#he is just sorta being a placeholder

[dogmetaph0r]

hoping the sam enjoyers of the world know that he is a DEPRAVED FREAK in the making. mostly not his fault but partially just that he’s a freak at heart

[im-boned]

one of the (admittedly many) reasons i love love love LOVE my uf and ht self inserts i think is because all the shit i hate about myself is amplified with them and i LOVE them for it. theyre weird gross perverted overbearing annoying creeps who nobody really feels comfortable around. and its the BEST!!!!!!!!! like yeah they suck shit. they dont know anything and theyre genuinely disturbing and disgusting people. arent they just the BEST

[theladyfae]

remembered my fav book is daphne du maurier's rebecca and that i love puzzling over the various interpretations of maxim's behaviour and his relationship w ich. . . surely that has no bearing on me liking tenmartha,

[appleciderlove]

toxic!rafe blocking you after an argument

more of this au here

you just had an argument with rafe. over something stupid, like always. something he said that pissed you off more than it should’ve, and instead of apologizing, he made it worse, brushing it off and acting like you were being dramatic. you told him to leave. he said "glady" and slammed the door.

now you’re standing in the backyard with his dumb little bear cradled in your hands. the one he won for you at the arcade, where he wasted ten bucks just trying to impress you. it was a brown bear with little brown bows on its ears, small and stupidly sweet. you rolled your eyes when he gave it to you, said, “what am i, five?” but you kept it. slept with it sometimes. brought it to his place and left it on his bed like a placeholder when you weren’t there.

right now, you’re too angry to care. the bear he gave you reminds you of him and you don't want to keep it anymore. you want it gone, reduced to ashes. you drop it into the fire pit and light the match without blinking. the flames rise fast, heat and smoke curling up as the bear catches. the bows are slowly burning. the fur blackening as the fire spreads. you take a photo of the burning bear and post it on your story.

he sees it a few minutes later. you watch his name appear on your story viewer list. you tap his name and it’s blank, no posts, no feed. he blocked you. you laugh, shaking your head. he’s so dramatic. like you burned his car, not his stupid bear.

two hours passes. his number’s still in your phone, but why would you call him. not after this. right when you’re about to go to bed, your phone buzzes.

you get a call from him. you were a bit hesitant but you picked up anyway. ��come on, i said i’m sorry,” he murmurs. “i’ll make it up to you. i even bought your strawberry milk that you’re obsessed with."

“i’m still mad at you,” you mutter. “and strawberry milk is not a peace offering. it’s a distraction.”

“then let me distract you.” his voice is low, smug, and infuriating.

you sigh. "i'll think about it. " he hums like he’s thinking, then says “wait. i’ll call you back.”

eight minutes pass. your phone lights up again.

| rafe: i’m here | rafe: open the door

you open the door. and there he is, holding a basket with strawberry milk cartons in it. he lifts the basket slightly. “this is me groveling. in dairy form.”

you let out a small laugh, trying not to smile. “you’re such a loser.” he grins “your loser." then tilts his head. “wait does this mean i’m forgiven now?”

you hum, pretending to think. “let me see... sorta. i guess.” he leans closer, grinning. “you can still be mad. just let me in and be mad at me while we drink strawberry milk and watch something stupid.”

“you mean my strawberry milk,” you reply, stepping back. “who said i was sharing?” he bows his head slightly, “my deepest apologies, my lady. i shall hydrate with water… or something questionably expired from your fridge. if you'll allow me." you roll your eyes, but there’s a smile on your face. “you’re lucky i’m feeling generous. you can have one carton. i know you secretly like them too".

you walk to the couch, flop down, and open netflix. he follows and drops onto the couch beside you. “if you put on some boring movie, i’m falling asleep on your shoulder” he says, already stretching out across half the couch like it’s his. you shoot him a look. “you don’t have movie privileges right now. i’m still mad at you, remember?” “okay okay, you pick,” he says with a grin. “as long as i get to watch you while you watch the movie.”

[toffeebrews]

I present to you!! magic!sans (placeholder name- if anyone has any suggestions ill take em)

I couldn't believe I had never made a sans oc when I was younger, so I took it upon myself to make one! I didn't want to be the only one without one, after all. He's kinda a sansona but sorta not lol!

More info under the cut!

This is just me combining all my favorite aesthetics and putting it onto a sans. He was originally going to have a super simple design...whoops.

if by some long-shot someone wants to draw him u can idc but like you don't have to

Name: Magic!sans or Witch!sans

Age: 32

Height: Same height as classic

Pronouns: He/They/It (He/him preference)

His lore is a WIP, but here are some notes!

He has a cat named "Tootsie" who is also his familiar! He calls her "Toots" for short (stole that from someone hehe). Tootsie, being a familiar doesn't need to eat or drink. She is a magic cat :D The star on the back of her head isn't special; all familiars have that.

He only wears his glasses sometimes because he's too lazy to clean them all the time, although his brother (Papyrus) often posters him about it. Something about how it'll make his eyelights worse.

He often uses magic for practical gags and jokes, like changing perfectly good items into socks or something (and back again).

Monsters don't need wands to use magic, but Sans pretends it comes from the wand anyway.

His eyes are constantly stars. He has the permanent grin classic does.

He won't fight unless he feels he has no other choice.

[paiizeldy]

hello hello! its time for me to introduce who my ocs are!! i have 12 ocs but ill be introducing the main ones and my favorites first!

meet the Mixed Berries Trio!

