#[commentary; skype]

[cricketnationrise]

23:59

Kensington Palace

Alex Claremont-Diaz

have some resolved pining for your Friday afternoon since I got off work early! enjoy 💜🦗

want your own ficlet? 3 days left, rules here

❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

Alex nods his thanks to Shaan and slips inside Henry’s rooms. Henry’s been stuck doing event after appearance after fundraiser for the last three weeks and Alex couldn’t take it anymore.

The first week wasn’t so bad – plenty of texting and nightly Skype sessions and a new, secret (extra secure) email chain had been enough. The second week was harder – pining for the feeling of Henry next to him in bed was bad enough, but watching David pine was too much even for the least emotionally demonstrative person in the world. (Zahra had cooed at David when she dropped off Alex’s itinerary. Cooed. Alex didn’t even know she could make that noise.)

By the beginning of the third week, Alex wasn’t sleeping more than a few hours a night, barely remembering to eat, and was generally all kinds of a mess of a person. When he’d broken down and emailed Shaan, the relief in his response confirmed that Henry was having just as hard a time. Alex booked the plane tickets the same minute Shaan said he would help Alex surprise Henry.

Henry’s at some sort of gala fundraiser event for Bea’s charity tonight, and it runs late enough that Alex isn’t worried about getting to his rooms before him, despite his plane’s late night arrival time. Shaan, efficient, wonderful Shaan had met him and the Secret Service at Heathrow with a private car and whisked them away to Kensington as soon as Alex had collected his suitcase.

But now he’s here, in Henry’s suite, the smell of Henry’s cologne wrapping around him like a warm blanket. He stashes his clothes and toiletries, changes into pajamas and then pulls out the copy of Pride and Prejudice that Alex always denies owning, let alone reading. He’s determined to keep himself awake until Henry gets back, and falls into the story, letting Elizabeth’s commentary entertain him.

A gentle hand on his shoulder pulls Alex back into the waking world and he looks up and smiles sleepily at Henry. He looks stupidly handsome in his tux – something about the undone bowtie is really doing it for him.

“Hey, baby.”

“Alex,” Henry breathes, face suffused with wonder. “You’re here? But—”

“Cleared my schedule. Couldn’t stand it any longer. Missed you too much,” Alex murmurs, letting his head tip to the side and rest on Henry’s arm, gazing up at him adoringly. Henry’s here.

“Christ, it’s good to see you. Come to bed, love.”

Alex lets Henry help him up, but draws him into a hug and a gentle, sleepy kiss before shuffling to the bed. For once, Henry just throws his clothes onto the nearby chair and slides under the sheets with Alex as soon as he’s down to his briefs. Alex practically melts when Henry throws an arm over his waist and drags him closer. This – this contact, this comfort, this love – that’s what Alex has been missing the most.

[syringia]

4. which muse of yours is your all time favorite? if you stopped writing them: why?

Lysandre. By far.

I had a lot of time and work put into him, but ultimately I stopped writing him due to a combination of starting a new job, life stresses, having no time, and my own mental health issues. But he's still my favorite muse I've ever written — the amount of worldbuilding I and each of my writing partners ( and our non-roleplay friends via Skype ) did was massive. I worry that if I ever brought him back, a lot of his characterization / worldbuilding wouldn't make sense anymore, between a lack of people familiar with all his storylines as well as whatever development has happened in the rpc / anime / what have you. I contemplated it! But I don't think I could bring him back, tbh.

Which is a shame because his ending arc as the blog closed off dealt a lot with his newfound immortality after Xerneas decided to punish him. He was fun to watch develop because on one hand I had the funny cute haha shipping side, which back in the day of personals spectating rp blogs, got a lot of commentary — but on the other hand ( in the actual, more serious main verse ) he was slowly spiralling into a worse and worse version of himself that ultimately resulted in the destruction of flare and the end of his relationship that resulted in ( canonically, on my sycamore partner's blog ) years of therapy for Augustine to recover from the whiplash of everything that happened between them.

