#color coded notes

[darkroomnerd]

Being gentle with color coding because sometimes I go too wild and can't read my notes later 🎨

[pens are from Muji]

[craftstale]

...Anything can... happen...?

[aipurjopa]

this program creates a world that is destined to be destroyed over and over and over again

flat colors ^ — ^

[fandommothfreak]

I think movie buff Duke Thomas should force Jason to watch the LOTR movies and literature nerd Jason Todd should force Duke to read the books.

They should make a movie night out of it and then a weekly book club that's really just Jason periodically hacking comms during Duke's patrol so he can yell at him to finish each chapter like a deranged English teacher that follows you around at work. And then they should get into heated arguments about Tom Bombadil; and Duke should get really invested in overanalyzing all the poetry in the book trilogy; and Jason should rewatch all three movies like seven times at least so he can scribble thoughts into the margins of his paperback copies, write dissertations in his head about the effectiveness of different story changes, and cry at Sam's "But I can carry you!" without having to stop reading.

And then they should repeat all of this with The Hobbit. They're both a little psychotic about it and the rest of the family is tired.

[spiraling-trap]

there is something so transgender about these two. not sure exactly what it is but it’s so transgender

[hanzajesthanza]

geralt of rivia thoughts summarized

this city is too congested and loud

i don’t like the way my clothes feel

it’s super hot out right now but i’m gonna keep my outerwear on

i’m just gonna sit in the corner and do my thang

what’s wrong with me why do i feel emotions so strongly

people keep telling me i was made wrong

there are so many smells out here right now

i don’t like the way these clothes feel either

i don’t know how to break up with my girlfriend so i’m just going to leave i guess

wrong decision i’m going to apologize now. … by giving her some cool rocks

i kind of messed things up with my girlfriend again but i want to talk to her BUT i don’t know how to address her. we made passionate love many times. can i call her my… hmm… ummm… friend…?

i could piss in this flowerpot but… that wouldn’t be nice to the flowers

it’s time for a scathingly eloquent rant

never mind i forgot how to say words

i’m just going to tell you what happened straight up. no poetics from me

but let’s critique society

I HATE INJUSTICE AND UNFAIRNESS !!!

why are people so corrupt and evil. i don’t get it.

more importantly. WHY do i keep falling for it.

i am a relic of an older time. change is already here and i’m not ready

apart from my immediate family i’ve had one best friend for a decade and that’s my extent of socializing.

unless someone comes to me first with that. and we have shared interests. then we can roll together for a bit

i have not changed my sense of style or the type of clothes i wear since i was eighteen. i even tie my hair in the same way

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Vaggie: “Babe, you have an amazing brain, love everything going on in there-”

Charlie: “Thank you!”

Vaggie: “-but we need a LITTLE bit of organization or we’re NEVER gonna remember what great ideas you had five minutes ago.”

Charlie: “Wait, what great idea did I have five minutes ago???”

Vaggie: “I don’t know. You scribbled it on a napkin and there’s like, five hundred of those scattered around our room.”

Charlie: “Aw shoot.”

Vaggie: “Some of them are folded in the shape of swans?"

Charlie: "Nnnoooo I've been trying so hard not to DO that so much!!!"

Vaggie: "It’s, pretty impressive honestly.”

Charlie: (huffs) “Okay. Fine. Maaaybe you’re right. Maybe I might have a slight, uh, organizing thoughts problem.”

Vaggie: “No worries sweetie, I have a solution.”

Vaggie: (dramatically steps aside) “BAM!”

Charlie: “OH OH VAGGIE! YOU GOT ME METAL BOXES~!”

Vaggie: “They’re filing cabinets.”

Charlie: “OHHHHH!!!”

Charlie: “…..”

Charlie: “How… how do we activate the filing cabinets?”

Vaggie: “You put your ideas in folders, label the tabs on the folders, put them in a drawer, and label each drawer. Then when you’re looking for something you just open the drawer and-”

Charlie: “Bam?”

