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[z-the-outback-cryptid]

Has happened to me quite a few times! as a consequence of my job, my study, and commuting on transit a lot, my posture is awful, and some days I wake up in the most unreal pain with nausea I didn’t know I could experience. I sincerely hope anyone else this happens to finds relief or some way of mitigating this.

hi everyone let’s do a poll! who else lies a bit weird on their neck 4-6 times a week and then get a migraine that makes you wanna cry but even more than that you wanna throw up? and ppl are loud and all lights are too bright and when you stand you feel so faint that you’re shaking and are actually close to falling (and throwing up) (simultaneously)? (i’m seriously not kidding about the nausea it’s pretty much the main thing here) (and yk the fact that thinking hurts and nothing works to make it feel better)

[my-secret-shame-but-fanfiction]

helloooo!! I absolutely adore your works puts me to sleep with a great bag ass smile on my face! Can you please write about the moon boys where the reader is a complete bimbo/ fashion fanatic showing off her newly bought clothes and accessories to them

I hope this is okay! I'm not so good with bimbo reader, so this is a lot more like reader that likes fashion. <3

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Warnings: Fluff, silliness, a little mention of masturbating in (semi)public, not beta read, please let me know if I have missed a warning!

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Steven Grant

Is super interested in your love of fashion because you are interested in it. Literally loves to listen to you talk about it for hours and will not get bored. Asks lots of questions and gets so happy when you excitedly tell him the answers. 

Loves going shopping with you, will give you his honest opinion on everything, even if he disagrees. “That’s awful love.” “I like it.” “Well then get it, of course, it’ll look beautiful on you, but it is hideous.” Pulls faces to make you laugh. The only thing he’ll really grumble about is if you wear clothing that feels bad (sensory wise) for him, but he’ll do it in a jokey way.

“You know where this would look better, love?” “On your bedroom floor?” “No, in the bin.” 

Is happy for you to suggest some clothing choices for him, but he won’t change his style/comfort, he’s very content to be himself. However, he does adore it when you buy him clothing because you always make sure it’s something he would like and it makes his heart so full that you put in so much time and consideration for him. (When he expresses this and you tell him, ‘duh, of course, I love you silly!’ you are getting 1000 kisses. No other option.) 

Really likes it when you try on sexy outfits in changing rooms and send him photos. (This has led to him asking you to touch yourself and send him a video while you do it.)

Marc Spector

Gets a little nervous sometimes if he comes with you shopping in person, this depends on if the shop is very busy/the lights are really bright and overwhelming. It’s difficult to let when he gets overstimulated, because Marc masks a lot and has done so for a very long time. Plus, even if you’ve told him you want him to tell you, he doesn’t want to ruin your fun. 

Also likes it when you buy him clothes, always washes them before he wears them and usually asks you to wear them/lay on them before he puts them on so that they smell like you.

Don’t tell you if he hates something, tries to be so polite, but you can tell because he does a little ‘oh’ face with raised eyebrows before he gets his expression back under control. 

Surprisingly, really loves bright colours. Doesn’t tend to wear them much himself, but is always drawn to them. Really loves whatever personal style you have (bright or dark colours, he doesn’t care, you look amazing no matter what.) and will try really hard to point things out/show you what he thinks you’ll like/fits with your vibe.

Really likes watching shows about fashion with you, gets very invested in The Great British Sewing Bee.

Jake Lockley

Has so much fun going clothes shopping (in person or online) with you and having a massive try on montage. Literally flings the curtains open so dramatically. Will try on anything for the thrill of it. 

Quite often you both have a silly day where you try to dress as each other, this has led to some very realistic interpretations and some utterly chaotic ones. 

If he’s annoyed with you he will find the most eye watering outfit in the universe and wear it, saying ‘It’s the height of fashion’. 

His favourite t-shirt to sleep in is one with grammatically incorrect spanish on it that he found in a charity shop and thought it was hilarious. You cannot get him to part with it for love or money, even though it is falling apart and he has fixed it many times. (You don’t actually want him to get rid of it, but it’s become a fun little teasing game both of you play with each other.)

I’ve said many times that I headcanon Jake as a knitter, (because he is (joking)), I think he would happily knit with you/teach you if you wanted/didn’t know how to. He’ll also happily make you lots of clothes and accessories as gifts. However, it took him a long, long time to ever make and give you a jumper because of the knitter's curse and he just got so paranoid about it.

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[hummingbee-lievable]

Song of the Day #24:

'Mile Magnificent' by Molly OfGeography (released 2019).

An apartment when it's empty echoes lovely, bright and clean

Sing odes to green-blue water that we stole so it comes free

All things end, it's part of living; forest fires feed the trees

Lift your glasses full of sunshine, sing a toast to gasoline

Track #4 on 'Myths'.

Fun fact: Molly refers to this song as 'The Song My Producer Said I Was Not Allowed To Name “CHICAGO IS BETTER THAN NEW YORK”'.* Honestly, her descriptions for some of the songs on this album are hilarious:

'1) The Song That Made My Producer Go, “Wait, What Was That Bit About Worms?”

2) The Song My Producer Said I Had To Append A Parenthetical To So That People Would Be Able To Find It Because The Lyrics Never Mention The Title Once But I Was Raised On Fanfiction So Joke’s On You, Pal! I Love A Long Title With A Parenthetical In It!!!

3) The Song That Is Sad'

Pretty dang accurate, honestly. Also, I think she has a Tumblr!!! *Gasp.* What if I...tag her???

@ofgeography Hiiii and thank you, your music is amazing.

