#efficiency babey

[teasetsotw]

--- Designer/Manufacturer: Harold Stabler [X] Region: England Time period: 1935

[k7tt1]

Literally any character having to pick up Kitty like a goddamn fucking Chihuahua when she tries to square up with other Fizz Bots....

[syrenofthewest]

Highly reccomend befriending your friend's significant other cuz I can text either of these delightful fuckers a picture of a fat cat or an unhinged meme, and I know one will show the other. Efficient meme distribution.

[pancoleon]

I once took a flixbus from Groningen to London with a ~3 hour changeover in Amsterdam Sloterdijk late at night in November. It's so obvious if you spend more than a couple minutes there that none of these 'fantastic' modern stations want you hanging out there for any more time than necessary. Biting cold, very little wind cover, and absolutely no seating outside the ticket gates.

You can jerk off to dutch urbanism all you want but the anti-homeless architecture is palpable. They fucking hate letting there be more than 2 or 4 seats total on any given public transit hub

[annabelle--cane]

jon/martin and harrow/gideon swap places. who fares better

okay so griddlehark physically move through the fearscapes like it's nothin babey, they are very good at dealing with the practical aspects of hiking through the nine circles of hell (gideon could not care less about taking statement breaks, harrow is so unused to small comforts that she doesn't even realize they're gone now), but gideon twigs the "we have to clear some kind of emotional hurdle in order to meaningfully progress forward" thing slightly before harrow does and harrowhark "lobotomized self to avoid processing grief" nonagesimus is physically incapable of making that kind of thing happen on command.

jmart in canaan house. hmm. jon gets presented with what is essentially an escape room the size of a palace and feels like he's taken a party drug. martin is very good at being quiet and disguising that he's hopelessly underqualified for his job (he's also just ortus the ninth if ortus were british but that's beside the point). jon severely starts to lose it as the murders begin and wigs out into paranoia mode so martin switches duties from "bodyguard" to "caretaker" and their progress on the mystery gets a lot less efficient.

also both couples are doomed to fail at the final hurdle anyway, there's no way gideon could kill harrow to release the fears, and even if martin fell on his sword (fence spike) jon would not be able to bring himself to eat him. love loses.

[jevilowo]

TEAM ASCENDED FORTRESS 2

An AU by me in which the mercs ascend to their ultimate forms

Oh God tumblr wrecked the quality-

More about the AU under the cut!

WOKE SCOUT: she started taking estrogen and instead of fixing her it made her worse. She gets into fights on twitter about neopronouns and has successfully cancelled everyone she doesn't like at least once. However, as cancel culture isn't real, this only lasted about three seconds for each. She managed to pull Ms Pauling also which is pretty cool.

SOLDIERSUNE MIKU: the ghost of Shakespearicles told him to dress as Miku and redo the salem witch trials. Only knowing one witch (Merasmus), he finished this quickly and now roams the country with Zhanna (who is now Zhannagane Miku after Mikus metal counterpart) spreading malice and wonder through the power of AMERICAN SONG COVERS. He uses a wig for the Miku effect, but is working on growing his hair out also.

MITOSIS: Pyro and Engie were shagging one time and they came so hard they did mitosis. Now theres 23 babey Pyros (count em) and Engineer is a single dad. There's a lot of Pyro Mitosis Lore™ in my head, but the basics are that they evolve into either humanoid, beastial, demonic or celestial Pyros eventually.

TAVISH, KING OF THE LOCH NESS: he did it he blew up that bloody sea monster and now he is king of Loch Ness. The self loathing has died down a lot which is great for him but his body is still a scrumpty distillery which is eh. Still, he has funky water powers and his partners Soldiersune and Zhannagane come to visit often.

KEEPER OF TIME AND SPACE GUY: Heavy was mad, he knew he'd been had so he shot at the sun with a gun. Instead of being a show off like that bitch Juno, he had a nice philosophical conversation and chess match with Time and impressed Time so much he was appointed as the guardian of Time and Time's partner, Space. His guns (the six angel thingies pictured) can turn into celestial weapons which helps in the protecting but people don't shoot at the sun so often so its a relaxing enough gig really.

GODDAMMIT ENGIE: after realising how much more efficient Gunslinger was than a lame ass human hand, Engie succumbed to his hubris and eventually replaced all his body parts with robot parts. Including his dick which led to the Mitosis Incident. Anyway. His chest is a dispenser which makes projects pretty convenient and he has a mini-sentry attached to each arm and leg, making him a walking weapon. This did not help with the god complex, but it helps with the single father thing.

