#hopefully I get to play 4 soon

[subjectsix]

I'm curious about your Dishonored WIPs and the Control + Resident Evil AU!

My Dishonored wip is a successor to my fic Dream of the Void, where The Outsider visits Emily again, this time when she's a bit older and suffering a sickness. She chalks the entire interaction up to a fever dream-- standing on sinking ships, whalers, the deep keening songs, the stench of blood, and other horrific ventures-- but with The Outsider involved... who knows if she's really in those places or not?

I'll spoil it a bit and share the best line I have in it so far:

“Hold the beating heart of your dead mother in your hands and consider the weight of every action you will take, dear princess.”

As far as the Resi au, so far I've decided that it follows our Control cast set in the Resi universe, while the Resi story with its original characters continues as normal. Polaris is a type of infection or mold that both the Fadens encountered at a young age, and has made them something more than (or less than) human. I really want to play with that concept. I don't think any of the cast will ever really meet or crossover with the Resi cast outside of mentions and allusions-- though I think Sherry would get along with the Fadens really well.

I also want to focus on the idea of being healed from an infection and how that would effect your life-- what symptoms linger, what about your life changes, what becomes chronic-- but not in a necessarily doom and gloom way, but in a "this is just part of life" way, like any chronic condition (which I suppose sometimes includes a bit of doom and gloom, but in this case I mean more like treating them normally and not like a sole defining character trait).

Underhill also plays a much bigger part in this story, and some of her research being twisted might be the catalyst that knocks the Hiss into play...

[1am-s0-veryt1red]

with the leaks to the 2nd to last chapter out can I just ask that we hold off on criticism of whoever until the last chapter is officially out? I know it's asking a lot

[sortanonymous]

Wait, they're making another one? Oh-kaaayyyy... Not holding my breath, but hopefully it's at least better than the $h!tshow that was the second movie. (Even if that "version" of Silver is still there.) If it's any consolation, I don't know how much Sega is involved with the Sonic movies, but if it's a good bit, then maybe they can help out! At the very least, there's this amazing comment under the reveal teaser. (GOLDEN ISLAND MENTIONED)

[a-sketchy]

does marie’s rank 3(?) nickname for yukiko change depending on what she’s wearing? cause i got that rank on a summer sunday, and marie called yukiko “black” like her summer outfit, but her winter outfit and uniforms are red, so i’m curious if she’s otherwise called “red”

[kenobihater]

bought a wholeass cabinet for my tarot decks and books :^)

[nothirtysix]

helloooo! I’ve been out of it for the last 3 weeks and am catching up on having a routine again. In the mean time I am playing god and making Ginger and Techno be friends, as a treat just for me :>

[garoujo]

HE IS GROWING !!!!

[astrxealis]

did you know i love my friends so much.

[noxtivagus]

i'll do more tmrrw!!

[msvorderofoperations]

More dream journalling.

This one was very weird, even for me. Terrifying in it's subject matter, horrible in it's implication, and felt truly hopeless. All the same, I didn't feel all that scared while I was in it.

It starts off with me remembering (in the context of the dream only of course) having worked on a podcast years ago when online video producers had really started making things on par with movie studios in terms of production values and special effects. I was not working for any of those people, I was just working with a local sketch comedy troupe. But in the duties of the podcast I was working on, I had to bring up news of waves being made in online spaces around this stuff. It was around the time when smart phones started becoming ubiquitous, and there was this one video that everyone kind of had to take notice of.

It was a video of a group of people trying to escape their respective patrons of a pantheon of gods that was an unclear mish-mash of several cultures. What they had done to earn the ire of their gods was not entirely clear, but it felt as if that wasn't really the point. What made the video stand out was the intense, though bloodless, carnage that followed. The people had colour-coded outfits (though specifically not uniforms) to show which of the gods they served, and the first to fall were those that served the god of death. One gets skewered by an extremely long spike through a wall they had been hiding behind. The spike itself had enough surface detail that it appears to be fractal in nature, and before they could even scream, they were pulled through the wall and massacred by the god of death. And they weren't just killed, they were turned into abstract, nearly cubist, shapes. Presumably to prolong their suffering. After this first person falls, every other human in this group succumbs in a similar manner to their deity. One gets turned into wood, and their god starts carving more detail into it, while they continue screaming because they cannot move, but they can still feel pain. And so on and so on.

