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[ballad-of-the-lamb]

I've been bingeing your art in this blog for, like, the last hour. Sooo much good stuff!

Can we hear more about notable members of the Cult? Cheese Parm's s/o and such

cult info below cut b/c i'm gonna be typing a lot;

Everyone listed here are basically the main runners/cast when it comes to plot relevance in the story in itself. there are plenty of cast & characters that aren't- but they wont pop up for anything other than background characters perhaps staring on in horror at god antics or one another's antics.

we'll start from the top;

GALLOWS [ girlyed cheese ]

the most recent member of the cult to be saved specifically by the lamb themself from sacrifice within Darkwood.

a lot of cult conflict will begin with the uninitiated, the unknowing. and the influence of the twin gods will be seen on her in real time as the story progresses.

she is generally a very generic playful-but-tricky fox character, but there's a lot she hides; much like the rest of the cult members. her past is not happily talked about, or seldom is.

she was a native to Darkwood. She is chaotic because of it.

she was meant to be burned at the stake.

EKPYROSIS [ asbestos ]

This word derives from a Greek word for a great fire. It represents a belief held by some scholars of Stoicism, that says that the universe has no beginning or end, and instead is destroyed and remade in a great conflagration in a cyclic manner. Just as life & death ever are.

Her name stands out among the rest of the cult because it was the name that the Lamb bestowed upon her upon being given the title of disciple. Just as Narinder took Baal & Aym to learn from him, the Lamb took her.

Her previous name is not known to anyone mind the Lamb themself, Narinder, and cheese parm.

She is more inclined to using and being influenced by the eldritch artifacts & relics the Lamb or Narinder tend to return with.

She leaves an uneasy and terrible 'uncanny valley' feeling tenfold within her vicinity, which makes her hard to be around. It is not just being outright creepy- but it's a lot more akin to literally feeling reality dip and bow around you into something not quite right.

She does not move like a normal person. The way she walks, runs, jumps- it's all too impossible to replicate without someone shattering every bone in their body.

When she speaks, her voice is delayed from her mouth. And it doesn't always line up perfectly.

most notably; cheese parm hates her. for good reason.

OTHERA [ bong water ]

An average cult member on the surface. They are a caretaker, they are matronly, they work as the local therapist. Generally just likes taking care of people.

When the Lamb, Disciples, & Narinder aren't around to listen to confessionals in the booth they are typically who does.

It's an unspoken rule to not make them angry or let them get to '1' when they start counting down from 5.

He is typically known for the reason morale is good. A good shoulder to rely on.

He is the third oldest member of the cult, resurrected multiple times over to serve his purpose, next to cheese parm & his sister. they are also the only one that asbestos seems to actively fear besides cheese parm.

EUNOMIA [ they/theminem ]

Eunomia was a minor goddess of law and legislation, whose name means "Good Laws", and is specifically a goddess of order according to good governance.

The second disciple. Known for learning the use of the Lamb's personally created curses specifically, though does know the ones Narinder passed on. They do not deem themselves worthy enough to use those.

Generally a very angry & spiteful person for a multitude of reasons. It mostly comes down to 'bearer of the curse' and the curse being knowledge.

They are the only one really permitted to 'backtalk' due to how much they actually do know their place.

they are very heavily disciplined under the rule of self-flagellation, and know the tenants and rites better than anyone else in the cult. even the head ritualist.

as said on paper. cheese parm's s/o. the significantly scarier one. they have not had a reason to be scary in a good couple hundred years! don't make them start now.

has 2 adopted kids w/ cheese parm they raise.

PANKRATIAST [ cheese parm ]

The Pankration is a sport of unarmed combat that featured in the ancient Olympic Games in Greece. This specific association fits as he's specifically an unarmed fighter first and foremost.

While not a disciple, is considered one generally in 'importance' to the higher ups of the cult. While he is no more important than Gallows, Othera, Minced Meat, or any other average member- he has the veteran's respect.

Was given a name by the Lamb, and since he does not speak, it's not like he can correct anyone otherwise.

well. doesn't talk. only ever communicates in vague grunts and noises that voice displeasure or a neutral 'ok'

Generally considered stoic, he does not feel strongly about most things.

The village executioner. The head missionary. Bartender. Does all the jobs no one else wants to do, and even others when no one else does it.

Smells of gore & wet dog constantly.

Knows. Remembers. Knows why death is broken, knows how it broke, will not tell Lamb or Narinder. He is a Witness.

Knows all the weaponry the Lamb uses & can use it just as effectively on a physical level.

The first of the flock. Will be there even when there is no more flock to have. As it will ever be, pinkie promised back in the Silk Cradle back where he was first found.

ILONA [ taco bell qsdea ]

a specialist in alchemy, cooking, & plants. Tends to the farms, gardens, & warding stones.

The first of the cult members Narinder warmed up to directly after descension. They brought him food every day, they gave him supplies, and other than the Lamb- they were the first to not be terrified of him.

They are very blind and often need a guide when they are not allowed to use their clicks and noises to find the way.

They are immune to Gallows' tricks and run off of the 'fae logic' of most things.

Their name means 'joy'. A name they decided on after speaking to Narinder for a time.

The first cult members recruited directly after Narinder's descension.

Immune to the horrors Somehow. There is something hiding behind those big ol eyes

Can fly. They have wings attached to their arms, and for it, require special clothes.

will be involved a lot in narinder plots

MINCED MEAT [ childbirth gambino ]

head cook but kind of as a threat. the lamb put them there for a reason. they are pretty mid.

constantly paranoid and in a state of fear or unease. Does not sleep because of it, and instead compulsively cooks almost all day and night.

most random screeches or noises in the cult come from this little guy

absolutely scared shitless of the Lamb.

The first Dissenter since the Lamb's ascension. They were made an example of. Now they will never. They have seen god's wrath, and would rather die.

narinder likes to bully this thing by hissing at him in the night

attached to beansnesed'd bsbisebies hip when in the chapel or out and about.

the prime example of 'the lamb is not a good person.'

ALOPE [ deep dish pizza ]

cheese parm's little sister. and borderline clone. she copies everything he's done up until adulthood when she started to become her own person. though it's been hundreds, if not thousands of years, she's still trying to figure out who she is.

made a pinkie promise to the lamb, just like cheese parm, to always be there. and she has!

ripped as fuck. like, more than cheese parm. huge. absolute beast thing.

the lamb prevented a fated death in her, the first time he ever did so, and for it her title is technically 'Saint Alope' within the cult for being the act of a miracle.

like her brother, never speaks vocally, never shows her face. gets across feelings through vague grunts. uses sign language where cheese parm does not.

the fastest in the cult. rivals narinder in base speed without using necklaces or unnatural abilities.

uses two ritual dirks or daggers at any given point, throwing knives, things of that sort. protects the village next to cheese parm, and you'll never hear her coming. totally, absolutely silent.

[miwhotep]

7 REASONS WHY MILVERTON CAN STILL BE ALIVE

Reading @diveintovortex 's recent post, I again, got inspired to make an analysis why Milverton can still be alive. I already did one like this before, related to the main antagonist of the James Bond universe, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but today's post will rely heavily on the manga. Here, I will raise seven points why Milverton might not gone yet and we can suspect to see him again.

1, CHARACTER DESIGN

Milverton is one of the most detailed, most bothersome to draw characters of Yuumori (especially with that hair). If we look more deeply into the manga, we can see that the characters who only appeared for a few chapters - like Whiteley - are always designed in a more simple way. Milverton's character design has too much work in it, it wouldn't worth it if this was all the storytime he got. Milverton's distinct look suggests that he was meant to be much more than just a plot-device overall, he is a character on his own who still has hella lot of potential in him.

2, EYE COLOUR

Yes, I can list it under the point above as well - but I wanna focus on this a little more. Only three characters has unnatural, symbolic eye colours in the series: William, the main character, his brother, Louis - who gets important later on - and Milverton. Considering this tendency, his eye colour - beside it referencing snakes - also implies that Milverton is an important character - again: a character, not a plot-device - but Milverton was mostly just a plot-device yet, whose role was getting Sherlock and William face each other. Maybe, just like Louis, he gets important later on.

