#can I ask for a promo for this blog?

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

Hello, everyone! I have a quick request to make!

Please interact with this post if you’re doing F/Ovember this year! (2023)

(This can be a like, a reply, or a reblog - it’s up to you!)

For those looking for fellow selfshippers taking part, or who just want to send people asks for the event, look no further than the notes of this post! I hope that everyone has a lovely time, no matter how they participate ^-^

(anyone is welcome to interact with this post, as long as my DNI is respected!)

[so-very-small]

btw like, if we are mutuals or even just been following me for a while, you can literally always ask me to promo something. like donation posts or commission sheets, even your art or writing or something, i’d be so so so down to reblog it! i know this blog has a relatively large following for the gt fandom, and i’d love to use that for good !

[townofcadence]

12. promos

Munday Topics

Honestly I don't have too many thoughts on promos! Some of the animated ones are really cool, but they can be really intimidating too. I feel like an old creature sometimes, because I came back with my basic blog and my lack of aesthetic prowess lol. Thankfully that hasn't stopped me from finding new friends and rp partners though!

Promos themselves do seem useful too-- I've found some people through them on occasion! Though I admit most of the time I find others via seeing rp pop up on my dash with a partner i don't know, and liking the vibes. Promos are still great, but I definitely feel some of them don't get shared enough to really get seen and bring in new folk, so it can be a mixed bag. It really just depends on a few factors, like if you play a canon character who has a few extra tags that get looked through, the age/longevity/activty of the fandom, yadda yadda. And a huge part of it is your luck and if someone who'd be interested will see it. But at least they're a way to try and be seen that can work, and that can really help get you traction in a community sometimes!

All in all I think they're a great way for people to share you and talk about you in the tags and help you meet more people! But my luck has mostly been with following someone and feeling lucky when they follow back instead XD

[revelry-in-reverie]

~The Drifting Dreamer, Wide Awake~

This post may be subject to repeated edits in the future.

Rules, Nutshelled: Keep it suitable for work, and be nice, please. I reserve the right to delete asks and block, as all other blogs do.

OOC: Revel/Riley was a self-insert OC I made long ago who was meant to be an outlet for me to play pretend, to write who I wanted to be and who I wanted her to be.

She has gone through many iterations as I grew and got better at writing, leading to where she is today; a more faithful mix of who I am and who I would be if I had a handle on my social anxiety.

~The Scattered Shards~

Revel/Riley is a benevolent cosmic entity. She is scattered throughout dimensions in innumerable instances of herself. Every iteration of her is a little bit different from the others, some markedly more so, and some near clones of one another. Some instances are more emotional than others. This blog's mascot is her UnderTale instance.

One thing they all share is that their memories are partitioned from the other shards, that way she does not overload herself and lose track of what timeline she is presently influencing. This is the way she maintains her status as a comprehensible entity.

She greatly limits what powers she uses, and this is universal across every shard that mortal creatures can meet. The iteration shown in the blog avatar's restricts herself to the following:

Weak Fire Breath

Teleportation via portals (limited by where she's been and can remember consciously)

Flight and Levitation

Light Telekinesis (Can be used to move loose objects, and can be used to restrain others if the need arises.)

Matter Manipulation (Can be used to summon carbon copies of objects she has encountered before, i.e. her signature teacup.)

Deflective Scales (Her purple scales can cover her skin on command. These scales are impervious to nonmagical damage. She uses this to protect others.)

~A Dragon's Heart~

Character Traits/Additional Info

Considerate.

Honest.

Devoted to her positions until they're proven wrong.

She seeks justice when it can be found.

Revel usually speaks calmly.

Likes to give and receive hugs.

Remembers the things that others appreciate, no matter how seemingly trivial.

Rarely holds grudges.

Takes it upon herself to protect others... perhaps a bit too much.

Fears others' judgment. Masks it well.

Has autism, ADHD, and depression. She is sometimes paralyzed by Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD.)

Crowds can fill her with dread, which she masks reasonably well. She will fidget more, though.

Tends to get lost in her own mind daydreaming when she listens to music.

Revel at the end of the day is an exploration in the limits of divinity, an all powerful, albeit at times impatient entity who learns that her powers are not a cure-all, that true, valuable healing takes time, and that some scars never heal. Sometimes the best thing one can do is offer their friendship.

