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thewertsearch · 7 months

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GC: YOU W3R3 STRUTT1NG 4ROUND 1N YOUR D3L1C1OUS K1W1 31GHT B4LL SU1T 4ND RUNN1NG YOUR FR3SH MOUTH 4S USU4L GC: durp yo terezi sup sup gotta beat john gotta beat john GC: hes got a long hood and he does wind, how can i get powers too? [....] GC: [...] 1M L1K3 D4V3 TH4TS GO1NG TO 1NVOLV3 F4C1NG YOUR OWN D34TH GC: 4ND 1M SORRY TO BR34K 1T TO YOU BUT 1 DONT TH1NK YOUR3 R34DY FOR TH4T

Well, at least she gave him fair warning.

Thanks to Vriska, John was able to achieve the god tiers without confronting his mortality. He didn't have to grapple with any of this, and it's possible that he was robbed of some character growth as a result.

That said, I still think Vriska did him a solid. It's just ironic that she thinks she's helping him develop as a hero, when she might be doing the exact opposite.

GC: BUT ONLY 1F YOU PROM1S3 TO TH3 3X4CT T3RMS OF MY 4RR4NG3M3NT, 1N ORD3R TO PROT3CT TH3 1NT3GR1TY OF TH3 T1M3L1N3 >:] TG: the arrangement being the coin flip thing TG: thank god we did that otherwise wed be screwed TG: i probably would have gone back in time and killed my own grandfather oh wait i never had one

lmao

I do wonder if Bro had an adopted family. We know Nanna and Grandpa's background, and Mom was probably the child that Skaianet were apparently raising in their laboratory. (Remember when I thought there was a secret clone of Rose down there?)

Bro, however, is an enigma, even among the Guardians. He has no known relationship with any of the other parents, but was definitely getting foreknowledge of Sburb from somewhere. I'm not even sure I want to know what sort of childhood produces Bro Strider.

GC: 1 TOLD YOU 1 W4S GO1NG TO FL1P 4 CO1N GC: 4ND B3FOR3 1 D1D, YOU H4D TO P1CK 4 S1D3 W1THOUT T3LL1NG M3 GC: GOOD H34DS OR B4D H34DS

Really, the coin is just a rhetorical device. Terezi doesn't need to flip a coin, or even have a coin, because the real flip is happening in Dave's head. His Mind, if you will.

This does raise a lot of questions, though. I hope there isn't a timeline for every conceivable decision you could make. We've sort of discussed the idea before, but I don't think I've really talked about the subtle horror of a multiverse that works that way.

I mean, if there's a timeline for every possible decision - if everyone is capable of making any choice, at any time - then John will randomly kill his friends, for no reason. There are millions of offshoots where he does this. WV will become a monarchist. Dave will take off his shades.

It goes deeper, too. You can't even meaningfully ask why Dave wears shades, because he doesn't. He's constantly taking them off, because it is possible for him to do so. And if there's a timeline where he never takes them off, it's only because that's a decision he could potentially make.

If timelines branch at every decision, with no restrictions, then every single person in the multiverse is constantly doing things that contradict the core of who they are. In fact, there is no core. Everyone is an indistinguishable robot, constantly making every possible decision, simply because they can.

Homestuck could work like this, but I prefer the Discworld interpretation - I think it's more consistent with the comic's themes of choice. In Night Watch, protagonist Vimes is confronted with this exact question, and we get this exchange:

“But sometimes you can’t help wondering: what would have happened if I’d done something different–” “Like when you killed your wife?” Sweeper was impressed at Vimes’s lack of reaction. “This is a test, right?” “You’re a quick study, Mister Vimes.” “But in some other universe, believe me, I hauled off and punched you one.” Again, Sweeper smiled the annoying little smile that suggested he didn’t believe him. “You haven’t killed your wife,” he said. “Anywhere. There is nowhere, however huge the multiverse is, where Sam Vimes as he is now has murdered Lady Sybil. But the theory is quite clear. It says that if anything could happen without breaking any physical laws, it must happen. But it hasn’t. And yet the “many universe” theory works. Without it, no one would ever be able to make a decision at all.” “So?” “So what people do matters!” said Sweeper. “People invent other laws. What they do is important!

In short, there are some things you would never do, physical laws be damned. It is inconceivable that Vimes would murder his wife, because his current personality is incompatible with that decision. It simply cannot be made to make sense, so it can't spawn a timeline.

