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I played on the PS4, which didn’t have free texture packs! And I never wanted to spend the money. So it probably wasn’t a texture pack?

But I am relieved to hear someone else finds this familiar lol

Ok, I don’t know if anyone can actually help me but I feel like I’m going insane lol

I’ve been playing Minecraft today, and it’s making me think of the past. Specifically, two texture changes that I am almost sure happened, but I can’t find anywhere else on the internet talking about it.

The first is back on the Xbox 360. I am almost sure that, back then, when you used a pillar block, it automatically gave the stair like lip around the top when you placed a block on top. This sounds fake even to myself, so maybe I just imaged this one. But I have such vivid memories of fighting with the block to work like I wanted???

The second is something I am almost sure was true, but can find no evidence for. PS4 Minecraft, circa 2017-2018, I spawn in a savanna. A lot of my house was made of acacia wood. The door, very specifically, had a heart shape on it. Not bars. A heart shape.

When I go back to that world, it is obviously no longer like that. The game has updated since. And according to everything I found, acacia wood doors were never like that, but I am so sure of this one.

And before you ask me if it was actually jungle, no. I didn’t have a jungle biome. The world was only 9 maps large at the time, and I mapped out every inch of that world. It wasn’t until the world updated to be endless did I find a jungle biome, so the door was no jungle wood.

Does anyone else remember these things???

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Ok, I don’t know if anyone can actually help me but I feel like I’m going insane lol

I’ve been playing Minecraft today, and it’s making me think of the past. Specifically, two texture changes that I am almost sure happened, but I can’t find anywhere else on the internet talking about it.

The first is back on the Xbox 360. I am almost sure that, back then, when you used a pillar block, it automatically gave the stair like lip around the top when you placed a block on top. This sounds fake even to myself, so maybe I just imaged this one. But I have such vivid memories of fighting with the block to work like I wanted???

The second is something I am almost sure was true, but can find no evidence for. PS4 Minecraft, circa 2017-2018, I spawn in a savanna. A lot of my house was made of acacia wood. The door, very specifically, had a heart shape on it. Not bars. A heart shape.

When I go back to that world, it is obviously no longer like that. The game has updated since. And according to everything I found, acacia wood doors were never like that, but I am so sure of this one.

And before you ask me if it was actually jungle, no. I didn’t have a jungle biome. The world was only 9 maps large at the time, and I mapped out every inch of that world. It wasn’t until the world updated to be endless did I find a jungle biome, so the door was no jungle wood.

Does anyone else remember these things???

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SQQ just can’t help it. His little disclipe is just so cute. He honestly isn’t thinking about it when one day he just reaches over and….

boop.

LBH is confused, but delighted. SQQ is horrified by his actions. LBH spends the rest of his days trying to get his Shizun to do it again.

He tries to hard that he accidentally starts a trend on the peaks. LQG, very seriously, boops SQQ, making him blue screen. SQQ gets the feeling that YQY is about to boop him and quickly leaves the situation. MBJ hears about the trend and punches SQH in the face. (He later boops him softly as an apology when he realizes what he did wrong)

In the end, SQQ only boops an adult LBH when the two husbands are relaxing with some wine, years and years later.

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So many people have made a good point in my last poll about not including MQF. Clearly, this was a mistake and overlooked on my part.

Here’s a new poll to participate in.

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Edit: made a new poll that includes MQF.

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AO3 is down

What I supposed to do with my life

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Remember the split Shen au? The one where he splits into Shen jiu and Shen yuan during the abyss years?

I really liked it and am hoping that there might be more somewhere that I haven’t seen.

There’s no more :( I’m so sorry

I have a part half written, but it’s way too wordy and not funny and that’s just not what I want for this au lol

I’ll get it done! I will!

(Link to part 1)

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I “learned” Chinese on Duolingo for a year, and I’m saying “learned” because that app is kinda awful and I feel like I learned nothing lol

Except I want to keep my streak, even if Chinese started to get frustrating and stressful. So now I’m learning Japanese to just keep up my streak.

Anyway, that’s how I found out that Duolingo taught me one thing, and that’s the Chinese 1-10. I know this, because Japanese uses the same symbols but have different names for them and it keeps messing me up lol

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I’ve been listening to the soundtrack of Descendants Rise of Red way to much lately.

Anyway, I have this SVSSS au idea that stars LBH, son of the Empress. His mother, angry at the sects for killing his father, took over the demon empire for herself. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

LBH, growing up in this environment, does not like this. He doesn’t like what he mom is doing. So during the day he acts the part of a good little Prince, and at night, he sneaks out. He puts on a disguise and causes havoc. Anything to disrupt his mother’s plans.

