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Me just looking at my random obsessions, very sorry if you’ve followed me and expect me to post things. Please read Pale.

[ishdaj]

The Hungry Choir

The moon flickered, like it was trying to hold ten or twelve different positions in the sky at once, the positions close enough to touch one another or overlap, but never sitting still. – Pale, Lost for Words 1.z

The last piece for my Pale arcs 1-3 fanart marathon! Other pieces can be found here and here.

This was mostly a photobash, unlike my usual work. Credits for individual photos under the cut.

Moon - Mike Petrucci Building base - Dibakar Roy Clocktower/gazebo - Jorge Acre Clock - Suki Lee Street - Kaique Rocha Crowd - Noland Live

[thedubiousdallon]

Hey paleblr are y'all fuckin seeing this???? New Pale epilogue chapter about A Hundred Years Lost????? Everyone go fucking insane with me right now

E.z (Part I)

The window of Jude’s bedroom window was a door. It was also a door that had a lot of wind coming through it, in increasing intensities. He

[psychewalker]

Context: After 5 different events put on by Wildbow with the community trying to puzzle out what 100 Years Lost meant, they finally succeeded. This was the reward.

Technically the event is still ongoing with the final(?) vote being “What do you (the character we played as) do now?”

Personally the (Part 1) of it makes me hope we’ll get another drop after it all wraps up.

[psychewalker]

The chapter has now been updated. Same link as above.

[thedubiousdallon]

Hey paleblr are y'all fuckin seeing this???? New Pale epilogue chapter about A Hundred Years Lost????? Everyone go fucking insane with me right now

E.z (Part I)

The window of Jude’s bedroom window was a door. It was also a door that had a lot of wind coming through it, in increasing intensities. He

[psychewalker]

Context: After 5 different events put on by Wildbow with the community trying to puzzle out what 100 Years Lost meant, they finally succeeded. This was the reward.

Technically the event is still ongoing with the final(?) vote being “What do you (the character we played as) do now?”

Personally the (Part 1) of it makes me hope we’ll get another drop after it all wraps up.

[psychewalker]

POST

P O S T Day 1, Part 0 Wren, procrastinating, waited for a while in line, letting some people go ahead, before finding a bit o

For the small number of Pact/Pale fans on here, Wildbow casually dropped a short story in the vein of Poke and Pate.

Except this one is ~35k words.

[rabbit-harpist]

lucy ellingson, after the war. pen with digital color

[tomatosauce5]

