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[ravenstargames]

✦ Lost in Limbo Devlog #5 | 08.31.23

August is OVER and that means a brand-new Lost in Devlog!!! 💜 We are very excited for September to begin because that will definitely mark a new era of Lost in Limbo's production as the whole team will be finally free of the shackles of the spanish education system!

This devlog contains mainly progress in the programming and writing department (yours truly in charge), but we have also made some progress in the art department.

In addition, we will use this devlog to discuss a few changes and decisions we have taken in regards to the course of the demo—so feel free to grab a drink and join us for the ride!

First and foremost...A glimpse of our main menu! 🎉💜 I have been working hard this month to implement the UI as we finally got the files, and I've also animated and programmed the main menu screen, the configuration screen, save/load, etc. The dialogue box and everything else is also implemented and working perfectly, and of course we have a custom cursor thanks to miss Raquel! 🎉

Needless to say, LiL is my first coding adventure, so I'm sure our code isn't perfect or in optimal condition, but hopefully our Kickstarter will allow us to hire a programmer to fix that. I think I've done a pretty good job considering my lack of experience!

Also, special thanks (again) to our dearly beloved @crescencestudio for bearing with me and graciously lending a hand when I struggled the most. They are officially my ren'py mentor and I'd like to take a moment to illustrate our my struggle to y'all with a simple screenshot:

(Also it's kind of funny we both have animal crossing pics in our discord accounts, that was ✨ a coincidence ✨)

<<Inside the holy judgement chamber of the Silver Spire, may your words carry only truth, lest punishment is what you seek.>>

This month our dear Raquel has been working on backgrounds when she's had a moment, and this is one of the pieces she has been rendering and polishing! We'll also take a look at another background (a really important one) to bring it up to our new standards. As I said in another devlog, the master degree we were (and still are, until the 15th) attending has changed our way of seeing and approaching art pieces, so we are looking into improving pieces that are still in the making!

First of all; we are super proud and happy to welcome a new member to the team of Ravenstar Games: Allie! They'll be our editor and proofreader, and I'm sure you know and love some projects she's been on, like Blooming Panic! or our recent and beloved Intertwine. They are a fantastic fantastic writer, an incredible person and a passionate dev that I've had the pleasure to know and work with for a while now, and I would trust no one else with the script of our baby! (and if you are a writer, you know how hard it is to let others read your stuff sometimes. It's like baring your soul to them; it could only be Allie for me!) So please give them a big warm welcome!!

For the writing department, some devlogs ago we talked about the script suffering some changes—well, they have officially solidified now!

We have cut some content that was not exactly relevant for the first experience we want y'all to have with the game. A lot of context and exposition that helps, but is not absolutely necessary to enjoy what is perhaps the most important thing for an indie team and their game; the first demo and the impression it leaves behind. That content has not been scraped and we have decided to save it for an extended demo; the first demo will still be as long as it was in the beginning, as a lot of new content has also been added to prioritize the LIs, which is what you are here for.

We also made this decision because we were once more faced with the reality of: there's only four of us and it's not realistic to do seven LIs + six supporting characters + their expression charts + 13 backgrounds + everything else for a first demo. We are learning as we go, for better or worse, and sometimes you have to sit back and say "right. this is not going to work" so we had to do that. Sadly, we were not realistic with what we wanted to do, but hey, we all get too excited and dream too big sometimes!

This changes will ensure you get the best first experience with LiL without losing important, meaningful content, and hopefully be excited for what will come later. In my humble opinion, the demo script is now in much better shape than it was a month ago. Trust. And just wait for Allie to edit it—that's going to bring it to perfection.

Oh! We'll also be modifying the Masterpost soon as some things are a bit outdated and can be improved, so expect to see some new stuff in there!

It's 1 am here right now as I write this. I'm in bed. Today has been a day. Tomorrow I'll take a look at this and correct a million typos. See? Another reason we need Allie with us. There's screenshots to take, videos to make, and everything is slowly coming together. We are in really good spirits, motivated and hopeful for the near future. This has been long enough as it is, so as always, thank you for being part of Lost in Limbo's journey, and for the love and kindness you give us again and again. We hope you all are doing great, staying hydrated, and taking care of yourself 💜 See you very very soon!!

[scyphosunny]

vargastober day 1 !! time to make pretty pieces !!!

HUGE RANT INCOMING !!!! LET'S GET TO IT

okay so it's currently almost 5AM and i set up an alarm in four hours but hey let's just write an entry right now :DDDD ( at this rate i will die soon

i remember that when i saw this prompt in the list , my brain immediately said " 20 / 21 " . YOU KNOW ME , I JUST LOVE THIS ONE SO MUCH . and once i had all of the prompts , i put all of them in one of those websites to randomize the order of something ??????? yeah . and " memory " was the first one to appear . ( smiles mischievously

okay . . . of course i had to get something to do on the very first day . i'm going out with my famiily today , and i won't be back until tomorrow . . . great timing isn't it

so idk like three hours ago i had to SIT DOWN and work on this . i was extra stressed because i chose to work on some edgar / jake first , for some reason .

then my sister got home and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS , IT'S CODE LYOKO TIME !!!!! it was like 10PM and i didn't want to get myself to work on it . i really didn't feel like drawing yesterday . but i still did , because usually that means i can just push myself a little bit and if i get something that i like at least a bit , i'll probably just work with it and enjoy it !

for this whole thing , i had an extremely specific reference saved SOMEWHERE on my phone . that thing when you see something neat , and you're like " hey i want to draw that " then , take a screenshot and forget about it forever . I HAD THIS ONE REALLY FRESH ON MY BRAIN THOUGH !! and even if there's plenty of things i could do for this one ( fuck , i even have a whole pinterest board for them !! and for the rest of the characters , really ) i really REALLY wanted to get this one done taking that picture as a reference .

it was a picture of a little girl kneeling down to get some flowers . . . and the whole thing just screamed childhood for me . i could probably just do the whole thing without a reference but i wanted to see the background and overall the slight blurriness to it . that would be harder to recreate without a reference . but i just had this picture floating somewhere on my phone's photos . i didn't even remember the year i took the screenshot ! and i didn't want to check through 13k pics on my phone to find it . i used to clean my gallery a lot , but since i got a phone with a fair amount of storage ( unlike last one ) i stopped doing it so much because it isn't really necessary anymore lolz . so yeah . . . i didn't want to look for it . last time i checked my phone's photos from last year i got depressed because i fully believe i had everything and lost it all . but hey that's not the point-

at the end , i did find the picture ! didn't take too long , too . . .

and here it is ! a tiktok screenshot of an age regression post . really fitting . i wanted it to have this kind of , hazy dreamy end to it . a memory . ( laughing

GOT TO WORK . I HAD TO . THERE WOULD BE NO TIME THE NEXT DAY !!!!!!!!!

first i made this incredibly poor sketch to see how bad it'd look because HONESTLY i didn't think i'd get it right first try . AND I HAD NO TIME TO TRY AGAIN

i've been working with backgrounds for a while , and one thing is certain . i SUCK at them i've already had two pretty pieces ruined by shitty / unfinished backgrounds . last one i made ( the fireflies one ) was at least a bit better . and well , IT WAS FINISHED .

the main problem i had with backgrounds is that , my art is pretty line heavy . and the way most people do backgrounds is just like , scribbling things around with big brushes and stuff . first time i tried . idk it just looked odd ! the characters were so sharp looking and the background looked blurry , almost . i don't even have a picture to show because the file of the piece i'm talking about got CORRUPTED at some point , so . . .