I did it bees and knees (yes, this is my hip modern way of including every kind of person, fight me or provide more hilarious options; I'm content with either option).

I have had a fun time perusing this flavourful dose of humanity's wild website and I think my fun fact today should be her story where she becomes a donut god:

You're welcome, singular entity that reads this blog (that entity being my sister and/or the rogue bots, doesn't matter, we're all friends here).

Personal blurb: Alright, full disclosure time: I discovered this artist because of the 'Good Omens' fandom. Someone said we were missing out on feelings and shared this song, and when I tell you I felt those feelings, I certainly don't mean that I danced to this on repeat for several months (and her 'Hanahaki (Bloom)'), often at 3 in the morning in the bathroom. Of course not.

Pro tip: dancing with your toothbrush in your mouth is a choking hazard, but in the spirit of Alanis Morissette, I recommend doing it anyway:

One of my favourite books in the world is 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers. In it, one of the themes that arises often is the concept of pyrophitic serotinous plants (it's okay, I won't remember it either). They are plants that need fire to open. (There are actually different types of pyrophitic plants, from passive to fire-activated but I probably shouldn't start talking about that because you'll need to pull out the duct tape.)

(Technically, 'serotinous' plants are a category in which plants release seeds over a longer period of time, and it doesn't matter how they are released, but the seeds that open by fire fit into this category.) The eucalyptus tree, the lodgehole pine, and other pyrophitic serotinous trees encase their seeds in resin that can only be melted by fire (thereby releasing the seeds).

The thing that I love about this concept is this: we need to burn to grow. I recently read this book called 'Life in Oil' about the Cofàn tribe in Ecuador who were drastically impacted by oil companies. And the thing was: Yes. They were impacted horribly (physically, psychologically, environmentally, the works). They also survived. They figured out, through tumult and trial and falling apart, how to keep going. And for every hard moment and loss, there was laughter and love to accompany it. The book was wonderful in that it confronted the concept of trauma on a large group of people. We are never just our trauma, but the balance of everything else as well. I think that gets lost, sometimes. Makes us seem less human.

This song screams to me of that same instinct. I mean, look at us. This is what we do, isn't it? We fight, we fall, we continue. We're just like every other aspect of nature in that we are born, and in our fight to continue, we impact everything around us. We're just a part of the cycle and eventually we will decay back to where we belong and serve as soil for our children. And all we'll be? A story. And after a while, not even that. Just a whisper of what was.

In a way? I find that freeing. We might as well live the life we want to live; how little it will matter. (This isn't absolution, please don't go murdering people.) I just mean that I don't have to put so much weight into every little thing. Not everything has to be joyful or depressing (and if we really think about it, everything is always a balance of both). It can just be what it is.

We are as we are. And we don't have to love ourselves for it, but we don't have to hate ourselves either.

I love the lyrics to this song. For a long time, I misheard 'We're animals of love/ the city never makes us beg' as 'the city never makes us pay' and I don't know why? But I kind of like that image.

We are animals of love. And that's okay.

We are the cogs in a continuous cycle and we always will be.

I think often of this monologue (content warning for the video, it's gory, but you don't need to watch it, you can just listen) from 'Midnight Mass', in regards to this:

(It sort of lives in my brain on a regular basis now; hope it takes up good residence in your brain, too.)

We just are. Everything just is.

[phantomarine]

While a swarm of bees Cheth would be a grammatically correct they/them and fucking hilarious if you wanna have one around for us enbies you could have Cheth possessing a dead queer person at some point? Non-humans being the only rep of a thing (nonbinary/aro/ace/etc) can be alienating. Doesn’t need to be permanent or anything either, maybe they’re just a former priest that was hanging out near where they’re going or whatever. Cheth being multiple ghosts at once can also serve you for someone to use them but then it’s less clear and more plural so mmm. On that note. Within the comic itself the characters don’t really acknowledge Cheth’s not a he all the time since that’s his default as a god but as he interacts with others more it could easily come up more casually. “Hey Pavel. Where’s Cheth?” “I saw her in the kitchen” “THE COOKIE JAR!” bam you got the genderqueers cackling in delight, we’re not difficult

The last bit is actually a really good point, one that I think I realized at some point, and was like 'oh, I'll be able to remedy this easily later.' Cheth hasn't really had 'she' used in the comic yet simply because FCheth hasn't interacted with any of the other Mantaluna crew (and I don't think she would've actually shown up during the others' individual post-death chats), and Pavel hasn't chatted about the Ch 5 aftermath with Phaedra yet, so there's been no opportunity for others to go 'oh, so Cheth is a pretty lady quite often' and adjust accordingly. So that'll be helpful, probably as early as the next chapter.

Extremely noted on all the rest. I am always here for the 'I am not a girl or a boy, I am a swarm of bees/crabs/stardust' statements but I know they don't apply to everyone. I would want to offer both options.

And with Cheth... that is absolutely possible in every way.

[wrenwinchester]

Reasons Psych and Supernatural should have a crossover:

1. Woody (the coroner from Psych) being Zachariah’s vessel.

2. Shawn and Cas talking about cats, possibly talking to cats/interrogating them

3. There are so many shared actors between Psych and Supernatural (Woody/Zachariah, Lassiter/Cain and many more)

4. Just the fact that there are literally so many “references” to Supernatural in Psych and the fact that Shawn and Gus are essentially a slightly less codependent version of Sam and Dean (anything can be a supernatural reference if you try hard enough.)

