#The background is just a concept for right now

[loveafterdeath-if]

Yeah, similarly to what another anon said, I was kinda hoping for this to be a story about moving on after losing a lived one, specifically your partner, which I thought was a beautiful and heartbreaking concept, and while we did get that in the first few chapters, it feels like this plot twist kind of defeats the whole point.

Though, unlike the other anon, I personally will probably continue reading because I think you are an amazing writer and because I love Ekissa. The only thing that makes me not sure about continuing is that the situation is a bit awkward, makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, so I was wondering about how you were going to manage it? Because MCs moving on process obviously gets cut short, but for those of us who are gonna romance someone else, we still need to finish that process, and one important thing when moving on from an ex is time apart, especially for one you were grieving not so long ago. Otherwise old feelings, nostalgia and a lot of other emotions get mixed up and that would probably lead to confusion. (Sorry, for the long paragraph, just a bit worried about how this is gonna continue)

It's heavy spoiler territory, but I'll have to address this for anon. And it'll be a long-ass response, so be prepared,

You are right about one thing, the whole plot falls apart if El is alive, doesn't it? And like someone said in the LAD discord "why love after death then". They didn't phrase it exactly like that, but you know what I mean. The plot does start with El, but it won't end with them. Idk how to explain without giving away too much, lol

There are clues that El isn't really dead in the first chapters. The flowers MC receives, and now players know El was the one offering them. The doc and Athiel never talk about death when discussing El. MC doesn't have the right to go to the funeral or even see El's body. Even L being called by Juliet at the beginning will have its importance. They're small details, nothing too obvious, but they're here.

I'll be honest, sometimes when writing Athiel talking with MC, I struggled to remember El wasn't dead because I tried to make it look and feel like El was dead, so I drowned a bit in that department.

The characters might seem like a lot, but each has their own purpose, big or small. Some are a breath of fresh air for MC since they're not caught up in all the drama and can be objective. Others are here because they'll play an important role later. Then there are those who serve as reminders of the past with El (like the neighbors). And some are just like those background characters in anime; you don't even see their features because they're just there to serve a small purpose and keep the intrigue going. They come and go.

Sorry, I'm talking too much. So how I'll manage it, is by—and it's where it's gonna get tricky—make MC aware of it as soon as possible. There will be a reunion between MC and El. The tricky part is showing that El won't remember MC, no matter how much/if the MC tries to jog their memory.

The past El is dead; the memories won't come back, and if any fragments do resurface, El won't feel the love they once had. It's more like a ghost of memories; their body remember, but it's more mechanical than actual feelings. Like an old habit that won't go.

MC will have to grieve the old El anyway, even with them actually alive.

In El's route, it'll be all about falling in love again, getting them out of this toxic relationship with their mother, helping them learn to love themself again, and living with someone who is El but not the El you used to know. They have trauma, the confidence they once had is gone, they're insecure and they're more reserved than before.

Juliet is like, the first villain before introducing the final boss. What I wanted to do was weave two kinda plots in the same book because I didn't want to make two separate books. Love After Death is Love After Death for a reason. The plan is to make the players realize that El wasn't the focus of this book in the first place.

I hope there won't have any inconsistencies in this story, but if you find any plot holes, you're free to let me know, and I'll do my best to improve. It's only with advice and constructive critique that I can do so. I'm sure there are blind spots I won't see right away; I'm only human😭

[moosemann404]

Fuck you Ena-fies your Doug Ratttman (click for better quality)

Here are the sides. Originally, one side (painter) was going to have a beard, but my beards already look horrible, and half of one looked even worse. That other foot was also going to be like… a full foot, before I gave up and now it’s just shapes.

Worker was originally called Scientist, but I changed it because it’s supposed to be his ‘work face’ (aka playing nice and holding his tongue and shit. Basically a customer service face). I would have changed painter but I couldn’t think of a descriptor for it proper and ‘passionate’ didn’t feel right. It’s the side that’s more honest and prefers doing things that aren’t work or that he finds fulfilling.

The more extreme faces are extensions of this. Worker getting so worked up that it progresses to full on paranoia, desperate to keep his job + the idea that people are trying to take it away from him in the first place. Catatonic is a state of Painter failing to do its job. Either the creations are no longer fulfilling or there are so many tasks to do to complete them that he shuts down. Or people keep trying to distract him or take him away from what he’s doing.

(Also the raise lower thing on Paranoid is like the Fuzzies from Mario)

And bonus: Concept that was Wheatley!!

…you know at some point

Yeah this doesn’t look much like him but. We ball. I’ve been informed by a friend as well as my brother that sexypedia woulda gone crazy over this.

Originally I was going off the way he was a Big Screen through chapter 8 and part of chapter 9, you know, big old god face. And then something grabbed me by the throat and whispered ‘experiment with your style’ so now we have this thing as a result. I had a lot of fun doing the sort of pseudo-rubber hose style. Close ups below along with some details.

