#Among Us Logic Rewrite

[rosetheocto]

After the doors finally opened up, the group quickly dashed into the first room they could register. The moment was chilling after their sudden brush with death, everyone taking a moment to catch their breaths.

“Okay.” Blue was the first to speak up. “I’ve seen a lot of things happen in this game, and this is by far the most messed up.” The bean took a quick look outside the Laboratory’s doorway, double checking that those faceless, creepy, glitchy ‘ghosts’ didn’t follow them in there. “You’re right. This definitely isn’t a dream… so how the hell are we gonna get out of this mess?”

we were really robbed of more Blue in the NoVisor Arc. like my guy has been playing this game since 2018, which means he’s been around during the same time Aiden was first kidnapped!! I’m a bit hyperfixated on the rewrite of the NoVisor Arc (and AUL in general) I’m doing with a friend rn, so if I remember to post more of that I will! For now though more context and other scattered stuff about the lore for AULR will be under the cut!! :3

the beginning of Return is kinda identical, but Blue replaces Ria. Player, Veteran, and Noob try to warn them about Things Being Kinda Weird and that they are absolutely trapped inside the game but they both call bs (assuming they’re like dreaming or something) until a group of glitched out ghost things (with no visor cuz duh) chase after them all. PF also Coincidentally™️ shows up not too long before the ghosts start attacking and chasing them! how strange…

ANYWAY now they’re hiding out from those things and are using the stupid cleanup thing in MIRA to give them a moment to catch their breath, buy some time, and think of a game plan. The near death experience convinced Mr. Egg and especially Blue that maybe there is way more to this than they both initially thought.

PF’s a lil nervous cuz he believes Blue is catching onto him knowing more about everyone getting transported into the game than he lets on (AND HES RIGHT), esp cuz Blue has mentioned having multiple encounters with strange cultist beans over the years of playing Among Us. (Spoilers Blue does find out about PF later in the episode, but definitely dies like right after :(()

The way I see NV’s plan is somewhat similar but also different. We didn’t really know what was going on exactly in canon, but for this one the best way I can describe it is like the plot of Side Order. The NV Cult is forcibly bringing people into a virtual world in which they would be able to rule with The Power Of Hacking.

as for why the world they picked is a hacked Among Us game? Well it’s simple! it’s super buggy, and there’s only three developers (at the time this takes place that is), so anything they do will take forever to fix and update on their end. And the game being practically a wasteland to the sudden boom in popularity was perfect for bringing unsuspecting people in.

Innersloth knew something was wrong right away all those years ago, but they just couldn’t keep up with this group of hackers. The eventual solution they came up with to all the shenanigans from the cult (and others when it started getting popular) led to the creation of the Hacker’s Lobby, run by 2 (technically 3 if you count Clogsworth) Admins. This new lobby worked! …for the most part. As new cult members infiltrate the game, there’s bound to be some people Innersloth and the Admins missed…

BUT THATS ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE and there’s a lot of stuff I definitely missed but yea!! AULR my beloved :]

[nalyra-dreaming]

I do suspect the eye colour changing thing was literally nothing more than a stylistic decision for the big vampire reveal and nothing more than that. Theories are fun and all but sometimes fandom gives the writers greater intentions than were ever actually there. Like I honestly don’t think Rolin Jones cares less that book Daniel has violet eyes for a start. I don’t think it’s that important.

I do also think Eric’s throwaway comment about falling for Justin Kirk/Raglan James has also been given far more weight than it actually deserves. It wasn’t a spoiler, it was just an actor talking like an actor tbh.

And finally…the whole Daniel body swap thing is such a massive change from the source material that I truly can’t see them going down that route. Changing a characters eye colour is one thing, but to body swap a character such a thing never happens to is a massive rewrite and would be very out of character for the show. Idk, it just would be a huge disrespect to the source material and to a character people love. I get people just don’t want David Talbot in the show, but in all honesty I hope the show never even adapts that particular novel as it’s just not that good.

Raglan James was a character that needed to be introduced, Daniel needed a reason to have come into possession of the trial script. The Talamasca got to edit Daniel’s book and remove anything they didn’t like. I really think that’s all there is to it.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that the fans will theorise all sorts of grand schemes, but the writers inevitably come up with the simplest, most obvious explanations.

Rolin Jones is on record saying he wants to do TtotBT, and Sam and Jacob have both commented on it.

As such I see it hardly as a far reach that they will go there. And it is a logical step after Akasha, too. I personally like the book a lot, it deals with body dysmorphia, suicide, crippling depression and guilt, so I get it's not for everyone, but it has some incredible Loustat scenes, among other things.

I don't think Raglan James makes much sense if you do NOT want to go there tbh. If they'd just wanted to open the Talamasca connection up, they could have used Aaron Lightner, or even Jesse Reeves.

So. *shrugs*

For now I'm taking it as a hint.

[theaveragepsychoticbitch]

Idk if the formatting will stay corrupted when I post this ask but it was mad regular when it was just sitting in my inbox?? but uh, Gods bless. I dont think I'm all that good at sub reader, and I may be ass at writing insecurities as I gotta be careful not to trigger myself lol, but I am gonna enjoy writing this thanks for requesting me beautiful (Also, I'm not much of a daddy person but I LOVE Master kinks.)

A/N: OMFG TUMBLR FUCKEF AND I HAD TO DELETE AND REWRITE EVERYTHINGGGG

I proofread like half of it yall imma do the rest in a couple days💀✋🏾

Fem!Sub!Insecure!Reader x Soft Dom Odin || NSFW lol || Breeding kink, Master/Slave use (ion know too much bout that dynamic lmao so you gon have to bare wit me), insecurities, and raw dogging (my staple)

Odin can't help but notice the slump of your shoulders, persistent ever since the other day. You'd gone to see Aphrodite for the first time, wanting to greet the entire greek pantheon personally upon your introduction as his wife. You left all smiles and laughter, yet despite saying it'd gone well, you possessed an air of sadness about you, and it's lingered throughout the week.

You sigh again, pulling him from his pondering. Your seat in the windowsill is backed by a view of the gray sky, ice cold rain pounding the glass. You have to be cold.

You jump upon finding your husband behind you, wrapping you lovingly in a thick blanket. The expression on his face is uncharacteristically soft, and in your heart you know he loves you... but why?

Why does he love you, when women as beautiful as Aphrodite exist? The lowest ranking goddesses glow with divinity, an inhuman shine to their very aura that you could never recreate. When you entered that room, you'd never felt more mortal. You were drawn to them, their beauty and grace calling out to you, leaving you with no choice but to gaze in awe.

You think you feel tears on your waterline.

How could he truly love you when surrounded by women like that?

"Women like that?"

You blink, feeling the warm tears slide down your cheeks as your face heats up. You didn't mean to say that aloud, by the gods. But it's too late now, and his simple question and deadpan face have broken the dams you worked so hard to maintain all week.

"Women like that! Like Aphrodite, like the other goddesses. They're beautiful my love, beautiful in a way I can't compare."

He tries to speak, but you rush over him, the snot filling your nose choking your speech and corrupting your voice. "How can you caress my scars when presented with unblemished skin? Look me in my eyes when theirs sparkle with such power? How can you even stand my voice! The goddesses of this forsaken place sound as lovely and hypnotic as sirens, even when their screeching at the top of their damned lungs!"

You cough, gasping for air. You hadn't taken a breath in that entire monologue. Your throat hurts from screaming, and at some point, you'd stood up and thrown away the cover he gave you. The cold air from the window spread goosebumps across your back, down your legs and arms. But it was fear that made you tremble, fear he'd see the logic in your words and leave you in the dust. Fear you'd walk the palace halls one day, haunted by the sounds of pleasure your husband brings out of other women, like so many wives here in Valhalla do now.

Your coughing dies out and leaves nothing but silence. Even your sniffling is quieted under his stare. The rain fades away and you find you can't even breathe as you wait for his word.

"I walk among these women everyday, yet you are the one I've chosen. Does that alone not set you apart from them?"

You blink at his tone– darkened with an unknown emotion, yet somehow still soft on your ears. His hand is on the small of your back, nudging you closer. The other cups your cheek.

"If you think yourself to be in a sea of gold, then you must be the diamond of the bunch. In my eyes, you shine brighter in your mortality then any divine being could ever hope to. Your scars are sweet against my lips, and your eyes as bright as the stars. Your voice is the one thing I bow to, my love, your beauty the one thing I praise."

It's silent again when he finishes, but you hear your heart breaking. Breaking for yourself, because how could you have been so blind? To ever in a million years think this man could do anything other than love you...

He chuckles, kissing your ear. "Say my name, Beloved."

Chaste kisses are placed softly about your face. Your forehead, your neck, your cheeks. And all the while you're crying, you love this man so much. "Odin..."

You try to pull back but find he's holding you to his chest. "Odin?"

"My name."

You blink, then smile. "Baby?"

He smiles into your neck, and you think he's having a rare cute moment. "Not that one."

Your smile takes on a confused twist.

Then, it hits you.

He chuckles again, this one filled with a bit of sadism.

"...Master?"

"Perfect."

In a show of heavenly strength you're transported from the window to the bed in the blink of an eye. As you sink into the bed, he tops you, fitting himself between your legs like coming home.

Your lips come together in a clash of lust and passion, the chastity of earlier long forgotten. Your hands tangle in his hair as he fondles you through your clothes. You could feel his hard on through his clothes, the familiar press against your heat filling you with... love?

Love... that's exactly what it was. You loved this, loved this treatment, loved to see your ever-quiet, ever-composed husband fall to pieces when he touched you. His stoic persona peeling back to reveal a man so head over heels he'd stomp on his pride in his rush to hump you like a dog in heat.

Hell, when he's fucking you like this, how could you have ever thought he'd leave?

Your right hand leaves his hair to help him tug at your clothes, the left sliding down to feel his muscles rippling under the skin of his back. He's finally gotten your chest bare, and latches onto the first nipple he sees, blindly working at the fabric to reveal the other tit. His battle-roughened fingers graze its peak, then pinch, hard enough to make you gasp and jump.

His tongue drags out similar sounds. Flicking the cute bud, circling it, right before sucking on it like it'd fix all his problems. Your fingers do away with his clothes with practiced motions as your eyes close, arching up into his touch.

You can hear him moaning almost silently as he kisses your chest, and you swear you hear him whisper, "Sweet."

You sigh at the feeling, at your adoration for this man.

He pulls back, and in the low light you admire the creases of his chest, the scars that litter his skin like stars in the sky. One hand parts your legs, spreading you open, admiring the sight of your clit twitching while arousal pours over your asscheeks to stain the sheets below.

His other hand takes your wrist to lay your palm flat over his heart. He's dragging your palm across his torso, over his heaviest scars, while rubbing electrifying circles into your clit. You tear up again as your legs twitch at the direct simulation. Even breathes turn to pants, and you feel your hips trying to rut into his touch. But your eyes never leave his. No, no– you hold his gaze and hone in on the feel of his skin on your hand, on the feel of realization like a new dawn in your mind.

"Do my scars horrify you?"

You can't tell if your tears are from pleasure or pain; the emotional kind. But they're pouring worse than the rain outside now, and you feel your nose getting stuffy again. "Of course not, my love."