3, THE LITTLE TRIVIAS

Milverton has some, for the plot, seemingly irrelevant trivia the manga just casually drops at us - like his branch firm in New York. This New York connection gets interesting since Sherliam also ended up in New York. Was this just a coincidence? Or we will come back to this in Part 2?

4, THE RUSKIN SCENE

Ruskin, unlike Milverton was never meant to be an important character - his character design got re-used from The Adventure of One Student and we didn't even get to know his first name - but the manga still gave him a little focus at the end of Two Criminals, where we can see him searching for Milverton instead of saving himself from the burning house. He most likely survived and I'm sure there was a reason his love for Milverton got some attention in that chapter. I used to speculate that it was to forecast that he will get back to get revenge for his boss later - but again, his character design doesn't suggest he is an important character. On the other hand, that scene could be also to hint that Ruskin will save Milverton. Ruskin is not stupid - he could suspect what happened from the open door where Milverton jumped out - and that door could also provide the fastest way for Ruskin to leave the about-to-crash house. Not much time passed since Milverton got shot who could survive if Ruskin gets him out of the water in time. If he jumped into the water to escape, he might've found Milverton as well.

5, THE WATER PARALLEL

This point was suggested by @shreddedleopard during one of our talks whom I fully credit the idea to. Milverton keeps paralelling William in poses, methods - and even in "death": William "died" by falling into the water, too. If this was meant to be yet another parallel between the two, that also suggests that Milverton as well, might turn out to be alive.

6, SHERLOCK AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS MURDER

Milverton's body was never found what let Sherlock escape from the consequences of the murder. However, this might not be the true reason why his body never got found - Milverton's death was actually too bothersome if it was meant to be only for this. It would've been simplier if he just got shot, dying inmediately and his body getting burned with the house and Sherlock could've get away with the murder in this case, too. Milverton also didn't got shot in the heart, but suffered injuries what he could survive if he gets treated in time. If the writer truly wanted us to fully believe that Milverton is dead, it could've been done easily with a heartshot.

7, YUUMORI IS A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADAPTATION

Despite that Moriarty the Patriot gets inspiration from other places than Sherlock Holmes stories - like the James Bond universe or The Dark Knight movie - it's still a story focusing on Sherlock Holmes characters - and the most iconic Sherlock villain beside Moriarty, Irene Adler or Moran is Charles Augustus Milverton... who still has lot of potential. And beside him, who could be the next antagonist in Part 2? The other Sherlock villains who didn't get used yet aren't as much of a big names. That's another point what can suggest that Milverton's arc is still unfinished.

Milverton not getting enough attention in Part 1 despite he clearly implied to be an important character was due to putting too much focus on him could complicate or even get the attention away from the Moriarty Plan what was the main theme of the series in Part 1. Maybe what we saw about Milverton yet was just an introduction and now, that we already know how dangerous and evil he can be, we can see more of his evil in Part 2. Because I'm sure if he is alive, he is ready to commit even bigger atrocities what we could imagine.

[askagamedev]

Thoughts on the Helldivers PSN situation?

For those who haven't been following this story, Helldivers 2 multiplayer originally required a linked PSN account in order to play. The PSN back end was not ready, so the developers turned off the requirement. Recently it came back on and several players were upset because their games stopped working. There was a review bomb and a lot of angry feedback, especially because PSN accounts are not available without a Playstation console in several geographic areas. [Sony posted yesterday] to say that they would no longer be requiring a linked PSN account for Helldivers 2 Multiplayer.

The situation is strange to me because there doesn't seem to be a lot of reason for any real controversy. Sony is making all PC games that they publish on Steam require PSN accounts. That in itself isn't that big a deal - lots of publishers require similar things. EA requires Origin accounts, Ubisoft has their UPlay ecosystem, Activision has Battle.net, Microsoft has XBox Live, and so on and so forth. Helldivers was always supposed to launch with this requirement but they ran into major technical issues at launch and had to disable the requirement (temporarily). I know that Ghost of Tsushima will also require a PSN account for multiplayer.

The second thing with PSN accounts not being allowed in various countries is an issue within Sony itself and has nothing to do with Helldivers. The Helldivers team did what they were contractually obligated to do - require a PSN account to play. Sony's internal PSN team is responsible for which countries are and aren't on the whitelist for account creation via PC. Most game sales are in North America, Western Europe, and Japan/South Korea. There just aren't quite as many players in Uzbekistan or Ukraine. When your customer count in those countries is in the dozens, it really doesn't rank very high on the priority list.

Early on, I think it should have been communicated to players that they would (eventually) need a PSN account to play multiplayer and possibly some other "here's something for your trouble" bonus in game to help provide some value to the player. Now that it's blown up so large, the decision to step it back is probably the right one. I think that, for Ghost of Tsushima PC, the PSN linking should be a requirement for the game from the jump so that people know exactly what they are getting.

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[asherloki]

Here’s an idea for a fluffy Sherlock fic/ os / blurb!!

Like imagine you get rejected by your crush and you come back to Sherlock’s flat and tell him what happened and he is shocked because he finds a lot of beautiful things in you (maybe even lists them in front of you) and like he can’t comprehend who wouldn’t be infatuated by you aaaaaw! Sorry I am a big fan of friends to lovers trope hehe!

The right one

Bbc Sherlock

Fluff

I came back to 221b after a long tiring, and perhaps a sad day. After entering I saw Sherlock playing his violin, he's been swamped up with work lately. So violin keeps him cool. I put my bag in my room and then stood behind him. He had no clue, I thought. But then after he finished playing his instrument he said without even turning to me, "did you like it?"

Then he turned to me and smiled.

"How did you know I was here?" I enquired I was absolutely sure he didn't see me coming.

"I'm not an idiot" he said politely "I saw you coming from the window."

I mean obviously, this is he the smart one and I the dumb one. He was standing to the window ofcourse he saw me coming.

"Well, that's true" said I and my facial expressions changed to how it was through the day, a little sadder.

"What's wrong?" He enquired, putting his violin back.

"Nothing to be bothered, I'm okay." I replied trying hard to smile for him.

"No no, do tell me" he insisted sitting on his chair. I thought, I should talk to him about it so I sat on John's chair and said, "I had a crush you probably know ".

"Yes from your university I presume."

"And how did you know that?"

"Easy, you check out yourself in the mirror before going to university more than usual, even when you go out with your friends group you don't check yourself out that much, and you always wear the dresses that looks best on you for university. Also when you return you always smile and blush to yourself, even sometimes you daydream and don't even listen to what I say."

Well now that's an elaborate deduction I thought.

"Yes, from there, so I confessed to him, about I may have been liking him". I said.

"And?"

"He used to flirt with me you know, used to say things I needed to hear, used to always be kind and be extremely flirty, I thought he liked me too."

"What did he say?" Sherlock asked impatiently.

"That those were nothing and he doesn't sees me that way, may be it's called rejection."

Sherlock and I sat in silence. A long moment of pause then he sighed and said, "why did he even flirted if he didn't feel anything?"

"I wish I knew."

"Who's this guy?"

To this I looked at him because I knew this is going to be awkward, "my.. um... My professor."

"Your WHAT?" He literally jumped from the chair to hear it.

"But don't worry he's young and ... Not much older."

"I wasn't thinking about age I was thinking about how could a professor flirt with their student and then reject like that."

He has a point though

"right but it's done now. Leave it okay."

"No, I mean how? What's not good in you, what's there in you to not to like?"

His questions made me think too, what could there be good in me?

"Like what?" I asked.

"Look at yourself, you're... I'm a man of cold reasoning and I'm unaware of everything that has something to do with emotions but you, you're beautiful. You're talented, you're writings and paintings. All of that. You're kind, I guess you've given me some of that that kindness too. I've felt more light recently, and most importantly" he paused before saying it, "my days were so dark, there was only night, with few of my friends shining like stars but you, you came as the sun, you turned my dark lifeless nights into day." He said with such passion that my mouth fell open.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Yes, you heard me, and I... I have always been afraid and have been away from Human emotions and now I know why, because when the right person comes, you can do anything, you can be anyone, even I, Sherlock Holmes, couldn't help but feel, feel affection for you."

