You are now embarking on an optical procedure

Smile. Always. (Main is @artemis-undercode) If my irl friends find this blog, no you didn't.

[ghostyboys]

Before everyone (and by everyone I mean my fellow rollercoaster autistics) freaks out- no, galactica isn't closing. It's a years old April fools prank people are dragging out. Gladly I found out sooner rather than later or I would've straight up had a meltdown. I HATE APRIL FOOLS I HATE APRIL FOOLS I HATE APRIL FOOLS I

[arti-smiles]

The way I would cry real tears if they actually closed it 😭

[following--everyone]

STOP SCROLLING!

Oka, I plan on following everyone on tumblr

literally everyone

Please reblog so I can make this happen

[asliceofchopstickpizza]

Congrats Merlin, another one for the trophy cabinet!

[arti-smiles]

I have definitely missed something here

[downi-go]

literally just Google toxicator Alton towers and go to news and I comes up. Basically there was a waste leak underneath toxicator. And it went everywhere. Human waste. So yeah. RIP toxicator furst uk ride to literally shit it self

[arti-smiles]

WHAT BAHAHAHAHA 😭

[asliceofchopstickpizza]

Congrats Merlin, another one for the trophy cabinet!

[arti-smiles]

I have definitely missed something here

[horridwizardthing]

Today marks 23 years since Air opened!

[thebootydiaries]

friend who lives hundreds of miles away: i made food

me: can i have some

[slothgangang]

friend who lives hundreds of miles away: yes

[boomstab-papa]

[andersam5]

Well, I didn't have toxicator literally shitting itself on my opening day bingo

[arti-smiles]

Something tells me I have missed some information.

[horridwizardthing]

today marks the 27th anniversary of the oblivion rollercoaster!!

[ask-the-secret-weapons]

so you know what that means!

[th13teen-steve]

I can't tell you how many times I've done this.

[srsfunny]

Goodluck Pikachu

[givepie]

Remember those Alton Towers Wallpapers i promised like a year ago? I finally got a grasp of Polar Coordinates so i could give Smiler a go so here yall are. If you want any variations using this graph feel free to ask and ill do it. Or just ask for the graph.

Feel free to use, no credit recquired.

[nat-20s]

Clark Kent finally goes to get therapy but the only person who knows both of his identities AND is in any way actually qualified is Harley Quinn

[nat-20s]

They're staring each other down in some bland ass room painted a soothing blue like

Clark: ... This HAS to be some sort of conflict of interest

Harley: aww not to worry Supes I'm totally profresh

Clark: that's not actually that reassuring

[nat-20s]

Clark starting to try and open up even though that usually requires an emotional crowbar: it's just... isolating, sometimes. There's not really any one person that is in the same position as me and it's... Hard

Harley: well that's why we have emotional support networks rather than just one person! I know I'm your position it's especially hard to build that up, but you've done a rather impressive job so far. I mean, you break it down, and Lolo may be your wife, but she's not gonna know everything you go through, nor should she have to. She understands your workplace stresses, the justice league is there for hero stuff, Diana gets being powerful enough to scare people, Kara and J'onn are both in the last survivors boat, and when it comes to the complications of balancing identities, Brucie will be there. The best part of all this is that you also don't have to be everything to any one person, which is something you seem ta struggle with.

Clark: oh. You're... good at this?

Harley: I fuckin told ya I was

[nemyzilla]

casually yelling the names of random mirabilandia rides in a heavy italian accent for no reason whatsoever

[ask-the-secret-weapons]

(alright! It's time to show the beta designs [and old lore] of the weapons, dating back to march of last year! kudos to @altariantowers for getting me into this in the first place.

The first one to be designed was actually Doc! Although he had a different name back then! [being Mr. Smiler, then Marmalade, then Doctor Argos, I changed it because it sounded too cute for him] he was originally some sort of hallucination that failed smile advocates would see that became real, kinda like a tulpa. Yes, Doctor is technically just his nickname, his actual name's Argos.

^^^

Well, he got redesigned quite quickly actually! And after that, the rest of the weapons got their designs

nemesis was so thin back then *sobbing*

yea, I originally had a completely differently character for Air! I had planned for Air to be some sort of wind spirit. there wasn't much to them otherwise... Nemesis never really changed besides her colouration

Oblivion was originally meant to be the Smiler's predecessor who disappeared out of nowhere, he probably got disposed of by Smiler but who knows :3. The rest didn't have much lore otherwise

this is before the rest got their names lol, I then changed them again! this time I decided to do Galactica this time because space is more interesting in my head lol

feat: amongus doodle by Altarian Towers :3

This is when more redesigns came to be! Wickerman was originally meant to be more scary and way less comforting, kinda like some old folktale creature that'd come for naughty children lmao

I was switching between the straight jacket and the lab coat at this time lmao

There was also a beta minister! She was meant to be the same species as Nemesis, but she was scrapped :[ also, feat mort from @askthemort !