He didn't mind the slip up this time. "If these do not cause aversion, how could your own bring you such despair?" Two fingers slipped inside you, and you gasp, fucking down on them instinctively. His thumb speeds up to match the pace of his fingers, and you pull him down into a kiss. His tongue tangles with yours, sucking on it and exploring your mouth. You kiss him back just as hard, running your teeth gently over his lips and tongue in turn.

"You are mine. You alone can see me like this. You alone can look at me like that, kiss me like that. I only want you–"

He smirks, and you think you're on the verge of cumming.

"Afterall, who else can take me so well? Who could look as pretty when I'm filling them up, watching my seed pour from their warmth? Do those goddesses beg like a good girl for me to stuff it back in? Present themselves as a willing slave, to be used until I've had enough? Until I've put a baby in them?"

Your eyes roll, your back arches, and the world turns white as you orgasm on his fingers. Trembles shake you, but big, comforting hands are working you through it so well. You rock into him until he pulls away, and despite the looming threat of overstimulation, you whine at the emptiness.

"Answer me, slave."

"N...no one, Master. No one except... Me."

You can't see it as your eyes are still closed, but he's smiling. Just a little, but it's full of more joy than a kid on Christmas.

A haze sits over your mind. His voice is the only thing you know now.

His thumbs take either side of your labia and spread you further, coaxing the juices out. He stares for a long time, unable to look away right up until his dick is so hard it aches. He forces his eyes to close, fumbling to pull it out. You both sigh when it slaps against your cunt.

"Please, Master... Cum inside me."

He looks up to find your eyes are just barely open and trained on him. His demeanor softens even more somehow, despite how out of place it seems.

"Anything for the prettiest girl in the world."

He slides in, fitting as though you were made for him. Your walls are warm and grip his cock like they missed it, arousal continuing to overflow and drizzle out, just barely able to slip around his cock. He puts a hand to your stomach, pressing down and make both your eyes roll as he feels how deep he is.

He thrusts– once, twice, rocking you, opening you up. From there on his pace builds to something fast and rough. Your nails drag down his back till blood is drawn, the pain fueling his manic humping. Screams of Master! Bounce through the air as he fucks you, drunk on the drag of his cock against your gspot. Your own hand goes down to rub at your throbbing clit as tears cloud your vision to the point of blindness.

When you arch, his hand is at the small of your back, helping you, holding you. Your bodies press together and you can't help but think, 'fuck. He's beautiful.'

You allow your eyes to close as a smile spreads across your face. Your husband is beautiful. So you are, you have to be,

"Beautiful."

Your eyes drift to your husband's face upon hearing his voice. Velvety and deep, and filled with roughness from his approaching orgasm. You laugh, a breathless thing. "You too, Master." You say, batting your lashes.

His chuckle is equally breathless, "'M gonna fill you up now, lovely girl. Take all of me."

An order, one you'd jump to obey.

You joined at the lips in a passionate kiss, your finger working your clit hard as the other hand holds the back of his neck. He holds your legs in a mating press and strokes deep, hitting your deepest spot before releasing inside with a shudder and groan.

You throw your head back as your own body freezes from the force of your orgasm. You're wracked by shudders and hear naught but the sounds of your own broken moans. You can feel him inside of you, spilling his seed for you alone to keep. It's warm, and you can't help but relax at the feeling.

Odin stays inside for long moments after, holding it in, before pulling out. You blink at the sudden loss, to exhausted to do much else. You let yourself be gathered in an embrace, lazily enjoy the soft kisses he presses to your face.

"In the morning, we'll shower. For now, we rest." You hum your affirmation. His arms are tight around your body. You have no choice but to sink into his embrace, sink into a deep, deep sleep.

Right before you drift off, you hear him whisper,

"I love you, my gorgeous wife."

You wish you'd stayed awake long enough to respond back.

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A/N: yes yes I know this and many other ask have been sitting in my inbox for months😓writing is hard okay?? And I am very very sleepy all the time. This was fun to write but god did I hate writing the smut. Ion know nothing about master kinks, I use them in my own lil way so the formal way is unknown to me😭but uhh, I hope you enjoyed, and requester if you see this I'm sorry🫶🏾🥹I love you🥲

[olderthannetfic]

With all this talk about AI, the one perspective that appears missing from the discussion is that of someone who actually uses AI writing tools in production of their fanfic. So here I am, stepping in to provide my (anonymous) two cents.

I've been using a generative AI program especially made for creative writers for several months now. Initially, I had a lot of the same reservations I'm hearing form others, but I was curious about the tech and wanted to try it for myself. I quickly discovered that it's insanely useful, and I truly believe it has improved my writing. 

I also believe these tools will become commonplace among creative writers in the near future. In fact, I've heard that generative AI is coming to a writing software near you (MS Word to be exact), and I suspect that that once more people have actually tried it, use of AI will begin to seem no more remarkable than the use of spelling or grammar checkers does now. 

In the meantime, as you can see, I am staying anon, and there is absolutely no way I would tag my fanfic as AI assisted given the current environment. People are very quick to make assumptions about what a statement like that means, and are all too hasty in reaching for their pitchforks.

As far as I can tell, the main concern seems to be that Ao3 will be flooded with 'bad' fanfic as a result of AI use. But 'bad' fanfic has been a thing for as long as I've been in fandom (decades, at this point), and in my experience, human beings are perfectly capable of writing poorly without any help from machines. Readers are, as always, advised to curate their own reading experience. The 'back' button works the same as it always did, and someone's possible use of AI changes nothing about that. 

But the general assumption that AI input automatically leads to 'bad' writing seems rather short-sighted. Yes, obviously if someone were to go to ChatGPT and tell it to write them a fanfic in 'x' fandon about 'x' pairing, the output would be bland, generic and probably a bit rambling. AIs are not great storytellers; they can't maintain narrative logic. 

If this hypothetical person then copy-pasted the unedited output directly onto Ao3 and called it a story, the result would most likely qualify as 'bad' fanfic. Whether it would be worse than a story the same person might have written on their own is debatable. Our hypothetical protagonist obviously decided that the output was good enough as it was, and chose to post it without bothering to edit, which suggests (at least to me) that they would have similar standards about a story they'd written without an AI.

Since the above seems to be the scenario everyone has in mind when talking about "AI fic," I would like to point out that what I just described is not the only way to use AI in one's writing. My own use is more akin to using an online thesaurus; a very powerful thesaurus that can make suggestions for things like phrasings, descriptions, dialogue, and so on. The key there is that it makes suggestions. 

My AI assistant is smart enough to 'read' the scene I'm working on and tailor its suggestions to the mood, style and context of what I'm writing. But it's still my story. The AI doesn't write it for me. I'm the one who sifts through those suggestions, takes the bits that work, and shapes them into useful text. Sometimes the AI comes up with amazing things. I wasn't kidding when I said it's improved my writing - and my rewriting. It knocks me out of those mental ruts we writers tend to get into, coming up with descriptions and turns of phrase that I wouldn't have thought of on my own. 

But it's still just a tool, and at the end of the day, I'm still the writer. The words that end up on the page do so because I chose them. Those writerly choices are what make the story mine, regardless of where the words might have originated from. And whether they came from my brain or the AI, they are still subject to the same standards of rewriting, editing and proofing.

So no, I don't think I'm going to be tagging my fic with an AI disclosure statement any time soon. Not until the current moral panic dies down to the point where people don't read that and automatically assume it means 'copy-pasted from ChatGPT.' And for anyone who's curious about AI... I suggest you try it for yourself. Play around a little and find out what it's about before making judgments. I think you'll find it's a tool like any other - and just like any tool, it can be used well or it can be used badly. That's entirely in the hands of the human being using it - which is one thing that hasn't changed, and never should.

--

Yeah, I fail to see any major issue with more sucky fanfic getting posted. That's just the default for big fic archives.

The actual problem problems we're seeing are with paid markets with open submissions that get flooded beyond what staff can handle and big corporations replacing humans they already try not to pay.

The main potential issue I see with other uses of AI is that it may end up with samey suggestions, but it's hard to know how much that's 1. a thing and 2. an actual issue when writing genre stuff that often sounds samey on purpose and where that's a desirable characteristic.

[lepertamar]

the most repeated metaphor for israel's exile in the nevi'im (prophets) in the tanakh is that of an adulterous woman punished by her husband. basic logic: g-d promised us in exodus that we would live well in the land of israel and be protected by It (g-d), but we were not. our enemies said this showed g-d the god of israel was unable to protect us, but we could not abide this, and counter-claimed that g-d was punishing us for our unfaithfulness and that It had sent the nations to destroy us, and It had the power reestablish us when we had repented. the adultery metaphor is obviously tuned to the psychology of its times and audience, but more foundational and less criticized is the assumption g-d can make such promises, that it's preferable that It determines the actions of third parties in the world, that if It can't, It's worse than worthless, a used tissue, because the only people here who should have free will and the power to exercise it are the jews and g-d.

this question continued through the repeated exiles and genocides of the jews in the next 2,500+ years, but began to become increasingly complicated and ambivalent over time, including with the interpretation in kabbalah that g-d was shattered and exiled alongside us.

look closer.

much post-holocaust theology rests on the existential question of g-d's impotence, for the hebrew bible does not present evidence that g-d is omnipotent.(1)(2)

so look closer at this metaphor, back in its times. play with reversing it:

g-d is not your husband (patriarchal definition) but g-d is also not your spouse, husband, or wife (modern egalitarian definition). g-d is your wife (patriarchal definition).

g-d cannot take you in or cast you out g-d cannot save or feed or clothe you g-d cannot give you land or defend you in battle g-d cannot divorce you even though It/She/They rages It will in Its besotted-mortified-crazed grief and abjection after you are unfaithful.

perhaps g-d can make your life hell from jealous sabotage g-d can drive you mad with lust and longing for It's beauty, as you have done to It. g-d can make your people survive forever through being the catalyst for all your children(writings/cultural handing-down/mitochondria). g-d can commit adultery against you and betray you. but if you die by your enemy's hand, g-d has permission to die in your house, for you will need it and It no longer.

(and many jews think this option is the worst one tho lmao.

