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[scrapstudioes]

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[esteemedcrackpot]

Complete Notes from a Session of End of the Line; or, An Observation of Genre. 2023, pen on novelty sticky note.

[hollowtones]

Did you watch the last the devstream from DE?

If so, any thoughts?

Koumei looks pretty cool. "Apply a lot of statuses alert" is neat enough & will probably be pretty strong but it doesn't blow my mind, I guess. The dice roll stuff & the "do a riven challenge with a debuff to get a Duviri decree" had my eyes bugging out of my head with excitement! I like her weird haunted skeleton puppet look, I like the visible strings. Brella gun looks Fucking AWESOME.

Caliban rework looks hunky and I'm eager to sink my teeth into him. I already thought he was Fine to play, so making him stronger & giving him a more interesting / more synergistic kit has me happy. I wanna get more of / mess more with the theorem kitgun arcanes & see if buffing the summons is Anything now that they're better across the board. The Hildryn changes are exciting too!! Her 4th ability is Very Cute and I'll gladly take any excuse to not subsume it off.

All of that said: most exciting parts of the update to me are the changes to pets (Holy shit I've been wanting separate slots for Dog Damage forever... Holy shit I can try using more than just the Verglas) & the Nova rework / deluxe skin. I'm a sucker for the flower motifs, and the big back bow ephemera is so cute... I have like 3 or 4 different builds I want to try out on her now. Having speed & slow be on a toggle now is going to feel so much better in Duviri, & the forced orb drops has me excited to try out some wackier stuff. Her damn Ball might actually be better now... I always try to force that ball to work but you had to build basically entirely around it to justify it. The weird build synergies Nova had in the past were interesting on paper but felt kinda frustratingly limiting whenever I tried to build her. Which made me sad! Because I love the idea of her kit! Now it feels like I have more wiggle room to try shit out & slot in more Toys, which is exciting... I'm thinking about all her moves doing Blast & eyeing the orange archon shards. LOL

If the Nova changes are their idea of a "light rework" I'm super stoked to see what they do to Nyx (another frame I like the idea of but wish they would make some adjustments for) and Trinity (I already love her kit, simple as it is) in the winter.

I'm excited that it's coming out so soon after I get home from my vacation, haha. I feel like every time I've flown out to see my wife they've put on an event or held a really valuable Twitch drop campaign on days where I'd be stuck in transit. Digital Extremes is apologizing to me personally with Koumei. Now I just need Nintendo to apologize for all the "Splatoon 3" events happening on those same days...

[cephalonserotonin]

Devstream 180 Notes

This is a long one, folks.

brought to you by creative lead Rebb Executive Producer Dick Wolf

New dojo contest to kick off a transition to cross-save dojo world… see forum post

Pride Campaign 2024

is active now until the end of June! a new glyph, display, and wings in lovely rainbows!

Jade Shadows update coming June 18!

features a new cinematic quest: Jade Shadows. It picks up after The New War (so it's got TNW as a prerequisite) where the storyline of the Stalker left off. Rebb and the crew request that folks not spoil the quest for others after playing it. Use spoiler tags if possible! Quest runtime ~ 25 min There's a teaser for the story quest, featuring the Stalker hanging upside down like a bat:

New Warframe: Jade!

Pablo describes her as a support frame. Her passive is two aura mod slots which is kind of crazy ngl

Her kit briefly summarized:

1: throws a little mote with an AOE effect of healing for allies and increasing damage taken to enemies

2: cycle through various squad buffs. The UI art for these is really gorgeous

3: a debuff: enemies in her sight are slowed and lose armor. You also revive any dead allies in your vision.

4: floating and a zappy exalted weapon. It's kind of like Hildryn's four but basically better in every way because you can actually set off large amounts of damage and fly higher and faster. The exalted weapon has synergy with her 1 and 2.

As Pablo mentioned, Jade's abilities provide a lot of combo potential, good for any "min maxers" in the audience.

Jade's three signature weapons: the Cantare throwing knives, the Harmony scythe, and the Evensong bow (a variant on the Dread).

The Ascension game mode: "what if Warframe but up?"

Non-endless There's a giant elevator you have to feed with energy. The team's video crashed so Rebb gave what I'd call an excited 12 year old's description of the game mode instead which I loved:

There's this giant elevator that needs energy to go up. So you have to keep feeding it ionic charges so you rise out of the depths. And as you're feeding, the Corpus are there! *excitable machine gun noises* And then you're like, oh god! And then you have to, like, jump around-- but if you fall out of the elevator, you better hope you're good at parkour, and that you can read the level to get back up! and back up! and back up! And then: you have to make it to the top. But that's not all. Once you get to the top of the elevator, you gotta escape. You gotta make a run for it before the Corpus hold you back! Aahhh! Aah! Ah! …and that's Ascension. :)

Once we finally watch the video preview of the game mode later I think it looks fun. The level looks really neat; I love the graphics of the inside of the elevator. There's a new Jade Light eximus enemy here but I can't really tell any details about it quite yet.

ORDIS IN LARUNDA RELAY!

He's hosting the clan operation Belly of the Beast (featuring above Ascension game mode). In his shop is the Asteria ephemera, which evolves with community participation. Also some arcanes… and a beautiful skin for the Hate.