Also shout-out to the Serena I used to write with who made a side-verse with me where she was Lys's daughter and didn't know it. Lives in my mind rent-free all the time because GOD the torment of him being taken down by his own daughter who he thought he was protecting. 100/10 if I ever were able to write him again I'd go that route.

[dramatisperscnae]

📱 ; Are you open for sharing social media with your rp partners? i.e. Skype, Discord, Messenger, etc?

[More Munday Asks || accepting]

Yes, if we've clicked to the point of sharing headcanons and random commentary. I tend to keep my Discord pretty private because I don't really talk much to anyone but like a handful of people, but after a certain point it's just easier to shift the headcanon flailing and general screaming over there rather than the tumblr messenger XD I may not offer it myself because I'm a socially awkward bean who is never sure if someone else is willing, but >w>

[sereina-archive]

6 12 and 13?

send a number for me to talk about one of the following topics! | accepting!

dash commentary

i love love LOVE dash comm. i think it's fun seeing people talk about a certain topic and it feels like it brings the rpc together... unless it's a chaotic topic like pizza discourse or soup discourse that has a lot of hot takes and opinions, but even THEN it's still fun to see people going at each other/agreeing, idk!! there's just a fun feeling of unity for us as writers even if our muses disagree on the topic at hand or whatnot. a lot of fun interactions have come from dash comm and i love it :'>

magic anons

i have a senior citizen discount card bc i remember being in the rpc at the PEAK of magic anons when they were extremely popular. to the point where some people would specifically state 'NO M!AS' in their rules (either out of personal preference or bad experiences with them in the past).

i had a fun one on my old shauntal blog before where the m!a took her gloves away, and my hc was that she used them to cover burn scars on her hands/arms. and it was kind of fun in a way bc she basically locked herself in her elite room while the other 3 members were so lost and confused as to wtf was going on. i dont THINK ive had any bad experiences with them personally, but i have seen m!as used for the purpose of being weird/gross towards some muses which isnt cool :/

promos

god do yall remember back when promos were almost like a mini resume. like '10+ years rp experience, english speaking, skype available on request, 5 years experience in the pokemon rpc' like. we REALLY were outlining all of our credentials for no reason LMAO. like hold on lemme just put down a reference on my promo too for u guys to contact they'll put in a good word for me i promise. im kinda glad promos have gotten a lot more simple nowadays - i feel like if people did the single icon style promo w some text 5+ years ago it would not go over well.... no one would rb that, it would just be 'lazy' back then but look at us now!!!

[a-soft-fluffy-girl]

I'm not convinced this will outright nuke the platform in its immediacy, but so much of this is a bad idea that will kill it LONG term. They're attempting to homogenize the platform to get its features working on WordPress.

I'm calling it now they're absolutely doing this to push all of its userbase onto WordPress so that they can liquidate Tumblr's assets and potentially either downscale development of it or shut it down entirely. Naturally I have no hard proof of that but I do have conjecture worth pointing out from both the current situation and similar occurrences.

Look at Skype: Microsoft did exactly that to create Teams. It bought out THE most potently popular social networking app on the market at the time. After ripping through it with ads, features no one asked for and letting the actual infrastructure of the app's VOIP feature and chat functionality waste away (recall just how bad the voice chat quality and stability was before the mass exodus of users)? They gutted the project entirely, cannibalized its features and made a new applet in its place that was proprietary and gave Microsoft complete control over it: Teams.

With Tumblr hemorrhaging money due to their continued incompetence both on a moderation standpoint (there are still so many obvious cases of favoritism and dog-piling, especially regarding trans people) and a monetization level due to their incessant shoving of ads that still have zero oversight and a subscription service that provides so little value... Well, you can see why I'm watching this with a rather scornful eye. WordPress is Automattic's bread and butter. And after the current Tumblr CEO had a very vocal portion of the userbase (rightfully, in my opinion) absolutely rip him apart for his site's treatment of trans women and his frankly embarrassing responses to all of the commentary? Why would any tech company CEO want to hold onto something their users clearly spite them over?

