#peer into the past

[cabbagewithissues]

I had to go back and look, because it’s been haunting me ever since I saw Sam’s post that Grant was supposed to be at the middle podium for Game Changer Bingo^3: they used Grant’s stamp for the shoot and then made a mockup of Brennan’s in post.

#maybe everyone else figured this out #though I wouldn’t put it past Sam ‘what counts as psychological abuse against my peers?’ Reich to have a case of stamps of his friends #rain rambles #dropout #game changer #brennan lee mulligan #mike trapp #grant o'brien #college humor #sam reich

[alphabetcompletionist]

my abecedarians. my booboo bears. i beseech y'all for those scholarly article websites. my uni databases keep giving me results for articles that aren't available and, like a pirate with a helm on his crotch might say, it's driving me nuts

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#and per se and #i'm trying to write a bitsy baby undergrad paper #on the process of book challenging/banning and the differences between the current surge & the past #notably not being argumentative. obviously i have opinions but that's not the point of the paper #ala.org and court documents give me all i really need. hashtag based humanities. #but i need three Scholarly Sources (i.e. peer reviewed)

[apotelesmaa]

I don’t think ppl give enough credit to rui for his dedication to fucking with people (outside of tsukasa of course) like. Knowing & acknowledging that nene wants nothing to do with him and Tsukasa on her first day of second year and deliberately following tsukasa to loudly ask if she’s getting along with people (just to be a jackass)? Implying his gift to akito will explode even though it won’t bc he wants to bug akito? Like I think rui at his core is full of love and a desire to make ppl smile but I also think he’s 200% committed to the bit first and foremost. If something will be funny he’s going to do it regardless of the consequences. Guy filled with zero social anxiety & a never ending desire to embarrass his friends.

#‘he’s insecure’ is very fanon. like I think he has hang ups over that obviously as one does when one is excluded from their peers for being #odd. but he’s never had that issue w the general public. w friends? a little. but he’s kinda moved past that #gestures towards the Halloween wxs story and (heavy sigh) rmd. #project sekai #in general I will die on the hill of rui and Tsukasa having so much more self assurance and confidence than ppl give them credit for #if u want a fail girl nene is right there. open ur eyes. #consequences of ppl only viewing him thru a shipping lense… #*nene* is socially anxious #rui canonically trespassed on ppls property to put on solo shows for several years. #i could go on a rant abt tsukasa & the portrayal of him w social anxiety despite the ample evidence against it but I don’t feel like doing #it in the tags bc it is entirely unrelated. rui and Tsukasa (handshake emoji) horrifically misrepresented by fanon. #2 end on a more positive note: everyone think abt the comic where rui is perfectly capable of understanding emu #and he has the ‘all perfect’ text after comprehending her fascinating vocabulary. beautiful. perfect wxs relationship moment. #read curtain call again. & the other rui focuses. main story in general. etc.

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Drew a little comic of Gohan and Piccolo inspired by Gohan getting a telescope for his birthday during the Cell Saga filler! (Astronomers, please don't come after me if I got any science wrong 😭🙏Ex. I know Gohan basically implies the planet is emitting light but it could also mean the suns that were probably “born” with it when it was wished there!)

#idk i study dna not planets TT_TT #ANYWAYS #im happy I drew piccolo smiling throughout this comic! #just being a bro with gohan! #just doing fun friend things! #a coupla introverts havin a good time! #of course hed be smiling! #comic #dbz #dragon ball z #gohan #son gohan #piccolo #also wonder if the light from old nameks explosion will reach them soon #or has reached them #does that technically mean if theyre 'peering into the past' that way that goku is still lowkey tryna escape that explosion #i wanted to write something like that but i got lazy #anyways i dont even know if space works that way so XD

[detroitbecomeonline]

I worked my ass off on this art of Puma please enjoy it I did it in Paint.net this time and I used the paintbrush tool which is like one of 3 tools and I don't know any key binds or shortcuts and I learned nothing about shapes despite drawing so many of them

#dbh #dbh art #detroit become human #dbh fanart #dbh puma #pm700 #she's hunting connor #he's a dead man #she is peering off a rooftop rn and a helicopter spotted her #and she's like haha connor ur so screwed i have my sights on you now #alas she misses him yet again #how many bullets fly past connor's head #who knows #mydbhart

