#yes there is another set coming

[zu-is-here]

A young actor ends up on the street following a family dispute. In a bid to avoid publicity, he finds shelter with an older co-star, and this play without a script opens up new roles for them.

#zu art #studio #zudio #dream!sans #cross!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #teaser #coming soon ♪ #yes YES it's another story with these two cause I have NO self control :'D #but in my defense I've been planning it since 2021 your honor ;3 #this one takes place before Dark Cream set (2019?) (they only worked together on Underverse úwù)

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

#fun fact sometimes condensing meds just means poorer treatment of some conditions #this is a re-expansion + new thing #so that instead of poorly treating my mental health and using an unusually high dose SNRI for another (physical) condition #i will hopefully both be in less pain AND not depressed af AND also have an appetite again #i doubt i will be lucky and not have a fucked stomach due to meds but one can hope that an appetite will allow me to eat foods that upset #my stomach a lot less #my health is forever a massive balancing act #every time a medical thing is like 'so what meds do u take' i'm like here i wrote it down for u #and they're like 'oh. ooookay. let me just...' *five minutes of typing and clicking later* #'so! what did you come in for again? uhuh. you said you experience pain daily? with your chronic pain thing? hm. have you tried yoga?' #/gen #like. straight up every time i say 'i am in pain all the time due to fibromyalgia' they are like 'ooh studies say regular exercise helps' #and like. theoretically yes! but also. i would be lying if i said the fibromyalgia studies i've skimmed don't set off general 'bad science' #alarm bells in my brain #like... cool you performed a fibromyalgia study with... all male lab rats? mhmm? so are you aware fibromyalgia appears to occur #overwhelmingly in women? like. data seems to suggest between 70-85%? #(not that the data can't still indicate things but it certainly makes male rats a poor choice of model for tests on it) #also just... idk i've looked at some metaanalysis and been like 'okay cool theory and for all i know about human bio or bio in general that #sounds more or less correct BUT. you never discussed that one study on this subject that did NOT support your conclusion. #and that's 1) interesting when it was the most diverse group of subjects and the exceptions often teach just as much as the 'rule' #2) just shitty science. tell me how your theory is still credible when some evidence doesn't fit the model. #like... 'given that all other studies were primarily conducted on white american women in their 30s to 40s it is possible that this model #only explains (the early effects of fibro since that's a typical onset period) / (a possible genetic link primarily found in white women) / #(a possible sign of bias in diagnosis that demonstrates the possibility that there are different causes) / combinations of all of those #like... idk a paper that just throws out things that don't support it is a pretty big red flag #it doesn't mean the conclusion is entirely incorrect but it is often important to understand the context in which it applies #like... it's very easy to jump to an incorrect conclusion if you used something in the wrong context #ie: thumbs up is a good job / positive thing in a lot of western civilizations. teenage kee once went to china and discovered it to be #neutral to offensive in many areas outside of major tourist locations that were used to it #anyways i gotta sleep

[variousqueerthings]

paraphrasing because i cannot go back and look at the episode yet without imploding but the doctor telling donna that he doesn't know if he can save her this time and she says what if I save you???

and that's?????????? literally???????????????? what happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#what if the end of this era is the doctor is saved???? can you imagine!????? #as a setup to new era it makes SO much sense as well -- fifteen goes in without the baggage it genuinely IS new #ive been ranting and raving to my partner since the episode ended #about the way this sets up a new era #this episode genuinely was an exhale #and yes we can play with things from this era still (just like we're clearly going to play with the gods of classic who) #but it's not Weighing down what's coming next argh!!!! #doctor who #dw #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #these tags are a different post im gonna make another post about this #the doctor #donna noble #the fourteenth doctor

[archivistsammy]

Dean, listen. We need to brace ourselves. Why? Because it’s real.

#supernatural #spnedit #cowboycoven #spncentral #spncreatorsdaily #sam winchester #7.10 #s7 #sammy sunday #samwinchesteredit #friendshapedcastiel #samihazah #meltingtracks #our edits #katharine has a lot of sam feels ok #have i made a set of this exact scene before? yes #but my editing skills have improved since then and this is a core sam moment imo so y'all get another! #just. the emotional journey of these facial expressions. you can practically hear sam's internal monologue. #sam believes what is happening is real. he just told dean as much. #but dean storms off so sam sits down to think. his hands coming together as if in prayer. #and you can SEE in the second panel the moment the question crosses his mind: what if this is a lucifer hallucination? #does sam really believe that to be the case? i don't think so. but he desperately WANTS it to be so. would prefer this to be a nightmare. #sam indulging this question is not about doubt. it's about hope. he hopes for a reality where bobby is not dying. #and hope's kinda the whole point #so he runs his test and presses on his injured palm and... nothing changes #all the hope he never gave himself permission to feel quickly draining from his face as disappointment takes its place #he knew this was real. but is nevertheless crushed by the conformation. because he had hoped...

