#vs the heat death of the universe

[inkeyjay]

Commissioned fanart i had the joy to do for @narcissistcookbook

#the narcissist cookbook #this is how get better #illustration #vs the heat death of the universe

[alternative-snake]

guess what song ive been listening to on repeat

so smile for the camera flash blinding

you see the heat death of the universe, time is unwinding

#transcription in alt text as per usual for the ones with my handwriting #song is vs the heat death of the universe by the narcissist cookbook #im just havin a good time over here #aarons art tag #jash tag #sure lets maintag this #chonny jash #assorted sketches #love a good completely unrelated song mixed in with the cccc

[mittensmorgul]

rewatching 15.18 and suffering afresh!

I need to talk about Billie, though. While Cas is telling Dean he’s made of love. We all know.

But Billie.

For years, I’ve been writing about how she’s Dabb’s avatar in the story. She was. Which makes it pretty damn poetic how-- and when-- she is taken out of it.

(I just watched her and Cas get ripped from the story and am currently sobbing on the floor of the dungeon beside Dean)

Cas’s love confession is the mechanism of his own happiness that summoned the Empty. But he triggered it deliberately to also remove Billie from the narrative.

Metaphorically, Dabb’s control over it.

And this is why I’m just as mad about Billie’s lack of redemption as I am about Cas’s lack of redemption.

She was tricked just as much as TFW was in this episode. She truly believed that her mission of Killing Chuck was their only salvation, just as much as Dean in 15.17 had become single-minded in that mission to the point he nearly destroyed everything else in pursuit of it. He pulled a GUN on SAM. That needs a lot of exclamation points for emphasis, but I try to be a decent person to those with screen readers, so y’all get this whole sentence instead of a string of bang marks...

As Billie told Dean and Cas when they broke into her Reading Room to try to kill her, they were in the wrong place. She had no interest in killing all their friends. It wasn’t her disappearing everyone as they’d been led to believe. It was always Chuck, all along. He was to blame for it. They’d wasted their time going after her. But without her, they also had no real hope of killing Chuck... or so SHE believed.

She said her ONLY mission now that she was dying was killing Dean.

Which... actually happened in the finale.

Because Billie didn’t understand how she’d been manipulated into doing Chuck’s bidding for him until it was too late. She spent all of s15 single-mindedly devoted to killing Chuck when that was never going to succeed. Because Chuck wrote ALL the rules to the universe, including the ones that Billie existed by as Death.

She had Grand Plans to just... keep the balance (as Amara had been urging Chuck toward in 15.17 before he broke her will and devoured her... yes Amara got short-shrift just as much as Billie did... and I won’t even go into how Rowena received the exact same treatment as a self-sacrifice in 15.03, other than to just state it plainly here).

But Chuck-- the one who can changes the rules on the fly and bend everything in the universe to his will EXCEPT for the will of humanity-- was too committed to the Writer Bit. Too invested in his own story to let it go. When it didn’t go his way, instead of adapting and letting it become something else, he chose to punish all the characters he claimed were his favorites.

Chuck ended up writing the worst, most nihilistic fanfic of his own stories just to burn it all to the ground. Tormenting his characters for no other reason than pettiness. Because he could.

Dabb was never Chuck. Dabb was always Billie. And in the final season-- out past 14.20 when we got that wild shot of Jack, Billie, and the Entity in the Empty... Dabb was all three of them.

And what happens to Jack in 15.19? He’s been Emptied Out, having been destroyed in the Empty and then brought back to Earth with no power, involuntarily absorbing power and draining the life from everything around him until he becomes... the perfect vessel for Chuck. He becomes Chuck at the end of 15.19.

Just in time for Dabb to execute... whatever the heck that finale was. Chuck’s final story.

Chuck won. He got the last say using Dabb’s in-story avatar like a puppet to bring it all to fruition. And Billie is the proof of it. And I am so tired now and can’t bring myself to watch 15.20 again yet, so I’m turning off the tv now before it’s too late and probably gonna go read my post 15.19 fix it fic instead that puts all of this to rights.

