#I have so many dumb stories actually

[jingledbells]

HELLO?????? I am VERY intrigued, do tell

ok so. I’m sleeping over at grems house. this is a few days after I just got back from Rhode Island and I watched the tooth fairy movie with Stephen merchant, va of Wheatley. It’s been a while since I’ve played portal 2 so I’m picking up where I left off. chapter 8. scratching the itch. In which Wheatley has you complete incredibly easy testing chambers to satisfy him. And um. Each time u complete one. He moans. And lets out noises. U can also edge him in the game too. But uhm. That unlocked something inside of me and I had to pause right after that because I liked Wheatley before but now I like. Needed him. It was just like. Yeah I became Normal and it’s all grems fault. I started screaming uncontrollably. This was at 1-3am btw

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

DPxDC media story prompt

Okay first off, this sort of thing has been done before, but here’s a different version involving Jazz Fenton.

Popular in DPxDC fanfic is that the GIW have a media blackouts—or whiteouts, there’s kind of a difference, where whiteouts work more like… there is a file, but you can’t edit it or it may be locked out for certain users, or an edited version of events where things are ‘whited out’ like with correction paste, among other definitions.

Point is!

The GIW have a media restriction, and among these is social media, probably with certain words or phrases pinging to location restrict the post. There was probably a phase for a while where the A-Listers tried to get around it, but ultimately failed, and since they could only get information IN rather than information OUT, and possibly still a limited amount of outside information in the first place, social media didn’t take off as much in Amity Park than in other places in the world. There’s still a small local presence, but at this point it’s almost like a city wide chat room than actual social media.

Enter in, Jazz Fenton. She’s chronically behind on trends, so by the time she decides to get on social media, the GIW aren’t being as militant on it. And she has that habit of calling the ghosts by code names instead of their actual names, such as Crate Creep instead of The Box Ghost, or Ghost X instead of Skulker. By pure coincidence of her personal language use and Tucker messing with all of Team Phantom’s phone locaters for easier excuse giving, Jazz manages to dodge all the word censors.

She accidentally creates a whole online story community convinced it’s some kind of altered reality game or role playing game, what have you. Meanwhile, Jazz is letting off steam by ranting online with, of course, made up names of all the people involved. She doesn’t even notice the numbers, and that’s assuming the GIW didn’t just—region lock the ability to see them for whatever reason. The few Amity Parkers on social medias see Jazz, maybe look at a complaint post or two, then move on because this isn’t even an unusual video inside Amity Park’s social media sphere.

Heck, PHANTOM has a social media presence and he’s done several rant videos too! One particularly famous one is him complaining about keeping his boots and gloves white while being chased and one of the GIW agents actually stops and gives him advice before shooting at him again.

Those outside Amity Park, of course, only see Jazz’s videos. And she has no idea that she has an entire online presence and mild amounts of online fame. And again, almost everyone thinks the whole thing is just a fun little game, if oddly detailed.

Until, that is, a certain young man by the name of Bernard comes in. One of the few who are totally convinced this is real, he tries to also convince his boyfriend—Timothy Drake-Wayne. Who, in turn, finds it incredibly suspicious that it’s this hard to get news and posts from one random town in the Midwest.

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[pushing500]

What kind of interactions do you think the twins would have that Rimworld gameplay wouldn't depict? (Hygiene stuff, etc etc)

Also obligatory 'your art is absolutely amazing, please keep blessing our eyes with this stuff!'

I love this ask, I could have spent ages and ages drawing these two doing random stuff together that I'd never get the chance to draw due to the game just not having it. I did try to restrain myself, though, so here are three quick doodles of the twins!

They share a bathroom and probably have matching toothbrushes because I think they have matching everything, so I'm sure there are lots of mix-ups happening.

I have long-ish hair and my shower drain is ALWAYS clogged, so I bet these two have the least effective drainage system ever with all their hair. They probably get into fights over whose turn it is to unclog the mess this time.

Speaking of long hair, I bet Kwahu sometimes needs help re-plaiting his on days when he's especially tired or just doesn't feel like it. Fortunately, Mechi used to help Yamka with her hair and is willing to assist when his twin asks.

A question, because I'm curious and haven't actually decided where I stand on the matter yet:

[radioroxx]

pizzaplex post-earthquake wouldve made for a great location for those youtube channels that like to explore abandoned amusement parks, or for the “i spent 24 hours in [blank]” videos.

but most importantly i think there would be tons of ghost-hunting channels for the mimic to toy with using its scared little boy voice. i imagine the plex would eventually gain some sort of reputation for its more active than average ghost

[sylver-drawer]

I think people should write their stupid “Jennette bashing” fics more often

Because whenever I see that stupid tag I suddenly get a surge of motivation to work on my Jennette loving and comforting fics and do more art of Jennette and her witch girlfriend just to drown them out :))))

[esmeshardwoodfloors]

me calling Esme a milf when she's 5 years younger than I am 💀

[dandyshucks]

blinks tiredly. i decide "hm maybe i should try to expand my circle and step outside of it a little, lets go look at the main community tags" and im just greeted with a bunch of edgelords who think saying "fiction doesn't affect reality, don't like don't read" is peak activism and "fighting censorship". head in my hands. this is partially why i do not ever go into the community tags, my nervous system cannot handle blocking fifty weirdos every single day just so i can have a normal experience in the community tags hfdsjkl

[4giorno]

another 5 star at 35 pity LMAO

[thresholdbb]

The apparently obvious solution to the Tuvix problem seems to be “create a Tuvix transporter clone, duh!”

