#figure ill put this here too

[scraffles]

p53

during shadowkeep through season of the dawn the now *insanely* relevant 'Unveiling' lorebook was released. one of the lorebooks is titled p53.

p53 is a protein of proton weight 47,000 and it is responsible for the cessation of potentially cancerous cells. the voice in the darkness/ winnower posits that it is necessary for life to function, but is also a bomb waiting to detonate:

"Would you tolerate a bomb in your body, waiting to detonate if you deviated from the needs of society?

However, without p53 as an enforcer, the body's utopian surplus of energy becomes a paradise for cancer. Cells cannot resist the temptation to steal from that surplus. Their genetic morality degrades as tumor suppressor genes fail. The only way to stop them is by punishment."

the voice ends the tab positing the question "Is p53 an agent of the Darkness, or the Light?"

this is a very interesting way to look at p53. and poses to us a concept-- that a thing must necessarily inhibit life in order for more, greater life to continue to exist. now allow me to bring in another, separate concept.

In the 9th entry, "The Wager" , the voice in the dark/winnower states the insanely raw line "You are the gardener's final argument." But more importantly, it states "That wandering refugee [Traveler/Gardener]* chose to make a stand, spend their power to say: "Here I prove myself right. Here I wager that, given power over physics and the trust of absolute freedom, people [you, guardian] will choose to build and protect a gentle kingdom ringed in spears."

i posit that the voice is incorrect, or rather incomplete. it is not that p53 exists as an agent of darkness' will; i instead posit that p53 exists as the aforementioned "ring of spears" against the *true* darkness: cancer. Cancer, by virtue of existence, kills. It is the only thing it knows how to do (though this is framed incorrectly perhaps; cancer only knows how to duplicate, but by duplicating it drains necessary resources, which result in death. to say a cancerous cell is birthed to kill and then die is merely skipping the middle of the syllogism). That sounds, familiar! In "The First Knife" the voice states "And I had only one purpose and one principle in the game. And I could do nothing but continue to enact that purpose, because it was all that I was and ever would be." Seems a little damning, no? But I do not disagree with p53's classification as an element of darkness. It is a bomb. But am I not a bomb? Do I not kill? Have I never snuffed out a consciousness? Contained within my cellular structure is indeed p53.

I posit that the ring of spears is necessarily darkness.

In the final page of the lorebook, I think the Queen of the Reef describes heaven (or at least some place akin to it), and not here. She states, "

Given the choice to live in any world, any world at all… we would need a little Darkness in it, I think, to keep the balance true. But not so much as we would need the Light…"

Understanding this as an ideal, and not a description of reality as fact, the point comes into focus. The light in its current form, exists. To exist is to prove your existence to use the words of another. I think, understanding this ring of spears as a concept of darkness, the Gardener makes its argument. necessarily we must prove that we exist. because to not do so equates to death.

it means that you must prove your right to live against forces who are very eager to demand proof.

That ring of spears, it is starting to drip with epistemological proof.

The final shape is the paring back of all that can be. That which remains when all that can be removed, has been removed. That which remains after it has been winnowed; after the garden has been tended to. That beautiful, final shape of the garden. Of the flowers and the hedges, the full completion, perfected. In layman's terms, it is the extermination of all life that cannot prove its existence. That cannot prove its *right* to live | exist. That is the philosophy of the final shape. Of the Darkness. or at the very least, all of our enemies right now :)c .

Let us pare back of the darkness what we need. That epistemological proof. That right to exist. That ring of spears.

p53, nuclear weight of 47000, is an element of the darkness;

however, to understand p53 as an *agent* of the darkness is to misunderstand its purpose. That is why I believe the voice is incorrect.