"If you're a hater, this is for you." Hilariously the arcanes are capped at 42 each because apparently in Gargoyle's Cry certain players went crazy burning themselves out to stock up on arcanes, and the team is trying to prevent that (and players blaming them for their own bad choices, as always). Two full sets each is more than enough, frankly.

Status Rework!

Blast now does a secondary detonation, or if hitting 10 blast procs, creates an AOE explosion. This is exactly what I have been wanting for ages so I, personally, am thrilled.

Magnetic now scales with overguard and shields the same way, and also does a secondary punch of damage (and an electric proc!) once the shield is broken.

Cold should freeze enemies more often now… and came with a free Frost rework! Now Frost's abilities give proper cold procs, thus freezing enemies, which is now standardized across his abilities. His 1 has been buffed and his 3 snowglobe has been modified (to allow shooting from in to out but not out to in). He has a new passive: his armor scales with the number of cold procs enemies have (like the defensive version of Ember).

There's a lot of testing going on right now on the interaction between ragdolling and freezing enemies.

There's a change to damage vulnerability mechanics which I didn't quite follow; seems to be mostly a simplification of the system.

Armor damage attenuation scaling, as mentioned in the last devstream, now has a cap, meaning corrosive procs should be more effective.

Yareli Deluxe

...looks like eldritch coral?

Next round of TennoGen

…finally comes with a Lavos skin, which is plague doctor themed.

Some augments (Protea's is probably OP), decrees (list shown below is incomplete), and arcanes

UI improvements!

In the upgrade screen: duplicate mod config button, indicator for substats, increased mod polarity

Augment list viewer in the abilities screen

Community customization table where you can copy others' fashions. Great news for gamers too unoriginal to make their own fashions, I guess. Coming at first for just Excalibur, Mag, Volt, and Jade.

Quick Access (fast travel wheel) for more areas like the dormizone.

UI autoscaling with resolution (to prevent tiny UI bars for people with huge resolutions), also coming with ability to scale the UI back down.

"Donut numbers" for damage view that do not cover the enemy you are shooting (old way can still be switched back to, called "cloud.")

Awakening quest has a lil fashion preview now!

Loadout hot swaps conveniently directly from the starchart!

QOL!

Cap on adversaries (liches and sisters) at 150. For the sake of database health. The programmer in me is mildly concerned that there was no limit before this.

Semi auto becoming full auto (see last devstream for more detailed description).

Automatic selection of last relic during endless relic cracks.

Streamlining necramech acquisition.

Unifying melee finishers and mercy kills (both with mechanics and appearance).

The return of Heirloom skins: starting with community art this time

First major change (from last year's disastrous heirloom launch) is the heirloom collections will now be released one warframe at a time.

Ember Heirloom is also a purchased fanartist concept!

Two paths to acquire it: a temporary paid path (for money, comes with some plat) and a plat path that will be available until next heirloom launch (and you can purchase the cosmetics individually!)

This is much better than last year's Heirloom launch, which, as aforementioned, caused a lot of community strife.

molten booty

And finally, the TennoCon 2024 schedule:

[pedropascalito]

The Last of Us Joel Miller Character Study S1E1: Joel's Drawer(s)

His literal drawer(s).

I changed the shadows to try to make out what he keeps in this top drawer and to the best of my eyes:

A green CD case. I have a green CD case just like this I keep DVDs in. Twins with Joel!

Sunglasses or eyeglasses case, which, come on Craig Mazin, we couldn't get even one shot of Joel in sunglasses? Have you never watched Narcos? Pedro looks divine in sunnies. Have you never watched We Can Be Heroes? Pedro looks divine in eyeglasses. Petition for more Pedro roles who canon wear glasses, please. Anyway...

Some sort of leather case/dopp kit style bag. Wrong shape for CDs, and I don't remember ever seeing a cassette holder like this. And that would be unlikely in 2003. Perhaps a keepsake box? It's well-worn around the edges and looks older, so whatever it is, it's important to Joel.

Random paper, maybe business cards or phone numbers?

And of course, money

6. What looks like a checkbook cover, which were def still in heavy use in 2003

7. The checkbook is resting on a darker object that I would guess is an address book. These were still very common in 2003 as we were making the transition from paper books to phone contact lists. I still had a contact book because at that time if you changed your phone, you could not export/import/sync contacts, so w had a master list. (I still have mine I think, but I don't update it anymore.)

8. The yellow plastic device looks like a stud-finder I used to own, which would not surprise me and would match the construction ephemera we saw on the desk. But, perhaps someone else knows what this is?

9. The white trim looks like the top of a catch-call basket and I can't figure out what the orange loop is. Not a headband. Maybe a kind of strap?

10. There looks to be some metal pieces inside the basket, and a metal device outside of the basket against the back drawer wall. It almost looks like an older pencil sharpener, but other than that, I can't guess. Anyone else have an idea?

11. It looks like a roll of Smarties candy under the stud-finder(?). I love the idea of Joel stashing candy in his drawer.

I love that the brown leather case and checkbook cover are classic, simple yet elegant in leather and very practical, and the brown leather case looks especially loved. I wonder what he keeps in there?

