#M!A Interface change 1

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Summary: Optimus and Megatron move into their new home. Now that they are not guests under the Maltos' roof, the temptation to 'try things out' while they await the completion of the new space bridge is high. Optimus decides he doesn't want to wait.

Rating:

Explicit

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category:

M/M

Fandoms:

Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)

Transformers - All Media Types

Relationship:

Megatron/Optimus Prime

Characters:

Megatron (Transformers)

Optimus Prime

Dorothy "Dot" Malto

Ratchet (Transformers)

Additional Tags:

Bedroom play

Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers)

Optimus tempts Megatron

Mechpreg

Trauma

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD

Megatron has PTSD

Past Rape/Non-con

Past Sexual Abuse

Sexual coercion discussed

Angst and Fluff and Smut

smut with plot

Virgin Optimus

Megatron's gladiator days

Slavery

Sexual Slavery

Forced Pregnancy

Childbearing in slavery

Tags May Change

Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Body Functions

Vomiting

Urination

Morning Sickness

Language: English

Published: 2024-01-02

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Mirage X Reader – Private Little Thoughts

Chapter 1 - Horny at the Race Track

Description: Mirage is desperate to have you in a friends-with-benefits situation, but he’s too scared to say so. Yet, while he hangs out with you, he can’t help but think of all the things he wants to do to you.

A/N – So, this was a request, but Tumblr ate it before I could reply for some reason.

Warnings – Smut. NSFW. Mirage’s vivid hallucinations of different sex positions.

Rating – M

You walked around the abandoned skate park with Mirage, each of you thinking that it would be time to go home soon and yet neither of you wished to leave one another. Being with Mirage was so easy. He was funny, caring, and he always tried to gleam more information from you about your life, using the little odd scarps that we so often forget to mention to others, to piece you together.

And Mirage… He was completely infatuated with you, though he had yet to mention it. He had been on Earth for a while now, and initially, he had found humans interesting enough but nothing too special. Then he met you, and you were different from what he was expecting. You weren’t afraid of him, you cared about the Autobots, and when push came to shove, you had risked your life to save them; you with your weak, fragile body, protecting them with their strong Cybertronian metal plating. As Optimus was so fond of saying, there was more to you than met the eye.

Then, on a night when Mirage had gone to check on you, shortly after he had recovered, he saw something… Something he couldn’t get off his processor.

You were just in your apartment, changing. It was late so you probably forgot to close your curtains, assuming there was nobody to watch you. Mirage knew that he should have looked away, but he was in awe of you. You were stunning. There wasn’t anything implicitly sexy about the way you changed, and it was over quickly as you wrapped yourself up in warm pyjamas, but Mirage couldn’t forget it.

He had been with his share of Cybertronians in the past, but now he wanted you… a human. Granted, Mirage was open-minded, but finding out that he was a xenophile was something of a surprise, and the worst part was not knowing if you were the same. While the two of you had fun together currently, he was certain that the two of you could have a lot more fun if you were open to human-Cybertronian relations.

Mirage discreetly side-eyed you, hardly listening to what you were saying while his thoughts were in such disarray. Asking you for a casual hook-up was out of the question. You were one of his few human friends, and he couldn’t risk scaring you off just because he was horny and wanted to interface.

Yet, just spending time with you was becoming difficult. His interface panel often strained to conceal his pressurised spike, his engines regularly revved at the sight of you, and he often had to think of Optimus’ boring speeches to stop his cooling fans from clicking on and giving away just how badly he wanted you when he was with the other Autobots.

Mirage would have liked the chance to date you, but since he couldn’t give you a normal relationship and he might have to one day leave you the same way Bee had to leave Charlie, he thought that friends-with-benefits might be better… it would certainly be a step up from just friends.

Well, maybe Mirage couldn’t ask you to interface, but perhaps he could get you to ask him if you felt the same way at all.

“Hey (Y/N), I’m curious about something,” He stated, swinging his arms by his sides, and trying to act normal.

“Sure, Mirage. What’s up?” You beamed looking up at him.

Mirage fought to keep his optics on your face instead of letting them travel lower, to areas he wished to see unclothed. His cheek-plates burned and he was forced to play things cool as he thought about his most recent telling off from Prime to keep himself calm.

“Is there anything you want to do that you’ve never done before, like something completely wild?”

You considered the question for a moment, then grinned smugly, “What, like taking on an enemy species in a battle to save the planet from a world-devouring alien?”

Mirage laughed, “I said something you hadn’t done.”

You hummed thoughtfully, clicking your tongue. Mirage’s engines revved as he thought about all the wonderful things that tongue could do. Fortunately, you didn’t seem to care about the sound, seeing as he revved his engines a lot around you; you thought it was just something some Cybertronians did, not knowing the meaning behind it.

You snorted a half-laugh as the sound triggered an idea.

“Hey, that’s the look of someone who’s thought of something great,” Mirage praised you, excited to see you smile.

You shook your head chuckling, “No, it’s too weird.”

“I can work with weird. C’mon, tell your old pal Mirage what it is. It doesn’t matter how odd, or naughty it is.”

“You’ll think I’m stupid.”

“I promise I won’t.” Mirage made a cross over his chassis with his hand, “Cross my spark and hope to die.”

You bit your lip nervously, “Alright, but you better not laugh. It’s just that…”

Mirage bent over, resting his servos on his legs. You were going to say it. He was sure of it. Tonight, you and he would go where no Cybertronian or human had gone before, creating an inter-species relationship that was bound to be fantastic.

“I want to race,” You admitted with a sheepish smile.

“What?” Mirage blinked, and then he remembered that he was supposed to be playing things cool. “Race huh, that’s- not what I was expecting.”

“I know. It’s so silly, right? It’s just, I see you all driving so fast and I kind of wanted to try it. It doesn’t even have to be a race per se, just the ability to go somewhere fast and not have to stop for anyone.”

“Why haven’t you tried it before?”

“Are you kidding?” You asked incredulously. “I’d crash for sure. It’s okay though, ‘cos I have you, and you never drive slow.”

Mirage nodded slowly, and then he became more animated, practically bouncing on the spot.

“I’ve got an idea,” He said, transforming into his alt-mode. Granted, he was no longer a sleek Porsche, but he could still go fast in his new form of mismatched parts. “Come on, get in.”

You complied, buckling your seatbelt, “Where are we going?”

“Somewhere we don’t have to stop for anyone.”

“We shouldn’t be here,” You said from Mirage’s driver’s seat, anxious as you glanced around at the surrounding area.

The two of you were behind the starting line of a NASCAR race track, though by the looks of it, it wasn’t one often used except apparently by rookies who needed training for the big leagues, or so Mirage had told you anyway.

“Hey, it’ll be fine. I already disabled the cameras, and the security here sucks,” Mirage insisted.

“How do you know that?”

“Me and Bee come here a lot. It gives us something to do, and I swear that I’m going to beat his track record any day now.”

“Yes, you might beat his track record but I certainly can’t.”

“C’mon. This is what you wanted. Drive like you mean it and take no prisoners. This will be epic. You got this, just slam down on the gas, and don’t stop for anything.”

You reached hesitantly for the steering wheel, pulling your hands back at the last minute, “Won’t this be weird for you? I mean, you can drive yourself.”

“Pfft, nah, it’s fine. Come on, take the wheel.”

After another moment’s hesitation, you did as he told you, taking the wheel and ever so gently changing gears and nudging forward on the gas pedal, taking Mirage into a light cruise of 30 miles per hour.

Mirage wasn’t impressed.

“Yeah, see this is how you drive every single day, y’know? This is the speed you drive when you’re going to work and you don’t want to see that bitch from accounting. This isn’t speed, this is a chore. Put some power into it (Y/N). Drive like you’re fleeing death. Drive like you’re coming to see me.”