To understand the ring of spears as an agent of the darkness is to misunderstand its purpose.

~~~~~~~

*[the familiarity conjured by 'wandering refugee' seems to directly refer to the Traveler, as opposed to the ideological Gardener which really makes me doubt if this is the winnower, and not some force beyond (maybe this is the witness speaking?). then again the nonchalance the voice brings to the table, "my man oryx", for example, suggests power, almost? i dont know how to properly describe it. the way that this voice speaks to us is this bizarre realm of nonchalance and it almost even feels like condescension at points which feels almost like the point but i dont understand the point that it is trying to make]

...is the name of this lore book supposed to be a pun on 'the veil'...?

also on the wikipedia page for p53 it says

and that feels pretty on the nose

#figure ill put this here too #i want to be a destiny loremaster #the final shape #destiny 2 #destiny 2 lore #unveiling

[courfee]

“Regulus would be proud of us,” James whispered quietly to no one in particular, still gripping onto the painting like a life raft. 

— Tender Curiosities, Baby!  @otrtbs

#ive thought about this scene for so long it just took me forever to draw cause once again the anatomy of cars is the bane of my existence #like originally i wanted evan and barty holding hands to be visible to have the contrast of sad lonely james and sad not lonely rosekiller #but alas cars wont allow it #ahb just still has my entire heart you dont get it #i have a none blurry rosekiller and a just james in front of blue with stars version of this but i think ill only put them on insta... #tender curiosities baby #art heist baby #james potter fanart #james potter #jegulus #rosekiller #rosekiller fanart #marauders #marauders fanart #evan rosier #barty crouch jr #jegulus fanart #jegulus fanfiction #fic: ahb #art heist baby! #mine #my art #hp #ahb #(sneaky end notes: i do have to admit i am not too pleased with evan and barty but this was my first time drawing them) #(so i couldnt figure it out quite yet hency why they look a little. less efforty...) #(also the snake ring is the same design that i drew for chapter 34 of ahb in my little chapter illustrations for my typeset) #((nvm i just checked back and i am fully lying here i used a different one for my typeset and now im vaguely upset oops) #(i shouldnt make decisions only half awake im going to think about this for too long now i am sad)) #((like suddenly i was like. hold up. i had a different design there didnt i... it was an open ring goddamnit))

[puppyeared]

updated Sleight ref!!

#i changed his colors !! #treat this as a suggestion than a solid ref. i spent like 3 hours drawing and redrawing the legs bc i couldnt get the shape right so if u #wanna draw them more planti or digi i do not mind ^_^ get silly with it!! same goes for pelt pattern do whatevr u want with it #the pelt pattern is loosely based on a snowshoe cat which was fun to play with. as u can see they kinda have a butterfly motif going on #if u squint the ear tufts kinda resemble luna moths or swallowtails with the long tail at the end of the wings #i was kinda torn about changing the costume color but it clashed too much with the new color palette so i had to change it #i didnt include the cape here so its easier to see the costume but ill draw it another time if i remember lol #its also a lil hard to see but i put pinstripes on their pants but thats optional. their design is pretty flexible anyway #god im pretty attached to this guy already. hes like semi fan character semi regular character... oc... thing #i should draw more furries. i followed some furry artists for giggles recently and its true what they say. u need furries in your life #btw while i was drawing this i was fooling around while trying to figure out his costume color and colored it as kaito kids suit for fun #and i just stared at it for a solid 5 minutes before saving a picture. maybe ill post it later #my art #myart #my oc #oc #furry art #fur #furry #laika's comet #laika's comet oc #fan character #sleight #ref sheet #oc ref sheet

[ch1zzie]

The original in the bottom

Plus the picture I mainly drew but decided to draw the rest for funny

