#100000 years late oops

[panicatthecourtx]

Still catching up on South Park, and I finished Part 1 & 2 of Post Covid last night and man, I really didn't expect to tear up at the very end 😭😭.

Seeing the kids all grown up and happy (aside from Cartman, oops) was just really nice. I mean, Kyle having kids?? Potentially Wendy and Stan getting together(in the new timeline) and TWEEK AND CRAIG ARE STILL TOGETHER???? Iconic. 100000/10. I loved it, I didn't expect it to go the way it did, but I like the way Matt & Trey took it. I know I'm like 3 years late but MAN.

[rookthorne]

16, 17, 18 💛

Nika! My darling, I hope you’re doing well and I am so sorry this is late. 💗

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Has to be between Alternate Universe - Bikers, Biker Bucky Barnes, and Whump (oops 🤣)

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

100000% Bucky.

But to be specific, my biker Bucky. Outlaw Bucky is a close second, but none of you have seen enough of him yet to know why I love him so much, unfortunately. Hopefully soon 🤞🏻

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

…gonna have to say Thor and Wanda. Even though they’re only very brief for what I’ve written them in, they were hella difficult for me, for some reason.

Come ask me about my year on AO3! 🥰

[elvhenstar]

tagged by // @forebrietas (thank you so much, ily, im like 100 years too late oops ♡)

tagging // @lelibela, @sunwarden, @elfrootelf, @falkreathh, @aimryax (if you want x)

NAME 5 THINGS THAT

are in your bag:

1. my kindle (with my 100000 unread books) 2. my favourite lipstick  3. painkillers 4. a power bank 5. tissues because i’m always sick

are in your room:

1. a map of the world 2. way too many nude lipsticks  3. 1000 coats and jackets 4. my totoro plushie ♡ 5. my collection of plants! (including a lil bonsai tree called klaus) 

are your favorite:

1. fantasy genre 2. skirts & big sweaters 3. matcha lattes  4. skincare 5. animal crossing

you’re into right now:

1. old french cinema (im in a nostalgic mood lmao)  2. animal crossing pocket camp 3. dragon’s dogma  4. sustainable fashion  5. cooking!! 

are on your to-do list:

1. getting into my chosen masters degree program 2. finishing my thesis  3. exercising more often and becoming stronger 4. improving my italian skills 5. taking better care of my nails

[giantkillerjack]

Late night autistic art ramblings.

IT STANDS TO REASON that if I can create character sheets for future reference, knowing that some of these sheets have to be useful to me quite possibly years down the line, then I could theoretically create future reference sheets that are not for human characters but for building styles.

And, theoretically, I should be able to learn how to draw different styles of architecture in the same way that I can learn how to draw in different art styles and then apply that style to different shapes and sizes of subject. There will be some shapes that each style prefers, but ultimately, it seems a similar concept.

And since the architecture in my graphic novel is usually me combining two or more specific city's architecture designs, I would indeed need a reference sheet made specifically for me by me.

It may make sense to seek out or else build reference sheets for each town/country and THEN work on the combinations from there.

Some combos featured in season 1 of my graphic novel, which is a road trip arc so I have to (or well, really really want to) make each place feel rich and unique!

New Orleans, USA + 1980s Liverpool, England

Guatapé, Colombia + Havana, Cuba + San Juan, Puerto Rico (main question: how would Colombian architecture change on a small tropical island community?)

What if Frankenstein and Reanimator had a baby and that baby was a town in a medieval fantasy?? (Answer: it sure wouldn't be a fun place to get stuck for like a month and a half! Undead creatures notwithstanding.)

Christmas Town from Nightmare Before Christmas, that one town from the movie Klaus, plus what if fucking ANY people of color were there?? (Otherwise great movies but GAWDS it is like, literally so easy ffs)

This one sleep podcast on the headspace app + Howl's Moving Castle

Jessica Fletcher's hometown but make it fall-themed because this is the 'autumn vibes' episode

A totally normal village + a mountain + a mountain god + a woman who fucks that mountain god + her demigod son + a recently developed problem involving a mop and a demonic poltergeist

oops all horrors (on a train!)

A capital city that I'm just now realizing is going to need a lot more fleshing out! All I got so far is "big" and "class divide," but I have no doubt I'll manage to make it harder for myself don't you worry

A pirate ship + but put that shit in the sky

Okay so maybe only two settings so far are super solid but I have been awake for 100000 hours so

Hey you I hope you're doing well, reader. I'm okay. I will make every place they go in my graphic novel so very beautiful.

Or at least cool as fuck.

