#Sisyphean cycling

[rikardtoenterprise]

WORF BATTLE SIMULATOR

A CHOOSE YOUR OWN BATTLE ADVENTURE!!!!

#a lighthearted post about how worf always seems to lose at battles #if u think about it...the way he goes about battles is kind of sisyphean #worf forever fighting...forever losing...the cycle repeating itself #also this took way longer than I expected to make #was gonna make it a tumblr text post but it was kinda clunky and not fun #enjoy :) #star trek tng #star trek #worf #worf son of mogh

[verflares]

they should do another link "good morning kings let's push this boulder" adventure game ala majora's mask and link's awakening tbh. been a while since we've had one

#torture the blonde man some more. as they say #okay Every game is sisyphean for link to some degree but. you know what i mean #for a character who is traditionally silent its fun to have those games to guess on what they say abt that particular link's mental state #his thoughts and feelings. especially since they're colliding with someone or something else's #i like that guy and the fact he is stuck in this neverending cycle :] may your suffering follow you to the next lifetime! #personal.txt

[catilinas]

you go swimming one time and it somehow fucks up your sleep cycle for like a week

#and then! you are Reluctant to go swimming again because you know it will fuck up your sleep cycle #until you get to the point where you are swimming frequently enough for it to Unfuck your sleep cycle #also i just spent twentyish minutes catching a massive bug that was stuck in my room #and as soon as i let it out the window it flew back in. hashtag sisyphean #for reference it is 1:28am :/ #beeps

[mossflower]

i actually fucking hate my hair

#this close to fucking shaving my head tbh #literally nothing i do to it looks good!! it just ends up looking messy and frizzy!! #i’m stuck in a fucking sisyphean torture cycle of ‘maybe this product will help’ ‘maybe this technique’ ‘maybe this routine’ and i HATE IT! #just once i would like my hair to look nice without spending over an hour dicking around with a hairdryer and clips and straighteners #morganposting

[sorypsoid]

Playing my little turn based strategy game just long enough to get soft locked by my own lack of skill two thirds of the way through the storyline at which point I see a new turn based strategy game on sale and buy it to begin playing my little turn based strategy game just long enough t

#this is my gamer life cycle #my sisyphean task #by the time i have cooled off and am ready to return to one of my unfinished games ive forgotten what the hell is going on and start over #gaming #fire emblem #persona #symphony of war #couldnt tell you the last time made it to some end credits

[arsonists-oatmeal]

I think the immortal phoenix and Sisyphus should have a talk. They may find more similarities then they think

#its about the unending cycle you know? #birth death and rebirth #rolling a boulder up a hill only for it to fall down and roll it up again #how one is framed with hope and the other in futility #how life is a sisyphean task of its own and conversely how there is joy in struggle #no fandom #greek mythology

[lil-miss]

Dib would do literally anything to take Zim’s pain away, but at some point Zim just has to tell her that they’re going to get nowhere if she keeps trying to fix an unfixable problem instead of dealing with the factors they can control.

#Dib just wants her to be well and it makes me sad because if she keeps trying she’ll just end up in a Sisyphean cycle #homestead homestuck housewife #galaxy girls iz #invader zim au #invader zim fanfiction #invader zim #zadr #lesbian alien posting

[aidenwaites]

My mom has some kind of sixth sense for when I've just woken up in the morning and uses this power to then send me like six texts in quick succession asking me about twenty questions about things I have/haven't done and I know it's just checking in on me but sometimes it's so fhdhsnd

#YES i paid rent yes i called dad yes i know to keep checking on the dog's paw no i dont work today no i havent gone by the vet to get ren's #meds yet #life is a cycle of sisyphean tasks like dishes and laundrey it never ends i know #as i was typing this she sent me another text asking if i sprayed for ants when i said i would yesterday #when my dad does it too is when i have those days where waking up to several texts is how everyone else feels checking their email

[foxfyre3]

I too have a cycle, not a menstrual one more of a Sisyphean struggle type deal

#period #menstrual cycle #menstruation #sisyphus #sisyphean

[yourheartinyourmouth]

life is hard when you don’t know if you should do your nails now or after you do the dishes tomorrow

#i always get caught in this loop when I want to do my nails #I have the energy now but I have dishes and other house chores to do #But like even if I have the energy to do my nails after the chores #(Which I never do) #I’m just gonna have to do the dishes and the other chores again tomorrow so like is there even a difference if I do them now or wait?? #my brain cycles through this sisyphean thought pattern about three or four times #then the loading circle just freezes and my brain crashes #And I wind up doing neither chores nor nails 💅🏽

[fruitsilly]