there's this guy on instagram that makes tutorials and just MAKES IT LOOK SO EASY IN WAYS I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND . i did notice something , though . . . this person started with the background first , then drew the character . made sense . i mean yes , that would make the character actually fit in the piece . . . . . . it's funny because yeah common sense OF COURSE you start with the background but MY BRAIN REFUSED TO ACCEPT IT FOR SOME REASON i don't want to draw boring backgrounds I WANT TO MAKE PRETTY CHARACTERS WITH PRETTY HAIR AND PRETTY CLOTHES

( by the way , this is the guy and this is the tutorial i followed ! check his art everything's so cool

i COULDN'T ALLOW MYSELF TO FAIL THIS TIME so i tried it this way . didn't take a lot of screenshots of the progress because i was like JUST FOCUSING ON GETTING THE PIECE DONE but hey i had some screenshots i sent to brusk

started with the sky . . . then added clouds , some mountains . . . brusk told me she liked it ! that it had undertale vibes lolz

then adding bushes . . . some trees . . . the place scri would be standing on . . . i watched the tutorial , got similar colors but still took the reference pic as well , a reference lolz

if there's something i hate , is detailing grass . really really hate it I CAN NEVER MAKE IT LOOK RIGHT . seeing just a nice , open field like this one made me think of another drawing idea i have for them

i have at least three pieces like this on my pinterest ideas board . i was like " what if i do something like this instead " but NNNOOO !!!! I HAD A REFERENCE TO FOLLOW ! and quickly got back to the original idea . hmm . . . i still want to draw a piece like that , though . . .

then , i just detailed the grass a bit more . . . added pretty yellow flowers .

i liked how it looked so far ! which was surprising . i usually never like my backgrounds .

then , TIME FOR THE FFFFFFUN PART !! SKETCHING THE CHARACTER !!!

this was the initial sketch . i keep saying " YYEAHH I DON'T DRAW LINE !! MY SKETCH IS MY LINE !! I'M COOL AND SUPERIOR " but nah this piece and most of them have at least the smallest sketches . i lied to you guys .

honestly . . . i didn't really liked how it looked . bleh .

still , chose a nice , pencil-like brush to work on the line . the background doesn't look really sharp , and i wanted to avoid the problem i talked about before ! characters looking solid and background looking blurry . i used this brush before for a little thing before and i thought it'd be harder to use . but everything okay .

this is what the line looked like at first ! love detailing lines and stuff but i didn't really give myself enough time to detail this one as much . half of the details would be lost , at the end . . .

flat colors ! and a pic of william looking like he's constipated on top lolz . that frame is so funny . i know he's suffering and getting his memory back BUT IDC . I KEEP WATCHING CL ANALYSIS VIDEOS . I CAN'T HELP IT , THEY'RE SO COOL TO WATCH

i had to make my colors a bit less saturated for them to fit the piece . you can't really notice at the end , since the filters i added made it look normal lolz

little break to talk about mmmusic !!! okay so , you know . i really like code lyoko . they have this fake band called " the subdigitals " and one of their tracks was used on the credits of the show . nice song . well , once i read in reddit that they had actual songs ! so , i searched in youtube and THEY DO HAVE MORE SONGS ! a fair amount of them , too . . . so i've been listening to them for days now . THEY'RE REALLY GOOD I CAN'T HELP IT

i really like how distorted XANA's eye looks here lol

( also this is just an excuse to show my old youtube . i love add-ons

BACK TO DRAWING . after flat colors , shading was next ! and oh i've seen people shade with purple since i was a kid . but i was like " that doesn't make sense . I'M DIFFERENT AND I'LL DO IT ANOTHER WAY " so i did , but IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT . so i had to . ( sigh ) . shade with purple . ( and it looks great !

TO BE FAIR i do add a bit of a darker blue when shading but this time i just used it as it is .

oh also i did have to go back and correct the colors a bit for it to fit better . this time , i didn't color his hair like i usually do ! i wanted something less scribbly , more solid . . . i think it looks pretty . his hair is shining !

SCRI DIDN'T HAVE FEET AT FIRST i didn't draw them because i mean you can't really see them on the reference picture . but here it just looks like he's SINKING INTO THE FFLOOR OR SOMETHINg so i went back and added them . . .

coloring the line was really important on this one ! at the end , scri did look sharper than the background AGAIN so i tried and colored the line in a way that it wasn't that noticeable . i like it . should do it more often .

even after colring the line he still didn't so i had to save the background and a png of scri's character , set them on a different canvas and then blur scriabin just a little . I REFUSE TO MERGE MY LAYERS . YOU CAN'T MAKE ME

once the colors were set and done , i went to add a bunch of filters ! only to notice that !! i forgot the freckles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! way to go , sunny !

( most of the pics i added here do have freckles on them because i took them after finishing the piece but . yeah

so i had to GO BACK get everything set and add the filters again . AND , AFTER 5 HOURS OF WORK , WE HAVE THIS PIECE !!!! i forgot the freckles because i don't add them as part of the line anymore . they were harder to color like this . . . so i just paint them on his face when i'm rendering . ah well .

i was strugggggling to find a way to crop it , and now half of the background it's gone . gggreat . i don't think i achieved that hazy feeling , if i'm honest . . . but i still like it a lot . so i'm pretty happy with the result .

( also , i should sign these . it's been a while since i signed any of these ! i just don't know where to add the watermark !

this is the pic with and without the filter !

then , i go to bed , get comfortable and warm . only to realize . . .

I FORGOT . THE YARN . ON SCRIABIN'S HAIR .

GOD DAMMIT

i tried to add it on ibis paint because i DIDN'T WANT TO COME BACK TO THE FILE , ADD IT , CROP IT , PUT THE 999999999999999 FILTERS I ADDED AND GET IT ON THE POST . let's just say it's on the bit of hair we can't see on the picture .

i fforgot it because !!!!!!!!! i ddddon't know !!!!! HOW CAN I FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU

oh , and also . this is how my canvases usually look . i make huuuge files just so i can have lots of spacte to add a bunch of references in the canvas and then crop everything out when i'm done using them .

like this piece i made for the askblog ! hahahahah

i don't really know if there's anything else to add . just that i'm glad i'm doing this , i'm glad i got this one done on time AND I'M EXCITED TO WORK ON THE REST OF THESE

happy october , expect more pieces soon ! :D

( also , as an extra ! here's the piece my 10y.o sister made for today ! lolol

( bbbbefore you come at me and be like " why did you show vargas to a ten year old WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU " i kind of . didn't ? and did at the same time ! she saw me drawng them a year ago , got interested and i explained their dynamic to her . now she knows them ! of course , she doesn't know the DEEP PART OF IT lol

[fiend-streak]

I feel like I'm being incredibly unlucky xD I was without my dear Satan (that's the name of my PC) for a week, because the dude who was supposed to clean him - almost damaged the hardware. Holy shit. So my Satan ended up at IT spec for a fix and you know what? The disks had to be wiped clean and I lost my saves yet again - madlaugh.jpg Thank the gods I store my data on external disk - screenshots, pics, works etc. All files. Some screenshots from a new gameplay.

