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vxidlight · 7 months

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( verse ); main This is the Visionary’s main timeline following her story as it is written in her about. Involves all of her first eight incarnations. If the story calls for it, sub-verses may branch off this one.

SUB-VERSES TO MAIN ( verse ); star trek The Visionary (6) is an ensign medical officer. Marooned with a damaged TARDIS, she decides to blend in. She sends a message to Earth/Starfleet who in return offered her a temporary commission as ensign.

( verse ); the force within (star wars 2.0) The Visionary (7) lands in a Galaxy far far away where her TARDIS is stolen and she meets a Jedi. While searching for her TARDIS she is taken on a journey and learns about the Force. Initially sceptical, she learns there's more to it than initially thought.

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( verse ); seer This is an alternate version of the Visionary that lived on a Gallifrey that never encountered the Time War (in their timeline the Doctor was never sent to interfere with the creation of the Daleks) and Iota Two chooses to remain with the Castellan’s Guard and rose in ranks. Gallifrey was eventually invaded by an infection that stopped regeneration and Time Lords began arguing among themselves. Her fifth incarnation (Olivia Wilde) was still part of the Castellan's Guard, however, worked to help find a cure which was later found by her Prime Self. After she left, this Iota chose to keep the cure a secret and tried to take control of the parallel Gallifrey under the name of the Seer. Save for small differences, her faces mirror those of Prime!Iota, the Seer is colder than her counterpart and desires to do what is most beneficial for her. She is vindictive and believes in justice above all else.

A Jedi Verse; to be tagged Born on a world that was sparsely populated, Iota and her twin brother would run across the grasslands all day -- careful to avoid the wastelands. They were told it was full of radiation and toxic waste because that was easier than telling them that monsters lived there. She and her brother were found, unaffected by the creatures of the Dark Side that lived there, by a Jedi Master who later took them to be trained. Throughout, her training, Iota received several visions of a dark hand eclipsing the Light. Iota later completes her training and builds a yellow-green lightsaber. Her powers are similar to a Jedi Consular Sage from SWTOR. This verse is very vague so it can fit in with all eras of Star Wars. Uses 7’s face.

Guardian (from Destiny by Bungie) Verse; tbt Iota is a Warlock who focuses on using her light to fight over her weapons. Not to be mistaken for a pacifist, when provoked she is a master of destructive void and powerful healing solar light. Sharing her love of adventure and insatiable curiosity, is her ghost, Ip (to her dismay, lovingly known as Ippy). Uses 6’s face.

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thevisixnary · 5 months

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( verse ); genshin impact

Iota and her twin brother, Ganymede, grew up in Sumeru where they were inseparable. Their father was in the Matra and their mother was a scientist and together they encouraged their children's intelligence. Both Iota and her brother were curious about the world around them and attended the Akademiya together, however, studied different things. Iota found herself studying medicine in the Amurta Darshan. It was due to her deep aspiration to help others that she gained her hydro vision.

After the Akademiya, Iota decided to open a medicine clinic in Sumeru city. Iota took training lessons to learn to fight with a catalyst and use her vision to protect herself while gathering herbs.

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bloodpures-a · 2 years

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@phieltatos asked: ❛ you don’t have to pretend to be fine with me. ❜ // pandora

----- 𝕳𝖊 𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝖓𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖞 𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖚𝖙. if his arm wasn’t still burning from receiving the mark, he could have thrown the table they are sat at across the room. he feels as if he is constantly screaming into a void, desperate for someone to listen to him. and yet, she is the only one who listens. 𝚜𝚘, 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚙𝚞𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 ?? it is not that he is blind. he knows she cares but dare he open up to her, he risks losing yet another person. especially now as the skull and snake begin to form on his arm, he risks losing much more than just her. he’s risking everything. the grip on his fork tightens before he pushes bits of roasted chicken across his plate. silver eyes flicker up dangerously, meeting hers before retreating back to his food. “ i haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. “ he says, words biting. “ eat your supper. “

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#:') asshole is in denial #tell him to get it together #first war verse tbt #𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝.#phieltatos #q.

