#but you also can't keep them at the top indefinitely

[aerodaltonimperial]

my unpopular wrestling opinion is that i hope hook doesn't get the FTW back because it's so limiting in terms of matches he can have when he's got it and i want to see him expand into having solid, good, entertaining matches where he loses

[woso-dreamzzz]

Flirts IV

Mapi León x Reader x Ingrid Engen

Summary: You have to go

It's not that you don't want to be there because you do.

It's that you have to go away for a surgery.

There's some rich woman in California who needs you to operate on her cat. She's paying an extortionate amount for your services and sending a private jet to pick you up.

You love those kinds of pet owners, the ones with enough money to fly in the very best if only because of the clear love they have for all of their pets.

But they're also clients you can't deny.

If someone wants to fly you out for enough money to keep a family afloat for a year, someone with enough influence to make or break anybody's career, you can't say no.

Even if your girlfriend is fighting for Euro's qualification.

"Do you have to go?" Mapi asks, sitting inside of your unpacked suitcase like she was Bagheera in a box.

Honey sits on the bed, head in her paws as she waits, tail wagging, for Mapi to throw her tennis ball.

"Yes," You say, trying to choose between your purple or your blue scrubs," It's a lot of money. Enough for that fancy holiday to the Maldives you guys want to take."

"But it takes you away from us," Mapi whines and Ingrid makes an agreeing noise from over by the door.

"I've travelled for work before."

"You're going to miss my match," Ingrid says and a pit forms in your stomach.

Before this job came up, you and Mapi were meant to be travelling to Norway to see Ingrid's last Euro Qualifiers game before going off in a camper van with her parents.

You'd still make it to the last part, depending on what the labs for this cat came back as but you'd have to miss the match.

You reach out for her, drawing her closer by the waist and resting your head on her chest.

"I'm so sorry, baby. I am, really. I can call up and cancel if you really want me to. I know a guy to recommend instead."

Ingrid sighs, her chin sitting on the top of your head. "No," She says," That cat needs the best care possible. We all know you're the best. Go and be a hero."

"I'd hardly be a hero. It's just surgery."

"Surgery for some woman that clearly adores her pet cat. What you do saves lives. I think that makes you a hero."

"You're so sweet, Ingrid."

"And hot!"

You laugh. "Thanks for that, Mapi. I'm sure she knows that seeing as you tell her everyday."

Mapi shrugs with a smirk on her face. "I'm sure it's nice to be reminded."

Honey whines on the bed and you roll your eyes.

"Throw the ball already. She's getting impatient."

Mapi frowns, waving the ball around.

Honey's eyes dart around erratically to follow it.

"She isn't barking, though?"

You laugh, crossing the space to take the ball and lay a soft kiss on Mapi's lips. "Because she's well-behaved, Mapi. She knows not to bark unless it's an emergency."

You throw the ball up and down to make sure Honey's still watching before you launch it out of the room.

She's off like a shot as Ingrid hauls Mapi out of your suitcase.

You still feel guilty though, through the flight, through the labs, through everything.

The cat is cute one, a little tortoiseshell with an amicable nature and a complete lack of awareness of her surroundings.

You've always been an animal person. You've always loved all of them but living with Mapi and Ingrid has just given you an even newer appreciation for cats.

The checkup happens quickly and the labs are already done and completed by the time you arrive.

Money really does move things along because all the charts are perfect and after what should have been a week long wait to begin, you manage to take a day to get over your jetlag and get to work immediately the day after.

Surgery is simple to you. It's easy and soon enough the cat is halfway to recovery.

You don't quite understand how private planes are hired and sent out, if someone has to book a runway days in advance or if they're open indefinitely.

The original plan had been for you to take a week to do this but now it's all done, you don't quite know what to do with yourself apart from stew in guilt.

You had planned to take your mind off Ingrid's game by throwing yourself into work.

You have no work though and can't help but imagine yourself in Norway with your girlfriends, curled up in Mapi's arms while Ingrid whispers to you.

You swipe away a tear as you head down for dinner, your host gracious enough to treat you to a meal for all your good work.

You've gone radio silent to your girlfriends but neither are surprised.

You're always like that when you go out of the country for work, focused only on your patient. You want no distractions.

Mapi sits slumped in her seat next to Ingrid watching Norway play their last qualifier, sighing to herself as she looks at pictures of the three of you together.

"What's with the pout?" Ingrid teases, running her thumb over Mapi's jutted out bottom lip.

"I miss her," Mapi mutters, feeling a bit like a little kid sulking.

"I know but she'll be here soon and then we go out exploring with my parents before heading back home for preseason. It's not that long of a wait."

"I don't want to wait at all."

"I know but-"

A body slumps down on Mapi's other side and both of them turn.

"I'm not really a fan of this hotdog," You say," It's not bad but I guess I'm not that hungry. Do you want some Mapi?"

You don't get an answer from her because she crushes you into a hug. The hotdog that you regrettably bought squishes between your bodies.

You don't complain though, especially when Ingrid moves into the hug as well, tightening her grip around the both of you.

"I thought you couldn't make it?"

"Money talks," You tease," And the owner felt a bit of pity when I told her that I'd have to watch this match on tv. Chartered a jet for me to come straight here."

"And the cat?" Mapi asks.

"The cat's good. Recovering."

"I'm so happy you're here."

"We're both happy," Ingrid says," So, so happy."

You grin at your girls, the smiling splitting your face.

"I'm happy to be here too."

[xavigav]

The Reddit Blackout, #196, And Being New to Tumblr

okay i've seen a lot of people in the past ~24 hours or so confused by everything going on with Reddit & Tumblr from both sides - people new to tumblr who don't know how to use it, and tumblr users who don't know what's going on with reddit and why many of its users have joined up here i know this isn't really related to my blog but fun fact about me: i was up until recently a very active reddit user and even mod a subreddit, but I've also been on tumblr for about 3 years now on different accounts, so I think I can see pretty well from both sides of this and explain what's going on this post will be split in 2 sections: what happened with reddit (and what #196 means), and a guide for new users

1. What The Hell Is Going On With Reddit?

The thing that's caused all this ruckus is a major change to Reddit's API, which is what Reddit provides to people so they can pull directly from Reddit to make third-party apps or tools.

The change is that Reddit is changing its previously free API to be paid. Which on its own kinda sucks for developers, but it's not unexpected. They need to make money somehow, right?

The problem is that the API pricing is WAY TOO FUCKING EXPENSIVE. The developer of the most popular 3rd party Reddit app, Apollo, says it will cost him $20 million a year to continue running the app as normal.

Essentially, this pricing forces almost everything third-party to shut down, which causes 3 major problems:

Third-party apps cannot keep running, which sucks for normal users because Reddit's official app is awful. It's slow, its video player is a thing of nightmares, it doesn't have many useful features third-party developers have made.

It sucks even more for visually impaired users because they can't use the official Reddit app at all. Reddit's official app does not work with iOS's native text-to-speech function. Third party apps, on the other hand, often do. So Reddit is forcing blind users away.

Third-party moderator tools cannot keep running, which sucks for moderators because many rely on these tools to properly moderate their subreddits. And moderators are often necessary, because without them subreddits get banned and hate speech and even CSA can often run rampant.