[villainihavedonethymotheronao3]

Obviously, DnD characters are wish fulfillment and lots of people don’t want to address the slow senescence of the vulnerable human form in their fun games. That being said, narratively, I do think that levels should probably fluctuate over the course of a lifetime. The level twenty world-saver is going not going to stay level twenty into their old age—that’s not how athletes and retirement work! Wisdom and Charisma casters maybe, but your STR/CON/DEX builds are going to soften with age. They might still be the spryest bastards in the old people tai chi group, but “terrifyingly in shape 70 year old” is not the same as “deadliest man on the planet”. Drop those old folks a few levels, give them some creaky bones and presbyopia. It’s good for them, promise.

#slamming a stick into the ground like the pope ‘MORE WIZARDS WITH MINOR COGNITIVE DECLINE’ #old washed up bards and barbarians who had to get a hip replaced #the only classes that are probably immune to it are druids and clerics #based solely on the power of very old gardeners and priests #they’re probably good until they start losing 3x oriented #but even monks I I think have the right to take an arrow to the knee #the other aspect of this is differing lifespans which mean that when parties do get back together for a reunion tour #there are incentives to keep them apace with their peers #and the format of dnd means that the only other time most people see their old characters is in little cameos when friends gm #and no one wants to nerf their friend’s baby #but with in the era of more experimental actual play and game design #I think we can move past these hang ups and give the people what they deserve #old rogues with arthritis who are still really good but won’t stop complaining about their glory days

[eightdoctor]

SO FUCKING SAD we’ll never see fitz and the doctor on screen. like we’ll never see one staring longingly at the other like they want to devour them. Sad!

#never see fitz looking at the doctor like he’s hanging on his every word with the need of someone clinging to the edge of a cliff #or the doctor peering at fitz like a drowning man scrabbles at a lifeline bc fitz is his one link to his past and #he can’t bring himself to let go #even just the mirthful glances as fitz tells a bad joke or overexagerated story #like the pitfalls of reading from a characters pov as most of the edas are is we don’t get that outside perspective Unless it’s from a #side character observing them #(and those parts are so excellent but i’d like more please) #alas i’m left to imagine these scenes by my self . #and yearn for what could’ve been #doctor who #eighth doctor #fitz kreiner

[uncanny-tranny]

I think as we grow up, we have to be really conscious of romanticizing the world we grew up in in order to scorn how the next generations are growing up.

Nostalgia isn't inherently bad, but especially in political spaces, be very wary of this idea that there is an Ideal Past we must Harken Back To.

It sucks to feel left behind, but such is the human condition. It isn't bad to feel nostalgic, but that doesn't mean that these new generations are inherently "lost" and "need to be saved (by you)", and I think that is very important to remember and try to be conscious of.

#politics #'the world you grew up in no longer exists' frankly... GOOD! #the world i personally grew up in was scary and lonely and traumatizing. no kid today should STILL be growing up like that #the whole 'nostalgia as a poltical means' is rooted in this idea that... #1) we all grew up in a hegemony 2) we all turned out the same 3) the way we grew up had more privileges afforded to us #and i personally like nostalgia! i like watching videocamera videos from 2005 and looking up super specific shit #but nostalgia does not a good world make #INSERT UMBERTO ECO'S FOURTEEN POINTS ON FASCISM #(though i don't always think nostalgia can lead to this in a political sense there is a fine line) #be very mindful of what motivates nostalgiaposting #is it because people miss childhood and how 'simple' it felt? or is there a different reason that motivates this type of posting? #are you romanticizing childhood to the point you are not remembering your childhood /at all/ but the *idea* of it? #and honestly it is SO jarring when my peers are nostalgic because it's like... we aren't even that old!! #it comes across like... the world is hard and it's getting harder and so we cannot chnage and must wistfully think of the past... #...and to me it comes across as almost... doomerist in how end-stage feelings of nostalgia and hopelessness seen #i feel compassion for the impulse to feel like your old life is over and you need to grieve it... #...but certainly that isn't the younger generations fault? especially because WE are now the ones rasing them and we still yet live #(even at our completely decrepit age of not even close to a mid-life crisis (sarcasm and lighthearted))