They're from my first universe called Shattered Views tho thats. Sorta an unofficial name.... its just a placeholder for now... basically i wanted this universe to focus more on the motif of healing from the past

lets get to know them one by one!

Medea Viridine — she/her

20 years old, Majoring in Sports Science

Medea is a loud and easygoing person who loves to live in the moment. However, when it's necessary, she often comes across as a direct and assertive individual who is not afraid to express her opinions bluntly. She believes in trust and honesty more than anything else thats why she goes with her instincts and follows her own principles rather than listening to other people's advice.

Ace Alistair — he/him

21 years old, Majoring Performing Arts

Ace aspires to impress everyone with his acting abilities and become a star actor that travels internationally. He is recognized for his lively and caring persona that he carries when interacting with others. Behind this facade, however, lies an arrogant demeanor and self-centered attitude which he often gets carried away with. He struggles to understand and acknowledge others' feelings as he prioritizes himself more.

Alan Thanawat — he/him

21 years old, Majoring Engineering

Alan has a calm and composed nature and sees the world in a practical mindset. His cooperative and organized demeanor makes him dependable, and many people rely on him because of this. Despite his generous and helpful nature, Alan frequently finds himself being taken advantage of by others, leading to him consistently being in demand and always working for others' needs.

I haven't really thought much about their character information actually... So please forgive me if the descriptions r pretty weird or bad.... i might end up fixing their descriptions in the future but all I've been really coming with are their relationships with one another and their history!

If you're curious about how they met and their relationships heres a quick summary!!

Medea & Ace - Classmates during Junior High School — they love to bicker and annoy one another... its almost like its a never ending competition between the two to see who's the better one. they still care about one another just in their own weird way

Medea & Alan - Living together in a Dorm — These two treat each other as siblings. Medea always wanted a brother who looks after her while Alan always wanted to have a sister who would tell him about literally everything and anything in the world- it feels as if they're found family.

Ace & Alan - Close friends ever since Middle School — Due to their long history in Middle School, it was pretty hard for them to be friends again now that they're in same college. At first, the two swore to never cross paths or even breathe the same air. The more they interacted, the more they learned that neither of them change one bit— It made them miss each other and what they used to have.

THATS ALL!!! IVE YAPPED ENOUGH ABOUT THEM!!!!!!! If you want to know more about them please please PLEAASSEE ask me questions!!! id loveeee to answer abt these three theyre my favorite and i love drawing them- heck if you even want a request doodle about them then FEEEEL FREE TO ASSKKKKK!!!!!

sorry being able to talk abt my ocs make me so giddy im definitely gonna enjoy posting more stuff about them here!!!! until next time!!! i hope you enjoy these three the much as i do!!!

[zoieru]

international zoie day is fast approaching!! 🥳 wahh how do you and your blorbos celebrate! are any of them the type to throw you a surprise party (if you enjoy them!)??? :o I AM CURIOUS WAHH and very excited to spend zoie day with you soon sobsob 🥹💗 love you always + i hopeeee your sunday has been kind to you!!!!

COCOLOCO THE COCO-EST OF MY HEART AND SOUL, THE ONE THAT IS CHERISHED IN THE DEPTHS OF MY BEING HEHEYELLO ILU

you know~ we truly are on the same wavelength, tuned to the same channel, for today I have been thinking about exactly that, and going on and off pinterest with ideas for my day with them >///< coco is truly inside my brain like a lil guy, sat comfortably reading my thoughts with a mini microscope !! I cant bring myself to mind~

So it's not fully sorta... fleshed out yet, it'll probably take me until then to have more of an idea, these things need to coook you see~ marinate. But I do have a few things I wanna share heheh ( ◡̀ ᴗ ◡́)و

SO i am not a party person, mmmh no, at least not in the traditional sense. If i had a lot of close friends I might, but even then it would be more private x low key yk, and in the blorbos worlds I dont, really, not that ive fleshed out anyway. so far I just have a few loose ideas of the lower key stuff we'll do. I know a few (aven > kaiser) would probably try to and enjoy doing some more fancy things as well, but i havent figured that out yet

Kaiser ~

uhm so idk what exactly we get up to during the day~ [placeholder] but ik that he gets me blue touched roses because :3

he knows i like them a lot~ and theyre super pretty, and he always gets way too many because he is go big or ... go home isnt an option its just go big shjdjhsd so theyre all over his (my) apartmentmhm

headcanon which is correct - kaiser suspiciously and surprisingly likes playing with legos. building specific things i mean, like the packs. we lay around and build them in the evening, probably drinking some obscure alcohol that I like because often i dont like the taste of it (he buys it without hesitation now, but he did roll his eyes and find it very amusing that im 'picky' at first~)

also idk the first pic wit cat is just...us, hehe. maybe we find a cat. maybe we adopt said stray cat after taking it to vets !! maybe i get cat for my birthday with kaiser wait mhm yes ✍️✍️

Aven ~

Aven is the one I've decided the least about, honestly. I think he'd probably wanna take me somewhere, to sort of celebrate me but in a public space, probably where he can play everyone out of their money with me on his side ~ lol, but i need to cook that up mhm - was thinking of cooking up outfits for each of them too ( like for me ) thatd be fun

think he'd probably get me flowers like this though, something with daisies in since thats sort of my/our flower kinda heh

and i have this really cute idea of us cooking / baking ?? just something like in the pic cute to snack on, i think hed be sooooo fuckin cute baking and making things with his fingers all messy dhjdsjhsdjh nyooo !! his hair over his face a bit as he concentrates ahh >///<

