#MUX

[neon-entity]

women in power

[ninjamonkeystudios]

RL kind of dragged me away from OC-Tober. So, I’m trying to catch up on my OC list to see if I can slide in under the wire.

Character names/descs below the cut.

Portrait page, L to R, top to bottom

Natsume: a character from Damn Ninja MUX and online, text-based Naruto rpg site. She and her twin brother served under Ibiki as part of the information extraction team. The official story is they were Rain Clan orphans taken in by a Leaf family. The real story, of course, is a bit darker.

The twins were both marked with a third eye on their forehead and typically hid it under their hitai-ate. When they did activate their special technique, Natsume could peer briefly into the future and her brother had unerring aim.

Dindanni: She was a porpoise aspect member of the Melusine Clan of Changelings from a text-based MUSH set in Seattle. She frequently dragged her friend, the son of a minor noble, out on her adventures to interact with the human world while avoiding detection.

Ume DelaVale: From an in-person Final Fantasy homebrew D&D game, Ume was a Summoner from the Hidden Vale (Hidden Valley Ranch). She and her Carbuncle companion set off to discover why the Eidolons had gone silent.

Candra: A Bard/rogue who was trying to earn a living on her feet rather than on her back. After her father died, her mother had to take on his debts which thrust his surviving family into a precarious position. Candra, who had already been apprenticed to a fairly vapable musician found she would have to take on some less than wholesome side gigs if she wanted to help her mother.

This was the only character that another player had threated with saying, “If my character found out she was [withholding] treasure, he would kill her so fast.” Well, he never did and nyeh on you, roll-player 😛

Darlene: Technically an NPC but I used her repeatedly as she tried to uncover the conspiracy that surrounded the Lindblum Regency on the Final Fantasy MUX. She was a Lilty character based on the Crystal Chronicles games and a tenacious little pest.

Cid Fabool disappeared long ago when the FF worlds converged and since then, several Regents have taken his place for good or ill. They seemed to resemble one another more than a little, so there was a conspiracy theory someone was creating clones to control the city. Not entirely off as several of the Regents were Genomes from the FF9 game, lol.

Jubei: A character within the Ninja Monkey comic setting, Jubei was a ronin character I used for some short side story diversions.

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Chase and Frieda were created on an adult-only oekaki board when that was a thing. Each image was a little snippet of the struggles of school life and Chase’s “little” secret.

[balketh]

Pining For The Chjosts

It has been 44 days since Cohost closed, and the world is still worse for it.

I still think about it. I still think about chosting. I still think about the networks that formed and were forming there, and how those tethers, effectively, were severed.

I still think about how Discords aren't it. About how Reddit-likes aren't it. Forums weren't it. How it has changed over the years, as innovations continue in digital social circles. How Cohost wasn't perfect, but it was great.

Many folks tried their best to band together after the closure announcement, and small communities emerged from the fallout, but there's a reason that all the Cohost Leaver Discords got filled up, and then, for me, completely muted: Discord sucks. Chat rooms suck, once you get past a certain age - they're just too fast; channels are too big/prominent to be single threads of discussion, the threads feature sucks visibility-wise, and all the other forum-like features require allowing Discord even further privacy invasion.

And, IMO, forums are not the savior many folks think they are. They died out for reasons too. They also suck, in similar ways to Discord. People think forums would be great because 'you can read them when you want', and 'it slows things down' and 'they'll always be there unlike Discord'. But only the middle one is true: forums are just Discord servers in slow motion.

Whole subforums become too fast in posting, topics/threads get muted/ignored, and each individual topic is still singular in its focus, moreso than Discord due to the sometimes-days-long post-and-response cycle, just spread out in more layers of obtuse forum pages. Subforums are spun off, cliques form, social hierarchies come, fallout happens, rinse and repeat.

They were good! Don't get me wrong. They were good. It was great to be able to find and read threads, convos, from years ago, easily accessible with no fucking app in your way. But that element eventually split off to become the Diggs and Reddits and Slashdots of the world.

What remained is the desire for the social circle. And forums are just another small social circle, even if they have several hundred active users and a couple thousand lurkers. They were good, but they died out because we realised they weren't it.

And, trust me, they still get deleted. The drives they're stored on still die, and in a much less reliable timeframe than you'd hope for. Forums only persevere on the backs of peoples' effort and care, and that wanes with time, or drama. Plothook, an incredibly old RP forum with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of posts, games that had been running for 5-20 years, some peoples' whole creative lives, suddenly vanished, along with all its data, around July 2015. An entire, massive, old community, just... Vanished. Severed.

Even back then, in the height of 'things on the internet are forever!', things never were. Forums aren't any more the solution to community than Discord servers are. They're just an attempt at a structure to make it work, and so far, our attempts as a collective internet have been found wanting.

Cohost was better. It wasn't perfect. It wasn't a forum. It certainly sucked ass in discoverability. But it was better. Even after its first unexpected boom, when the quality of a social media platform usually begins a hard dive, Cohost stayed... Good. It was all the elements I wanted out of Social Media save for the forum-roleplay/games content (but, frankly, that's better served by the semi-automation and chat-like format of MUXs than forums.)

There was a feed, it was filled with tags you liked and people you followed. You could search for tags, but not post contents. (Because of that second part, there were discoverability issues from day 1.) (Someone made a global feed tag as a joke, and many despised it, including the staff, but I'll die on the hill that we wanted it and we made it real and not a joke, and it drove most of the discoverability on the site, which made it work for many people. You cannot convince me it wasn't worth its troubles - troubles that would still exist entirely unhindered without it.)

