#edge of the unknown

[earthanthem]

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#giphy #sun #beautiful #sky #adventure #sunset #clouds #extreme #national geographic #nat geo #extreme sports #scenic #nat geo tv #edge of the unknown #jimmy chin #national geographic tv #eotu #above the clouds #sarah mcnair landry #kite skiing

[soulofafury]

Snotlout: I'm the most responsible in the group.

Astrid: You literally just set half of Dragon's Edge on fire.

Snotlout: I know, and I take full responsibility for it.

#snotlout jorgenson #astrid hofferson #how to train your dragon #httyd #incorrect httyd #source: unknown #race to the edge #rtte

[yeahbumbleby]

nothing broke me more in yesterday's episode than realizing that the only reason why ruby doesn't describe weiss to little when looking for blake and yang simply is because she thinks weiss made it to vacuo. girlie already racking up seven different kinds of breakdowns and she doesn't even know her best friend's presence on the island is going to introduce a brand new one... please pray for ruby rose because she's about to eat dust this volume

#rwby v9 spoilers #v8 was truly all kinds of good but one of the best because it gave me v8c13/14 #which are simply masterpieces. like... yang sacrificing herself to save ruby and leading to her falling off the platform #IN FRONT OF BLAKE #who just got yang back #so obviously blake does the only thing she thinks of. and launches gambol shroud and MISSES #and then her next step is to try and follow yang because she PROMISED she wasn't leaving her again. and weiss holds her back #and she won't let her go over the edge #then they're back to fighting and blake tries to save ruby. and fails. and they're both falling #and weiss.... WEISS HAS TO WITNESS IT ALL #her friends her FAMILY seemingly fell to their deaths and there was nothing she could do #but it doesn't stop there. because then penny gets mortally wounded and jaune has to mercy kill her #and weiss sees it happening again. she lost so many people #AND ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN A TWO EPISODE SPAN #AND NOW THEY GOTTA DEAL WITH THE AFTERMATH WHILE IN AN UNKNOWN REALM #AND MOST LIKELY WITHOUT THEIR AURAS #oh team rwby.... what emotional horrors are you going to face next. where is the line going to be drawn #when ruby finally can't take it anymore and snaps and lashes out and they all get a peek at the teenager ruby shouldve been #because she's finally the same age as them when it all started. they didn't get to be teens either #but on god they gotta make sure ruby gets to heal as well #im gonna fucking SCREAM #bumbleby #rwby

[incorrectnancydrewquotes]

Yumi: Hey, can you give me some dating advice? Rentaro: Just because I'm with Miwako doesn't mean I know how I did it.

#saw #shadow at the water's edge #yumi shimizu #rentaro aihara #original: unknown

[alphacomicsvol2]

Edge of Spider-Verse #1 Cover Art (Unknown Comics Exclusive Variant by Peach Momoko)

#Marvel #Comic #Comics #Edge of Spider-Verse #Covers #Cover Art #Variant Covers #Unknown Comics #Retail Exclusive Variant #Peach momoko #Gwen Stacy #Ghost Spider

[rassilon-imprimatur]

SUSAN: “I can't, Mister Chesterton. You can't simply work on three of the dimensions.”

IAN: “Three of them? Oh, time being the fourth dimension, I suppose? Then what do you need E for? What do you make the fifth dimension?”

SUSAN: “Space.”

“DOCTOR: Yes, the planet Quinnis, of the fourth universe.”

VICKI: “Time [fourth dimension], like space [fifth dimension], though a dimension in itself, has dimensions of its own.” 

THE RILLS: “Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space, our ways of thought, at times, do not seem all that different.”

MALPHA: “Suppose they send a message through this universe?”

[...]

MALPHA: “This is indeed an historic moment in the history of the universe. We six from the outer galaxies, joining with the power from the solar system, the Daleks!”

Revisiting this post of mine after rewatching Galaxy 4 and fixating on the Rills’ phrasing a little. Playing with the Hartnell era’s outdated (often intentionally) or kitschy, already rusted “space-age” approach to cosmology. 

The outdated way of viewing galaxies as “island universes,” the idea of “galaxy” and “universe” being interchangeable terms. “Space” as something just as surreal, strange, as “Time,” with multiple dimensions of its own. The reverberation, the haunted humming, of evil and machine monsters tapping into a sort’ve “cosmic unreality.” The night sky endless “island universes” drifting past, beside, and through each other. Different galaxies, sure, but evidently equal as different dimensions, entirely different definitions of “space” and “universe.” Different properties. Dreamlike. Child’s logic. 

And this approach to space sort’ve slips away textually with Troughton, replaced with the eerie, spooky sense of vast space, of whole worlds and universes hidden in the folds of humming velvet black, but it still... I dunno. 

And it’s all so... empty. 

Perhaps, to jump a few eras and (extreme) aesthetics later, distressingly empty. 