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rebelblck · 4 years

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“ i've slept ! ” sirius exclaimed incredulously, his entire face scrunching comedically into an expression of indignation. sirius shook his hair back out of his face and raised a hand to rub his fingers over his cheeks and chin only to find the rough stubble that seemed to have begun its efforts to overshadow the rest of his face. all at once he found himself wondering when he had last shaved, which transformed into when he had last washed his hair, then showed, then ate, until finally the tall brunet was forced to wonder when he had in fact last slept.

soon enough, the expression of offense and outrage quickly transformed into something akin to embarrassment as sirius glanced down at a familiar coat, shirt and pants that he suspected he had been wearing for far too long. he imagined that if he had possessed any sense of proper shame, he might have started blushing ― instead, sirius made another face and shrugged dismissively. “ well . . . i've rested my eyes. it's basically the same thing. ” // @alohomoraed ♡‘d for a starter for lily

#alohomoraed #alohomoraed / lily ; 001.#verse tbt.#honestly this could be set senior year or during the first war #we like being vague around here lolol #ps. please excuse the lack of icons. i have none R.I.P

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ar-ray-of-muses · 5 years

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@first-sip-of-pep S.C.

“Hey, that’s not a bad make.”

The duck was sat on the floor, her elbow prepped on its padding as she fiddled with her phone, briefly looking up to address the boy and his own. She was still typing even as she spoke; some call it a talent, others a necessary life skill.

She was over for Webby’s sake, mostly - apparently she’d gone to help her granny with something or other. But didn’t mean Lena couldn’t hang with anyone else 'til she came back, right? Besides, she could probably use the connections.

She looked back at her phone, typing away once more.

“You get it for your birthday or something?”

#|| troubled teen; lena #|| a shimmering star; ic #|| unknown universe; verse tbt #first-sip-of-pep #//hope this is cool! pre-bin;sh adow war stuff #//hmu if you want me to change anything!!

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falfriniel · 4 years

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being raised in Hithlum rather than Gondolin would have made for just enough of a different childhood that I really want to explore it...eventually

#constant threat of war vs. (the illusion of) safety #knowing her grandparents (and generations beyond)#being taken after Arnoediad---okay holly i'll stop #ooc. / tbt #verse. / first age / our dreams turned to gold

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vitiiosus · 7 years

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"I want you to fuck me."

dis meme. | @caediteos | status: hella accepting

rodolphus wasn’t sure if it was a simple declaration, a demand-- or if it was a PLEA. in his mind, he heard a plea. but perhaps that was because he himself was pleading for a grip onto something substantial, something REAL between them. a way to reforge the connection that had been yanked apart for too many long, long and painful years. all that time apart. both of them suffering in that HELL. it was too much. and all he wanted was to find a way back to her, to his wife, to the only woman he’d ever LOVED.

--and to SILENCE the relentless noise in his head.

he moved without thinking-- it was all second nature. being with her. how many times had they done it in the past? COUNTLESS. each time more blissful, more beautiful-- even the hard times, the times when it was out of grief, for need of comfort-- or passion, or anger, or heat. every time, still beautiful. he just wanted that again. FOR BOTH OF THEM. he wanted them to have a moment of peace and love in their world where loved had seemed so devoid for too long.

his lips pressed to hers and it was rough, DESPERATE. but it felt so much like coming home again. returning to exactly where you belonged. and as he clung to her, her imagined he might never be able to let go again.

#caediteos #{ kAY BUT }#{ riiightt out of azkaban }#{ idk it's been maybe a week or something?? and of course all they've been doing is fighting etc }#{ woorking }#{ so essentially no time together properly }#{ and this is maybe their first real moment together and just... gODDAMN }#{ like i fully support that after being locked up they are still so INCREDIBLY on point and a TEAM }#{ but it just... takes a moment to fully reconnect?? and almost.. combine the madness i suppose }#{ idk wowies i'm rambling sh amie }#❝ owls. ❞ ( answered. )#( second war verse tbt. )#{...bc apparently i forgot to add the tag for this one omfg }

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antiquecompass · 5 years

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I rewatched Generation Kill last spring (and went through every BradNate fic I could find) and I just finished rewatching The Pacific.... now I've gotta fit BoB in somewhere but all I can think about is how much I miss HBO war fandom ;; I'm going through all the old LJ communities looking for fic 😩tbt to Hoosier/Skinny in the Nashville verse (and Leckie and Cousin Tim) I MISS HBO WAR!!!

It’s been YEARS since I rewatched the shows. I really need to do that soon. I miss the old fandom stomping grounds and folks too! (Though the new people are just as awesome and lovely! But it really was a sort of magical time back in the day right when TP first came out.)

So much good GenKill fic has been lost to time bc it was all on lj. Some behind friend’s locked post, and I mourn for so many lost fics.

(Hoosier/Skinny is absolutely my HBO War crossover OTP. I miss writing them. I should do it again.)

#replies #fandom: hbo war #jkeats

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thomdunn · 6 years

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Smash Mouth wrote “All Star” to warn about climate change & anti-intellectualism 20 years ago—and we turned it into a stupid meme.

