A place for my random scribbling

Baastet | He/They | 26 | Minors DNI

[s-lycopersicum]

Oh, you think you're safe now?

Nothing can deliver you from these paws!

[skimmer-vode]

Reblog to animatedly boop your followers

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[baastetscribbles]

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon feels like what Skyrim could have been if they kept closer to the oblivion/morrowind character build system.

I’ve played thousands of hours of Skyrim both with and without mods, it’s one of my favorite games of all time and I grew up on the Elder Scrolls series starting with morrowind when I was ~4 or 5 years old.

It’s hard not to draw comparisons between Tainted Grail and TES since they’re both first person fantasy RPGs, but there’s just something about Tainted Grail. I’ve found myself going through and saying “wow I wish Skyrim did it like this.”

I think if yall get the opportunity and this is your style of game, you should give it a solid try. 💜

[horrorhare]

would you let it stare at you with its special eyes

[thepiscesactor-deactivated20121]

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

[minotaursauce]

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

[forgechildofheph]

Get off my fucking blog if you can’t reblog this.

[stevethevehicon22]

Thank you.

[vanillabean5645]

Yes!!!!!!!! And if anyone does support this, Block my damn blog and never come near me

[prokopetz]

What do you consider to be some interesting modern takes on classic fantasy races? Perhaps some you have some ideas yourself? I read in Elder Scrolls, High Elves are basically Nazi Germany.

After unleashing one too many buried evils, the dwarves said “bugger this” and moved as far away from the Underdark as possible. Their entire civilisation now occupies a swarm of small space stations in high Earth orbit. 90% of them work in material science and telecommunications.

Gnome society has become steadily more obsessed with concealment and illusions until, in the present day, most gnomes use illusory disguises full-time to masquerade as members of other races. Almost everyone knows at least one gnome; almost no-one is aware of it.

Though halflings have a reputation as drugged-out savants, the truth of the matter is that their pharmacological science is incredibly advanced, particularly in the area of cognitive and empathic performance enhancement. At any given time, your average halfling is under the influence of a complex brew of brain-boosting drugs (which only work for halflings); there are fewer side effects than you’d think.

Orcish culture’s preoccupation with violent spectacle has evolved into an unstoppable entertainment industry. The largest orcish nation is also the global centre of production for big-budget summer blockbusters; orcish martial arts musicals are particularly popular among other races. Most orcs at least casually practice some sort of performance art, though some resent the expectation that they should.

Elves are hardcore gamers. All of them. It’s the cornerstone of their civilisation. Elvish video games tend to be unfathomably abstruse, unimaginably difficult, or both; being into “elf games” is regarded as a mark of refinement, though in truth most non-elves don’t really understand them.

[nerdyzebradog-deactivated202311]

Do you mind if I shamelessly rip this off? ‘Cause I really wanna shamelessly rip this off.

[prokopetz]

Knock yourself out. I do games about fairies - I’m never going to use any of this stuff myself.

[madmaenads-casual]

I love the idea that younger elves love video games, but the older ones remember prefer the old fashioned games. These are not chess or Go, but are more like stupidly complex Euro boardgames or complex trading card games like Magic but worse.

[prokopetz]

There’s a bit of that, yeah, though most old-timers were totally on board with the transition to electronic media. Elves don’t have the same relationship with physical artefacts that humans do. The real intergenerational pissing contest these days is about whether speed-running is a legitimate art form, or just screwing around.

(It’s exacerbated by the fact that speed-running as an organised practice actually originated among humans, so a lot of older elves regard it with suspicion on that basis alone.)

[madmaenads-casual]

Elf streamer: Hey, this is Valuriagod420 with another any percent speed run of The Doom of Karum Dul Run. I know Entmaster beat my previous time but I’m gonna get it back. This game is mine!

[Several minutes later]

Streamer: OK so we are still looking good to hit the 38 minute and 23 second mark right on schedule. Now here we can slip past a lot of dudes by back rolling into this corner 12 times and then using an orcish…

Elf Dad (from upstairs): Are you speed running down there! I told you no son of the Everleaf house will partake in any of that nonsense! If you’re not in a 1v1 comp match by the time I get down there, then goddesses help me I’ll throw you out into the dark hallow to face the 5 trials by YOURSELF!

[prokopetz]

Heh.

Since the notes seem to be stuck on the gaming thing, let’s expand on that:

The dwarven obsession with dating sims is proverbial. The orbital colonies are both the largest consumers of dating sims - dwarf-made or otherwise - and among the most prolific producers, playing host to several major publishers and a thriving indie scene. Dwarven dating sims typically feature complex crafting and engineering subgames alongside relationship-building gameplay; the two sides often share the same basic mechanics, thus framing relationship-building as a process of literal social engineering.

