#i like the map they gave us

[sergle]

alright okay, so this is basically the tentative temp gauge we're going with rn, for the temperature blanket! there's always the chance that I'll tweak it over the course of the year, but this is the basic idea. also the shade names on there are just for my own memory

#I'll only be mapping the HIGH temps of each day btw. hence why my coldest range is 19 and below #sergle.txt #crochetposting #I feel like I gave myself a nice wide range to work with #I'm probably going to use the linen stitch for the blanket but again. I reserve the right to change my mind #OR to die before the blanket's done

[ink--theory]

thoughts on bonerattle arena

#lore wise? ark polaris is great amazing 10/10 #gameplay wise? ehhh not my favorite but it wasn't the worst with the right group of ppl in higher difficulties (600+) #bonerattle is essentially ruins 2.0 but the devs actually keeping in mind all the new bosses and stuff that they gave us in 3 #that's why returning maps like grounds and bay are so jank now compared to 2 #ark is like one of if not THE smallest of the sr maps in both 2 and 3 #and I just can't imagine how chaotic it would get with sr's higher difficulty new bosses and especially the kings #w/o there being some reworks but bay and grounds didn't get reworks so same would be said for ark if it did ever come back #and sure we have stuff like egg throwing and squid surge to help but still lol #ok i've rambled enough so imma stop sdklfj #splatoon #splatoon 3 #salmon run #ruins of ark polaris #bonerattle arena

[writer-room]

One among many things I love about Dragons Risings writing is that they're so unapologetic about making the original team very cool, but also absolute dorks.

It's just kinda refreshing to me? Like, yeah, sure, Lloyd's the super-awesome Green Ninja who's a descendant of God, Kai could set the world on fire if he wanted, Nya does not hesitate and was the ocean that one time, Zane will casually mention the most insane shit he did on a whim, Cole has a lava and rock monster form, etc, but like...they're also losers. Lloyd gets bullied constantly and tries to explain what a crab is, Kai has so much intelligence but so little wisdom at all given times, Nya has a 'shit happens' attitude as if she is not actively failing through this shit happening, Zane talks to a broom with Pixal's face on it, and Cole has it together the most by being a 9-to-5 dad with a boyfriend who he 100% believed was his power crux.

They're just people, y'know? Saving the world a hundred times over doesn't mean they're not still 20-something nerds who've been stuck doing this since they were teenagers. One cannot erase the time they had bad boy doppelgangers for like two minutes. Or had to raise their teacher. Or had the weirdest relationship drama. Or were huge video game and tech geeks.

And Dragons Rising isn't afraid to let them be that. To acknowledge, yeah, objectively, they're cool as hell, but to also admit that they're just kinda fucking around and finding out. It's a wonder what consistent and likeable characterization can do, who woulda thought?

#ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago #lego ninjago dragons rising #ninjago dr #lloyd garmadon #ninjago kai #ninjago nya #ninjago zane #ninjago cole #text post #talk #ninjago writing #im so excited for when we get to see jay again and see how he looks cool but also like an absolute loser #the idea of something being cool AND silly is possible and its right here in dragons rising i love it so much #its mostly the animation where they flex and i do love that #theyre not afraid to show that these guys are like. experienced. they know what therye doing. they can fight really well. theyre GOOD #but also kai accidentally blows up the wrong building cause he let wyldfyre have a map #and nya is like well that stone seeker thing gave us eyes. im sure its fine #and they ask zane 'are those tubes safe for humans' and he just deadpans 'no' with no further elaboration #cole confused at all times abt whatevers happening but nodding and going along with it anyway #and lloyd just being lloyd. bestie no u cannot clean the whole monastary. wu made the boys clean the monastery all the time #he just didnt make you do it cause your his favorite #ITS JUST RLLY FUN #I MISS WHEN THINGS WERE FUN

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

if you would all allow me to be delusional for a moment - so i went back to staring Very Hard at the neighborhood map and. um. well. im chucking my marbles out the window! as always take all of this with a Hefty grain of salt!

i thought i saw a weird pixel in Frank's window so i zoomed in. then i took a screenshot, and fucked with the contrast/brightness settings. and uhhhhhh

UHHHHHH

FRANK??? HELLO???? HE'S IN THERE? i'm pretty sure im Not seeing things bc that is definitely a vague gray tube-outline with a yellow spot in the shape of Frank's nose. hidden in the dark. and i might be seeing things but in the pane next to his face it kinda looks like his hand is on the window? but! Frank's in there! what the fuck!