'i can excuse being malicious and cruel and unjust or nonexistent, but i draw the line at being not-omnipotent!')

let me rewrite some of the prophets:

I G-d, take a millstone and grind meal now, in exile, Remove My veil, strip off (My) skirt; Show My thigh, cross streams, let My labia(3) be publicly shown, My private parts be seen So shall Israel shall have vengeance on Me for My lies of kingship [masculine], For My overthrow by your enemies, And shall encounter no opposition...(4)

For when showers I could not bring, And the late rains did not come, I had the brazenness of a street woman, I refused to be ashamed.(5)

/

Over You, G-d, we bent(6), saying 'For the number of Her sins, dishevel Her hair,' (7) Let Your thighs be uncovered, Your 'heels' violated....(8) Your shame will be exposed to Your face, Showing nations Your nakedness, kingdoms Your labia....(9)

/ or,

My beauty won Me fame among the nations, for it was perfected through the splendor which I set upon you— But haughty with My beauty and fame, I played the harlot: I lavished My favors on your enemies O Israel.... I sullied My beauty and spread My legs to every passerby(10)—I multiplied My harlotries to anger you. For I was jealous of your envy of other nations(11), which you loved more than Me When you bid Me make kings of your children, and cronies of Egypt(12), rather than wrestle Me til dawn And I despised you, when you wished to be a tyrant, As they were once tyrants over you.(13)

....the nations put you to the sword, and took away your finery, and Mine, In exile, because of misery and harsh oppression; When we settled among the nations you found no rest; All your pursuers overtake Me now In the narrow places.(14)

/ or,

Israel, you uncovered your lover's beauty in Egypt; There Her breasts were squeezed, and there Her nipples were handled. Her name was G-d, She became yours, The fierce-wonders and land and laws you desired for-to-live, She placed wide-with-boasting(15) on Her lips and brought you as dowry. But She did not give up the whoring She had begun with the corners of the Earth; For we had lain with Her in Her youth, and we had handled Her virgin nipples and had poured out our lust upon Her.(16) [....] the Babylonians came, and all the Chaldeans, and all the Assyrians with them, all of them handsome young fellows, governors and prefects, officers and warriors, all of them riding on horseback.

They exposed your god and saw how she could be defiled We were roused against you, and came upon you, from all around— /

Further rambling discussion notes and citations:

Marilyn Monroe said, “If they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.” All idealisation is punishing and sadistic.” - jacqueline rose

thoughts on this reversal as something that Reveals -- for the audience i'm writing to it's one that shocks the connotations to something more viscerally s 0 meth1ng/relatable (the way the og was supposed to be for its audience), but more importantly, i'm trying to come up with something more infinitely chewable as a negotiation of fault and interiority-vs-effects, instead of terminating.

but also while my point in rewriting these is about the non-existence of omnipotence, non-existence of omniscience is probably more interesting. because it....reveals.....i guess a parallel to the way ppl talk about Widely Despised Female CharactersTM (both in madonna and whore perfect idealized and evil all-blameful interpretations). as simultaneously incoherently both culpable and agencyless, both agenda-driven and lacking in interiority, threefold responsible: evil for creating the evil of the world, and evil for trying to fix or destroy that evil when she regrets(17) that world, and timelessly still-blamed as evil when she regrets destroying it and admits that she doesn't have the capacity to fix it but promises to never destroy it again(18). (the souring when its clear she's not secretly timelessly omnisciently correct for allowing this evil).

all this entity's choices and preferences are made into a morally-charged one that is a referendum on the moral valence and bestows moral judgment to anyone or anything she likes/doesn’t like or does/doesn’t do. and also those interior feelings, if shown, are open to making her limitlessly blamed for the spurned person’s resulting action. or mysteriously impersonally Morally Right (after those preferences, like liking meat more than grain, are forcibly interpreted as being solely a moral pronouncement that invites and justifies limitless violence and blame)(19). both timelessly nonlinearly unchangingly culpable at each point in a linear sequence of events regardless of what order one shuffles it in, and incapable of having curiosity or ignorances or confusions that make up linear accumulations of knowledge or opinions or back-and-forths that change her mind over time, or that are incomplete without the preexisting elements of the narrative or which have to take place in the context of a dynamic dialogue/tug of war to make sense.

so i think in a similar way to that, but in a way that doesn't...pattern-match....without the pronounflip/husband-wife adultery and shaming flip......people will not think of the full picture of what else entails if one accepts a premise......no allowing for g-d being dumb or irrational or impulsive, or ignorant at earlier periods of time of what consequences will occur later. no allowing It to have the capacity to change Its mind, and therefore no allowing It to make it up to us once the error in thinking or acting has been understood and regretted. no dynamic interiority allowed in It being capricious and poorly-moral or passion-ruled or not having considered what is evil or what isn't, or what is a big deal to humans and what isn't, not omniscient enough to already know this prior to the chance to learn it by observing humans. no considering such a being to be acquiring contradictory ideas over time and It trying to figure out which one should rule in any given moment, struggling with warring impulses and giving into one at one time and another at another time, being stubborn bc It is a person with ideas that contradict too, reaching out in a curiosity or a confusion, putting on an act to try to court and impress and arouse desire in It's mate Israel. eg, people ignoring the implication that a specific method (flood, languages) implies either a limited ability or a specific desire or a specific curiosity, or both (18) (why multiple languages specifically??? why not something way less surmountable if insurmountability was desired? or if timeless omnipotence was available??).

let alone, in some cases the idea of g-d simply being helpless, overcome, raped and despoiled, not omnipotent enough to achieve -- even if It does know what It wishes It could do -- a method that would fix things, stop things.

but apparently a fearsome but vulnerable and morally-heterogenous and linearly evolving/accumulating/learning god with enough raw bursting power do act immorally sometimes, but without omnipotence, is unpalatable. so……idk, the time-collapse of god treatments that mirrors that of misogyny that mirrors that of antisemitism -- no matter what you do or don't, or can or can't, or know or don't know, or think or can't think, it's your fault -- haunts to an un-unseeable extent.

this is all torah/tanakh and jewish thought specific(20), but the bigger issue for me that i have a hard time unseeing after seeing it was like….the classic conception of omnipotence and omniscience is a thought-termination (either as timeless will-always-have-been-morally-right termination, or as infinitely-blamable, uniquely worthy of punishment, betraying anthy-style scapegoat termination, which are just two different sides of the coin).

there is no cognitively nondissonant way to say 'if g-d exists, i am deciding It is shaped in such a way so as to be to blame for everything/should Be Killed/is actively working against our Liberation/must be a concept that is inherently keeping life from snapping back into a happy and suffering-free equilibrium', because if you (like me) are open to the idea of g-d being nonexistent, there is only One excuse for not also being open to the idea of g-d being a non-omnipotent, non-omniscient, dynamic, learning, growing entity, a person who is then subject to whatever limitations a person would have, and also is an-other person whose inner heart, like any other person's you cannot narrow down to the dichotomy of either being the guy you made up in your head, or a deliberate traitor to that guy. It's the same excuse for why a person or group such as the Jews are The Enemy Of All Humanity Who Must Be Killed Or At Least Blamed: laying down one's own interiority as a sentient being, to invent a person who exists to be limitlessly blameable in situations where no one else would be. if you (like me) don't completely believe g-d exists, i suppose we can't hurt It, but i know what it sounds like and who it impacts. i am much more stung about g-d lying to us -- by claiming we could only be destroyed by Them/our own transgressions. ie., lying by claiming other groups of humans totally didn't have the power to exile and genocide us irrespective of our own behavior -- than by the crime of 'not being omnipotent.' lol. but ofc even this too assumes They did actually lie to us at all, and that a more fitting interpretation of the text (let alone reality) isn't just a folie a deux of wishful thinking on one or both of our parts in this lovers affair.(21)

1: Milazzo, G. Tom. “TO AN IMPOTENT GOD: IMAGES OF DIVINE IMPOTENCE IN HEBREW SCRIPTURE.” Shofar 11, no. 2 (1993): 30–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42941804.

2: eg, Elie Wiesel, Night:

"I heard [a man] asking: Where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him:  ...Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows."

3: Eslinger, Lyle. “The Infinite in a Finite Organical Perception (Isaiah VI 1-5).” Vetus Testamentum 45, no. 2 (1995): 145–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1535129. 4: Isaiah 47:2-3, Ibid

5: Jeremiah 3:3

6: Job 31:10

7: Sotah ritual, see Numbers 5:18

8: Jeremiah 13:22

9: Jeremiah 13:26

10: Ezekiel 16:14-15, 16:25-26

11: 1 Samuel 8:5-20

12: 1 Kings 9:16

13: 2 Samuel 22 throughout, 1 Kings 1-10 throughout

14: Lamentations 1:3

15: Everett Fox translation choice for 1 Samuel 2:1

16: Ezekiel 23 throughout

17: Genesis 6:8, 8:21

18: Genesis 11:6-7

19: Genesis 4:4-6

20: Karasick, Adeena. “Shekhinah: The Speculum That Signs, or ‘The Flaming S/Word That Turn[s] Every Way’ (Genesis 3:24).” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues, no. 2 (1999): 114–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40326491.

21: Milazzo p. 49:

This is the god which cannot raise the dead. This is not a god which transcends the world in which the drama of life and death is lived. This is a god which, having placed its hands around their heart, stands there with this people [.....] This impotent god walked the road to Babylon and stood among the crematoria at Auschwitz.

[mareenavee]

Been meaning to pick your professional brain a bit, so... Tell us about rewriting/drafting/editorial pass! What happens when you read to edit? How is it different when you read someone else's work vs your own? What do you look for, what do you notice differently from when you're in writing mode? Any advice to get better at the whole editing thing, and what typical advice that we often see (kill your darlings, never do x, always do x, write for yourself, know your audience...) do you think could use some nuance or explanation? And maybe most importantly, what advice would you give a starting beta reader? What makes for a good beta reader and/or editor, especially when there's no monetary transaction involved and it's all donated labor? What are some of the essential skills?

Hello my friend!! Thank you so, so much for asking me about editing!! I am over the moon. I love this part.

I'm lucky because while it's been my job for quite a long while now (often among other responsibilities) work hasn't ground out the joy of it. I prefer to edit fiction, of course, over corporate copy and advertising, but am honestly happy to dig into either kind of project. The point of it is to bring the right words to the forefront of whatever the written material is, I think. To make the piece the best it can be, and at the same time show the writers how capable they really are. (: So let me dive right in! (THIS IS LONG, by the way, so under the cut! The irony is not lost on me about wordiness and editing and then producing this LOL but it's alright. I'm a chatty person online and this is more or less conversational.)

What is an editorial pass?

There's several kinds of editing. What I do most for paid corporate work is proofreading -- which is catching typos and grammar mistakes and correcting them. This is usually a first pass of any given project. This pass doesn't usually suggest changes -- things are left as is except typos and grammar mistakes. This is sometimes also called copyediting, though copyediting is the next step up and also checks for style consistency, among a few other things, especially in academic and corporate work.

Next is line editing -- this is more checking for word choice at the sentence level. We're looking to make sure things flow together nicely, and that we're cutting the fluff out when necessary. When things get too wordy and there are cleaner ways to phrase something, a line edit pass will catch these things.

Next past that is content editing -- this is done on a full manuscript or story to check that the ideas are complete and the story flows together logically. This should be paragraph and chapter level and should also check for consistency in tone and authorial voice.

After that is my personal favorite, which is structural editing. This is actually technically what you should start with if your manuscript is already complete. But we'll get into the difference between having work beta read and having work edited below. Anyway structural editing is going to check for, well, structure -- organization, flow and quality of the book in its entirety.

There will be notes regarding concerns and big picture issues with the story. These usually won't include detail-level edits, though some professional editors do offer multiple passes on the same manuscript. If your structural edit is mostly glowing praise with few key concerns or suggestions, you can move onto more detail oriented edits to address those specific concerns.

And an even higher level editing that can happen even before a manuscript is complete is Developmental Editing. I like to think of this as an outline critique or consultation more so, as this pass won't be rewriting or doing any sort of detail work. The editor takes your idea and helps ask the right questions to make sure you're organizing your ideas to the best of your ability. They help an author to see the book as a reader would see it.