Gnomish games, conversely, usually aren’t simulating anything at all, being purely abstract puzzle-solving affairs with a heavy emphasis on spatial manipulation and pattern matching. When gnomish gamers get into more mainstream titles, they tend not to recognise a distinction between “playing” and “breaking”; a gameplay video put together by a gnome is more likely to be a glitch exhibition or a thirty-five-minute lecture on the finer points of terrain collision detection than it is to be a demonstration of the game being played as intended.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that halflings are often drawn to twitch games. Indeed, one of the latest controversies in competitive gaming revolves around whether halfling nootropics ought to be banned as performance-enhancing drugs. Critics point out that human gamers routinely compete while juiced up on caffeine; responses have ranged from insisting that it’s different (though one can quite agree how) to proposals to ban caffeine from competitive gaming as well. The latter have historically been poorly received.

Some might expect orcish video games to be plotless gore-fests. Those who do badly misunderstand orcish culture’s relationship with violence. Sure, it all comes down to ass-kicking in the end, but first the protagonist and the final boss are going to have a ten-minute conversation about their feelings in order to properly contextualise it. One of the most popular orcish video games in recent years concerns a young hero who achieves enlightenment and saves a lost kingdom by coming to the realisation that all communication is violence.

[unsurpassedtravesty]

Honestly my favorite part of this is the idea of Orcish culture evolving into the entertainment capital of the world.  I picture that centuries ago there was some Dark Lord type or another who was overthrown not by a rag-tag band of adventurers of the more classically heroic races but by the orcs themselves, who were tired of being exploited and slaughtered meaninglessly, who then looked at one another when the rubble settled and wondered, collectively, “What now?”

And then apparently deciding that the answer to this was channeling a history of nonstop violence into art, sports and theater.

[prokopetz]

Orcs killed their gods, then wrote a musical about it.

(This is also a big part of the reason that most orcish polities are at least moderate socialists. “No gods, no masters” carries a lot more punch when you can physically point to the decapitated skull of your former chief deity on display in your legislative assembly’s foyer.)

[unsurpassedtravesty]

So you’re telling me that orcs have a culture that channels violent aggression into art and that they’re socialists?  I think I have a new favorite race.

I wonder if there’s a particular way in which their gods are ‘traditionally’ depicted in performance.  Depending on the genre of the work I could see them as anything from aloof and inimical to bombastically awful to bumbling and self-important.

(Headcanon: one of the more influential early works had the chief of the gods portrayed by an actor standing on a high platform out of the view of the audience, with lighting above and behind him in such a way that he appears as a shadow cast on the backdrop, looming over the heroine of the piece.)

[prokopetz]

And bringing it back around to video games, orcish CRPGs often depict the gods as controlling and abusive parental figures. There’s a popular meme where you describe an orcish CRPG as “the one where you kill God at the end”. The joke is that’s all of them.

[ruteekatreya]

I can’t believe Square-enix is actually run by orcs

[prokopetz]

This world’s equivalent of Square-Enix is a collaboration between orcish and dwarven game developers, initially conceived of as an overture of cultural reconciliation. Opinions regarding the outcome are… mixed.

Anyway, we’ve done elves and orcs - let’s do dwarves!

The reasons why the bulk of the dwarven population now lives in orbital habitats - or “habs”, as they’re colloquially known - are complex, ranging from resource exhaustion in ancestral delves to political tension with human neighbours, and only partly involve the increasing incidence of demons of shadow and flame from before the dawn of time. “We did it to get away from all the damn balrogs” lies somewhere between an oversimplification and a private joke.

(Incidentally, many dwarves will seriously side-eye any non-dwarf who brings up the balrog thing, even in jest, owing to the fact that dwarven greed being responsible for unleashing evil upon a previously pristine world is a once-popular racist canard. Elves in particular receive very little benefit of the doubt.)

One surprising factor behind the move, however, is biological: dwarven resistance to magic and poison also applies to cosmic rays. Most habs have no radiation shielding whatsoever, which enormously simplifies their construction compared to general-purpose space stations, at the cost of rendering them unsuitable for long-term residence by non-dwarves. This suits most dwarves just fine.

The move to orbit didn’t mean an end to mining: captured comets and asteroids are towed into high orbit for processing by specialised resource extraction habs. Bringing the whole asteroid home is much more convenient than trying to process it on-site, and unmanaged de-orbiting events almost never happen.

(Just don’t ask a dwarf about about what happened to their former terrestrial capital - it’s a touchy subject.)

Also, it turns out that about one in twenty asteroids contains unhatched space-demon eggs. This is widely regarded as proof of the dwarven cultural conviction that the universe is out to get them. (Thanks to @perfectly-ultimate-great-shoofle for this one!)

Apart from resource extraction, dwarven habs play many other roles, from solar power collection to telecommunications to zero-G manufacturing to research and development. Most habs are small enough - a few hundred residents at most - that they’re effectively single-function, and all dwarves hailing from habs with the same function are considered to be members of the same clan, even if their respective orbits are nowhere near each other.

Dwarven gamers who live on telecommunications habs enjoy fantastic ping, and are justly reviled for it by their terrestrial opponents.

[gardenspells]

just a friendly reminder that this blog hates ICE

[lobotomymutt]

*unfriendly reminder.

