#and just generally was offline

[wabisaba]

oops i disappeared again 💀

#i went to alaska for a week!!! #and just generally was offline #also still don't know if i got that promotion or not lol #what did i miss? everything? #missed u guys #sorry i keep leaving wah #sarah.txt

[spearxwind]

I have to figure out a way of getting more interest in my oc stuff without needing to draw as much because I dont have the time or energy to draw as much as I would like, which includes a lot of concepts and/or scenes that are in my head only but can't commit to drawing, but it feels like most people are only interested in visual stuff as opposed to just written stuff (and for good reason, visuals are flashy and all!) It just makes me a little sad that I cant draw and share everything Id like to show, and what I can do most is talk about it, but that barely ever gets responses unfortunately

#in general though its hard to keep an online presence recently im so tired from everything all i wanna do is play videogame or watch youtube #and I dont have that much time to even think abt ocs cause of irl stuff ^^; case in point- ive been struggling with CD a LOT #for many reasons. so i have been focusing on HR instead bc oughgh i love it sm. but even so I have trouble finding time to just #THINK about it?? its so wack. like just thinking abt it takes time!! #thunderclap #idk man kjdffdk this is so weird i dont like being in this weird transitory period of my life i want this to be done #a lot of the ppl i spent time with online are also incredibly offline lately as well so i dont have as much of a reason to be online myself #everyones busy everything changes. very strange feeling

[horrorlesbians]

honestly i wouldn't be surprised if colleen intentionally sang in her "apology" video so she could copyright claim youtube videos of people who used clips of it when they make videos about the situation (IIRC she already has). she makes a clear point in the video that she is mad that people are making money off her "demise" so it would make sense. she also apparently put the song on a streaming service in an attempt to profit off a video of her not explaining child grooming and abuse allegations. wouldn't be surprised if all of this was a calculated move from her team as a last-ditch effort to push the attention somewhere else because there is no way to truthfully explain what she did and apologize for it while making her still seem like a good person

#🦌 #it's still dumb as hell but i almost wonder if she wanted to just ruin her career so she could leave the internet #bc once something else pops up and she's completely offline the general public will move on #sadly the song is trapped in my head bc i watched too many commentary videos about it

[nicosraf]

I've been fighting a mysterious infection and dealing with a lot of fever and really really bad pain... i hate to just lay here weakly and rot but ive been feverishly dreaming about angels in grocery stores filling the cart with gummy snacks and angels in clothing stores getting really stressed about the poor quality of modern human clothes

#sorry for my absence and i will probably be offline some more more but #sending everyone good health and luck and love #mine #sometimes i consider abm angels/demons in modern times but also just general angels as creatures at the gas station #How would angels feel about the Man and Woman section at clothing stores.... which section is an angel allowed to buy from...

[neoneun-au]

also add 'naur' to that list that shit makes me so irrationally irritated

#esp cause it was used so much offline i just #fist clenched #shut the fuck up #fjdkfhds #im really a crusty old bitch when it comes to internet slang/memes tho tbh i think theyre generally very irritating #mads.txt #could wax on about why but no one cares lol

[thebirdandhersong]

Out of town (tumblr) for the next little while! Things are happening and things need to get done..... Let me know how i can pray for you!

#lots of love :) #life is just very loud and busy rn (essay season.....lots of prereading......too many things to sort out) and i need to be spending less #time on social media in general #will pop back on very briefly maybe once a week but for the most part i shall be offline for maybe a month or so! #anyway let me know how i can pray for you (requests and also praise and thanksgiving)!

[trentskis]

how are man utd sending sancho off on a personal training programme AGAIN because of a "disciplinary issue" like at this point i think ten hag needs to look inward because his demonic ass has been the only thing in common both times and jadon needs to hightail it out of that stinky ass club

#i really reeeeally really dont think sancho is to blame i just get a feeling. esp since he went to the trouble of posting a statement abt it #and he is generally very offline #ten hag took the devil thing too serious

[arolesbianism]

