Heir of Time

'The words themselves are the beginning and the end.' - Sebastian Faulks

[prokopetz]

The thing that bothers me about cyberpunk-themed smut is that it's always like "oh no, cyborg genitals", and every time it's just a scary-looking penis. If I was going to the trouble and expense of having my junk replaced with heavy machinery, I wouldn't settle for what God intended, all right? I'm talking about robotic appendages which enable modalities of intercourse heretofore unknown to science. You know? Members which by their very existence perturb the ontology of fucking.

[prokopetz]

[mrvalane]

In the bedroom confused and frustrated: "I think I might be colourblind"

[headspace-hotel]

My robot partner: "It's okay, we can try something else"

Me, crying and cussing trying to give my robot partner a handjob, with a video tutorial entitled "How to solve a rubik's cube" pulled up on my phone:

[strangesmallbard]

the difference between fantasy and sci-fi? well there’s a “quest” and then there’s a “mission”

[explosionshark]

In fantasy you have companions and in sci-fi you have squadmates

[theredtrails]

In fantasy you have "'coins" and in sci-fi you have "credits"

[threewhiskeylunch]

In fantasy you have "magic" and in sci-fi you have "powers"

[mxwhore]

i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”

[mxwhore]

uploaded this at 1 am thinking ‘oh no one is going to see this, whatever :)’ but reading your thoughts, your heartbreak and ultimately your hope made me feel like the world is one yknow what? We got this

[santapau]

New Secret Knots comic, "The River". I hope you like it!

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[sticksandsharks]

demonology // angelology

names & bases in image description.

some sticker sheets I hope to have for MCM London later this month!

[arirna]

[rollhistory]

Listen, if you interrupt me with a new task while I’m midway through another, you aren’t allowed to be mad when I switch to the new task immediately. You clearly thought the new task was important enough to interrupt me with it!

I am just a little pikmin! You’re the one with the whistle!!

[rollhistory]

‘You need to learn to prioritise’ no YOU do! You’re the one dishing out tasks!! All I need to do is take things back to the onion!

[animentality]

[10kheadlessmen]

I adore trans harry headcanons so much but I have to wonder. did he forget what being transgender is in these hcs. does he think EVERY guy has a pussy. or is he post-phallo/meta & has utterly no idea he is not cis. there is untapped potential here I feel

[spunchthegoblin]

ENCYLOPEDIA - Most men have two testicles, you are male so you likely also have two testicles.

HALF LIGHT - You should check, just to be sure.

Openly check how many balls you have

[INTERFACING - Formidable] - Subtly check how many balls you have

"Hey Kim, do I seem like a guy that would have two perfectly average testicles?"

No. I'm normal. (discard thought)

[INTERFACING - Success] - You pad around for a bit while no one is looking and... nothing. You are completely flat down there. You have no balls.

DRAMA - He speaks truly, sire. You have no balls to speak of.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Holy shit. What the Fuck.

LOGIC - Don't freak out, there must be a logical explanation for this.

[LOGIC - Impossible] - Come up with an explanation

"KIM WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY BALLS"

Break down crying

[LOGIC - Failure] - You have been neutered.

[catsoverloaded]

A black dragón floating above the clouds

[themediocrehuman]

So others need not squint to read “On March 11, 889 CE, 17 year-old Emperor Uda wrote:  ‘On the 6th day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwasahi.  The color of its fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long. In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. you cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were a circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds. By nature, it stalks birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.’”

[kaity--did]

Starting a new thread of insane shit I over hear my husband say to our toddler.

“Here, will this rice cake cracker sate your dark passanger?”

[kaity--did]

2. “Come now my child.”

*bluey the album starts playing*

[kaity--did]

3. “Oh I am so sorry. You’ve been mildly inconvenienced. How dare I truly”

[kaity--did]

4. “It is she! Her Majesty, Queen of the Sludge, Keeper of Goo, DJ Baby P (In the House) Dropper of Beats and Clapper of Hands”

[kaity--did]

5. He is in charge of bathtime and he lifted the ghoul tonight while singing “come with me and you’ll be in a world of baby sanitation” and I laughed so hard I snorted pasta

[kaity--did]

6. Okay this is more one that he said to me about the toddler but he was home with her while I was at work and I just got this text

[kaity--did]

7.

“Happy Independence Day Sweetie! Nationalism is a cancer!”

[kaity--did]

8. This is another one he said to me about her but still it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked

[kaity--did]

9.

*Penny babbling in the back seat, many la la las coming from her car seat*

“Are you singing us a song? Ah yes the dulcet tones of goblin”

[kaity--did]

10.

“Listen kid, I can’t let you have the cup anymore because you keep chugging the bath water, so we just have to remove the cup from the equation.”

[kaity--did]

11.

*penny is screaming, trying to climb back up a big slide at the playground*

“Someday you’ll learn about ,I don’t know physics and the myth of Sisyphus ,and you’ll start making a lot of connections I think. “

[kaimaciel]

[internal-morgan]

[3liza]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

[3liza]

[3liza]

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

[applesforhela]

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

[nonasuch]

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:

[leam1983]

Awesome worldbuilding. There's nothing quite like an alternate-history Meiji era-samurai wearing a bowler hat and a Tasho with lapels, possibly paired with two six-shooters on top of his katana and wakisashi.

I know that none of the above is fictitious, but it really makes my Steampunk mind-goblin cackle with glee.

[cordspaghetti]

middle of nowhere, NJ

[coppersunshine]

Weird niche knowledge sharing tangent time, but this is probably not actually that far outside a town or is in a more populated rural area because those are telecom lines, not electrical. With three separate lines (the fourth one on the left side is a small tap and would be the same company as one of the main lines), it means the area has enough population to support them. In really rural areas you get maaaybe one telecom line, if any, but usually it's just the electrical.

[cordspaghetti]

this is SO COOL. i’m not gonna be able to stop counting lines now lol… love to learn things. but yeah definitely not very rural, just on the edge of town sandwiched between some woods and field and an alpaca farm :)

[valtsv]

characters will literally get a headache or nosebleed out of nowhere and be like "huh. weird. well it's probably nothing." girl, look around you. you're in a story. it's relevant to the plot.

[valtsv]

[jewishpangolin]

[erebones]

Just felt the need to bring this around :D.

Source: Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant)

[dduane]

…Oh gods. :/

[gender-luster]

listen, i know they're evil. i know they're a villain. i know they're completely unhinged and off the rails. i know they're a little bit of a bastard, and i know that they're a sneaky, tricky bitch. and you know what? i love them for it