Smash Mouth wrote “All Star” to warn about climate change & anti-intellectualism 20 years ago—and…

Medium · by Thom Dunn · August 24, 2018

It was the fall of 1998. Guy Fieri was preparing to open his second Johnny Garlic’s Restaurant, while his clone-twin, Steve Harwell, was in the studio with his bandmates wrapping up their sophomore album, “Astro Lounge.” Beyond the studio walls, military tensions were rising in North Korea, Pakistan, and Iraq, and a little company called Google had just opened up in Silicon Valley; but all anyone cared about were Bill Clinton’s blowjobs.

Smash Mouth had carefully curated the sonic landscape of their first hit single, “Walkin’ on the Sun,” to use as a musical weapon to avert the coming damages that would soon be caused by nuclear apocalypse and climate change. The dopeass organ riff was specifically designed to vibrate on a frequency that would deliver a message of peace, hope, and sustainability directly into the prefrontal cortex of anyone who heard it. Even the title of the song itself was a direct nod to threats of rising global temperatures largely caused by carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet somehow, it failed to stop the dystopian vision of the future they had seen that one time after communing with too much California weed.

The members of Smash Mouth knew they had an obligation, as all pop-ska-rock groups do, to deliver a totally sick jam that would also save the world from its own impending doom.

And thus was born “All Star.”

Unfortunately, we were all too stupid to figure out the idyllic message hidden in its rhythms. Something did resonate about the song, however. That cleverly diminished chord in the chorus took root in our heads and found new life as a sonic meme, a viral idea that would spread from person to person and perpetuate its own existence.

Rather than heeding the foreboding prophecy that Hartwell and his bandmate, songwriter-guitarist Greg Camp, laid out for us in that little earworm, we just used it to make “Smashups” and other esoteric Internet jokes.

We should have listened more closely.

Like Moses parting waters with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the truth was revealed in a tweeted photo of the original handwritten lyrics:

#TBThursday #tbt Original "All Star" Lyrics by: @GregCampMusic pic.twitter.com/65zzzT3caG

— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) February 9, 2017

As you can see, the last line of the chorus was originally different. Perhaps if Smash Mouth had left that line “Wave bye-bye to your soul” intact, rather than replacing it with “Only shooting stars break the mouooohuould,” then perhaps we could understood the truth sooner, and avoided the predicaments of our current political climate, just as they had intended.

When you look at the song line-by-line in this new context, it all makes sense.

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed

From the very opening of the song, Steve Harwell invokes the imagery of some kind of higher power, and a greater global purpose — and the fact that humans are a bunch of fucking idiots by contrast. He cleverly plays on the idea of the “world” and “rolling me” to allude back to the days when people thought the world was flat, and how they mocked and ridiculed the scientists who tried to tell them otherwise.

She was looking kind of dumb with her finger & her thumb in the shape of an “L” on her forehead.

In every verse, the narrator stands in for humanity at large, and this case, humanity is largely a bunch of uneducated manual laborers who think that Galileo is the stupid one, standing there making the classic “loser” sign of the 90s. Except…what if he was actually measuring right angles, attempting to use the physical science to better understand the world?

But no; these anti-intellectual raptors go so far as to mock his masculinity, swapping out his gender pronouns like a trollish Twitter egg. “LOL what kinda loser believes in science?” they say with their French frog cartoon faces, willfully ignorant to the measurable truths of the natural world, and all of the potential it contains.

Well the years start coming and they don’t stop coming Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running

This couplet is revealed as a critique of the US education system, and how for-profit agendas collude with Creationist beliefs through misleading text books that spread mass disinformation across the generations. From an early age, children are told not to break the mold, but instead to fall in line and maintain some preconceived sense of “order” that follows them from school into adulthood, when they start to scold the individuals and revolutionaries for not breaking rules in the “right” way.

This also alludes to the passage of time on a grander scale, and how the anti-intellectualism and stubborn war between science and religion would repeat themselves in endless cycles, even as mankind continues to grow and evolve. Rather than look back and learn from our past mistakes, humanity is encouraged to hit the ground running, and never to question anything—including the fact that we’ve dealt with all these same conflicts before.

Didn’t make sense not to live for fun Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

This is where Smash Mouth predicts the rise of “snowflake” as a pejorative. Imagine Galileo’s anti-intellectual haters mocking his gender while they chant, “Can’t you take a joke?”

So much to do, so much to see So what’s wrong with taking the back streets?