So you see why this change is bad.

Reddit users were PISSED.

So over the past week and a half or so, they have been working on organizing a site-wide blackout. The majority of the most active subreddits have now gone private. Some are only doing it for 48 hours, others (such as r/196) are doing it indefinitely.

That's why you can't access most of Reddit right now, and that's why many users have come here.

You're probably still wondering, though - what is this #196?

Well, as you may guess, it's connected to that subreddit r/196 I just mentioned. r/196 is a subreddit which only has one rule: every time you visit, you must post before you leave.

That's it, that's the subreddit.

The thing about r/196 that set it apart from most other subreddits - and what lends the subreddit's users perfectly to Tumblr - is that it was dominated by queer and leftist users.

So now they've come here and set up shop in #196 and r/196 so they can continue their merry little shitposting.

There's a ton of lore related to r/196, actually, but this is already a long tumblr post and quite frankly I cannot be bothered to write about it at the moment.

2. I'm Here From Reddit, What Now?

Hello there, random new user. As a double-citizen of Reddit and Tumblr, let me show you around this place.

First off, there are some other people who are better at explaining that I am who have made some really helpful things. Watch this Strange Aeons video as a guide to Tumblr culture and functionality and read this post which directly compares Reddit and Tumblr.

Assuming you've done that, here's some additional advice of my own:

Do you miss sorting subreddits by top of all time/the year/the month? Well, you can do something very similar with tags! If you go to a tag at the top of the screen you can select top, and then at the dropdown that says "all time" you can select different time periods! Even 6 months, which Reddit hasn't ever had.

Tumblr has a lot of cool customization features! Even outside your icon/banner/bio, you can change you blog colors and on desktop you can have an html theme (which has its own thriving community here). That customization is part of what sets Tumblr apart from everywhere else - I think you'll enjoy playing with it.

Notes will probably confuse you at first. Unlike the different numbers for upvotes and comments, notes combines the total number of likes, reblogs, and replies into the same number.

Outside of organizing your own blog, when making your own posts tags are what help other people find your post. Use them! But don't abuse them, because then people will just block you.

There are three ways of people finding your post: if someone follows you, if someone follows the tag(s) assigned to your post, and if someone is just scrolling through the tag(s) assigned to your post (and also the secret 4th way no one uses, which is finding it on the trending page, but even if people did use it no one will find your post initially that way)

tumblr is no longer The Discourse Website. And unlike what Reddit wants you to believe for some reason, it is very much alive still. Most of the people seeking fights have moved to Twitter (though some have also moved back here again). You will not get any brownie points for being a dipshit like you do on some subreddits.

So there, welcome to the hellsite (affectionate), you'll pick up on all the in-jokes eventually, for now just try not to be a nuisance and soon enough this'll be your new internet home.

[sketchspook]

The Father of Hell

Watched Hazbin and Helluva the other day. No expectations really, never paid much mind to it until watching, but I'm head over heels for the Lucifer there; love the little guy. Did a "redesign" for fun; feel waaaay fonder of the OG, however.

Apologies to this tumblr account. Been having a rough time with job bouncing and instability, but I'm trying as best as I can since I don't want to just leave this account all dried up like I have. I'm going into a far better place, so I plan on just going apeshit with it once I can utilize my time. I want more Michael myers, more tf2, more dbd, just the absolute works. I want to draw Gummigoo from the digital circus, even. I want to commit to all sorts of things; the passion is there, our time together just... isn't there yet, yet.

This particular Lucifer Morningstar of mine, though he's rushed, I still have attachments to and he's got his own lil tidbits. Listing them below for my sake (VERY long, he's my boy and I wish I could dedicate more to him other than a one time post):

As tall as an redwood tree: the floor of the seven rings used to be stairs for him before he expanded and relinquished them to the other sins.

He played a huge part in giving the other sins their forms - mutilating himself in the process to ensure they had a foundation to build on. Legs to Asmodeus. A piece of his chest, down to his core, for Beelzebub. The original eyes on his face to Mammon; he's got enough to spare. (All I got atm)

His wings got fried like chicken on his way down and instead adopted heavy drapes to compensate for the weight of his wings being largely gone; part of him now, but he's able to take it off... roughly the weight of the moon.

Can't speak, no mouth! It's all telepathy; Charlie is the only one that he can converse with at length without fear of giving hallucinations for days to (at it's worst, schizophrenia indefinitely). Not actual words, just images of things and emotions not designed for things other than angels. It's lonely being at the top.

Even though his legs have been replaced by a tree-like entity of himself (crafted from the remaining ashes of his wings), he can teleport wherever he likes, but the ground is a little weird after, aside from the pride ring.

He can shrink, but never pass 20ft; goes blind after.

His hair tastes like apple dumplings and will keep you fed for a century! (Charlie's only snack once every 100 years)

In his presence, one feels watched from every angle and you are! Thoughts and emotions aren't safe from him. He already has dozens of replies, via symbols and mental images, at the ready for however you choose to voice yourself to him.

Be not afraid: though he can't converse with hellborn or sinners at length, he's a gentle giant. You're an imp from the wrath ring that wants to know what stars are? He has a vast amount of knowledge and know-how (He helped create the universe!) and he'll offer you a memory so far from earth, humans will never see it. If only he could get out more without destroying your farmland wherever he teleports (it won't grow back). Also a pushover. A rug you have people wipe their feet before entering. He was rebellious, outspoken once; never again.

The snake around his waist is the key to his... most "extreme" form. Face of a "Leo." They don't call him the "dreamer" for nothing - if you know, you know.

His violin and bow, the Morning and evening star. Lucifer and Noctifer. No strings, but upon playing, is a melody that Heaven can't replicate. He can spontaneously create without, but upon forgetting about it or it just leaving his mind for other things, it disappears; his violin is what gives substance for his dreams to continue existing without him. He hasn't played it since expanding the seven rings.

His fingers, how do I describe this, can grip both ways: put a palm on the back of his hand? His fingers can hold yours as though you were touching his palm.

His "ducks" are rats and gerbils (just cause one of the stray flames I drew of his hair looked like one and I didn't have the heart to get rid of it)

[il3x]

Worm OC Tumblr I would like to present my silliest most self-indulgent OCs:

They're a largely non-violent villain duo known for high-profile thefts. I keep them around because a) fun to draw, and b) if I ever need a few low-stakes enemies to throw at other OCs they work pretty well.

Power details (a lot of details...) below the cut.

Null is a Tinker who specialises in breaking or "nullifying" other technology, including Tinkertech. The more complex, the easier to nullify, though some tech requires specialised tools or conditions. PRT have her down as an infiltration/countersurveillance Tinker, and there's some debate online as to whether she's actually a Thinker.

NU11 (Alicia Lee, she/her)

Age: Early 20s

PRT Classification: Tinker/Stranger 4.

Affiliation: Villain

Null uses her powers for infiltration, hence the Stranger rating. She "nullifies" such things as cameras, security systems, and locks. Her power sabotages a device's intended function, so if a lock is intended to stay closed, Null can get it open. Again, the more high-tech, the easier; Null learned mundane lockpicking to use on simple mechanical locks, since that's easier and less intrusive than trying to Tinker them open.