#Doctor Who #First Doctor #Susan Foreman #An Unearthly Child #The Edge of Destruction #the space museum #Galaxy 4 #Mission to the Unknown #The Daleks' Master Plan #The Space Pirates #The Moonbase #Doctor Who and the Cybermen #The Wheel in Space #Logopolis

[pensiveant]

Imagine being an early human and settling near the ocean with your tribe and one day you find a whale carcass washed up on the beach and it's the first time you've ever seen an animal of that size. I would literally give up all of modern life's commodities to experience that.

#the fact that humans saw these colossal monsters they drew on the edges of the map to warn others of unknown dangers #and STILL decided to brave the seas in their lil wooden ships #the indomitable human spirit of it all...... #whales #i pet thy head foul beast

[ofdustandashes]

#oh my gooood #I had to take a break after I carrion (Icarian) #maybe the best song I’ve ever heard in my life #and I had to stop bc we knew it was all the most devastating setup #oh my god #and a musical interlude that’s actually GOOD!!! #his mind! #if I were a riptide I wouldn’t take you out!! #get fucked #it opens in the darkest possible dark and he doesn't want the light and it ends with him awaiting/watching the sunrise #having lived a full life in the dark #vehicular manslaughter! (kinda) and THATS the moment he realized he was doomed to love her #holy shit #hozier #you have done it again #there were so many times I wanted to go back to relisten but there was no getting off that train #I'm going to BITE and CHOMP and MAIM when I hear these songs live #like I carrion fully brought me to the edge of tears #and the first time I heard the choir come in on this version of Unknown my jaw fucking dropped like actually it was the most powerful #sonic experience of my life and I just fully accepted nothing like that would ever happen again but listening to the whole thing In Order #I knew it was coming and it still got me like the first time #unreal unearth

[incorrecthereticaledgequotes]

Joselyn: Lincoln and I are having a baby.

Tabbris: That's grea-

Lincoln, slamming adoption papers on the table: It's you, sign here.

#heretical edge #source unknown

[earthanthem]

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#giphy #nature #water #adventure #river #waterfall #national geographic #nat geo #kayak #rowing #row #natgeo #kayaking #extreme sport #edge of the unknown #jimmy chin #thrill seeker #whitewater kayaking #big drop #extreme kayaking #gerd serrasolses

[quaranmine]

save me jimmy and kirsty pancake stream. jimmy and kirsty pancake stream save me

#experiencing Work Anxiety again #as expected there are new developments on my escalating work project #i think what puts me most on edge is not the situation itself (as-is) #it's the unknown. i'm out of my depth and can CLEARLY tell there are things happening i dont understand #there is context to this situation that i know exists but am not privy to lmao #i dont like handling situations if i cant adequately prepare for them you know? #so i think it's stressing me way more than my (much more experienced) team lead who is pretty chill navigating this

[naggingatlas]

i think people's takes on jev being this like thousand year old creatura are fascinating and fit even my interpretation of his character and place in the story (as like. a representation of the setting at large. an archaic force being shoved into a simulation/loop/machine. cosmis horror kinda shit) but i also think it's 1. funnier 2. scarier 3. more emotionally scarring to imagine him as like. a 30, 40, 50 year old man. just a quirky little guy. he had a childhood, maybe he got picked up by seam as an urchin and they were a travelling magic act and clownery and judy n punch duo and they stole apples from the market and he climbed trees w his little paws before someone made him wear shoes. he was a brash teenager and he played the accordion and kept all of his trinkets in a little chest he used to sleep in. seam made his suits, from his own crayon drawings. he was a middle aged man disenchanted with his work and he sought shelter from the boredom in bothering others. and he ran away so many times and he slept outside and he helped seam make their own beer and mead and they still played the accordion and the hurdy-gurdy together. isn't it scarier to make him a normal man? who turns into what we see? doesn't that hurt more doesn't that make his character even deeper. he was just like you and this means That can happen to you too, grounding stuff like that is like one of the basic rules of horror. and then he just goes to jail they straight up lock a mentally ill guy with all those horrors in the basement - not an old-as-time-itself demon, not a savage beast, but. a man. jevil russian sleep experiment au.

again im not calling anyone out its just an interpretation ive NEVER seen anyone else come up with and i genuinely wonder why and if my other jev readings continue to be weird as fuck to other people

#jevil #its kinda like. a reverse dc joker situation. the jerker does get like. INSIDIOUSLY scary and mind-fucky when #you turn him into. i wouldn't say satan himself that takes the edge off. but something completely unknown. #im casually writing a batman script in my own continuity and i could never keep up w All The Lore cuz thats not what batman is abt to me #and i took most of my inspiration from a serious house on serious earth and. those intermission strips in snyder's endgame #where people from an asylum or a nursing home i can't quite remember that had encounters w joker #describe him as all sorts of things but not human. and not in like oh he's a monster but like That Is Not A Homo Sapiens #and they're not listened to because they were all suffering from delusions and hallucinations before that but #yea. i hate jerker origin stories i hate them with my whole entire heart. make him the unknowable. not even a demon not satan #nothing of folklore or religion not even a lovecraftian something-something. just an entity. maybe not even an entity. he's an scp to me #not even a character. just a concept with a design. an apparition made to teach humans a lesson #you dont know how he got here you dont know why you wont ever know when he'll be gone. #give me judge holden but even more amorphous and. not scarring me for life. but u get the idea #im tryyyiinnnggg to write joker like an apparition of a schizo psyche like my dreams. #my favorite song to 'write' j to is freefall by rainbow kitten surprise. and he's just a figment of bruce's imagination here #just a little more tangible. vague and wrong but it's j. probably. and it's bruce's pov. it's a couple lines of dialogue #that's j. jevil is the opposite.