5. It would mean Metatron occasionally works part time as a security guard at an old folks home as a guy named Jervis.

6. Shawn and Gus could meet the ghost facers who got lost in their way to LA and ended up in Santa Barbara.

7. It would mean at some point Cain decided to go to the Police academy and join the Santa Barbara police department. (Alternatively one of his descendants looks just like him) (However I’m going with the first option because it definitely explains Lassiter’s fascination with the Civil War.

8. Fake FBI/Fake Psychic hijinks

9. Shawn would be a role model/older brother figure for Dean (he’s two years older than him).

10. Both Shawn and Gus and Sam and Dean get mistaken as a couple occasionally.

11. Shawn likes Bees, Cas likes Bees, and Cain (thereby Lassiter) likes Bees.

12. Shawn and Dean fangirling over cowboys.

13. The dual ADHD hijinks of Dean and Shawn, mixed with Sam and Gus being over their shit.

14. Dean hitting on Juliet only to get shit from Shawn even thought they aren’t dating yet.

15. Juliet flirting back with Dean to mess with Shawn

16. Lassiter recognizing Sam and Dean from the FBI’s most wanted from 2006-2007ish and trying to prove it’s actually them but failing.

17. Shawn Spencer, Psych season 5 episode 2, “nothing shuts my pie hole but pie.” Just another reason Shawn and Dean would be best friends.

18. Shawn and Dean both have an obsession with scooby doo.

Just Please.

P.S. I love the idea of Shawn and Dean being best friends for many reasons, however, Shawn being a passenger Princess, and Dean not allowing anyone else to drive is just too perfect.

P.P.S. Also Woody being Zachariah’s vessel is just hilarious to me.

Edit: added #16+

[1960z]

wow, that was a really enjoyable case, I loved it!!

honestly it really put into perspective for me just how much of tgaa1 is set up, since this case takes place directly after tgaa1’s case 4, which while it had it’s fun moments was kind of a nothing case, it was all set up for this.

and I’m conflicted about that right, because as I’ve said previously I feel like tgaa1 suffers a bit because of it, but at the same time it really elevates this case in a way that just wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

on top of the events of this case being very compelling in and of themselves, you feel especially connected to everything going on because you already know most of the characters involved as well as their baggage. you already feel for olive green because you have in depth knowledge of a traumatic incident that has just happened to her. shamspeare is inherently intriguing due to the fact you saw him on the street once in the first game and got no follow up on it. and once you begin to find out more, you find yourself really invested, more than what is usual for a case where most of the major players are not overarching main characters. it’s quite well done.

on top of that I think both shamspeare and olive green are just great one-offs, too. olive green, on top of being adorable, is very understandably depressed by everything that’s happened and you can’t help but feel for her. again this is one of the first times I can remember actively wanting a different outcome to the question of “who is the culprit?” because… I just felt like she deserved so much better than to go to prison.

and shamspeare is just delightfully foppish. he’s hilarious the whole time he’s onscreen. and he honestly makes for a great villain too. while I usually think having the victim actually be dead creates for a more compelling story, this case made the victim being alive crucial, and the reveal that he is actually the true villain of the story is extremely fun and satisfying. you just get to watch this descent from “unjustly targeted” to “kinda sketchy” to “pathetic monster,” and it’s really great.

and the gas company folks aren’t as important of course, but the bee motif was also fun, I enjoyed their designs

very excited to get into case 3! they’ve been subtlety building up this great exhibition thing since case 3 of the last game but only in the background, I think everything that mentions it is optional dialogue. but the fact that it is mentioned multiple different times has piqued my interest and I thought it must mean something and it seems it does! this case has also been hyped up for me by others so very interested to see what’s about to unfold.

updated tier list!

[reachartwork]

DEVLOG #7 lets talk about getting sick and dying

this devlog is more theoretical given that i havent begun implementation yet but i do feel very solid on the systems in question.

so, i've been thinking about how to make status effects and ailments in GITFD feel a bit more realistic and impactful than your typical JRPG fare. you know, where getting poisoned just means watching a little health tick away after each battle and then magically being cured when the fight's over.

i want players to really feel the consequences of their actions and the dangers of the dungeon. if you get poisoned, that's not just a minor inconvenience - it's a serious problem that's going to stick with you for a while. we're talking in-game hours or even days, depending on the severity. and it's not going away on its own either - you'll need to find the right cure or treatment to get back in fighting shape.

so in the game there is not one generic "poisoned" status - there are 12. there's also not one generic "sickness" status - there are another 12. each one shows up on the UI as "poisoned" or "ill". but they're all different, and they all have different symptoms, and they are all cured differently. or, if you have HP to spare, you can have your cleric party member cure it which will cause you to painfully vomit up all the toxins in exchange for a max hp reduction.

the intent is to reward preparedness and memorization. the first time you are bitten by the first stratum snake your character will convulse painfully and die as you attempt to apply antivenom made from bee stingers unsuccessfully. the second time you will go out of your way to lure in snakes and kill them for their venom glands so you can get antivenom.

plus, enemies are NOT immune to poison. you can, in fact, poison a snake with spider venom and vice versa. they're generally only immune when its their own venoms or if theyre something that logically cant be poisoned like ghosts or golems. i HATE when jrpgs give you the ability to utilize every status effect and then they just universally whiff on all the hardest enemies. stupid! stupid! no, if a boss has eyes you can blind it and if it is an animal that logically requires sleep you can magically put it to sleep. if you do not master the art of inflicting status effects right back on enemies you will die, over and over, hilariously.

