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why do i always get attatched to the ones who have almost zero character studies
#turtles 2018#rose rambles#i just#why'd they do mikey like that TwT#i just want him to be loved#i adore him so fuckn much#and i love that there's at least an openness that allows a lot of headcanon#but#ueueueueue#let my boy have an episode for him#but it's ok at least i just got my mind fuckn blown by viperizer0 's analyses and i am so running with it#honestly more surprised i Didn't immediately start psychoanalyzing every rise character#splinter? april? all of leo and raph?#donnie is literally filled to the brim with character and i love him#anyways i hope future iterations stay just as fun#not necessarily funny but Fun#the whole concept is a little silly they can have fun <3
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The cullens with reader who is taller than them by a lot and loves to pick them up because of it?
The Cullens with a reader who is taller than them
Thank you so much for requesting and I hope you like this!
Edward:
In the books he is about 6'2 or 188 cm
In the movies he is about 6'0 or 185 cm
He's one of the taller Cullens in both iterations and he is definitely not used to someone being taller than him
Of course, we know he is a traditional man
So his partner being taller than him would freak him out a bit
But he would get over himself don't worry
You can't sneak up on him to pick him up tho
The whole mind reading thing tends to not let that happen
He wouldn't let you do it for a while
Just a touch insecure
But I feel like if you ask enough and really beg him for it he'll let you
And if he sees into your mind to know that your intentions are pure you just want to have some fun
Will swear up and down that he hates it
Secretly he doesn't tho
The only other one who has ever tried to pick him up was Emmett
And that was when they were wrestling and Emmett tried to throw him into next week
He'd never admit that he likes it
But he won't try so hard to stop you in the future
Alice:
In the books she is about 4'8 or 147 cm
In the movies she is about 5'2 or 160 cm
Either way it's not hard to be taller than her
She's not intimidated
She is the shortest Cullen hands down
She's used to it
I honestly feel like she might beat you to it
She sees you after a long day and just runs up into your arms
Her feet are fully off the ground while you're holding her
She wouldn't mind if you pick her up more either
It's her new favorite way to be greeted
Whether she's the one jumping up or you picking her up
She's not beating the tiny allegations and that's okay
Jasper:
He is about 6'3 or 190 cm in the books
And about 5'9 or 175 cm in the movies
He is another one who is a bit traditional
He was a confederate soldier after all sadly
That was back when there were pioneers and women only made cheese and raised kids
He's not used to his partner being taller than him
I mean his other partner is Alice
But he loves you so he stays
It's not a dealbreaker for him anyways
What might be a dealbreaker though? Sneaking up on him and picking him up
He doesn't like feeling vulnerable
It would be a miracle if you managed a sneak attack anyway
So probably don't do that
Ask him nicely and he might consider it
I feel like the best time to get him to say yes though would be if you had a really rough day and he can feel that you are really upset
He would try other things to cheer you up first, but if that doesn't work...
He suggests that maybe holding him would make you feel better?
And of course it does
Again he won't admit that he likes it
Will let you keep doing it tho
But only occasionally
Rosalie:
In the books she is about 5'9 or 175 cm
And in the movies she is about 5'4 or 162 cm
Another one in the middle/average height range
She is used to being shorter
I mean look at her next to Emmett
She wouldn't find it shocking
However I don't think she'd be into being picked up
She is a vengeful, independent woman
Her hobby is taking care of fancy cars
She is not delicate and does not want to be picked up
It reminds her too much of her old fiance
I feel like she might let you do it once in a while though
She isn't cruel after all
She'd treat it like an obligation though
Like going to your partner's favorite restaurant that you hate because you want to see them happy
She might enforce a system around it
"If you do three favors for me of my choice I'll let you pick me up"
Or something along those lines
Overall it's not her favorite but she'll let you
Emmett:
He is about 6'5 or 195 cm in the books
And about 6'1 or 185 cm in the movies
So finding anyone taller than him?
He is in awe
He loves it tbh
Immediately you two are THE power couple
Literally emphasis on power
You may be his partner but you are also his competition now sorry
Contests on who can jump higher (he wins obv unless you're a vampire too)
Who is faster
And who is stronger
That last one is where you pick him up for the first time
He bet you that you couldn't do it
And obviously you can
He just standing there like that stupid old pikachu meme
"Can you do that again"
New favorite thing unlocked
Even though he hates being bested, he finds that he loves being picked up
It's been a long time since someone's done that to him
He finds it refreshing <3
Esme:
She is about 5'6 or 167 cm in the books
In the movies she's about 5'4 or 163 cm
So another one who's used to being shorter than people
I have a feeling that she would really like being picked up tho
She has a bad history with lovers
That of course being that the only one we know she had before Carlisle was pretty abusive
She loves feeling secure in her relationships (as anyone should) but I feel like she really likes the reminders of it
For example, being the little spoon or walking on the inside on the sidewalk
Or being picked up
She had never even thought of it before you just... did it
Pick her up to give her a kiss and she will melt
Carlisle:
In the books he is about 6'2 or 188 cm
In the movies he is about 5'11 or 180 cm
I know I said Edward was old fashioned...
But this guy is literally the definition of old
He's pretty progressive all things considered
But he does have a hard time wrapping his head around this one
He's not used to being in love with someone who is taller than him
(Don't even get me started if you're a guy or basically anything that's not an AFAB woman... this man is confused and starts questioning his whole existence)
But if he loves you he loves you
And once he's made up his mind to make you his partner then he is content with any differences he may see in his mind
He actually kind of likes it
He doesn't need to do like a crazy vampire jump to reach something that Emmett put super high up anymore
But as far as being picked up?
That's a bit of a reach
After all he's the rock of this whole family
He feels like he can't let his guard down for even a second or they'll be found out by humans or attacked by another coven
So it's a big ask for him
But maybe if you eased into it by being the big spoon a couple times, lifting him off the ground just a little bit when you give him a hug maybe you could get there eventually
Vampire! Bella:
She is about 5'4 or 162 cm in the books
And about 5'5 or 165 cm in the movies
The most progressive (yay!)
She couldn't give less of a damn if you were 8 feet or 4 feet tall
If she loves you she loves you
She would notice your height but honestly wouldn't care
Now if you snuck up on her?
Get ready to get punched sorry
Charlie's a cop he definitely taught her something
Even if while she was human she couldn't use that knowledge effectively
Give her a warning next time
She doesn't mind tbh
As long as she's not doing something you can hold her like a ragdoll for hours
#alice cullen#alice cullen x reader#bella swan#bella swan x reader#carlisle cullen#carlisle cullen x reader#edward cullen#edward cullen x reader#esme cullen#esme cullen x reader#jasper cullen x reader#jasper hale x reader#jasper cullen#jasper hale#emmett cullen x reader#emmett cullen#rosalie cullen x reader#rosalie cullen#rosalie hale#rosalie hale x reader
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Hi! Here again. Just finished my latest batch of Red Star sketches, had an idea of what Leshy looks like for me. I hope you'd enjoy it. Also took the liberty on drawing what Hamal's future eldritch from could look like, if you don't mind.
Full page sketch! Here are some closer details and explanations for them:
Leshy, youngest ex-god half naked version! You described him as lanky but also bushy, so I gave him a bushy head with something of a mane, very fuzzy torso with a thinner layer of fuzz that you could see the wood-like skin in the middle like those goblin naked cats, skinny twigs arms with bushy elbows, fat tail, fat bush pants, and tiny wooden feetsies. Inspired by others' iterations of Leshy.
Hamal and Narinder reacting to the induction of the ex-Bishops! Hamal is so NOT happy, especially on their future hubby's behalf, Narinder is trying to stay grounded there but his breakfast wants to disagree. Made a slight edit under the eyes on the right, or is it left, not sure if you'd notice the tiny detail but just wanted to clarify.
Human Hamal and Narinder full body! Hamal is a bit of a showoff (and yes they're wearing boots with heels and fur cuffs let them be fancy) and the hair floof makes up for the height gap as well 😂
Some headshots of horn growth for Hamal! The "future" ones are just my ideas, I don't know if you're planning to have them grow extra horns or not I just wanted to give him twisted horns but I did gave them eye makeup at the corner of their eye in those, let them be fancy. Also doodled a human Narinder doing the flesh flower move. Now for the Eldritch Hamal thing:
I had the idea of their face opening up to reveal a mouth filled with pointed teeth and the snake tongue, their normal face being like a second set of face of some sort, bleeding ichor, alluding to their somewhat two-faced nature being sweet but also dangerous. Then their eyes would fall back in and come out through their horns at the side as they extend outwards, like those ball spirals, but gross and fleshy instead. Their second horns would grow out and curved to a circle together, and their head would peel itself open at the top to reveal their brain, which would manifest a hazy like eye like the LOTR Sauran one.
Anyway, these are just my fun ideas, don't feel like I wanted you to use them over your own ideas for Hamal's future looks. Please enjoy these, and let me know what you think of them and the blurbs for them. Drink water and eat vegetables regularly. Have a gentle week.
Hi there! As always, these are wonderful! I love your interpretation of Leshy; that's exactly what I was picturing! "Twiggy" is a good word for his build. I also really enjoy Narinder and Hamal at the start of the Reconciliation; they're both holding it together real well lol. Always love to see your human interpretations, too.
I like your concepts for Hamal as they age! I was planning on having them gain horns in the far flung future, and I love the way you've illustrated it! I also like your "two-faced" idea; that very much reflects Hamal's true nature.
Thank you again for sharing your art! It's always so wonderful.
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Forgive me, but I kinda wanna go off on a little tangent here:
This line: "I wanted to walk with you" no matter if I hear it or read it, breaks my heart every single time.
In part because Edelgard is my favorite character along with Byleth, but more so that it is a painful slap to the face and reminder of everything that the player would have been aware of because of White Clouds.
And that's thanks to the wording of the line; "I wanted to walk with you" verses "I wanted you to walk with me." There's almost this subtle allusion to that Edelgard that wanted to know the joys of idling. The Edelgard that wanted to put down these burdens but couldn't, refused. The Edelgard that wanted more than anything to not be alone. "I wanted to walk with you" has this painful implication that Edelgard, more than anything else, wanted to walk down a path with someone. A path, seemingly any path, not even hers. (Which is kinda what happens in Crimson Flower, but that's for a different text post).
But this is Silver Snow and after 30+ hours of gameplay, you are reminded of the person you choose at the very beginning. You are reminded of how this whole thing began. And just as you are reminded, she's taken away. YOU kill her because this is the path you choose. (Assuming you weren't soft-locked into it.)
Funnily enough though, the game doesn't end there. I don't know if I have enough words to express how I felt after this moment, but I can tell you what I did in that last month of the game.
Nothing.
I did nothing.
I stayed in the room and rested week after week. I was done playing and I was confused by the way the game insisted it needed to keep going. I didn't talk to anyone I didn't have to. I don't know the reactions the Black Eagles had to Edelgard's or Hubert's death, if they even had reactions (Although I'm sure someone did.) I didn't run around the monestary or eat with people, I saw no point. The game was over, it ended in that throne room. This was some weird epilogue that I didn't want to play.
I was so confused as to what the actual climax of the route was supposed to be. (SS was my second route following CF and after watching my sister play AM). I didn't understand what they were building to, until the S-Support choice.
Every route has that "Who are you going to marry?" moment, but there's this text blurb that shows up beforehand and I find that SS has the most mundane one of the four. "Is Byleth going to become the archbishop" veryse "The war might very well come to an end after this final battle, so why don't we hope for a better future with someone?"
I don't know, to me emotionally, those feel like two completely different choices.
And what makes me so infuriated was that that choice, Byleth becoming the archbishop, doesn't even matter. Not 45 minutes of gameplay later, Rhea either dies or steps down after losing control of her powers. No iteration of SS ends where Byleth isn't the next archbishop. If they didn't want it, they're forced to and if they did, it doesn't matter because they're gonna have to do it anyway.
Then you get the mural. Interpret it how you like, but I can never not see how sad Byleth looks and how they're being taken away into the church.
This final moment made me never want to play this route again. Don't get me wrong, I found SS really interesting and an emotionally complex route. It was, at times, fun to see these different perspectives coming from characters who I had only experienced in CF. Hell, it's my third favorite route after AM. It emotionally hurt my heart, in a good way. But unlike AM, it doesn't have a bitter sweet ending in my mind. It's just bitter.
And it sours.
Once more, Byleth's autonomy, they're ability to choose, is undermined. There was no choice. This was going to happen anyway, there was no reason to deliberate for a month or wonder what the future would be like with the person you choose. This is happening and the way the game presents it, is again, like a slap to the face. Just as you are about to make your decision, if it's a yes or a no, Rhea losses control of her powers and Byleth is forced into the position no matter what.