#spn 15.18 #spn 15.17 #spn 15.19 #spn 15.20 #dabb vs cars #chuck's process #destiel #billie the reaper #jack nougat winchester #chuck won #i both love and hate my own brain sometimes #i've said all of this before and i am doomed to say it again over and over until the heat death of the universe or whatever

[somewhat-very-insane]

#song: vs the heat death of the universe! — the narcissist cookbook #//music #//god's words

[ezraphobicsoup]

guys when they are vs the heat death of the universe

#and by the wqy!! your heart has no reason for staying in bed #your hearts just a muscle!! #time is the kingdom of wire and bone your wardenless prison your forever home #so what do you say honey while we are here let’s make the best of this cosmic disaster!!! #tug at my nerves tug at my nerves tug at my nerves and make the church bells chime !!!! #so smile for the camera flash blinding #you see it all of creation. it stretches out in front of you just like a beautiful ballgown a tuxedo perfectly tailored to every inch of you #and ive only danced maybe twice in my life but i’ll make an exception for now for tonight #as the heavens beneath us convulse and contract to be near us don’t tell me there’s no turning back!!!! #ezra likes music #i’m being normal #can’t believe i haven’t made a ghost stories one of these actually #but in the same way i can it’s much more personal to me i give it a hug. vs the heat death of the universe i dance around a bit more yknow #ok fuck i should do some more revision #ezra’s real life rambles

[narcissistcookbook]

sometimes i write a song that makes me go "what is this even about, this is just images and vibes, i can't release this" and then i remember a lot of you guys love vs the heat death of the universe and i think, i can do whatever i want

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side A

Galahad art credit @spiralstain

Propaganda below ⬇️

Junk Rat

I wish his Catholicism meant if he got killed in game it would take him 3 days to respawn

Galahad

OKAY SO . "Galahad (played by Jonny d'Ville): a travelling preacher/religious zealot who is told to sit in the Siege Seat by Merlin, and discovers the fact that Fort Galfridian is falling into the star Avalon. He sparks the quest for the GRAIL, and willingly goes to his death to overcome its final defences." DUDE SAT IN THE CHAIR THAT IS KNOWN FOR KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE HIS CRUSH [MERLIN] [AKA HANGED MAN] [AKA DRUMBOT BRIAN] TOLD HIM TO . SORRY I THINK THATS REALLY FUNNY. he found out the whole shitshow of a spacestation he lived on was gonna fall into the sun and he went around yelling about it incomprehensibly and got fucking gunned down trying to get the GRAIL and just kept going through the gunfire because of how Religious [tm] he was . he died . in once and future king it just "galahad's blind faith" . also hellfire goes really hard . he is the definition of going insane with the knowledge of the universe . also jonny dville played him thats bonus points

There was a prophet. The prophet gave three separate people three separate instructions. 1. Stop being racist 2. Love your son 3. Sit in the Chair That Makes People Insane Galahad received number three. He was the only one who followed the instructions. He sat in the Chair That Makes People Insane, saw the sun for the first time, and immediately starts preaching about how everyone will burn in hellfire

i dont know anything about this guy i just wanna help make Kai happy please dont like not count my submission just because i dont know anythinf except for the Kills You Chair im trying my best im sorry 😭