Null can only create tech if the result is solely for tech nullification, e.g. her EMP cannon. She approximates other gadgets by starting with a complicated piece of technology and selectively nullifying its functions. This is how she got her goggles' attachments. Her power sometimes manifests in combat-Thinker-esque ways, like "I want to nullify that load-bearing wall, on top of those people, using, oh, this handgun". (It gives her the necessary mental facilities to use her "tools" for the nullification, which can include perfect aim if the "tool" is a weapon. She is still limited by her body, though, so things like hand tremors will get her. Someone like Tattletale could tell her aim was due to one-off power hax.)

These two don't have much backstory, but Null triggered from being stalked.

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A shameless Kurogiri expy. Void's Breaker state is purple-black fog that acts as portals; Void can split himself up into blobs of fog (usually roughly door-sized) and anything or anyone entering one blob is instantly teleported out of another. Void chooses the exit point.

Void (Undecided, he/him)

Age: Undecided (adult)

PRT classification: Breaker (Mover) 7-ish

Affiliation: Villain

His fog acts like normal fog, can be kept out of a room by airtight sealing, can't really interact with solids in a meaningful manner. He has telekinetic control over his 'true consciousness' blob. Portals are anchored in place, so you can't blow them away or disperse them.

He can have a (seemingly) indefinite number of portals open at once, and a (seemingly) indefinite distance between portals, but there are some limitations:

He can only leave a portal somewhere he is, and he has to move conventionally. He can telekinesis himself along at up to his top human running speed, without exhaustion.

He produces more fog at a fixed rate, so there's a time delay between making portals

Portals vanish when Void exits breaker state, meaning he has to spend a lot of time in his fog state to use his typical M.O. (multiple portals far apart to get rid of enemies and/or retreat). He can't speak in fog state, or interact with solids objects much, and his senses are limited.

Void can also swap his consciousness, and effective respawn point for his human form, to any of the portals. Tldr: teleport himself and any people and loose and less-than-door-sized objects pretty much anywhere. Justifies a 7+, I think?

Physical engagements with Null and Void tend to end with being shoved in a portal and finding yourself in Australia. Void also leaves portals open to their HQ, so you're fighting a Tinker with a shortcut straight to her workshop. Fun!

Void is the powerhouse, but his weaknesses make him pretty useless without a partner. He flows in around the vault door or whatever, the safe is there, and... now what? The way his portals work, you have to enter them with some velocity, and he can't push the safe in himself - he's barely corporeal. Exiting Breaker state kills all the portals, leaving him Just Some Guy locked inside the vault for the cops to find.

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Fun Facts:

One of them chose their cape name as a pun on the other's. Null would be more in-character, but Void would be funnier, so I can't decide which.

Null does not need her EMP emitter to be that big, or to look like a weapon. She's just extra (and the look on her enemies' faces when she levels a gigantic Tinkertech cannon at them, albeit as a bluff, is well worth the cost in subtlety).

Null (or rather, Nu11) has never had a copyright suit from the Yangban. She's never had ANY contact with the Yangban. She's just covering her bases.

I don't have much backstory for how they got into villainy, but I reckon one or both of them worked for hire on the Blacklist, and they ended up hired for the same job. Power and personality synergy led to them striking out as a team.

Void has more of a serious backstory and motivation, though I don't have any specifics in mind. Null is here to break shit because she gets happy shard feedback from breaking shit. The pay and cool outfits are a bonus. (She also kind of turbo-nuked her civilian ID, but she wouldn't admit to that.)

Void helps with evacuation at Endbringer fights.

Void exists for the pun and cool power synergy. Null exists for me to draw in fun sexy outfits (at least, I think they're sexy? I'm aro-ace, so not really qualified to judge). In-universe, Alicia partially created the Null cape persona to wear fun sexy outfits, as a fuck-you to the people who insinuated that if she looked or dressed differently she wouldn't have been stalked and harassed (and a fuck-you to her stalker: "I do dress slutty, just not for you").

[imperatorrrrr]

New Jersey Devils - October 2024 - Month in Review

The New Jersey Devils are 7-4-2 with sixteen points, first place in the Metropolitan Division.

Out of a total of twenty six points, we came out of the month with sixteen points, which isn't bad at all, but maybe isn't the exact start we were looking to have.

Roster Information: Curtis Lazar is "out indefinitely" and Santeri Hatakka is on the injured reserve.

T's Five Stars of the Month:

Nico Hischier

Stefan Noesen

Jonas Siegenthaler

Johnathan Kovacevic

Timo Meier

T's Thoughts, in no particular order:

Global Series was a helluva of a start to the season.

Seamus Casey, we can't wait for you to be a permanent fixture on our roster.

Siegs is motherfucking back. Put some respect on his name.

Nico Hischier is going for the Selke, the Hart, and the Rocket Richard.

Paul Cotter is an instant fan favorite.

The loss of Curtis Lazar is absolutely devastating, wishing him a speedy recovery, but take all the time you need in the world, king.

The Brett Pesce - Luke Hughes defensive pair is shaping up to be absolutely amazing. I'm so excited to see what they can do when they're playing the minutes we want them to play.

I am all about Chief Keefe. The decisions he makes on when to send out who, the way he deals with media, the way he talks to and about the players, the way he handles ref fuckery. I'm all on board the Chief Keefe Train.

Never take Timo Meier off of Nico Hischier's wing. A healthy Timo is going to take this league by storm.

Noesy on the first power play unit is a revelation.

Speaking of, our special teams are fucking killing it this first month. The power play is steadily getting better and closer and closer to elite status and our penalty kill is sexy as fuck.

Jack Hughes will always be Jack Hughes. The doubters are simply wrong.

Jesper Bratt remains Mister October.

I am concerned with a capital C about our goaltending. It seems to be costing us games when it should absolutely not be. I'm hoping for better goalie stats as the season moves along, but our goaltending is one of my biggest complaints.

Ondrej Palat, please, I want to root for you. Give me a reason to root for you.

Dougie Hamilton has been so sorely missed. I want to see more Dougie Bombs, please.

Our new guys have been fucking lights out amazing for us, especially Cotts and Kovy.

I love how Kovy is always willing to step up and defend his fellow teammate no matter what.

I go from being real high on Brenden Dillon to being like whatever on Brenden Dillon to being like curses! Brenden Dillon, so lets see how I feel as the season continues.

Keep Dawson Mercer on Nico Hischier's wing. The mini me is mini me-ing.

We gotta find consistency and we gotta find sixty minute efforts or as close to a sixty minute effort as possible.

We also gotta fix our defensive zone play over all. We don't exit the zone cleanly most of the time and our breakouts are real sloppy.

The vibes are fucking immaculate tho. It feels good, looks good, feels right, looks right.

Two shutouts already! Two loser points already! Two slutfests already!

Seeing some insane efforts by this team to claw back into games they have no business getting any points out of.

The less I see Kurtis MacDermid in the line up the better.

I am getting heavily concerned about whats happening with Nemo. If he's not going to get a real shot at a roster spot then he absolutely cannot be languishing in a press box. The kid deserves to play and he should be sent down to Utica.