Note that this is only true for Vimes 'as he is now'. His moral code doesn't necessarily apply to his alt-selves - or even his younger self, whose code hasn't solidified. Hell, half the book is about making sure Young Vimes develops that code in the first place. There could be an evil John Egbert, but our John can't just arbitrarily turn evil.

So that's how I think it works. There's a timeline for every decision that you'd choose to make, and that subset of decisions will change as you grow. Your development as a person shapes the multiverse, in a very literal way.

#homestuck liveblog #full liveblog #act 5.2 #s99 #3093 #sort of like that ask about the alpha timeline needing to be consistent with the personalities of its inhabitants #but at a larger scale

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juggalogojackerbox · 16 days

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Happy 15th birthday to this silly little 2000's webcomic that's been very near and dear to me over the years

#sludge's art #digital art #ibispaint art #john egbert #j egbert #homestuck #4/13 #april 13 #i wouldve loved to do a much larger scale drawing but unfortunately my health issues are kicking my ass

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galoogamelady · 1 month

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Sorry if this has been asked before, but how do you make your lineart so nice, clean, and not pixelated? Your art and animations are incredible btw 👌👌❤️❤️

Thank you!

I use big ass canvases!

As you can see, smaller details still look a bit crunchy, but they will be okay once you zoom out to view the whole image.

Alternatively, maybe drawing with vectors in CSP would be useful for clean lines?

#I animate with Vector lines as well so they can be adjusted and scaled once drawn #I rarely if ever post the full size drawings and scale them down a bit first - now more so thanks to the rampant ai theft #personal #text #I would love to draw on canvases larger than 5000px and very rarely I have to but PS struggles....

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puppetmaster13u · 2 months

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Prompt 233

Danny squawked in utter betrayal as his sister picked him up by the scruff, running before he could attack the ghost hunter. Though it changed to a yelp when a blast nearly hit him, which wouldn’t be an issue if it didn’t almost hit Jazz as well.

He hiked his legs up, tail curling up as Jazz ran, not exactly able to fly. Her own wings were more designed for gliding through water, and his own were way too small, which wasn’t usually a problem, but using ecto at the moment wasn’t an option.

They were stuck fleeing like animals, his sister doing the best she could with how their bag of supplies had gotten left behind three states ago. But he was hungry and tired, and honestly wanted to bite the next person to attack them, ghost hunter or no. He bet it would make him feel better.

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Ghosts are Dragons #Halfa Jazz #Halfa Danny #A pair of not-adult dragons running around the city fleeing hunters Definitely gets heroes’ attention #It just also gets rogue attention first as well #As well as the rest of whoever lives there #Danny is a noodly boi with black scales w star spots and ice-blue fur along his spine & green/black wings #Jazz is slightly larger with orange fur & different shades of blue on her scales #Space Core Danny #Ocean Core Jazz

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corrodedparadox · 2 days

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Sprucing up my flying fish drawings so I can turn them into blankets n shit. What a colorful lad.

#if you noticed a shit load of my art dissapear that’s why lmao #I gotta rerender a lot of stuff so it’ll transfer better to larger scale stuff #and I don’t need 50000 version of the same drawing go around #postings #my art #salmon

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melancholyofautvmn · 2 years

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hbo max, it's pride month now. surely as a gift for the gays you're going to announce the news of an ofmd season 2 renewal??

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bancaishi · 5 months

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a miscellaneous collection of art deco architecture from manhattan, drawn for class. text transcription below the cut

1. Empire State Building (20 West 34th Street)

2. Fuller Building (595 Madison Avenue)

3. Midtown Theater (2626 Broadway)

4. Graybar Building (420 Lexington Avenue)

5. New York Telephone Company Building (140 West Street)

6. Horn & Hardart Automat Cafeteria Building (2702-2704 Broadway)

7. 30 Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rockefeller Plaza)

8. 275 Madison Avenue Building (275 Madison Avenue)

9. AT&T Long Lines Building (33 Thomas Street)

10. Radio City Music Hall (1260 6th Avenue)

11. 369th Regiment Armory (2366 Fifth Avenue)

#art #art deco #new york city #id in alt text #it ended up being a kind of random selection because i had to rush to get the assignment in on time #but hopefully i’ll be able to do something like this on a larger scale in the future

