#when I was sifting the thing

[thebibliosphere]

Oh god. So I haven't been playing as Tim that much in Gotham Knights (his traversal abilities are annoying), and uh, I just changed to his character for the first time in, like, 30 in-game days, and Jesus Christ, his emails. His emails. That kid is signed up to every podcast, every news feed, every gossip rag from here to Metropolis.

No wonder he's always sitting in the corner on his phone, shotgunning energy drinks. He's sifting through all the shit he's signed up to.

Also, he's orchestrating a road trip to Point Pleasant with Conner Kent to try and catch Mothman. I... Y'know what. It's a world with aliens, magic, and zombie owls coming out of the walls. You do you, little Robin. You do you.

#gotham knights #I was so mad when I saw his emails lmao #just fucking 20+ things to sift through

[goobygnarp]

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#good grief im gettin a lil tired of seeing 'DONT DO THIS' kinda art videos #i very much understand its a youtube thing and that clickbait names and thumbs get the views and attention needed #but it doesnt mean it doesnt annoy me or that I cant be annoyed by it #sometimes i just see it in tutorial pictures too #but the large DONTS with red Xs near the supposed ''wrong'' way of drawing is so demotivating #people start and draw in many ways than one #its what makes art their own #but when videos or tutorial posts are made and show the ''WRONG'' way to go about it #its like scolding the new artist or long time artist with that style that they're doing it wrong and that its bad #no matter the intention its not the way to go about helping artists learn to draw #and in my personal opinion #the click bait ''DONT DO THIS WHEN DRAWING'' thing is what keeps me from actually watching the vids #i get theyre probably helpful but i don't like that I have to feel some NEED or DESIRE to click on a vid cause I feel like I did a thing #wrong or that i never should have done it at all #i wish i could see more 'here are some tips that helped me #kinda vids cause yes i would love to learn what helped you rather than being or feeling wronged for drawing in a way that isn't theirs #im rambling but i have been seeing a lot of 'DONT DO THIS' NEVER DO THIS' 'IF YOURE DOING THIS STOP NOW' kinda art vids #im speakin for myself here #but im an artist sifting through art youtube or spaces always willing to learn new ways of improving my art #i dont need to feel click baited like the next 3am don't this kid to learn how to improve my inking skills #if it was more a 'this is my personal preference and I wanna share it with my audience and maybe teach some things' kinda vid #id watch that too #but im just so tired of seeing art youtube going down this need to tell folks 'YOURE DOING IT ALL WRONG. THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY"

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13, trying to prevent yaz from spiralling when they get separated: i need you to do a deepdive into eschatology

#fghgjhjhggh #'yea i know this sucks babe but we'll figure it out the fate of the world is on your shoulders i believe in you kisses <3' #like thats where you'll end up right #'find out when the aliens come try and take over' #eschatology and death cults and conspiracy theories probably #forced to sift through like centuries of that stuff for years on end trying to find the Real in all of it #and you cant.......stop. bc the world will end #i dont think you come out of that.................normal #even with the best starting condition you dont come out of that normal but yaz is like #functional only by virtue of her circumstances i think #she looks fine bc shes standing next to 13 #i dont think shes normal under the surface #i dont think 4 years of apocalypticism left her untouched #dan either i mean i dont think anyone comes out of that untouched but these two are like barely keeping it together beforehand #can you imagine how WEIRD theyve become #can you imagine how obliviously and kind of unsettlingly weird they'd be in support groups #the others would get it like sure none of us are really normal anymore but like #i think they'd be weird #4 years of having to depend on each other and not knowing if you'll get back home and having to take The End Times seriously nonstop as a #matter of urgency and duty #and then losing the third member of your party? #dan and yaz will be so weird and fucked up #iknow im repeating myself but im just trying to put myself in the frame of mind of #having to take intepretations of the end times seriously for 4 years #when youre already like a lowkey suicidal person to begin with #i think if yaz hangs out with 14 she'll say such weird and fucked up things entirely obliviously and he'd be like O.O #she probably still has 1900 habits that show up unexpectedly #or like just miscalibrated. has to take a trip to another country and takes a train bc she forgets planes exist #has to look up somethign and just goes SIGH. gets her coat to go to the library. and ryans like ??? ive googled it #and shes like oh fuck google