Note: this is CONJECTURE. I cannot, for anything said, state this is the end-all, be-all state of affairs for their plans.

But I'm backing my blog up nonetheless, and I recommend you do so, too.

automattic's made a ton of blunders recently but i hope they're not gonna try something like convert tumblr to run on wordpress, a project that both tumblr and wordpress engineers agreed would be a lot of work for no gain (most likely worse performance). that would be a silly thing to do.

[atplblog]

Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details) [ad_1] This Ezcap333 capture card has 1 HDMI 1.4 input and output, which allows you to easily connect a camera, game consoles or any video device. 4K30 / 2K120 Input / Output / Capture / StreamThe best capture game that supports 2160p30 and 1080p120 input & output capture and live streaming. Ezcap 333 has no color aberration, no delay, no need to install the driver manually. The Ezcap 333 capture card has rich audio interfaces that include a microphone input, line audio input, and a headset that can be easily combined with any audio source. Equipped with self-developed suite and live streaming software - ezcap Link, no settings required and can be used immediately. USB 3.1 Gen1 UVC The Ezcap 333 capture card has a super-fast USB 3.1 Gen 1 and USB-C port, It also captures and streams live video up to 1080p120 or 2160p30 resolution without any delay. This capture card has, UVC standard, without the need to install a driver. Since it has Plug & Play capability, it is identified in the system as a webcam. This capture card is almost compatible with streaming software such as OBS, PotPlayer, VMix, Twitch, Wirecast, etc. and supports Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Rich audio interfaceIncludes the most comprehensive audio interface: both 3-pole TRS microphone and 4-pole TRRS headset port, also Line In port for mixer connection. Through these audio interfaces, you can have the sound in the microphone or headphones at the same time when capturing or streaming. The clarity of the capture card working status indicatorThe three color indicator lights on the EZCAP 333 capture card indicate three states: red: power on, blue: HDMI signal is connected, and green: the device is working Has a great designDesign grooves under the Ezcap 333 capture card to dissipate heat for long live streaming or use it for video conferencing 【HDMI Game Capture】This capture card is perfect for most game console devices with HDMI output such as PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch and DSLR etc.,It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android, and can work with most third-party streaming software like Twitch, Youtube, OBS, Streamlabs OBS, Xsplit, VCL, Potplayer 【4K30 Pass-Through】The game capture live card that supports 2160p30 and 1080p120 input and output, capture and live broadcast. With rich audio interface: microphone input, line audio input, and headset, easy to mix any audio sources. Equipped with self-developed collection and live broadcast software -ezcap Link, no setting is required, and it can be used immediately 【Rich Audio Interface】Includes the most comprehensive audio interface,both of TRS microphone and TRRS headset ports, still Line In port to connect mixer. You add commentary to the game through the microphone and immerse yourself in the game world with the headset.Make every live content unique. You can customize the background sound through the mixer 【USB 3.1 Gen1 UVC】It is equipped with super fast speed, USB-C port, capture and live streaming video up to 1080p120 or 2160p30 smoothly, no any latency. UVC solution and clear working status indication 【Wide Applicability】Ezcap video capture card is suitable for gaming live streaming,online classes, security camera picture collection,DSLR to Webcam Stream,Skype/Zoom Video Conference and so on, no driver needed, plug and play [ad_2]

[dgcatanisiri]

Considering I'm me and I'm allowed to be petty, I do want to grouse about something in a place that is purely mine and won't be part of the greater commentary I might make, but I want to shake out my personal irritation that I know very few other people share, and so is just here for me to complain about.

One - THIS was the place in the story that they let Dorian's romance be shot in the foot for? A pair of brief cameos that could be excised entirely without too much damage to the plot?