There was no choice, no path. You already decided hours beforehand, either at the start of White Clouds or in the Holy Tomb. There is no one here to walk with you. You killed them. (Both in the Rhea and Edelgard sense).
#no art just text#but this whole thing assumes you didn't romance and save rhea at the 11th hour#but even then that choice isn't telegraphed that way#nor do you understand you're making that choice without prior knowledge#but hey this was just my experience with the route#if you find enjoyment in silver snow#that's great and I'm glad you do#i do as well at times and I do think it's worth playing#that's all for now :)
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Here’s the final part of the “Raph is a system” theory compilation post! It’s the last of what I can scrape up from canon; while I still have ideas on how it might loop back into character interactions and plot and so on, they’re much more speculative in nature. (Part 1 is here) (Part 2 is here) (You’re reading Part 3)
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"Red” is the alter with the least screen time, so it took a while for me to connect the dots on when and why he formed.
His shadowed face, the dramatic background music when he speaks, and his seriousness are reminiscent of the “brooding on rooftops in the rain while gloomily staring off into the distance” thing that Raphs throughout the franchise will do sometimes. That’s easy to poke fun at on a superficial level because most of us look back on our edgy phases with self-deprecation, but it’s a lot less funny in the context of the life he lives. Being a normal human teenager in normal human society is a fucking nightmare; being a mutant teenager who has no idea what to expect in terms of development or lifespan, only five people he can safely interact with ever, and a very limited future hiding from everyone else for as long as he lives has got to be just awful.
RR’s few lines in “Pizza Puffs” tell us a lot. ���It’s the only way they’ll learn” and “this is for their own good” suggest that he formed when the turtles started exploring more of the sewers and going aboveground, and Being The Leader became more of a responsibility. A thousand new ways for them to get in trouble meant a thousand new ways Raph would have to bail them out, and that got old fast- especially since they didn’t have April’s knowledge to help them in the beginning. I doubt they met her the very first time they left the sewers. The wiki says April knew the boys for five years as of “Mystic Mayhem”, so they would have been nearly eight at the time, perhaps the mental equivalent of a ten- or eleven-year-old human.
A while back I sifted through all the eps with Raph in them in the vague hopes that “Pizza Puffs” wasn’t the only episode featuring RR... and lo and behold, I found something! The shadowed face and dramatic background music are also present in “Minotaur Maze”!
“I can’t do it. I got no mystic mojo. I’m useless.”
“Hey, that’s not true, brother. You just gotta believe in yourself, and know this: If I die in this maze, I will haunt you for the rest of your life.”
(I know that’s only two data points, but y’all canonically cannot scoff at me.) RR shows up when HR is no longer able to tolerate the bullshit at hand. “I’m not going to baby you Leo, get your shit together before your ego kills us all” was a reasonable response to nearly being shish-kebab’d.
“Pizza Puffs”, on the other hand... LDM pulled through in the end, but that RR got HR to stay behind added an unnecessary level of risk. Getting his brothers to learn a lesson should have waited until after the giant mutant cannibal had been dealt with and they were no longer poisoned.
This hands-off “figure it out on your own” approach probably came from Splinter. I swear to Pizza Supreme In The Sky I’m not trying to shit-talk him, but his lack of involvement with his sons was a major flaw. Before all that character development he was terrible at things like “emotional support” and “life lessons”, leaving Raph without the blueprints to deal with a lot of problems. HR would respond by rushing in and figuring things out as he went, but sometimes RR would have to say “No, we’re maxed out and can’t deal with this, we’ve gotta step back”. As we’ve seen in other iterations, when Raph is maxed out and doesn’t step back...
...he goes too far. Plenty of folks have commented on how rarely the Rise turtles smack each other around compared to other versions; it’s telling that RR spoke up just a moment after HR smacked Mikey in “Pizza Puffs”.
Raph is much bigger and stronger than his brothers this time around, meaning such an outburst would have a much higher risk of Genuine Grievous Injury. And while his size and strength also mean a measure of gentleness has been baked into him since day one, there would still be times HR would feel himself boiling over and RR would head off somewhere quiet for fear of the above situation; which was potentially alluded to in “Hot Soup: The Game”.
“You went out on your own when you were his age.”
The context of “Man vs. Sewer” suggests Raph isn’t going to go off on his own without very good reason- such as cooling down before he does something he regrets. That this detail shows up in Casey’s debut episode suggests it is how they will properly meet and bond, since befriending Casey and doing vigilante shit with him is what usually gives Raph a way to blow off steam while having someone nearby to keep him in check. But that probably won’t happen until partway through season 3, since I doubt we can cram the rest of Casey’s redemption arc into the movie alongside the invasion and time travel trauma shenanigans and leader drama. So in the meantime RR will continue to brood on rooftops in bad weather and listen to Ephemerality songs and monologue to himself because he knows nobody’s going to hear him over the incessant background noise that makes up the cities above and below.
I was a bit stumped about how that meeting would take place- the events of the finale (and possibly also the movie) would no doubt have both the human and yokai populations on high alert, making it dangerous for RR to slip away for some peace and quiet. But the events of the finale also gave us some insight on Raph’s powers; he has a way to leave without actually leaving!
Hardlight Clone Jutsu, baby!
So whenever HR finds himself in a particularly sour mood, a wisp of power winds its way up through the open-air portion of the lair and forms into a clone aboveground. HR doesn’t have to leave for a while to cool down before coming back and dealing with the situation calmly, because RR is already on a rooftop somewhere dissipating those bad feelings by listening to the rain and/or yeeting trash cans.
But mutants can’t freely walk the streets of New York, and the Hidden City Police probably still have it out for Raph. And someone, hero or villain, will eventually realize that Raph has a gloomy stray clone running around and ask questions that can’t be answered without cracking open the can of worms that is This Whole Situation. RR needs to get creative. That we’ve seen clones have both full color and the basic red/white palette suggests their color could be altered in other ways; and that the holo-form grew extra arms in the lair fight vs. the Shredder suggests their shape could also be changed further.
So what will he choose to look like, if not his body?
Obviously he’ll use a red and black color palette because it slaps, leaning more towards black since I compared him to Batman back in Part 1. A low-detail design makes it hard to identify him, giving onlookers the impression that they just couldn't see him well in the dark. Mentally filing down his spikes and decreasing the curve of his shell are easy enough, but it takes him a while to figure out five fingers instead of three, and there’s not much he can do about his voice other than lowering the pitch so he just opts to not talk much within earshot of others. A cape further disguises his silhouette and again, it slaps. The impression of a mask means he doesn’t need a face and it lets peoples’ assumptions work for him. Humans are more likely to think he’s human than a Very Human-Shaped Mutant, and yokai come in so many shapes as is that he could be anything from a witch to a dehydrated googlyschmootz.
(You know how it is with franchises. Old patterns repeating in new ways.)
New York City never sleeps, and I doubt the Hidden City does either. He’ll run into Casey eventually, but in the interim he stumbles across and intervenes in some attempted purse-snatchings and kidnappings and the like. Most of the would-be victims use his arrival as their chance to escape, but one of them is too frozen with fear to move until their attackers are chased off into the dark. He escorts them home, and it’s only once they’re at their doorstep that they work up the courage to ask him who he is.
It’s... a difficult question, in more ways than one. “Raph” is out of the question. “Red” isn’t quite right, and neither is “Angel”- they’re a tad too identifying still, and the R.A.P.H. thing was HR’s idea anyway. So he shrugs, and melts away into the shadows.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m Nobody.”
#rottmnt#rottmnt raph#red raph#rottmnt nobody#the 'raph is a system' theory#this will never be canon in a million years but it's canon compliant and that's what's important to me lol#ephemerality is a synonym for evanescence#i had to use a thesaurus for that one#anyway i am have always been and will always be an 03 hoe#long post#i have an inkling about how his meeting with casey would go so i might put that here sooner or later
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Will Elita die in WFC Kingdom?
Though the cliffhanger of Earthrise and trailer for Kingdom kind of give me hope, actually? You don’t know if she’s alive or not by the end of Earthrise, and the trailer has this afterlife vibe to her - so if she does die, that would kind of be a spoiler right there. So I’m hoping the trailer is just trying to mislead us on purpose. Somebody mentioned she might be using her time-stopping powers which almost (i repeat: ALMOST) killed her in G1, which I think would be really cool, especially if we get to see Optimus have to break out the jumper cables again lol.
Edit: Yup they killed her off 😭 But at least she died with her team which made it less explicitly a "fridging" (I couldn't believe they got rid of Jetfire too as he's a fan favourite). WFC is far from my favourite TF show (honestly I had more fun even with RID15's first season lol), so the Elita 1 version that came out of WFC is the best thing about the show as far as I'm concerned. I hope we'll see a similar iteration of her in the future (tho I won't hold my breath lol), but at least I got a great new female Autobot to play with in fanon.
Ah yes, another show, another speculation on whether a female character will die for the man-pain. I really wish this trope wasn’t so wide-spread that we need to keep thinking about it constantly, but here we are. What I can say, is that I hope Elita-1 doesn’t die. She’s been the most prominent and central female character - and effectively the main character for the post-season1-cybertron storyline - so killing her off would really feel like she was only brought back from the G1 backseat and built up just so we could have a main character that can die but is not in the main nostalgia-bait clique. What a waste of a great character.
Anyway, TF shows don’t have a great track record when it comes to writing female characters (there are exceptions, but not many), so I really hope Elita gets to stay a good example. And on a more cynical note, given the flack Netflix got for killing off Allura in Voltron for no other reason than “iT’s So DeEp YoU gUyS”, I hope they don’t make the same mistake again.
P.S. Dear mutuals, feel free to send a message spoiling if Elita or Optimus die in WFC Kingdom, I am seriously not gonna watch it before I find out 😁
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An Overdue Update
Hey there! Long time no see.
It’s been quite a while since my last update (and several times that I’ve said I would update that fell through lol), but I think it’s finally the perfect time to tell you all what’s been going on behind the scenes. I’ve kept most of you all in the dark with no explanation for my hiatus for months now, but with the end of the year upon us, I want things out in the open before moving into 2021. I will warn you now, that this will be a long post, because there’s a lot of backstory I have to lay out to explain everything. There will also be some brief mentions of emotional manipulation and emotional abuse in the beginning of this post, which I will be content tagging for safety, so please skip over the first question if you would like to avoid this subject.
Now without further ado, I will be answering some frequently asked questions, starting with:
Q: Where did you go?
The short answer to this is that I took a very long, unwanted break from the community, but that answer doesn’t really suffice in explaining why. Typically, I like to keep things lighthearted and chill on this blog, because much of the reason why I play the Sims and do storytelling is for escapism. Things that happened this year took that away from me.
This spring, I broke up with my long term boyfriend of five years. With that separation came a lot of heartache, guilt, and stress for a variety of reasons. We’d been together since my days in undergrad and had shared so many intimate experiences together: graduations, moving out of state into our first “grown up” apartment, birthday trips to our favorite cities. We had inside jokes that I still find myself wanting to make with him, because after so much of our lives intertwined together, he’d essentially become my best friend. But things ended between us for good reason.
Despite the good that came out of that relationship, there was a fair amount of emotional manipulation/abuse that went on, early as the first few months of us being official. Sometimes it was subtle things: when we first started dating, I was in my final year of undergrad and doing all I could to bring up my gpa and buff up my resume, so that I could increase my chances of getting into my grad school of choice. Frequently, he would comment on my academic successes as if they would be the thing that would break us up. I remember presenting a paper on a panel, facing my fear of public speaking head on, and I was so proud of the work I’d put into it all, and then hours later coming back to my student apartment to tell him how it went, and the first words out of his mouth were, “Someday you’re gonna get too smart and leave me behind.” And that wouldn’t be the last time he said some iteration of that phrase to me, and every time it would feel like he was praying I would slow down so he wouldn’t feel I was outgrowing him. Even when I finally did get accepted to my dream school, my first thought after my excitement was that when I told him the news, he wouldn’t be happy for me. My decisions for my future became personal slights to him: I had to move from the midwest out to NYC to attend grad school, and even though I discouraged him from following me if he didn’t want to live in the city (which he 100% did not), he followed me anyway and hung that decision over my head like a giant reminder of some debt that I owed him. I regret not following my gut then and my failure to recognize the red flags, because I would go on to spend 3 more years after our move losing myself as he clutched onto me, in what I can only assume with the hope that if he held on tight enough, that I wouldn’t leave him behind.