anyway back to the symptoms. every poison/illness uses the same generic poison icon (i havent made one for illnesses yet but i will)

that is, until you have successfully manually cured it at least once (without using the 'cure all poisons' spell), in which case you'll get a different icon representing what it is as well as an actually helpful tooltip. or you can read about it in an in-game book which will also identify it. how do you identify what poison is what? inflictor and symptomology. a mundane snake will only ever inflict you with mundane poisons like hemotoxins, neurotoxins, cytotoxins, and cardiotoxins. you'll never recieve a corrosive, or a magitoxin, or a mycotoxin from a normal snake. so then you have to figure out which of the options it could be by observing symptoms. if the character begins randomly bleeding it's probably a hemotoxin, and generally a given enemy will reliably inflict the same form of status effects from run to run.

the intent here is to reward knowledge without doing the coffee break roguelite thing of "you are continually getting stronger through artificial means until you can just roll over the game" because that demolishes the game's natural difficulty curve. you get stronger in GO INTO THE FUCKING DUNGEON by getting smarter, and being more prepared, and carrying your knowledge from run to run.

all of the above applies to illnesses, too, like tetanus and sepsis. you can get lockjaw in this game. you can even get lyme disease.

this seems almost miserable to most neurotypical people i ask about this but to me this is the RPG i've always wanted to play. its like having an OSR dm locked up in my basement.

GO INTO THE FUCKING DUNGEON!

[salad-006]

I know you already gave us your thoughts about Eddsworld Legacy, but what do you think about Eddsworld Beyond for now?

To be completely honest, I'm really on the fence with beyond. They're in like this weird fluctuating state, and to me that comes off like them not knowing what they're doing

Sometimes we'll get something hilarious, but more often than not beyond feels awkard and rushed. Stilted is the best word i think. (I'm also just really not a fan of jons animation for the show, which doesn't help at all. His EW style has always felt extremely flat to me ,sorry jon)

More options down below vv

Stuff usually feel unfinished or rushed somehow , ex surf n turf. Part one was probably the most uncomfortable episodes we've gotten so far. you could've easily rearranged things so that the intro of them arriving at the beach was at the beginning of part two, and have it be a single episode. It feels like filler before the actual plot starts next episode

It kinda feels like they're trying to imitate every aspect of Edds work, and it's giving me like. Skinwalker vibes. I get it, Edd made little short animtions with random new characters occasionally. But when a full team makes one with a new character, ties an ad read to it, then never touches that character again, it feels confusing and out of place. IDK i just feel like you loose that ability to just make whatever you want when you put together a team, even if its a small indie group. Maybe im wrong there but the point is i thouht the birds and the bees was dumb

I'll keep my option on the team brief. I don't hate anyone on the team nor do i think any of them are Bad People, but there's definitely been a lot of questionable behavior that has come from these guys. Example, I've always been offput by their relationship with Tord’s characters. In the website they put this:

Yet consistently tease the fans with his existence (ex the caveman episode, tori being canonized, his picture clearly torn out in SnT1, having an entire month of tord merch) Either address the situation or don't, guys. You can't sarcastically be like "oh get over it" when YOU'RE the ones that keep bringing him back. You didn't even answer the question dude, no wonder so many kids beg for his return

I guess I can't be THAT pissed when the money all went to charity, but it still just feels inherently weird and disrespectful to merchandise this character after his creator removed him nearly 15 years ago. Atleast Tomska allegedly asked permission and had good intentions. This feels like they (beyond) just don't give a fuck. If any team members are reading this I'm BEGGING YOU: STOP LETTING THEM BRING BACK TORD . THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT . Tord Larsson deserves to be left alone, and to stop getting connected to this show in his past.

Despite everything, I still want to support the team. I'll be honest, SnT2 gave me hope for the series I haven't had in quite a while. It wasn't the greatest, but it was a step upwards. And I'd love to see them keep going up ! Genuinely, I would love nothing more than to see these guys succeed in recreating what made the show good initially. Eddsworld changed my life, so really its incredible to see it still kicking around today. Even if it's in this weird, amorphous glob state. They just need to figure out what the hell they're doing

TLDR: the current state of the show is kinda rough, the team feels discombobulated and has made some weird decisions, however I still have hope that they can make this into something amazing someday

[talenlee]

September 2024 Wrapup!

There’s often a joke about ‘wake me up when September ends.’ It’s a reference to a song, a good song I like a lot that’s about a meaningful emotional thing from a queer artist. Thing is, this September, nah, I didn’t want to sleep through any of it.

This September, I wanted to remember every night of it.

(Especially the 21st night of it.)

This month’s Game Pile articles were:

Apiary, a Stonemeier game of bees! in! space! that I found extremely good in all the ways that Stonemeier games tend to be good.

Infidel, and Circling to Failure, a classic infocom text adventure about how the game frames you as a crappy dude. The unreliable narrator and the failure end point has not been revolutionary for a long time.

Kentucky Route Zero and the Three Games About America, a video about finally putting to the page an incident that I think is hilariously awful and reflects the parochial vision of American centrism that defines games culture.

Pine Shallows, a really cool adventurey TTRPG!

Over in the Story Pile, we got

Girls Band Cry, a revolutionary 3d anime in that it’s not revolutionary just in that it looks really, really cool!

Manhunter, a live action movie about this ‘Hannyball Lecktor’ guy, and the way that, turns out, serial killers aren’t amazing superminds?

Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable, a tourism brochure for Hokkaido, a part of Japan defined, thanks to this series, by snow and massive tits.

Hoot, a Jimmy Buffett movie which of course I’m going to wind up watching because I am such a sap for Jimmy Buffett’s work, and the resultant movie kinda belongs in a sort of Pride Month closet key collection.

