My entry for @frosteaart | @teainthesnow's DTIYS [Found Here]
I've wanted to do this since you announced it, but I didn't have any ideas until last night when bam! this appeared in my brain. trying to make this shattered glass effect work was asldkfjasldkfj *lays down dead on the floor*
For those who don't know, this is based on Tea's wonderful fic: At My Worst
About covid being over: are we just meant to put our entire social lives, our entire society on pause forever? My mental health plummeted during lockdown and will take years to recover. Now that there's vaccines and crowd immunity and less deadly strains we ARE meant to learn to deal with it as a given, the way we have with many deadly diseases in the past, and move on. So for the sake of life moving on at some point it's **normal** to treat it as a cold, and I'm saying this as someone who's lost people during the pandemic too. Please do not fear monger.
No, but you SHOULD care about other people enough to still mask.
I am NOT fearmongering.
Covid is still dangerous, especially to the many MANY people who are immunocompromised and people who cannot get the vaccines (for whatever reason).
I know several people who THIS YEAR caught permanently disabling covid, despite all being fully vaccinated.
I am not saying you have to quarantine yourself anymore. That was NOT a thing I said. There is a world of difference between wishing that other people cared enough to MASK, a thing that is NOT HARD AT ALL, and demanding that people still observe full quarantine protocols.
Plugging your ears and closing your eyes and refusing to listen when people are still justifiably worried, and not listening to experts that haven't been pressured by the government to say 'COVID IS NOT A THREAT ANYMORE YAAAY!!!' just makes you a fool.
I know that's harsh, but it's the truth.
Hospitals are no longer required to report covid cases and covid deaths as such. This is a GIANT RED FLAG that people are happily ignoring so they can feel safe.
Had a lot of Side Order lore, but I'd like to focus on the line that says Agent 4 is rumored to be "strongest." If this line was accurately translated, that would explain why they were the one Marina wanted as Head of Security rather than Agent 8, someone she both knew better and many fans had previously considered stronger than 4.
Also masked Parallel Canon is a copy of 4, and the helmet Parallel Canons are copies of the copy.
do you ever realize after masking intentionally and unintentionally so much in your life, you completely forget who you are.. and how it feels like every time you mimic someone you lose a part of yourself and personality. and fear you’ll never figure out who you are or who you were once.
A little UV footage of the alien! Is it weird that I want to live in this mask forever? (What is weird anyway, who cares!) If anyone else wants to transform themselves into a creature they want to live in forever, i will have cast kits of this wearable sculpture up for preorder this Friday at 2pm PST! The listing is live n my s h o p now so that all info / tutorials are available to read now but it will not be available until the preorder is open. #missmonster #missmonstermel #sepioid #cuttlefish #alien #mask #propmaking #costume #originalcharacter
My contribution to the Toxic Chain-possessed Kieran theory is a bit macabre. As mentioned before, I think the Toxic Chain kinda acts similarly to Nihilego's venom, those afflicted lose their inhibitions, so they'll try to claim their wish by any method. It can also amplify strong emotions, like resentment towards a certain someone, those thoughts that YOU could be the strongest if that person that was stronger than you wasn't around anymore. (But for added detail, it's slower-acting, the Chain needs time to anchor into your heart, and those being influenced by it can waver between their usual personality and acting in a much more extreme manner than they usually would.)
(I was inspired by Haruka's MILGRAM songs, Weakness and All-Knowing and All Agony, tho more the videos themselves than the songs' actual topics. Tho Kieran kinda snaps himself out of it here before he goes too far.)