#I just had to make it into a meme format

[blue-howlite]

#I promise this is the last one #Doom Breaker #Reincarnation of the suicidal battle god #Fade #I just had to make it into a meme format #It has the same vibes as that “Is that seat empty?” audio #Oh wait I can make it into a meme- #Ahahahah sike this isn't the last one

[lady-harrowhark]

Hello! I saw you mention that Pyrrha remembers pre-resurrection, and I totally missed that!! Do you have any theories as to why?

I have a few thoughts!

Just for context - because I didn't catch that on my first read either until I started going back through! - there are a few instances that seem to suggest Pyrrha remembers at least some of her life pre-Resurrection. Off the top of my head, I know there's one point where she refers to G1deon as G--, just like John does. Nona also says that Pyrrha calls her "Hairy Maclary", which is referring to a series of children's books by a New Zealand author. Here's a link to a picture and some info about Hairy Maclary... I can definitely understand why Pyrrha would call Nona that lol. This one's super interesting to me in that it's such a fantastic example of the way Tamsyn uses memes and references so skillfully! In the previous books, most of the references are fairly organic in that they're things that could conceivably be, you know, just things the characters say; the readers catch it (if they also know the reference! otherwise they're fairly unobtrusive) but the characters themselves aren't intentionally making a reference. This would be the things like "You can't just ask someone why they want to be a Lyctor" and "a hunger that only thumbs could satisfy," etc. The exception, though, is John. The "none Houses with left grief" particularly is SO fun from an exposition perspective (but if I start on that one I'll never stop), and then of course we have Commander Wake Me Up Inside. The implication here being that John remembers these specific things and is intentionally making those references within the context of the story. Pulling that same expository trick with Pyrrha sets them up as both remembering... at least to some degree. The hints that we get from Pyrrha are such that it's pretty unclear to what extent she remembers, leaving a lot of room for juicy speculation :)

I initially touched on it over on this post where I rambled about names, memory, and the Eightfold Word, but I'm copying over the Pyrrha-specific paragraph so that you don't have to dig for it:

When assisting with Harrow’s lobotomy, Ianthe tells her, “If you push your brain too hard, any surgery could simply heal over.” And in NtN, Pyrrha tells Palamedes, “You should be draining and replacing her fucking brain fluid... When Gideon and I designed that trial, I used to crack his skull and sieve it myself, just as a control variable... The only other people I put through that damn trial were Mercy and Cris, because only Cris didn’t mind being trepanned on the regular.” I don’t know exactly where the threshold is for pushing one’s brain too hard, but I suspect frequently draining and replacing one’s brain fluid is in that ballpark. Which is to say, it’s very possible that Mercy and Pyrrha (and potentially others) could have healed over from anything John had done to their brains.

Also, I don't know why this didn't occur to me as I was writing up that other post, but when Pyrrha's telling Palamedes about how dangerous their uhhhhh living arrangements are, and how they're risking brain damage... Pyrrha and G1deon were operating under somewhat similar circumstances for thousands of years. Cumulatively, it's possible that G1deon's brain was racking up damage that eventually eroded away whatever John had done. Another thought is that maybe the fact that G1deon died and Pyrrha didn't is at play here.

It could very well be less dramatic than that, though. We don't know much about how Lyctorhood impacts the brain, although to be completely fair, we also can't say for certain how a typical human brain would function after ten thousand years of runtime either. Our brains are constantly wiring new neural pathways and rewiring and revising old ones. After thousands of years, might we be reaching a Ship of Theseus situation with regard to the neural circuitry impacting pre-Res memories? Which is a fancy way of saying, "Maybe it wore off."

It could be all of the above, too. Assuming that Lyctor brains retain plasticity like we see in typical human brains (and I'm not letting myself think too hard on implications either way, because in sci-fi/fantasy make-believe land, neuroscience can be whatever you want it to be), we'd probably see that effect happening with the other Lyctors at roughly the same rate, but at least as far as we can tell (and that wording is intentional because I'm not taking anything off the table with this series), the others don't seem to remember. So that might be contributing, but not sufficient on its own. BUT perhaps ten thousand years of rewiring PLUS ten thousand years of cohabitation PLUS however long of being "trepanned on the regular" PLUS G1deon dying might override John's meddling.

