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they are rolling around my skull cavity like marbles <3
[ID: a little page of lineless digital doodles for grady from aperture desk job and wheatley from portal. First is grady with his tattoo labelled “the bestie :)”, followed by wheatley labelled “bastard orb <3″. Then grady with the moustache and a simle drawing of grady on a post-it note. Then a very simple doodle of grady waving, followed by a wheatley in a similar style. At the bottom, there are three doodles of various wheatley expressions: surprised, ???, and looking down at the viewer. /end ID]
#portal#grady aperture desk job#grady portal#wheatley#I love these orbs so much im gonna die of sphere guys in my brain#they are so round and also my friends#I am carrying them around like big round handbag dogs#i am sooo sleepy#orbs in the brain
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hades atla bisexual simulator
#id in alt text#hadesgame artstyle is the most poggers thing on this fucking earth let me just YOINK steal it#i haven’t played a single minute of hades in my life btw#but i’m familiar with its bisexuality#it calls to mine like a siren’s song#i wanted to add lil dialogue options to them but my brain farted before it got done so. this is what u get :3#zuko#sokka#suki#yue#pondering the orb#my art#also: LAST ART OF THE YEAR BESTIE BELOVEDS THANK U FOR MAKING THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF SHARING ART SO MUCH FUN#KISSES FOR ALL
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🔥🦄
#jay/kira on the brain....#been pandering over them in my orb#ah yes#the childhood friends to almost lovers to#a tragic event happened and suddenly we became steamgers#to enemies standing on different sides to—#'hey remember what we had back then you're no enemy to me'#chewing at the bars of my enclosure#yuri.... jay/kira tragic yuri save meee save MEEE#jrwi#jrwi riptide#just roll with it#jrwi fanart#jay ferin#kira jrwi#i don't know their ship name lol#jay/kira works for me#i will fix typos when i get on my pc not retyping all that
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Binary Star: a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to each other, orbiting around a shared center of mass. For each star, the other is its companion star.
#snappy's art tag#my art#Kirby#kirby of the stars#meta knight#galacta knight#morpho knight#papi (kirby)#it was unintentional but I finished this in time for Metas bday#here’s to another year of this orb not leaving my brain
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percyposting once again
#id in alt text#my art#cr#cr1#critical role#the legend of vox machina#percy de rolo#anna ripley#cw gun#cw blood#yeah. snapshot of what my brain has been like these past few weeks#[twirls hair] hii percy anon i hope u like these :}#forgot to actually add the dialogue in but in the death orb airship one hes saying#'ive had another one of those terrible ideas i get on occasion'
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But Mystra WASNT right to ask Gale to kill himself. She still told a guy who cared about her "hey. if you love me, destroy yourself for me"
You're right, she did do that. And that's horrible, and shows exactly how little value she places on Gale's life.
And that's the point. She thinks she's in the right. She thinks hurting him is worth everything else she would take out in the process. She thinks she's giving him the best option.
It's very hard, from a mortal perspective, to picture how the gods see things. You can throw analogy after analogy before them to try to comprehend it, but in the end, the gods have power on such a scale that we, as readers and players, do not have an equivalent answer to compare them to.
What we bring to the table, through Tav, is that mortal perspective: we don't care about the greater good of preserving Faerûn's Weave. We don't care about the grand battle between Shar and Selûne that's lasted since the beginning of time. We don't care about the balance of life and death. We're so far beneath eternity-spanning events like that that the here and now are what we care about most.
And that's what the Origins need most. That's what Gale needs most.
Mystra's perspective, what goes on in her head, is a measured, calculated list of facts, weighed against each other:
Gale would do anything for her.
Gale possesses a weapon that needs to be destroyed.
Gale is going to die of that weapon without divine intervention.
The Dead Three are a threat.
The Dead Three have Karsus' crown.
The Dead Three could kill her again.
The scope of her power is such that a single mortal life is worth very little. Ketheric was onto something when he said "We are copper pieces in their belts. Tokens to be traded for scraps." Because that's what Mystra's doing, isn't it? She's cashing in on Gale's devotion to her.
Mystra sees a problem. She realizes she holds the solution. She thinks she's making it right by offering eternity. She fancies herself as being patient and kind by letting that solution choose to work for her.