[difeisheng]

li xiangyi and di feisheng were only twenty. twenty and leading two of the biggest powers in the jianghu, but they wanted peace and they tried to make it last five years and yet it all came crashing down. twenty when someone stabbed them both in the back, twenty when their sects paid the price, twenty when they destroyed each other for something neither of them had a hand in and twenty when they both had to restart their lives and learn to live as ghosts in a world that didn't want them anymore. now li xiangyi tries to forget it all, and di feisheng is lingering on wrongs of the past, but how much can you blame either of them for the roads they've taken because they were twenty when it all went sideways and now that's all history remembers of the people they were

#im having a Moment #i need to know about their past because. two teenage sect leaders with big dreams and no peers #they have to have met. i hope they did. i hope they were friends. fuck. #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #di feisheng #ashton originals #feihua #mlc meta

[rainystressed247]

A collection of the adoptive parent troupe 🤣

2/3 I did for @/douchiii on Twitter! While the first one is for @/ohlawpaw (one of the first reason I got a Twitter in the first place!)

#dream fanart #technoblade fanart #ranboo fanart #endersmile #peer pressure duo #somnitrio #I can’t remember if that is the correct name for their trio #yes this is past me in the background era #when will I get it back #someday #maybe

[smimon]

Oh but most of you haven't heard about my tram crush! Its name is Protram 405N, its fleet number HG999, and it is a one-of-a-kind prototype currently on service in Kraków, Poland. It has its own wikipedia article!

It came to be when an old Protram 105N got modernized by connecting its three high-floor cars by two new low-floor modules, in an attempt to improve accessibility without forcing the city to buy completely new machines.

In the end the prototype did not impress and the city ended up ordering new trams anyway, but the prototype remains in operation as a sort of cyborg made of old tram's body filled with modern equipment.

It used to jumpscare me when I lived in Kraków because it has a different shape than other trams so every time it appeared in my field of vision my brain went "What's that?!" haha. And I used to bump onto it a lot so maybe it also has a crush on me 🥰

There is a website that tracks all public transport in Kraków on a map and I used to open it a few times per day to look for my beloved...

Look at this beauty 🧡

#old machine given new life. promised company but they never arrived #different and weird and unusual among its peers but still given the same colors and number system #fully accepted despite sticking out #i have lots of feelings about this tram and i would like to give it a pat on the side #i might have done it in the past #oh sweet 405n when will i see you again 😩

[pansy2005]

what i will say is just. do you believe in the capacity of human beings to change and grow? or is someone forever doomed to who and how they were when they were 12 or 15 or 20 or 30? and to who do we allow that privilege of growth and the benefit of the doubt?

#ive thought about this a lot over the past few years as i imagine many of us have #and not to sound like a high school english teacher but #i dont know if there are necessarily right or wrong answers to these #but they are questions that you have to contend with and figure out your own answers to. not just what your friends/peers think. #personally. i know what i believe and its been long enough that im confident in it

[plushpyromoved]

very quick wip scribblez of yuppie psycho x tf2 crossover au engiee taking doshi's place

#very very quick scribble >.< between all thatz happening irl for me i havent really had much time to draw #but thiz crossover haz been rotating in my head i had to get thiz out #tf2 #tf2 engineer #the linez on hiz armz are tattooz tho i wouldnt put it past him #wherez my engineer mutual need to put thiz guy under peer review >:3c #🔥.art #yuppie fortress au

[a-snowpoff]

GOOD GIRL, YOU’RE JUST LOST AREN’T YOU?

#POV: You’re a chihuahua lost at the dog park and you’ve been trailing Papyrus for the past 10 minutes. #…. uhm…. do not perceive me… thank you… #pfff imagine someone reblogging it without the context of the first tag OHMAHGAH dskfdskfh #it’s just Papyrus…. at the dog park… look he’s holding a leash… for HIS dog… #you’re not his chihuahua… he has his own dog that’s always stealing his special attacks…. #Papyrus can’t seem to find his own dog and has instead gotten you as a companion as he searches #You can hear Papyrus grumble… I BET THAT MEDDLING CANINE FOUND A STASH OF DOG SLIME TO ROLL AROUND IN!!!! THIS #THIS WOULD BE THE 3RD TIME THIS WEEK! JUST HOW MANY BATHS DO I NEED TO GIVE ONE DOG IN A WEEK… #He peers down at the tiny chihuahua trailing him and thinks aloud #CERTAINLY YOU’D KEEP CLEAN IF I BATHED YOU #ANYWAYS BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED TAGS #papyrus #undertale #my art #a-snowpoff #papyrus with fangs #what am i even writing BAHAHAH… where are my whims taking me…. i just wanted to draw him from this perspective #can’t help but attempt to build a story around it skfjsdkjfksdj okay anyways enjoy~~~ #*Awkwardly trips while trying to scurry away*