We've still got so many open questions here regardless of what the specific mechanisms are. Like, I'd love to know when Pyrrha started to remember exactly. And did G1deon remember anything, then? It seems like he was Straight Up Not Having a Good Time so if he did remember, he might not have been relying on those memories much. Whatever's going on, I'm sure it's just as bonkers as the rest of the series!

#'in sci-fi/fantasy make-believe land neuroscience can be whatever you want it to be' i whisper repeatedly to myself #after spending like two hours this afternoon formatting datasets from the neuroscience lab i work in #nah but for real i have zero issue with that kinda stuff being. you know. fictional. i just need to not go down that rabbit hole lol #also sorry about sneaking a little bonus ramble about meme usage in there #believe it or not i had more about that but took it out because it wasn't directly relevant lol #also to the other anon that's sitting in my inbox: I PROMISE I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN #it's just... you opened a hefty can of worms and it's gonna take me a while lmao #ask #anonymous #tlt meta #pyrrha dve #nona the ninth spoilers #tlt #long post

[misspoetree]

Kinnporsche + Text Posts: Ep. 10 Edition - Part 2

Soft Bonus:

[Ep. 10 Part 1 | more Ep. 10 softness]

#I just HAD to put that Porsche one first because I'm so proud of it 🤣✌🏻 #feel free to judge me #and I'm sorry for the second Big one #not really though because I will never get tired of reminding you that BIG DESERVED BETTER #😭😭😭 #anyways #I'm still having way too much fun with this format and there was SO much material in ep 10 #I just had to make a second one #the kinnporsche brain rot is real #kinnporsche #kinnporche the series #kinnporsche meme #kinnporsche ep10 #kinnporsche ep 10 spoilers #kinnporsche + text post #thai bl #kinnporsche big #vegaspete #queue

[bloodpen-to-paper]

If they both come back for this we're screwed

#i looked up karmaland recap vids #I am not ready for the potential of both these bastards doing elections in one server #mcyt #qsmp #karmaland #wilbur soot #luzu #luzuvlogs #fyi I did this on Tumblr but either it looks fucked on the tag pages or it looks fucked on your blog #so had to screenshot #im so tired i just wanna makes memes but the fucking format omg #anyway

[clownboymcchucklefuck]

I miss Friend....

#The good days of yanvn tumblr bro #Do yall remember those text formats memes and everything #It makes me realize how long I've been in this fandom #Duality hadn't even had a vn out back then and I was reading 14dwy posts on my shitty ah tablet #Like #All the yan vn characters were friends and everything #But I understand that shit happens and all but man I just miss it #It feels like everybody's went away #All that drama that started the downfall should have never happened hhhhhg #yandere vn #yandere visual novel #yandere #male yandere #visual novel #yandere male

[oblivions-dawn]

❝PATHETIC.❞

POV: You're a bandit stuck under her boot. Her vampire wife has hearts in her eyes. You're definitely dead. But damn is your blood going to look good on her.

#Senu Dialogue #Virana Art #Skyrim OC #Vigdis #I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T INCLUDE THIS PHOTO so it's an outtake with. Silliness by yours truly #WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW MEME FORMAT JUST DROPPED KDJGLKJGLKFJH #I had to mention Serana making heart eyes because why wouldn't I . . . it's true. And funny

[officialbabayaga]

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#not making this a real post but i just remembered that meme format and thought #‘misha collins is bisexual’ i’m not so sure about that ‘misha collins has had sex with men’ this we cannot possibly refute

[camgoloud]

today. i have experienced the HORRORS (opened laptop for morning meeting while seated between boss and coworker; was greeted with ao3 page i forgot to close last night)

#it’s fine it’s fine i THINK it’s fine. both of them were looking at their own computers and i closed that shit SO fast and i have no reason #to believe that either one of them is online enough to know anything about ao3 much less enough about what it looks like to recognize it #from peripheral vision/​during the quick glance they might have had the opportunity to get #fortunately my other coworker who i know IS quite online (the two of us literally had to team up to explain a meme to the other two people #that i was sitting between later during this VERY meeting. which i was so cool and normal during by the way) was sitting over on the #opposite side of the table. and i was cool about it externally. and they had no reaction of any kind. so #nevertheless. HORRORS. it wasn’t even like a story was open which would have been just a wall of text it was like. a search result. #displaying clearly and distinctly the site’s formatting #it doesn’t help that the rest of today has also been extremely stressful and the next few days will be much the same because there are #some Things i have to do that are fairly high-stakes and that i’m extremely stressed about. fun! fantastic! #i was literally only ON ao3 last night in the first place to try to pregame/destress ahead of having to come into work this week 😭 #and i already fucked up something important today that’s setting a bunch of things back for multiple people. and i feel like i’m going to #get my period in the next day or two which would make it a week early if it happens. super fun. amazing! #guess i’ll just keep riding the adrenaline-fueled train wreck that never stops all the way through friday! #caseyposting