All together, this drawer is functional, relatively neat, and obviously he is not worried about Sarah borrowing money or seeing these possessions. Maybe he even leaves the candy for her, knowing she'll be in the drawer at times. Cutest dad ever.

[ghostfemme]

MY DIGITAL SHOP IS OPEN!

Attention all of my journaling/bujo/scrapbooking/grimoire babes! My Etsy shop FaeryFragments is now up and running with a 30% off opening sale!!

I will be offering ephemera kits, digital papers, printable sticker sets, and more!

Here are some examples of the ephemera packs that are currently live on my shop:

Blood Roses

Siren Song

Grimoire

Goblincore

Winter Solstice

Disenchanted

If you like the vibes of any of these sets please consider checking out my shop and even giving it a follow for future updates!!

[xenodile]

anyway I reinstalled AC6 this evening because I've been thinking about Lancer lately, and I got the terrible awful no good very bad idea to try and convert AC6 into a Lancer campaign, so I need to go in to collect lore, take notes about characters, look at mech loadouts, etc. and there are at least like 30 unique NPCs I'm already looking at having to build without even getting into the boss fights or standard enemies.

I then spent like 3 hours failing to kill Iguazu because the nerf to Zimmerman, Songbird, and all the ephemera parts meant I have less health and deal less damage and the fucker keeps living with like 5% health when I'm running out of repair kits, like I can tangibly feel the nerfs gatekeeping me from beating this boss fight I've already done

[studiohromi]

Collagetober Day 31: Abstract

Mixed media (ink, watercolor, construction paper, vintage magazine ephemera, model kit packaging, flash card) on Yupo paper

Prompt list from @marianneburgerstudio

That's a wrap!! I'll post a roundup of all 31 collages soon, with some thoughts about the daily challenge and my approach/process. Thanks for following along, if you did. 💛

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

Tagged by the lovely @jamietarttsnorthernattitude to post the first lines of ten stories:

Here’s a secret: it was Jamie’s fault his dad came back. The Hedgehog's Dilemma

2. It said something about him, probably, that Roy stayed on the bike through Jamie’s awful, gut-wrenching story, through his own grit-toothed confession that he’d irreparably fucked it with the woman he thought, once upon a time, that he’d spend the rest of his life with, only to lose it on the straight. Tell Me Something True

3. They're up at Burnley and it's snowing; lightly at first, a dusting of white over grass through the second half that had them shivering in their kits as they slid mud-spattered across the pitch. Ephemera

4. Jamie's got one boot on when Cartrick storms into the dressing room, red in the face and shouting that the fucking bitch has fired him and good fucking riddance; gone and pissed away whatever chance they had at avoiding relegation, she has, just they wait. All I Have (And a Little More)

5. Keeley spent half the night after Richmond won against Watford in her office. Flightless Birds

6. I will wait here for an hour, a day, a year, he says, but in the end they stand facing each other under the speckled green of the forest canopy a mere quarter hour before Israel Hands stumbles awake, and perhaps it is luck or perhaps it is grief that Flint, formidable fighter though he is, loses first his sword and then his footing. Requiem for a Monster (Black Sails)

7. There’s a line at the edge of the village where you were born (not your village, not for a long time, maybe never) that marks the start of the law. Dragonslayers (original fic)

8. The very first time, when he is truly thirteen, he wakes to starlight and an ache in his muscles. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same (original fic)

9. This is how it starts: with a stream of stars past the window and the echo of a tinny newsfeed from two rooms over. Emmetropia (original fic)

10. Two days past the end of the tresset, the air still held an electric buzz as the angry roiling purple of the clouds faded to a hazy pink before slowly clearing to blue. What's Past is Prologue (original fic)

Tagging @thirteenemeraldcats, @jamiesfootball, and @asteria-argo if you want to play!

[c0zm1c-r3y]

STICKERMANCY: AN INTRODUCTION

hello everyone! I am excited to introduce a new form of divination that I randomly came up with! I hope you enjoy it!

i will also make a side blog to share my experiences with this, and i’ll link it in my pinned post!

so, what is stickermancy anyway?

well my friend, you are about to find out! This form of divination is based off of charm casting and tarot, and it’s called stickermancy because you use (you guessed it!) stickers! But you don’t have to use just stickers, as i have used paper ephemera from scrapbooking kits and memo pad sheets as well!

that sounds pretty cool! how did you come up with such a great idea?

well to be honest, It’s just charm casting with stickers and paper. I was researching charm casting, and somehow it got me thinking about the near hundreds of sticker sheets that i had laying around… so I thought, hey! Might as well use these somehow! And BAM! Stickermancy was born! (You can also call it sticker casting if you want, because that was its original name. But i think stickermancy is a cooler name, don’t you think?)

Cool! So how do i start doing this?

well, to do this, you really only need 2 things: paper for sticking, and stickers to put on it! But you don’t necessarily need stickers! Here are some alternatives you can use, on their own or with other materials:

Paper cutouts (magazines, printed photos, etc)

scrapbook ephemera (you can find cool little sets with loads of items on amazon!)

memo pad pages/cute sticky notes (if you don’t really have anything with interesting designs, and just have plain colored items, you can assign color meanings with your intuition! More on meanings below, and I might make a separate post for meanings too.)

so once you gather your supplies, you can decide whether to make meanings as you go along, or just make a list of meanings beforehand, like charm casters do. I personally think making up meanings as you go along makes it more fun, as you can interpret the stickers according to your question and you don’t need to worry about looking for that one specific sticker that you need answers from… plus I have way too many stickers and scrapbook supplies.

so… I’ve gathered my stickers, now what?