What happens when you read to edit?

Reading for enjoyment is actually as important to editing as it is for writing. The key takeaway is that an for either, you need to have a extremely solid grasp on the components that make a good story. For an editor, especially so when the 'rules' might be broken purposefully by an author. Honestly, a lot of it is still opinion based. Two different editors, generally, will have different insights for you reading the same manuscript, biased by how much they read and what their specialties are. Most editors, too, will have an ear for grammar which nobody wants to talk about but it's true. You don't need to memorize every single tiny little grammatical detail to explain in full to your authors when you edit and catch errors. But an editor usually can hear when things are off more or less and can provide resources if a mistake is noticed as a consistent issue.

Mostly when you're reading to edit and I'll use structural editing for an example here, you're always thinking of how things flow together and how the story threads intertwine and connect. You're thinking through how the story will land for a casual reader. There's a lot of work in the background in this case, and it takes practice to be able to point out when elements fall flat. You as an editor should also be able to suggest ways to fix the flat parts of the story -- and to do that you need to have read widely in many genres. Read for the sake of understanding how stories come together. Read while taking extensive mental notes as you go. Each book is a learning opportunity.

How is it different when you read someone else's work vs your own?

I actually just reblogged a post about this that sums it up pretty nicely. When you're writing you're so close to your own work it can be hard not only to spot errors but to let go of work you've written. It can also be difficult to see where your work shines because it's not how you envisioned it in your head. Writing is an entirely different process, even if you can go back in with good editing eyes, again it comes down to perspective. You're too close to your own work. You've spent so much more time with it. You know every detail (presumably) and might not be able to see beyond that. The editor, on the other hand, and also a beta reader, will be able to shift perspectives a bit based on their own biases and specialties and help spot things that weren't obvious in the thick of the project.

For me I know I am not as strong a writer as I am an editor for this exact reason. (Regardless of what others think of my writing, this is still true lol) I get a sort of tunnel vision on what I'm attempting to get on paper. A second set of eyes helps point out what needs more attention. An editor should be a project's biggest cheerleader because our goal is to bring out the best an author can do. We can see the threads of greatness as we go through a piece. When we suggest things, it's always to make the piece stronger and for the story beats to hit harder. So this piece really comes down to perspective. When I read my own work, I still am very much mired in it. When I read someone else's work, I get to experience it without it having lived in my head for x amount of time. It's a fresh view of the text, and that can often be invaluable.

What do you look for, what do you notice differently from when you're in writing mode?

This kind of plays off the last few questions, more or less but here I'll switch to self-editing. It really is a mindset change and it's incredibly difficult on one's own writing. Usually I need to take a day or two to let the chapter (for instance) I'm working on simmer and move on to the next thing to get my mind out of the weeds about it more or less. Then I go back in with the goal to proofread and do line level editing.

Because I am the author, I'm always trying to keep in mind overarching structures and plots. (I'm a planner rather than a pantser/discovery writer normally though there are exceptions when I add to the plan later.) This does make "editing mode" a little bit easier for me, besides being a professional editor. I'm actively trying to keep the threads together in editing mode, and actively looking for accidental repetition, places where fluff can be cut out, areas where the words sound off/discordant and can be improved, and personally I am always trying to be sure each line of dialogue or inner monologue SOUNDS like the point of view character I'm working with. This comes from asking the right questions of your work -- "Why would x character respond this way?" But that's a whole other topic. Someone could ask me about how I handle character building another time if they'd like (: But it's all part of the editing process.

In writing mode the goal, at least for me, is to get the idea out of my head and into a draft / on paper. I have the bones of the story in my outline and now I need to get the words out. First drafts are incredibly important and are not -- I repeat -- are NOT garbage. These are the rough foundations and the effort is not wasted. You can't refine anything if there's nothing on the page. The first draft is gold. It is the authentic creative writing experience. The rest is editing. (: And the revision process, the editing, helps bring forward the gem of an idea you had to begin with.

Any advice to get better at the whole editing thing?

The two biggest pieces of advice I have for this is to read widely and to come to your work with fresh eyes before you attempt to edit.

Reading widely means to read outside of your preferred genre as often as you can. This can also mean reading craft books -- ie things that talk about the writing process or even the editing process -- and it can mean consuming other kinds of media with a focus on storytelling like video games, ttrpgs or movies etc. It also means paying attention while reading, always keeping an eye on your own answer to the question: "Why does this work so well?" or conversely "why do I hate this?" (: Reading critically is a habit that not a lot of us innately have. You do have to put in the work just like with writing to read closely in a way that benefits you as a writer and an editor.

Now for the next part -- walking away from your draft entails two things. One, that you've written all you could before you turned on editing mode and two you've given yourself a day or two to do something else (or continue writing) before you return to what you want to edit. It's so much harder to catch what you're missing when you immediately turn back and edit what you've just written. (With exception.) You can catch more typos, and fix the fluff or underwriting when you've given your mind a second to rest.

Improvement comes with practice, too. So purposefully trying to edit, and purposefully trying to read critically and building a habit out of these things will lead to a better understanding of the craft in general. All of it translates to writing strong first drafts and being able to revise more effectively. It's cumulative. Nobody is born a perfect writer or a perfect editor.

One last tip that might be a little impractical depending on your circumstances is -- if you want to get better at editing quickly, read your work out loud. It's easier to find clunky areas as you verbalize them.

What typical advice that we often see (kill your darlings, never do x, always do x, write for yourself, know your audience...) do you think could use some nuance or explanation?

I could write about each of these but this post is already long! So I'll pick my favorite. "Write what you know" doesn't mean "Stay in your lane and write about your retail job" for example. To me, it's more like even in a fantasy world, you can bring in things you've experienced and give them to your characters.

Not a single one of us is as boring as we think we are (: I learned this when I was going through the Creative Nonfiction track in my undergrad creative writing degree program. Even something so average told from your perspective can be fascinating to someone else. So apply it to your story -- all your experiences, your emotions, whatever you can throw at the canvas so to speak.

Your character isn't a reflection of you if you don't want them to be. But they can still go through a fantasy version of troubles that evoke the same kind of big emotions that you've been through. It can be kind of cathartic -- at least in my experience, it can be.

What advice would you give a starting beta reader? What makes for a good beta reader and/or editor, especially when there's no monetary transaction involved and it's all donated labor? What are some of the essential skills?

So first, the difference between a beta reader and editor does come down to the donation of time. You're going to get different responses based on the skill of your beta reader and how much attention and time they have to donate. The ideal beta reader will be someone who is in your intended audience and is generally a close reader, even if they're not there looking for grammar mistakes or anything like that. They'll have a working idea of their own personal answers to what they feel works well and what doesn't when they read in general.

Generally a beta reader will be a set of eyes that will catch your grammar mistakes and typos but probably won't be providing line level suggestions. They'll function as a light structural editor or work more or less on a chapter level. Some beta readers (like myself because I am also a editor) might donate more time and effort to the project than others and be able to make professional suggestions, but this is not to be expected or requested.

If you're just starting out as a beta reader, it might be good to practice on maybe a published novella or short story first, low stakes because the author can't see your comments. Begin the process of reading widely and asking yourself "Why (or why not) does this work for me as a reader?" "What makes this enjoyable (or not?)" "What is it about this piece that is done well (or not?)" The grammar practice can come later -- refresh on the rules, but again don't worry about being perfect. The biggest skill you can build is reading critically. Practice, practice, practice. And when you offer your skills as a beta reader, let your author know if it's your first piece. Sometimes a very fresh set of eyes are just the thing a project needs, so don't be shy about saying so.

On the skills needed -- beta readers should not be shy to say exactly what they're thinking in a kind, constructive way. This can take some practice. But if you're going to point out something that's not working, it's good to have an idea as to why and be able to convey that. It doesn't have to be to the level of a suggestion and certainly not to the level of a rewrite or being able to provide comps/resources.

Being able to provide comments of your thoughts in a structured and logical way based on your opinion of what you've read comes with practice, of course. It's essential because an author is generally looking for specific feedback when they're asking you to beta read their work to make sure their story is hitting as intended for their intended audience.

Again having a good ear for grammar is going to be important here, too. You don't have to be perfect about it, either, or memorize every tiny technical detail. But being able to hear when something is off is useful again because while writing, an author is very close to their work and might not catch it.

And last -- remind yourself you are human. You aren't going to be able to catch every error. You aren't going to be perfect. (listen, not even every editor is going to catch every single mistake. Again, we're human!) You are not a machine. The act of being a close reader for an author and donating your time to assist them is selfless. Nobody should be expecting perfection. This is a collaborative effort between audience and author in this case. You get to make suggestions and perhaps change an author's mind about the direction of some things in their stories. Authors can choose not to take advice, too, without needing to explain anything at all. It doesn't mean the effort is wasted. It comes down to having a second set of eyes on the project with the intent to bring out the best.

Beta reader or editor, your job is mostly to be the work's cheerleader and see past the rough edges to the gem underneath, and then show the author how truly talented they are when they've forgotten in the thick of it. These are simply two different levels of the same kinds of tasks (:

[soukoku-fic-recs]

Do you have any completed fifteen year old skk fanfic?

Hiiii!!

Of course! Here are some of my faves:

Switched by Yellow_Canna: Each human in this world was born harbouring two different souls inside them. The first soul being the dominant soul—the soul of the body, and the second soul being the soul of their other half which was what they called a Soul Mate. Whenever a person’s life was endangered or was under extreme stress, a strange phenomenon would occur where their personality changed into a completely different person’s. This phenomenon was called the Switch. “Mama! Dinner has been prepared!” “Mama! Was your bath pleasant?” “Mama! Did you like the camellia flowers?” “Mama!”The calls of "mama" echoed throughout the air as Chuuya froze at the doorway, eyelids jumping nonstop at the young boys crowding around him. Nakahara Chuuya, age fifteen, has become the owner (mama) of a gay brothel (whore house) within Yokohama’s underground red-light district. Chuuya was going to kill his Soul Mate.

The Color of Your Eyes, is the Color of the World by justherefortheride09: "He looks up at the boy stepping on him, their eyes lock, a blue-gray color in them. Blue... he can't see blue. Yet, the always gray sky behind the boy was gaining color, but Dazai's focus was only on the blue-gray eyes glaring down at him. He ignored the change and answered normally to the boy. He knew what had happened, he had met his soulmate. But, he also knew that the boy stepping on him wasn't experiencing what he was. It made him intrigued, curious of his apparent soulmate, to say the least. The boy had short orange hair, a green leather jacket, and his hands were in his pockets, Dazai quickly realized who the boy was, the King of the Sheep, Nakahara Chuuya." Or: the color soulmates fic nobody asked for.

wolf among sheep by Shinkirou: Joining a local gang of orphaned children at the age of thirteen hadn't exactly been Dazai's plan in life, but realistically speaking, it isn't like he has anything better to do, so... Why not?(There are, of course, many reasons to not do that, but, well. Dazai's boredom is a powerful thing.)[AKA the completely self-indulgent "Dazai joins the Sheep" au that nobody asked for.