[the-terrible-theys]

tried charting the heights of all the wild kratts characters for funsies :)

aviva: 167 cm/5’ 5.7”

koki: 160 cm/5’ 2.9”

chris: 173 cm/5’ 8.1”

martin: 180 cm/5’ 10.8”

jimmy: 175 cm/5’ 8.8”

donita: 177 cm/5’ 9.6”

dabio: 203 cm/6’ 7.9” (woah)

zach: 174 cm/5’ 8.5”

gourmand: 154 cm/5’ 0.6”

rex: 176 cm/5’ 9.2”

paisley: 120 cm/3’ 11.2”

this isn’t perfectly accurate because 1) i couldn’t find screencaps to use to compare every character, 2) sometimes there was a lot of variation in height differences between characters and chris/martin (i tried to use those two as references as much as possible because they have canon heights), and 3) mostly because i was just eyeballing everything

reference images i used + a few notes are under the cut if you’re curious!! (by “a few notes” i mean i basically accidentally wrote an entire essay btw)

i went ahead and put the bros in first since, again, they have canon/googleable heights, and could be used as references for all the other characters. i ended up tweaking these heights very slightly (putting martin as closer to 5’ 11”, basically) just to feel a little more accurate to the show’s height difference between them and other characters

next i did the rest of the crew!

the height difference between chris and jimmy was kinda hard to deduce. in some screenshots jimmy is a bit shorter than chris and in others he’s noticeably taller ?? i decided to take the average and put them at almost the same height with jimmy being very slightly taller

i think jimmy was being mean to me on purpose a little bit because i had similar issues between him and martin. sometimes he’d be quite a bit shorter and sometimes they’d be practically the same height. c’mon jimmy

figuring out koki and aviva’s height differences relative to the others wasn’t quite as hard, though aviva did have a bit of height variation (in the first image, she’s about the same height as chris, in the second she’s much shorter, and in the third she’s taller than chris would be in comparison to martin). thankfully i have precisely a billion and a half screenshots saved so finding ones to average out was an easy task. i decided it’d be best to keep aviva noticeably shorter than chris by a couple of inches, but to also not have their height difference be quite as significant as in some of these images

koki’s relative height seemed to stay the most constant out of everyone, with only very slight variations (her being closer to aviva’s height sometimes, but usually she’s shorter) (in case anyone is confused! i’m measuring her from the top of her head, not hair, so about where her headband is)

once i felt like the crew was all accurate, i moved to the villains. i started with zach because i have more pictures of him, both with the crew and other villains, so he’s the best reference)

it was a little hard to judge his height in comparison to chris. they’re definitely close but i for some reason couldn’t find good reference images to get a more exact estimate. in both of these at least one of them is slightly leaning

i tried to avoid using any references with the creature powersuits activated, since those can mess with height (or at least my perception of their height) a bit. i did break my own rule here, though, just to see how tall zach was in comparison to martin. i figured he was tall enough for me to viably place him as very slightly taller than chris, but still at nearly the same height

(i’m pretty sure i looked at a second, even better pic i had of zach and martin as well but i lost it)

from there it was decently easy to estimate donita and gourmand’s heights with zach as a reference. i had the same height variation issue with donita as i’d had before, but when i found that fifth image while looking for dabio height references, i was able to find her height much more easily, plus verify my placements of zach and gourmand, plus get a good estimate on dabio.

(i also looked at more dabio references, some with donita and some with each of the bros, but i can’t find those either. oops) (trust me when i say him being 6’ 7” probably isn’t inaccurate, though) (the dude he’s based on, fabio, is 6’ 3”, so i was originally going to guesstimate him at around that height, but he looks WAY too tall for even 6’ 3”)

i have VERY few images of paisley and rex, much less any that make usable height references, but i did manage to pick out a couple that were helpful. paisley seems to be shoulder height-ish on gourmand who i placed at 5’ 0”. i can also see that donita’s elbow is also around shoulder height of gourmand, giving me two points of reference

paisley is also at approximately elbow height of rex, meaning that rex and donita are similar in height

managed to find this image as a somewhat more helpful point of reference. yeah it’d be more helpful if rex and paisley were touching the ground, and if martin wasn’t in a cps (because, again, trying to avoid that for the sake of accuracy). beggars can’t be choosers, though, and the pixelization of this image is screaming beggar.

anyway! if i squint a bit and hold my fingers up to my screen, i can tell that paisley is at maybe just under belly button/elbow height of martin. rex looks to be a little shorter than martin, meaning my estimate of him being a similar height to donita is of some accuracy. i made him one centimeter shorter because he looks to be a little shorter in comparison to martin than donita would be? idk

i would’ve liked to search for better reference pics for paisley and rex just to make sure i’ve got their heights down, but i’m tired and have also hit the image limit for this post, so i’m just gonna stop there

[melanie-ohara]

Gideon Souls 4

Undead Asylum Reprise, Blighttown and beyond

Now's as good a time as any to look at the loadout:

Clothes - who cares, beyond light rolling and wearing as much black as possible

Weapons - I did some grinding to have enough dex to wield the black knight great sword I found, so now it's that or the zweihander. Mostly the zweihander, because it hits harder. No shield, because Gideon would never take a hand off her sword

Rings - Favour and Protection, from kicking that guy off a cliff. It's great, no notes. Ring of the Evil Eye, because I I don't carry a shield and block with the weapon, so I still take a little bit of damage. Most of the time, I recover that after killing whoever had the temerity to hit me. This is when I find out that everyone thinks this ring is useless

Immediately upon arriving at the asylum I fell through the floor and got blown up by the Stray Demon. Solid start. I went back and knifed him, so I'm calling that one and a half attempts. Then the black knight for the creepy doll, and the rusted iron ring so I didn't have a fully horrid time in -

Blighttown, which is a horrible place full of misery and toxic dart assholes. I have essentially nothing to say about this place, except that it connects to Quelaag.

Bet you thought it was gonna be a titty pic, huh. No. Giant spider. Fuck you.

This one was harder because my usual tactic of just smacking them in the butt didn't work quite so well, but I persevered and smacked her in the butt four times and finally got her. I had very low health when I did it and was convinced she still had a sliver of HP left, so I was busy running for space and, again, missed the victory logo for a screenshot, so here's her eerie empty arena instead

Second bell of awakening! I was very happy when this happened because it meant progress. How sweet and innocent of me.

At this point, I horribly fucked up. @amethystasari told me about the false wall, and I arrived at the bonfire, whereupon I said the wrong thing to the eggy wife guy blocking the path. He was not happy.

So I squished him. What am I gonna do, not rest at the bonfire?

Oh dear. I squished her sister and her gross egg husband. The good(?) news is, @amethystasari informs me she's both blind and deaf. So that's just great. I feel great.

Anyway, she helpfully reinforced my estus with the fire keeper soul I found in a nightmare of toxic darts players, and I moved on to feeling bad about ceaseless discharge.

Selfie with the medical condition

He was chill, until I took some clothes from his presumably memorial altar. I get it buddy, that was very uncool of me. He squished me and I lost all of those souls when he squished me again. So I got a bit annoyed at this point, and gave up on trying to coax him out and went back to smacking him. This time I hid in a narrow channel where he could only do one attack, like a hero.

Lava cleared up, apparently for later

Unfortunately, now it's time for Sen's Fortress Circus of Hilarious Bullshit. I am having a genuinely appalling time here. I've fallen off, smacked two out of three titanite demons but cannot seem to deal with the last two, fallen off more, fixed the boulders, saved some NPCs, fallen off, lost cumulatively like 40,000 souls, been shot, squashed, impaled, and crushed, fallen off, fallen off, and fallen off. I am never getting out of here. No pics because it sucks here.

Back at Firelink we now have a cozy little camp going. We have the crestfallen knight, who I dislike, a pyromancer, Big Hat Logan, Griggs the whatever of Vinheim, and this cool and chill young gentleman

Selfie with my new bestie Frampt, who eats all the trash out of my inventory

I also meant Reah and the clerics, who left. Thorolund came back and said he lost them, so presumably I'll deal with that later. Griggsy says they're off kindling some bonfires, and I hope that's good news for me.

Of course, how could I forget my onion buddy Siegmeyer, who is constantly hmmming and ahhhhing wherever I want to be. What a nice chap. I either saved him from Sen's Bullshit Circus of Fuck You, or accidentally squashed him with a boulder. Only time will tell.