The base design I had. I never had a tv with an antenna (though I have had a thick ass bubble tv) so I looked at a bajillion references. Given that Wheatley is a certified Yapper, I went for a more talk show set background. The style of the furniture is all Retro Future when they used eye bleed orange and had big egg chairs because Aperture had a small bit of that aesthetic in the first underground section (or second??? I struggle to remember timelines). I struggled to find any actual retro future ceiling lamps because the first 30 images were ai generated. Hate to see it. Resorted to looking at eBay.

The dials and buttons are meant to be copper, since most of the TVs I saw had gold accents and it just didn’t really work out when I applied it here. I think I’m just shit at coloring metals. I would have put ‘The Wheatley Show’ on the sign but my handwriting/cursive is too dog water.

The second design I did. I tried some squash and stretch here, and I’m quite proud of it. The antenna are being tugged down, so I know there probably should be a picture but shhh, I can do what I want. I was more interested in making it look like he was pulling his hair.

I couldn’t name this one properly. It’s also closer to a shut down, but things like dread and emotional drain fit too. I debated on doing this whole thing in black and white, as early TVs didn’t have color, but after consulting some people I decided to only do it for certain expressions. He also desaturates when unsure/uncomfortable.

This one was the one I was most excited to get to. The hands can do more than just mess with the antenna, they can change the channel and click the buttons (they’re volume buttons even though I don’t think TVs had those at least not like this). There’s a number of different backgrounds that can pop up when being fiddled with, like a weather broadcast, a nature documentary, a cooking show, pretty much anything, as long as it falls into that 60-70s approach I had.

Oh right yeah there’s a guy in there.

I wanted to make him simultaneously more and less details than the guy in the screen. More detail in the bow tie and the arms, but lacking the suit detail. This one veered closer to doctor Seuss in terms of style I fear. The white side of the face is supposed to look more like a mask, which is why the iris is a different style and the smile doesn’t line up.

Bonus funny

[covenlcss]

Something about her accent was endearing. “You’re from the South,” she absentmindedly notes aloud. Nova recalls the first first time she heard a southern accent, and even then she thought it was fun to listen too. As a Floridian she had the blessing of living in America's local vacation destination. Americans would flock from all over to visit the coastal towns like the one she was born and raised in. Thanks to her family’s bakery, she got the opportunity to interact with tourists of all backgrounds. Nova too wondered where the signage went. 

“It definitely wasn’t up when I came in. Do you think mischievous forces are at play or did it fall off, and is probably beneath one of the machines?” The latter is likely more plausible, as Nova’s unsure if ne'er-do-wells would try something of this nature without being nearby to watch chaos unfold on their unsuspecting victims– her mind’s clearly a palace of elaborate ideas. Sometimes it feels as if she can turn anything into a narrative. 

Nova snickered at the description of her shoes. “A road trip brought you here as well? Twins!” At least it sounded like that— did they share similar reasons for arrival or just the mode of transportation? “It’s going to be fine. Besides, I’m not in a hurry, so it’s okay if my laundry takes a bit longer to finish.” Being on vacation certainly had its perks. Right about now she would have been in the classroom teaching a new concept or something. “I’ll just have to let my ex, um, fr–“ she paused for what felt like a minute. In reality it was just a second where she stumbled over her words, trying to figure out how to label Devin. It hasn’t come up before, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been thinking about it. “–Devin know that I’ll be back later than planned.” The payphone area in the corner of the laundromat should suffice, providing they were working. Just in case she decided to verify. “Are any of those going to start spewing coins everywhere if I try to call?” she laughs while gesturing to the group of payphones. 

"It's not your doing at all, don't you worry one bit," Aviva reassured the other, the southern twang in her voice alluding to the fact that she wasn't native to Cardinal Hill either. "That's exactly why I put the sign up, so no one would think it was their fault if the pesky thing played up again. I really have no idea where that thing ended up, though..." Aviva's words almost trailed off as she scanned the establishment for any sign of the sign.

"I should be just peachy," Aviva confirmed with a grateful smile. "I think my dignity took the worst of it," she added with a chuckle, feeling more embarrassed than she felt physically hurt - though thankfully as it took a lot to truly embarrass Aviva, she knew she'd be back in tip top shape in no time. "Thank you, that would be greatly appreciated. The last thing I need is to slip again and risk actually hurting myself now," she accepted the help with a smile, reaching up to take the hand offered while she spoke. Admittedly, Aviva hadn't worn the best choice of shoes to work that day, so a hand up would definitely benefit her.

