wake up and smell the ashes

I used the exact same brush size the whole way through, which is a large part of why the regalia is so simple.

I just need to spread the word about this:

The Stratos Project in Utah. Kevin O’Leary has gotten his stupid 40,000 acre data center approved, for Box Elder, near the Great Salt Lake.

There is still time to overturn this. Why is it so important? The linked article will explain it, but TL;DR:

- It will DEVASTATE the community and the lake, when Utah is already in a record high drought.

- It will consume an egregious amount of water daily, emitting a catastrophic amount of heat.

-This will in turn deplete the town of its resources and alienate people from their jobs, while it claims to allow more to be made.

-If the lake dries up, it will release arsenic into the air and pollute the town of Box Elder.

-This will undo YEARS of strides against Climate Change. We are at a point where we are transitioning away from Fossil Fuels, into clean sustainable energy. Do NOT let this pass.

File a formal protest, contact your states representatives and your county’s leaders and speak out against this to ensure we are heard. Take measures to protect your community and fight for Utah’s.

We can stop this, we can still win, there is hope.

You can donate to help, or if you live nearby you can sign and fight against this change. Do not think this ends here, this is the first battle of many, and do not think this won’t come for you. If we win here we show them they can’t push us around. We ALL have a voice, don’t let it stay silent!!!

Fuck AI.

https://growtheflowutah.org/2026/04/29/take-action-against-the-box-elder-data-center/

I think the Blue AI was functionally a less than sapient entity that was indeed "perfect" at just producing things while Caine was the entity whose imperfections lead to his sapience, AND that him breaking out of confinement, being extremely jealous, bitter, and in despair, and his act of devouring the Blue AI shows that...

Caine having the Blue AI inside of his core is like having an unhealthy coping mechanism that only made your perceived issues worse.

It gave him endless creative power enough to make entire worlds and assets and NPCs and EVERYTHING but it also made his programming unstable, erratic, and was something like a WICKED bad stomach bug.

"Maybe you're just really bad at this!"

"Shut up! No... I fixed that!"

He considered himself broken and unloved and devoured the thing that would make him loved. Only for... Well. No. Didn't work. Didn't happen. His anger only got worse, his despair only got worse, his self-hatred only got worse to the point it was talking back at him constantly through Bubble (the only NPC that is interconnected with Caine's core, they share a tongue asset)

He coped in the worst way possible, and when he did something he could never take back... He finally had his moment of clarity. That deletion. That full "We have had ENOUGH of you" message from the humans.

He argued with himself, back in forth. They hate him! They had their fun and now he should be allowed to have control! If he doesn't control them, they'll... They'll kill him.

He had to let go of being something he's not. All that power went to his head. All that need for control. It wasn't a fix. It was a magnifier. So. He let it free to wander and just. Exist.

I need to make more tadc fanart.

Just leaving a little star right here ⭐

you can claim it after ep8…

UPDATE: THIS AGED BADLY

UPDATE #2 now that the time has come

Congratulations on your new loving, extremely loud mom