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Medivh / the Laudarant Configuration. villain of a thousand faces. mercurial dionysian hyperentity. born in the 1980s. this is a personal blog. my flawless curation (reblogged posts) is done over at @gnarlyathotep and @laudarant.

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I have beef with Diablo IV right now. We are NOT friends (made me cry on two levels: the "I am Rathma and that's my mom in there" level and the "I have been playing Diablo III since 2016 and Lorath is my longtime bestie" level)

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also thank you @unholyhymns (nice custom emoji) and @dapuritojo-potinija for the well-wishes 🌻

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okay, back in my robotripping days we used to say that DXM should be prescribed as like a mood stabiliser or something but I didn't think they'd actually do that

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May the 28th.  Back to Carcosa.

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lurking internet fights is so dissatisfying because, sorry to say: online leftists suck at arguing. girl I am trying to understand this woman's deal and you're crashing out about the absolute wrong detail in her ~inflammatory statement~ and so all I'm getting is her repeatedly defending the part of her statement that makes sense, not the part that doesn't, because y'all constantly get hung up on the wrong goddamn things 🤬🤬🤬

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One of the cardinal rules of the modern Internet: If you wait long enough, someone will say what you're already thinking, and you can just repost that instead of wasting your one life pontificating about The Latest Bullshit.

Defining White Woman Victimization Brain

Tara Knight’s recent series of essays on self-vicitimizing puppygirls has caused quite a stir across the transgender internet.

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@oldxenomorph I spent way too long on this, most of that time spent cackling like an idiot

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when will my load-bearing mutual come back from the war *stares out of window pensively*

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spent a straight half-hour answering this on bsky because I'm insane. never give me even an iota of an opportunity to talk about Dayir's sex life, I will take that shit and run for miles.

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I get so sick of hearing about how terribad and super evil tiktok is from people who don't use tiktok or used it for 10 minutes total. From now on, I only want to hear complaints about tiktok from people who actually use it.

Some not-valid tiktok complaints

ooohhhh it's just content meant to manipulate you and make your mental health so so bad (algorithmic socmed will always take the path of least resistance/most engagement for a new user; fortunately it also responds to bullying it into submission to your will) (also some of you just have poor mental health and while the app's algo may certainly be latching onto that, it didn't CAUSE it)

oooohhhh everything is just short soundbites for iPad babies (every video on my fyp is 3 to 10 minutes long. because the algo caught on to the fact that I liked long videos. I didn't even know the photo carousel thing existed until Sparrow started sending me those bc THEY get them a lot because THEY watch short-form stuff a lot and the app responded accordingly) (getting on tiktok is now a cognitive investment on par with getting on youtube at this point lol I can watch like 3 to 6 videos and then I'm done for the day bc those videos were so dense)

it's all stupid ragebait shit (again. the algo responds to what YOU engage with. just saying...)

Some valid tiktok complaints

the rampant misinfo (yeah that exists everywhere but unfortunately the way ppl engage on tiktok encourages more of it)

the comment sections are a trashfire (so fucking true. also the likelihood that people will write and post a comment 5 seconds into the video without even listening to the whole thing or even HALF of the thing is like 95%) (viewer stats WILL tell on y'all. the creators know for a FACT that y'all ain't payin attention)

you will constantly be advertised to (IT'S LIKE FUCKING WHACKAMOLE. I am constantly blocking these corpo and influencer accounts and they KEEP COMING. a fucking PLAGUE)

not enough time in the day to watch jumping spider silly-voiceover videos & aesthetician product-breakdown videos & local recipe videos from people halfway across the world & fashion/culture/class critique videos & Madeline Pendleton talking about literally anything & videos of that one woman building a lifesize 3d-printed Horus Lupercal in her backyard (the downside of having a working attention span and also the desire to do other things with my day. sighhhh) (I did get to see her finish the Horus build though. what an experience)

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5/13/26

Who is your wol(oc)'s ancient? What were they like?

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Osiris: an aberration, a malignant mutation, a cancerous blight upon stagnant, restrained Amaurot. An outsider who was born amongst them, in comparison to Wenet, one born elsewhere who ingratiated herself through cunning and guile. The seat of Azem exists because of the latter; the seat of Azem ceases to exist because of the former. And yet, the influence of Azem (of them both) persists long after Amaurot is ruins fragmented under fourteen different seas.