his themesong is called hellfire and it slaps btw go listen to it. anyways he is my blorbo blingus he is Deeply unwell i could fix him but also whatever is wrong with him is incredibly fascinating to watch. a robot dude who's been hanging from the gallows since forever told him 'hey go sit in the Chair That Kills People Who Sit In It' and he was like 'I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT MY ENTIRE LIFE'. the getting-his-brain-fried thing definitely made him worse but he was also clearly kind of fucked up before that. his death is probably one of my favorite scenes in any mechs album. maybe just straight up my favorite. ahem. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT FAITH, BUT IT CAN HAVE POWERFUL EFFECTS ON THOSE THAT HAVE IT. IT CAN KEEP YOU FROM FALTERING AS THE BULLETS START TO SLAM INTO YOU. IT CAN KEEP YOU WALKING AS YOU LEGS ARE SHOT TO BLOODY STUMPS. IT CAN KEEP YOU LAUGHING AS YOUR LUNGS ARE FILLED WITH SHRAPNEL AND LEAD. IT CAN KEEP YOU SMILING AS HALF YOUR FACE IS BLOWN AWAY. IT CAN KEEP A MAN LIKE GALAHAD STANDING TALL UNTIL THE GUNS. CLICKED. DRY. anyways go listen to high noon over camelot <3

my friends my people my... flock I HAVE HAD A VISION!! A VAST FIERY ORB FLOATIN IN AN ENDLESS VOID!! and there so small so feagile US!!! BUT FALLIN FALLIN FALLIN INTO THE FLAMES!!! your soul is connected to the world youre in youre draggin it down with the weight of your sin surrounded by temptation and y'just give in we're fallin into the flames OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HEEEEELLLLLLFIIIRE YOUR BROW BECOMES SLICK AS YOU PERSPIRE YOU THINK YOURE THIRSTY NOW WAIT TIL IT GETS DRIER AND YA FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SICK AND SINFUL LIES WILL BUILD A FUNERAL PYRE YOUR PERVERSION SCARS THE STATION SON ITS GONAN FRY HER AND WE ALLLLLL FALL INTO THE FLAMES... oh i have SEEN DAMNATION MY BROTHERS!! ive FELT its searing heat within my VERY BONES !!!!!!! but there is a way me be saved... "OH TELL US FATHER GALAHAD, TELL US" I HEAR YOU CRY "IS IT PIETY IS IT PURITY IS IT VIRTUE?" NO!!! ONLY WAY TO SAVE US NOW IS THE HOLY GRAIL ITSELF... HAHAHAHAHHAAAA.... WELL THAT ORB OF DAMNATION MAKES THE SUN SEEM PALE YOURE QUITE CORRECT TO QUIVER YOU ARE RIGHT TO QUAIL THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE US IS TO FIND THAT GRAIL OR WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SKIN STARTS TO SIZZLE AS YOU EXPIRE YOU CLAIM TO BE VIRTUOUS BUT YOURE A LIAR !!!!! AND YOU FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES ... i said HEEEELLLLFIIIIRE HEEEEEEEELLLLFIRE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLFIIIIIREEE HEEEEEEELLLLLLFIIIIIIRE OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE AT THE HEART OF THAT INFERNO THAT WILL NEVER TIRE IVE SEE THE END IS NIGH AND DAMNATIONS NIGHER OH WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES

Ok i know this is kind of a shot in the dark because hes so obscure but i need to speak my truth. Hes so insane. The narrator calls him a “holy roller.” He has a vision which is meant to tell him that the place they live is LITERALLY going to get burnt to a crisp because its slowly falling into the sun. But hes like Oh my god i just had a vision of hell i need to save everyone from eternal damnation. And he happily gets killed and turned into a pile of slop because he believes its what he was “chosen to do” he quite literally dies for his religion. Hes also quite funny. I like him. Thank you

#junkrat #overwatch #junk rat #High Noon over Camelot #The Mechanisms #Galahad #cct polls #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr polls

[deanthe]

i love how tonally different the first and last splatfests of each splatoon game are. the first ones are just "how many pillows do you have one your bed?" "what is your favorite kind of soda :D" and halfway into the game's lifespan nintendo just doesn't pull any punches and it's like "would you kill the president of the usa if given the chance."