If you support ICE or anything of the sort I hope you choke on the damn boot you keep licking

[baastetscribbles]

I’ve been making an attempt to draw every day so I can actually improve.

It’s more like drawing every other/every two days but whatever

Partner painted the girl and the cassette tape in the final image

[baastetscribbles]

Magic the Gathering, Fighting Games, a not so sudden interest in looking cute — 👁️👄👁️ I know what you are

[touhouweed]

[kainissoable]

[gray-r-regan]

... he is definitely not boneless. At all. He is, in fact, mostly bones. Poor argument.

[wysely]

To be fair, he isn't boneless, but his wings most certainly are.

[gray-r-regan]

By god it's true

[myendlessobsessions]

I finished him ❤️ kinda messed up the background but still happy with it.

How do you like it? ☺️

[kariidraws]

[myendlessobsessions]

OMG I love this 😭😭😭

[myendlessobsessions]

So guys let’s talk about legend of exorcism! I am currently reading vol. 4 and I had a very strong reaction on one of the characters. So if you haven’t read it this far please skip this.

I initially made this drawing cause I loved how safe Li Jinglong felt. The confession scene at the end of vol 3 somehow irked me and I couldn’t say why. Now after I started reading Vol 4 it hit me like a truck. Somehow Li Jinglong changed and I didn’t like the change at all! I was so disgusted by him. I mean wtf he literally says he likes the dumb ones and as long as they are dumb it doesn’t matter if they are not that pretty? Excuse me?! Also treating hongjun like a silly kid all the time and being so horny and pushy. And don’t get me started on hongjun! He suddenly keeps doubting himself and making himself small. Long story short: I thought about putting the novel down and never touch it again.

But then I kept thinking about it. I started thinking WHY does this affect me so much? As someone enjoying stories of all kind and also consuming quite toxic stuff (yes I’m looking at you meatbun) which is in fact way worse I think what hit me is that feeling of betrayal. I’ve not seen this coming. I thought Li Jinglong fooled me good but I realized it was the author who fooled me. Jinglong presented himself to hongjun and the reader as a kinda cold, self controlled and calm leader and protector. Even if it was early hinted on in the novel I couldn’t see how much he hold back. The feeling of self doubt and being not good enough. The moment he started to realize Hongjun reciprocated his feeling his mask came of. He lost self control. He truly loves hongjun but his love is messy and not healthy. He tries to protect and possess Hongjun. He belittles him to feel he’s needed. I’m by no means saying this is right but it adds a very interesting layer to his character. It gives the character a lot of room for development. I’m so excited to see if he’ll evolve from this. And then there’s Hongjun. People in toxic relationships mostly react in one of two ways. They either tell their partner to go f*** themselves or they seek fault in themselves. Hongjun does the latter. He suddenly starts questioning himself, is he smart enough? Pretty enough? Why does Jinglong even love him? Nobody told him what a healthy relationship is supposed to feel. He doesn’t know. He has no parents, his best friend is a carp Yao and his step dad is not one to show love in a proper fashion either.

I thought I was reading a fluffy romance story with an exciting plot. But their relationship is not healthy at all. Maybe that’s why I was so shocked. I expected different. I still find Jinglongs current behavior disgusting af. But I think the author did a great job showing us what happens if a characters facade falls. We don’t always like what’s underneath.

So this got kind of long but I really hope someone is willing to read it all and discuss this with me? How did you feel? What’s your take on this? Let me know ok? ❤️

Ah and regarding my sketch. I don’t feel like finishing it right now. I hope that changes 🥲 you still like it a bit?

[seiji-the-ice-drake]

I figured I should probably link this here just cause

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50694430/chapters/128061838

[baastetscribbles]

I can’t read this rn because I’m at WORK which SUCKS because I’m SO EXCITED TO READ THIS

[coelii]

new tumblr reaction image just dropped

w/ bonus template (but I better not see this anywhere but tumblr)

[coelii]

Here’s an example:

[0rb0t]

[virtualgirladvance]

[hrrkikshoard]

[fred-the-dinosaur]

[allamericansbitch]

i love this new gen of pop stars so much

[allamericansbitch]

an absolutely humungous update they just keep getting better

[rowark]

I think this needs an important addendum:

Not only did Billie Eilish donate $11.5M, she also called out a room full of billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg, directly to their faces, saying "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but, yeah, give your money away, shorties."

The $11.5M she's donating is about 1/4 if her net worth. Imagine if a billionaire did that? If Mark Zuckerberg donated 1/4 of his net worth, it would be about $55 BILLION... and he's still have over $100 billion left.

And, yet, unsurprisingly, people are mad at Billie Eilish for what she said and not at the billionaires for hoarding all the money and resources

[baastetscribbles]

I had to go fix my privacy settings because this, for some reason, is flagged as adult/nsfw content so I couldn’t view the drop down of the full post.

[chtonechka]

Hornet sketch

(bad art again - I am sorry 💔)