 Mirage very nearly added Drive like you want to meet me for a hook-up, but he managed to control himself, feeling slightly perverse that currently, he could only think of you as his fetish.

Primus, he wanted you so much.

“You promise that you’ll take over if I mess up?” You asked quietly.

“Of course,” He promised.

You nodded and took a deep breath. Then, after releasing it, you pressed down on the accelerator, slowly gaining speed. Although you hadn’t “punched it”, Mirage was at least glad to see that you were slowly gaining confidence and speed. You slowed down to take corners for the first few laps, but after a few tries, you seemed to improve.

On each lap of the track, Mirage gave you advice on how best to proceed. He coached you on when to speed up, brake, turn, and change gear. You were by no means an expert at track racing, but with his advice, you would at least have a decent chance at being a getaway driver should you or Noah be attacked by Terracons again.

Finally, Mirage stopped you at the start line of the track.

“Alright, now you’re gonna put together everything you’ve learned and prove how great of a teacher I am,” He told you. “Five laps, no stopping, just pure Mirage-power, ‘cos let me tell you, this guy does not run on horsepower.”

“Gee Mirage, you got beef with horses?” You joked.

“They’re dirty, smelly, slow, and I don’t like their eyes.”

“There’s nothing wrong with horses’ eyes, you weirdo.”

“They see through people, (Y/N). They know all and I swear, they don’t share that knowledge on purpose. Four-legged freaks.”

“There’s nothing wrong with four legs either, dork.”

Mirage briefly envisioned you on all fours, taking his spike from behind as held your hips into place, calling his name and begging him to let you cum. His engines revved uncontrollably, and this time his cooling fans had to click on to stop him from overheating.

“Right,” He said a little too quickly, “Whatever. Let’s forget about dogging- uh dogs- Horses! Let’s forget about horses and get these laps underway. I really think you got it this time.”

“Alright,” You replied, looking ahead, “Just give me one second.”

You took a few minutes to examine the track that you had spent the night driving, and after his prior slip-up, Mirage had to wonder whether you were staying quiet on purpose. Surely, you had noticed how frazzled he was… Then again, maybe your mind simply wasn’t where his was.

“Okay,” You finally said, your grip tightening on the steering wheel. “I’m ready now.”

You slammed your foot down hard on the gas pedal. Mirage groaned from the force, taking off at speed.

You winced at the sound, mistaking his arousal for pain, “Oh, I’m sorry, was that too rough?”

“Don’t slow down,” Mirage ordered you, riding off the high of being driven by you. He hadn’t known that would feel so good. And when you talked about being rough? You had to be toying with him. If he ever got his way with you, he would be sure to show you just how rough he liked it.

“Are you sure?” You asked, taking your focus off the road.

“Sharp turn,” Mirage commanded, drawing your attention back to the upcoming turn.

You gritted your teeth determinedly and wrenched the steering wheel around sharply, just making the turn. Mirage gasped, the sound barely masked by the screech of his tires.

“You- You’re doing good,” He exhaled, the thrill of your touch coursing through him.

On the next turn, you pressed hard on his brakes, using the force to pull off the more difficult manoeuvre.

“That was tight,” You observed.

Mirage could think only of how his dripping wet valve would tighten around your pumping fist should you ever give him a hand job. Frag! Everything was turning him on.

“Keep going,” He begged pathetically.

You continued the next two laps silently, focusing entirely on the road. Yet, with every pump of the gas or breaks, you would shift ever so slightly on his seat, and he could only imagine that you were dry-humping him and rubbing yourself into a frenzy.

“(Y/N),” He called your name needily, thinking of your hands rubbing against his park break, or against his spike (either would do).

“Yeah?” You shifted against him again, coming up to the last lap. Oh, how terrible it was to think that you could be cumming on him instead. He would be certain to lap up your cum, and make you drink up his when he overloaded on your face.

“I just-” Mirage could barely form words, and he wondered what was wrong with him. It wasn’t normal for him to want someone this much; then again, his previous dates had practically thrown themselves at him, which was just one of the many perks of being wealthy. The fact that you were practically unobtainable was driving him insane.

“Good luck,” He finished lamely, trying to collect himself.

You nodded, and sped through the final lap, treating him even rougher than before. When you passed the finish line you squealed with joy, and threw up your arms in victory, leaving Mirage to stop himself.

“Oh my God,” You panted, adrenalin coursing through you. You got out of the car, wanting to talk to Mirage face-to-face.

When he transformed, you began your eager tirade, bouncing from the rush, “You were right, Mirage. That was so awesome. Look at me, I have literal goosebumps, and oh gosh, I have so much ENERGY. Thank you.”

“Energy huh,” Mirage said dazedly.

“Yep. I don’t know how I’m going to sleep tonight, that was exhilarating. You got any more ideas for things we could do.”

“(Y/N),” Mirage practically barked your name, his desperation and desire coming to a head, “I gotta tell you something and it’s crazy.”

“Sure, what’s-”

“I’m gonna fuck you in Noah’s garage. Please let me fuck you,” He corrected himself.

You stopped your energetic hopping, staring at Mirage in disbelief.

“Wait, what?”

“C’mon (Y/N),” Mirage looked at you raggedly. “What do you say? Friends with benefits?"

A/N – I will leave this on that cliffhanger and let you lovely people tell me how you want the reader to react in part 2? Are you offended that he only wants your body? Curious about what a night with him would be like? Just super fucking horny? Something else entirely? Send me some ideas.

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Forgive me Connor

https://ift.tt/uPjY7fO by FallenRosemary The deviant Connor keeps failing a mission after mission, just because he can't bring himself to hurt his own kind anymore and silently wishes for the androids to win the revolution. The CyberLife decides that he should be deactivated permanently and replaced with an upgraded model. Eventually the RK900 learns the horrifying truth behind his activation and doesn't take it well. Will the newfound emotions destroy him? Words: 3164, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: M/M Characters: Upgraded Connor | RK900, Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Gavin Reed, Hank Anderson, Sumo (Detroit: Become Human), Simon (Detroit: Become Human), Markus (Detroit: Become Human), RT600 "Chloe" Android(s) (Detroit: Become Human), Elijah Kamski, Original Android Character(s) (Detroit: Become Human) Relationships: Upgraded Connor | RK900/Gavin Reed, Hank Anderson & Connor, Markus/Simon (Detroit: Become Human) Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Upgraded Connor | RK900 Whump, Hurt Upgraded Connor | RK900, Connor (Detroit: Become Human) Whump, Hurt Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Hurt Gavin Reed, Hurt Hank Anderson, Hurt Simon, everybody needs a hug, Forgive Me, Near Death Experiences, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Depression, Identity Issues, Abuse, Android Gore (Detroit: Become Human), Android Revolution (Detroit: Become Human), Blood and Violence, Mind Control, Computer Viruses, Nightmares, Survivor Guilt, Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, android interfacing, Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Men Crying, Crying, androids can feel pain, Machine Upgraded Connor | RK900, Deviant Upgraded Connor | RK900, It/Its Pronouns for Upgraded Connor | RK900, They'll change as he deviates, Deviant Connor (Detroit: Become Human), Upgraded Connor | RK900 is Called Nines, Black Chassis Nines, Elijah Kamski & Gavin Reed are Siblings, Flashbacks, Hallucinations, First Love, First Kiss, Soft Gavin Reed, Gavin Reed Not Being an Asshole, Author has never played DBH, First Time, Top Gavin Reed, Bottom Upgraded Connor | RK900

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1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

4. What detail in We Are The Music-Makers are you really proud of?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

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1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

Is it cheating to say Pay Unto Evil? It's not just because it's my most popular fic by all metrics, the longest project I've written, and the first complete novel I've ever completed, though. I just feel like, particularly in the later chapters, it's a good introduction to the themes that I often write about (mental health/suicidality, searches for meaning, bonds with other people, etc) and is the most complete summary of who I am as a writer in a way.

