#I just added Kat

[lesbiangiratina]

Creepy wet missing link testament playlist is over half an hour long i can do . Anythang

[molliemoo3]

Indycar x e.l.f continues to be one of the greatest things that couldve happened

[fishermcn]

🚢lowkey one of the only men i can see liz actually liking so uuuh have this i guess!!! -- for @hawksblooded

@hawksblooded // ere this heart of stone, by the sea worn and broken // accepting.

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | familiarity not wholly recognized; "i know the swing of your blade enough never to get in the way, and you know how to make my bombs without having to measure out powder" | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: strugglers to friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine grumpier | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | you get it. i see it in your eyes and in the set of your jaw-- you understand. you understand. | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between

what now?: let's plot something | lets see how they get on with one another | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: // i-- listen, right? you've got the stuff on the surface. the background of slaying monsters, their aptitudes for tinkering, the bomb-making-- good stuff, great stuff, who would need more? then you take another look, and there's an abyss just beneath. the dead you slew have worn faces you knew. the fight never ends, only catches its breath. if you do not make something better, faster, sharper, they'll kill you; if you are not something better, faster, sharper, they'll kill you. looking someone in the eyes and recognizing the reason that light is gone from them is the same as yours. i think there's the possibility of something here, and whether or not it becomes a matter of feelings would depend on how well these two can cooperate together and how much of their armor they're willing to shed to allow it.

[kainablue]

I'm Slavic and even though we are Caucasian aka white, I never felt any privilege that 'white people' experience. The term 'white people' equals to Central and Western Europe, North America and Australian people. And that's it. Because here, in Eastern and Southern Europe, we don't get any privileges. We are just basic nobodies living outside those first world countries. The moment I show my passport, say my name or basically speak, you can feel the shift in attitude. So it is really a big pet peeve of mine to see Slavs included with 'white people'. Because in reality we are not.

[the-spoingus-show]

my current project: jump forever!

this is the first of those scheduled posts i mentioned earlier!!! i figured i would start by talking about my current project - that way i can start posting updates about it without confusing you, Michael. The next post is gonna be about the beginning of this whole Godot thing i've been on, and then i'm thinking about maybe doing a Before Godot post as a bonus once i've talked about all my godot stuff (i love saying this as if anybody cares (besides you, Michael)). setting all that aside, though: this one's gonna need some backstory, so you should buckle in.

around this time last year, me and my little cousin (he's still in high school, but we've always been pretty close) got really competitive about a little game called Jump Forever. it's a side minigame from WarioWare Mega Microgames (the GBA one) where you just jump over a little rope until you fuck up. it's really fucking fun as an addictive little mobile game, and with a quick lil emulator it was one. thus, the addiction began.

truth be told, the phase last year didn't even last that long, but i had a long bus ride a couple of weeks ago and found myself opening the GBA emulator on my phone to pass the time. that led to a little bit of playing at home, which led to beating my cousin's score, which led to getting even more into the game than i was before. as our scores get higher, we've turned to better controllers than a phone touch screen for serious record attempts - i use a ds lite i had lying around (that i reshelled! it was very fun) and he emulates on pc with a controller (i think). this got me thinking about a potential "definitive edition" of the game - probably still on mobile, but with controller support, better touch controls (the game only needs <-, ->, and A!), faster resets, selectable skins, and maybe even unlockable skins? of course, when i finished my work on fnaf (ooh foreshadowing), my sights were immediately set on a Jump Forever remake.

with all that said, welcome to the game as it currently stands! at the moment, i've got wario, the rope swingers, and the score all just about set up, with one exception; the characters have collision, the rope swings (at varying speeds, even!), and wario's speed and physics feel very accurate - but i'm still working on the ai (if you can call it that) of the rope guys as they walk back and forth. i want it to work exactly the same way as it does in the original but i always overthink random mechanics like this. hopefully the next update i give will be about how i cracked it! even if the implementation ends up jank, though, it wouldn't be the first: the rope guys check if wario is too close to them to make it over the rope with an Area2D that just checks for wario when the rope hits the ground. it works! i could just like check wario's position in the code (and it'd probably be way more efficient), but this way just... works.

i still have a buncha crap i still gotta implement before the game's even really playable - the walking ai, the title screen, the little "Ready?" animation, etc. - but that's only the beginning of my work. firstly, i'm probably gonna enlist chloe (oooh foreshadowing) to help me out by drawing some new assets (if she's free, it is finals season), and then changing the game's native resolution from 240x160 (the GBA screen) to something not fucking insane. i've got "reworking all the sprites into easy to read spritesheets" on my to-do list, and after that, making the new assets (and then maybe the skins?) will be as easy as drag & drop. once it's got the new assets and all the polish that needs to come with a shiny new resolution, i'm gonna transition into the next phase - researching how to release a game!!!

