#the more you know!!

[mixelation]

Behold! Neopets introduced CGMs for pets!

Huh!

#the more you know!!

[kindlythevoid]

(The last ask I sent was for the fic writing ask game because I alike kamoji more than numbers xD)

I loved it!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the emojis, I spent way too much time on them only to realize that numbers existed, ha ha! I really appreciated the ask, too!! :D <3

Kindly,

The Void

#ask #it was wonderful!! #kamoji? is that what it's called?? #the more you know!!

[banqanas]

Yesterday I was talking in this post about the kanji difference between FANTA Sawa & Hori Natsuki

And this is a good example of fan nicknames for them!

In FANTASTICS there's a "Happy Natsuki" and Shining Natsuki"

*Happy Natsuki = Hori Natsuki

**Shining Natsuki = Sawamoto Natsuki

#fanta txt #fantastics from exile tribe #sawamoto natsuki #hori natsuki #the more you know!! #knowing these kind of things makes fandom more fun :D #also i feel like i wanna talk a little bit more in depth about jp language things like those tidbits for fanta banners #also i just found out that you can link to your own blog post!!!!!! like twitter's QRT !!!!!!!!! #oh i am. gonna use this function soo much 😏😏

[forlorn-crows]

I had no idea Dew used to play bass!! Now the difference between water Dew and fire Dew makes so much more sense lol

yes he did!! which, i love that era by the way. the lineup of aether/dew/ifrit/mountain/zephyr + terzo? amazing, stunning, never been done before. i feel like everytime i watch clips from that era they all have such good chemistry and they SOUND so good. not that they dont sound amazing now, just something abt all of them together

but yes, thats why dewdrop is his name; water themed, hence the bass!

#ask #anon #the more you know!!

[icharchivist]

I don't play Gbf so what did Ferdinand do to deserve your hate?

i'll put the details under the cut but i think the cw will be probably telling enough.

Also remember gbf is a +18 game so when it tackles really heavy stuff, it's, really heavy, and detailed.

cw: child grooming, cannibalism, forced cannibalism, extreme child abuse, torture, manipulation.

honestly do i really need to go into details when you have this list.

and for the record, this is him:

I wish him the most painful of deaths.

He's the antagonist of the event called Marionette Stars, which centers characters who have been chosen by formidable weapons sent by the stars themselves, all associated to Western Zodiac Constellation. (the weapons are called "Vintage weapons" or "Horoscope")

Ferdinand's main motivation is to trigger series of events that would unlock the potential of all of the "chosen ones".

He first appears in Tikoh's story.

Tikoh was chosen by a healing staff that could allow her to heal stuff that couldn't be normally healed. After coming to her on the brick of death to test how well she could heal him, Ferdinand went to Tikoh's best friend's house, a young girl called Shannon. (young as in like, she must be 11 or something.)

He murdered Shannon's father in front of her, then, started going on about "being her new dad", and "and i already brought a well made dinner for you :)" before forcing Shannon and her mother to *eat the fresh corpse of the father*. You're privy to the whole scene in details, as he forces her to eat every single bit while forcing her to call him "father", making all sort of mentions about how they're really "taking the new dad *in* the family" and stuff like that. It's horrifying to read.

When Tikoh comes to visit Shannon later, and Ferdinand pretends to be the dad while both Shannon and her mom sounds hollow, she realizes something is wrong, and when the mother cries for help, Ferdinand decapitates her before stabbing Shannon who's screaming her lungs out.

Tikoh panics, Ferdinand sets the village on fire, tells her full blown that it's all thanks to her for having saved his life, and then he leaves. Tikoh tries to save Shannon's life but can't restore her body, so she tests the limit of her staff by linking Shannon's soul to her own, which forces her to relive all of the memories Shannon just had of the cannibalism.

Tikoh, and Shannon inside of her, have since been on a path of revenge against Ferdinand, unaware Ferdinand set everything into motion for them to fit the fate of their star sign, which is: Gemini, two souls in one.

When he will meet Tikoh later, he will constantly calls her Shannon and tell her "you've come to see your daddy didn't you <333" over and over again.

But it's not the only child Ferdinand ruined the life of.

Another child who also was chosen by a weapon was groomed by Ferdinand.

His name is Ragazzo. When he was a kid, his parents would constantly beat the shit out of him, to the brink of death, with the mom always healing Ragazzo just in time so his father could start beating him up again. We learn that it's because Ragazzo was not doing well in school and since his parents were noble folks, they thought he brought shame upon them, which is why they beat him up, over and over and over again.

Trying desperately to be loved by his parents, Ragazzo, then aged, what, 10?, got wind of a pair of magical fire fists, that he stole from his school in order to have better grades in magic.

when his parents learnt of the theft, they beat the shit out of him again so much so that it brought him near death, which led to Ragazzo snapping and starting a fire, which killed them both. Ferdinand appeared at this instant and hugged Ragazzo, telling him that his parents truly didn't understand him, and that *he* was proud of him, and would be here for him anytime.

being loved for once in his life, Ragazzo devoted his whole life to Ferdinand, desperate for the love of a father, even if it means committing all sort of crimes for him.