Tagging:

⚜️ wide awake⚜️ -> Interactions with asks. 🐉drifting dragon💜 -> Interactions with other blogs. 🗨️trouble bubble💬 -> Mod chatter/ooc. 🌑dreams of dawn and dusk☀️-> Lore tag for Aurora and Revel. 💎castle shard💎 -> Status updates.

Styling is subject to change.

Crystal dividers by cafekitsune. Star Dividers by saradika.

[mojave-sunrise]

Introducing: Mojave Sunrise

A multi-muse Fallout (and other media. i suppose.) rp blog.

Cleaver | Frostbite | Quinn

[lover-of-skellies]

I am the ghost of underblog💛 you should search up the tag and look at all the blogs… you should make a blog and post on there

Mmmmmmmnah. Polite pass. Other people can if they want, but I don’t wanna make anymore side blogs. I have enough as is

[stillresolved]

the way i kinda want some angst (and maybe a few more partners/new dynamics) but then also feel kinda bad for wanting them 🥲

[kiboucounseling]

i...//

[butane-muses]

[ // ] Hmmm... Musashi's main entry on the Type/Moon Fandom wiki is looking...

[ // ] —alright, it's honestly pretty convoluted. To that end, I'm contemplating making my own dedicated bio for her on my blog to help make things a little clearer, at least.

[ // ] The wiki's writing style itself is filled with tons of referential remarks and small, non-sectioned anecdotes, so reading through it to get to the main points is honestly a bit harder than it should be... it seems to take after the 'translated-english' style of Fate/Grand Order's descriptions.

[ // ] On top of that, the descriptions are much too specific. I'm talking "She awoke with an(? grammar who?) amnesia, but she calls herself lucky to have a cutie with a gentle and pure personality to wake her up," levels of specific. I mean, JEEZUMS. The level of description here is unnecessary!

[ // ] I suppose I'll put it upon myself to put something together for her tomorrow (not to mention Barghest), and perhaps link back to the wiki articles for reference? That seems like a good idea... but for now, I ought to go to bed!

[the-otleus-parlor-archived]

Important OOC Post// I changed Amy’s lore to be more accurate to her OG version’s lore,,, and I’m considering redesigning her because of that. Thing is,,, I wanna redo the event where Amy was initially introduced and I wanna do things differently this time. In the true Hallways, with the real manager and the real halls keeper. I want to do OG Amy’s world justice… which means I have to introduce another character. Her killer.

So… Amy’s Introduction event is back!! I’ll draw the art for it soon… but if you want to come and interact with the new Amy like it’s the first time… please, go ahead!

[the-kipsabian]

since tumblr wants me to celebrate five posts (lol) on this blog, hey go follow my side @underratedandoverit

i'll be posting stuff like fics, wip snippets, headcanons, etc. creative writing related things over there if youre interested 💜

(also yes the current obsession is heavily on penelope and will probably continue to be for some time lol)

[ripbuckley]

misc tags

[knickknack-kingdom]

hello guys its me the guy behind the silly merchant ponies blog! starting now im finally commiting to the bit, i'll do drawn asks and some may feature your ponies too! (i need to answer the singular ask i have from a year ago). here's the fellas btw

[reikunrei]

Hello. Please. I'm on my knees. Please tag your stranger things posts.

i mean... i tag a good 95% of my st posts with either "stranger things" or "st the first shadow," especially any of the really long ones, so i'm not sure why it's an issue...? if you wanna really cover your bases, the next most common one i use if i don't use those tags is "henry creel" so if you blacklist those, you should be good to go

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

[thebigshotman]

I had every intention and the muse to reply to at the very least the threads that have been waiting since Thursday once I was finally able to settle down tonight and then it just…vanished. I don’t know how else to explain it 😩 It probably has to do with work being a little stressful today and then going to look at Christmas lights once last time instead of going straight to Tumblr after dinner, but I feel really bad that my muse just poofed out of existence like this. Especially because of my late nights the next couple of days, so there’s no way to say “I’ll be back tomorrow”. Apologies for my brain being dumb and making you all wait longer 😔

I might be around to answer asks the next couple of days but certainly no threads (and I have a DOOZY of an ask from Bravo that I spied let me tell you so I will be especially getting to that one sooner than later). However!! After maintenance is complete on Friday on my other blogs I’ll be getting to each and every thing I owe! So please be patient just a little bit longer while I get through the work week for threads to be replied to. IMs are open as well if anyone would like to chat!

I’ll be around for the rest of the night editing profiles on my multimuse so feel free to say hello! Until then, I’ll see you all soon. Sorry again everyone 😞