Vaggie: “Bam. There it is. The brilliant ideas of Charlie Morningstar.”

Charlie: “As organized by Vaggie, her amazing wonderful super smart and beautiful girlfriend!!!!!”

Vaggie: (chuckling) “I don’t think looking good has anything to do with organizing…”

Charlie: “Hmm, you still are though, miss good looking. Annnnnd it DOES have a lot to do with what I’m thinking about right now.”

Vaggie: “What’re you thinking, Charlie?”

Charlie: (grins)

Vaggie: “…really? Right here, in front of our new cabinets?”

Charlie: “Heheh. I like it when stuff is ‘ours’~”

Vaggie: “Why do I get the feeling the first recorded thoughts of Charlie Morningstar are gonna have to be filed under ‘for our eyes only’.”

Charlie: “Your smirk would have to go there too then. But does this mean it’s a good idea!?”

Vaggie: “Definitely.”

Charlie: “WOO! Kisses kisses kisses-”

Vaggie: “AFTER we’ve cleaned up all these napkins. AND have neatly folded the ones that aren’t already swans.”

Charlie: “Wh- but- but there’s almost five hundred of them!! The kisses-?”

Vaggie: “One kiss per every fifty napkins, how’s that sound?

Charlie: (pouting) “Insufficient kiss ratio.”

Vaggie: “Sorry, but as much as organizing your brain turns me on, the storm of paper in here is kinda a total mood killer. No way I can focus on anything with this mess everywhere. So. Start cleaning.”

Charlie: “I’m starting to think writing on napkins was my worst idea yet…”

Vaggie: “Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been paper airplanes again.”

Charlie: “THEN I could’ve just thrown them all out the window! Be free! Fly!!! Shoo! Let me make out with my girlfriend in peace!”

Vaggie: “Ha!”

Charlie: “…. Vaggie. What if we-”

Vaggie: “Charlie no.”

Charlie: “Oh come on! Swans can fly!”

Vaggie: “Not when they’re fancy origami ones that we’ll just have to clean up later anyway.”

Charlie: “Feh. Stupid ideas on stupid napkins.”

Vaggie: “Would one kiss per every two dozen napkins make you feel better?’

Charlie: “Yes.” (deep sigh) “But I’ve only folded ten.”

Vaggie: “Perfect, I’ve done fourteen, so that makes two dozen.”

Charlie: “Wh-”

Vaggie: “Kiss ratio completed.”

Charlie: “It’s based on our combined number???”

Vaggie: “Why not. You like it when stuff is ‘ours’, don’t you.”

Charlie: “….yesthankyouiloveyouonekissplease.”

- a few several many moments later –

Charlie: “….”

Charlie: “I’m suddenly getting the idea that… those were way more than one kiss.”

Vaggie: “I don’t care and wasn’t keeping count. File it under ‘Vaggie can’t multitask for shit’.”  

Charlie: “Mmm, ehhh. I think we just need a ‘Vaggie has AMAZING focus while kissing, but specifically only on the actual kissing’ folder instead.”

Vaggie: “Are you trying to get me to kiss you again.”

Charlie: “Is it working?”

Vaggie: (shoving napkins in her hands) “Here. Fold.”

Charlie: “I’m filing that under a yes~”

Vaggie: “Charlie. Fold. NOW.”

Charlie: “Hm-hmm-hm-hmmm~” (folding at lightspeed) “My newest great idea is that we should get even MORE filing cabinets.”

Vaggie: “Oh for-”(throws aside napkins) “-fuck’s sake-” (gives up and kisses her again)

[catalinemorosetheblog]

On Divergent Universe and Aventio

Okay, so I know that pretty much everyone has noticed the Aventio bits in the Divergent Universe video that was released a few days ago, but I wanted to take a moment to point something out in the famous question 2 section at the end.

