Deo watched helplessly from the ground-- restrained by Dioxys' psychic energy. His fingers scrapped against the floorboards hard enough for the wood to snap and tear. Why did they come here?! Deo just couldn't understand it, for he thought they knew better. He thought they would make it easy. He thought they would just let it happen.
Why.. do they keep coming here..? Deo's senses buzzed like static in his mind. There was another. A familiar psychic type teleported before him..
Dioxys tilted his head at Chai as she squirmed in his grasp. It was so.. unsightly.
"The truth is that he lies in a home every night that is not his. He dreams of another that is not his. He doesn't dream of you. Your friend, Deo..- He stays in a universe far from his because he ran away just like how he would have ran away from you, and he stays far away because everyone we knew together is dead. The best part? Everyone we knew is dead because of him and exclusively him."
"The truth is that we had a job to do, and he turned his back on all of us. Don't you undestand? Deo's sins are not something that can be washed away with a few jokes and games. He needs a comeuppance."
Dioxys, of course, sensed the newest intruder, but he figured that he could actually turn this into a beneficial lesson for Deo before his death. He could show Deo just how many people he drags down with him.
"Deo and I were supposed to save everyone. We were supposed to do that together."
"Instead, our entire planet is dead, and your friend, Deo, left me behind empty walls."
Deo's body surged with Quill's psychic energy. It was just enough to set the first lock in his Psychic Well open.
He had to snap out of this.
"Thank you, fr-," Deo stammered. With a gentle squeeze of Quill's hand, he signified the Gothitelle to help him to his feet, but he was in a haze.. Deo struggled-- only managing to get onto his knees. "Quill, you have to go," he mumbled, but it was too late.
Dioxys took notice. He had released Chai in favor of glaring towards Quill and Deo.
The psychic energy that bubbled at Dioxys' fingertip was smothering.
With a bead of energy released, an adage spoken, "Rites begin when the sun descends."
The explosion from the psychic bead started small with only the destruction of the western flank, but just as quickly as the energy released, it sank back into itself. A reverberation- a second explosion erupted large enough to blow the entire home away.
Smoke and ash fluttered under the touch of moonlight as Dioxys stood in the middle of his work. He watched as bits of wood and stone flew down from the night sky like rain, and he paid careful attention to the life signatures around him.
"Still alive?" Dioxys called into the night-- a rhetorical question. He knew that at the very last second.., Deo managed to shield his acquaintances from any lethal wounds.
With a sigh, Dioxys began to make his way towards Deo's buried body in the rubble.
"You never learn, do you?"
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Quill [ @psychicduo ]
The First Clue: The main prerequisite to win the event is something that is in-character but can only be done out-of-character..
random fanart friday for @casteliacityramen cuz gurl with sword gURL WITH SWORD
for real tho, i would have never thought the plot twist and the DELIVERY of it holy shit Edge!!! i hope to see more of Rio and Ray and that Latios dude 👀
>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
Have Xera my first ever Trans Character!! Francis is here to support and show off her best friend! So do the other Ally Pokemon Houndoom, Syd, Trapinch, Nidorino, Tyrannitar, Rhydon and Zebstrika approving of your existence! You're valid and you're loved!!
Agatha’s “blanket” will be unraveled for each of these drawings, but instead of her regular design it’ll be of flag colors corresponding to your OCs (when given a pride flag)!!
Link to Request Post if you'd like one of these doodles
[If you’d like a higher resolution of this, DM me!! <3]
This week has been a pretty rough one for me, and Breed-station's mod has just been a complete sweetheart, so I felt like doing a little thank you gift for her! Also, happy pride month people <3
Life came at me fast so this one is late, but here we go.
1. Personal Shopper- a woman goes to France to handle her hobby home appraising and encounters some visions. Sound sorta familiar?
2. Frances Ha- a woman who is a state of instability and uncertainty with her career moves from place to place and meets new people. Again, sound familiar?
3. Magic Mike XXL- This is just a great roadtrip movie that is funny, progressive and actually smart. Your Guzma pics made me associate it with this.
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