#(also updated my muse activity)

[dutybcrne]

I keep forgetting to say this but until I get through Natlan new quest, I am prolly focusing more on H0nkai Sta.r Ra|l and Tw|sted W0nderland muses jdbfb

[honeycoded]

brb gonna retire & add some muses for the new year<3

[thedeadthree]

🥀! the oc page is here !

[fateviled]

im going to be so obnoxious once my mind gets back to reading

[st4rburster]

hello <33 i've been thinking about coming back to rp recently and i've even revamped my theme and all that !! anyway !! all of this to say that i'm very excited to come back and write with u guys !!!! i've missed y'all 😭

[shinrarisen]

So as a heads up, please pardon the dust for a while around here! As I mentioned in Febuary, back before Rebirth came out, I would be taking the game slowly - And I have been, resulting in me just now reaching Gongaga as of last night and finding Cissnei. Even so early into the village, I already have a lot of feelings and thoughts considering what direction to take my blog(s; @sakurarisen is involved in this choice as well and been getting more regular updates), and I've been actively talking it out with @honorisen, who is not as far into the game as i am due to an incredibly busy schedule and still does not wish to be spoiled - But is still working with me on our new direction.

With this in mind, I'm going to be, for the next week or so depending on my own health and schedule, starting to do some updates around here! There's going to be some heavy changes made, including the following:

I'll be focusing on Crisis Core into Rebirth from this point forward. I have not played Before Crisis and right now, I have no intention of looking into it; anything to do with Cissnei's role as a Turk prior to CC with be vague, and will not reference BC in any shape or form. tl;dr: Before Crisis does not apply to my take on Cissnei, only Crisis Core, Remake, and Rebirth. This also applies to Kunsel, though given he's largely unseen for much of the series aside from CC, that's easier for me to work with. I will not be doing anything set in OG without request anymore, as OG was actually suffocating to my muses, and Remake provides me with more wiggle room... And less focus on pain, suffering, and angst.

My blogs/FF based verses are set in their own timeline. Rebirth, following on from the end of Remake, has introduced multiple verses and timelines; the canon for both this blog, @sakurarisen, @bountyrisen, and Kasa's own @honorisen will be shifting to a timeline of our own that follows closely to canon events of CC, Remake, and Rebirth, but with a few divergences. I'll be making up a 'Divergences From Canon' page for this blog to match Sera's, as well, to further explain where we diverge from canon, and how. This is also canon for Kasa's Zack, and this timeline will continue to focus on Zack and Sera as they raise their family and try to survive, with the help of their friends.

Cissnei will be moving to Gongaga. I rather like how she was set up as leaving the Turks and moving there, and I'll be keeping that in these updates.

There is some original lore of my own creation that will be added as a background factor to all verses on this blog, and has been added to all my blogs as a whole, with varying degrees of relevancy and being seen. More on this will come when the updates are done, as I need to redo my rules and verses as well.

I'm still playing through Rebirth and likely won't be done with it anytime soon for a LOT of reasons, but at least I have a direction to start work on! So please pardon the dust - We're under construction again~! <3

~Pom

[carnivoraformes]

@aventvrina asked, ❛ did i do something to offend them? ❜ (I picked Sunday)

↠ 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂 . || Status: Accepting

"A fair question, I do not believe so." He didn't pretend to not have his own theories as to why a group of other guests seemed to have such an unfavorable opinion, because there truly was no denying it; how their eyes seemed to focus in on Aventurine it was unmistakable that he was the target of their ire.

Alas this close to the Charmony Festival he would much rather avoid any added chaos to have to deal with. Favoring to avoid such topics of discussion until absolutely necessary he instead asked, "are you sure you aren't acquainted with them? Forgive me for being rude but if I recall correctly the ICP has a great deal of connections. Is there some tension between you and them the staff might need to be made aware of?"

Taking another subtle look towards the group he noticed that they seemed to be parting on their own, a few people leaving with the same sour looks on their faces but leaving nonetheless. It wasn't reassuring put he played it off regardless.

"I apologize for their behavior on their behalf. If they become more troublesome feel free to bring the matter up to the staff, we do not tolerate harassment of our guests. Regardless of whether they come from."

