#and we are now making fun of you in the discord

[silverlining-ships]

Music comms are CLOSED!! Check out the waitlist here!!

Ok y'know what, screw it. My brain seems to require three-four pieces at one time (genuinely cannot figure out why that is), and with the fact I only have two queued up right now and the game I'm composing for doesn't need any tracks at the moment, I'm getting composer's block again. So we're OPENING my music requests!!

I'm actually stunned at how many people seemed interested in getting a piece of soundtrack music for their f/o. I'm opening it to non-mutuals, and it's totally free! If you're concerned about paying/tipping for work, I'm always happy to receive content for my selfship, but I will not accept any money, and there's no pressure to tip content anyway. Again, this is for fun!

This is how it works:

Fill out this google form with the title of your ship, some songs you like, instruments, etc etc.

You can message on Tumblr or Discord (@/slipperson on Discord) on top of submitting the form too! I'll reach out myself once I get started on your piece.

I'll sketch out a draft, which is exactly like sketching out a basic pose for art - it'll typically only use piano/minor percussion. Sometimes I'll even give a simple concept before I flesh out a draft. I'll send it to you for approval.

If changes are needed, I'll refine the draft and re-update. If not, I'll go on to fleshing out the instrumental - this means adding instruments, changing volume (for example, in my first example, I used a lot of "dynamics"/volume changes to simulate the swelling of instruments). This is like adding the flat colors in a piece of art!

I'll send it to you again - I'll make changes upon your request, but if approved, I'll finally go ahead and mix the final draft. This means putting it through an audio program (audacity if you're curious!) and polishing the sound. This is like rendering the lighting!

After it's done, I'll send it to you for once last listen. Upon approval, I'll post it to Soundcloud, link it on Tumblr, and tag you in the post!

Important bits:

No comship/proship/aged up-or-down/RPF ships. Live action characters are fine as long as it's not the actual person. Familial/platonic ships are totally okay!

If you are a minor/ageless blog, I'm willing to write a piece for familial/platonic content, but not QPR/romantic.

Downtime is 1-2 months after I first open your request. I may finish it sooner, but no later than 2 months. This is because music generally takes awhile--30 seconds of music can take me 4-5 hours to concept! I also tend to work on 3-4 pieces of music at a time.

I will give frequent updates. Don't be afraid to reach out if you're curious on the status!

My work is never cleared to be used commercially or in AI programs. We're a bunch of selfshippers on Tumblr, so I know we all hate AI, but it's worth the mention. I tend to be strict on copywrite - it'll stay under my name, all rights reserved - however, you are free to use your piece wherever you'd like as long as it's not commercial use, used in a monetized campaign/video/form of media, and not used in AI.

I may put these tracks on a streaming service at a later date - not on Spotify, as the service is TERRIBLE with allowing their work to be remixed into AI. Something like Bandcamp or Soundcloud for Artists. If you are uncomfortable with this, please let me know.

Examples:

I will have my queue/completed list on my carrd here.

Thank you so much for your interest!! I'm actually so stunned I got so much love for this, and I'm excited to celebrate your ships with you!

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[ariadnelives]

Get Ready! It's almost Time

This coming Saturday (11/16/2024) I'll be dropping a brand new, full-length anthology, all about everybody's favorite machete-wielding vulgar lunatic Blue.

The stories in "Nothing But Blue Skies" include:

Catching Flax - a tense conversation between Blue and the woman who introduced her to her partner (previously released as a standalone)

My Dinner With Ariana - Blue tries to make nice with her partner's sister, who can't stand her

Moon State - A long-awaited family reunion is interrupted by chronic Pirate Nonsense while Blue is trying to cruise for tail at a college party

Tonic and Gin - An attempted Sexy Body Swap goes horribly wrong

Ain't We Got Fun? - Two country mice find their way to the big city! Blue breaks into a conservative couple's house to steal their cat

Now, this is gonna be the longest single update I've ever posted: "Nothing But Blue Skies" is approximately the length of the first book in the series, so I wanted to release it before the holidays, when people are likely to have time off.

I can promise you this anthology will include plenty of old favorite characters, new favorite characters, funny jokes, heart-wrenching emotion, and at least one sexy misunderstanding.

I will be posting the stories here and on ao3! Watch this space, and please, let me know all your reactions when you read! Oh, and if you do, make sure to join the series discord so you can share your reactions with other readers!

[uhohbestie]

This absolutely makes me want to cry (in a good way), I have been getting sooooo emotional since we posted the finale hahah aaaaaa <3 <3 <3

I'm so thrilled and so glad you enjoyed our fic, and so immensely proud of the community that popped up around it. It's been such a truly joyful experience, full of so many amazing, fun, creative, talented people- with you among them! Every drawing you've done has been a delight, it's always lovely to see you in the Discord, and I'm honestly just so happy that our story of love and grief and growth could gather so much goodness together. I'll miss it so much, but I'm excited for everything else we now get to share with TAMN, and the new stories we'll tell next.