That's the divine perspective.
The mortal perspective, the perspective that matters most, is best summed up by two lines of Gale and Mystra's conversation in the Stormshore Tabernacle:
Mystra: You discovered what lies at the Heart of the Absolute—the Crown of Karsus—and you disobeyed my instruction. Why?
Gale: Because you had no right to ask that of me!
She didn't. She doesn't.
The divine perspective is the one that lacks love. It lacks the ability to see value in a person, for being a person. It quantifies what worth something has by what it can do for you. And it is dangerous, because it cannot be told it is wrong.
Gale and Mystra were always an unbalanced relationship. When he was young, she was his teacher: she knew things he didn't, withheld them until he was ready to learn them, and directly controlled his interaction with her craft.
When she was his muse, she was the font of his creativity. He made things in her name, for little but attention in return. He gave, and gave, and was wholly devoted to her. Such is the nature of gods that it's foolish to expect them to give back to you at all.
And then she was his lover. And she was untouchable. She cannot be told "no" definitively; the only guarantee that she'll adhere to a "no" is her own personal moral code, or lingering admiration for the person who says it. She can't give herself to someone. She can spend time with them, but she can never give equally. She is a god. She exists to be served.
Gale's life, before the tadpole, was defined by Mystra. He was destined for greatness, spoke personally with Elminster, wielded the Blackstaff—and yet, he says he had no friends, and few colleagues. He's had mortal lovers, but they barely get a footnote in the story of his life. His social circle was "the size of a pinhead."
Mystra, by nature of being a god, intentionally or not, isolated Gale from his peers. You could argue any number of reasons why—my own personal bet being that he was so enamored with her that everyone else fell to the wayside—but he is alone. Even Lorroakan, down in Baldur's Gate, knew about him, and defines him only by nature of his relationship to Mystra.
The nature of gods is that anyone they speak with is now worlds away from anyone once called friends. How do you hold conversations with people when you're everyone at the table's god's favorite?
Mystra's very presence eroded away Gale over time. His friendships suffered. His joy in mortal sides of himself withered. His outlook on his own merits was restricted to what he could do with the magic at his command—did Mystra only see value in that, or did his peers and former lovers only care for what she gifted him? Both are likely. Especially with this line in his romance: "To know you love me for the man I am, and not the magic I command—none have loved me so purely."
And that isolation tore him open after his claim of the Netherese Orb, because he locked himself in his tower for a year. He didn't have those connections to reach out and ask for help, because being a god's lover burned that all away.
And then, after silence, after her fury leading to his terrified misery, after he thinks he's going to die any day, she comes in with a double-edged sword, putting the Orb to rest, at last, while telling him to fall to it anyway. The power imbalance is on full display, here: her expectations are so unrealistic that it will destroy him, in the name of forgiveness. If he loves her, he should give everything for her.
And he is going to do it.
There's such a tangled mess of emotions that explode from that.
She stabilized him. She could have done that whenever. She didn't, because it didn't serve her needs.
A year of silence, Gale thinking she'd taken everything from him and Mystra not caring enough to explain otherwise, and the first thing she says is die.
He's a pawn. Literally. She wants him to go to the other side of the board and trade his life for the winning move.
He doesn't want to die. But he's terrified that that's what's best for the world.
The divine perspective is that he gets what he deserves. The divine perspective is that she's being merciful, because she's giving him a home afterwards with her.
The mortal perspective is that she's cruel. That this is cruel. That Gale is only worth what he can give to her. That his death is more useful than his life. That ending that beautiful man with all his wants, and hopes, and dreams, at the drop of a pin, is nothing to her.
If you explode Gale at Moonrise, the Sword Coast falls to the Mindflayers. Mystra is a god, she can see that outcome. But she is a god of magic, and as such, it's not her problem. Her problem has been dealt with.
Let me go back to Withers' question:
Withers: And so, I ask again: what is the worth of a single mortal life?
Tav: Each life is of infinite value and merits sacrificing everything for.
Withers: And thus, balance is achieved.
Mystra cannot answer this question correctly. A single mortal life could never be worth the sacrifice in her eyes. She uses people as a means to an end, because the ends justify the means retroactively to her. Dornal Silverhand's suffering and Elué Silverhand's death begot her seven powerful Chosen. Two people for the wellbeing of many. She'll continue to use people like this, because that's what she is. That's what godhood entails.
