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Hey! I'm Sarah, representing guild Portmantra! You'll often see me crossover with knight-of-the-thorn, deadlock-fractals, and fractal-quadrilioquy. Likes/follows from atalana.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @urlocalllama

BOOOM! :)

text: JUST BLOW THE DAMN GATE, CANACH

[guildtree]

Do you think papers from Rata Sum treat asura as the default research subject like America treats white men? They're doing "broad-spectrum" medical research but all the test subjects are asura. There's one teensy little paragraph at the end about how it might change for other races.

"The authors suggest that if the complainants want research on THEIR races, THEY should write the paper. This research was partially funded by the Durmand Priory."

[guildtree]

Other terrible things that are probably happening in the Tyrian scientific community:

* spotting Inquest members in old papers is like spotting eugenicists in our world: there are a scary amount of them and they're often quite famous

* every biology paper on sylvari eventually refers back to that one time the asura tore apart a bunch of Secondborn to look at their guts and we all just have to live with that

* humans are constantly trying to prove their gods are real. In Tyria there actually IS concrete evidence but there's definitely a lot of speculation and conspiracy theory especially as people try to physically explain every old legend

* norn fitness advice is often just human data scaled up. This doesn't work because norn hold weight and muscle and process food differently to handle the cold

* Norn also have primarily oral history that went ignored for the longest time. Thanks to its location in the Shiverpeaks and its founder's focus on personal stories, the Durmand Priory has the largest collection of norn dialects, stories, and culture in the world. Still, hundreds of languages and legends have doubtlessly been lost to Jormag

* Bangar's Minister of Morale introduced a ton of fraudulent research falsely glamorizing charr biology, culture, and ferocity. The Legions haven't fought this as much as they probably should because fear is a useful weapon when half your army recently died to civil war

* The Dragon Cycle wreaks merry havoc on archaeology and paleontology. You might get preserved ruins from the last Cycle, but two or three cycles in? Forget it. Is that extinct creature you dug up really hard-shelled or did Kralkatorrik just get to it? Who knows?! You can date things by looking at which geologic layers of Brand/dead jungle matter/permafrost they're sandwiched between though, so that's cool

* dragons are also a very convenient cop-out excuse. Don't know why your ancient civilization suddenly collapsed? Must have been dragons! Can't explain that weird landmass or odd weather pattern? Dragons! Don't understand an ancient myth? Clearly they knew a secret about the dragons! It's very hard to concretely disprove and it drives specialists crazy

[roboticbat]

ok hear me out

playing a healer is not actually bottoming for gamers, it’s definitely topping or at the very least power bottoming. You decide who lives and dies

playing tank on the other hand, that’s bottoming. you take hits for everyone else and beg healers for heals

[thelegendofkungjew-archived-dea]

ooooh daddy i’m squishy for healies

[angered-tanks]

you are excommunicated from the brotherhood of tanks

[blufox3542]

This is just one of a series of polls for the GW2 Community, but

What if your favorite way to play Engineer?

Core Engineer

Scrapper

Holosmith

Mechanist

Amalgam

Voting ended onJun 29

[jawlivari]

personally the prequel element doesnt bother me because it gives the npcs opportunities to say things like "orr will never fall" and "isnt orr awesome i hope nothing bad ever happens to it"

[guardian-instincts-bad]

my most self indulgent wish is for there to just be something completely inexplicable in gw3 that doesn't appear in either of the first games and makes no sense to have disappeared but they never draw attention to it, a la that one twitter post

[cindermetalheadgw2]

Skyscales can find vertical surfaces to cling to that the six, the spirits of the wild, the eternal alchemy, and all the mists have never even conceived of. The concept of a mime was invented by skyscales

[bluebudgie]

art imitates life

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[cathedralofeternalradiance]

Gw2blr a question for you!!

when you do mapcomp, what do you finish first? barring waypoints!

hearts

points of interest

hero points/challenges

vistas

Voting ended onApr 7

[ratasum]

Incredibly disheartening to look up "low intensity" builds and find a bunch of threads of people saying that LI builds are "just for lazy people not interested in getting good."

Those builds are great for people with low mobility, poor memories, not a lot of time to spend just memorizing builds, multiple varieties of physical and mental disabilities, or even just. Not wanting to have to work for the time spent on a full time job to learn to "get good."

This game isn't my job. I have poor reflexes and, due to past Issues in my life, a poor memory. These builds are amazing for me!

It makes me sad to think this kind of mindset is what keeps people from trying raids at all. I know it intimidated me a lot. But I'm finally trying and have a good group of people who get me.

And I'll use this moment to hype AW2! They're updating a bunch of their builds at the moment but they've got some great stuff.

[vezimira]

had a rough time doing map completion last night

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The most obsession inducing trait a character can have for me is knowing somewhere in their heart That They Are A Bad Kid

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

This isn't necessarily literal. It can apply to characters who aren't children too. But there's something about characters who are either certain of the fact, or terrified of the possibility, that they are just fundamentally wrong and bad at their core

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

It is also important to me that it is not true. No one is fundamentally broken and evil.

[senatortedcruz]

[guardian-instincts-bad]

@knight-of-the-thorn

[magecrow]

asura pikrewe update!!

→ LINK HERE

2 new hair colors (orange, yellow)

1 new hairstyle option

I think I've burnt myself out a little bit on this project 😓 so clothing update might spill into next month, but I will try my best

thank you friends for the feedback + ideas + coffee, and for trying pikrewe!

get involved!

in preparation for the clothing update, let me know if there are any iconic accessories/clothing pieces that you would like to see!

I always appreciate general feedback sent to my inbox too

thank you! ♥

just trying out my picrew means a lot to me! if you’d like to further support me, you can treat me to a coffee— thank you!☕️

[d1sapp01ntm3nt]

picking up my favorite characters like this and carrying them around with me

[guardian-instincts-bad]

@skimmy-is-immortal doing this to mye

[fractal-quadrilioquy]

Now that it's been delivered safely, I can reveal my holiday gift for @skimmy-is-immortal , featuring/for her Commander, Mye! I enjoyed working on it, and I'm glad she likes it :D

A few notes below the cut:

- The flowers are my attempt at sewing her namesake flowers of Myosotis Monroi, which are only found natively down here in the South Island, Aotearoa.

- The dark teal background for contrast also represents her co-commander, @guardian-instincts-bad 's Moroleth.

- I used colours that matched Mye's outfits and general sense of style, which meant a lot of different shades of pink and purples.

- With so much of both Mye and Mirages in general dealing with mirrors, I made it symmetrical down the middle, but also had the sides try to flow together; so two corners are sharp while the other two are soft.

- Signed with a star, for Star!