[lupismaris]

Shout out to my beloved budtenders for always having my back I barely have to say anything and they take care of me I love them so

#tip your budtenders!! be good to them!!! #i rolled up like 'hey so the eddies i have are great but keep me up all night' and they immediately knew why and got me a different kind #and mentioned i seemed on edge did i need anything else so i straight up said i have my cancer ultrasound tomorrow and it's big #and im kinda freaking and its causing my body to revolt all over. this star comes back a moment later with two different preroll packs #both on discount putting them square in my price range and says 'this one for tonight for anxiety and body pain to get you ready for it' #'and this one for after the exam and the doc is finished when you can relax and need to kill the adrenaline' #like- without me having to explain what my usual medical experience is like they knew and im grateful because its miserable #so im an eddie in finally starting to feel the pain ebb. Sapporo open. char siu bao fresh out of the steamer. #gonna watch some parts Unknown before having a smoke and a salt bath and going to bed hella early #but i wish everyone a crew of budtenders as excellent as the ones at Maggie's

[anonymusbosch]

ough... the future

#scarey #gonna have to get a new job n move to a new city in the next year. probably next 6ish months #me: i wanna get out of LA #also me: the unknown is terrifying and there aren't friends there #need to listen to the crow dessa 90000 times to internalize 'go to the edge sometime and prove your body wrong'

[heedra]

openly asking for people's answers: what is the longest work of horror fiction you can think of that remained genuinely frightening through it's entire length? i'm generally of the opinion that the longer a work of horror is the less likely it is to sustain a sense of heightened fear, bc the more it has to explain itself, and that this is especially true with supernatural horror, so im curious as to what other ppl have to say.

#like i enjoyed the magnus archives a ton but it became more of a horror-drama to me in later seasons than an actual horror #bc once rules get too established things lose that edge of the unknown

[traskomancer]

RPG a Day 21-25

Day 21: Favorite licensed RPG

Free League's Alien RPG, hands down. I can't think of any other licensed games I even play off the top of my head, and the Alien game is very well done. The stress mechanic and 3 act structure go a long way to achieving the feel of the source material.

Day 22: Best secondhand RPG purchase

Not even a purchase but a trade; I swapped a 5e book to @marquisnaberius in exchange for the 2e Unknown Armies core book and the 1e One Shots book. As far as strictly things I've bought, I did get a lot out of my set of core books for D&D 3.5 as a kid despite barely actually playing that particular edition. I was used to 4e and the juxtaposition was interesting. Also, I like the sketchy art style in the PHB.

Day 23: Coolest looking RPG product/book

I'm very partial to games that have a diegetic-ish style, like Monsters and Other Childish Things, the Unknown Armies 3e character sheet, and so on.

I also really like the art and feel of the Mothership scenario Gradient Descent. As far as the coolest art, Over the Edge 2e has some great stuff, though there are many others I could mention. Tales from the Loop is obviously designed around its art to some extent. This is definitely a prompt with a lot of answers.

Day 24: Complex/simple RPG I play

I think D&D 5e is the most complex RPG I feel I fully understand, and I do mean I FULLY understand it. I have half the monster manual and spell lists memorized and can improv anything else I need. It is kind of nice having a system of moderate-to-high complexity at my beck and call. I know there are much more complex systems around, including other editions of D&D, but I don't really want to make the mental investment of learning them. That's not what I enjoy in RPGs these days anyway. If I want crunch I'll play a video game.

As far as the simplest game, Fiasco is basically improv with a little bit of dice prompting for structure. So if you consider improv simple, which I feel is a plausible perspective, then that would count. One page games like Lasers and Feelings and Everyone is John of course also count for this.

Day 25: Unplayed RPG I own

Oh god, so many. I've already mentioned Monsters and Other Childish Things a few times in these prompts. Troika!, Ryuutama, Liminal Horror, Vaesen, The Dee Sanction, Mothership, and Fellowship all also fit this category. And that's to say nothing of all the games I've played once or twice and would love to come back to...

#rpgaday2023 #ttrpg #alien #unknown armies #dnd #Monsters and other childish things #Mothership #over the edge #Tales from the Loop #Fiasco #lasers and feelings #everyone is john #troika! #liminal horror #ryuutama #vaesen #the dee sanction #mothership #fellowship