[ksspectacles]

i’m alive btw. just haven’t been on social media too much. btw i do have an account on the website formally known as twitter under the same name (link). i’m not more active there or anything but it’s there if you want to follow me there.

edit: this was apparently my hundredth post lmao

[douzheng]

my muse has been fed this day. yes I am a little late but I still be slightly sick and it sucks. going to get back to doing things on my Jing Yuan blog and this one as well in a bit.

[aparticularbandit]

okay, the masterlist link functions properly on the mobile app now.

some of the links still don’t work on the app - the tagged/[-insert-tag-here-]/chrono links in particular - which means none of the finding family links function properly on the app, as well as none of the overarching links - so the link for kisses through the decades does not BUT the link at start here does, as that link goes directly to the first chapter (and then each chapter has links to the previous and next chapters on it).

...i have not made those changes to finding family because there are over one hundred chapters and that takes specific spell slots that i just.  do not the slots for right now.  like.  i do not have that spell prepared for today.  sorry.

minor updates like this?  more of a cantrip.  that’s a higher level spell.

BUT the masterlist should function on mobile now!

[kurthorton]

multis and sideblogs and current blogs included....... 210

compiled a list of every solo blog ive had not including sideblogs and only the ones that arent active currently and that i have the emails to. no multis included.............. 122

[mpchev]

Dissertation on Fanfiction Bookbinding — Looking for participants! [EDIT: Thank you so much, participants found!!!]

[Edit continued: I'm still sorting through emails and setting up meetings, will reply to everyone very soon, I can't even begin to thank everyone enough for the visibility that's been given to this 💜 I'll keep the updates coming as I work on the dissertation (and learn how to bookbind), in case anyone would like to follow along. For any questions about the research or comments/suggestions/resources about ficbinding, my asks are wide open. Thank you thank you thank you!!!]

Hi! My name is Marie Chevrier, I’m currently doing my postgraduate dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding, and I’m looking for people to talk to about it!

If you’ve ever taken a fanfic from somewhere online and turned it into a physical copy, either for yourself or as a gift, I’d love to know more. From printer paper stapled together to typesetting and painted edges, nothing is too simple or too complex — I’m interested in the whole process, what motivates readers or authors to bring the story to a different format, and how it’s one more way to interact with stories actively and creatively. This will be the final project of my MLitt in Folklore and Ethnology with the Elphinstone Institute (University of Aberdeen, Scotland).

What to Expect

To participate, you must be 18 or older and speak English. I’ll give you more details and answer any questions you might have via email, and will then set up individual video calls with participants (if you happen to be in North-East Scotland, we could also meet at an agreed public location). I’ll tell you more about the dissertation and explain how what you share will be used, which depends entirely on what you agree to, including if you would prefer your contribution to be credited or anonymised. I will ask you about your experience with fanfiction bookbinding and if you have some examples to show me, I would love to see them! Meetings will last approximately 45–90 minutes and take place in June 2024. You have the right to withdraw your participation at any time.

Contact Information

If you’d like to participate or have any questions, please send me an email at m.chevrier.23@abdn.ac.uk

To know more about the Elphinstone Institute, please visit https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/

To know more about me, here's an intro post for you.

If for any reason you don’t wish to participate but still have comments/suggestions/resources/musings you’d like to send my way, please do!

[simplyanjuta]

Transferring animations between rigs (e.g. adult to child)

The steps below describe how to transfer an animation from an adult rig to a child rig but the method should be applicable for any transfer between human rigs.

However, I haven't tested other constellations. Let me know if you have any other tips, suggestions, corrections or run into any issues.

Many thanks to thepancake1 for helping figuring out the details that are not obvious at all 💛

I posted this little guide in Creator Musings for someone wondering about it but sharing it here as well.

Step 1)

Export the adult sim animation you want to transfer (=your source) to Blender.

Open a blend file with a child rig (=your target).

Append the adult rig with the animation to the child rig in Blender (File > Append > Select the blend file > folder "Object" > select rig and mesh there)

Select the animation from the adult rig for the child rig (select the child rig in the Outliner menu > select the scene tab in the properties panel below > in "S4S AnimationTools" select the adult animation as the "active animation")

This will get the job mostly done, but the animation will be offset and jumping around, as you see below. To correct for that you will need to set up several constraints as described in step 2.