And what are his mother’s plans? Revenge against the sects of course! She makes one big attack, and gets pretty close to succeeding. Luckily, LBH found the mcguffian of the week and managed to go back in time to stop her.

This of course isn’t without its own problems. LBH managed to accidentally bring along a QJP disciple, the son of the Peak Lord SQQ, Shen Yuan.

SY is at least a little upset at the destruction of his peak, and the almost death of his dad, and LBH’s part in it all. Enemies to friends to lovers as LBH and SY try and prevent TLJ’s death, while also being shocked at the younger versions of their parents lol

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SY!SQQ loses his memory somehow. It’s probably only for a few days, maybe just until LBH comes back from the demon realm, but it’s long enough for the entire sect to realize how different this time is from the last time SQQ supposedly lost his memories lol

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I was rereading the responses to this post, and all of you are smarter than me lol

What if spirit swords worked like soulmates? Not like in most fics where you get a sword that matched you from the sword wall but where, as soon as a spirit sword is forged, there is a soul that is meant for it out there. It won’t change souls until that destined soul dies.

You could force a spirit sword to work with you, but it won’t be happy. No one will be happy here.

Yue Qi chose XS not only because of its power, but because it felt familiar. And it felt familiar because it was supposed to be SJ’s sword. Idk, maybe it keeps trying to call out to SQQ over the years, and SQQ doesn’t know why YQY’s sword keeps bothering him lol

And SQQ’s sword? Didn’t have a soul destined at that moment, because it was meant for SY, who wasn’t there yet. So SQQ could pick it no problem, because it wasn’t trying to fight to get to someone else.

If this is ‘SY becomes SQQ’, people note that his sword works a lot better for him now! But now YQY’s sword is both behaving better and extremely depressed.

If it was ‘SY becomes anyone else’, that causes a whole lot more of chaos with the scenario I accidentally made here. SQQ’s sword is now fighting to get to SY, YQY’s sword senses a potential opening with SQQ and starts fighting double time (which would be an awful thing while tied to your life force) and SY just can’t seem to find a cool sword that will work with him!

(Where’s YQY’s sword? Uh… I feel like the funniest answer is somehow Xin Mo. Binghe gets out of the abyss with his cool new sword and then the evil demon sword gets thrown into the pot)

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Ok, I meant to post this forever and a half ago, but better late than never.

This is a JJK post, so sorry to all the people following me for SVSSS lol

Moo, this au started as a stupid conversation about Gojo’d parents, which just done exist in canon for some reason. And I think it would be hilarious for them to also absolutely hate non-sorcerers.

They are so happy that their son is Satoru Gojo, holder of the six eyes and limitless! They are less happy at the friends he makes in high school. Oh sure, this Geto guy is already a special grade and that’s cool and all, but he doesn’t come from a family of sorcerers! He’s not good enough for their little boy! Gojo, who is in his teenage rebellion that he never leaves, is all ‘You guys just don’t understand >:( But daddy I love him 😭’

Of course, this all changes when they learn that Suguru Geto killed a whole village of non-sorcerers! Who knew he had it in him! Maybe this boy is good enough for their son after all.

And then they learn that not only has Geto become a curse user, he is also no longer together with their son!!! Unacceptable!!!

So they do what every set of parents have to do- call and nag their son about breaking up with the nice young man!

They don’t care about Gojo’s arguments, featuring things like ‘I thought you didn’t even like him!’ And ‘He murdered like 100 people???’ And the most repeated, ‘I didn’t break up with him! He broke up with me!’

“That just means you must of done something wrong!” His mother yells.

“Go and apologize, son, it will make everything easier. Trust me.” His father says.

They nag and nag at Gojo, and honestly, Gojo does really miss Geto. So he goes and finds him, since he had the Gojo Clan’s backing about bringing Geto back.

This is where it kinda falls apart lol. I can’t imagine a scenario where Geto comes back. My best guess is Gojo promises protection for the twins, and for them to be raised in the Gojo clan, around other sorcerers, but I don’t think that would do it lol

But let’s say it does! Geto still hates non sorcerers, but he’s no longer a curse user. He’s still a cult leader, but there’s nothing against being a cult leader and a sorcerer. I think it’s a really funny idea if no matter what other life path Geto takes, he always, somehow, becomes a cult leader.