So, as most probably already know, this is what I'm talking about. Aventurine puts up a sign that says "Find Ratio", when asked who the Trailblazer could team up with. This in of itself confirms Aventurine see Ratio as an ally, but what happens before it is just as important.

This is where Owlbert first puts forwards the question. Now, nothing particularly special happens in the prior one. Everyone gives pretty standard answers for their specific characterizations, Screwllum's is the only one that's helpful, and Ratio and Aventurine give their typical responses pretty quickly.

That changes however for the second question.

Aventurine does not answer immediately, unlike everyone else, including Ratio. Which means he had to think about his response.

Further evidence of this comes from Aventurine's pose when the question was first asked.

He's doing a thinking pose (also sort of mirror Ratio lol), and he doesn't do this for the other question (so it isn't some sort of default animation). And given that his responses to question 1 and 3 both related to money/bribes, he did not put this same level of thought into them.

It's also pretty easy to miss due to Sparkle transforming and everything, but if you look carefully...

He looks at Ratio, or in the very least glances in his direction, possibly to look at his sign. However, it also exists the possibility that Ratio was the first person he thought of when thinking of a good teammate.

And then a moment later...

Ratio glances back, which leads Aventurine to put up his own sign.

Now, Ratio staring back could mean many things. It could be that he started staring at Aventurine because Aventurine was staring at him. It could be that Ratio noticed that Aventurine hadn't answered yet, and was urging him to do so. Or, dare I say it, he saw Aventurine hadn't answered yet, and was concerned about him. Ultimately, there is no way to determine the true reason, given that none of the G&A guests talk.

But it is extremely telling that Aventurine, who could have just tied it back into money again, was the only guest who gave a specific person to team up with. And it was Ratio, not one of his IPC coworkers, not a member of the Astral Express, but Ratio. Someone who, at some point, Aventurine believed that Ratio would not understand his methods so much so that he forced him to point a gun at his chest, as seen in the infamous Final Victory Lightcone:

(Please note that, in the short video for this lightcone, Ratio tries to pull the gun away from Aventurine, but Aventurine pulls it back).

And assuming that Aventurine was reading Ratio's sign card, there exists another possibility.

As seen above, Ratio responds with the phrase "Walk Your Own Path". This is in line with pretty much everything known about Ratio. His main motivation is to "cure" foolishness. He wants people to overcome their problems. He's a teacher, a strict one, both metaphorically and literally. His role in the interlude quest before Penacony was to both push the Trailblazer to figure out what was going on with the researcher's disappearances and step in if things went south. It's also why one of the reason he gives Aventurine that note in the main story (that, and that they were likely being watched by the Family) instead of telling him directly. Every interaction, voice lines, and the fact that Ratio does not wear his plaster head in any scene he appears in with Aventurine, implies that he does not see him as foolish. He knows Aventurine is capable. Hell, in the most final Penacony main story mission, he says Aventurine is his responsibility or something along those lines (unprompted, mind you).

But it also relates towards Aventurine's backstory. Aventurine, for all his good luck, has had one sucky life. But he also has fought tooth and nail to survive, through gambles and wagers and money and being quite literally sold away to live. In that sense, his life also has never been his own. But I think he managed to regain some hope by the end of Cats Among Pigeons, and of course, Ratio's note, which told him to live (in a Ratio way).

So imagine: Aventurine sees Ratio's response in the video, thinks about what he would do, what he would do following his own path...and says to find Ratio.

Now, it could true that I am pulling at threads here, but there is evidence of trust. In one way or another, these two emotionally constipated too smart for their own good dumdums care about each other and show it in the most convoluted ways imaginable. And for the that reason, I think that these two mentioning each unprompted on multiple occasional, this video included, is very telling. They're important to each other. They went from shaky allies to two people who will bring up the other in conversations. Hell, I already made a post about the cake cats, and how in Divergent Universe, what this video was explaining, gambling got added, which could have only been done by Ratio, because let's face it, Screwllum would not.

Essentially:

These b*tches gay.