THE INFERNAL DOCTOR: Medic kept attaching more souls to his own and selling them to Satan for power. Satan got so sick of this eventually he attempted to beat the shit out of Medic. By now Medic was slightly more powerful than Satan so this ended with Medic absorbing Satan's powers and basically taking his place. Somehow, his relationship with the guy who is now a celestial being was unaffected by this. If they really tried they could probably ascend even further. To godhood, perhaps. In any case, Medic becoming The Devil from The Bible did nothing for the god complex.

???: Sniper just kind of fucked off into the woods one day god knows what happened to him but Scout's convinced she saw him for like three seconds a week ago and "YOU GUYS HE HAD ANTLERS I SWEAR-"

RETIRED AND BECAME A FUNCTIONING MEMBER OF SOCIETY SPY: yeah. He's very happy with Scout's Mother (Maureen), and he's letting his roots grow out (his spy agency made him dye his hair black). He's even making an effort to be a good parent to Scout, bought her the trans flag ipad cover and everything, but she just keeps trying to cancel him. Maureen's sure they'll work it out between themselves eventually, but until then she has to keep finding more secure hiding places for the ipad (the best so far was the time she buried it under a tree a mile away, took Scout at least four hours to find and retrieve it that time)

There's also YURI MS PAULING, in which she pulled a whole polycule of beautiful women, but I'll cover her in another post.

Also TERFS DNI please. Woke Scout is just Scout being Scout (which is to say a bit stupid), and assuming all trans women are like that would be ridiculous. So fuck off.

[p12lysanderdelanne]

next patch plan

gonna do the dress pattern as unembroidered fabric to match my doll because thats cost efficiency babey

probably gonna take me a couple days so the finished patch will be up when its up

[sincerely-sofie]

It's really funny that the PMD fandom has just collectively decided to despise ACT because, yeah, they really should've known better actually

If only they had a real bossfight so I could actually go and clobber them myself

I sympathized with them for a good while— they're members of a rescue team, and their job is to maintain the peace, yadda yadda yadda, they're like community superheroes and were led astray by the hope they could save the world by killing one or two people... But their demeanor during the confrontation with them just destroyed my ability to give them any sympathy.

Alakazam in particular is supposedly so smart, yet he fell for a lie from a known liar and mischief-maker. One could argue he wasn't giving his all during the fight that results in Ninetales' appearance, and that it was an act (pun intended) to lure her out to confirm or deny the legend's existence. But he seems genuinely shocked to see her appear, and also seems surprised to hear the legend isn't true, which burns up that theory very efficiently. His vague apology before the fight rings very hollow and seems more of an attempt to save face / assuage a guilty conscience.

Also, Charizard's line here, said to a duo of seeming teenagers, eradicated any reluctance I had to hate this team.

Sir, those are 1-foot tall babeys that you're so thrilled to fight.

[pergaminaa]

What i think each one of the Thirteen’s zodiac sign is:

Manon is a Scorpio (I won’t say she’s a textbook Scorpio but she is a textbook Scorpio)

Asterin is a Sagittarius (wild and adventurous. She has a fiery personality and so passionate with a big big heart but also no filter because girlie is there towing the line with her inability to keep her mouth shut)

Sorrel is a Taurus (self explanatory because she’s Manon’s rock. Very loyal and grounded she literally doesn’t budge this is a woman who takes her job seriously and there is no force in the world capable of swaying her)

Vesta is an Aries (she has a fiery personality and absolutely no impulse control)

Faline and Fallon are a Gemini (so unoriginal i know)

Lin is either an Aquarius or a Capricorn (she’s detached but very focused/determined honestly you only cross her when you’re feeling suicidal)

Edda is a Capricorn (she’s very efficient and super loyal. Knows how to get a job done)

Briar is a Cancer (honestly I’d say she is similar to Edda but also she’s not. It’s easy to put the two together since they have a similar role in the coven but she strikes me as different)

Thea is a Leo or a Taurus (super protective but also you don’t want to get her angry. She’s fiercely protective of her coven especially Kaya and Manon and she’s always wary of any strangers who are hanging around them)

Kaya is a Pisces or a Cancer (idk i feel she can be manipulative af but she looks so innocent no one can pin it on her but she’s cunning like that and knows how to use this to her advantage. Also she can be very soft and nurturing towards those who are close to her)

