Syd Mead ‘Blade Runner’ Concept Art

A little comic about Beck and Madison. More info about them and the rest of my silly Fake Fighting Game Setting can be found here!

Supervicky

and Lisa Lane

I commissioned this piece a while back from sethkiel on Twitter. Rarely do more than lurk on tumblr, but I figured I may as well post it here for the smugpunch believers

parahumans AITA posts must be fucking crazy

After a year (and much procrastinating) I have finally finished my cosplay of Taylor “Skitter” Hebert from Worm! Rather happy with how this turned out all in all. I wanted to get a picture of me shooting Aster but alas, there where no dolls lying around

Someone said and I can't find the post, that they think about how the undersiders must see an insect and remember Taylor and be sad and that they might forget that now that Taylor is gone she can't protect them from those insects

I couldn't find the post but yeee

Low poly in enormous quotation marks 🥰

(Gonna try to optimise her poly count a little bit, but I'm getting pulled away from my computer for the weekend...)

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

you're a loser, baby, a loser, goddamn baby

“Loser baby is a horrible song! Husk is just victim shaming and calling Angel a loser!”

that’s funny. maybe if you actually listened to the lyrics, you’d realize that husk isn’t victim shaming at all. he’s telling angel that he’s not alone. that he doesn’t have to put up a mask.

another thing i like about the song is the fact that husk isn’t saying some bs like “oh it’ll get better”. because that doesn’t help.

stop hating on the song, and maybe listen to it again, instead of whining on tumblr.

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