#thats not my neighbor #milk man #just tried to draw something in my mind to post along with saying some updates #monday the people are gonna give my grandma the keys to the house! while i have to stay at my aunts place for wifi for school #(online school) #my moms gonna be moving things out of storage into the house! AAAA I CANT WAIT #also little welcome home update #im not sure if i said here? wait nevermind i just remembered while typing (it was that i got barnaby and the pins) AAA silly me #also im making a little julie out of clay (if i wake up and their messed up i am NOT redoing that😭) #the legs are a little messed up because julie was gonna be the size of an hatsune miku figure on accident so i chose to shorten her a bit #only because im not sure if im gonna make the others too AND because theres no way hes gonna be THAT tall😭 #also! im making easter art #yes its barnaby and wally again just for fun! but a few changes like keeping their regular outfits because i cant think of anything else!!! #why not the ones in the old easter drawing? welllll a follower said that wallys outfit looked a bit familiar to another not so good thing #it wasnt on purpose just an accident because i hadn't notice BUT im glad i know now so i can be more careful! #im not sureeee if im gonna finish the easter art OR the julie clay thingy but I'd love too! and honestly HOPE to #high chance i will (well maybe the easter art could be late or not) #maaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAA trying to think if theres anything else but cant! ill try posting this hoping my wifi wont hate me... #also i know i said this account was for welcome home posting but i didnt have any cool welcome homey things to put here gahhhhh #ehehehhe once i get my new room and its allllll just me #imma post like crazy (wellll that IS the plan so i hope) #even if its little dumb posts #by the way this post was gonna say on top “i know i said this account is for welcome home posting but TAKE THIS FOR LITTLE UPDATES” #just removed it because i dunnooooo just didded #hehe didded

[mariimoes]

they're getting married, your honor ( twitter drawing 1)

#zolu #one piece #artsgallery #i figure since i put this on twitter ill put it here too #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro

[good-beansdraws]

Very silly sequel to my other Fuuta/Mikoto duet art -- it turns out both VAs were in this singing group anime together! (I haven't seen any other Milgram vas overlap songs, and now I've found two for them, huh...) I cut the songs together to make a fun little duet, but the individual versions are here: 🔥 ⚾

The outfits are courtesy of @clover0101 's au here :D

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #mikoto kayano #i hope you dont mind the tag but ahh i thought the designs were so cute :'))) #if anyone knows of any other overlapped songs lmk 👀 #i want to edit monopoisoner like this where they go back and forth (since the version i like has them both singing simultaneously) #but that requires some pitch editing and it was taking me too long to figure out #this was super quick but ill sit down and figure that one out sometime lol #they both have such pretty voices ;---; #i cant remember if putting links in a post actually hides it still or not but eh its fine #reblog my post boy #just something silly and fun while i try to remember how to draw adfsd #i feel like my art suddenly got worse so im trying to sneak in fun things here and there before i tackle my other #wips/beancret santa stuff...

[harvestmoth]

more rejuv things but its. its just this guy again, im sorry shes all i can draw

#everyday im like i wanna draw :] and then i just end up with this thing on the page #i refuse to draw hands holding. because i cannot and im too lazy to figure it out #oh yea a couple of these i havent posted before because theyre lame to me but ill put them here for now #anyways!! #i was gonna say something about a couple of these but i forgot #oh well #pokemon rejuvenation #does she. lose her ribbon in blacksteeple. i forgot #she still has it to me.. #to me her c15 hair tie is a torn part of the ribbon #anyways again. yesterday i finally figured out what the rejuvrp is. very cool stuff im so incredibly intrigued by it #i have no idea whats going on! but it looks so cool ill try to read it more later. #oh right again about the rejuvrp thing. the character designs ive seen are so so so cool i want to draw them so bad #i think i have to ask about that first though and there is! no way i am going to do that!!! i do not want to bother them #and i think my heart would explode from the fear of it all before i even typed the message. #that and im very lazy! theres a very good chance i wouldnt even draw it in the first place #anyways unrelated but i think if i get another comment from someone on something i Will Actually Explode. #i see someone said something and it kills me on the daily. what is happening... thank you.. i appreciate it very much... #sorry to whoever read all of that. um. hi youre really cool and i hope you have a good day/night #i think being on twitter has done something to me i have to leave it immediately. anyways back to twitter #wait actually i should go back to playing rejuv. im still in the grove from when i first posted the gym leader melia au. im afraid to leave #also play pokemon rejuvenation no i will not stop saying that everytime i post one of these

[betheflyinggrapes]

Pencil flavoured brainrot