[hi, not to ruin my own amazing transition but: it's 5am and i'm running back to edit this because i completely forgot to mention that i have currently implemented a 2 frame input delay on all inputs, because that's how the emulator appears to behave when i go frame by frame. every single day i rethink this decision more and more. surely there's no way that's how it's supposed to be, right? but i feel so weird changing it now!!! i definitely fucking have to though. next time i work on it. ok anyways]

now. i've posted games to itch.io before. but even then, i kind of fucked it up (i could never get the resolution of my web games to work right???) - so it's no surprise i've always been completely daunted by the idea of "releasing a game". when you post it on real stores, that's when it becomes... real. i'm excited about the new challenges it'll pose, though! now, a mobile release means a couple of things - bite sized fun, simple progression, and fun customization. i've already got the first part nailed down, and i figured i could nail the other 2 at once with a currency system based on how many points you get (or maybe even an xp system? that goes up 1 for each jump? maybe even both???) and skins (purchasable with said currency) that let you customize the player, rope swingers, background, and maybe even the rope itself.

pictured above is my stupid ass skins mockup (i literally just made this). the rope is rainbow, the background has a snow effect and a bunch of snow on the trees/ground (isn't it great?), wario is a lil version of the rope guys, and the rope guys have santa hats. i'm not sure how many different ropes you could really make with how i'm planning the rope to move, so i'll probably end up prototyping the graphics with chloe to figure out how to lay out the sprite sheets, and if they should actually have a seperate hand-grabbing-the-rope sprite for skin purposes. it'll definitely make things really confusing, but if i go for a mobile release i don't want to run ads, and so a currency you can buy with real money (and maybe one or two goofy supporter skins that cost real money, like a solid gold guy or something, as a form of donation) is a good way to make a lil bit of money from people who like the game.

all of this is fun to think about, but it's important to remember that the next thing i have to do is that walking ai. i've gotta Make The Fucking Game before i can do all this crazy other bullshit. i'm sure the ui design for all this is gonna be soooo fun, but i need a game to attach it to first :p

this went on reeeally long but i figure if this is a dev diary or w/e it's gonna end up running long no matter what, and the more info, the more i have to look back on fondly and say "oh shit, i know exactly when this was!", which is kind of the end goal of the project. of course, these incredibly long posts about shit that only matters to me are also incredible content for you, Michael, so i'm sure you're just eating this shit up. enjoy, you weird little man.

[sleepvines]

mostly Hodpod sketch page!

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

lowkey forgot how queer-affirming my grad school was (particularly for non-binary folk) compared to the outside world, so imagine the 👁️👄👁️ on my face when I go into work and not a single person had their pronouns

[kimberlyannharts]

I have the Hot Take that, instead of all the fighting over TomKat or Tomberly, thr fandom should just calm down and embrace the Katomberly Polycule.

This way, Kat and Kimberly take turns with Tommy and each other, the girls get to hang out, and Tommy gets to spend time with two girls he loves-and most importantly, Kat and Tommy both get to simp over Kimberly being The Best with no problems in their relationship. It’s just a beautiful bisexual polycule, and nothing hurts.

(Also, all three have custody of JJ Oliver. JJ has three parents-and learns a lot from Kimberly, who teaches him the best asskicking techniques.)

Obviously I’m not going to tell people not to ship it because as a concept it’s fine and even cute, but KimTommyKat was never my preferred “happy ending”.  I really don’t see Kim and Kat as getting that close, especially as they got older, and as I obviously have a clear side in the ship war I would just prefer Kat with someone else entirely lol

[spottedmischief]

Cheezi’s "greeting ceremony” is just him pouncing you over with absolute full force.

[randoimago]

I love when I update my fandoms list and then my brain goes "Hey, remember these things that you've written for? Don't you miss them? You should update that list again"

So hey, maybe the list will get updated later (if I remember, but if/when i do then I'll make sure to reblog it).

[katranga]

FUCK OFF TERFS

TERFS FUCK OFF

💕✨ TRANS PEOPLE HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY I LOVE YOU ✨💕

[lesbiangiratina]

Missing link testament dustloop moodboard

[anthotneystark]

WIP word search!

rules: go through your wips and look for the words given to you and post a snippet with that word.

