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princess-of-anons · 1 month ago

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Wouldn’t it be Very Funny if Tumblr was capable of giving us glimpses into parallel timelines? Like how would you even discern if something was some elaborate shitpost or not?

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Still find it absolutely hilarious that somebody went through the time and effort to not only make a musical out of Half Life VR but also convinced everybody that was working on it to keep hush hush about it for a whole ass year and THEN somehow kept everybody involved in the original series the musical is based off of in the dark for another six months??? They literally dropped the whole show and individual songs onto the internet in the middle of January too like Who Does That? I can’t even be mad because this show genuinely got me interested in actual broadway musicals but like what the fuck

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We are STILL working out the bug that’s causing posts from parallel points of realty to leak into our own and vice-versa. For those of you whose blogs are shadow-following several of these multiversal users without actually following them, we are working on that as well. Until then we have implemented a quick-fix that adds a banner to the bottom of posts not from our own reality.

UPDATE: We have received word that there are some issues with the banner code that is causing some people to be incorrectly identified as being from an alternate universe while people that are actually from an alternate universe are not being labeled at all. For the time being we are removing the automatic banner system. Please use your own discretion and flag blogs you suspect are not from baseline reality, we will have somebody manually.

UPDATE 2: We have been informed that giving the ability to report alleged blogging activity from other universes to a website that thrives off of dedication to The Bit and lying as a joke is a very bad idea. We regrettably request that you enjoy the madness until we get this figured out. For those of you who are still getting banners at the end of your posts despite our attempts to kill the algorithm responsible for it, we are looking into it. Yes, we are very aware that the number of universes getting added into this chaos is growing exponentially. We hope to get this fixed up in a week.

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Mate this post didn’t just age like milk, it aged like fucking grimmal.

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What the bloody hell is milk?

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You can’t get shit like this on any other website

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I could sleep so well if I didn’t have to be haunted by the fact we, as a collective wetsite, decided that for some reason we should ship the Lorax with different versions of himself when the old version of Onceler at the end of the movie was right there.

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Bro I am not taking advice from somebody that draws Lord Nebulous as a twink, you know damn well he would be jacked as shit as a human. Give that robo-GILF some meat and then we can talk.

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Fun Fact: Giving meat to robots has universally never gone well in the past! Maybe we could find an alternative instead?

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Eggs are a good source of protein and help with muscle growth! And this one is all yours!

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Thank you again everybody for a successful Dashcon 2019, we hope it was memorable for everyone that was able to show up! We don’t have 2020 vision, but here’s hoping that next year is bigger and better than ever!

From us to all of you, thanks a bunch Tumblrinas!

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“post from The Timeline where dashcon didn’t become a fucking trainwreck” quickly followed by “random gimmick blog that has not only been around for half a decade but also apparently exists in every single universe” getting randomly assigned with the Wretched Banner feels like the punchline of a cruel joke

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Hey, yeah, so we found your husband trapped inside an episode of Star Trek the Animated Series. We got him out safely but I’m not entirely sure if he came back right.

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Who the fuck changed this from Game of Thrones to Star Trek I just wanna talk

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There was an animated series for Game of Thrones?

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Everyone on this website is fucking high

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Me when staff inevitably musters up enough popsicle sticks and glue to fix the multiverse bug

#long post #fake post #dashboard simulator

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welcome-to-neighborhood-park · 7 months ago

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[Redacted] found a note from parts and service

The animatronics are unbelievably complex. I’ve never seen artificial intelligence like this, their programming makes them seem sentient. I wish I knew how they accomplished this. Even when the park is closed, they still roam around acting like real people. It’s as creepy as it is fascinating.

However, this advanced AI has been causing issues in parts and service. Specifically, Eddie can’t be in the repair bay for 30 minutes without panicking and causing himself to malfunction. At least I think it's the AI. He is the type to worry and get nervous on occasion, but not even Poppy has this issue and she’s the one programmed with the most anxiety. We can’t do repairs like this. We have to shut him down for any extensive repair, which only takes more time as we don’t get immediate responses from him. Having to wait until he powers on only to find out we fixed nothing wastes time. And it’s not like we can keep him longer and go through the process again. Even if we had the time, we have to let him go because of Frank.

Frank gets increasingly concerned the longer Eddie spends in the parts and service building. We still haven’t found out why, and he’s the only one to display concern for Eddie. He’ll stand either outside or in the front room if Eddie’s been in there "too long." Which we've timed to be around 40 minutes. He refuses to leave and has started arguments with staff when told to do so. For this reason, we also can’t bring Eddie in for repairs during park hours or when Frank is scheduled to be out. Frank manages to go against his programmed schedule in order to wait for Eddie.

Eddie needs more repair time. Out of all the animatronics he experiences the most complications. There’s something wrong with his endoskeleton’s left leg, it will jerk and twitch if Eddie’s not actively leaning or putting pressure on it. Now he randomly stumbles about and nearly trips over himself. A clumsy animatronic is an expensive one, if he falls and get seriously damaged who knows what it would cost to fix. I know he was “clumsy” in the show, but that quirk was supposed to be excluded.

Same with his memory. Part of Eddie’s original programming had him “pretending” to be forgetful, in reality it was just a randomized timer that determined how quick or slowly he’d pull information. Unfortunately, one of the programmers found a bug in his memory bank after staff and guests realized his memory was “getting worse.” The programmer said that he got errors when trying to access his memory bank, so instead of a timer to allow him access, he just doesn't get access at all. Failure to remove the bug made higher ups call to remove his “pretend forgetfulness” code to help minimize the issue. It sorta worked, but it’s still an issue as he needs to be able to access those files in case of emergency.

I think if we can figure out why he panics and how to fix it, the rest of the issues could be solved more easily. I think it’s the “panic attacks” that caused those memory errors in the first place, but what do I know. I'm just a mechanic...

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… I don’t like calling them panic attacks. The others do, but it makes me uncomfortable. He’s a theme park robot, he shouldn’t be able to have panic attacks. He’s not really alive, it’s just AI.

Right?

#...#welcome home au #welcome home #Neighborhood Park AU #lore #eddie dear #frank frankly

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aotopmha · 11 months ago

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What are your thoughts on the whole Mikasa's new family thing? As a normal person with some romantic experience, I think it makes sense for her to have a family and not be stuck single on a dead guy for life. As an AoT fan who can basically not separate her from her 'Eren' rhetoric, it feels like a twist... or dare I say, betrayal? I wish we had a bit more padding to the ending, because it seems these things were wrapped up very quickly, and besides the literal deaths, I feel like my girl Historia and Levi got such bitter endings...

This is quite a few questions so I'm answering them in a list:

1) I really like Mikasa moving on because from the framing of her final moments in the story and the passing time in the extra pages and credits, I feel like she had a mourning period and then was able to move on and start a new family, something she always wanted. And I think earning that ending is at least some (and an appropriate one) reward after what she went through.

2) She has always loved Eren, but she has also punched him in the face when she thought he was doing stupid shit and being hot-headed. She threw him in chapter 1, punched him in the face in episode 2, is perfectly capable of making her own decisions without him, which was the point of the first half of episode 6. As much as she loves him, her attachment has actually comparatively little to do with him and everything to do with the death of her parent(s) figure(s) twice in a row in the span of a year when she was a child.

(Episode 6 in the anime, chapter 5 in the manga.)

Her attachment to Eren has caused a bunch of issues and is her biggest "flaw", but she has never been a *doormat*, which is what so many people read her as and I disagree with.

The decision to kill Eren was made by her when she saw families and children suffer because of him, something she can deeply relate to and works to prevent.

(Chapter 48)

Mikasa isn't a crying damsel, she's a warrior who went through some pretty tough shit and is reacting accordingly.

She will fight when she needs to fight and do the right thing when she needs to do the right thing.

3) Pacing was actually probably the biggest issue I personally had with the manga's ending, but the anime pretty much fixed all of it in my eyes. Mikasa's feelings for Eren, though, and vice versa was one of the most obvious things about the entire story from start to finish, so you've got a disagreement there as well. From the moment you see the subtle blush from Eren in the flashback, the trope became really clear to me and nothing onward from there really convinced me otherwise because Eren never had any other relationship like that in the story, no other love interest characters or characters framed in relation to his character in the same way.

4) Likewise, I think Levi probably had the best ending out of every single character in the story. As much of a pyrrhic victory as defeating Eren was, he got his revenge and kept his life. He got the most strongly defined closure he could get in context of the story.

5) What I agree with you on is how Historia was treated, though I'm not sure if for the same reasons or in the same way. The final arc basically destroyed her character and the anime equally did not even mention or even have a nod towards any of her defining moments as a character or her important relationships (because I suspect Isayama just could not figure out how to write her in this context in any other way).

In my eyes, she went through one of the best, most strongly defined character arcs in the entire story, but all we got from it was a metaphor for the birth of a new world... through a clearly gay-coded character. It's pretty awful and contradicts the theme of freedom her character is about and embodies by the end of the Uprising arc AND the general ideas of freedom the story is about, but I choose to put it in its own awful box and reluctantly close my eyes to it.