Then There Were Five, which goes up tomorrow and you’ll get to enjoy as I grapple with a classic novel from my childhood that set up a status quo and didn’t deliver on it.

If you come to this blog for worldbuilding, fantasy, and generic tabletop kinds of conversations? Well, I covered the Inevitables and Modrons from 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, the thing we call a ‘druid’ and where that fits in and out of character fantasy, and the way that convenient magic creates an everyday industry. I talked about how in Cobrin’Seil, the Ogre represents not a species but a choice, and player options for if you want to play a bird person, in the form of the Aarakocra and Harpies and how they fit into Cobrin’Seil.

In other articles, I talked about the fantastic event called ‘the miracle of the brick,’ some great anime OPs that outweigh the anime that they present, the criminality of Pokemon in the vibes they project, and some good, old fashioned complaining about a badly made ASMR video by a media mill called Chefclub. And, not related to that particular waft of internet fartings, I talked about why I am resistant to calling my own work content these days.

I also designed a set of shirts inspired by Animorphs:

a black shirt with white text reading ‘Jake & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias & Ax’

a white shirt with black text reading ‘Jake & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias & Ax’

a black shirt with white text reading ‘Jake & Cassie & Marco & & Tobias & Ax’

a white shirt with black text reading ‘Jake & Cassie & Marco & Rachel & Tobias & Ax’

a black shirt with white text reading ‘tiger & wolf & gorilla & bear & hawk & ax”

a white shirt with black text reading ‘tiger & wolf & gorilla & bear & hawk & ax’

There are more designs, which are present as a collection over on my Redbubble.

What happened in September? Work was work — fully online classes mean I spend lots of time inside and don’t have the time to get up to things between classes. That’s an interesting challenge in my day to day life that means I’m just not leaving the house a lot, something that’s bothering me a little. Walking the dog, enjoying the weather as best I can in the late hours I walk him – because the dog’s got anxiety – that’s something that puts me out in the air, in a space where I can breath cool air.

What else, what else…

Oh yeah!

When this post goes up, Cohost is two days away from being put into Read-Only mode, and it will be closed and deleted at the end of the year. If you weren’t on it, and didn’t care about it, Cohost was essentially a type of social media website that didn’t work the way any of the other ones worked.

There’s a lot of talk about Cohost that wants to compare it to platforms like Tumblr or Twitter or Bluesky or Mastodon but none of them were really like it. It’s much easier, for me, to tell you what Cohost did: It let you post some pictures, it let you post text, it let you use some CSS or HTML to do things that I understand were pretty fun. To me what Cohost presented as a platform where I could draft articles in public, where there was a commentary culture, and where people would use tags and spoilers to control and present what you were writing or making.

It was also, to me, most importantly, a place where a bunch of my friends were hanging out. Not all of them — it sure seems to be a place biased towards white folks — but it was a place where what they offered was a meaningful chunk of my friend group.

Cohost was a place where the kind of people I like to show things to, the people whose input matters to me, felt okay talking about things. I could get feedback and responses and interest (even modestly) and people weren’t afraid that William Rando Hurst was going to wander into the conversation and accuse them of hating waffles. I have a very small fund of money I think of as my ‘spend on the internet’ kind of money. One of the only places I spent that money was on Cohost Plus, which gave me access to, as far as I know, nothing. I paid for Cohost because I wanted Cohost to succeed, and I wanted people who couldn’t afford to pay for Cohost to not feel they had to shoulder a burden.

And it’s going away.

I loved Cohost, and I’m going to miss Cohost. I get to do that. I’m so glad I get to miss Cohost. I’m glad I get to think about the things that Cohost taught me about how to be a person on the internet and I’m happy of that. It showed me ways the people around me are creative and how they are sad and how they are willing to be when they don’t feel like they’re in risk of being threatened for existing.

I’m gunna miss you, Cohost.

Keep on eggbugging.

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[chaifootsteps]

I was thinking about the hh designs and honestly they should have made Ozzie a little bit more bird like since he is supposed to be a rooster. Nothing much, just give him a more beak-like face and (optional) make his body a little more 'normal' (less wide shoulders or a thicker waist). Also queen bee has the worst design I've ever seen ever and there is nothing redeemable about it. Even Mammon you could argue that his 🎄 ass is to highlight that he would even try to profit from the birth of the literal Christ (I know viv didn't have that in mind but let's pretend for our sakes).

That Mammon thing could have been hilarious if the show were funny enough to pull it off. I could easily see them doing it if Brandon were still writing for HB.

[charliemwrites]

That @lilynotdilly ask made me think... Imagine Simon does give Kyle the green light to fullfil feral's spicy time requirements......

I don't think he does it enthusiasticly tbh, I think he mostly does it as an act of good faith -to show the both of you that he trusts you with the other- but then it's funny because literally none of you like the idea of this happening.

Simon would rather keep you to himself, is only allowing it to show you how good of a carer he is since he trusts you not to betray him with his friend AND priorizes your needs over his feelings; also he's doing it to show Kyle he's secure enough not to be jealous (he is tho) and that he trust him with his beloved, trust he won't surpass any limits Simon set for him. You don't wanna fuck Kyle, he's your friend. You always try to ignore the power imbalance between you and the boys for your own peace of mind, but it's honestly so much safer for you if Kyle is not attracted to you, if he doesn't have any incentive to force your limits -which you know you wouldn't be able to prevent if he decided that's what he wanted-. And poor sweet Kyle had been trying his very very hardest to treat you like an equal and make you feel safe and normal he does not feel comfortable or ok with being presented with the option of fucking you, feels wayyyy too much like being offered to fuck an intern.