Well, now you can ask a question, or use a spread, (like a charm casting sheet or a tarot spread,) and you can even channel this way! When you start, just try to find the first sticker sheet or paper that really catches your eye, then place your favorite sticker on that sheet on your paper! Then, try to find a meaning for the sticker. For example, i’m a reality shifter, so when I channeled my s/o from my desired reality, he greeted me with an orange heart sticker. So here’s what I gathered:

So in my desired reality, my hair is orange, and it’s my favorite color, so the color orange represents me.

and hearts represent love, so that’s pretty obvious.

so he basically said, “hi, it’s you, and I love you!” (But mostly the I love you part, because that’s what the sticker meant. I just added the “hi” because i had just started talking to him.)

so, when making meanings, here’s some tips!:

Use your intuition, and draw from your own experiences! For example, if you have a sticker of a cartoon character, you can base your meaning off of the character’s personality, and if you want, how you feel about the character! I’m gonna use mickey mouse as an example, if you loved watching mickey mouse as a kid, then you can make the meaning something like “being nostalgic” or “listen to your inner child” since mickey mouse has big ears. (I know, i know, that’s a weird comparison, but it works, right?)

use colors! I personally use the colors to represent emotions or areas of life when I don’t channel, and when I channel people from my desired reality, i use colors to represent certain people in that reality!

if in doubt, place another sticker! Use your intuition and place it where you feel is best on the paper. Then, look at where you placed your stickers, how far away they are, etc, and make up a meaning for your new sticker. (Note: if you have multiple sticker sheets, you can switch things up and use different kinds of stickers! If not, you’ll be fine, just use the next sticker you see!)

so there you have it! Like I said before, I’ll make a side blog for this and record my experiences and add more tips there!

Happy sticker placing!

[coffeeandsugar-store]

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[aspiringpolymath]

July 2023 Reading Wrap Up

I've been pondering starting a bookish instagram, but in the likely event I never do, here are the monthly wrap up images I made for July 2023. (If it doesn't have a rating it just means it was too short or too . . . personal? to easily rate. I didn't track DNFs on these graphics, but I DNF'ed seven books.

*sigh*

Of course, I wrote a bunch of stuff about the books here, but then tumblr ate my words. So, on the off chance you have a question about anything I read, let me know.

I might keep posting here, if no one minds and I find it easy enough to keep up with. I'm hoping to make the graphics a little less rough and ready in future.

Also, I will list the books for accessibility purposes.

Indelicacy by Amina Cain - libby - novella - 3.5 stars

Assembly by Natasha Brown -libby - novella - 5 stars

Red’s Wolf by Beth Laycock - freeb - novella - 3.5 stars

Sergeant Delicious by Annabeth Albert - freeb - re-read - short - 3.5 stars

Sea Lover by J.K. Pendragon - smashwords - novella - 4 stars

45 and Holding by Jacki James and Jill Wexler - ku - 4 stars

The Stablemaster’s Heart by Sarah Honey - arc - 4.5 stars

Kiss Me Like You Mean It by Jacki James - ku - novella - 2.5 stars

Overtime by Marina Vivancos - arc - 3 stars

A Lifetime Kissing You by Riley Hart - ku - 4.25 stars

Like a Charm by Jordan Castillo Price - ku - short - 2.5 stars

The River’s Edge by Jordan Castillo Price - ku - short - 3 stars

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer by S. E. Harmon - arc - 3.75 stars

Not Over You by Samantha Wayland - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram - libby - 5 stars

Nothing Special by Jay Northcote - audio re-read - 4.25 stars

Open Throat by Henry Hoke - audiobook - novella - 4.25 stars

Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame - library - 3.75 stars

Sincerely Harriet by Sarah W. Searle - mg - graphic novel - library - 3 stars

Dirty Slide by KD Casey and Lauren Blakely - audiobook - novella - 3.5 stars

Ephemera by Briana Loewensohn - graphic memoir - library - no rating

Rockstar and Softboy by Sina Grace - graphic novel - hoopla - 3.5 stars

Like I Needed by Charlie Novak - ku - 3.75 stars

Dirty Steal by KD Casey and Lauren Blakely- audiobook - novella - 3.75 stars

The (Pet) Detective Agency by Noji - manga - hoopla - 3.5 stars

Love & Vermin by Will McPhail - cartoons - hoopla - 4.25 stars

It’s Paradise, Baby by KD Ryan - novella - 4 stars

Out in the Country by Alexandra Hale - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

Second Chance at First Love by N.R. Walker - ku - novella - 3.5 stars

An Exception by Megan Derr - hoopla - short - 3.5 stars

Use as Wallpaper by Glenn Quigley - freeb - short - 4.25 stars

Five Dares by Eli Easton - 1 star (for extenuating reasons, have liked other stuff by the author)

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera - own/hoopla audio - mg - 4 stars