I think her arc was about her finding out what she wants and no longer living in a role and I think the entirety of the final arc went against that.

I've gone into why Historia's arc is awful in many other asks and posts, so I don't feel like reiterating it all right now (I have a tag for her character and pretty much all characters, so if anyone is interested, you'll probably find my detailed thoughts looking around there, but, yeah I think it's pretty awful even if you don't see her as gay-coded.)

Thank you for the ask!

#Attack on Titan #Shingeki no Kyojin #AoT #SnK #Mikasa #Levi #Historia #Mikasa Ackerman #Historia Reiss #Levi Ackerman #Asks

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aburruso-capstone-uhwoacm · 10 months ago

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Progress Report #3

It's been a little over two weeks since my last update, and I’m glad to say that I got my first build of Sneaker finished! This build shows off the basic gameplay. I posted it on itch.io – here’s the link if you want to check it out: https://aliyah-burruso.itch.io/capstone-sneaker-first-build.

Needless to say, I managed to fix most of the issues with the game I mentioned in the last update. The first was making Sasha shoot after she finished moving rather than at the same time. The thing that helped was states, which is basically code that gives Sasha different behavior in different scenarios (Ex. moving towards a coordinate point, not moving at all, getting hit). I’m glad I learned this; not only does the game work more like how I want it to, but this could also help me in future projects.

Another issue I fixed was the respawn bug (where Sasha wouldn’t go back to her previous position after getting hit). In my previous post, I said it had something to do with the collision boxes. However, I figured out that the real cause was me not setting up the alarm that was supposed to send Sasha back right! Now that I fixed this, I can keep my original animation idea.

Of course, I still ran into some issues these past two weeks, mainly with exporting the game. The first time I tried to export it, I kept getting an error message saying that the “Developer ID” couldn’t be found. After looking it up, I learned that I cannot create executables for macOS without getting a Developer ID… which requires a $99 fee. This made me panic… until I realized that what I really wanted to do was to make an executable for HTML5. Fortunately, I don’t need a Developer ID for that, so I was able to export it.

…Then I learned that the game resolution was too big. I learned this after I posted it on itch.io. This meant that I had to resize the entire game and fix the code that told Sasha where to go and aim. Funnily enough, I managed to fix the code by a complete fluke (I was just messing around with the numbers and found the right one by accident). I’m not upset at this, though, since it meant that the game was now playable on a browser.

To be honest, I added more to the first build than I expected. This includes:

The title screen

The backstory

A tutorial (after I let my mom try out the game and she was completely stumped)

Once again, I’m all right with this because I don’t have to do it later.

On a side note, I may have to push the playtesting with students back. I contacted a person at a school who could help me get some students. She wanted me to send it to her first so that she (and the teachers) could test it out for themselves. I sent her the game, but I am still waiting to hear her response.

Moving on to the redesigns, I’ve been working on an alternate design for Sasha. Right now, I only have a B&W version, but I’m thinking that I may make her skin darker. My reasoning is that I want to make her hair and clothing lighter to stand out against the grid more; if I keep her skin light, there will be no contrast in her design. Other than that, I decided to give Sasha curly hair. I based it off of my hair when it’s let down. I tried to retain the “wing” aspect while also making it more unique. I’ve also been experimenting with a pineapple hairstyle. I can’t seem to get it right, though, so I may not use it in the end.

Besides that, I decided to completely revamp the design for Giga (the program Sasha uses to take down servers). My original idea was for it to be a rifle. However, I was always uncomfortable making a game for preteens/early teens about using a gun. My initial solution was to try to make the rifle super stylized, but at this point, I think the safer option is to just throw out the rifle idea. Instead, I’ve developed two alternatives. One is a “wrist gun” (where Giga is attached to Sasha’s wrist like a watch) while the other is a “power glove.” I’m thinking that I may go for the wrist gun idea; I tried sketching out the power glove, but it looked sort of silly (I unfortunately erased it…). On a side note, I’m also considering changing Sasha’s clothes. You can see one idea I have in the wrist gun sketch.

That’s all I have for this update. In the coming weeks, I’ll continue revamping all the designs (including the color schemes... I said I'd get them done in time for this update, didn't I?). I’ll also start on creating the final sprites for the game and adding them to the next build. Depending on when I get feedback, I may also fix up the gameplay. Let’s just see how things go…

#capstone #cm491 #gamemaker #gamedev #itch.io

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fictionfixations · 10 months ago

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wuh woh wooooh

[Crowley: I'll hold onto your magical pens and smartphones. And rest assured--I shall return them to you once Camp Vargas is over.]

yknow. in the event of a malicious intent crowley. like

let me paint the picture:

Crowley is a horrible headmaster or what cha ma call it (I think its headmage but same thing??)

and there's a group of students and so on forming a plan to stop him and remove his influence from the school.

and then camp vargas, and the students partaking who are a part of said squad have to surrender their phones and stuff. for three days (a lot of time to send any and all information on the phone to someone else and then search through the information without worrying about the three-day deadline... or like idk tamper with it who tf knows)

and its not like they can just refuse to hand it over

although im not sure how much evidence would be kept on a phone when while they dont have much proof they'd probably have to keep it on the down low as much as possible until the time is right to expose him yknow? (and because 1. try and fail and that'll just be digging a bigger hole where crowley can easily go and fix any issues. 2. making too much of a racket causes the risk of the place being flooded with like reporters and nosy people and so on and that wouldn't particularly be a good thing while overblots can still happen and stuff yknow?

im kind of thinking more of a time travel crew, or at least one person time traveling and going back and thus plotting to try to 'fix' everything...

its risky. also a lot of people could get pulled out before the time is right. for example, riddle if his mom still has that authority, and he'd probably be more under her control then ever

kalim and jamil. which for one, if news of his overblot and betrayal get out wuh woh. which, its not like they could quiet everyone, yknow???

a bunch of things could be brought to light that they dont need. there's also someone exposing news of, say, azul's deal stuff and deal with crowley or something to keep it in place or something like that. and while that could be a point against crowley. i kind of dont want the octo guys to go. even if they're a bunch of asses sometimes.

it'd just get complicated fast, i'd think and rumors would go brrr. like 'did this person encourage it?' 'did this person keep it a secret?' even if there's technically no reason to think so besides 'they attended'.)

i got distracted what was i talking about?

uh. blink blink

so cause i mean so on and so on

but logically there'd probably be a group chat. even if nothing suspicious happens in the chat they'd need a way to let each other know of stuff. which group chat. (also calls can be recorded, and i dont trust codes. except the ones that you can slip into casual conversation but that'd get complicated fast i bet)

i mean. maybe if they got like idia's help and getting like idk a secure connection that can't be hacked into or something like that?

it goes into complicated tech stuff there (like, ooh some complicated way of figuring out it is you so people cant fake it to get in, etc)

#thoughts #random stuff #writing ideas #twst #twisted wonderland #twst wonderland

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hydrus · 11 months ago

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I was suddenly without internet for a while, so there was no release last week, but everything is back to normal now, and I had a great couple weeks' work. The 'edit times' dialog can now handle multiple files.

full changelog

editing times for multiple files at once

If you launch 'edit times' on a single file, everything is the same. If you open it on a larger selection, it will now show, in a summarised way, the range of each particular time type, and how many files in the selection have or do not have a time set there. The controls all work as before, but in general, when you set a time, all files are now locked to that new time. Give it a play and you'll see how it all works.

SInce we don't always want to set exactly the same time to a set of files, but rather ideally a similar, staggered time, there is also a new 'cascade step' system in the multiple file version of the dialog. Every time-edit you open up has the ability to enter a little step, say 100ms, which will cause the dialog to set each successive file in the selection to be that much later (or earlier, negative values are allowed!) than the last. This way, if you have a bunch of files of something contiguous, like a comic chapter, that all have different, merged, or otherwise awkward import times, you can now manually sort them in the UI using tags or hackery and apply a new import time based on the first file plus a few milliseconds each time. Thereafter, any time you sort those files by import time, they'll also be nicely in page order time, just as if you had imported them all together from one directory.

I am quite happy with the new dialog, and I plan to copy some of the new techniques I figured out to other dialogs for similar better multi-file handling. I'd also really like, as we have discussed before, to tackle a 'cascading' tagger in 'manage tags', so we can quickly set 'page:n' tags to many files at once.

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In v559, it turns out I did make a '54 years ago' mistake, on moving files from one local file domain to another. This is fixed, and on database update, any borked timestamps that were saved should be corrected too. Let me know if you encounter any more issues.

Mr Bones and the File History Chart are now under the database menu.

There's a new checkbox under 'files and trash', 'Remove files from view when they are moved to another local file domain'. This actually re-introduces the unintended behaviour we had a couple weeks ago, which was happening under 'remove when trashed', but targeted to the correct logical trigger.

The gallery downloader cog button now has a 'don't add new dupes' option, which discards the query_text/source pairs you add if they are already in the download list. If you need to paste a hundred queries from a big mishmash list, I think this will help.

As a very brief test, I've added 'sort files by pixel hash'. If you have some pixel hashes in your current query, this will make them stand out, but the rest of the sort data is meaningless. I had wanted to try out some similar hacky new tech with 'sort by perceptual hash', but thumbnails don't have quick access to that data yet, so it'll have to wait.