When I look at the more overt signs of my ex’s possessiveness, I realize I should have shared what was going on more with the people close to me: in the early stages on our relationship, he’d already done destructive things like slashing the tires of a guy I had been seeing earlier that same year, and punching a hole into the wall of my student apartment. He’d gone through all my messages on social media, my texts, my emails, all to find out about old crushes that he suspected I might still be in contact with. He even went as far as reading through my private journal, which I previously wrote in daily, but now I struggle to write in more than a few times a year, for fear of my privacy being invaded again. In the wake of realizing our relationship was failing, instead of ending things, I put my energy into hoping that he would do better, and I hid what was happening from my family and friends, to the point that I avoided their messages and phone calls. I isolated myself in increasing measures as time went on until I was too timid to do most things outside of my apartment without my ex-boyfriend by my side. The reason I stayed so long is because of these combined things: the sense of owing him my time after uprooting his life, the fact that I was both physically and mentally separated from my support systems, the feeling of familiarity that had grown from shared experiences and time, and largely, this overwhelming self imposed desire to not appear as though I had failed my relationship.
Largely, 2020 has been an absolute trash fire, but I can thank this year for one thing; putting me into a situation of such unrest that I could no longer ignore that I was not living the life I wanted or deserved.
After our breakup, I moved back to my parents’ place and stayed there while the remainder of my lease in New York ran out. When I originally left, I only brought back a small suitcase and backpack filled with essentials and valuable items that I couldn’t leave behind in my apartment, so I had to return again to retrieve my things, which, as you can imagine, was not fun. Not only was traveling during covid a nightmare, my ex was threatening to throw all my stuff out of our apartment, so I had to scramble to get a flight, a hotel, moving equipment, and a moving service arranged on the fly so I could retrieve everything (and when I got there, he had smashed one of my laptops). In summation, from our break up to finally moving out completely, this all happened over the span of mid-spring to the 1st of August.
Since then, I’ve been keeping myself sparse on the internet, partially because I needed the time to recover from the entire experience, and partially because frankly, I’ve been afraid of my ex monitoring any of my accounts to keep tabs on me. He was fully aware of this blog, and since in recent years it's been the only account I’ve kept up with, I was afraid of him trying to find out where I am and what I’ve been doing through here. I’ve only felt comfortable reblogging others content for the past few months.
So that’s where I’ve been. Which brings us to the next question:
Q: What happened to Love Island?
Over the past few months, I’ve received several asks and messages about whether or not I still planned on doing the Love Island challenge, as well as words of concern about my well being. I want to start by acknowledging all those messages by first apologizing to anyone I didn’t get back to: the majority of you got the sense that I was overwhelmed or burnt out, as most of us have been this year, and I really thank you for still having any interest in seeing me do any type of content after I essentially ghosted you all lol. I really appreciate all the well wishes too.
But I also received this:
Which, 1) I don’t know if this was either impeccable timing or horrible timing on your part, considering I planned on writing this update before this landed in my inbox.
And 2),
I don’t know if you were a reader or one of the participants selected for the challenge, but I’m sorry you’re disappointed about me not following through with the challenge. I was really excited to do it when I made the casting call, was ecstatic about the number of creators who submitted complex and diverse sims, and I had even completed the villa and started working on shooting the premiere. But as you can see from everything above, life happened. I wish this year had been more stable so that I could have done the challenge with no problem.
But I’m not going to apologize for making the choices I needed to to preserve my mental health and safety.
That being said, it’s been so many months since I originally pitched the challenge; many of the creators who were selected are now inactive or have deactivated. And honestly, I didn’t know whether you all would even want the challenge at the point, I mean…? It’s winter time now, and Love Island was definitely more of a summer themed challenge lol.
As it stands, I don’t know if I will be picking up where I left off with the Love Island challenge. I certainly still have some interest in doing it; I built a whole set and had an entire schedule of challenges and dates planned for the project. But I don’t know if I can move forward with the original cast, or if I would have to do a new casting call to fill the spaces of inactive creators. So...I guess I would need feedback from you all. Would you want Love Island still?
Q: What are you planning to do now?
Right now, I’m doing whatever makes me happy. I’m in a much better place than I was about 6 months ago, and I don’t feel the same anxiety about posting as I did. For now, I might just post some casual gameplay until I know whether or not I’m moving forward with Love Island. I’m just happy to come back to do what I love.
So there you have it. 2020 kicked my ass in some really heart wrenching ways, and I needed some time to not worry about keeping up with content creation and just worry about taking care of me. Now that I’m a little more stable, I want to come back, even if it’s just simple stuff for now. To those of you who have stuck around waiting to see if I’d ever pick my projects back up, thank you so much, and I’m so sorry to have kept you waiting this long lol. For the time being, all I have to offer is a very long overdue Follower’s Gift: I will be hosting a giveaway for my followers this week, where I will be giving away $40 worth of sims content each to 3 followers. I’ll have more details about the giveaway tomorrow when the official post goes live.
If you made it this far thank you for reading this long mess, and I’ll see you all soon!
~Cam
#update#updates#cw: emotional abuse#cw: emotional manipulation#emotional manipulation cw#emotional abuse cw#emotional manipulation#emotional abuse#non sims#nonsims#if you made it past that block of tags#i'm doing okay now i promise#i wouldn't force myself back just to jeopardize my mental health#thank you for caring about me#even you mean anon#cause you cared enough to send that lol#but seriously thank you#colourfullsims
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Mass Effect Initiation thoughts
In short: this book is actually really good, N.K. Jemisin is, as we all know, an excellent writer! It’s the story of how Cora met Alec Ryder and joined the Initiative, and it has SO much good good SAM content and I am full of emotions.
- poor cora is so continually out of her depth, I want to give her a hug. the points made about her in the main game are true though -- she is not ready for leadership yet. (and that’s fine! she does much better with something or someone to belong to and that is so Valid. she’s an honorable Loyal Knight!!! one of the sexiest things to be, as we all know)
I think I’ll actually like her a lot more on this new playthrough now -- she must have been quite hard to write compellingly in the game because at the end of the day she’s really very straightforward and honest and loyal, it’s quite hard to uh ‘hide��� things in her character
- alec ryder deadass installed an unspeakably illegal (and did I mention experimental?) AI in cora’s head with no informed consent whatsoever. d A D
(when cora is like ‘are you actually going to another galaxy because they don’t have laws to stop you from committing fully to your craziness in public’ and alec is like *...maybe so meme* fadsfhkj he does literally say ‘this is why I’m going to another galaxy’ out loud at a later point of the book)
- this book is giving me the good good SAM content ;________; I love SAM so much, the scene where cora thinks she’s dying and SAM talks to her? when cora asks SAM if he’s okay being connected to her because if he’s sentient that matters to her (cora is a Good)? SAM explicitly having inherited alec ryder’s sense of humour and sarcasm and alec a) doesn’t know how it happened, b) distantly thinks he should probably track that process down and turn it off (and never does) and c) regrets all his life choices when his robot kid mercilessly snarks at him and questions his life choices? please bioware give me an me:a sequel with more of this stuff I’ll eat it up with a spoon
- body diverse asari! HUGE BUFF ASARI! Short stocky beautiful matriarch asari with one krogan and one turian trophy husband fast asleep in her bed in the background of a vidcall fkdjshfkjsdlhfkjsdah god I love mass effect with my entire heart
- OLD LADY INFORMATION BROKER VOLUS WORKING OUT OF ILLIUM!!!! this is not a drill what the fUCK this is the coolest shit
- fasdklhfsjkdalfhsdjk okay in Alec Ryder POV: “I don’t think [Cora] likes me very much.” Which probably meant she had good judgement. AFLSKJDHGJSDKF ALEC
he has a weird flip-flopping sense of self -- he is uncompromisingly (one might even say... astoundingly arrogantly) secure in his own intellectual superiority and that most other people are idiots not to be trusted and that he needs to do things himself because others would mess it up, and yet there’s this clear seam of self loathing around basically everything else about himself too. (You know who he reminds me of, in a more military and less visibly anxious way? Rodney McKay. Alec Ryder is like a slightly unfortunate outcome for a McShep lovechild. I think we just figured out why I have sort of a soft spot for him even though he’s a certifiable dick lol)
- this book really makes it hit home that cora grew up incredibly isolated and dirt poor. I’ve seen some people say her backstory is all sunshine and daisies compared to kaidan and especially jack’s, but honestly her background is complicated and fucked up enough that I’m just like ‘shit baby :(’ all the time
- well I have successfully solved the puzzle about whether alec ryder is an idealist or not; he absolutely is. a grouchy, bad-tempered one with no people skills, but an idealist nonetheless. alec ryder is in fact a storm of 150000 emotions in a trenchcoat, barely held in check by a thin fragile outer shell of iron lol, SAM was absolutely right to say that he was mostly governed by his feelings. (and I mean if anyone would know it’d be SAM I guess). I found some of it sort of sweet actually: he reflects in passing that one of the biggest reliefs of no longer being in the alliance is that he’ll never have to risk other people’s lives again. he fundamentally wants to build something good to help people live and be happy instead of destroying things. (he also is quite bad at predicting how other people could corrupt and use his innovations precisely to be destructive b/c he doesn’t think that’s the ~*logical*~ thing to do, so... y’know haha, maybe it’s good he went to another galaxy, the milky way could not contain his chaos)
also he thinks a lot about his wife, even though she’s been dead for years at this point. o u c h (she truly does seem to have been a tether for him in so many ways though -- like a tie to the real world/normalcy/possibly sanity, and that’s a bit how he still evokes her)
additionally: alec ryder did fistfight at the very least one dude in the line of bureaucratic duty, and perhaps more, enough for SAM to have a list of warning signs ready and at hand jdfsklfhasdjf. he did, very much, throw a dude through a table. (at least it’s implied said dude was an asshole) I LOVE that alec’s SAM is the snarkiest iteration we’ve seen and that he’s perfectly willing to call the old man out on his bullshit (alec stresses that SAM is supposed to do what he says at the end of the day, but his SAM is also less subservient and more willing to argue and discuss things than any other we get to see -- and this is of course the SAM Ryder inherits, but I don’t think SAM is as confident in being able to read the PC correctly until a bit further into the game and the twin is of course a different person who’ll respond to different things so he’s not quite as... blunt? I guess? in confronting them about things. (the whole concept is just! so! interesting!!) anyway I feel like all of this says something about alec’s parenting style, for better or for worse haha. he sort of tries to be authoritarian but his children (well canonically at least Sara, she references having yelled at him a lot over the years) aren’t afraid to fight back or scared of the consequences of disagreeing, so I get the distinct feeling his temper never flared violently like that with his family at all, I think he’s more prone to just pulling away in disapproval.)
- I enjoy how casually diverse this book is -- Jemisin has done such a good job making sure especially the human characters are from different backgrounds and places, as they would be lore-wise in the Mass Effect universe, though the games often skew unfortunately white. (andromeda much less so than the trilogy, though)
- my heart. is so so soft for the fact that a huge reason for cora to join the initiative is how much she bonds with SAM-E. and I am so sad for her because she just wants someone or something who’ll stay, something that won’t disappear on her without closure like her parents; she’s so insecure and scared under her competence (and WHY THE FUCK WOULDN’T SHE BE holy shit her parents just. weren’t there one day after she left home so she wouldn’t accidentally crush their ship with her untrained biotics and kill them all). and she chooses alec and his dream. and then alec goes and FUCKING DIES at the first opportunity Y____________Y alternate universe alec please drink your victor sullivan juice and survive, all these dumb children need you
- I am so surprised about how much fond respect alec seems to have for cora and how quickly he developed it. I suppose he has a harder time with his own children because it’s closer to home? he is a complicated man lol, this last part of the book where he shows her the ark and everything is weirdly sweet. again I think he has the potential to be a good dad somewhere in there and that just makes it so much worse that he wasn’t. (also he staunchly considers himself still a married man. god help me)
they’ve both grown to honestly love their sams T________T fml. (well alec has sort of bound up all of himself, the things he loves and their future in SAM, so it’s a bit more complicated but my point still stands) alec advocating for a consensual synthesis is very heartfelt and convincing; you really want to believe him.
cora seen through someone else’s eyes is also SO AMAZING!!! after this whole book in her head and she feels so flailing and uncertain and adrift and other people naturally view her completely differently. I especially like alec picking up on her not talking a lot. (I think this is why she responds so well to SAM, who’ll be there always and can be in her head. I wish this part of cora was more evident in the game, the fact that she has this sibling-like connection to SAM seems very important. sequel where both SAM and Ryder grow closer to becoming her actual family? please? I keep begging for ME:A2 into an empty aching void haha)
- alec ‘I don’t have time to die’ ryder still talking about everyone else being idiots as he’s slowly catching fire while saving SAM fhdjfhsdlfhasdhlfsjd he is an asshole but it is hard not to stan
- nO SAM-E D:D:D: oh well at least he’s still alive within SAM, in a way?