I was stunned, what? This man felt so much and kept quiet?

"Why didn't you tell me you feel that strongly for me?"

"How could I? You're young and beautiful, you must choose someone of your age."

"You said age doesn't matter "

"Yes, not to me but I thought maybe to you it does." He said. I got up and walked towards him, cupping his face I said, "when it comes to you nothing matters, only you do."

I saw a his Lips curving into a smile and I felt a tear fell from my eye. I knew, at that very moment, that, no one will ever be able to love me, the way he does. Ever!

[thezombieprostitute]

Hi Zombie😌❤️ For your return trip:

I've read about intergalactic fics recently, and there's a particular interesting setting that soldiers could develop their spiritual animal that could fight alongside of them in a physical form.

Suppose you are one of the soldiers on the intergalactic battle field, who do you want to fight alongside with and why?(you could come up with their spiritual animals)

A. Ari, who always comes up with the craziest ideas and encourages you to jump from the fleet to the Bug's nest like he does. Crazy, but his plans always work out. Your superiors order you to pair up with him to train him to care about casualties.

B. Steve, who you can always count on to have your six. But he is even more reckless than Ari. You could only pray that he gets lucky and escape Death in the next battle. Your superiors order you to pair up with him so he doesn't go solo as he always wants to.

C. Curtis, who was born in Project Wilford, one of the deadliest soldiers alive. Rumor is he has gutted hundreds of Bugs in one battle, and made it out alive. He's mysterious and silent, and you can't help but wonder if he is a man or a literal killing machine. Your superiors pair you up with him to keep an eye on him, in case he runs wild.

Bonus Extra: D, Winter Soldier. The real Killing Machine. Losing an arm in a battle before scientists made him a robotic one. The only reason why your superiors ask you to pair up with him is because the winter soldier is highly unstable, and that he had asked to see you (why is that? You don't have the slightest clue)

Most of my contemplation on this has gone into what my own inner beast is/would be. I've settled on "Mutt". While different breeds can specialize in types of training, a mutt has the potential for all types, especially if it's a military service dog. So let's go through your list!

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Ari - I'm gonna say his inner beast (in this scenario) is a Firehawk. A bird that starts fires in order to flush out its prey with no consideration for the damage it causes.

For this, I'd probably be a mutt with guide dog training. Ari has this huge blindspot in his vision when it comes to casualties so I've been assigned to guide him through the parts he can't see. Additionally, guide dogs can practice selective disobedience so that they don't accidentally walk their human into traffic just because they got the command to walk. This will be very helpful for working with Ari and helping him to navigate casualty costs.

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Steve - I kinda wanna make Steve's inner beast a honey badger for this one. They are intelligent, fierce and survive a lot of things they shouldn't.

To help Steve's survivability, and to increase the likelihood he'll actually want to keep working with me, I think my inner beast would have to be a mutt trained for medical service. Whether it's getting him medical care or getting him out of danger until rescue can arrive, a medical service mutt would likely be most helpful.

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Curtis - I'm actually not sure what his inner beast would be. I'm torn between a shark and a large feline (i.e. Jaguar).

Either way, my inner mutt clearly needs PTSD/psychiatric support training. Learning to read his body language since he doesn't talk but also helping him find his voice again. Being a barrier between him and others when he needs it. Protecting him. Reminding him of his humanity and caring.

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Bucky - I'm sure a lot of people think Bucky's inner beast is a wolf. After all, one of his nicknames is White Wolf. But I don't think so. He's a sniper first. Silent, attacks from a distance, patient, solitary. His inner beast is an owl.

The reason he's asked for me is because, in this scenario, my inner beast is a mutt with military training in bomb detection. He lost his arm because, from his bird's eye view, he missed some traps that were set out. He's not gonna risk that again so he's asked for me to accompany him so we can keep each other safe. I'm his scout, his trap disarmer, bomb defuser, etc.

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I hope you find these answers satisfactory!

[seriously-mike]

Midha and Stoica are not the only ones who view AI regulation as existentially for the industry. Open-source AI has powered the most thriving Silicon Valley startup scene in years. Opponents of SB 1047 say the bill will benefit Big Tech’s closed-off incumbents instead of that thriving, open ecosystem.

From Gizmodo's article on new California bill designed (essentially in practice, let's cut the bullshit here) to give the major players like Microsoft, Google and Midjourney the monopoly on AI.

Because hey, I said it multiple times and I'll say it again: all the attempts at curbing AI development were dictated by either those who want to maintain the monopoly, like Microsoft by way of OpenAI, or those who want to jump on the AI bandwagon, cash out and kick everyone else off the bandwagon, like Manbaby McEmeraldmine.

I pointed out how full of shit the "miraculous" Nightshade is. It doesn't protect your art from the corporations by design - if it did, it would be SLAPPed into oblivion under flimsy pretenses like "unlawfully reverse-engineering proprietary software". Now we have a horde of Butlerian jihadists, egged on by self-proclaimed "AI experts" whose "expertise" ends on listening to sales pitch bullshit and reading decades-old science fiction novels, push an act to punish AI developers "for the potentially catastrophic dangers of their AI systems". I'm sorry, what "potentially catastrophic dangers" are we talking about in regard to tech that nobody trusts to do serious work? Are they expecting an explosion of fad diets involving rocks and Elmer's glue? Do they really think someone's gonna measure an important structure in kilotomatoes and uses a buffalo heart tomato as a reference instead of cherry tomato or the other way around? Are they preparing for airline chatbots stating it's okay to bring gallium, firearms or explosives onto an airplane?

"Potentially catastrophic dangers" is the usual term of "we have no idea how to grab you by the nuts and bring you to your knees, so we're making some new bullshit up". This can be compared to papal bulls against railroads or any homicidal bullshit the Khmer Rouge cooked up when left unattended. This is what the conservatives are making up in response to transgender people existing, and homosexual people existing in earlier decades, and women wearing trousers even earlier. Alarmist bullshit based on some sick fantasies, with no base in reality at all.

And who sponsors this bill? Oh boy.

Demis Hassabis (CEO, Google DeepMind)

Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI)

Bill Gates (Gates Ventures)

Kevin Scott (CTO, Microsoft)

That's just the beginning of the list. We will be fed a lot of corporate bullshit about how the billions of dollars the corporations have mean that every half-assed algorithm they push is perfectly safe, but basement-dwelling nerds who own nothing but a gaming PC and a box of Kleenex should be essentially forbidden from tinkering with open-source algorithms, because, uh, reasons. Like, cutting into a $250 million a year profits of a corporation.

But, the list doesn't end here. Who also signed the laughably brief and meaningless statement by, hahaha, "Center for AI Safety"?

Ya-Qin Zhang (Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University)

Yi Zeng (Professor and Director of Brain-inspired Cognitive AI Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Xianyuan Zhan (Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University)

Albert Efimov (Chief of Research, Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence)

Alvin Wang Graylin (China President, HTC)

Jianyi Zhang (Professor, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute)

Hongyi Zhang (Research Scientist, ByteDance)

Amazing, all of them not just outside of California, but also outside of the US and with a stake in AI research performed by US' direct economic competitors. This reminds me of the recent revelations about "Green" parties and movements in the EU, chiefly Germany, who received covert funding from Gazprom for fucking decades, all in the name of opposing clean nuclear energy and buying more and more Russian gas to be used for generating energy in the EU.

We're still not done, though. More names I'd like to point your attention to:

Vitalik Buterin (Founder and Chief Scientist, Ethereum, Ethereum Foundation)

Thuan Q. Pham (Former CTO, Uber, Board member, Nubank)

Josh Wolfe (Co-Founder & Managing Director, Lux Capital)

Miles Palmer (Founder, 8 Rivers Capital)

Crypto bros, bank board members, vulture capitalists, in one word: frauds. They want a return on their investment in the major corporations and can't afford any more shocking reveals that shitposts from Reddit are served as genuine advice and that corporate data models still contain shittons of copyrighted images from Disney et al. They also can't afford localized open-source models cutting into the corporate profit margins by virtue of barely working and still providing comparable results for less.