Bonus:

Their reactions to Sparkle's shenanigans.

[respectthepetty]

It's time for my Wattpad BL Bad Guy, My Boss to end, and I'm genuinely going to miss this little toxic show of sin with the worst Black Brooder and Heavenly Human to ever be in a relationship.

And I'm not talking about Fei Long and Run! They are perfect for each other. They match each other's freak!

No! I'm talking about these two pendejos because they are idiots who cannot stop having sex long enough to actually communicate!

And it makes sense since their mouths are always busy with other things.

But Pat is, once again, crying his eyes out because everyone wants Elyes.

Yet that doesn't stop Pat from having sex with him that very night!

So even though the finale threw me a new ship that I was completely down for,

The series was right back at the beginning with a Heavenly Human and a Black Brooder not communicating about their feelings!

And that continued for over half of the finale!

Pat wouldn't tell Elyes why he was upset!

And Elyes continued his stalking ways refusing to admit he knew why Pat was upset.

Even the drinks are color-coded like these pendejos!

But THANKFULLY they cleared that up (AGAIN), so I can get to what I came for —

The Coming

Because, I cannot stress this enough, the sex is 🔥🔥🔥

And like magic, Elyes is lighter because good sex is a stress reliever that makes people lighter, figuratively and literally *wink*

So even though I know I've been dealing with a Black Brooder and Heavenly Human this entire time and this is Elyes' way of showing he loves Pat, I really think Elyes' outfits just tell us when he has had good sex and no sex.

And sex with Pat is always good probably because it's always make-up sex, which would mean all the fighting and miscommunication are just foreplay! NAILED IT!

So here we are with color-coded cups again.

And clear signs that Elyes is getting laid.

I mean that Elyes is in love!

Because the pink was loud and clear in the final minutes!

So just like Elyes' outfits, even if he couldn't say he was in love with Pat, WHICH HE DIDN'T, the color said it for him.

In conclusion, the sex is so good that it makes Elyes lighter and . . .

Elyes loves Pat!

And I love this show!

[valenfield-inspo]

I decided to go back and go through the Umbrella Chronicles official novelization again b/c I was in the mood to look at some of the quippy dynamics between Chris and Jill had in there (If anyone wants to read the novel in its entirety, you can find it here). Here's what I have pulled up so far in the beginning with The Mansion Incident part: “That’s unlike him, leaving a rendezvous point”, Jill wondered. (Referring to Wesker not being in the foyer where her and Chris left him to investigate noises in the dining room) “You think something happened?”

“Well, I do have a bad feeling about this…”

“I thought something was off with this mission from the beginning”, Chris agreed.

“Maybe we should take bad foreboding more serious.”

“What would you do now? Listen to your bad feeling and get away from here?” he asked.

“You know what? When I hear a strange sound during the night, I can’t get back to sleep until I found out what caused it.”

“Roger that. Then we have to go on until you can go back to sleep again.”

Jill had to laugh. “Thanks, Chris. I didn’t think you could be so considerate.” Now on this one, I think the Remakes/Re-Imaginings kind of retconned this due to the picture on Jill's desk in the STARS office at the RPD Station: Chris agreed, anything was possible in this mansion. A dead dog was running towards them a moment later. The flesh on its flank was ripped off, exposing the ribs underneath. Some intestines were hanging out, dragging behind. However, this didn’t stop the dog from attacking the two Alpha Team members with an enormous speed - but neither of them panicked. A short glance at each other and then Chris stopped the dog with a single shot. The creature was lying on the ground, jerking, trying to get back on its feet, but before it could do that, Jill shot it in the head.

“You’re lucky that you’re not a dog person.”

“That’s right, I prefer cats. Well, the living ones, if you know what I mean.”

This one I just thought was cute in a dorky way: The two were following a hallway on the second floor which led them into another room. Again and again zombies were showing up, attacking them, longing for their flesh.

“Those things are tough sons of bitches”, Chris complained.