[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

#lizzy speaks #hello everyone. i know that there are *checks calendar* still 20 days left of december and 2023 #but i've had a lot of strong emotions and feelings i've had to sort through as i've been thinking about how 2023 went for me #so a lot of what i've written here comes from the perspective of someone in their early 20s #it's like... a crash and burn from when you were a teenager thinking that you know everything #and realizing how big the world is and how many responsibilities there are #all while a feeling of overwhelm looms over as you try to sift your way through the world and adjust your understanding of it #for me i've definitely had an underlying thought that 'you should have your shit together by now why aren't you there yet' #and it's! not motivating! at all! to think that way. and it's made me more than ever want to be a friend to myself. to extend a patient- #kind voice to myself that reminds me that others are also trying to navigate these feelings and to accept that i'm not going to have an- #instantaneous understanding of how one goes about adulthood. and neither will they. even if they look 'put together.' #like... these people have also undergone similar stresses and along the way figured out how to navigate through that space #and personally i've found peace in knowing that there are people who are older than me. trusting that they've dealt with these things too i #some shape or form and that them living... being here.. is proof that we shall be fine in the end and that we will move past what plagues- #our mind. there's definitely been some... anger i've had this year that. school didnt teach me these things or skills!! i was so mad lol #but hey if we are little guys who are living on planet earth for the first time we shouldn't condemn ourselves to an unrealistic standard- #of going through life and being able to instantly do everything 'correctly' and know how everything works #i'm still working on improving that patience... and also trying to put in the work to understand these things. #in the midst of a very tough week for me i was tempted to say that 'nothing happened this year it was not productive' #but then i was like. that's. objectively not true if you just look at other things. also theres worth in life outside of 'productivity' #...i think i passed 20 tags at this point. but like. my favorite thing about 2023 was meeting so many cool awesome people! #who would've known that funny lil squid game could bring so many connections and friendships i cherish! #thank you so much! for being a part of my life and changing me for the better! for giving me many fond memories! #and i'm very grateful to anyone who supported me and my art this year... for sticking around even though i wished i could do more #it means the world to me knowing that there's proof that i exist and have touched someone's life in a positive way! thank you! truly! #ANYWAY. happy early new year. i hope everyone can nourish a friend in their head that extends acceptance and patience to themselves #as we try and make sense of the world together. there will be things that we don't understand yet! but one day we will! and it'll be like #wow! look how far i came! i'm okay! i'm alive! yipee! thank you for reading this post i made to get my feelings out! have a nice day!

[valeriefauxnom]

Hey big fan. How tall do you think the androids in DL are?

Not gonna lie, it's always a bit shocking to hear one has made anything to earn a 'big fan', but thank you very much nonetheless!

As for your actual question, though, I think they're roughly about human height, judging by art? Of course I've gone over how art sometimes varied wildly in height, but as mentioned in that post if you have seen that, Dragalia did seem to try and keep a 'comparison heights' straight, at least. They might not have kept straight if Euden was 4'11 or 5'9 but he was shorter than Ranzal and Luca, etc.

And what we see in the wyrmprints, they seem consistently human in size:

(Well, these are both with sylvans, but sylvans are human in height as well, ears notwithstanding, so the point stands).

As funny as it might have been if every android was big or really tiny, I think it probably makes sense that, being created and wished for them to be 'humans' by Maestro, they resemble humanity as much as possible.

Now, just because Laxi, Mascula, and the androids from their era are human sized, others might not be.

They're a recreation of the older models in another case of Dragalia's humans trying to resurrect older tech, the same tech that made the dragons Very Displeased 1k years ago.