I wasn't sure when my internet was going to come back up, so I dumped a bunch of time into some longer cleanup jobs. There's a ton of updated code behind the scenes, particularly around the way files get informed about new metadata, but nothing you need to care about. I have some new plans here and can see the path to getting all sorts of new metadata commands integrated into the shortcut and undo systems. I changed a couple thousand lines, so there may be a typo bug somewhere--let me know if you try to set any unusual content changes and it throws an error!

next week

Now we have tech that relies on file order, I think it is time we get the ability to conveniently reorder thumbnails. This will also help when I figure out cascading tagging in 'manage tags'. I'd love to have reordering by simple drag and drop, but that may be too complicated to slip into one week. I'll see what I can do.

I have quite a few messages to catch up on, which I will try to tackle Saturday.

#release #Youtube

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mariaurore · 11 months ago

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(OOC) This is where I left off at last night, after creating Mari's restaurant 🫠

But! I did finish creating it 😄

I cannot say with 100% certainty that it runs flawlessly, as I've yet to spend a workday in it. I intend to do that today. First though, I wanted to make a post with screen captures of my build and experiences of building it 😅😊

More or less, it took me almost 15 hours to make this one restaurant. I totally tunnel visioned- I barely got up to eat (don't be like me and do this). I survived on water and espresso, lol 😅. I'm honestly really bad at hyper focusing on projects when I'm dead-set on getting something done. I think it's my Virgo rising's fault? (astrology) Heck if I know.

The first issue I had (that I mentioned in a previous post I would have to figure out) was finding a location and plot size to build on. After visiting through all of my available worlds and through much debate, I settled upon a 50x40 plot in San Sequoia (I hate spelling this btw so I'm going to be shortening it to San Seq. from now on).

There was also a 50x40 in Henford-on-Bagley but then I'd have to deal with Wild Foxes challenges and I don't even know what that means??? 🤷🏻‍♀️ (again, I'm still a noob to Sims 4). So, I took the "safer path" and opted not to go that route. Besides, the plot in San Seq. was right next to the coast... how could resist? I also liked that they were next to recreational centers.

I thought about going with a 30x20, or a 40x20 that was also in San Seq. but when I was looking at them, they seemed very small. I was a bit paranoid to go with those and thought I'd need much more room, dismissing them entirely.

Honestly, after building the restaurant and knowing what I know now. I feel a 30x30 would have been perfect. But it's a little late for that 😅

And thinking about future projects- I could probably go back to that 30x20 in San Seq. and put a cute cafe on it 🥰 (and it'll be right next door!)

All I had to do was move the house that was currently on that plot I wanted- which was uninhabited. I did want to make use of it, so I saved it to my library and moved it to Newcrest (which is completely a blank slate for me atm). If I change my mind and decide I don't want this later, I can just demo it completely- no biggy. I think it fits nicely in Newcrest though and it's one way to slowly fill up Newcrest LOL 😂

Here we go! Ready to begin!

The things I knew I wanted were:

Restaurant Name: Celeste

Celeste Inspired Colors; Teals, Blues, Greens, Blacks, Whites, Greys

Double Height Walls

Not a traditional square design building. Unique shape.

Second Floor is a balcony/hallway with Bathroom only.

Leaning more towards French Dishes, but "Mari's Favorites" dishes Menu

Theme steering towards Starry Sky/Cosmos/Ocean/Zen/Calming

I'm going to jump straight to my finished build screenshots.

First and Second floor from the Front View.

Front and Back View - I have 2 tables in the back that I'm hoping wont make things a living hell for my chefs and waiters 😅

Here's a shot of the inside that shows some details you cant really see with my other screenies.

I had to put that weird little corner there in the top left to make the trimming do what I wanted it to do (evil trimming 😈). So I took advantage of it by making it a "Display Area" aka "Focal Point" of sorts. I mean, it'll boost the restaurants appeal this way.

I just wish EA would make that friendlier to use but I'm not sure there even is a way they could fix that. It reminds me a lot of the spaghetti coding in FFXIV. I'm just kinda over here nodding and shaking my head going uh-huh... it is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️. What can I really do?

At one point I think I had the trimming rounding the top of the building seamlessly but then I had to backtrack and it got royally screwed up and I couldn't put it back together no matter what I did *sigh* 🫠. I settled for the way it turned out cause I want the trimming. The building looks too bland without it.

I also really like the curved corners but the way it stretches the wallpaper and causes the lighting to hit it differently kind of nags at my OCD 🙃😅. Win-lose situation here.

There weren't very many options for restaurant "signs", unfortunately. I knew I wanted a cursive sign for Celeste, and the only option I had was this short one (that doesn't look like it says "Celeste" but perhaps in Simlish) or a very tiny one that didn't even seem like a "sign".

You'll also see there's a lot of plot space I didn't use. Indeed the 50x40 was too large. I ended up using a lot of the left side for a bunch of sakura trees 😅 (I do love them a lot). I'm not sure if there's a way for me to trim this down and fit it on a smaller plot or not, but I have no intention of moving it in my game. I'm just thinking for uploading/sharing it to library purposes.

After finally building the restaurant, it was time to buy it!

I pulled her out of bed at 3:48AM to buy a restaurant 😅 (tbf it was like 11:30PM for me irl, I was exhausted)

So much detail goes into this omg! I was picking out Staff Attire...

You can choose for your Chefs, Hosts, and Waiters. They have pre-made attire or you can create your own. I opted to create my own.

Menu... oh goodness gracious the menu... 🫠

I kept getting the "Max 30 Dishes" message because I kept choosing too many things 😂. Well forgive me for having too many favorite things!

I'd also like to note and point to my Pinned Message; I have the S&S Cookbook mod so a lot of these dishes come from that. I'm not sure if I ever share my restaurant to the library, if it'd also upload my menu? (I have a feeling it will, but I can notate it and those recipes specifically will just drop off the menu if the downloader doesn't have the mod)

I'll definitely be updating this menu as my chefs become more skilled, but apparently it's best to have them start off with dishes in the lower skill range 1/5, 2/5, 3/5. If they create dishes poorly, your restaurant will be rated poorly.

And then I hired some people! For now it's limited to one position each. Starting off is going to be rough because I have 28 dining spots iirc. I just have to remember that I can click the host station and disallow new guests if things get too busy.

We'll see how this goes! \o/

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tsukai22 · 2 years ago

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Another post delving into the world of my Pokemon/FE Hacking adventures:

I made Rally skills/moves to boost the designated stat of the target, although it did have some issues: - The obvious one: They only boost the opponent's stats in single battles (aka ~95% battles). - Without modifying battle scripts slightly, stat-boosting moves will only boost the user's stat(s) regardless of target. I had to learn how to edit battle scripts purely to fix this. On the plus side, this knowledge could be useful for other things. - The AI doesn't know how to use them and subsequently spams them in single battles. Due to the last point, I finally decided to make them boost the user's stat instead of the target's a few days ago. A side effect of this is some movepool redundancies - some "Pokemon" having both Sharpen and Rally Atk, physical attackers having Rally SpA and no special moves, etc.

- A really funny thing with Rally Def for me was that if the target switched out, it would inexplicably gain Pursuit's effect and suddenly deal damage. This was due to it replacing Pursuit. A lot of moves in the Pokemon games have "hard-coded" effects but I didn't think Pursuit was one of them. - Similarly but more harmlessly, I replaced Focus Punch with Arden's Blade (a negative priority move that hits twice) and it has Focus Punch's "tightening it's focus" message & animation at the start of the turn - it doesn't make the user flinch if attacked thankfully.

- I have "-Killer" types/attacks that hit Armors, Cavalry, Dragons or Beast 3x effectively. Initially, I had them also share effectiveness with what I believe to be the most appriopriate type (Armor-killer with Axe, Cavalry-killer with Lance, Dragon-killer with Sword, Beast-killer with Dagger [aka Lance]). I decided to remove the "shared effectiveness" due to weird things like Lance/Armors being hit 6x super-effectively by Armor-killers. I might re-implement these though.

The thing that inspired me to make this post: - I was editing what the PokéMarts sell a few hours ago - they're pretty simple once you know what you're doing. However, some of them would randomly cause screw-y effects that would crash the game or cause Bad Eggs and I was tearing my hair out* wondering why - I couldn't figure it out for over an hour. It eventually came to me when looking at the shopping interfaces - in FireRed, sellers can't sell a mix of TMs and non-TM items, it has to be one or the other. It’s because TM sellers and non-TM sellers have different interfaces. This wasn't the case in Emerald, so this surprised me. The more you know...

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cash-app-locked-my-account-money · 2 years ago

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How do you take the lock off of the Cash App?

Cash App may temporarily lock an account for various reasons, including suspicious activity or multiple failed login attempts. This security measure protects the account and its associated funds from unauthorized access. If the Cash App temporarily locked account, it will send you an email to notify you of the situation.

