#the world is Such a mess rn

[magnoliamyrrh]

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#i cant read anything without thinking of world war 3 #the world is Such a mess rn #youve got israel and palestine w the us euro india whoever else pushing for israel meanwhile other side youve got #iran pushing for hamas and mujahedeen from dif regions showing up #all while zelensky the biggest fan of the us on the planet supports israel while hamas thanks ukraine for sending them weapons??? #youve got what's happening in armenia w azerbaijan and turkey and thats a whole fucking mess too #youve got ukraine another geopolitical nightmare #china seems to be gearing up for shit in taiwan #i keep hearing about baddd conflicts going on in india and im sure kashmir isnt great #and im sure pakistan siding w palestine and india w israel will go great #youve got kosovo getting bad again and it might get worse and turn into a whole thing #great!!!! wonderful!! brilliant brillaint state of affairs #how the fuck are we gonna avoid a world war exactly #could this species for once stop fucking slaughtering and opressing each other maybe #we never should have invented weapons like the ones we have. never. guns bombs atomic bombs airplanes drones none of it #we should have stuck with fucking bows and spears and swords and other shit like that

[silverskye13]

I am turning EB around in my head like a microwave and I have a couple questions:

What is EB and EX's relationship like? I know they view each other as family and EX gets EB's booth, but will we see how they interact more?

Did anyone wind up telling EB that hels!zedaph is dead? If not, does he have suspicions that he is?

and a more general Hels question (that is totally not related no siree) - what is the upkeep for the remembrance walls like?

EB and EX are on friendly terms! They previously saw each other,,, not as rivals in the traditional sense. They didn't openly attack or oppose each other. But EB viewed EX as a challenge: How do I stay distinct from my brother's shadow? Anyone looking for it would find it obvious. EB got Bigger and Louder whenever EX was around, and he used to be much bigger and much louder than he currently is. It's less that he was mean, and more that he was prideful. Becoming friends with Helsknight changed him for the better in that regard. Since he's mellowed out, he and his brother have become closer. They enjoy visiting with each other during Colosseum matches [EB will often stand with EX in the box and talk both before the events, and during intermission] and EX invites EB to a lot of parties, where they shit talk the guests together. We'll see them together once during RnS, but EB is a secondary character, and outside of the one appearance, I don't intend to have EX very involved in the story. He's kind of the unspoken god of the world: he gets a lot of mentions because he's very important to hels, but he's not very important to the plot lol.

Someone did wind up telling EB about hels!zedaph, though yes, he did suspect before he was told. EB hadn't gone looking for HZ for a reason. He didn't want to be the one to find out he was gone. If I can't see it, maybe its not really there.

And the Remembrance Wall Ramble got long so its under the cut!

[Hello future me cutting in here because I just realized you were probably talking about what individuals like EB would do to upkeep a name of a loved one. Mostly it involves regular visits. Keeping the stone clean, replacing it if it gets cracked, making sure it doesn't wear down. Nether bricks to me are a bit brittle, and the ones on the bottoms of the walls will crumble and break down over time. Most of the time, the Order of Remembrance is pretty good at getting them replaced, though they encourage individuals to do it themselves, to decorate the stones, paint or carve them, and overall keep the care personal. People will also sometimes leave gifts of food, flowers, and favored items at walls where loved ones names are kept. Walls are very colorful spots in hels, full of a lot of care.]

The Remembrance walls are, basically, graveyards. Alongside friends and family, who will make sure loved ones names are put down and remembered, the Order of Remembrance manages all Remembrance Walls in the city. We'll get into it a little in the upcoming chapters, but the Order of Remembrance church, and its knights, have a very active presence in hels. They are the cloaks seen most often roaming the streets, in twos and threes. They have regular routes they walk, with walls they are assigned to tend. They make sure the stones are stacked straight and don't fall, replace broken ones, and help people carve names. Many knights have prayer chants where they intentionally try to memorize every name on the wall. Their focus is on the idea that no helsmet is truly gone as long as some memory remains of them. They welcome helsmets approaching them with fond memories of loved ones, and will take testimony from people who know their time is coming. Their church is a glorified library and house of memorization. Part of their worship in remembrance of people is also in the remembrance of history, and they have at least one copy of every book, memoir, and journal in hels they can get their hands on. They have one private collection in the church, and one public library in hels, which they regularly update with copies of originals from the church library.