Now, Eireene and Finni, who unfortunately have among my personal least favorite designs in Dragalia, don't really give any indication either of being a wildly different size than Laxi or Mascula. Like this art here, where they are about the same size as Laxi and in a similar 'dwarfed by Ranzal' category most everyone falls into to varying degrees.

That doesn't mean there aren't standouts.

Anassa, for example, seems to carry a much bigger presence in her art. Being something of a commander and command center for the 1k year old model androids, it stands to reason she might have more weapons built in, more data processors, or other things in greater quantity. While we don't have a model or comparative art to truly say for certain that she is bigger, she certainly looks it.

(Does she even have legs??? Is she a roomba that would be foiled by anything over a 15° incline or a sudden height change, ex, stairs??? I mean yeah, doesn't she fly and drop down the one time, but even then, there's any number of environments that might make it awkward or impossible to use it to navigate a hazard.)

Ahem. Anyways, the point is that the general androids, be it Maestro's recreations or their elder Nier:Dragalia -er, Ex Machina, a part of the Humanoid Liberation Agency/the ones living in the sky, seem to be human sized. But there might be a few special model ones out there like Anassa who serve a unique and important purpose to justify the time, energy, and resources designing and creating them to fulfill their goal.

Now, admittedly, androids in Dragalia would be a weak point in my general knowledge since they never really quite struck a chord with me enough to inspire a fixation on them, but yeah, as far as I can tell, they're human-sized with perhaps some rare exceptions. The most I can say that might not be wholly normal is their apparent tendency towards a sort of gaunt build, which, to be fair, it's not exactly as if they can build muscle to change that.

Hopefully that answered your question satisfactorily!

#dragalia lost #dragalia #inbox responses #thanks for the ask! #While I uh 'majored' in the royal family I'm more than happy to try and sift through other lore! #So yeah I'm always down to talk Dragalia or Scaling or other video games like Tales of the Abyss! #...I suddenly realized that Dragalia and Abyss share another thing in common: endings that are very much in dispute for what happened. #It's probably one of the top two fastest ways to start an argument among players for Abyss #And while the Dragalia fandom isn't quite so occasionally hostile about differing interpretations it's a funny coincidence. #Anyways. Dragalia. One thing I have a bit of qualm with is how quick the new androids are accepted. #Like Finni 'the emotional one' of the pair you'd expect to be the bleeding heart will casually talk about rampant murder of innocents. #These are androids that have been told over and over that all non-Ark humans are not worthy of life and need to all be killed. #That's not something that completely disappears overnight. Yeah enemy of my enemy and all that but... #When EUDEN is the one expressing the most vague caution to saying 'welcome aboard' you know something's not quite right. #And that in this case is 'is bringing a pair of androids known to have been involved in committing genocide and one of whom has a tendency #...to go berserk into our castle a good idea?' #But yeah this is a rant in tags but. I just don't quite like how they handled that detail regarding the Ex Machina androids.

[icicleteeth]

I draw things for people when I can and talk in the exact way I do in my head (probably comes off as cringe and insane) to cope with everything happening irl but even then sometimes I gotta take a step back and try to look at myself from the lense of someone who is normal and I think, yikes I gotta log off again....

#like when i say things like “meltin them into molecules” and“oh you just pound them into sand and sift it through a pan looking for gold” to #describe figuring out a character's most defining and special traits; this makes 100% sense to me so i will say that #without stepping back and realize “wait this probably sounds insane to everyone else maybe i shouldn't say that”..... #the worst part is i cant even make the excuse that im drunk or high and that's why i say these things... im very boring and uncool and don' #drink or smoke this is unfortunately me completely sober #ah well back to bed...

[essektheylyss]

I will admit, my cosmological knowledge is honestly muddy at best, because I read every planar manual in existence in rapid succession roughly four years ago, have made up a lot of cosmological bits and bobs as needed for fic purposes, and also recently got an intensive crash course on a totally different conceptualization of the Feywild for my own D&D game, before we even touch on other non-D&D-based fictional worlds including my own that I know to varying extents and also the absolute bare minimum knowledge of parallel universe theories in real world physics and some decent exposure to philosophical theories of time, so like... as you might imagine, it is the absolute weirdest of soups in that part of my brain.