At this point the topic of the podcast shifts to talking about a game that has become very omnipresent in online discussions because it's various systems interfacing has led to a lot of emergent gameplay. It starts with a robust combat system in which positioning is of vital importance, and that weapons and items are physics objects that can vastly affect the outcome of a fight. As you level up, there is also a bullet time mechanic, and a replay system so you can observe past missions to both try and improve, and to serve as entertainment. I talk about how in the very early game having very limited resources, I took to throwing weapons as I traversed through combat encounters which is something I have a knack for from all of my time playing the Smash Brothers games as a kid. By the time the end of the game rolls around, there are additional modifiers to each given mission that require stealth, as well as only allowing certain actions. At this point it stops being about me talking about playing the game, and that I am now just in the game itself. I beat the game's end boss, while following the restrictions given, but the game does not end. There is post-story content, but the requirements are even more strict to the point of not being fun at all. The rationale behind why these restrictions are needed is also pretty nonsensical: you have to not wake a newborn baby, and the budget of what resources you are allocated has been slashed since the big bad is no longer an existential threat.

At this point I start trying fight the bounds of the game, but it becomes quite evident that there is no winning. I try to simply not choose a new mission, but if I do that I remain trapped in the mission hub. I attempt to use my abilities in the hub to wake the baby before the mission has begun so I don't have to hold to it during a given assignment. And this is where it turns horrific again. Once I try making a ruckus in the hub, the demon responsible for outfitting me shows up in person. It is a weird spider-shaped thing, roughly the size of a garbage truck with a asymmetric face with about four times too many teeth. It informs me in no uncertain terms that if I continue making problems here, I will have to fight him. Given that the game has been about fighting vanilla humans, it is immediately apparent that this is not a fight I can survive, much less win.

Knowing this, I decide to just play along and continue with the proscribed tasks I am given. Right off the bat however, it becomes clear that I am being set up to fail. Instead of it being a continuation of the same gameplay as it was before, I am now being asked to redecorate rooms in a house, but not being told what the requirements are. The first one involves a large area rug that needs to be coloured within a very tight tolerance to pass, but other than being told "a gradient" I have no idea what is needed. I try to work within the bounds of this exercise, but unsurprisingly I fail. And it's not simply a matter of starting over again from scratch: every time I miss the deadline or fail to hit a passing threshold I am bodily crushed into the floor by an unseen force, breaking most of my bones in the process. While this is horrible, for whatever reason in the dream I see this only as a source of frustration, not the horrific trauma that it actually is. After each failure, both the room and my body are reset, and it takes several attempts before I start looking for an escape.

For whatever reason, in the logic of the dream I see that the video I explained earlier is intrinsically linked to the game I am playing, but not just the end product - the actual filmic production is in this game. So I try and find a way out through that. But I soon find out that the video production might be even worse. By now, the production companies involved are part of the major studio system, and their videos are far less compelling. They are allowed more traditional depictions of violence, blood and all, but now that it hits on a more lowest-common-denominator track it's a lot less interesting. To that end, they have actually stopped using CGI effects (in hindsight, it's very strange to me that CG effects are seen as inherently more moral and compelling in the logic of this dream) and are just hurting people in real life to meet their ends. With gusto. That I am able to not be immediately put in the queue to be brutalized to get their next take is good, but I see that it is still no reprieve. In their shift to become part of the mainstream special effects biz, the directors of these horrific scenes are now barely recognizable as human. Both literally and figuratively. All of the higher ups are now these misshapen blobs of still very human flesh (imagine a person that takes up five times as much volume as a normal human, but has no bones nor any rationale to where their body part fall. All in perfect photorealistic detail). And since they now wield considerable power (political and physical), they do not allow anyone to look upon their bizarre, hideous forms. And so that I have seen them means I am once more crushed into paste.