Dazai ~

the morning is like it was in the routine i told you about before, but with more >////< -ing jdsjkdsjks i end up on top again by the end, baby is a pillow princess fr, but he does do most of the work this time, just for me. honoured arent i ~ ( ◡̀ ᴗ ◡́)و I ASK WHERE MY BREAKFAST IN BED IS AND HE SAYS IDK BUT I KNOW WHERE MINE IS AND THEN **** ** *** **** ******* ****'[='./[][]23-32]#'4'34/'

soft morning sex is a given for all of them i sorry its mandatory in the agreement mhm

we definitely go somewhere after the day for the sunset. probably sitting on top of one of / the building(s) we've always sat at since we were kids, and stay there for hours. we probably have strawberries and chocolate (my fave >///<) and on the way he picks some random flower or plant and puts it in my hair/behind my ear in the place of a bouquet ~ he knows im not one for 'grand' or sort of empty traditional gestures that much anyway, and he'd definitely bring me cute n pretty things he knows i like and leave them around <3 especially at this time.

[awesomegoat152]

THIS IS FOR FUN but my ideas for Leo and Danny in the Outlast Trials

Notes:

_uhh so Leo is gonna be depicted as a real person in this since originally I was gonna make it where he was in the frisbee puppet talking to Danny; but that would literally just be a Mother Gooseberry rip off. So please keep this in mind

_this isn’t an AU or a fanfic, this is purely just for fun, and I probably will never mention it again. But if for some reason one of yall likes this idea or wants to add onto it FEEL FREE 😛😛😛I am not gonna get into detailed stuff

_ALSO some of the info might be kinda sloppy and wrong since I am rushing to make this but I might come back and edit a few things so imagine this just as a draft. Also my writing is not good in general so this is not formatted well at all

(Danny and Leo as Prime Assets)

So far I really do not have a story for how they would even show up in the trials HELP or why they qualified to be prime assets instead of EX POP(personally, it would be more interesting to see manhunt 1&2 gang members as ex pop rather then the main characters) since this is really not supposed to be a big thing, so for a placeholder I will just say The Project sold them to Murkoff for testing FOR WHAT? Idk. Murkoff and The Project seem to have a lot of similarities with their experiments, especially when relating to MKultra, so they would either be rivals or best buds. 

You cannot really separate Danny and Leo (angels….) so for their trials they will both be present. HOWEVER, it’s not gonna be like both of them at the same time, one will retreat out of the trial and the other one will come back out a little later. So this is really nothing like prime time, but towards the end I think it would be cool if they both were released. Since the prime assets all have some sort of quirk for their attacks (EX: Coyle disables your rig and Mother Gooseberry causes bleeding) I think (SORTA) Danny and Leo would cause the regents' night-vision goggles to shut off temporarily. Danny, and especially Leo, both work better in the dark, so they probably have an easier time navigating through it, the reagent cannot however. The night-vision goggles are super important since most of the areas in the trials can be pitch black, SO I feel like this would be a really fucked up thing to happen, possibly a BIT TO overpowered but the shutdown wouldnt be very long. For the special traps for their level I really do not know HELP maybe louder sound traps(?)

For their trials there would be two. One mainly focused on Danny and the other more focused on Leo but they will both still be in it. Their trials will also both be in different parts of a knock off version of Dixmor Asylum, where the player will either start off leaving a cell or be entering from the front door. The decorations in the asylum will be based off which one of them its for (Danny’s would have furniture similar to the ones he has in his head, etc) :

Danny’s trial will focus on his memories. The reagent will be told to burn files containing some information Danny would need if he ever wanted to remember his past life. The reagents start off will collecting keys UGHHHH and have to use them to find different file boxes to throw into a pile alongside a victim who is dressed up as Mrs. Lamb HELP HELP. You then find gas canisters THIS IS BORING SORRY GUYS and through the speaker you can hear Danny actively growing more and more upset until towards the end where you light the pile (and victim) on fire, where he grows completely frantic. I will make this more detailed later maybe maybe maybe scratches chin

Leo’s trial would be centered around the Pravitas where the reagents will push a victim through the experiments Leo was subjected to back when the project had him 😭!!!! The victim starts with the top of his head being removed and exposing their brain (keeping them alive) and will be placed in different machines that either need keys or parts to continue so yes this is a Kill the Snitch x Pervert the Futterman sort of thing I am lazy. Leo would **probably** take this as being mocked so he gets kinda loud about it, and towards the end when the Victim is killed, he grows completely unintelligible. 

Prime Time:

Gooseberry and Futterman would probably NOT like Leo. She would sorta treat him how he treats Coyle, claiming he should not be around the children, while she treats Danny a bit more kinder. Leo shares similar feelings, especially towards Futterman, claiming he finds the voice Gooseberry puts on for him to be god awful. Danny would be nice, talking about her to Leo until Leo is like SHUT UP DANNY

Coyle really likes the idea that Leo was an assassin, and likes how vulnerable Danny is RUN GUYS. Leo TRIES to talk to Coyle probably to try and negotiate his way into getting a cigarette while Danny just keeps his distance.