#basically sorry in advance for when i inevitably fuck up a piece of lore i feel like I'm sifting for information like a gold miner here #i REALLY had to drill my DM on that cosmology because it's like. aggressively intrinsic to my character's existence and goals so #that one is actually the MOST organized in my head. unfortunately it is also the least similar to the others. #anyway. can you all tell ive been slogging through a book titled 'derrida on time' all week. #cuz it really fucking shows. #i am peak 'i have approximate knowledge of many things' but like EMPHASIS ON THE APPROXIMATE

[13eyond13]

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#The funniest thing about trying to sift through an old/small fandom #That mostly exists in blogspot blogging format (not this one but for a game series from the 90s/00s I recently rediscovered) #is that nearly all of the blogs are dead and nothing but a decade's worth of posts of people going #'Sorry I haven't been posting much lately!' #'Thinking about going on hiatus!' 'Back from hiatus!' #'Sorry I haven't posted a lot!' #I'd say they make up a good like 40% of the total posts #Makes me realize it's probably best to just not post stuff like that every single time you take a break? #bc I get disappointed when I find a big inactive blog then realize almost all the content is those kinda posts #I know it's hard especially in an old fandom that has a nice/friendly community but not much/any new content coming out though #bc you don't want to just disappear or lose touch but also after many years sometimes it's just like. SoOo. What's there new to say? #That hasn't already been said or done to death 49483829 different ways #Also I guess that's why tumblr is easier by design to stay active on than something like a blogspot #because you can just reblog other people's stuff even when you have nothing much to contribute yourself #and this one never seems to totally run out of new fan made stuff to share which is great #p

[albatris]

should i give nat finch $50

#slide it under his apartment door so he can buy some groceries #i think after determining nat is Not the knight quinn does a lot of little things to help out :) #like jumpstart his car :) #and sift through his financial records :) #i think quinn can slide nat a crisp fifty dollar note #the boy is dealing with a lot #n he got no groceries :( #like i worry for nat's health if he has no money n no food like not only is he dealing with terrifying new vampire hunger he is #also dealing with more hunger in general since his stomach capacity has tripled bc of garble fuckery #and other more horrifying changes to his body but theres nothing he can buy abt those #he is Sad Confused and Starving #i feel like i should let him have some groceries in between now and Friday When The Things Happen #howm the fuck does quinn get into nats apartment building #i think they could lie to his neighbours and get them to buzz them up #mr n mrs larson r very trusting folks lol #hi I'm logan this is how i plot now #tumblr tags #anyway give nat finch $50 y/n

[nozomijoestar]

The entire T8 story is on YT and I hyperventilated so hard you'd think it's not 30 something F right now but 55

#I AM SCRUBBING THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING TO SEE ASULILI FIRST BECAUSE I MUST #and i have to say so far...Ehghhhh like yes im happy to see them finally be portayed this way but at the cost of not having much to Do #in ways which surprised me with how quickly it moved or wasn't rly addressed so tbh I'm in between about this #NO ONE can take away the silly and cute shit they did from me though #Asuka being chill w Xiao & Panda though like they were in the pachislot 💖 #AsuLili are also cool with Alisa- they got the pachislot gang together again instead of the comics w Leo at least they got friends #HOWEVER I WILL SAY I WAS VINDICATED A LIL- when the 'Why doesn't Asuka know Jun?' question was sorta answered #ALSO SORRY LARS FANS HE MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD IN THIS ONE- YOUR MAN IS SO GOOFY #needed to pause when i saw the motorcycles 🤣 #Nina's VA is awesome in this too #**SPOILER**hmmm ok i think i know what's not sitting right w me: This is 100% The Jin Game at the expense to everyone elses character depth #if you like Jin then you'll most likely love this one if you like anyone else or are neutral on him you're sifting through scraps #and the scraps all come in different sizes- which kinda sucks HOWEVER now that this is out the way it does set up a T9 without this problem