Keeping a close eye on our fourth line. We have a top nine that I love, but we need to solidify that fourth line. Dowling's first outing with Tatar and Nate proved to be a great one for everyone involved, but let's see how they perform moving forward, seeing as BFF Curtis is out long term.

We absolutely need another top six winger as that is our missing piece, and I'm hoping my emotional support prospect, Arseni Gritsyuk will be the answer, but I don't know if we can wait that long.

Our lack of center depth and forward depth as a whole is also something that has caught my eye. Yeah, we have a long line of potential blue line replacements in case the worse happens, but it looks like our forward reserves are lacking.

I think we should have expected a bumpy start to begin with. A short pre-season, injuries on our blue line, new coach, new players, new system. It was going to take some time. Plus our schedule in October was fucking brutal. We had like what three practices the entire month? Given all of that, we're looking better as time goes on and we've seen some really strong games in a row starting from the Detroit game through the game against Vancouver last night.

see you at the end of November!

[loremaster]

the premise of rain code band au

so you have context for whatever i end up drawing for it

so yakou started out in a band with yomi and friends (probably like. seth and dominic... no martina yet), he was the guitarist and yomi was the singer... they definitely dated though neither of them would ever admit to it now

but yomi of course is an asshole with a big ego that keeps getting worse, yakou puts up with it until he meets his (future) wife who convinces him to stand up for himself. yomi of course does not take it well, invites martina into the band and starts dating her instead. yakou gets ostracized by the rest of the group and quits the band, settles down, gets married.

she isn't a musician but she's still got a beautiful singing voice. she loves to sing along to his guitar playing. but eventually she dies (probably due to medical malpractice. fucking huesca) and yakou gets so depressed he doesn't touch his guitar again for years

meanwhile the whole world is obsessed with famous pop idol SHINIGAMI!!!!!! despite (or because of?) her abrasive personality she has tons of die-hard fans... but nobody knows anything about her personal life. she's a total mystery off the stage!

shinigami's success is really due to yuma and makoto (twins??? idk). makoto is her pr manager who handles her public image and her schedule; yuma is her creative director and songwriter, the genius behind her catchy tunes.

yuma is very competent at his job but is not enjoying his life. he feels immense responsibility for her success, and overworks himself so shinigami can keep topping the charts. he's not much fun to be around, and doesn't trust anyone else with his duties. shinigami and makoto conspire against him for his own sake, and fire him - or at least, send him on an indefinite leave. shinigami says his songs are shit. he takes her seriously.

yuma is moping down the streets when he meets yakou, also down on his luck... yakou takes pity on the kid and gives him a place to stay. he has no idea who yuma really is, and yuma doesn't tell him - mostly because of the shame of being fired. so yakou treats him like an unpaid intern.

somehow yuma ends up inspiring yakou to pick up his guitar again... which inspires yakou to put out a flyer for band auditions. he's not expecting any responses, but halara, desuhiko, fubuki, and vivia show up and he's impressed with all four of them!!! NOW THEY'RE A BAND!!!!

but... they start out as a cover band because they have no original songs. (desuhiko tries to write original songs. they are very bad.) yuma wants to help but he doesn't want to make himself a big deal... so he ends up sneakily slipping a song he's anonymously written under the studio door for yakou to find. the song is great... but the other band members can't seem to get the hang of it.

from then on the story would take more of an episodic nature, where yuma gets to know each of the band members' idiosyncrasies and learn how to write music (still anonymously) that fits their style. (i'd actually imagine the audience wouldn't know yuma's deal yet either, that'd be like... an end of the season reveal. i guess i'm imagining this as an anime huh) and in spending time with each of them he gets to actually befriend them as well and invigorate their passion for the band and willingness to work together. each time they'd get a cool new song that has a cool new solo for the focus character/instrument of each... episode? yeah

i'm going to post more about what those individual character based adventures will be later (feel free to supplement with your own ideas)

for now i am tired good night

[mediumcutsteak]

So I hopped into a free trial of NSO cause I wanted to check out Nintendo Music. I was already under no illusion this would be worth anyone's time as anything but an extra bonus for paying for a service you likely already pay for to play smash and splatoon, but wow this is truly pathetic. Here is the selection:

This is a PITIFUL list. TWO ZELDAS??? TWO KIRBYS???? IN A **MUSIC** APP?????? That's not getting into the other omissions, but this is a pretty glaring one. The only noteworthy thing about this selection is that I guess we officially call the first NA Fire Emblem with its subtitle now. Neat I guess. Also, these are Nintendo soundtracks, so really short musical stings (think Samus or Link getting Power up) bloat these OSTs, which for me is an L. No 3DS games at all by the way, nor any of the few remaining Wii U exclusives.

So what about its two vaunted features, easy music extension and spoilers? Easy Music Extension is mediocre. You can extend some songs to 15, 30, and 60 min. No longer or shorter. No reason not to have more options but whatever. I say some songs though cause the choices seem arbitrary. Obviously the short music stings can't be extended. I thought it was based on if the music would loop in game, but so far three of the OOT dungeons loop. They're all just stupid 40 second tracks that just.... Can't loop. Neither can Sheik's theme???

Spoiler prevention allows you to nix a whole game from rotation on any playlist. Not useful for what it sets out to do, but if you HAPPEN to want to use a premade mixed game playlist (you won't but we'll get to it) and there are games you just straight up don't like ANYTHING from, itll keep them out. I like Metroid music but I really hate the NES sound font at this point so were I to use this app indefinitely I'd certainly throw those out. Can't be used selectively though, so if you do like ONE song from a game, then you gotta keep it open to them all.

Lets talk about the playlists because these are insane. First off, no community playlists. I get that there's no way they could stop profanity if they added those, but thats a massive L already. Ok so fine, no community playlists, whats poppin in premade town. Well its got some staples: top tracks on the app, franchise wide selections (most franchises on here are 2 games tops though right now), each game has a playlist of just the songs that can be extended. Then there's the weird ones. Each game has playlists that vaguely categorizes some of the music into certain modes of play? Take Nintendogs for example

Ok. These make sense for Splatoon at least cause they separate them by in-game artists and game mode. Then there's the mood playlists, all with cringy names like Powering Up or whatever. And then there's my favorite, the character centric playlists! These are hilarious. They are just songs that are related to the characters. And the selection of characters? Well....

Yeah dude, thats sick. I def want to listen to BOO music or Wiggler music. It appears that as I was writing this they also added ones for the ScarVi professors, legendaries, and the DLC legendaries. Swell. The wiggler playlist is five songs, with six minutes total of music. Really gettin into that Wiggler mindset. Wiggler Wednesday everyone.

Its just sad. If you play games online on Switch and the music you want to listen to is on here, it isnt gonna kill you. You're already paying for it. But right now the selection is TERRIBLE, some of the tracks you would expect to be extendable aren't, and some of these loops are under a minute (every oot dungeon except forest, water, and shadow I can't stress enough). And for what? The composers aren't making money off this, they don't even get CREDITS on the songs (the spot where artist would be on Spotify is the game title). Even if they WERE, the service costs less than Spotify, so they wouldn't be making much anyway.