if you think i'm kidding, let's check it out, shall well? splatoon: cats vs dogs! are you a dog or a cat person? which is the snuggliest? :DD i personally love dogs, they always love you and their little tails are soooo cute! also, do you like rock or pop music more? x3 CALLIE VS MARIE. SICK TWO COUSINS AFTER EACHOTHER'S THROATS ON LIVE TELEVISION. WHOEVER LOSES GETS INTO THE WORST MENTAL STATE OF THEIR LIFE EVENTUALLY LEADING TO THEM WILLINGLY SIDING WITH THE ENEMES OF THE STATE AND GETTING BRAINWASHED AND HAVING TO BE RESCUED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. splatoon 2: cake vs ice cream! which is your favorite yummy summer treat? i like to cool off with ice cream, but sharing sweet strawberry cake with cream cheese icing with friends can't be beat!! by the way i forgot, rock or pop? which was your fav again? CHAOS VS. ORDER. WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN A WORLD WITH COMPLETE ANARCHY AND DESTRUCTION* OR A CORRUPT SOCIETY WHERE EVERYTHING IS MONITORED AND CONTROLLED STRICTLY. (*of course, splatoon3 didn't actually end up being this way, but after team chaos won and we got the first splatoon 3 trailer about a year and a half later that made it seem like it was going to be just that was incredibly funny.) splatoon 3's first splatfest was literally just what your favorite rock paper scissors move was. they're literally all even, there's no choice that outshines the other, which leads me to believe slatoon 3's final fest is going to be about how you feel about the inevitable heat death of the universe

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatfest

[theliterarywolf]

Seriously? So we can't make fun of the executives fucking with a lot of animated shows? Because of their feelings? They were the ones who literally had Steven Universe be this mess because it Executive meddling.

Hey, now! The Crewniverse did what they could and actually allocated their limited time properly unlike SOME PEOPLE

*glares at Star Vs. The Forces of Evil until the heat-death of the universe*

[utilitycaster]

What is it that people saying the The Blue is radiation are missing? I don’t think I really know much about it either but I’d love a crash course if you’d be interested?

I mean, the actual serious answer is that to come to the conclusion the Blue is not radiation, one needs to know basically nothing about radiation, but one does need to possess the media comprehension skills of a relatively bright 4th grader. The Blue is introduced in the first episode in the creation myth bedtime story as the thing that created the forest and all in it, and tells us that, per legend, there is a little bit of the Blue in everyone. It then shows up in the second episode as part of paladin magic, and is concentrated in the bear’s brain, and the stoats are aware that the Blue is the source of their (long-standing) powers.. Now I don’t know specifically what it is - the force of nature, the concept of a soul or sentience, some form of forest divinity, the magic of life - but that is the general concept we’re looking at. 

The Blue is explicitly a separate concept from the disaster that led to the destruction of the burrow; it even is referred to, within the same sentence, as a thing separate from the Blue. The dust storm offhand sounds like some kind of chemical poison, coming from the “gray river” (road); it could be other lethal agents possibly, but the point is: not the Blue. It is new (Blue is not), immediately lethal (Blue is not), and not Blue (Blue is blue).

Anyway though here are some radiation facts that further back up the point that neither the Blue, nor the lethal agent, which, again, two FULLY separate things, are not radiation:

Radiation is not blue. It can excite electrons, which emit blue wavelength photons as they go back down to an unexcited state and when there is a very large amount of activity such as in a criticality incident, this can lead to a blue flash (see: the demon core incidents at Los Alamos). In water, as in many nuclear reactors, there’s something called Cherenkov radiation which is due to the fact that the energized subatomic particles emitted by the radiation have a speed greater than the speed of light in water (nothing is faster than light in a vacuum, but this is not true in water). It’s the visual equivalent of a sonic boom, and it’s also blue. However, radiation itself is invislble, and things that are radioactive come in all sorts of colors. Also, radioactive substances do not automatically glow - radium works by exciting a phosphor, for example, but pure radium in a vacuum wouldn’t glow in the absence of this phosphor. One of the many reasons radiation is dangerous and why regulations surrounding it are so tight is because humans have no reliable way of consistently detecting its presence with our senses, and so without very clear signage and labeling it would be very easy for people to accidentally be exposed.

