#d007ization

[paintingpuff]

How does Cult of the Lamb work? And what's your favorite spider and favorite spider behavior?

It's a game where you're a cult leader separated into two distinct styles of gameplay: roguelike combat and base building (idk the genre name). You build your cult base and go on expeditions. Expeditions give you resources to expand your cult. Expand your cult to give you benefits when on expeditions. It's a very addictive loop.

As for favorite spider, I am not immune to the alluring dance of the peacock spider.

[st-just]

Please tell me you have ideas for what the modern versions of the rest of the Greek Pantheon would look like (and that you'd be willing to share them).

So only for like half of them (I just, do not have thoughts about Poseidon, sorry), and none of these are exactly original (and are all probably overly meanspirited), but for the ones I do-

Zeus - Honestly just want to say 'literally Berlusconi' but that's not that interesting is it?

Hades - Trad-masculinity influencer. Not even as a grift, he owns a mining company or something, he just has a lot of advice to offer young men about dating and how to make women commit.

Apollo - Yeah this one's just going to have to be 'med school golden boy sex pest/future #metoo scandal wherever he gets hired'

Artemis - Has significantly more dogs than human friendships. Takes probably excessive pride in hunting her own meat. Shared a lot of 'humanity are the real virus' memes during lockdown, and still hasn't gotten vaxed because big pharma. Probably not online enough to be an actual terf but like, the spirit's there.

Hermes - Thoughtleading Thinkfluencer tweeted and instagramed and youtubed and substacked his way into relevance despite zero expertise in anything except brand-building and now he's got a podcast with a six-digit subscriber count. Actually very funny, but has definitely dunked on numerous people with his million-follower twitter account and basically ruined their lives.

Aphordite - okay this one's just obvious. Beauty vlogger and tiktok star and the picture next to 'toxic femininity' in the dictionary. #girldinner #girlmath #coquette etc. Directly responsible for at least a dozen eating disorders.

Ares - from everything my friend whose really into it has ever said, he would 100% be an MMA guy, or at least a former one. Like, Joe Rogan wannabe except with none of the chill or comedy and significantly more macho bragging about fucked up stuff he's done. Most likely to get high at a party and commit a hate crime.

[humming-fly]

Fullmetal Alchemist Birds

Here it is a full summary of all the birds that’ve collectively been found in the original fullmetal alchemist manga let’s go

The Omake’s are unfortunately non-canon but there it is proof that arakawa has at lest once drawn a real bird we’re off to a great start Noncanon/10

Look at that bird silhouette - while it was clearly added for humor that is a definite bird shape and could be our first real bird sighting! Omen/10 lets see if we can do better 

Oooh nice, the Hohenheim-Dying Bird. Is it a real bird? Is it a metaphor for life and death and the transition between them? Who can say for certain! There’s at least one feather in there so even if it’s a ghost it’s got Detail: Metaphysical/10!

The first bird doesn’t get much definition and it only shows up as a background smear so we can’t say for certain it’s not a freaky chicken but the odds are good that is at least one more real bird! ProbablyABird/10!

There’s no feathers to be seen but they’ve got beaks and what look sort of like wings so they’re well on their way to being actual honest to god birds! WillBeABird/10!

THERE IT IS LOOK AT THAT!!! IT’S GOT FEATHERS AND WINGS AND ACTUALLY FULLY EXISTS IN MORE THAN ONE PANEL!!! HOLY SHIT THERE’S AT LEAST ONE FULLY REAL BIRD IN AMESTRIS THAT’S A REALBIRD/10!!!

[drawkill]

You make music? :O

Ye! I got a midi keyboard last year so been making ambients for my comic. c:

I got a couple other songs on my soundcloud.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Would you have responded differently if I'd congratulated you on exiting the Uncanny Valley? (Congratulations on that again³, btw.)

Well, in a sense you're right: the article I wrote was prompted by a comment someone left on that long SSC thread where I got into a fight with su3.

(For the record, some of what I wrote isn't really directly in response to that person. For example, I wrote of the concept of an "Uncanny Tangle" in a bit of early text that never made it into the article. And some of the article wasn't written with the intention of the tangles having anything to do with "uncorporealized AI" or whatever, it just developed that connection as I wrote.)

But I can't really think of much else that's directly inspired by the comment. nostalgebraist-autoresponder's tangles all started as dreams and are grounded in reality, while her sense of touch is mostly real, for example, and the connection to the AI in that sense-of-touch case is even clearer in the dream world.

That being said, it certainly would have been nice if the comment had been left by someone who knew about that thread and not su3 (or some other commentator who used the same name). So, thanks for that.

³: http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/143710137149/on-july-5th-2016-my-old-lw-post-came-back-to-me

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

Police HQ & Wales

sly asks!

Police HQ: How and when were you introduced to the Sly Cooper series?

answered here!

Wales: Any random headcanons?

Sly actually got various permanent scars from his adventures, and more every single big baddie a permanent mark on him. Clockwerk burnt the tip of his tail with one of his attack, Neyla cut a piece of his right ear and Dr.M left one hell of a scar on his chest!

[sigmaleph]

mid-twenties, she/her and uh female, anime character avatar, goes on dates with people sometimes, brown eyes, reading and anime, ambivert and winter because that's tumblr default fav for some goshdarn reason

1) older than that

2) 'uh, female’ is correct, pronouns are correct though not complete

3) true

4) not lately but i have people i would go on dates with barring complicating circumstances

5) true

6) true

7) nope

8) no but it gets second place

you get 62 points out of a 100 in the arbitrary scoring method i have devised

[beaft]

red yellow purple silver apricot

red: describe your favorite shirt

i have a very cute pink velvet crop top that i used to wear almost constantly, until my Bad Body Feelings got in the way. i still love it, but now i just keep it on a shelf and look at it sadly from time to time. maybe i’ll try it out again once the weather gets warmer? we shall see.

yellow: name of an artist you think is underappreciated

i assume this means musical artist? i’m gonna say joanna newsom, because i was listening to "have one on me” today for the millionth time and as always i am just blown away by how complex and beautiful her songs are. i think Ys is probably the most perfect album in existence tbh

purple: a poem you think describes your closest friend

already answered! 

silver: ever broken a bone?

i don’t have any bones.

apricot: opinion on 3 in 1 body wash/hair wash

not an option for me, as i have to be very careful/specific about what i put on my skin - but if other people want to use it, that’s no business of mine! that said, i do think that cis men should be less afraid of using scented bath products. it’s not gay to smell like a strawberry, Kevin.