Although Cash App is one of the most popular mobile payment systems available, it is also prone to several problems. This includes an account lock, a temporary fix for most users. Several reasons, such as a technical glitch or malicious activity, can cause it. While the company does have an easy solution for repairing a lock, it can be difficult for some users to figure out what to do. One of the most effective methods of fixing the problem is changing your password. Another option is to create a new account. Regardless of your method, the process is not as simple as you think. Before you start, ensure you’ve checked that you have the latest app version.

You will need to contact Cash App support to verify your identity and provide information to confirm that you are the account holder. They will help you to regain access to your account after it has been temporarily locked.

How to unlock a Cash App account

If you are a Cash App user, you might notice that your account is temporarily locked. This could be due to several reasons, from unusual activity to technical glitches. However, there are a few steps you can take to unlock the Cash App locked account and start using it again.

First, you should contact a customer service representative. They can help you figure out why your account is locked and give instructions on unlocking it. The process usually takes about 24 hours, though it could take longer if you need to provide more information.

Next, you need to verify your identity. You will need your email address, mobile number, and the last four digits of your social security number. Once you’ve provided this information, you’ll receive a verification form by email. You can then follow the directions in the email to open the form.

After you’ve completed the form, you’ll be given an email with a recovery code. Use this to unlock your Cash App account. Make sure you log out of other accounts before you try to log in again.

Finally, you’ll want to visit the official Cash App help section. There, you’ll find a list of common issues and solutions.

How do I recover my Cash App account?

Depending on the cause of your account lock, you might be able to recover your account without help from a third party. In some cases, you’ll be required to provide a social security number and proof of identity to prove you are the account owner. Otherwise, you might need to contact the company directly for help. If you need more time or patience to deal with an account lock, you can contact a customer service representative to assist you.

A representative will explain the issue, how to unlock Cash App account, and provide instructions on how to get it working again. Keep in mind that it can take up to three business days for a representative to get back to you, so be patient.

When you’re ready to use your Cash App account again, you’ll want to ensure you have a good password. This might not be the most obvious step, but it’s a requirement for accessing all the app’s features.

How do you take the lock off of the Cash App account?

To unlock locked Cash App account, you will need to contact Cash App support. They will ask you to verify your identity and provide information to confirm that you are the account holder. Once your identity has been verified, they will assist you in unlocking your account.

How can I get my money back from locked Cash App account?

When trying to access your Cash App account, you may notice it’s locked up. This is a common problem, and there are a few steps you can take to fix it.

The first step is to check the Cash App balance. You’ll also want to contact your bank or financial institution to see if you can get your money back. If you’re having difficulty retrieving the funds you’ve lost, you should file a police report.

Next, you should verify whether or not you’ve made any fraudulent transactions. Some apps need to make it easier to check. You might want to close your account if you can’t confirm that you’ve made a valid transaction.

Finally, the most important thing to do is to contact Cash App customer support. It’s not a complicated process, and they can often resolve your issue in less than an hour. In addition to a phone call, you can also reach them through email or live chat.

You may need to prove that you can open a Cash App account. To do this, you’ll need to prove your identity. To do this, you’ll need proof of your full name, date of birth, and photo ID.

Lastly, you can get a sign-in code from Cash App customer support. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to do this via email. But in most cases, you’ll need to re-enter your information. Once you’ve input your details, you’ll receive an OTP in a few minutes.

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bonaesperanza · 1 year ago

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Re Cordelia specifically, I don't much like headcanoning people as neurodivergent without strong canon evidence but to me she is sooo autism coded. Mostly because she made her strongest impression on me in Shards, and I was paying so much attention to her backstory because to me it was so unique and cool to have a professional woman in her mid-thirties as the lead of what's half space adventure half romance. And she says that she never quite fit in on Beta, and it seems to be that it's because Beta is a society with very loose social norms instead of rigid rules most of the time (outside of the therapy issues), and she had always struggled with that. Which is a common thing with autistic people - if there's no general rule, you have to learn very quickly what the different people you encounter want or expect, and that's tough on someone who isn't a natural at it. And I feel like that's a big part of the appeal of Aral and Barrayar for her at first: the things that she struggles with, like the unspoken parts of romantic relationships, are solved for her by very strict social norms: she doesn't have to guess at what Aral wants because society dictates that he tell her that his intentions are serious, whereas on Beta she'd have to guess if someone's a fuckboy or not, for example. But then she actually goes there and realizes that she doesn't actually know what any of the social norms ARE (and that a rigid society has to obliquely hint at a lot of things that it can't say or do openly, which she won't pick up on), so she takes the very autistic approach of making lists and dissecting it and applying hard logic until she gets it, because she doesn't get it intuitively.

Whereas Miles is very good at all of that because Miles spent the formative years of his life VERY powerless, as in physically powerless, as in couldn't move or fend for himself or get what he wants in any way without other people's help. So he needs to know to figure out how people will react so he can leverage them into doing things for him. And he has a lot of time to observe because he can hardly act, too.

And assuming that it wouldn't come up because Betan therapy would have 'fixed' the issue in advance, rather than because Beta Colony's specific structural issues just don't cause this specific shape of problem… is exactly the interpretational error that you'd expect from someone raised with Beta Colony's specific social neuroses.

Yeah, both assumptions would be equally valid on Beta, but the Betans would only consider the other one. (Even in our own world it's often the case - cognitive and social psychology are PAINFULLY West-centric, behaviors normal in other cultures are heavily pathologized without considering the context, and it's only recently that cultural psychology has started to look into differences between regions other than West vs. East Asia. And I just read a book on human violence observed from various disciplnary perspectives, and there's a chapter on sex differences when it comes to aggression that basically says "We used to think that this was due to socialization, but now that we've solved sexism and the girls are still less assertive and aggressive than boys we know that it's innate" and this book was from the year of our lord 2006, like MATE, you did NOT solve sexism in 2006, just walk outside and buy a tabloid with Paris Hilton's zoomed in crotch shot on the front page and you'll see just how much you didn't).

But to go back to the topic, if they have very few cases as Cordelia says it's likely that it's not structural - structural issues affect huge numbers of people: the number of depressed or anxious people that we have, for example, is very clearly due to structural issues, and so is the number of femicides in many societies, and so are the school shootings in many societies. But things can also be idiosyncratic, because people are complex dynamical systems, like the weather, and some small random output can randomly develop into something fucked up. But that's rare and, as I said, idiosyncratic, whereas something that's fairly common would almost definitely be down to structural issues. So if she says, "oh, we hardly ever see that on Beta" odds are it's not structural.

i liked in shards of honour that the medicalization was demonstrated to be dangerous, it’s a threat to cordelia and she has to flee the galaxy to barrayar

“The Betans would consider something like this a matter for nonvoluntary sociopath therapy. Up to and including neurological rewiring, if there were underlying physical deficits discovered. Of course, Beta has far fewer such cases to start with, as in”—Cordelia almost said our culture, but it hadn’t really been hers since the Pretender’s War, had it—“that culture, therapies would be supplied at a much earlier stage. ”

betan therapy makes no room for the structural. that there’s something inside a person and not misogyny that makes a man kill his wife and children

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creepypso · 3 years ago

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I wanted to have a pair of Irken ocs haha:

Nano is a pak mechanic and Vil an Irken doctor and specialist in creating prostheses. After extending a set of prostheses and making an Irken taller than he was before, he started making Irken that could provide favors and protection taller through operations. Nano is his assistant and making sure that the paks of the clients are not taking record of things.

Vil had extended his height multiple times and has taken physical damaged from it, which is why he now has to wear a stabilizing corset. He also has a slight god complex and Nano protects and helps him but also tries challenging Vils beliefs.

Nano is a true neutral character and Vil a chaotic good. Vils goal is to help others and while he can be intimidating to his clients, he does his job good and is well respected. Nano doesn't help Vil because he wants to help others, he does it because he simply wants to help Vil.

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For anyone that's interested, here is the more detailed backstory I came up with for them :3

While the pak mechanics know the pak and how the programming works, the doctors basically know everything about the biological body and how it's connected to the pak. Normally an irken doesn't need assistance from a doctor if something is wrong, because the pak should be able to handle everything. If not then normally an Irken is not worth saving, especially if a pak mechanic is unable to fix it. But in rare cases or if an Irken is supposed to be kept alive because it's needed for another purpose.. or is tall or able to provide something in exchange, a doctor is going to be involved to fix whatever issues is preventing the Irken to heal like it's supposed to.

Since the doctors are not as busy with active cases like the mechanics, they have time to try to further improve the irkens biological body (For example how Irkens have eye implants to ensure that they have good vision). At the beginning Vil was known for creating different prostheses so the person wearing it was able to get back to continuing their positions in the society without any trouble and others noticing it (Be it a missing limb, a broken antenna or anything else not working like it's supposed).

The extent to which he was able to help his clients had been something that he tried to keep a secret because he knew, that if other outside irkens knew, it would be frowned upon. If an Irken is unable to fight or continue their assigned position, they shouldn't be saved. But Vil disagreed with that. If an irken was devoted to the empire, he would help them.

