#day 1 discovery

[fisherrprince]

You have made me interested in balloon smp but I feel so old and of touch because I cannot find the past streams on twitch. Cannot figure out where and in which order to watch...can I ask where you've been watching the videos/streams?

ok, so, there’s ~36 people all doing it concurrently, which is a lot. But! Here is the list of players, if you know someone you like on that list pick them and just watch sequentially day 1->finale. if you don’t know Anyone on there and you want a point to start at for just. Getting most of the plot, pick someone from A B or C. Or E. Team F has a really great plot but they stay a bit out of the overarching plot until the last weeks, and I haven’t gotten to team D yet so I don’t know what they know im sorry team d 🥺

Many of the players have VOD channels up on YouTube or playlists of balloon vods specifically, lots of people who don’t have the streams in their twitch archives somewhere (like, “past broadcasts” usually), look for player vod channels. Some don’t have saved archives and some didn’t stream it! I know for certain sophie robby skull kuu gibson buggle and jame have up to date vod channels because I’ve seen them… woops and skullvolver are making edited videos rn but theyre Both team a… and im not sure who else is planning on it!

tldr, pick someone and watch them in order and peek in on other peoples’ vods from time to time when something Happens because sometimes seeing it from another angle is cool. Also, sometimes seeing it from another angle is Important because there’s Lore no one else got to see. Search “playername vods” on YouTube and it should direct you to the right place.

more specifics that kinda get into spoilers:

Here’s some plots of interest that certain people see and others don’t (ONLY BASED ON WHAT I KNOW I am not a lore master I don’t have 36x8x32… uh… good gravy 576 possible hours. of content. I DONT HAVE 576 HOURS TO SIT AND WATCH STREAMS someone was going to put together a lore doc somewhere though):

woops: tries to keep track of lore, goes on ghost knight swordquest

sophiebaybey: unwitting accessory to world murder, sees WAY more of PG and balloons lore than most people on account of The Events.

skullvolver/socksbx: revenant revengequest x2 and soul link plot, also socks is a mod and they get up to some funny business. poke in and watch one of them for the end of day 14 trust me 🫵

robbydude: doomer gnome made me cry but that’s not important. ghostquest continues upon the holy land even if we DONT WANT IT TO. jerry mouse is there

jame7t: sees kind of all of it from a distance, good coverage, citadel time (I like building streams)

shinigamieater: it’s possession clues. What if you were 15 ants of dubious morality in a human body

padabana: instigates the end of the world, once if you’re realistic twice if you’re being pedantic. it’s paranoia clues

kaoiji: there’s time travel, and it gets worse from there but I can’t FIND their vods so im redirecting you to robbydude

renobee: GOD??????????

[misscryptidart]

Okay so as a little treat for myself I started playing DA: I (after beating Veilguard for the third time) and let me tell you I can hand-wave alot of the critical comparisons between the two (Dialoge, World-Building, Etc, Etc) because I have a genuine love for the DATV and it's characters

But holy shit I have never been so close to being a Veilguard hater as when I realised that you could not only ride a horse in Inquisition, but you can also ride the ugliest fucking horses known to Thedas wtf they took so much away from us

[aspecardaweek]

DAY ONE: Asexuality What characters do you see as asexual? Why? How does that impact their lives? This is a day for exploring asexuality in the context of Arda. Secondary prompts: Discovery, Confusion, Education

These prompts are optional, and we are open to any aspec content whether or not you stick to our suggestions!

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[solradguy]

god you are so right about other collab artists drawing jack-o way too young. she's looked great in all the pop up shop artwork ofc, but then you go to her GG wiki gallery that has art of her from various othe JP games (usually Xrd jack-o) and UHHHH wtf happened. that looks like a 14 year old shoving her butt to the camera good god.