“Hey, don’t forget that you’re in the company of a lady. Do you at least know how to apologize?”

“Whoops, pardon me… I am so, so sorry that I used such bad vocabulary, my lady”, Chris answered, blowing off a zombie’s head.

Get a load of this one: They were in a library.

“Damn, this one is superior to the library in my old high school.”

“Wait, you visited a library during your time in school? I can’t believe it”, Jill said mockingly.

“Of course! This was where I had my dates. No one came in to disturb us.”

“That’s not what libraries are meant for.”

“I didn’t do that…” Encountering Yawn: "What a snake… unbelievable…”

It was understandable that Jill could not believe her eyes. She saw a head, so big that a bed would’ve fit on top of it. The snake made an intimidating hissing sound.

“I bet a dime that this thing is venomous”, Jill said, putting her gun back into the holster and took out her machine gun.

“I’m in! And who of us should find out?”, Chris asked, putting a new magazine into his machine pistol.

“I suggest you let it bite you, then we know!”, Jill replied and continued firing. 600 bullets per minute were fired through the room, directly into the target." And here they are there looking for the serum for Richard while Rebecca stays with him: “We have to help Richard”, Jill said.

“You usually use a serum if venom is involved”, Chris answered. “The question is, if we can find a serum for a monster snake’s venom around here.”

Jill was confident, “This huge snake was definitely created here, so there has to be a serum somewhere.”

“I just hope you don’t have any false expectations…."

“If we look for it, we’ll find out. We have to do anything to get Richard out of here alive. That’s our duty, dammit!”

“So you’re not giving up as long as there’s a chance left?”

“Exactly. Just like the rookie”, Jill replied. “That’s right, the new rookie is a tough one. She seems calm and determined although she’s probably been through a lot. She was tired but she didn’t give up.”

“Yes, she’s trying to give her best in every situation.”

“Just like me, you wanted to say?”

“Yes, just like me. She’ll make it. She will survive”, Jill stressed. “She’s tough. She is capable. And luck will be on her side.”

“Just like you?”

“Just like me, Chris.”

I kind of wish they would let them banter more like this in the games, not exactly like this but something similar anyway. I guess they can't do that since we never really have them paired up that long in a game, especially when one is looking for the other, *sighs*. (I'll be adding more to the post when I have more time!)

[darkroomnerd]

The hand cramps are so real. It's actually affecting my ability to keep going 😞

Buuut that's another 2 hours I put into learning a language I'll need to know in less than a month. Once this chapter is done, I'll finally be able to move on to new material!

[leenl-len]

So one of the cool things about Metaphor Re:Fantazio is that the Archetype system allows you nearly total control over your party setup, and while each character definitely has certain archetypes they synergize with best due to stat distribution you can kind of just do whatever you want without much penalty.

...Until you get to the endgame and realize there's a whole set of Royal Archetypes that need very specific setups on each character to unlock, with absolutely zero warning.

To save people time and energy worrying about that I'm just gonna lay all the unlocks out here. Mild spoilers for archetype and playable character names.

Protag's Royal Archetype is unlocked automatically, so you don't have to worry about his build nearly as much; that being said, give him Mage for the passive MP restore and Merchant for the passive money boost, even if you don't use them in combat.

SEEKER - n/a Magic Seeker - Seeker lvl20 Soul Hacker - Magic Seeker lvl20 The Token World Arcana - n/a

MAGE - n/a Wizard - Mage lvl20 Elemental Master - Wizard lvl20 Warlock - Wizard lvl20, Assassin lvl10

WARRIOR - n/a Swordmaster - Warrior lvl20 Samurai - Swordmaster lvl20, General lvl10 Royal Warrior - Samurai lvl20, Warlord lvl20

KNIGHT - n/a Magic Knight - Knight lvl20, Mage lvl10 Paladin - Magic Knight lvl20 Dark Knight - Magic Knight lvl20, Wizard lvl10 Royal Knight - Paladin lvl20, Dark Knight lvl15, Elemental Master lvl15