so naturally i slowly scrolled through the neighborhood Zoomed The Fuck In. obvi there's nothing in Home's eyes, and Barnaby's & Sally's single visible windows(?) are closed. I couldn't find any out-of-place pixels in Julie's or Poppy's.

but! Eddie's kinda freaked me out a little! look at this shit!

on the top left pane... are those fingerprints pressing into the glass? and in the lower left, is that a fucking Face peering out? a creepy ass face that almost looks like some sort of mask? there seems to be another Shape in the upper right... another face perhaps?

and then there's the weird window shine in the lower right (along with maybe Another face...). it almost looks like a string of letters. there isn't a single pattern/design like that anywhere else in the neighborhood. what's up with that....

oh and also, just went back to double check the post office's display window

there seems to be another face - all the way to the right in the darkness. judging by the shape of the paler (yellowish?) pixels between what must be eyes, i think that's Eddie. and i think i see ears and a hat... not sure though. this one is really tough to see but it's There

(side note: Eddie is totally fucked, isn't he? between the faces(?) and hands behind his door, Home sitting in his display, and the hyacinths by his building, the emphasis on his memory (or lack-thereof) in a project that is, in a sense, About memory... i'm concerned! and eating it tf up! hell yeah lets get funky!)

now i couldn't see any, like, concrete Faces or anything in Howdy's store. but! you can kinda see inside! observe~

in the big open window, you can kinda make out some sort of container on a counter and what might be shelves or a kind of brick pattern. and then above the 100% sign... hold on are those fuckign Eyes? lets take a look zoomed in & without the image adjustments!

yeah those uh. i think those are eyes. Wally-esque eyes peering out of the darkness. though they also mildly remind me of eyespots on insect wings. butterfly eyespots, perhaps. inch resting indeed...

WAIT I LIED!!! there DOES seem to be another string of letter-like symbols in the neighborhood, not just the post office's window shine. now it could be just a wild coincidence, but at the same time it seems kind of... purposeful. like that's not normal shading/coloring.

check out the blue window border on Howdy's Place, next to the apples. the lighter blue pixels seem Arranged. i think i see a clear N, and either an R or a P... along with some other symbols that i don't recognize as anything. the lower ones look kinda like faces? what could the top one be? is any of it anything or am i looking too hard?

in short: they're watching us watch them and there's way more to the map than initially meets the eye....

(edit: i've added a reblog w/ the images outlined! badly outlined but a clearer View of what i see nonetheless! + some notes on more little things outlining helped me notice)

#throttling my laptop WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? WHAT DOES IT MEANNNNNNN #got a little spooked there ngl.... #noticing the faces(?) in eddie's gave me a lil startle. got a little chill up my spine #I LOVE IT! #im gonna be reeling over this all night.... #the implications! the arising questions!! the Choices!!! #frank and eddie being the only ones with their faces in their windows (plus a couple extra) #eddie and howdy having letters/symbols(?) on their buildings #THE EYES IN HOWDY'S STORE!!! #i feel like these are important misplaced pieces of a puzzle i havent even opened yet #god and like. tiny home in eddie's window yeah but that With the eyes in howdy's store? #both buildings - both Stores! - seeming to have hidden letters on them??? WHAT DOES IT MEANNNN #of course i could be just plain insane and seeing things #but some of it.... ough i dont think i am fellas #welcome home speculation #wh speculation #homebogging #ive been meaning to Examine the updated map.... not much Changed or caught my attention but a few things did #why does barnaby have a carton of milk outside his house? something to do with the phrase 'no use crying over spilled milk'? #the flower patch behind julie's house is Oddly green.... kinda reminds me of a body dump #that plus the red thing next to the bowling ball (a ribbon? scissors? something else?) makes me Suspicious #along with a mildly delusional Theory i've had since my first good Examining Of The Map (before the update!) #but thats not what this post is about #theres just. theres interesting things in there! #thank you for reading! i need to go Think about this all.... #im feeling the urge to up the contrast/brightness of Every Single Slightly Dark image on the site <3

[atissi]

artfight is done which means i get to post my attacks without fear of having my attack ratio obliterated. this is @fmab's lark who is soooo cute. i think it's clear she's a fan favourite but she deserves it