YEAH UGGGHHHH I HATE IT. Like this one from the Elemental Story collab isn't the worst one, but it's a good enough example without posting the ass one from Last Period's collab:

And then the pop-up shop art's like "this is an adult woman so help me god"

They definitely gave this/these artist[s] this concept drawing as a model guide and didn't give any of Daisuke's Jack-O' illustrations to the game collab artists for Xrd Jackie lol:

[obeetlebeetle]

tagged by @sophelstien, thank you!💜💜💜

the NO-SKIP albums: a tag game 🎶

rules: share the albums that you can listen to nonstop. those lightning in a bottle-albums that scratch ur brain just right. every single track, an absolute banger. u could not skip one if u tried. no notes. stunning, show-stopping, immaculate. ur no-skip albums. 🔎 bonus & optional (but imo, v fun) rules:1) add a track rec for us to listen to! AND2) share ur favorite line(s) from that track! 👀

tagging @waitingforgalois, @avantguardisme, @frogndtoad, @oranges-and-pears, @phosphorusandpetra, @cardwrecks, @swordatsunset, @gideonthefirst, @owldude, and YOU

🎧 album info/track recs/my favorite lines under the cut!! ↓↓↓

🌊 hideaway / the weepies (2008)

track rec: little bird ↳brush your gray wings in my head / say what you said / say it again / they tell me I'm crazy / but you told me / I'm golden

📼 in rainbows / radiohead (2007)

track rec: weird fishes/arpeggi ↳I'd be crazy not to follow / follow where you lead / your eyes / they turn me / turn me into phantoms / I follow to the edge / of the earth / and fall off / yeah, everybody leaves / if they get the chance / and this is my chance

🌉 narrow stairs / death cab for cutie (2008)

track rec: bixby canyon bridge ↳and then it started getting dark / I trudged back to where the car was parked / no closer to any kind of truth / as I must assume was the case for you

🚗 sam's town / the killers (2006)

track rec: bones ↳we took a backroad in my car / down to the ocean / it's only water and sand / and in the ocean we'll hold hands / but I don't really like you / apologetically dressed in the best / put on a heartbeat glide / without an answer / the thunder speaks for the sky

🕕 I forget where we were / ben howard (2014)

track rec: conrad ↳oh, I loved you with the good and the careless in me / but it all goes back

🔥 heretic pride / tmg (2008)

track rec: autoclave ↳when I try to open up to you, I get completely lost / houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost / and I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn / and there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn / and I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam / and no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home

🌹 violet street / local natives (2019)

track rec: when am I gonna lose you? ↳I remember you closing the shutters / and laying down by my side / and the light that was still slipping through / it was painting your body in stripes

🚪 retired from sad, new career in business / mitski (2013)

track rec: goodbye, my danish sweetheart ↳there's some kind of burning inside me / it's kept me from falling apart / and I'm sure that you've seen what it's done to my heart / but it's kept me from falling apart / now here I lay as I wonder about you / would you just tell me what I'm meant to do? / 'cause I've waited and watered my heart 'til it grew / you can see how it's blossomed for you

🚀 how to: friend, love, freefall / rks (2018)

track rec: mission to mars ↳we changed the format completely, cut the filler for meat / it's just blood on your TV making killings for free / the ticket lines are past the sign down at the end of the street / meet and greet, VIPs go a million a piece / we delayed the show for entry and so expired on the lease / now we're gonna re-release it, t.b.d / change the title to: fuck you / it's what you want it to be / when you know it only pay to make nice / pack your shit and standby, please / your friends are trying to leave and get high

[mspaint-flower]

just realised there's december after november

[dpxdc-familyweek]

Day 1: Parents

Being a parent is hard work, if you do it right. Not only are you responsible for a whole person, but you have to teach them how to be a person. There is a delicate balancing act between giving your kids freedom to become who they are and keeping them safe. 

Not everyone does it well. 

Today is a day to explore the impact of parents and the struggle of parenthood. Is a character a great parent, or at least trying their best? What characters need to be called to account? How might parenthood change a person?

Happy DPxDC Family Week!

Reminder: Tag your posts DPxDCFamilyWeek (all one word). Additionally we have an AO3 collection here.

[adiraofthetals]

Ok, so in Season 4, Episode 1, "Founder's Day," Jack, Allison, Jo, Fargo, and Henry All travel to April 15th, 1947. When they get back to 2010, things aren't the way they left it.

