#still looks 80% the same

[raspberryspace]

11/25/23 - Sj Made & Rosicrucian Egypt

#enjoying the days in South Bay #probably got my favorite set of stickers from this con #not the shown ones #I’ll post a haul later maybe #SJ made felt more small Instagram art than the SF ones #which is nice in its own aspect #also more affordable than stuff up there that’s for sure #plus a trip to a museum I haven’t been to since I was 12? #still looks 80% the same #same mummy #just hanging out #beautiful garden though #need to go back and read there #oh plus two pics of a hike and sunset ealier that week #pic

[mumblesplash]

do you ever end up accidentally getting super attached to a trope so specific and rare you don't even know how to look for it? 'space aliens failing to understand that a human showing teeth usually isn't a threat display' isn't even an ao3 tag. finding that shit in published fiction or tv shows is next to impossible

#<- guy who searches ao3 by the 'misunderstandings' tag without even specifying a fandom #mumbling #if you've been following me for a while you may remember my introduction to mcyt was when i started scraping the bottom of the barrel #looking for 'humans are space orcs' stories #but what you may not know is that was already a ways down a rabbit hole that began with *avatar the last airbender* #it basically went #'holy shit salvage is a good story' -> read every existing version of hakoda being a good dad to zuko -> #'shinsou hitoshi getting adopted by aizawa has the same vibes fuck it i'll read that too' -> 'why are they aliens in so many of these' -> #get addicted to the 'humans are space orcs' trope -> find a whole collection of fics about that exact thing -> #for some reason the collection is 80% dsmp fics -> i am not picky -> 'oh no they've got a crow-coded father figure' -> #still not rly interested in the dsmp source material -> minecraft kinda interesting tho -> wait what's hermitcraft -> and now here we are #all bc 3 years ago i wanted zuko to have a decent father figure #firelord ozai made me draw pinup art of goodtimeswithscar: the true and harrowing tale of my descent into madness #flameo hotguy or whatever the kids are saying these days

[spookyprime]

I should actually post what Cassie and Bart look like for this au huh...

#doodles #reverse robins au #cassie is the daughter of ares #bart is actually still the same hes just a little more surly #hes based off that one artist who gave him the most 80s but emo hair ive seen he looked so good

[applecherry108]

Will there be a bad guy or any threats to the turtles in genera, like I don't know... Bishop or the krang

Oroku saki with an evil look on his face 👀👀

Love your work ❤️❤️❤️

N….not really? 😅😅😅 The closest my au gets is the Foot Clan and even then, once they realize their Beloved Son is a Hamato, they go about dismantling the dark armor real fast. And without the Evil™️ in their organization, they have no need to free the krang…

And since Draxum has a New Found Appreciation for humans since, you know, his son is genetically human, he sorta….abandons the whole mutagen thing, so none of the mutant villains are present…

Even the Battle Nexus is transformed into a more Ninja Warrior-esque competition…

Honestly, it’s all just interpersonal drama. It’s a lot of custody battles and divorcees getting back together lmao

The biggest villain of this au is Loneliness and Guilt.

Anyways, check out these designs.

#I mean…maaaaaybe bishop? but I’m like. suuuuper rusty on my bishop lore. and plenty of people are doing bishop way better anyway #look. I said I was going to make a Soft™️ version of a separated au and I meant it. #also. again. it’s ‘parent trap’. it’s about the parents getting remarried. XDD #apple talks #parent trap au #my art #tmnt art #does this mean Casey jr isn’t here? yes. it does. :( does it mean that gram gram is still trapped in whatsitcalled to contain shredder? #also yes. :(( #anyways some sillies about the designs: #me: purposely gives Raph an 80s style R for his R.A.P.H. schtick #also me: realizes at this very moment the Genius Built™️ logo serves the same purpose >.>;; #yes Mikey’s knee pads are his dads and his chest symbol is Cass. XD #did I give Donnie chobit ears? yes. yes I did. 😂 #I was trying to invoke a jacobs sheep 4-horn look between his goggles and baby horns #his mask slide bad like a welders mask #yes Raph is modeled after Assistant. no Assisstant doesn’t exist in this world. no there are no missing sisters in this au. :( #look if you want girl turtles I got girls turtles. I have a 2 different Venus concepts. they’re just….not in parent trap. 😅