Some stuff I've drawn semi recently

#keese draws #oc art #oc #ocs #furry #furry oc #furry art #Ive been going thru it recently but Ill survive #on the bright side the pet sitting job for my aunt is coming up soon #so Ill have a house to myself for a bit at least #Im probably still gonna be fairly offline for the foreseeable future unless I somehow manage to fix my sleep schedule anytime soon #not to say I will be on any sorta complete hiatus or anything just that Im not getting any more active most likely #not that I think anyone rly cares at this point since its been the norm for a while now but yknow #Ill still be around to answer asks and stuff just dont freak out if I take a lil bit to see it 👍 #anyways enough of being a downer Im actually pretty happy with these even if theyre mostly just doodles #also I havent posted any art of these guys in a While but say hi to them while you can cause theyre back into the void of my brain now #first is keese (the oc™) second is toon and third is clyve #all from different stories but toon and clyve are both from the magic cat universe #their paths never meet tho the closest connection they have has to go through like 4 characters first #you can also tell theyre from different stories because one is anthro and the other isnt lol #generally speaking I consider anthro designs slightly more canon but both are canon depending on the story #not in a shapeshifting way just in a me being an inconsistent bitch sorta way #but yeah keese the oc is much older than either of those two I just dont talk abt them or their story ever #but hey if any of yall remember suckerz those two are besties #suckerz is sort of younger than the other two and sort of much older than all three #shes a sort of updated version of a reallyyyy old sona sort of character I had in like 6th grade I think #back during my lilo and stitch experiment oc era where I had one that was music themed #I also had a digimon variant of her she was called like beatramon or smth like that #she was basically a hypothetical music mascot and shes kind of still that tbh #if I ever get enough into making music that I start posting shit it will be my music mascot

[storfulsten]

hey uh sorry for disappearing yet again for a couple months. don't have much of an excuse, though things have been more stressful than usual, offline life having involved family and hospitals and stuff, but not gonna go into any details, things are better now either way so ye. my way of coping with things have been mostly to just play games (ffxiv mainly, leveling alts and other grinding can be a good distraction sometimes) and nothing else to keep my mind off things, so haven't been able to focus enough to do much of any art at all. I am hoping to get back into the swing of things, I am back on my meds that I skipped out on for like a year due to various reasons, but they seem to be helping again so yeah, fingers crossed that things will work out and such ha

#also any and all social interaction not offline has been nonexistent due to things and I'm sorry for general unresponsiveness #again hoping to get back to being ever so slightly less antisocial at least sometimes #now that things are mostly calm again hopefully things will get easier in general idk lol #also I did actually doodle yesterday for the first time in like two months #just a random doodle of my viera alt that recently got to shb #he's very special to me and is a very good edgy bunboi bean that's been getting a lot of playtime these past couple months #he's very much a comfort alt based on a certain uhhh vibe that's been so important to me lately so idk felt inspired for once ha #so maybe I'll post that later just to post something idk we'll see #but ye fingers crossed I can get back onto the art train again properly soon #bc really more bombeep is not gonna draw itself and I'll be damned if I'm not letting it die just yet even if everyone else has jumped ship #it's my comfort ship and I do whatever the fuck I want art wise so heck yeah more bombeep soon hopefully ha #but ye anyways laters and such #also unrelated but corpse released a new song recently you should go listen to it #it's very good makes me feel really nostalgic and I dunno why #but ye stream DISDAIN on spotify or yt or something or don't you do you ha #ok laters forreals this time mmbye

[cuntstable]

the thing about ao3 dickriders and the "proship" crowd at large is that it's essential to understand that they operate entirely on bad faith arguments and that strawmanning is a favorite pastime of theirs, which is where you get them falsely conflating resources for combating csa with content that exists for the express purpose of sexually exploitating children as to paint perceived and would-be detractors as pearlclutchers allergic to the presence of mature subject matter. like, I'm not going to pretend for a moment that these arguments aren't absolutely fucking batshit ridiculous but I don't know, it's just a particular brand of insidious that I don't think can be laughed off as just chronically online weirdos being chronically online given how horrifically misunderstood of a topic the general umbrella of sexual abuse is far beyond greasy fandom shipping corners of the internet.

☝️

#not even adding anything like youre exactly right. #and said it better than i could #and like to be clear that post i made is like. being sarcastic like Sureeely these people understand. but anyway #like i think i talk fairly often about the way that peoples poor handling of sa in fiction and the fetishization of it cannot be separated #from how misunderstood it and abuse in general are irl. as well as rape culture etc etc. #like if it truly was just Online Shit i wouldnt bother w any of it but its always going to be a symptom and representative of larger offline #societal issues and also like. obvs rape and csa ’’’erotica’’’ is also often used as a tool in actual abuse cases. like it IS that serious

[outeremissary]

Having one of those weeks of "is this the monthly Malaise or am I about to have a real mental health rut"

