moving to the moon

[undergoingcalibrations]

High-key want Zenos to show up in the Dawntrail Arcadion tournament arc. He's not doing anything nefarious, he's just enjoying the rare sanctioned bloodsport where he's not only allowed but encouraged to eat souls. Turning into a dragon isn't even considered cheating.

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[kammilu]

hugs 🦁

[holdbeast]

Ratio and Aventurine taking care of three black catcakes is the absolute cutest thing ever.

They take after their dads, obviously.

Every so often the three black catcakes travel to Herta Space Station to spend time with other catcakes for enrichment. And every time they bring terrible to their fellows, because they themselves have gotten very good at bluffing, games of chance, and winning really petty and pedantic debates.

[holdbeast]

I like to think that Ratio wore normal jackets and lab gear and blazers before he fell in with the Stonehearts.

Then the events of The Final Victor happened, and he went to his first Strategic Investment Division meeting, and Topaz was like what the hell do you think you’re wearing.

And then Ratio was like, what the hell do you think you’re wearing?

And Topaz was like, duh, my business short-shorts with side cut-outs, obviously???

And who was Ratio to second-guess the Strategic Investment Department’s idea of appropriate work attire? It’s not like he has a wealth of friendly colleagues. Or really any friendly colleagues. Or friends. And Topaz is probably the most sensible person in Pier Point.

Which is how Ratio bought a slutty boob window toga and found his people and stopped being sad that the Genius Society won’t let him sit at their lunch table, the end.

[chatoyie]

veritas ratio :3

[holdbeast]

Ratio/Aventurine didn’t fully come together for me until I realized that this is just a really gay James Bond story.

Ratio is the hot scientist who somehow got sucked into a relationship with 007, and is tying to keep up.

[ecosystem-administrator]

Okay it's four in the morning and I'm not entirely right in the head and I absolutely have not thought through the ramifications of this in its entirety, but

Garleans can't use aether, but they can affect and be affected by dynamis. we've seen this in canon.

Culturally Garleans seem to have a lot of emotional repression, breaking through only when pushed to extremes, which has no doubt prevented them from actualizing the combat potential of dynamis in the past. There is now an opportunity for this to change.

as they rebuild and reform their culture we should see Garlean bards becoming a thing, and they should invent heavy metal

[ecosystem-administrator]

think about it think about it. You've got Garleans coming into direct and peaceful contact with other cultures en masse for the first time since they were exiled. They're going to be learning and absorbing so much, and with no infrastructure, one of the things people do for entertainment is gather to sing and tell stories. They are going to learn about bards. They have plenty of skilled ranged combatants. With lots of half-scrapped magitek components lying around, they have the ability and motivation to experiment with sounds no one's ever thought to turn into music before.

All it takes is one bored engineer working with something that can make different pitch frequencies, realizing that they can manipulate those frequencies on purpose, playing around with it until they can make this hunk of sparking wires and metal play the melody they heard around the campfire the other day. That's always been how things start getting invented. Iterate, clean it up, make it more purposeful, advance it. And what the hell else do we have to do but fine-tune the few things that are still ours?

[ecosystem-administrator]

imagine someone getting a brief glimpse a hundred years into the future, when a fully equipped Garlean combat unit includes a sound system broadcasting metal screams and electric guitars that boost a whole platoon's combat capabilities. visions of madness in the best possible way.

[evercelle]

bust... or maybe i'll take it all!

[holdbeast]

Don’t mind me, I’m just having some feelings about the fact that little baby lieutenant Jing Yuan would easily have been the least famous HCQ member.

And then, eight hundred years later.

He just has to deal with the fact people sell candid photos of him for money, and the rest of the HCQ are mostly remembered for being his dramatic origin story.

What a mindfuck that had to have been to live through in real time.

[cloud-ya]

girls' night

[hunnieknight]

Slumber partyyyy

[stuckinapril]

people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

[mellueminate]

"Oh can I see what stuff you see on Tumblr?"

[shitz-suji]

The wholesomeness of this was literally the biggest serotonin boost ever. My biggest take away from this about Jing Yuan & Yanqing's father/son relationship:

[aratribow]

I LITERALLY LOVE YOU SO MUCH PLEEASE DRAS MORE OF JING YUAN AND YANQING IM BEGGING YOOU THEYRE SCRATCHING THE AUTISITC PART OF MY BRAIN IM BEGGING I LOVE YOUR ARTSYKE SO MUVH

OMG LMAOOOO I CAN FEEL THE LOVE RADIATING FROM THE ASK OP <3

have some floof food from me then, since ur such a sweetheart:3c

M an ABSOLUTE SUCKER FOR JY GIVING YQ THE LONGEVITY LOCK and the fact that it's a custom for parents to give to their child just MELTS MY HEART LMAOO

Jy and yq found family MY BELOVED

[wishingformoredogs]

I will not be silenced.

[medievalthymes]

side eyeing everyone who has an nhl twitter/blog but isn’t hyping up the pwhl right now. like get on that immediately please

[medievalthymes]

like this is so important yet yall keep hyping up the most basic hockey guys I have ever seen. please for the love of god support women’s hockey and help ensure these women can keep going.

[medievalthymes]

IT’S QUEER WOMEN ON ICE!!! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!!!

[medievalthymes]

recap for those who don’t know/weren’t aware WHY this league is so important and why we should support it — this is the first season of the professional women’s hockey league (pwhl) in which these female athletes (olympians, former u18, and college stars, ect) are being properly compensated for their skills — AKA making enough to not have to work two jobs while also playing hockey — it’s not millions but it’s enough — starting at 35k, average at about 55k, and each team will carry a minimum six players signed to three-year contracts paying them $80,000 annually. The highest salary is rumoured to be at 120k. The league already has a collective bargaining agreement as well that covers the next eight years. There have been successful women’s hockey leagues in the past, but none began with the kind of staying power this one has.

it has 6 teams

Toronto

Boston

Minnesota

Ottawa

Montreal

New York

The first season began on Jan. 1, 2024, with each team playing a 24-game schedule, 12 games at home and 12 away. All games are be streamed FOR FREE on the pwhl’s youtube channel. In Canada you can also catch the games on sportsnet, cbc, and tsn depending on the day. Link to the schedule.

This is so big for not only women’s hockey, but women’s sports in general. This league was crafted together as a labour of love by women’s hockey alumni like Jayna Hefford and other female athletes such as Billie Jean King. People who love the sport, and women’s sports in general and want to see it develop and succeed so little girls can have a dream and goal of playing professionally like boys do.

support this league. It’s our best shot

[xiaq]

Reblogging again for the above. Go watch some games!! Support the league!! The schedule is here.

[yuzepi]