Gojo still adopts the Fushiguros. His parents aren’t happy about it, but then they learn that they get to be the family of the Ten Shadows and Six eyes/Limitless? Wonderful, great, perfection. Welcome to the family, new grandson. The fact they have to act like they want Tsumiki as a granddaughter is merely trifles to pay for the look on the Zenins faces.

They also, of course, take the twins as granddaughters. And they of course have a tier list of grandkids, but if they showed it then their son won’t let them see any of them again! 😭 it’s sad, honestly lol

But they do make sure that Tsumiki is training to be a sorcerer. They do not care if she want to or not, and Tsumaki just wants the family that took her and her brother in’s approval, so she goes along with it. They get her some goggles that let her see curses, and I like to imagine she gets a bow and arrows! I think it would be neat. I also think she would be perfectly fine with being very very low ranked. She wants to be a sorcerer for the family approval, not be be a strong one.

There would be an episode about Geto disliking her, a child, and not bonding with her like he has with the other kids him and Gojo take care of. This upsets her, but she deals with it. Until Gojo is out of town on a mission, and she gets sick. But she’s not going to admit it to anyone around her!! To her supposed other guardian, who dislikes her? To her supposed grandparents, who tolerate her as long as she’s doing well? Absolutely not.

So she goes to her elementary school, and gets even sicker, and then before long the school has to call Geto to come get her. Maybe she throws up, or maybe the twins (who are around her age) snitch on her to a teacher because I would like to believe they care about her.

Geto comes, and is annoyed she didn’t just tell him that she was sick so he wouldn’t have to come out here to get her. She could have just stayed home! And they she starts crying about how she didn’t want to bother him, and she knows he doesn’t like her so she was trying to not be a bother and they she’ll stay out of the way. And Geto would realize how much of a dick he has been to a child and starts being a better parent to her.

(I need to note here, that in real life this would be a call cps moment. But this can be framed wholesome here I guess lol)

They only other joke I had here is Geto becomes the second year teacher at the school. Tsumiki and Maki (the twins went to the other school, to get away from their parents lol) would be in the same class, and they have a ‘Monkey Jar’ in the classroom, because Geto would keep making comments to Maki. Now every time he even says the word monkey, he has to put money in the jar, which the girls get at the end of the month. Tsumiki, of course, gets an allowance, and so let’s Maki have all of it.

This escalates to Maki goading Geto into saying the word to get more money. Not even just calling her one- any time he says the word. Even if he was only referring to the actual animal lol

I have this stupid idea of Geto taking the class to fight a mid range curse at an f zoo, that looks like a monkey, and he has to find new ways to describe it every time because he can’t call it the ‘monkey curse’ without Maki demanding money. And he can’t refuse because then he would be told on to Gojo, who would just be extra annoying to him as revenge lol

That’s all I have of this one. I hope it made someone laugh

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Random Villain: You shouldn’t count on your husband to come and save you. You’ll be long dead before he arrives. Your doomed.

SQQ, tied up and panicking, trying to stall for time: You used the wrong ‘your’. It’s ‘You’re’.

Random Villain: Wha-?! Huh?! This is a verbal conversation-!

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How much do you think SQH described Mobei Jun in PIDW?

Was it a lot? How much can you describe a man from (I assume) LBG’s point of view before it gets really really gay? Was that a big ship because of that? To PIDW fans, did LBG weirdly noting how handsome and muscular his second in command was every time he saw him? Was that a popular ship? (To be fair, it was probably the only gay ship, and I don’t know if you guys have ever been in a fandom where there is only like one option for a ship, because that one ships fans get vicious without competitors lol)

Or did SQH barely describe MBJ. Was he too afraid of his readers latching onto his favorite character? Was he too afraid of even the thought of the fans ire if they thought MBJ was competing with LBH?

Au where SY didn’t know who MBJ was for a long time until he learned his name, because SQH simply didn’t describe MBJ in PIDW lol

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It’s time for the next part of my MDZS Pokémon Au, with part 1 here and the last part here.

Reminders for this series- 1) Everyone’s starter Pokémon is the equivalent to their sword, and has the corresponding name. If they have a second, named weapon, then a second Pokémon on the team gets a name! 2) Everyone has a team of three, because that makes things easier for me!

Last time I told you about the main characters, JC and WWX. This time, they get to fight their first gym battle and meet a rival! The boys have left Lotus Pier, and have made their way to the next big city with a gym - Qinghe.