Mistletango by Alexandra Caluen - hoopla - 4 stars

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood - graphic novel - libby - ya - 4 stars

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood - hoopla - graphic memoir - 4.25 stars

Quest of Fools by Megan Derr - smashwords - 3.25 stars

Fairy Wings by Sasha L. Miller - smashwords - novella - 3.5 stars

Deal Maker by Lily Morton - audiobook re-read - 4 stars - more frustrating in audio

Riding the Wave by Daria Fisher - sapphic short - freeb smashwords - too short to rate, really

Thieves by Lucie Bryon - graphic novel - f/f - ya - library - 4.25 stars

Aug 9 - Fog by Kathryn Scanlan - libby - too strange to rate

The Best Men by Sarina Bowen and Lauren Blakely - ku - 4.5 stars - very expertly done

Garbage by Reese Morrison - arc/ku - 3 stars

Fine by Rhea Ewing - graphic non-fiction - library - 4.5 stars

Silent Sin by E.J. Russell - audiobook - 4 stars

Sweat Connection by Katherine McIntyre - arc - 4 stars

[cephalonserotonin]

Devstream 178 Notes

Megan has cool pants! Rebb has a cool earring!

Dante Unbound

next week!

"We wanted to bring lore! Important for us for people who want some texture… with their food…?" lol

Hence, even though there's no quest with this update, lots of lore! Drusus and other leverian stuff

Dante prex:

They mentioned no sticky corners and someone in the audience cheered.

Styanax deluxe

Nipple talk

Gauss Prime's little goofy run is gonna be an emote! for plat! "This is only a microtransaction panel" - Rebb

Banshee, Loki, and Nekros voidshells!! And some Loki QOL: some buffs, customizable invisibility, and an augment!

Easter bunny ears have FUR (using tech for the companion rework) and are now PERMANENT! "Nobody could stop me," - Rebb (Geoff boos)

Protea prime! Including her gear!

And Velox prime, Okina prime, Rhoptron prime syandana (this is GORGEOUS), a bonus alt helmet that moves, and an ephemera (no asset for this yet)

Yareli deluxe!, the Kompressa deluxe

"If you haven't played Yareli, maybe depending on where you get your warframe news…" LMAO the subtlest shade. I've liked Yareli from the beginning and definitely thought the initial backlash to her kit was overblown, so

blah blah soulframe

New update between Dante and Tennocon featuring the Stalker: Jade Shadows

Jade, our 57th warframe

Cinematic quest update from the Stalker's point of view!

J is the second to last letter we need to cover the alphabet, we're just missing U Audience member: what about Umbra? Rebb: No, that's Excalibur Umbra. If your arsenal said Umbra Excalibur you might stand a chance in court.

Warframe 1999

Very much a Warframe update, but a different style of update. New lore, lots of content, a new Warframe chapter. The gorgeous Arthur is our poster boy.

It's not a single player Warframe spinoff, a "Warframe 2" (I confess I was among those theorizing this). Those nipples stay on.

and now, waking up from his nap… it's Ben Starr! "Arthur is a very mysterious character who I am bound by NDA to say… VERY little about!" He's SO cool. and REALLY sexy. He's relatable. He's gonna be a badass, he's got a samurai sword.

Excalibur is a frame. Arthur is a PROTO-FRAME.

Just as an aside, Ben is adorable and hilarious, very fun to watch.

Stuff about Conflict between humanity and the non-human.. "you don't perceive humanity without how it reacts to others."

a first look at Aoi, our proto-Mag, and I am GAY SCREECHING

Bike: the atomicycle

Q&A

Audience member in a (Uniqlo?) metal gear rising revengeance shirt that Rebb recognized and appreciated: when is my man Caliban getting buffed? A: If Pablo were here, he'd say ask me at TennoCon.

Q: any other warframes getting reworks? A: Inaros rework coming with Dante unbound. Loki rework not planned.

Q: What inspired proto-Mag's design? A: Liger did Arthur and Aoi. We had a very specific vision for those two protoframes: Arthur being the "man scout," and Aoi we wanted a nice contrast to Arthur.

Q: Two questions very well worded I didn't get them down in time because I was nodding along. About stat sticks / pseudo-exalteds and trading. A: Stat sticks: we've talked about it but no changes planned. Trading: we've talked about maybe adding riven filters but not much more than that.

Q from guy in Dante DMC trenchcoat: Drifters? Maybe new outfits? A: In Unbound we are bringing one more operator outfit to drifter.

Q: I've been playing Warframe for 10 years, and I'm legendary 4. Any additional benefits for high rank players? A: The social benefits of being a high-rank player are unexplored. In terms of more mechanical aspects… we're thinking more social benefits. congrats on being legendary 4!

Q: When's infested liches? A: Steve is that you

Q In the second metal gear shirt: warframe 1999... dark sector? A: A lot of what Warframe was built on was the scifi part of dark sector that was never meant to be. So it's poetically coming full circle, that 1999 is dark sector inspired. Q: is there a plan for the dark sector remaster? A: 1999 is the dark sector remaster.

Q: Is there going to be fashion protoframes? A: Actually, yes… And that's all I'll say on that.