#idk why but the 200x200 icon looks so cute next to the main pic. i think im gonna format all my attacks like that #fun fact this pic was in full colour first but the balance was so bad i gave up and slapped a gradient map on it #i used a lot of gradient maps for art fight in general. its so convenient and it. legitimately looks better than my normal colours #which is a little crushing but we stay strong #my art #others ocs #art fight

[coquelicoq]

girl help the beautiful man at the food truck flirted with me and shook my hand with his big gorgeous hand and held on a little longer than he needed to (but in a good way) and then he gave me a free mango lassi and THEN left his food truck unattended to go get me a bottle of water after i asked if there was any water available and after all that all he wants in exchange (other than payment for the food i ordered) is for me to rate him on google maps. but girl i don't even know how to do that

#how hard can that be you may ask. well for your information he told me my smile is beautiful and he was very sweet AND #he has a gorgeous beard and voice. so. kind of distracted at the moment. #this is nice. lately the attention i've been getting from strange men is like. a guy on the bus offering me his half-eaten ice cream tube #(didn't even know ice cream came in tubes) and a guy propositioning me for $5 while i was waiting to cross the street #so for a man to give me free things & hold my hand & ask how i am doing WHILE being handsome at me was a little much all at once #i was so overwhelmed i made such a fool of myself. i almost gave him MY ADDRESS???? #get yourself together @me #anyway i guess i have to figure out how to rate places on google maps now. i didn't even know that was a thing people did #my posts #even though i know how flirting with customers works when you work in food service it does not make it any less overwhelming #to be on the receiving end of. i used to flirt with customers all the time. but i am not drop dead gorgeous so. #watch where you point that smile sir i am going to expire

[alistonjdrake]

Through Ice & Terror: AKA The Project June Hopes to Outline this Year

one girlfailure black/bi protag + my geniune love and defense of love triangles/messy romantic situations + a gilded age America-inspired fantasy setting + a drop of an ice age + fantasy of manners = the wip I hope to fully outline this year!

Her dangerously charming ex-husband, her loyal childhood friend, her beguiling former fiancé, and a mysterious politician in need of a wife all threaten to upend the slight peace of Naomi Nettles' existence. Born without the gift of Insight, the ability to see the monsters that plague the world outside the cities in the Frost Wastes, and a trait ruefully abundant in her family, Naomi is treated as little more than expendable. An embarrassment to her family and peers and seemingly with little social standing in a stifling community, when her mother calls her home to introduce her to one Vivian Quinlan -An upstart politician from the capital desperate enough to marry the last single Nettles daughter - Naomi finally believes things are looking up. That is until one of her former romantic prospects winds up dead and Naomi finds herself firmly in the middle of a murderous conspiracy between several factions that could threaten to undo the fragile alliances between the cities among the Frost Wastes and what little normalcy remains in Naomi's life.

This is a less a wip intro and more so the beginning of what I hope will serve as a year-long accountability thread as I flesh out my ideas, characters, and get a concrete hold on the story before I officially start it (but, as I am myself, some stuff is already written and I'm really doing this to feel out interest)

#june trash #writing progress #wip stuff #wip intro #writing accountability #I once again have decided to post something without thinking of a tag for it #also yes this is the character you helped name #I still will likely use all the other names because I gave her a lot of family members #before then I was just calling her the divorcee #snowtrainwip #there that is my tag for it because my husband named the map and thought the trains would play a huge story role #I just find early train settings interesting I don't believe the trains will have a huge spotlight

[1o1percentmilk]

i had a dream that i arrested touichirou but he tried to escape with an old man disguise. However, the disguise didnt work because of his massive eyebrows and we put him back in prison.

Later I accidentally summoned an eldritch god and i had to release Touichirou to try and kill it

#yap #its a long story... #i also went to the asian mart only to find that it had been gentrified.. #they (cashiers) asked for an artist i liked and when i gave them one they laughed at me... #i summoned the elder god by using a treasure map to find a treasure #it looked like a column of meat and tentacles and beak mouths

[marypsue]

Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida' has been applied to everything from the MCU to Naruto, but I have to admit, the first time I really heard the lyrics, my immediate first thought was 'oh, this is about Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume'.