Don't get duped, folks. This bill is just another corporate-sponsored hit piece, and basted in alarmist bullshit three feet thick.

[fanficfish]

my HSR theory about warp jumps and the timeline

crossposted from my Reddit

So I was doing some thinking recently (read: last night in bed) and...I came up with some interesting ideas. And it has to do with the warp jumps. Also, Spoilers, but that should be obvious.

We know that warp jumps are basically like going through space tunnels of sorts- you go in one end and end up somewhere else at the other. We also know the train can't jump near another planet, and I assume it works kind of like the Dinosaur Train from the show of the same name. Where you travel for a bit, but to get somewhere else you go through a tunnel.

Now for timelines.

Average stops of the Express are 7 days per destination. At the Herta Space Station, the crew arrives presumably the day the Trailblazer wakes up. Within the same day, said Trailblazer manages to make some friends, defeat a giant monster, and then get knocked out for another day. I'm guessing the Express at least sticks around, to at least help clean up a little (there's a quest where you can log photos of the Express for compensation, and since the guy put together a list of several items already I'm guessing that happens towards the end of the stay). So let's asume the 7-day stop is normal. Plus, most medical professionals don't recommend immediately setting off on adventures right after something ike the Stelleron in your chest going haywire and having a guy knock you out for safety. So let's assume they stay at the HSS for a week, at the least.

Later on, March talks about how the Trailblzer is in charge of washing the coffee cups this week. And in Belebog, interacting with the luggage outside the Overworld hotel says "as a member of the Express, you know the importance of keeping luggage safe" or whatever. You have a suspicious amount of loyalty to the Express, and I'm not entirely convinced that's just your overcreative mind (cough cough hotel devil cough cough) being creative. And surely the Express won't warp jump twice in a row, it seems like it takes a bit of prep and timing and stuff. At any rate, time has definitely passed between Belebog and the Loufu.

So here's where my theory comes in.

We know that the tunnels are not like those in the show Dinosaur Train (hey look it's a good example of something simillar alright-). The tunnels in the show have a little bit inside them, like a normal tunnel, and they're not actually instant. We've seen the inside of tunnels and the outside of long tunnels. The warp jumps can't really be like this, because it's short enough that someone sitting on a couch wouldn't have too much reason to get up. And stuff on shelves and stuff like the books in the archives or the chess table seem to only shift slightly, instead of many tremors rocking them slowly off their positions.

So the warp jump is instant. And like a quick bout of turbulence, if March falling is anything to go by. So where does the time come in, because surely they don't go on and adventure, come back, maybe sleep one night in their beds, then instantly go off for another week of adventure. That'd cause burnout. And make having decorated rooms and whatever pointless. And it's also just impractical- no time to log things, clean and sharpen weapens, etc. But it's not too long a period, because you're still considered a newbie to the crew through the Jurilo-VI stuff.

My guess is there's a day or two in between leaving a planet and finding a place to warp jump from. It's probably a huge shift of energy and sending a planet off its gravitational path is never a good idea. So the Express has to travel otu to the literal middle of nowhere to warp jump. When they exit, they're able to get a lot closer to their destination, but there's still at least a couple of hours before they actually are able to dock. It's like with space rockets and space stations iRL- before any propulsion towards Earth can happen, the vehicle has to move away from the space station so that it doesn't send the station off-course or something.

So what's the timeline?

A week at the Herta Space Station, I'd give three days at the least Half a day to a day traveling out to the warp point. They hit the ice planet maybe around a noon hour, disembark (no idea how long that takes or hwo that happens), arrive in Belebog in the afternoon, explore a bit, then go to sleep. The next day, they have the whole thing and spend the next couple of nights in the underworld hotel and defeating the Stellaron.

Within a five-day period (they stay one more night at the Overworld hotel) they're back on the Express. They presumably decide where to go next the day after they return to the Express (because Dan has his nightmare on the Express), but I imagine they have anywhere from a few days to a week before they actually get to the Loufu. (I don't know how March calmed down so fast between talking to Dan and voting though...)

So in short: the Trailblazer has been part of the Nameless for around two weeks, take or give anywhere from that to a solid month. This allows plenty of time to settle in, rest between adventures (not every planet has nice hotels to stay in I reckon), enjoy a nice breakfast with the Astral Express family and get yelled at by Pom-Pom for not eating immediately, etc. Trains also have to travel some distance- surely it's not all warp jumps and long stop periods, trains runnign passanger routes tend to run for at least a bit before stopping at a station.

and wow did not expect this to be this long and I'm sure there's more info I missed and stuff, but that's my theory. I guess what me know what ya'll think. Apologies if it sounds a bit far-winded, it's a very late hour and I am definitely not awake but I had to get it out because it felt like something discussion worthy.

[sophisticatedidiocy]

asks about your genasi and tieflings like the bisexual i am

you have no idea what you've unleashed. (positive)

my current rogue!! cosima, a pink circus-trained loser who has somehow become one of her group's big siblings, despite it all. (affectionate) she literally has the color palette of strawberry ice cream, is 5'1, and is a former acrobat - she has so many issues buried underneath a weirdly calm exterior, and is unusually tense around influential rich people and mages... for Reasons.

currently being redesigned is my tiefling cleric, leza! she is a Cursed [redacted] (I get to have Some Secrets...), but she's literally a high priestess-hopeful/high priestess-in-training who literally makes up prophecies and visions on the fly that Somehow keep her in her guardian's high favors. she's very blue and pink and colorful with fancy clothes but also loves jumping in mud puddles and doesn't know how to swim. She's honestly looking forward to just getting out of her home, but she needs a good enough reason to escape... maybe a good group of weirdos could help :/

latest genasi who literally came to me right before I fell asleep! pyrrha!! a deep violet fire genasi who somehow despite having a tiefling mother (yes, I know the rules about tiefling lineage however I like to have fun) is a burning fire genasi. of the three listed above, she is the Messiest. she has burnt valuable spellbooks, cursed out everyone from her mother to a group of asshole pirates, all while brandishing gorgeous flintlock pistols. they are the cleanest things she owns. she walks around in a beaten, now-gray long dramatic coat, slightly tattered pinstripe pants with a matching vest and black boots with arcane rules carved into the soles for luck (she doesn't really think they work, but she does it for her sister) also middle child!! she has a geeky older brother and an adorable younger sister, but she hasn't seen him since she skipped town... also she's like probably a bounty hunter :)

and last but certainly not least is my earth genasi cleric, ariadna!! she has probably my favorite design I've ever had (marble with kintsugi running through her face and siamese cat-like black arms from fingertips to upper arms... yes, I am a lil dramatic, what of it) she was born to some sort of extraplanar being (or someone weird and cursed) and is definitely the "oh she's a little fucked up actually" one compared to her fairly normal twin brother, aurelius. she is a light cleric (hoping to flavor as sun cleric, but it doesn't really matter) with a horrible relationship to everyone she's ever known. she's been haunted by semi-visions for most of her life that have always come out wrong and the most recent (and most important thing) she's fucked up recently was her relationship with her ex(?)boyfriend, orpheus (hahaha.... symbolism) I think she's adventuring to find a way to correct herself, but she hasn't learned to separate herself from her abilities

yeah. that was a lot, but um. i hope it was fun to read!! i haven't been asked about my dnd characters in a while so I tried to limit the nerdiness i've exploded onto you. (no middle names, no costume designs, etc. but I do have pinterest boards...)

thanks again!! - sam

[alias-milamber]

Yep. So the way Tumblr (and most social media with any sense) does pages of posts is to make a request for "The next 30 posts starting from now", then it checks the ID of post number 30 of that list, and then the next page is "The 30 posts before the post with this ID number". The search doesn't actually care if that post ID is one you can see, it's just using that as a reference point.

The reason it does this is that if you request the most recent 30 posts, then posts 31-60, 61-90 etc; your listing will get screwed up if something appears on your dash at position 1, so what was 61-90 when you started the search is no longer really the next page. Jumping by ID means it doesn't have to attempt to square that circle.