Q from Leon Kennedy: is squad link coming back? A: RIP scarlet spear. Not coming back in the way you might think, but we're experimenting early days with something you might like. It's in an urn. Geoff: that's pretty dead. Rebb: Someone hasn't played Baldur's gate 3! It's not totally dead, but mostly dead.

Q: Has anyone at DE considered a TTRPG or even a war game? you could blow games workshop completely out of the water. I'd rather give money to you than them any day. A: We're all fans of that kind of content, we'd endorse fan content, but we don't have the time to pursue it. Q: Has anyone considered modular ("kit") frames? A: We have considered it, but it didn't seem shippable. Seemed scope-scary.

Q: Are you, Rebb, personally happy with the way movement works at this very moment? A: Are you asking pre- or post- sticky corners? Q: Post. Also is Soulframe taking from the movement in Warframe? Geoff: Soulfame is very much in the opposite direction of Warframe, movement-wise. Rebb: I always thought it'd be fun to explore wall running in Warframe. But other than that, I love it. I think it's the best movement system in the third person games space. Every other game I play I try and bullet jump and aim glide. Questioner agrees.

Soulframe question I used to catch up on my above notes

Q: If you could go on a date with a warframe, which one?… me, it's Grendel. Ben: what would you do on that date? Questioner: just eat :) Geoff: Excalibur? (Rebb: that's very Raphael-coded of you. Little Baldur's Gate reference for you) Mag: Probably Valkyr. Rebb: why choose? All of them >:) Ben: pick one for me. Rebb: Mirage. Ben: What would I do? Rebb: Circus act. You are the circus.

Q: What was your favourite part of developing 1999, and Ben, what was your favourite part of voicing Arthur? A: Some stuff we haven't announced yet. As with most characters I play, there's something lovable about him despite his rough exterior… rough but he's nice about it. He's gonna do something to you, but he's gonna kiss you afterward. Rebb: I think it's quite sacred to introduce protoframes like this. We're being quite sacred about it (it's not Mag and Excal, it's Aoi and Arthur). Ben: The ways in which you're exploring that dynamic is very cool, and very 90s.

Q: Rebb, what are the things that plague you? A: My plagues are supported by the development team. I'm not alone; whenever I have an ailment, I have someone that to help support me with it. Geoff: I've genuinely never seen someone care so much. He gets teary. \*audience cheers as REBB DESERVES\* Same asker: when is my girl Titania getting buffed? A: Controversial question, she's pretty strong. I could see Tribute receiving some QOL to be easier to use (some Tribute). But those dex pixia, they do kill.

Q in a Warframe sweater with a Warframe backpack!: Which NPC would you be most likely to be besties with? Ben: Fibonacci Rebb: We love you Neil! Ben: If you don't have a cranky fish as a friend, what are you doing. Megan: I love Ordis :) especially little trash can ordis Rebb: you better say Lotus, Geoff >:) Geoff: Lotus. Rebb: Hard not to love Little Duck. We'd be besties for sure, drinking in the back room.

Q: if Teshin can have his head crushed and come back, what about Veso? A: He died a hero, I'm sorry.

Q: When can we get points to Dante his brother? A: ??? audience member yells out "VIRGIL!" Rebb: \*laughs\* maybe the bike is Virgil (This is a devil may cry reference)

Q: clan to clan interaction? Haven't had that since solar rails? A: Ok so in the urn we have squad link.. \*laugh\* We are trying to do more clan events. They work for by the book tasks. There's opportunity there we haven't explored. No leaderboards. I'll try to do more.

Q: I'm curious how you develop characters as a Warframe team. I've noticed a lot of references to mythology. A: it's a library of devs that have passions. The team is just really diverse and loves really cool shit. The amount of inspiration we get to name things thematically, we have touched lore I didn't know existed. When it comes to Warframes, we're still looking at old Keith Thompson drawings… he's built different.

Q: I'm sorry to take you back in the morgue. Void keys. Will there be a return to the old void and endless missions? A: We're not in the morgue here, we're in ICU. Visiting hours are open. I loved the old voidkey system. We did a soft tease with Dagath keys, it had wins and losses… There were user experience problems. But it's not totally dead. The omnia fissures are kind of that vibe. You can bring any relic to an omnia fissure and just haul ass.

Q: Can we get a toggle for Protea's visor? A: The rigging artist working on it talked about it. Maybe. You're right, it would be nice.

Q: Fashion frame question. Have you considered a DE color palette, like, Megan's greatest hits? A: That sounds like a great idea :) We're doing it.

Q: Are we ever going to see new necramechs? A: I hate saying probably not. No new ones in 1999 at least. We're touching up the ones we have before we go to the morgue, and grab a skull, to make a a new one. Sorry

Q holding a Clem plushie: when more Clem??? A: We'll see. Clem holds a special place in our heart. He's not in the morgue, I promise.

Q: I've been coerced into asking a question on behalf of someone who's not here. He's made it clear if I don't get a satisfactory answer I won't see my family again. Are there any plans to look at spawn rates for loot and reactants? A: I'm gonna keep talking until you can get your family out safely, I'm filibustering. There's performance issues, we want to get safe on all platforms. The worst offenders we can probably fix. We can increase reactant drop rates. Loot rates is harder to solve.