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drev-the-procrastinator · 1 year

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Like. ok

ok 15 12s from the juries and zero (0!!!!!) 12s from the public taking the win from 2 12s from the juries and 18 12s from the public. ok. ok. sure

#eurovision #esc 2023 #eurovision 2023 #käärijä #eurovision song contest #loreen #ig idk #also public vote for finland: no country gave less than 6 points. even in the jury votes sweden got some 4s and 5s #also like on a small scale easy example of how the jury system sucks: finnish jury: 12 points to sweden. finnish public: 0 points to sweden #a larger gap does not exist #am i salty? yes!! am i bitter? yes!!!! will i continue to be til the end of time? probably!!!#this sucks. if we couldn't even win this year with the 2nd most public votes ever received in esc history and all the hype. why even try #fucking juries #anyway!!!!! i am very sad and feel very bad for käärijä but he did amazing!!!!! we love you king ♡♡♡♡

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what-the-fuck-khr · 3 months

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KHR! characters from Amano’s new exhibit visual!

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sir-adamus · 1 month

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in the last scene, everyone gets something to say except Tifa - the only sound she makes at all are these tearful sobs. she's devastated over losing Aerith

when Nanaki senses Aerith's presence, Tifa looks up for a second, then just... drops her head back onto her arms in the most defeated way

someone give this poor woman a hug, fucking hell

#FFVII Rebirth spoilers #Tifa Lockhart #given it's a recurring thing throughout the game that Aerith confides in Red a lot #honestly the game presents Tifa and Red as Aerith's closest confidants that she spends the most time with #i hope Tifa and Red get to have similar moments to talk about what happened and console each other #especially over Tifa's experience in the Lifestream apparently letting her see the overlapping timelines re: Aerith's death #where we get a case of Schrodinger's Cetra where she is simultaneously both dead and alive #Sephiroth really screwed himself over on that one - an attempt to take Tifa out of the equation #because he knows she is instrumental in breaking his hold over Cloud #has now not only primed her with how that aspect of the Lifestream works - but also given her insight to what's going on on a larger scale

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shirkers2018dirsanditan · 1 year

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it is frankly so evil when men pull the “we don’t even care about women’s appearances we are just so grateful to be with a woman” like fuck off. do you think i was born yesterday? this whole oh men are so wholesome it’s actually just women who are our own worst enemy we just put all this on ourselves. i hate the word now but really is nothing but gaslighting. if you were a genuinely contrite man who cared about women the first thing you would do is take responsibility for how y’all treat us. literally the last word that can accurately describe how men treat women is “grateful”

#even besides the political violence and exploitation and dispossession #men are fucking mean to women all the time #you cannot look at the comments on any random video of a woman size 10 or larger and not find a man insulting and belittling her #you literally do not see women doing that to men on anywhere close to the same scale

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unrulyknight · 3 months

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happy secret samol!! this year drew sokrates/integrity for @cooltastrophe who had many good prompts but i simply couldnt resist the sokrates pull

#secret samol #secret samol 2023 #i loveeee the hand panel. easily my favorite #tfw your living sentient armor demands intamcy and also holds your hand about it #i made integrity resemble scales as it unfolds bc i thought after some time it would realize that thats more comfortable for sokrates #to like move around and also have overlaying theirs #could make the scales larger/smaller as well #sokrates nikon artemisios #integrity #sokrates/integrity #friends at the table #fatt #counter/weight #unrulyknightsart

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manasurge · 3 months

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Got Mourynn's first fullbody ref done! (I mean first as in chronologically). Not much to say here, just getting some early year fullbody refs done so I can have them to start on some scenes and lore stuff (just gotta finish her Orchid outfit next since that's her main Sapling outfit before she makes her own custom one). I'm also not used to drawing this small so I messed up the face a bit, on the side there, but oh well.

Below the cut is just the line art and the transparent that I'm hoping will work properly on her Hero Panel profile on Toyhouse:

#Mourynn #Mourynn art #sylvari #sylvari OC #gw2 #gw2 OC #gw2 fan submission #the side of her face still bothers the hell out of me; I am so used to drawing on a larger scale and might have to again to avoid this #ugh it looks so awkward and bad; but oh well. Not much I can do about it now.#also I know all i've really been doing lately is refs but #i'll chip away at them slowly. I'm just really self conscious about things I guess lasjkdf #I just kinda have no choice since I can't properly make her in game klasjdf #but I wanna get to actual lore stuff soon so hopefully I can make that happen soon too #I'm also updating her other look to add the Orchid wings back onto it once I get to her custom outfit #I also wanna update that one a bit anyways (I know it'll be the 3rd time of me updating it -#- but these will be my solid refs bc I'll be using them for Toyhouse (just gotta check the sizing). I'll update that a bit later lol.

