flight and can't get out of it" to "Actual Outside Danger This Time") and that means the Only Way you know how to be Safe is to just Avoid Doing Anything New and Only stick to Familiar Situations, because anything unfamiliar is a monster of a gamble you don't know how to prepare for or cope with

#N posts stuff #one could argue ‘we see tula worry a lot tho’ but that’s bc Worry is an Action that can occur Separately from Recognizing Anxiety #now that I know tumblr will put a hard cap on your tags w/o telling you i'm resigning myself to posting rambling meta in post body #but i'm not happy about it; anyway i love how often life is full of Coincidences bc this is something I've Finally identified in myself #like. This Month. like this is brand new articulation for some of the problems i have in life; again knowing this doesn't help lmao #bc even when you know to look Around the shape of the emotion - like 'oh my face is Snarling rn. i'm probably experiencing Something' #like i said bc you don't know What that something is OR What might have caused it then the only solution you Ever get to come up with #is just 'fully retreat and go calm down somewhere else' which INVARIABLY means that you will wind up in that same situation again #and Still have no idea how to handle it bc you never could figure out what caused it so you don't know how to handle it any better than #'fully retreat and go calm down somewhere else'; so 'be somewhere else' is the ONLY way you can ever think to Help it #which usually invariably turns into 'Just Avoid Fucking Everything just in case'; which doesn't work! bc life doesn't let you do that #so then it's just a cycle of falling into the same pitfalls and feeling miserable all the time; gotta love it :) #if you're like me this also gives you Bad Bad Bad Memory bc your brain will Promptly hide evidence of Scary Situation instinctively #like 3 weeks ago this dude ran a red light and almost t-boned me Full Speed & managed to stop like. maybe 3 feet away. #and i like. Startled Laughed and said 'that was scary' and then within 30 seconds i had Fully Forgotten it happened & only remembered #like 2 days ago. Ha! believe it or not this Does Not Help with 'How can I Address the Problem instead of Avoiding It Entirely?' #dimension 20 #d20: stupendous stoats #tula #d20lb

[ramenwithbroccoli]

finally introducing the other character who also occupies a part of my brain:

Meet Giewont!

while the creator of it, Maria Leszczyńska, originally intended to make a war machine, she struggled a lot with finding resources then. however, with her and her family's life deeply affected by both world wars, the idea never left her mind. inspired by utopian idea of glass houses from a novel "the spring to come" ¹, she created her machine from glass. it would be cheap to make, yet durable, available as help to those in need, able to do hard work in times when it was needed - but if fragile peace was in danger again, it could fight alongside other soldiers. as if to set that role of protector in stone, she named it Giewont ². to test her creation, she gifed it to her brother Andrzej, who owned a small farm near the seaside.

Giewont worked as much as four men, not needing to be paid or fed like people would. it was a perfect solution for everybody, the new industrial revolution. that was, until about half a year into her work, glass started to shatter. it turned out not to be as durable as the utopian story made it to be, especially in contact with rough farm tools. small cracks also started to appear after they worked outside in winter, with low temperatures on the outside and hot steam circulating inside. with her fingers and edges getting sharper every day, Giewont was forbidden from taking care of animals anymore, as she would injure them. she was given the only task with no way to injure others - they recieved a showel fully made from metal and was ordered to dig. she did as she was told, even though the work put strain on her already-falling-apart fingers.

but when one day, when returning home, she noticed daughter of Andrzej, Aniela, swimming too far away from the shore and having trouble coming back, long forgotten wire snapped into its place as she jumped into the water to save her. while Giewont did bring her back home, carrying her in their arms, the girl had severe cuts on her body from coming in contact with robot's sharp hands. furious with his sister creation, Andrzej took it outside, desperate to destroy it. blinded by anger, he didn't even notice the storm gathering over the horizon

Andrzej took the metal showel and struck Giewont on the side on their head, then again, until her body fell and crumbled to pieces. He covered it with sand and raised his hands to deal the final blow.

that's when the lightning struck.

and the man fell to the ground, dead.

the sand melted from the heat around Giewont, filling the empty spaces and connecting the pieces back together. raising from their shallow grave, with body more rigid than what she was used to, she took her shovel and decided to bury the man, with what respect they had left for him. that was, after she dealt the final blow herself.

although miraculous, the lightning didn't return her to the previous state of being. their motions were stiff and some parts of theirs got lost forever among the sands of the beach. the part of her head where the first blow was dealt never worked properly again, rendering Giewont deaf in one ear (or whatever was left from it). however it did some good as well, as it widened the space around her mouth, finally making them able to talk - even if it was simillar to a whistle. determined to help people but with a body that kept hurting everyone around her, Giewont set off into the world, trying to find a home and piece herself together, leaving parts herself and a dead body behind.