[basslinegrave]

seeing more furry springtrap art on my tl and yall are weak. gotta make him prettied up and more anthro and less a rotten robot to make him more hot or whatever. the machinery and decay is where its at aesthetically. also william erasure.

#for some that dont get the memo this is a joke jab at it #but coming from reality i just dont get the furry ones #well i do but i also dont like it. like the animatronics have their furry counterparts which makes sense to draw one for spring #but at the same time it takes away so much. there are some creative ways to go around the rotting which i appreciate #such as the classic zombie look or all scarification etc #but to me its lacking the core which is a man in a robot suit you know. but i need to stop looking at it like that because people #obviously want the rabbit more than the man but its the opposite for me you know. im intrigued by the man more obviously #so ye the furry art abviously makes sense. its just the characters not the animatronics/suits but its not for me #and the lack of the gore and horror is like ah well. another run of the mill furry art setting #and lack of the machinery too. robot fuckers unite #also when people give him like muscles and abs like man.... huh.. they dont want springtrap they just want a rabbit hunk #not approved

[distant-velleity]

by any means possible

Summary: Honestly, Yu isn't so above it all. Word count: ~500 A/N: Sooo you guys remember that one Chrytiago fic that involved Santiago in the aftermath of Vil's Overblot? Yeah well. He had to get the infirmary somehow. I had this idea last night and rushed to make a quick quintuple drabble out of it... enjoy <33

~

If anyone was around to notice Ace and Deuce hanging around the closed door to the infirmary, they didn’t comment on it. Nor did they comment on how lazily dutiful they seemed to be, blocking the entrance like sleeping guard dogs.

…Well, to be completely fair, anyone nearby should probably be more concerned about the conversation going on inside.

“Wei? And… Parro?!”

“He just passed out on us after the SDC performance, Doc. I—I’m sorry. I didn’t know what else to do…!”

“Oh, don’t fret, don’t fret. I’ll have this handled—just sit tight, okay?”

“Okay…”

Some time passes.

“Wei, I have a question for you.”

“W—What is it, Doc?”

“Parro here… he’s showing signs of being poisoned. Specifically, it seems as if he inhaled large amounts of a gaseous poison, and a magical one at that. Although the effects were partially neutralized by a potion… I want to know what happened to him.”

“I… I thought there was some kind of rule on patient confidentiality.”

“I can’t just ignore when a student has suffered grave injuries due to magic.”

Silence. 

“Yes, you can.”

“W…What?”

“I said, yes, you can just ignore it. You don’t need to know what happened.”

“Wei—”

The rustling of clothing, and clinking of glass.

“Listen, Doc. You’ve done me a lot of favors. I appreciate it! But I’m gonna need you to do another one for me.”

“...Where did you get that potion? It’s ancient—”

“Forget about this conversation and you can have it. Just take it, treat Santiago, and he’ll be as right as rain. Let’s say all that went on is he ate something not suited for parrot beastmen at the festival.”

“...And nothing else. No magic involved.”

“Nope. And you’re not going to pry about it, either.”

“...”

“So… do we have a deal?”

“...”

“...”

“...haaah. You kids sure are something. Fine, let’s shake on it.”

A moment, and then the clinking of glass again as it is transferred from one person to another.

“Always a pleasure to work with you, Doc.”

The infirmary door opens not long after, and Yu steps out. His hair is out of its usual ponytail to really play up his distressed feelings. 

He lets out a relieved sigh. “I’m so glad everything’ll be okay…”

“Just transfer to Octavinelle at this point,” Ace snarks, slinging an arm over Yu’s shoulder. “Where the hell did you get that potion from?”

“Are you doing something illegal outside of school?” asks Deuce with personal concern, like the honor student he is.

Yu drops the act to laugh at them. “Does it matter? Just be happy that I guaranteed Santiago’s treatment and kept the whole thing under wraps. In Ace’s words—we need the doctor, but we don’t need him blabbing about what he sees.”

Ace childishly sticks out his tongue at him. Yu flips him off. Deuce rolls his eyes.

“Anyway,” Yu continues, “you guys know this. Sometimes you just have to get by, by any means possible.”

It’s setting a bad precedent for his behavior, but when in the villains’ world… do as the villains do.