Gale could likely answer this question properly, though not act on it perfectly. If his Netherese blight could save people, even if it's terrifying, he would blow himself up. He has to be talked down from it. He doesn't realize that he is one of those lives of infinite value.
What about God Gale? Can he answer it?
Of course not. He wouldn't sacrifice his godhood to come back home to mortality. He looks down on mortal life. He thinks he's above it. He, a newly minted god, is a perfect window into the basis of how gods perceive things.
Mystra asking Gale to kill himself betrays her lack of value in him as a person. Like God Gale, she looks down on mortality, just much, much more subtly. He's a means to an end. All mortals are.
Pawn to Cleric Four.
#bg3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#mystra#long post#ask bee#there's also something to be said of the player being literally put into mystra's shoes at the end#gale could blow up the brain. he could save everyone. for you#he offers it#and you could be the new Mystra and tell him to do it#god gale is a great parallel to gale's past with mystra before the orb. but tav is a parallel to AFTER the orb
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go read PMD: The Rogue Team by @teeterarting now
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erin is so wonderful and tabor is such a cheeky bastard your honour they are awesome i love them both so much
Reading this comic is like watching an anime; it's so wonderfully drawn and put together AND we get super engaging characters and a fantastically crafted world? Loving seeing this comic come to be, and ever-excited to see where it'll go! Check it out if you haven't!
#pokemon#pkmn#art#pokemon mystery dungeon#pmd#fennekin#treecko#pmd the rogue team#OKAY BUT THE WAY TABOR USES SEEDS IS SO COOL TOO BTW#LIKE I WAS THINKING man i haven't really seen anyone use seeds orbs or wands and the such as like their main thing#THIS IS JUST COOL MAN#and everyone is so EXPRESSIVE and every panel is GORGEOUS#sometimes i need to reread a page because my brain gets hooked on all the pretty colours
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just a little guy on his way to get his 3 am sip of water
#one piece#one piece fanart#sorry#tony tony chopper#i couldn't get it out of my head so now you will suffer with me#just be glad that i didn't visualise this image in my brain about deer velvet#i think i'm not a good horror artist#deers are actually fucked up#no but like imagine#you wake up at 3 am to take your respectable piss#you're walking past the kitchen#and from the pure darkness two glowing orbs are looking right through your poor soul#took a second to think about it and this is just my cat owner experience
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What’s better than a nap on the softest bed in the galaxy? A nap with your bat-dad!(at least that’s what Kirby thinks)
Well this took way longer than it had any right to but it’s done! The third part my little ongoing series of Kirb anime doodle comics, this week featuring: space people lore and some much deserved wholesome baby time
Also here’s some full shots of both the astral nursery and it’s baby beds, because what’s the point of making these if I don’t get to put exorbitant amounts of detail into stupid but soft and comforting things
#Kirby#kirby right back at ya#KirbyRBAY +#art#art on tumblr#drawing#shit posting#doodle#digital art#meta knight#meta-dad#best orb dad#brain rambling
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Hello, hello~
Can anyone describe to me in simple words what a special interest feels like - like in terms of autism? Also is it smth that can change and come on at random?
I've been noticing some behaviours in myself and I'm just ???
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random thought but i was thinking of tara's comments about getting gale to eat and take care of himself and . well. i was just kind of warmed by the idea of gale and astarion having a particular... dehydrated and perhaps slightly unwell sickly look to them that is only exacerbated by their arduous journey, but then six months after that nightmare when they return to withers' party as husbands they look so much healthier!! they're softer and stronger and well-fed!! they actually look alive! and happy! because they are! and isn't that so wonderful!!
#bloodweave#i'm not in any servers and i'm a hermit so u guys gotta witness all my thoughts . Hi#idk. i do love chubby gale but i also REALLY love skinny-fat gale that loses both fat and muscle mass not only because of the orb#but also the unbelievable and constant stress loneliness and depression that it brought him :(#and astarion no longer needing to be The Pinnacle of Beauty Sculpted Like A God he can jus be as he is (which is still super#unfairly beautiful [and goes to my next point ->]) and he actually gets to eat regularly now whenever he wants and is ALSO#no longer as lonely or depressed n it shows. This Is The Bloodweave That Exists In My Brain And Heart#also love the visual of gale having more angular cheeks when they first meet him and then in the epilogue they're rounder!!#and it makes him look younger!! 🥺 sweetie..