In the Discovery In Eureka AU 4x01, the people who travel back will be Jack, Allison, Jo, Fargo, Henry, Adira, Gray, Paul, and Hugh. Maybe another character, too. If I had to add another one, it would be Micheal or Book. (First Micheal mention in Discovery In Eureka AU on tumblr!)

But when everyone gets back home, things aren't the same. While I was planning on leaving the space family's lives the same, that won't be happening anymore.

Also, if @ajtal is ok with me doing this as this will be slightly based on his fic (which is very good), "Wind Chime" (Registered ao3 users only) But it will be a different direction then what was in the fic. [I found when I first mentioned this thought, and it was on October 16th to Clover]

Justin comes back to life. It's not like he was resurrected after they got back. He never died. Although in this AU, he knows he died. When he sees Paul and Hugh and he is just freaking out. Then he sees Adira and Gray and goes what the fuck is that???

Justin: Paul! You would not believe me, but I have died! And I am back. I don’t know how. What happened???

Paul: *Just in shock* Uhhh. We messed with time. BUT not on purpose! We didn’t even know how you are here.

Justin: *Looks behind Paul* *Sees Adira and Gray* What the FUCK is that!???!

Paul: Maybe you should sit down for all of this.

Justin: What year is it? *Eyes are watering a bit* What year is it, Paul?

Paul: *Whispering* It's 2010.

Justin: What year is it???

Paul: It's 2010

Justin: It's 2010. I have been dead for about 10 years. It's been a decade. *Having a complete breakdown at this point*

Paul: You should really sit down so we can explain.

[recs-and-discoveries]

Sunday, July 28, 2024

I in fact did do my knitting while watching a movie situation! I know this is incredible popular in knitting circles, but I'm not too much of a movie watcher most of the time. I want to get more into watching movies instead of scrolling on YT shorts because my screen time Is Not It.

I got all twenty rows in (which is my minimum daily amount for the next week) and that comes to ~5cm. The next "milestone" for the sleeves (ie the part before the increase) is 10 cm, which makes this project feel a lot more doable. For context the end sleeve length (before the cap) is 43 cm, which is 3-4 days worth of knitting for me.

I watched A Quiet Place: Day One yesterday and let me tell you I have THOUGHTS. Wonderful movie that I'd recommend, a solid 8/10. Spoilers below the cut!

A Quiet Place: Day One Thoughts

In order to make this vaguely understandable, I'm going to bullet point these rambles

Direct Movie Response

28:40 and 1:01:30 are both absolutely killer shots

I love that more movies are moving away from MCU franchise and are turning towards "here's a cool concept, lets do it in a different way" (looking at you knives out)

I love the different forms of community in this movie!!

Sam was consistently a form of community to others while others formed community with her! her nurse looked so happy to know she was alive and constantly went out of his way to protect her. The black family helped with nursing Sam the first time she passed out. Someone in that first camp rescued same cat. Sam showed kindness to the children hiding under the waterfall. and of course Eric, someone with (im going to assume) some level of anxiety. There were several times where he actively Brought Sam's life in danger! but she still kept him around

And in turn, Eric showed kindness by going out of his way to get Sam's medication and save her cat

Continuing community is the scene were all the New Yorker's were pouring out in droves to the boats, which resulted in massacre. I had a feeling, because that many people is never a good sign, but what I want to emphasize was the protection of disabled people, particularly the man in the wheelchair. Many of these people wouldn’t makeup a top survival team in an apocalypse, but we need to keep them around because they jive us hope (which ill get back to)

And if we’re going to mention community in this movie, I obvi have to highlight Eric's willingness to go with Sam to patsy’s and learn more about her. Their meeting was the pinnacle of community building. He was scared and lost and needed connection, so he clung onto the first person who was able to provide that

And he goes above and beyond! He brings light into Sam's world when patsy’s is burnt down by preforming their silent magic show, which was such a beautiful scene (and not to mention finding pizza for her, which has my whole heart)

In relation to movie lore, I was interested to see the weird things the monsters were eating and I'm wondering if it’ll come back later. I also appreciate this film address the criticism people had to the water situation; the monsters are scared of it! It kills them so very quickly that it makes sense why they’d avoid the sound

