Luminescentlama - Lumi Lama

My piece for @morningstarzine and my favourite painting this year! Loved drawing Ivory again <3

i genuinely really like how sea of thieves handles gendering your player character, in that it does not bother at all, because it doesn't matter. you choose different body types and they have gendered attributes, but you can wear dresses and have beards regardless of gender, and the game never refers to you by a pronoun or gendered article. it's not perfect, but it is nice

The new QSMP teaser - deep dive (morse code!!!!)

This is a (still relatively short) deep dive into all most of the hidden messages in the new teaser Quackity posted in which we are going BACK TO THE ISLAND!

If you want a more detailed explanation of how I figured out the morse code, check out my other post!

Index: - Flashing text on the screen - The music - The spoken words (poem) - The light - The MORSE CODEEE

Flashing text

The flashing text which could be seen on the screen reads:

Return safe your journey is high not over

I thought at first it would be 'your journey is nigh,' as in close in time, BUT it actually does say high. Which is weird.

Maybe as in plane or wall?

The music

I don't know, heard it before, something classic. I doubt it has a deeper meaning though.

The spoken text

During the later part of the video, a presumably artifical voice reads a quite odd... collection of words. First, @mossybee-exe and I made some guesses about the words, since not all of them can be heard clearly, which together form:

In the desert, I saw a creature [unintelligable] whom, squatting on the ground, held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I said, 'is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter (than that?),' he answered, 'but I like it -- Interval where the texts lay over and you can't really understand SHIT -- (house and death??) but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.'

NOW

I took this and put it into a duckduckgo search because I was already suspecting that it was a poem. And I was right.

In the Desert By Stephen Crane

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”

The Poetry Foundation

In the Desert

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it

I also found an interpretation of it (https://poemanalysis.com/stephen-crane/in-the-desert/), though I don't really see how it could be connected to anything else yet. Does match the whole creepy vibe of it though.

The light

I thought that it could be morse code, but... I don't know. The blinking seems very erractic, but I also can't put a finger on what it could mean.

The Morse Code

The part I spent the longest on, but also my absolute favourite.

If you want to read how I decoded it in a LOT more detail, I'll put up another post on my blog! Check it out if you like that stuff :D

The morse code decoded is:

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant [to] return to your (ORIEFIRLGFBEYAMMD or ORIFISLGFBEYAMMD (yes no idea either)) That wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].

brackets [ ] where, logically, there should be something but isn't.

ANDDD this is it, thank you for reading! <3

how it feels to have a period once a month

In conclusion:

Someone needs to teach Sherlock self preservation 101

And literally everyone around them thinks they're gay, heck, if Sherlock Holmes thinks you're flirting with him, you're flirting with him (looking at you John)

gonna watch Sherlock 1, 1 now, wish me luck

The way this fandom is looking I'm gonna need it

But my brain demands I watch it and I'm not one to deny not when it's dragging me by the ankles

rant time

I think it's very important so imma put it out there on the internet:

Normalize science lovers who don't know everything

Normalize science lovers who aren't know-it-alls, who can't fix every single tech problem because 'they're interested in computers,' who haven't studied all of every field of science despite being like 14

Who aren't perfect at everything to do with science just because 'they're interested'

Instead, let there be fascinated science lovers who don't know everything, maybe almost nothing at all, but who light up at the mention of their favorite subject and inhale all information to do with it, who don't yet know but are eager to learn because they care.

You don't need to know everything to like science and I hate that media is conveying that

just a warning, this is the longest post i've ever made

so in the last secret video there were some typos in the captions of the video.

it turns out when you put all these typos together it makes a link to a discord server. the server is completely empty... except for a download to another minecraft world!!!

this map is MUCH bigger than the last one. this image shows all of it. it has a bit of parkour up to a lot of very colourful blocks, with a portal-looking thing at the end made out of spruce logs. and again, all in the void.

also, did you notice the armour stands in the world? there are pressure plates next to them, and when you press them some messages pop up.

all the messages are:

"you've left! you've actually done it!"

"it's so beautiful out here! look at all the colours!"

"it's all ok! you haven't hurt anyone, we'll all be fine!"

"you aren't a bad person!"

"you didn't kill me, not really! once i'm reborn, my mind will be reset, and my memories forgotten!"

"i'm not dead, i'll just be spawned in another dimension!"

...but did you think that was it? nope, this is the longest post i've ever had to make for a reason.

there's also some secret messages in the form of command blocks hidden in the rainbow blocks.

all the messages are:

"this is temporary"

"they aren't real"

"but you won't forget, ivory"

"i love you, ivory"

once you get to the portal, there's line of barrier blocks that eventually lead to a big line of spruce forest, and you can run through the forest to get more messages.

all the messages are:

"they aren't real, they're projections of who you want them to be"

"she's still coming after you. keep running."

"you can't let yourself into her grasp again"

"you did hurt them, but you can change."

"i don't think you can understand me right now. just keep running, we'll meet later."

and FINALLY (finally) there's a book and quill at the end of the line that simply has the letter l.

i absolutely understand all of this is very hard to follow in the form of a tumblr text post, so i recommend downloading the world yourself and exploring! here's the link to the discord server:

and with that, my work here is done. all of it. hopefully.

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