Q: if you have Drifter selected, can you use drifter melee? A: We thought it was important to keep drifter melee in duviri, but… why not? We could try. Drifters can't mod though. It's not impossible, but it'd take some time.

Q: Warframe being predominantly PVE, has there been talk of collaboration among clans? A: I implied it with the other question, but a social benefit would be great. I'd love to see you make friends with other clans

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During his month as a writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, in 2022, Chris Spaide’s favorite place to spend time was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s office. Merrill, who died in 1995, had designed the cozy nook so it was easy to move from working on his latest poem at one of two desks to playing Solitaire or reading on the burnt orange daybed. And, in a playful nod to childhood fantasy, the whole room was tucked away behind a secret door masquerading as a bookcase, its own hidden world. A critic and poet in his own right, Spaide spent some days writing at one of the desks. But mostly he contemplated the contents of the room itself, looking through Merrill’s prodigious postcard and record collections or lounging on the daybed.

The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. (Credit: Rise Media)

When he wasn’t in the office, Spaide pored over the rest of the eccentrically decorated apartment, seeking crumbs of understanding. A self-professed “true nerd” of Merrill’s work, who has taught a six-part course on the topic, Spaide took this endeavor seriously. In the kitchen he browsed the cookbooks and admired Merrill’s madeleine pan (“he was a great fan of Proust”). Examining the board games, Spaide found old scorekeeping notes stashed in the Scrabble set. And he made it a project to flip through every single one of Merrill’s books during his stay, looking for scribbles. “I really went in to do fieldwork, to live in his house and life,” Spaide says. Some days he spent sixteen hours straight exploring the apartment.

This kind of deep immersion into a literary hero’s everyday world is possible only for participants of a particular kind of program, one that has become increasingly popular in recent years: the writer’s residency at a famous author’s house. At some of these residencies, writers cook, sleep, and work in the historic location. In others (like the Merrill House) they stay nearby but are given remarkable access to the home. Regardless, these programs offer both the luxury of space and time to write and the chance to have a close-up encounter with a writer they’ve long admired—sometimes so close it can feel a little uncomfortable.

Many of these residencies bolster attendees’ work in the same ways more standard programs do. They offer much-needed financial support for struggling writers, organize small cohorts that become close friends, and provide key opportunities for cross-pollination among fellows. Residencies at Millay Arts, run out of the classic Sears-kit barn that Edna St. Vincent Millay erected with her husband next to their home in upstate New York in 1926, have been nurturing artists and writers for a half century. Because the residency is open to writers across genres and artists across disciplines, visiting fiction writers are often moved to write poetry, and playwrights are inspired to pen essays. “You feel this presence of fifty years of other people putting their creative work in; you feel the energy,” says Calliope Nicholas, the Millay Arts codirector and manager of residency programs. The program also features the services of an on-site chef who does the grocery shopping and prepares communal dinners.

At the residency offered by the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, writers stay on the town square in tiny Piggott, Arkansas, where Ernest Hemingway often visited the family of his then wife, Pauline, beginning in the late 1920s. In one program highlight, participants are invited to write in the studio where the author worked on A Farewell to Arms (1929). They also receive a $1,000 stipend and teach a workshop for local writers during their stay. Adam Long, executive director of Arkansas State University’s heritage sites, says many visiting professors find the workshop to be a refreshing escape from the insularity of MFA culture, especially since participants tend to focus on memoir or Southern-style family storytelling over literary fiction. Still, some people struggle with the isolation of staying in an unknown small town and the practicalities of rural life. With their needs in mind, Long has assembled a set of survival tips and advice he tries to give fellows as they arrive. Lesson one: Forget at your peril that Arkansas restaurants still close on Sundays.

Other challenges associated with this type of residency are less mundane, involving the quirks of working in historic homes. Residents at Hemingway-Pfeiffer must schedule time in advance to work in Hemingway’s office, for example, “as opposed to if we were on an academic campus and I could give them a key,” Long says. There they work at a nonarchival desk within the author’s studio, to avoid damaging the historic item. And they are permitted to bring only water inside—a challenge for the many perennially caffeinated writers who visit.

Elsewhere, residents at the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, a museum devoted to the writer in her childhood home in Columbus, Georgia, must contend with occasional tours and events in their space. Nonfiction writer Jennifer Hope Choi, who completed a residency there in 2017, remembers finding it unsettling to wake up to strangers in the yard or rummaging through the fridge. “I wasn’t quite sure who would show up, if they’d have access to the house,” she says.

To many fellows these complications are a small price to pay for the chance to uncover some deeper truth about beloved writers—to sit where they sat, touch what they touched. “When you’re walking through the property, you can imagine how it looked through her eyes when she was around,” says Nicholas about Millay. That sense of place, built through the prosaic detritus of an author’s life, can inspire feelings of deep connection, Long adds. That’s what brings tourists to the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, he says, “and I think that’s also why writers want to come. Place helps us to connect with stories.”