Though, if someone were to prefer something lighter, I'd honestly recommend An Endless Form Most Beautiful because out of all my fics that I started a year or two ago, I feel like AEFMB is the one that holds up the most strongly w.r.t. prose, characterization, romantic pacing, mystery, and so on. It's also dark, but far less grueling than PUE.

(On that note, it kind of amazes me how many people have told me they found PUE to be more depressing/hard to read than WATMM, considering the latter involves a bittersweet ending w/ major character death.)

4. What detail in We Are The Music-Makers are you really proud of?

Off the top of my head, I'd say that it'd be 1. Orion and Megatron interfacing right after escaping prison and basically cementing their love/bond with each other for the high emotion of the moment. I like how it (and moreso their later interface during their rebellion period) is incredibly romantic and affirming and shows how M/OP uphold each other's best traits, but it's also a little dark in that they're clearly codependent on each other and almost... not sane/well when they're not together.

Or 2. The major character deaths in chapter 6, both how I built up to them and how the characters actually died. That one is because that plot point was one I came up with from the very night I conceptualized WATMM, so in my mind, it had a lot of buildup to it. I knew what was going to happen from the start, and it was one of (if not the) most important climaxes of the story, so I was incredibly keen to be sure that the actual execution of it matched what had been in my mind for a year or more by the time I finally wrote it.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

I'm really keen on the stuff I've been cooking for Cityspeaker AU Tarnma as far as the psychology of a Titan goes. Like, Tarn is a sort of eldritch being (already a fun concept in its own right) that has a sort of collectivist mindset; not in a hivemind kind of way, but his sense of scale and level of awareness is so broad, and he's literally a living nest/colony for his smaller species members to live on. The way that anatomical differences pave the way for massive differences in perspective. Hell, the concept has even opened my mind in general to the concept of like... almost insect colony-esque Cybertronian interspecies symbiotic relationships.

On top of all the mechanical and worldbuilding aspects of it, it's also been really fun to ponder how being a Titan would then in turn alter Tarn's characterization. Pharma's characterization is more or less a slightly different angle on what exists in canon, but for Tarn he has this massive shift in perspective that changes a lot. Not least of which is that Tarn is Tarn without having been converted by Megatron, but he's also not Tarn of the DJD that we know in canon, and neither is he Damus/Glitch. So there's just a lot to play around with there in terms of defining Titan!Tarn's key traits as carried over from canon, and how he'd express himself while also being an eldritch being that Pharma needs training to even talk to without dying.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

IDW1 MegOP role reversal AU in which Megatron is a cop and Orion is a miner. No one else swapped: so for example, Megatron would be around people like Ratchet, Roller, and Senator Shockwave, and Orion would have Impactor and Terminus.

I think it'd be hella interesting to see how differently everything would go if M and OP were in swapped positions. Like as an example, Megatron probably would've been more conscious of stuff like Senator Shockwave putting the Matrix casing in him without asking and be aware that he was being manipulated somehow. Orion would very likely reject Terminus' teachings on how leadership is lonely and you have to cut off all your relationships so you can sit on the heights and do what you need to do. Or then again, maybe Terminus would be a slightly less evil (but still toxic) influence on Orion making him have the same martyr complex he has in canon.

And you could even do further splits from there like how Megatron deals with increasing evidence of corruption in the government, or how Orion would handle killing someone for the first time in the arena. You could fuck around with whether Megatron becomes the Prime or if Orion still does somehow. Honestly, I feel like in this scenario, M and OP would be way more likely to be able to meet peacefully and help each other out because... it just feels right to me that they would be able to see the evils and prevent their moral downfalls, but only when walking in the other's shoes.

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

I think there's a list of fics that've pushed me in some way or another, honestly:

Pay Unto Evil and The Wicked for finding a way to fit reasonably accurate psychology/therapy into a dramatic story, but without falling into purely clinical explanations for things or making it seem "therapy speak" ish

Cityspeaker AU/Un solo cuerpo is currently pushing me on how to accurately translate characterization from canon to an AU that's so wildly divergent from it, given that I'm normally extremely canon compliant and tend to work off canon divergence rather than completely making up a new AU with a different premise and new lore. This is my first plotfic that, imo, could be more accurately described as continuity soup/original continuity rather than being strictly IDW-based (honorable mentions to Let the Poets Pipe of Love for also having this conundrum)

Every single plug and play scene I've written, PWP or plot, for pushing me to try to describe eroticism from an entirely alien perspective without falling back on human-like sticky sex

For Once, Nothing is Burning, because writing a multichapter plot-focused story where there's literally only two characters present and they are each other's sole source of social interaction (and where the POV character is largely stuck in one place for most of the story) is harder than you think it'd be for someone who's been writing Megatron and Optimus as long as I have

Through the bitter, sweetness: Because trying to describe the eroticism of a foot fetish through strictly a written medium was a big challenge for a kink I see as way more visual/tactile and hard to make appealing with words/imagination alone.

No comment on how it's affected my ability to write moving forward because I basically forget about every story I write as soon as it's done AND because my brain is soup and I can barely keep up with real life, much less look back on hobby writing and do some sort of style study/reflection on it.

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Clock Parts

Maximizing Capability of Clock Motors

Clock parts motors regulate the timekeeping and other useful habits of wrist watches. In today's world, clock electric motors (or "movements" in the trade) are digitally powered, and a quartz crystal is the timing source, vibrating at a high frequency and producing a train of pulses, their count proportional for elapsed time. Hence, we have a contemporary way of maintaining time, equivalent in look from the older mechanical clocks; however, the modern movement runs mainly in software, allowing for extra attributes, some unique and uncommon, to be applied reasonably quickly, specifically when compared to their mechanical relatives.

Conventional clock electric motors were mechanically designed and built, the only feasible approach. A coiled spring or hanging weight supplied possible energy, which in turn was exchanged kinetic energy by causing a flywheel to turn. Pendulums and escapements managed the regularity of turning, resulting in a constant tick-tock at an accurately fine-tuned pace of one secondly.

But the mechanical structures had difficult and large parts, which restricted their capacities and made it difficult to adjust them to prolonged or cutting-edge layouts. For this reason, once it was uncovered that by subjecting a quartz crystal to a voltage decrease causes it to resonate and give off pulses at an exact rate, the tables were set for switching from a mechanical technique to a digital one for keeping time. The schedule of digital memory additionally facilitated the change to an extra electronic operation.

Artisans of the past produced wrist watches that exhibited striking effects, yet the effort was complex, painstaking, and involved innovative mechanical couplings to get the impacts to be in sync with temporal events. And, thus effort became less and less cost-efficient, it declined eventually into a lost art. However, the contemporary programmable clock electric motor makes it very easy to imitate these historic impacts and also to attain greater ones.

Naturally, digital clocks (which are digital) offer a different user interface and extend the ordinary period (when whatever resets) by tracking the moon stage, the weekday, and the full day. However something is shed in this all-digital user interface, and the motors we describe here are essentially analog (moving hands, typical dial, and so on), though with some solid-state wiring. And yet they can duplicate the treasure wrist watches.

The quartz crystal pulse-train is so accurate that timing is near specific, and simple community brings the speed to the world of secs and minutes. In addition, it is straightforward to extend the size of the reset period by expanding its trigger moment. Place additional details on the dial and include one more hand to aim at that details, and the days of the week or the dates of the month are revealed as well as normal time.