The twist? is that Ferdinand had infiltrated the school board and specifically sabotaged Ragazzo's grades, so they don't reflect actually his talents or anything, and then he went to talk to Ragazzo's parents and talked them into beating Ragazzo up. He's the reason Ragazzo's life was hell, because he set everything into motion so Ragazzo not only would snap, but would have such an undying devotion to him.

When we meet Ragazzo (now about 18), he's fully devoted to Ferdinand, committing murders for him if needed, and ends up genuinely shocked when two members of our crew, Feather and Randall, do actually try to bond with him and understand him. Feather in particular has this whole... ethos about how if he fights someone he can know what's in their hearts, and it's why he believes there's good in Ragazzo's heart.

Feather and Randall also respectively gets chosen by Horoscope weapons during this whole arc, and because of that, while Ragazzo is fighting to protect Ferdinand's castle, Ragazzo pushes himself to the limit and merges completely with his fire fists. The fists are no longer weapons, but part of his arms.

But because of the resonance between their weapons, Feather and Randall gets to see Ragazzo's memories and, after all three of them are exhausted from the fight, unable to move, they talk together and Ragazzo reflects about how those two are trying to connect with him.

It's when they're all unable to move that Ferdinand comes back into the room, and Ragazzo tries to justify himself, that he did everything he could, and Ferdinand hushes him, tells him he knows, that he's *so proud of him* and he did exactly what Ferdinand wanted of him.

Ie: merging with the weapon. Which is where Ferdinand reveals to Ragazzo that he was the one who set everything in motion. Before *cutting Ragazzo's arms in order to take the weapon back with him now that Ragazzo had awakened it*, while no one can move to stop him.

That's the moment the rest of our group, which included Tikoh, enters the room, and of course Tikoh is taken with rage and tries to kill Ferdinand. That's when Ferdinand starts to refer to her as Shannon and about how she must be sooo happy to see daddy again.

Before mentioning that Ragazzo's situation right now is going to kill him, and only Tikoh's healing powers can save him, so now Tikoh has a choice. Continuing her revenge and try to chase down Ferdinand to kill him, or save Ragazzo's life. "but i know my little Shannon. I know you cannot hurt people." as he says.

It's filled with rage that Tikoh has to accept that he's right, as she runs to save Ragazzo's life instead while Ferdinand is allowed to escape.

The story ends currently with Ragazzo being in a coma with us, while Feather and Randall are beating themselves up for how they couldn't protect him, while Tikoh is furious that her revenge escaped her.

We then learn that Ferdinand has an entire organization backing him up, which includes him having been keeping an eye on all of the possible chosen in order to trigger them and their powers in different level, including others members of our crew in general.

And he has multiple children who were picked by the weapons in his army, one of which who joined our crew to spy on us and betray us but ended up caring for us so much that now she's thinking about switching sides, and we learnt that her whole trauma that drove her into Ferdinand's arms to start with was also completely set up by the organization as well. (as a result she grew up with Ragazzo though so at least she's relieved at the possibility that both her and Ragazzo could have anothr chance away from Ferdinand). But none of those kids have stories as traumatic as Ragazzo and Tikoh.

And like i said. gbf is a +18 game. You see every single detail. It's not just "slightly mentioned", you WILL sit through the scenes of abuses and horrors with all the sounds effect that comes with it.

So personally i am hunting him down for sports. Out of all the antagonists gbf ever made, this is the one that unleashed such a massive amount of rage inside of me.

the Marionette Stars saga just really started last year, so we're doomed to see more of Ferdinand in the future.

I sure wish him the most painful of death.

The more you know!!!

#IM SERIOUS ABOUT THE CW READ THE READ MORE AT YOUR OWN PERIL #anyway i liveblogged this whole arc if you ever want to see this nightmare in motion #i loved this event and it doesn't help that every of the characters involved are some of my fav and all #but holy shit i WILL kill him myself if i have to. #the more you know!! #ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #ichablogging vinweap #anonymous

[porcelainvino]

your post came up on my for you so as a phannie and gleek i must infodump on you that dan loved glee and used to reference it often but he said in a stream ages ago that he lost interest after graduation and found s4 quite bleak so i don't even know if he's seen all of it

omg thank you for the lore 😭😭🙏 i used to watch only the pinof videos growing up so i really didn’t know a lot dan and phil references/lore until semi recently

#the more you know!! #ask #porcelainposting

[mickgaydolenz]

Explain that Toni Basil rumour?!??