[icewindandboringhorror]

There's always a slight yearning in the back of my mind wishing I had been born in the right place, time, family situation, income level, etc. to have just lived in one single house for my entire life. Imagine being born in a place that still suits you, even through all of your personal evolutions and etc. The idea of deep familiarity with an area because you've lived and explored it for 40+ years, being encased in a web of memories and connections. Being able to clean out your old childhood bedroom and find personal artifacts, to dig in the yard and remember. I know those lives can still be plenty imperfect, but there's just something so seemingly solid and stable and Grounding about it that I sometimes wish I could have.. (At least from my outside perspective as someone who's moved around a bit geographically and even within the same area, never lives in the same house/ apartment /etc. for more than a few years usually.) Like... having a place that is printed upon, fully your own, rather than chronically a visitor, every thought of a space always tempered with the notion that one day soon you'll have to pack it all up again, etc. There's something peaceful about the permanence.

#I think also because I'm a very nostalgic person - THOUGH not in the way that somep poeple mean when they say nostalgia because I've realiz #ed that to some people apparently it means like.. more of a sad emotional thing? Or when I talk about being nostalgic they say 'me too' and #then describe how they're always depressed dwelling on the past wishing they could revisit it and replaying it and feeling sad and etc. #Whereas for me - it's not in a deep or emotional way at all. It's very detached - kind of like someone who is doing like a scientific #cataloguing of something? I don't feel any remorse or sadness or longing or sitting there sobbing for hours over people/pets I've lost or #etc. It's more like a fun contemplative excercise and extension of self analysis plus just documentation. Like I know your memory fades as #you get older OR even as stuff is actively ongoing humans have terrible recall - even the ones who are less emotional/more focused on #accuracy our minds still twist things or etc. SO I looove to have documentations of everything possible so that in the future I will have #as full and complete of a view of myself as I possibly can. sure the image will undoubtedly be a little distorted but having real evidence #of how something was at a time is very valuable. You look through old messages or letters or something and you always find other alternate #versions of yourself. Not in a worse way like inherently inferior Previous Models Of You who haven't yet been perfected but even just in a #neutral way like 'what they're saying is not a BAd thing but also is not how I would say that today.' etc. ANYWAY I find it really interest #ing to document and remember things and love revisiting the past - not in a sad way - but just like. curiosity. reminiscing and recalling #and filling in gaps. or trying to have the same feeling I felt at a previous time so I can remember what it was. Collecting information for #documentation purposes. Like for example - I would love to go back and tour all of my old childhood houses/apartments. Not to like #sit in the middleof them and cry and go 'ohhh my childhood waughhh' - but literally because I want to take detailed photographs so I #can remeber exatly what they looked like and recreate them in sims or some other digital way. Why? idk. just to gather the information. If #I ever live to like 80 years old and I'm still reflecting on my life curious about the dteails of it. I want to be able to fire up my #ancient windows 10 laptop I've kept all these years and open up the sims 4 and tour my old home with accuracy etc. ?? #Not sure why really. Maybe an extension of how I generally care a lot about having an 'accurate' view of things? Like I would rather be #accurate than be happy. I don't understand 'ignorance is bliss' because I would always rather know. I always always in any situation am mor #focused on 'what is the well researched practical truth' than about 'how does this make me feel' or etc. Truth above ALL else even if it #were to make me miserable. Aka why I'm a 'boring' 'annoying' 'UM actually..' type of killjoy lol because it's very hard for me to understan #that some people can enjoy something or have a good time even not knowing the full facts of a situation or etc. BUT anyway. since that is #some core driver of my personality for whatever reason (just the plague of ennegram type 5 perhaps lol) maybe that also drives me to my #kind of minor obsession with like 'I must have a complete view and calatoguing of my life that is as accurate as possible within the means #i have' . Is it REALLY important for me to know the exact layout of on of my first childhood bedrooms? no. materially it does nothing for m #in life. BUT hey. it would make a great addition to the Accurate Life Story Catalogue lol. ANYWAY.. But I think a lot of wanting to live in #one place forever is not just the ease of documentation. but the sense of having a constant. Much of what i crave most in life is stability #& familiarity &routine bc of how my brain works. And it just would feel so good to be Settled. Never uproot again. One little place FOREVER

