Hi I’m Krissy I’m working on a game called Forage Friends where it’s like Pokemon Go/Stardew Valley, you go for a walk and instead of hatching an egg you grow and plant things and unlock chapters of a visual novel!
If you wanna join and watch our development or have questions, our discord is here
The game is in development, hopefully beta this summer and complete game next year! So thanks for all your support!!!
hum so i watched the show and hum I like Maximus a normal amount
Bird in the Bush, Kenneth Rexroth, 1955
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”
no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry
Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…
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minotaur study !
Stage Five: Star Trek
I love baseball
they let the pest control man throw out the first pitch 😭
I looked this up and I need you all to know that the stadium was blasting Holding Out For A Hero as the bee man was vaccuming them up with his shop vac. There's video. It's amazing.
Loving the dungeon meshi anime so far! The manga is one of my favorite of all time and I encourage everyone to read it
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well" way
The new Martha Wells book-- Witch King-- is fucking delightful if you like slightly complex fantasy that doesn't hold your hand. This is a book that never ever commits the sin of explaining stuff to a character that should already know about it for the sake of the audience. Exposition only happens in ways that are natural and logical, which sometimes means stuff just isn't explained.
It's not as obviously accessible as The Murderbot Dairies is-- it's plot is a little more opaque, there's more moving pieces, it's less directly comedic-- but man I like it and Kai is in someways a similar protagonist to Murderbot. Powerful but vulnerable and often just a little out of his element. Lonely in the face of a lot of people who are afraid of him.
Its very much a found family story. Like, literally. The book goes back and forth between the past and the present. The parts of the narrative that are set in the past are about Kai meeting the people who become his family, and the parts of the narrative set in the present are about him going to find members of that family that have gone missing. Family is a theme that's always there.
In spite of the swap in narratives there was never a moment where I was listening to one half of these stories wishing I could get back to the other one-- they were woven together very well and I found them equally compelling.
Anyway I am very certain there are people who saw there was a new Martha Wells book, then saw it wasn't Murderbot and decided to peace out. Some people probably won't but I think it's worth trying. Tor released enough excerpts that you can get a feel for what it's like and decide if you'll like it or not. The mystery is fascinating and, like Murderbot, it's casually queer in a really good way. Martha Wells clearly loves her a lesbian power couple.
On that topic, Arknights has always had a connection to the stars and its own star map is a bit wonky if compared to earth now but makes sense if you see it in the great scheme of things.
From Astesia's file on, it's been implied that the dome that surrounds Terra is fake, and Kristen is the first one who has gone beyond it so far (traveling from Terra to beyond the dome). It's also said that the reason people cannot navigate the sea reliably is because the stars themselves aren't reliable.
But it's also a bit more concrete that the stars are a bit off, or, it would look like that.
Remember Children of Ursus? Everyone remembers its dark story but few remember the map layout.
This is the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Maior. Fitting for an event that features bear characters.
But wait! Doesn't the Big Dipper look like this?
It does. But the Big Dipper over 50,000 years looks like this...
Like I pointed out in the previous post, the stars are always on the move. It may seem slow to us but if you take a large enough timescale then the sky sure does shift from what it's now.
Remember this skin of Astesia's?
It sure is a pretty skin. But zoom in on the star chart and you'll find something...peculiar...
Several constellations look...off. Like Leo, Virgo, Hydra and Gemini. And...
The star that's marked as the North Star (i.e the star in the middle) is not Polaris, but Vega, the largest star in the constellation Lyra! Don't see it? Here, I'll make it a little more clear:
And Lyra how it is now, which is, again, slightly different from how Lyra is depicted in the above image:
Vega is not our current North Star, it's the star Polaris (duh). But Vega was in about 14,000 years ago, and will be again in about 12,000 to 13,000 years in the future. So not our current North Star.
The celestial globe is also tilted at 45 degrees instead of 23,5 for earth.
So! A huge misser on the part of the artist, right?
Wrong!
You see, the ecliptic and equator in the artwork do obviously not align with our current ecliptic and equator. But our equator and ecliptic looking like in the skin can only happen if the precession of the earth's axis is tilted towards the south...which will be the case in 12,000 to 13,000 years from now. At that time, the constellations will look 'off' compared to how they look now (I was talking about the stars shifting over time in my previous post) and Polaris will no longer the be North Star, like in the artwork.
The kicker?
Lone Trail reveals that Terra is at least 13,000 years old.
Just making sure everyone saw this
Like the plan was, initially, Sora was gonna be the main character of a mafia girlfriend gangbang but after the fight Lappland is overstimulated and utterly inconsolable so Texas needs to pin her down while Sora gets her off 16 times in a row and Giovanna watches with a fresh glass of wine thinking (oh these people are FREAKS freaks)
If you need an energy boost, I was just thinking about this image a little bit ago and I am confident you can turn it into something Arknights if you want.
It’s true I think about this image with Giovanna and Sora
nothing beats getting into arknights and reading “Rhodes Island”, thinking “like the state?” and then immediately getting hit with the wolf girl named Texas
has anyone done this yet? I call it A Light Spark In Darkness.png
there are three kinds of relationships that most girls have: romantic, platonic, and that one band of other girls you summon when you use your limit break because you can't do the animation without them
[calling up the girls] hey yeah I'm doing the omnislash thing again but I need you to like.... yeah I know this is the second time this battle, but it's a long one, okay? yeah yeah, mhm. ride safe. see you in a sec.
