#eleventybillion

[mcsrblrconfessions]

i miss eleventy

[leam1983]

Overkill

So, I'm now the owner of an RTX 4090 Trinity OC, this is set to be the most powerful card on the market for the foreseeable future, and -

What's that? You have got to be kidding me; NVIDIA is already boasting that the RTX 5090 is set to be 70% more powerful than current top-shelf offerings.

What's the fucking point, past a certain margin?! The 4K market still isn't dominant if you go by Steam's hardware surveys, there's still a large swath of gamers like myself who work in 1080p, and beyond pushing for raytracing and frame generation, there's not much of anything left to do, really!

I miss the days that saw card makers innovate between generations, now it's just a dick-measuring contest between who gets to cram more VRAM into a reference card SKU or who draws the most power.

[dragonagitator]

i need to unpack eleventybillion boxes but all i can do lie in bed and stare at the ceiling while fantasizing about having Gale's cock inside me

[readythefanons]

desk dispatch (early May 2023)

writing desk updates from your pal reddy

desk status: under control (patches of the desk's surface are visible, and the stacks do not exceed 3 inches in height = manageable but in the middle of some things)

General notes from April:

I used April's camp NaNo (NaNoWriMo=national novel writing month, which is in November. Camp NaNo is for self-set goals and is held in April and July) to work on an outline! I outlined the Petra/Sylvain fic, and I wrote about 10k >_> the outline is mostly there, but there are a few sections in the middle that could use some more attention

I finally succeeded in winning the "write every day" achievement for (camp) NaNo!!!!!

I posted "Place" in April which is an Adopted!Hilda AU. If you're reading this post, you probably saw at least one of the eleventybillion promos I scheduled for the fic. (five. It was five.) I started that fic in 2020, so it feels great to post it

What's in the can: NOTHING. I have nothing lined up to post. But...

The Leonie fan anthology (AKA Sunflower: A Leonie Fanzine) is shipping/has shipped! I have a fic in that one, and I hope that soonish I'll be able to post that fic to AO3 :) That piece is titled "not a circle, but a spiral"

I am poking the Leonie/Lorenz SciFi AU again. In a fit of productivity, I re-outlined the thing and I hope to poke the draft itself soon.

I wrote and edited 3k of thoughts on pronouns and personhood in the book Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. When I finally hit post on that, you'll see it on my book blog @reddy-reads but I might also bump it over here because why not. embarrassment is for other people. (disclaimer: not every blog on tumblr with "reddy" in the name is connected to me, i promise)

Miscellaneous thoughts: outlining

I might... love... outlining? To be determined. But it felt so good to work on the Petra/Sylvain outline, and it felt good to work on the SciFi AU outline. So IF these fics actually get written, then I might never go back to my no-outline ways.

What I liked about it: it was so satisfying to think about all the parts of the story and how they were supposed to fit together. It was useful to be able to plan out which characters would show up when and where. It was useful (but often felt bad) to realize that certain scene ideas I had weren't working (usually because there wasn't enough concept there). It was SO much easier to go "wait this isn't working" after only writing a few sentences instead of pages and pages. It was much easier to go "oh I need to introduce X earlier" in an outline than after writing (and posting!!!) whole chapters. It feels good to have a plan about where the story goes and how it reaches the ending.

Outlining (it's new to me): My other multichapter fics ("all things considered could be worse" in Netflix!Daredevil fandom, and of course the "Pull It Together" duology) were written without an outline! I knew generally what I wanted to happen and how the ending should feel, but I didn't know how I was going to get from A to Z.

(Actually... those fics BOTH started as oneshot responses to prompts on kinkmemes... and... the Petra/Sylvain fic was inspired by a post on a kinkmeme, and it was originally conceived as a oneshot. So, uh, credit for finally recognizing a pattern!)

Why I'm finally trying outlining: I've become increasingly aware that I have limited time and energy. I wish I didn't. I wish I felt limitless, but the last few year-or-so has just taught me that I only have so much bandwidth. (Which is a good lesson, even/especially if it's not really welcome.) So since I'm admitting that I have limited time and energy, why shouldn't I help myself spend more time doing what I enjoy (writing!) and less time doing what I dislike (not writing because I'm stuck). So that's part of why I have this fresh interest in outlining.

The other thing about outlining is that--well Leonie and Lorenz's stories were fundamentally pretty simple. The Matt & Foggy (Daredevil again) story was even simpler because it was a slice of life. It was hard to get truly lost there. The Petra/Sylvain story needs to fit together a little more precisely, and that means prewriting. AKA writing the whole thing, then editing and posting. I'm not looking forward to giving up my post-as-you-go ways, but maybe I'll end up loving it.

The last part of the "why suddenly outline and prewrite" puzzle is a little... uh... it's a little sensitive. I have ideas about Petra and Brigid that I want to express, but the themes involved (colonialism/imperialism) are delicate. I want to give myself the option of really thinking it through & maybe even getting an extra set of eyes on it before putting it out on the whole internet to see.

So that's why I haven't been posting as much. I'm cooking up something big, I hope people will like it.

