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[aesongies]

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[askafterlife]

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[agox]

Last night I got high and wrote a program to find all of the unused elemental symbols. It turns out there’s 585 of them and it’s much less interesting the next day.

One interesting finding: I couldn’t be bothered to generate all possible one and two letter strings, so I asked ChatGPT to write me code that would do all that for me. It worked surprisingly well!

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[babyawacs]

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[jakubmajchrzakmusic]

Strzał w kolano + Zdrój on the road again!

vol III. Czekia.

01.05 (wed) - Prague (CZ) @ Underdogs w/ Shadow Show + NOIX + Ys 02.05 (thu) - Ostrava (CZ) @ Rock Hill w/ E Converso + Furuburasuto 03.05 (fri) - Blansko (CZ) @ Suterén w/ Zabloudil-a 04.05 (sat) - Olomouc (CZ) @ SF Mini w/ Tiznao + Conformists

(poster by Jakub Zasada)

(video by Jakub Majchrzak)

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[anthr-ideology]

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[streetartsf]

Face to Face

Mitch Bierer. Lauren YS.

Divisadero @ Fell in San Francisco, Ca

Lauren YS burst onto the local art scene in 2014 upon graduation from college with several murals around the Bay Area and several still up.

She is participating in Wide Open Walls in Sacramento that officially kicked off today.

Lauren's work is influenced by dreams, mythology, death, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation and her Asian-American heritage.

Mitch hails from St. Louis. He painted a facial mural in 2015 while visiting and shortly after moved here.

From Interview with Hoodline:

"My background in art runs kind of deep," Bierer said. "As a kid I looked up to my grandfather, just like most kids do, and it just so happened that my grandpa was a muralist in his small town in Illinois. I remember how awe-inspiring it was to watch him command a brush at such large scales, and I think it just really stuck and grew into a passion of my own."

[taylors-fourth-cat-meow]

Tam was gross in the hl meeting but I still felt bad for him in because he was fr planning to screw hybern over + only did all that for fe/yre because rh/ys can break and manipulate MINDS so he seriously thought she was in danger....and had his suspicions and fears confirmed at the start of WAR and then she screws his court over and in the meeting she's like you can't rewrite this to your advantage (huh??) ! and when he mentions what she did to his court she's like *blocks the images from my mind**pushed the images from my mind**shut out the memory* like....yeah he was awful in maf and parts of war but nothing worse than Rh/ys or even Cass/ian in aco/sf 😂😂😂

IK!!

Tamlin proved that he wanted to screw over hybern from the start "reports carefully made over months".

Feyre doing all that was so cringey yet so in character for her. Beron rightfully brings up Claire Beddor and her family and feyre "blocks out the memories" and then it's never brought up again???

And "rewriting the narrative" is just so fcking ironic cause that's basically Acomaf and rhyise's whole character in a nutshell. I feel like one of her editors would have told her this and she just added it as a "fck you" to them.

[wuxiaphoenix]

On Writing: Naming Characters

Hold onto your hats, people. We’re about to step into a fiction writers’ minefield. Specifically - how much time and effort should you put into finding the “perfect” name for you character?

In the one corner! The extreme of people who flip random pages in the phonebook and throw darts to pick something that seems reasonable to shout across a playground, or a hail of gunfire.

In the opposing corner! People who seek Deep Symbolic Meaning in their work, and give heroes and villains names that echo their particular Inevitable Fate.

Honestly, I’ve used a bit of both. I’m more likely to use the phonebook when I just need a name, any name, for a background character wandering through. For main characters, I prefer the name to mean something. It may not be anything deep and profound; just pretty, or valiant, or something that seems to resonate with what parents wished for their child and how the character’s living now. And it might not be the meaning, specifically, but the name’s historical associations. I named an oni painter after the historical painter Kyosai, who painted a lot of youkai and claimed he’d seen the Makai as a child. Felt like the kind of name oni parents might pick for their firstborn son.