[blood-starved-beast]

Still on the theory-posting about Hades 2 but considering time, given Chronos’s thing, is likely going to be a major theme in this game. That is, time as is relates not only to the game mechanic (I’m certain it’s related to the rogue-lite genre) but also time as a factor of conflict for the characters, specifically time as it relates to Melinoe’s arc. That likely her arc would focus a bit on learning to give time to others, as much as she gives time to her goal.

I don’t think it’s completely coincidental that Melinoe’s character, based on the short details we know of her, is one of very strong devotion to her task. She berates herself for losing against Hekate in the trailer, she is deeply regretful of her loss in the Steam pic, swearing to not fail Hekate again. We will learn other aspects of her character I’m sure, but she is completely sworn to her task. It’s very possible that she devotes all of her time trying to get to the Underworld and defeat Chronos and save the House. Which, don’t get me wrong it’s noble, but it also likely doesn’t give her (starting to get my drift here?) time to devote to anyone else.

Which means that while she’s trying to save Hades, killing herself in this very challenging task, throwing herself back at it again, she’s neglecting (or otherwise completing ignoring) any other connections she has with anyone else. In the Covent or anyone. That’s where I think her arc will go. As the story progresses, and as Melinoe gets better and starts interacting with more people - battling Hekate (who I imagine will be an early boss, and as such will be often), doing her Thanatos-and-Zagreus thing with Nemesis (that’s what Nemesis in that screenshot implies), perhaps running minor prophecy tasks for Moros (he stands next to what seems to be the game’s version of the List of Minor prophecies), meeting and interacting with the Olympians - she learns not only to focus on her tasks, but also to give time for other people. People who are also worthy of her dedication and friendship/love etc. It’ll mean building (or reconnecting) with people whose connections she lost or never bothered to pursue while on this almost Sisyphean (ha!) task of trying to stop Chronos, who’s likely gonna Uno-reverse-card her way back to the start again. It would make the whole “building relationships through nectar[or the equivalent] giving” mechanic from the first game fresh again, especially if this’s Melinoe version of handing out the olive branch to connections she took for granted before and now is trying to remedy.

On this note, I think, if Persephone’s not stuck with the whole House situation, she would have a strained relationship with Melinoe, at least at the start. Given the whole stress of the circumstances, plus Melinoe’s focus on the task, it’s possible their connection as mother-daughter could be strained or distant (paralleling Zagreus’s and Hades’s less than stellar father-son relationship). Maybe Persephone, who was in the first game unsure of being a parent seeing as she never raised Zagreus, forced to possibly raise her daughter alone without Hades or Nyx, didn’t know how to breach that, so their connection floundered along with all the other relationships Melinoe had. And part of the game’s story is building that along with the others.

Again, this is high speculative but I’m gonna leave this here just in case I’m right in some manner or form.

[livewireprojects]

Rambling about old art program

I'm mostly doing this cause I want to ramble & I don't want it being most of the text on an old image I'm posting.(Cause lots of rambling)

When I was younger I had a program called Manga Studio Pro 4.0, I didn't know how to use it much but I eventually was able to use it good enough.(Although at points I couldn't figure how to remove the text on some things if I was making a comic instead of just an image) This was an old program, while some of my stuff was digital installs I don't know how I got or were already there(MSPaint) this was the old way involving a CD that came in a box with a code.

At some point either from either from losing the box(this was a program I had a CD & code for in the past), using it too many times(I transferred computers a few times) or who knows what like not knowing how to use the code or losing the code for it I eventually lost the ability to install/use it. I think I tossed everything I had left for it after I lost the ability to use it & I don't remember when I tried to reinstall it. It worked I was able to reinstall it I just couldn't figure out if I had the code or not anymore cause some stuff confused me.

I don't remember much but I know that when you saved new projects you'd have a folder with the file to open the picture in the program(with layers there if they were there) & an image that was a jpeg full sized(depending on how big you made it) image with all visible layers merged.(I mean it's an image so of course) I have many unfinished projects I found in some backups I made of past computers, they'll never be finished & I'll never be able to open them up in the program again. It's not like I could finish them without starting over anyway thanks to how much shit has changed.

Looking around what I was able to it seems the most recent pics I made in manga studio were from 2012 which was my second year of high school.

My art programs back then were MSPaint & a copy of Paint Tool Sai I found somewhere(I bought a license for the program a few years back so use an actual legal ver now)

When I was younger I use to use Photoshop CS & MSPaint(every once in a while I used Manga Studio Pro 4.0)

Today/in recent years I use Clip Studio Paint EX, sometimes Paint Tool Sai, MSPaint occasionally(mostly use it for quickly pasting screenshots or stuff to copy to paste elsewhere) & very recently Procreate.

Up until a certain point after high school I drew with a mouse, I sometimes draw with a mouse but I mostly use a wacom tablet I've had for a few years. Also use an ipad for procreate.

It's kind of funny, I didn't use manga studio that much but I use clip studio paint a lot now. I bring this up cause manga studio is still going, it's called clip studio now.

Here's so images I was able to find from when I still used the program just so you can see what I worked on. If you've seen my art stuff you'll know how much things have changed too.

This pic was from 2011, it's an old image of my fursona's quad form

To the right is a more up-to-date version from 2016, not much has changed but the paw print is gone(the tail has a little more detail like it has fins now)

Here's a pic from 2021 were my fursona is dressed for pride month that shows better details. Funny enough first pic is manga studio, second pic is sai & third is clip studio paint so I guess it comes full circle.

Pic 1

This is the most recent pic(2012) I made in manga studio, according to the description I sketched it in manga studio then colored it in sai, the text is done in MSPaint. This was for an Alice in Wonderland based project I didn't get far in except for a few ideas.

Pic 2:

I have no idea when I made this, DA says I posted it there in 2012 but going off the art style looks older than I recall. After trying to search around I think this & pic 3 are maybe from 2010 & I got a little better in 2012 when I made pic 1.

This is for someone I use to know that I don't exactly have good memories of. I use to be in an AMV group with her & at some point she requested art from me & would repeatedly ask if it was done. I don't remember how often but I know she was asking about it to the point it was considered rude especially after I asked her to stop.

This was for one of her projects that as far as I know never got very far. I don't even remember what the plot was. I think it was two high schoolers falling in love while caring for a kid that was either their future daughter or the guy's little sister.

I think I was experimenting with the background on this & pic 3 cause I think the backgrounds had to do with finding random brushes & using them as much as I could were I thought it fit.

Pic 3:

From the same person that the less said that I remember the better cause I'm just going to end up ranting about how she kept making child me pissed from repeatedly asking if an art request was done when I kept asking her to stop & it wasn't done yet.

Anyway I think this was suppose to be for a slice of life fanime she was working on. I don't remember much past the blond(Midori) being the I think main character & something involving her having 3 ex-boyfriends with the magenta/pink hair one being dead. I think I drew this before pic 2 but I put it at the end cause there's more stuff.

Three of the images(the image in the thought bubble, the photo to the left & all three chibis if you count them as one image) were all imported into manga studio to be part of it.(Or the photo on the very left & the chibis were imported cause I think the pic in the thought bubble was edited in using Photoshop CS & the text was shaded in Photoshop as well)

Here's the three images in pic 3

Pic 1 was made with MSPaint & Photoshop CS(background is one I made in photoshop at some point), the writing was suppose to look crayon like cause this was before I had Sai which had a crayon brush

Pic 2 was made traditionally on paper & with sharpy before editing it in Photoshop CS. Don't know where I found the floor, the text in the corner is the only thing helping me guess this is from 2010. That cat charm is an old character of mine, was kind of a joke on Hello Kitty for some reason.