The only place outside the Order of Remembrance's domain is the shady side of town where Cleo's gangs keep the peace. For control reasons, Cleo doesn't like any opposing force on her claimed land, which includes Order of Remembrance knights. She does still have Remembrance Walls on her side of town, but they are up-kept by the people that live there as a community project. People get together once every few weeks, make food, talk about those that are gone, and make sure none of the stones are broken or stolen.

Erasing memory is a big taboo in hels, understandably. The universe is already cruel enough in taking people, and people, once taken, are woefully easy to forget [they were never meant to exist in the first place, after all]. On the sides of town where the Order of Remembrance upkeeps the walls, anyone caught stealing or destroying stones is tracked down by their paladins, and subjected to community service under close supervision. They're often roughed up in the process, but the paladins won't kill you for breaking a stone. Depending on whose stone you break, and how angry hels is that day, the same can't be said for anyone else who catches you. Repeat offenders, or people who destroy many stones at once with the express intent of erasing memory, are branded by the Order with a mark somewhere visible, normally on the hands. Anyone with that unlucky brand will see increased hostility from their peers, ostricization, lost of livelihood and home -- it's a great way to make everyone in hels hate you. Anyone on Cleo's side of town caught destroying a stone is hunted actively in the streets, and leaving her side of town will not save them. She offers high bounties for that kind of thing.

#rns asks #evil xisuma #evil beezuma #remembrance walls #hels #hels worldbuilding #aloe-vera-ghost #sorry you activated my trap card #i have a lot of thoughts on the Order of Remembrance #They're very very good guys #They're some of the few people in hels everyone likes #There is also an unspoken rule you don't mess with [attack or rob] Remembrance knights #because if you do that gives them a reason to forget you #and to make sure the world forgets you #to anyones knowledge they've never done that before #but then again -- if they did how would you know?

[yloiseconeillants]

idly turning over post-ew thoughts of artoirel finally fucking handing in his title as count so he can go fuck off to the seaside and compose concertos in peace (since ffxiv has disappeared him completely and returned him to the Free Real Estate Zone) and then it was brought up that maybe he also invested in a winery in eastern la noscea and now i'm wading up to my ankles in the revival of theatrical traditions in eorzea starting with a charity fundraiser production of ishgardian 'much ado about nothing' (thank you leatherworker quests) and culminating in the reopening of some grand palais in ul'dah that's been shuttered for decades but also managed to find some brainrot for Clown Hours (They are Still Never Getting This Together For Those of You Following Along At Home)

#it is a fucking MESS in my brain rn #which is also consumed with android murder barbies and their wretched mad scientist boyfriends #and the world's worst woman allagan edition and whatever the fuck is going on there with her six dead girlfriends- #ANYWAY #unexpected artoirel situation tag #yloise coneillants #artoirel de fortemps #is also my oc now don’t worry about it

[2sw]

You got to wake up. because if you don't, then trying to keep that dream alive will destroy you! It'll destroy everything!

Supernatural S8E08 Hunteri Heroici ( + S8E06 Southern Comfort )

#sam winchester #spn 8x08 #spn 8x06 #s8 #gifs #I wish they had actually shown how Sam dealt with his grief after s7 #but it's not that hard to understand why he didn't try harder to find Dean #It was just too much for him. He was left all alone in the world #Bobby was already dead at that point #Dean and Cas disappeared before his eyes (he probably thought they were dead. certainly didn't know they were in purgatory) #and the king of hell took Kevin #Isn't it obvious why he was running from all of it and trying to hold on to something? it was too much for anyone to go through alone #I'm saying it wasn't the best thing to do but totally understandable #(and what's so criminal about trying to make his life less miserable anyway??) #the sad thing is almost every choice he made while running from the burden of reality turned into messes #He had to leave the woman he loves and now his brother trusts a vampire over him #All of that piled up and weighed down on him #It made him question his self-worth #And that insecurity led him to the church in the season finale (not to mention the whole “I'm not clean” thing) #and even after s8... oh I can't do this rn. I'm sad again

[flatfuck936]

I PARTICIPATED @onionninjasstuff 's DTIYS!