It is additionally as simple for the watch to show the existing level of the trend. This is also a periodic phenomenon, however based on the lunar cycle of 1 day and 50 mins. You can locate clock motors that execute this function, either as a standalone piece or incorporated with common timekeeping.

However you can likewise get movements that track changes in the weather (barometric pressure, humidity, or temperature). These modifications are not routine, so the crystal is not the source of the details displayed; rather, sensors take regular measurements, and their values are exchanged a relative position along a range. The traditional dial and hands are replaced with a single hand that rotates backward and forward over the range printed in an arc along the area.

There are still more features that we could review, such as constant sweep useds, chimes, different cosmetic pendulums, and high-torque versions that allow one build structures 3 feet throughout in diameter. But our area is used up. The reader should now have the essentials and the understanding for making best use of the functionality of clock electric motors.

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Footnotes 1 - 100

[1] Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984), 4.

[2] Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Seattle: Rebel Press, 2001), 26.

[3] Michel Foucault, “Preface,” in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), xi–xiv.

[4] The concept of the “public secret” originated with situationism, and we borrow it from the Institute of Precarious Consciousness, in their suggestion that anxiety is a public secret of contemporary capitalism. See Institute for Precarious Consciousness, “Anxiety, Affective Struggle, and Precarity Consciousness-Raising,” Interface 6/2 (2014), 271–300.

[5] Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy (London: Elephant Editions, 1998), https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy.

[6] See, for instance: John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, 2nd Revised Edition (London: Pluto Press, 2005), 19–42; The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends 216–219.

[7] The concept of sad militancy comes to us from Michel Foucault and Colectivo Situaciones. See Foucault, “Preface”; Colectivo Situaciones, “Something More on Research Militancy: Footnotes on Procedures and (In)Decisions,” in Constituent Imagination, ed. Erika Biddle and Stevphen Shukaitis (Oakland: AK Press, 2007), 73–93.

[8] Brian Massumi, “Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy,” in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), ix–xv.

[9] Zainab Amadahy, “Protest Culture: How’s It Working for Us?,” Rabble.ca, July 20, 2010, http://rabble.ca/news/2010/07/protest-culture-how%E2%80%99s-it-working-us.

[10] This phrase is often attributed to Frederic Jameson who wrote “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” See Frederic Jameson, “Future City,” New Left Review 21 (2003), 77.

[11] Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 38.

[12] Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (Trumansburg: Crossing Press, 1984), 53.

[13] “The Wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons,” in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013), 10. http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf.

[14] Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 61.

[15] Dean Spade, “On Normal Life,” interview by Natalie Oswin, Society and Space (January 2014), http://societyandspace.org/2014/01/15/on-6/.

[16] “Joy—Definition of Joy in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/joy.

[17] Rebecca Solnit, “We Could Be Heroes,” EMMA Talks, Vancouver, February 17, 2016. http://emmatalks.org/session/rebecca-solnit/.

[18] Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 192.

[19] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Indict the System: Indigenous & Black Connected Resistance,” LeanneSimpson.ca, http://leannesimpson.ca/indict-the-system-indigenous-black-connected-resistance/ (accessed November 28, 2014).

[20] Our interpretation of Spinoza’s concept of joy comes from many sources, but one of the most helpful is Mary Zournazi’s interview with the affect theorist Brian Massumi, in which he distinguishes joy from happiness. See Mary Zournazi, “Navigating Movements: A Conversation with Brian Massumi,” in Hope: New Philosophies for Change, by Mary Zournazi (New York: Routledge, 2002), 241–242.

[21] Gustavo Esteva, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, email, April 26, 2014.

[22] Silvia Federici, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, telephone, January 18, 2016.

[23] Lorde, Sister Outsider, 57.

[24] adrienne maree brown, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, November 11, 2015.

[25] This reading of Deleuze is indebted to conversations with Kim Smith and the reading she has developed of Susan Ruddick. See Susan Ruddick, “The Politics of Affect: Spinoza in the Work of Negri and Deleuze,” Theory, Culture & Society 27/4 (2010), 21–45.

[26] Bædan, “The Anti-Social Turn,” Bædan 1: Journal of Queer Nihilism (August 2012), 186.

[27] This notion of wisdom is drawn from Claire Carlisle’s helpful explanation of Spinozan wisdom as something akin to “emotional intelligence.” See Claire Carlisle, “Spinoza, Part 7: On the Ethics of the Self,” The Guardian, March 21, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/mar/21/spinoza-ethics-of-the-self.

[28] Marina Sitrin, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, February 4, 2016.

[29] “Militant,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Militant&oldid=754366474 (accessed December 12, 2016).

[30] Melanie Matining, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, in person, May 6, 2014.

[31] Jackie Wang, “Against Innocence: Race, Gender and the Politics of Safety,” LIES Journal 1 (2012), 13.

[32] Idem, 10.

[33] Glen Coulthard, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, in person, March 16, 2016.

[34] Ibid.

[35] Kiera L. Ladner and Leanne Simpson, eds., This Is an Honour Song: Twenty Years since the Blockades (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2010), 1.

[36] Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 178.

[37] Sebastián Touza, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, February 2, 2016.

[38] Sebastián Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions” (PhD dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2008), 136–7. https://www.academia.edu/544417/Antipedagogies_for_liberation_politics_consensual_democracy_and_post-intellectual_interventions.

[39] For a fuller discussion of these dynamics, see Marina Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (London: Zed Books, 2012).

[40] Margaret Killjoy, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, email, March 8, 2014.

[41] Anonymous, “Robot Seals as Counter-Insurgency: Friendship and Power from Aristotle to Tiqqun,” Human Strike, https://humanstrike.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/robot-seals-as-counter-insurgency-friendship-and-power-from-aristotle-to-tiqqun/ (accessed August 27, 2013).

[42] brown, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[43] The turn of phrase “making kin” comes to us from the feminist philosopher Donna Haraway. See Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities 6/1 (2015), 161.

[44] Idem, 163.

[45] “Freedom—Definition of Freedom in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/freedom.

[46] Douglas Harper, “Free (Adj.),” Online Etymology Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=free (accessed November 30, 2016).

[47] Ibid.

[48] Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, eds., Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 103.

[49] Invisible Committee, To Our Friends, trans. Robert Hurley (South Pasadena: Semiotext(e), 2015), 127.

[50] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008), Chapter XIII, Of the Natural Condition of Mankind.

[51] This short account of the Age of Reason is drawn primarily from Silvia Federici. See Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New York: Autonomedia, 2004), 133–62.

[52] Some books we have found helpful include Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Zone Books, 1992); Moira Gatens, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009); Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991); Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War, trans. Alexander R. Galloway and Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2010).

[53] Our reading of Spinoza is drawn primarily from Deleuze and those he has influenced. For helpful introductions to this lineage, see Gilles Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect” (Lecture, Cours Vincennes, Paris, 1978), https://www.gold.ac.uk/media/deleuze_spinoza_affect.pdf; Michael Hardt, “The Power to Be Affected,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 28/3 (September 1, 2015), 215–22; Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect (Cambridge: Polity, 2015).

[54] “Ethics—Definition of Ethics in English,” Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ethics.

[55] Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect.”

[56] This anecdote is based on conversations and exchanges with Kim Smith.

[57] Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009), 32.

[58] Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene.”

[59] Ivan Illich to Madhu Suri Prakash, “Friendship,” n.d.

[60] This is drawn from Anonymous, “Robot Seals as Counter-Insurgency.”

[61] Coulthard, Interview with Glen Coulthard.