Pic 3 was made in MSPaint

I got one more pic I made in manga studio but it's getting it's own post.(Link to said post)

It's kind of crazy just how much was done & how much has changed from then & now.(I dunno how to end this)

[savanimay]

Detailed & Adjustable Rick Sanchez Timeline

Birth - 1943~1945 

1943 is given by subtracting 70 from 2013 when the show first aired. I decided to add two more years for the simplicity of this post, but you can probably place his birth as late as 1947 if you’re doing this method of going off the show’s airdate. But for this post, we are working with this range.

And if the show takes place in the future, we can up the birth to the 50s, but this might affect some people’s headcanon of him in the Vietnam War.

High School - 1957~1961 or 1959~1962

(assumed age of entering/exiting high school at 14/15-17/18 years old)

Vietnam War - 1963~1972 ***

18-29 years old

This depends entirely on your headcanon of course, including whether or not he even went to Vietnam. If he was drafted, it would have likely been in December 1969 since they drafted those born between 1944-1950. If he wasn’t drafted, he could have enlisted in 1963 straight out of high school(if he was born in ‘45~ish). I chose 1963~1972 as the years because it seems to be the most plausible. Here is more information on the US military draft in Vietnam.

All of the Vietnam information can be negated, depending on your own personal preference whether or not he went to Vietnam. 

Also, at this point, I will be including all of the possible years in one gap instead of separating them depending on birth year. All ranges take the three possible birth years into account.

~~Where The Line Gets Fuzzy and Blurred~~

This image is courtesy of Zen Monkey Studios, which only sells officially licensed merch. The artist is Angela Trizzino an artist at ZMS and does not work for the Rick and Morty staff per say.

This does not negate its canon. In fact, this is what is included in the official art book:

This specific image is just a clearer reference that they used for ‘Big Trouble in Little Sanchez.’ Personally, combining the information in the two images, I headcanon the Rick with swept bangs to be late teens.

So using this information, let’s assign the five phases seen in the first image appropriate names and ages:

Tiny Rick = High School Rick (assume age is around 14, so he probably grew taller as high school went on) 

‘Rebellious’ Rick = Older High School and Vietnam

Flesh Curtains Rick = 30s

Young Rick = 35~40s +

~~Back to the Timeline Itself~~

Joined the Flesh Curtains - 1965~1983 ***

Becomes really iffy because Rick would have needed technology to explore space. Judging by the fake memory in Rickshank Rickdemption, he is only shown not to have the power to use interdimensional portals. So, he could have very well travelled the galaxy before settling down.

18 year age disparity to place Flesh Curtains either before/after Beth

***Important to note: Rick does not have the swept bang in ANY of the pictures with Bird Person. It can be assumed his hair was more tame, leading up to how effing tame his hair is as ‘Simple Rick.’

***Look at the hair in the timeline photos. Could it really represent a Rick in his late 20s/early 30s? Then why does Rick in Birdperson’s photos still have stubble + the same hair in the two top pictures? He is wearing a lab coat. (Possible explanation: Rick became a scientist simultaneously to his interstellar music career.) Yet, he’s also holding a baby Morty? And he looks the same in the Flesh Curtains picture? So, he could very well have joined the Flesh Curtains later in life --say, after Beth was born.

***Then why is the hair similar to the life stages seen in both official photos? Simple explanation is his hair grew back after cutting it in his ‘Young Rick’ stage.

Married - 1961~1981

20-year discrepancy given in case he married at 18 straight out of high school. Could have been before or after joining the Flesh Curtains. Who took all of the pictures on Birdperson’s wall? Was it her?

Also, assuming he got married before Beth was born.

Beth’s Birth - 1979~1981 

If you’re wondering why Young Rick is in his 30s, just know that it’s pretty much canon. Beth is 34 in the show’s present canonical universe. 

70 - 34 = 36

Beth was born when Rick was 36. 

Going back to the Vietnam War headcanon, Rick could have returned from the war just shy of 30, then he gets married to Diane in his early 30s

Portal Gun Technology Discovered - 1983~1988

At least 4+ years after Beth’s birth since toddler Beth’s design is originally supposed to be around four-years-old.

Most likely no later than 7 years after her birth

Going off of ‘fake’ memory in Rickshank Rickdemption

Interstellar War - 1970s(???)~???

When he met Birdperson? After the Flesh Curtains? Before? Having portal gun technology would give him an extra edge in the war. But the show seems to imply he was at war when Beth was a child and that is what probably broke his marriage.

This could replace the Vietnam headcanon for some and go in the same spot if you wish.

And depending on how you view it, he’s still at war.

Summer’s Birth - 1996~1999 

Extra year added if Beth gave birth at 18 and not 17.

Morty’s Birth - 1999~2002

Reunited With Family - 2013~2016

Also taking Refuge on Earth.

Another fishy event, believe it or not. Rick would have left Beth when she was 14 if he wasn’t in her life for 20 years. But this piece of information has already been challenged by the comics and show itself. 20 years? Really? Seems a little odd.

So let’s just use these dates as when he moved back in with his daughter...supposedly.

[sjdsjdshadjs-archive]

my phone went through its flop era (Black Screen of Death) so i had to reset it to factory settings. im fine 😎. im killing myself 🙈

[han-jisung]

[eurekq]

>be me >today i will make a height chart for my da protags and their love interests >okay maybe ill make it an outfit and color reference too >well i dont want it to be too boring to look at >draw this

so here we are with all my sweet little ladies and their lis :]!!! from left to right: cassie cousland, marian hawke and anders, aoife lavellan and cullen, rhiannon tabris and alistair, cecelia hawke and fenris, melly cadash and sera

LOTS of extra stuff under the cut!!!

lovely da protag templates are from marian churchland!

dear sweet cassie, partaker in the forbidden non-romantic alistair marriage that the game never knows how to acknowledge. very much the definition of gaslight gatekeep girlboss. and by that i mean a genuinely bad person in the sense that she tends to toy with peoples feelings. had an extremely public affair with anders during the events of awakening. It takes a good 5 years for her and alistairs marriage to be anything even approaching functional. extremely savvy, ambitious, and charismatic; a great politician and an extremely effective ruler. morrigan is her closest friend in the world (yes i know i never had her in my party. thats because im bad at video games and needed a healer.) and they’re like sisters.

my default hawke. 6′2, buff as shit, slept her way through half of her friends before finally settling with anders. she’s a blood mage and her first use of blood magic was during a particularly nasty fight where she got speared through the stomach. she carves herself up for mana; anders puts her back together. does things in anger and impulse and then regrets them (see: giving isabela to the arishok, never reconciling with carver after leandras death). mean if you dont know her, intensely protective if you do, but takes betrayal extremely poorly. constantly taking action, even if it doesn’t turn out very well; she is physically incapable of being a bystander. her and anders are my fave da couple ever... ask me about my post da2 hcs <3 theyre happy and have a daughter named bethany :] she punched cullen in the mouth at the end of da2 so hard that it left that scar.

literally is there anything like your first dai playthrough being an elf. aoife is... remarkably well realized in my brain for a character who’s life began as my friend chanting “goth elf! goth elf! goth elf!” over my shoulder while i was in character creator. very affable and friendly, but extremely politically adept with a capability for subterfuge that even she isn’t fully comfortable with. huge history buff. solas was like a big brother to her and her faith was extremely important to her so trespasser was crushing. very curious, especially about magic; definitely learned some blood magic from hawke after hearing dorian and solas talk about it. dorian is her closest platonic friend, but cullen is her rock. as in he is literally so normal compared to everything else that happens to her and she loves him for it. also her and hawke are friends and a scenario that lives rent free in my mind is them hanging out while anders and cullen attempt to kill each other in increasingly looney toons-esque ways in the background. she turned out remarkably pretty for an inquisitor... look at her

....and that’s it for my canon timeline. onto the secondary timeline!