(It's also one of the reasons why page lists tend to be 1, 2, 3, .... 99, 100, 101; because working out the right ID to jump to is a Hard Problem, and also why jumping around in lists can miss some results, because the system isn't perfect. )

dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

[blakemarrion]

MCM; Light Client Mod

Recently, I was playing on a server, and creating a farm, but I just couldn't stop jumping - for some reason, I just got an urge to lay my thumb on the jump key. So, unlike a normal person, who would most likely ignore the urge, I decided to create a mod to solve the issue.

I have previously worked a little bit using Fabric to mod, although I've never fully completed anything. During the process of rediscovering the setup process, I learned that Fabric's site has a page which allows you to generate a template for your mod, which kickstarts development. Therefore, using this tool, I downloaded the template, and opened up the folder as a project using IntelliJ IDEA, which is my chosen java development environment.

Firstly, it is worth noting that Fabric provides two separate entrypoints - one for the client, and one for the server (note that minecraft runs a server in singleplayer, but it is locally executed behind the scenes; I would postulate that this is what makes opening a singleplayer world to the LAN so easy while in-game).

Since this mod is only going to interact with the client's controls/input, and nothing needs to be noticed server-side, none of the server-side java code is necessary. However, deleting the full "main" module of the project isn't going to work for us, because the "fabric.mod.json" file is a part of the resources there, and defines the location of both the client and server entrypoint files. Deleting this, and other files in that region of the file structure, will cause the mod to stop working entirely.

Therefore, the first order of business is to remove the serverside entrypoint, as that just adds bloatware to what really only needs to be a small clientside mod. This, I did by entering the "fabric.mod.json" file, and removing the "entrypoints/main" key-value (the value should be a list/array of entrypoints, and should contain just one to begin with). This leaves a single client entrypoint.

Furthermore, since the template project comes with a default mixin, references to this must also be removed. To do this, I went into the "<modname>.mixins.json" file, which should be adjacent to "fabric.mod.json", and removed all references within the "mixins" list. After this, the "main/java" directory was deleted.

Now that the server/main-side of the mod has been removed, work can begin on the proper body of the mod. The plan is to add a key which allows the player to toggle an option, allowing and disallowing the player to jump on farmland. To do so, we need a keybinding, a variable to toggle, and a way of interfering with the player's motion. The toggleable variable, obviously will be a boolean (true/false) type. To interfere with the player's motion, something called a "mixin" will be used.

Mixins are used to inject our own code into existing methods in the game's code. In this case, we want to inject a little bit of code which checks whether the player is on top of farmland, and, if so, then make sure the player can't jump. Therefore, we need to find which method controls the player's jumping/motion.

Now, if you don't like the odd tangent, feel free to skip ahead to the next paragraph, where all the answers are give. Fair warning. To find which method we should use to stop the player from jumping, we need to see how the code which controls their motion. Thankfully, most of what we need to know can be found in the game's sources, which are viewable as decompiled .class files. To find the relevant files, go to ".gradle/loom-cache/minecraftMaven/net/minecraft/minecraft-clientOnly-<charsHere>/1.20.2-net.fabricmc.yarn.<blablabla>/minecraft-clientOnly-<blabla>.jar/net/minecraft/client/input". Here, there should be a couple files: "CursorMovement", "Input", "KeyboardInput", and "KeyCodes". Obviously, since we're looking to affect jumping, the relevant file will be either "Input", or "KeyboardInput". Viewing the code, while "Input" doesn't contain much of anything, "KeyboardInput" extends from "Input", and accesses which keys are currently being pressed inside the "tick" method.

Given this, our project plan is pretty well laid out: create a variable, create a keybind, create a mixin to "KeyboardInput.tick". Great! Let's start with the variable and keybind:

Assuming you've been anywhere near a java file before, declaring a variable should be pretty easy. This could easily be done in any custom file, but since it's pretty much the only thing we're going to store, I'm just going to define it in the "<modname>Client.java" file (this should be the client entrypoint defined in "fabric.mod.json"). In this case, I've made the variable "public static boolean allowFarmJump = true;".

Since this is a simple little mod, and I'm currently the only person who's going to be using it, I'm not going to bother storing the current value between sessions. The variable is going to be static, just to make things a little easier when accessing it from other files. I've also decided to make its default value "true", but this is mostly a preferential decision on my part.

Next: the keybind. Fabric's documentation is pretty short and sweet on the matter, but it does contain a little bit hidden away that I didn't notice at first: "This tutorial assumes you have the key bindings API, if not add "fabric-key-binding-api-v1": "*" to the "depends" block in your fabric.mod.json file".

After adding the key bindings API, it's time to add the keybinding itself. Using the KeyBindingHelper described in the docs, I created and registered a KeyBinding with the translation key "key.<modname>.toggle", default key of "backslash" (GLFW.GLFW_KEY_BACKSLASH), and category of "key.categories.movement" (this is the category used by vanilla's "Movement" controls category, where I want this to display).

After registering the keybind, I continued to go through the docs and added the "END_CLIENT_TICK" listener + while loop on the keybinding (remember to replace the "keyBinding" in the example code with the name of your own keybinding variable). In the while loop, this is where the "allowFarmJump" variable is being toggled ("allowFarmJump = !allowFarmJump;"). I also added feedback in the form of text appearing above the hotbar: "client.inGameHud.setOverlayMessage(Text.literal("Farm jumping set to: %b".formatted(allowFarmJump)), false);".

At this point, the variable toggling and feedback message are running fine, but we haven't actually implemented anything to prevent the player jumping on farmland. This is where the mixin comes into play:

Under the "client/java/<modpackage>/mixin/client" directory, open the example mixin. Of course, this is currently injecting into the wrong class and method, so change the "@Mixin" decorator argument to "KeyboardInput.class". Then, modify the "@Inject" method decorator to "@Inject(at = @At("TAIL"), method = "tick", locals = LocalCapture.CAPTURE_FAILHARD)". This will take the code inside the decorated method and inject it at the end of the KeyboardInput.tick method. Then, make the mixin class extend from "Input" (this is so that the "jumping" property can be accessed).

Now, inside the mixin method, we need to set the jumping variable to "jumping ∧ (allowFarmJump ∨ playerFlying ∨ ¬onFarmland)" (this notation may be unfamiliar: "∧" represents a logical AND, "∨" represents a logical OR, and "¬" represents a logical NOT). The reason for the added check with regards to whether the player is flying accounts for the possibility that the player might be in creative or spectator mode. If this were the case, and jumping were disabled, flying up would be similarly disabled.

Collecting all the required values, the assignment expression we're left with should look something along these lines: "jumping &= AntiFarmJumpClient.allowFarmJump || MinecraftClient.getInstance().player.getAbilities().flying || !(MinecraftClient.getInstance().world.getBlockState(MinecraftClient.getInstance().player.getBlockPos()).getBlock() instanceof FarmlandBlock);".

Note the assignment operator "&=", which is basically like "+=" or "*=", etc. except instead of adding or multiplying, it performs an AND operation (this is a bitwise operator, but it works on booleans as long as both sides are of the same type).

Having successfully intercepted and modified the jumping controls, when the program runs this time, the keybinding should now allow you to stop the jump key working while on top of farmland, unless the player is flying. Note that to build the mod to a .jar file, you need to run the "build" gradle task (these are found at the top of the right-hand sidebar, for me). This builds the jar file and outputs it to the "build/libs/" directory. The correct file is the one without the "-sources" at the end.

Feel free to give feedback on how this could be improved in future, or ask questions!

Fabric

[washingtonleagueoffurries]

Chapter Update

Chapter 9 of There is  a Crack, A crack in Everything--That’s How the Light Gets In is finally up!

[cheesus-doodles]

So we all know when the three clingy boys seen y/n makes multiple times due to them barging in the bathroom while she showered when they were kids, but do they still do it when high school or college age? Or they get flustered of having to see their best friend naked body?

sorry i've been so quiet folks! thank you for sticking around, i hear a lot of yall are having exams now/soon, will try and put some stuff out for you to read :) don't forget to take breaks as you need them!