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living inside someone's house is one thing but reading their personal journal on top of that is just too much 😔
(also. beard.... he is not a fan.)
ANYWAY DON'T ASK HOW LONG THOSE POKEBALLS TOOK DON'T ASK (i drew them like three separate times because my hand was shaking too much and i forgot i had stroke smoothening settings. until i finished them. so i-- yeah anyway.)
EDIT: SHIT. OTHER SWEARS. ETC. HOW DID I MISCOUNT AND DRAW 7 POKEBALLS. HOW. HOW. OTZ
#submas#submas au#emmet#placeholder au#pokemon#ALSO going on the headcanon that while pokemon are in their pokeballs they're in a sort of stasis#so he's not like. neglecting them by keeping them in there skhdkshdkshdkdjd#ACTUALLY I KNOW HOW I MISCOUNTED THAT. okay so when i do laundry instead of using dryer sheets i use wool balls yeah?#and i had six of them. i am ONE HUNDRED PERCENT confident on this.#but. SOMEHOW. A SEVENTH HAD SPAWNED ALONG THE WAY. i genuinely have no idea where it could have come from.#SO. intellectually i Know there are seven. but to my brain. it still classifies that group of Orbs as Six.#so. uh. orz
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Why Logan is Trapped by the Narrative: A Quick Analysis on the Effects of Thomas' Black-and-White Thinking
Why is Logan so caught up on not being seen as a joke?
Why does he care so much about what Thomas and the others think of him?
Can't he just be Logic without having to deny he has feelings, without constantly filling only the roles of exposition in the show and the voice of reason for Thomas?
Well, here's the thing: Logan is trapped by the narrative.
Thomas' perception of the narrative, to be exact.
Think of it this way - you know how so many people argue that we can't have a female president in the US because she would somehow be "too emotional" to handle the position properly?
While complete nonsense (at least in comparison to plenty of emotional decisions men can make, too), the point is that people see the role of a president as someone who is calm, collected, and in control. They know that person will have to make very important decisions, so it's believed they need to be someone who is informed and level-headed.
Similarly, if you were to hire a lawyer, only for that lawyer to constantly get angry and loud and scream at people when someone argued with them, would you trust them to be able to do their job properly?
If you went to the doctor, only for your doctor to cry and sob with empathy for you, only offering up niceties and positive words instead of factual information to improve your situation, would you ever go back to such a doctor or trust them to help anyone?
People perceive certain jobs and roles in very specific ways.
It's not that a lawyer can't get emotional, but they need to understand how to keep their calm when they are doing their job. It's not that a doctor can't have empathy and care about their patients, but they need to not let it interfere with their work.
People tend to see the world as more black and white than it actually is. We perceive people for their roles, not as the multi-faceted folks that they truly are.
Just because you see a coworker who's always quiet and reserved doesn't mean they are like that when they go home. Just because your teacher is strict and quick to find faults doesn't mean they are like that when they're on vacation.
Often, people think someone can only be one or the other, not varying shades of both and more. But even people we know very well can have aspects that we don't know or understand.
Logan exists within shades of gray, removed from those arbitrary constructs society holds but still required to operate within them because of Thomas.
This is why he has to insist on being heard, being taken seriously, not making mistakes.
Because everything relies on Thomas' perception of him.
If Thomas doesn't find Logan reliable? He won't be reliable.
If Thomas doesn't trust him when he tells him the truth? He won't be trustworthy.
If Thomas thinks Logan is wrong about something? Then Logan will be wrong.
It all comes down to how Thomas' mind perceives everything, and Logan is always, always torturously aware of that fact. Thomas is human. He has a lot of black-and-white thinking that he hasn't challenged just yet.
It's because of this that Logan knows he can't mess up, because then Thomas will see those mistakes as him. He will be identified in that way.
We see this with the other sides a lot, too, by the way.
Patton isn't taking seriously even when he has good suggestions because he's always telling jokes and relying on feelings. But Morality is something important that should be listened to and taken seriously at times, as it's meant to guide your actions.
