crypticmessengergoblin

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I am a violin maker learning to tattoo so here is a banana with the decoration from the Hellier Strad violin

#luka couffaine #luka core #you can't convince me otherwise #no notes #mlb

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this art is so personal to me

Which percabeth do you prefer?

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did anyone else ever find it odd how easily zeus offered percy godhood? and how it almost seemed like he secretly wanted percy to accept? well i did, and after thinking long and hard about it…

i don’t think percy understood what turning down godhood really meant

demigods do tasks for the gods because they don’t have to follow any rules. they aren’t controlled by anyone or anything. demigods are a strange hybrid - not god, not human. they are in between the laws of immortal and mortal. they are not supposed to exist. yet they do, which is what makes them so extraordinary.

percy is crazy powerful. of course, there’s the aspect of raw power. he has domain over air (storms/hurricanes), land (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions), and sea (monster waves, tsunamis, floods, basically anything that involves water.) he can control bodily fluids. he has super strength (with one hand, he held up an unconscious annabeth who was being pulled down by both arachne AND the forces of tartarus). he has super speed (he moves faster than bullets in TTC). no matter how badly you hurt him, he automatically heals and regenerates the second he touches water (an ability no other demigod has). he’s an extraordinary swordsman. very skilled in combat and warfare. he’s smart, and thinks of plans quickly. but he also has a great deal of social/poltcial power… i mean, he’s a leader and hero to both the greek and roman camps. if he says “attack,” all demigods, greek or roman, attack. no question. do you have any idea how threatening that is to the olympians? he’s also best friends and has an empathy link with the lord of the wild, which basically means all of nature is by his side too, including all land creatures. he’s also prince of horses, which means pegasi too (both of which are extremely useful in battle). and of course all sea creatures, including the mythical ones like krakens and leviathans. not to mention many of the gods really like him. hermes, hephaestus, athena, aphrodite, and dionysis have all gone out of their way to help him. artemis holds him in high regard, especially since he saved her. apollo literally considers him his friend! and poseidon - his dad, the god who is the biggest threat to zeus - is fiercely protective of him and cares about him a great deal. many minor gods also like him because he demanded them to be given more respect and for their kids to be welcomed at the camps.

percy unknowingly has more power, both physical and social/political, than anyone should ever have. he may have absolutely no idea, but it must scare the living daylights out of zeus. by accepting zeus’s offer to become a god, percy would have submitted himself to the control of zeus. zeus would be his king and ruler. zeus would then have complete control over him.

but percy said no. therefore, percy remains out of zeus’s control.

percy had no idea what he was doing. but thank the gods he made that choice. thank the gods he’s an incredible person. thank the gods percy jackson has no desire for power, because he has more of it than anyone should ever be able to have.

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I would also like to add (for the Battle of Manhattan darkest moment girlies)

the FINNEAS duet one though

THE percabeth song IDC IDC

#drop your fav #percabeth #songs #i wanna hear em #pjo #hoo #percy jackson #playlist #annabeth chase #battle of manhattan #again #Spotify

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more of my stupid gay marine biologist. check it out

#art #MARINE BIOLOGIST #heck yeah #look at those critters #also i want his outfit #I'd get a little postcard print of this if I could

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unlikely to have original thoughts this unoriginal experiences that

this also means someone has made the same little mistakes in the past, are likely making them now, and will likely be making them in the future!

it's okay, we're all on our first try here on earth <3

#as far as i know... #but learning! #hope #anxiety #perfectionism #recovering perfectionist #mistakes #mental health #rambles

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y'know the disjointed bug character splat in cartoons with their arms and legs sprawled in the air

that's me rn

#splat #I'm thinking of a specific one but idk what it is #phineas and ferb? #a movie? #idk #I'm sore #floor time #sprawl #like #whacked with a book #bug #maybe bee movie? #hit with magazine or boot #blegh #*arms and legs and crinkled antennae*

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I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

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wish i could go missing for a little bit and no one would freak out and then i could come back and they'd be like "did you have fun going missing" and i'd be like "yeah, thanks" and then i could do that every couple of months or so and it wouldn't be a big deal

#I need to send this to my college friends #because I do frequently “go missing” according to them #they always say how much they missed me when I come back so I should be happy #but they've also offered joining our group's life360 for convenience purposes and I'm just not interested #I enjoy disappearing #I've told them “yeah I'll join” and wait for someone to add me but (thankfully) they get sidetracked (I'm pretty sure 60% of them have ADHD

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*ugh that's such a good skeleton look at those vertebrae those are such fun bones I kinda want a frog skeleto - oh*

This one is a very simplified version of what I mean but ever since I figured out my major I notice little pieces of what I like that I realize should've been dead giveaways...