Wait, we're married? by hasa3810: At the young age of fifteen, Chuuya tricks Dazai into marrying him. At the age of twenty two, Dazai confronts Chuuya about it.

Bandaged Sheep by MidnightLightHowlite: There had been something very weird, very off about the new recruit. He had popped up out of thin air a few months ago, wrapped from head to toe in bandages. Not a word of what he did before, saying he wanted to join the sheep. He wasn't strong or skilled, and truly, there was no logical reason for Chuuya to pay him any mind.But then the Port Mafia put a huge bounty on his head and things started to get interesting.

meltdown by whiteautumn: Something’s different today. Chuuya grinned, eyes sharp and anticipatory. It’s been a while since anything exciting has happened. Whatever comes at him today, he’s ready. Two boys meet, and it's the beginning of an earth-shattering relationship. Chuuya has found what's his, but everyone has their own motives.Including Dazai.

oh darling it's alarming to think of us apart (you know you've got me in your pocket) by interludewings: “Okay so if we’re both still single when we’re twenty two,” Dazai’s smile grew even wider. “Let’s marry each other.” By the time Chuuya’s twenty two, he’d probably be in a relationship with someone else, and the possibilities of them even remembering each other were slim to none. And so, Chuuya gave his answer. “Fine, let’s do that.” In short, fifteen year olds Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya made a stupid promise one day in their school library out of boredom, which leads to the next seven years of their life filled with fighting, burnt notebooks and late night conversations.

To Rewrite Fate by purplesan: ‘Don’t you have something you still want to do? A place you still want to see?’ The boy shrugged. ‘What’s the point if the memory of having done that will only die with me anyway?’ ‘There are things I’d like to show you, if you’d let me. Maybe they will change your mind after all. We’re about the same age, right? Maybe we could be friends.’ Chuuya didn’t have many of those himself. ‘Why would you want to be friends with someone who wants to die? I’ll just leave you and make you feel sad again. I’ve done it before.’ Was he talking about a previous friend he’d abandoned? Somehow, the sentence just didn’t make sense to him. ‘Well, we don’t know that unless we try, right?’

a burning hill by icaarus: "Has anyone ever told you your hair is the same colour as autumn leaves?" Chuuya Nakahara, a fifteen year old weapon made for Japan that was terminated after deemed too emotional.  Dazai Osamu, a fifteen year old grim reaper standing over Verlaine's body in that God-forsaken lighthouse. Two demon prodigies on opposite sides of a war neither had asked to be swept up into, fighting for revenge and the freedom that awaits them in death. In the end, two wrongs do not make a right, and they are no exception. As Dazai pulls the pin from the grenade, Chuuya smiles. And so they burn.

Hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day!! ^ - ^

-f

[adasknife]

Do you think Ada having zero/so less characteristic writing is about "mystery" or just making/leaving a character to be blank? Because I dislike the "mysterious" thing a lot, not only because it serves practically no purpose and logic and also plays a lot into stereotypes drown to Asian characters. It's uncanny but the whole "erotic, sexy, femme fatale" trope she was written with in the past just speaks as this condition to me...

Anyways I'm glad we're having a rewriting game lore lol, and I'm glad to see other sides/aspects of Ada as well, because she deserves to have things. And more in the future. Some thing, palpable, literally anything. She's not like Hunk, and she's not supposed to be. And she doesn't need to be.

i personally hate her lack of nearly everything in the original games. i like re2 og ada so much because she has a bit of personality - sure, it was fake, but outside of that. it was important enough. ada saving leon in the og could've been explored differently than the dumb excuses we got.

then immediately in re4 og- she falls just perfectly into the asian stereotype.

that's why i already love the idea of ada in the remakes because not even darkside chronicles tried to clear up the mess ada wong turned into.

i don't remember my exact words, but i said among the lines of: ada deserves more. resident evil 2 came out twenty-six years ago, and her lack of everything is still being mischaracterized by fans. because she used leon, she is a dominant girlfriend/a horrible person. because she has a connection with leon that is never explained- people see it strange. (re4 to re6 pipe line). ada has to be hot and be attracted to leon to mean something to some people.

and that sucks.

[divinecomedyproductions]

Fandom Woes Part 1: Big Entertainment Fandoms and their War on Creative Minds

I feel like I need to revamp my points it’s about what I perceive to be a problem with modern fandom, and the first issue is its hostility to creative dissent, especially in form of original works or fanfiction.

It seems that fandoms, Anti-RWDE in this case, have decided how story they liked handled a concept or idea is law and appointed themselves as the police force to enforce said laws, all proclaiming to defend those they deem worthy of the title “creator” while harassing those the perceived as “bullshit artists” I guess and feel have offended them and those they defend. And these people seem to be waging an ideological conquest of creative thinking in fears of becoming irrelevant.

For example, I explained how I was upset with RWBY the tragic ending of Pyrrha Nikos and her romantic relation with Jaune, and other characters and parings, Sun and Blake, Ren and Nora, Weiss and Neptune, and Ruby and Oscar, all who I dreaded would end up on the chopping block next.

I said how I felt they should have been couples who endured consequences and raised steaks, but they should have been allowed to survive through them, rather than losing each other driving the other forward kinda like Ed and Winry and Roy and Riza from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Or at least they could as a different set of characters in a different epic fantasy story.

That, and recently in retrospect, I’ve been looking at RWBY, it’s characters, and world, the ships I wanted, and what they could have been, some involves radical changes, minor changes, heavily different world building, using my Catholic faith as well as my own fictional universe as a basis.

Right now it’s a heavily reimagined RWBY AU part of a fan fiction multiverse which is mostly experimental, idk I can put up with the likes of Syto-kun’s RWBY Remnants, or Celtic Pyro's Fixing RWBY, but I might make it into an original story, Hell, I might even do both, the former first so I can see what other changes I might need to make,

Now as of recently I’ve discovered a Discord Server which I can discuss these things with other RWBY fans, most of who are also disillusioned with Canon RWBY, in a civil manner. Some agree with me, some don’t, but we all act in respect and good faith and we give each other the benefit of the doubt for our disagreements because we all deeply care about epic story-telling.

But In the past with the Anti-RWDE of the RWBY fandom, or whatever you want to call this a toxic minority, I got from was not honest disagreement, but rather disgust, abhorrence, and sneering.

I was sat down and lectured by toxic individuals how raised steaks and consequences forbid such things now, reading posts about Pyrrha and the likes of her and Jaune were only fit for tragic endings because “that's the kind of character she is.” as well these loyalists aggrandizing themselves for liking it mocking others like me with things like

"LMAO Holy Shit, you guys wouldn't like Madoka Magica" as if that was a problem

or "Lol go watch RWBY Chibi"

They resorted to passive aggressive judgment, gaslighting, and superior sarcasm at best, ranting and vicious chastisement at worst. Telling me I should trash my desires and ideas and just go watch Disney, Marvel, Romcoms, and Sitcoms instead.

They told me I was acting smug and superior and arrogant for doing a rewrite/reimagining AU or an original story in response how RWBY was handled, that what I did was inherently malicious and hostile towards Monty, and this attitude seems to come from a lot of loyalist fans who like things the way they are, and in my opinion think a little too highly of themselves for liking things that others don’t, but that’s an argument for another day.

Let me give an hypothetical example for their logic

Let's say among the Gurren Laggan and One Piece fanbase, there's a vocal minority of fanatics think that characters like Kamina and Portgas D. Ace and characters like them could only end in death to drive the characters and story forward and nobody was allowed to actively disagree with that, until Trigger recycled Kamina and Yoko as Galos and Aina respectively in Promare(though I think they recycled Kamina for Kill La Kill as Aikuro Mikisugi) 

Then it was okay for small-time creative people, fanfic writers or indie writers, to do it.

Before then, doing that was seen as “hostile” towards “creators” which they mean those who they deem worthy of the title, and they uphold as the law of epic fiction. Or at the very least, until then, it was seen as stupid and uninteresting.

That's what it seemed like to me, and I could be wrong

But it just came off as off obtuse and narrow-minded at best akin to Professor Membrane from Invader Zim, narcissistic and disingenuous at worst akin to Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame combined with blind consumerist loyalty to big business whether it be western entertainment or anime studios. 

Now I’ve spoken to other people and my friends and others, all who mean well, one person who’s been more patient with me than she should have, who told me I might just have to disengage from the source material since I admitted it won’t change canon RWBY and how I am unhappy with it, and friends who said I should let RWBY go because it’s causing me too much grief while another assumed I wanted no adversity and struggle and wanted it to be all fluffy because I didn’t want mentioned ships ending tragically, and I think I came off as hostile

And I feel like this is more due to my failure to articulate my points, I’m not exactly the best at doing that.

And I don’t want the rest of the RWBY Fandom, RWDE or sane neutral fans to misunderstand me, mostly due to my last reblog I got too heated and not made my point clear

I’m not saying the direction RWBY went with V3 or Pyrrha and the rest of the cast being tragic in some way or another is objectively bad, it was just not my taste

And I am not saying every normal RWBY fan/RWDE person who liked it is an elitist about it nor are all of them trying to insult me and attack me personally or say my ideas are bad but rather help you guys understand my experience with the toxic strain of the fanbase.

and I am not trying to change canon or its “trajectory” , nor am I doing this to spite Monty, especially when I never knew the guy. This is a difference in handling ideas and concepts.

I’m doing my RWBY AU, which will most likely be revamped into an original story since it takes a whole different directions with the characters and world, but it's mostly because with post V3 and now in retrospect I saw what this world, characters, ships and other ideas could have been all in a story I believe is worth telling. And I was very disappointed and frustrated that it wasn’t along with my own personal exhaustion how epic storytelling has been going in several franchises.

I mean yeah it's also due to personal tastes and preferences and subjective feelings, at least I’ve been told, but I also try to integrate that in a meaningful way. 

Everyone, big business or small time creators, should be allowed to take an idea and take it in a different direction, even if it comes from a place of disagreement and/or distaste. 

That's one of the many ways inspiration works. Some of Tolkien’s own ideas came from his distaste how Shakespere handled the elves and his unhappiness that there were no talking and walking trees in Shakespere’s Macbeth, and the Valar Aule and his creation of the dwarves are akin to an anti-Prometheus.

I mean, what do Anti-Rwde and other toxic fans like them of other franchises expect us to do?

“Oh Ding-Dong-Diddly-Darn and Golly Gee Wally-Wilikers guess I gotta go watch another show and hope the storytelling gods give me what I exactly want next time, sure I saw a different story worth telling, but f*ck me I guess!”

I can only imagine how many small-time aspiring writers have been intimidated into giving up due to these petty rules these fanatics enforce, invoking the works and names of their appointed idols, even when said individuals and companies didn’t even ask them to in the first place.

It basically felt like to me was this, and I could been wrong here,

"Whatever you thought this story could have been, the world, characters, what ships you wanted, how it all could have played out, its awful, worthless ,and uninteresting and there's something wrong with you for thinking and subjectively feeling that, so you gotta throw it all in the trash unless those we deem worthy of being 'creators' do it first or you bend over backwards for us, and we might let create what you want. Otherwise, you're only allowed to use inspiration from source material you 100% agree with or else your being malicious and not a true storyteller.”