- hey. hey you know what’s fun. alec tries to use his last words and last thoughts to ask cora to tell the kids about ellen being alive this time too. haha. ha. fuck
he consistently goes out thinking of his family despite all his bullshit and I’m not okay
- CORA IS A PERFECT BODYGUARD/SECOND IN COMMAND AND I’M EMOTIONAL
- alec is. surprisingly afraid to hurt people emotionally? he keeps putting off telling cora the bad news about SAM-E, to SAM’s stated disapproval lol (I must repeat again: I love SAM so so much). this supports my thesis that in his personal life he’s avoidant rather than confrontational/aggressive. (professionally... again, he did very much throw a man through a table)
- man I hope we some day get SAM being this comfortably close and sarcastic with Ryder too. thinking about SAM-E and the small differences between him and uh SAM ‘prime’ it really must have been a huge thing for him too to become someone else, especially after the last person died like that. and he kind of has no choice but to experience that loss and death intimately. (now that I think about it that’s. fucked up, man. he literally felt alec go like it happened to himself.)
If I were to summarize the differences between the SAMs we have seen, cora’s SAM-E seems younger, more exuberant, shyer and more -- what’s a non-shitty word for needy haha? it’s very firmly established that cora longs to feel needed, so this makes perfect sense. alec’s SAM is blunter, snarkier and more prone to questioning things, and hilariously is sort of alec’s emotional intelligence. (probably serves a similar role to what ellen used to, actually. ow) scott/sara’s SAM feels more worried/focused -- which also makes sense; he’s just experienced losing his person/pathfinder, in a real way he’s also recently orphaned and must be Extremely aware that he now has an enormous responsibility, not only what he was built for but for what remains of alec’s family. ...poor SAM
(come to think of it I guess one vibe I get from in-game SAM is a little bit of ’harried and anxious yet loving and responsible uncle’ hahaha)
- so at this point alec knew cora could never be pathfinder after him, and he never told her. *accumulation of asshole points continues, though I suspect this might have come from a place of not wanting to hurt her again (b/c he’s the only one who has a right to know these important things amirite)* but I’m also strangely touched that the reason he’s hesitant to involve his children in the whole thing isn’t that he doesn’t have faith in them, it’s that he doesn’t want to burden their lives with something so heavy, a burden he created. can you just imagine... if this man had managed to take the time to explain himself, his motivations and his feelings to his children just once. just one fUCKING time. am I laughing am I crying I honestly don’t know
- this book makes me ache all over for the potential of Andromeda. and I don’t think it’s too late to salvage it either. I know a sequel probably won’t happen, at least not any time soon, but... *sits by rainy window like a wife wistfully wondering if her husband will return from sea*
#mass effect#mass effect andromeda#meta#man I wish they could have gotten *this* cora across more in the game - it's recognizably the same person but she's shown better here#and also yes I am just a one person 'bring alec ryder back and give us some closure' cheerleading squad right now lol
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Spring 2019 Fan Fest Prompt List
Hey fan-festers!
We’re happy to say that we received 81 prompts this time around, and we spent the last few days distilling all those amazing and creative prompts down to a list of 63 prompts! (If you’re keeping count, that’s far more than last year’s 48!)
As with last year, we had some repeat prompts and prompts that were similar enough that it made sense to condense them under one item. Additionally, most of the prompts we distilled down to a few words for the sake of having a concise list! Again, like last year’s fest, we’re providing the full text of the original prompts under the cut, in case you’re looking for more details to get started!
You’re free to create any kind of fanwork based on the below prompts! There’s no minimum word count and no rules on what to create, or even how many - if you want to combine prompts, that’s cool! If you’re called to make more than one thing, that’s awesome too! The only limit is that this fest runs from now until April 15th - so if you’re creating something, make sure you post it and tag it with #bennguinfanfest so we can share it to this tumblr! If you’re posting to AO3, the collection is now open for submissions as well, so make sure to include your work there so everyone can find it!
One final thing: even if you didn’t submit prompts, feel free to participate and join us on the discord! We’ve set up a discord server here: bennguinfest on discord to stay connected, inspire each other, and have fun! It’s a great group and really active, so don’t be shy!
That’s it! On to the prompt list!
Matchmaking dogs
Space AU
Birthday gifts
Coming out/being together in the NHL
Acting like a couple (but they’re not actually a couple)
Tyler as a WAG
Transported to a parallel universe
Abducted by aliens
Superhero/Superpowers AU
Amnesia from an injury
Soulmate AUs: Color-based, name-on-wrist
Thirst follow/Met online
Drag AU
Time loops
Alternate histories
Cop AU
Reality show AU (Survivor, the Bachelor, Married At First Sight)
Jamie Poppins/Single dad AU
Supernatural races (vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, etc.)
Omegaverse: Courting
Delivery boy/Uber driver AU
Tyler gets traded back to Boston
Breaking up & making up
Omegaverse: Bonding drama
Boring office desk job
Road trips
Protective Jamie defending Tyler
College/University AU
Tyler tries to be Jamie’s wingman
Lites’s comments affecting the boys
Taking care of a sick hockey player
Cuddle pile/team bed fic
Harry Potter AU
Fire alarm meet-cute
DnD/Hockey Mashup
De-aged after a fight
Bakery/Tattoo Artist AU
Friends with benefits - and then with feelings
Zombie AU
Homeless AU
Nerds are hot/competency kink
Omegaverse: scents
YouTube channel AU
Bridal shop meet-cute
Beard appreciation
Tornado warning
Figure skater mpreg
Self-conscious Jamie
Wing!fic
Winning the cup and a kiss on the ice
Lifeguard AU
Haunted farm
Animal daemons
Surprise/sudden parenting
Jealousy from dating/flirting with someone else
Secret relationship and almost getting caught
Long-lost childhood friends
"Come here."
“Close the door.”
“I feel like I can’t breathe.”
“It’s three in the morning and you want me to do what?”
“You could’ve died.”
“I thought you were dead.
Full text of the prompts under the link! If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask - and as always, happy creating!
1. Matchmaking dogs: Tyler’s dogs want to get their human with a certain cow-eyed captain
“well this is really awkward considering the last time we saw each other, i was screaming at you to never talk to me again, but like, my dog recognized you all the way across the park and literally dragged me over here because she misses you so hi” AU
2. Space AU (ex. Star Trek, Firefly, or something else entirely)
3. It's Tyler's birthday and at first Jamie gives off the feeling that he's forgotten and this hurts Tyler but it turns out that that Jamie wakes Tyler up at midnight on his birthday with two tickets to an offseason trip
4. I want a fic that REALLY captures what it would be like if two NHL players were to come out in 2019. I'm talking teammate reactions, press reactions, social media, family, the whole shebang. I wanna see the real raw reactions and the struggle the guys would have to go through. I would also loooove if you could fit Jamie proposing to Tyler in there somewhere but it isn't a necessity.
Jamie has a hard time dealing with how public Tyler’s life is, with the insta stories and with random people filming him all the time. It feels like it’s only a matter of time before their relationship is exposed because of how much Tyler is in the public eye. Jamie doesn’t want to break up but it seems like that’s the only choice he has. He doesn’t want to do this so much that he calls a press conference and comes out of the closet.
Jamie and Tyler have been dating since 2014 and he’s tired of hiding it. So with Jamie’s consent he posts a cute photo of them being a couple and writes a heartfelt monologue about their story. And the whole hockey community blows up about it. And it’s kinda about how they deal with being and out couple and Tyler posting obnoxiously cute couple photos on his Instagram. Sorry this prompted is a mess I just want Tyler to be a troll and post cute cliche couple photos on Instagram of him and Jamie and the world loading their minds about it.
Jamie and Tyler come out to the team about them dating. Management wants to keep their relationship secret so they make Jamie fake date someone. And him and Tyler struggle with the stress that puts on them.
realistic consequences of being together with the team
5. Tyler and Jamie are super close but super oblivious to the fact that they act like a literal couple. Jamie has a gf and she hates the fact that it seems like Jamie cares more about Tyler than he does her.
6. Fluffy fic where Jamie still plays hockey, he meets tyler and they fall in love and tyler becomes an nhl wife/husband/boyfriend.
7. Parallel universes -- somehow Tyler (or Jamie) finds himself in an alternate universe where his life is radically different (for better or for worse) which makes him realize how much his relationship to Jamie (or Tyler) means.
waking up in the future/alternate reality fic
8. Jamie and Tyler are abducted by aliens and taken to a faraway planet where they are prisoners in a bizarro planet. Is it real or is it a nightmare though?
9. jamie and tyler are in danger and major trouble when their identities as superheroes are revealed and bad guys are after them.
powers/mutant AU (as in pick one, not all at the same time) One hides their ability from the other, and when the other finds out, its...not good
Superhero AU! Are they superhero partners? Is one of them a superhero and can't date the other because he has to keep him safe? Are they both trying to keep their secret identities secret from each other while simultaneously dating in both iterations? Up to you, or anything else!
10. Amnesia angst for the win - Jamie gets a particularly hard hit, wakes up and can remember everyone except for tyler (maybe not explicitly, say they can *remember* them, but not remember that they've been dating for eight months now) cue tyler avoiding jamie because its too hard him to be around him
11. soulmate au! people are born with blackmarks - on their hands, their faces, their skin in general - the black marks is the first place their soulmate would touch them. Jamie was born without a mark. Tyler was born with two pitch black palms. Years after tylers been traded to the stars, Jamie falls asleep, and tyler can't help but run his fingers through Jamie's hair, just once, and then he looks down at his hand and the tips of his fingers are colored, and so are the few strands of Jamie's black hair.
Soulmate au- either abo or name on wrist. No drama, just fluff!
12. Tyler thirst follows Jamie on insta. This can be hockey or non-hockey, but Jamie follows back and they start talking.
13. Rupaul’s Drag Race au. Tyler and Jamie are competing against each other but are constantly talking about how much they like each other/are attracted to each other in the confessional. They’re both single, so why not go for it? Alternatively, one is a queen and the other is a member of the pit crew.
14. groundhog day au (aka, tylers/jamies day keeps getting reset, again and again until they get together finally and wake up the next day)
15. alternate history, tyler is never traded to dallas, but they still somehow meet and fall in love anyway
16. cop AU, where in tyler the rookie transfers and get stuck with Jamie the sorta senior to show him the ropes. Jamie gets attached. And that’s...a problem, in their line of work. Or at least it is for him.
17. Survivor au- same or different tribe, as long as they’re the “showmance”
"The Bachelor" AU
Married at first sight au- either within the parameters of the actual show, or they literally get married the day they meet
18. Jamie!Poppins - tyler is a single father with a new baby and no clue of what he's going to do. enter Jamie Poppins!
19. Minotaur Jamie
The Dallas Stars are a pack of werewolves, and Tyler is the vampire that’s been traded to their team.
Shifter verse!! and ive got nothing else for this other than wanting to see tyler as a tiny lab puppy pls and thanks
20. Alpha Tyler and omega Jamie: “usually when I meet an omega I wanna bone, but with Jamie I wanna fucking hold his hand and feed him bonbons all day, what the fuck”
21. Jamie the delivery boy. Kay hear me out. Like he keeps delivering huge quantities of food to this particular house and it always seems like there should be more than one person. But there’s not. And Tyler orders. All. The. Time. Hopeful it’s jamie. But they’re both too dumb to ask each other out. Lots of pining
Uber driver! Jamie picks up Tyler from a one night stand
22. Tyler gets traded back to Boston AU - Everything hurts and nothing is okay. (except that at least one of them is retiring at the end of the season so it's actually more okay than they think) (also a future fic)
23. breakup and makeup but spanning over seasons - no cheese plots
24. Bond drama (abo) either they bond too quickly, like at the all star game or something and dont know ehat to do because theyre on different teams, or they really want to bond and its not happening as fast as they think it should
25. Boring office desk job
26. road trip to Montreal to visit Jordie
27. while out chilling at a bar celebrating a win, jamie and tyler are having a couple of drinks and when jamie gets up to go the bathroom, a drunk stranger and a couple of his friends decide to harass Tyler, upsetting him. A furiously protective Jamie intervenes and despite holding his own, Jamie is beaten up and him and tyler end up in a dumpster.
28. A University fic where Tyler is out and proud and gay and Jamie is still trying to figure out his sexuality but he's having a hard time. No homophobic Jamie tho please, just a guy trying to figure himself out. Would love if he would rely on his family throughout the fic for advice.
I’m always a sucker for college au, or masters/PhD students etc
COLLEGE AU BECAUSE WE ALL NEED MORE OF THAT IN OUR LIVES
'the cops showed up to a party we were at and chased everyone away. You and I happened to run in the opposite direction of all our friends and got lost in some dark and creepy street.’ - College AU
29. Tyler finds out Jamie is gay (outed/comes out/whatever you prefer) and embarks on a wild but good-intentioned quest to find Jamie his perfect man.