footnotes below the cut:

1. "During one pause in their journey, the elder Baryka tells Cezary of an entrepreneur who, along Poland’s Baltic coast, devised an ingenious method for manufacturing durable glass from the vast reserves of pristine sands that had lain for eons beneath coastal peat fields. By a massive Rube Goldberg-type arrangement of channels and a creative method for harnessing the westerly winds (the storytelling here is a literary engineering feat in itself), an incursion of the sea provides power for converting the extracted sand into glass. From this vitreous wonder substance, prefabricated houses of glass are built inexpensively. The houses are strong as steel, hygienic, and easy to heat in winter and keep cool in summer. Whole villages are built with houses of brightly colored glass. Life becomes less of a struggle for mere existence, more civilized, and without the need to toil incessantly. People eat less meat or no meat at all, and begin to revere farm animals as sacred beings. For the reader, the digression serves to freshen the mental palate. For Cezary, however, the story is altogether beguiling, raising the utopian prospect of a more wonderful life, reunited with a homeland that might have been his to begin with and a father he has just rediscovered" - via neh.gov

wow thanks for skimming through footnotes as well! as a reward, here's the first ever design of both Janka and Giewont (which proves they were both created around the same time :] )

2. "Those knights had been in a deep sleep for hundreds of years and they only would wake up if it is time to fight on a great battle. When this day comes, the earth will move, there will be thunders that would shake the sky, many trees will fall and break, and there would be noises when the Border Mountains will break. On that moment the knights will take their horses and they will gallop to fight for Poland once again." - the legend of the sleeping knights

a lot had changed since that time :]

#i hope it wasn't too long :') #sorry if tge drawings vary in between them i kind of drew them in way different times #AND BTW i know all of them have cracks but yellow cracks were supposed to apper after they got almost killed #i just never did the drawing of original giewont. huh #me when i try nkt to give my oc a backstory the lenght of do you love the colors of the sky post -> 😰😰 #OH AND ALSO she doesn't have to be purple. thats just what i went with because of my pens but. shes glass #they can be blue. they can be green. they can be yellow or rainbow or whatever. she can be see through. so if i draw her again and the colo #is different don't yell at me alright? the cracks stay yellow tho #spg fanbot #<- i mean. technically it is the same case as with janka but im even less sure now. can remive the tag at request #oc #original character #giewont spg #<- gotta remember to put spg there or mountain fans of tumblr will come for my blood #welcome to the family giewont :D

[gnzma]

"sometimes you-- i mean, sometimes ya just. wish you could pull out your organs-- not to die, just pull out your intestines like those guro art from tumblr or somethin'. and then put it back in. just to pull and bite into it.

y'know?"

#❌|| ʙɪɢ ʙᴀᴅ ɢᴜᴢᴍᴀ ɪs ʜᴇʀᴇ! 💀 in character ||❌ #gore tw #??? #i mean i guess nfdmasg #ask to tag #just in case #ooc mood i gotta put it in ic words

[coolcarabiner]

butch affirmation: i will not give in to the pressure to perform femininity for the comfort of family members. instead i will be my dyke-iest self and revel in the giant dick energy that comes from knowing that my silly guy outfit and hairy legs are enough to cause grown adults to have meltdowns. i will remember that being visibly butch empowers others to follow their paths, too, and i will not apologize for it.

#maybe i am just. putting stuff on my parents that won’t happen but also. it’s probably going 2 happen so i gotta emotionally prepare in case #supposed 2 be celebrating my graduation n all i feel is dread actually. #well that’s not true i’m very excited to see my brain brother but family. eughhhhh #butch tag #butch positivity #posts

[sisterdivinium]

I did some gushing over WN on Dreamwidth for the Snowflake Challenge if anyone is interested.

#you're probably not but i'm linking you to it either way. did another little graphic of our ladies because have you Seen them #i've been active lately huh? don't get used to it lol i think i'll need to disappear for a while for boring real life stuff #i do intend to have psychosis ready as soon as possible though. gotta go back to rereading it for revision. i'll keep you posted #not putting this on the main tag because meh #i don't need to preach to the choir lol! #also fwiw you *can* leave comments as a guest over there kinda like on ao3. just in case anyone ever wants to say anything #for the time being i keep anon comments on. if i get trolls (pfft because i'm so popular LOL) i'll turn it off but right now they're on