Ghislaine is a Virgo (super organized and neat. Honestly if you need sound advice you go to her. She’s also the mom of the group just being there taking care of everyone who didn’t listen to her advice and ended up exactly like she predicted)

Imogene is Libra (just an innocent babey who never does anything wrong girly is there existing in peace)

[butchlesbian]

if my partner got me a gift that i had to unwind several hundreds screws off of a rack and it's going to take me hours.... i'll be real i'm going monkey mode on that thing and throwing it off the roof, into an active freeway, into a volcano, getting a metal cutter and just cheating. a trip to the home depot for a bolt cutter is like, way faster. i'm all about efficiency babey.

[jailforwriter]

Alright, let's tackle this...

So, here's the thing. This piece of advice is my nemesis. This piece of advice has led me down many a dark road, full of bloated and unnecessary descriptions of gestures and expressions and people sighing so much their lungs should've rightly collapsed. And it's not because it's bad advice per se – in fact, it can be, dare I say...really good? Only sometimes, though. It's a bit complicated, so let's get into it!

"Show, don't tell" is fantastic for new writers. It's shorthand for "you're not reciting a textbook on new and exciting synonyms for the word 'sad'." And it's absolutely true – you should, ideally, delve a bit deeper than that. Firstly, let's look at what it's good for:

Experience and connection: a vivid description of the pinks and purples of dusk, "as though flower petals scattered across a starry pond", is certainly more effective at evoking emotion than just saying that the sunset was pretty. Chances are the reader has seen a sunset like that at some point and can therefore extrapolate some emotion from the awe they felt in that moment. And if nothing else, it'll engage their senses enough for them to paint a pretty mental picture, which puts the reader in the driving seat for a bit. Hopefully they weren't falling asleep, but hey, it happens, so make 'em work a bit!

Immersive and dynamic: look, if you tell me that the monster's gaping maw – full of jagged, razor-sharp teeth filed to bloody points – snapped closer to your protagonist's face, wafting a rotten, coppery stench into their eyes that made them water, I will 100% feel more uncomfortable than if you told me that the monster was scary and wanted a snack. This technique can be particularly effective when it comes to building tension and the emotions that come with it, as it can foster a sort of chumminess between the reader and the character (not ideal when a monster's about to get them, but we made the reader care, so...checkmate).

Avoids exposition: ah, yes. The dreaded "e" word, only minutely edged out by the word "exam", capable of evoking the kind of budding horror that we as writers have to work hard to get across on-page. Basically, since you aren't just relying information like rattling off a shopping list, you're going to retain the reader's attention more efficiently and, hopefully, be more mindful about what does and doesn't need to be on the page. Listen, I hate this just as much as you do, but rambling will kill the narrative mega-dead.

"But Tumblr user jailforwriter," I hear you say, "doesn't that mean that 'show, don't tell' is actually really good?"

Yes. Kinda. Again, complicated. For now, let's look at the other side of the coin: the reasons why this piece of otherwise fantastic advice can be misconstrued and completely wreck your shit.

Oops, All Description: look at you! You got so good at description and implication that, instead of plainly conveying that a tertiary character with no long-lasting impact on the plot is a snake-handler, you now have three pages of this dude buying frozen mice at the pet store and treating all the bite marks on his arms. And yes, that can be fantastic – when it's relevant. Otherwise, it'll read like filler and drag the pacing through the mud. It takes a little bit of discernment to figure out when all that detail is important and when just saying "he handled snakes" suffices, but that's part of the process, babey 😎. (Don't despair, though. As we continue to demystify it, it'll become clearer, I promise!).

Vagueness and confusion: you know your story. I know you know your story. You know every little detail inside out and how it impacts the plot. Unfortunately, 100% of readers are not, in fact, you, dear reader. Aside from the cruel reality that I cannot body-swap with someone who owns a cat whenever I want, the other main issue with this is that we may not be expressing what we think we're expressing, pretty much ever. When we over-describe and avoid stating things plainly as a rule, the reader will have to interpret a whole lot of stuff, which can get to be too vague and confusing when they, through no fault of their own, arrive at the Wrong Place. And I'm pro-girlboss gaslighting in books, absolutely, but only when it's narratively resonant and not an accident (lol).