BRAWLER - n/a Pugilist - Brawler lvl20 Martial Artist - Pugilist lvl20

HEALER - n/a Cleric - Healer lvl20 Saviour - Cleric lvl20

GUNNER - n/a Sniper - Gunner lvl20, Seeker lvl10 Dragoon - Sniper lvl20, Magic Knight lvl10

THIEF - n/a Assassin - Thief lvl20 Ninja - Assassin lvl20, Sniper lvl10 Royal Thief - Ninja lvl20, Dragoon lvl15, Tycoon lvl15

FAKER - n/a Trickster - Faker lvl20

COMMANDER - n/a General - Commander lvl20 Warlord - General lvl20

MERCHANT - n/a Tycoon - Merchant lvl20, Commander lvl10

MASKED DANCER - Mage lvl15, Thief lvl10 Persona Master - Dancer lvl20, Faker lvl10 Royal Dancer - Persona Master lvl20, Trickster lvl20

SUMMONER - Seeker lvl15, Faker lvl10 Devil Summoner - Summoner lvl20, Magic Seeker lvl10 Royal Summoner - Devil Summoner lvl20, Soul Hacker lvl20

BERSERKER - Warrior lvl10, Brawler lvl10, Knight lvl10 Destroyer - Berserker lvl20 Royal Berserker - Destroyer lvl20, Martial Artist lvl20

In other words, the optimal builds for each character are: Protag with Mage and Merchant, if only for their passives Strohl with Warrior and Commander Hulkenberg with Knight (both paths) and Mage Heismay with Thief, Gunner, Merchant, t2 Commander, t2 Knight, t1 Seeker, t1 Mage Junah with Masked Dancer and Faker Eupha with Summoner and Seeker Basilio with Berserker and Brawler

[drfurter]

much as i enjoy thoughtful in depth character studies of my favorite lil guys im going to go ahead and break it all down into one central thesis that will help you understand everything you could ever wish to know about l lawliet and it’s that he likes his blowjobs with a little bit of teeth

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

no you know what im making a post about it now

SO per Rvb wiki, A'rynasea's model is a Halo Phaeton. Per halopedia, a Phaeton is 10.3 meters long, so more or less this scale right? not super big but hey, our boy Locus is on the run and needs something small and fast so fair enough right?

except

long story short: Locus breaking the scale of things is making me mad, has been making me mad for a WHILE now and the only thing i can feasibly assume is A'rynasea is bigger?? than a normal phaeton but as soon as you start scaling her up, Locus' claim that there int enough room for a third passenger doesnt make sense like, it'd be tight but as it gets bigger than a normal phaeton and you CAN squeeze three people in there

i know i know its rvb, logic doesnt apply here, but look i like to know the schematics when im in this deep and this shit is ridiculous

I reserve my right to bully locus for living in a fucking space prius

3D Model credits: Phaeton model here | My Locus model is a mismash of two models from this guy that i franksteined in blender to be slightly more show accurate

[diannavetmed]

Zebra Mildliner Hex Codes

Fluorescent #FEB5D8 | #FFDEB5 | #FFFEAD | #92D4E9 | #ACECE6 Cool & Refined #B5DA9A | #93B0D8 | #BAC7C5 | #BEB1D7 | #EA889E Warm #ABD5DB | #FEA389 | #FFD561 | #E17FD1 | #C1917F Bright #EFB9E0 | #F36B52 | #E0E666 | #64C5B4 | #696CB2 Friendly #FBF485 | #FCB675 | #FEB1B8 | #7AD0E2 | #8E8B87 Neutral #DDA36D | #DBC293 | #FCE9C3 | #D9DBDA | #DAD49A Gentle #FAD0AA | #F2F190 | #A1DCEE | #E2C6DF | #F9C6D4

[okapiandpaste]

screenshot that is so gay but only with context