It was VERY VERY FUN to do, especially drawing the PB & J duo themselves!! (Especially their facial expressions) I did struggle a lot with the car(I don’t rlly draw cars) and the background since I made the turtles too big but it was too late to change it, lol. I also don’t color very often, so sorry if it’s obvious. I do hope I captured their chaotic energy. Regardless, it was so nice to participate!

And ofc, Congrats on 3K!!! I fucking love your art, it always brightens my mood! I hope you have a great day and that your art gets all the love it deserves<3

Btw, this is my first post, I usually just appreciate the art, not create it, so I hope I’m doing this right. But yeah👍

#WORLD DOMINATION #mwuahahaha #Money CAN buy you happiness #i should go to bed rn #silly crimes #dtiys #it’s my first time posting #really hope I’m not messing this up #PB & J duo

[glowingsand]

do you ever think of me?

#oops i messed up on the hand sign UGH :(((((( it’s fine the world will keep rotating around the sun everything is ok #lowkey been having an art crisis these last few weeks friends but i think i like how this one looks T-T #aside from the messed up hand sign but we’re doing ok :D #also my tablet has been at war w me pls pray for her well being she cannot be doing this to me rn #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk season 2 #geto suguru #gojo satoru #satosugu #anime #fanart #my art #digital art

[mattodore]

guy whose childhood drags behind him like a dead body

#river dipping #simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #theodore doe #echthroi #i forgot to post this after sharing theo's birthday edit last night... listen i was so tired i just hit post and passed out #but so far today i've just been looking through character page themes for a bit and messing around with codes while watching dropout tv #i still need to get to my activity feed sometime today or tomorrow and then i want to set aside some time to just hang out on here #and catch up on things like i keep disappearing and missing out on posts jgkhjfnkh so i gotta do that... #but i'm actually fighting off the world's biggest nap rn..... my meds work really well but lord i'm still so tired all the time woof #so i'll probably end up caving soon lmao #but!!! anyway!! THEO!!! there was nothing i could do abt the proportions on theo as a kid like i couldn't make his head any smaller... #the sims team actually hate me so bad and are trying to force the huge cartoonishly big heads onto my sims </3 #also when i aged him down to a kid like all of his presets were gone so i just had to try and replicate them to the best of my abilities #his lip preset actually has a much deeper cupid's bow but thanks to the liquify tool <33333 it looks like his regular preset #i've actually posted teen theo on here before but i've made a ton of changes to him since then so this version is pretty different compared #to the older version of him at sixteen #he's definitely got more baby fat than he did before like his cheeks are pretty round #um. also i have these closeups i took of adult theo from the pose i made for his birthday edit that i gotta edit a lil and then post!!! #bc you really didn't get to see his expression or the actual pose that well and EYEEEE personally am really in love with the details #of the pose itself like ugh.......... theo is so.......................... yeah. #holds him

[angeltannis]

Borderlands Lore book misgenders Lor

Edit: People keep saying the “her” is referring to Lilith, but that’s wrong. You don’t get coffee for “Lilith’s troops” (the Vault Hunters ARE Lilith’s troops), you get it for Lor’s troops. Lilith is barely involved in anything on Promethea in BL3. It’s definitely a mistake.

#I mean I’d be all for he/she Lor but Ciaran flat out said his pronouns are he/him. sooo. yike #borderlands #Lor the coffee commander #borderlands lore #the world of borderlands #Ash is going through his copy rn and man this shit is a MESS.

