#debating if i should just not sleep

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

[arttsuka]

jed and octavius: *wrapping up augustus in bubble wrap* "there! now you can scoot around all you like without fear of breaking"

[snazum]

Little ster edit I made… Cause there needs to be more in the world :>

special thanks to like the 5-10 people on this website who upload ster clips. This is dedicated to y’all <3

Audio: noir.audioss on tiktok

Song: Like Me - Chase Icon

[defenselesswriter]

i can’t believe i have to cook myself meals. every day! multiple times!

the horrors never cease

[katkalis-the-horror-fanartist]

Next on my list to draw is something with my big squishy guy Zoth Ommog. Just a heads up

[ifindus]

[sunlitmiracle]

smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

[keeps-ache]

all it takes is one comment (i have finished another piece 👍))

[ilkkawhat]

i don't think i'm sleeping tonight lads

[toopunkrockforshul]

I can't even remember the last time I was this physically tired ugh

[pikagatogirltits]

Discovered that there are in fact queer Warhammer 40K characters, but it's not any of the characters we got on cards.

But I did find that one of the Baldur's Gate Alchemy cards from Arena shows some gay NPCs from the Curse of Strahd adventure.

And poking around the secondary characters sections of the Magic wiki is causing me to dig up more story only queer characters. Like the fact that Zimone from Strixhaven has two dads.

Somebody has to be the go to expert on queer characters in Magic the Gathering and oh boy am I auditioning for the part.

[starpros-sunshine]

hey seb whats up

Eepy,,,

[mikelogan]

I've thrown my back out many times before but it's never been this bad and I'm so thirsty and have to use the bathroom but both the bathroom and kitchen are down the stairs and at the opposite end of the house and I just want to cry

[iliveinyou]

i have a day off today so naturally i stayed up until 6am making a samjohn edit

[hydraulicpressedspaghetti]

Sorry the server and six fanarts is taking so long, I can do like 3 things in a day before I burn out and I’ve had other stuff I’ve needed to do ;-;

[pinkspiraling]

it is nighttime and i am alone tonight and i am wishing i could be anywhere other than my bedroom but there is nowhere to go