#I think I feel a bit bad for not having seen success for a bit on a large project or one for other people #my to-do list... I'm trying #think I just feel socially weird too. as usual I would benefit from touching grass #I know I've been on more than is good for me lately and I'm just trying to distract from not liking how creative projects are going #or feeling lonely but not very socially confident for a while #for me social media is generally an extremely poor substitute for other forms of interaction (including other online interaction) too #it's like candy. it's fun in moderation but the more of it making up your diet the sicker you feel #and socially ambiguous in a nerve wracking way with how uncertainly part private/part public it is #especially on tumblr where so much interaction is indirect and one way. it's not how I function best I fear #it can be fun! I enjoy it much of the time. but it can also be very stressful and confusing. #a solid 'touch grass' (or touch snow) time is likely approaching if I feel weird a little longer haha #but jeez! I should knock some stuff off the list first. #I'm up too late tonight. I know that. lack of satisfaction on projects I know #okayyyyy I'll maybe prep one last thing (sunk cost fallacy) and go to sleep properly like I should've ages ago. morning will be rough. #I do miss the ways people interacted on Twitter #rambling #you should know half the time I have some way too long tags it's because I meant to say one thing and then just kept going without thinking #I think I talk too much online because offline I don't talk very much. not many people to talk to.

[citadeloftherisingstar]

poor quality but look at these 2 bozos 😄🤭

#ski jumping #manuel fettner #jan hörl #jan hoerl #wisla24 #polishtour24 #first gif: jan is talking and manu is like - offline lol #he looks at jan like 'oh you're so cute but why are we here?" 😄 #in the second one he catches on #time to be charming and say sth funny #😎 #also - even though he is not the youngest - jan is the mascot of the team #you cannot convince me otherwise #he has the right vibe #he has the right vibe for team austria in general 😂😅 #i guess he ended up in the right place in life lol #also also i just remembered that manu is an olympic gold medallist and it made me go: aaaaw #nice 😊😊😉 #filed under: my random sj thoughts

[tiercel]

#Im gonna be honest man i dont think i can take many more of these kinds of posts #In which they start with a good point and then its clear they have some personal opinion they want to shove in there #Idk how 2 tell you but a lot of people just didnt like steven universe & in many conservative parts of the world queers still a slur. lol #Like i get the point being made but these are the dumbest possible examples to get it across. #Im not even going to get into it man i cant im just going to be spending more and more time offline bc i cant stand this shit #emf #Everything you dont like having to be tied to some moral failing is pissing me off in general #Sometimes people that suck will have the same opinions as you just because a republican likes chocolate icecream doesnt mean- #-everyone who doesnt like republicans has to hate chocolate icecream. Sometimes people make points for the wrong reasons

[creatorbiaze]

... honestly, the reason i have trouble taking care of myself & doing schoolwork is bc it 1) is boring asf & 2) doesn't make me feel better

finally showered? ok im now cold & hair's wet. nothing else changed.

finally ate an actual meal? ok literally nothing changed

finally did the test / quiz / essay i needed to do? ok i can go back to ignoring school until tomorrow & its just repetitive and boring

i gain literally nothing emotionally-

& the fact i don't have noticable physical problems doesn't help me much with that either-

#life in general offline is just boring and repetitive tbh #i have absolutely no interest in it

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Do you think in-universe that there's actual pokemon levels? If so, how do they measure it? And if not, how do they keep things like the battle facilities level-capped? I remember you mentioning before that you think battles are largely for show, and that in gym battles the leaders/trainers will basically "fight down" to whatever predetermined strength level they've trained their pokemon to fight at depending on how many badges a person has. And that basically they're not actually "fainting" from some kid's baby pokemon, they just have a set amount of damage they can take before they concede the win. Assuming I'm remembering correctly anyway.

But like... are those standards just arbitrary? I assume the various Leagues have rules about that kinda thing, so their gym leaders and Elite Four/Champions are trained rigorously (gym leaders more so, I think, because they'd have to learn eight different levels of difficulty by heart, whereas the Four and Champion only need to abide by one difficulty level). But in a battle facility or tournament, you're not just limiting what your pokemon are allowed to do, you're also somehow making sure that your opponents are doing the same, at the exact same difficulty level. If there were actual levels I think that'd be easier (although I'm still not sure of the actual mechanics of how it'd force them down to level 50 or whatever), but if there's no levels and it's all arbitrary, then literally how would they even tell or enforce it?

Or is this the kinda thing that's just me entirely overthinking video game mechanics that have no logical or reasonable in-universe explanation. Because maybe it's just because it's really late here, but I'm drawing a blank. Although, I guess the pokemon universe does have some mind-bogglingly advanced tech that would in no way work in ours, like Bill's machine that turned him into a clefairy or a functional doomsday device 4,000 years before the modern era or even just the PC system as a whole, so I guess if there are levels it'd make sense that there was some kind of tech that could measure and suppress them?

oooh, really tough question.