[blakelywintersfield]

I am absolutely begging y'all to realize that "celtic" and "gaelic" are not interchangeable terms

#especially in terms of paganism and culture. wicca has massively fucked that too #but then at the same time a lot of y'all use paganism and wicca interchangeably too #i am once again asking people with minimal occult knowledge and/or christian / former christian now atheist upbringings to please just #don't. just don't okay unless you've actually spent time researching anything in relation to paganism please don't speak on it i'm so tired #like i would still consider myself to be in the introductory stages of gaelic paganism but that's after like #two years of cultural and religious research. so i'm not speaking as someone who thinks they're an expert in these fields #but you know what makes that research harder? #having to sift through every celtic or wiccan thing mislabeled ''gaelic paganism'' like they are not synonymous #i am not wiccan. my form of paganism falls under the greater umbrella of celtic culture #but celtic paganism is the equivalent of ''christianity'' #christianity includes hundreds of sects including catholicism‚ mormonism‚ protestants‚ quakers‚ fundamentalists... the list goes on #like celtic paganism is much more loose and less defined. and is still not comparable to wicca #wicca is honestly Religious Appropriation‚ The Religion. it bastardizes celtic‚ germanic‚ greek‚ and roman paganisms #along with taking from major religions like judaism‚ hinduism‚ buddhism‚ islam‚ and even christianity! #it is NOT comparable to paganism. it is NOT one in the same. #just. god i'm so tired of this kind of shit i really wish someone would write a guide for all this shit #'cause i know it's not out of malicious intent but when you call someone that's desperately trying to recover their culture #from violent protestantism and its offshoots along with decades of active genocide by the english a ''wiccan'' and use it interchangably #with ''gaelic paganism'' it's like. it's like saying the irish and the english are the same thing like. that's insulting. #i know it's not on purpose but it's still insulting. #okay i'm done rambling in the tags sorry i'm tired

[skele8rity]

me trying so so hard not to cry about a wholeass situation of "you know whats better than a porygon? TWO" please browse @colliholly 's shop

#hi collin if you got emails from Katy thats me and i cannot thank you enough for the little guy. #sent those emails before opening my mail. beloved and delightful surprise. #absolute joy of life items. had to sift through imposters before i remembered your user approximately fjdj #none of them are YOUR PIN!!! its such good quality im floored #i cant tell you how sad i was when mine popped off my bag!!! i think i brushed against something and there he went #anyway my birthday is the end of this month and i will be so slammed but even if its the only thing i get!!!! #thank you for the sticker. he will go somewhere so good. idk where yet. but itll be SO good. #skelly speaks #skelly draws

[friendofthecrows]

Finished my 31 page long forensic anthropology final exam the page count of which does not include the three full-length and ridiculously in depth essay questions. It took twice the estimated time and I've been looking at a screen so long I feel like one of those bog bodies with extensive adipocere formation that look weirdly preserved and yet exactly like you'd expect someone who was submerged in a bog for an extensive period to look. Maybe a 20 year PMI.

#forensic anthropology #college #hal rambles #things like this remind me of how much of a better fit forensics are for me than criminal justice #every criminal justice class is like 'okayyy i wrote a paragraph on only shooting people when they look scary where's my A' #(slight exaggeration but only slight. it's awful) #whereas forensic classes are like #'if you can't explain every current statistical validation issue in any of the subfields we'll be covering in order to explain this one #niche post-mortem scenario then dop the class now because we're for special-interest havers and people who speedread entire textbooks ONLY' #i like that #i always feel like 'the evil is defeated!' whenever i finish a huge project or exam because Man sleep is nice but still #the exception is fingerprints. it's all discourse and i mean there are internet discourse level things about fingerprints and every question #is about that #UNLESS it's asking you to actually do comparisons which is Worse. fingerprint examiners have done some evil to land themselves in that hell #the evil is called 'confirmation bias' and 'we have a backlog. I'm sure 5 points of similarity is fine' (it's not) #and i have to hear about it EVERY CRIMINALISTICS-CENTRIC CLASS along with like. basically callout posts for practicioners who are still #working??? #i don't like that #I'm never becoming a fingerprint examiner. not happening. I'd sooner sift bone fragments out of dirt for weeks