Link to: Shower Ask 1 | Most Recent Shower Ask | Shower Asks List

Masterlist

Hmmm I would say its questionable if our three clingy baby boys has ever been successful in their attempts to get past the shower door. But let's just say you had been childhood friends with the Toman founders, and somehow someway Baji, Kazutora and Mikey have cried and pleaded and have managed to score a shower with you when you were all kids (and of course Draken, Mitsuya and Pah were not far behind in convincing you that they were being left out). Though the more level-headed three get flustered and shy about wanting to shower with you once you seven reach roughly high-school age, given they are much more well-adjusted yans, this definitely do not apply to the other half of the Toman founders.

To Baji, Mikey and most of all Kazutora, there's no good, valid reason you can give them for them to change their bath time behaviour even once you all are high school or even college age. You were still you, so why would an older you be any different from the younger you who washed their hair and back for them and blew them bubbles? Baji would definitely be shyer about entering the bathroom as he gets older, given his mother brought this boy up right, but absolutely nothing about you would fluster or embarrass Kazutora or Mikey. Doesn't matter if you were naked, it was their right to be pampered by you at all times of the day whenever they wanted, and come hell or high water, no one was going to deny these baby boys any second of time they could be loved and lavished by you.

In fact, now that you might be attending a different school from them (much to the boys horror), maybe even be capable of finding new friends, or a partner (shivers), even more so they feel the need to barge into the shower. What if you decided to ditch them for this new person who 100% won't be good for you? What if you try to sneak them into the bathroom with you to steal away their pamper time? What if someone was hiding in the bathroom just waiting to perv on you, and when you tried to scream for help there was no one there to beat the living hell out of whoever dared try that?

Sure Draken, Mitsuya and Pah may feel very hesitant to insist on showering with you or even being in the bathroom with you while you showered, given - you know - they actually did grow up and become more mature, but they aren't going away that easily. No doubt you'll find these three boys (and occasionally Baji) standing guard outside the room, putting off the scariest, meanest vibes and jumping anyone that comes even a foot too close. But you won't be able to keep out the absolutely shameless Mikey and Kazutora who have never matured past five when it comes to being around you. Will pout and whine and cry and plead - anything to get you to let them in with you, but if nothing works, they supposed they could always resort to more drastic measures. Maybe beating up all your classmates (especially the guys, they don't like how close they get to be to you) and threatening to beat up even more would work, but they are certain the surefire way would be to hurt themselves.

Certainly you wouldn't say no to helping them with their shower if they broke an arm or a leg right? Not like they couldn't fight perfectly fine with the other.

[mirukimary]

First of all, thank you Tia Lin for adding the screenshots/proof!

Second of all I wanna address some stuff that wasn't clear on my original post.

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Reshade, GShade and Gposingway cannot generate AI pictures

I forgot a lot of people made the jump from GShade straight into Gposingway and don't necessarily know how these work. That's on me for not explaining!

If you go on reshade and scroll through the endless list of effects you'll find StageDepth.fx and Layer.fx. What these shaders (effects) do is act like a basic Photoshop layer. You load a picture (.png) there, then you can do some basic editing like scaling or changing the way it interacts with the 3D render. Can be stuff like making it show up in front of your character or behind them; or stuff like setting it to multiply, or overlay, etc. Nothing dangerous, nothing AI-generated.

So what happened on these presets was:

Preset creator either generated an AI picture themselves; or grabbed an AI generated picture off the internet;

Preset creator then brought that picture to photoshop or similar and exported it as a .png;

Preset creator then imported that .png using StageDepth.fx or Layer.fx as a decoration for their preset;

Congratulations! You now have a preset with AI textures to worry about!

There is no such a thing as pressing a key somewhere on these programs and the program AI filtering your gposes without you knowing, so anyone who's scared of that you can rest now! YOU DID NOT GENERATE AI PICTURES BY USING PRESETS. You're fine!

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This post is not a call to harass the people mentioned, nor is it a pass to harass people who use their presets

Like I said, I was using Wi Fi until very recently without knowing.

Repeat after me:

Not everyone is tech-savy;

Not everyone can spot AI;

Not everyone will see these posts or any other "call-out"/"PSA" today, tomorrow, forever;

So BE KIND and assume they don't know.

Before blocking, maybe shoot them a message. If they don't care, then you can block/unfollow!

The reason I made that post wasn't so much to 'call-out' Leon and Wi-Fi, it was because of all of the people on the tags finding this out around the same time I did, and being terrified of coming under fire because they didn't know.

Also, if people decide to keep using these presets without the AI textures, i'd like people to give them some grace (aka: don't harass them, and don't expect them to imediatelly find a solution). The textures are the only AI-generated part of them, and making the jump from your fav preset to another takes time. I was using Angelite exclusively till DT murdered it, I would know LMAO

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Be careful out there, and be kind to yourself too

GenAI is everywhere. This is why I think warning people, even privately, is the way to go.

It's in Gposes posted online; It's on presets; It's on mods; It's on art/gpose edit commissions... And in many other places I can't even imagine.

The time you get fooled WILL COME. So be prepared to be kind to yourself when it inevitably happens.

IT HAPPENS!!

It's fine.

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This is also your call to uplift creators who DO NOT use GenAI

Doesn't need to be on this post.

Make an habit to disclose the shaders that you use & the mods that you love!

Reblog/Retweet/Reshare gposes and edits! We have so many talented but underappreciated people in our community! Take any energy you have to harass others and turn that into strenght to show appreciation instead.

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Originally had it on the tags, but here are some AI-free presets to quickstart your journey:

CandlePresets: This is the one I use most! Retired, but updated all of their 116 presets for DT before doing so. Perfect for a 'dreamy' effect! Linktree.

Elvashade: Another one I use sometimes, has a more 'clean'/'unedited' look. Seems to be safe! The Glamour Dresser

And here are others I found floating around that seem safe:

VanityShade's Ko-Fi

Kore's Ko-Fi (slight warning for pin-up screenshots on their shop!)

just a quick note and not directed at anyone in particular, but if i see anyone using ai or ai-adjacent face filters in their gposes thats gonna be a block from me

[sabishi-tomo]

girl I know you want Hisakiki on the OTP ask BUT you just have to do Obizenyuki pretty pwease ✨

1. and 16.?

Of course! I aim to please ✨. These are really good ones, @nokaru. You seriously know how to pick them 😳. Full OTP ask list here.

1. What is each member’s love language?

Obi's main one is touch. He loves pets, cuddles, hugs, casual touches, everything under the sun. Part of the reason is, he was pretty touch-starved when he was younger, so it's something he craves. Recently though, he's also become rather attached to gifts. Before coming to Wistal, he hardly had any belongings, always on the run. But these days, he holds on to tokens he receives from his loved ones, whether is colorful seeds from Ryuu, the glowing stone necklace from Shirayuki, or his name tag from Zen affirming his position as knight of the second prince. These are some of his favorite belongings, things that remind him that he has a place to go home to.

Shirayuki's is acts of service. It's the way her grandparents showed love to her growing up, and it's something that stuck with her. It was busy running a diner, so they didn't have a lot of free time. They couldn't just leave to go on trips either, so they showed love to her in other ways. Doing her hair in the morning, preparing delicious meals for her and teaching her how to cook, repairing her favorite dresses when they got scratched up while Shirayuki was out in the forest again. When Zen and Obi do things for her, which is basically all the time, this is when she feels most loved.

Zen's is words of affirmation. His mother and brother weren't exactly forthcoming with praise, even when he did exactly as they asked. In his teenage years, there was one thing he craved from his brother. Izana saying, "I'm proud of you, Zen." That's why he was so moved when Izana finally told him that Zen had become his own person. Shirayuki and Obi praise him freely, which he loves but is also slightly embarrassed by. Especially praises from Obi which Obi sometimes engineers for maximum embarrassment.

16. What are some things they don’t agree on?

Zen thinks both Obi and Shirayuki are too reckless for their own good and he doesn't agree with them rushing into situations. Yes, sometimes situations need a pressing solution right away but the greater good be damned when it comes to their safety. He also worries that Obi is going to fall to his death one day while taking his unorthodox "shortcuts" and jumping off rooftops. But Obi is as nimble as a cat and seems to have nine lives too.

