#i like small gods a lot

[tiodolma]

Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy... but sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

The citadel had a lot of underground. There were the pits and tunnels of the quisition. There were cellars and sewers, forgotten rooms, dead ends, spaces behind ancient walls, even natural caves in the bedrock itself.

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

...........

This book has the most raw and striking metaphor and smoothest transition to the layout of the city istg. Amazing.

#small gods #discworld #terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchet #discworld: small gods #heli and discworld #gives me goosebumps #this is nuts #i like small gods a lot

[redwitchrune]

something about comfort, blue and orange, and new perspectives

#runes rambles #etho #ethoslab #hermitcraft #can you tell i care about ethos builds a lot #maybe making a post like this more than twice ruins the Vibe but. i just love walking around hc and the lp #i should really go to more locations but my laptop yells #anyway. heres this post with hc ones now #idk what it is about the monstrosity that Gets me #maybe its bc s7 was when i started watching etho regularly. #its just. it holds such a place in my heart #it feels so small walking though it but. god. i love it so so much #it was my laptop lockscreen for the longest time. the hallways of it #(its the youve been ethod lake now) #i really like the windmill through the trees screenshot. its where the 'perspective' thoughts came from #the guts of the monstrosity inspired that too #anyway. etho <3

[primussavethesemechs]

I want the human/cybertronian life difference to be talked about more in canon

Cuz I mean. it’s RIGHT THERE.

Just a smidgen of true acknowledgment I BEG YOU HASBRO‼️

i mean come on all it takes is someone mentioning how long the wars been going for one of the humans to go “4 MILLION YEARS???? WHAT THE FUCK HOW OLD ARE YOU???”

And optimus or ratchet to be like “…5/7 million?” And all of the humans to have a break down CUZ WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUVE BEEN ALIVE SINCE BEFORE THE HUMAN SPECIES EXISTED??? WE WERE MONKEYS WHEN YOU WERE BORN???

And the (woefully uniformed) cybertronians to be like “??? What do YOU mean your species was still evolving when I onlined, how long do you guys live?? A thousand?? A few hundred??”

And the gobsmacked humans to be like “??? NO WE HARDLY LIVE OVER A HUNDRED ITS CONSIDERED AN ACCOMPLISHMENT?? AVERAGE OLD AGE DEATH IS LIKE MID 80s!! TECHNICALLY THE AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IS 72 OR SOMETHING???”

Cue the autobots being like “😨 72??? THATS A CHILD WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT⁉️”

the more attached/emotional bots looking at their charges and realizing that not only are they sparklings compared to them but they’ll die as sparklings too in just a few decades, causing them to straight up have a mini meltdown.

Yeah they’re in a war and they’ve lost plenty of friends, but never to anything as predictable and inescapable as old age.

It’s the seeing-it-coming part that gets to them, the slow dread of knowing that even if they do everything right and keep them out of danger and they stay healthy there’s nothing they can do to stop them from withering away in a couple of decades.

Most versions of bumblebee looking at their charge/friend and realizing his assumptions about the fact that since they’re both still young that they’ll have plenty of time to just. Live together and have fun- are wrong?? Immediately tears. Even if cybertronians can’t cry tears he’s doing whatever the equivalent is and running away to cry in his room. And then running back to snatch them and take them with him cuz HE CANT WASTE A SECOND IF THEIR LIFESPANS ARE REALLY THAT SHORT HES GONNA JUST HAVE TO SPEND 24/7 WITH THEM

This whole concept ESPECIALLY applies to TFP since all of them got their own little human buddy and there’s only like 5 autobots to begin with (of the main season 1 crew) they’ve lost so many of their own so recently, their numbers are already dwindling down to nothing, they’re losing the war and the kids are what’s given them a major morale boost. To continue fighting they need hope, and the kids have kind of become their hope for the future- to know they’ll die off in under a century despite how young they still are is a shot to the spark.