I mean, sure, I know, Veilguard went through a handful of total plot rewrites and all, but... The fact that Dorian and the Magisterium play so NOTHING of a role in things, when his romance was strangled in the course of Trespasser to effectively facilitate him playing a role in this game?

Like yeah, that was just the nail in the coffin for me, I don't find his character worth engaging with in general and the fact that his romance was reduced to "leaving forever, here's my medieval Skype number, BYYYYYYYYYE!~" only made things the worse... And to see it play out like this, where he doesn't even MATTER?

I mean, maybe he does more in a "go to Minrathous in Act I" run, but... Yeah, this just compounded a problem.

Two - Okay, now's the part where I REALLY get petty. Dude does nothing but be there in the final battle and ends up becoming the Archon? So he LUCKS IN to a place where he can do whatever they want with him in the future?

THIS is where I get so frustrated with what they did with Dorian, from Inquisition to here. We never have to SEE this character wrestle with and reckon with his biases and privilege. He dismisses slavery and poverty as basically being the same thing, and that's all the focus that Inquisition wanted to give him on the subject of how he wants to "redeem" Tevinter. He gives no indication of understanding what makes Tevinter so repulsive to the other nations of Thedas, brushing it all off.

Like I commonly call bullshit on him being all "It's ALTUS, not MAGISTER, and using the terms interchangeably just makes you southerners seem like barbarians," when this is the guy who ends up dismissing slavery done by his countrymen. Hell, his quest for the War Table, about finding the true name of Corypheus stinks - REEKS - of shouting "#NotAllMagisters!" into a megaphone, trying to distance modern Tevinter from its historical crimes, while the face of those crimes is our actual enemy, backed by his present day countrymen. Faced with both the evil of Tevinter's past AND present, what effort does he make to say Tevinter's future is going to be different? NOTHING.

And then, just like how Veilguard gives him the position of Archon, he gets lucked in to the role of being in the Magisterium, when his father dies. BioWare basically tried to patch the failure of Inquisition to actually develop him by talking up in extended media how "oh, now I have paid servants, not slaves!" but... This is development that SHOULD have been at the heart of his character arc in Inquisition, because if he actually wanted to be "the Redeemer of Tevinter," he needed to FACE the ills of Tevinter and understand what and why and how Tevinter - INCLUDING. HIM. - need to change.

And instead, BioWare just completely hands Dorian EVERYTHING he needs for such "changes." Changing everything about society doesn't involve YOU changing anything, it's you getting LUCKY ENOUGH to end up when you can just snap your fingers and MAKE that change.

Lazy, lazy, LAZY character writing. Honestly, I'm content just saying that Dorian Pavus died in Elgar'nan's siege of Minrathous. And nothing of value is lost, because Dorian DOES nothing of value.

[molsons112000]

It also doesn't make sense. Why Microsoft didn't buy Twitter since LinkedIn feeds into Twitter. both the personal Twitter account and a business Twitter account.

Secondly, it doesn't make sense why they have an integrated LinkedIn and Skype, together with Office 365. And the data storage of one drive... So Microsoft is very disjointed, and it's not good. The systems need to be integrated and complement each other... So like three sixty-five you can schedule a Skype meeting and then it can take notes on that meeting recording voice to text..... Then that can go into the office under client notes or prospect notes..... Yes, an office. You can schedule on the calendar when to put out different content on LinkedIn. It's also a scheduled meeting on LinkedIn that gets recorded on your calendar from office.... And it also feeds in the commentary section of LinkedIn, you can set it up where it will feed into your client database. So you looked on the Under your contacts in office and below, it says LinkedIn notes. And then you click on it and it pulls up the LinkedIn account with the notes of that client. Is your physical text correspondent and then below that are the Skype notes. And it has a digital recording of your client meeting and if you prefer you can transfer it from voice to text... So this would mean, as you're listening to it. It's also given you a subtitle. Skype has subtitles. So as they're talking on Skype. You can also get it to be subtitled in any language. So if they're talking in English and you want it in Mandarin, Chinese, or Cantonese, the subtitle will be in Mandarin or Cantonese, as they're speaking in English. 🤔 So this gives them multi-language capability...