DEAR SWEET RHIANNON. 4′8 powerhouse with a sword longer than she is tall. i first played rhiannon with a friend who was very new to rpgs and she picked all of the mean dialogue options because she thought they were funny, which led to me discovering that alistair reacts oddly and kind of hilariously well to being made fun of by a female warden pre-duncan dying. rhiannon is fun in that she literally gives no shits about conflict avoidance; if you start something with her, she’ll see it through. disliked alistair on principle and poked fun at him when they first met, but after the events at ostagar bonded to him extremely strongly. very close to him pretty much at the exclusion of all her other companions. extremely strong willed, laughs loud and smiles wide, no real concept of subterfuge except for when she’s hiding her own pain, generally goes in the path of least resistance if it gets to her goal faster. #1 arl eamon hater. she looks pretty different when i draw her compared to how she looked ingame but this screenshot of her doing the like. dead deer tinder profile pic pose is extremely powerful

cecelia is the truest tragic hawke that i’ve played (rip cecelia. you had the misfortune to exist in the warden alistair timeline). lost carver, lost bethany in the deep roads, lost her mother, believes that fenris has left her. act 2; a real rough ride for cecelia. aside from all the tragedy, she’s tough as nails, direct, and extremely blunt. very cautious in combat, even more so since she lost both carver and bethany. plans upon plans upon plans and prefers to strike unseen and unheard from the shadows. DEEPLY in love with fenris, best friends with isabela and merrill. aware of anders affection for her and keeps some distance for both their sakes; after the chantry explosion she helps him fake his own death on the condition that she never sees him again. when terrible things are not constantly happening she has a very dry wit, part of the reason her and fenris get along so well. too many bad things happen to her for someone with such nice thighs and such a stylish cape. her save file had some weird bugs with companion like.... staring???? in weird directions???

the absolute energy here. she also turned out very pretty in inquisition.

melly is easily my most powerful da oc. not in terms of in-universe power (although sword and board reaver is like. unkillable.) but in the sense that she is a catholic (read: andrastian) mid-40′s widowed mobster milf. she’s very close to cassandra and vivienne and consults them for advice before she goes to her actual advisors. even she was surprised by her relationship with sera; she finds sera’s unique sense of humor very charming and really likes pulling silly pranks with her as a reprieve from her everyday life. when she’s not with sera, she tends to be very pragmatic and logical when making decisions for the inquisition and has a very defined sense of purpose. she takes her role as both as the inquisitor and the herald of andraste very seriously. she’s very warm and soothing to be around during off hours and random inquisition members will often drift towards her for life advice. first draft of her and sera in this drawing had sera wearing this

[petrichorpetals]

So from the evidence I've collected, I'm very sure my Yeosang came here from another timeline/world theory is correct.

This mostly stems from what we learned from fever part 3 and the deja vu mv but honestly the Yeosang being sus about this had already been foreshadowed in his diary entry of fever part 2. (You'll have to forgive my terrible pictures I have fever part 3 in front of me and I'm too lazy to grab fever part 2 to take better pics)

Basically our setup to this was how at the end of the diary film we switched dimensions into the world of fireworks which I'm fairly sure is called Strictland. Everyone basically says how much the new world feels like their old one but different. The first time I read this I wasn't sure what he meant by "Everyone says this is a new world but somehow, I'm familiar with the scenery here. " line and just took it at face value to be metaphor. But given his repetition of staring down the camera to say "I remember" in Deja Vu, it would make a lot more sense if we take it quite literally too mean I remember this place because I'm from here. There's also a lot of talk about the word world in "wanting to escape the world I've lived in, the world I've been trapped in" as well as "the friends who have willingly invited me to their world". Basically the tldr of the matter is that yeosang escaped from the world of Fireworks into the world of school!Ateez using a chromer that breaks. (IMO we see this exact moment where it breaks at the end of Deja Vu) I say it's likely a chromer since Yeosang shows an at least approximate knowledge of what would happen if he breaks one when he breaks the one the black pirates/halateez gave to hongjoong while the android guardian/white mask holds him hostage.

Yeosang seems to have an approximate knowledge here of what would happen if the Chromer broke, to the point where he doesn't even call it the Chromer when he's thinking about what they know about the object, he specifically calls it a sandglass when any other mention of it has been the Chromer.

There's also the matter of him going out of the way of saying "My friends would not have been all scattered if I had not met them at first". This could very well be talking about where they lost Yeosang and scattered in the hallway but given his wording of at first, I'm putting this as evidence that Yeosang was a newcomer to their world when he got here with the chromer and wasn't a part of their friend group originally.

This theory gets backed up by the ending bit of Not Too Late playing at the end of Deja Vu and if you do a quick look into the lyrics, Not Too Late comes across very much as the beginning of school Ateez where they're all lamenting about being lonely before they all get together to make friends.

Except for two things.

One of which is Wooyoung and Yeosang talking about not being able to get out or escape (Which lines up for Yeosang if he's trapped in this new timeline and adds some interesting implications for Wooyoung I'll get into on a post about him later).

The second of which is Mingi's part. Mingi brings up killing and saving, both things that happen and we see happening during Inception and Thanxx in Fever Part 1 when Hongjoong keeps resetting the timeline using the chromer. There's two implications here: one, Mingi is aware of the timeline resetting (something that I already suspected but is now confirmed) and two, while this might seem like a song from the very beginning of school Ateez, Mingi gives us the added context that it is very much not. (It's also interesting that Yeosang's the one that pulled out Mingi's headphones to make him past attention to the world around him in diary film but like Wooyoung, I'll get into Mingi later in another post)

Since we're assumedly several timeline cycles in, why is this song playing over Yeosang breaking the Chromer? I posit that instead of this being the moment where Yeosang breaks the Chromer while escaping the white Android, this is instead either the moment Yeosang crash lands into school Ateez's world via his own "sandglass" for the first time or this still is that moment, but due to time shenanigans, the Yeosang that escaped just so happens to have escaped back to when he first got to their world making him trapped not only in school Ateez's world, but in an endless cycle of breaking the Chromer to get there in the first place.

We see that Yeosang doesn't go back to their original world and warehouse with them afterwards. Likely because he wasn't a part of their world to begin with to return back with them.

There's other bits of evidence that say that Yeosang with the broken Chromer at the end of Deja Vu is going to school Ateez like the hand that reached for Yeosang had a sleeve similar to their school uniform in Inception.

(Interestingly enough, Yeosang has an emblem that isn't like anyone else's on his uniform and Wooyoung has several emblems. Not necessarily relevant to my current point but food for thought.)

I'm not one of those people that obsess over hands, so idk whose hand that is exactly, but I do have suspicions.

If we're looking at the rings and at how one hand kind of mirrors the other, we can come to the conclusion that it might be the same person. We can go so far as to think that maybe, that hand might even belong to another version of Yeosang. Potentially even the hala!Yeosang that we catch a glimpse of in the diary film giving Hongjoong the chromer. (Side note: I only just realized that it was actually hala!yeosang that gave hongjoong the chromer and not hala!hongjoong like I thought going in. Yeosang really does just have a longstanding history with the Chromer huh.)

Edit: it's now basically been confirmed by the making of deja vu mv that the hand is Hongjoong's so basically depicting the moment Hongjoong reached out for yeosang when the timelines reset. I still standby the rest of my theory. Here's the screenshot I grabbed off the alternate hand angle in the mv making video:

For me personally, a lot of things start to click into place when we consider the possibility that Yeosang is actually from another world. Even his like a bird in a cage stuff makes sense when viewed in this light. He has the freedom of song and dance that he didn't have in Strictland, which banned any form of music or dance thinking it would lead to human emotion, but is stuck in this new world with no other option but to potentially repeat the cycle of when he got here.