"These soles are about as bald as my tyres were when my brother and I finally rolled into town, neither of which I'm proud of, but hey, you live and you learn," Aviva overshared, her boots having been worn down so much that there was no grip remaining. "Thanks again, and sorry again. If I hadn't have been so stuck in my book, I definitely would have warned you to use a different machine."

[raiinshowers]

Some small progress on this WIP piece

For my Lost Village AU (:

[harriertail]

riverclan’s forest

[erebusfin]

More Below VVV My first animation! Had to smack down the frames and file size just to post it D; No i did not prepare the drawing to be animated this was a whimsy whim

[veedyveen]

tsundere kevin garnett save me

somewhat inspired by of that clip of kg talking about tim duncan’s trash talk

[qcomicsy]

Old Deadpool comics are so fun because it's like having this weird close friend group where people kind of all know each other but don't really know each other. Or even like each other that much.

Like Wade has a kind-of-who-knows-at-this-point "Best" friend tech guy who kind of tolerates him and he tolerates that used to be Peter's college classmate. He almost took a gig from Osborn but actually was Bullseye fucking with him in revenge while dressed up in a Clint old suit. He got on a mission with Black Widow. He got beef with Avengers clones to a point the avengers themselves got to be involved. They don't like him he doesn't like them so they both agree to be civil to do the damn mission so everyone can go their own way. He's having a middle age crisis where he kind of wants to quit being a mercenary but he doesn't know yet who the fuck else he could be and all the reasons pointing up to be a hero are wrong and distorted in his own egoistic views.

A hit monkey want to fuckin kill him. The hit monkey doesn't know he's immortal. The hit-monkey never saw him personally but somehow set him up to get his jaw sucker punched by Spider-Man. Which results in the worst team ever for both of them. I sweat to god except from fucking Old man Logan, I've never seen Wade so stressed in working with someone. And while this whole shit storm works, Wade keeps bullshitting about Peter's life being so fucking easy and loved by the public and Peter has to stay there and listen to it. They bump into each other on the subway out of costume and Peter hates him on sight.

Wade doesn't want to be there and the first opportunity to bail on Spider-Man he takes it and Spider-Man on the other hand learns that Deadpool is immortal and kind of gets "Okay what if we let you get shot" and Wade is so offended he starts calling him names.

Wade goes to bother X-Men, X-men tells him to fuck off. Wade considers blowing up X-Men for full two panels. X-Men sends Domino who's kind of one of Wade's friend to fuck with Deadpool, we're convinced by two pages he beat the shit out of her, just to show up on the next pages that he actually made her fall over a bunch of pancakes.

It's so messy, it's so fucking funny because it's not "oh it's this BIG THING" and this "BIG TEAM UP" it's like they're on the same city, they have similar jobs of course they're going to bump on each other.

[icewindandboringhorror]

One of the interesting bits of trying to resume working on the game after so long is looking back at my ancient Draft Placeholder versions of an image from 4 yrs ago trying to remember what the hell I meant back then, to hopefully interpret it into some more final (ish..) form of the same thing .. making slow progress lol

[philsmeatylegss]

Ngl, I hate a lot of the odd beef between humanities and STEM majors and I do believe both are equally integral for a society to be functional, but all im saying is I’ve seen a lot more humanities majors flipping their shit (including me) over the absolute disaster that American politics currently is and a lot of the reasoning comes from their major

This doesn’t apply to anything near environmental science majors I see you

[longagoitwastuesday]

you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, César Vallejo, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

[sheerakk]

comic assigment for school. The dialouge is really corny (because I spent almost no time thinking it through) so you're not getting any translation from me. Only fellow polish people can laugh at my writing skills (please don't, I'm already in tears).

[p2ii]

Idk maybe I'm just sensitive but I rlly hate when fanfics have shovel talks between characters that live and die for each other. Like sure let's let red haired shanks have a say about Roronoa 'died but came back' 'took Luffy's pain and burden' 'first mate' zoro bout weather or not he can kiss his captain. Yea

[pepi-nillo]

btw the next posts i make may contain spoilers about manner of death so if you were planning on watching it (you should) then feel free to absolutely ignore me! i understand. tradicional "i just finished a drama" rant below the cut

god i loved this show so much. i finished it in basically two days and i was OBSESSED. i haven't watched many BL dramas but i enjoyed this one so much, it paid attention to the plot and murder mystery without causing too much unnecessary drama like other shows may do, while still keeping you interested in tan and bun's relationship. i love me a good enemies to lovers (as a bit one sided as this one was lol) and the drama they did have had me sooo invested. i honestly didn't know who jane's killer was and i was in disbelief even after they caught her.

the drama they did have was SO GOOD it made my inner gossip so happy, i was so invested. like when bun discovered tan was dam and proceeded to point a gun at him??? he was totally in his right imo and that's better than the novelas on my local tv channel.