Roman is reprimanded a lot for arguing and yelling at others, but he is constantly fueled by passion. He's built to stand up for what he believes in, even if he's wrong or making an impulsive decision in the moment! Tampering down that passion would prevent him from expressing the Creativity that he embodies!
Virgil's entire role is to scare Thomas into not doing things that could potentially hurt him, so Thomas perceived him as scary and villainous for a very long time. But without it, Thomas could easily get hurt!
The same can be said for Janus and Remus, too. They initially come off as villainous, bad, and evil, despite their actual purpose and intentions, only because Thomas has perceived them and their roles in that way.
Logan cannot make mistakes because then he'll be seen as unreliable or wrong. He can't display emotions because then he'll be seen as emotional, compromised and unable to make unbiased decisions. He can't be seen as a joke or not taken seriously, because then Thomas' perception of him as a voice of reason, as someone with valuable knowledge, as someone he can always trust to tell him the truth...that will all be gone. It will warp Logan into something that he's not, so he has to maintain those rigid guidelines as much as absolutely possible to remain in his position.
Does this mean Logan really can have emotions? Can he enjoy silly activities or a good joke? Yes, of course he can.
But it needs to be kept separate from his role as Thomas' logic.
And this is where the issue arises. Because Thomas wants his sides to constantly act as their own characters, this puts a lot of spotlight on Logan even when he is in private. He can't be perceived at any time as someone Thomas can't trust or rely on, so his role as Logic invades the other part of his existence, too.
If a lawyer was stoic and formal even at home with their family, their family would probably find them odd, and the lawyer would probably feel stressed about being completely unable to ever unwind.
If a doctor could not show empathy even to their own children, relying only on facts, unable to comfort them because their coworkers could see their every move and they couldn't risk being seen as emotional for even a moment, the doctor would likely have a very stilted relationship with their kids, unable to connect with them in the way they want.
For Logan, he has to remain a reliable, unbiased, unfeeling Logic at all times because he is constantly being perceived as such.
Because it's all about who's watching and what's expected to be seen.
Logan wants to be more than his role as Logic, more than what is expected of him. But he knows the consequences of him trying to do so could harm Thomas in the long run, leaving him without a much-needed voice of reason.
So he's not going to let that happen, even if that means he has to hide away all the parts of 'Logan' that don't quite fit what Thomas expects of him.
Because Thomas needs him to be Logic a hell of a lot more than he needs him to be Logan.
#logan sanders#ts logan#sanders sides analysis#logan angst#sanders sides#back at it again#the first month at my second job the stenographer one i was awkward around lawyers bc they were always so formal#until one day we were all just talking after work and my brain remembered that it was just a formal job and people arent always like that#and of course i immediately went oh hey its just like logan#better go home and write some angst about that#so here you can have this now haha#orbs thought bubbles#long post
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Kirbo time, pt 2
(ID: Another compilation of Kirby series sketches, memes, and reference study from between roughly 2021-2023, featuring mostly Kirby, Magolor, Marx, and a few others. END ID.)
Part 1 | Part 2 (here!)
This was when things really started going off the rails - a.k.a. I was falling into Kirby Wiki rabbit holes on the regular and really feeding those escapism brain worms. Wait ‘til I show you guys the human designs, hoo boy…
NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 08/25/23.
#veins art#veins old art#veins sketches#veins ships#veins fanart#fanart#kirby series#kirby#king dedede#meta knight#bandana waddle dee#marx kirby#magolor#adeleine#ribbon kirby#magolor x marx#marxolor#sketch dump#these orbs bring my sad brain joy#I care them a normal amount#kissing#gun tw#food tw#eye contact tw#veinsfullofstars
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When you are busy pondering your cute little orb
#this is how that dream sequence went right#I saw “orb laudna” and this was this was the first image that popped into my brain#critical role#cr spoilers#cr3#bells hells#imogen temult#laudna#imodna#fresh cut grass#fcg#shitpost#orb
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It's P5 Girls Week on twitter!! I chose the "plushie" prompt for day 1 💖
#persona 5#haru okumura#okumura haru#ca3 art#persona 5 royal#i just wanted to draw haru orb. shes just so silly!!!!#this sadly might be my only contribution tho my brain just wouldnt think of fun ideas :(((
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