This is basically for no one. Real nintendo music diehards who would lap this up are missing a LOT of big names, and anyone who ISN'T probably doesn't care enough to download the app in the first place. To say nothing of people like me, who would want music from non-Nintendo games mixed in. Also its weirdly hard to find??? I tried searching Nintendo Music on the Play Store and couldn't find it, I had to access a link on Google. So there's your deep dive if you cared. What a waste of time and energy. Just put it on Spotify and Apple Music and be done.

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

I have also realized that last time I was having bone pain and seemed to be dealing with high blood calcium, taking magnesium really helped. It would also lower my blood pressure [one main risk for kidney damage when they slow down is your blood pressure getting too high]. So long as I don't over-do it, starting to take some magnesium again will help with both blood pressure and with getting extra calcium and phosphorus out of my blood so it stops fucking with my bones, and will help prevent me from developing cardiac spasms this time.

All of this really was way worse 5 years ago, and I recovered. I recovered while not even realizing I should be avoiding phosphorus or sugar... And eating mostly oreos and pork to avoid letting my blood calcium spike [because it was causing heart attacks, see I am not even having daily heart attacks! I wish that was a joke].

And I think the only reason why the problem came back is because I had coca cola every day for like 4 months [in pursuit of atp] and then started a daily multivitamin... And then had loratadine twice daily for 1-2 weeks because of that autoimmune attack -and- stacked aspirin and avdil and another antihistamine on top of it. I think if I just do not do that, I should be okay. The autoimmune attack has calmed the fuck down now anyway.

I think so long as I do a recovery plan and do not drink coca cola daily or have a daily multivitamin anymore, I'll be okay, it's just going to take time to recover and that's very annoying because my hands/arms really fucking hurt, and painkillers might make the problem worse and aren't helping very much anyway.

And to be clear the only reason I am not already at the hospital or clinic asking for tests now, is because I have been through this before and it has been -proven- they will go out of their way not to help me until my symptoms are so far past that all anyone can do is speculate on what the problem was and if I had "really stopped peeing for over a week" or was "really" having what perfectly describes cardiac spasms including my blood pressure suddenly tripling. All it'll do is run my body down and expose me to the sun and corona which is probably part of what triggered this to begin with. I -also- wish doctors would do their jobs and take me seriously so it was actually of use for me to go to a doctor about this... But also my doctor just gave me the worst kind of 'doctor breaking up with you' phone call and I haven't tracked down a local clinic yet that isn't part of their doctor clique.

I am asking you not to worry. And I am doing it in good faith that I really will be fine.

I was so so so so so much closer to dying of this 5 years ago and no one helped me then either, in fact my roommates were consistently bringing corona home, caused a black mold problem in my room and kept letting the c0 from the dryer exhaust flood the basement where I lived... And that's not happening this time either! So don't worry too much. My kidneys and liver seem to do the same thing as my thyroid gland [bounce back so they can threaten to fall under attack all over again sometime later].

They gave my thyroid 5 months to live 10-15 ish years ago, and it's like, fine actually, I just have to manually manage my iodine intake because it's my immune system's favourite chew toy. The problem with my thyroid is literally that it just keeps healing instead of dying so I am -stuck- in the hyperthyroid initial phase of thyroiditis... Indefinitely [hence having hashimoto's that somehow acts like graves disease and halfway tests that way because my thyroid levels are high as shit instead of low]. My immune system attacks my organs and tissues and then if I can give them what they need and calm down the attack, they heal. I have no choice in this and I have never had a doctor who actually knew the full scope of what they were looking at anyway. My body just chews on itself for fun and I can't stop any of it.

I am going to be whiny about it. This is me being whiny about it.

I am used to bounding back from everything withing like 3 days unless it's an ongoing autoimmune problem... The last time this took MONTHS to feel significantly better and like a year+ to fully stop having heart problems. Again, it was way worse last time and I had way less idea what was happening, but I don't want to deal with this for the next 3-6 months and that's making me feel more whiny about the whole thing. Like your hand hurting is one thing, but knowing it's going to keep hurting like that for half a year? Instantly exhausting. Migraines suck, but knowing you have had them last 1-3 months without stopping and that advil won't save you? ahahahahahahaha

But I'll find a way to cope. I'll probably just get slightly weird about something online. But in my defense when I was dying of organ failure last time, and was exposed to c0 and black mold at the same time, no one accused me of those things, so I have to imagine I somehow managed to not be *that* weird.

And if I don't get better and my kidneys keep getting worse I will go to a clinic and demand they test my kidney function like a broken record until someone does, and if I am far gone enough to actually need treatment, they will have a very hard time denying me treatment. I will involve lawyers if I have to. I will talk to whatever bodies of authority can do anything to a doctor at all and I will make myself the biggest pain in the ass. My doctor already "patient fired" me, so if I think my life is actually on the line they will find out how much MORE annoying I can chose to be. I prommy <3

The only reason I am not doing that now is that the problem isn't far gone enough that it'll help me more than hurt me.

The only downside is that one of the best ways to decrease blood calcium and phosphorus is to make your urine more acidic... But I already have gout, so there's some kind of balancing act I need to figure out here and a question of how many beets I should actually be eating and which pain/problem is worse or more pressing. There's a chance that if I ignore my liver entirely for now and strip all excess purines etc from my diet I can keep a few key things incorporated and not make either problem any worse. And at least all information I can find all confirms green tea will help every problem I have without hurting any of them, and I have this whole fucking collection I couldn't drink before because it make me pee 50 times a day.

Worse case scenario I deal with gout for way longer to get the extra phosphorus out of my blood so the calcium bone pain thing stops being a problem and then address the gout.

And complain about it T~T I want steak and cokey cola.

[statementlou]

why do you think louis said this might be the only time he plays at the hollywood bowl? do you reckon it might be because his tickets sales aren’t going well and he was told that it won’t be possible to book venues like these next tour? that made me kinda sad :((

every day I get asks being like "do you think [random thing that happened in the last 24 hours] is because Louis' ticket sales are so bad?" and it's obviously just annoying harries with nothing better to do than try to make people unhappy (TPWK!!!) and maybe they're just getting cleverer here and have tricked me, but this sounds like it might actually be a person who they are getting to with this garbage and have made unhappy so fine, I'll bite-

Louis' ticket sales are going FINE!!!! He is playing great shows every night and is on target for the tour he has booked and everything he's doing is completely sustainable and if nothing changes (which it will, for the bigger; he has been picking up more fans every year) he can keep touring like this (and playing these venues) indefinitely! The idea that every show that doesn't sell out is a failure is made up and makes no sense- if every show sold out there would be people who wanted to give them money but were unable to do so. That is not how capitalism (and growing your fanbase) work for any working musicians outside the top .00001% biggest in the world! If your venues sell out, then next time you book bigger ones, and you keep doing that until you hit a size where it doesn't sell out so everyone can buy buy buy those tickets. I can't know for sure why Louis said what he said; but he is constantly in disbelief that things are going as well as they are for him and while this album and tour especially he seems to have finally started to believe we really do like what he does and aren't going anywhere, I think that's still there and that's what I heard with that. I mean also it could be next time he plays LA he ends up in an equal size but less iconic venue and booking never lines up with that space again or something, for all I know it's really hard to get on their schedule. Hollywood Bowl is a historic and renowned venue and Louis was excited to play on a stage that has hosted so many famous people and moments and was trying to be in the moment and appreciate it (as he has been focused on making an effort to do lately) because the future is a mystery and anything that is ever happening might never come around again, but I don't think it's cause for concern.