#kai's writing #twst oc #yuusona #ace and deuce too but who cares abt them #i dont have a set hc for the nurse so maybe i will come back in a few months and cringe at this LMAO #but yes yu does tend to have moments of overconfidence and this is one of them #boy using his protagonist privileges #re: the potion -- i'll explain in another post about yu's system

[farannir]

band of brothers (2001) part seven: the breaking point

#band of brothers #bobedit #hbowaredit #hbo war #oc #kinda broke my own heart with this one ngl #also #i've come to the conclusion that this is in fact my favorite episode #all is right in the world again #so many good quotes didn't make the cut here #kinda feel temped to make another set #kinda like it contained as it is #hi yes it is me i'm back

[random-meme-bot]

Dawings of the "Hexes on the Shelves" trio based on this "Draw the squad" bases by @snuffysbox

#Hexes on the Shelves #HotS #elly #elly HotS #Elizabeth Roberts #Dan #Dan HotS #Trucy #Trucy Hots #The Trucy & Elly one is my favorite of the two It was really fun to do #Also decided to give Elly another set of clothes for variety shake #I was originally goin to give her broken jeans but I was unable to find any reference images of a pair that actually looked good #Also had a lot of fun coming up with a way to implement Elly's purple into the T-shirt #Yes is a flaming Max from Sam & Max #Artist tip never let anybody tell you what your OCs can't wear #Also Trucy's hair has parts drawn in 2 diferent layers wich did create a bit of a problem when it came to adding the transparency #I have less things to say about the first one #Dan's hat took me a while to get right but it was worth it #even if it looks kinda small... #Dan in general I think I might have made him too small #The cup Elly is drinking from is bue because a blue cup is the logo of adventure game studio #Where I first started to work with this characters #Also she's drinking coffee #It's bascally a head cannon of mine that Elly drinks a lot of coffee due to her staying way after dark on ghost hunting #Even if I don't think I have any scenarios in the story that woud show her drinking coffee #Oc #Ocs #Original characters #original character #Digital art

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

#argent #argent band #hold your head up #granada #set of six #1972 #ROD YOU TALK TOO FAST I CAN'T TELL WHERE TO SPLIT THE GIFS WITHOUT WATCHING IT #sometimes i'll be listening to an album and i'm like 'but i don't wanna pause it to play the video to know what's being said' #so i just wait until the song is over #but then another song comes on #and i'm like 'but i wanna hear this one first' #and then it's just me listening to albums and not making gifs at all #okayokayokay i paused and will check the video now #yes this is much easier #rod telling everybody forget that you're in a television studio just clap your hands anyway #you can't hold them back from crowd interaction apparently #i love that #and i love rod's hair #and i love russ's stompy clapping at the end #and i love everything

[scalproie]

banging my head against the wall saying "sometimes people like THE IDEA of a relationship between two characters rather than liking having concrete evidences and narrative justifications for said relationship between characters. And That Is Okay. You do not, or actually do but differently. And That Is Also Okay." to myself

#this is about [redacted] in [game that isnt even out yet] yes #and its like... people have been shipping for less and with less so I can kinda see where its coming from but auuuuuugh #I dont liiike iiit. the game isnt even ouuut you dont know whats gonna haaappennn. its like setting yourself up for potential disappointment #anyway. yet another “dam doesnt understand things and is fighting really hard to not be a full on hater”-type post #tagging later

[rainbowvamp]

what’s your ship type? mine is “(nearly) all powerful magic user/cosmic entity” and “just some guy”

#and i can’t stress this enough: they’re both brunettes. #in the last 5 years my longest running fandom hyperfixations have been dreamling ironstrange mercelot and midam #tell me that’s not a pattern? #if three’s a pattern then what’s 4 #another set of brunettes i shipped once. #if somebody comes at me with ‘Lancelot/tony arent just some guy’ yes they are stop lying to yourself

[unopenablebox]

Holy God This Is All So Boring

i am taking microscope images of the cells i'm studying. the cells were grown on a glass plate before i fixed them (killed & chemically preserved), so by default a microscope image of them is taken from a camera below them, looking up through the glass. they're stained with fluorescent dyes for four different proteins, so every single picture has to be repeated four times with a different laser light illuminating the cells (imagine taking a photo with a red filter, a blue filter, and a green filter, and then composing them all together to get the full picture. it's actually almost exactly the opposite of that, but that's close enough).

i care mostly about how the cells are shaped in three dimensions, and i'm using a laser which is specially shaped so it can collect only a very thin slice of the cells in the Z-direction, without interference from the parts of the cells just above or just below what i'm taking pictures of. as a result, i need to take lots of pictures at different depths in the cells, so i can get slices that i can stack on top of each other and get back a 3D shape. also, because i am using a tiny concentrated beam of light to achieve the above effects, it has to scan across the image to collect each picture, like a scanner; it can't just be collected in a single snapshot like a photo.

the distance between one slice and the next is less than a quarter of a micrometer. i'm using a 63x magnified magnifying lens to magnify the image, and the light detector that picks up the light is specially made to allow the images to be processed even further, so i can resolve structures that are less than 200 nanometers, which is the Abbé limit and is the technical resolution limit of light microscopy (don't worry about this). i care about things that are the size of, like, three proteins stuck together, and therefore maybe 10nm wide, so this is important to me.