What name a character goes by will shape their existence. Sherlock Holmes likely led a very different life than Sherringford Holmes (Doyle’s original drafts) would have. Modern English-speaking name books often advise that a two-syllable first name with a single syllable last just sounds better than a three-syllable one. Sherlock is shorter, to the point, with cutting sounds; echoing the crisp, clear workings of the Consulting Detective’s brain. Sherringford seems... overly ponderous of thought.

Then there’s the more exotic names found in fantasy and SF. The best advice I can give is to make up names your readers can pronounce. Better yet, determine what real-world cultures you’re riffing off of to create your fantastic ones, and go steal names from them. You can always alter a few letters here and there if you want a change.

...Note, use that last trick sparingly. I love the Safehold series, but I had trouble reading some of the “time-mutated” last names with all the Ys. Too much of that throws the reader out of the story, and that’s the last thing you want.

If you are snatching names from other languages, I advise checking their meanings through internet research, hopefully consulting more than one source. Not only does this give you a better chance of making the impression you want with the character, it also gives you an opportunity to find more nuanced meanings of a name, one of which might be just what you had in mind.

(If so, you might want to put a short Author’s Note in the back of the book, for the linguistics geeks reading your stuff. As a treat.)

I wouldn’t worry too much about the exact meaning of first and last names smushed together, though. Look up your own names and see how weird the combo is. There’s a case in the U.S. of a family named Hogg, who named three children Ima, Ura, and Hesa.

...No, I don’t know how the kids avoided parental homicide either.

Most of all have fun. And if you go through the story and realize your Harriett should be a Juliette, or your Sean a Pierce - you can always edit later!

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[thekingdomofdong]

i shoulda done this on new years but im reflecting back on the games i beat/played in 2021 and i think if i had to narrow it down to a top 10 of shit i beat this year. not really in any order but these were some of the coolest games i got through. no surprise a ton of them are snes related lmfao 1 Terranigma 2 Final Fantasy 6 3 Chrono Trigger 4 Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (and just getting into SF in general) 5 Ys Book I and II 6 Snatcher 7  Policenauts 8 Magical Knight Rayearth 9 Seaman (yes really, that shit was so dope lmfao)

10 Shenmue honorable mentions to outrun coast 2 coast and sega rally racing for reminding me how fun racing games can be hoping to make more of a dent in the Ys series this year, get into the resident evil series finally, maybe silent hill as well and just keep on chipping away at the backlog. i beat almost 100 games this year which is kinda wild to think of and maybe ill be able to beat 100 more in 2022

[martincart]

Star wolf & Venom Empire Dates of birth HCs

+ Plus some related SF fan characters.

Only if someone is interested!

(Note: The dates can change in the future in anything).

1917 - Silver Hook ( Sarumarine Captain - 98 Ys on SF 64 )

1927 - Fidel Macbeth ( Forever Train Engineer - 88 Ys on SF 64 )

1960 - Aaron Galaxicos ( Meteo crusher pilot - 55 Ys on SF 64 )

1966 - Andorf/Andross & Barbara Andorf ( Andross has 49 Ys on SF 64 , Barbara passed away in 1999 )

1970 - Magno Doenis + sisters ( Attack carrier captain - 45 Ys on SF 64 )

1972 - Pigma Dengar ( 43 Ys on SF 64 )

1979 - Osamu Kumo ( Shogun pilot - 36 Ys on SF 64 )

1980 - Jacobo Granga ( Granga - 35 Ys on SF 64 )

1983 - Leon Powalski ( 32 Ys on SF 64 )

1985 - Cobra Ryota ( Area 6 Commander - 30 Ys on SF 64 )

1986 - Wolf O'donnell ( 29 Ys on SF 64 )

1989 - Caiman Dilia ( Caiman - 26 Ys on SF 64 )

1996 - Pluto Galaxicos ( 16 Ys in 2012 ... )

1997 - Andrew Oikonny ( 18 Ys on SF 64 )