And now at every opportunity I try to test the bonds of my confinement, that is the end result. And eventually, after many attempts to free myself, I see that there is truly no way out. Not even by following the rules, as they simply change to see me suffer more. And at this point I wake up

[cruel-simmer]

just bought horse ranch and for rent who cheered

[cetoddle-archive]

okay. i resume taking my meds tonight B)

[lqfiles]

PAY THE PRICE — smau

after getting evicted out of your old place, you're left with no other choice but to look for a cheaper alternative. which is how you end up becoming neighbours with lee haechan, who has a passion for music and disturbing whatever peace and quiet there is.

or in which you found yourself a very nice apartment, the only issue? your neighbour is your friend's somewhat ex-situationship who won't stop playing his guitar at 2 am in the night.

neighbour!haechan x fem!reader

genre ; enemies to lovers, angst, fluff, probably slow burn, humour, neighbours au.

extras ; haechan is kinda an asshole | boy next door + likes everyone but you trope-ish | profanity and death jokes because they’re silly! | probably romantic tension | some mark x reader here and there | renjun and jaemin having their own e2bffs moment | probably inaccurate depiction of how someone would get evicted pls don’t shoot me 😅

notes ; i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan i love haechan <333 idk i got nothing better to do now so i’ll just start this because i know i won’t be posting any of the other long fic wips any time soon 😭

PLAYLIST ; She , Tyler The Creator — For The Night , Chloe Bailey — IDK WHAT TO TELL YOU , Bktherula — Surprise , Chloe Bailey — I Wanna Be down , Brandy — Suite Life , FLO — Is It A Crime? , No Guidnce — Round&Round , NCT U .

STATUS ; ongoing and hopefully regular updates.

profiles (1) profiles (2)

intro

1 ) jaehyun’s trophy wife

2 ) free cookies (not really)

3 ) midnight disturbance

4 ) attempted murder?

5 ) THIS IS FAMILY

6 ) haechan’s second identity

7 ) kiss buddies and useless complaints

8 ) critically acclaimed idgaf veteran

9 ) founders keepers..?

10 ) yangyang’s new interest (y/n)

11 ) a late welcome party

12 ) invest in a cage jaemin

13 ) cat fight (REAL)

14 ) the cure to a lack of sleep = cup pong

15 ) who said quiet guys can’t be freaky?

16 ) you got a girlfriend?

17 ) i DO have a girlfriend

18 ) this is life, i love life..

19 ) nah. they fucking.

20 ) let’s play apex?

21 ) whole house mad

22 ) drunken regrets

23 ) he’s got to be fucking with me..

24 ) a sincere apology letter (kinda)

25 ) are we cool or not?

26 ) we’re good (for real)

27 ) a personal guitar lesson

28 ) LIVE TWEETING YNHAE MOMENTS

29 ) a moment of vulnerability

30 ) friendly q&a between friends

31 ) that’s strange.. that’s weird..

32 ) solution to job loss = family guy (???)

33 ) what has jaehyun done for society?

34 ) ynhae bonding activity hours

35 ) an unwanted double date with yangyang

36 ) an overwhelming realisation

37 ) the universe can kill itself

38 ) a “what are we” conversation

39 ) i got that hair too, kinda

40 ) reviewing haechan’s tweet and new issues

41 ) diagnosed with the crush disease

42 ) putting your satisfaction first

43 ) some girl talk with mark.. this diva..

TBA . . .

BONUS:

TBA . . .