I was tagged by @frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe whomst I adore!

my words were: Ignore, Second, Road, Soil, Term, Circumstance

Ignore (A baby fic I'm working on fleshing out still)

That’s the night he hears that his dad was sleeping with a paralegal during his birth. He doesn’t know what a paralegal is, his first thought is that maybe it’s a weird kind of teddy bear, like the one he had until his dad decided he was too old for baby toys. But his mother is angry when she says it, so it must be something he’s not supposed to be sleeping with. He doesn’t move from his spot as she stalks up the stairs. She ignores him, which is both what he wanted and something he hates. Tommy H’s mom always asks him a bunch of questions and actually listens to his answers, and sometimes he wishes his mom would be more like her. But then he feels bad, because he still loves his mom.

Second (A tattoo fic based on one of my own tattoos)

The second tattoo is for himself. Eddie does it again, constantly checking to make sure that he’s totally sure about it, but it’s the most sure he’s ever been about anything. He gets this one directly over his heart, where he’ll see it every time he looks in the mirror, where it’ll serve as a reminder of who he is now, how far he’s come. There, in stark black ink, sits a cluster of daffodils. Renewal. Rebirth. This life he built for himself in the shadows of fear and loss, it’s all because of that moment where he decided he wanted to be better, wanted to be different from how he’d spent so much of his life. He’d remade himself, worked to be who he wanted to be, someone he could be proud of.

Road (Stick Season songfic idea that I'm thinking I'm going to make a full fic out of that @sharpbutsoft inspired)

It's his dream, not hers, and he can recognize that, but he’s not ready to let it go yet. He sees her mom in the grocery store and sees the faint recognition in her eyes before he turns away. He knows she has to drive past his road to get to the Byers’ house but he knows without having to ask that she’s not thinking about him as she does it. The pain never leaves, but he holds onto it even as he wishes it was gone. He holds onto it every time he sees her. It’s a cycle in his head. Aching longing, love, anger, pain, over and over and over again. He feels stuck, forever, like there’s no escape from it and time isn’t helping.

Soil (a possession fix-it AU)

He makes sure everyone is alright though and doesn’t spare a moment for himself until he’s finally alone, until he can finally take his first hot shower in days. He can finally get all the blood and soil and gunk and gravel off of him. He has to sit down in the shower to pick it out of his feet, out of his back wherever he can reach. It hurts, but he can handle it. Pain is easy for him now. Robin will call when she remembers, probably give him another lecture about rabies, but that’s fine. You always worry her too much. He’s exhausted, so he washes quickly, cleans then disinfects the gaping wounds on his sides and tries not to think about the mess on his back that he can’t reach. He’ll worry about it later, once he’s slept.

Term - I didn't have anything with this in it and couldn't think of how I'd use it at the moment in any of my stuff :(

Circumstance (The Sun Rose - A beauty and the beast story)

It was no use though, and as the growls inched closer, he didn’t try to go for his van, just bolted into the woods in what was likely the worse decision of his life. “Stay out of the woods to the north, Eddie. I mean it.” Wayne’s voice echoed in his head as he ran, stumbling and shaking and desperate to stay upright as those gnashing teeth chased him. Under normal circumstances, he’d have taken heed and followed that rule. But he was already in over his head, was already here and so was Chrissy, he couldn’t leave her behind now. He tripped on a root, crashing into the ground hard, and had only a moment to wonder who would break the news to Wayne of his demise. Rancid, hot breath hit his skin, his heart pounded in his throat, and he waited for the feeling of teeth stabbing into his neck.

Tagging @thefreakandthehair, @sharpbutsoft, @starrystevie and anyone else who wants to join in!

your words are: silk, effort, determine, thumb, direct, grave

[claudemblems]

I'm not usually for "fanservice" but oh my gosh I've got heart eyes

LIKE HELLO????

Yeah uh haha um 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I can't stop falling in love with fictional men

[thebirdandhersong]

oh yeah here's my Fittes fic pitch, while I'm still riding the high of finishing another chapter: it's a story with the healing of the Fittes team post-Ned's death at its heart. surrounding that core is a character study of how Kipps deals with disillusionment and self-doubt, his so-called high mortality rate as a supervisor, his complicated relationship with his team, his family history, and his fears about the future. and after reflections on the deaths he's witnessed, the child agents he's lost, and the broken relationships he believes are lost forever (spoiler: they're not), the ending points to something Tolkien says in one of his letters ("There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet").

here is the link :)

[you-hate-time-travel]

So sorry if i don't answer your ask... 👍 raaagh