[starberry-fag]

ik i need to pick and chose my battles but like. what the fuck

#chirping #i feel Bad so i'm not gonna reach out rn #but like. someone just used image descriptions as a way to like. make a joke???? #like i was looking for and id right #i had saved the post a while back to look thru the notes later #find one pretty quickly #it looks normal- maybe made by someone new just bc of the formatting #it's just. it's describing something that isn't present in the post at all???? like wtf???? #like it was describing like a meme template. instead of just making and adding a meme this person completely misled anyone using a screen - #- reader. like what the fuck???? #i saved the link and i'm gonna send an ask later #even if you don't have IDs on ur blog u are still making it harder for people who Do. ugh. #godddd i wanna deactivate. get a fresh start. but i won't. yayyyy #delete later

[maddy-ferguson]

making friends is so hard i need to kill myself

#i haven't made a friend in six or seven years. but that takes me back #making a friend. wow #<- gilmore girls dialogue i'm sorry #except i'm not that was really funny just like it always is #and it isn't exactly the dialogue is a meme format to me but i still like using this tag #guys. worst friend you've ever had #and like i say: brf slt

[niieve]

i fucking hate beta editor jfc

#ooc. #the only thing i even have to have it on is my inbox #because that automatically changed #but it's the worst #and like apparently even photosets all changed to text things?? #i tried to upload something on my rph blog that (because its a new blog) automatically had beta #and it switched it to a text post when i tried to post pics #it was so ugly #why is it even called beta when theyre forcing it on everyone and trying to make it the new thing #if they ever make all blogs switch to it without choice (like old ones i mean - they already force it on new ones) #i might fuck out of here entirely #thats how much i hate it #i hate gif/photosets formatted as text posts #they look ugly on blogs #why is this site trying to reformat everything for mobile viewing #like blogs automatically go to the mobile format now and stuff #i hate it #this rant is sponsored by italics messing up a little bit on the inbox meme i just did and me having to spend two seconds to fix it #i am not a fan of being inconvenienced #thats it okay let me get back to these

[toiletshit]

the reason why the green pumuckl had been removed from the Nusspli packaging is because they started transitioning

#Nusspli #my brother messaged me that the Nusspli packaging has been changed #he specifically wrote that it's now pink and while it is more red than pink it does have a somewhat feminine shape to it #I first replied to him that for me Nusspli is just inherently linked to that green pumuckl that hasn't even been on the packaging for so lon #g I actually had to google whether I had imagined him there or not. his name is actually Zentino #so when my brother wrote 'the lid is pink now' I was just thinking about the old mascot being a transgirl now #so I just kinda ended up drawing mascot waifu I guess. I did try to make it as similar as possible with pose line thickness and colors #I then did just go and shaded the entire thing and made a background for it #I'm not sure if this meme-format-y thing really does anything for this tho #it also took me a bit to find a pic of the old Nusspli packaging so I had a brief case of 'was Zentino ever even on the packaging itself??''

[nullians]

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#gonna be petty for a moment here #I hate the ‘me vs other girls’ readraws so much #like the originals have problems ofc but #that was just someone expressing the disconnection they feel from other people their age??? #I’d be furious if someone took my old art and decided to make it better by making the two opposite sides a ship #like for real for real #maybe it’s my ace/aro side speaking too #but like. not everything you point and laugh at is necessarily only that shallow #sometimes people have no way of knowing where the disconnection takes source from so #they try to put it in a language known to them #to make fun of that is just… vile #there. I’ve said it #the arts are cute (the shipping ones) but the premise they are based off is not that great #I’ve had drawn exactly one art about the felt disconnection in the meme format #and if someone did that to me I’d throw hands on sight #sometimes things are not clicking but for far more complicated reasons than just wanting to be other #sometimes you are other already and just want to find the reason #lol #okay rant over #have a good day #personal #negative

[athena-theunicorn]

I saw a post abt this the other day but it's been eating me up inside so I gotta get it in writing. Plus it was in meme format when I saw it so I wanna make sure the gravity of this particular thing is out there somewhere bc I said so.

Annabeth was under the impression for most of her life that she had to earn love and respect from those around her. First from her father after he remarried, and she had to earn his attention back from his wife and kids. Then once she got to camp, she had to earn the admiration of the other campers, her siblings, Chiron and Mr. D, and basically everyone but Luke (because she earned his and Thalia's respect by simply surviving so long after running away). AND THEN she had to earn Athena's respect. That was the ultimate reward in her opinion, because that's kinda what I imagine they teach at camp: "You have to earn the respect of the gods to get them to look at you, let alone respect or, heaven forbid, love you." It's fucked up but its true. It's one of the first things Luke tells Percy upon his arrival. It's how you get claimed, earn a quest, and get all these things that Camp deems so important.

And then Annabeth meets Percy.

Percy, who, despite having his own traumas and tough road to hoe, still knows the feeling of an unconditionally loving home and person. He never had to earn Sally's love. She loved him despite him getting kicked out of school every year, despite him being stubborn and kinda an ass sometimes. She loved him despite his own view of himself. She shoved all that aside and loved her son because THATS HOW PARENTING WORKS.

And then you shove these two little kids together who've had wildly different backgrounds and I bet you'd get some interesting conversations (although they aren't shown a lot in the book or the show). Like Annabeth having to explain all the shit she's done to get her mother's attention and Percy being like "well damn."

And then he starts to notice that she applies this to other relationships too. She starts doing certain things that Percy notices as trying to gain his respect and it gets worse as they get closer and he finally has to be like "hey, you know I like you, right? like you don't have to prove yourself to me" and Annabeth has whiplash because she's never not had to earn love.

It just makes their relationship so much better to me.

#the brainrot is returning #can you tell? #percabeth #percy x annabeth #percy and annabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson series #percy jackson show #percy jackson tv show #percy pjo #percy series #annabeth #the lightning thief #riordanverse #rick riordan #riordan universe #pjo show #pjo #pjo fandom #pjo headcanon #pjo hoo #pjo series #pjo tv #pjo tv series #pjo tv show #pjoverse #grover underwood #annabeth chase #percy jackson spoilers

[chancetried]

I wanted to make a silly fanart for @akanemnon I didnt entirely ditch my art style even if I was semi trying to do yours but yaya I just wanna say I really love your art and your entire blog honestly so I wanted to pay tribute

if someone can guess who the two comments are from in this I'll give you the grand gift of...!!! a thumbs up emoji =] (I misspelled Susie's username but it works with her character so I kept it, talk about happy accident XD)

also I have LITERALLY never used Twitter in my life so I had to just look up its format and headcanon that I'm calling this "mewer" because it now with the event of memes has 2 meanings

#akanenmon #akanemnon #chance does doodles #kris deltarune #deltarune kris #kris dreemur fanart #kris dreemurr #dr kris #kris dr #kris #frisk deltarune #deltarune frisk #frisk dreemurr #frisk #frisk the human #undertale frisk #frisk undertale #frisk ut #ut frisk #ralsei dr #ralsei deltarune #deltarune ralsei #ralsei #dr ralsei #the roaring #deltarune fanart #dr fanart #deltarune susie #susie deltarune #susie

[mellinelli]

((me: okay i’ll work on stuff after stream

body: do self maintenance first

me: okay now?

long distance tabletop friends: it’s time to terraform mars

me: okay now?

fanfiction update: exists

me: okay now?

friend: discord stream

me: okay maybe i can at least edit my new blog. slap some rules on or something

tumblr:

me: tumblr i swear to peck i’m logged in))

#OOC #nothing overly negative or anything under the cut. the format makes it tol and i don't wanna take up that much space #anyway i shall try again tomorrow. i wanna see if i can finish reading the update i got distracted from #i mean i had a nice day at least! i just wanted to at least answer the ask from the meme last night #i /am/ a touch frustrated at tumblr though for thinking i'm logged out half the time when i go to look at blogs #like unless it's a thing with my browser all of a sudden? #i don't pecking know. i'll try again to edit it tomorrow