Top 100 Pale characters

100.     Framed Piece of Drywall

99.        Bracken

98.        Pistoldew

97.        Mia Campbell-St. James

96.        Reid Musser

95.        The heroic GOAT

94.        She Who Drowns in Moonlight

93.        Shellie Alitzer

92.        Cig

91.        Wallace Davis

90.        Kerry Kelly

89.        January March

88.        Breastbiter

87.        Gillian Ross

86.        Josef Miller

85.        Jeremy Clifford

84.        Sebastian Harless

83.        Basil Winters

82.        Abraham Musser (AJ)

81.        Anselm

80.        Hollow Yen

79.        Vice Principal

78.        Blankshanks

77.        Beatrice (Tiny-Ann) Wint

76.        Tearaway Kid

75.        Shay Graubard

74.        Girl by Candlelight

73.        The Sable Prince

72.        Elizabeth Driscoll

71.        Ramjam

70.        Dish

69.        Kira-Lynn Everett

68.        Adorea Garrick-Prescott

67.        Pipes

66.        Estrella Vanderwerf

65.        Gilkey

64.        Page of Suns

63.        Gashwad

62.        Brie Callie

61.        Ted Havens

60.        The Wolf

59.        Eloise Miraz

58.        Kelsey Kelly

57.        Peckersnot

56.        Raymond Sunshine

55.        Ann Wint

54.        Bangnut

53.        Louise Bayer

52.        Clementine Robertjon

51.        Mallory

50.        Lis

49.        Hazel

48.        Turtle Queen

47.        Biscuit

46.        Horseman

45.        The Bitterstreet Witch

44.        Raquel Musser

43.        Connor Kelly

42.        Nora

41.        Sheridan Kelly

40.        Helen Kim

39.        Theodora (Thea) Knight

38.        Chloe

37.        Bubbleyum

36.        Doglick

35.        Florin Pesch

34.        Sylvia Hayward

33.        Queen Sootsleeves

32.        Cherrypop

31.        Nicolette Belanger

30.        Yalda

29.        Grandfather

28.        Matthew Moss

27.        Freak & Squeak

26.        Melissa Oakham

25.        Charles Abrams

24.        Jude Garrick

23.        Alexander Belanger

22.        Tashlit

21.        Montague

20.        Anthem Tedd

19.        Guilherme

18.        Zed Sadler

17.        Fernanda Whitt

16.        Liberty Tedd

15.        McCauleigh Hennigar

14.        Alpeana

13.        John Stiles

12.        Maricica

11.        Toadswallow

10.        Luna Hare

9.           Marie Durocher

8.           Miss

7.           Rook

6.           Julette

5.           Jasmine Ellingson

4.           Snowdrop

3.           Avery Kelly

2.           Verona Hayward

1.           Lucy Ellingson

[0re]

Fall fae, Maricica (from the web serial Pale) 🍂🕸

Another sketch from last year; never got around to posting it bc I wanted to draw a matching Guilherme but he was not cooperating, so

[artbyblastweave]

Mark Ruffalo's character is incredibly fun as well (Mark Ruffalo) but he also feels overloaded with boo-lights in a way that prevents him from acting as decisive commentary on any of them. He's Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the head of some (deliberately wishy-washy and ill-defined, for the sake of admittedly a pretty good gag) Christian cult of personality and those are like. At least two different strains within the currently ascendant right wing? Elon's not a Jesus freak, to the best of my knowledge. I've got money on those wings eventually eating each other. Would have been a good subplot for the tech bros and evangelicals to eat each other maybe

[thag-simmons]

Bong Joon Ho is Korean and I'm given to understand that the Ruffalo character is a much closer match for their local ascendant right wing types.

[psychewalker]

This was my impression as well, people can look up the Moonies if they’re curious. (This is the same religious group that the assassination of Shinzo Abe was a response to.)

[theaudientvoid]

So, like, we've discussed before Abraham Musser is Wildbow's take on Voldemort. But it's interesting that, just as clearly, Alexander Belanger is Wildbow's take on Dumbledore.

[psychewalker]

Outwardly benevolent and actively helpful headmaster who is subtly utilizing students for an agenda they cannot even comprehend? Yeah, I can see it.

[schrodingers-anarchist]

Which is Worse?

Single Day Timeloop

Long Term Timeloop

Voting ended onMay 30, 2024

Explanations under the line.

The single day loop is much quicker to wear down on your soul as even with the infinity of things you can do, you only have 24 hours, so sooner or later you will have done everything or convinced yourself that you have.

That being said, so much repetition of a single say can lead you to quickly form a mental schedule of everything that happens, allowing you to plan and eventually figure out how to break out of the loop.

The long term loop is slightly less straining on the mind, and allows for greater variety as decisions have more time to ripple out. Be it a week, a month, a year or more, one has more space to change as a person and make new decisions again and again.

But, as the human memory is fallible and there's a lot of space between the repetition of each day, you can forget relevant facts each loop, meaning it can take a hundred times longer to get out of the loop, and you'd still get weary of repetition eventually.

[schrodingers-anarchist]

@eltrolodecadadia @defat1 @st-just @elbiotipo @madnissneverclean @king-jarrod @ivy-meshle @beargeist @cthulhubert

[psychewalker]

I put long time loop being worse purely on the thought of Ted Havens from Pale. Sure a 33 year time loop sounds relatively easy compared to other option, but he had to restart as a fully conscious infant every time. That’s ~two full years of being fully helpless each time. I’m sure he figured out some speedrunning tips, but there’s only so much he could physically do until he grew more.

[theaudientvoid]

Final question. Swift almost certainly exists in the Otherverse. What is Lucy's opinion of her?

[psychewalker]

First off, Mia is a Swiftie.