Look me in the eye and tell me bee wouldnt panic hearing that Raf only has 70-80 years to live. LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME HE WOULDNT HAVE SOME KIND OF FIT OVER BEING TOLD THAT HIS LITTLE BUDDY (from a cybertronian perspective) HAS A LIFESPAN EQUIVALENT TO A LATE STAGE TERMINAL ILLNESS DIAGNOSIS. Bee would start treating Raf like a kid with stage 4 cancer 😭

I just KNOW bulkhead would have the worst reaction other than bee, maybe even worse cuz he looks at miko and realizes she’s used up basically a fifth of her entire lifespan already and she’s Still So Little and straight up starts weeping. That’s his DAUGHTER you can’t take her from him so soon it’s not FAIR! He might have to go destroy a canyon wall or something to let some of the anger and grief out

Arcee is Not taking it well either.

She JUST got attached to this one, just got used to a new partner and your telling her that no matter what she does he’s never going to last as long as tailgate of cliff jumper did?? Even if both he and she do everything they’re supposed to do to protect him and extended his life?? Depression time baby

Optimus and ratchet don’t react as much outwardly to the news as the others but inside they’re both 💔💥

These kids have brought optimus a level of contentment he hasn’t felt in vorns, and he sees how bright their spirits shine- Only to now know those precious spirits will burn out in less than a century- it gnaws at him inside, yet another strike from the cruelty of fate

Ratchet is devastated but refuses to acknowledge it, these kids- yes even miko- have become his pseudo grandkids and he’s not ready, nor will he ever be ready, to outlive them. Jacks reminds him too much of a younger optimus, still learning and still hopeful. Miko is… well she has a fire to her that ratchet can appreciate (when she’s not actively annoying him) she’s determined enough to make anything happen which he does begrudgingly respect even if he wishes she wouldn’t just throw herself into any and every situation just for fun.

And Raf…

Raf is his apprentice, the only one of the kids to understand him and listen intently to his stories of cybertron. To show appreciation for his work and his ideas, to Listen and Learn and Improve his inventions. He harbors the most fondness for Raf since he sees so much potential in him, and has taken him under his wing in teaching him cybertronian language and biology.

He feels almost like he’s training a student to take his place- only for the ground to be ripped out from under him to know that Raf will never have the chance to succeed him, will never even outlive him.

A parent should never have to bury their child, and ratchet already feels that he has.

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TLDR the autobots find out humans have fruit fly lifespans next to them and become one big soggy mess of tears, optimus and ratchet included although they try to have a stiff upper lip about it (and fail to varying extents)

I swear this was supposed to be about any and all continuities but TFP took over completely😭 idk it just fits the best since they focus so much on how attached the bots get to the kids

Edit: btw this was inspired from the fact I found out that the cybertronian equivalent to a year (yes I know technically they have solar cycles which are roughly a human year but what they consider a year vs their lifespan/time perception is different) is a vorn. A vorn is 80 HUMAN YEARS. I saw that and went “oh wow a vorn is like a whole human lifespan!😃” and then I went “OH A VORN IS A WHOLE HUMAN LIFESPAN 😀“

#transformers #tfp #transformers prime #Fr tho i feel like ratchet would have an initial outward reaction of shock and mild horror #perhaps some anger(already going through the stages of grief💀) #and then he shuts them out cuz he can’t handle it 💔 #tries to pretend it doesn’t bother him #OH MY GOD HES IN SO MUCH PAIN #optimus doesn’t shut them out but he is a lot more quiet #always has his version of sad puppy eyes when he watches them #like this 🥺 but way way toned down #basically just the eyebrows and small frown #considering he only does micro expressions that’s the best ur gonna get from him #optimus #ratchet #arcee #bumblebee #bulkhead #optimus prime #maccadam

[craske]

forgor i also finally designed dragon v and j

the hunters are very similar to hyenas when it comes to behavior and group dynamics. the females are bigger and much more dominating, they also very rarely have full manes like males do, however the modifications humans made to them increased those aggressive tendencies a bit, so there would be much less fighting between the girls and n if they were left alone

and yeah that means that n is the shortest out of the three, meanwhile j is the tallest (shes also older than the other two by a year or two)

#murder drones #serial designation j #serial designation v #dragon au #my art #fanart #digital art #god i love drawing hunters actually their weird ass anatomy is fun to work with #huge ass wings that serve as the main support meanwhile small front arms is such a silly idea i like it a lot

[beatcroc]

pest control TWO!!!!! heres the first one

adn heres the obligatory bonus bc i can't help myself :')