I'm like ohh I should've guessed that I liked [insert niche interest] because of it's wider connection to [certain major that I wasn't knowledgeable enough about to recognize]

anyways i love bones

OKAY BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE SKELETON OF A RAIN FROG? [X]

#archaeology #paleontology #frog #refrog #skeleton #bones #it's so good #i wanna draw skeleton frog #maybe with translucent jelly body so you can see the sheer plump volume while appreciating the skeleton #aka this image but it's a jello frog #like a Kasey Golden drawing #yknow

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Honestly I should talk about the ace experience more. I don’t see enough. Like–obviously it’s dehumanizing to be repeatedly compared to robots or aliens but uh…sometimes it feels like that?? 

My husband will get all horny while I’m, I don’t know, changing out of sweaty gardening clothes. And I’ll be like, “But we have to make lunch?? I stink? Now is not a good time?? Logic?” And clearly it’s not about logic to him. He is experiencing the entire scenario very differently. And I’m here like, 

Or the times where you realize that like, having an actual physiological reaction to attractive people is not some enculturated metaphor, and people are actually doing that all around you all the time, and you’re like, Ah, clearly my studies of human culture have been incomplete. I have missed a critical psychosocial component. Many things now appear in a different light. *takes notes on holopad*

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A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

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peanut butter egg...color theory?

my mom is making peanut butter chocolate eggs while I'm home for Easter and gave me a ball of the peanut butter filling to try. It was really good but not extremely peanut butter-y. She asked me how it was and I asked what else was in it (because it ofc isn't straight peanut butter) and told her it was good but not super peanut butter-y followed up by "but I also just finished a jar of peanut butter with a spoon so it's like color theory" and idk if she didn't hear me or just accepted that because I offered no explanation.

anywho, I just process it as things being relative. of course something seems less peanut butter-y if the base line I had been immersed in was pure peanut butter, but if someone with a clean palette had tried it it may have seemed super peanut butter-y.

This is like color theory and bringing in colors within a certain context. The context that a color is surrounded with and used in in a painting can entirely change how we physically interpret said color. (I'm not knowledgeable enough of color theory to give a specific example but it's like using a mid value color next to high value vs low value or a certain hue as a flat color vs in a shaded context for another hue.) please tell me this makes sense to someone

#it was butter something else and a tiny bit of salt btw #peanut butter eggs #easter #color theory #art #relativity #context #peanut butter egg color theory #metaphor #? #idek man #chocolate #reese's #homemade #candy

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You know when someone goes through your blog on a mass like-spree for a fandom? I love those like, 19 notifications in a row. it’s like “Ah, I see you’re well into a fixation. God bless.”

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Pjo from Percy's perspective is fun and games, a lot of drama, shenanigans and sometimes a bit emotionally devastating.

If pjo was written from Annabeth's perspective, you would be crying from the beginning of tlt until the end of tlo.

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I wrote this while sitting criss cross in the corner of my local gym btw - I'm a socially anxious and hyperaware person and when I say this was so liberating for some reason idek

I love stretching so much

I need to do it more often

Stay connected to your body

Don't be afraid to spread your arms into the air

Cross your legs

Both at the same time even

Criss cross applesauce has been a recent fav for my hips

We think it looks childish because how many people stop stretching daily and may be physically incapable as they get older so we hardly see them doing it

Stretch! It's so nice!

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I love stretching so much

I need to do it more often

Stay connected to your body

Don't be afraid to spread your arms into the air

Cross your legs

Both at the same time even

Criss cross applesauce has been a recent fav for my hips

We think it looks childish because how many people stop stretching daily and may be physically incapable as they get older so we hardly see them doing it

Stretch! It's so nice!

#i should do yoga in the mornings (i need a mat) #health #mental health #stretch #breathe #uncurl #we're told to keep to ourselves mind our own business and keep our heads down and are given tech that emphasize just that - open up its ok #spring #sun #use your senses #ugh