Eldritch Bastard

Goliath Stick Insect (Clemacantha goliath), family Phasmatidae, QLD, Australia

- they’re Opawz pet specific dyes. Non toxic made specifically for dogs. Once they’re set and rinsed they can groom themselves normally, they pose no danger to her in any way, no fumes, there’s no bleach involved

- my dog is trained with cooperative care skills, the process is not stressful for her, she gets paid heavily for her cooperation and looks forwards to the opportunity to earn extra snacks with the grooming

Step 1: Cargo pants, or purse, fanny pack, cool jacket, backpack, etc.

Step 2:

Folded-up plastic bag

Tweezers

Chapstick

Small knife

Lighter

Band-aids

Hand sanitizer

Hard candy

Travel-size Tylenol

Needle and thread

Safety pin

Bus fare

Charger

Pen/flashlight combo

Sticky notes

Granola bar

Tampon

Pad

Mini multi-head screwdriver

Zipock of tissue

Bottle opener

Hockey tape

This can be a lot to unload and re-load if you're a cargo pants person, but if you like me are not really a purse person I highly recommend either a cool jacket you can sew secret pockets into or a spare water bottle you can grab 'n' go whenever

Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), family Colubridae, Death Valley National Park, CA, USA

incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go

correct response:

(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)

I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.

now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.

hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:

…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).

it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.

personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.

plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.

don’t:

change the ending

do:

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

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Alright, enough people have noticed, so i'll say it. Yes, i made colors not as vibrant as before. An i'm glad that it's noticeable.

Anyway, i don't remember if i wanted to say anything in this post or no... i think i said everything in the previous post...

This part isn't much, but i can't make a 10 pages part, as fast at this point of a comic, where the enthusiasm of wanting to tell the story starts to fad, and the excitement of the ending isn't within reach yet. I need more comments.

Anyway... Overlord meeting next part!

Also, wanted to say, we're officially over 100 pages (counting the bonus pages, but i think with this part even without them it should be 100)

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So, this is the controversial part of the comic. Funny, how literally in the previous part i got a comment that was like "finally a story about abuse that doesn't end up in a romance" and then i make this part... 🤣🤣 DON'T WORRY, THIS IS STILL RADIOSILENCE, ALASTOR IS STILL GETTING OUT, AND VOX IS STILL GETTING HIS KARMA.

This is the shipper bait. Let's see how many people are ready to forget all the horrible stuff that happened and be happy about Al getting together with Vox LOL.

By the way, we're officially at the "depression" part of the structure. This is it. This is the lowest point. When it feels like all hope is gone and the "villain" is winning.

Which means it can only go up from here YUPPIEEE (it will fluctuate, but anyway, we're moving towards the end!!!)

this part was going to be 10 pages, but then i decided to leave the 5 next for later, for when after i finish the comic. Bonus content so to say. Because it doesn't add anything important, just brings more pain. But I'm also in pain, cutting that out because i like these pages( But it's just another episode showing vox's abusive nature, nothing new. I wanna get to the ending!!!

Fuck i forgor somthing i wanted to say fuck. REMEMBERED. So um, i refreshed my memory on Forced broadcast.... yeah it's gonna cause some flashbacks to those who read this comic AHAHAH. Mind that like 5 chapters of it were sketched BEFORE IF was even planned, and i was like CHAPTER 3 IS SOOO INSANE and now it's like. eh. barely a *.

But the flashbacks are gonna flashback.

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