So microsoft can do a better job of integration......

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

https://www.gatesfoundation.org › ...

Contact

Contact · Phone: (206) 709-3400 · Email: media@gatesfoundation.org. Career Seekers

Yes the gates foundation should be using microsoft symbols and all of its charitable work. Because the foundation gets better recognition for Microsoft.The it's patient because the foundation holds lots of Microsoft stock.So it's in their best interest to give microsoft recognition... Also microsoft employees if they want to leave microsoft and focus more uncharitable they can transfer from microsoft to the gates foundation or from the gates foundation to microsoft..... So they can entertain them better if employees are leaving Microsoft or wanna leave.The gates foundation can offer on a position. If they wanna leave the gates foundation microsoft could offer them a position... So they need to work better with each other....

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

https://www.gatesfoundation.org › ...

Contact

Contact · Phone: (206) 709-3400 · Email: media@gatesfoundation.org. Career Seekers

[ravelite]

Literate programming doesn’t have to be just for currently live programs: it’s also a way to study old ones. In the early stages of the lockdown, when my brother Toby was recovering from COVID-19, we did a little work over Skype each evening on presenting a commentary for an existing program. Toby had disassembled and puzzled out the ROM for a 1981 computer called the BBC Micro, but wasn’t sure how to present his findings. Literate programming turned out to be good for this, and what could have been an unreadable assembly language file is instead turning into a lively website of interlinked code, with downloads, photos of what the underside of the keyboard looks like, audio of what getting an extra life in Zalaga sounded like, videos, bits of historical documents, and little BBC Micro programs to try out. You could imagine a program like that becoming a kind of museum exhibition. But such a program can still be compiled.

Narrascope 2020 talk | Inform 7

[castle-dominion]

7x1 driven audio commentary

A half a day? I think you mean a day & a half

One that you can actually tie? frank sinatra thing that I'm doing XD

I love how they let go of their fancy outfits but only beckett changes out entirely

WHY wear windbreakers over their tuxedos? ig bc they need to wear police stuff

Woah the camera I love it

lots of running but aren't their episodes done in eight days?

I believe I accidentally touched her boob JH: she's european she's fine with it

Getting caught watching lol bowman: shouldn't she go back in & apologize to him?

JH: you guys are missing me chewing her out SD: shut up All of them: you are handsome JH: Nice jacket. Why hasn't esposito worn that again?

I AGREE, THANK YOU FOR UNDOEING THE TOP BUTTON AGAIN, FIRST TIME SINCE S2

PJJ's favoutire prop? Her glasses.

The hesitation. The lack of information is as strong as the actual information.

SD: How old is molly now? 30? Amann: 32.

Yeah the fake coffee cup was SO good, & he's right someone used to bring coffee before castle, but she also probably got her own. & esposito totally had a past thing with becks.

I agree, if it was not so serious I'd LOVE to have them come in on rolly chairs.

Vinny my beloved.

Getting caught watching lol Panini sandwich is redundant but not wrong

Tension & anxiety is great after bouncy ones tbh, & the occasional weird one. But how DID he not recognize his voice? Then again vinny only spoke to him a few times, they are not close & ppl's voices change over the phones

Belief & nonbelief are so good, reminds me of montgomery

Why would it be such a long charade tho? Why not just avoid her

All season long he's kept this animosity, & wow

What finger? "some would call it broken" SD: ladies & gentlemen, this is the showrunner discovering that one of their actors has a broken finger, live

THAT WATER HAS BEEN THERE FOR FIVE YEARS? YOU GROW SEA MONKEYS IN THERE? IS THAT TRUE?

Bowman: I wrote in big magic marker "he left because of you" Her: I'm gonna kill bowman when he says "cut"

So does beckett speak french? how much?