#the lyrics map like. UNCANNILY well to the book ngl #it's been well more than a decade since i read it and i don't know if it'd hold up #but. there was perfume. there were immortals. there were bees. #there was a man who had once been the king of a warrior tribe whose beloved had been his mirror plucking his grey hairs for him #because when the day came that there was grey in his beard he would be sacrificed and a new king chosen #('be my mirror my sword and shield') #and through a Series Of Events he and his beloved both became immortal #and in modern (1980s) times he had lost track of her and was working as a janitor #('i used to rule the world/seas would rise when i gave the word/now in the morning i sleep alone/sweep the streets i used to own') #listen. listen. i'm right. #also i had a idiosyncratic patchwork of cultural references as a kid (and still do!)

[rattkween86]

yeah, maybe you have an embarrassing story, but at least you didn't go to your boyfriend's house when you were 16 and hear about his uncle's annual trip biking from Washington to Alaska and loudly proclaim in front of his entire family, "You can't bike to Alaska. Alaska is an island!" and sustain that argument with your full chest against him, his mom, and his sister for a full family dinner until someone finally showed you a picture of the world map where Alaska is, in fact, attached to Canada and always has been...

#in my defense they always gave us the US maps in school where alaska was down in a little corner next to hawaii #so it seemed like an island #also I am terrible at geography to this day #I just recently learned that Australia is as big as the US #and also that spain and latvia are not close to each other #I am sorry - it is my weakest point of knowledge #but yeah. hope this helps #embarrassing story ig #text post #ratty tat tat

[whoatemyshoe]

"just google it" "do your own homework" "google is free" "find it yourself the information is out there"

but they are. they are asking people who have that information, for the information. they are doing their homework by reaching out and asking people questions. just because it's not typed on a search bar, doesn't mean it's any less of putting an effort to finding things out.

like i'm sorry people in the past refused/ridiculed you when you asked them for help. doesn't mean you have to be like them tho. why is learning through human interaction rejected in favour of isolated learning?

#my posts #rants #im part of the organising team for the women's march in my city #and someone interested to join the march was asking public transport directions to the march #the immediately response from the social media team in our group chat was to berate that person for being lazy/not doing their homework #like sure the transit map is available on the website #but anyone who takes public transport in my city KNOWS that the trains and maps are unreliable in so many ways #i was exploring a different line yesterday and got on the wrong train despite being on the correct platform #and i take public transport regularly and have a good sense of direction but the public transport here isnt designed to be user friendly #if they had to ask which line they should interchange at you KNOW they are clueless and probably terrified of the public transportation her #and yet as organisers they refuse to make it easier for people to participate at a march no one owes us to attend #they just gave them a link and asked them to figure it out themselves #i am very familiar with that route and i just KNOW the interchange is confusing and large enough that beginner commuters will get lost #and you know what could happen if someone struggles to navigate public transport? they probably would just go home instead #they blame the education system for producing youngsters who are spoon fed #girl the older generation said the exact same thing about your generation pls #your misdirected anger is being projected at the victim of this system instead of at the actual problem #which is what i've been observing from career activists around me and more #you claim to fight for the people #but the very people you're fighting for are asking you for help #yet you refuse to help them unless it's through significant policies or drastic systemic changes #your fight is conditional and only convenient for you but you refuse to admit it and then pretend the opposite #the moment they decided that they would 'teach them a lesson' indirectly by forcing them to figure out their own routes #they've already fallen into that activist trap of thinking they are above everyone else and that they are here to teach people how to #be a better person according to their standards because they know better by being more involved in activism and are better educated #instead of putting themselves in the girl's shoes and not assuming the worst of people as the default #maybe that girl is new in town and is unfamiliar with public transport here #maybe they had a bad experience getting lost before and wanted someone experienced to share some commuting tips to avoid getting lost #maybe she would rather pull her teeth out than try to figure out the route with unreliable mountains of information online #maybe she has executive dysfunction that makes filtering through tons of information to find that ONE route very daunting

[inkysploongame]

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #my experience playing anarchy today #I like Flounder Heights but I played it sm I forgot what the other map even was T-T #the splatoon experience #splatoon memes #also yeah ik I used the old flounder image #I just grabbed the first thing google gave me

[arcann]

when i remember zadnor for some reason i imagine its sky covered in garlean non space ships (looking in my dictionary... assault aircrafts) but when i went to check on the last days of my sub you could rarely see two ships at the same time in any area. maybe grinding for the relic weapon over there gave me trauma but that's how i'm going to pretend taigat remembers it. because of their agonies at the moment