There, in the Pokémon center, they meet-

It’s Lan Wangi! I made Swablu a ‘Lan’ Pokémon, much the way I made Alolan vulpix one as well, and it’s the equivalent to Bichen. His ChingLing is the equivalent of Wangi. Yes, that does mean that he named his ChingLing after himself, not I will not change it. This is the rules of the world I have made for myself, and so it’s what I am sticking with lol

I imagine that when JC and WWX meets him, these are the two Pokémon he already has. He gets bunneary later, probably with something to have to do with WWX, but I don’t know what happens for him to get it.

You saw it before with the Juniors, but the Lan Pokémon have little headbands! I just thought it would be cute!

My imagining of this first meeting is WWX, knowing that a gym battle is coming up, is getting excited! Pokémon battling is fun to him! JC, who also normally likes battling, is really nervous about this because Qinghe’s gym is a hard one. Historically, it was supposed to be a rock gym, which would be incredibly had to get through with just an Eevee. In more recent years, it’s turned into more of a general ‘hits hard’ gym but it will still be very difficult.

Then WWX sees a new trainer walk into the Pokémon center! LWG, who already has two Pokémon! WWW thinks this would be the best practice, and jumps up to challenge LWG to a battle!

LWG just stares at him for a long moment, before telling him no and walking right back out. WWX wilts, and JC gets on to him for trying to start a battle in a Pokémon center.

The idea of LWG that he’s also on his gym journey and will run into the boys often as they journey.

JC and WWX decide to skip the training and go scope out the gym. When they get there, they are greeted to two men arguing. It’s Nie Huaisang, arguing with an older Nie cousin!

NHS wants to leave the city, and go on his own journey. Except it’s not a gym circuit challenge like the other heirs. I haven’t decided if I would want him into Pokémon contests or something else, but it’s definitely not the gyms. His older cousin, who had been out in charge of him while NMJ is gone to do Elite four things, can not let him go because NHS the one suppose to be looking over the gym! Except he hasn’t even been doing that- the cousin has been the one to take challengers. In fact, he had been the one to just fight, and lose to, LWG earlier that day.

So when the Nie cousin realizes that JC and WWX are there, he has to turn them away.his Pokémon aren’t up for another two fights.

NHS jumps in to give a bet- if NHS could beat both of JC and WWX in a battle, then he can go out on his journey. Clearly he would be a good enough battler then! The cousin is skeptical, but JC jumps on the opportunity- surely this would make the gym challenge easier! (Or maybe WWX jumps on the idea. I can’t decide which would be more up to it)

So that’s the deal made. NHS has only two Pokémon right now, so it’s a double battle with JC and WWX sharing a side.

The two Pokémon NHS has right now is his Teddiursa and his Bonsley.

I imagine that he just… finds a bird on the road later lol. I’m giving him a gun.

Teddiursa is his starter. It matches his brother who, spoiler, has an ursaring. I felt that it fit them. I then gave him a bonsley because I felt the fake crying really fit NHS. Can’t you imagine NHS crying, yelling that he doesn’t know something, while both his Pokémon are doing the same thing at his feet. Also, both Teddiursa and Bonsley are little crafty pos in the anime, and I feel like really fits NHS character lol

I want NHS to put up a fight, and maybe even knock an Eevee out. A lot of tricky moves- charm, fake tears, attract. But ultimately JC and WWX win, as we knew they would, and they get the badge.

Somewhere along the way in the episode, the three boys get to bond, but I don’t want to write that bit. But WWX is sad for NHS about having to stay behind in town.

Until, of course, they go to leave the town, only to be stopped by NHS running after them with a bag. He cheerfully explains that his cousin let him go, but only if he had company! JC is grumpy about is but WWX is all for it. Welcome NHS to the team! ( the cousin did not give him the right to leave. NHS just decided that the only one that can boss him around is his brother, who isn’t here right now. Then he snuck out a window.)

See you next time on this thing! It’s time to meet the evil team of the region!

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Do you think SQH heard that SQQ had a massive qi deviation, bad enough to effect his personality, and wondered ‘WTF did I do???’

Or when he heard that SQQ saved LQG in the caves, do you think he thought, ‘WTF did I do??? Did my advice years ago matter???’

Or when he heard that SQQ had gotten poisoned, saving LBH of all people, and just think ‘WTF DID I DO????’

(Joking aside, what did he do? The difference between PIDW and SVSSS before SY showed up was him, so he had to, somehow, cause a qi divination that was bad enough to kill SJ that absolutely didn’t happen in PIDW. What did SQH do??)