TAGLIST is closed

[tehstripe]

this sequence of pages in act 5 is so striking to me.

in acts 1-4, jade is a mysterious, all-knowing figure who knows about sburb and how it needs to go, and shes very systematic about logging and remembering important things through the little bands on her fingers. even though shes just some goofy little girl, shes smart!! she knows whats going on and knows what she has to do, and shes been studying the clouds to make sure that she and her friends are ready. because honestly, what else is she going to do with her time? she's alone on the island, and this is her destiny. she's going to make sure it happens.

here, we're finally seeing a bit of her friendly and put together self image start to fall apart as she just gives up on keeping track of things. she's grieving the loss of prospit, shes just had her first ever nightmare, AND she had to deal with an obnoxious teenage boy (karkat), and she's reached her breaking point. and she just. gives up. forget the reminders, forget the systems, they aren't serving her right now, so off they go.

plus, we get this tidbit a few pages later:

jade always knew she was going to die. she had seen herself, stuffed and perfectly preserved as a thirteen-year-old. she must have known that it was coming soon, but that didn't stop her from going through the plan to play the game with her friends. personally i think she thought it was worth it if she could at least see her friends, hopefully keep them safe, and have some fun times with them right before she had to die.

i wonder if theres a part of her unsettled by the fact that she's finally faced something she didn't already know was going to happen. she no longer has the comforting clouds of skaia to tell her what's going to happen - she's as clueless as everyone else. probably MORE clueless than some characters, like the trolls, who have a window into her future that she can't see.

jade's realized that she doesn't know all of the beats of this story anymore. she might just grow up now, and that means she has to go forth into the unknown.

[yumenosakiacademy]

im randomly craving a protein shake which, ironically enough, was supposed 2 b my dinner b4 i self-sabotaged myself by randomly eating some candy at the end of my brunch.. ah...................,,,,,,,,,

[deerspherestudios]

Short Break and To Dos!

Hello all! 🍄🍄👻 I'm glad to see people enjoying Day 3 so far! I was so nervous about showing another side to Mychael in the update I thought people wouldn't like him as much but plenty have reacted positively! ❤️

I'll add a TLDR; above the read more, but if you don't mind my ramblings and want more details about everything, I'll write everything below! Light spoilers ahead!

I'll be taking a short break from MO development until 28th October to work on a short VN for the Monstrous Desires jam!

Most probably missed it, but there's a tiny small patch to Day 3 explained here.

Queue will return soon! I just gotta handle some housekeeping first with my Patreon.

Regarding the feedback on Day 3, I'm glad people aren't as averse to the new side of Mychael, in that he isn't always soft and sweet. I want people to fall in love with a person after all, not a yandere caricature, and that means that person can get upset, angry and sometimes irrational when we don't know what's going on in their head even towards the subject of their affections. While some (understandably!) were shocked about his reaction to the mushrooms, it'll be clear as to why (hopefully!)

Some of you have given incredibly accurate theories, and I'll take that as something I've done well in building up the mystery!!! I'm excited to share more in the next update, but for now!

1. I'll be taking a short break from MO development to work on a short VN for the Monstrous Desires jam!

What I have planned for Day 4 of MO might be the biggest update so far, since one route will lead to a few official BAD ENDINGS as opposed to 'dead ends' like the current demo has. To those who really want to, you finally get to see Mychael at his worst. As usual, writing the script takes a few months with plenty of changes in between, and I don't wanna bulldoze ahead and rush the story when it's getting to the climax!

But before I jump into all of that I just wanna give myself a creative exercise and try exploring a different theme, style and setting with a fresh new character for the jam! Since I'm a sucker for the trope... yes, the new blorbo will also be a yandere, sorry, I'm predictable.💔 The jam ends on October 28th so development on MO will continue then!

The last time I wrote something remotely sci-fi was in high school, so this will be fun to try!

2. Most probably missed it, but there's a tiny small patch to Day 3 explained here.

What it says on the tin! If you've already played Day 3, rest assured there's no significant story changes. Just an updated credits list, three extra sprites for one route and a small fix in the code.

3. Queue will return soon! I just gotta handle some housekeeping first with my Patreon.

Plenty of people have sent such sweet and encouraging messages to my inbox on what they thought of the update and I cannot thank all of you enough for the support!! I can't wait to post them out to archive them on the blog and answer all your interesting theories and queries in my queue!

But for now I'm due for a short break from my socials and to catch up on my Patreon sketch requests haha. I also plan to release cut content from Day 3 for my Yearling and Deer patrons. Plus, I'll be working on some written prompts for extra lore so that's something to look forward to!

I'll be back soon! Take care, fireflies!! ❤️