so your first paragraph summary is basically right lol—what makes most sense to me is if pokemon battles are like, for show, or honor duel type things, where they're—generally speaking—stopped long before the point where either party would do lasting harm to the other. (there are exceptions, like in the case of frenzied alphas or other certain wild battles, but usually if it's not a scenario that is legitimately life or death, they're not gonna fight like it is.) it's just a matter of demonstrating that one is stronger, and their opponent conceding. & yeah, the corollary that goes along with that is that gym leaders and other high level fighters really are, as they rightly should be, much more powerful at a baseline than you are when you fight them—but to make the fight fairer, they'll try to match strengths with you.

levels though. yeah, it's kind of a toughie. even if you don't assume the above, levels are kind of tough to make coherent in-universe. this might just be one of those situations where game mechanics sort of run up against inworld depiction, yeah, like when an npc tells you to press the B button to run? or the apparent metaphysical law of reality preventing anyone from having more than 6 pokemon on their team at once. it might be that in reality, "strength levels" (inc. not just xp levels but also EVs/IVs and that kind of thing, since some trainers (ingo again) have also shown that they can modulate those) are just sort of a thing a high-level trainer and their team gets a general feel for as they advance, and then maybe they have to do some extra training to actually do the moderation, but the general sense for different strength levels is already there. like, maybe it's not as granular as "okay, now be level 37," it's just "yeah put in like... 40% of your normal effort. great."

but then yeah, the idea that there's no hard and fast rule for it makes stuff like the battle subway kind of hard to explain. since like, there's no way to actually stop someone from cheating and going over 50, and if they do there's no actual Numbers for them to point to and say "no, you've gotta take it back a bit." they can only rely on vibes to determine whether someone isn't strength scaling appropriately? that seems like they wouldn't be a fan of that.

on the other hand i do love the idea that modern day pokemon people have invented some kind of machine that can just scan your pokemon and output a bunch of numerical summaries of their general stats. ooh, maybe that's one of the things a pokemon center machine is doing when you heal, it's giving them a lil blip and updating their info chip in the pokeball-or-however-it-works with their latest info. if it was anything that was actually enforcing a level standard i think it would have to be based around that, since modern pokemon are at least partially data based and i think it would make some kind of sense to be able to sort of. put checks on that data.

alternately, there's no actual physical limitations, it's just that if you try that you will be kicked out of whatever you're participating in. and there would probably be like, sports news drama about it, depending on whether you were participating in some kind of tournament. so people generally don't bc the payoffs of winning once aren't worth it when it's so immediately obvious to everyone that they're breaking the rules. (there could even be some kind of like, known scammer's/cheater's art of trying to just barely toe the line of "rule-breakingly strong" without anyone being able to strictly prove it and punish them for it. but for the most part that's more investment than people want to do for not a lot of gain, it's easier to just fight normally)

...but then the thing you always circle back around to when talking abt this is like. from the battle subway forwards, you're not just going down to 50, they can make you go up to 50 too. which is like, how the fuck, even. how are they juicing the fuck out of my level 20 starter to make them match with everyone else. which is why i feel like there might not be any physical in-world numbers about it, and it's just a matter of it being accepted that both opponents should play down to whatever the weakest party member is, and 50 happens to be the standard level the games represent that as for ease of calculation.

-ok wait a second i just went to check and according to bulba in post-bw games, like in the battle maison and further, they stop doing that scale-up-to-50 thing. it's just the fucking battle subway that does that?? hi?? hello?? out of universe i guess this makes sense from a gameplay perspective, since they're a much earlier-game and generally more accessible facility than other regions, so it's actually unlikely that a player would have a level 50 team when first boarding. in-universe, though?? what the hell are you guys doing over there???

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #fuck i know i just threw it in there at the end of a really long ramble but can we talk about that #the level 50 thing. can we talk about it actually. #like you're telling me that other facilities just DON'T. DO THAT. #it's just them. being outliers?? #but that's also the implication to me that like #most of these facilities are like. aggressively high end competitive things #for people who could at least challenge MOST of their region's gyms. and generally they're postgame areas #but the battle subway was like fuck that. do you have a pokemon? you're golden hop on board #what if the lil preschoolers that fight you on the subway really are just like. #kids on their way home from school hopping on the train with their level 10 partners for fun #hides my face in my hands #AND THEN BULBA WENT OFFLINE SO NOW I CAN'T FACT CHECK ANY OF THIS FURTHER #live with it #oh shit almost forgot #pla analysis #ah yes. because this involves pla so heavily (that's just my general pkm analysis tag atp)

[bansheesofinisherin2022]

i really wish ppl would stop associating physical attributes with personality or morality. even if it's only to make fun of bad people. no, especially then. just stop making fun of people's appearance. it's not that hard lmao

#like how old are you? twelve? #is that the best insult u can come up with? #it really bothers me #idk i just didnt expect that behaviour from some of u #you as a general term for ppl who are in my social bubble online and offline #p