So that's how he had operated his whole life until an Irken asked him, if Vil would be willing to slightly extent a set of leg prostheses to make the Irken appear taller since even just a few cm would allow him a better position. Since the Irken was taller than Vil and promised him a private lab in exchange to improve his crafts even further and faster, without having to do it secretly all the time, he agreed to it.

The taller Irken provided the lab and Vil saw how his work had significantly bettered the life from the other. Before he was just able to help the Irkens continue with their life, no matter how miserable he thought it was. Now he had been able to help this Irken cheat the system and he felt pretty powerful because of that. He also liked that this tall Irken had his respect and promised protection and loyalty, despite Vil being a lot smaller than him.

Not much time had passed before he continued thinking more about the possibilities. But cases of an Irken with both legs needing a prostheses were pretty rare, considering that even his normal cases were uncommon.. and healthy Irkens with other problems usually didn't really want to have both their legs cut off for a chance of a better position- so he tried out different ways to make a body taller without having to replace something.

So.. after trying it out on some deceased bodies he tried it for the first time on himself. And it had worked well. And that's how Vils shady side business of illegally increasing the height of Irkens that were able to provide favors or were willing to become a test subject (because he was only able to try out different methods on himself a limited amount of times) began.

After a while he developed a slight god complex. However he does his job good and due to the respect, the protection of a lot of Irkens (a lot of them tall) and open favors, he is pretty much untouchable, despite doing something illegal. Another thing that is protecting him, is his assistant Nano.

Nano and Vil had been working together at the same clinic (and still do). At the beginning they had been almost the same height, with Vil being just slightly taller. Nano had slowly figured out what Vil had been doing with giving Irkens prostheses but he did not really care. He rather stayed to himself and was not interested in causing trouble for someone he had respected for decades. However, while at first ignoring the possibility of giving Irkens help, that had injuries that he knew Vil could easily fix, he slowly began to redirect cases to him, that normally would have been deleted.

It was when he noticed Vil being more absent or working on designs he didn't show to anyone that Nano got even more suspicious but it was the day when Vil came back to work, clearly being a few cm taller than the last time that he had seen him that he felt like he needed to get some information. And what do you do as a pak mechanic that has a better understanding of codes and numbers than talking and emotions and stuff? You hook the person you want to have information from onto one of your fancy machines and look for the information yourself, because paks, other than the host, were not able to lie.

Nano and Vil had been mutuals and had been working together on cases and despite everything telling him, he should report his findings, he stayed quiet and instead scold Vil for being so shortsighted, because even if he was able to manipulate the host of a pak to protect him, the pak itself would still store the memories of the procedure and the true height of an Irken.

Vils distrust towards nano after that experience caused the two to drift apart.

However during that time Nano started thinking about possible ways to be able to block the pak from taking record of something that is currently going on. And when he had some spare time, he tried building his idea. When Vil asked him, he said it was out of curiosity but it was also because Vil had literally been the only person that hadn't been another pak mechanic, that he was fine talking to. And that meant he didn't really want to have to deactivate him.

After some more time passed, he started working with Vil every time to ensure everything pak related is working correctly and blocking recording and updating the Irkens new height.

Nano doesn't really feel the biggest range of emotions and the ones he does are not intense. But he knows that he likes working with Vil and being his assistant.

Vil has operated so many times on himself that he permanently damaged his spine and now has to wear a stabilizing corset. He is also not as agile anymore and more prone to receiving damage easily. Regarding fights; he is pretty much not made for them anymore and would lose if no one came to help him out.

While Nano of course does understand the importance of height in the irken society, he himself doesn't really understand the extent some of Vils clients (or Vil himself) go through just to get a few cm taller. He is more focused on the mechanics and content with his height and job. He doesn't need to change anything. For him the biological body is just the carrier of the pak. The programming alone decides the fate of the Irken. So to some extent he doesn't take Vils doing and big speeches about changing the system serious. Vil sees it the opposite way. For him the pak is only an extension of the Irken body and he beliefs that even small changes to the actual body can affect the life of an Irken a lot.

In the past Vil had offered Nano to make him taller but so far Nano had always declined. He is however always assisting Vil after he had done something to himself or covers him or makes sure clients know that they can trust Vil and shouldn't question him too much.

#Invader zim #iz #irken #ocs #Nano #Vil #my characters #creepys art #creepy talks #long post because I can't keep myself short

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sephhaa · 3 years ago

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AO3 GUIDE II

Hihi! I’m here with another ao3 guide but this time I’ll be talking about some more editing features for your html writing and a little more in-depth guide on how to navigate ao3 as a reader! I’ll also be touching on the new ao3 update and how it affects your tags! If all of that interests you, keep reading!

So far after doing my first guide I was able to include everything about the ao3 html formatting and all the common errors you might run into when publishing on ao3!

But I ran into one text feature I couldn’t quite figure out/I didn’t even know what this feature was even called:

As you can see, there’s a border almost beside this group of text and this border alone has been the cause of extensive research of how the actual fuck do I put that in my writing!??

Well now I know wtf this border is even called and what it’s many purposes are.

Ladies and gentlemen (and my beloved non-binary hoes) this border is called:

(Did I actually type that out and screenshot it with sparkle emojis? Yes. Yes I did.)

Blockquote is a text feature used often on ao3 to indicate to your readers that

a) They’re speaking on the internet

b) Texting

and:

c) To make your summaries look a little more refined (that’s at least how I interpret it and how many others have according to my research.)

There isn’t one way—or a correct way to use blockquotes (if we're talking about novel writing/journalism than that’s a whole different story.) But the premise is, here’s the coding format to implement blockquote to your text.

It’s going to look a little something like this in your Holy Grail Google Docs page:

But there’s a catch.

For some reason, the holy grail google docs website I first recommended to you guys in the first guide, doesn’t register the blockquote text. Therefore, you’d have to manually implement it into your writing.

Now, this doesn’t mean you cannot do blockquote on your text (adding the border on your own) onto your word doc. (Google docs, to my knowledge, does not have a border option that will just feature itself to the left of your text but they do have a citation feature. The only issue with that is, that you’d have to implement an actual source to that text.)

But anyway, that is how to blockquote your writing! If there’s a new update to the little blockquoting code to the holy grail docs (which I highly doubt it but eh) then I’ll be sure to make a new guide and include it there!

Alright! I’m not sure if any of you were aware of this but—ao3 updated!!

There wasn’t extreme changes, just ao3 fixing any glitches or cleaning up some formatting but the one change that I would say is extreme and has affected me as a writer—is the tagging system.

As you can see above (I’m going to use @ edema_ruh fic as an example)(if you haven’t read her stuff I HIGHLY recommend, she’s a phenomenal writer!) she has a very long tag list for this particular story.

That’s because before the ao3 update, the tagging system for your story was almost infinite? (I’m pretty sure there was a limit) but the point is that you as the writer can put as many tags on your story as much as you want. If you wanted 100 plus tags underneath your story, go for it! If you want a solid 50, you can do that too!

Of course, when you find a story with too many tags, it usually pushes readers not to click on that story because it hurts their eyes trying to track all the tags or because you’re telling too much of your story through the tags without letting the reader experience it through reading the actual story. Tags also had a way of taking up too much screen space, hence, when your stories are uploaded to the fandom page where people can find it in the explore section of ao3 (the front page of your fandom tag) those long tags can take up almost the whole page making other stories move onto the next tab.

Which comes to my theory that ao3 had placed a limit to how many tags a story can have so that all stories can be featured on the front page of a fandom tag without just ONE story taking up so much space. I also believe ao3 placed a limit to the tagging system so it doesn’t affect tags for stories within a series and tags within your bookmarks.

The current limit to how many tags you can have for your story is 75. And this is including placing character tags, relationship tags, and additional tags. There has to be 75 in total in order for you to publish that story.

While I believe ao3 updating the tagging system is a good thing (to avoid redundant tags) I do believe they should have placed the limit to the character tag section and the relationship section. For additional tags, I believe the 100 tag system worked for me, especially with works that were on a larger scale (like stories with huge world-building elements) and just for us as writers to write a comment here and there (those are always fun to do!) but alas, I’m not really mad about the update on the tagging system and it gives you space as the writer to think hard on how to simplify your tags to tell your readers what your story includes then just telling them what’s its about.

I also want to preface this by saying that stories that were already published with those long tags won’t be removed! It’s only if you’re editing through that work and changing the tags around that you’d have to abide by the new update to have 75 tags to be able to publish that work again!

Since my first ao3 guide, I didn’t entirely go into navigating ao3 as a reader! While this may be straight-forward for some of you, it’s not that straight-forward for new readers going onto read on ao3 for the first time! Or maybe even seasoned writers and readers on ao3 who don’t bother to go the extra mile to look for a story that might have specific things they want to read but don’t bother looking!

So! This is what my fic explore page looks like on ao3. (I’m just going to go on the MHA fandom tag since that’s what I’ve been reading a lot lately)

As you can see, there’s a separate box (gray box) listing a bunch of things you can do to filter through stories.

In this box is where you can customize your search for specific fics that you’re itching to read. I’m just going to go through how I filter my tags when I’m itching to find a new story and give you an idea of what you might want to look for when filtering through stories.