#for taigat bozja happens post shb and the alliance gave their official approval to support the bozjan rebellion #to use the area as a safe waypoint towards g/arlemald's invasion once it was free #am i making it so the alliance looks better here? yeah but it would have anyway if they had planned things more carefully for ew #*grinding my teeth* for a/ymeric #if one day they actually grace us with super secret ilsabard map and bozja is south and dalmasca is in the middle i'll just make it so... #it was back to full bozjan effort with help from the garlond works like in canon fuck the alliance

[bibleofficial]

leaving the hospital in the morning & i finally get to go back to wales & i can’t wait i rly can’t - the belgians i’ve met have been wonderful [for the most part] but the rape has me panicking even seeing the roads and the buildings

#diary #literally everyone else was wonderful except for the HOTEL EMPLOYEES THAT REFUSED TO HELP ME FIND MY WAY BACK TO THE HOSTEL & THE GUY THAT #DENIED HAVING A PHONE TO SHOW ME A MAP AFTER THE RAPE #shoutout to school children love yall so much they’re so polite & also the amazing older DJ that was talking to us at the irish pub prior to #us going back to the hostel & me leaving w the tall friendly man - i’ve his number & i told him i was going to text him bc he was going to #host an underground rave at an abbey but couldn’t make it bc i’ve been in the hospital since monday #i’ll come back to ghent sometime - i just need to. get over the trauma lol #i still have his number ! he rolled a j w me - he’s such a saint #i’m just a chatter i love talking to people despite being introverted #i wouldn’t go OUT OF MY WAY TO SPEAK but if they come up to ME i’m WELL OPEN #which he did he’s so sweet & also the old homosexuals i was smoking w & gave me info on the drug culture here bc i was curious & also the #tall belgian that took me to those few bars & we chatted abt belgium and how ghent is changing #i wish i were able to actually continue w the rest of our group for the site visit but honestly it #it just wasn’t going to happen #i can’t even go back to the hostel without shaking and panicking #my darlings kp & omar know everything & everything is ok i love them so much - the group we are w have all been wonderful bar like the 4 #that made their own clique but they’re all boring anyway so they can fuck off lol #THE OTHER 9 ….. STAN #well 7 bc omar & kp i alrdy stan & they know #i’m just telling everyone it was an assault and robbery bc everyone knows something is up bc i walked into the hostel at 9a & nobody knew #where i was bc my phone was dead & i couldn’t tell anyone & also i was probably drugged honestly #i don’t even know my guess is rohypnol #god fuck that guy fuck that guy so much oh my god i swear if i see him again …. bro ur not living im not afraid of european prison in the #fuckin slightest i don’t give a shit

[zackmartin]

actually, i'm still thinking about it, and like. henry's so funny in my halloween fic because zack literally offers to go with him to take his little sister trick-or-treating and he still doesn't get it

#i realize i'm just talking to myself here but i got whole universes in my head and sometimes i just wanna ramble about them lmao #if there was ever a time to use the idiots to idiots-in-love tag...... #like hen legit thinks it's because of the map zack gave piper in that snippet i posted with heather's ask #like as if teenage zack cares about the best trick-or-treat spots slkfj #like that's literally why he's handing it off to piper #because he doesn't need it anymore #but henry's always been a dumbass #zenry

[sanasanakun]

I think it’s time to acknowledge that Fire Emblem fans are literally the most annoying people on god’s green earth (says me, a massive fire emblem fan who is very annoying and has played and/or watched all the titles)

#BREAKING NEWS ! BREAKING NEWS! uhhh 3h was the best fe game #yeah yeah yeah engage has wayyyyyy better maps and gameplay #and so do the other titles #but ummmmm 3h actually gave us GOOD CHARACTERS AND STORY??? #not you baby boy Chrom you are perfect #I just don’t get the denial towards Engage’s regression because it DID regress #you can see that in the popularity response aka engage not being nearly as popular #I just wish they had built off the new mechanics in 3h instead of regressing back to ye olde fe #could have felt like old fe without literally being it #I love alear though #fuck it I’m tagging lol #fire emblem #this is my opinion !!! please spare me fe fans😭 I am one of you !! #fire emblem engage #male byleth is fine af though so engage is actually top tier #fire emblem 3 houses #fe