[newlevant]

It’s that time of year! 🌈

Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.) Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.

More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.

[mythriens]

Image description: Title reads "COVID-Safer Pride Guide" in front of a rainbow flag and three people in masks and respirators. Five colourful squares containing information make a rainbow and contain illustrations like a person's arm with a band-aid covering the site of a vaccine injection, a person in an N95 mask, and a line of Pride flags. The text reads:

COVID is still a threat. Getting sick sucks, plus your risk of long-lasting symptoms—aka long COVID—gets higher each time you're infected. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to lower the risk of transmission! Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!

Get a Booster. Like Drag Race spinoffs, new COVID variants are dropping all the time. Antibodies from your latest vax or infection wane after a few months. Get a booster matched to the latest variants, and your resistance will peak in a couple weeks!

Mask up! COVID virus spreads through the air like the smoke from a fag [British]. A well-fitting N95 mask gives great protection! More reasons to mask up: sexy and mysterious, shows community care, avoid all the other airborne diseases!

Take it outside. The more fresh air to disperse the virus, the better! Transmission is still possible, especially in a crowd, but going outdoors is a major safety update!

Stay home if you're sick. Pride is all about community, baby. Protect your people by staying home if you're sick. If you do have COVID (rapid tests aren't great, so you might not know), getting lots of rest lowers your risk of developing long COVID! Drink some tea, sis.

[anonbaph]

Finally something new to share! That that hurt Lancha, all of you-

It's a short animatic I planned a year ago but noped all starts I did for the frames until..a week ago? I'm so happy I got it!!

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This post on Sky and on Ao3. I haven't posted it on twita, I lost my 2012 account [boredBaph] in december and have a new one but don't enter much.

[yipyipallyall]

[organizedtrex]

Adding to this:

You might have a boss, a teacher, a partner, or a parent who does in fact actually mean the first thing. That person is *wrong*! They are asking you to physically, mentally, and/or emotionally damage yourself to achieve a particular goal. And unless that goal is *literally* life-or-death ("you must hike out of the woods and find help for your severely injured friend"), you *should not* be damaging yourself to achieve it!

That said, give a little grace to the person asking too much of you. Do *they* understand that the definition of "doing your best" is the second thing? If not, share the right definition and maybe help make both your lives easier. But if they apply the second definition to their *own* best effort and knowingly apply the first definition to everyone else, then that person is an asshole.

[miametropolis]

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

for a moment i lived in a beautiful world where doctor who didn’t exist and this was simply a seven-ate-nine joke too layered for me to understand

[the-razzdazzler]

I Crocheted Neil Banging Out The Tunes

rat pattern from ComplicatedKnots

piano freehanded

[crtastrophe]

hit it, Neil!

[poleviklutin]

Forgot about 413

[deadobsithart]

ALSO ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT 4/13??? HELLO another old one bc again, forgor

[anatthema-art]

HAPPY 4/13!!!!

[sleepysyndrme]

we'll always live like we're hopeless kids

happy 4/13! its my first one so it's extra special ^_^

[chronic-art]

my first 4/13 as a homestuck! I was gonna do something happy but then remembered that John's dad died on his birthday

[fanonical]

[happy--h1pp1e]

Sup Peeps, so I just saw Vivziepop release a Homestuck animated trailer and I of course was immediately hooked, The problem is I don't know anything about Homestuck other than it's four kids and they destroy the world with this video game they play, that and there's adorable looking trolls at some point.

I've watched jacksepticeye play what I assume is the first act of hiveswap which I deeply enjoyed. I watched a video that talked about Homestuck in general but they only talked about the history of production and it's popularity over the years, in short I literally learned nothing about the actual story except some people didn't like this troll named Vriska. I'm assuming the animated show will probably retell the entirety of the comic but I am deeply impatient and would love to learn more about it.

Would someone please give me a rundown of the story, or a video talking about the story, or a link to the comic or perhaps a dub of the comic, I literally don't care about spoilers btw. Thank you! 🖤

[knights-unwelcommentary]

Homestuck's pretty long and any summary depends on the focal point of who's telling it cause it works on several angles like a coming of age, or a story about friendship or gnosticism or The Never Ending Story or a story about stories or a creation myth

The actual course of events or as close as I can get to it is: There's a game that's supposed to sire universes by sacrificing selected worlds but those who play it can only succeed if they will have created themselves during their gameplay. This means there's several ways it can go wrong and it turns out it has will go wrong for the protagonists and they will have done something to try not to die permanently about it. This creates a retroactive domino effect that causes it to go wrong in the first place, for at least three universes in the chain.

The game is relatively simple, there's two races of chess based npcs that are at war, the black chess pieces are to be defeated but to do that the kids must first survive their agents and reach the battlefield. To reach the battlefield they have to pull off a whole lot of quests which result in

Creating a game construct that will guide them through their quest

Transporting their homes into their personal game planet and building it upwards

Dealing with giant godlike monsters inside their planets

Making themselves and sending them to their past

Making a frog that will go on to become the new universe

Defeating the black king and queen powered by a ring that gives them attributes from the player's guides

The second universe is where humans come from, the protagonists are a group of four friends that met online prompted by a time paradox they will have created, they all have been adopted by their respective guardians and unknowingly prepared for the game.

They'll become gods in due time, but first they must die.

There's an antagonistic npc that due to this session's paradox has become enraged and taken possession of the ring to go on a murderous rampage.

There are overpowered beings that are each assigned to look after one world selected by the game. Thanks to the paradox the being was forced to become the guide of one of the protagonists.

The npc becomes overpowered and that's when everything starts going wrong.

The first universe is the one where the trolls come from, they are aliens, the players from this universe beat the game easily but because of the very same paradox they got locked out of the universe they created. They discovered the humans were responsible and try to make them pay, they end up also being responsible for the paradox.

And what lies at the heart of this paradox? The being assigned to the trolls' world interfered with the process in order to make himself to exist, through a tumor in the human universe's cancerous frog. In-game the tumor takes the form of a bomb, a bomb that will has become a green sun at the beginning of time itself, the green sun that's the origin of every other being that's ever been will be created to guard the planets that will have hosted the game. This is a virus that has completely taken over the reproductive cycle of every universe and made its creator inseparable from the flow of destiny.

The third universe in the chain is where the true antagonist comes to be, he's a different type of alien and his game is doomed to fail, but in doing so he will has become the demon that's haunted this narrative since the start, and he wants to play a game... So the only way to win is to cheat and escape the game for good

But it's not that simple, and I'll leave it at that

[knights-unwelcommentary]

The Dave that became Davesprite is the only player to survive the entire gameplay of homestuck without a single death, pretty fucked up if you think about it

[knights-unwelcommentary]

@sylph-of-gender nope, the one that died was post-retcon Davesprite, ours got transported to the post-retcon timeline and was pretty confused about it

The only surviving players of the pre-retcon timeline were John, Roxy, and Davesprite, everyone else got reinstanced in the retcon. John and Roxy had to die at one point to reach god tier and even further back the John we started with died when Terezi tricked him into visiting his denizen before he was ready

That only leaves us with the first Davesprite being the only player that remains, not reinstanced or killed in the entirety of the homestuck gameplay

[cyancees]

10 years since it ended whatttt

[moms-against-homestuck]

neil banging out the tunes homestuck style

[moms-against-homestuck]

guess what time it is

[hobsyllwin]

4/13 appetizer for y'all