[starlooove]

No bc fuck tim but it really really bothers me how people ignore his growth like he used to be an asshole and I’ll give tim Stans one thing: now he’s so so so stale but what I disagree with is that this staleness is bc nobody likes him like it’s in fact the exact opposite where everyone likes him so much they dont want to do anything. Even when it’s him surface level challenging Bruce it’s when everyone else is doing it too; but he’s still the backbone of the fam! Etc. and it’s so irritating bc him gaining more compassion and empathy even for people he doesn’t fw is so fun to watch and that’s why the captain boomerang thing was so out of character! (Not in a from the author way but in a tim wouldn’t do that and he and Bruce both knew it which is why it went down like it did. Same way dick killing joker was ooc; not in fanon sense but in a he would hate himself forever for this sense) and speaking of that it’s such an interesting mirror to Bruce who genuinely believes that everyone can grow vs Tim’s it doesn’t matter if they grow it’s not my decision to make like it’s the same but it’s not AND WITH CASS’ IT DOESNT MATTER IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO GROW I WONT DO IT! like ugh. And anyways even when people acknowledge it they boil it down to “Janet and Jack taught him that the capitalist pigs that they are” like no. This is who tim was. Tim was the kind of guy who’d blame a dead kid for dying. That’s ok. Also Janet and Jack? Please reread anything involving them that’s not a fic like Jack had anger issues and they were both aloof at worst like relax.

#the Jack and Janet thing is both an understatement and an exaggeration but I don’t think anyone reads enough to care #some tim stan might get all pissy and be like ‘no look this is everytime jack yelled at him and boarding schools are abusive’ to which #and its like narratively that means nothing bc the tim you made up to justify the Drake parents you made up by blowing shit out of #proportion is also made up and if all of that was abusive there’d be smth to show for it besides ur homophobic Jack #too girlboss to care but still terrible Janet bc god forbid a woman have a personality from ur fics #anyways that’s also the reason I’m ignoring the council of spiders #well two reasons #first is that was just a moment to make tim look cool and did absolutely nothing for him or his character moving on #like at all #I’d say it fucked with his previous established dislike of killing for his own reasons #and while that COULD be interesting it’s not bc they didn’t do shit with it #and fanon doesn’t do fun shit with it either #nothing about how tim in his most manic state did shit he doesn’t want to remember shit he’d HATE other ppl for #just “’remember what I did to ur base Ra’s? mess with me again and see what I do next 😼’ #like ok can you be real and genuine? #anyways I think #AND NOT IN A HATER WAY #Tim would benefit from being humbled #like genuinely I detest the world can’t move without tim running it but the idea that tim thinks that way is so good to me #and #I think next step being him realizing that’s not true would be a BIG push for his character #bc like I said tim Stans are right in the fact that he’s stale as hell rn #but that’s bc there’s nothing to say bc there’s nowhere to go! y’all want a tim action story where he shows off how badass he is reread #the Bruce quest and maybe it’ll remind you he’s not ceo lmao but anyways there’s nothing internal to say about him atp bc nobody wants to #say anything that’s not propping him up. same with Bruce! Gotham war was such a copout but it’s like ppl are saying he’s stale and it’s bc #god forbid he makes a lasting fumble. and I’m not under the illusion this is new I’m just saying it’s weird that fandoms not clocking it #anywayyys I really do like thinking about the No killing rule and how different it manifests for each perosn #like the way each distinct difference tells u so much about them #UGH ONLY SLIGHTLY RELATED BUT DUUUUUKE BEING LIKE IDGAF ABOUT GUNS LIKE UR SO REAAAL #anyways enough tim positivity for today FUCK THAT NIGGA!

