#book themed food

[steveharrington]

ohhh they’re mood boarding bunny by mona awad in the tags… theyre tagging it coquette and im just a girl… yeah i fear we may have missed the point guys!

[damnation-if]

on today's episode of Hashing Out Concepts Theatre, i spent a while today while waiting for my new fridge/freezer to be installed after my previous one died and i lost all my food hashing out a bunch of concepts for another game idea i have. (rest assured i'm not actually working on it as a game yet i just like to bash out a framework for things every now and then to make my brain do happy chemicals lmao)

putting all of this stuff under a cut since it's a bunch of images and also in case people aren't interested XD

i am regrettably a huge fan of comic books (mostly DC) and i've seen a couple of comic book inspired IFs popping up lately, though when it comes to my own interest, i'm definitely more into a straight interpretation of a comic book universe than a more. the boys-style universe - i'm into the camp lol, not so much the grim and gritty stuff. (though that's just my own personal preference)

anyway the idea behind That's Just Super is something that i really like about certain comics - giving the villains more of a purpose and rounded existence than just existing to be in somebody's rogue's gallery. the joker's angry defence of the batfamily from various other DC evil forces, lex luthor's furious resistance against brainiac alongside superman because it's His planet, damn it, DOOM throwing in with the heroes in every second marvel event comic... i really like stories where villains and evil characters don't always make the Most Evil choice just Because, but have clear and explainable motivations that sometimes bring them into what we'd consider a 'good' alignment because unlike in d&d, there's no real such thing as a concrete moral alignment.

(this is my banner design for it)

the basic idea is that an inexplicable cosmic event removes all of the superheroes from the planet, leaving it vulnerable to attack by evil mindflayer style aliens - unless the supervillains who remain are able to band together despite their more unpredictable, less cooperative natures and save the planet in the heroes' absence. after all... if aliens take over the earth, the villains can't take it over themselves.

here's my fun little UI design idea lmao...

the other major thing about That's Just Super that i've been hashing out is the pc. the basic idea is that you pick your villain identity from a list but you get to customise their like. birth name and secret identity, while the villain identity comes with its own name, costume, and set history (including occasionally past romantic encounters). i like playing around with the way that IF works with the idea of mcs and customisable mcs so i just thought it'd be a fun twist... it also allows me to create nice drama by having set occurrences in the past lol.

so i did some profiles for the nine villain options - three each of the DC triad of tech/metahuman/magic origin. they're all based on a specific kind of villain archetype, and i really tried to limit myself to ones where i could definitely pin down more than one specific influence so it didn't end up like me just making too many analogues haha... even if some of the influences are probably pretty obvious.

weirdly i haven't even Thought about ROs yet since i've been so focussed on the pc... maybe i'll play around with the partially set background idea even more and only have 1 possible RO for each villain choice or something. maybe a couple that you can romance as anybody... not sure. (talionis could definitely have a messy broken romance with his superhero for example)

apologies that readability isn't great but these are mostly just made for me lmao

[vampiricsheep]

so since I may be free this summer after all, would anyone be interested in an RP event that's a potluck? I've been wanting to do it for ages but there's never any interest compared to other themes

for a discord rp, I would make a separate server explicitly for this purpose so you don't have to be in any guilds or anything! I would also delete the server (or at least channel, if people would like an event-planning server long-term) after a week - enough time for people to read over their stuff but not preserved forever and ever.

[garfieldstim]

HI HI AGAIN!!! If you could, can you make a stimboard for a Knives introject from Scott Pilgrim? I'd love like cutesy cat stuff (not actual cats but like squishies and stuff!), red themes, really anything fun and you think fits!!! I just love really cute things and also warm stuff and dancing!!!! - Knives from @chickensystem

knives chau stimboard with the colour red and cute pretend cats for knives(@chickensystem)

x x x / x - x / x x x

[abluescarfonwaston]

I know I've said it too many times about how insane the signal red/blue keychains in the anime make me but Phoenix's gay ass little backpack suitcase is fantastic. Yes a man who only rides a bike Needs his 'suitcase' to be a backpack. Yes it needs to look professional.

Still a gayass backpack. What are you trying to do, highlight your ass in that suit?