Eat shit, Violet Evergarden. My backgrounds will be... not nearly as good as yours! But they will be so beautiful for the work of one person rather than a team! And MY character isn't going to fuck off and marry her [REDACTED] in the last episode and taint all the beautiful backgrounds forever! YOU FUCKING DIPS.

I suppose I ought to go looking for other beautiful and interesting places to inspire my work. With the exception of a couple places that need to be unappealing but should nevertheless be interesting, I mostly choose settings based on what is prettiest because when I draw stuff, I feel like I'm there, and I only want to spend time in nice places when I can.

Life is hard enough without stomping down on my saturated colors for the sake of realism.

Anyway this whole thing has been brought to you by me spending most of my life learning to draw and only recently realizing I don't know how to draw backgrounds, edibles, autism, and of course the MVP insomnia

If you've read this far, you've fallen right into my trap! and now you have to try and think something neutral or good about yourself. Unless you don't want to. But otherwise, I'm afraid you must. I think you are doing your best. I think you are trying your hardest. I believe that. I am too. Your body is taking in oxygen and keeping you alive and that is enough for now. Goodnight, neighbor, goodnight

[gaykieth]

I just subscribed to you on ao3!! for some reason I keep on not seeing that you replied to me until really late after. I'm looking forward to reading your story if you do post it!! How have you already written so many words just since november?? That is so impressive!!! wow wow wow!! hmm when I was writing a big fic (only 19k words lmao i have nothing on you) I posted like part of it as a first chap and because I got a load of lovely feedback I got re-motivated with it, idk if you'd maybe (1/2)

want to do that? But if you do I'd rec having the rest of the story planned out just so you don't put too much pressure on yourself with future updates. Just I know how hard it can be to stay motivated and I hope you're doing okay?? I'm honestly so impressed that you've written so much - best wishes with the rest of it!! editing and stuff can be really hard and boring but once you get it done it's well worth it!! I hope you're having a great day :) (2/2)

wow first of all thank you sososo much!!!!!! really it honestly makes me so happy to read your asks lol

19k words is incredible!!!!!!!!! i can assure you not even half of that out of my 74k fic is good lmao, plus quality > quantity, and i’m 100000% sure you write amazing & once i have some free time i want to read some of your fics!!!

i got to 70k during november because my writing pattern is writing a bunch in a month, then going into writing hibernation for years and years, so nanowrimo is a huge help. also, your suggestion of posting part of it and getting motivated is really good!!! i might do that once i’m wrapping everything up, but at the moment my outline is basically just running with whatever is going on and hoping to get to the plot points i have planned eventually, so basically no outline (oops) so i think it’s best if i do that a little later on.

i’m sorry it took me so long to respond!! and again tysm!!! you’re really helping me with keeping motivated, i hope you’re having a wonderful day/night!!!

[pianistus-blog1]

runs in late 100000 years later-- i finally finished re-reading the event info and excited to jump into everything!! for kaede in particular she can’t fight nor does she have any spectacular power to protect her !! regardless !! four, five and six seem to fit her more. though, i suppose if anyone would be willing to tackle one, two and three ; or you wouldn’t mind kaede tagging along to help tackle the undead-- i’m down with that also. so basically anything is good !! i do think kaede is definitely the type to make any scenario work. this got a little tl;dr -- oops. cap is TWO for the moment with CASTMATES exempt, if any of you desire to have some spooky fun here.

[yahoo-puck-daddy-blog]

Puck Daddy Countdown: Boeser's bonuses and Eugene's letter

Brock Boeser’s bonuses mean what for the Vancouver Canucks? (Getty)

7. The Leafs

“Losers of four straight,” doesn’t exactly flatter them, though two were in overtime and all were on the road.

The good enws is the Leafs’ old problems — i.e. giving up 40 shots every night, maybe taking some nights off — aren’t really an issue any more. They only did it once, in Tampa, and hey, Tampa’s really good.

But regardless, this isn’t the time of year you want to be losing four straight, even if Auston Matthews is still out. The good news, I guess, is that the cushion the top-three in the Atlantic is such that even with the Leafs slumping and the Panthers getting insanely hot, they still ended that Sabres loss with a FIFTEEN-point lead for third in the division.

We’ve known it was gonna be a Leafs/Bruins series in the first round since, what, November? Now it increasingly looks like the Bruins are gonna have home ice in it, even despite their injury situation, which we’ll get to in a minute.

I mean, that series is gonna be great. Sign me up for it. But still, this is maybe a bigger point of concern. Something to monitor anyway.