[lunarsilkscreen]

So what if I was gonna make a pure card game?

I'd like to make it based around card interactions. Effectively starting with the Meta-game first and working my way to the base set of rules.

I skimmed a few concepts such as counter-spells, stealing spells, card games that have dual purpose cards (you can choose to play them as a resource or for the spell) and other such interactions. Which, there's enough to write an encyclopedia on.

I'd like to avoid re-creating the exact same creature/spell paradigm (despite wanting to) but the permanent/temporary effect part seems important.

The next is the Deck Total. The Life-Total can be removed entirely for Deck Size. Then the game becomes more about Deck and card Interactions.

This gives value to the discard-pile meta game and doesn't pull focus from the main game by doing so.

This also shifts the focus of the game, instead of relying on what combinations are left in your deck, you build around "what happens if this piece is removed?"

Now, many mechanics in card games already use this. MTG Dredge and Flashback are pretty core components of MtG, and are very well liked, despite the mechanism often being removed for balance reasons.

Tying the Life-Total to the Deck size also removes Strategies that are often overpowered. As in Black and Blue decks.

In Hearthstone it's Warlock and Death Knight. Though Warlock has lost a lot of its best mechanics that were shifted to Death Knight.

By making these part of the core mechanics; it removes that feeling of annoyance when facing down a deck like that. Because it no longer locks the meta away from new and flavorful strategies that devs want to implement, but can't, or they're overlooked because of this power creep.

This won't prevent power creep; it just allows for more flavor on top of these mechanics without shifting the focus of Standard competitive play to one or two decks that dominate the meta.

Then the game becomes more about choosing which cards to keep in your deck, which to play, and utilizing the discard pile as part of the core game play loop.

Removal, as in "removed from the game" will become a meta-mechanic way to prevent players from reshuffling indefinitely. I'd love to play test a game that uses "removed from the game" (Exiled keyword in MTG) as a casting resource.

In my view, however, It'd be around combining cards in your hand to create effects. Instead of Mana resources, you would need at least two cards to play in order for a spell to take effect.

Kinda liked the un-hinged splicing mechanic, but in your hand. (Maybe closer to "cards against humanity")

Because I'm designing digitally, there's no need for extensive token management and placeholder cards, the core system would take care of that.

Initially, I'd like to test a few different interactions, certain cards in your hand combine with discarded cards. Creating a dual-hand mechanic.

Some would play from the hand, and alternate effects when spent from the graveyard. Though discarded cards played that way may end up removed from the game.

Which would ensure a way to prevent indefinite play.

[helenmarie95]

Hey Friends, It's Been a Minute

Idk how many followers I have that have been paying attention, but some of you may have noticed that I've been largely absent from this site for the last couple of weeks or so.

The short answer is that I've been in hospital for the bulk of that time and have been just to exhausted to check up on all the posts I've missed.

The long answer is that I started feeling a sharp pain in my leg two weeks ago Wednesday, and by the end of the next day I could not use it at all. Sunday 27th October I finally got admitted to hospital and the next day they discovered a blood clot. Luckily it was at the point where they could treat it with medication, but that then meant that I was stuck in hospital with a very painful leg and almost no mobility for over a week.

On top of that, Moth and I both contracted norovirus on the 28th after he visited me (on their birthday no less) so I was sick for the bulk of my stay, and my ward was placed on lockdown as many of us got sick, so I couldn't have any visitors. I, a person who hates needles, have been poked and prodded beyond belief and am bruised in several places. I couldn't even get up to use the bathroom or shower without assistance for the first part of my stay. I could call my family and Moth but it's not the same as having your family close by.

All of this was a nightmare for my Autistic brain. Even now that I'm home recovering, it still is. Yes the pain is gone from my groin, but I now have to take blood thinners for the rest of my life. And my leg is still very very painful, to the point that I am using walkers to get around my house because it can't support my body weight. I don't know when that is going to finally stop.

Oh, and the election happened. We're not going to get into how devastated I was watching it play out from my hospital bed.

It's going to be a long period of recovery but it's safe to say my mental health is positively wrecked right now. Idk why I didn't come on Tumblr in my downtime to see good things and unmask but maybe I was worried about all the posts I'd already missed in my timeline.

I do have to give some shout-outs though. The NHS staff who took care of me were absolutely phenomenal and caring throughout. My American Ladies in Yorkshire group chat were incredibly supportive and a couple of them even dropped off care packages even though they weren't allowed into the ward. The ladies with whom I shared my room for a week were lovely and we were all rooting for each other. My family who called me almost every day to check in, especially my mom.

And of course, @the-most-adorkable-smile who has really stepped up in every way even though they also dealt with illness, including visiting me in hospital, assisting with bringing me home, and looking after me whilst I've been recovering and being a wonderful emotional support too. (I keep telling them to look after themself and take time to recover too).

Oh, and in the midst of all of this - I got my indefinite leave to remain in the UK! I had to attend my biometrics appointment with that pain in my leg back when it was something I could just shake off, but I got the decision the next day. Fitting I guess that my first action was to then make full use of the FREE NHS. I can't imagine the hospital bill I'd have back home in the states.

Anyways, I'll try to be back on here a bit more, but I can't guarantee how often I will be.

Thanks for reading <3

[nicolovespancakes]

How about relationship headcanons/ideas? How would they treat one another? What if one gets sick? What if a 3-sum idea comes up, how would they react? Would they have an open or closed relationship? That kind of stuff! (you can also throw in headcanons for both individually if you have the space, I'm curious ^^)

OH THIS IS SO FUN-

Let's do it.

Relationship HCs:

- How do they treat one another?

They're best friends, always have been. Nothing much changes on that dynamic. I think Kon likes to tease indefinitely, and Bart likes to act innocent when he knows he's not. They banter as friends, and play video games at 3 AM too. I also personally think Kon has a softer spot for Bart himself, whereas with others it's his cocky/slick and cool jock persona. Same for Bart, as Bart himself is *not very nice* in the Impulse comics.

- What happens if one gets sick?

Speaking to the fact that Kryptonians can't get human illnesses, allergies, and ailments, let's say Bart gets sick. He's down with strep throat. Kon goes balls to the walls, he speed googles how to cure strep throat whilst panicking because he does not know how to deal with human sickness, and Bart is just in bed like, "what." Kon would absolutely make every remedy possible, and he'd take him to the doctors like Bart's dying or something. Once Bart tells him that no, he's not dying, Kon calms down a little.

- Threesomes?

This goes into my personal individual HCs for them, but I don't think either of them would be shocked. In fact I think that personally, they wouldn't turn it down at most notions. Kon's got the hormones of a teenage boy, and Bart can keep up with it. They both have crushes outside of eachother that they'd be fine with fucking in one another's company as well.

- Open or closed relationship?