[flustersluts]

if anyone has any tips for growing out long curly hair (3bish) without it looking shit pls let me know

#my hair has alwats been rlly short bc amab things and i always felt like growing it any longer made it RLLY frizzy #last few years ive gotten a better routine of afro combing it in the shower and finding some products that work but it still feels like it #just grows Out and Up instead of ever going down #i think partially this is bc of not waiitng enough time? #idk tho my hair grows RLLY fast and rn I'm up to abt 6 months from buzzcutting it #as in 6 months of growth #but post shower it still looks VERY short and if i mess with it it just becomes frizzy #like there's no world in which my hair looks Both long and tight curls i guess is the problem? #but idk if i need to grow it out more #i probably should right? for st least a year? #i just dk bc nobody i know has my kind of hair:((( #flustersluts

[leahthedreamer]

What do you mean worlds starts tomorrow

#my life is such a mess rn lollllll #this semester is beating my ass real bad but we’ll see how much I can watch live #worlds 2024 #figure skating

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

does anyone have any tips on how not to be a crippling perfectionist about your writing?? i have been staring at the same five paragraphs of the next chapter of four walls for a whole week and i've reached the point where i actually want to defenestrate my own laptop

#i've got the later parts of this chapter and a good chunk of the next one basically done #but this particular section is slowly driving me insane #UGH #why do i write characters with complex and conflicted emotions #it makes for a very complex and conflicted writing experience #(which i'm bitching about rn i know but i also wouldn't give it up for the world. it's just. a lot sometimes) #i end up second guessing myself constantly #also i haven't written anything this long for a good five years and i think the challenges of that #and the challenges of making a longer piece all tie together and work as one are really starting to set in #anyway sorry please feel free to ignore this mess of a post #i just needed to have a vent before returning to my keyboard and trying to make sense of alex's foolish little head #thanks to anyone who read their way though all this rambling 😅 #writing stuff #lulu posts

[merchantarthurn]

i wish those marker organisers weren't so expensive and clunky could you imagine the enrichment it would bring me to organise all my markers by colour-and-number and then sometimes take them all out, mess them up, and do it again? COULD YOU!?

#i don't have a good space to put them rn #i do wanna mess around with the shelving space i have in my office and oh boy when i have more shelving space... watch out world #when i am not physically exhausted maybe i will find a big-tall shelf

[glitterghost]

Feeling the ace-solation tonight.

#asexual #aromantic even #it just feels like the whole world looks at marriage and kids as endgame and holy fuck no #people only ever focus on who is dating who and when are you having kids and when are you getting married #like what the fuck #im over here thinking about how much time i can mash together seeing friends #and what books i want to read and bring me joy #and always thinking about these fictional worlds that have brought me so much more happiness than this one #like you belong somewhere else #like what do you do when you know nothing is wrong with you but sure as hell know others would think there is if they KNEW you #in all your ace or aro or whatever else glory #i just want quiet and peace without this looming feeling of people looking at you like youre supposed to be doing more #like you're in some fucked up timeline of having to achieve these life goals that sure as fuck arent yours #like please leave me tf alone #make the norm be however you get your happiness is the goal #the feels are real tonight #an untethered feeling of floating away or something #dont mind me im going back to my asmr videos #these tags are a mess rn

[demonsfate]

DJ's reformed, not redeemed.

#✏️ - ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏsᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ // (ooc) #// i mean ... i guess he DID help save the world #// but like ...... dunno if that makes up for him technically starting the mess in the first place #// and he doesn't rly do anything rn to atone beyond being jin's guardian devil DFGNJDFGNFG

[lewishamiltonstuff]

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#nothing like a good cry in the world #the way I've been crying for the past 4 5 days. i actually thought I was PMSing (I'm a month away from it) #huffff #it's so hard to stay positive w everything going on in world rn esp since Ramadan has began. Palestinians are eating cooked grass for iftar #every single moment feels like hell. the guilt. the HELPLESSNESS. where do I put it all??? something needs to be done right?? #are Palestinians not human?? #pair these feelings w my crippling depression and horrid anxiety and my ongoing neverending existential crisis and you get a mess in me #not to mention the body image issues and other personal problems which seem to keep amplifying as my birthday gets closer #growing old and not managing to achieve anything worthwhile. being a failure #:( #personal rant #rant post #non f1