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Philippines '97 || lurking and reblogging to my heart's content

[cosmic-espero]

Ash canonically having aura powers is one of the funniest things any anime has ever done because he just... doesn't care

Like, for any other anime this would be the moment the plot truly kicks up. You know, having your main character find out that he has superpowers and stuff, plus the whole Jedi stuff. But Ash just straight up doesn't care, it's like having Ben Tennyson find the Omnitrix and be like "that's cool and all but I wanted to be a professional soccer player"

[randomtheidiot]

It’s even funnier when you consider the fact that Ash is the strongest aura user ever shown in the anime…

…to the point where a Pokémon that reads aura mistakes him for a long dead aura guardian based on vibes alone. Note that Ash is ten years old and has had no prior training.

Assuming that aura can change with time and effort, just like every other human trait, this means that some random ass child is just as strong as a legendary aura guardian despite barely even knowing what aura is outside of the Pokémon move Aura Sphere.

And that's not even the extent of it. In the rare moments that Ash remembers he's a fucking energybender, he has done the following:

Transferred his power to help Sir Aaron's Lucario heal a dying Mew's symbiotic rock tree. (And by extension, Mew itself.)

Astral project and see through the eyes of Pokémon. (This has happened several times. Just check the Aura page on Bulbapedia.)

Use a keystone to locate its matching mega stone. It's never fully explained why this works outside of "stupid magic bullshit".

See and interact with a dead boy* without even knowing he's dead, to the point where he can fucking project his own senses onto the kid's soul so that he can vicariously pet the fluffy mouse creature. The same thing actually happened in XY.

Telepathically communicate with his Lucario during a battle and discuss what move it should use next.

There's also this fan theory that the strange ripples that sometimes appear around Ash in Pokémon Journeys are aura waves being generated by his excitement, but it's not confirmed and it might just be a stylistic choice.

This isn't even the extent of what aura can do in the anime. It's just the stuff that Ash instinctively knows how to do without training. Please, I implore you, check out the Bulbapedia page on aura right now. This shit's crazy.

It's also shown that the bond phenomenon is linked to aura, but aura isn't outright confirmed to be the catalyst.

If he did decide to get some proper training, he could become the strongest aura user ever. And he’s just fucking around on a Pokémon journey.

*Of course, the whole "speak with the dead" thing could be explained by the fact that Ash has been a ghost possessing his own corpse since Episode 23 of Indigo League, but it's explained in-universe as Ash using aura to help Sunny pet Pikachu, so interpret that how you will.

TLDR: Pokémon lore is batshit insane and Ash Ketchum is a magical zombie Jedi that can see ghosts and he canonically doesn't give a fuck. I love you, Pokémon. Never change.

Note: I was originally going to completely dissect aura and its place in Pokémon lore, but decided against it for the sake of OP's mental health. Will post a full essay on aura and the history of aura when I get around to it.

[randoms-pokemon-garbage]

Reblogging this old thing from my account before I split things up into sideblogs.

Also I did write most of the essay but. I can’t fucking find it.

[niennanir]

Listen to your elders

So last week I posted abut the importance of downloading your fic. And then three days later AO3 went down for 24 hours. No one was more weirded out by this than I was. But while y’all were acting like the library at Alexandria was on fire I was reading my download fic and editing chapter eight of Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century. And also thinking about what I could do to be helpful when the crisis was actually over.

So first off, I’m going to repeat that if you’re going to bookmark a fic, you really need to also download the fic and back it up in a safe place. I just do it automatically now and it’s a good habit to get into.

But let’s talk about some other scenarios. Last October I lost power for over a week after hurricane Ian. Apart from not having internet or A/C I did find plenty to do, I collect books so I had plenty to read, but maybe, unlike me, your favorite comfort reads aren’t sitting on a bookshelf. So let’s do something about that, shall we?

In olden times many long years ago around 1995 we printed off a lot of fic. It was mostly SOP to print a fic you planned to reread and stick it in a three ring binder. And that’s totally valid today too, but you can also make a very nice paperback with a minimum amount of skill and materials.

Let’s start with the download; Go to Ao3 and select your fic, we’ll be working with one of mine. This method works best with one shots, long fic tends to need a more complicated approach. Get yourself an HTML download

Open up the HTML download and select all then copy paste into any word processor. Set the page to landscape and two columns, then change the font to something you find easy to read, this is your book, no judgement. This is all you have to do for layout but I like to play a little bit. I move all the meta, summary, notes to the end and pick out a fun font for the title: 

No time like the present to do a quick proofread. Congratulations, you’ve just created your first typeset. On to the fun part.

Now you’re going to need some materials:  8.5x11in paper ruler one sheet of 12x12 medium card stock (60-80lb) scissors pencil pen or fine tip marker sheet of wax paper white glue two binder clips 2 heavy books or 1 brick butter knife

You’ll also need a printer, if you’re in the US there is almost a 100% chance your local library has a printer you can use if you don’t have your own. None of these materials are expensive and you can literally use cheap copy paper and Elmers glue.