30. Tyler is hurt by Lites' comments more than one thinks and Jamie is worried when he sees Tyler crying in private.
31. sickfic? jamie taking care of tyler is- like just how pathetic is a sick hockey player?
32. team bed au omg someone pls
33. Harry Potter au but not as high school student, just something in the magical world
34. "3am and the fire alarm in our apartment building went off and you look cold here is my jacket"
35. Hockey AU but they’re all dnd races. I would love to see half-orc Jamie, and goliath Bishop, and tiefling Tyler. Please be as creative as you want with this!
Hockey AU where instead of going out, a core group of guys plays dnd in their hotel rooms while on the road. Tyler and Jamie’s characters are getting flirty in game, and it’s starting to translate outside of it as well.
36. Tyler and jamie fight - a *big* fight, and the next day Jamie suddenly got a deaged tyler on his hands and no idea how to fix it
37. Jamie owns a bakery and tylers the new tat artist next door plsplspls gimme that slow burn bullshit with this one
38. ty/jam used to have a whole friends w benefits thing that went oh-so-wrong because one (or both of them) caught feelings—as one does—and the fic is kind of that aftermath and trying to repair the broken relationship.
39. ZOMBIES
40. Homeless AU w/tyler
41. Tyler is smarter than he leads people to believe, and Jamie is into privately nerdy Tyler
42. Abo verse surrounding scents. Tyler smells like the most delicious thing Jamie has ever smelled, but he thinks he shouldn’t bond with a teammate
43. Youtube channel
44. Designer and single friend of client at a bridal shop AU
45. Beard appreciation
46. a tornado warning hits dallas and everybody is ordered to seek shelter. jamie follows tyler back to his house and hide in the basement with the dogs, frantic and terrified.
47. Tyler is a figure skater, Jamie still plays hockey. They meet and fall inlove but whoops tyler ends up pregnant. The world still isn't 100% accepting of LGBTQIA+ people and even less accepting of men getting pregnant. Tyler feels down at some point cause he has to put his career on hold. but it all ends up great in the end.
48. Jamie feels self-conscious about his ass after some chirping from opposing players and it's up to Tyler to comfort him
49. Wing!fic
50. They win the Stanley cup and kiss at centre ice
51. Jamie's a lifeguard. They meet after Tyler basically drowns himself. (It's not an excuse to have Jamie kiss him. Its *not*.)
52. Haunted farm au- Tyler is a witch that lives on a farm where extremely weird things happen. He ends up rescuing Jamie and Jamie pledges his services for one year in exchange for his life. During that year, they fall for each other hard, but there are outside forces in the farm trying to keep them apart.
53. Animal daemons
Goose daemons
54. Marshall, Cash and Gerry turn into human kids (temporarily or not), Bennguin handle being sudden parents
55. Tyler having a serious boyfriend for a while and Jamie is jealous because he wants to date Tyler but he’s not ready to come out. And he’s also upset because everyone is taking it so well and nothing has changed and he realizes he really missed out. But in the end they still get together.
56. secret relationship and how they almost get caught - many many times
57. Childhood pen pal / long distance childhood friends?
58. "Come here."
59. “Close the door.”
60. “I feel like I can’t breathe.”
61. “It’s three in the morning and you want me to do what?”
62. “You could’ve died.”
63. “I thought you were dead.”
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tag muns you want to know better; repost - don’t reblog.
What inspired you to try/create that muse/s: well , if you’ve been with me long enough then you know that tooru started out as an AU ! o.ikawa t.ooru, where instead of attending s.eijou , he went to s.hiratorizawa ! to be honest , i kind of just wanted to try my hand at writing that kind of thing ? it was the very first time i had made a tumblr rp blog , so i had no idea that people rp different verses of the same character on one blog !! i originally rp’d on deviantart , and it was very commonplace to have different blogs for different verses ... i had over 70 rp blogs on there and most of them were literally the same 2 characters but in different AUs LMAO ... so imagine my surprise when i saw people rp’ing different AUs on one blog ... RP’ing multiple muses on one blog ... !! but i kinda just stayed with my iteration instead of playing canon ! kawa anyway , since i didn’t really see the point in starting over . as tooru developed more , though , i began to use him as a venting tool because this was a part of my life where i was really depressed . but as time grew on and i eventually made him into an OC , he became a much happier character . he really is my best friend ; he’s been there for me through it all , and even though he’s just fictional , i really owe him a lot for helping me out during rough times .
What is inspiration for that muse/s: well , currently , a lot of things ... lots of music , japanese culture + religion , and also my own experiences . in general , i have a p.interest board for him , so ... maybe you could say i draw inspiration from that , too ! i also rly enjoy the band MILI . their songs really fit tooru , like ‘ bathtub mermaid ’ . i’ve also been listening to hello , again and am planning on drawing something based on it for him ( + the song’s prequel , “ goodbye ” ) . i mainly tend to daydream while listening to songs , so ... yeah . as for characters who serve as inspiration for tooru ... well , i think that’s an artist meme , so i might just fill it in in lieu of answering this properly lol ... but two i can think of off the top of my head are leon from f.ire e.mblem e.choes and n.eferpitou from h.xh !
Thread/AU that made you really happy: B.NHA AU ... !! i’m hyperfixating sm on that one ... idk , a lot of planning and plotting goes into it , esp since a lot of my mutuals are in the fandom . in particular , i love love love the story i’ve created with @noquirk . i literally cannot envision a more perfect plot for tooru in this verse . heck , it’s literally my main go - to timeline when i draw / write for it . tooru is , quite literally , not very much in this AU without deck .
Something really special on your wishlist: sh ... more ships ... ships to draw and animate and make animatics to ... also i need to get my butt into gear and finish my JRPG AU group lol .
Something you are looking for in short future for your muse: blease tooru help me get thru the school year ... also i have some animatics in the back burner so i’m looking forward to getting those done !
Share something related to your muse!: his canon story , in parallel motion , deals with existentialism and alternate universes . ultimately , it’s a story that serves as a physical manifestation of my own struggle with depression , and while it’s sombre in tone , i want it to tell whoever’s reading it , “ you matter . ” it’s why tooru is placed into so many marginalized groups ; he’s fat and trans and biracial and bi and suffers from bpd + depression + anxiety but he’s a good person through it all ... his story is tragic because he’s not allowed to exist and will be forgotten when he dies , but his existence impacts so many other characters’ lives ... it’s a butterfly effect kind of thing . because you exist , you’ve made so many peoples’ lives better . and i understand it’s rough and i understand depression + sucky real life aspects try to convince you otherwise , but just ... think about it . there’s an alternate universe where , because you don’t exist , something huge was probably impacted . and even on a smaller , more intimate scale --- if you hadn’t existed in another life , then one of your friends might not be here . they might not be as happy as they are now , because you make them happy . life can be awful . but it’s wonderful and beautiful , too . that’s what i want tooru to be to others . someone to look up to and relate to , and someone who tells you , “ it’s okay ! ”
What do you think about character’s design/how do you came up with this: he’s ... kinda generic LOL mainly cause he’s based off of o.ikawa looks - wise due to his origin ... but part of his looks also derivate from an old ask blog muse i had :
i just really like that bangs - over - one - eye hairstyle ngl ... also i have no idea how / when his hair became maroon - brown since o.ikawa’s hair is chestnut brown , but ... yeah . also have no idea when he gained red eyes HDKJSFS,,,, i find fangs appealing on a character though , so that’s why he has fangs and does the :3c ... honestly i think i kinda just slapped together what i like in a design and put it on him , so even though he may look like an NPC ( lol ) , he’s still appealing in my eyes .
What your muse taught you: how to love being alive ... ( i’ve actually written an essay for a class about how he’s helped me through depression haha ... he means a lot to me , can you tell ? )
What is roleplay for you: all of you are awful and yet here i am anyway so really this says more about me than anything else .
Just say something nice about other mun!: @onfaith you are my ANGEL you mean sm to me and i wish u all the best with your studies / @tikkvn i love u sm cass ur an amazing person n a wonderful existence never forget that / @juuheart notay is my fave bleach chara also ur art is so cute / @wuvlite if i die all my money goes to u so u can keep drawing holy SHIZ ur art is #inspiration / @queznak ur very interesting and charismatic as a person !!! / @uzvisen idk how to spell ur url this took me 3 tries but also ilysm / @conhnhaketon i also cant spell ur url but i hope ur doing well n ur eid was good , ik we’ve both been busy but i would live for u / @quirkthief ur one of my fave ppl i will forever tag u in shibes also i’ve supported u in u saying afo was hot even when he looked ugly n now i get to watch everyone who made fun of u writhe bc he is rly rly hot hahaha / @noquirk you’re so talented pls never stop what ur doing / @aerve you’re rly cool !!! 100% support u in everything u do ! >:0 / @starbooms aries ur so creative ugh ... ur mind !!!!!! ik we don’t talk much but ur v fun / @bendsair i forget what other blogs ur on but chris ur the coolest #TalkRomania2Me / @creatied we don’t talk much either but ur graphics r so aesthetically appealing wowzers !! / @daimnas i’m wuv you amari !! also my french sucks but uhhh comment ca va ( i’m too lazy to find the accented ‘c’ dsfhi ) ?? / @soarsun i’ve only known u for a few weeks but if anything happened to u i would kill everyone on this website n then myself / @quirkgifter nanners is the coolest n nana is the best grandma in town / @natsutodoroki im so jealous u got a canon url as ur rp url LMAO but also ur rly cool n fun even tho we dont talk too frequently ! / @lechors LINNEA I WILL DIE FOR U RIGHT HERE RIGHT N--- / @ YOU READING THIS BC I’M ABOUT TO FALL ASLEEP : YOU’RE AWESOME AND GREAT !
Tagged by: stole it from @queznak Tagging: whomstever
#no formatting im heading 2 bed bye bye shkfjs#long post /#long post#meme .#what’s up —– i’m ru ‚ i’m 19 ‚ and i never h*ckin’ learned how to read . / ooc.
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Ironed Heart Ch. 1: Burden
Prologue
Warnings: None
Words:
After training with Dr. Strange and the accident that happened Rhodey was forced to go home immediately. Although he still doesn’t understand why it was so important that Tony Stark needed to know. Rhodey thought he was doing fairly well with the mystic arts, learning them quickly for a fourteen year old. The last four years he had also learned sadly that his father wasn’t much of a father, and therefore spent most of his time with Dr. Strange, who actually showed some interest in his future. Rhodey knew asking Strange about his mother was never a straight answer, but the face he saw on his master during the incident told him whatever happened that day, Rhodey should not have seen that place. Although, he always respected Strange, Rhodey dare not tell him that he has been having dreams of that place since he was a child… and some nightmares. He constantly thought that he heard a woman’s voice calling out to him when he stood on that mountain, but could never make out the exact location. Sometimes it came from the floating island, the other times down below on the frozen throne. Either location it seems like she is in great pain or sadness. Rhodey had hoped he could have seen her and to help her, if he could actually go there in person, but to his own sadness he could not. He didn’t know why he felt comfort on the mountain, and why so angry when Strange forced him to leave, but maybe this confrontation with his father could shed some light to his confusion, or just add to the increasing hatred inside his heart.
Strange was still in the training room with Tony. Rhodey sat on the stairs peaking his head under the ceiling trying to listen in.
“You need to talk to the boy Stark. His powers have been increasing. Not just for mysticism, but for illusions. He has been making copies of himself in his sleep, and making illusions of food at the dining table. He thinks I won’t notice it. But, he seems happier with making these illusions then my own magic.”
“Magic is your department isn’t Strange.” Stark said focusing on holographic projections of the Avengers training at their base. “This is mine.”
“Damn it Stark. You’ve been overworking yourself ever since she past. Have you been using the armor suit almost every day? Are you trying to give yourself another heart attack? She wouldn’t want this for you”
Tony’s eyes adverted from the screen for a second to stare at Dr. Strange.
“How dare you. You think you would know what she would have wanted? You only had you’re interests in her for a possible threat to the so called magical world. Nobody gave her a chance. You need to leave… Now Strange! I am sure Rhodey can handle whatever it is he is going through on his own.”
“Tony… He is not only just YOUR son. Remember that when he starts asking questions about who he truly is.”
‘Get out Strange. I have other matters to attend to. Like training the Avengers for the next world threat. Not Rhodey’s personal issues.”
“Am I that much of a burden to him? I am never even around to bother him.” Rhodey couldn’t wait anymore. Anger started to boil inside him. He saw Dr. Strange vanish out of the room, and his father continued to work on his project. Rhodey stomped down the stairs. He is tired of being afraid to confront him.
“Father why did Dr. Strange ask about your heart? Have you given yourself a heart attack previously? Is the armor suite doing this to you?”
Rhodey was not surprised to find his father not even looking at him when he was questioned.