6. Cap management

How about this one: Brock Boeser is probably done for the year, meaning it will be virtually impossible for him not to max out his bonuses this season.

But I mean, who cares? This is a rebuilding team that doesn’t have to worry about salary cap issues and…. what’s that? Boeser hitting these bonuses is for-sure going to push them over the salary cap? And that means they’ll carry a cap penalty into next season of whatever the overage is? And the Canucks are only eight points up on the worst team in the league this season?

Pretty cool. I would love to be a Canucks fan, for sure. But hey, maybe the Sedins will retire and it really and truly won’t matter. That, in turn, might actually kickstart the rebuild in earnest. And only three years too late!

5. A letter from Eugene

I mentioned this in the Power Feelings yesterday and got a couple emails about it, so here are the highlights from Eugene Melnyk’s open letter to the fans, who he 100000 percent thinks are dumbasses and suckers who don’t see through him.

You can tell because in the letters opening like, he calls the fans “valued,” which is what some ghoulish telecom calls you when you’ve been on hold for 45 minutes when the repairman didn’t show up to fix your cable during the six-hour window you had to be home on a Tuesday afternoon.

Then he was like “sure our team sucks, but remember when we almost made it to the Cup Final? Pretty cool, huh?”

But this line is totally baffling: “We have had Canada’s most successful NHL on-ice performance over the past 15 years.” I immediately wondered, by what metric could this possibly be true? Ottawa’s record in the past 15 years — which, I guess what happened in 2002-03 matters? — is 11th in the NHL. But they’re behind the ninth-place Canucks by 12 wins.

They’ve certainly played the most playoff games of any Canadian team in that stretch (107), which also gives them the most wins (55), but that also only puts them three games above .500. This has to be what Melnyk is talking about, but like, the reason he said “15 years” is because if you go back “14 years,” oops, they get passed by Montreal in playoff games played. And that’s also true if you go back “12 years” to the start of the cap era.

The general thrust of the letter was something along the lines of “We’re looking to rebuild, but not to the point that you won’t still want me as an owner or to the point that it would endanger my chances of building an arena downtown so I can cash out big time when I finally sell this team.”

I will say this for Melnyk, though: “I have demonstrated my commitment to giving you the best possible team over and over again,” is the funniest sentence ever written.

4. Goalless streaks

Milan Lucic scored on Monday. First time since before Christmas. That’s a 29-game goalless streak for a guy who was brought in at the same salary as Taylor Hall, and who is signed for a few years to come and only going to get worse.

In the same game, Oscar Klefbom also scored, ending his 33-game goalless drought. But that left two more defensemen with futile streaks of 33 and 32 games (Matt Benning and Andrej Sekera, respectively). Plus Mike Cammalleri is at 28 games without a goal, Pontus Aberg hasn’t scored since Dec. 14 when he was still a Predator (22 games), and Darnell Nurse hasn’t scored in 20.

It’s almost unbelievable that a team would have so many guys go so long without scoring, but this is what happens when you trade almost all your good forwards I guess.

3. Trading Pacioretty

Speaking of which, I guess there’s some question as to whether the Habs will trade Max Pacioretty this summer if they can find the right price (I bet they could if they lowered their ask). And honestly I think they should do it, because that would mean they’ve changed their GM, which is what they really need to do.

Pacioretty can play, obviously, but few on this team also fall into that category. Getting out from under any expensive long-term contracts would be a good idea since they need to have an actual rebuild. I get the argument that you gotta pay someone to hit the cap floor, but that’s what Carey Price and Shea Weber are for, is it not?

Anyway, trade him at the draft. Preferably to Nashville after they make PK Subban the captain.

2. Charlie and Patrice?

The fact that the Bruins’ No. 1 center and No. 1 defenseman are now both officially out weeks is scary, and might be something that keeps the Leafs in the race for a first-round home ice slot for longer than they should.

But honestly, the way these guys are playing, you might really only start to see deterioration of their game toward the end of this run. Man, this team has a lot of guys who can flat-out play. It’s crazy.

1. Taylor Hall?

Yeah he’s scoring a lot, but the team is losing almost as much. Doesn’t seem very valuable to me!!!

Nathan MacKinnon, on the other hand……..

(Not ranked this week: Goalie interference.

I saw where the NHL is gonna try to fix goalie interference rules before the start of the playoffs. Is there any other league that enacts rule changes midseason this regularly? The NHL changed goalie pad dimensions in like January last year. Everyone hates all this stuff. How does it keep happening? Amazing.)

Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

(All statistics via Corsica unless otherwise noted.)

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