#i already threatened that little basard twice in these i may as well make good on it #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #the noise #fp ''oh god wait that is not a real rat and also tastes awful'' moments. he doesnt actually have any interest in eating that thang ok #even if seeing a small scampering little guy like that WILL activate his prey drive without fail #peppino loves it he thinks it's the funniest shit in the world for fp to go after noise. so he is always encouraging this. #but anyway yeah. fp is *really* not the one noise should be worried about. #arting #pizzaposting #i still have lots of tag room thjis time so im gonna do some tangential nonsense rambling. e #fp gotta be like crazy good at hunting i think. not just for strength and predator instincts but also bc like #he doesn't have much in the way of a scent or body heat or anything that would give him away as an alive thing #not to mention he's uh... not particularly organically-shaped a lot of the time #so esp. to smaller prey that don't like... memorize a landscape; if he holds very still he's like completely undetectable #total ambush king. though i'm sure hes also very good at #persistence and pursuit hunting since he has peppino's speed and no way of getting muscle fatigue. ultimate beast #fortunately he doesnt care that much and doesnt really need to eat so hes not devastating the local ecosystem or anything #except for the rats.

[sergle]

i was a chihuahua disliker in a past life but have Grown Up since then, but earlier i saw one that made me clench my fists in agony. i wanted her so bad...

#WHAT IS THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT #WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE THAT OH MY GOD #she looks like a bug that got sunbleached... and she has permanent Sad Eyes. tell me she does not look very sweet #i'd call her chicory and we'd be soul bonded. #also the chihuahua disliking thing. i feel like that's one of those dumb things like not liking rap/country. like unfounded dislike i mean. #the chihuahua dislikery went away as soon as i realized that a lot of people grossly mishandle their small dogs #and don't attempt to do ANYTHING resembling training. and those two things together. create a very reactive dog. #anyway i don't need a second dog. goodbye everybody #i think though that if i had a dog for 20 years of my life. the day they leave is the day i jump in front of a truck. THAT'S TOO LONG. #that's my HUMAN CHILD. what do you mean #sergle.txt

[todayisafridaynight]

journalists underestimate the magnitude of my addiction and how far i'll go for the bit

#snap chats #im lying i physically could not marathon this i got school LMAO BUT IMAGINE #my god speaking of school i signed up for a japanese history class. because of course i did #i also needed an extra class and i didnt know what else to put LMAO but i might swap it or somn #thinkin i should get back into theater..... i got like two months to decide anyway #i was thinking about how im gonna play IW during streams... if the lord will let me i might stream for 2~3 hours or so #im putting such a small time limit due to Aforementioned School but also idk if my computer can record any longer than that #when i tried saving the video to my flashdrive it only lasted about two some hours right ? maybe 3 if i remember right #i decided to record to my computer's hard drive instead of the usb since it has more space so maybe i can record longer #ill prob do a test run later today and record a nonsense video. i WILL delete it i just wanna see what the limit is #cause my plan is to just Record One -> Upload It -> Delete OG yk. Lazy Susan type of plan #didnt mean to type out my whole gameplan in the tags LOL BUT HEY I WANTED TO TALK BOUT IT AT SOME POINT #my final message is that ive Hopefully preordered the ichi statue. i say Hopefully cause i am once again doing it through jp rabbit #and i didnt get the confirmation it was successful yet so I Will Simply Wait. #point is it was a lot cheapter than i thought it was going to be <3 yay <3 #ok im running out of tags tl;dr im gonna marathon IW until my eyes bleed BYYYE

[acoraxia]

I want more people to make Nü Wa also Wukong’s mom because she also created him in one of the myths and if that’s the route we’re going for no fucking wonder he’s got so many issues

But I also fear that if Season 5 does this they’re all going to go “of course he has mommy issues” like ok he was also groomed, forced to partake in a fight he didn’t even want to do, is actually doing great as a mentor and is a somewhat good role model to Xiaotian and has taught him how to be controlled and capable and is clearly proud of him and has been effectively trying to change as a person

But sure let’s focus on the mommy issues and not the serious aspect of how Nü Wa not only did this again but also is no different from the other people in Heaven who do nothing for the mortals and immortals that have suffered because of their lack of care towards them and only imprison or attack them because they… attack Heaven directly.