Obi thinks both Shirayuki and Zen work too hard and they should take it easy once in a while. That's why he makes it his personal responsibility to make sure they eat and sleep properly, and also relax when the situation calls for it.

Shirayuki thinks Obi needs to talk about himself more. (Zen agrees) Why is it that neither Zen nor her know much about his past? But neither of them want to push Obi to talk about it because that would only serve to make him clam up more. With Zen, Shirayuki thinks he needs to bottle up his feelings less, but it's a work in progress.

[just-some-random-blogger]

Bootylicious

Stray Kids Bang Chan x Idol!Reader Summary: You're known as the gym rat in your group, and quite frankly, you only have two moods: shredding or chilling. This was why when you're not asleep in between schedules, you're spotted with a male idol you happened to meet in the gym you were at that day. It's a known fact though, that you and Bang Chan are gym buddies and each other's spotter. Word Count: 2k+ Warnings: Internet toxicity, sasaengs, vulgar language, sexism, misogyny, pining, fluff, mentions of Pentagon because why not <3, etc.

A/N: Girl, i shouldn't do this but I did. It's so funny to me someone requested this cause I have recently become an exercise junkie lol. Also, if you can't tell, there is a pov shift after the cut so yeah. I also wanted to keep the reader gender neutral but I want to write about how psychotically different people treat male and female idols because that stuff aint it. It's most definitely not what anon was expecting me to write but I hope they enjoy it nonetheless.

There's compilation in YT with growing parts centered around you flexing your physical fitness and prowess. It ranges from you affectionally touring your fans, which really meant the cameraman, through the gym, introducing your trainer, and doing your routine on camera, to your group (and others) both fawning and bragging about how strong and how hot you are.

CLIP #1: A scene from an interview of your group in Japan, struggling to talk about how you can do 40 straight push ups.

There was a male interviewer in a suit you could all faintly recognize was talking about your recent Instagram post of a gym mirror selfie.

One of your youngest members smirked and in broken Japanese, cutely said, "Wah, she does 100 push ups! Everyday, every night."

You snap your head to the maknae and raise your brows, "nani?" You begin to shake your hands in protest and begin to explain your truth, "absolutely not 100. Maybe around 40, but nooooo, not 100."

The interviewer and your group comically react in awe. The man in the suit urges, "can you show us?"

You give a face, "Excuse me, but I'm not getting paid to do that in this miniskirt."

Everyone, including the film crew, break into laughter.

CLIP #2: A scene from a variety show where you had to prove you were, in fact, yourself, by doing a shortened version of your exercise routine.

One of the hosts of the show asks, "Wait, do you honestly do all of this in your workout? Like you can do all of it?"

The list of your exercises were written on a colourful cardboard, held by the one who just spoke. It was a range of exercises in 10 sets, from jumping jacks to sit ups, to vague sounding exercises like crab pinches and robot arms.

You purse your lips at the last question asked of you, not really liking the tone in which it was asked. You answer quickly and nod proudly, "I actually do more, cause when I get in the zone and I'm already really sweaty, I feel like I should keep going until my whole body burns." You chuckle.

The older hosts, tilt their head and mutter lowly under their breath something along the lines of, "I'd rather die."

You finally do the routine, quickly, continuously, earning impressed reactions from everyone.

"That's hot," one of the hosts note.

"Ya, for some reason it looks easy to do."

The hosts begin to clamour at that statement, and force whoever said to do the exact thing you did. Clearly, they don't work out as much as you do and cannot even get halfway through it without stopping.

You break out into a breathless laugh in amusement of the comical attempt but then protest, explaining how bad it is to force yourself to do more than you can

CLIP #3: Pentagon, Hongseok especially, fawns over how fit you are

Trailing a conversation about how your group is close with Pentagon because your companies are situated closely to each other and you wind up eating together a lot, there is an anecdote about how there was a jar no one could open, no one but you, that is.

The interviewer asks no one in particular, "wah, none of you could open the jar? Really? Or did you all just pretend so she could open it?"

There is a chorus of answers concluding with, "no really, she was the only one that was able to open it."

The story is backed up by how the jar had a really small lid and some hands were too big. Then came an explanation how you were recently into the new rock climbing machine in your gym.

Hongseok speaks up, "I was invited to go to rock climbing in, like, an actual rock climbing place and I was honestly so surprised when she began to climb. She said she never actually tried rock climbing on a wall, but it seemed like she had been doing it for years."

Shinwon agrees, "Right, right. I was also really curious about what they did that day," he points to Hongseok, "that I joined them one time. I never felt so out of shape in my life. I just stayed back and filmed everything."

Pentagon laughs, and then agrees that you were exceptionally fast and just super fit in all honesty.

The interviewer catches Hongseok's expression then suddenly asks, "do you like a woman like that?"

"Yeah, I like my women strong."

Then came a lot of teasing remarks from Pentagon, and a plethora of complaints from delusional fans who did not want Hongseok to ever breathe in your direction again.

With all that's been said about that, in all the parts of this series floating around in the internet, one thing remained, there was a slightly larger population of impressed fans than the still large portion of antifans who wanted nothing to do with it and only came around to hate.

It's hard not to think about it, but even the slightest back handed compliment can sometimes linger in one's mind.

And right now, as much as I kept my mind on my counting as I finished my set high knees, I couldn't help but think of how much backlash I got from posting a post workout photo with my midriff exposed.

Apparently that was not only enough to merit hate for being both a whore and an attention whore, but people baselessly began to hate on my groupmates simply for being associated with me.

It's kind of sad really, how, say Wonho, can post a fairly exposed photo of himself and get so much praise for it, and yet I couldn't even do anything remotely close to that.

And I don't even mean to come at Wonho, we all know he's a beast at the gym and should be able to show as much of his hard work as he is comfortable in showing, but why can't I?

"Hey trooper. I thought you said you were only doing 80 counts?" a voice cracks me out of my train of thought.

I turn to whom spoke and chuckle at myself as I stop my leg raises, "ah yeah, I got lost in thought, and your really good song."

I pull on my earphones and give a lopside smile, "I love working out to God's Menu."

He gives a soft, "he he, thanks."

"No need for a thank you when I'm only giving my honest opinion, Chan."

"Yeah, well still, it makes my kokoro go doki-doki," he sniggers, crossing his arms and flashing a dimpled smile. I raise my upper lip and reel back, "EWWW!"

I playfully shove him. He acts hurt, "this is violence against children."

"Chan, you're literally older than me."

"That doesn't mean I'm not a child at heart."

"You mean, it doesn't mean you're not a drama queen."

"Hey, I have no interest in having a throne, my only interest is," he leans in and whispers, "you."

I feel my soul leave my body as he snorts to himself and runs away. I regurgitate in surprise, "YA!"

"You better do your next set properly," Chan says heading off to a cable row machine, "I'm always watching."

I try to ignore the blood rushing up your neck, "creep."

He shrugs, "rather that or have you get injured, sweet heart."

Yeah, Chan has saved me from a lot of injuries I could have had. It was a bad habit. It stemmed from the same thing that made me mess up my count a while ago, my overthinking.

Sometimes I thought of rather harmless things, but sometimes I began to fixate on the hate I received for simply being. I do a lot to get my mind to realize that they hated me simply because they could and because it was easy. Exercising helped tremendously, especially when I had someone fun to work out with, especially when I was with Chan. He just... made me feel safe, y'know.

But when the news of us being work out buddies surfaced, a lot of sasaengs came for me. Of course, a lot of Stays and my own fans were really kind about, speaking out that we were our own people and exercising together did not mean anything in particular really.

But some really went for it, and made it a hobby to comment on everything I was in that I was a slut for 'working out' with different men every day."

I let out a breath as I finish my routine. I catch my breath and go for a swig of my water. I take a moment then sit down by the mirror, which was near where Chan was currently working out.

"You're doing it again."

I turn from where I was blankly staring at turn to Chan who gave me a soft look, "you good?"

I release a sigh then purse my lips, "maybe."

He pouts, "what happened?"

I shrug and stand from where I sat, "you know, the usual."

Chan then comes up to me and takes my water bottle from me, "you know, no matter how much people say you don't need water to live, you can never change the fact that you are extremely dependent on water to live."