And then they used what they liked, whether it be Arkos ending tragically and the dark direction post V3 or Bumbleby over Black Sun in V9, as an opportunity to aggrandize themselves, flaunt their tastes and what they also like and mock and sneer at everyone else who’s unhappy and force their preferences onto said dissidents. All for what seemed like to me for pride, moral superiority, and social currency.

and they would turn around and lecture you for being entitled, smug, superior and smelling your own farts.

And once again, this isn’t directed at sane fans and RWDE who liked these things for honest reasons and objective analysis, you guys are fine and this is not towards you, its to help you guys understand where I'm coming from.

And from what I've heard, there's someone amongst the anti-rwde/rwby rewrite by the name of LilithFairen who used this to attack Fixing RWBY RWBY and Madoka Magica and fans of the latter.

While I don't like Gen Urobuchi's work myself and Fixing RWBY sounds too dark for me, I do not condone her behavior. Bullying behavior is not justified wether be based on objectively good storytelling or personal/subjective feelings or personal taste/distaste.

My grief is with a toxic contingent with fandom, who seem conceited, self-righteous, and self-absorbed that they think what they like, from broad things like lighthearted to grimmdark to nitty-gritty details like concepts and what direction they go, are the objective end-all-be-all law of epic fiction.

The only exception they'll make is those they admire who they see as the lawgivers who can write and repeal these "laws" and then once again appoint themselves as the police force to enforce these laws onto the peasants who they believe are obligated to be obedient to their will. 

People who have less wealth power than those they claim to defend.

This certainly has happened on the opposite side of the spectrum in the past.

With the Gmod community I used to be a part of in, the toxic among the My Little Pony fandom of Gmod flaunted the success of MLP and championed themselves as the avatars of friendship and accused anyone who didn’t like the show or aspects about it, especially due to personal taste and subjective feelings as those who hated friendship. And I've heard horror stories in regards to the Steven Universe Fandom.

And for a while, individuals like these on both sides of the light and dark spectrum had managed to get away with this.

Until, there’s been a growing audience who’s been tired with Big Entertainment, and choosing between what seemed to me either pure grimmdark or pure lighthearted

People who these individuals had at best, dismissed as the minority, and perhaps we were for a while.

But from my perspective, that changes over the years, it's a natural swing of the pendulum.

Now that's not to say an objectively well written story can withstand that, that's what critics are for, and neither does it mean subjective and personal feelings and tastes/distastes should be disregarded either, but all of this is for another topic for another day.

Until recently, many creative writers and audiences were limited to companies and corporations who’s mandates in creating works was very limited, and many stories, while didn’t follow these standards, were not well planned out and executed. Sword Art Online being my personal example.

Not to mention, in the past fan fiction was also seen as a joke due to teenager fan fiction stereotypes and the likes of 50 Shades of Grey.

Thus, making any contesting ideas against the status quo seem inherently bad and keeping any dissident voices in zones of restrictive dissent.

But the world isn’t like that anymore.

With people becoming increasingly disillusioned with the likes of Hollywood, Fanfiction has been getting significant amount of attention as well there being a bold new movement of storytellers going indie, and with new effective online indie platforms from webcomics, to novels, kickstarter and indiegogo, and the likes of YouTube all of which are also getting attention, and challenging or at least contrasting certain ideas and concepts from other works in epic fiction or how they are handled, all without the Anti-RWDE’s authorization.

In other words, creative individuals no longer need to bend over backwards to publish their visual stories on effective platforms.

Which, at least what it seems to me, makes these toxic individuals realize that epic fiction and its handling of certain kinds of concepts, characters, tropes, characters, worlds, and ships, right down to their ultimate fates, do not revolve solely around their terms or at least the terms of those they worship. Which in turn makes them insecure and upset.

So I have a message to Anti-RWDE and other zealot fans of these franchises who do this

Like it or not, and whether you agree with them or not, these dissident fans and creators are your only equal in this equation. 

The fact you would resort to your little manipulative games and would even go so far as to suck up those who you deem worthy of the title “creator” and have more power and wealth than we do to enforce these stupid rules puts you all a significant step away from your peers.

Which might sound inconsequential to you now, but in the long run will hurt you all, gravely.

because one day some of these dissidents will use that they liked and what they wanted to create fantastical epics in various indie formats(novels, webcomics, YouTube web-series, etc) or AU FanFiction, or most likely both

Whether the inspiration comes from a place of agreement or dissent

And when you come along to sneer at it and accuse it being “hostile” and “leeching off” other creators because its inspiration came from a place of disagreement, especially without any analytical evidence, you’ll end up enraging the audiences of those works, who might have been dissident and disappointed fans of the works you enjoy, and are now finally getting works that resonate to their tastes both broad things like lighthearted, grimmdark, or something in the middle and nitty gritty like concepts and what directions they go.

And they’ll remember how you mocked, lectured, gaslit and policed them and told them what they wanted was “uninteresting” and inherently “malicious” towards those you deem worthy of the title “creators”, and how you went so far as to suck up to “The Man” to do so.

I’m a Catholic, I’m taught revenge is sinful, but the other reality is that some people aren't as graceful as others, and those people may decide to give you a taste of your own medicine.

Those “creators" aren’t gonna be there to help you when that happens, I guarantee it. 

Because most of them don’t care about this whole ordeal, and might even be completely unaware of it, nor do they know who you are.

So maybe instead of jumping to broad accusations, bad faith, and intentionally misinterpreting what people are saying and their thoughts and subjective feelings, and assume this creative disagreement is inherently hostile, smug, and malicious, all without any evidence, you ask constructive questions or just disagree honestly instead.

Because of your only intention is to suppress alternative ideas, preferences, thoughts, and feelings along with lecturing everyone and silence a discussion of such things because they come from a place of disagreement and displeasure, especially when you say “It’s not gonna change canon”, then you should be the first person to walk away from the debate.

Because let’s say what we had in mind is just pandering, and nobody in would find it interesting, along with considering the fact whatever we do “wont change canon” of the stories you enjoy

With all things considered, then I dare ask, what are you doing in our conversations?

Why are you getting mad and jumping into our discussions?

Why are you trying to control what we create and enjoy, especially because we disagreed how something was handled?

Either we make a reimagined AU fanfic, or recycle what we liked and wanted for our original works.

Either way, as you said it yourself, it won’t change canon, people don’t find it interesting, and it’s only pandering to people who you seem to not like, so why are you inserting yourself into our discussions in the first place?

If we are making it your problem, how are we? Because we created something in disagreement how certain ideas and concepts were handled and we put it out there and it’s getting attention? Is someone making you consume our stuff?

Because from where I'm standing, you guys are the ones going out of your way to make it your problem, which in turn you use to justify in your mind what you do to other people.

Because you want to control and suppress what us poor people create and enjoy as well as control and suppress what we think and subjectively feel. Which is at best, very weird.

We're trying to do our own thing, and you're trying to control other people.

If you truly believe what you like is the end-all-be-all and transcends all of this and you yourself are superior for liking these things, then do yourself a favor, save yourself the time and energy, and get out of our tags, servers, and conversations.

Just move along and continue to enjoy whatever those you deem worthy to be “creators”

These types of fans of RWBY, and MCU, Star Wars, and any other franchise for that matter need to take that advice

“It’s not gonna change canon, it’s not for you, disengage from the material, and move on”

Because that advice only works, when you are fine when things are going

See the irony there?

If you’re fine the way it's going, and someone is actively disagreeing with it, especially through creative works…

“It’s not gonna change canon, it’s not for you, disengage from the material, and move on”

Just do not insert yourself into this.

Just mind your own business, and just gossip about it in your own groups, tags, and forums.

Be that indifferent, loyal, and culturally and morally superior overman/overwoman that you just love to position yourself as in these discussions and leave us alone.

[rosetheocto]

woah guys i un-clickbaited the clickbait character!! :0

Here’s the Admins for the Hackers Lobby in Among Us Logic: Rewritten! Ms. Pink and, well, Admin!

(Admin was created by my friend Veem, who’s also working on this rewrite!)

more AULR stuff under the cut!

the lore for these two is that after the NoVisor Cult really started tampering with Among Us, Innersloth created the lobby as a temporary solution to put them all in one place and keep an eye on them, since simply banning them for whatever reason just wouldn’t work. Although it was a temporary solution, it proved effective! But when Among Us started to get popular, and more and more people would hack and cheat, it led to the area getting really cluttered really fast. This also meant that with more people changing the games code (along with the cult improving their tactics) some cult members could slip through the cracks without really being identified as a hacker in the traditional sense.

Admin was hired to keep an eye on things since Innersloth were now way more busy than before. They could only do so much as a team of 3, and monitoring a lobby like this would be more wasted time that they could use on other projects and updates. The boom in popularity also led to Ms. Pink also getting hired to watch over things, since Admin looking after all these guys completely on his own would only lead to disaster.

Admin’s very dedicated to his job, being a no nonsense kinda guy most of the time. There have been a few moments in time where he let some members of the lobby free, but only after proving themself. Ms. Pink’s height and outfit being somewhat modded is the only thing he let fully slide in terms of messing with stuff so far, since he needs the extra help more than anything. It’s not like she’s done any huge harm anyway.

Ms. Pink’s very new to monitoring the Hackers Lobby when the story takes place, still learning the ropes to it all. Others do still fall in love with her, but it’s almost impossible for her to notice anyone’s advances. Unlike Admin, she tries her best to make anyone new to the lobby feel welcome and at home when they first join, and often forgets that being stuck in this lobby is supposed to be a punishment for them.

SirClogsworth is sorta like an Admin In Honor, being that if both the current Admins need to leave for whatever reason, they trust him enough to put him in charge. oh also yeah you really gotta prove yourself to escape the Hackers Lobby, an apology video won’t cut it for Admin lmaoo. As for what you need to do exactly? I haven’t figured that out yet :/

Check out my previous post for my AUL Rewrite here!

[not-poignant]

Have you ever written in first person pov? If yes, why did you stop? And if no, why not? I'm doing a creative assignment where we explore the different types of povs used in fiction and I'm curious about which ones you prefer and and why?

Also do you prefer writing in past tense or present tense? And do you ever struggle to switch between the two?

Hi anon!

I've definitely written in first person before, I've written whole novels in first person, but I don't know that any of that content is on AO3. If it is, I haven't written in first person POV for a very long time. I actually really enjoy doing it, but it's widely not favoured among romance audiences, and I haven't felt a particularly strong draw to it in a while. That being said, I don't hate it like so many others, and I have no general objections to it. It can be done badly, it can be done extremely well, it's probably the best POV for deep character work (and unreliable narrators) that exists, imho. And I love both of those.

But yeah, when the majority of readers of your genre/s are like 'I can't stand 1st person POV' in a way that's not at all reasonable or logical, eventually you're just like 'whatever, I can still do a pretty raw third person unreliable narrator. I didn't used to have a preference at all, now I simply have a preference because I've written millions of words of one, and probably a few hundred thousand words of the others.