Radiation does not kill instantly. Latency periods even for universally lethal quantities are about 24 hours (see again the incidents at Los Alamos). The reason nuclear weapons kill those within a certain radius instantly is the sheer energy emitted as concussive force and heat. There are then deaths due to acute radiation sickness, which occur days to months afterwards; and then there is an elevated risk of cancer among the surviving but exposed population, which in turn has a latency period of about 2 years for blood cancers and 20-ish for solid cancers.

Radiation can be used to heal in very specific cases! However I do not think lay on hands is an equivalent to thyroid ablation or radiation oncology therapy, especially in this context.

Brains are actually one of the less sensitive portions of the body to radiation and I don't offhand know of an isotope uniquely uptaken by the brain (vs, say, iodine going to the thyroid or radium being a bone seeker). I mean you shouldn’t zap your brain with radiation unnecessarily as like, a life tip, but it specifically congregating in the bear’s brain isn’t really how radiation would likely work.

Anyway: the point is knowledge of radiation meant I didn't even consider it as part of this story, but one would not come to the conclusion of "the Blue is radiation" without a profound deficit in both STEM and the humanities.

#answered #mapleandgingeroatmeal #burrow's end spoilers #look. again. i'm really enjoying the story but i think this is laying bare (pun unintended) the limitations of the d20 fandom #in like. every possible way.

[justseraph]

rules — shuffle your “on repeat playlist” and list the first ten songs, then tag ten people

I don't know that many people on Tumblr so I'll tag a few maybe. I just thought this would be fun (I accidentally left Ashnikkos new album on all night so I will end up cheating and skipping the ones I don't really like)

1: Ashnikko - Don't look at it

2: Bug Hunter - Platonic best friend

3: The Narcissist Cookbook - Vs The Heat Death Of The Universe

4: Bug Hunter - 30 Plan

5: Madilyn Mei - Kleptomaniacrow

6: The Crane Wives - Icarus

7: Big Hunter - Shocking Plot Twist

8: Chase Petra - Prologue

9: Chase Petra - Monet Issues (God this song hurts me in the best way)

10: The Narcissist Cookbook - Beachcomber Blues

#the narcissist cookbook #bug hunter #chase petra #ashnikko #the crane wives #madilyn mei #on repeat

[iliiuan]

~A whole episode about death. I'm intrigued.~

Babylon 5 s1e2 Soul Hunter

Aw, they made a shout-out to Asimov. I doubt his work will withstand the test of time. It's already fading.

Helllloooo doctor. You are yummy. (Oh, he was a soap actor. That explains everything.)

An unknown ship. The plot thickens.

Uh oh. Kamikaze or shipwreck?

Earth vs Minbari. Got it. 10 years ago, so not very long.

2258 seems sufficiently in the future that no one will be laughing at how overly optimistic the technology is. Probably end up being the other way, where they think it's funny people still use toilet paper or something.

In the 90s, it was like, why would Russia still be an uneasy ally in 250 years? They would totally be on our team by then. And now in the 2020s it's more like, is it possible for Russia to ever be an ally to anyone?

Nice bit of space dancing. I love when they get the physics right. They have the ship responding to the thruster burns. It's fucking glorious.

That grapple is a bit pathetic. Like a toy grabber at the fair.

Oh, lady with the crown skull is Minbari. Good to know.

Shak Tot. Soul Eater. Sounds delightful. Don't invite them over for dinner.

He's an ugly fucker, isn't he? Weird vagina forehead.

Delenn is distraught. She saw the boogeyman for real.

Are people really still falling for the three cup shuffle? Did they lose all the tropes between now and the future?

He's ugly *and* creepy.

Bizarre to believe that some people have a richer inner life than others.

Wow, they really wanted the Minbari leader's soul, didn't they? And the Minbari really didn't want to let them have it.