“You were eves dropping on us Rhodey? You know what we said about you being down here. You shouldn’t see the Avengers in training. It’s supposed to be in secrete.”
“Says you. Why don’t you ever want me to see them? And for that matter I never see you really meet with them either. All you do is sit down here in your suit watching the projections. Are you even a part of their team anymore?”
“Rhodey, it’s time for you to go back upstairs.” Tony said still not looking at his son.
“No! Father I wish to speak with you, about anything. I don’t care what. We don’t say anything to each other. Don’t you want to know about the incident in training today?”
“I already know. As you can see I am not interested. The incident was cleared. Dr. Strange did his job.”
“Did his job? What do you mean by that? Oh wait protecting possible threats against the magical world you don’t believe in? Am I a threat to you father? Lately Dr. Strange has been more of a father for me than you ever have!”
For the first time in a few months, his father turned to him and stared down. Rhodey thought he felt fire burning his skin with the intensity he saw in his father eyes
“Listen to me very carefully Rhodey.”
Tony said in a very quiet voice, but hovered in closer above him.
“I want you to go back upstairs, forgetting you ever saw or heard this conversation. I’ll give you the count to ten to do as I say. I don’t care if you stay here for the night or go back to Steven Strange’s house. But, just leave this floor.”
Rhodey stared back at his father not looking down, but tears burned the corner of his eyes. Rhodey slammed the glass doors and stomped up the stairs. His father never shown any interest in what he did. It seemed like at one point he cared at least a little, but that was before he started finding out he could cast illusion spells. After that, Tony has always turned him away and Rhodey had been on his own since. His sister Maria was still living here. For some reason she is still trying to please their father by building her own amazing inventions.
“Maria are you in there?” Rhodey went to the west wing of Stark Tower, where his sister built out her own room for the fun of it. Rhodey always rolled his eyes when she said building her own room was more fun than already having one made for you.
“Crap crap crap. Hit the deck Rhodey!”
“What are you talking about?”
“I mean take cover idiot!”
At that instant Maria’s door flew open with her tackling Rhodey over the nearby marble bar with an eruption of flames chasing her and an explosion that shattered the floor they were on. Their father was in a sound proof basement a flight below.
“See what you made me do dummy. You know I can’t have any distractions.”
“Why were you working on a bomb in your room anyway!” Rhodey said while dusting his garments off, even more bewildered than he has been today.
“It wasn’t a bomb I was currently working on. I finished that already that today duh!”
“That doesn’t answer the question Maria.”
“None of your business worm. And just for the record let me re iterate what you said. You mentioned why a bomb went off in your room. Acting like the bomb was broken and should not have gone off. Correction. The bomb worked just fine, why? Because I built it. The bomb did what it was supposed to. For the reason is on a need to know, and you are not on the need to know part just yet, my sad story for a brother who doesn’t understand science.”
Maria said this while grabbing a non-opened red wine bottle at the bar they were at. She opened it and took a sip. Both of them stood there behind the bar looking at the room that was covered in ashes.
“Looks like someone just got a new project to do!” Maria said with a huge grin on her face.
“Don’t tell me you just blew up the floor to remodel it. Did you?”
Maria didn’t say anything in response to that and just took another drink from the bottle.
“Oh wait how rude am I, would you like some Rhodey?” handing the bottle over to him. Rhodey starred at it and shrugged.
“Why the hell not after today.”
“Oooo big words coming from the boy scout in training. Your hero Dr. Strange can never do anything wrong!” Maria said batting her eyes at her brother.
“Would you like to talk about it?”
“You wouldn’t be interested in the topic.”
“Negativity about the great Doctor? Of course I am. What’s up pouty butt?”
Rhodey told her everything that happened today, including the dreams he has been having and how he confronted their father today. It was to no surprise to Maria that Rhodey hated their father, but Rhodey’s anger has been getting worse towards him. Causing difficult to concentrate on spell work with Strange and in life in general. Rhodey said it was one of the reasons he was so proud when he could learn the teleport spell today. He could go anywhere and be free from here within seconds. It came so natural to him to go to that place, but all he got in return was hatred from two people that were supposed to care for him. It was weird talking with his sister for this long. They rarely ever speak with each other. There in completely different worlds from each other.
“Rhodey. You think our mother is Asgardian? You were able to teleport there without seeing it?”
“It’s hard to explain. From a sorcerers perspective by all counts I shouldn’t have been able to even teleport to where I was without having some type of knowledge regarding in physical location of that place. But, I see the island in my dreams all the time, but I don’t stay there long.”
“You go to the frozen throne don’t you Rhodey?”
Rhodey looks his sister in confusion.
“How did you know?
His sister looks away, and takes another sip of wine. Rhodey has always seen his sister drink wine like this. For some reason alcohol doesn’t affect them the same as it does for everyone else. He always assumed it was because of their father being an alcoholic. But, now could it be because of something else? Rhodey thought he saw a tear going down his sister’s cheek, but his sister never shows emotion unless she’s blowing something up.
“Im glad that you have these dreams Rhodey.” Maria said not looking at him.
“Wait. You are? Why? Is it because you can make fun of me about me being a freak?”
“No Rhodey.” She said taking another sip of wine, and rubbing her face with her sleeve.
“Because, I do as well.”
Tag List: @lokifics
#loki x tony#tony stark#lady loki x tony#loki laufeyson#loki friggason#loki odinson#lady loki#ironed heart#ironed heart chapter 1#frostiron
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2020 Year Ender Part 1
Currently Listening to: Nujabes feat Shing02 - Luv Sic Part 1 Location: Loyang Ave, Singapore Mood: Anxious This picture is taken from my office, as it is my last day of work today. Be prepared, this year was definitely tough, not just for me, but for everyone. Anyway, without further ado, the ninth iteration of my year ender post! 1. Let me start this post with these words. COVID-19, Corona Virus. Pretty much this virus turned the world upside down and messed up everyone. A ridiculously contagious virus that affect literally everyone in the world, whether you’re a first world country or a third world one. As of writing, 83,060,276 cases have been reported. There are currently 22,386,430 active cases and sadly 1,812,046 deaths. Sadly, one of our family members was part of that statistic, and succumbed to the virus just a few weeks ago. Due to this, a lot of things shut down. Travel, businesses, entertainment and a lot more. Life became basically out of whack. It was depressing because it was hard to go around and about when there’s a contagious virus threat around the corner. Thankfully for Singapore, they are able to manage it despite a ballooning of cases months ago. Also, vaccines were made in record time. Hopefully, the vaccine can be distributed and life can have some semblance of normality soon enough. 2. Well, due to COVID-19, a lot of businesses experienced a downturn. A lot closed, and a lot more are forced to either cut salaries and benefits to survive, and a lot were also forced to lay off their employees. Sadly, I’m one of them. I was able to stay for most of the year, but I guess there’s not much work around now to keep the current workforce. Today is my last day of work, and I’m pretty anxious of my future. While I planned to look for a new job earlier this year (I even had one interview), COVID-19 messed the heck out of my plans. I do have a hopeful job prospect for now, and hopefully I can still stay here in Singapore. Well, if I’m not able to, I plan to study UI/UX and Digital Marketing when I get back in the Philippines. We’ll see in my post next year what my future holds. 3. Travel wise, I was lucky enough to do travel before the COVID-19 lockdowns happened. I was able to visit Dubai, and it was pretty fun! It was the first time I experienced doing zipline and paramotor gliding! I was also able to meet again my college friends who are now based there. I was also able to go back in the Philippines last February to attend my good friend’s wedding. It was in pretty far north, but the experience was pretty awesome. It was also my first time to be part of a wedding entourage. Not to mention being able to play with my niece who is growing pretty fast. Would I be travel again on 2021? Only fate knows for now. We’ll see. 4. TCG wise, due to the COVID-19 situation, tournaments are cancelled. Events now are basically casual, and a lot are now done online. It did help me reconnect with my fellow WS peeps back in the Philippines, and I’m playing more WS this year due to this. As for FoW, now I’m not certain. If I’m not able to stay in Singapore, I’m pretty much quitting FoW already. I also got stressed with the meta, as it became pretty unhealthy and repressive, and my playstyle wasn’t doing well. We shall see what will come out of this. 5. If there is one upside to the COVID-19 situation, it would be a lot of free time. I had a lot of free time to cook and do exercise. As for cooking, my Instagram account is now flooded with my food posts. Well, what can I do, I really enjoy cooking now. As for exercise, I was able to lose some weight. From 94kg at the start of February, I went down as low as 86kg around August. Now it’s a bit hard though and I’m in the 88-89kg range. Still, it’s good that I lost some weight and hopefully next year I can try to lessen it even further. (To be continued, Tumblr now has a post limit. Boring)
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2 Years of SpiderWaifuIsBestWaifu!
As you guys probably guessed, this is the follow up to my previous post! And I have two topics I gotta talk about, so let’s get to it!
First of all, as the title says, today marks the second year since this blog’s creation! Though, the thing is that it wasn’t always RP-oriented. I’ll go over a bit of the history this blog amassed in the two years it’s been around. So if you’re interested, join me on a trip down memory lane! If not, skip ahead to the section that says “This Blog’s Future”, because that’s where the important announcement is at.
How This Mess Came To Be
I don’t know if I ever told this story here, but originally this was a personal made only to follow a few specific people, hence the unconventional URL (which was only a joke at first since I didn’t really plan on posting anything, but it grew on me immensely with time and now I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of it dfklgjg).
After a few days of lurking and following random UT-related art blogs and such, I came across a few people RPing, though I didn’t really know what RP was at the time. (90% of my life until then had been spent on the brazillian side of the internet, where RP wasn’t exactly common or known. So when I found blogs dedicated to characters interacting with eachother and answering asks, needless to say I was quite intrigued!)
After that, I decided that, despite my limited english skills back then, I would try joining in. And who better to start with than my favorite canon Undertale character, Muffet?
“Yes, I still exist!”
I don’t remember much of my earlier RPs, other than broken english and terrible, terrible punctuation. Ironically enough, I learned how to properly write by doing one-liner interactions with some other peeps on IC streams, which eventually lead to longer RPs and me catching up with the language. Well, that alongside massive amounts of character development, buuuut that’s a topic for another day. Somewhere during that time, I came across the release of a little fangame that grabbed my attention.
You might know it! it’s called Undertale Red. I downloaded it on release day, and played it about 5 times in a row just to see all the dialogue variations and little interactions I could get with the mysterious yet charming hooded monster with a short temper. A character with a personality strongly established during the course of a single fight, with fun mechanics (which could equate to fun writing if adapted correctly), and some details which almost instantly brought my interest to both the character’s design and her then-mysterious backstory. I had stumbled upon quite something. That’s when I decided to give writing for her a try, switching out from Muffet during one of the aforementioned IC streams. I was worried if I could even use someone else’s character like that, but luckily a FAQ about Red was already underway, and another Anon sent an ask inquiring about making a roleplay blog for her, with a positive response from the author. (I wonder if there’s another Red still out there!) Cut to a few days later, and my blog was made a multimuse, adding a certain nerd to the roster, which is undoubtedly the ‘star’ of this blog to this day.
“Guess who?”
Also, a small fun fact, this blog has two deleted muses. The first of which was...
Everyone’s favorite human. They were removed because I wasn’t entirely happy with my portrayal of them, and they only ever had a single IC interaction in the blog’s entire lifespan. The big ‘plot twist’ (which at the time wasn’t as common as it is now) was the reveal of their true nature as a Souless Pacifist, which would probably lead into some interesting interactions to say the least. Still, that plot got turned into a 11 month long D&D campaign me and a few friends ran a while back. Now this Frisk is completely hecking dead and deleted from the world itself. Oof.
And the second deleted muse, this one only a few months ago, was...
Kinshi! My first full-fledged OC, who got to see the light of day for a while in that same D&D campaign. I tried bringing her original iteration to the blog, but needless to say it didn’t exactly work out. She was kinda shoehorned into the plot and I kept her way too vague, even if I didn’t plan on revealing all of her information at the start. The original plan was for her to belong to a different timeline, one that was doomed to be deleted thanks to a neglectful player, and she was obviously looking for a solution by exploring other worlds and attempting to understand the nature of timelines better. Her story would have two outcomes, both bittersweet endings, with the sacrifice of her own soul to hold the timeline together, or its complete destruction with Kinshi herself escaping to a different world, unscathed but regretful. ... which now that I write it out, sounds extremely cheesy and boring. I’m glad I didn’t go with that. However, that deletion and scrapped events didn’t signify the end for her! She’s recently got a full makeover backstory-wise and works as a cook at the Underground-famous restaurant, The Wishing Well! The timeline stuff got completely removed, and now she’s just a really grumpy monster who likes her job way more than she lets on. Hop over to The Wishing Well’s Discord server if you want to interact with her sometime!
