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#awww #little guys!!! #jrwi #jrwi riptide

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Unfortunately, this is our way of obtaining water in light of the power outage since October 7th There are no power generators to help transform the water, so we resorted to traditional methods 💔💔

Help me by sharing the link or donate if you can 😥

@el-shab-hussein @90-ghost @glaucopis @sayruq @wilwheaton

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send this to anyone making the "Jewish people are unsafe in pro-Palestine student camps" or "Jewish people are unsafe out on the streets" arguments right now, and also just share it around because it is funney

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jesus in the hades art style

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I think I suffer of drawing isa in a specific angle too much

the permanent :) smile fits him almost as much as a :3

#isat

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since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

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Took a break from fanon swap doodles to paint gem

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what biblically accurate androgynous sex does to a guy

some thought vomit (and possible spoilers) for JRWI Apotheosis ahead

I don't usually get too invested in romance stuff when it comes to player-characters in TTRPGs... so I was very surprised at just how much I liked how Angelstone was played! The humor of the dynamic is peak, and at the same time… there's just something about the depiction of loved ones seeing who you truly are, and loving you for it, that my finals-riddled brain deeply enjoyed. ESPECIALLY in the context of Apotheosis' fucked up world.

So as silly as it's played in canon, I really love these two! And, I love that in the end, they made the canon romance into such a perfect narrative tool that everyone seemed comfortable with.

Timeless Being X Lame Guy forever, baby.

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i think people who aren't autistic can get confused by what a special interest is and why it's different than just a thing that someone likes an above average amount and it's always been hard to explain it beyond "no, you just don't get it". but i think dungeon meshi has really laid it out perfectly with laios and monsters. He doesn't just like monsters, he doesn't just love monsters, he filters just about everything in his life though his interest in monsters. he characterizes and identifies his friends in no small part through how they interact with monsters, he warms up to kabru immediately when he thinks that he wants to try monster meals. his strength and purpose revolves around monsters. he pretty clearly wants to BE a monster. that's special interest.

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you dream of devouring your friends whole

#isat #isat spoilers

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ITS ETHO DAY YIPPEE!!!! etho day!!!!! (redstone break)

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[68] 18/27 - bdubs!!

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thinking about the very specific reading of isat i had during act 3 for the most part

anyway yeah ill ramble here about this. since it actually explains my headcanons for what the disappearing island wish was

disclaimer: taken as a whole this is way too allegorical for what i'd consider a holistic reading of isat, but it was part of my running theories at the time.

anyway my guess for the real-world equivalent of the island ended up being French Polynesia by the end of the game. I had initially thrown a dart at siffrin being greek wrt europe, sisyphus allusion, enjoyment of plays and seafairing-- but the moment that little guy started getting real weird about stars and specified they were from an island i switched my guess to him being polynesian. And then that reading only really strengthened from there (and i was pretty close, tbf!)

but yeah during act 3, especially the king plotline, i started thinking about the themes of cultural erasure + lack of identity that the game has and how that plays wrt vaugarde's extremely welcoming and diverse nature.

reading far too much into it but it made me wonder if they are the results of a fallen empire of some kind. somewhere that gathered people from across the globe (as empires are known to do) before dissolving into what seems to be a localised theocracy of some kind?

like. vaugarde is basically the Good End for an empire. Fully demilitarised (they barely have use for police to the point where the defenders are surprised by burglaries, and almost CERTAINLY have zero army), extremely diverse, not caring where one comes from.

(either that or they've been a socialist utopia like, forever? and thus just aquired migrants perpetually... but ka bue is characterised as harsher by odile in a lot of respects so one can assume its not that the whole planet is Niceys All The Time.)

this lines up pretty well with the um. Whole France Thing. Boy do they own a lot of islands still that they maybe shouldn't. Also lines up with bonnie's word-of-god french creole dialect. So Vaugarde as the welcoming, ideal form of former-colonialiser-nation is like. one i vibe with if we're gonna read too hard into the worldbuilding as presented.

Anyway all this to say I did for a time wonder if the Northern Island wish was 'For The Island To Be Safe'. Assuming this world to have any level of inter-country conflict-- Wish craft is powerful stuff, and a singular island might not be able to defend itself against those seeking to take it by force. Hiding the island from the world would protect it.

... though that felt like an unusually cruel read. The implication that cloistering away like that is a 'valid' strategy for a culture to be safe (albeit with the splash damage of hurting any diaspora).

Plus, wish craft is superbly powerful, with evidently its use on the island only becoming more widespread after it was discovered how to make it work Consistently.

(i work here under the assumption that Siffrin's growing cloak is imbued with wish craft, assumedly the same as the king's armour? Since there's no way that was created at that scale...)

So it almost makes more sense, to me, for the wish to be to 'Protect The World (universe) From Us' or to 'Keep The Universe Safe'.

Wish craft being so second nature to the Islanders (See: Siffrin, favour tree), that a wish that breaks the universe is almost inevitable were the knowledge to become widespread and ingrained.

This too is an oddly cruel read, that a culture's rituals can be dangerous to that degree, but ... ? Dunno. Like I said, reading it as hard allegory makes it fall apart somewhat. Symbols can mean many different things at once until you flatten them for direct analysis like this. I don't think it's quite so 1-to-1, and it's honestly slightly too 'no story only lore' for my tastes, so I did push a lot of this stuff out of my analytical mind once I started getting to the back and of act 3 and into act 4.

Anyway. Not the most coherent explanation in the world, but still some thoughts I had mid-game that i figure i should put somewhere at least, even if I don't think they are really what the game is going for.

As a bonus, the discussions on what the island wish were in this context also lead my friend @samhainian to speculation on the colour wish that i really enjoy. Which is....

The wish that removed colour from humans perception of the world being something along the lines of:

"I wish the world was simpler"

ergo, removing colour as an invocation of Nuiance VS Black and White Morality. The world is simpler, easier to understand.

I think it's a fun headcanon! I like it.

Well anyway. A work is more than the sum of its parts and dissecting something so sloppily as this often does it a disservice. So don't take my theorising as anything more than a general rundown of where my head was at mid-game before i had all the pieces. The emotional core of the story is far more where it's at for ISAT sooooo. [Shrugs and scampers away]

#this is so interesting #isat #very cool analysis

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Free resource for artists and designers!!

I made a website where artists and designers can get color palette inspo from fire hydrants I've 3D scanned all over the US

Some of my favorites:

There are about 100 hydrants so far and I'm continuing to add more all the time

Public infrastructure is sexy, baby!!!!!! Pass it on!!

dayroselane.com/hydrants

#save for later

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Queen of hearts, heads and body parts.

I'm severely sleep deprived, lol.

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[Day 315] (context from day 313)

Binary system

For the space nerds 🤝 and if u wanna know the inspo:

High Mass X-ray Binaries form from two stars of different mass which are in orbit around each other. The more massive one evolves faster and reaches the end of its life first, after a few million years or so. It becomes a giant and the outer layers are lost to its companion. Then it explodes in a supernova leaving behind either a neutron star or a black hole. (source)

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Over the span of 4 days, I drew every character that can be seen in In Stars and Time.

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