Length and lack of variety: AKA "shucks, I've already described the sun as everything from a painting to a bruise twenty times, what now? Ah, I know! Unnecessarily lengthy and contrived metaphors!". Nope. Not the way to go, my guy. We've all shoehorned our fair share of metaphors in places they oughtn't be (don't lie to me, I'm under your bed) but chances are, if it's happening too often, it's time to include some plain ol' telling the reader what's UP. It'll shake up the prose, too, which again, might just wake them up a bit.

So, yep. You know what's up. It's that "balance and moderation" stuff your parents failed at drilling into you, but that you nonetheless learned after getting a tummy ache from eating a whole family-sized bag of M&M'S at 3 A.M. (As an aside, experience is the best teacher, particularly when the experience in question sucked ass, so there's another reason to make your readers experience emotion rather than telling them how to feel!).

To conclude: "show, don't tell" is a matter of perspective and discernment, which yes, is a copout, but to that I say: how dare you say something with the word "cop" in it to me? Yuck ew.

Happy writing!

[fae-iii]

Mienfoo Postmortem

Real excited about this: I finally got that time lapse thing to work in Aseprite! It turned out to be super easy with the things I learned from the Buizel animation. There's some parts where I was playing with different palettes and the gif goes mostly black and I couldn't figure out how to get those parts to display properly without hand-editing each one of them, but other than that it's pretty cool. Thing for next time, I guess?

I think I'm getting pretty good at finding a process that works for me. One cool thing I've been able to do recently is, like what I did with the arms, putting little placeholder shapes in so I can visualize where a thing is gonna be and then working towards that. Idk where I started doing that, I guess I just did it a little bit and then more and more on each subsequent piece and I'm starting to get pretty good at it; I think!

You see me do a few things in there like I tried to make the eye in vain before I got a real start with the head, I could do things more efficiently in places like there. Speaking of heads, I'm getting pretty good at these musteline heads! "Sneasel and Mienfoo have two different head types;" they're surprisingly really similar and I feel a lot more appreciative of the pokemon designers skills… at design!

Idk, it's not 100% accurate of a head to the official design and you can see me try to correct that a bit in the timelapse, but what I got feels really nice and has a certain- hmm, idk, je ne sais quoi, lol. It just comes across as a mildly different artstyle, I think.

The left leg kinda looks weird, I think? I didn't really have any idea of where the underlying knee bones are on Mienfoo to really match it up with my reference photo (I was gonna link it; it was on pinterest which I don't really like and the link is now dead, so I guess it's not important anyway). Also the neck band is kinda weird, but it looks OK.

The tail, lol, I kinda panicked because I almost forgot it, I think you even see me put in a little shading before I start on the tail. I struggled with it a bit before my pea-brain made the connection that it was kinda like the ribbon feelers on my Sylveon piece and I just took the end of a ribbon from there and chiseled away and added to it, lmao. I think, on the Sylveon piece, my brain was truly firing on all pistons with those ribbons.

I think the art journals have run their course, I've internalized a lot of the stuff I would've written down in there like, "You can draw lines with the line tool" or "this sucks, but maybe It'll get better :)" so I don't think I'll be doing those that much if at all. But I guess doing a little post-mortem longer than the main post is a fair substitute, lol!

Also, I think this might be the last piece of art I'm sharing this year (maybe making if I don't get my ducks in a row). And what a year it has been! ~47 pieces according to my archive on imgur. That's 47 more pieces than I did last year! I don't think I'm gonna do a recap of this year of art until whenever it was I posted that Gastly art and then, for "accounting purposes," I'll do recaps at the ends of years after that.

Look at me making big, multi-year plans :3. I really wanna stick around and I hope anyone following me wherever does too! Thank you for a- ok, well; it could've been better mental-health-wise and things still feel pretty rough, but I'm getting it figured out- great year! Let's hope for an even better one in the far-flung future of 2014, babey!

[ginkuki]

ITS TIME FOR CHAP 2 BABEY!!! Chap 3 will be following close behind <3

written for @puregaalee 's WIP Your Heart Out and illustrated/animated(!!!!) by the incredible @bayheart

Title: Born Under Punches

Fandom: Naruto

Relationships: Gaara/Rock Lee

Characters: Rock Lee, Gaara, Team Gai, Sand sibs, Sasori, Konan, Kisame, Deidara, Itachi, Pein, a few oc’s

Warnings: Mild substance abuse (soldier pills), minor character death, canon typical violence, blood and injury, child neglect, Gaara is a feral creature and all that entails

Additional Tags: Akatsuki Gaara, mistaken identity, canon divergence, 

Summary:

Team Gai have been sent on a mission to track down the Akatsuki member who's been whisking away jinchūriki with terrifying efficiency. When a clue left behind at the site of the Ichibi’s capture leads them to Amegakure, Lee must put aside any distractions to do one thing: complete the mission - even if those distractions include rescuing his missing team and the mysterious boy he keeps running into around the city.