Yeah man, passage of time

WAIT THEY LEGIT GOT THE COAST GUARD JH: I knew it was him bc his feet-- he has the smallest feet for a big guy

THIS HOSPITAL SET WAS BUILT JUST FOR THIS SCENE?

After all that complexity, just "I'm happy to see that guy"

RB: I need to recolour this scene SD: it's not too late, is it? Me: I want to see their faces tho, idiot

Ooh at the time of recording this audio commentary, amann is writing episode 20 & nobody knows how this unfolds!

Hm, very visual memory JH: but you're high functioning which is good SD: Hey thanks buddy

Huh everyone else on the skype call coast guard boat are not actors

Drinking game on this? & you cut em out before shooting & you cut more out in editorial?

How many fishers are on that damn boat!?!? eight children all fishing on that same tiny boat

Howard Grigsby

I also love her bedazzled "murder with a twinkle" lol. She IS serious.

JH: sure put a lot of blue in your colour correction SD: I think I owe someone money

just leaning on the railing & then boom suddenly you're going over

(discussing the light fading during filming) JH: I just tried to make my skin as light as possible

JH as esposito: "Just you & me, then ryan came along"

Why did CASTLE pay vinny? why not the people who abducted him? His friend from school?

RB: shoot him. shoot him. Maybe just kneecap him though.

Everyone IS bending to esposito's pov even tho ryckett want to trust castle.

But castle DID set up the tent there

A fenkins. fajenkins.

They set back up the abduction board! JH as JE: I don't trust you, Castle

Reminds me of the amnesia episode where the guy got back with his ex wife & she has that baggage but he does not

RB: I thought I was being subtle with [the elephant picture in castle's room]

Yeah they even broke the chair apart for the mummy episode

Yeah robert duncan is great!!

Ah they are shooting 7x19 during the recording of the audio lol

So yeah that was fun

[nukevinsmith]

The Demon Father from Lifetimes Past

THE NUADVENTURIS SEEERIS. Episode 94.

The OverALLL Reality of THE NUGALAXSEEERS IS for Those who Decide to have The RealCourage to StepUP and Be a 'Great Witnisss' with REBISAR-DUANEVA-PALL & The ReALLL UNUversALLL Guides. This show is a sharing of REALEXPERIENCES FROM THE GALAXSEEERS SKYPE NUGROUPS. Kevin's Real side experience...

Kevin would encounter a powerful demonic being who had once, many lifetimes ago, been his father. And although many lifetimes and creational positions had Kevin assumed since, the demon still considered him to be his spawn. This would then escalate into a series of attacks on the Real side and the physical from other demonic beings of a similar kind. *additional commentary by Duane The Great Writer

https://www.duanethegreatwriter.net/

[scarletpan-moved]

Michael: “... Violent plans to overthrow the government. Quick Alex, go tell daddy.” 

Jesse Manes’s computer: ...terrorist ties... 

Michael: “IT WAS TOTALLY A JOKE I WAS KIDDING WAIT”

( credit to @cracked-crown I’m just typing it fdkjsal )

[cautiousgoose]

When you're lonely but only for specific companionship. Like just that one person you want to talk to for hours, but everyone else feels draining.

That's me right now.

[valorandgold-archived]

Part of a conversation that @protectingthetruth and I were having about how much we love NIRTENDO.

(Seriously did people actually fall for that post and not pay attention to the account name?)

[lionofstone]

I do not have a cohesive style. Every single outfit I put together seem like it could belong to an entirely different person, honestly! Sometimes, I think it's a problem, but mostly it's just a lot of fun! So today I thought I'd explore the various styles or 'moods' that my outfits portray in seven different looks. I hope you enjoy!! And, if while you're watching this, you think "oh, actually, all of these outfits are tied together by ___" please tell me? I'm very curious to see if I'm way wrong and I actually DO have a solid style!!

[themrsjarvismoved]

“i like thor. he’s a sweet boy.”