Hate and rage and seething

#they don't make it fucking easy to do my cunting laundry here shitting hell christ almighty #i have to download this stupid fucking shit ass app #and then i put my bank account details in to pay for a washing machine to use #but i have to exit the laundry app in order to confirm the payment through my banking app #but the laundry app is so fucking shite that it removes your details every fucking time you exit the app #so it was just a sisyphean cycle #and i don't have any money in my paypal acc so i couldn't use that and it's days until any money comes in it from a bank transfer #this all lead to me having an autism meltdown #i have a meeting at 2pm (in 40 mins time) but i don't feel like being around anyone atm #thankfully i had a second bank account with a physical card i could use #but im still so fucking annoyed #i had to walk all the way back to my room to get it bc i DIDN'T KNOW I'D HAVE TO FUCKING DO ALL OF THIS SHIT AND THAT I'D NEED A CARD FUCKI #jesus christ holy fucking shit. i want to explode i hope the app explodes i hope you die i hope we both die #anyways #apple rambles #even tho i sorted it out for now i still haven't done my laundry bc i fucking hate everything rn

[onlyhurtforaminute]

SISYPHEAN-BLOOD DIVISION

#SISYPHEAN #BLACKENED DEATH METAL; #DEATH METAL #BLACK METAL #HEAVY METAL #METAL #2014 EP #PERPETUAL CYCLE OF ABSOLUTION

[chthonic-cookie]

handy diagram guide to the uBlock vs Youtube situation

thought this might be useful, but mostly wanted to illustrate the sisyphean cycle we seem to be trapped in

uBlock Reddit thread :

(there's probably a new thread stickied at the top of the subreddit)

remember to follow all the instructions first! After that you will be trapped in the cycle above, but we're in it together! :)

#ublock #youtube #youtube adblock #adblock #ublock origin #firefox

[xamag-draws]

BBR thoughts 2024

Since I mentioned that I finally dusted off an old project of mine and was ruminating on how I'd remake it, I thought I'd elaborate a little, now that I've solidified some concepts. For funsies

This is gonna be a bit of a long and unfocused one, but I don't share my personal thoughts here often, especially the stuff about my projects I always marinate in. And for once it's something that people have existing context for, so hey why not

So for anyone who hasn't been following me for a gajillion years, The Black Brick Road of OZ was a webcomic that I posted around 2013-2015, back when I was in highschool going on college (which is kinda crazy to think about). It was sort of a darker twist on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, although I definitely leaned a lot more into dark humor more than anything in those first few chapters

I don't think it's available to read anywhere anymore, and I know people have been asking me about it. So here's the full proper archive of BBR, as full as it can be with deceased Flash

I totally used it as an excuse to shamelessly and self-indulgently experiment. It had interactive pages and GIFs and was wayyy too overproduced for what I could handle or what was necessary, but I did have great fun making it while it lasted

Unfortunately, that excess and the fact that I've changed too much as a person by the time I was in college is what ultimately killed it. The direction I wanted to go in was practically unrecognizable from the original idea started back in 2011, so there were many old hold-ups that I felt ruined it

At the time I kinda wished I could start/rewrite it all over, but considering that I pretty much had the entire script done at that point, it felt like a pointless sisyphean task. So I just put it on a shelf and didn't look back for about 8 years, because I didn't know what else to do

Now to be fair, the nature of my art has always been iterative and cyclical; when I feel like my creative juices have run dry I prefer to leave a project to marinate and move on to something else; cycle through other old things and bring in new skills and perspectives into the mix when I'm ready again. Not very productive, but it is what makes me happy to work on my OCs; I'm doomed to hit a wall with them eventually and I need some time to be able to find a new direction

So that said, I'm glad that BBR was left to marinate for that long. I don't think I was prepared, emotionally or intellectually, to tackle it again until now. The Wizard of Oz book (and the entire series of them, really) has always been near and dear to my heart, but there's a lot of context around it that I'm only unpacking now that I'm older

I think I always inherently feel negatively about the stuff I've made in the past, like its faults always jump out to me more than the positives, especially the more time passes. I've never liked that, and I do really appreciate the kind things people have to say about BBR to this day. The fact that it still can be recognized and remembered is very sweet

When I left it, I already found it "kinda cringe", and that feeling only deepened with years. When I took my first look back at it, asking the question "how would I rewrite it now?", at first I took a very cynical approach, as in "everything would have to be torn down"

But the more I sat on it, the more I found that I still see some merit and charm in the ideas I was putting out; I just didn't know how to execute them at the time (not to pretend that I know what I'm doing now, but I certainly know more at least). Turns out a lot of my old concepts could be changed substantially with just a few small tweaks. So I'd say that's a nicer way to think about my previous work

If you haven't seen yet, I posted a first draft of my new designs for some of the characters (the main group, the Goods and the Wickeds). Definitely subject to change, but more or less how I see them now

I'm just playing with these concepts; by no means would I attempt to remake BBR right this moment. Call it a pipe dream among my other ones. But just for fun, this is the direction I'd like to take:

Nowadays I'd probably make it a visual novel, with more emphasis on the visual part than the novel because I'm no English prose writer by any means. It'd still let me play a little with the interactivity while helping cut some corners on the drawing part (only some, I imagine I'd go hog wild anyway)