First! I always filter through the “Date Updated” tag. By default ao3 has everyone’s search page surf through stories that have either been published that same day or a couple of days from the date that you are searching through stories. I always click on the drop down menu and select, “Hits,” or, “Kudos,” and sometimes, “bookmarks.” For today tho, I’m just going to click on “Hits.”

Once Hits is selected, I start to scroll down to the Ratings drop down menu.

Now ratings are important to me! My personal favorite ratings are either Explicit or Mature. And that’s primarily because I find writers that are adults like me (or much older) and I just personally find that they write the story in a very realistic way or semi-realistic way. (Also I find that I love reading smut with heavy plot, like I enjoy reading smut but I can’t just read smut)(my ace ass can’t I’m sorry LOL I mean—I don’t mind one good smut oneshot but lord)

Anyway, here you can click on a rating that’s best suited to your tastes and if you’re unsure just go through all the ratings and see if you find a story that fits to what you’re looking for!

Now let’s move onto the relationships tag:

Now the relationships tag is just a long list of popular ships within the fandom. If you’re looking for a specific ship I believe you have to use the search engine to find stories within that ship. Either way, if the ship that you’re looking for is within this list, click on it and then move onto the next tag!

Here we are with the additional tags! This is the list of common additional tags many writers use for readers to find their stories very easily and for you as the reader to find a story with a very specific feature to it. For example, I tend to click on the Angst tag or the Hurt/Comfort. Sometimes I switch it up and just click on any of the tags and look through the stories there to see if there’s stories I like within that tag. A lot of the time, this list doesn’t always have an additional tag I want so I’ll use the search bar underneath the additional tag listing:

Here I would put a tag that I can’t find on the listing above! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, it’s very hit or miss but it’s worth a shot in the event that you do end up finding a story you really enjoy!

More options is a tag listing that I don’t find myself using often but I can see why someone would!

Personally, I’ve only used it for the “Completion Status,” tag listings because sometimes I don’t want to keep waiting for updates and just reading works that are still updating (though the best fics are usually still ongoing)

So here I’ll go ahead and click “Completed Works Only,” and then after go right on ahead to “Sort and Filter.”

Now here is what my explore page on ao3 underneath all the tags I had personally placed start to appear.

Fair warning: sometimes there will be a story or two that have nothing to do with the tags that you placed in your sort and filter listing. It just happens. If you’re really picky about it, I suggest going to the “Exclude,” box and marking off things you don’t want in a fic. Again, this is a hit or miss but I do see that it does work to a certain extent, especially after going through at least the second to third tabs on ao3.

^ This what your Exclude tag box should look like and ranges from the exact rating you don’t want to read to other additional tags you don’t want to include in your search for a fic. You can even type out a certain tag you don’t want included in your search as well!

Bookmarks is pretty self-explanatory but I’m here to dive deeper into the realm of bookmarks (and then collections right after this)

This is what my bookmarks currently looks like. Now, bookmarks can be separated into two different “tags.” By tags I mean you can either place the story that you’re bookmarking in into a “rec” tab or into a “private” tab.

By default, everyone I know puts their stories in the “rec” tab. And as you can see, when you bookmark the story you can also add a reader’s note or place it into your collections folder. You can also add tags of your own that are very specific to you as a reader that the author didn’t include. For example, “Izuku is super whiny in this” or something like that. I find that a lot of readers say a lot of cute/super nice things when they bookmark a story they like!

Yes, we writers can see what you write in your bookmarks and a lot of the time I just find myself blushing at what y’all be saying in those bookmarks, yall cute for that.

Here you also have the option to add the story into a private bookmark, this way other readers and writers won’t be able to read the stories you like/added to your bookmarks. I think a lot of ppl use this tag so that others don’t judge them for the stories they like or they read a bit of a controversial ship or concept.

As you saw above, when you click on your bookmarks tab you’re able to see another filtering system there too! This is primarily if you’re a more avid reader and you find yourself adding a whole bunch of stories, you can filter through them by searching the specific tags that that fic had.

You can also find this filtering system when you click on other readers/writers bookmarks and you can filter through their bookmarks to see if they happen to have a story that you may like. Which is another thing I want to get into:

I’m not sure if this is hugely common but I believe it is if ao3 has you searching through bookmarks on the main fandom explore page.

Now typically I don’t tend to find stories through the bookmark tag on the fandom explore page but it is an option and I’m sure a lot of you can find stories you personally like by using this little system. I personally just search through all my favorite writers bookmarks or I go onto readers pages and see what they’ve added to see if there’s a story there that I like. Mainly because I can find a story better suited to my interests if I search through another reader’s bookmarks knowing they’ve bookmarked the same story as me. Or I go onto my favorite writer’s bookmarks because if they write all this amazing material, I should be able to find a story that they took inspiration from or enjoy by all the tags that they write. (Sometimes that’s not always the case but it’s always worth a shot in my book.)

Anyway, this is how to find stories using the bookmark method!

Collections, in my opinion, is the best way to find really amazing stories!

I call it a level up from bookmarks.

What I tend to see when it comes to collections, if your story ends up in multiple collections, it’s a huge compliment because not only does one reader think your story is worth being in it’s separate folder but multiple readers think the same thing. Here I’ll be explaining to you how to create your own collection and what to look for when searching for stories through a collection folder.

As you can see on the left side, you’d find collections right below bookmarks. This is just a short list of collections that I have separated by fandoms. On the top right, you’re going to click onto “New collection.”

Just like when you’re getting ready to either publish a new story or add a new chapter, the window for the collections page is formatted in a similar way.

Collection name and Display Titles are very important here. Since collections are very common, naming said collections are very common. Therefore, if you want to name your collections a specific thing, 9 times out of 10 that name is already taken. I just wanted to warn you guys in advance so that when you’re making your own collections that you’re not married to a name.

Everything else to edit through on the collections page is self-explantory but I wanted to highlight the preferences window for a bit because I find that this is important to readers and how they would like to manage their collections.

Commonly, collections are a public and a moderated affair. Meaning, almost anyone (guests and users alike) can go onto your collections and pick a story from there, filter through them, (I believe leave comments as well?? Not too sure about this one so take it with a grain of salt) and just openly surf through your collections page. Others can also become members of your collections page and moderate it to their liking with permission.

Another common occurrence is having to be invited into a collection page you believe will have stories you think will suit your reading needs! Usually I find that the moderators or owners of the collections are good with accepting invitations but there is a bit of a wait time in order to access said collection. If you’re not impatient, I suggest this option to you if you find a collection page you really like.

Now, when adding a story to your collections page, you need to type out (word for word) the title of your collection page. This is primarily because there are so many collection pages that might have the same name that you don’t wanna risk adding your story into the wrong collection page.

Now that your favorite story is added to your collections folder, you can start adding a bunch of other stories onto that same collections page or make different collection pages for specific fandoms that you read from!

Fair warning!!!

If you’re adding stories too quickly onto your collections page or just cleaning out your bookmarks (deleting stories you never ended up reading etc) just know that ao3 will crash on you!

This is mainly because ao3 is trying to adjust to those new changes as quickly as it can but it needs some time to adjust to those changes! So what I recommend is, after adding 3 to 5 stories onto your collections or removing them from your bookmarks, allow a 5 minute break for ao3 to adjust to those changes so it doesn’t crash on you’d end up waiting a solid 10 minutes just to load back your ao3 page!

I believe this is obvious but—! You need to have an ao3 account in order to add stories to your bookmarks or collections! If you are a guest reader, you unfortunately cannot make bookmarks or add stories to collections/make collections.

To make an ao3 account is very easy, you just have sign up like how you would with any other website. The only unique thing about ao3 is that unlike other websites, ao3 isn’t an instant account making machine. Your sign up needs to be approved beforehand in order to be an avid reader/writer of ao3 and usually takes up to 2 weeks to get an invitation into ao3 with an official account.

I find that you don’t end up waiting 2 weeks but instead like a couple of days (a solid 2-5 days) after you sign up. Make sure to look through your junk mail and stuff to know if you were approved or not! I hope this little explanation helps and doesn’t deter you from making account and joining ao3! If it helps, you can still read on ao3 even after making an account and waiting to get approved!

I hope you guys enjoyed this little guide! I appreciate all of you who came from my first ao3 guide and reblogged and tagged it with comments telling me how you found this very useful and informative!

I’m not sure why so many people like to gate-keep information, especially important information like this but I’m here to tell you how to navigate a pretty complicated (albeit amazing) platform that I believe everyone should have access to. Especially as a writer and a reader. I hope you find this just as useful as the first one and if there’s anything that you’re curious about or can’t exactly find the answers to, don’t mind reaching out to me through my ask box here on tumblr! I’m always ready to spread some knowledge or go through endless articles, videos and tirades of information to give you all and my readers the best reading experience possible!

That’s all for this guide! If you didn’t know, I am a fanfic writer and novelist! I’m currently writing for fandoms like MHA, Voltron and BTS! If you liked this guide and enjoyed me as a writer, go on ahead and follow my tumblr here and check out some of my work on ao3!