For program participants in Piggott, that might mean working in Hemingway’s studio, surrounded by his personal effects. (Long’s favorite is the unopened box of clay pigeons addressed to the author.) It also might mean exploring the area, which Hemingway loved for its nature and quiet. For residents at Millay Arts, it might mean wandering in the author’s gardens, which are otherwise closed to the public; imagining her hosting wild parties on the property (no clothes allowed in the pool); or visiting the family gravesite where her ashes were scattered. For Spaide at Merrill House, it meant an unprecedented opportunity to dig for morsels of insight into the writer and his work. Having previously authored an academic article about Merrill’s relationship to Asia, Spaide found it enlightening to sift through the books and souvenirs Merrill had brought home from his travels there. He especially loved stumbling on an accordion-folded Japanese notebook inscribed with his poem “The Summer People.”

Similarly, when writer and archivist Jenn Shapland spent a month at the McCullers Center as she researched the author’s unfinished biographies—a sort of unofficial residency—she sat at Carson McCullers’s desk, soaked in the upstairs tub, and watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the (slipcovered) couch where the author wrote the 1961 novel Clock Without Hands. Spending time among the ordinary trappings of McCullers’s life, she says, “I was able to see Carson as just a person and see myself trying to inhabit her life and understand her. And perhaps most importantly, my time in the house showed me the limits of my ability to know her.”

Shapland found living in a functioning museum to be “unsettlingly material,” somehow simultaneously uncanny and homey. But for some writers that mix of material intimacy and otherworldliness can be thoroughly discomfiting. Though she was deeply grateful for the time, space, and support the residency provided, “when you’re surrounded by a deceased person’s belongings, it’s not exactly joyful,” Choi says. She found the house’s main exhibit room, which features photos of McCullers, along with her glasses, cane, and tea set, “incredibly creepy” and avoided it when she could. “Generally speaking, living there alone was very scary,” she says. She acknowledges that the feeling was compounded by the project she was there to research, which focused on a Georgia serial killer. But Choi has heard other former fellows express feelings of unease as well, including whispers about encounters with ghosts.

Even Spaide, with his exploratory zeal, felt that chill. Some early fellows stayed directly in Merrill’s apartment, rather than in the current designated lodgings at his partner’s next door. “I was never tempted because I would have been too spooked out,” Spaide says. (Still, that didn’t stop him from using the home’s resident Ouija board; Merrill was a famous enthusiast.) Beyond supernatural concerns, Spaide also sought not to cross the subtle line he saw between enthusiastic visitor and something more invasive. Peeking at Scrabble scores and inside books felt like friendly inquiry; sleeping in Merrill’s bed felt, somehow, very different. “I wanted to be a good guest; I didn’t want to do anything I wouldn’t do with a generous host,” Spaide says.

At Millay Arts, the writers tend to take any inherent spookiness in gleeful stride. Sure, the metal fruit baskets that hang in the kitchen might occasionally move when there’s no breeze. But that doesn’t stop residents from watching scary movies together or conducting midnight rituals by the family gravesite, imbibing Millay’s favorite liquor, Nicholas says. “Millay loved gin, so they’ll do gin libations and start feeding each other ghost stories, and it starts to build up from there.”

Though she didn’t take issue with the eerier aspects of staying in the historic home surrounded by the belongings of a long-dead family, Shapland did find the experience remarkable. “The rest of the house, apart from the kitchen, was museum territory, and it was hard to distinguish what was house from what was museum,” she says. “I ended up getting a lot out of this liminality.” That experience eventually played an important role in her genre-bending book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House, 2020).

In many cases, that strange magic of the in-between, combined with the intimacy of submerging so fully in an artist’s material life, seems to affect residents in unexpected ways. Writers frequently report newfound clarity and insight, as well as productivity that takes surprising forms.

At Hemingway-Pfeiffer, residents “seem surprised a lot of times by how rewarding that workshop is,” Long says. At Millay Arts, Nicholas finds it “fun to watch people coming in who have a set objective of what they want to accomplish from their time here, but they end up having paradigm shifts.”

And despite Choi’s discomfort with her surroundings at the McCullers Center, her experience there figures significantly in The Wanderer’s Curse, forthcoming in 2025 from W. W. Norton. Before she arrived a friend advised her to be gentle with herself and flexible about the idea of how working there might look. “Reading is something; sitting there is something,” the friend told her, adding, “What comes from it all might not be what you expect.”

Seven years later, the little details and offhand observations Choi began writing down in an attempt to record the textures of her experience at the house—one favorite example is the industrial carpet mailers that arrived addressed to “Mr. Carston McCuller”—have taken on greater weight. With enough hindsight those notes became an essential resource, a contemporaneous reflection of what “ended up being incredibly crucial and actually a significant turning point in my life,” she says.

Spaide similarly struggled with productivity anxiety before his stay at the Merrill House. But once he arrived, it became clear that the exploration of Merrill’s belongings was the work—that “sifting through his board game collection and looking at his fancy wooden dominoes gave me important information,” he says. With that approach in mind, watching sunrises or sunsets through the apartment windows as Merrill once did, finding unexpected annotations in his books, and daydreaming at his desk behind that remarkable hinged bookcase became just as worthwhile as sketching out new poems or essays. “It was incredibly productive and enlightening, and I hope to never forget what I learned there,” he adds, “and I hardly wrote anything.”

Alissa Greenberg is an independent journalist based in Boston and Berkeley, California, who reports at the intersection of science, history, and culture. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and elsewhere. If she could be a resident at any author’s home, she would choose that of Nellie Bly.