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I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
I thought I could bypass my humanity by being a god.
I remained human while time passed me by.
The mythical godhood never arrived. I never woke up suddenly changed. That isn’t stop me from hoping against hope while entropy remained constant.
14 years later, I’m greyer, fatter, older.
Maybe it’s finally time to give up on unrealistic dreams.
Time to accept what I really am, and where I am.
Fully inhabit the flesh that I have been given.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
I thought I could bypass my humanity by being a god.
I remained human while time passed me by.
The mythical godhood never arrived. I never woke up suddenly changed. That isn’t stop me from hoping against hope while entropy remained constant.
14 years later, I’m greyer, fatter, older.
Maybe it’s finally time to give up on unrealistic dreams.
Time to accept what I really am, and where I am.
Fully inhabit the flesh that I have been given.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
Just found this in my journal.
Man....
Had this idea seeing all the other versions of the template
If there's one lesson EA taught me with The Sims 4 it's that with enough will power, a company will happily drop you to get a new audience.
I'm one of the simmers that played from TS1, to TS2, to TS3 from the launch of each entry. Multiple expansion packs and stuff packs, especially for TS2 and 3. TS4 came out and it was remarkably underwhelming, especially coming from TS3. Many of us that has been with The Sims from the start got tired and left the series. Look at where The Sims 4 is now, it did the exact opposite of die. Many OG simmers remained but they got a lot of new simmers to keep the game going and growing.
Now, I see a few Destiny 2 players being big mad at Marathon, and I get it. Some even want Marathon to fail, I get that too. Marathon already has a small but dedicated player base, which Sony has recognised. Between Bungie and Sony, they are more than happy to leave unhappy Destiny 2 players in the dust while they find a new audience. They do not care about us, Bungie is not our friend, nor is Sony, and neither is EA. It's entirely possible that Marathon will succeed and thrive as time goes on. They are being nimble enough to realise that if they want new players they have to add new game modes which they are already doing with the upcoming Season 2. I think more than a few people are seeing that Marathon has to be more than an extraction shooter if it wants to draw in more players, and I think Bungie and Sony know this as well.
Where there Bungie, Sony, Destiny 2, and Marathon situation differs from EA and The Sims franchise is that: even though The Sims 4 was a huge let down to many of the long-standing fans, EA somehow managed to not torch all of their goodwill. They eventually added some of the things that inexplicably weren't in the base game at launch and continued to try to make improvement. Even though it was a radically different game, there were attempts from Maxis (or what was left of Maxis) to have some of the original Sims magic in there. The sales figures are also a huge point of difference but I'm mainly talking about player sentiment in this piece.
With the end of Destiny 2 and the push for Marathon, Bungie/Sony has managed to completely piss off and alienate the bulk of Bungie's player base. There is a universe where Destiny 2 came to an end, without the promise of a Destiny 3, and the Destiny 2 players would still be grateful for the time spent in the universe while wishing Bungie well with Marathon even if D2 players were never going to play it. There is a universe where Bungie/Sony managed not to torch their goodwill so thoroughly.
It's not the end of the world however, and I think with proper comms they can get the angry portion of D2 players to back down and even support Marathon. But as things are right now, they shit the bed royally. It really is a masterclass is torching the goodwill of your player base. Just crazy.
Anyway, my main point is; it's likely that Marathon will succeed and thrive and that we will never see anything Destiny related from Bungie again. I understand agitating for a D3 but, personally, I am not holding my breath or expecting it to ever materialise. As far as I know, it truly is the end of Destiny from Bungie but, never say never I guess.
But truly, anytime I notice that the systems in a game seem to be going in a way that I don't like or doesn't jive with me anymore, I always remember the transition from The Sims 3 to The Sims 4. EA didn't need me for TS4 to thrive, regardless of how much I had spent on expansion packs, stuff packs, and on the The Sims Store (remember, you could use coins or something to buy items and worlds, and all that stuff then download them in The Sims 3 launcher?). They had farmed enough from me and were moving on to plant and harvest new players. That's 100% what's up with Marathon and Destiny.
*Post that betrays an underlying insecurity/uncertainty of the validity of my mundane or idiosyncratic subjective experience by attaching it to a larger group identity.*
As a millennial, I really enjoy breathing ya know? Only 90s kids get it.
The Blank Signature by René Magritte
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"The backlash was swift and furious when I tried to love myself…"
Just saw this post on X and it reminded me of the line at the start of this entry, which I had written in my journal about an hour ago.
Weirdly, perhaps, it was just a month ago that I experienced what this poster is talking about. The motivation to take care of myself shifted from a place of shame to a place of love. I regarded myself and my body with a gentleness and expansiveness that I had never felt before. It felt so strange but welcome. I was exercising not because I hated my body but because I felt care towards it, ditto for showering and other expressions of personal hygiene.
Then I fell into a major depressive episode that I haven't gotten out of yet. The self-hate, the shame, all of it came back with a vengeance.
So, I'm still figuring it out, I guess...
by Alex Gamsu Jenkins.
They destroyed my temples and made their heaven the goal. When I got in, they told me I didn't belong there. Their heaven is all I have ever known, all I have ever strived for. My ancestors are mud beneath my feet because of them, softening my step, cushioning my path, but I reach and reach, and strive and strive, to be accepted into the heaven they told me to aim for...
My temples battered and broken, scorn and derision, feelings I have been taught to have.
Their gods must look like me because they are the only ones of value after all.
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