For Franco guys idk im tired STAY TUNED FOR PART 2

[zyxyz-xyzzy]

assorted tetro blue CCC thoughts

under the cut, here by popular demand...! I won't link the archive capture/screenshots of the CCC page directly here just to be on the safe side, but if you're interested and having trouble finding it you can always DM me here or on tetrocord 🙏 if you DO have it feel free to use the page to follow along, leave a comment if you have any thoughts on my thoughts, etc etc.

looking at these post-[Depart] it's interesting how a lot of them make reference to the students' actual talents rather than placeholder ones! sadly the White ccc has hardly any talent references at all in it so we can't really use this to speculate on that

Ninomiya "channels his high energy into his music" vs Isoda "channel[s] all of their thoughts and emotions into their music"... I need them to interact please and thank

Kumada really is "Chiba Steps Up but real" I love her so much already :D

Tsukigata is absolutely getting set up to be scammed the heck out of by Ikeda oh lord. Toxic yaoi...? also I don't think I've seen anyone talk about him being (or at least speaking?) French, that's kinda neat?

ik people have been comparing Yokoi to Hasegawa bc of her talent but the description/quotes give me kind of a Tsuno vibe personality-wise...? which is an interesting take on an academic-talent character compared to what we usually get in fangans, for sure

the contrast in Maekawa's quotes is incredible lmaooo yet more reasons she's also the Best <3

Hirose and Tei "I don't get paid enough for this leave me alone" twinsies!! :V more seriously though, throwing my prediction into the ring now that Hirose will Not be the chapter-3-killer-vibes and more of just a regular old grump... like, more of a Charles rather than an Arturo (if you'll forgive the other-fangan reference), y'get what I mean?

my most HOT TAKE is that I'm not sold on Ogura yet... ik ppl love the chuuni act and all but the way it's presented sounds a bit too over-the-top and wacky for a series as grounded as Tetro, like she's a mainline DR character who wandered on-set by mistake (Hifumi Yamada, is that you...?). though gotta admit I am curious what she'd think of MikiMiki, lol. are vtubers 2D enough to count for her...?

pizza girl is gonna be sooo divisive I can feel it coming already. second coming of tamba discourse 💀

other character interactions/potential ships(?) of note that I haven't brought up yet, let's see... I think I've mentioned before in the server Shishikura/Denden could be cute, they're both Nice :) and have sorta-related talents–or maybe Shishi with Sou, or Tsukigata? speaking of Sou, I think he could have some interesting conversation with the other artistically-inclined talents going by the second sentence of his description! on the obligatory-tetro-blue-has-more-yuri side of things, Yokoi/Ouno as the brains + brawn couple like has been mentioned in the server has potential... now to swing away from the more wholesome interactions all of a sudden, comedy option: Kumada and Ogura rivalry(?) over who has the cooler make-flashy-decorated-rides job! clash of the inflated egos! also Ninomiya and Akiba have a similar enough sort of "dumb teenage boy trying to be Cool and Edgy" vibes I think they could be very funny together, idk

but of course, the real Spicy Content, the bit that's especially relevant now that we have Galahad sprite sighting (!!) and thus motivated me to actually take the time to writeup this post... Secondary Character One through Four! the staffside squad!! ever since the CCC first dropped ppl have been speculating Adriano as Three due to the mention of him being Brazilian, but I think we actually have enough to work with to place all four of them now! hear me out:

The staffsiders we don't have official art for yet (to the best of my knowledge, I don't have a paypal to sign up for the kofi sub so correct me if there's smth from that I missed) are: Galahad, Adriano, Tatematsu, Hisa, Ibano, and Kurogome (and technically also Godmother but her being a mokosona makes that. Complicated lol)

With Galahad implied for blue we can slot him into One as the other male voice, so that leaves Two and Four. while Two's description is fairly vague her provided quotes fit Tatematsu's voice very well (just picture it in your head and you'll see what I mean), and Four's description fits with Hisa as the one head who actually cares for her employees. so we didn't get official art of those four bc they were slated to get official talksprites all along! only minor counterpoint is that that kind of leaves the other two/three as odd ones out (I would say they're potential White appearances but there weren't any Secondary Characters in that CCC so ehhhhh), but hey, maybe it's just not that deep, idk

[yourstrulyray]

s4 beginning prediction + hetty power because im going insane :3c (warning it's very yapful)

nigel temporarily goes back to the shed because hes still not over the wedding (isaac lied about the "he understands" thing to make him not look like a total failure in front of the other ghosts) and sorta just. mopes. theres a possibility jenkins would be involved but idk 🤷‍♂️

thor and flower's wedding wouldve probably been being prepared... only if, isaac were there. he'd been gone for a while, which brought concern among the ghosts, they thought he mightve went to properly apologize to nigel but its been over half a day so everyone thinks he went missing. one of them visits the shed to see if isaac was there (lets use pete as a placeholder because hdjsnf im too lazy to type). nigel explains that isaac never went to the shed, or knew where he was, or cares, which confuses pete because isaac told them he reacted fine. then boom miscommunication-while-the-other-is-absent situation, blalala pete continues by saying isaac has been suspiciously gone for a little over 12 hours already, which then does concern nigel (finally)

thor is super stoked for the wedding but flower says she doesnt want to wed until they find isaac. this sort of irritates thor because he wants to get married as soon as possible, just to prove how loyal he is and how much he loves flower, but she puts friends first. thor and flower go on a minor respite (haha get nisaac'd) because of this

its almost the end of the day but they still cant find isaac. one of the ghosts suggests he got sucked off, but that's just too much to handle (especially for nigel), so sasappis suggests that maybe the puritan ghost isaac let go of that one time kidnapped him for revenge. also diabolical, because she probably got sucked off. buuut that doesnt mean she did, riiight??