Demon Bull King and Sun Wukong hold no grudges because they were victims of a very weird and messed up system; I hope Erlang gets punched in the face by them both

#think pan #comeback kid #lego monkie kid #and by ‘no wonder hes got so many issues’ i mean #not even his creator tried to help him and simply wathced him get used and thrown around like a sword in a training room #in a war room #like swk is clearly messed up and complicated and a lot of the gods think hes reckless #well celestials* #out of all people guanyin was the one who helped him the most #NOT nuwa #nuwa has a small habit of dipping after creating something that vastly affects heaven and earth ngl

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!!

lionkit/hollykit/jaykit

big, big plans

#my art #do not copy trace or steal #lionblaze #hollyleaf #jayfeather #warriors #warrior cats #wc art #MIXED FEELINGS ABT THIS but at the end of the day i like it . i wish i made the stars a little bit whiter but my back is super achey #I ALSO FOUND OUT THE LAST UNICORN IS ON YOUTUBE FREE WITH ADS after i got my autism diagnosis my mom was like #and i was like (TO MYSELF I DIDNT SAY IT TO HER) that #wouldve been nice to know but at the end of the day i dont think it wouldve added much bc my psychiatrist knew off the bat so AKHBFDKJHBDFH #ANYWAY ENOUGH UNICORN SPEAK they r so so small . and so so... baby #i hope the symbolism is like . there and Obvious but not the kind of 'im holding your hand and showing it to you' obvious #OH MY GOD THE TAGS GOT FUCKED UP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #MY MOM SAID I USED TO MAKE OTHERS WATCH THE LAST UNICORN WITH ME A *LOT* IDK WHY THE TAGS GOT MIXED UP im crying profusely this is such an #expected betrayal from tumblr

[ygozexalarchive]

From @anthyvarietyhour: "When Nicktoons was airing Yugioh Zexal and other anime (Danball Senki, Digimon, etc), they had a page on their website where they wrote character bios, had games, and chatrooms. These pages are obviously gone, and from captures I could find on the Internet Archive, the games and chatrooms don't appear to be functional anymore.

However, what IS available are the character bios! I'm unsure if there are any for Zexal II, these are just what I found while looking.

Something funny to note is that Nicktoons must have really liked Zexal/really wanted to market it, because this has more profiles than any of the other series. Lines up with how often I remember seeing ads for it."

Thank you very much for the submission and trivia!

#yugioh zexal #zexal #non-Japanese sourced zexal trivia #god it makes me sad that so much of small stuff like this is lost to time #including a lot of if not most of the nicktoon zexal ads for example too. I wish it was easier to track stuff like that down but hey #we dream big baby. kattobingu

[eerna]

me on December 20th happily wondering why they decided to go back on the HoO-ified "LET'S FIGHT HAND IN HAND WITH OUR DEAR KIDS <3<3<3" gods VS me on January 31st realizing they didn't and they actually made it even worse

#why make athena worse and poseidon better. why. at this point in the story he was supposed to tell percy he regrets his birth #why make him into a loving caring father i am gonna snap #anyway this show sucks ass rr sucks ass disney sucks ass worse than anyone in the world disney is where series go to die #pjo liveblog #''aure annabeth's mom tried to kill her for one small mistake but MY dad is good and loves me a lot so the gods deserve to stay in charge'' #is not the serve these writers think it is. that's like bribing an union representative

[luxicorde]

@headspace-hotel @revretch i am pleased to inform both of you that my swamp milkweed has new residents

Counted no less than 6 babies

Also

Mystery man with a fluffy ass and my coneflower blooming

Also

Common milkweed that is doing its best to bear with me even though I'm bad at taking care of plants for now

#i am so so happy #like i know this is a small drop in a very large pond but i WILL turn this barren lawn into an oasis amongst this concrete hell god dammit #and they are already flocking to it!!! #theres lots of other bugs too #i saw some sort of assassin bug the first day i put it in #and a big fat orange aphid today

[varilien]

it doesn’t matter how heavy your cross to bear is; you can still smile!