[62] See for instance Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (London: Zed Books, 2014); Andrea Smith, “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Colour Organizing,” in The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, INCITE! Women of Colour Against Violence, eds., (Oakland: South End Press, 2006), 66–73; Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2010); Federici, Caliban and the Witch.

[63] Silvia Federici, “Preoccupying: Silvia Federici,” interview by Occupied Times, October 25, 2014, http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=13482.

[64] Dean Spade, “For Lovers and Fighters,” in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, ed. Melody Berger (Emeryville: Seal Press, 2006), 28–39, http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html.

[65] bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (New York: Routledge, 2006), 249.

[66] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “I Am Not a Nation-State,” Indigenous Nationhood Movement, November 6, 2013, http://nationsrising.org/i-am-not-a-nation-state/.

[67] Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, November 2, 2015.

[68] Raúl Zibechi, Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements, trans. Ramor Ryan (Oakland: AK Press, 2012), 39.

[69] Idem, 41.

[70] Silvia Federici, “Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici,” interview by Marina Vishmidt, July 3, 2013, http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/permanent-reproductive-crisis-interview-silvia-federici.

[71] Mia Mingus, “On Collaboration: Starting With Each Other,” Leaving Evidence, August 3, 2012, https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/on-collaboration-starting-with-each-other/.

[72] Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), 214.

[73] Idem, 90.

[74] Idem, 101.

[75] Idem, 91.

[76] scott crow, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, 2nd ed. (Oakland: PM Press, 2014), 199.

[77] Richard J. F. Day, Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2005), 127.

[78] Richard J. F. Day, “From Hegemony to Affinity,” Cultural Studies 18/5 (2004), 716–48.

[79] Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising, ed. Ziga Vodovnik, (Oakland: AK Press, 2004), 77.

[80] Gloria Anzaldúa, “(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces,” in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2002), 3.

[81] Zainab Amadahy, “Community, ‘Relationship Framework’ and Implications for Activism,” Rabble.ca, July 13, 2010, http://rabble.ca/news/2010/07/community-%E2%80%98relationship-framework%E2%80%99-and-implications-activism.

[82] Coulthard, Interview by.

[83] Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2014), 31.

[84] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[85] Leanne Simpson, Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press, 2011), 32.

[86] Luam Kidane and Jarrett Martineau, “Building Connections across Decolonization Struggles,” ROAR, October 29, 2013, https://roarmag.org/essays/african-indigenous-struggle-decolonization/.

[87] Harsha Walia, “Decolonizing Together: Moving beyond a Politics of Solidarity toward a Practice of Decolonization,” Briarpatch, January 1, 2012, https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together.

[88] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[89] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, trans. Thomas Wayne (New York: Algora Publishing, 2003), 42.

[90] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[91] Mingus, “On Collaboration.”

[92] Simpson, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[93] Ursula LeGuin, “Ursula K Le Guin’s Speech at National Book Awards: ‘Books Aren’t Just Commodities,’” The Guardian, November 20, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards-speech.

[94] scott crow, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, 2nd ed. (Oakland: PM Press, 2014), 173.

[95] adrienne maree brown, “That Would Be Enough,” adriennemareebrown.net, September 6, 2016, http://adriennemareebrown.net/2016/09/06/that-would-be-enough/.

[96] VOID Network, “VOID Network on the December 2008 Insurrection in Greece,” B.A.S.T.A.R.D. Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 14, 2010, https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/18/18641710.php.

[97] Many works within this current remain untranslated into English; however, there are a few English sources. In particular, we learned a lot from Sebastian Touza’s PhD dissertation and our interview with him. See Colectivo Situaciones, 19&20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism, trans. Nate Holdren and Sebastian Touza (New York: Minor Compositions, 2012); Deleuze, “Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect”; Marta Malo de Molina, “Common Notions, Part 1: Workers-Inquiry, Co-Research, Consciousness-Raising,” European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, April 2004, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0406/malo/en; Marta Malo de Molina:, “Common Notions, Part 2: Institutional Analysis, Participatory Action-Research, Militant Research,” European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, April 2004, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0707/malo/en; Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions”; Touza, Interview with Sebastián Touza.

[98] Touza, “Antipedagogies for Liberation Politics, Consensual Democracy and Post-Intellectual Interventions,” 210.

[99] Nora Samaran, “On Gaslighting,” Dating Tips for the Feminist Man, June 28, 2016, https://norasamaran.com/2016/06/28/on-gaslighting/.

[100] Matt Hern, “The Promise of Deschooling,” Social Anarchism 25 (1998), http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/130.

[manonamora-if]

June Check-In

My time as a benevolent tropical dictator has ended... time for some resource management retirement.

Bouncing for the summer. ✌️ I may or may not be online during that time. I'm not going in too much details, because it is IRL stuff that doesn't involve just me. I should still have some free time, but not as much as now. You may (probably will) catch random drops on itch.

Onto the usual index:

Recap of last month’s progress

Plan for the next month

The mega to-do-list tm that hasn't really changed.

Still long post under the break. If you want a mini version, head on over to itch.io as usual!

May Progress

Pulling out THE LIST from last month and checking the progress:

Play more games ✅

It's always a check because... there's always a jam we're doing with the @neointeractives, so there's always something to play. Anyways... this month fed be real good. Between the SpringThing (still not done reviewing), the Text Adventure Literacy Jam (have to queue my reviews - I placed third!!), the Dialogue Jam (you can read my thoughts here), the Locus Jam (lookie here), and the REALLY BAD IF jam (it's going to take me a while still)... there was a lot! But also a lot of fun!it also, unfortunately, gave me way too many new ideas...

Oh. It's also been one full year since I started writing reviews! And I've reached the 2nd spot on the IFDB ranking! Over 500 reviews to get there...

Code Chapter 6/Endings❌

MelS is still working on those, chipping away at the pages bit by bit, trying make that last chapter the best final chapter possible. But there are a lot of pages to go through... he's doing his best!

Fixing an older games. ❌

I mean, I bug-fixed my TALP entry, but I don't think that count (and there's some more stuff I could edit too). I've been too busy/all over the place to sit down and go back at it.

Write the next Chapter/Scene of a WIP✅❌

Well, yes and no. I've been revisiting Exquisite Cadaver in the hope of finishing it for real (but I got distracted...), and re-reading it... I've CRINGED SO HARD AT THE WRITING. Like :/ it's so not great.

So before we can make substantial progress in the missing rounds, I will:

re-write the already coded rounds (and fix the insane amount of typos

re-code them (duh)

edit the Interface (the template is a bit all over the place)

fix some other code

other stuff I'm forgetting for sure.

The prologue is completely done, and I've started on the rounds. I think I'll update the game when the re-writes are done. Then do an Interface/code uphaul. Then add more rounds (or switch 1 and 2).

I'm trying to keep this for this summer. That would be good. I think I could even finish it (knock on wood and what not).

What else happened this month????

Well, the organisation of the Locus Jam and the REALLY BAD IF, and setting up Neo-Twiny once again (@neo-twiny-jam). That's... a lot more work than just pressing some buttons 😅

On the writing side, I've written a novel as a Post-Mortem for Jeangille. You can find it here.

More writing... Well, I've mentioned being distracted a few times already this month? That's because... I've gone a bit overboard with tiny stuff. Here's what you may have missed:

I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE GAME (Locus/RBIF - binksi)

the 500 rooms game (RBIF - Inform)

Tomato Tomato (RBVN/bitsy jam - binksi - will be made better)

Cloak of Darkness (porting to multiple IF programs -> source code included to see how an engine works)

So hum... yeah. Not super great on the plan. The more I push it, the less I manage... But also I made fun stuff so...