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aparticularbandit · 1 year

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this entire meta is basically summed up in that opening scene.

lionel, claire, birdie, and duke working together to play miles’s game and needing each other to get through all of his puzzles to the prize at the center (the prize being more of miles) vs. andi (helen) saying enough is enough and breaking all of his puzzles with force because she’s fucking tired of playing his games.

that’s the entire movie in one scene. that’s the entire fam in one scene.

and the most important part is that miles isn’t even there.

(and also that his gifts are an obvious and blatant distraction from their actual lived in lives - claire’s on zoom for her campaign, and she’s distracted; lionel’s meeting with alpha scientists, and he’s distracted; birdie’s hosting a party (and peg’s trying to keep up with all of her shenanigans), and they’re distracted; duke’s trying to stream for twitch, and he’s distracted. it’s showing how miles literally just drops something in their lives and drags them away from what they are actually doing, their actual passions, and forces them to center their lives on him. even when he isn’t there with them.

you can even get into this with his first interaction with birdie that we see - buying that guitar to show it off for her and then literally throwing it away once the impressive moment is over and birdie running after it.

something doesn’t stop being valuable just because the moment you have use for it is over. it still has value. these people still have value, and you can’t just throw them away. you can’t just throw andi away.)

#musings #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #i have so many and too many thoughts #i want to go see it again i want to analyze i want to parse through #THIS is excellent storytelling #THAT is an excellent opening #because it tells us the entire story #from the beginning #and then plays it out for us again on a larger scale #and asks us whether this family is going to be able to stop playing his games or not #they can even be FUN games #but in the end they're. still. games #and miles doesn't really think they're worth anything

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boag · 4 months

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This picture is so fucking unreasonably funny to me like I just see this and hear Archie in my head like “Hey . Yeah all my friends here asked for NO ONIONS on their burgers”

#it’s the Riverdale brain worms #also the way this is scaled makes it look like Veronica is much larger than she actually is

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mynameis-a · 10 months

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the idea of vision users kinda losing control over their element when experiencing strong emotions is something i live for

pyro users setting themselves/nearby flammable objects on fire or making nearby fires stronger

cryo users putting a layer of frost everywhere or freezing nearby liquids

electro users with that static thing where if they touch someone it gives both people an electric shock

dendro users making nearby plants grow/blossom or just having plants growing on them

anemo users having the wind swirling around them

not quite sure how it would work for hydro/geo users but probably something similar to making it rain/making the ground shake

just imagine flowers growing on kaveh in happiness when he finishes a project

or thoma getting flustered and just burning a broom hes holding

or mika nervously freezing the ground

or cyno sparking with electricity in panic at tighnari’s lightning injury only to realize that tighnari is now scared of him in that moment which in turn only makes the sparking worse

or collei sprouting sharp thorny vines all over herself when paimon tried to touch her that one time and the thorns are digging into her own body but she doesn’t notice at first because she’s still freaking out from the touch

or xiao being in so much pain from his karmic debt that nobody can even get near him because the gusts of wind surrounding him are too strong

or diluc setting himself ablaze during the whole thing with kaeya and then one day he gets fed up with kaeyas antics and he slightly loses control of his vision and his hands catch fire and then kaeya freaking out; not because of the fire itself, but because that the last time diluc set himself on fire like that was the night that kaeya almost died, and now kaeya is scared that thats going to happen again

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i meant this to be a cute wholesome post about genshin characters being flustered how did we end up here-

#this is a headcanon ive had for a while now #but a diluc fic from @gold-rhine reminded me of it #so im talking about it now #this also applies to the archons but on a much larger scale #so raiden sparking would be much more severe (and dangerous to others) than if lets say razor was #♡⊱a talks #genshin #genshin impact #headcanon #headcanons #genshin headcanon #genshin headcanons #genshin impact headcanon #genshin impact headcanons #whump #genshin whump #genshin impact whump

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