I guess this one can depend on what dynamic I'm finding with them. Because Kon is very loyal as a person, as is Bart. So if they were in agreement of monogamy, then that's it. I think they'd keep that promise. If they weren't? I damn well know Kon would be the kind to fuck around, but Bart would still be his main person. His main partner and lover. Same for Bart to Kon, he'd have relationships outside of theirs, but his and Kon's is his main priority. They both feel like the kinds of the people that can't be tied down, and that would reflect in their relationship and relation to sex and things.

- Three-Way pairs?

TimBartKon. They're all very close and kind to my heart. <3

- Who Tops?

I'd say Kon tops more often, but they switch on occasions. Sometimes Bart needs to let off some steam in, other ways. ;)

Random other Relationship HCs

- They gossip about other people with eachothwr and they are BITCHES about it because they're both brash as hell.

- The 90s slang in their convos is WILD.

- Their dancing together is half insane because they use their powers a lot of the time. And it's just limbs all over.

- They have NO shame about anything, ever. No filters for sex, none for obscene jokes, nothing. Not even in public.

- They start food fights with eachother and they are METICULOUS.

- They compare eachother to fictional characters all the time.

- They share the most cryptically funny taste in memes. Regularly Whip n Nae Nae at eachother around the room.

- Kon took Bart's V-card. :)

- Size Kink

- Bart calls Kon squishy all the time.

- They share one brain cell when doing stupid things

- Kon treats Bart as his fashion doll because otherwise Bart will dress like Adam Sandler

- They have Water Guns if ever in a shared living space, and constantly spray eachother with them

- Bart constantly wants uppies

Individual HCs:

Kon (NSFW ahead)

- Sexual Deviance is in his NATURE. Literally lost his virginity at the age of, what? 15? 16? Basically after he was born and got with Knockout. He is a boy in every aspect but sex when he was first introduced in his comics.

- To add to that, he is an open book of sex, but my HC reasons for that are depraved and disturbing (talk Lex Luthor and being, "inappropriate" to minors, dm for more info on THAT)

- I'd like to say he often has hook ups with, many different crowds. Like the road trip arc with the party animals and orgies/hookups of various sizes of people. He's into some freaky shit.

- Canonically has a thing for his cousins, so I insist upon it.

- Regularly also bangs aliens!

- Hates hot chocolate for no reason in particular.

- Has slept with most of his teammates and/or villians (if not them all)

- Likes mint chocolate chip

- Smells of vaguely fruity and floral cologne, but also luxurious and leathery all at once

- Never leaves without his sunglasses

- OBSESSED with playboy. Has bunny earrings and a full bunny suit in storage. Wears their merchandise constantly.

- Listens to the wackiest amalgamation of music of different genres

- Has his tounge pierced from years in hawaii.

- Frequently visited sex clubs in Hawaii (whilst still figuring his shit out)

- Chews gum almost constantly (usually pink, blows bubbles so much its annoying)

- Had sex with most members of the batfamily.

- Has a magic cross piercing. ;)

- The strongest member of the super family (fight me)

- Says he's a slut for everything (arrowhead water, KFC, sushi, Mac n Cheese, lobster tails, redbull, sun chips, etc.)

- Absolutely has a pair of crust pants but they're white

- Loves furbies

- Fidgets with anything in sight.

- Actually insanely smart (LEX LUTHOR GENES)

- Bedazzled himself once

- Has definitely eaten tide pods like gushers (won't kill him, right?)

- Likes restraints. ;)

- "Self pleasure is love, self pleasure is life"

- Sometimes Intersex (SOMETIMES I HC HIM AS INTERSEX (KRYPTONIAN BIOLOGY), SOMETIMES I HC HIM AS CIS)

- Is definitely a partial country boy after living with the Kents.

- Spends too much time on Rule 34

- Would throw a building at the right person with no hesitation

- Body claim is Ross Lynch

- Doesn't sleep much

- Has a Lexcorp branding on his lower back

- Hoards sex toys like the plagues are coming (he has so fucking many)

- Pansexual

- Etc. (I have more I just can't remember them rn-)

Bart

- Dies a little inside every time someone calls him crazy

- Has a high sex drive because Speedster Things

- Stamina is through the roof

- Talks so fast sometimes that the words are blurred together

- "tIMDIDYOUHEARMEILOVEPEACETEA-"

- Is not a very patient person

- Brat to the highest degree

- Drools in his sleep

- His music taste is the most cursed shit in humanity's history

- Has a hard time communicating because he grew up in VR

- Comes up with the FUNNIEST insults possible

- Demisexual

- Unsure of gender identity

- Vibrates when overstimulated (Often)

- Gives every person he knows a nickname

- Likes spicy food

- Regularly travels to Japan for convenient store snacks in specific

- Breaks out into musical theatre at random

- Also fucked most of his teammates

- More attracted to masc presenting then fem presenting

- Floofy ass hair for days

- Technology genius (everyone says he's not until they see it)

- Eats (licks) sea salt licks

- Has PICA

- Uploads cryptic photos to the group chat at 3 AM

- Bottoms more than he tops

- Socially inept

- FRECKLES EVERYWHERE

- A very good artist (fight. me.)

- Not a fan of history

- Once tried to get Tim to ride his red board connected to him by rope whilst he sped across central city

- Gets MAD when people don't say hi to Dox (thy dog named Dox)

- Once introduced Cassandra Cain to heelys and had to hear the batfam complain about it for months

- Comes quickly after becoming aroused (a teenager SPEEDSTER? CMON YALL)

- Says the weirdest philosophical theory at random with friends and then acts like nothing happened

- LOUD. BOYS A SCREAMER IN BED.

- Plays the ukulele

- ETC. (ITS 2 AM PLEASE)

[decaffeinatedgalaxyprince]

ground rules: default safeword is 'safeword' or stoplight colors 'red' or 'yellow light', or if i need to communicate something but don't feel the need to stop the scene entirely, i'll use parentheses to (talk like this) sometimes

(updated sept 2024) i'm a switch, age early 30s, central US time zone, nonbinary they/them trans & bi. gender neutral terms usually preferred, or androgynous-masc, or ask. i love interaction; anons, asks, reblogs, and replies are all good! dms not so much, the msg system doesn't like me, and i prefer keeping things semi-public here until i know someone better. introduce yourself & share your limits too, especially titles and pet names. i fucking love those

i have an omo server on discord called the cuddle puddle. main rules: 18+ obviously, no age regre/ssion kinks, no ince/st kinks, no abuse kinks, no 'momm/y' or 'dadd/y' titles or roleplay, no sexualizing littles or fictional kids, no 'bab/yfur'. introduce yourself to get access to the main channels. invite here: https://discord.gg/9pZXvB2N2A

top tier fantasies: being denied permission to pee, especially if it's until i beg/admit that i'm going to have an accident if i don't get permission. being told what to drink. being told to hold it all 'or else'. being told to leak a little. having to ask permission to cross my legs or hold my crotch. being told if i can't hold it/obey whatever holding rule, i'll be punished: i love funishment oh my god. i love being threatened with no toilet breaks or with lots more drinks and nowhere to relieve myself. praise! praise + humiliation!