[sims2squared]

Some Pics - Pleasant Hills v3.0 (Not Streamed)

So, I've been playing some head-canon pre-round TS2 events today because why not! Been having a fun time of it and have very much been enjoying all the hard work I've done! Admittedly, I did maybe miss a couple of of things. Truth be told, some time before I started working on v3.0 one of my cats threw up all over my notes. So, yeah.... I made the decision towards the end of pre-rounds to change the season to winter. It just kept getting colder.... in summer.... this is something that has happened to me before, and I think moving the season to winter was on the to-do list before I lost my notes. But instead I moved it to summer. You do whatever you want with this info! I have not decided to make that change in the downloadable version of the save file as of yet. We'll see how winter goes.

Let us start off with a smokin' (literally) pic of Don Lothario up on his balcony, before he started off pre-rounds with woo-ing all the ladies:

Now, I took something like 165 screenshots during prerounds today. I think that attests to my fun in this save file so far. Gonna be hard to choose.... So favourite ones I guess....

Kaylynn, and Dina, and Nina... ooooooh my! ;)

In the end, Don said yes... to the money. It was a close one. He was in a pretty bad mood and so I rolled 50/50 for him to leave Cassandra at the alter. It was a very close call. If this wedding had taken place AFTER the My Wedding Stories pack had come out...

Motimer was inspired by Cassandra & Don's wedding, so he married Dina during their wedding party. Tacky. And Dina was on the lot with one of the clubs, The Lovers, and they wear pink during meetups...

I totally *squeed* when baby Tycho was born. On the previous version of the save file I got a female clone... but now I have a green baby with pointy ears! I'm am crazy glad that I figured out how to fix all the parentages of the sims in the save file.

Daniel didn't get caught. Oh well, there's always during rotation 1!

Dustin and Brandi are getting along better than they usually do (even with Dustin getting caught stoned). I did adjust some of their traits for this version based on new traits I have now and re-reading the wiki... I like it. Brandi also exhibited right away wanting to live a cleaner, healthier lifestyle. I ran with it. With that said, even in v2.0 with the same traits on multiples saves... every save their relationship was different. So who knows.

And finally, Don nearly killed Brandi (like he seems to do in very save) during birth of her.... TWINS?! Oh dear, what ever have I done. I know it's not exactly canon... but canon is her having a male clone of herself. Again, the parentage has been fixed, and if it was in sims 2 she could have had anything. Plus, I got a chuckle at the idea of f**king with everyone a little after all the work I've done on the save. I mean, I am torturing myself with it too... I mean, you could have checked in mccc...

And that is all the pre-round things I usually do... I took my sweet time at it for once though and it took 6 sim days to do things. Now on to Rotation 1, starting with Don and Cassandra's first week (well, first years from their perspective) as a married couple. If you're interested in playing this save file, or just want to know more about this save file because it's super awesome, and were oblivious to the fact that you could... well, you now you know better. You're welcome. It's low cc and highly mod-ready featuring TS2 sims. You can find all the info on a page that's on my google drive. There's rotation trackers and stuff. And a scavenger hunt. And 170 clubs. It took me like, 7 weeks to put together (if I include the time spent on previous versions). Yeah, I'll stop now....

[winterballads]

I was tagged by @legoilas @jenneferofjengaberg @tcustodis @stillness138 @lohrendrell @going-there-and-back-again and @zaynsbff in a couple of ask games, thank youuu! 💝✨🌸

Tagging @amantisegreti @technicallysideacc @sunflowrhaz @pridesobright @queenmevesknickers @humble--bard @carsen-daily @mugglemirror @jlyarts @haleths + everyone who tagged me to do whatever part of this you want! No pressure as always ❤️ 

—picrew here

As usual, I did a regular me and a fantasy version of me 🥰

—screenshots

lockscreen, last song you listened to & last photo you saved

My lockscreen is a screenshot I took of Geralt in TW3 (in Velen), and the last pic I saved is this excellent meme courtesy of @queenmevesknickers 💖 

The last song I listened to is Battle for the Bridge from the Thronebreaker soundtrack, I’m legit obsessed with it 🥺

—four songs i’ve heard today

Apart from the song named above, I’ve only listened to the GWENT Way of the Witcher menu music today 💫

—the last seven sentences i’ve written

Not sure which sentences I wrote last, so I’m simply going to give the first seven lines of the last fic I’ve published, in the light 🖤

Gweilge wasn’t fond of stealing.

Even after all these years, it still left him with a filthy, sticky feeling of shame which clung to his skin long after the act, like a layer of grime no amount of cleaning in a fresh, crystalline stream could wash away.

Yet if it was the price needed in exchange for non-humans living better lives, Gweilge thought, he was more than willing to pay up — no matter how rank the currency.

Crouching as he was in the shadows looming down the side of the imposing mansion that was his next target, he was thoroughly invisible but for the wisps of silver smoke blooming before his mouth in the cold night air.

Storeroom should be right down this way, he calculated, his gaze trained on the outline of a wooden doorframe jutting out from the semi-regular pattern of the stone wall. The moon was curled up under a thick cloudy blanket tonight, shrouding the entire courtyard behind the estate in darkness, but Gweilge had ample practise coaxing the secrets of the night into revealing themselves to him; after waiting long minutes with his back pressed against the wall, repressing the shivers tickling his spine, he began making out vague shapes amidst the gloom. As loath as he was to admit it (even and perhaps most to himself), his rather vast thieving experience had also taught him to closely inspect his surroundings before making any move — which meant he already knew the door he was looking for should be situated at six blocks’ distance and would likely be easy to open due to its outdated, brittle locking mechanism.

—seven comfort films

Decided to go with animated movies to narrow things down a bit! 🌈

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

A Goofy Movie

The Prince of Egypt

Over the Hedge

Zootopia

Finding Nemo

Fantasia

—get to know me

Feel like I’ve already done something similar to this several times, but what the hell, TC and Elis tagged me and I’m whipped so 😂💗

Name/nickname: Marianne, Marie/Mari

Star sign: cancer

Favourite bands/groups: only One Dee exists 😌💕

Favourite solo artists: apart from (you guessed it) the One Dee boys, mmm atm maybe Jamie Bower

Song stuck in my head: Waterloo from Star Académie 2021 haha 

Last movie: The Scarlet Pimpernel - thank you Bee and Kaley for getting me to watch it 😘

Last show: Borgen, before I got into TW3 and lost interest in any screen time that’s non Witcher-related sfhsgfds

When did I create this blog: October 2011

What do I post: chaotic multifandom content joined together by some sort of aesthetics? haha

Last thing I googled: probably something about Lie to Me in a convo with @amantisegreti 🌸

Other blogs: @garasham (vampire language), @ninquenarmo (TW3 screenshots) and @quenyatranslation 

Do I get asks: sometimes ❤️

Why did I choose this url: I love Tolkien and Galadriel ✨

Following: 1,036

Followers: 1,992 good beans 🥰

Average hours of sleep: between six and eight hours

Lucky number: none, but I like 3 and 5 best

Instruments: cello, harp and drums 💕

What I am wearing: sweatpants and an Uppsala Universitet sweater 🥺

Dream job: I’m gonna copy TC and go with “making a lot of money by doing nothing” lmaoo I wish 🤩

Dream trip: going back to Germany and Scandinavia 😭💖

Favourite food: any dessert 😍

Nationality: Canadian / Québecer

Favourite song: impossible to choose only one ???

Last book I read: currently tediously trying to make my way through Sapkowski’s Blood of Elves 😝

Three fictional universes you'd like to live in: Middle-earth always, Harry Potter (although fuck JKR) and maybe the world from The Edge Chronicles

[ikizais]

Tired.

People who know me are aware that I’ve never done a callout post before, and that I definitely prefer blocking, reporting (if necessary) or talking directly in chat with people who repost content, instead of calling them out publicly. But enough is enough.