Now we start getting into issues of carbon emissions and sustainability. Our narrator-as-stand-in-for-humanity is clearly coming from a position of privilege, with no concern about temporal or financial obligations—or the damages that his gas-guzzling joyride does to the planet. It’s generally accepted among climate scientists and activists that ecological catastrophe will have a disproportionate impact on marginalized groups, since the rich and powerful can always afford to shield themselves from the brunt of it in their ivory towers.

You’ll never know if you don’t go You’ll never shine if you don’t glow

These words are sung from the point-of-view of climate deniers, who seem to think that unless they, personally, can recognize the precise moment that a 2°C temperature change occurs, then there’s nothing to worry about. Worse, they think that something bad will happen if people stopped using carbon-based energy and greenhouse gases. Until the day that people start literally glowing in the aftermath of nuclear fallout, they’re not going to see a problem or care to prevent the seemingly inevitable.

Hey now, you’re an all-star, get your game on, go play Hey now, you’re a rock star, get the show on, get paid

And all that glitters is gold

In true punk rock style, Smash Mouth invokes the anarchistic belief that Capitalism is a disease, and that overly-toxic economic competition is an impediment to peace and progress. It’s all about games and money.

The use of “gold” can also be read as a reference to oil as “liquid goal,” and the ways in which oil industry profits have steered most of the social, political, and technological progress of the last century, particularly in the form of Koch-sponsored legislation.

Wave bye-bye to your soul

This should be pretty self-explanatory.

It’s a cool place and they say it gets colder You’re bundled up now, wait till you get older

Yet another direct jab at climate deniers who insist that the continued existence of winter and/or snow supports their belief that “the climate is always changing.”

The second part of this couplet plays on a double-entendre: it can be interpreted as the condescending voice of an older generation basking in their ignorance and the dismissive of when-I-was-your-age attitudes that reinforce the aforementioned rule establishment brainwashing of the for-profit school system; or, it’s yet-another intentionally ironic allusion to rising global temperatures, the idea being that there will be little need for us to bundle up by the time that 2099 comes around because we’ll all be dead from freak storms, flooding, or mosquito-borne illnesses.

But the meteor men beg to differ Judging by the hole in the satellite picture.

Despite the fact that it was written 20 years ago, this is another example of how “All Star” predicted our current circumstances in which media, expertise, and evidence are no longer trusted.

This also alludes to the idea that “weather” and “climate” are two separate things — a distinction that continues to elude people—as well as the notion that scientific prediction is not 100% reliable. Climate scientists in particular use the available information to form models and calculations, and while the specifics have been incorrect at times, the larger idea that the climate is changing in disastrous ways still shines through. Climate Critics will always miss the forest for the trees, at least until naturally-occurring brush fires wipe out all the forests.

The ice we skate is getting pretty thin The water’s getting warm so you might as well swim

Crumbling ice floes. Rising global temperatures. Rising water levels, caused by that melting ice. The struggle is real, my friends.

That’s right: by predicting our fiery doom, Smash Mouth also inspired the popular “This is fine” meme. This is an historical fact.

Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas? I need to get myself away from this place.

Income inequality has grown drastically in the 20 years since “All Star” first graced the airwaves—and Smash Mouth saw this coming, too, as evidenced in this vignette of a poverty-stricken person forced to beg for change in order to afford gasoline, despite knowing that their own contributions of carbon emissions will get them away from this place, that is, bring on their impending death.

I said yep, what a concept I could use a little fuel myself And we could all use a little change

This was clearly intended as an ironic juxtaposition, urging us to make a change from our fossil fuel-based energy system to one of more sustainable production—particularly if we are going to continue taking the back streets (once again, a double entendre both for gas-guzzling fuel waste, and the hope that we could extend human life using biotech advancements that now collide with the ecological damage that threatens to shorten our lives.

And then we return to begin, as we’re once again reminded that the years start coming and they don’t stop coming—because Smash Mouth the future was inevitable, unless we did something about it.

But all we did was make a bunch of stupid Smash Mouth memes, ignoring the clear warnings they placed before our ears.

It’s why the songs ends on that ringing chord, Steve Harwell’s warbling vocals fading off like the dying echo of our not-so-distant future. It’s why the song has persisted as a meme: because somewhere in the deepest, darkest recesses of our subconscious minds, we understood what Smash Mouth was trying to tell us.

“All Star” resonates with something primal and shared by all of mankind—but sadly, it was not a truth that we would find within until it was too late.

“Wave Bye-Bye to your soul” indeed.

#music #smash mouth #all star #all-star #climate change #anti-intellectualism #america #pop culture #pop music #politics #political discourse #satire #humor #comedy

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