I prefer writing in past tense, which is why most (but not all!) of my stories are in past tense. I wrote all of Science of Fear in present tense though, and really enjoyed it.

I don't mix up present/past in writing, with like, one exception: When I'm rapidly getting down a new story, or a quick quote or story idea and I only have a few seconds to do it. The immediacy of the moment often translates to present tense, and I've actually had to rewrite the beginning of quite a few stories to make them present tense. Once I have it locked in, I won't make the mistake again.

I like both. I think you could safely say that the one I write the most is the one I prefer to write ;) - but they both have their strengths, and the immediacy of present tense when done well, is a lot of fun.

I really really hate tense switching, and it's something that is not like a 'natural error' for me otherwise because I hate it so much.

When reading fanfiction, it seems to be an error most commonly when an author reaches a scene with great immediacy (a sex scene, an action scene, a fight) and gets caught up with the moment themselves, or, doesn't understand what other techniques they can use to create urgency (like variation in sentence length, for example). I pretty much only see it in like... fanfiction though! It's far rarer in published fiction (though it does happen in self pub).

[deltaruminations]

i put on this video last night and i think patricia touches on an idea here that i’ve been struggling to articulate wrt to Gaster Lore which is like. the fanbase historically and at large tends to get super deep into gaster’s mechanical roles in the story and forget to consider "surface level" readings of the information. the difference being, of course, that deltarune (unlike the interpretive artworks she’s discussing here) DOES have an explicit and coherent narrative. that means detailed lore explorations are certainly worthwhile, but i think understanding things on a "surface level" is sort of what makes the difference between throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks and like, sorting through the stuff ahead of time to see what might actually be sticky in the first place.

this is why i think stuff like friendship propaganda adds value to discussion — we know that characters like Kris and Ralsei have layers and are capable of more than what they let on. looking carefully at the text and simply asking, "what does this tell us about the characters? how do i feel about it?" gives us a reasonable idea of what their interests are and what they’re willing to do for it. is Kris trying to end the world? no, probably not. is Kris willing to do something risky or irresponsible as a way to spend time with someone they like, and/or as a way to find a missing loved one? yeah, maybe!

one of the reasons why i think gaster has become so obnoxiously over-discussed in theory spaces is because we for a long time had no real indication of his actual means and motivations. it seems like he can theoretically fill in a gap, so we assume he does. he’s a good guy! he’s a bad guy! he’s unknowable! he’s all-powerful! he’s whatever the theorist needs him to be in that moment. to a certain degree we could call that lazy, but i also think that’s kind of unfair, because it is hard to get any kind of real grip on the guy’s intentions or the scope of his abilities. before deltarune chapter 1, it was impossible. the information wasn’t there. nowadays a lot of us are just tired, and we tend to just shrug and say, "yeah, gaster’s in deltarune. who knows what his deal is."

the reason i’ve spent so much time overthinking his scenes & music in chapter 1 is because i think the information there can be taken as a rosetta stone for beginning to translate both means and motivations. i don’t think Gaster Theorization is moot, i think we’ve (again, speaking of the fanbase at large) just been lacking the foundations of that surface-level approach to contextualize the lore.

ex. i would have never considered the possibility of him (sort of) being the unseen/"Roaring" Knight if i hadn’t started going through those scenes, leading to an observation, then questions: gaster isn’t just distantly invested in this world, it seems like he’s tearing himself apart trying to save it. why does this matter so much to him? why this world? if he just found it somehow, why does he feel so committed to it? if he created it, then why doesn’t he just rewrite the ending himself?

i definitely don’t think GKT is the only logical conclusion (FAR from it lol) but it is a non-arbitrary possibility among other non-arbitrary possibilities i’ve seen proposed since chapter 1, and i think it’s really interesting that we can like… start to come up with anything like that at all now i guess lol

[theultimateescaperooms]

The Ultimate Escape Rooms in Ventura: A Fun Challenge for the Whole Family

Ventura, a charming coastal city in California, is known for its beautiful beaches, historic sites, and vibrant cultural scene. But did you know it's also home to some of the most exciting and challenging escape rooms? Whether you're a seasoned escape room enthusiast or a family looking for a unique and engaging activity, Ventura's escape rooms offer thrilling adventures that test your wits, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. Among the top choices are The Wizard's Lair, The Attic, and Twisted Tales.

The Wizard's Lair

Step into a world of magic and mystery with The Wizard's Lair. This escape room transports you to a fantastical realm where you and your team are apprentices to a great wizard. The objective? To prove your worth by solving a series of intricate puzzles and uncovering the secrets of the wizard's lair before time runs out.

The Wizard's Lair is designed to immerse you fully in the magical atmosphere. The room is adorned with ancient artifacts, spell books, and enchanted objects that create an authentic wizarding environment. The puzzles range from deciphering magical runes to mixing potions and casting spells. Each challenge requires keen observation, logical thinking, and a bit of creative magic.

Families love The Wizard's Lair for its enchanting theme and the way it brings everyone together. Children and adults alike can enjoy the sense of wonder and excitement as they work collaboratively to unravel the mysteries. It's a perfect blend of fantasy and challenge that makes for an unforgettable family adventure.

The Attic

For those who enjoy a touch of nostalgia and a hint of the eerie, The Attic offers a unique escape room experience. This room invites you to explore a forgotten attic filled with relics and memories from the past. Your goal is to uncover the story behind the attic and find a way out before it's too late.

The Attic is beautifully crafted to evoke a sense of curiosity and intrigue. As you step inside, you're surrounded by old photographs, dusty books, and antique furniture, each with its own story to tell. The puzzles in The Attic are cleverly integrated into the setting, requiring you to piece together clues from the various items scattered around the room.

This escape room is particularly appealing to families because it combines elements of history, mystery, and adventure. It encourages players to think outside the box and use their deductive reasoning skills. The Attic's ambiance and storyline captivate both young and old, making it a fantastic bonding experience.

Twisted Tales

If your family enjoys fairy tales with a twist, Twisted Tales is the escape room for you. This room takes classic fairy tales and turns them on its head, presenting a dark and thrilling adventure that challenges you to rewrite the stories and escape the clutches of the evil characters within.

Twisted Tales stands out for its imaginative and immersive design. Each part of the room reflects a different twisted fairy tale, from sinister woods to haunted castles. The puzzles are intricately woven into the narrative, requiring players to use their knowledge of fairy tales and their problem-solving skills to progress. You'll find yourself rescuing characters, solving riddles, and outsmarting villains in a race against time.

Families appreciate Twisted Tales for its engaging storyline and the way it encourages teamwork. The room's dark yet whimsical atmosphere appeals to both children and adults, providing a thrilling escape that keeps everyone on the edge of their seats. It's an adventure that combines storytelling with strategic thinking, making it a hit with families looking for something out of the ordinary.

Why Choose The Ultimate Escape Rooms for Family Fun?

The Ultimate Escape Rooms offer more than just puzzles and challenges—they provide a platform for families to connect, communicate, and collaborate in a fun and dynamic setting. Here are some reasons why these escape rooms are perfect for family outings:

Interactive entertainment

Escape rooms are an interactive form of entertainment that engages all participants. Unlike passive activities like watching movies or playing video games, escape rooms require active involvement from everyone. This interaction fosters teamwork and communication, essential skills that can benefit family dynamics beyond the escape room.

Cognitive and creative engagement

The puzzles and challenges in escape rooms stimulate cognitive and creative thinking. Families must work together to solve problems, which enhances their ability to think critically and creatively. This mental exercise is both fun and beneficial, especially for children who can apply these skills in their everyday lives.

Quality family time

In today's fast-paced world, finding quality time for family activities can be challenging. Escape rooms provide an opportunity for families to spend time together in a meaningful way. The shared experience of solving puzzles and completing challenges creates lasting memories and strengthens family bonds.

Unique and memorable experiences

Escape rooms offer unique and memorable experiences that stand out from typical family activities. Each room's distinctive theme and storyline provide a unique adventure that family members will remember and talk about long after the experience is over.

Suitable for all ages

Escape rooms like The Wizard's Lair, The Attic, and Twisted Tales are designed to be enjoyed by all ages. They offer varying levels of difficulty to accommodate both children and adults, ensuring that everyone can participate and contribute. This inclusivity makes them ideal for family outings.

The Ultimate Escape Rooms—The Wizard's Lair, The Attic, and Twisted Tales—offer unparalleled adventures that are perfect for family fun. Each room presents a unique challenge and immersive experience that brings families together engagingly and memorably. Whether you're casting spells, unraveling historical mysteries, or navigating dark fairy tales, these escape rooms provide a fantastic opportunity for quality family time and unforgettable adventures. So, gather your family, put on your thinking caps, and get ready to escape into a world of fun and excitement in Ventura! If you are looking for a fun activity that involves puzzles, tricky games, etc. with your friends, The Ultimate Escape Rooms is the best option. They offer escape games in Ventura, escape room online booking in Ventura, or family adventure games in Ventura. Call 805-857-0777 or write to annette@theultimateescaperooms.com to book an appointment.

[flawlessmlm]

The choice of a software foundation for creating a mobile app affects not only the speed and cost of development but also directly impacts the quality of the final product. In this context, React Native stands out as a leading solution that attracts developers worldwide. Many popular mobile applications have been created using this particular framework: Instagram, Pinterest, Skype, Discord.

In this article, we have unveiled the most significant advantages of the React Native framework, based on the real experience of our developers.

The main benefits of React Native

A framework in mobile development is a set of software tools and libraries that provide developers with a standardized foundation for creating applications. It greatly simplifies the development process, as it contains ready-made components and templates that can be used for various aspects of a mobile application: user interface, media file processing. 

Among the well-known frameworks today, Flutter, Cordova, Xamarin, and Ionic stand out, but the most in-demand tool continues to be React Native.

React Native - is a cross-platform framework launched by Facebook (now Meta) for creating mobile apps based on JavaScript and the React API. Since its inception in 2015, it has quickly become popular due to the ability to develop applications for iOS and Android with a shared codebase.

Developers in our FlawlessMLM team have been using this framework for many years in creating apps for MLM companies, noting a number of its significant advantages:

Cost and Development Time

React Native is the most financially advantageous solution due to its ease of learning for developers. They can use existing JavaScript skills without any additional training. Speaking of development time, React Native also outperforms its counterparts in this regard. Flutter is significantly more complex, so developing apps based on it requires much more time.

Thanks to a multitude of ready-made components and a shared code base for iOS and Android, React Native enables the rapid release of a full-fledged software product or a high-quality MVP without any particular difficulties for developers and the ability to reach a multimillion audience of potential users.

Native Integrations

React Native allows developers to easily integrate their own components into mobile applications. This ensures a convenient user experience and guarantees a consistent appearance of applications across different devices. On the other hand, Flutter also allows integration with custom modules, but adding features specific to a mobile device or operating system will require more development resources.

For example, consider Bluetooth connectivity. Interacting with other mobile devices via Bluetooth using Flutter often poses challenges. Since Flutter does not utilize the device's native Bluetooth capabilities, developers face issues with connection and a decrease in application performance. Thus, the development process in this case is much more complicated.