Tuvix is already a transporter accident. Who’s to say he can be put through the transporter again without irreparable harm? As it is, the crew is hesitant to use the transporter until they understand exactly what happened. The orchid added an unstable element to the transporter process when Neelix and Tuvok were initially beamed up. Does Tuvix even have stable DNA? Are Vulcan and Talaxian physiology comparable long term? Will Tuvok’s ailment progress more quickly as Tuvix? Tuvix also doesn’t practice the emotional restraint that Vulcans do, so would his negative emotions be difficult to handle? We know Tuvok has a thread of repressed violent tendencies, and we simply don’t know much about Talaxians beyond what Neelix shares. Also, orchids can be pretty fussy (if they’re anything like Earth orchids) and that adds another unknown into the equation. Does the plant physiology affect the humanoid in any way? There are too many variables.

Most people seem to agree it should be a Riker-style transporter clone. The TOS transporter accidents ended up with disparate personalities, and tragically the dog clones didn’t survive the reintegration. We get “good Kirk” and “evil Kirk” but neither can function as a complete person.

Can we really say that Thomas Riker doesn’t exhibit the same kind of emotional divergence that Kirk had to a lesser degree? Thomas Riker joined the Maquis, which Will Riker would never do. With Riker we can get into the argument of nature vs. nurture, since Will got out of the situation whereas Thomas was left trying to figure out how to survive on a planet alone and isolated.

Then we look at the Boimler clones, who are Riker-style transporter accidents created in the same way and even paying homage to Riker himself. We see a similar slight emotional divergence between the two Boims. William Boimler (Titan clone) seems more self assured and an edge more ruthless, and he quickly lets Brad take the fall back to ensign. Brad thought they would both try to let the other take the assignment on the Titan, but that’s not the case. With the Boimler clones, we don’t have the nature/nurture argument that happens with the Riker clones. They are immediately slightly different. Brad seems to lose some of his confidence - is it situational or because of the cloning?

Maybe the transporter clones are exact copies of the same person without inherit differences due to the process. If it were a safe process, surely someone somewhere in the Federation would have started experimenting with transporter cloning? Even if they had, it’s ethically a bit dodgy.

In conclusion, we don’t know enough about transporter cloning to waste Voyager’s precious resources on an experimental process that might not even work. It could even make the situation worse.

[dashiellqvverty]

i have a headache and can NOT think clearly enough to really gather my thoughts but as much as i really did like atsv there were just. things about it that didnt work for me. and like mostly i was not big on how they did the “canon events” stuff like im not AGAINST it just at points felt like sort of redoing the moment in itsv where after aaron dies the other spiderpeople are able to comfort and relate to miles because they’ve been through similar things and this is like... that but in a technical lore way and not hitting the same emotional beat?? like obvioulsy they’re taking it somewhere different and its about like defying the story that’s laid out for you and i LIKE that but. idk. and im like yeah obviously theres stuff thats part of the spiderman origin story we KNOW this we did it already in the last movie and it was a great scene. and also like theres no way everything they referenced is 100% true for every version of spiderman, even every single one that cameos in the movie?? idk. it just Frustrated me in a way that i truly cannot put my finger on

[james-p-sullivan]

all i want to do today is write

[wolf-skins]

nvm the americans in the notes going “i live in america you don’t want privatized healthcare” are normies and fine it’s the fucking americans going LISTEN HERE YOU FUCKS

americans stop pretending you’re the main characters in the story and eat my entire ass

[delta-piscium]

the concept of writing really is staying a concept

[aftout]

Leugen’s exaggeration and grandiosity when compared to other HJ results is very much intentional. And while you can argue that he just falls in line with other campy, over-the-top JD villains, I would go as far as to say that he’s just the clearest example to why they’re all designed to look that way.

Leugen represents something that fills Lanyon with glee. He feels happiest and at his fullest when he’s fronting as Leugen, hence why his speech and expression is so theatrical. He’s having fun. Which bears striking contrast to Sibyl and Jekyll’s experiences with the HJ-formula.

While their results are still very much them, Vain and Hyde don’t necessarily represent anything that makes them feel joyous to be alive. However, these things are still fundamentally who they are, hence why they can learn to live at peace with it. But their presentation is very similar to how they’d present themselves when out of costume because, again, Vain and Hyde are just parts of Sibyl and Jekyll that they have to put up with on a regular basis. They aren’t separate entities or alter egos with lives of their own, it’s just a representation of what it’s like to live with either ptsd or a personality disorder; how it can sneak up on you in the dead of night, how it can grow and shape you as a person while it also beats you down.

Leugen, on the other hand, is everything Lanyon wants to be but can’t because of his status and success. While Lanyon does live his life experiencing the things Leugen brings, he sees the transformations as a game. It’s a form of escapism, a way to pass the time and react with as much irrationality and impulse as he pleases. It’s a way for him to be himself. Thus, Leugen’s mannerisms are all the more playful and his appearance is more put together. This is what he wants.

Circling back to what I mentioned earlier about all other villains falling in line with this: JD speaks a lot through its costume design. The less period-accurate and colorful a character looks, the less compliant they are with the time’s societal norm. This is a huge factor to why Steampunks (while not antagonists to the story as a whole) are designed to look the way they do: it’s a movement to fight against what’s considered “correct”. When it comes to antagonists, they have fun with their outfits because they have fun with what they do. So much of design is there to reflect character, and the more a character stands out the more they’re seen as an individual. It’s Important to note that this is exactly why everyone in blank agency seems to balance between that line of being period-accurate enough and not period-accurate at all.

So yeah. TLDR: Leugen looks silly because he is having a blast :)) yippee!!!

[viiisenyas]

i really gotta stop with the super ambitious fic ideas because I already have 2 longfics in the making. While it's fun, it's a fuck of a lot of work.