Step 2)

As you see below the height of the ROOT_bind of the adult sim and child sim differ by about a factor of 0,7:

You can check the exact location in edit mode:

The ROOT_bind of the child rig is located at 0.6920, the ROOT_bind of the adult rig at 1.0112 on the Z axis, which gives a factor of 0.6920/1.0112=0.6843354430379747

With that information you now need to do the following (see image below for comparison, I also uploaded my blend file with the set up here):

In the Dope Sheet menu, select "Action Editor" and press "New Action" there to make a copy of the selected animation.

In the Dope Sheet Summary uncheck ROOT_bind (thus disabling the animation on the root bind for the child rig). Update/Correction: However, the rotation channels need to stay enabled (this only matters if the ROOT_bind is rotated in an animation). The setting should look like this:

In the Transform menu type in -0,6920 on the X axis for ROOT_bind (thus resetting its position to 0 in the animation; can't properly explain why X axis is chosen here instead of Y but it has sth to do with how local rotations of a bone are determined according to pancake)

Create a "Copy Location" constraint for ROOT_bind of the child rig targetting it to the ROOT_bind of the adult rig (this is done in the Properties panel > Bone Constraints), set Influence to 0.6843354430379747 (factor calculated above), deselect "Z"

Create a second "Copy Location" constraint for ROOT_bind in the same way but this time deselect "X" and "Y" and instead select "Z" and check "Offset".

The animation will now play as expected:

Step 3)

All you need to do now is bake the animation (thus applying all the constraints you set up). Select Pose > Animation > "Bake Action...", then check "Visual Keying" and "Clear Constraints" in the pop up. The animation will now work stand alone and you can delete the adult rig.

Alternatively, if you use Pancakes animation tools, you just need to export the clips, the constraints will be applied automatically.

[thisiskindagross]

Full, UNCENSORED panels are up on my Patreon for anyone interested.  You can read Satan and Me on Tapas and Webtoons.

For more goodies, like Natan pics, NSFW, and monthly early update previews, check out my Patreon: www.patreon.com/orangeplum

I’m v active on twitter with art and comic musings too, so if any of you are interested, the twitter account would be the place to get weekly SaM content

.ALSO! I’ve just been RENEWED into the program on Tapas for a FOURTH TIME where I get paid for all my views. It’s a free way to support me and help me keep this coming going. If you could hop over there to see the update every month that would help me greatly. Thank you! ; u ;Your foottraffic the last 6 months has really helped my income!

[muffinrecord]

Current Plans + Musings

I don't plan on playing Exedra to the degree I did for Magia Record, or playing it at all. Because of that, I won't be taking an active role in the community and archiving anything for it. Of course, if Exedra has like amazing gameplay and stories then this is all subject to change, but for now I think I'm done with phone games.

The two youtube channels will stay up and I'll check em periodically to make sure there aren't copyright strikes against the content. I've saved all my raw files, especially for the battle animations, so I can remake them in the future if the music ever becomes a problem for some reason.

Google Drive will stay up until Google rots away. I haven't recorded footage in a long time (as in stories, I do for the character doppels and such), but I'll upload things if they're sent to me.

Magia Union Translations still plans on translating things and making videos, especially leading up to the end, but also for after the game is over for whatever wasn't made in time. I'm not sure what form this will take in the future-- if it'll be manual captions added to the videos or not, but I know it WILL happen.

As for this blog, I'm not going to delete it or anything. However I'm going to be taking a step back. I'd like to say that I'll do liveblogs but I mean... *gestures at blog* I've been saying that for years and the only one I really did successfully was the Oriko one lmao. Ahhh oh well.

I'll have more words later, but it was really fun to be part of a fandom experience like this. I'm excited to work on my own original story projects though and quiet down a bit.

...

When I started this blog, I never expected it to have people actually read it. Or look at it. I just wanted a place to gush about how much fun I was having. I didn't even want to tag the posts with "Magia Record" at first because I was terrified people would be mean at me, haha.

But I'm glad I did. I made so many good friends through this game. I'm glad it existed. And it made me happy to have a place where people cared about what I had to say. Some folks actually got their news from here, can you imagine that? They had notifications turned on for this blog. My god.

