a siren song

@hoshinochikara's main blog! mostly mass effect, dragon age, fallout, critical role.

[aliny-ssuu]

Study

[messydiabolical]

Thinking about how radically different societies with eidetic memories could be in terms of things like advertising, public decoration and infrastructure and media. It's annoying enough for us to hear an advert jingle and get it stuck in our heads for weeks or even years, but with eidetic memory that's a whole other level. If I think I'm aggressively annoyed by such things, how would a drell or salarian feel? Have to wonder if their own colonies have very strict rules on such things, if public spaces are built extremely mindfully, with a lot of purposeful spaces and functionality and a lack of visual noise and temporary nonsenses. "This thing will literally be in my head forever, so it better be beautiful and/or functional", type thing. Annoying adverts would be fucking LOATHED and probably tank products in such places. Maybe there would even be laws around such things as predatory advertising practices (like ones that encourage gambling or addictive and dangerous behaviours) because there's that extra level of susceptibility when you literally cannot stop your brain from thinking about it. Reviewers might be very prestigious. If you watch a piece of media or read a book that's in your head for life so you want to consume media that's worth that, so a trusted reviewer would be very valuable. Tough job to be the reviewer though! No wonder Thane meditates, you'd need to really hone that ability to sort through thoughts and then make the brain shut up. Also makes sense that drell have that very compartmentalisation of the self thing going on, or at least that's how Thane describes things. Perhaps this is something seen moreso in drell that go off world, a necessary mindset to cope with a loud universe that is needed more keenly depending on situation. I take a lot of what Thane says with a pinch of salt in reflection of the whole of drell society because he had such a particular upbringing from such a young age (I do have to wonder how many of his philosophies were honed and exaggerated because they were useful to the hanar handlers vs how much is true and accurate to the general populace; no doubt what he says are drell philosophies but how many average drell are living them to that level day to day?) Conversely, do you suppose there are areas where overstimulation is welcome; gardens, art installations, plazas that just blast every sense possible as a means to stop the brain from slipping into memory and keep you instead present. Help, my brain won't shut up, get me to the eXtreme dome stat! This brought to you by it was 90% humid this morning and I couldn't sleep and my brain was so loud with memories and gosh how fucking awful that would be if I could remember literally everything ever all the time.

[fruitzbat]

i just got here but sincerely what is wrong with dorian pavus. he’s a necromancer. he helped invent time travel with his phd supervisor; this is never touched upon again. he comes out to you in front of his homophobic dad by going “sex. with men. ever heard of it”. he’s canonically so good at magic that he can keep up with god in conversation about it. constantly complains about the weather and all while he has one tit out at all times. his backstory is that he’s simultaneously a delinquent and a girlboss. he’s an alcoholic. his facial hair is completely fucking indefensible. h

[jack-of-blades]

Op was possessed by The Iron Bull

[steampowerednarwhal]

"just retrace your steps" I have adhd. as far as my memory is concerned i teleported here

[seashoreships]

It’s like it’s some sort of fallout

[waneella]

More art for Hull Rupture!

Playtest available here:

🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4358660/Hull_Rupture/

[pyromance9669]

lady of the forest if anyone remembers her

[angstyastro]

Unfinished shakarios/vakarios comic I had planned... Tossing out there so it's somewhere at least skdnns

[yesornopolls]

do you speak any non indo-european languages?

Do you speak any non indo-european languages?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 24

[mrn0093]

[oranges-covered-in-sugar]

And now for something completely different.

[linka-from-captain-planet]

Dawn of the Seeker sure is something but you know who's everything? Young Cassandra Pentaghast proving my long-held belief that every woman should have some kind of a demon phase at around age 20 that they may or may not be willing to talk about

[syqkos]

Shadowheart 🖤

[estramor]

"may you forget me, vhenan. live well, while time remains."

[fe-l-kalia]

🐥🐣🐤

my telegram: @sir_lance_official

[zetkun4221]

A ray of sunshine

[bardspeak]

VERY late entry for Ulysses Week's prompt "the divide". Lyrics are from Autopsy Garland by the Mountain Goats. I have a project for fnv planned involving the whole song, but I couldn't get this concept for an alternate Ulysses thing for these lyrics out of my head. I love Ulysses and the divide very much. >24 hours of drawing on this one.