so

yeah. they decided on that. but there's NO way in heaven nor hell are any of them gonna walk through dirt. this is where my prediction for hetty's ghost power will come in: echolocation. you know how telephones were used to, well, talk to people from far away? and also phones from her time ring loudly? well I think that when she expresses a very strong emotion or uses enough strength like thor, it triggers a ringing sound and gives off a "feeling" of someone's prescence/where a person is. im thinking maybe she could use this power to find isaac through the dirt, but honestly she might end up finding patience instead. theres a chance. but oh well !!!!

also another minor/side quest thing, im hoping hetty brings nigel along with finding isaac. given their previous beef in s2, i think they'll have a mini arc where they both just accept the fact that isaac loves them both equally, and no one is more important to him than the other, allat stuff. also putting each other to risk because, well, theyre in the dirt they cant see shit. hoping that during their traverse under the ground they'll both learn to value each other ,,,,,okay thats just cheesy

now i have no idea what will happen when they find isaac. but its exciting to think of it‼️‼️

[stitchpunk1]

Ok bear with me for this oc. I’m obsessed with Creature Commandos and naturally I made one fankid for it that I will admit makes absolutely no fucking sense but I love the idea for her.

Now let it be known I know very VERY little of the characters history in this show besides what I’ve seen in the four episodes that are currently out.

A placeholder name that may or may not stick for this kid is Niva(from the second half of the scientific name for the lesser weasel nivalis). One day Weasel was found with what seemed to be a big hairball he was just carrying around until it squeaked. At this stage Niva was still blind and deaf and it took the entire team to coax Weasel to let the medical team examine her. Ok here’s where ya’ll are gonna think I’m insane. After getting frustrated and scared of all the pokes and prods during her examination, Niva suddenly bursts into flames as a kind of defense mechanism. It’s at this point everyone’s heads slowly turn to look at Phosphorus who can only just say “Well shit”.

Now how Niva came to be is just a thought I had of something happened to Weasels cell and the guards just threw him in with Phosphorus. They are both in prison and just thought fuck it literally. I know Weasel is very animalistic but maybe it was some biological thing I dunno I just wanted a flaming baby weasel making chaos around the prison(maybe they get out later in my little batshit insane world cuz trust me I’ll be making a bride/nina one eventually). After she was born let’s just say maulings increased significantly as Weasel is an insanely protective parent and only lets the others on his team really handle her. She’s also a menace anytime they have tater tots during lunch when she gets older as she gets an addiction to them.

Phosphorus is kinda forced into a parent roll with her but after a while he does start to become attached and love her. Thanks to her being sorta half human she can talk a little but prefers to stay quiet unless she’s with her “family”.

[claire--delune]

I'm a creator for the Rhythm Doctor Sight Reading Tournament 3 (RDSRT3), and I made the level "For The Goat" by one of our wonderful in house musicians, 3xp0 (song link)

I'm very proud of it, and I'm excited to share it with you all.

You can find this level, and many other great levels at rhythm cafe and the Rhythm Doctor Lounge discord, and future RDSRT3 streams (and VODs) on the Rhythm Doctor Lounge youtube channel.

recording by Random Guy JCI (twitter)

Super rambley levelmaker commentary and other wacky stuff below the cut

So this was originally going to be a story driven level. I some dialogue planned but i didn't like how it sounded and no one else was particularly interested in helping me write

The general story was as following: Cole would be telling Hailey (who's doing an interview for school) about a friend of his that he met on an old music production forum he frequented when he was younger. They were this niche internet microcelebrity called ballfart2001. They became friends, and generally just hung out and whatnot. At some point though, Cole would do some shit that pissed ballfart off, and they stopped talking to each other. At the end, there was originally going to be rank text, being a message that ballfart sent to Cole before the messageboard went down. If you did well, it would be the two exchanging discords so they could keep in contact, and if you did poorly, it would be ballfart telling Cole off, or even blocking him.

Now for what's actually in the level, starting with ballfart themself.

I worked hard ballfart's custom character (raw sprites below). Their neutral and missed expression are based on (new) Cole's neutral and barely sprites. I was trying to give the implication that these mannerisms of ballfart rubbed off on him (though i realize it may have been a bit subtle). I designed their outfit to be simple, but "cool" (but also like. a bit slobbish (they're wearing sweatpants and a half tucked shirt for fucks sake))

Now the vfx part.

Depending on how familiar you may be with rd, you may be familiar with the kaleidoscope from 2-2, 2-2n, and 2-x. You may also have noticed that I have something similar in the level, but it's a different color, a different amount of divisions, etcetera. These are done through custom methods, an advanced technique which allows you to do a lot of really cool stuff. Most of the custom methods I used for this (kaleidoscope roll, offset, repeat, symmetry, and color iirc) were released relatively recently (aside from the colors, that method has existed for ages). IN FACT, this level was created BEFORE those custom methods were released, I added kaleidoscope specifically so I could use them (because they're awesome)

Anyways the rest of the vfx yeah fuck. The custom hitstrip was added because I thought it looked cool. ditto... most of it really.

Now, for the gameplay. Act 5 had recently released, this song was unveiled to the rdsrt levelmakers as a priority song, and while listening to it, I noticed that sometimes there would be a second snare, but earlier then the regular snare. And I thought "oh dope kinda like subdivision beats. but like reverse". (Normal subdivision beats require you to hit after the snare). That's where the whole gimmick came from, and the rest of the charting sorta stemmed from trying to compliment that and fit the song as best as possible.

FINALLY, we can get to the notorious ballfart incident.