Community

React Native stands out among its counterparts with its massive community of over 2 million developers. This community builds its ecosystem, filled with numerous third-party libraries, plugins, and resources for rapid and high-quality development. The Flutter community is not as large, so searching for packages and solutions offered by the community requires more effort, time, and consequently financial resources.

Code Reusability

With React Native, developers have the opportunity to reuse parts of the codebase across different platforms. This means that one can borrow logic from an existing project without the need to rewrite everything from scratch. This approach significantly saves money and time on development, making React Native an excellent option for those looking to speed up the mobile app creation cycle. On the other hand, Flutter works exclusively with the specific Dart language, which is limited to use only for Flutter projects.

Optimized Apps Size

One of the clear advantages of React Native is the final size of the created mobile apps. Applications developed on Flutter are generally noticeably larger in size, which becomes a barrier for users with limited memory capacity on mobile devices. The small size of mobile applications created on the basis of React Native not only improves the overall user experience but also increases the likelihood of their downloading and active use.

Post-Release Support and Maintenance

When it comes to support and updates for applications after release, React Native also surpasses Flutter. The more declarative and simpler rules for writing software code in React Native allow developers to make any changes and add new features to mobile apps more quickly.

Support for many platforms

React Native provides good support for various operating systems: Wear OS and watchOS for smartwatches, tvOS for TV screen connectivity, Android Auto and CarPlay for integration of mobile applications with car systems. Flutter's use is limited for most of these systems, it only offers partial OS support for smartwatches.

Overall, having compared React Native and Flutter, we can fairly call React Native the best tool for fast and cost-effective creation of powerful mobile applications. This framework enables the development of apps that work flawlessly across different devices, opening up the path for businesses to reach a million-strong audience and enhance customer engagement levels.

Our team has extensive experience in developing high-quality mobile apps based on React Native. If you're interested in creating a mobile app to optimize customer interactions and increase sales, write to us in chat. We'll create a multifunctional app for your business that will be the key to reaching new horizons of success.

[hydralisk98]

Zorua Specs (2024-03.1)

Appending to the Intersil 6100 / 6120 lineage in my very own way, inspired by DECmate II/III+ computer systems. Using SG-1000 / SC-3000 as reference sampler implementation on bare hardware;

Essentially making a aesthetic yet convenient personalized Lisp computer system localized in a Numic-derived conlang... for a "software toybox" of sorts. Really nerdy addventure right there.

" At the very end of time, you are tasked to compute, revise and approve sapient processes of divine law & figure a way out of entropy under a certain deadline. Discover the cosmic history behind this deterministic reality, get to rewrite your own life scripture "source code" & [...] ; ( HTML5 / CSS3 "Môsi" super personal project with tilemap design, game mechanics, viewbox styling & polishing left to do among other things... ) "

SEGA My Card 'EP' as a RW+ hot-swappable data format?

~10.125 KW with 1.875 leftover for the tilemap data... (12KW maximum per single map layer)

~4 KW * 3 per save-state logic, macro command histories & data interpolation for objects & "actors" (load current savestate, check & restore & interpolate with parity savestate?, "booknook" hyperlinks/meta-markers);

8 KW for graphics, sounds, input handling & whatever else presented?

[mamun258]

Not only does it build a GPT Store, OpenAI also builds an AI search engine.

OpenAI has finally launched the GPT Store, which has attracted much attention from the outside world. So in this AI era, can the HE Tuber GPT Store become a super traffic portal? Regarding the ecological disputes and entrance disputes about large models, what is the current situation? Let’s take a look at the interpretation and analysis of this article.

Two months after releasing the GPTs (customized version of ChatGPT) function, OpenAI finally launched the much-anticipated GPT Store today.

Open AI claims that users have created more than 3 million GPTs, and many creators have shared their GPTs for others to use. However, GPT Store is currently only "available for recharge" and is open to Chat GPT Plus, Team (Team Edition) and Enterprise (Enterprise Edition) users.

Among them, ChatGPT Team is the latest paid version launched by OpenAI today. ChatGPT Team costs $25 per user per month when billed annually and $30 per user per month when billed monthly.

GPT Store is considered to be the next App Store, and how to commercialize it has also become a topic of concern to users. OpenAI said it will launch a "GPT builder income program." As a first step, US developers will be compensated based on user participation in their GPT. Over time, OpenAI will provide details on payment standards.

In the era of mobile Internet, those who gain access win the world. In the AI ​​era, can OpenAI's GPT Store become that super traffic portal?

1. Challenge the new traffic entrance of search engines

ChatGPT is the fastest growing application in history. In early January 2024, statistics from the research organization Writerbuddy showed that among the world's 50 most popular AI tools, ChatGPT was far ahead in terms of visits, ranking first. Among the entire AI conversational robots, ChatGPT accounted for 76.31% of visits.

After the official release of GPT Store today, what Google fears most may appear - ChatGPT's huge traffic pool may rewrite the distribution pattern of Internet traffic through GPT Store.

The biggest difference from the App store product shelf logic is that when you open the GPT Store, the first thing you see is a huge search box, which looks more like an "AI search engine." Users can search for keywords directly here, and Chinese search is supported.

Below the AI ​​search box is the category search shelf of the GPT Store: including popular selections, DALL-E painting, writing, creation, investigation and analysis, programming, education, lifestyle and other categories.

GPTs are currently sorted by popularity. The more users use them, the easier it is to get recommendations, and new ones will be added every week. The currently officially recommended popular GPTs are:

Personalized route recommendations from “AllTrails”

Search and synthesize results from 200 million academic papers with Consensus

Expand your coding skills with Khan Academy’s Code Tutor

Design a presentation or social post using Canva

Find your next read with Books

Learn math and science anytime, anywhere with the "CK-12 Flexi" AI tutor

The developer's website is attached to the name of GPTs and can be redirected directly, which will become an important traffic entrance. The more users of GPTs, the greater the exposure of the website.

At the same time, judging from the conversation results, GPTs has greatly improved the accuracy of search compared with traditional search engines. For example, when you open AllTrails and ask it to recommend "easy hiking routes near New York City" (a preset prompt), it will give you a long, detailed route plan with pictures, and you can jump directly to Third Party Websites.

The earlier GPTs are developed and used by more people, the more early traffic dividends they will receive, which will attract a large number of developers.

Perhaps, the GPT Store will directly challenge traditional search engines. In the future, the search switch on the Internet is likely to slowly migrate from search engines to generative AI dialogue portals such as GPT Store.

2. More than just a Store

To seize the traffic entrance in the AI ​​era, OpenAI finally took the first step.

In the era of mobile Internet, the App store helped Apple build a strong moat and allowed Apple to remain the largest technology company for a very long time. Will the GPT Store be the next App Store?

LanguageX co-founder Li Guanghua told "Jiazi Guangnian" that his attitude towards the GPT Store has changed in the past two months.

When OpenAI first announced the launch of the GPT store in November last year, Li Guanghua believed that GPT was just a large language model and lacked the monopoly infrastructure status of iPhone and iOS. I am afraid that it can only occupy a certain share among large model companies, but it is far inferior to Apple's App Store. . In the experience, the actual effect is not satisfactory, and the customization effect is very poor.

But today, Li Guanghua's mind changed. He believes that GPT Store 1.0 may be an application store similar to the App Store, but 2.0 may have completely different gameplay and space-not just more applications, but also the future "AI model market." What’s even more shocking is that the interactions and transactions between GPTs or Agents will be spontaneous, and GPTs can buy and sell themselves to each other.

In this way, GPT Store is not a tool market, but a "silicon-based talent (Agent) market" . Agents can complete tasks alone, proactively find other agents to cooperate when needed, combine them into new workflows, and complete complex tasks. business. If this is the case, GPT Store will be the AI ​​version of the freelancing platform, and OpenAI will become the world's largest silicon-based talent company, just like Airbnb is essentially the world's largest hotel and Didi is the world's largest taxi company.

Dai Yusen, managing partner of ZhenFund, also shared his opinion after watching the OpenAI Dev Day in November last year - OpenAI is more like the combination of "Intel + Microsoft" in the PC era, providing chips and operating systems. As well as the core killer applications, barriers are formed through technology upgrades + the scale effect of large capital investment, while operating systems, application stores and super applications are built.

Once the operating system in the AI ​​era is built, it will be difficult to have a chance of second place. Dai Yusen believes that the scale effect caused by large capital investment is still likely to be challenged, but the network effect formed by the operating system and the very high migration cost are basically difficult to challenge, and the winner can take all. "After Dev Day, many people lament that OpenAI has killed many startups, essentially because these startups are doing things like calculators, writing pads, and browsers that are either very simple and have no barriers to entry, or the operating system will definitely do it.”

3. Domestic “GPT Store” card position war

Bill Gates predicted in November last year that AI agents (Agents) will be the next platform after big models, not only changing the way everyone interacts with computers, but also completely changing our lives within five years. 2024 will be the year of the explosion of AI Agent.

Therefore, in addition to OpenAI, more and more large model companies and AI application layer companies want to compete for entrances similar to the "GPT Store", that is, the Agent platform. According to statistics, many major global and domestic manufacturers, as well as AI startups, have launched their own Agent platforms; software companies in the vertical scenario of the AI ​​application layer, such as Feishu and DingTalk, have also released their own smart partners. Or super assistant, which is essentially an Agent for business scenarios.

Overview of domestic GPTs platforms, pictures from Lang Hanwei Will, data as of January 3, 2024

OpenAI's GPT Store is an Agent platform for the to C market, and in China, more companies have chosen to B. After DingTalk’s super assistant launch conference this week, DingTalk President Ye Jun explained to “Jiazi Guangnian” and other media the differences between DingTalk’s AI Agent Store and OpenAI.

Ye Jun said: "The biggest difference lies in the scenarios. In the past eight years, DingTalk has accumulated the richest scenarios from organizational digitization to business digitization, personalized data accumulation, and operational execution systems built with low code. While OpenAI can only Built from the ground up.”

Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, also expressed the importance of scenes. He believes that GPTs is still far from the App Store of artificial intelligence. The reason why OpenAI releases GPTs is to hope that everyone can help them find various application scenarios.

In the to B market, there are many implementation scenarios for AI Agents. AI practitioner Yang Chang summarized them into three: "The first is sales, customer service and marketing, which are areas where AI Agents can significantly improve efficiency and effectiveness. Almost all Platforms focus on these areas; the second one is low-code, no-code and RPA, which are important assistants in the implementation of AI Agent. Before the arrival of fully automatic AI Agent, these three are relatively lower cost. And the effect is more controllable; the third is expert knowledge and SOP, which are the key to the implementation of AI Agent in enterprises."

He also said that AI Agent has three implementation forms and can coexist in one company, including Copilot's work assistant, business self-cruising and autonomous agents (Autonomous Agents).

At present, the implementation of AI Agent in the to B industry is still in its early stages, but the ecological battle and entrance battle for large models have officially begun.

Author: Zhao Jian

Original title: Not only does it build a GPT Store, OpenAI also builds an AI search engine | Jiazi Guangnian

Source public account: Jiazi Guangnian (ID: jazzyear), based on the forefront of China's technological innovation, dynamically tracking the development of leading technology companies and traditional industrial technology upgrade cases.

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