[nonbinarygamzee]

this like. really isnt even about hs2 (in the sense i have literally not read the new stuff and do not really plan to for my own sanity. and also take into account i am mostly just taking my emotional issues out on homestuck because im feeling very raw about it and life lately.) but good god i just cannot stand the idea of letting this beast crawl out of the grave AGAIN. i respect some of the ppl working on the newest thing and ofc hope it doesnt devolve into harassment all over butttttttt also. how many times do we watch a monster reanimate itself. its like since the damn thing ended ive been yelling to anyone who will listen about how it needs to stay dead in the ground AT ALL COSTS!!!! it needs to die to give people a chance to truly learn from it. and in the same way my silly little cope back in the day of talking about hating hs sincerely while being very invested in it got muddled and twisted when ironically insulting your interests became like The Thing, i feel like everyone thinks i am being SILLY or HYPERBOLIC and i am NOT!!!!! it is not even about the content of post canon, for all of the problems i have with it, it really never Has been. There are parts of the epilogues i actually think are compelling and expansive but that is not part of the conversation to me. the entire precedent for why i feel how i do is that it is a fundamentally flawed and dishonest move to spend literal years antagonizing your audience, overlooking if not outright facilitating abuse and harassment in pockets where "audience" and "friend" and "writer" all became deeply enmeshed labels that emboldened people to endear themselves and their interpretations to whatever you projected as "rightness" at the expense of their peers. only to like... wipe your hands of it once it stopped being the means of which to make a ridiculous amount of internet dollars and started to be like an actual problem for you and the longevity of your reputation as a creative. it couldve been the best written shit in the world and that would never have made up for how bullshit of an idea of swearing "im not the boss of canon anymore guys" while literally Still continuing to make things that not only continue to establish a canonicity but that continue to undermine alternative readings of previous events is. sometimes i think about the whole sarah z lawsuit shit and wonder how everything didnt just dissolve afterwards but really isnt this just the perfect internetspace for people to get away with being that boldfaced about throwing legal threats around to stroke their own egos? havent we been reared from day one to care more for whether people are clever and haughty before we care about whether they are literally openly trying to exert control and harassment?

#its clown town #ugh sorry idk what it is lately. #crazy thing to say on a blog ive been emotionally vomiting on for the past year but like #i spent a lot of the past like ~5 years only thinking my homestuck thoughts to myself bc my primary peer who knew wtf i was talking about #was abusive and creepy and i just preferred to keep it to myself. but good god i think letting hs sit inside poisoned me. i feel the rot #even more than usual............ as always happens when im forced to realize other ppl can make hs trend. good lord

[hussyknee]

Narmada and her sister Sharika are the daughters of prominent Tamil feminist and human rights activist Rajini Thiranagama, who was murdered when they were children. Every time they speak of her I move away from grief that her life was so brutally cut short, to joy that she spent those years living a life more full of light and love than many can fit into a hundred. Nothing can compare to the legacy of being remembered this way by your children.

#i can't believe she was younger than me when she was killed #her daughters are several years older than me #it must be strange to live past the age your parent did #to realize the person in those wise and hallowed memories is now a peer and now much junior #i have so much awe and pride for the people who stood up to the blood drenched terrorism of the govt and of the militias that opposed them #i always wish i could ask them how they didn't drown the fear and despair #rajini knew they'd kill her and made her peace with it. even though she knew she'd be leaving her children behind #she and her husband seems to have been absolute relationship goals. an equal partnership?? in the 70s and 80s?? in this country?? #talk about modelling self-worth for your daughters #parenting #wholesome #child rights #feminism #activism #advocacy #rajini thiranagama #sri lanka #mental health #tw death mention #mothers and daughters #knee of huss