Schwarz was aged down, and consequently got redesigned, I was going back and forth with him lol. Theres also another scrapped character with Ms. Laika! She was originally the front of the M.O.J., being a sweet mascot meant to lure people in aroace flag pallete...

^^^ first instance of double antenna schwarz

And then Galactica got a new character! This was Eve, she was originally called PILOT, this design got scrapped because she looked like Skittie from Artifisouls lMAO

Then Doc finally, finally lost his legs, he was originally more mean, but I decided to make him less of an asshole, It wouldn't make much sense for him to be a mean sort of person.

and yea, that's all the beta designs! Most of the art of the old designs are kinda lost due to my old laptop breaking sooo :p

[coulrosaurus]

hmmmm

[sonknuxadow]

[major---tom]

I have GOT to add on to this cause I am sick of people dunking on disabled/chronic pain headcanons for shadow.

1. The title of "Ultimate Lifeform" doesn't mean anything, it was a label that was put on him by an overzealous creator who had a lot of bias over his own creation. Its a title that often brings Shadow stress and pressure and he's quicker to perceive Sonic as the true ultimate lifeform rather than himself when he's being honest. Saying he can't be disabled or have chronic pain because he's "the ultimate lifeform" doesn't really mean anything.

2. In Gerald's diary, which was given as a booklet alongside sonic x shadow generation pre-orders (which I own), it's mentioned that Maria designed Shadow's jet boots to help him get around. To me, this implied that he had to have been struggling in getting around for Maria to feel the need to give him some form of aid, perhaps even a mobility aid. She would be the only person on the ARK who would notice and understand someone else's struggle with their own body.

3. Even if he doesn't need the jet boots, HE NEEDS his inhibitor rings. It's not stated very clearly but it's implied that he would suffer in some form or fashion if he lost them- that his own power would overwhelm his body and damage it. As someone with an autoimmune disorder where my own body overproduces white blood cells and overworks itself and ends up damaging my own body by overwhelming it, that makes me feel like Shadow's inhibitor rings are a lot like immuno suppressants, a medicine that people with immune system related diseases use to suppress or inhibit their own immune system and prevent it from damaging themselves. If shadow needs his inhibitor rings to stop his body from damaging itself, then that's a disability where he's utilizing an aid to live, or live on the same level as his peers.

4. In sonic x shadow generations, shadow says that his doom powers are from his alien DNA and are a part of his body. However, when he uses them, he appears to be in visceral pain. He screams out and grips at his face and body and keels over in pain. If those powers are from his own DNA and body, and are hurting him, and is something that can reoccur, then it counts as chronic pain or a chronic condition!! It shouldn't hurt to use your own body, but it does for him.

5. Shadow is a PROTOTYPE. He is only the second prototype, and the new manga confirms that he was a FAILED prototype. He was made to cure maria but in the manga it was confirmed that it failed and he never could have cured NIDs. The first prototype, the biolizard, literally needed massive, invasive life support machinery to live at all. Think about how imperfect the prototype right after that one might be. The Robotnik family seems quick to claim that rushed or unfinished projects are "perfect and ready to go," that's kind of how all of eggman's plans fail (as we've learned from Starline in the IDW comics) so I feel like Gerald may also be claiming that his creation, Shadow, is perfect, even when he isn't even able to solve the problem he was made for.

6. Shadow seems to fall out of his super form faster than Sonic and faint when pushing himself to remain in the form (he faints a lot in general, compared to other characters (some examples being Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Prime, and Sonic Battle which turned into a multi-day coma under Rouge's care). He also seems to generally avoid going super compared to Sonic. I'm not sure how natural going super is but it seems almost easy for Sonic and Silver. Even when Sonic runs out of time in his super form, he never faints from it (which is made evident from the sonic advance games where his super form runs out while rescuing Vanilla from falling, but he's still fine and smiling & continues to carry someone larger than him with no struggle right after losing his super form).

7. I would honestly also count memory loss as a potential disability or chronic condition for him. He usually recovers his memory but it is genuinely a reoccurring problem in canon for him to lose memories or have his mind temporarily wiped/controlled/brainwashed.

8. PTSD can be considered a disability if it is detrimental enough to someone's day to day life. In America it can be legally considered as a disability and people suffering can be given aid under certain terms. In the comics, games, and official animations, Shadow's flashbacks of Maria's scenes are extremely consistent, invasive, uncontrollable, and sometimes detrimental to him. Uncontrollable and repetitive flashbacks of the traumatic scene accompanied by panic attacks are symptoms of PTSD, and I don't think it's subtle that the writers are really trying to convey this trait for Shadow.

Being disabled doesn't necessarily mean being super weak. He uses aids and tools to do what he does but he still does it well. It's not "inaccurate to canon" for disabled & chronically ill people to relate to him and it shouldn't be insulting to say his chaos energy & black arms DNA is similar to disabilities and chronic illnesses.

[theinoculator]

Just figured out that the thing I thought was an antique/fancy wooden table in my parents' house was actually some really old gramophone box thing, so now I can unleash tower of terror vibes upon their household