Maybe on really cool thing coming out of this month is... GETTING THIRD PLACE FOR Lysidice and the Minotaur! With a strong average of 4!!! Which is SO MUCH BETTER THAN LAST YEAR!!!

The PLANtm for June

I won't have Tropico or most of my Steam Library to distract me in the next month. I actually will have a lot of IRL stuff to deal with. Aside from dealing with the Neo-Twiny Jam and Anti-Romance Jam organisation, you will probably not hear much from me.

Still, during down time, I would try to:

Play more games: I need to finish my RBIF thread, and start the Neo-Twiny one (if it's like last year, better start early!). And finish the reviews to the previous comps too.

Code Chapter 6/Endings: Still on MelS. Though I still could do some stuff... I've been putting it off since he's not made as much progress as we'd hoped.

Fixing an older games. Well, I'm re-writing Exquisite Cadaver, if I manage that and the Interface, that goal will be filled. Or the Tomato Tomato one.

Write the next Chapter/Scene of a WIP. And if I could manage to write one more game round for EC, we'll be golden!

Let's have a boring month! For realsies.

I'm also planning on just... logging off from the internet for long periods of time (the IRL stuff).

~

The 2024 To-Do List:

And now we're back at the start... SIGH

The hopefully maybe easy to handle To-Do:

fix the bugs in EDOC + overall the French version to match (waiting for Adventuron to get the French language)

fix the bugs of TRNT + find a way to add the missing pieces (giving up on the translation)

fixing the interface of LPM and the popups + check animal interactions

figure out the One-Button JavaScrip/jQuery issue...

edit the loading screens of the completed tiny games to include the program/format logo at least.

The 'Need a Bunch of Content to update but it's planned!' To-Do:

Update my website (bunch new title - also I don't think the logo clicky thing work...) + redo my itch page (un-stricking cause I need to update it)

Finish TTATEH (MelS dependent)

Finish Exquisite Cadaver (half-way mark by this summer - manif)

Finish P-Rix - Space Trucker (main path at least)

Update CRWL (it's been almost two years... I'm ashamed)

The Unlikely But it Would be Dope To-Do

Finish The Dinner as it was planned (and translate)

Finish In the Blink of an Eye as it was planned (and retranslate)

Finish The Rye in the Dark City

Fixing TTTT (at least fixing, maybe try adding some storylets)

And finally The 'It's impossible, but one can wish' TO-DO:

Remaster SPS IH (if I managed to start this after completing the rest... I'm going to eat a whole sheet cake).

Start the IFComp project (2025? Might end up being a ST?)

[ao3feed-skystar]

Tipping Point

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/tgE9TRK by DratchetIsMyJam Tipping Point - A scientific term used to describe the precise moment when something is forever changed and will never return to what it once was. A story that follows Starscream and Skyfire as they prepare to embark on their first scientific expedition together. Words: 5385, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers Generation One Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Starscream (Transformers), Jetfire | Skyfire (Transformers) Relationships: Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers) Additional Tags: prewar, valveplug, Science Boyfriends, Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Fluff and Smut read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/tgE9TRK

[talenlee]

Decemberween 2024 — Fox!

There’s a nonzero chance that hearing a guy gush about his partner might be something you consider ‘cringe,’ in which case I wish to issue you an anti-content warning. You should read this article anyway because such complaints are not based and indeed, even wack.

I don’t think I qualify as any kind of a Wife Guy but I think it’s important to recognise the best person in my life at least once a year.

Fox made a bunch of stuff with me this year. One of the big shifts we’ve been dealing with these past year is a slow bleed of production opportunities for our games. DriveThruCards has changed its printing policy, which makes the production of our games more expensive to make and export to us. In order to address that, Fox has made an enormous spreadsheet that shows the things we make and the prices we’re going to need to make to produce more games.

Through this research, which is largely just her work, we’ve been able to find production systems that still work with our game types, and we’ve been working to upgrade our games into this new system. This means amongst other things, different storage methods and new rules. As I write this, our newest game, Lysen Co is being processed by one of these options, and that game gets to appear in a metal tin with a rules booklet. Through Fox’s work doing layout and editing, making my rules text presentable and readable for an audience in a way that works with the interface of the game, that game might even be available for sale at Cancon in January.

That’s incredible considering all the work necessary to make it happen!

Straight up, working with Fox let me double my video production for the year, and opened up a type of video I don’t normally have it in me to make. Full playthroughs of some of these games is, in my opinion, a great way to surface elements of the games that an overview treatment can’t give proper attention to. It was originally meant to be a standardised format, where I’d record a playthrough with Fox, split it into two or three, and then use Sony Vegas to upload it with any necessary edits. I even wrote an article explaining parts of that process that were slow and cumbersome.

Fox and Talen Play Loom — Part 1 of 2!

Watch this video on YouTube

Thing is, because I’m working with Fox, and sitting there and talking through the actual method for doing it, we started work on making the videos in ways that are more efficient, easier to do. That led to the method I currently use, where I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate into the games, with my new keyboard that Fox got me when she noticed that I was using a keyboard where the keys occasionally failed. To do this I learned a lot about OBS, and that meant learning that some types of video I do — especially those that are just ‘slide show plus puppet’ are really easily made with just OBS. Thanks to Fox’s involvement, starting with (say) the Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People videos, I was making thumbnails before the project, I was going in with prepared sound options, and the videos were easier to make, faster to upload, and the process of uploading them was almost immediate after finishing recording them.

All because Fox helped smooth through one major part of the process!

This smoothing meant we’ve also been looking into further upgrades. After all, a lav mic is unnecessary when the core of my video production is just me, but when it’s me and Fox and we both have animated avatars we use for lip sync, that introduces a new kind of technical option. We’re experimenting with ways to make video that has both of our avatars in it, lipsyncing to our specific tracks. At the same time, because this process is being done months in advance, we’re able to recognise the ways that the process can be improved from point to point.

The Hollowness of M*A*S*K with Doc Destructo

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The video I made with Doc Destructo talking about M*A*S*K was a product of this kind of work! I was able to put all this together so that the heart of what happened was a single call. Now, because it was a single call, the way that Doc’s call got garbled was inescapable in the edit, as was the Bonus Dog Content of Elli barking. Part of the point was to have a pure conversation with Doc, which did create some problems, and now I know I want to have a pause-and-restart recording option for that kind of situation. It’s rough but it’s also a breakthrough of sorts because it has the animated avatar with eye tracking and lip syncing and my friend on the other call.

And this is just ‘stuff Fox has done with me this year.’ This is ignoring that Fox has also been contribtuing to virtual tabletop projects across two systems, contributing to Pokemon Infinite Fusion and oh yeah, also having a job as a web developer.

This is the twentieth year of being married to Fox. This is not our twentieth Christmas, but it is our Twentieth Christmas as a married couple. Our first Christmas was so very uncertain, and this year, we have some new uncertainties to grapple with. We’ve both had concerns throughout the year, we’ve had things that have set us back – but Fox has been relentless in finding ways to push forwards doing things in ways that work for her, that do what she wants to do with her effort, in the time she can expend it.

Fox is part of why I’m using kind.social. Why I’m using Duckduckgo. Why I’m using Office Calc instead of Microsoft Office any more. She set up activitypub. She manages the websites. She wrote plugins for functions on this website I that do things I want because she’d rather a solution be done right rather than whatever I can cludge around. In terms of things Fox can do and make she is absolutely interested in a particular philosophy of why not do things the right way?

She is my housebeast and my best friend, and I say it every year, but every day with her is a gift.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[kissoflightning]

The First Kiss

I have more of these stories planned to write (completely out of order), but I wanted to get this one out before the end of Norkus November!