So for clarity, since I removed the dialogue, no one would normally know that that character is named "ballfart" unless they heard it from me or went inside the level folder.

HOWEVER.

I did something really stupid.

I left the placeholder thumbnail in.

[godsofhumanity]

BOOK II | HOMER'S ODYSSEY | LITERATURE REVIEW

SUMMARY: Telemachus addresses the suitors that plague his mother and his house, but they do not see reason. Praying to Athena, he makes preparations to leave Ithaca for Pylos in search of his father.

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OKIE. so the first thing that caught my eye in Book II is that when Telemachus is going around to gather the assembly and address the suitors, he goes with his dogs:

"Then, when they were got together, he went to the place of assembly spear in hand- not alone, for his two hounds went with him."

people who know the ending of the Odyssey will remember that by the time Odysseus actually does show up, only his faithful dog Argus recognises him. so, there seems to be this recurring motif of dogs as a representation of loyalty, which is a super important theme throughout the book.

i also think that the parallels of Odysseus with his dog and now Telemachus with these two dogs emphasises how similar father and son are.

in Book I, we had begun to see the growth of Telemachus' character, being moody and irate at the start, but slowly more calm and dignified and commanding. in the second book, this is re-established:

"... all marveled at him as he went by, and when he took his place in his father's seat even the oldest councilors made way for him."

interestingly, i find that the constant descriptions of Telemachus ascending to "his father's seat" sorta sets up the idea that Odysseus is never coming back. if i didn't know the story myself, i would've thought perhaps this is Telemachus becoming The Head of the Household for real, not as a placeholder, not just keeping the seat warm, but officially. it would've been crazy to live in Ancient Greece and hear the Odyssey for the first time tbh!

at the assembly, Telemachus gets mad about the suitors hanging around his house and drinking all the wine, and he gets so passionate about it that:

"With this, Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground and burst into tears."

i like this description because, it isn't simply duty and fate that compels Telemachus to address the suitors. this is his house, the house he was born in, the house he was raised in... it's his mother that these men are fighting for, in front of him... in his father's house... that father who was first dragged off to the war because he couldn't bear to feign indifference long enough for infant Telemachus to be run over by oxen. did Telemachus know how Odysseus got recruited? i don't know. i'm not sure if it gets revealed.. but an interesting thought there.

anyways. i'm trying to say here that Telemachus is motivated emotionally.

now, most people who are sensible hear Telemachus' plea and sit quietly. EXCEPT, Antinous who gets mad about it, and gives us our first real insight into Penelope as a character.

"It is your mother's fault... 'Sweet hearts,' said she, 'Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry immediately, wait- for I would not have my still in needlework perish unrecorded- till I have completed a pall for [my father-in-law] Laertes. ... but at night, she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight. She fooled us in this way for three years..."

SparkNotes has this great line, "If the Iliad is about strength, the Odyssey is about cunning."

i think that is SO true. in every interaction Telemachus and Penelope have with others, it is always about their eloquence, the way they speak, their schemes.

here, we realise that Penelope has artfully been undoing her stitches at night so it seems her progress on the pall has been extremely slow. it shows that she is an intelligent woman, and it shows her loyalty.

she says "Odysseus is indeed dead", but that may not reflect what her heart truly thinks. she had, in Book I, stopped the bard from singing about the war because it reminded her of Odysseus, and in her action of undoing the stitches, she procrastinates on moving on from her husband. because to move on and marry again is to affirm that Odysseus is dead. but as long as she waits, there's a chance that he'll come home.

an interesting parallel is that, in the Iliad, Odysseus uses cunning to "do action"... sabotaging the Trojans, etc. but here, Penelope uses cunning to avoid taking action, i.e., marrying again. and for their respective contexts, both taking and abstaining from action is a good thing and a sign of their quality (source).

Antinous further compares Penelope to previous legendary women, saying that she is unlike all of them:

"We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmene, Mycene... but they were nothing to your mother..."

as characters, only Alcmene seems to share any good traits with Penelope-- beauty, wisdom, loyalty. but Tyro is not particularly smart and certainly not loyal, and Mycene, well... there's not much lore about her anyways. so this passage sort of confused me, but a different version of the book elaborates on the comparison:

"...those who long ago were fair-tressed Achaean women- Tyro, Alcmene, Mycene..." (the Odyssey, Book II, Lines 119-20)

and here, i think it makes it more clear that Antinous is comparing Penelope's beauty with these previous women, but emphasising that unlike these women, Penelope is both beautiful AND shrewd!

i like the line because it's essentially awarding Penelope legendary-status and it's only Book 2!

now, there's some more arguing and then, of course, some portents:

"As [Telemachus] spoke, Zeus sent two eagles... they wheeled and circled about... glaring death into the eyes of them that were below."

now Telemachus has been blessed not only by Athena but by Zeus too. Halitherses, a prophet, confirms this and also says:

"I said that after going through much hardship and losing all his men, he should come home again in the twentieth year and that no one would know him..."

we learn in this passage that Odysseus' journey has been FORETOLD. everybody has already been told that Odysseus will be away for agessss but no one believes. i would say it's foreshadowing, but it's not really... we are explicitly being told that Odysseus will come home.

this makes Telemachus' mission all the more urgent... he absolutely must get rid of the suitors.

of course, the suitors are too stupid to take note, and they promise Telemachus:

"You may preach as you please... We shall go back and continue to eat up Telemachus' estate without paying him..."

this is said in direct defiance of the previous eagle omens sent by Zeus. Zeus is the god of xenia; hospitality. Xenia is not a one-way street... it is not simply that the master of the house should care for his guests, but that the guests must also be respectful and considerate of the master.

here, Telemachus has given food, much more than he ever needed to, but the suitors (the guests) have made a mess of his house. they violate xenia and Zeus' portents confirm his displeasure with the suitors. this is foreshadowing that they will receive their comeuppance soon.

however, at present, Telemachus' failure to actively get a grip on things with the suitors is an indicator that he still in the progress of becoming a man... he is still working his way towards being the Master of the House-- he doesn't yet have that total control.