Anyways, I'm going to be here for the next two months, and tomorrow I'll start reblogging fan projects and initiatives, plus general news. Maybe this blog will turn into a dumping site for art and fanfic reblogs, who knows. I might watch the remaining stuff and add various thoughts here and there.

Otherwise, you can find me on my main blog @malignmuffin, which only reblogs stuff (I don't talk much if at all there). I have another tumblr blog for my comic, but I think I'll reshare the name once I actually have content you can look at on it. It's pretty bare bones for the moment.

Actually it'll be funny if the end of this game is what makes me finally work on it again. I was in the process of working on it when NA came out, and it totally derailed me. Stopped writing, drawing, just focused on this silly little phone game. Now it's like those five years have gone by and I'm going back to where I started, except I think my lil comic is going to be a bit better than it was before. If I actually make it, that is.

If I ever do actually make my comic and start posting it, I'll be sure to update y'all here. hah

Anyways, thanks for being on this wild ride with me. The memories have been great, and I'm glad I had this experience, even if it had to end.

[bookish-bogwitch]

Thank you @roomwithanopenfire, @rimeswithpurple, @blackberrysummerblog, @nausikaaa, @larkral,

@hushed-chorus, @alexalexinii, @monbons, @whatevertheweather, @run-for-chamo-miles,

@artsyunderstudy, @mooncello, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @forabeatofadrum, and @aristocratic-otter for the tags over the past few weeks. I've had a crazy month (90% in crazy a good way) and too frazzled to come up with my own WIP posts, but have enjoyed reading yours and being included.

Here are six ten moody little sentence from Chapter 11 of Basil Pitch's Diary. (In case you missed it, I posted Ch. 10, September, a few weeks ago, then fled the country.) Baz is hanging in in Niall and Dev's room:

The last time I was here with Niall, he’d told me to hold out for more than ear scritches and the occasional carrot. Now we sat on his bed with a chessboard between us. “Baz,” Niall said quietly. “What are you doing?”  “Beating you.” I moved my queen to menace his remaining bishop. “With Snow, I mean.” Niall did that thing where the rook and king hop around, which shouldn’t be allowed, and I realized he’d won. Again. Somewhere, in a parallel universe, there is a me who grew up with someone to play against, demolishing a Niall who never went to math camp.

Below the cut: musing, a posting plan, and more tags.

Musing: I've actually written a ton since the last chapter even though I've been AWOL, but for a while no matter what I wrote, Baz felt out of character. I'd write a scene, like it, and then think "but why is he doing this?" Then I'd rewrite with Baz behaving completely differently, and that also felt OOC.

I worried that I'd somehow doomed myself with inconsistent characterization, but then I figured it out: Baz at this point is deeply inconsistent. He presents himself to the world one way, he tells the reader / himself that he's something else, and deep down he's a secret third thing. And sometimes his masks slip.

To some extent this is every unreliable narrator. But boyo has REALLY tangled himself up at this point. Something's gotta give. Until it does--which it will, soon--I have to be very clear in my mind, even if Baz isn't, about which Baz is driving the Baz at any given moment.

A lot of you can do that sort of thing intuitively. I can't. So I've been building this out (showing you just the headers b/c spoilers):

This might stultify some (most?) of you. For me, though, it's freeing. When my brain isn't trying to keep track of everything, my imagination can unfurl.

"'Everything'?" you ask. "This isn't that plotty a fic." It's not, but it's already 2.5x longer than anything else I've written, which means developing skills I haven't needed before. Anyway, my BPD chart and I are having fun. We're very happy together.

Posting Plan

I pushed myself to get Ch. 10 up before leaving home for three weeks, because Ch. 9 had ended on such a wretched note. While I was happy to have gotten it up, I didn't love the self-imposed time crunch (though betas @cutestkilla, @facewithoutheart, and @thewholelemon were fuckin' heroes). Feeling rushed had me stressing and second-guessing choices that were probably fine.

My plan now is to pause updates until I have at least a very rough first draft of the final chapter, then post it all at regular intervals. I know a longish pause means some folks who'd been reading along will wait until it's complete, if they return at all. To those folks--sorry, and I get it, and thank you for reading in the first place, and I love you.

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