Aaaand that’s about all! Of course, I left quite a lot of stuff out, but I either don’t recall it well or I didn’t find it interesting enough to mention here. Besides, this post’s already long as it is. Moving on to the second topic I wanted to talk about here!
This Blog’s Future
Already went over a few issues in this post, and this is basically the outcome of that. I managed to get in contact with Taxiderby over Twitter yesterday, and after a brief conversation, got the all-clear to make Red into a fandomless character! Of course, I’ll be crediting them properly as I always have, though that’s a given with this sorta thing. Now, I know that’s a big change, but all in all, it’s not gonna be something negative. Here’s what it’s gonna affect:
What’s Gonna Happen:
Undertale will not be Red’s main verse anymore, and she will be adapted to an inespecific fandomless verse. However, the Undertale variant, along with a few others I plan to add, will be sticking around. I’ve been in this fandom since the first year of its existence, and I plan on staying ‘till the end. Just gotta branch out a bit more!
A possible change to the URL, making her Undertale verse with the current URL into a sideblog, or the other way around. I’m still unsure on this, though. Who knows, maybe I’ll just keep everything in the same blog for ease of access. We’ll see.
Not really important, but a complete revamp to my tag system. it’s commonplace in multifandom blogs, so if you don’t want to see a specific verse of Red, you can just blacklist the tag.
More interactions, hopefully! This is a big step I’m taking to make sure everyone’s least favorite doll will be around as long as possible!
What’s NOT Gonna Happen:
Any change to the character development in her UT verse. Everything will carry on the same as usual, especially with the Vanitas event going on!
Any major changes to Red’s personality/appearance/species/age. No matter the verse, she’s a doll. I don’t have any plans to make her a human, nor I ever will. (Obviously not counting M!As here, like that one time she got turned into a Dullahan.)
Any major changes to the rules. Other than some updates here and there (since those rules are old as dirt and I haven’t touched them up in a while), everything regarding rules is the same.
It’s gonna take a while until I get around to setting everything up for fandomless Red. So for now, Undertale is still the main verse, and nothing has changed yet. Buuut I already look forward to finding out where this development will take this blog and the character herself!
Anyway, thank you all for-...
Wait, what’s tha-
-New mun faceclaim coming through! I’ll alternate between this one and the old one sometimes. Anyway, as I was saying...
Thank you all for the support throughout these two years! And here’s hoping for a succesful third year of SpiderWaifuIsBestWaifu!
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Snapchat Spectacles 3 review: Pretty, pricey
No one’s going to pay $380 for decent point-of-view video glasses and some trippy filters. But that’s kind of the point of Snapchat Spectacles 3. They’re merely a stepping stone towards true augmented reality eyewear — a public hardware beta for the Snap Lab R&D team that Apple and Facebook aren’t getting as they tinker in their bunkers.
Still, I hoped for something that could at least unlock the talents of forward-thinking video creators. Yet the unpredictable and uncontrollable AR effects sadly fail to make use of Spectacles‘ fashionable form factor in premium steel. The clunky software requires clips be uploaded for processing and then re-downloaded before you can apply the 10 starter effects like a rainbow landscape filter or a shimmering fantasy falcon. This all makes producing AR content a chore instead of a joy for something only briefly novel.
Spectacles 3 go on sale today for $380 in black ‘Carbon’ or rose gold-ish ‘Mineral’ color schemes on Spectacles.com, Neiman Marcus, and Ron Robinson in the UK, shipping in a week. Announced in August, they’re sunglasses with two stereoscopic lenses capable of capturing depth to produce “3D” photos, and videos you can add AR effects to on your phone. You also get a very nice folds-flat leather USB-C charging case that powers up the glasses four times, and a Google Cardboard-style VR viewer.
“Spectacles 3 is a limited production run. We’re not looking for massive sales here. We’re targeting people who are excited about these effects — creative storytellers” says Matt Hanover of the Snap Lab team.
Gen 1 featured a “toy-like design to get people used to wearing tech on their face”, while Gen 2 and 2.1 had a more subdued look abandoning the coral color schemes to push mainstream adoption. What Gen 3 can’t do is force a $40 million write-off due to poor sales, as V1 did after only shipping 220,000 with hundreds of thousands more gathering dust somewhere. Snap is already losing $227 million per quarter as it scrambles to break even.
So it seems with Spectacles 3 that Snap is gathering data and biding its time, trying to avoid burning too much cash until it can build a version that overlays effects atop a user’s view through the glasses. “We’re still able to get feedback from the customer and inform the future of Spectacles. That’s really the goal for us” Hanover confirms.
His CEO Evan Spiegel agrees, telling me on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that it would be 10 years until we see augmented reality glasses worthy of mainstream consumer adoption. That’s a long time for an unprofitable company to spend competing to invest in R&D versus cash-rich companies like Facebook and Apple.
tl;dr
Spectacles could be worth the steep $380 if you’re a videographer for a living, perhaps making futuristic social media clips like Karen X Cheng, a creator Snap hired to demonstrate the device’s potential. They’re cool enough looking that you could wear them around Cannes or Coachella without people getting weirded out like they did with Google Glass. And as Snap’s Lens Studio lets anyone build 3D effects for Spectacles 3, perhaps we’ll see some filters and imaginary characters that are more than just a momentary gimmick.
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But for those simply seeking first-person camera glasses, I’d still recommend the Spectacles 2 at $150 to $200 depending on style. The 3D features don’t carry the weight of paying double the price for Spec 3s. And at least the 2nd-gen Specs are waterproof, which make them great for ocean play with fun underwater shooting when you don’t want to risk losing or fizzling your phone.
“We’re testing the price point and the premium aesthetic to see if it lands with this demographic” Hanover says. But Snap’s Director Of Communications Liz Markman notes that “there isn’t this perfect one-to-one overlap with the core Snap users.”
The result is that Spectacles 3 are really more for Snap’s benefit than yours.
Slick Eyewear, Now Where’s The AR?
The Spectacles 3 software is disappointing, but you’ll be delighted when you open the box. Slick black packaging reveal sturdily built metal sunglasses with a luxury matte finish. As they magnetically dislodge from their charging case, you definitely get they sense you’re trying on something futuristic.
The style concurs, with a flat black bar at the top connecting the round lenses with a camera on both corners. Unlike the old Specs that sat right on your nose, feeling heavy at times, Spectacles 3 offers adjustable acetate non-slip nose tips to keep the weight off. All the tech is built discreetly into the hinges and temples without appearing too chunky.
Tap the button either arm, and LED light swooshes in a circle to let people know you’re recording a video for 10 seconds, with multiple presses growing that to up to 60. Tap and hold to shoot a photo, and the light blinks. There’s no obnoxious yellow rubber ring to shout “these are cameras”, and the defused LEDs are more subtle than Gen 2’s dots while remaining an obvious enough signal to passersby so they’re not creepy.
One charge powers up to 70 captures and transfers to your phone over a combined Bluetooth built-in Wifi connection. The 4 gigabyte storage holds up to 100 videos or 1200 photos, and Spectacles 3 even have GPS and GLOSNASS on-board. A 4-mic array picks up audio from others and your own voice, though they’re susceptible to windshear if you’re biking or running.
The magnetically-sealing folding leather USB-C charging case is my favorite part. I wish I could get an even flatter one without a battery in it for my other sunglasses. It’s a huge improvement on the unpocketable bulky triangular case of the previous versions.
A Toy Not Fun Enough For The Price
So far so good, right? But then it comes time to actually see and augment what you shot.
Pairing and syncing is much easier than Gen 1. The glasses forge a Bluetooth connection, then spawn a WiFi network for getting media to your phone faster.
If you just want to share to Snapchat, you’re in luck. Spectacles content posts to Stories or messages in its cool circular format that lets viewers tilt their phones around while always staying full-screen to reveal the edges of your shots. Otherwise, you still have to go through the chore of exporting from Snapchat to your camera roll. Spectacles can at least now export in a variety of croppings for better sharing on Instagram and elsewhere.
What’s new are the 3D photos and videos. They utilize the space between the stereoscopic cameras in the corners of Spectacles employ parallax to sense the depth of a scene. After tapping the 3D button on a photo, you can wiggle the perspective of the image around to almost see around the edges of what you’re looking at. Spectacles will automatically pan back and forth for you, and export 3D photos as short Boomerang-esque six-second videos.
Unfortunately, I found that I didn’t get much sense of depth from most of the 3D photos I shot or saw. It takes a very particular kind of three-dimensional object from the right angle in the right light to much sense of movement from the wiggle. Snapchat’s algorithms also had a bad habit of mistakenly assigning bits of the foreground and background to each other, breaking the illusion. Occasionally you’ll have someone’s ear or their hair left behind and disembodied by the 3D effect.
Don’t expect these to flood social media or convince prospective Spectacles buyers. The 3D selfies you can shoot on Snapchat for free look better anyways.
The biggest problem comes with the delay when playing with 3D videos. Snapchat has to do the depth processing on its servers, so you have to wait for your video to upload, get scanned, and be re-downloaded before you can apply the 3D AR filters. On WiFi that takes about 35 seconds per 10 second video, which is quite a bore. It takes forever over a mobile connection. That means you often won’t be able to apply the filters and see how they look until you’re home and unable to reshoot anything.
The filter set is also limited and haphazard. You can add a 3D bird or balloons around you, wander through golden snow or neon arcs, overlay flower projections or rainbow waves, or sprinkle on sparkles and light-bending blobs. While the bird is cute, and the rainbows and flowers are remarkably psychedelic, none of them are more than briefly entertaining.
The 3D objects often glitch through real pieces of scenery, and you can’t control them at all. No summoning the bird mid-video. My favorite trick, learned from Karen X Cheng, was to export unedited and filtered versions of a video and splice them together on my computer as scene in my demo video above. You can’t actually do that from within Snapchat.
Snap will have to build a lot cooler filters with interactivity if they’re going to compel creators to fork over $380 for Spectacles 3. It could hope to rely on its Lens Studio community platform, but so few developers or users will have the glasses that most will stick to making and using filters for phones.
Spectacles 3 are too expensive to be a toy, but don’t excel at being much more. Videography influencers might enjoy having a pair in their tool bag. But it’s hard to imagine anyone not sharing content professionally paying for the gadget.
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Iteration vs Ideation
“We’re now pushing to elevate the technology and the design to master depth technically” Hanover tells me. “Holing ourselves up within an R&D center for years and years? That’s not our approach. It’s important to meet the customer where they are today and continue to iterate and get that feedback.”
But this iteration doesn’t feel like Snap meeting the customer where they are. That raises the question of whether Snapchat is really getting enough data out of the whole endeavor to justify publicly releasing Spectacles at all. The company will have to hope that testing short-term is worth thinking short-term, when it’s trying to win the long-term war in augmented reality eyewear.
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ITK Newsletter, no. CXVII: SPOTLIGHT - Reflections on 2K19
Happy Festive Season to all you Loonies out there!
Welcome to another ITK Newsletter (the last in this iteration!!..more on that later!) and by Jove, isn't it great to reach the end of the year!
With our final episode for the year looming, there has been thoughts of what to do - how do we send off 2019, ITK-style? After giving it much thought, and not wanting to just quietly slip away for the rest of the year, I reckon it would be fun to have a kind of retrospective episode on ITK and what went on this year...it'll also set us up for what we can expect int he new year, and it also fits in well with our obligations to Khonshu -
PHASE OF THE MOON: NEW MOON
SPOTLIGHT - REFLECTIONS ON 2K19
There have been highs and lows this year, and it'll be good to see if our predictions from our episode 100 have come true...not sure if any readers out there remember what it was we all predicted, but stay tuned and see if we really are touched by Khonshu!
Our last episode will also give us a chance to do some final Spector-Calls and Moonie Missives from you, the reader/listener, so looking forward to thanking you all for being such great Moon Knight fans!
POTENTIALLY THE END OF OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER..?
Yes, it kinda sounds daunting, but I'm going to try a little something different in the new year, and one of the main things is adding this newsletter to our base tier as a patron member...
As you can see from the image above, I've set up the page and it's all good to go, I just need to launch it...! It's been something on my mind for a while now and ok, it may be ambitious, but I thought I might as well reach for the sky - if realistically I gain enough support to raise funds to sustain the show on it's own (cover podcast host plan just by itself!), then I'll be a happy chappy!
I know, I know, I'm so sorry if we are going to ask Loonies to pay for something they've received for free, weekly, but it'll be for a meagre $1 (the lowest tier) and the newsletter will be coming out monthly.
By making them less regular, you get less Rey-Ramble, and it should be action packed with quality stuff!! I'll see what sort of goodies I can pack in the newsletter...I'll need to give it ore thought...it may end up being fortnightly...all depends on how I frame the newsletter on a regular basis...