Final goodies

Fic rec: Ruu has written a Leonie/Lorenz fic called "Of Conduct, Of Manners." The Jane Austen influence wafts off the page. It updates regularly, and the whole thing is already written :D :D :D

Writing podcasts: I like the writing podcast "Writing Excuses" and "Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo."

Media podcasts: I still adore "Be the Serpent." It's on hiatus but they have an extensive back catalogue. I got so many great media recommendations from them.

Writing essays: I enjoyed Diane Duane's blog post about her outlining style and approach. I used her "grocery shopping list" and it really helped me build my outline's backbone.

Writing essay 2: A discord pal shared this post with me, which helped me get past an outlining block. The bit about "stop writing scenes you don't want to write" was the magic ingredient for me.

Meal Idea: Vegetarian sushi bowl. Make some rice, season it into sushi rice. Add all the yummy veggies you want. Eat and enjoy. (I made the sushi rice, but then I mixed some riced cauliflower into it for extra bonus veggies. For topping I did avocado w a sprinkle of soy sauce, finely cut carrot, Japanese pickles [cucumber and ginger], and edamame. I also had nori to wrap it as I ate because I loooove seaweed.)

[leam1983]

This. It's just slightly better integrated than the eleventybillion browser-based toolbars of yesteryear.

I just can't believe anyone thought these would ever be a good idea.

"You know what would be rad? What if we unobtrusively occupy a small fraction of a user's total screen space for the sake of providing them with that much more of an excuse to engage with our search engine? That's guaranteed to ramp up traffic, and there's no way in Hell all of our competitors have the exact same idea, thereby devaluing my initially good idea into an absolute fucking plague, right? Right?!"

another internet thing kids wont experience is toolbar stacking:

[rotdotmp3]

save me eleventybillions flowbee video save me

[rill-is-thinking]

decide to draw skins cause i don’t have a lot of (doable) ideas. So here is….

ELEVENTY!!!!

the cactus man :D (I know he only has one hand I’m sorry I rlly tried T-T)

I really wanted to try drawing this skin cause it’s definitely in my top three slyfai hbg skins :D

skin credits for the skin go to the one and only @slyfai !! Ty for the skins they’re very cool and nice to draw.

[mcsr-but-everywhere]

please do not overwater your cactus!

[leam1983]

Eh, I pirated most of 5th Ed, buying only the core sourcebooks physically - and second-hand. WotC hasn't seen a cent of mine. It isn't like you need the entire paraphernalia to run a session, anyway.

Past that, their killing their open-source license doesn't really mean squat. It does kill projects like Scott Kurtz's Table Titans or even Penny Arcade's Acquisitions Incorporated in the moneymaking sense, but homebrew publishers have always been around.

Plus, with a movie around the corner and the D&D Twitch streams bringing in tons of new players and added exposure, we can be sure that outfits like Critical Role or Dimension 20 won't feel a thing.

If worse comes to worst - there's always Pathfinder, or any of the eleventybillion other systems to peruse, out there.

you guys find out that wizards of the coast is terrible every other month

[shrimpsicality]

More HBG robots!! You know the drill: details below the cut :D

Draconix:

They're a mechanic! They fix other robots and made their own wings, which can fold inward

Btw everyone with a scarf has that extra top bit, it's kinda like a shoulder cover (?) that protects their wiring and power stuff

A bit off topic but I really like the pink and purple colour scheme it's so pleasing <333

They have an ender eye charm :D

They also have two teeth charms, but how he got those teeth? Uhhhhh

That hat is stolen, mostly because he got tired of carrying around the charms (it isn't like he can poke a hole in his metal body or something) and wanted somewhere to put it

What's under the hat? You will never know!!

You know those extendable antenna on radios? Yeah they have one of those. That's what's under his hat I lied about not telling yall

Has those clippy hands because I'm not making another robot handless that's just cruel D:

They also like to wear human clothing because he thinks they're cool. Overheated once because he wore too many scarves lmao

Eleventy:

Spikes are retractable :D

His arms have limited movement because of how they're connected to his body; the triangle thing only allows it to move up and down (like it can't go front-back)

If you lift up his arm while he's asleep and let go it swings down like a hinge :D

Scratched from battles because he isn't really cut out for fighting but insisted on duelling this robot who may or may not be called Flowbee

His hand got torn off :(

Draconix's working on reattaching the wires though so he won't be one handed for long (hopefully)

Marcus Fireworkss:

Gemstone expert :D

Thought for a while on how to combine his ~fancy aura~ with the monocle and eventually decided on gemstones

So yeah he's a robot that helps price gems like diamonds! Fireworks are just his hobby

That blue sleeve part is because he melted part of his circuitry testing out fireworks and had to replace it with scrap parts

He's mostly fireproof now to avoid such mishaps!!

He already has a monocle, why does he need another magnifying glass hand? Magnification²

Still don't have a reason why robots have hair but it's for the aesthetic

Nerdi

Customer service/chatbot!!