And aaaAAA i love this drawing!!! Epilogue Scarian are forever in my heart. The tenderness of their kiss, Grian's long hair, Scar's cute little tie-back, and Jellie's little smiIIIIIILE. the warm lighting on them is so hopeful... I love it so much. The two of them turning towards the light :")

Thank you so much for this, and for all your kind words. We'll always have our little niche, and we're both glad to have you be a part of it! <3 <3 -🔒

i know it's extremely silly but nobody talks about how bittersweet it is when the thing that built the community you've grown to love with all your heart ends (the main body of it, at least.)

A little before the middle of the year, i found this fic called

"THERE ARE MONSTERS NEARBY" by @uhohbestie

And it just ended today. Fuck, it's such a beautiful work of art, you can tell the authors (🔐) put in so much love into every word. There is breath in everything they write. I was so lucky to have found the server when i did, because i got to experience so many amazing people, artists and writers alike. I got to rush to my phone every friday after school to wait for the scheduled releases-- i got to theorize and listen to everyone talk about the smallest, miniscule details that they found. My fridays were full of so much excitement, and because i actually had the balls to join, i have friends. Wonderful friends, and i'll never regret reading this stupid tear jerking fic, heart disease inducing fic. I'm happy it's over, i really am because Scar and Grian both got the ending they deserved. Oh, lock and key, you two have no idea how much love i feel for this fic. But now, i have nothing to look forward to on the weekends though, it'll feel empty for a while. I'm so used to the timers and the count-downs i set up,, the way we'd all live react and talk eachother through the chapters (because holy shit this fic is not for the weak i cry every other chapter) usgshsg I'M GOING TO MISS WAITING LIKE A PUPPY AT THE DOOR FOR THIS BABY TO UPDATE.

I won't ever shut up about TAMN because it truly is (well, was) an experience. I'm so happy i got to be a small part of this server<33

[bunnygirl-titties]

So I’m guessing you don’t need to wear bras when your beer belly fupa holds up your fat boobs?

Babygirl what the fuck does this even mean

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[lemongogo]

why do i love the conflict more than anything else . the misery . the incompatibility that spreads like oil slick . wanting so desperately for resolution that never comes . hmmm

[lilworms]

so

[abstractfrog]

@jofflock: Hi I dont really know how this app works! But I wanted to make sure you saw that John has seen your comic and he likes it 😁😁😁😁

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abstractfrog: ?!?!?!? i had to get up and pace around the room because of this. I live in a world where John Watson has seen my art

[junonreactor]

just did all the party sidequests. that was really cute

[beanswithbones]

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[piningpercussionist]

Kim you a Kamen Rider fan

Uh, no? Don't think so.

Name sounds vaguely familiar... one of the other clowns around here might be acquainted with it.

I didn't really watch too much TV as a young kid? I liked to mess around with my kit or go fuck around in the forests, for the most part. I started watching stuff more in highschool and college.

Some stuff I enjoy, or enjoyed, off the top of my head- Batman: The Animated Series, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Buffy the Vampire Slayer... There are definitely more things that I watched, but I'm not sure what all I really stand by enjoying... sometimes, you just watch something because it's so weird it fascinates you, ya know?

[sensitivedead]

feeling the need to listen to step on me by the cardigans and drive

[autizta]

I am looking into the eyes of my beloved followers and mutuals and friends we are making eye contact now and deep into my eyes you can see my soul is full of hopes and dreams, carried through me for the generations that have been and are to come.

And all I have to say is one question, one question I ask and I need you all to answer.

Do you guys wanna join me and my throuple's discord server where we have a little minecraft smp thing we are doing and roleplay and stuff?

[bbnibini]

HI! You don't have to respond to this, I just wanted it to let you know:

Your CYOA fic was actually the first fic I genuinely love and enjoy when I got into the OBM fandom back in around 2020 or 2021 ish?? I genuinely, absolutely love the amount of effort your put in. like FR, links embedded in the phrases or texts??? Multiple choices??? The story too???? SECRETS???? Your CYOA is incredible and I certainly don't mind having to wait years for it because I know without a doubt, it's going to be such a banger of a fic, its so full of life. So yeah, take as much time as you need, we all have our own lives, I, myself haven't caught up to the latest chapter because of work and life, but I'm glad you wrote it <3

Thank you! It makes me happy to have readers like you who understand. I'm just happy you enjoyed my series. c: Feel free to go back to it (or don't idrc; just really happy you took your time, went out of your way and placed a nice ask here. Really. You made my day c:) at your own pace! I used to have more time to write the CYOA but life happens so what can you do? Lmao it's a struggle the working class understands really well. 🫂 Let's get through this together! ;v;

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."