READ CHAP 2 HERE!!!

[il3x]

that charismatic smile by tub ring is an accord song

SCREAMS. IT EVEN HAS HIS FOLDERS.....

gonna rant, actually, because the depth and aptness of this suggestion has SO greatly exceeded my expectations.

THAT'S HIMB. GOD. details dude. AUGH. the love and care and satisfaction with which the singer sings this first line... yeah that's what it's like in his head! jeepers. "a corporation of yourself" is SUCH a good description for accord too.

This part fits his ambitious plans, and desire to get state leaders and experts and such on board with them and working together. Like, this genuinely is his vision. well, this and idk embezzlement or something but he Does want to better the world.

The repetition/parallelisms ("and soon"/"and now") here are SO important! This is his plan kicking off, and immediately going pear-shaped (in his eyes) because of the disorderly and uncooperative actions of other humans. He's catching on that his ideals will not be realised.

The backing here, too! The way it gets more urgent, more distorted, more staticky and chaotic! Combined with "and soon the room is filled with menial discussion", it hits. like. I should not be relating to Accord but god DAMN. to me that captures the sensory overload of a room full of people talking over one another, the frustration of your voice getting lost in an uncoordinated group, when they're all talking around in circles and getting nowhere. I'm chill about group projects, wdym? Anyways. It's SO easy to picture this as his Shard aggravating pre-existing frustration/OCD/overload when his plans go awry, especially with that backing.

And (accord would saw trap me for starting with an independent conjunction, but the 'net is a lawless wasteland, babey!) the worst aspect of that kind of situation is the feeling of losing control...

Which makes the next lines hit all the harder!!

"Rising above the noise" I think really is how Accord sees himself and the Ambassadors, his motive and methods of villainy, his everything. And, God, this line! That's Accord's power fantasy! This is what he dreams about at night! That loss of control was never real, you were just lying in wait, and you're going to control every aspect of this formerly chaotic, terrifying, choking world.

It will be beautiful.

These last lines are also perfect, because they (along with the new super intense backing) don't shy away from his villainy. Accord has power because Accord kills for his power. His "order" comes at the price of lives. Ruined on a whim! Cody wasn't even at the damn meeting! So, yeah, he plays rough - and I love how this ending not only acknowledges that, in tandem with his "perfect control" fever dream, but cements the two together as the very same thing. To Accord, Mr. Shardbound 2011, guy who calms himself down after seeing shitty architecture by fantasising about the most horrific ways to bring the building down, efficiency and order and control and brutality and destruction are one and the same.

Which is something I had never put together, until Tub Ring knocked it out of the goddamn park.

[eternally-sugary]

Yes yes. Very efficient way to kiss the far away gf

FUCK YEAH !! Give some loving to you Mexican Foreign gf babey

[song-of-the-rune]

Magic system ideas jotting down at work so disorganized sorry.

Mostly HCs about pf2 magic system that I'm canonizing for lorynthia.

People tend to think of schools of magic as akin to domains but they're actually quite different -- a domain is more of a what (what is the end effect) while a school is more of a how (what is the cause).

Necromancy: would be more accurately, biomancy, but historical reasons. Messes with the body and soul. Closely related to

Enchantment: affects the body and mind, with focus on the mind. Necromancy is more like forcing the body to do what you want while enchantment is more making what you want the path of least resistance. Also the name drives crafters crazy

Transmutation: You alter matter in place. Chemistry basically. Most crafting is therefore transmutation.

Evocation: Agitate the space around you to do what you want, that's physics babey!

Abjuration: The inverse of evocation, is all about dampening effects

Divination: peering across space and time is actually the inverse of

Conjuration: moving stuff across space and time -- it's all summoning, but, historical reasons. The only real barrier between conjuration and divination is if you can move particles and not just waves. Which yes means they are the same because physics. But one is much more efficient than the other depending on circumstances.