#fear and hunger #fear and hunger termina #daan von dutch #fear and hunger daan #and marcoh is there too ig #this was my first drawings of daan. the start of the brainrot n chaos. im still trying to figure out how to draw him #ill just put these out here first ig #to document my descent into fuckery

[mikufigureoftheday]

🌸Today's Miku figure is:🌸

FREEing Senbonzakura ver. 1/8

#They made a nendo for this song too ill probably put on here later so theyre not like back to back lol #either way this song still goes hard #anime figure #hatsune miku #vocaloid #vocal synth #anime figures #project diva #scale figure #vocaloid miku #freeing #good smile company #senbonzakura #1/8th scale #kurousa-p

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[cj-lyric-a-day]

#i stfg if y'all make this tie again #ima fight ALL of y'all #at once #ill lose but like the sentiment is there #debated making the TME Trio one answer and if it won I would make it a later poll that would decide which song I would do #but I figured that it wouldn't be fair having three songs in one answer #but now I can't put as many other songs on here but oh well #also weird just think that the last time I did a poll for this ANRFTW wasn't even out yet #I'm also debating not doing anything from CiD since those songs are generally the same as the originals #might make another poll for that idk #I'm making too many polls lol #chonny jash #cj gothic lit #cjgw

[hedgehogjams]

#SURPRISEEEE I FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET AROUND THE COPYRIGHT STUFF. thats what the weird pause at the beginning is for. sorry #ANYWAY HERE IT IS. FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT. HAPPY SONIC FRONTIERS DAY #also i Think thast the official soundtrack cover i used as the album art. but as of the time im queuing this #the game isnt out yet and im dodging leaks like the plague so it might not be the right one IDK im too scared to really search #i just used the one the sonic wiki used if its wrong ill change it #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic frontiers #< FIRST TIME USING THAT TAG!!!!!!!!!!! YAY #hedgehogjams #also PLEASE dont put any spoilers on this post at the time this is going up i definitely havent finished the game #and i do look at the tags people put on my posts on here sometimes

[socksandbuttons]

Notbme staring at my inktover knd 2019 drawings and going Damn

I need to practice inking agaib

#THE POSES WERE MOSTLY GOOD TOO AND THE STUFF WITH SILHOITTES #some thi gs look wonky but like yeah thats expected but most of it holds up really well #love teen rqchel and georgette the gorls #also the 23 qnd 78 one??? amazing i still love that one #i can no longer do month long challenges but sigh i want to try again #maymay didnt get too far this year but genuiney thats alrigth i still drew her and even have an attempted ask blog update #ITS COLORED IT JUST NEEDS BACKGROUNDS WHICH.... *LOOKS AT THE ONES ON THE BLOG* #ill figure it out #some of it was using mosaic on the screenshots i had and some were painted #like some fool i was #but once i get into it it shpuld be fine #ITS JUST STARTING #i continue to ramble in my tags but thats for future me #im just trying to look for a sticker here #i know i put it in one of my sketchbooks #my fusionfall art continues to be loved by me #damn i could try drawing them again see where my coloring stands now #cant top my past self it seems #but i have more gel pens

[toxifoxx]

#sorry to every recent follower who's seen my nonsense thus far #anyways this time its going in the tags so. vent warning #mfw i will never fit in with any circle im in and dont match their energy in the right way #i like what they like but not in the right way #dont communicate in the right way. dont interact in the right way #dont enjoy certain things they all seem to like #incapable of doing anything right. incapable of connecting to anybody. one such reason why i need to be taken out back and shot #end my pitiful life now because i will never fucking be able to interact with other people normally #i am convinced there is nothing that can be done about it #i need to be put out of my misery #i cant reach out cant talk to them cant ask to be included. ill annoy them. then i wont have anyone in my circle at all. #sure i might seem fun but im only good in small doses. no one would want to be around me too long. #i get boring. i get annoying. my jokes all fall flat #im only good when im being as likeable and funny and entertaining as i can be #i dont belong in any conversation. if i talk im just an interruption. if i talk about what im up to then im just being annoying #annoying people get blocked right? its only a matter of time till they figure out you're one of those. #im not fun to be around its just that simple. thats why no one wants to talk to me. no one seeks me out. not that i blame them #why would they i havent given anyone a reason to #i might as well not be here. its just like school was. i dont exist to anybody. there is plexiglass between me and the world #ok i need to stop now #its my fault anyways