There’s an Instagram account that's reposting a lot of creations from the BSD fandom on Tumblr, and probably Twitter as well. Fanarts, wallpapers, screenshots of gifs, edits and even icons. I’ve never seen this level of reposting before. Their account has 3k+ followers - followers that probably don’t even know, or care, that it’s all reposted content without credits. I’m speechless, and really mad at the moment.

I rarely use IG, especially for fandom content, so I’m not very knowledgeable about how reporting works there - and I probably wouldn’t even have noticed without my friends on Discord informing me.

This is their IG account: 11.11.n.v.mb

(EDIT: now they’re called _.yo.kozai._ )

This is not only very disrespectful to me (there are ENTIRE posts, gifs, edits and icons made by me on their account), but to content creators in general. Without content creators you wouldn’t even have content to repost. Fandoms wouldn’t be the same without them. You’re not doing them a favor by reposting their creations like this. You’re just spitting on their faces and stealing the things they worked hard on.

DON’T DO THIS, PLEASE. ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE REPOSTING, AND ALWAYS CREDIT AND SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL CREATORS. For fanarts, but also for gifs/gfx/wallpapers/edits etc. We make and share content for the fandom, but that doesn’t mean that you own the content we make and that you can just repost it as your own. I have so much to say about this topic, but I’ll keep it at this, for now.

I’d suggest y’all to check that IG account, especially gfx creators and fanartists, to see if they reposted your works too - and report them.

Below (’read more’) are some examples of blatant reposts on their IG account.

This edit (I recognise it thanks to the coloring, that's very different from the original official art) is my current Tumblr header, and I’ve never even posted it. It’s only on my Tumblr header.

Looks familiar? It’s my Dazai gifset. No credits whatsoever, and they even cut the watermarks.

Is this familiar too? They reposted both my posts of ‘BSD Lost in Wonderland’ wallpapers in a single post. The post has 1k+ notes on IG. No credits.

This are only some of the many posts with reposted fanart. The original artist of these in the pic is @senren (other reposts of Senren’s fanarts below).

Other examples of reposted gfx. The original creator here is @alice-chan-chan. OP reposted Alice’s whole post in 3 pics, and it’s not the only repost from Alice’s blog.

They reposted a lot of icons too, entire posts of them. The ones in the pic were made by @higuchicons​.

They reposted my whole post of Dazai icons too. If they had the time to screenshot or save it, they probably had the time to read what’s clearly written under every post of icons I make, that is “DON’T REPOST”, and ignore it anyway.

Other fanarts of Senren, and two whole posts of reposted gfx. The one (3 pics) at the top was made by @svmeragi​ and the one (3 pics) at the bottom was made by @aizawashoutta​.

Other repost of gfx. The original creator is @n-akaharachuuya​.

Several pics in this post above are screenshots of a gifset made by @todorokie​

Sorry for tagging y’all - but I believe it’s right to inform you of these reposts ^^’ And I only added pics of some of them, because there are way too many reposts... Every post has several pics and it’s hard to check them all.

Sorry for the long post! I’m very tired of people reposting without permission, and this was the last straw *sighs*.

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Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette! I love your work and tutorials, in fact, you taught me how to make hood deco buildings light up at night! However, I'm having an issue with the transparency. The day window texture and the main building textures have a transparent gap between them even though they line up perfectly in the image program and GMND preview. Do you know what may be causing this?

Hey anon! Thank you! I’m glad you’ve managed to get your decorations light up at night. As for the gap, sometimes, if a material has ‘alphatest enabled’ on ‘1′ it can interpret almost opaque (i.e. transparency at 50-70%) areas of the texture as fully transparent. Alphatest renders transparency strictly as true/false, or 1/0. I would recommend to turn alphatest off (set to ‘0′) and if you still need to have transparency in your day windows texture, make it work with ‘blend mode: blend’.

@saralynnx​ said:

I'm just in total awe right now. Feverfew completely blew all of my expectations out of the water, and is a prime example of 'TS3 and TS4 could never!' I seriously feel bad for people who are no longer active in the TS2 community for missing out on this masterpiece.

Oh, thank you Sara! Well, this game can wait (i’ve had a break for six years myself) and if someone decides to get back to TS2, Feverfew will be available :)

Anonymous said:

Any chances you could upload just the sc4 terrain for Feverfew? 

Oh, dear anon. There’s no point in doing that. Because the unedited map for thins neighborhood looks like this:

You can still have the Vervainwort SC4 map instead, which makes definitely more sense.

Anonymous said:

Omg I’m so sorry. I really didn’t mind the look of it I just thought I did something wrong! Good to know I’m set. Thank you for replying I know you’re being inundated with messages! Bless!

Not to worry, anon! Happy simming :)

@impassingoveryou​ said:

Had to chuckle a bit at Mr. Bean‘s car. I didn‘t even notice it until my brother casually walked past me and pointed it out. Was that supposed to be an easter egg? :D

Well, I did show some WIP pics of this little car earlier. Not sure about an easter egg, but it’s definitely a mention :) As for the easter eggs, there’s one and it’s not related to mr. Bean ;)

Anonymous said:

Hi, thank you for Feverfew! I don't have a computer at the moment, so I can't dowload it and wander around in it like I want to, but I already love it just from the pictures. Just curious, are there spaces/suitable terrain for beach lots in Feverfew? I have a couple of ideas for beach lots and was wondering if I can fit them into Feverview.

Hi anon! There’s literally one single beach lot in Feverfew and it has a pub so you’ll have to make it over :)

@veetiesims2​ said:

As a detail-crazy worldbuilder I really admire all the work you did on Feverfew. It's not my usual style but it reminds me so much of the village of my childhood that I think I'll adopt it as a side hood! Thanks <3

Ah, thank you Veetie! I’m so glad that so many people see Feverfew this way. I didn’t grew up in a town like this myself, but I really fell in love with small British towns and villages, so it was really something I wanted to try and recreate in-game.

Anonymous said:

This might be dramatic but I literally teared up when I opened up your neighborhood. I wish I was so detail oriented. Your screenshots did not do it justice because W O W

Ahh, thanks anon! Yes, Feverfew looks better in-game than on screenshots ^__^”

@ankapartizankaniko​ said:

Criquette, you're amazing! and your city is amazing! Thank you for a cool gift for the new year. Now I don't want to finish building my city ;)

Oh, please do finish it! :D You’re most welcome @ankapartizankaniko​ and Happy New Year!

Anonymous said:

Hi, I saw a YouTube-video about Feverfew, and there was this river-piece neighborhood deco. Would it be possible to share that piece separately? I love Feverfew, but I play medieval, so I can not use whole hood, but that river hood deco would be perfect!

Hello anon! You can download the whole thing, take the ‘FeverfewHoodCC’ folder and put it into your downloads folder without installing the whole thing. All the hood decorations, including river pieces, will appear as usual under ‘landmark’ and ‘misc’ submenu.

@pleasant-lives​ said:

I was watching the video review of Feverfew and I just kept thinking: I wish we had an open world in ts2! It’s so pretty and detailed, I am amazed

Yes, an open world in TS2 would be nice. But frankly, I’m quite satisfied with the one we have :)

Anonymous said:

2) or, e.g. is it possible to create a default replacement of impostor textures for a lot... by putting its custom textures in a separate package... which would override, upon each load of the game, those textures that game generates after each save? i've never done DRs myself so all of the above is probably nonsense, and even if it's possible it's too much work anyway... but i was mostly just wondering what your thoughts on this topic are. p.s. great worldbuilding in the Feverfew story mode! :)

Is it me, or the first bit is lost somewhere? :D Well, lot imposters work a bit different comparing to usual CC. Although there’s still left some place for experiments and who knows, may be at some point we will be able to improve them somehow!