#trigun #trigun fanart #trigun stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #screencap redraw #SAW WOOF. GOT DRUNK. MADE ART. BON APPETIT LMAO #extremely concerned about him why are your clothes so small sir explain yourself. someone feed this fishbone of a man #he did NOT have to fucking say this oh my god i already know it's gonna hurt so bad later. woof honey ur killing me #he looks sooooo skeevy and for why?? silly lil guy. lil bit unhinged. i love him he's silly. #AND MERYL SHE LOOKS SOOOOO GOOD OH MY GOD?? #milly sweetie i'm so sorry i'm so sorry you got replaced with DE NIRO FHDKJFHDKHFD #(gesturing vaguely but emphatically) i have a lot of feelings most of them pretty good actually idk what else to say lmao #mildly concerned woof is gonna turn out to be a kid purely because of the ill-fitting clothing and the LOLLIPOP #but that's just cuz i love him don't get it twisted i just want godo things for him and going through All That as NOT AN ADULT #is like. so sad actually it HURTS PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO HIM #okay that's all :) goodnight

[chipistrate]

People really need to give Steel Wool a break sometimes, man- They messed up with Security Breach and now people act like EVERYTHING wrong with modern fnaf is all exclusively their fault when it's really not.

#Chip Chatter #especially when the issue literally WASN'T ATTACHED TO THEM AT ALL!!! #People really just say shit I stg #there's probably one person who'll think this is about one particular post #this post is a culmination of things #the twitter bs going on right now about modern lore and some people pinning all the blame on steel wool even though they don't write the #lore. A conversation I had yesterday with some people where one person kept blaming and shitting on SWS for the smallest of things #The fact that any time I try to talk about a small issue with modern fnaf in any fucking way I'll have people tell me shit like #“it's steel wool what were you expecting” regardless of if the problem was even their fault #and just generally people giving Steel Wool so much shit and most of the time it being over fucking nothing #Like I GET that Steel Wool fumbled with Security Breach oh my fucking god that was almost 2 years ago can we MOVE ON!!!! #They're improving!!! They fumbled one game and a lot of the factors involved weren't their fault anyways!!! Can we give them a fucking #break and just move on with the rest of the series already!!! I'm so sick of hearing people complain about SB when it's been almost 2 years #and Steel Wool is showing nothing but signs of improvement #Cough uhm anyways #of course you can criticize Steel Wool and I'm not saying they've never done anything wrong ever #just don't needlessly shit on them especially if the problem was out of their hands. #Rant over I'm going to bed

[beatcroc]

I have decided im just gonna post all the smaller stupid shit i do here individually under my own tag and then eventually when there's enough to be substantial I'll compile them and put them in the actual/main tags. Anyway heres everybodys favorite italian man and his saggy dog

#Columbos bewildered look here. god #pizzaposting #<- that one is My tag of just the pt stuff ive done or had a hand in #so if you wanted to see all that. its there. im not gonna put the compiled small stuff in my tag tho #my tag only gets singles main tag only gets comps bc fuck yoooouuuyu #no its really just bc i dont like posting lots of small stuff in main tags but my blog is a free for all #i think if i had known what a big deal all this would be i mightve made a sideblog but! oh well

[not-poignant]

Hope you're doing okay, sending love & support from America! If you need to slow down for a bit, that's not a bad thing -- you're an incredibly prolific author, which is wonderful, but there's only one of you and there's plenty of stuff already out there that we can read (or re-read!) if you need some time to take care of yourself. Your fans will understand.

Hi hi anon <3

Tbh I was looking at my output and it's hilarious to me. So from March 1st to March 11th I wrote 10 chapters. From March 11th to April 13th I've written three chapters. So I'm definitely doing a good approximation of like a corpse floating downstream right now! Wait that's kind of dark, um...

Definitely not being prolific lately, and I'm so glad I have a buffer (April is written, May is written except for one chapter) but at some point I have to keep that buffer going so - but having a break while I need it most.

Tbh it's not even the writing getting me down, it's my personal life. There's been some disintegration of important relationships with other people and it's just kind of all happened randomly at the same time. It's not for any bad reasons, none of those people are horrible, it's just...how it shook out. But that + Toby + life stuff has just left me in a weird, lonely place. The most socialising I do each day is like here and on the Discord lol.

But I've taken some steps to work on it, and in the meantime, my body is appreciating the rest!

#asks and answers #i'm also very tired so it's hard to initiate or start new friendships #and new connections #so i'm in that grayspace of recovering from like #missing a lot of contact with a small number of folks #but also not having the energy #to build new things #you know when all your buildings come down #and you can't rebuild yet because all your buildings just came down #it's that sdlkfjas #god i'm melodramatic #i just have the sadsies that's all #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue