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cactiflowering-archived · 28 days

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if ur still doin the ask game: blue, gray n black !

gray: talk about the colors you tend to use in edits! do you like making bright or dark edits? are there colors you dislike editing?

i dont know if there are any colors i tend to lean towards in editing, really, but i generally prefer bright edits ^_^ i dont like editing orange... sighs... despite that one of my faaave layers to use is an orange photo filter it always makes things look so nice

black: what kind of programs do you use to edit? have you always used these or have you branched out before?

i use photopea currently! i find its a lot nicer to use for coloring and such. i moved over faiirly recently from ibis, i find both have their respective pros and cons :3

blue: do you have favorite editors? is there any specific reasoning for your choosing?

i have loooads of editors that i admire but here are a notable few! yapping under the cut sorry.

@ideallyadored - i looove vees editing style so much.... his use of colors is sooo lovely to look at (our psd collab was SO FUN it was real cool to see our coloring styles merge) + THEIR STIMBOARDS R SO COOL.... loving all the alnst stuff recently <- not biased.

@lavendergalactic - THE WAY THEY DO GRAPHICS?? insane. absolutely insane. HOW IS EVERY SINGLE ONE A HIT. how do you do everything on ibispaint too... even though ive moved to photopea editing now, back when i followed you and i learnt you used ibis i was so relieved because i was like "damn if they can make banger stuff with ibis so can i...."

@plecakism - lumis editing style is sooo tasty. she made my current layout and when i got it i was in a state of SHOCK it was sooo fucking cute 😭😭 also. object show edit blog. IMMEDIATE win for being a hfjone fan

@necroangelz - another person whos graphics i ADORE. i am so in awe of people who consistently make graphics. how do you do it. most impressive thing in the world to me. your itafushi graphics havent left my mind since you made them TBH + THE KEL GRAPHICS YOU MADE FOR MY BUNDLRSS R SO CUTE

@p1nk-sugar - YOUR PIXELS ARE SOOO CUTE ORIEL i love them sm. people who make (ADORABLE) pixels are the backbone of the rentry/sntry/bundlrs/website building in general community. xoxo

@otoripink - FEENIEEE YOUR LAYOUTS AND GRAPHICS ARE SOOO COOL i love them sm.... your pyroscout graphics are SOO CUTE as are your harunene layouts. ceo of harunene ❤️

@ghostflora-s - LITERALLY LIKE MY FIRST EDITBLR MUTUAL. your edits have got to be some of my favorite on this website i love the way you do replycons and icons and headers and wallpapers and like literalyl EVERYTHIGN oh my god. your coloring is top notch everything you do is just absolutely fire

#RALLY◞ asks #sorry fur all the tags....

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powwidge · 1 year

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rant about ochette and temenos and their (negative) parallels

all below the cut for endgame spoilers and everything!!!! just me talking to myself n tryna arrange my thoughts on Temenos, Ochette, and hwo they relate and are in a very contrasting position which is also kind of all in one big messed up parallel. I'm sorry; this has gotten very long! i tried my best keeping it short

okay so we all can agree that starting with Temenos' route is probably the most satisfying since it starts with a fight against Vide, right? yeha so i have some things to say about that in relation to Ochette and the entire theme of the game to begin with

Something clearly links Ochette and Temenos togehter, namely Roi. the implication that the dark entity of Ochette's chapter 1 is Roi si well... more than just clear, I'd argue. and ok listen: this entire thing MAY be me overanalyzing stuff. so u now get the

disclaimer: i am a literature student. i am taught to overanalyze everyhting and it's my RIGTH to! so bear with me. i have very elaborate thoughts on Ochette and Temenos and how they reflect each other in a very contrastign way.

Roi: right with the beginning of Ochette's route and Temenos' chapter 3 (it was his ch3 i beleive, right?) we get Roi and a direct parallel between their stories. the thing is just - Temenos' knew Roi while alive. Ochette knew him while sort of dead and then completely dead. and that remains the single connecting dot/parallel where this is the case. everything else is things being dead for temenos and things being alive for ochette

Ochette has an entire support system which grows as she travels; she has Juvah, her parents implied to be alive in a banter, Akala/Mahina; she gains more friends in Pom, Acta the Smol, Glacis, Tera, that other lady whose name i forgot i'm really sorry, and with her help, even the hateful Cohazeh becomes soft towards them all and the entire village makes friends with the Beasting Village.

now for temenos, we have EVERYTHIGN in contrast. he loses everythign as he travels; first Roi, the pontifex, later on crick (sorry for the mention guys). he loses literally everyone he loves, be it platonic or familial or romantic or whatever; and the enemy to him? the sacred guard? yeah he low key destroys that thing for a while. and while that's still GOOD, i can't beleive it weighs lightly on him especialyl since stormhail is in a rather tense situation with the gaurd and the mei clan as hinted by loads of npcs. everythign good that happens to ochette happens to him, but in the exactly contrasting way.

on to trust: i think i don't need to say much here; ochette is ever-trusting, but learns to actively distrust some peopel on her journey, learning about the lies of people (especially humans), while the exact opposite happens to temenos: temenos learns to trust people. not just the travelers but also crick. the issue? it's at least implied, or u can read into it, that he does trust mindt; and he gets betrayed once more. whereas Ochette, even at the very end, still trusts people. she trusts the hunter trying to kill Glacis regardlessly, she trusts Juvah, she even trusts Lajackal/mahamowl and tries making friends with them. she trusts something that wants to kill her, while temenos nearly gets killed by someone he trusted

flame/belief: i quite like the difference of faith u have in those two; temenos, an inquisitor, who still doubts the flame's existence, who doubts the gods' existence because that's just waht he does - linked to his trust issues once more, obviously. even though he's one meant to have an unshakable belief, yet he's quite the shady guy, and while his intentions may be good, he doesn't always condcut things the correct way. well. looks at his path action. yeah. hmm! okay temmy! go off! on the other side, there's ochette - far away from any kind of institutionally organized religion, and the only traveller directly meeting "the flame", which saves her life, proving its existence once and for all when that's somethign temenos has forever doubted

i don't really WANT to go as far as to say ochette died, but she did NEARLY die. as the only one out of the cast of her story, meanwhile, temenos is the only one ALIVE out of the cast of his story (minor characters like orth aside, same goes for some of Ochette's side characters, btu i'm talking mainly here akjfghkd)

i feel like saying that any character of the 8 travelers is more or less important than the others would be wrong; however, i do believe that if we're talking characters that the story build on, Temenos' and Ochette are high up there. we have parallels inside of the traveller of someone who nearly succumbs to darkness and someone who looks forward to the dawn, no matter what. temenos' route starting with Vide, in my opinion, is a great hint at him being sth akin to a "main character", story-telling wise - i like to personally make a distinction between main cahracters and protagonists. e.g. in OT1, the travelers are the protags, while graham (and perhaps kit, too) is the main character, who the story actively centers around.

While Temenos' is the embodiment of shadow, esp with his closer relationship to Throné in the crossed paths, one who was originally meant to be a vessel for Vide and who def had one of the most tragic stories, Ochette is the embodiment of the flame, always looking forward despite any grievances she might have - again, related to castti in her crossed paths.

you get a character who, if he wasn't picked up by the pontifex, by roi, and crick, might have been part of the moonshade order otherwise - and a character who is so determinedly looking forward to the dawn that she would have never considered it.

my conclusion? I love temmy and ochette a ot and i cannot keep anythign i say short. anyways there's no conclsion these are just rants. if u read that then uh, congrats! u have witnessed my insanity! :)

#octopath traveler 2 #octopath traveler #ochette octopath #temenos mistral #ochette

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hotvampireadjacent · 2 years

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voyager the boiager*

sorry if this seems like a super messy and scatterbrained post. i originally explained this to my friends in discord and cleaned and edited it a here to be more readable, but it might still be a lot.

the super long voyager lore analysis !

Essay and discussion under cut bc I know this is gonna get long

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Voyager’s normal Np, ascent 2 i believe

* voyager is affectionately called boiager by english speaking fans. or boyager. A pun on his Japanese name ボイジャー (Boijyaa-)

There’s a lot to love about voyager, and I dont know a lot about fate/requiem where he’s originally from, so a boyager expert could fill in the blanks I don’t have if they want! Voyager is adorable. I want to spoil him like a child, he is a child. He feels like a son.

Let’s start with how you meet him. His summoning line.

Do you notice his slow pattern of speech in the first screenshot? Voyager is a foreigner class servant, and litearlly the space probe voyager 1. Unlike many servants, voyager is a very special one for a myraid of reasons, but a major one is that he is still alive. His human, child, body you see here is a temrinal. In lore, he’s still the giant space probe in the sky. He’s still on his ‘journey’ He’s a traveller of the stars. I think there’s another servant who has a comparable existance in that regard, but i forgo who. At the very least he’s comparable ,if not similiar, to Merlin who also is alive.

Let’s talk about voyager’s class designation. He is a foreigner in fgo, and in his original novel, i believe ‘voyager’ is also his class, but I am not certain about that. Fgo fans all know what the foreigner class is and means, but voyager is very different than the others.

for the uninitiated, the foreigner class is based on and gets its namesake from hp lovecraft mythology. It isn’t supposed to be racist like lovecraft is, it was picked and chosen just because rule of cool. Usually, foreigner class servants, like in lovecraft are corrupted or possesd by an outer god. This is the baseline not the rule. Fate and fgo is ruled by ‘rule of cool’. Everythign has an execpetion and if the writers can think up of a cool and fun reason for it there will be exceptions.

For example,hokusai oi , is not ‘corrupted by an outer god’, I think what happened is her father the more famous hokusai saw an outergod and it corrupted him but also inspired his painting. (Dont take my word on hokusai lore i’m no expert) His daughter also has a connection to that outer god as a servant and that’s why shes a foreigner.

voyager is a foreigner class for the most literal sense of the term. He’s far away from home, traveling in space. That’s it. A space traveller. So a foreigner a la hp lovecraft, but not an outer god. He’s a good boy.

Voyager is also the first male foreigner in the game.

Let’s take a look at his in game art. As you can clearly see, the planet behind him here is earth. Our pale, blue dot!

very space themed. very cute. Look at his feet and ‘boots’ it’s a design inspired by his real and main body. Here’s a diagram I got from the nasa website

Looks familiar? The yellow and metal triangles?

Voyager’s 2nd in game art is based on the little prince french children’s book. His physical apperance, ex: blonde hair and blue eyes, is also based on this. I don’t know the reasoning super well but It’s because his master in fate/requiem wanted him to look like the little prince. The planet behind him here is Mars

Voyager’s 3rd in game art

It should be clear what motifs are used here, a nasa astronaut. The planet behind him here, is Jupiter. You can see the golden record on his space suit! that’s what the gold circle is. The golden record is an important piece of human history and space exploration.

Here’s an image of the real golden record I got from the nasa website

if you skipped the fate/requiem event in fgo you might not know what this is. The markings are it are designed to be instructions for extra terristal life that may enconter it and how to use it! The nasa website describes it as “ In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. The stylus is in the correct position to play the record from the beginning. Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom. The drawing indicates that the record should be played from the outside in. Below this drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number giving the time to play one side of the record - about an hour. “ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/golden-record-cover/

Now, what exactly is the golden record and what’s on it?

The nasa website writes, “ The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.

Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form.

The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."

The definitive work about the Voyager record is "Murmurs of Earth" by Executive Director, Carl Sagan, Technical Director, Frank Drake, Creative Director, Ann Druyan, Producer, Timothy Ferris, Designer, Jon Lomberg, and Greetings Organizer, Linda Salzman. Basically, this book is the story behind the creation of the record, and includes a full list of everything on the record. "Murmurs of Earth", originally published in 1978, was reissued in 1992 by Warner News Media with a CD-ROM that replicates the Voyager record. Unfortunately, this book is now out of print, but it is worth the effort to try and find a used copy or browse through a library copy.”

You can look at some of what we gave to voyager on the nasa website here. They don’t have everything on the golden record here, but the fact that there’s anything peserved for humanity to look back on what we gifted our son, is amazing

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/

and voyager’s last art in game

He’s landed at some planet here. I like to imagine that voyager has crash landed here, it’s the end of his journey. And maybe. Just maybe this is his destination he was waiting for, and intelligent extra terestial life will be here and find him. If not, when he goes to sleep for good, there’s always the possibility after he dies intelligent life will make a voyage just like him and find what we left behind with him.

Now lets discuss voyager’s beautiful ascent 3+4 locked np Pale Blue Dot

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Pale blue dot is named after a famous photo voyager took of earth from space! Wikipedia says “Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.”

The earth is so small looking in the real photo..you could miss it if you dont have good eye sight. Pale blue dot image taken from nasa site https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/pale-blue-dot-revisited

What does voyager represent, both in reality and in fgo? In the fgo requiem event. Furry Presi-king thomas edison explains nicely.

Voyager is humanity’s pride, joy, and hopes. Our hopes that we aren’t alone in the world, that somewhere in the endless space and galaxies. We aren’t the only intelligent life.

Voyager’s skill set has interesting lore

Voyager of the Stars rank A- I think his bond profile explains this one cut and dry so I’ll simply copy paste “Voyager of the Stars is a limited version of Pioneer of the Stars. A Skill that makes the impossible possible, allowing for planet-to-planet voyaging.” It’s a skill only voyager has right now.

Swing-By rank A “ A Skill showcasing special maneuvering abilities in combat. Able to take away an enemy's kinetic energy or even apply kinetic energy to them, this skill allows him to surpass his limits of acceleration and deceleration. He is able to fly freely using this Skil “ Fun fact about Swing-by, swing-by is the term of “gravity-assisted acceleration in orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering”

Protection of the Ends of the World (Cosmos) (Rank B) “Originally a skill connected to the Holy Spear. Resulting from Voyager’s very self holding the qualities of the anchor of the planet which embodies the World’s End” honestly I’ll be honest I forgot why he has this skill.

Class skills

Entity of the Outer Realm C- He techinically lives in the ‘outer realm’ of space despite not being an old god/ eldrich horror

Independent Voyage- Voyager’s true body is on an voyage all alone. He’s a lone traveler, independent even.

Contact with Civilization- Not sure exactly what aspect of this applies to him. Maybe because he still has a weak connection to earth? Or because his journey is to have contact with a new civilization?

Annd that’s all I got to say about voyager right now. Let me leave you with some fun facts i got from the wikia

He is the second Foreigner not associated with a Lovecraftian horror, after Mysterious Heroine XX.

One of Voyager's lines during his Arts attack animation while in third ascension, "Beam me Up", is a reference to a well-known catchphrase from the popular Sci-Fi series Star Trek.

One of Voyager's lines during one of his Quick attack animation while in third ascension, is humming part of "I was strolling on the moon one day", a song sung by Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt while walking on the moon during the last Apollo lunar landing mission.

Let me leave you with a link to the nasa website about the voyager project. Voyager means a lot to me because he’s adorable son boy, and also because I love space. He’s an ideal servant to me. And as soon as I have enough holy grails I want to get him to level 100.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

For voyager’s 40th birthday Nasa made some cool posters you can download them on the site I linked

I was looking for more information and saw this

voyager continues to make news and be relevant. Even after 45 years people still look up to the stars and remeber him, our treasure, our hope, our voyager 1 probe.

#fgo #voyager

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kkujama · 1 year

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Hi langblr community I'm new.

Or well. Not so new. I've run this blog for a while when I was 16/17 but that was 5 years ago. I've done a small little rebrand and everythign n want to try getting back into the community a little cuz it was very fun back in the day :D

I'm a native German speaker but im pretty much fluent in both English and French, have an N4(A2-B1) knowledge of Japanese, am A2-B1 in Portuguese (though I haven't used that in such a long while I can't rlly apply jt myself but I understand a lot!!!), and Russian A1.2!!! (I also did some Spanish back in middle school but oh god I do not remmever anything at all-)

I'm a Literature Major at university who also minors in Japanese Studies!

I don't yet know what kine of content I'll do since my notes aren't the most aesthetic n I tend to be a little messy in general, but maybe you'll get some kanji scribbles or sth!!! Maybe I'll post about thr books I'm reading also.

Atm I'm actively focusing on Japanese since I'm reaching N3 level pretty soon at this rate, and on russian, since I'm taking a language course for it at uni.

U can also find me over at duolingo on @/bagelsangay :D I'm always happy to make new friends to congratulate on the stupid little bird app! Ok goodreads u can find me @/Bagel-san

Follow backs will be from @powwidge (my main, nerdy blog)!

#langblr #studyblr #japanblr #frenchblr #russianblr #im sorry im a little bit awkward #but im getting back into tumblr lately so!!#jack talks

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fgsfds09 · 9 months

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this is violet

she cuts her own hair, likes holographic stuff and hasn't showered in two weeks

i currently have two reqs lined up and i'll get to them before the year ends hopefully

more stuff about the future of the account and me are under the cut but tw/cw for mental illness and suicide ideations i guess

ok, so, i don't want anyone to reply to this, talk about this or reach out to me about this at all. any attempts will get you blocked on any platform i have you on. i just want someone, ANYONE, to hear me out. i know this is cringe, but i don't care, i no longer have the will to care. i don't care if you give two shits about me when i don't show the same kindness to myself.

i've been at my lowest for months at this point that it's getting funny, since november of last year holy shit did everyhting just get worse. if it's a mental breakdown it's been breaking down for months what the fuck is this supposed to be? the other time i felt like this was in highschool but it wasn't exactly the same. i had a life goal, it wasn't to get good greades or get in a good university or finish shit on time or even become a better person, it was starving myself until i either died or reached my goal weight which ot lower and lower. and now im so fat again and i feel like her efforts were in vain, what did she do this for? i thought getting into a decent program would fix this and i actually did feel happy, but im such a miserable pathetic cunt that nothing ever is enough, NOTHING IS ENOUGH AT ALL

am i so retarded that i can do nothing by myself? i've been losing friends left and right but it's all my fault, always my fault and honestly it doesn't matter anymore because tthe end goal is to block and remove every single one of them, every single one of you, every single person that might have interacted with me and either diasappear or end it all. the firnends i got from wattpad 7 years ago and the frends they brought along th way were the rock, they got me through all these times, they showed me unlimited and unconditional love and support and what do i give back in return? NOTHING AT ALL can't give them a better version of myself, can't give them a better friend all i can be is a retarded piece of shit and leave them behind which is so so fucking sad. i will at least treat them tea and home baked goods some fucking day but god i hope that day comes soon because i cana't take it anymore. but i love them, i love them and my cat more than fucking anything and im so glad i have them as my true friends, i hope they know they're th best things that has ever happened to me.

tip: if you ghost people for long enough they give up on checking on you and that's for the better, they better not know i exist, i no longer exist

the night, the fucking night in february that i finally decided to overdose and end it all i realised that i had ran out of my pills :DD the fuck. and then i lost my courage because of course i did. but maybe that's a good thing, the silver lining in still being alive was i started browsing gore subreddits and decided that the best way for me to go was a shotgun suicide. deep throat that shit and tilt back and bliss. i hope. it's so fucking scary to think that if i miss i'll become even more of a burden to my parents AND THEY'D MONITOR EVERYTHIGN i wouldn't even have the chance to try again. but i'll cross that bridge whe n i acquire a gun, i'll tint that shit pink and bedazzle the shit out of and clear a good 70% of my head out :3333 if i ever feel ready to go before that i'll hang myself in the farthest woods from my city and bloat with all my might, get so disfigured that they won't ever identify my ugly face. until then a girl can only dream...

shit gets better for a moment but then im back at square one, what good am i to this world? other than sitting on my ass, listening to shitty music and walking around the dining table fantasising about all the things i could've achieved and eating up daddy's money, i am nothing. nothing, just nothing. all i do is take up space and be a burden to those that love me. my parents tell me that i am not a burden but i can sense it, i can feel it, the thoughts are there in their minds. i am not sure if it's the sunk cost fallacy but one of us will have to cut our losses and understand that we will get nowhere. i guess that would be me, my parents could never ask me to leave. i know that they love me, but sometimes love is not enough and they can still love me whereever i am, i don't even have to be alive for it. all they are believing right now is that i am doing better and me taking less meds is the right thing all while my mind is in agony. but it's not real, it's in my head, and i am so ashamed, so fucking ashamed. i already do my best to disappear from their lives, i give no input to famil decisions, i try not to spend money, what else can i do? let me rot in my room and call some cleaning services, idc. i no longer want a room in the house they want to buy. the sooner they start pretending i don't exist the better it will be for all of us.

less meds mean more alcohol, i can get away with more alcohol and maybe even i shot up some heroin people would care about me less. i would do that given i had the chanve and that thought is so fucking terrifying. knowing that i innately want to destroy myself, and will fucking do so, it's terrifying. i hate every single part of myself, the part that is scared and the part that is mad, there is nothing good in me other than pure misery. i don't want to be sober, i don't want to be sober, i don't want to be sober, i don't wanto be sober at any moment of the day, not anymore not anymore not anymore not anymore. i am so terrified of men that the thought of being alone with A MALE FRIEND makes me sick to my stomach. nothing would happen, nothing would happen other than exchainging some laughs and memes BUT I AM TERRIFIED. I AM SO SCARED. i am so scared. so scared of everything. nothing ever happened to me that would justify this fear but my god does me brain hate me so much that it keeps giving me irrational fears to prevent me from ever escaping this room. living with my parents, it's so hard to destroy myself. they don't want me to drink even beer and i can't even cut anymore since i wear such revealing clothes. the cuts on my thighs from february or march are still visible and im scared they will always be, why are they so brown and ugly and not faded?? wrists get a milky white colour, WHY ARE THESE SO VISIBLE? no one has cauht a glimpse yet but what could i even say? a cat doesn't scratch in that pattern.

i live in a shit country in a shit city with shit people while being the biggest of shit myself. sometimes i even wish i was hitler so that i could be someone, ANYONE.

maybe one day i'll read this and cringe. maybe one day things will get better and i'll realise the progress i've made, or maybe, more possibly, i'll reference this post in my suicide letter in APA 7th edition format if i ever write one.

holy fuck was writing all these shit cathartic. i don't know why i wrote this at all. maybe i wanted someone to acnowledge me, that my existence wasn't in vain. my i wanted to acknowledge myself. each passing day i feel like im getting more separated from my body and my real life body is a different person and i, as my cconciousness, am somebody different. i hope one day i will be able to feel the same and a real person, but those days seem too far away.

won't even tag anything, pretend this never existed.

edit: 4.51am, i just learned a 22 year old girl killed herself by throwing herself on the tracks. i'll be 22 soon. maybe that will be my tipping point too.

#oc

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