Above you can see a couple of my links and my new ko-fi! (I finally made a ko-fi lmaoo) so if you want to support me on an even deeper level, you can now buy me a coffee 💗

You can reach out to me through my twitter and tumblr if you have any questions or just want to chill and talk to me! Twitter is the best way to find me and get updates to my stories!

It’d be super helpful if you reblog this and spread the this information around, you never know when a fellow writer or reader needs it!

Again, thank you to those of you who came from my first guide and found it very useful and helpful! I hope to keep creating content that can help other writers and readers in the near future!

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astaroth1357 · 4 years ago

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Leviathan's Odyssey 9 (End):

Isolation

*Lucifer is in the Student Council room collecting paperwork when he hears his phone go off… It seems like Barbatos is messaging him yet again... For the third time this week. Though he dreads whatever news it brings, Lucifer checks his messenger and lets out a long sigh when he gets his confirmation*

*Levi was sent home early… again. He hasn’t been present for a full day of classes in nearly a week and Barbatos is beginning to get on Lucifer’s case about it… Diavolo placed a lot of trust in the eldest to bring his brother under control, but it hasn’t exactly been very successful and his butler sees no problem with applying the pressure in his lord’s stead. Though he wouldn’t call this latest message a threat of expulsion, he can sense they’re getting dangerously close…*

*normally, Lucifer would wait for the day to finish himself before returning to the House and giving Levi a lecture, but that approach hasn’t been faring well… Though he loathes to be absent, who knows what trouble his brothers could get in, he sends his response to Barbs and goes to collect his things. He has been thinking up a few solutions to the “Leviathan Problem” and it’s about time he started enacting some, but first he needs to do some shopping*

*it isn’t hard for Lucifer to find what he was looking for in the shopping district and he makes it back to the House about an hour before classes would officially end. He already knows where Levi would be, he’s been nothing is not predictable since he first came home with them... In many ways, he still has the mindset of a combat survivalist. He quickly grew territorial of the room they gave him, he tries to grab as much food as possible at meals, and every new person or situation is treated with hostile skepticism... Their brother may be home, but he certainly isn’t “back." Not yet anyway...*

*when Lucifer ascends the steps to go to Leviathan’s room, he tries knocking on the door first. Levi had taken to making ridiculous entry passwords again, an encouraging sign, but that was mostly because Lucifer forbade him from issuing trial by combat to newcomers… Unfortunately, today there wasn’t any voice on the other side… Lifting the lock on the door is child’s play with just a little magic, so after giving his brother ample time to say something, Lucifer opens the door himself*

Lucifer: Leviathan? *he pokes his head in with a bit of caution, Levi could still be quick to lash out if caught off guard*

*Lucifer’s eyes scan the dimly lit room, with only the soft blue glow of the water tank behind a glass wall offering him any light. They discovered quickly that Levi’s skin would dry out at an alarming rate without some access to water. Their first fix was to give his room a bathtub that he could soak in, but due to its narrow size Lucifer eventually had an aquarium installed for him instead. He could climb in and out from a gap near the ceiling and it had more room for him to move around freely. That seemed to resolve the issue, but Levi still remained fond enough of the bathtub to keep it around*

*he half expected to find his brother in said tub, back to the doorway and trying to ignore him, but instead he sees a black figure curled up at the bottom of the water tank. He recognizes Levi, even in his newest form - or at least the form that they taught to him once he was on dry land. While in the ocean, Levi never needed to be rid of his gills or scales, they were practical for swimming but not so much for daily life. His new form kept his tail, horns, and patch of scales here and there, but it mostly allows him to pass as an average demon. He can maintain an even milder appearance without any of the extras, but he doesn’t seem to like it as much… He always complains of feeling “too small” without his tail*

*Lucifer steps into the room and closes the door behind him. Under all of that water, Levi probably didn’t hear him knock… Or maybe he did and didn’t feel like answering. He found it hard to pinpoint just what his brother could or couldn’t do anymore… When he gets into the room, he sets a white grocery bag he had been carrying on a nearby table. He’ll have to bring up its contents at the right time… He needs to speak to Levi first.*

*Lucifer goes to the glass wall and gently knocks his knuckles against it. The black bundle in the water stirs and Lucifer watches as Levi's tail slowly begins to unravel from his body... Soon enough, he’s looking his brother in the face but he doesn’t look very happy to see him… He rarely looks happy to see anyone frankly…*

*Lucifer points up to the edge of the tank and gestures to his ear, signaling that they need to talk. He’s almost surprised at how easily Levi obliges this time, pushing off of the aquarium floor and swimming up until he’s above the surface. After taking a gulp of air, he leans over the edge of the glass - seemingly unbothered by the droplets of water that cascade to the floor.*

Levi: What do you want, Lucifer?

*Lucifer tries his best to look stern, but not overly angry. Though Levi is far less dangerous inland than he was by the ocean’s shore, he’s no less irritable... If this conversation is going to happen, he’s going to need to keep his composure for a while longer*

Lucifer: Barbatos informed me of what happened today…

Levi: And?

Lucifer: Annnd, we’ve already been over this, Levi… You can’t keep stabbing your fellow students with forks.

Levi: If you gave me my trident back, then I wouldn’t need to use them.

*Lucifer groans a bit and fights the urge to rub the bridge of his nose… Of course he’s in a mood again…*

Lucifer: Don’t play games with me, Levi… You know what the real problem is here.

Levi: Yeah, it’s the stupid school! I hate going there...

Lucifer: Levi, Lord Diavolo was very gracious to offer you a place in his academy and a seat on the student council, no less. And being one of his military officers now also puts you in a position of great importance... Your actions reflect on him and his kingdom as whole-

Levi: I know all that already, I heard you the first time! *Levi leans his chin against the edge of the glass, but still doesn’t look any happier. To his credit, he has been trying to yell at his brothers less... So it’s not too surprising to hear his voice suddenly drop down to solemn whisper*

Levi: … You know what everybody calls me there? The “Fish Freak...” They say I smell like a beached whale… *Lucifer blinks at the revelation, because this is news to him*

Lucifer: Is that so…?

Levi: Everyday. And you know what else? They trip me in the hallway or throw my things in the fountain. Somebody even left a dead squid on my desk! *a familiar look comes into his eyes now, one burning of hatred - but this time not directed at brothers...*

Levi: They’re lucky I only have forks right now...

*a part of Lucifer wants to be fine with Levi sticking up for himself… The Demon World is a cruel and harsh place where intimidation is often the best answer. He and his brothers had to learn that the hard way… But Diavolo’s goals are peace and unity - the academy was even founded with that in mind… His students should be shying away from such barbaric tactics and the council has an example to set… As much as it pains him to say it, Levi’s actions are unacceptable…*

Lucifer: Tell me the students’ names and I’ll have them punished. I guarantee you that... *takes a deep breath to prepare for what he must say next…*

Lucifer: … But you can’t keep causing trouble like this, Leviathan. Lord Diavolo has a strict code of-

*Lucifer watches as Levi groans and lifts his head off the glass, though this time he looks more frustrated than enraged*

Levi: There you go again! Diavolo this and Diavolo that!! Don’t you ever think of anything else??

Lucifer: That’s Lord Diavolo to you, and of course I do. But this isn’t the Celestial Realm anymore, Levi, and we need to adapt to his rules. *Levi’s eyes narrow at him, seeing an opportunity to dig in the knife…*

Levi: There’s adapting and then there’s ass-kissing... Which are you doing, Lucifer?

*and like that, for just a moment, Lucifer wants to abandon the whole project. He wants to leave Levi to wallow in his tank and go back to more important matters... He wants to throw his gifts into the garbage and just forget he ever bought them! His anger must have been plain to see, because Levi looks almost regretful for a second as he pushes back from the glass*

Levi: … Yeah. I didn’t think so.

*with that, Lucifer watches his brother sink back underwater and return to the floor of his aquarium. He honestly has half a mind to just turn and walk away, at least until he sees Levi curl up on his side against the store bought sand. He draws legs into the fetal position and faces his back the glass wall, letting his tail once again curl around his body as he goes back to laying in the water… alone…*

*the lonely image is enough to bring Lucifer back to some sense… Had he really forgotten why he was there so easy? With a steadier mind, he gently places a gloved hand against the surface of the glass, watching Levi from behind the wall between them…*

*his brother fell from Heaven then had to survive on his own… when he came back, he not only found out that his family had been living like royalty, but they hadn’t even been out looking for him in a long time… Now he’s been ripped from the home he’d grown accustomed to and thrust into a culture he barely understood…*

*Was it any wonder he was struggling? Was it any better for him in the Devildom than it was beneath the sea? Would it have been better to just let him stay where he was comfortable…? These thoughts have plagued Lucifer for some time, but he wouldn’t dare break up his family now…*

*Maybe... Hopefully… Levi just needs an outlet to help him cope...*

*Lucifer knocks on the glass a second time, but it’s not an angry pounding or anything. Levi must not have expected that, because he actually looks back at him in mild surprise. Lucifer signals once more for him to get out of the water before stepping aside to grab the grocery bag from before. Intrigued, but cautious, Levi swims back up to the surface and pulls himself up to the edge*

Levi: … What’s that?