[mabelmidnight-takeover]

thinking about how if i had chosen architecture for college I'd have probably spent the last three years making a percy jackson themed park just for funsies

[firstroseofspring]

edna st. vincent mallay, love is not all

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Might accidentally get absolutely jacked bc in a sheer desperate effort to artificially raise norepinephrine levels in the absence of an actual snri, might start doing cardio at the gym again

[sheliach]

COFFE TIME The Flickr Lounge Weekend Theme 

[piratefalls]

I’m trying so hard not to be super salty right now but I’m finding it very difficult.

[nexus-nebulae]

it took. so many weeks but i Finally managed to collect all the major terrain things i wanted for my campsite in pocket camp and im Very happy i love my little garden corner

[nicknederson]

Nancy Drew Diaries

The Blue Lady of Coffin Hall // Captain Stone’s Revenge

[not-poignant]

This was probably asked before, but did you ever consider releasing print copies of your serials like Fae Tales or FFS, or even an anthology of the oneshots and shorts? Not necesserily on amazon, but maybe your own shop?

Hi anon,

I've been thinking about this question for a few days trying to reason it out, and basically the reasons I wouldn't consider releasing print copies of my serials on my own website are the same reason I wouldn't consider releasing print copies of my serials on Amazon, with one exception (the Amazon TOS, lol).

If I'm not drop-shipping, which is a pain to organise re: quality control, I have to host the books at my house, which is a cottage where we already don't have enough room to store things. Not to mention shipping anything from Australia to the rest of the world (especially books) is prohibitively expensive.

Game Theory and The Court of Five Thrones are not normal 'books.' They are each about 5 standard novels in length (in romance, that shoots up right up to about 6-8). I would not want to make the font size small because that makes accessibility hard for everyone, and at best I might be able to publish the books as a set of maybe 6-8 books. So people would not be buying two books to get two installments in a series, but 6-8 really heavy books. Realistically, if I made the books like, nice to look at and factored in shipping and stuff, that means people would easily be paying over $300~ (and realistically much more) to get a series they can right now...read for free. Shipping books in particular is...like...the biggest killer for authors and why so many, almost all authors, do not organise shipping themselves. Even then, ordering 8 books at once is still a lot of shipping from most smaller distributors.

Amazon is not the main problem, anon. I can publish my books on Smashwords right now and there wouldn't be an issue with the content. Amazon is only a small part of the problem. Tbh hosting books on your own website is considered one of the worst ways to distribute in terms of getting interest. Which I would need, because of the next part:

Finally, the years it would take to edit these books to a standard that I would consider publishable would not really be worth the fact that I would never ever earn that time or labour back. If I was a rich person who could just spend my time doing whatever I wanted, then I'd be able to do this, but I barely have enough time as it is to write the things that I do which actually do make me a living. Paying someone to edit those books would cost easily in the bracket of around $15-20k AUD ($10-14k USD), for extremely cheap (and therefore not guaranteed good quality) editing - that's an entire year's worth of income for me. Doing it myself or in tandem with someone else takes a huge amount of time. Like, realistically, I would maybe sell 200 copies of the books at best. It's a little like taking thousands of dollars and flushing it down the toilet. I would love to be privileged enough to do that, because I would like to see my books on my shelves more than anyone else would, for probably obvious reasons. But this is the path I've chosen, and I do not have thousands of dollars or hundreds of hours of time that I can afford to flush away, anon. And right now I don't see very obvious reasons beyond 'it would be cool' to do it. I hate talking about these practicalities, but I have to consider them. The editing in particular is the biggest killer, because if it was just typos etc. I could maybe get it done in a year or so. But I want to make some structural and continuity edits to Game Theory in particular, and that will take a lot of time.

[marinakaefer]

[OCs] What do you prefer - savory or sweet?

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[theotherlists]

Hi! Everyone !🤩

I’m a young girl with many interest to share and who want to explore marvellous experiences that world and life can offer.

I’m a pastry assistant🧁, reader📚, dancer🩰, traveller🌍, artist🎨, binge watcher🎞️ scrapbooker✍️ and food&beverage discover🍕.

[thesmokinpossum]

I feel like both the book and the show wants me to dislike/despise John’s girlfriend Ashley but I honestly think she’s one of the least unhealthy character and one of the few I could imagine having a somehow healthy life later so....