It'd be kinda dark and fucked up and complicated, but it also I think objectively it would be hilarious to have Simon present the idea nonchalantly and kinda awkwardly, like a dad who had to give the bees and birds talk against his will and is trying to make light of the situation, while both you and Kyle feel your soul drop to your feet and your blood run cold at the remainder that ah, yes. This right here is actually a kidnapping situation. That right there is a kidnapper.

Hi!!!! That’s a really cool Thought(tm) and is absolutely rich for angst and comfort. If Simon was the main driver of the sex in his and Ferals… situation, I think that would absolutely happen 100% and in that way. But generally in this au, feral asks for things - including playtime with others and Simon makes it happen for her. So he would only agree to Gaz if she wanted him, and doesn’t have that relationship with Gaz.

[crystalelemental]

My wife's on the controller again, and that means it's time for Thoughts Part 2. Much like the first time through, I'll be doing mechanics post first, then the rest. Unfortunately for this game, I stopped playing at a bad time to be in a good mood for this.

Nexomon Extinction, at least mechanically, does not feel super distinct from say, Pokemon. A lot of this feels much more similar than its initial game, due to changes around status, type matchup, etc. It's a very fun experience, but it feels like it lost a bit of its identity when they tossed aside full recovery on level up, super easy levels, no level cap, broken as hell status, etc.

Nothing has significantly changed between the first post and now. I still feel all of that is very relevant and true. Mechanically, the game would not feel out of place alongside the GBA/DS era of Pokemon. Which is my favorite era, so like...I'm having fun.

That said, my initial assertions do seem slightly unfair in retrospect. The crux of it was that the game incentivizes just using your biggest attack regardless of type matchup, and that's the best way to win. This...still kinda holds true. Type matchup feels more extreme as numbers go up, though, and new options are introduced. And this is the crux of what I'll be talking about today.

The single best Nexomon I had this entire run was Zappnic. A common, and a bee, with below average stats. Because it has a buff that stacks three times, boosting Atk, Def, and Spd 30%. Once you've boosted three times, you can use pretty much anything and secure a 2HKO. It learns the best electric move in the game, EMP, which pretty much always goes first despite the low speed penalty because of how buffed your stats are. It even blows through resists because Sonic Scream can inflict sleep, and is a nice neutral. Also the Def boost means it isn't threatened by attacks. But if something does kinda muscle through a bit, it also has a heal. I used this thing to basically clear nearly the entire endgame. It beat every form of Vados. Its only limitation is Stamina, which it cuts through pretty sharply. But recovery items can solve that.

Stall exists, and it fucks severely and often. One of my Nexomon, Floreina, has Green Sphere, which recovers 30% HP and Stamina on the next turn. Provided she isn't weak to the opponent, this becomes a perfect back and forth play, keeping her alive effectively forever. Stamina is no consideration. She just has to be able to actually take the hits being thrown out, which is sometimes questionable. But god what a fun set, that completely lacks the weakness of the bee. She swept most of the Grandmaster trial because she didn't need to worry about heal items, and had a good matchup against everyone but the fire tamer.

As a smaller, in-between scale, Horget wound up being a lot of fun too. Psychic Dragon had access to a move that buffed Atk 25%, and Renovate, which acts like Rest in Pokemon, but instead of two turns it's one. "But it says two?" Yeah but it counts the turn you use it, so it's hilariously strong. Horget's weakness, however, was its moves. It doesn't learn anything above base 90 power, so the tremendous buff move is offset by lower base power and less than impressive stats. Horget wound up being incredibly consistent, but falling off just a little bit due to these issues.

By comparison, other options were adequate to really frustrating depending on their utility. Felclaw should have been a Horget-esque entity with a 25% buff, but only to elemental damage so its neutral never took off, was plagued by similar limitations on base move damage, and did not have healing. Yarnesty was a solid starter, good wind-type damage output, but it lacked anything technical and so was a good counter to stuff weak to it, but little else. Greben was the saddest case, designed for defensive play but its only buff was a 40% boost to crit rate, which isn't super consistent to begin with, in exchange for cutting defense 20%. Her base effects weren't worth it, and status isn't really strong enough to justify being your pull. Even Phantra, who I expected to love, wound up feeling worse off than Folicurse, because Folicurse got access to the strongest Ghost move while Phantra didn't.

All this to say: Nexomon Extinction has a lot more dynamic play than initially expected, but largely relegated to a handful of options. What those options are isn't based on your rarity anymore, but it's also unclear when anything is set for success. The strongest option I had being a common, while multiple Mega Rares didn't hold up, is a bit bizarre. I don't strictly mind this, but lack of variability hurts. Basically, I yearn for some level of control over learnsets. I think it would really expand options.

On the subject of learnsets, types feel a lot more...imbalanced. Maybe it's just the ones I had access to, but postgame, I think seeing what the children of Omnicron can do and have access to points out the flaws. Specifically, they all have access to the best traits. So Luxa has access to the Bee Sweep combo (but with no healing), and Nara has access to the Floreina sustain combo, etc. All of them pack a solid neutral attack, and seem to have some form of buff, with Fone and Arqua having 25% Atk. But then there's Ventra. Who has...speed boosting, I guess? A move that lasts a few turns and gives only a 40% chance to ignore defense with Wind attacks? It's not like there's nothing, but it's a far cry from the consistent and powerful buffs that others seem to receive. The whole type feels like that.