[soupy-sez]

Rumble Fish (1983)

#the utterance of rusty james still ringing in my head from watching this #rumble fish #rumble fish 1983 #1983 #80s #movies #francis ford coppola #matt dillon #actors #pics #soupy's #god this wouldve been so beautiful in color. I really don't understand it after the 50s its not the same #the inherent knowledge that it's covering up so many bold nicely shaded colors. too much modern pacing to really fit an old school vibe #I'll keep the rest of my thoughts to myself #ain't just the way it looks I was concerned about #whats more important is that I heard this song called rumblefish by the goats in a documentary once and that forever got me to associate it #with this movie's title #so every time I read the title my mind says it like the guy in the song #its the little things in life

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

one of the minor yet inconvenient part of having a dysfunctional family is trying to get in touch with them and having to go on a wild goose chase because i dont know what name my uncle is going by.

theres three likely contenders for last name and five contenders for first name, including one i dont particularly want to search because it was a nickname he got growing up in the 70s and 80s.

it is a Mess™

#kai rambles #if he could just stick to one fake name #this would be a lot easier #nigel why #also yeah his given name is nigel #he - like many of us on my moms side - has very tan skin #like in black and white photographs my great grandad who is a white man doesnt look white #nigel grew up in working class midlands of england in the 70s and 80s with the name nigel and tan skin #you can guess what nickname he was given #he spelt it differently but uh #its still the same word #and i dont like searching for it because im a white guy searching for another white guy this word should be irrelevant #so i havent

[theshadowrealmitself]

Nick Fury being old as hell and just. always being there whenever people get recruited into SHIELD is great and all, but I think it’d be funny if he was also another person who’s not that old but no one knows that, it’s unfathomable to everyone that there was a time before Nick Fury, the guy just seems ageless and inexplicably tied to SHIELD, there’s theories going around that when SHIELD was created, Nick Fury just formed inside the first base, already an adult

#meanwhile he’s just not that much older than them #anyways I was thinking about an au where Spidey starts vigilante-ing super young and if they met up with Fury how that would go #and I was like ‘oh wait what’s the actual age difference like obviously Fury is much older but what would he look like then?’ #and yall. #I didn’t check every comic but one of the first ones that pops up is the ultimate comics and he’s. #OVER 80 years old #jfc #let gramps rest already oh my god #anyways that’s amazing that he’s over 80 and still kicking ass like that #buuuuut #that means for this au he’d look exactly the same in the fucking flashback. #I don’t want that. #I wanna a visibly younger Fury just cause it’s fun in flashbacks when everyone’s younger #anyways that thought process inspired this post #obviously Fury would be able to rescue himself #but I love humor and I’m imagining tiny lil Spidey going ‘don’t worry civilian I’m here to rescue you!’ #and Fury’s like ‘civilian???’ #anyways #Nick Fury #s.h.i.e.l.d. #marvel #do I need any other tags for this?

[the-trans-dragon]

Y'know it was REALLY goddamn evil and nefarious that the oil fields gave my mom (a single mom working 3 jobs to raise 2 kids) a single $5,000 check in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure to never complain about them.

Of course we fucking took the money. Even with her working 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs, she barely made over $1,000 a month. Of course she took the money. We though about moving but we still couldn't afford it. She was so frugal with it, though. It did give us a sliver of financial security for years.