I like the Earther funeral rite. Not as good as Shienar's, but it's difficult to embrace the mother when you're floating in space. Although, you don't waste nutrients on a space station by jettisoning bodies out into space.

Your collection of souls are not your children that is so fucking creepy.

The complete difference in belief about what should happen with souls, whether death is permanent, how people should be honored in their death..... Obviously supposed to be an analogy for religions, but ostensibly in the b5 universe, there is an actual answer to who is correct? Like, dude has weird floaty crystal balls filled with other people's memories, so something real is happening. Does seem a bit selfish to keep all of those memories for yourself, though. It's like librarians gone mad scientist with a heavy dose of god-complex.

Uh oh. He's a rogue agent.

Satai. That's got to be important or Chekhov's going to be pissed.

The souls are angry with him? Fascinating.

Ooh, Delenn has Secrets.

"There's always time." Except that the inevitable heat death of the universe would disagree with you, but it's cool. You want to feel indestructible. I get it.

She's so happy to let the souls free.

I'm so happy to be alive.

#babylon 5 #babylon 5 s1e2 #death theme

[obscure-horror-game-protagonist]

"OBSCURE" "HORROR" "GAME" PROTAGONIST "BRACKET": "ROUND" "TWO"

We are back! Round one had some surprises and confusion but with the longest week in recorded history now over we now have the results, and are now preparing to enter round two!

Our matchups for this round will be as follows:

Cynte (Endoparasitic) vs. Murphy Pendleton (Silent Hill: Downpour)

Michael Tapp (Saw 2: Flesh and Blood (PS3)) vs. Andy the Apple (Andy's Apple Farm)

Eriko Christy (Illbleed) vs. Simon Jarrett (SOMA) (...oh I feel bad for Eriko...)

Thomas Smith (Neverending Nightmares) vs. Arthur Hastings (We Happy Few)

I must say even though some of these results confused us they did result in there being a very funny corner on this bracket. Round two will start on May 12th (this Friday). Perhaps we might actually get to our final round before the heat death of the universe!

#poll tournament #gaming #horror #endoparasitic #murphy pendleton #michael tapp #andy the apple #eriko christy #simon jarrett #thomas smith #arthur hastings #silent hill #silent hill downpour #saw #andy's apple farm #illbleed #soma #neverending nightmares #we happy few

[narcissistcookbook]

Hey! I was one of the people at the St. Louis live show you did with Bughunter! I was wondering if the recordings of the show were being uploaded somewhere, I remember it being mentioned but I can't remember what exactly was said. Also one of my girlfriends may have started one of the "bust that nut" chants, so sorry/you're welcome.

as i type this i've listened back to about 8 of the 12 or so shows we recorded. some of them are unusable for myriad reasons, but there's enough really fun stuff in here that i reckon i'll be able to release some kind of live album in the near future 💜

no promises, but alongside a compilation of the best performances there might be an expanded edition that comes with a handful of complete shows. you want to hear me fuck up vs the heat death of the universe beyond recognition in nyc? you might have your chance soon

#worship music for agnostics

[obeetlebeetle]

sarah @frogndtoad tagged me to share 5 songs I've been into lately! frankly the honest answer is that I've been listening to one album on repeat this week but I'll include variety

this is the one this album rules. listen to fever pitch. listen to possum queen. listen to freefall fr

ok here's some other stuff. Ive been in kind of a mood

tagging @emotionsandphenomena @resemblingthegrave @avantguardisme @phosphorusandpetra @waitingforgalois @oranges-and-pears @theocannibalism and @justsomeguycore ! also if u wanna do this pls do . As y'all know I eat songs for power

[twopercentboy]

besties I need you to listen to this and let it change you please and thanks

#narcissist cookbook #the narcissist cookbook #its currently my favorite song n I'm listening to it on repeat #its just so good im sorry #my.txt #me.txt #music #Spotify