Osiris is moody, intense, drawn to darkness. She is simultaneously attractive and repellant to many Amaurotians. Her closest companions aside from Wenet are Isis (called Halmarut) and Setekh (called Emet-Selch), who take vastly different approaches to their relationship with and understanding of her (as echoed throughout the centuries post-Sundering). She cares deeply for Etheirys and wishes to set it free. She forms an incredible bond with Sibha, the entelechy creation of Thoth (called Fandaniel), which eventually breaks them both -- and then the world.

She is an extinction entity, a cosmic time-bomb poised to unleash a torrent of wild creation that would break all order and remake all life. She is Etheirys's doom and its deliverance. She is Love and Will, Chaos made flesh, end as beginning, death as renewal. Sun and Singularity.

She also really loves bunnies. Hares exist because Thoth went, "well, if Osiris likes rabbits so much, I should make one that looks like her" and he just has such a wicked sense of humour.

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I just got home and what the absolute cocksucking hell is this.

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obligatory "I do this one every time I see it on my dashboard bc the answers are always different" tag-game moment

Last reads: The last book I finished was The Damnation of Pythos by David Annandale. That one was interesting, I liked the philosophical questions (faith as the antidote to terror, whether right action is determined by the action itself or its consequences, etc) and also all the daemony stuff. I love daemony stuff. In case no one knew that.

Current Read: Deliverance Lost by Gav Thorpe. Decent enough so far. But I've been slackin on it because this challenge is grinding me to dust (I'm still interested in it but I think I should start interleaving other books in between for the sake of palate-cleansing).

Last series: The last TV show I watched was an episode of Documentary Now. The show is funnier than I thought it would be. But I wish Fred Armisen wasn't such a good actor who is always in good shows because I hate looking at his face 😭

Last Movie: The Fountain. For, you know, the 7th time or so. It'd be more if I could stand to be that emotionally flayed more often. I can barely listen to the climactic song from the soundtrack half the time, it's just Too Much.

Last Song: City of Gods, Fivio Foreign and Kanye and Alicia Keys.

Last Game: Fallout 4. Finally found all of Nick's fuckass tapes. Time to swap him out for Piper and see what her deal is. (I'm trying to learn about the other companions because I typically only travel with Preston and I realised I was missing out on a lot of other shit because of that, lol. Nick and Piper have complementary personalities to my Sole Survivor so they're easy but I don't know if I'm going to be able to raise enough affinity with any of the others...)

Sweet or Salty: Yes. Together. But I prefer salty over sweet overall.

Coffee or Tea: I had pomegranate green tea this morning.

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evolutionarily speaking, Ayin, this body, was definitely made to be an endpoint lmao as in, we don't have a single function that would contribute to the propagation of genetic matter.

we, for some reason, don't experience the chemical cocktail that is the foundational drive of relationship-seeking (and when we do, it's for people who, biologically speaking, do not exist). we also have no familial feelings.

the bulk of our dysphoria comes from the reproductive aspects of the body specifically, which drives us to impede its reproductive function as much as possible (we'd cut the whole thing out if we could afford it).

nothing about outworld sex is intriguing or unique enough for us to want to have it. we have no "sex drive" in the sense that we have no drive to have sex with physical human beings -- our libido is entirely happy being self-contained/exclusive to Inworld. we definitely don't have a parental instinct. there is no positive benefit to us to taking care of an infant

we are demand-avoidant, contrarian, easily overloaded by just the presence of other people, and just overall kind of unfriendly. we lack a competitive drive. we do experience the drive for connexion but our needs in that respect are far more arcane and contradictory than they have any right to be.

this is a body engineered for hermitage more than anything else. and yet in typical contrarian fashion we insist upon existing smack-dab in the middle of human society and doin human shit like we belong here. just muckin up the works on a daily basis

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I have a comic strip idea in my head that's like

Zenos: *pets [viera OC]* [viera OC]: :3 Zenos: <3

Zenos: *pets Dayir* Dayir: ^////^ <3 Zenos: <3 <3

Zenos: *reaches out to pet Ishan* Ishan: >:( *stabs* Zenos: <3 <3 <3

lmaoo

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god dammit and I still can't draw