But goddamn. $5,000 is table scraps to them, and they bought her silence with it because she couldn't refuse the chance to slightly lessen the weight of poverty on her family.

#sorenhoots #i remember i was like 11 or something. she didnt know if she should sign it. and its not like we had or knew any lawyers. she had ME read it #over and even i was like “this is a nondisclosure and it means you cant ever talk about anything they do even if they do something terrible” #i recall being very proud of myself for knowing what a NDA was. lord knows where my middle-school self learned that from. she did eventually #have a lawyer of some sort look over it and they said the same thing but.... $5000 #it wasnt an option for her. that was more money than wed ever had or saved. she had two kids who would need cars bc we lived so far in the #country. she knew i wanted to go to college. i dont think i ever saw her buy herself clothes before then either. it was money for emergencys #and necessities and birthday presents and road trips and... i often wondered about the person who offered us that. i wondered where they #lived and wondered how much their clothes costed and wondered if their kids got to have art or piano lessons. i wondered if their home was #over 80 degrees in the summer and under 60 in the winter and if they lived in a house that wasnt filled with dangerous spiders (we had nice #spiders too but we did also have Very Dangerous Spiders) and id picture him in his office in a button up and slacks and it would break my #heart that my mom couldnt have all of that. we just had a $5000 check and a vow to not complain. #she still feels earthquakes from it. less nowdays but still. and sometimee it still smells like a jar of hot petroleum jelly. and the attic #smell is worse than ever and the tap water smells like sulfur and wet mold #goddamn what the fuck? jesus christ. she should move.

[headphonemouse]

Congrats on another loop around the sun! :>

:> omg is that a little bird beak thats so cute

Thank you! =^-^=

Is it a loop or is it a spiral because the sun is also moving so I'm pretty sure the earth goes in a sort of slanted spiral around it I'm not sure because a loop implies the beginning position is the same as the end position but even if they're not at the same coordinates in the grand scheme of things it's still the same position relative to the sun so that might be whats really important here

If you look at other examples of a loop (roller coaster, a knotted cord, freeway on/off-ramps), none of those have the start exactly the same as the beginning but we still call them loops but why is THIS a roller coaster loop and THAT a roller coaster spiral?

Is it the amount of rotations? Then why is a roller coaster with multiple rotations like this one still called a loop?

Maybe it's the orientation. The first one more or less just goes up then down with little side-to-side while the other one goes left-up-right-down

Then what about corkscrews? Twisters? The Good Ole Circle.

Considering planetary movement and all that junk, is any loop produced on Earth a true loop because with how fast we're moving all the time is it possible to ever reach the same point for a second time?

Now consider the narrative loop, the timeloop, Sisyphus and his spherical boulder, me having to go to work again tomorrow

#ask tag #○•°oO○•°oO #loops look like circles and circles look like bubbles where do bubbles form in the water where has a lot of water the ocean what lives in #the ocean thats right phytoplankton what do phytoplankton do they photosynthesize and produce about 80% of the Earth's oxygen #Oxygen's atomic symbol is O we are back to circles but because we have endured the journey here even if our ending point resembles the #beginning we are still changed and thus this new beginning is fundamentally different and novel #We came back and it's the same but not. We came back and we're the same but not #I sure talk a lot without saying very much #But if you end up where you began can you say that nothing happened?