This should logically be for the postgame wrapup, but I'm mentioning it now because it's fresh. I hate roaming legends. I hate them. The first Nexomon game, I didn't like the system much, but only because I had no control over which child was showing up and they respawned. Also that if you didn't find them in two encounters they disappeared from the map. The point is it was annoying, but you could manage, because the game had a radar that told you when something was close. That doesn't happen here. There is no warning or notice, and you will spend over an hour on the worst fucking encounter rate of your life, just trying to find these goddamned things. I spent FOUR HOURS today looking for Tyrants. I found two. Out of nine. That's fucking inexcusable. There is no reason for it to be this bad. To make matters worse, it sounds like the Abyssals aren't static fights. They also get relegated to random encounters in the grass. Which is probably the worst thing I've ever heard! Literally dozens of these low-spawn encounters! I don't think I'm finishing the Database this time. This is way, way too frustrating for no reward.

[foster-the-world]

Space Camp

The girls started their (free) DOE camp on the Intrepid this week. I'm super impressed with the programming. They gave an hour tour to the parents. When we walked by the girls were exploring inside a helicopter. Both girls told me the story of the first person (a women) to use a computer to make a naval ship (Raye Montague for the record). They also get to tour a real submarine. How cool is that? One of Bee's ice skating friends was there - which was a nice surprise. Sometimes living in NYC has its perks.

I started googling space related movies to show the girls. Space camp from 1986 popped up. The trailer is hilarious. The teenagers at space camp accidentally pushed the wrong button and ended up in space.

Did some googling of space camps at Kennedy Space Center. Maybe next year. I put a bunch of space/black hole related kid books on hold at the library.

Did a intake for a new OT service today. Seems promising. Huge sensory gym rooms. He said they want to figure out which system is out of whack for baby boy rather then giving us strategies for dealing with behavior. Fingers crossed it helps. Also finally got a DOE evaluation date. September 19th and totally out of our way but I'll take it. The new place said to continue with the DOE evaluation. Everything is 100% out of pocket expense at the new place - annoying but that's what his stipend is for. Not looking forward to printing out all of the documents they want us to send over. Trying to get medical care is a full time job.

I finished up the Retrieval podcast today. Those poor women.

We spent last week in St Louis with my parents/family. The kids are always so happy there. Our flight on the way there was cancelled with no good options to get home. We drove instead. The kids did better then I thought they would. Annoying but I'm glad we did it rather then cancelling. My Mom/Dad and the kids would have been so sad. My Mom did radiation everyday. 15 minutes in and out. She seems okay. She'll be finished August 16th. Hopefully that means she can put the whole cancer journey behind her.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

7/9/10/12/19/20/23

Hit me :3

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Itachi and Minato.

Just… *sigh* i’m so sick of ‘they’re perfect and can beat everyone’

worst part of canon

Sasuke’s story because he never gets some actual closure. I would have loved it if they had just given him something instead of the Massacure just being dropped cuz ‘itachi asked Naruto to keep it a secret’

worst part of fanon

The part of Fanon that wants to paint Kakashi as this big perv who’s shamed by everyone around him as being this big ol perv with no idea how to act normal.

Oh, also the part of Fanon that make’s Sakura perfect at everything and better than everyone else. I can and will fight someone, cut it out. Or at least don’t try to force it down other people’s throats as if it’s canon. I like my character’s imperfect and capable of getting their ass’ beat once in a while

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Ohhh this is hard cuz i am kind of unsure? Shizune. She’s not a hated character but she’s definitely not as loved as i think she should be.

Girl lead the entire medical division during the war and helped TWO hokage’s during their reigns. Plus she’s super close to Sakura and Sarada, having helped Sakura with raising Sarada while Sasuke was away.

She’s basically part of the family. The cool auntie.

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

Hmmmm Yukio/Danzo? 😂😂😂 but i did that to myself gdi.

Ok, a little horrified i like Tobirama/Izuna because i don’t really like Tobirama but the thought of having them be Sakumo’s grandparents and Kakashi having no connection to the sharingan even though he’s related to an Uchiha is hilarious.

part of canon you found tedious or boring

It’s anime only but that whole thing with Kakashi training Kiba. Kakashi had more important things to do gdi.

But if that doesn’t count i’ll go with the dumb mission bee and Naruto got sent on. There had to be a better idea then sending them to fuck around determining animal’s gender’s. Also never needed naruto saying ‘if its born a boy it’s a boy’ or whatever it was he said that had been being trans ally #1. I prefer Naruto as trans and badass

ship you've unwillingly come around to

Yamagai might be the closest i have to an answer to this question. Usually if i don’t like a ship i stay not liking it

Another good option for this answer might be Kakashi/Obito 😭😭😭😂😂😂

[deadmandairyland]

Came up with another concept for a possible Super Daryl Deluxe fic in the future if I can come up with more specific details for it:

A somewhat more mundane AU with no world-ending or teenager-murdering plots (man, this seems to crop up a little too often in media I like). It’d have some on-the-nose title, like “The Surprisingly Mundane Adventures of Daryl Whitelaw” or something, but it would still be a bit crazy, kinda like BakaTest (but without the summoned beasts) or maybe even Nichijou if I’m feeling ambitious.

Here are some basic ideas floating around my head:

Daryl has an overactive imagination but almost never speaks (which is pretty much canon already). Basically in this universe, even if it turned out that Daryl actually does believe the events of the game happened, it’s all in his head (which I think could actually be a funny concept, and it’s even touched upon somewhat in the game before eventually blindsiding you with a “Holy shit, this stuff is actually happening” epiphany).