You could post, reblog, comment, and like. Likes were private. No numbers except total number of unread notifications. There was some really brain-warping logic around reblogging and how it affected tags/etc - I didn't understand the implementation, but it seemed to work reasonably well. Less issues than Tumblr. There were asks. There was an artist's alley for artist-paid self-made adverts. There were CSS Crimes (taking advantage of the shockingly lenient CSS allowances Cohost had to create the most incredible post customization, interactivity, and meme content I have seen online in a social media community at large, to date, bar none). It put even animated forum signatures to absolute shame.

It wasn't perfect.

But damn if it wasn't great.

... Now I'm thinking about MUX again. Fuck.

If you read this far, consider sending big ol' titties. Always brightens the day. They don't have to be yours.

[doodledork01]

She likes the shiny things

[cloverina-sasha139]

Guys please hear me out

[surveillance-0011]

Mux HCs if that's alright with you

Yeas ofc!

Mux

she/her

Bi. Thinks this and putting her pronouns in her bio absolves that she is a billionaire CEO.

Basically the yass queen slay girl boss girl dinner girl math im just a girl version of some sick fusion of Elon and Bezos.

Nice nails. Big on nail art

Probably has the same sort of rabid army of fans that elon has but it's guys who think they have a chance and like. space techbro esque women.

Sometimes plays with her employees like dolls and plays out little scenarios

Canonically Annoying About Ayn Rand.

Avid reader. Her bookshelves are probably full of crummy self help books and Colleen Hoover-esque shlock.

Keeps plants. Keeps killing them.

Has probably killed half her exes but that's ok ig yass girl slaaaaayyy literalllyyyyy

Individualist and a huuuuge believer in the "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps no I'm not aware that this phrase was coined to be an impossible feat and that it's meant to be sarcastic" school of thought

Will grill her employees for even considering calling in sick but on the rare occasion she gets the sniffles she CANNOT fucking take it she will act like she is dying

Will kill an employee if they have AirPods in. I wonder if anyone will get this reference.

She will, however, also force her employees to dance on MikMok.

Honestly muxxalon hq might as well be a prison.

The parasites are a separate species that have a more symbiotic relationship with Mux's, though it's more like her species is so huge that a horde of the damn things is more like waterweight than anything. She can send them out to eat and in return they will protect her and help do her bidding. And it just so happens Mux's bidding is working themselves to death under space capitalism

And there's plenty of her species they just spread out through the planets and galaxies because one is enough to drain the resources of one area. This is also partially why Muxxalon moves around so much, so that resources in one place aren't exhausted

I hope you can still sleep peacefully knowing there's a thousand megalomaniac play dough blobs out there full of parasitic worms ready to start their own companies and timeshares. as for me, this will prove difficult.

Big on grenades. Was considering Muxxalon brand glitter bombs but alas they never got developed 💔

Out of touch with the working class

Overcomplicated starbucks order. Orders overcomplicated cocktails. Hyperspecific, arbitrary instructions on any possible food service imaginable. And god forbid you get it wrong...

I will once again mention I am playing with the idea of her having dated Giblets. It's like if you took all of Elon and Grimes's traits and shuffled them around between the two with a bit of Besos sprinkled onto Mux for good measure. And if one was a huge bag of unfortunate looking organs and the other was a neurotic little worm. of course. They would be so hilariously dysfunctional.

Would. Would Krimothy be like. Their X AE A-XII? With his Bugsnax sounding sort of name? If he’s their kid and not Giblets x some other worm thang? Does Krimothy just have some half sibling named something like Oobleck Delta Kappa Theta the Twost? The possibilities are endless and increasingly distressing!!!

Going 2 be honest in my mind her concept design(?) and the Mux we got are two different unrelated people. They’re just so different 2 me

Beta!Mux/Scrapped green chick was a weapons dealer-expert-mechanic something for the G3 and left pre-Gatlus invasion for reasons unknown.

Judges HARD when it comes to zodiacs. I just realized how fucked up space zodiacs are because every galaxy solar system etc has different constellations… do you think there’s zodiac conversion charts…

Beefing hard w/ Gurgula on the down low. Mux threw a fit about tracking chips or 5G or something in the translator microbes and she felt so attacked by his reasonable response that his packages have all come late, been lost, or boobytrapped ever since. He is trying his damndest to stop using/buying from Muxxalon but there's such a fucking monopoly on space postage. Every time it's not a brand owned by Muxxalon or something she somehow gets word of it and makes it a mission that he just. doesn't fucking get what he ordered on time.

Needless to say he was ecstatic when the BH got her ass. He is pretty sure that the company won't be crumbling any time soon but hopefully the new CEO is a bit more reasonable. Right?

Right?

Please, God. Let something good happen for once.

[rommonoch]

Ares Mux

this is my OC as a kid, looking so innocent

it would be unfortunate if something bad happens to him

[mariako-750]

I did the character bingo thing with some of my fav Irken Outcasts characters:

Dib(ik he originates from the OG series, but still):

Zib(Same thing with Dib-):

Cik(I love him so fcking much-):

Mux:

Bolt:

Suggest me more Irken Outcasts characters to do this with:)

[tom2tec]

Live Compositor ~ Realtime Video & Audio Mixing

Live Compositor is an engine for applying effects to videos and for combining multiple videos together. On a very basic level, it is an application which exposes an HTTP API. The API allows you to specify where to get input videos, and how to modify and compose them together. The resulting outputs can then be written to a file or streamed to a separate…

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[kapmorlypogi]

Isuzu MUX 4x4 LSE. Intecophil Isuzu Cabanatuan

[elliskeith]

The thought of what if Lucretia had also been at the "Feast of the Senses" before Helmut began to see her as Maligula. Helmut definitely saw them as a good match. A pair of eyes :D

[cloverina-sasha139]

Yeah I did this with @time-cherry and @peachy-horror

Now waiting the reactions of others lol

[bestfaussequotes]