[nailtagyuri]

when i was 12 this was the coolest most mindblowing shit ever i was genuinely so obsessed with it I'd read it very day like the bible. I would die for a version of this with the post 3D world content over my country

#i hve vs super mario bros on my switch bc i wanted to chronologically play through the storied hero timeline and i couldnt find a rom #I think it has the same appeal as spid.erverse kinda except instead of multiple different people filling the same role as sp.iderman its #the same guy it's still mario but the changes come from things going differently at certain points in his life do you GET ME!! #LIKE!!!!!!!! MOST OF IT'S DETERMINED BY WHAT HAPPENS IN YOSHIS ISLAND AND THERES ALTERNATIVE PATHS IF HE WINS OR FAILS!!! GAME OVERS HAVE #CONSEQUENCES THAT BRANCH INTO THEIR OWN TIMELINES MARIO CAN END UP WITH DIFFERENT PARENTS ITS SO COOLLLLLL #and i love how each of the major branches has their own theme like “action hero” is the one with all the gameplay-focused #mainline titles “storied hero” is the one with all the M&L rpgs and more plot-heavier stuff and “blue collar hero” is this third one #with all the donkey kong titles and wackier/arcade titles WHERE i might add his design had a blue shirt and red overalls #and the tl builds off of those games into nsmb so i like to hc that he kept his early 80s design well into the later games <-autistic sorry #AND how thetimelines represent how their different backstories have influenced their personalities and thought processes a little like #what happened to mario in the blue collar branch like he either becomes EVILL!!!! and kidnaps donkey kong leading to dkjr or #divorces peach and has a self isolation arc after nsmb2 whats going on w him... #and i LOVE how all of them have a sort of common event where bowser invades the mushroom kingdom and in each timeline its #represented by a different variation of the original super mario bros game with action hero's event being represented by smb itself #which is fitting since thats the branch where mario and luigi ended up with their intended parents and everything went as planned #and i think a general theme here is that the more things go against intention the sillier it gets dont even get me STARTED on the time #travel shenanigans in bottom right which lead into the handheld remakes i love this so much its unreal #i do wish paper mario wasnt explained away as a dream but like thats its whole other world and art style and itd be difficult #to fit it into one of the major branches so i get why it was done. i probably wouldve just given it its own isolated bubble in the corner #at that rate i probably wouldve added so much more shit to the main tl im talking game&watch games i look at this and i see a pitch #for a full feature length autism production you understand

[w1llb7ers]

Anyone order a stranger things cast + the party au??

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okay so my initial idea for this was: wouldn't it be hilarious if Finn and Noah met their characters (Mike and Will)? but then it just evolved into everyone (minus the adults/fruity four) meeting their characters-

Idk if this is something people would want to read so let me know if you want me to continue this!

DISCLAIMER: this is a byler + any other ships i throw in there au, but not a foah au despite the tag. i will not be shipping the actors. only characters!

more in repost <33

#so like imagine they're in the present and not the 1980s but they still dress the same and look the same as if they were in the 80s. ok? ok #will byers #mike wheeler #dustin henderson #lucas sinclair #max mayfield #el hopper #noah schnapp #finn wolfhard #gaten mazzarato #caleb mclaughlin #sadie sink #byler #foah #not shipping them #byler tumblr #this has been in my head for a day now so i had to make it reality #stranger things #twitter au

[artykyn]

Not me crying because I had a really bad beginning of 2023 and signed up for a program that would proceed to make the rest of my 2023 rough and I spent the whole first three months of 2023 trying to pick myself up and motivate myself like "I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me" and well look at that I made it

#timeline for anyone not in the loop: #Late 2022: Moved a thousand miles from home to Oregon for a new job. I love LOVE the area. #new job gives me very nice salary so I get myself a nice apartment all to myself #January 2023: Company I moved for decides to close Oregon location. Offers me choice to relocate again to CA this time #*panic because I can't afford my apartment without that salary and I'm still on a lease for 7 more months. Also I love Oregon so much* #*continue to panic because there are no other companies nearby doing that same type of niche work so I'd be giving up my career if i stay* #February: Ultimately decide to stay in OR and figure it out. Look into my options #March: Sign up for an accelerated program to learn software engineering #Interview for it and get accepted. Take out loan to pay rent so I can stay in apartment where I'm settled and comfortable and can focus #My last day at my old company comes and I am officially unemployed #April: Start the program. Most bootcamps are 3 months. This one is 7-8 months. Up to 11ish if you struggle and need to repeat some sections #It's like 70-80 hours a week of commitment to both classes and homework #Mentally prepare myself for the rest of 2023 to be hell and possibly early 2024 #Still no idea how well I'll pick up software engineering so I might struggle and take up to 11 months #May through November: thankfully it turns out I'm really good at picking up the logic. I successfully complete in 7 months #December: My brain shuts down for a bit to rest and recover. Still unemployed but feeling optimistic and ready to hit the job hunt #Bring it on 2024. Bring it on #mine #memories