Because of this, Lucy wrestled through her hipster impulse and gave her a fair shake. She found a couple songs where Swift was trying something different (I Knew You Where Trouble, Blank Space) as well as a few of the more vindictive songs (Better Than Revenge, Mean, Bad Blood, Mad Woman) and tells Mia these are songs she “likes”.

Does she listen to any of these on her own? No. But she did put together a “normie” playlist for parties or road trips with a few of these as well as a few songs from her library she thinks she can get away with.

On a personal level she thinks TS is a celebrity that uses her wealth and power in performative ways to sell albums when there so much she could actually be doing with it. (Lucy would overthrow the Canadian Government given even 1% of her influence.)

[theaudientvoid]

Okay, next question. Did Justin Beiber survive Golden Morning?

[psychewalker]

I think it’s probably a trendy celebrity thing on Bet to have like Endbringer bunkers. Which would have then turned into death traps in the Tohu/Bohu attack. I don’t think he lived to Gold Morning.

[theaudientvoid]

So, we know that Imagine Dragons are a successful music band in the Clawverse. The point of divergence seems to be around 9/11, 2001. Imagine Dragons was founded in 2008, definitely after the divergence. But, the founders were born before the likely divergence, and grew up Mormon so it's likely that they still went to Mormon college together, and so Imagine Dragons still exists.

What do we think Clawverse!Taylor Swift is like?

[psychewalker]

Her first major Nashville audition was in 2000, before divergence, but she didn’t sign with the record label that got her famous until 2005. That record was founded because a high level manager left a label after it was acquired by a former employer. He had seen Swift perform and signed her as one of their first artists. All this is plausible to still happen, especially because say what you will about Swift, she was pretty bound and determined to get famous, and her family had enough resources and faith in her to support that.

From there I can see her first album seeing the same moderate success, maybe even more if they can play up a return to normalcy and the golden days of adolescence as marketing ploys.

I think the major divergence here is I think she stays a country artist. The state of the world is not one that encourages risk taking, and country as a genre performs well in political and social instability. Her big shift is probably away from love songs into something else, maybe political protest songs? Though it’s hard to say where the culture is leaning as a whole.

[theaudientvoid]

Pick an Otherverse Fae Court to have dealings with:

High Spring

Dark Spring

High Summer

Dark Summer

High Fall

Dark Fall

Winter

See Results

Voting ended onMar 8, 2024

[theaudientvoid]

You think spring isn't overly dramatic?

[psychewalker]

High spring is walking through an aristocratic society on hard mode. If you give someone the wrong flower at the wrong event you will become a vase (and not even a good one, one that gets broken in a dramatic set-piece to signal the crass nature of a suitor).

[theaudientvoid]

Pick an Otherverse Fae Court to have dealings with:

High Spring

Dark Spring

High Summer

Dark Summer

High Fall

Dark Fall

Winter

See Results

Voting ended onMar 8, 2024

[psychewalker]

I picked Dark Summer here, though I was close to High Fall as well. My logic is that between successfully negotiating with a fairy and successfully slotting myself into a role as a virtuous hero overcoming a monster I think I could successfully pull off the latter.

[victoriadallonfan]

Reading Mistborn: Well of Ascension

I think it’s too slow for it’s own good. It’s carried very hard by its characters and the mystery of Sazed and the Mists, but otherwise it feels like it keep retreading the same old ground of scenery and character interactions.

I also have mixed feelings on the plot about dresses and mens clothing for Vin. I don’t think it’s a bad plot - I love crises of identity - but it does feel like a bit biased towards ‘woman instinctively like wearing dresses’ at this point.

Hoping that isn’t the case later on

[victoriadallonfan]

Please stop using flushed

Flushed is banned

Flushing is punishable by swats on the head with a newspaper

[psychewalker]

Well of Ascension is definitely my least favorite of the OG Mistborn trilogy. Far too slow, but I will say it does a ton of really important set-up, the ending might be the best in Sanderson’s entire bibliography.

[dndspellgifs]

MtG is previewing one of their upcoming expansions is gonna be woodland creatures themed and each 2-color faction is a type of animal and im already obsessed with the frogs being simic

[psychewalker]

Of the three revealed cards we have Selesnya Rabbits, Boros Mice, and Izzet Otters.