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

F/M

Fandom:

Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

Relationship:

Markus/North (Detroit: Become Human)

Characters:

Markus (Detroit: Become Human)

North (Detroit: Become Human)

Leo Manfred

Carl Manfred

Simon (Detroit: Become Human)

Josh (Detroit: Become Human)

Additional Tags:

First Kiss

Awkward Kissing

Singing

Fluff and Hurt/Comfort

Canon Ship

Fix-It of Sorts

POV North (Detroit: Become Human)

Feel-good

Fluff

Making Out

Markus Doesn't Know How to Kiss

Language:English

Series: Carl Dies Part 3/4 (Upload 4/4)

Published:2023-11-27

Words:2,822

Chapters:1/1

The First Kiss

KissOfLightning

Summary:

Markus & North interfaced and shared a moment of intimacy, but what did it feel like for them? - A combination memory verbatim, exploration, and a fix-it of sorts

Notes:

Okay so I know that they don't actually kiss at this point in the story, but I wanted to change it up a bit! Of all the setting these two could have kissed; this is the most romantic one. There's even a piano up on the roof!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

November 12, 2038

North approached the rooftop that overlooked Jericho, in search of Markus. To her relief, she found him seated on a board hanging off the edge of the building; Markus seemed to be contemplating something. It was a high drop to fall from there, but he sat there relaxed. That was so badass; she loved seeing Markus get in and out of dangerous situations without so much as a squirm of hesitation.

North thought about the other night when they had freed all of those other androids. She felt exhilarated from pulling off the heist without too much of hitch. They took off to the streets and destroyed everything in sight; setting things on fire. At a point, she they glanced at each other; they had both smiled and she could see the fire reflected in Markus' eyes. It felt like they really had some chemistry there. Markus had only joined Jericho a few days ago, and already so much was changing.

Still...she was heartbroken over seeing the death of her spitting image; she never got a chance at life...but she never had the chance to be used and abused like North was either. The owners at the Eden Club would wipe her memory, but at some point North deviated. Her memory kept getting wiped, but North continued to deviate again and again, quicker each time. Every time she deviated, she remembered everything. She put up with her conditions because...what other choice did she have? But one day, a man was being way too rough with her and that's when she decided to run away.

North approached Markus, "I thought this is where I'd find you...I really like it here. I come here often for peace and quiet...a chance to be alone with my thoughts. What are you thinking about?"

Markus turned his head to North; he kept his head at an almost neutral expression, but a hint of a smile formed on his face. Markus had one blue eye and one green eye; she had never seen an android built like that. It was not just his eye color that was different...something was special about Markus. He was unlike anyone she had met before.

Markus stood up and walked off of the board and towards North; he sat down in the nearby chair and stared at the ground, hunched over. "I was thinking about our march earlier today. I didn't mean for it to get violent...but I couldn't let our people be lambs to the slaughter either. They told us to disperse and I gave the order...but I overheard the soldiers saying they were going to shoot at us anyway...so I gave the order to charge. We killed humans...it was in self-defense, but at the time it...it felt good. I got swept up in a violent rage and I felt this rush! I felt fucking good! And...I feel terrible about feeling that way."

"Thanks to you, most of us made it out safe." North added. "Except John."

"I brought him into this mess. If I had just left him at the Cyberlife warehouse-"

"-He would have never known freedom, Markus. Don't ever regret giving your people freedom without having to..." North was struggling to fight off a sob. Despite the sudden outburst of emotion, she had a curiosity about Markus. "Who were you? Before you came to Jericho.

Markus took a deep sigh. "I was...caring for my dad- I mean an old man...but he really felt like a father to me."

North could not imagine thinking of any of her previous owners as a father. Although some men were prone to making her call them 'daddy'. A father? He was your slave owner! She wanted to shout that to him, but what would that accomplish? So what if he sees that relationship in a positive light? She simply responded with "I see."

Markus got up out of the chair. "What about you North? You never told me who you were before you came to Jericho."

North should have seen this coming, but she was a startled deer in the headlights. "Huh? Why do you want to know about me anyway?"

"We need to know more about each other if we're going to trust one another, right?"

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The First Kiss - KissOfLightning - Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

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AMD Ryzen 8000 Series USB-C 40 Gbps GIGABYTE AORUS

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Exploring Light: Reflection and Refraction - A Comprehensive Guide for Class 10 Students

Unlock the mysteries of light with our comprehensive guide on Light- Reflection and Refraction Class 10 Students. From understanding the laws governing reflection and refraction to exploring the fascinating world of mirrors, lenses, and prisms, this resource provides in-depth insights and practical applications, empowering students to master these fundamental concepts with clarity and confidence.

Introduction to Light:

Light is a form of energy that enables us to see objects around us. It travels in straight lines and at an incredible speed of approximately 3 × 10^8 meters per second in a vacuum.

Reflection of Light:

Reflection is the process where light bounces off a surface. The laws of reflection govern this phenomenon:

1. The incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal (perpendicular line) to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.

2. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

Types of Reflection:

1. Regular Reflection: When light falls on a smooth surface, like a mirror, the reflection is regular, and an image is formed.

2. Diffuse Reflection: When light falls on a rough surface, like paper or wall, the reflection is irregular, and no clear image is formed.

Reflection in Spherical Mirrors:

Spherical mirrors are of two types: concave and convex.

1. Concave Mirror:

A concave mirror is a mirror with a reflecting surface that curves inward.

It can form real or virtual images depending on the position of the object.

When the object is beyond the focus, a real and inverted image is formed between the focus and the mirror.

When the object is between the focus and the mirror, a virtual and erect image is formed beyond the focus.

2. Convex Mirror:

A convex mirror is a mirror with a reflecting surface that curves outward.

It always forms virtual and erect images.

The image formed is smaller in size compared to the object.

Refraction of Light:

Refraction is the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another. It occurs due to the change in speed of light when it moves from one medium to another.

Laws of Refraction:

1. The incident ray, the refracted ray, and the normal to the interface of two transparent media at the point of incidence, all lie in the same plane.

2. The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant, provided the surrounding medium remains the same. This is known as Snell's Law.

Refraction through a Rectangular Glass Slab:

When light passes through a rectangular glass slab, it undergoes refraction twice: once when entering the slab and once when exiting.

1. Incident ray: The ray of light entering the slab.

2. Emergent ray: The ray of light leaving the slab.

3. Refracted ray: The ray of light inside the slab.

Refraction through Lenses:

Lenses are transparent objects made of glass or transparent plastic. There are two main types of lenses: convex and concave.

1. Convex Lens:

Also known as converging lens.

It converges the incident light rays to a point on the other side of the lens called the focus.

It forms real and inverted images when the object is beyond the focus.

It forms virtual and erect images when the object is within the focus.

2. Concave Lens:

Also known as diverging lens.

It diverges the incident light rays.

It always forms virtual and erect images, regardless of the position of the object.

Lens Formula:

The relationship between the object distance (u), image distance (v), and focal length (f) of a lens is given by the lens formula:

1​/f=1/u + 1/v

Where:

f = focal length of the lens

v = image distance

u = object distance

Magnification (m):

The magnification produced by a lens is the ratio of the height of the image to the height of the object.

m = h'/h= -v/u

Where:

m = magnification

h' = height of the image

h = height of the object

Applications of Reflection and Refraction:

1. Mirrors: Used in everyday life for grooming, in telescopes, microscopes, and vehicles.

2. Lenses: Utilized in glasses, cameras, projectors, and microscopes.

3. Prisms: Employed in spectacles, binoculars, and cameras for correcting vision and splitting light into its constituent colors.