also great: bondage. sexual omo. sharing fantasies. someone describing accidents or their own relief to make my desperation more urgent. talking about how full i must be and how much i'd love to pee. multiple doms giving me attention. multiple subs holding with me, competing for attention. sensory play. pressing or massaging my full bladder. mild intox.

good: being told what to wear. teasing about waterfalls, water sounds, etc. fantasies about consensual public stuff. golden showers. light s&m. sounding. humiliation. holding contests. peeing somewhere besides a toilet. holding a long time. rapid desp. making me admit/explain what i want in detail.

ok: 'you only want to pee, you don't need to.' some ws. measuring capacity (it's a lot. and therefore kind of a pain to measure)

ask first: 'you don't need to pee, you're not desperate, you just think you are' gaslight type teasing. unrealistic hold goals. holding indefinitely without a goal. short term no touch. pleasure denial / joi. piss drinking. overstim.

no: diap. actual oppression or abuse dressed as kink, including under/age inc/est & non/con. orgasm denial. most hard s&m.

i'm a fat transmasc with a fat trans dick and a sopping wet cunt. my ass is cute too (and very fuckable). gender neutral, masc, or androgynous language prefered. you can switch it up, i'll let you know if i like/dislike something or you can ask. i love talking to people, even if you don't want to talk about sex or bdsm explicitly. i live in an apartment so i can't really do jumping jacks at 3am.

i have a wand vibe, several toys and plugs, a stand to pee funnel, and a decent amount of bondage supplies that you should also feel free to ask me about

other kinks, rough tier list of things that i do like:

S: omorashi, bondage, begging, voice, praise, wholesome, humiliation, DP, clothed sex

A: d/s, roleplay, anal, oral, frottage, dry humping, sounding, wax play, temperature play, sensory play, boots, masks, exhibitionism, leather, terato, science/lab roleplay

B: ws, uniforms, object insertion, body worship, lingerie, dacryphilia, light intox, jeans

C: petplay, feet, s&m

now go forth and tell me to hold my pee 🥰

[aspenscore]

Channel Update - June 20, 2024

Hey y'all! Just wanted to give you a quick update on what's coming up in the next month or so, and give you a bit of info about what's going on behind the scenes. TL;DR at the end.

First off, I'm really hoping to have AuDHD episode 5 out sometime tomorrow, although I can't make any guarantees for reasons I'll clarify below. For those wondering, I usually aim to post on Fridays (but that is much more of a guideline than a rule), and I definitely won't be able to always put out one video per week (although that is generally my goal).

Secondly, the reason I definitely won't be keeping up with that goal this month and likely throughout the summer is because I'm moving! This is a really exciting time for me, but unfortunately it's also a very busy time, so my ability to log onto the server and to edit videos is pretty limited right now. On top of that, my wifi situation is going to be pretty spotty for at least the next two weeks, which not only prevents me from being able to upload, but also prevents me from logging on to even record anything in the first place, so unfortunately I'm gonna be lagging a bit behind with my progress on some of the projects and events I've been working on. This does not mean I'm not going to do them, it just means that it's likely going to be a trend for the duration of the AuDHD SMP that I will be uploading content from a previous month during the current month (ie. I'll be uploading June content in July, which'll end up pushing July content into August, and so on).

The good news is: I have some miscellaneous old footage that I've been wanting to edit and upload for a long while, but I haven't had the chance to do it while keeping up with AuDHD. My plan is to try and get some of that footage edited while I'm without wifi, so I'll have some bonus content to reward you with for your patience when I finally return with a proper upload schedule!

Finally, I wanted to address Love Life. No, I haven't forgotten about it, and yes, it is my intent to continue that series if and when it ever becomes possible to do so. However, it is currently on an indefinite hiatus due to a combination of technical difficulties and scheduling issues, and I don't know when we'll be able to record the rest of our sessions. Currently, we are still planning to finish out the season, we just don't know when that will be. If it ends up being the case that we are unable to continue, I plan to at least post some kind of final video to offer closure on the series, so you won't be left hanging.

Thank you all for your continued patience and support, and I look forward to being settled in my new place so I can get back to bringing you all new videos!

TL;DR: The next month or so is going to be very busy for me, so I won't be uploading as frequently, which also means that my monthly themed content is unlikely to align with the month I end up posting it in. Love Life SMP is currently on an indefinite hiatus, but I wanted to let you know that am not abandoning it. Thank you all so much for your patience and support!

[myburntwritings]

Influences of Westworld in The Burnt City

Beware, traveller: from here on there be spoilers. (Though, they're all speculation, and no spoilers of 1:1s.)

The Burnt City takes elements from different stories on top of the Greek Myths, with Blade Runner and Bluebeard’s Castle being the most obvious. This glorious mash of genre, over-layered time periods, and side-plots is what makes Punchdrunk so fascinating. But one overlay I don’t see mentioned as much is from the television show Westworld.

If you haven’t watched Westworld, the story surrounds a theme park in our modern world set in the Wild West, where the ‘hosts’ are actually androids, made to be as lifelike as possible. The Hosts are there to guide the guests into new adventures, but when left alone, they have their own little story loops that repeat indefinitely.

Aside from the obvious similarities here, if we consider the characters as hosts, and the white-masked audience as the park guests, the most significant similarity between The Burnt City and Westworld is the maze/labyrinth.

(From this point on, I will only refer to the labyrinth, so I don’t need to keep using the slash.)

In both stories, you have a man looking for the centre of the labyrinth. In Westworld, this is the Man in Black, who believes that the labyrinth is the central game he is destined to find, and gain some greater meaning behind the park and its occupants. In TBC, this is Kronos, constantly following his red string and building potential labyrinth designs out of jigsaw puzzles.

But, as the Man in Black is constantly told in Westworld: "the maze wasn't made for you." The Labyrinth in The Burnt City wasn't made for Kronos. Unfortunately for Kronos, as a character/host, being stuck in a loop, he can't remember that.

In Westworld, the labyrinth was created as a way for the hosts to find their own consciousness, to create a personality and truly become alive. They reach the centre of the maze when they hear their own voice in their heads. They escape the loops created by the park designers and are fully conscious.

In TBC, the labyrinth is similar: except it is a way for Persephone to remember who she is. She can't be told by Hades who she is, as it won't ever be real. She has to walk the labyrinth alone, travelling her underworld, until she reaches the centre and remembers who she is. She leaves herself hints (the tapes) and has people she trusts to help her (Laocoön, Askalaphos) to ensure she walks the path she needs.

With her 6 month cycle of returning between our world and the underworld, she has been through this many times, and likely Hades has learned that simply telling her who she is doesn't work.

So, they created this labyrinth together. He puts her on the labyrinth path and sets her off, knowing that when she reaches the centre... that is when he truly has his wife back.

You also have the similarity of the things being done by Kronos and the Man in Black in order to find the centre of the labyrinth. The Man in Black is willing to kill and torture in order to get there. The symbol for the maze is etched on the insides of hosts skulls, and he repeatedly cuts them open to find it. With Kronos, it is the sacrifice of Polydorus to serve the monster in the centre of the labyrinth – the Minotaur, or Moloch – who, I personally believe are one and the same in this story, but that’s beside the point.

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?

Will Kronos ever realise that, like the Man in Black, the labyrinth wasn’t made for him.