The final thing to say is that there are some thing about this movie that don’t 100% make sense. Like how the fuck did the cat survive all this time? No idea! Cats aren’t inherently quiet creatures, and there were MANY times where he could have (or logically should have) died and he just. Didn’t

Connection to Other Things

Trauma and Noise: Another point id like to mention is trauma and its connection to sound. When we as humans are upset, we sob, we yell, we cry, we stamp up and down, we slam doors, we make noise. it almost feels as chaotic as how our brains feel, a way to physically embody the pain we feel. So to remove the ability to make noise is so painful. People are dealing with constant loss and pain but they have to stay quiet in order to survive. I would loose my mind

Palestine: When it came to the original crashing of meteorites (or whatever they were, which ill return to), all I could think of was the people of Palestine, along with all the other people of the world that are being bombed. It is evil that this genocide is continuing. Generally speaking, I’ve tried to keep Tumblr as a mental break while my other forms of social media cover Palestinian activism, but I would be remiss to not mention it. Not to mention the dystopia ass world we live in where the president of a nation committing genocide gets a standing ovation from Americas leaders??? It makes me want to burn the world down

Leaving Behind: Actual final point is the boat scene. There are 8 million people living in New York with around 1.6 million being from the city (yes I googled) and all that's really left are the people on the boat. What also gets me is that many of those people may not be native New Yorkers. Many people commute to New York or fly in for vacation. Not to mention how many people died as a side effect of buildings crashing and train cars being blocked and young or old people being left behind, etc etc. It is quite a sad thing to see

Music

I said this at the end of last week, but I've been listening to some emo music this week! All the songs that I've ended up adding to my playlist are pretty classic, but I suppose they're classic for a reason.

Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

Somebody Told Me by The Killers

American Idiot by Green Day

Mr. Brightside by the Killers

The music genre for next week is: Russian Romance!

To Dos

☐ next khan academy lesson

☐ next pimsleur lesson

☐ 2 repeats knitting

☐ reading!

☐ smart notes

☐ roommate email

☐ job form

☐ respond to insta convo

[changeling-rin]

DLinktober, Day 11 - Discovery

Art by @glaceon-mage! It's a comic this time! It's adorable! And it's based off of this particular screenshot, so:

The artist says: "Today I bring a comic! It's about some truly riveting gameplay. A common criticism of Zelda 1 is that you must burn every bush and bomb every wall if you want to find everything. For whatever reason, this screen really stuck out to me in this regard. Like, why this bush? Heck if I know. This screen just has such a "filler" vibe that this heart container loops around to being memorable."

[startrekfemslashweek]

Read Here on AO3!

[futchgunk]

thinking abt how i spent the weekend in the lab and im right back into the office.

got 2 have a queer study of anatomy (using a live body 2 mark on!!)

turning over a new leaf wrt 2 rope ++ community (making rope dates!!)

transludic queergaming (playing a game while playing a game)

exploring the dissipative effects of ludic intimacy (do habits explored/demo'd in a play space affect behavior outside of the context)

wearing strictly white and black (who new scrubs and a labcoat were hot)

gloves (black gloves)

[coredrill]

feliz jueves i was fucking right

[aspecardaweek]

DAY ONE: Asexuality What characters do you see as asexual? Why? How does that impact their lives? This is a day for exploring asexuality in the context of Arda. Secondary prompts: Discovery, Confusion, Education

These prompts are optional, and we are open to any aspec content whether or not you stick to our suggestions!

Please tag your posts with #aspecardaweek AND @ mention this blog @aspecardaweek so they can be easily found, and indicate if it includes any of the topics mentioned in the “tagging guidelines” of the Code of Conduct.

If your submission turns into a long post, please put what you can beneath a “Keep reading” divider. If you are posting your submission to AO3, you can add it to the event collection here.

[sewershroom]

Oh no, the feelings my sponsor told me would happen when I got sober are happening! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! This is so bad. I should start doing drugs again.

[sillimancer]

lmao remember when I was gonna watch all the star treks in in-universe chronological order and then I only finished Enterprise