Print your text block, one page per side. Fold the first page in half so that the blank side is inside and the printed side out:

use the butter knife to crease the edge. Repeat on all the sheets. When you’ve finished, stack them up with the raw edge on the left and the folded edge on the right. I used standard copy paper, because you’re only printing on one side there’s no bleed to worry about. Take the text block and line everything up. Use the binder clips to hold the raw edge in place.

Wrap the text block in the wax paper so that the raw edge and binder clips are facing out. I’m going to use my home built book press but you don’t need one, a brick or a couple of books or anything else heavy will work fine.

Once the text block is anchored down, take off he binder clips and get out the glue.

You can use a brush but you don’t need one, smear some glue on that raw edge.

Go make a margarita, watch The Mandalorian, call your mother. Don’t come back for at least an hour

In an hour smear some more glue on there and shift your brick forward so that the whole book is covered. This keeps the paper from warping. While glue part 2 is drying we’ll do the cover. Get out your 12x12 cardstock

Mark the cardstock off at 8.5 inches and cut it. Measure in 5.5 inches from the left and put in a score line with the butter knife (the back edge not the sharp edge)

Carefully fold the score line, this is your front cover. You have some options for the cover title, you can use a cutting machine like a cricut if you have one, you can print out a title on the computer and use carbon paper to transfer the text to the cardstock. I was in a mood so I just freehanded that beoch. Pencil first then in pen.

Take your text block out from under your brick. Line it up against the score mark and mark the second score on the other side of the spine

Fold the score and glue the textblock into the cover at the spine. Once the glue dries up mark the back cover with the pencil and then trim the back cover to fit with your scissors.

Voila:

I’m going to put this baby on the shelf next to the Silmarillion.

The whole process, not counting drying time, took less than an hour.

If you want to make a book of a longer fic, I recommend Renegade Publishing, they have a ton of resources for fan-binders. 

[tgatbc]

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[loathesme]

🐈 i made a (fork) of the ClanGen cat maker!

hi again Tumblr! so I've been working on a little fork of the popular cat maker for my server (The Withering), that runs on the popular ClanGen MegaMerge sprites, and I finally want to show it off. it's free(and forked from the original), there's nothing to download, you just open it and start making cats.

play here: 👉 https://thewitheringpages.github.io/clangen-pixel-cat-maker-fork/

some stuff you can do:

🎨 build a cat from a genuinely huge pile of parts (that lock incompatibles smartly!) (vanilla, Sparkle, Lifegen, all the 'mod' pelts), then paint on top of it with an actual little pixel editor if you want to get specific.

👶 pick two cats and see what kittens they'd have. you can pin the babies you like and reroll the rest until the litter feels right

🌳 grow a whole family tree, breed cats right inside it, and hover over anyone to light up their ancestors and descendants

everything shares one gallery too, so a cat you save in the maker shows up in the predictor and the tree without any fuss. you can also export your cats and trade them with friends.

it's a fork built on top of CrazythecatDraws' MegaMerge maker and the original cgen-tools one, sprites are by the ClanGen team. please keep it non commercial, and credit ClanGen for the art, that's the only ask 💛

if you make something cute with it i would genuinely love to see it. tag me!

[thewitheringrp]

WARRIOR CATS: THE WITHERING

Something rotten has infected the land, bringing loss and darkness in its wake. The air tastes putrid with a disease no clan has ever seen. Starclan has fallen in their holy battle, and the valley feels hollow beneath your paws, every beat of your frantic heart being on borrowed time...

Something has taken hold, festering unseen and quiet. It twists its victims into something else, something horrific and lost. The clans call it the "Black Rot", and no cat is truly safe from what is lurking closer and closer with each breath.

The Withering is a realistic, literate, 18+ Warrior Cats roleplay set in the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Range, carrying themes of disease, decay, and survival.

You can join us on discord, and read more about the clans and the roleplay by visiting our website.

☠︎︎ Four fully fleshed out clans, plus the addition of Kittypets, barn cats, and loners. ☠︎︎ A LGBTQ+ Friendly, literate community ☠︎︎ A fully custom-made server bot exclusive to The Withering. ☠︎︎ User-driven plot! Your choices can twist or save the story. ☠︎︎ Roll-based events for unpredictable turns. ☠︎︎ Scheduled plot days and unique events to go up in server history. ☠︎︎ Gore, violence, disease, and many other graphic written imagery for immersive roleplay.

Black Divider // Paw Print Divider

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[today-till-tomorrow]

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

[venusswasaboy]

I quote this and laugh to myself very, very often.

[cerleansky]

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

[speaklavenderthoughts-deactivat]

absolutely obsessed with these tags

[valtsv]

i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

[amazoogle]

[kvothbloodless]

Hey. Hey!

[puke-ur-gutz]

[ahopefulsun]

Wishing all of you a very merry "I suddenly have the motivation and time to write a minimum 10k fic"... please

[festival-of-pudding]

[lemonsharks]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[stella-draws-things]

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[petalkitshadow]

realized in my timeline that Hailstar cheats on Rainflower with Echomist while Rainflower is cheating on him with Shellheart

[kittenattack]

the endless of loop wanting nothing more than the attention, affection, and company of the one person i cannot and must not crave these things from is an incredibly heavy and pathetic loneliness

[beggars-opera]

Everyone in this family is hilarious no notes

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]