Lucifer: Something I bought for you. *Lucifer picks up the bag and goes back to the tank. Levi’s eyes widen slightly with shock*

Levi: You bought something… for me?? Why?

Lucifer: It’s something that I think you’ll like… I’m told it’s very entertaining and hopefully it has all the… violence that you’ve grown accustomed to...

*he digs into the bag and pulls out two things, a DVD box-set of something called “My Life as a Demonic Pirate Defeating the Seven Lords of Hell” and a paperback book with a cute looking mermaid on the cover under the same title*

Lucifer: Levi. Have you ever heard of something called anime?

Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

#and that is how levi is grand admiral #and also an otaku #and lucifer had something to do with it #thank you for attending my 9 part ted talk #im so happy i finished it #i wasn't sure that i would #but im happy with the result #obey me #obey me leviathan #obey me levi #obey me fic #obey me scenarios #obey me hc #angst #tw: bullying

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kimberly-spirits13 · 4 years ago

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Dating Damian Wayne HC:

(imma do one for all of the guys I just had the writing idea for Dames first)

How You Met: Artist credit @axeeeee

. You went to Gotham Academy before him

. You were also making sure that you were top of the class and also maintaining class president

. Anyways, it was just something that you pushed yourself for

. Arts was another strength for you but that was something that you weren’t as inclined to maintain on an extreme level like everything else

. So it was your job to show the new people around the school before their first day which meant that you were showing Damian around

. Your parents already knew Bruce so you weren’t really freaked out at all

. It was just another day tbh

. That was until you met him

. It was weird since you were more of the person to not talk much about yourself

. No one really knew who you were and you were content to keep it that way

. Everyone’s friend but no one knew who you were really

. Damian was kind of the same way but not as friendly or open to people

. He was like the younger you

. Still, for some reason you were interested in him just as a person

. He was as well

. You didn’t immediately hit it off seeing as you are both reserved and closed off when it comes to personal things, but you hit it off faster than any one else

. A miracle in all honesty

. So you started hanging out and eating together in the lunchroom instead of either with a group or alone

. It was nice and then evolved over time

Friendship:

. So after a few months, you guys were getting closer and closer

. It was something that you just expected to happen and when it did you were ready

. You were starting to hang out outside of school whether that was at your place, the park, his house, maybe a café on a weekend

. Just anywhere

. If there were any galas, Damian would invite you and you him since you didn’t really feel great inviting anyone else

. Sometimes galas had this secret mandatory code to bring someone so it was nice to finally have someone to bring

. The media was all over it

. It was honestly really weird for a second and then you just accepted it

. Damian and yourself slowly started opening up to each other about everything

. Depending on how fast you pick up on things and possibly if you’re also a vigilante, this is where you figure out that he’s Robin

. He doesn’t call you by your last name anymore and instead by your first name which is fun

. It’s an honor lol

. If Damian is having an issue at the manor, you just have extra stuff for him to come over anytime

. It’s always there and you make sure to get more when you see something’s running low

. By the end of the friendship stage, you’re probably wearing each other’s clothes by now

. He gets flustered sometimes though

. That’s the first few signs

. Also very protective but we’ll get into that

Signs:

. So Damian now gets flustered?

. Not something that you ever thought you’d see

. Complimenting you too

. It was a mutual thing that you both started doing more and more

. Hanging around each other even more than before if that’s possible

. He introduces you to his pets

. All of them

. Even Goliath

. That was after watching random animal videos one night in the movie room of your house and seeing your reaction to them all

. You bout died meeting Goliath

. It was pretty awesome

. Damian was so proud

. Anyways, so you start getting more and more protective of each other

. Any stupid girls from the Academy were getting immediately shut down

. Same goes with the boys

. For Damian he was always making sure that no one was messing with you or making you feel uncomfy

. Death glares to all and smiles to none that tried it

. That was both ways

. Omg you guys have the death glare mastered

Confession/ Relationship:

. So now that his brothers have caught on, they’re hell bent on getting you two together

. So is Alfred and Bruce and that’s not typical at all

. Everyone ships you and you both know it just won’t accept it

. After some time though, you’re at this string of events and the press was just bombarding you for info on the relationship and whether or not you were dating

. You said no every time and then just moved on

. Damian noticed how much he missed you and loved seeing you thrive even from afar

. It was kind of like oh shit I’d better say something now cause they’ve got everyone wrapped around their finger

. So when you got back, he told you

. It was kind of informal and unexpected

. I mean finally but, out of the blue

. You were thrilled

. So basically from then on, it was wonderful

. Sometimes his brothers might tease you two and post really just dorky things about you guys

. Maybe one day it’s freaking out cause they found you in the movie room passed out on each other asleep with an older movie playing

. Picture of you not being apart at all

. The press loved it all

. You guys loved it all

. Now he’d spend the night all of the time but this time in your room, asleep, with you

. Not just in some guest bedroom or in the same room but apart

. Sleeping is actually a big thing since you both greatly lack it

. You’ll sleep everywhere

. The couch, a chair, the bed, in a car, on the floor sometimes, at a table just next to each other, anywhere

. It was something that like your friendship just evolved over time

. Eventually, you were taking vacations together during the holiday breaks and training together

. Your families loved the other

. Friend groups too

. Sometimes you’d fight but typically it got resolved quickly

. There was always this challenge of apologizing on Damian’s end even if it was really his fault since he just doesn’t know how to

. He got better with that real quick

. Basically, you just appreciate each other and see the other as your other half

. Nothing gets in the way of that

. Not even some stupid boy or girl hitting on the other or the media’s twisted perception of something taken out of proper context

. Those are typically what more serious talks are about but they’re solved quickly

Dates:

. You’re either going to a nice place or not staying in

. There’s no in between

. Either 5 star or the home theater at probably your place

. He loves taking you nice places even if you’ve already been

. Watching new movies

. Or really bad ones just to judge them

. Those are always really fun

. Sometimes you might go for a coffee date and those are typically just spur of the moment type things

. You might go to a gala and then go home and kick back

. Either way it’s the best

. Homemade treats and movies with a possible blanket fort and pillows everywhere over the couches in the movie room

. There’s always a chance that they might get cut short for heroics but that doesn’t typically happen since someone covers Damian’s or your shift

Hero:

. So if you’re a hero, it’s kind of an exhausting thing especially considering schooling and everything else

. Sometimes you find yourself not getting sleep for days

. There are times that you regret everything and Damian understands it all

. He’s just terribly impressed that you can do all of this like he does

. It’s great having someone like that

. Both of you are extremely well trained which sometimes Damian questions where you got your training since it’s so similar to his and his father’s

. Very calculated and precise every single time but also unpredictable which makes you dangerous

. It’s something that you always use to your advantage

. On nights that you patrol, you do it together and always tag team

. Damian knows that you put up one hell of a fight, but he’d rather be there incase something happens then not at all and have something bad happen

. Both of you are always stitching each other up and helping the other with nightmares

. It’s just inevitable at this point

. Staying over at each other’s places depending on how close you are or how badly injured

. You always go to the manor if there’s something really bad that happened

. That’s cause they have better medical equipment and Alfred who is a legend

. Alfred can fix anything and if he can’t it’s to the hospital but that pretty much never happens

Routine?:

. With everything, you have to have a routine

. It’s very exact and important

. In the morning, you both wake up together but not before hitting the snooze button three times

. You have the alarm set early enough to be able to do this

. Plus some time just to lay there for a second

. Damian is typically the cutest and most tired in the morning

. He hates them

. If you’re washing your face or doing whatever, he’ll just hug you from behind and lean against your shoulder

. Has fallen asleep before

. Then you both eat and head off to school

. After school, you go back to someone’s place to change into comfy clothes and complete homework which most is done at school since you wouldn’t have time otherwise

. If you have a meeting to go to, you’ll go to that and then head back

. After supper, it’s to patrol and then after two to three hours of that on average, you go back to one of your homes and shower typically together since you don’t have time to not

. It’s easier and more time efficient so you’ve said

. Also uses less hot water

. Then, you check your phones for any other emergencies and head to bed

. If you’re not a hero it’s basically the same thing but he comes into your room, locks the window again after he’s made sure everything is safe inside, creeps in your closet to get his nightclothes, looks at his phone for anything that might have happened since, goes to shower, and then gets into bed with you after making sure you’re okay without waking you up

. When sleeping, you’re either touching slightly or just on top of each other in some way

. Either way, you’re touching

. He can’t have you far from him incase something happens

. Never really sure what might happen, just that it could happen

. Since he’s a light sleeper, if you shift or move around, he opens his eyes for a second to make sure you’re okay

. That goes for hero or not

. It’s really nice and sometimes he’ll come in and you’ll still be awake

. Always asks why

. “Dami, I’m always awake at this hour.”

. “I know beloved, but you should sleep.”

. “Well then let’s go.”

. He’ll swing by for just a second during patrol to check in if you’re either grounded from patrol due to injury, sickness, just need a night off, or if you don’t do it

. Texts you updates every now and then since he knows you worry and it helps him when he’s home and you’re patrolling

. Basically keeps him from going insane so he does the same for you just incase

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