okay so i actually don’t know where or who originated the rumour, but i did stumble across a couple articles that mention that people speculated whether mickey (by toni basil) was about micky dolenz (it is not). in reality, it’s a song basil adapted from another song called kitty, which was released in 1979 by the group racey. she literally just swapped out the name (kitty -> mickey) so she could make it a song about a guy versus the original which was about a girl

#the more you know!! #also toni basil worked as a choreographer for bowie as well! #toni basil #the monkees #rhubarb asks

[goji-pilled]

MK-S: You said you don’t get too much into the Dark Souls lore, so here’s something you may not have known (Somewhat spoilers ahead, restricted to just Dark Souls 1, though one could argue I’m just passing along something a lore vid taught me, and helping to connect some dots): Ever wonder WHY Ceaseless Discharge is chill, until you pick up the witch robes? Well, let’s just say he loved his big sister very much…and after he lost a certain ring (that would certainly make the endless lava blisters hurt less), which became a certain boss, the only thing he had left of her was her robes, as even her corpse was left unrecognizable…so when you defile the grave of his beloved big sister…well, can’t say I blame him for his reaction.

Funny thing though: the description says that they’re the robes of a “Quelana of Izalith”…That name rings a bell, doesn’t it? Don’t we know someone by that name? Someone who claims that most others are physically incapable of seeing her, implying she has some sort of invisibility? Someone who wields powerful fire magic, likely capable of producing an enchanted ring that would reduce the suffering caused by lava? And someone who’s too afraid (or too ashamed) to set foot in the demon area?

H U H. FASCINATING.

#felix answers #the more you know!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

#dungeon meshi #chilchuk tims #senshi #Somewhat of an unofficial sequel to the Dragon Comic. I promise I have more versatility in my jokes. I just had to take this opportunity. #Senshi is pretty much a recluse. I think he would know a few of these 'gottems' but not all. #Chilchuck would know gottems that are nearly lost to time. The deep cuts. The ones that you fall for because they are that obscure. #I would also like to take a moment to confess that after the last comic in which I posed a gottem - #I fell victim to a Mind Goblin Attack. I was thoroughly got. I will be on higher alert this time. #So NOBODY be funny in the tags. I am gullible and I like to share things with my friends. Who are *ruthless*. #I have a mild resistance to Vicious Mockery at this point but I can only take so much. #Happy Thistle Thursday Everyone! See you next week!

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

#oh the experience of being 13 years old and seeing all my friends talking about wanting to have sex and obsessing over it #and being like 'we are all literally WAY too young to be having sex what the actual fuck are you talking about #why are you even considering it when we have much more important things to worry about. like how much middle school sucks' #you know what though. i still stand by this. that was an entirely reasonable thought to have and i WAS being normal about it #anyway #mine #asexuality

[greykolla-art]

My blog has become infested with angst goblins, and they must be fed with some hypothetical scenarios!🙏💚

#grey art #fan art #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel #Hazbin hotel comic #JESUS WEPT THIS FUCKING THING WAS A BEAST #BUT I LOVE IT! #hazbin charlie #hazbin alastor #Alastor #charlie morningstar #angst #hurt/comfort #whump art #I know what you people are I’m one of you! #I heard your cries for more angst and I aim to please! #also good excuse to use clip studio more #I only bust that out for something special #now let’s do something else! like eat!

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#original post #text post #500 #1k #2k #btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here #it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact #and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more! #wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there #love you mwah #5k #10k #15k #20k

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

#misc #I encourage anyone dyslexic to try rotating him in your mind. I can’t do that; which is why I’m asking you to. #also: a bunch of tags are surprised this isn’t ‘shopped #it’s the lighting. backlit by the sun (which is diffused through the water) but also forelit artificially #the artificial light - a flash pack or something - casts a hard shadow under the creatures arm #which normally wouldn’t be possible if backlit by the SUN; you’d see a less-hard/more-fragmented shadow above water #as light sources ‘compete’ in a sense - and since there aren’t any light sources which can outshine the literal sun #it looks a bit weird when the darkest shadow is being cast from any other origin point - which is what’s essentially happening here #I don’t know the mechanics of how light travels through water; but I know the effect is substantial even with relatively short distances #also: it’s been balanced and color corrected by the author of the photo - who made deliberate choices to bring out the full potential #so it’s not like it’s a fresh and untouched export #but the kind of ‘tacked on’ appearance of the creature is a result of the lighting conditions within the image

[elfgrove]

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

#tech #google #domain names #the more you know #zip #.zip #mov #.mov #yikes #BIG FUCKING YIKES #WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS AGOOD IDEA HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A FOOL

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[thecoolertails]

thanks that was really helpful

#my posts #my art #comic #im a mouseboy btw. bet you didnt know that #my sona #if one more person smugly shames me for using google instead of duckduckgo when i WAS LITERALLY USING DUCKDUCKGO IM GONNA SCREAM!!!!!!! #< not about people actually trying to be helpful