Anyway, consider it a trial period (when it drops) -we'll see how it goes...but yes, this here issue will be the last of the current version of the ITK newsletter...! *sob sob*...always sad to see something go (for me, anyway....)
SHORT HIATUS - WRITING UP A STORM...
After our next upcoming episode this weekend, to round out 2019, ITK will be taking a short hiatus to refresh over the new year, and we'll be back behind the microphone in a week or two (haven't decided yet how long!).
Part of the reason for this, is for me to do a bit of writing - I'm keen to write at least the next three episodes of our serial (episodes 8 and 9 are already written, so I'm hoping to write episodes 10,11 & 12) as well as remaining disciplined as a bonafide reviewer on the Painted Monk's Library website! As mentioned in our past newsletter, myself and a handful of ITK Scribes (now forever known as Scribes, not Loonies....though each and every one of them are Moon Knight fans) will be undertaking a HUGE task of reviewing each and every single Moon Knight issue and appearance!
Every week, commencing January 6th 2020, a weekly review will come out starting from Werewolf By Night #32 onwards...it's going to be alot of fun, but I also want to get cracking and stay ahead, so I'll be writing up my reviews in advance, and hopefully I'll have a decent head start...I've completed my first couple of reviews which will see me 'til March 2020, but I'm hungry for more!
Having said that, a break will also allow me to recharge (and potentially bank some discussions too for future episodes), so it's all about planning ahead for ol' Rey in the lead up to 2020...!
RECOMMENDED PODCAST THIS WEEK!
My pick this week would have to go to a relatively new podcast which I'm listening to, titled ALL THE POUCHES - AN IMAGE COMICS PODCAST.
Having discovered all my old comics from when I was growing up, after a Christmas visit to my parents' place, I've been reacquainted with Image Comics and am keen to re-visit the publishers in their original guise...when the titans such as Lee, Liefeld, Valentino, Keown, Keith, McFarlane, Larsen, Silvestri...were all throwing the best 90's characters and squashing them in our faces!!
If ever you caught the 90's bug growing up (or have since!), here's a podcast for you! Below are some choice selections from the podcast back catalogue...
All the Pouches 20 : May 1993, Part 1
All the Pouches 50: Deathmate Finale
All the Pouches 59: January 1994, Part 5
CONTACT US!
Write in or send in your audio feedback - we'd love to hear from you!
You can leave comments on our various social media platforms (there'll always be spoiler posts exclusively for you, the Loony, to share and discuss the issues we review on the show!) or email us your thoughts in written or audio format - we are always happy to play them and discuss on the show!
If you DON'T want your comments broadcast, please just add, "(DNB)" at the end of your comment, and we'll be sure not to broadcast it. We'll pick a few comments from here and discuss on the show!
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GetVokl : Into the Knight Welcome Room
Alrighty, that pretty much wraps it up for this here ITK Newsletter for 2019. A huge thank you one and all for coming back again and again to this here little passion project.
I really do hope that we've created a decent enough platform for you to enjoy all your Moon Knight needs and to find a plce in which you can share what you love...!
I hope we've made the podcast interesting and fun enough for you to come back and have a second or third or fourth listen...it's certainly very fun to do, but it makes it all the more special if there are Loonies out there who genuinely enjoy it...
And I know, there are a good bunch of Loonies out there whom I've had the absolute pleasure in getting to know - you know who you are (you're probably reading this newsletter right now!), and so I just want to thank you HEAPS for being so supportive and for helping to grow this community...
I want to close off by extending that appreciation by shouting out to all the Loonies there who have thought about interacting with other Loonies or ITK at the next level - just drop us a line and we're more than happy to see what we can do! With the Patreon page coming up, there'll be less liberal invites, but please do not take that as a bad thing...! We want to make this the best possible comic book character podcast out there, so we'd love your support and please know that we will always listen!
OK, I better stop now...! Enjoy the rest of the festive break and have an UNFORGETTABLE New Years Eve!....See you all in 2020!!
Until next time....
May Khonshu Watch Over the Denizens of the (K)Night,
Rey
Proud Member of The Collective
Remember! You can buy your official ITK merchandise at ...ITK Store Front @ TeePublic
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Snapchat Spectacles 3 review: Pretty, pricey
No one’s going to pay $380 for decent point-of-view video glasses and some trippy filters. But that’s kind of the point of Snapchat Spectacles 3. They’re merely a stepping stone towards true augmented reality eyewear — a public hardware beta for the Snap Lab R&D team that Apple and Facebook aren’t getting as they tinker in their bunkers.
Still, I hoped for something that could at least unlock the talents of forward-thinking video creators. Yet the unpredictable and uncontrollable AR effects sadly fail to make use of Spectacles‘ fashionable form factor in premium steel. The clunky software requires clips be uploaded for processing and then re-downloaded before you can apply the 10 starter effects like a rainbow landscape filter or a shimmering fantasy falcon. This all makes producing AR content a chore instead of a joy for something only briefly novel.
Spectacles 3 go on sale today for $380 in black ‘Carbon’ or rose gold-ish ‘Mineral’ color schemes on Spectacles.com, Neiman Marcus, and Ron Robinson in the UK, shipping in a week. Announced in August, they’re sunglasses with two stereoscopic lenses capable of capturing depth to produce “3D” photos, and videos you can add AR effects to on your phone. You also get a very nice folds-flat leather USB-C charging case that powers up the glasses four times, and a Google Cardboard-style VR viewer.
“Spectacles 3 is a limited production run. We’re not looking for massive sales here. We’re targeting people who are excited about these effects — creative storytellers” says Matt Hanover of the Snap Lab team.
Gen 1 featured a “toy-like design to get people used to wearing tech on their face”, while Gen 2 and 2.1 had a more subdued look abandoning the coral color schemes to push mainstream adoption. What Gen 3 can’t do is force a $40 million write-off due to poor sales, as V1 did after only shipping 220,000 with hundreds of thousands more gathering dust somewhere. Snap is already losing $227 million per quarter as it scrambles to break even.
So it seems with Spectacles 3 that Snap is gathering data and biding its time, trying to avoid burning too much cash until it can build a version that overlays effects atop a user’s view through the glasses. “We’re still able to get feedback from the customer and inform the future of Spectacles. That’s really the goal for us” Hanover confirms.
His CEO Evan Spiegel agrees, telling me on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that it would be 10 years until we see augmented reality glasses worthy of mainstream consumer adoption. That’s a long time for an unprofitable company to spend competing to invest in R&D versus cash-rich companies like Facebook and Apple.
tl;dr
Spectacles could be worth the steep $380 if you’re a videographer for a living, perhaps making futuristic social media clips like Karen X Cheng, a creator Snap hired to demonstrate the device’s potential. They’re cool enough looking that you could wear them around Cannes or Coachella without people getting weirded out like they did with Google Glass. And as Snap’s Lens Studio lets anyone build 3D effects for Spectacles 3, perhaps we’ll see some filters and imaginary characters that are more than just a momentary gimmick.
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But for those simply seeking first-person camera glasses, I’d still recommend the Spectacles 2 at $150 to $200 depending on style which remain available. The 3D features don’t carry the weight of paying double the price for Spec 3s. And at least the 2nd-gen Specs are waterproof, which make them great for ocean play with fun underwater shooting when you don’t want to risk losing or fizzling your phone.
“We’re testing the price point and the premium aesthetic to see if it lands with this demographic” Hanover says. But Snap’s Director Of Communications Liz Markman notes that “there isn’t this perfect one-to-one overlap with the core Snap users.”
The result is that Spectacles 3 are really more for Snap’s benefit than yours.
Slick Eyewear, Now Where’s The AR?
The Spectacles 3 software is disappointing, but you’ll be delighted when you open the box. Slick black packaging reveal sturdily built metal sunglasses with a luxury matte finish. As they magnetically dislodge from their charging case, you definitely get they sense you’re trying on something futuristic.
The style concurs, with a flat black bar at the top connecting the round lenses with a camera on both corners. Unlike the old Specs that sat right on your nose, feeling heavy at times, Spectacles 3 offers adjustable acetate non-slip nose tips to keep the weight off. All the tech is built discreetly into the hinges and temples without appearing too chunky.
Tap the button either arm, and LED light swooshes in a circle to let people know you’re recording a video for 10 seconds, with multiple presses growing that to up to 60. Tap and hold to shoot a photo, and the light blinks. There’s no obnoxious yellow rubber ring to shout “these are cameras”, and the defused LEDs are more subtle than Gen 2’s dots while remaining an obvious enough signal to passersby so they’re not creepy.
One charge powers up to 70 captures and transfers to your phone over a combined Bluetooth built-in Wifi connection. The 4 gigabyte storage holds up to 100 videos or 1200 photos, and Spectacles 3 even have GPS and GLOSNASS on-board. A 4-mic array picks up audio from others and your own voice, though they’re susceptible to windshear if you’re biking or running. They shoot at 60-frames per second in 1216 x 1216 pixels resolution while photos come in at 1642 x 1642
The magnetically-sealing folding leather USB-C charging case is my favorite part. I wish I could get an even flatter one without a battery in it for my other sunglasses. It’s a huge improvement on the unpocketable bulky triangular case of the previous versions.
A Toy Not Fun Enough For The Price
So far so good, right? But then it comes time to actually see and augment what you shot.
Pairing and syncing is much easier than Gen 1. The glasses forge a Bluetooth connection, then spawn a WiFi network for getting media to your phone faster.
If you just want to share to Snapchat, you’re in luck. Spectacles content posts to Stories or messages in its cool circular format that lets viewers tilt their phones around while always staying full-screen to reveal the edges of your shots. Otherwise, you still have to go through the chore of exporting from Snapchat to your camera roll. Spectacles can at least now export in a variety of croppings for better sharing on Instagram and elsewhere.
What’s new are the 3D photos and videos. They utilize the space between the stereoscopic cameras in the corners of Spectacles employ parallax to sense the depth of a scene. After tapping the 3D button on a photo, you can wiggle the perspective of the image around to almost see around the edges of what you’re looking at. Spectacles will automatically pan back and forth for you, and export 3D photos as short Boomerang-esque six-second videos.
Unfortunately, I found that I didn’t get much sense of depth from most of the 3D photos I shot or saw. It takes a very particular kind of three-dimensional object from the right angle in the right light to much sense of movement from the wiggle. Snapchat’s algorithms also had a bad habit of mistakenly assigning bits of the foreground and background to each other, breaking the illusion. Occasionally you’ll have someone’s ear or their hair left behind and disembodied by the 3D effect.
Don’t expect these to flood social media or convince prospective Spectacles buyers. The 3D selfies you can shoot on Snapchat for free look better anyways.
The biggest problem comes with the delay when playing with 3D videos. Snapchat has to do the depth processing on its servers, so you have to wait for your video to upload, get scanned, and be re-downloaded before you can apply the 3D AR filters. On WiFi that takes about 35 seconds per 10 second video, which is quite a bore. It takes forever over a mobile connection. That means you often won’t be able to apply the filters and see how they look until you’re home and unable to reshoot anything.
The filter set is also limited and haphazard. You can add a 3D bird or balloons around you, wander through golden snow or neon arcs, overlay flower projections or rainbow waves, or sprinkle on sparkles and light-bending blobs. While the bird is cute, and the rainbows and flowers are remarkably psychedelic, none of them are more than briefly entertaining.
The 3D objects often glitch through real pieces of scenery, and you can’t control them at all. No summoning the bird mid-video. My favorite trick, learned from Karen X Cheng, was to export unedited and filtered versions of a video and splice them together on my computer as scene in my demo video above. You can’t actually do that from within Snapchat.
One extra feature the team is working on is to let you see a special colored light flash on the glasses’ internal recording-on signal to alert you to incoming Snaps from certain friends. If that’s popular, would Snap try giving us more notifications through that light? Hanover says “potentially in the future.”
Snap will have to build a lot cooler filters with interactivity if they’re going to compel creators to fork over $380 for Spectacles 3. It could hope to rely on its Lens Studio community platform, but so few developers or users will have the glasses that most will stick to making and using filters for phones.
Spectacles 3 are too expensive to be a toy, but don’t excel at being much more. Videography influencers might enjoy having a pair in their tool bag. But it’s hard to imagine anyone not sharing content professionally paying for the gadget.
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Iteration vs Ideation
“We’re now pushing to elevate the technology and the design to master depth technically” Hanover tells me. “Holing ourselves up within an R&D center for years and years? That’s not our approach. It’s important to meet the customer where they are today and continue to iterate and get that feedback.”
But this iteration doesn’t feel like Snap meeting the customer where they are. That raises the question of whether Snapchat is really getting enough data out of the whole endeavor to justify publicly releasing Spectacles at all. The company will have to hope that testing short-term is worth thinking short-term, when it’s trying to win the long-term war in augmented reality eyewear.
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