Telemachus doesn't argue back with them, but instead makes preparations to travel to Sparta and Pylos looking for his dad.

then, we are treated to a really awesome scene of Telemachus praying to Athena:

"Then, Telemachus went all alone by the seaside, washed his hands in the gray waves, and prayed to Athena."

now, consider for a moment, what Odysseus does in the Iliad:

"...at the ships of the Achaeans... [Athena] found Odysseus... standing alone." (Book 2, the Iliad)

BOTH father and son go to the seaside to be alone in their thoughts. however, where Athena went to Odysseus, Telemachus is the one praying to Athena. and of course, Athena visits both of them.

to Telemachus, Athena, in the guise of Mentor, advises him:

"But mind you never make common cause with any of those foolish suitors..." (Book 2, the Odyssey)

and literally a paragraph or so later, Antinous, that creep of a suitor from before who argued with Telemachus says to him:

"Telemachus, my fine fire-eater, bear no more ill blood neither in word nor deed, but eat with us as you used to do. The Achaeans will supply you with everything- a ship and a picked crew to boot- so that you can set sail for Pylos at once and get news of your noble father."

it seems an honourable offer. there'll be no more fighting, AND Antinous promises a ship to bring Odysseus back... good right? but this is exactly the sort of temptation Athena warns Telemachus against! because if Telemachus dines with the suitors, he will become dishonourable like them. and luckily, Telemachus heeds Athena's warning and refuses.

the ship prepped, Telemachus boards it as the captain, and Athena joins his crew herself as the pilot.

she puts the suitors into a deep sleep which is important because if they are awake, they might try to prevent Telemachus' departure.

the book ends on a good note; the crew give thanks to the gods, especially Athena, unaware that she has joined their crew, which is surely a sign that they their journey will go at least a little bit better than Odysseus'.

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do more of your oc's have voice claim references or descriptions of what their voices would sound like

I haven’t actually put together a collection of voice claims, but I have figured out a few. I’ve tried finding voices that seem realistic rather than super cartoony, so I think most of them would just sound pretty ordinary. (I say as I proceed to pick voices mostly from cartoons 😅)

For Spot, I imagine he has a kind of small and unassuming voice, sorta uncertain and wobbly on occasion. I was considering Elijah Wood, specifically in the role of Wirt from Over the Garden Wall for him as a kind of starting point.

Angel has a very energetic voice, but not like the stereotypical squeaky anime girl kind of energetic. I’m still looking for a specific example for her, but I’m open to more possibilities.

Fang I think has a more youthful sounding voice than he looks. At least definitely more youthful at the start of WKoL. Most of the time, he speaks very flatly, but also has the ability to project his voice when he needs to. I don’t have a specific claim for him yet.

Seth has a much deeper and more powerful voice than you’d expect. I want people to be surprised when they hear him speak for the first time, but not make it too mismatched that it’s disorienting every time he speaks. Again, I don’t have a specific voice claim for him yet.

Emmi has a very soothing voice. Since she’s a dragon, I imagine her voice is a little deeper, but still feminine. She grew up in the UK, so she has an accent. So I think Estelle as Garnet from Steven Universe fits perfectly.

Soul is another dragon, so again, he has a pretty deep voice, in high contrast to how goofy he is. I imagine breathing all that smoke has also affected his vocal cords, making him sound gravelly. But it also has the capacity to be incredibly warm. And uh… Corpse Husband

Sky is just your average really buff guy. He’s a dork and doesn’t usually take himself seriously, so he’s another character with an energetic voice. He’s also a leader and has that commanding tone when he needs to. This one is kind of a placeholder or a jumping point, but I could see it actually working… I was considering John Cena lol.

Tom’s voice has been super elusive to me. I’ve been playing around with some voices, but I’m not sure yet. He’s older than he looks, so his voice might reflect his age a little more. I also don’t hear it being deeper than average. I’ll definitely have to do more searching.

And Oreo is just a lil guy. He doesn’t have a voice.

I think that covers most of them… I’ve been meaning to put together an actual compilation of voice claims, I just haven’t gotten around to it sobs. I’ll do it eventually.

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some cceu clanmew names

I love Clanmew. It's one of my favourite things ever (again: big fan of BetterBones), I've always wanted to try my hand at conlangs. What better way to start off than creating a dialect for an already existing conlang? Credits to @/bonefall for the Base Clanmew. The Cloudclan Clanmew is actually pretty important because I need to work some things out with it to come up with some things with the Featherseekers (one of the three groups in CCEU).

I'm not sure what I'll call it, so I've been calling it Cloudclan's Clanmew in my head, but I might change it to something more along the lines of Cloudmew, Feathermew, or Islandmew. Cloudmew being from Cloudclan and the -mew. Feathermew being from the Featherseekers and -mew. Annnd Islandmew being from the fact they live on an Island...and -mew. More about the island thing later, I'm still figuring out how it fits into everything. (Edit: as of August 2nd, 2024, the official name for it is Islandmew.)