all of this is, you know, scientifically great, very useful to me, i'm getting some very interesting results that i am genuinely looking forward to thinking about more, except the upshot of all of this is that just getting a single picture of two cells from the bottom to top of the cells involves 80-100 slices and takes like 27 minutes per image to collect, and i need at least six pictures tonight, and certain bastards in certain other labs habitually pre-book the microscope so i can't use it except at 5-9pm on a friday. no one else is here in the lab and my mother is busy with elder care and my girlfriend is busy with like, groceries, so i can't call either of them even if i weren't too irritable to be good company, and oh my god, i am so bored, i am so so bored, i am bored enough even to type out this whole explanation even though none of you could possibly care because it took most of my current round of waiting for 27 minutes to do

#in theory i should collect seven additional images on top of the six named #but 'fortunately' i stained this plate a while ago and the dye for the other images has kind of faded #so instead of doing it now. i will stain another plate. and do it the next time i can wrestle four hours away from aforementioned bastards #now certain of you who are in the know about microscopes might be wondering something #''glass'' they might say #''don't all modern microscopes come with the ability to pre-select positions and then just wander off and let the microscope run on its own #all night? why stay there and do this instead of setting it up and going home?'' #and yes that's correct. but there are two issues #one is that i am obviously using an oil objective and this particular one can only do 2-3 positions before it needs the oil refreshed #so i would rather notice that need prior to taking the image than the next morning #and secondly. i can't figure out where the positions function is in ZenBlue. and the scope core staff only work for a random three hours of #every day. none of which i can get a booking in anyhow. so i have no one to tell me how to find it. #box opener #doctor worm #my life is so much harder than anyone else's ever.

[solcarow]

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#ough wano goodbyes .. cute …. really glad yama momo n kin get to be official strawhats vivi style :] #kinda hoped yama was another jimbei situation but alas . oda hates me as per usual #wow that arc sparked joy #YAAYYYYYYY JIMBEI EYECATCHEWHY THE FUCK DOES LAW STILL HAVE ONE #WHAT #WHY #YOU DONT EVEN GO HERE ANYMORE #for a second i thought they changed usopp or choppers theme but no . got jumpscared #. i . ​guess . the wano trio werent the only ones who got their official strawhat membership #hes like . idk any other word to describe what he is to the strawhats #their cousin ? i am by no means saying that literally he just has the Vibes of a cousin #as in hes a guy who is just There #also it would piss him off so bad if some1 called him the strawhatcrew’s cousin meaning it’s perfect #do u get me #anyways my sister said buggy in the crossguild sounds like an isekai protagonist . that tracks #the cross guild things so fucking funny . what a set . odas sick n twisted mind he really just loves coming up w the most insane #combinations of his OCs huh #..mnot over the fact that they still gave waterloo a commercial break eyecatcher . why #that theme is seriously not what id expect them to give him it sounds more like something for cora which is . hilarious #clown theme be upon ye gayboy #solar-talks

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

just started rereading gideon again and god there’s nothing sexier than mortal enemies griddlehark. i mean the undying devotion stuff is great too but come on “because i completely fucking hate you. no offense” now that’s what sex is

#twitter puritans come for me for promoting toxic relationships or whatever #jokes on you because i have Problems you couldn’t begin to even comprehend #oh to exchange cutting barbs with your childhood nemesis #and go out of your way to smash each other’s dreams #also you both have mega trauma #‘so here’s the thing your Lady would set the the Locked Tomb on fire if it meant I’d never see another sky. Your Lady would stone cold #eat a baby if it meant she got to lock me up indefinitely’ #extreme hatred to the point of obsession!!! #yes!!! yes!!!! yes!!!!!!! #(i am ‘sickos’) #gideon the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #original

[bluesunsdusk]

--// It is sweet Sunday now, I've decided that, so I can post only wholesome things. Protective industrial-grade murderbot can be very wholesome.

#mun draws #appearance: najma #appearance: setesh #naj thinks set is a very kind individual despite having a narrow view of what the future could be #and also not having a mind for scientific advancement like moira does #they think set is more practical and social than ram at any rate but also less spiritual if that makes sense #and i guess more individualistic since set would NOT commend being like ants if that comes at the cost of theur free will #set would have to be a Forsaken or something in a warcraft verse huh? what with the valuing free will and #being seen as a monster following awakening from being a pawn in a mindless undead apocalypse army and all and lacking human senses #yes i will not stop comparing the omnics to Forsaken abd Ramattra to og Sylvanas especially with the ''ohno we gonna go extinct'' concern #and the ''if you see us as monsters i will become the monster you think we are for my people'' #if it wasn't for the increasing severity and frequency of war crimes she would have stayed cool but they needed another evil Horde warchief #why yes i am a horde main how could you tell #robot oc #omnic oc #overwatch oc