Daryl can speak but is super awkward and doesn’t really know how to speak to people. On the rare occasions that Daryl does speak, he of course sounds like Napoleon Dynamite.

Instead of being an isolated girl living in the vents, Princess is something of a queen bee at the school (with Daryl being completely convinced that she’s literally royalty and an ice queen that’s waiting for a dashing prince to thaw her or whatever). She’d be kind of a Pacifica Northwest kind of character, and her name would literally just be Princess Bavarius because why not.

Eli Bavarius is not an eons-old doomsday supervillain, but something like... idk, a superintendent or some kind of government official? Someone that still has a lot of power over the school and is a bit of a dick. He can still have a skull for a face though, I think that would still fit the story. Maybe a result of the escalator incident? Will the escalator get a Historical Villain Upgrade in this? These are the real questions.

In the same vein of Eli still having the skull for a face, Vice Principal Robatto can still be a robot, again because why not.

Potential Love Interests (TM): So if Daryl is both our Archie and basically our hilariously clueless harem anime protagonist, Princess would obviously be our Veronica. Beyond that, I think Abby and Skill Sorceress (OOF, that’s going to be the hard part, coming up with names for the DnD characters. I don’t want to be calling Skill Sorceress, well, “Skill Sorceress” the entire time, and I don’t want to confuse everyone by calling her “the Homestuck” the whole time either) would make for good Bettys. Plenty of comedic potential there. As for the gay option I’m thinking... Saving Instructor (who I also need to come up with a name for because “Saving Instructor” doesn’t even make sense outside of a video game and I’m not calling him “the Weeb” the whole time either). We never see what’s under the Goku mask either, maybe he removes it at some point and he turns out to be a bishonen all along, complete with sparkles.

No, Paul and Alan will not be love interests for Daryl. I can’t do that to poor Daryl. I can do a lot of things to poor Daryl, but not that.

Possible Side Ships (TM): So right now all I’m thinking is that if I don’t end up pairing Abby with Daryl I’m probably going to pair her with either Monica or Claire, and if I don’t pair her with Claire then I'm probably going to pair Claire with Steve (insert haha funny Resident Evil joke here), but that’s pretty much all I can think of at the moment.

Non-Romantic Character Dynamic of Note (TM): I want Time Knight and his sister to be major characters. I just love their whole dynamic of the sister being like “My brother is the coolest, he’s the best brother ever and roleplaying with him is so much fun!” and meanwhile Time Knight is just the biggest delusional asshole on the planet. I don’t think we ever see them on screen together in the game so just imagining scenarios where they’re interacting is fun.

Anyway, that’s all I got for now. I mean it’s a lot to go off of, but actually coming up with a coherent plot out of this is the hard part. Only time will tell if we will see anything come out of either this or my “Super Abby Advance” idea.

[extragalaxtic-cosmos]

😳, 👀, 🥂, 🥵, 🍂, 🐷, 😴

😳 - Do you like your name?

Hmm… I like my name when I’m not in trouble and it’s being shouted at me. 😆

I’ve never really thought about this…. But…. Yes I do like my name most of the time. Sometimes it can be annoying though, mostly because if people should things in the street it can sound like my name. Which…. Actually gets quite annoying when you keep looking round 😆

But other than that… yes I do like my name 😁

👀 - What colour are your eyes?

Well….. I was comfy slonking in bed… but I’ve just got up to double check. I would say…. Around the edge and majority of the eye they are blue. However, there are small sections near the middle which are a bronze colour!

I would love one day to have a magnified photo of my eyes. I’d love to see what they look like under magnification!

🥂- Have you ever drank underage?

Yes..I have….. a few times actually 😅 The first time I got drunk was on holiday…. With my parents… (it sounds bad I know but it wasn’t bad) we’d just landed… and we’re invited To a bbq…. Unfortunately the single (or 2?) glass of wine went straight through me and I was quite drunk…. My parents thought it was hilarious when we went to bed because I was shouting through the wall why the room was spinning 😆😆😆😆

There have been other times I’ve been drunk underage tooooo, but far more boring stories!

🥵 - Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Hmmmm this is a good question actually…. I’m going to have to say….. to hot…… maybe? urgh both are as horrible as each other… but normally being to cold comes with a lot more pain than being to warm… so I’d have to say to warm.

🍂 - What’s your favourite season?

Oohhhh they are all nice in their own ways!!!

But I think I’d say Autumn…. The colours are so beautiful…. Plus it’s cold enough to warrant a real fire if you have that option.

But then again summer brings us bees and beautiful flowers…. And warm weather… and long days..

Winter….. not my favourite really…. It has Christmas but that doesn’t out way most of the time in the UK it’s just dark…. Wet…. Cloudy….. FLUFFIN COLD…. And dull. But it does bring you beautiful frost patterns.

Spring is when you hear more birds around…. And flowers start to grow again 😍

Oh god…. I don’t know….. ummmmm I think still Autumn…

🐷 - What’s your favourite animal?

Ah….. this is tricky. Because…… I love dogs…. But I also love birds…. We use to have a beautiful cockatiel…. He was an amazing bird!! And I like cats…. (Now)…. Growing up I wasn’t always a fan because I use to just get clawed by them all the time!

I think for me…. Dogs and then joint Cats/Birds.

Although squirrels are adorable….. ok I’m terrible with favourites. I’m still with the above answer!!

😴 - What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep?

So….. hm…. 40ish hours. 😅 it was a sleepover…. We pulled an all nighter and then HAD to stay awake all day because we were meeting family friends which went late into the evening….. I think I went to bed about 11pm the following night. I slept for about 12 hours that night 😆