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hello, this place is a mess. | lilikoi, twenty-something, they/she | chronically 5 years late with black coffee. sometimes I make art

[mechanismslorearchive]

Discovered a set of prints? Stickers? Cards? sold as mechs merch, i think at DTTM?

possibly these. I would greatly appreciate any photos of them anyone can provide! Thanks!

[trisshawkeye]

Hiya! This wasn't official merch, this was fan art (unfortunately I can't quite identify what it is you've circled on the merch table).

They are symbols for each mechanism that formed corners of @cardamines' crew portraits - you can find them in their art tag here. I think the set did get shown to the crew at DTTM - I can't remember very well though.

Back in ~2020 they kindly sent around some prints of a handful of the symbols to folks in the mechscord server at the time (or perhaps brought them to DTTM? I honestly can't remember very well exactly how they ended up in my hands!) But I have a few on my door with my other mechs posters and flyers!

[littledozerdraws]

absolutely soft for Black Pete and Lucius 💛🌴📚

[auddityy]

your mentality is literally a result of intestinal bacteria but you wouldnt get it tho. yuor bacteria wouldnt get it

[dogsuffrage]

Just so everyone is aware this is barely a joke. Your stomach bacteria have a huge impact on your brain chemistry.

[huffylemon]

That’s cool. Why are they making me sad

[that-house]

Call that a microaggression

[darkmacademia]

revisiting some of my old sketches and book notes inspired by leonardo da vinci.

[magdaliny-deactivated20191030]

“In college I had a physics professor who wrote the date and time in red marker on a sheet of white paper and then lit the paper on fire and placed it on a metallic mesh basket on the lab table where it burned to ashes. He asked us whether or not the information on the paper was destroyed and not recoverable, and of course we were wrong, because physics tells us that information is never lost, not even in a black hole, and that what is seemingly destroyed is, in fact, retrievable. In that burning paper the markings of ink on the page are preserved in the way the flame flickers and the smoke curls. Wildly distorted to the point of chaos, the information is nonetheless not dead. Nothing, really, dies. Nothing dies. Nothing dies.”

— Nicholas Rombes, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (via bobschofield)

[donttouchmyasymptote]

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

(Aaron Freeman, “Planning Ahead Can Make A Difference In The End”)

[ysociety]

[valtsv]

"hawaiian shirt covered in blood" is a look

[valtsv]

vampire on vacation? assassin whose target has led them to a tropical resort trying to blend in? guy who's just having a really weird day? it vibes whichever way

[ysociety]

[finitumgame]

Latest:

The ‘Nova Serum & Implant’ Launch Gala, in collaboration with Celestia Geonomics, has been announced for the coming months. Omega Cygen CEO, Anthony M. Guillebeaux, was pleased to announce that eight ‘special guests’ will be chosen at random through the company’s customer database and be provided with an all-expense paid weekend trip to the gala’s local. The event of the decade is to be held in Pleiade City, M.a.r.t.h ~ g.A-4. By Invitation Only.

[future-crab]

I love the fear-summoning rituals in the Magnus Archives. When you first hear about them you sort of assume they’re these ancient, intricate rites that have to be carried out in a very specific way, but as the show goes on you realize that no one knows what they’re doing, and avatars are all just trying to do something Fucked Up enough to rip a hole in reality.

Like, the Flesh really went, “What if we threw a whole bunch of meat in a hole? Just way too much meat. Do you think that would work?”

[ghost-cassette]

Things People Tried To Summon Their Favorite God in The Magnus Archives:

- Meat Hole

- Very Hot Lady

- Fortnite Building in the Middle of Nowhere

- Build a Second Sun But Like, the Opposite?

- Even Bigger Hole (with less meat)

- World’s Worst Apartments

- Haunted Murder Boat

- Clown Prom

- Run Forever (forget to finish ritual)

- Traumatize Some Nerd (this one worked)

[bananonbinary]

i know it’s not explicitly stated but “worms but in a circle” was also a potential ritual.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i love that one because its so underwhelming even the characters never really bothered to investigate it#jon was paranoid about every single mystery except that one#‘damn weird worm door huh. anyway.’ 

Jane was doing her best ok

[byrneing]

today my therapist told me that sometimes negative feelings like guilt, anxiety, self loathing, etc are like the hiccups. they’re uncomfortable, we don’t like them, there’s no way to turn them off; they can even be incapacitating for a while. we don’t always know where they came from or when they’ll go away, so sometimes instead of focusing on why we feel a certain way we need to get better at recognizing its temporary nature, keeping perspective, and enduring discomfort. i feel like a lot of self-improvement rhetoric is about pinpointing specific causes for negative thoughts/behaviors so you can eradicate them, but people with chronic mental illness really need to work on allowing themselves to experience these feelings without going into a downward spiral.

[honoriaw]

thank you for this

I want to think on this

I think this may help

[softcore-revolutionary]

Lol I conveniently have hiccups now

[queerpontmercy]

my therapist often reminds me that “why do i feel like this?” can sometimes be a dangerous question to ask yourself alone and leave you digging through all the times you’ve felt guilty/rejected/ashamed before. it’s easy to spiral that way if you’re not careful. with practice, i’ve started asking myself “what do i need to get through this?” the answers to that one are a bit more useful in the moment, and the shift has also helped me be kinder to myself when these feelings come up.

[saltseashark]

pointless ignoble deaths… but who that lived can really say otherwise?

[awanqi]

The Order of Virtues

[yuumei-art]

Continuing my new series inspired by the CA wildfires. For weeks ashes rained down from the skies, the air became hazardous and all I could do was stay home and dream about being able to just breathe again. 

Wildfires like these will only worsen with climate change. Earlier this year I saw photos of the Australian sky turn red from smoke blocking out the sun like the apocalypse. Then I got to experience that red sky here in California.

Climate change is not some distant fable that may or may not happen to our children. It is happening right here right now and it’s up to us to vote for the green policies that will save us from a future of ashes.

[lescarnetsdehaku]

And he never wanted to leave 🐐

Goat kid's take on "Jenny of Oldstones", who played in loop in my headphones while drawing this!

[olowan-waphiya]

Read this pdf of the book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer and maybe you’ll calm down

but seriously everyone should read this. humans arent evil. the future is indigenous.

[kiko-blu-deactivated20231028]

Soey Milk, from her collection “Pida” (”Flowering”)

2015