I'm not too sure how to go about with conlangs or dialects, but for now, I've chosen two cats with names that have words that aren't in the Base Clanmew lexicon and tried to translate their names to Clanmew...and thus having to create a new word or two in the process.

First up we have...

Spiderlilystar! (Reyskepaishai)

Okay, so Spiderlilystar doesn't exactly have a design? I haven't thought too much about her, she's more a nebulous being to me. She'll get more love later due to her having overthrown Saturnstar during Saturnstar's reign (been trying to come up with a new name for Saturnstar, it's just a placeholder). But, anyways. Spiderlillies aren't in Base Clanmew, but they're in the CCEU Clanmew.

The word I chose for spiderlily is skepai. Ske being the word for "spider" (cobspiders, specifically, as in spiders that make cobwebs. The most generic term for spider in Clanmew), + pai being petal. It's because the spiderlily flower looks sorta of like spider legs curling up when they die to me, so like, what if the cats called them the equivalent of spider petal? The original word would've been something more along the lines of spider petal flower, or spider petal plant, but plant/flower part got omitted overtime due to wordiness.

The word used in Spiderlillystars name specifically is reyskepai. So, when spiderlillies in her name are very specifically red spiderlillies. Red like blood. The cats actually have three words for spiderlily here---skepai, generic for all spiderlillies, regardless of colour; reyskepai, red spiderlillies; and oskskepai, white spiderlillies. They see both red and white spiderlillies, so it felt like it makes sense that they would have words for both colours.

So, anyways, Spiderlilystar's name in Cloudclan's Clanmew would be Reyskepaishai. Reyskepai being "spiderlily (red)", and shai being "star".

Second we have...

Beatleeyes! (Skssspir)

Beatleeyes...I actually tend to just call him Kabutomushi, as in Beatle. As in the Japanese Rhinoceros Beatle. Most of the stories actually focus on him during his apprenticeship, when he's Beatlepaw, but I decided to go with his warrior name.

I looked everywhere in the Clanmew lexicon for a word for beatle--- kbkbkb, as in buzzed, as in for the flight of buzzing insects such as beetles, flies, bees, but not beatle itself. So, I did some more thinking---so much thinking that translating Beatleeyes name actually ended up with a whole new tradition in Cloudclan.

When Cloudclan talks about beatles, they're most often referring to the beatles they use in Beatlefighting. The specific beatles are Japanese Rhinoceros Beatles.

They're honestly really cool. I love these things.

Beatlekit was named Beatlekit by Fernstorm because of his ferocious nature. I looked up some sounds beatles make---they make this weird hissing sound when disturbed. I tried sounding it out, and came up with sksss. They actually use this word so much for beatles that it's an overarching term---it refers to all beatles, not just the beatles they use for Beatlefighting. I actually considered having the word for beatle be based off the sound they make when fighting, but then I decided to go with the other sound instead.

Thus: the first part of his name, sksss.

The suffix, eyes, isn't exactly referring to his actual eyes? Spiderlilystar gave him the suffix eyes for his good eyesight. So, instead of being literal and going with the actual word for eye (ipa), I chose pir for sight. So: Sksspir. His name can be translated as either Beatlesight or Beatleeyes. I prefer Beatleeyes.

Anyways, that wraps up the names thing. I hope it makes sense? These were really fun to do and come up with, really!

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God okay yea Recollection AU Lore time.

We're talking about the O5-7 position today >:3c

(Major thanks to @teethsies-chompies and @sleepyflameygoblin for brainrotting with me to get the bearings and things)

The 1st O5-7 was titled "The Architect" and they were one of the original 12 alongside Adam Kravitz and Founder.

The Architect was the one who built the Foundation sites, especially the oldest ones. Site-001 was also Architect's thing.

But I think that The Architect is the kinda guy that sorta lost himself in his work? Like he kept trying to perfect the site, making sure its the safest it can be. He utilised Thaumaturgy, reality bending and a lot of other anomalous things to make Site-001 concealed and safe.

But in doing so he lost bits and bits of himself and eventually he probably became Site-001? Like he became the thing he wanted to built or something.

And then his seat was left empty to which the Heretic came. Heretic is blood related to Architect (either father-son or siblings). He founded the Foundation education system and continues utilising anomalies.

But at this point, the Foundation were stopping their use of anomalies and were starting to detach from the rest of the anomalous community due to the risks and losses of using anomalies.

So this is where it causes Heretic to defect to the Chaos Insurgency.

Then the seat was left empty with the Foundation Civil war, it was so hard to find someone to take the seat so that's where Teeth came in.

Teeth is a deity that Architect worships and worked with closely. They gifted Architect the ability to built the sites he did and seeing Architect's work ruined by the Heretic, decided to show some pity and basically comes and volunteers to hold the place for the time being until a better fit is trained/found.

So that's how we got O5-7 "Teeth", a placeholder eldritch God who just maintained, restored and cleaned up Heretic's mess.

And when they were finally done cleaning up, they passed their seat over to Abirt, "The Eternal". Teeth gave Abirt that title in hopes that no one else will fuck up that seat and they don't have to clean up after anyone anymore. (They're eldritch gods they have better things to do??)

Abirt is the newest O5-7 and will probably be the longest O5-7.

Edit (Additional comment):

God there's just so much symbolism about Architect who worships Teeth and stuff and then the next one is heretic who destroys everything. I think Rec AU O5-7 seat is cursed with divinity.