[dracomeir]

A series I miss from my childhood on newgrounds is Sift Heads. I replayed the remaster for entire series so far, and the trio in this was the first one I fixated on along with the schoolgrounds trio. Vinnie is a bounty hunter with a girlfriend called Shorty who wears a red dress. (Funny how I have 2 blorbos in red dresses.) The third person is Kiro who tried to kill the old man at first, but ends up betraying the yakuza to join him. He's like a little brother to Vinnie now which I love. I know another game to continue the story is in the works, and I can't wait for it. It's been like 10 years since the last act too before the remaster for mobile was made. Time flies by so fast.

#not fnf #sift heads #newgrounds #they may be just stickmen but I still love them so much #remember when stickpage was thing? #no? fuck I'm old :c #rip flash games #childhood hyperfixation returning #adligfkjgkldgj;dfjg;fpt

[nytfythfhtyf]

guys im so mad the progresso chicken noodle soup has gross celery and the chunks of chicken are too big and any time i want soup i have to spend like 10 minutes sifting through it to pick out the celery and then shred the chicken until it looks like cat food and then cut up my own broccoli to put in it. soup is supposed to be easy :(

#my life is so hard #and also when i strain it so its easier to sift through all the nice little seasonings already in there get caught in the strainer and i jus #it just gets dumped :( #its fine tho i put so much seasoning in there anyway #i say things

[dreamlogic]

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#shit chat #family cw #parents divorcing: dad moved into tiny apt & doesn't want anything. mom moving to kentucky in a few weeks? months? w/ new fiancee #brother sick of the drama; doesn't want anything & isn't talking to my mom rn (understandable) #so i'm. pawing through 30 years of my parents' junk trying to sift out & salvage childhood relics #the leftovers mostly bc my mom has already laid claim to most of the things i have a strong attachment to #and currently having an existential crisis on my bedroom floor sorting through xmas decorations to keep/donate #like damn my childhood has so much substance in my memory & these objects seemed imbued with so much magic #and looking at it now there's a few things that still have a glimmer of life but mostly it's just cheap old shit. #i don't want any of this; i just want the sense of comfort and love and security of a functional loving family #but the divorce is also dredging up a lot of shit that i'm further processing in therapy #and i'm coming to the very depressing realization that a lot of my childhood kinda sucked ass #not all of it! and looking at photos i still feel strong positive emotions towards my past #but there really isn't any legacy to speak of. heirlooms consist of a few sentimental tchotchkes & a box of old picture books #also my mom kinda fucking sucked as a parent in ways i'm only just now allowing myself to admit & examine #like i don't think i could ever hate her or write her off completely and i did get certain wonderful aspects of myself from her #but she hasn't consistently been a Good Mom to me. p much since my brother was born when i was like 5. #more like a very mentally ill fair-weather friend who was also partially responsible for raising me #god this sucks. but at least i have a box of delicate sparkly glass baubles that i can smash on the pavement for catharsis sometime #anyways. friends if it seems like i've been more hermit-y and avoidant than usual lately– this is why #i've been estranged from most of my extended family for years & used to be really close with my immediate family. #which is currently a reeking dumpster fire that's choking my life with noxious smoke #and p much all of my energy & free time is going towards not letting actively retruamatizing current events nuke my brain #brother & i agreed that the current Vibes are like... #trying to cut loose the life boats from a sinking ship and get clear before the water displacement sucks us under #but i finally have all my shit out of the house except furniture that can't be moved until my mom moves #so the gaping chest wound is slowly starting to scab over and i can start actually clearing out some of this shit & #tracing the panicked exodus back to a more grounded stable version of myself #ugh.