the development of everything was super good, it had me at the edge of my seat but also gave me good laughs. everyone's shenanigans were very funny and i love how the protagonists interacted with the ppl around them, they basically showed that caring isn't a disadvantage at all. i just feel so sorry for jane, they did her so dirty and she deserved better, at least she got avenged but damn i wish she was still there.

tan and bun, especially bun, must've felt terrible with all the people around them dropping like flies, and having to perform an autopsy on people you were talking with just yesterday?? yeah no. i'm happy with the ending, nice but keeping it real. watching all these episodes one after another was like a shot (sorry) of dopamine like i feel like i can bounce off the walls rn

and the main pairing's dynamic was so funny like tan says anything and bun goes like 😒 without missing a beat. i love them i'm obsessed with them. they got MARRIED!!! i feel like this is the first drama wedding i've seen in a long time. see my other post for my opinion on that proposal (tan is batshit crazy and bun likes it)

i'm officially making a poster of this show and hanging it on my wall. that's how much i liked it. okay bye

[quibbs126]

I need to inject the setup of the Galaxy Team from Legends Arceus into Transformers

Basically I just want Cybertron to have a similar setup of having various divisions within their society tasked with different things. I’d be more specific, like saying the Autobots being the group that does this, so there are bots that are just normal civilians, but that doesn’t seem to be what the Autobots generally are

It depends, but they really seem like just a military force/response faction to the Decepticons for the war, and then remaining afterwards because of how pivotal the war was to Cybertronian society, they aren’t necessarily the general governing force of Cybertron. They are in Animated, but that’s also a world where the Autobot-Decepticon War already happened, so it kind of falls into another war remnant

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I want Cybertron to have a setup of different corps that manage different sections of Cybertronian society. At least before the war, since I imagine that and the destruction of the planet means it can’t really stay. Hell, maybe you could use the Thirteen Primes here and say that that position belongs to the leader of each group

[liminevator]

[We are aware of the current deficiencies with the current denizen file system and are currently busy working to improve them, with our file manager Eskobar overseeing the changes of course.]

[Update continues below.]

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[One of these improvements is a letter ranking system to help better identify the potential risks your fellow denizens may pose to you or the lack thereof- remember, always be careful of who you trust.]

[This new letter ranking system is as follows]:

D-rank - D rated Denizens are effectively just your average joe schmoe, they don't usually have powers, and if they do they usually aren't offensive, or are simply so impractical theres very little ways if any to be harmful. A good example of a D-rank denizen would be ID #2200

C-rank - C rated Denizens are much similar to D-rank however the biggest difference is they do have substantial abilities that could be harmful in the wrong hands, but thankfully C-rank denizens are typically the example of powers "in the right hands" so-to-say. A good example of a C-rank denizen would be ID #0004

B-rank - B rated Denizens are basically the "middle of the road" tier. They aren't exactly harmless, but they're not exactly dangerous either, it's difficult to explain, essentially another you know it when you see it type of situation. A good example of a B-rank denizen would be ID #0325

A-rank - A rated Denizens are those whose scale is tilted a bit more into the dangerous direction, whether this violence is intentional or not they are known to be unstable and have outbursts that may result in serious injury or even death, it's not recommended to bother them if you can help it. A good example of an A-rank denizen would be ID #0115

S-rank - S rated denizens are few and far between, but are a force to be reckoned with nonetheless. They're violent, destructive, and disregard any attempts to stop such behavior, either finding it fun or necessary or for other reasons. The ways to handle them are different for each individual, remain wary and on your toes. A good example of an S-rank Denizen would be ID #1000

U-rank - "U rank" is a very seldom given title, often reserved solely for those with deific powers, or those who have fragmented (fragmentation is further indicated by a ☥ symbol by the name.) It is highly ill advised to seek out anybody with this label unless you absolutely know what you're doing, or are operating under my orders. A good example of a (non-fragmented) U-rank denizen would be ID #4444

[The rest of these improvements are more minor things, including but not limited to]:

- Changed "Distinct Marks" into "Distinct Traits" to reflect its current usage

- Slightly more detailed descriptions for Hair and Fur besides just the color

- New description section for a denizen's Skin where applicable

- Mr. CocoCoolatta is working on new art for some of the more "scuffed" files that "look like shit"- its words not mine

- For Phonians only, adding the "Song" category to properly document the tune of applicable denizen's phonoglands

- Touching up some files with more lackluster descriptions where necessary

- Removing unsavory edits made by... "third parties" that will only remain visible to higher ups in The Archive

- Urging Professor Radiant to change his password so these edits stay private

[And one final note, my apologies for the radio silence lately and lack of updates to our database, things have been busy in our facilities lately and it's gotten in the way of proper procedures around here. But not to worry, I assure you this is only temporary, we will be back on our feet soon enough, so long as I have anything to say about it.]

Sincerely, Doctor Rito Kusatta