[sunsage]

🕯️ sup

send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character.

He really doesn't get it.

Sun Wukong isn't new to forgiveness, having granted it many times and occasionally (though not very often) being offered it in turn. And he's not... new to the concept of forgiving someone you loved who hurt you greatly either.

(But there is a wide gap between being forgiven and having what they once had.)

But he just can't see why Macaque keeps coming back to him. Back in their world, he could always assume it was mostly because of MK, since the kid was first to make an offer of friendship. Amidst the constant threats to the realm's stability, the safest place to be is among the people you could trust to protect you.

(And if Macaque can trust MK but not him, that's fine.)

But why does he still cling to Monkey King's side here? In this place that seems to thrive on change and new experiences, where none of their (his, mostly) enemies were trying to end the world and death was temporary, why would Macaque need to trail him all over the city, spend so much time in his house and sleep in his bed?

That's what he doesn't get.

Macaque is strong, smart and capable. He is handsome and charming and, once you get used to his acerbic sense of humor, quite funny. He can dazzle any audience and get himself out of any situation, death included. He is (despite whatever image he is trying to project) a kind, brave and extremely loyal person. He doesn't need to be anyone's shadow anymore. He can be anywhere he wanted, doing anything he wanted.

So why would he want to be here? With him?..

Wukong doesn't know if Macaque wants to be friends (he doesn't even dare to wish for anything more, not in a thousand years at least). He doesn't know if he just wants to pretend none of that ever happened (they are not going to do that). He doesn't know what he can say or do or give to make things between them better.

...He does know that they need to talk about it. All of it. Except every time he opens his mouth he says something wrong and Macaque scowls at him or fires back with one of his favourite cutting remarks or leaves. So he backs down (like a coward), because Wukong would rather keep them in this weird neither here nor there place than risk actually hurting Macaque again.

(It scares him to think that maybe he just doesn't know how to not hurt him again. Sometimes he wishes Macaque would really just leave so he doesn't have this hope that maybe-)

...

It's not his place to push or to rush things, not this time. Sun Wukong is a patient man, these days. If there is one thing he can do it's to let Macaque figure it out on his own terms. And if he needs to stay close while he does that, that's fine too. He can wait for Macaque to make up his mind even if takes another five hundred years. And he will. He will be right here, always, waiting for it.

Because someone you love is always worth waiting for.

#sageshadowed #rambled a lot about nothing so im putting it all under readmore #cool introspection bro now maybe try saying some of it out loud or something #im afraid it doesnt make too much sense (m tired) but to be fair he is also very confused re: what the hell macaque is trying to do here #so 'ill just stay put and wait for him to figure it out' sounds like a good plan in theory #unfortunately macaque knows exactly what he wants he just sucks at getting it #because cuddling your crush when he's asleep and being mean to him every time he says smth at the same time is not the way to do it clearly #im tired im really tired but man

[alexcabotgf]

CHARACTERS I SEE MYSELF IN

i was tagged (way over a year ago lol) by the loveliest ro @innerspeaker (tysm sweetheart, this was soooo much fun to do!!! 💙) to share a few characters i see myself in, so here it is.  not tagging anyone cause i feel like everyone and their mother has already done this tag, but if you want to do it just say i tagged you

Olivia Benson - Law and Order: SVU (tv)

Michael Scofield - Prison Break (tv)

Camille Preaker - Sharp Objects (book/tv)

Dani Ardor - Midsommar (film)

Lisbeth Salander - Millennium Trilogy (book/swedish films)

#look at me finally putting this together!!! #in my defense i didn't want to do this back when i had svu in shitty quality only #and when i finally dl'ed them in hq i had to dl the rest of the films/shows etc etc you know how it goes #anyway look at all these mentally ill traumatised bitches yum!! #(pearl should be on here as well but i figured that would be too much) #anyway yay <3 #tuserro #tag games #omg ummm i forgot to include colette my girl colette 😬 lol