I look at him and half- heartedly point, "are you calling me thirsty?"

He begrudgingly groans and releases a chuckle. He calls my name out in a scolding tone. I feel myself relax, "I know what you're getting at Chan."

He nods, "good. I'll always be here to remind you of that."

I smile and feel an urge to hug him, "if you weren't so sweaty, I would totally hug you right now."

Chan then gives me a look then does not hesitate to crush me into his arms. I groan and whine in protest. He chuckles, "you literally just said you wanted a hug!"

"YOU'RE LITERALLY SO SWEATY. NO ONE WANTS THIS TORTURE."

Chan huffs and gives a wounded look, "hmp. You better spot me while I lift or else I'm unfriending you."

"Hmm... I think I'll be good without you as a friend."

I half expect Chan to whine about it, but he instead smirks, "ahhhh, you must want me to be your boyfriends so badly huh."

I- I mean...

CLIP #4: A crack edit of Chan when he gets asked about his gym relationship with me in Chan's Room.

He was looking through the questions and suddenly chuckles, his ears noticeably began to redden. Cue a zoom in of his face and his red ears. Cue a clip of Cardi B saying, "that's suspicious."

He says my name then continues, "am I close with her? Yeah. I would say I'm close with her-- and her whole group actually."

Captioned: Nice save, Chris.

"The kids and I are close with her group," he says, clearing his throat.

A clip of him clearing his throat is repeated about ten times.

Chan adjust the beanie he was wearing as he thinks of what he was going to say next, "we actually do work out together a lot because she's under a trainer that works with my trainer."

Captioned: Sure, Chan. That's the only reason, right?

Chan catches another question, "Is she a beast in the gym like Hongseok says?" He breaks into a laugh. He then rubs his cheek and grits his teeth.

A clip of someone saying, "Oh he's jealous," flashes on screen.

"Yeah," Chan finally says, "she's got a really high stamina."

Cue the clip, WHAT DID HE SAY?

Chan continues, "she can go between exercises without stopping. she doesn't even take that much time to catch her breath. In fact, she sings while exercising sometimes, which helps make her vocals stable."

Captioned: Queen Tingz.

The next thing that happens is Chan breaks into a laugh and begins to chuckle. He says, "Sorry I saw a funny comment."

Captioned: WHAT HE MEANS IS HE SAW A COMMENT SAYING 'SHUT UP CHRIS, YOU'RE WHIPPED."

Then came these comments:

LITERALLY LOOK AT HOW FLUFFY BANG CHAN GETS WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT HER DONT FUCKING TOUCH ME MY SHIP IS ALIVE

They are dating period. prove me wrong. you cant

Chan literally blushes over anything, buT HE TURNED INTO A TOMATO WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT HER BYE

if you hate on your faves loving each other, you most definitely need Jesus (:

PLEASE CAN YOU SEE HOW WHIPPED THEY ARE FOR EACH OTHER

Yeah... it's not been confirmed to this day.

[natsspammityspamspamham]

Dino Watches Anime (Nov 5, 2022)

I gotta start putting the year in these things because I've been on Tumblr for too fricking long.

Anyways, I've been getting back into anime which is why my doctor is very concerned (I'm not even joking about that one).

These sequels are good (obviously)

Pop Team Epic

Honestly, the last few episodes have been mediocre. For one, I expected more out of Asanuma and Toyonaga's bit. Second, the writing, like all comedies, is extremely hit or miss. Pop Team Epic in particular is niche to many memes that people haven't even heard of. I'm watching it for the seiyuu and the bad jokes. Yuuma and Enoki's 3B part is what puts it under the "Yeah, I'll keep watching this" category.

Spy x Family Season 2

Yeah, it's good. Wholesome stuff right here. This is the type of content that's okay to put on your search history. Yor is also one of the few characters that Shonen Jump can sexualize without being put on a watch list. Not that they need to. We all show up for Anya.

Mairimashita Iruma-kun Season 2

My only complaint is that there isn't enough Clara antics. I have already written a post about this show. It's good. Go watch it.

Mob Psycho 100 Season 3

Takahiro Sakurai scandal? What is a "Takahiro Sakurai scandal"? For real, that scandal did kind of rock my enjoyment of the show, and I really wouldn't want Reigen to be played by anyone else, but that's up to the people involved with the show. Either way, this season has already been recorded. I just don't see how they can top that previous season with Reigen's revelation arc. Just remember kids, separate the artist from their work. Sakurai is just a small part of what makes Mob Psycho 100 good. There's also some controversy with the dub cast too, so don't think that watching dub will protect you from that.

Recently finished

Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de

The fanservice interferes with this show. Honestly, I've been watching anime for quite a while, and even this show really sticks out for some reason. Besides that, it's a cute love story that doesn't diverge too much from the usual "Romeo and Juliet" type fare.

I was really surprised about some of the casting decisions for this anime, but I think it worked out for the most part. I don't think I've seen Yuusuke Kobayashi play a meathead before.

Heaven's Design Team

Okay, this is the one show where it genuinely doesn't matter that the cast is never developed because it isn't that type of show. It's ecology mixed with creationism, and even though you'd think those two would never mix, it leads to an almost theistic brand of evolution, and I think that's okay. Just enjoy it for what it is. I watched it for the seiyuu who made the show fun. It's a nice watch, but I can't say it's mindless because you do actually need to pay attention sometimes.

Also, I accidentally watched this out-loud on a VC and still cringe every time I remember that. It was during one particular scene too. Ouch.

Shinchou Yuusha

I pretty much watched this for the voice actors. For one, Aki Toyosaki was really funny in the clips I've seen. Second, I got it spoiled for me and wanted to see the build-up for said spoiler. It was alright. Not a complete waste of time, but it still wasted time if you get what I mean (I watched it on 1.5 speed). I should've been productive. I feel like some of this stuff could've actually been abridged. Besides the two main characters and a few gag characters, the cast is extremely forgettable. It's almost like they made them forgettable on purpose. The fanservice interfered with the show a lot. I could not sit a minute without having female MC's boobs hanging out.

Romantic Killer

Yo, I made a post for all the reasons you should go watch this show. You should go do that. Quit reading this and go watch it. It's good. I like it. Makes the little dino in my brain boogey.

(also a comment on that gif: If this was your normal average harem with a male protagonist, MC would've definitely accidentally groped someone. Anzu never fall on their ball sack. I appreciate that it just stops with a kabedon and her accidentally stomping the crap out of him)

On-going

Akuyaku Reijou nanode Last Boss wo Kattemimashita

I just realized that I may have watched too many anime with Yuuichirou Umehara as the lead, and the funniest part is that all of the three characters in the past three anime I've mentioned have the exact same voice. It wasn't a whole "voice actors have such range" kind of thing. Umehara does have range, but I swear the past three entries have had him to do the exact same or extremely similar voices (closer to his natural voice). He was also in Heaven's Design Team where he did give the character a different voice. So yeah, he's been in four of the anime I've watched lately, and I think it was done by choice? I don't know. He happened to align with a lot of my stuff on my "watch later" list. Meanwhile, Rie Takahashi has given such range as Anzu and the MC of this anime. Man, I have slept on how good she is.

Anyways, this anime is alright. Honestly, go read the manga which covers the first four episodes. From episode five on, the anime goes at a snail's pace compared to the first four episodes which adapted at light speed. Bro, choose your pace then STICK WITH THE PACE YOU CHOSE.

Chainsaw Man

You know, I thought this while reading the first few chapters, but man, it feels both refreshing and insulting to have a straight-forward pervert as the protagonist. Thanks for being honest with us and what you want to project, but man, I am not part of the crowd that would relate to this (asexual). It beats all of those "I'm a good guy who just happens to grope women in my spare time" MCs, but man, how am I supposed to get behind Denji as a main character? Also, screw those people who dislike the casting. I strongly like this cast. Tomori deserves support and so does that trombonist playing Denji. Also, RIP to all of them peeps who are falling for the Makima x Denji stuff. We all know how that's gonna turn out given the tone of the show... and the manga readers screaming spoilers at us from 100 kilometres away.