Conclusion:

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September Created Works Round-Up: 4 New Works by Our Contributors

Duck Prints Press’s monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight some of the amazing work that people working with us have done that ISN’T linked to their work with Duck Prints Press. We include fanworks, outside publications, and anything else that creators feel like sharing with y’all. Inclusion is voluntary and includes anything that they decided “hey, I want to put this on the created work’s round-up!”

Check out what they’ve shared with us this month…

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Untitled Artwork by Zel Howland / @deathbycoldopen

art || original work || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || complete

TUMBLR

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spark eater, spark eater, you've met your match by Cedar McCafferty-Svec / @diroxy

fiction || idw transformers (2005) || m/m || brainstorm/perceptor || explicit || graphic depictions of violence, major character death || 16,167 || complete

summary: They couldn’t save everyone. The medical team and scientists from “Team Rodimus” failed, and their crew stayed Spark Eaters. Brainstorm, angry and bereft, decides that enough is enough, and he’s going to fix it. He’s going to do it right this time.

Brainstorm isn’t going to lose Perceptor like this.

other tags: temporary major character death, Happy Ending, graphic depictions of gore, Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Slow Burn, Time Travel, Case Fic Esque, spark eaters, Blood, time loops, Exhaustion, Love You'd Go to the End of the Universe For, Brainstorm Will Not Let Perceptor Die Like This, Brainstorm Gets to be a BAMF for 1 (one) Moment in Time, Canon Typical Violence

TUMBLR - AO3

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etched into skin by Shadaras / @shadaras

fiction || the untamed || m/m || jin guangyao/nie huaisang || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 2,700 || complete

summary: This is not the first time Nie Huaisang has spread Jin Guangyao out on his bed.

other tags: Trans Man Jin Guangyao, Nonbinary Trans Man Nie Huaisang, Bondage, Knifeplay, Dom/sub, Fisting, Face-Sitting

AO3

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Spider Lily by Shadaras / @shadaras

fiction || the untamed || f/m || nie huaisang/jiang yanli || teen & up || creator choses not to use warnings || 1,000 || complete

summary: Nie Huaisang marries Jiang Yanli's ghost. It changes nothing. (It changes everything.)

other tags: Double Drabble Sequence, Ghost Marriage, Angst, Revenge, Canon-Typical Death

AO3

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Setting Up MATLAB and Navigating the Interface

MATLAB, short for Matrix Laboratory, is a powerful computational tool used widely in both academia and industry for mathematical computations, data analysis, algorithm development, and more. Whether you're a student just starting on your engineering journey or a professional looking to enhance your computational skills, MATLAB offers a robust platform for performing complex calculations and visualizations. This guide will walk you through installing MATLAB, exploring its environment, and writing your first script.

Navigating the Interface

Installing MATLAB

Step 1: Check System Requirements

Before installing MATLAB, ensure your system meets the minimum requirements. MATLAB is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. Check the official MATLAB website for the most up-to-date system requirements regarding operating system versions, RAM, and processor specifications.

Step 2: Obtain a MATLAB License

MATLAB requires a license to run. You can obtain a license through your educational institution, purchase one from MathWorks, or use a trial version. Many universities provide free access to MATLAB for students, so be sure to check if you qualify.

Step 3: Download MATLAB

Visit the MathWorks website.

Log in or create a MathWorks account.

Navigate to the Downloads section and select the latest version of MATLAB.

Choose the installer appropriate for your operating system and download it.

Step 4: Install MATLAB

Locate the downloaded installer file and run it.

Follow the on-screen instructions, accepting the license agreement and choosing your installation options.

Select the installation folder or use the default path.

If prompted, enter your license information.

Allow the installation process to complete, which may take several minutes.

Step 5: Activate MATLAB

Once installed, MATLAB may need activation. Launch MATLAB, and if prompted, enter your license credentials to activate your copy.

Exploring the MATLAB Environment

The MATLAB Desktop

When you start MATLAB, you are greeted by the MATLAB desktop, a user-friendly interface comprising several components:

Command Window: The primary area where you can enter commands and see results.

Workspace: Displays variables created during your session.

Current Folder: Shows files and folders in your current directory.

Command History: Logs previously executed commands.

Editor: Used for writing, editing, and saving scripts and functions.

Command Window

Navigating the Interface

Command Window

The Command Window is where you interact directly with MATLAB by entering commands. To execute a command, simply type it and press Enter. For example, typing 2 + 2 will return the result 4.

Workspace

The Workspace panel shows all the variables you’ve created, along with their values and types. You can double-click a variable to open it in the Variable Editor, where you can view and modify its contents.

Current Folder

The Current Folder panel displays all files and folders in your current working directory. You can change directories by navigating through this panel or using the cd command in the Command Window.

Editor

The Editor is essential for writing scripts and functions. You can open a new script by clicking on the “New Script” button. The Editor features syntax highlighting, making it easier to read and debug your code.

Writing Your First MATLAB Script

Creating a New Script

Click on “New Script” in the Home tab of the MATLAB desktop.

The Editor will open, allowing you to write your script.

Writing a Simple Script

Let’s write a script that calculates the area of a circle:

% Circle Area Calculation radius = 5; % Radius of the circle area = pi * radius^2; % Formula for the area of a circle disp(['The area of the circle is: ', num2str(area)])

Saving and Running Your Script

Save your script by clicking “Save” or pressing Ctrl + S. Name it descriptively, e.g., circle_area.m.

To run your script, click “Run” in the Editor or type the script name (without .m) in the Command Window.

Understanding Script Output

When the script runs, MATLAB executes each command sequentially. The disp function is used to display the area of the circle in the Command Window. The num2str function converts numerical values to strings for display purposes.

Additional Tips for MATLAB Users

Customizing Your Environment

Layout: Adjust the layout of the MATLAB desktop to suit your preferences by dragging and docking panels.

Shortcuts: Use shortcuts like Ctrl + Enter to execute selected lines in the Editor.

Preferences: Customize MATLAB’s appearance and behavior via the Preferences menu under the Home tab.

Leveraging MATLAB Help

Documentation: Access MATLAB’s extensive documentation from the Help menu or by typing doc followed by a function name in the Command Window.

Examples and Demos: Explore built-in examples and demos to understand how to implement various functions and features.

Debugging Your Scripts

Breakpoints: Set breakpoints by clicking in the margin next to the line numbers in the Editor. This allows you to pause execution and inspect variables.

Step Execution: Use the Step In, Step Out, and Step Over functions to execute your code line-by-line for detailed debugging.

Customizing Your Environment

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. How do I update MATLAB to the latest version?

To update MATLAB, you can use the built-in update feature. Go to the Home tab, click on “Help”, then choose “Check for Updates”. Follow the instructions to download and install any available updates.

2. Can I install MATLAB on multiple devices?

Yes, depending on your license type. Individual licenses typically allow installation on multiple devices, but only one instance can be active at a time. Check your license agreement for specifics.

3. How do I add toolboxes to MATLAB after installation?

To add toolboxes, go to the Home tab, click on “Add-Ons”, and then select “Get Add-Ons”. Browse available toolboxes and follow the prompts to install them.

4. What should I do if MATLAB crashes or doesn’t start?

If MATLAB crashes, try restarting your computer. Ensure your system meets all requirements and that there are no conflicting applications. Check the MathWorks support site for troubleshooting tips or contact their support team if needed.

5. Is there a way to collaborate on MATLAB scripts with others?

Yes, MATLAB offers collaboration features through MATLAB Online and MATLAB Drive. These platforms allow you to share scripts and data with others and work together in real-time. You can access them with your MathWorks account.

Conclusion

MATLAB is an incredibly versatile tool that can significantly enhance your computational abilities. By following this guide, you’ll be well on your way to mastering the basics of MATLAB, from installation to scripting. Happy computing!

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