[prossima-nebulosa]

Entering twitter and seeing people asking for remakes of 90's anime that still slap to this day is my worst fucking nightmare

#momochats #YOU WANT A REMAKE OF AN ANIME #OF 100 IF EPISODES #THAT HAD A OVERALL GOOD QUALITY DURING THE ENTIRE DURATION #ohhh you poor soul #some people really out here thinking that we're in any way near what went around the 90's #i mean animation still slap to this day there are a lot of example #but the 90's was another time another world #the vibes #you can't take them back #y'know what i mean #same goes for the 80's #those animes came out at that time and had their time #they were part of a culture that no longer exist #it's like asking for a remake of an old movie and thinking that in some way it's better than the old one #it may look better #but it no longer holds the same meaning #so anyway no don't touch yu yu hakusho #don't touch my yankees #don't touch anything leave it be AND WATCH THOSE FUCKING ANIMES WHAT IS WRONG WITH WATCHING AN OLD ANIME #THEY ARE STILL FUCKING GOOD #i was recently watching patlabor the animation #and by god the direction was amazing #the animation was amazing #the characters were amazing #the comic tempo was amazing #i could write a fucking essay on how the comic tempo changed in these years and how literally nowadays you can't replicate the 80's one #because it wouldn't work

[castielmacleod]

Just a few photos of Nida Khurshid I’m absolutely obsessed with

#I LOVE her vibes #I have been googling her because I fully plan to steal Lata from Jason Ankles and include her in my s/p/n redux #Latika Dar #Nida Khurshid #Desinatural #<— for the last pic :) #Latika Desai #Obviously she’d be a good deal older by the time the events of s/p/n are taking place but still #Unless I messed with the timeline a little. S/p/nwin means nothing to me so I suppose she doesn’t HAVE to have grown up in the 70s #Alternatively I push the events of s/p/n back to the 70s or maybe 80s and make it a period piece. Lol #Honestly I’d be kind of into that #At the same time I’m picturing this cool desi lorekeeper demonologist and exorcist in her 50s #who is an uncompromising pacifist and knows more about demons than possibly anyone else alive #Which is where I personally imagine a young budding nerd interested in the supernatural such as Lata could end up #I almost wish s/p/nwin was more popular if only so that we’d already have fan content for where people imagine the new characters are #by the time s/p/n is happening. I guess it’s just lil old me and what I can glean from the tags and wiki pages lmfao #At least when the preq gets cancelled I can literally just adopt her outright without worrying about later episodes contradicting anything #Regardless! Look at her #My posts #Prequel momence #Latikaposting #Anyway this has been Real Insomnia Moments with Ben ✌🏽 #Who needs sleep when you can hyperfixate on a character from a show you refuse to watch!

[socraticcryptid]

The bots are back again - I've been getting a few each day for the past week or so.

Interestingly, I'm seeing a new pattern. The last three or four have followed me and then immediately liked my most popular post (but no other posts). This post hasn't been reblogged recently, if I remember correctly, and it was originally posted about six months ago, so they might be finding it by searching for popular original posts. I assume it's a tactic to attempt to appear more genuine.

#bots #spam bots #socraticcryptid #i just think it's interesting looking at the techniques that the bot makers use #also my most popular post has 10.1k notes and then the next most popular has 80 notes #so even if they're trying to randomise it #it ends up always being the same post for me #idk if that would still be the case for people with more popular posts