Works at a star-themed tech shop, guiding visitors (both robots and humans) and helping them find what they need

Alright, so he secretly gives robots discounts on robot parts. No one important has noticed yet, so he'll keep doing it.

He lost an eye to a work accident (how? Let's just say that robot parts are volatile), so the shop got him a replacement star eye! It has thermal vision :D

He actually has fingers! Awesome!! Only three, though. He says that's enough, because pinkies and ring fingers are overrated

The stars glow in the dark. It's nothing to do with tech, they just have those glow-in-the-dark paint on them

Holograph projector on his arm because I think holographs are cool!! He uses it to show blueprints, maps, photos of hbg, articles, etc

[la-lunaland]

Bee had Found Died: Eleventy Confess He's Feeling Good After Killing It

By Fulham

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Eleventy (Billion) seen carrying bee's corpse when he walked the school corridors this morning.

When we interviewed, why did you bring bee's corpse, he replied : "This Bee was acting very sus, so I killed it."

"Strangely among the other bees, this bee has an unusual behavior. And without hesitation I killed it." he claimed.

He didn't plan to properly bury it. He plans to throw it away when school ends later. He even plans to donate it to biology lab.

"Maybe I took it to the biology lab for research and analyze it." He said.

Eleventy promised to submit results of analysis of The Bee to school newspaper.

Will we see the results of the analysis later? Well, we can only patiently wait.

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Today's horoscope:

Dav1e - Leo: Health will be sensitive due to persistent issues from the past. Davie please stop eating chips and eats some vegetables. We know you have so many Doritos from Twitch Rival! Share it with us, dude!

[leam1983]

On Quietude

We're headed into that one time during the Holiday season which I love the most: the in-between days.

Christmas is technically over, but you still have a full license to binge on all the eleventybillion reduxes and revisions of A Christmas Carol, Die Hard and all the Xmas-related content you were short on, and it's also part of those two weeks wherein Food Comas are utterly and completely expected.

We're in the span of days that sees Walt nap everywhere and nosh on anything that's edible. He's not too concerning, apnea-wise, but there is enough obstruction in there for his intakes to be particularly noisy, once a bit of booze and a little too much food's done some work on his airways. It's those exact days that'll see us whip out board games or try for walks around town. those exact days that see us cram together in either mine or Sarah's bed, with absolutely zero intent towards intercourse.

We'll just spoon and talk or slip under the covers and nap, spending long afternoons using various body parts as impromptu pillows and head-rests. We'll try out cocktails and share in one another's hobbies, in full awareness that it isn't impossible for me to step out of a Scrabble match for the sake of a Bio break, only to come back to the sight of Sarah sat across Walt's lap, their liplocks turned slow and tender. The last time it happened, I slowly stepped in and looped my arms around Walter's shoulders from the back.

"There's so much love in this apartment," I noted, sighing in contentment. I remember Sarah stopping for a moment, the sharp click of released pressure between Walter's mouth and hers.

"I know," Sarah said, smiling softly. "We're awesome."

That we are, honey. That, we still are.

We gave each other our gifts, FaceTimed our friends, close colleagues and relatives, and then went to bed at a shockingly reasonable hour. All three of us in the same bed, Walter with his favourite no-longer-young adults under his arms.

Oh, and I got an unexpected bonus from work, so I splurged on that Razer Blade 14, added an Orochi mouse and a corresponding travel case. Walter's response was a long kiss and a hand on my cheek, so something tells me he decided to fight for said bonus on my behalf...

[chlortal]

art repost #1

heavily compressed sketches/doodles/whatever of our speedrun guys

[thebombproject]

Today the @h00nchild is the #fenderbender and a little harder to sneak up on with the phone out 😆 We're tearing the front end off the old girl at a great rate now, despite the best efforts of the #eleventybillion 1/2" bolts holding everything together. I guess at least it's not #spotwelded 😬👍 #fatherandson #bonding #backyardmechanics #thebombproject #thebomb #hrute #hrholden #holdenute #isthatallthehashtags 🤔 PS - if you've tried to add (or are going to try adding) the @h00nchild here on Insta, keep in mind he's 10 and I'm filtering all the requests to his private acct #isadadjob 😎👌 Thanks for trying though, he really appreciates it. Cheers! --AL https://www.instagram.com/p/B6NP-oPgXwE/?igshid=av2o3jujev68

[rosesmusicandaloeveraplants]

just in general, minecraft speedrunners (and i will elaborate in the tags)

I’ve see this quite a bit on mcytblr where mcyt blogs happen to be avid fans of one particular less popular (subjective) streamer/YouTuber and it’s kinda sweet to see it so I’m starting a thing, reblog with that one MCYT that you absolutely love and you think doesn’t get enough appreciation (mine is Joe Hills :] )

[uozlulu]

Sometimes I wonder if I should post Our Soulmate Academia to my ff.net account even though that'd be kind of a pain, and then today I got a review telling me in chapter 4 I accidentally attributed Yanagi's quirk to Tokage (which I fixed) and it's like thank goodness I don't have to faff around with ff.net's document manager today.