I've always intended for some events inspired by the sequel books to take place in BBR's past. Stuff like Jinjur's revolt or Ozma's rule preceeds the main events here. So I think it would be fun to follow the past of a few key characters alongside the main story. One chapter focusing on the present quest to see the Wizard, then one focusing on the past events (that are maybe reflective thematically); rinse and repeat

I'm also sticking a little closer to the original text in some regards. Not everything that I enjoy from the books would be translated here, it's still just a very loose fantasy on the material; but I'd like to be closer in spirit at least

I like mature, wise and powerful Glinda, I like kind and vulnerable Tin Man, I like the Wizard being a pathetic yet loveable liar, so I'm sprinkling in more of that for example

I'd like to keep some whimsy, but make it more grounded and a bit more serious to be coherent in tone. I think the original TWWOOZ book was a more realistic fantasy in some ways, even for the standards of the time; I like its simple but vivid tactile descriptions and details like bringing attention that Dorothy needed to eat and sleep

I find it funny that Baum specifically was averse to making his books scary or unpleasant, finding that unnecessary for telling a compelling kids story, but they still can get pretty dark and disturbing, at least for our modern sensibilities. Let's just say that I intend to use the Evoldo and Chopfyt storylines for my purposes. In that way, I feel like a "darker" Wizard of Oz retelling can still mostly be tonally in line with the original and balance it with enough heart and occasional humor

I slowly grew to appreciate the quaint old-timey quality of the original series, as well. The first book is both timeless and very much a product of the 1900s. Originally I tried to give it a little modern or at least anachronistic spin, but it was moreso because it's what I knew best, so these days I'd rather intentionally lean into the time period. Still not fully historically accurate by any means, but at least directly acknowledging the influence

The events of the story span across 40 years of these characters' lives, so I'm drawing inspiration from the entire so-called La Belle Epoque: the time period around 1880s-1920s. Basically I'm cooking, and my soup is old Victorian fashion morphing into Edwardian fashion and slowly inching towards flappers

Some new Dolly outfits

Lots of crazy things, political changes and innovations were happening at the turn of the century, which I think is noted and reflected by Baum in the books as well; the character of Tik-Tok might not blow any minds now, but he was one of the first robot characters in literature at that point; and don't even get me started on Jinjur, etc. Plenty of really interesting stuff one could lightly ponder in an Oz adaptation these days

Aesthetically, art nouveau has always been a big artistic influence for me, and it'd definitely be its time to shine here. John R. Neill's illustrations of the Oz books often keep me company as well. Nouveau architecture in particular fits that fairytale whimsy extremely well imo

I'd allow myself a little bit of art deco here and there, but ultimately its intimidating geometrical splendor is an antithetical to the flowery nature of nouveau and I associate it with a completely different era. Definitely fitting some characters like my Wicked Witch of the West, but shouldn't be overused

One of my main problems with the original BBR was that eventually I lost track of what it was even about; and the original ending felt too mean and unfulfilling to be worth it. Now I'd like to stick to the theme of home and family as my main theme, but in a different, more bittersweet way than in the book

An interesting connection I made is that a lot of my aforementioned older key characters (the Witches, Jinjur, the Nome King, etc) all came from the same reformatory as kids, that's how they know each other. In my recent research I learned that in those reformatories it was usually frowned upon to release the children back to the families, which were seen as the original corrupting influence regardless of the circumstance. The reformatory did everything in its power to cut that connection and make itself the only family those wayward kids were supposed to know and love. That's an unexpected tie into the theme of home that I'd like to explore as well

So yeah that's the current state of it. I have a bunch of outfit concepts I'm slowly cooking, although I'm now sure whether I'd post them... But I do miss these funny guys, and I'm glad some people still do as well :)

#my art #xam rambles #the black brick road of oz #long post #ohsees tag

[vadlings]

1am -> literally liminal night. i have all the time in the world and absolute freedom

2am -> basically 3 hours until morning and im fucked forever. doomed to suffer the sisyphean cycle of life for as long as i draw breath

#vadtalks

[min0uet]

#1 thing i'm most afraid abt in the revival is the candace characterization actually bc we are in a paradox here

fact: candace's endless torment was part of the backbone of the show, one of the constants that kept the plot structure going. phineas and ferb must always do something new. candace and doofenshmirtz must always lose. any exceptions to these rules can't be permanent. status quo must be upheld.

fact: candace against the universe's character development seemed to finally be breaking this cycle. candace isn't alone anymore, she's letting go of her obsession to see the support that was always there for her and thus she's escaped her sisyphean cycle. to go back to the old status quo after this would be massively unsatisfying.

fact: the reboot is supposed to take place AFTER candace against the universe.

so what do we do now

#i almost deleted this it didnt super feel like i have a point to make but i went to the effort of typing it out so. #i mean the solution seems to be to have candace join in with her brothers in the reboot but im worried the show wont break that status quo #like that change would be really huge i just dont know if theyll do it #but if we backpedaled on the events of candace against the universe it would be a huge loss and just really tiring to go backwards #idk man. idk #phineas and ferb #candace flynn #pnf tag #harold.txt