#how did I get backslashes?

[ailurinae]

your sideblog link in your bio uses the wrong slashes. is this a typo? /gen

Oh that's hilarious. And on the domain page, the @ actually makes it autolink it seems, so it still works, but not on the path-based page.

[unnonexistence]

*rubbing temples as if i have a headache* you have to put... a backslash in front of your backslash... because each special character needs a backslash and the backslash you're trying to use to for your OTHER special character is technically a special character...

[thesmpisonfire]

Qsmp admins situation

Not going to maintag it but. Talking about the eggs deaths as a "gotcha!" moment isn't rlly about the teams mistreatment anymore, this is just making it personal and bringing an issua about storytelling that has nothing to do with how bad the managets treated the team. Its just flaming the masses i gotta say it

Like. Okay this is a forced story beat (that I personally don't mind bc it didn't directly harmed the ccs or the admins) but this has nothing to do with the lack of payment or mistreatment. The eggs deaths are all on the hands of the ccs to ask to be rolled back and Bagi didn't go after it and she herself decided to incorporate it in her lore like Empy did. Pomme rolled back bc Baghs and Bad went after it to be rolled back, Ramon got rolled back bc it was ACTUALLY unfair as it was an off screen death

But showing like this is solely to make the audience more mad and focus on the WRONG thing. Like yeah, I get Lea is mad and she is right to be mad, but this is making way too personal on her side and I fear she might also get some backslash from it

[lover-of-mine]

https://www.tumblr.com/lover-of-mine/757480576623230976/pssst-pass-it-on-tim-scrappedcancelled-buddie-to

I always find this take so interesting because they love to say Tim canceled, Tim said no, Tim won’t do this

But they seem to forget it’s not up to Tim.

Does he get a say? Yes. And a pretty big one. But ultimately it’s up to the network. If they don’t want buddie it won’t happen. As we saw season in 4 and 5 with Fox when the network said no.

If the network wants buddie? Tim can try and say no if he wants, maybe try and change their minds but ultimately they can just as easily let him go and replace him with someone else who will be happy to give the network what they want.

And the big thing about networks? They are money hungry. Especially on the backend of strikes when they lost money and revenue from shows etc. Giving up on buddie and losing all the viewers and money and publicity they would rake in for years when buddie goes canon, because people didn’t like a plot device character and they want to be childish and petty would be insane.

Honestly, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Buddie is a gold mine because there isn't a relationship like them in media. I don't know why fox didn't realize that but abc clearly does because they are using Oliver and Ryan and they are aware of the numbers they bring. But I've been thinking about grey's anatomy comparisons to be specific. I keep going back to Jackson and April because japril was very well liked, but they didn't want to keep them together, so much so they got divorced and they wrote April off, and there was enough backslash that when the Jackson actor asked to leave and they brought April back so she would go with him and they eventually got confirmed as back together even tho the writers very much did not want that, just because the audience wanted them together. We're not dealing with a rarepair that only we see as possible. Buddie is part of the core of the show and we are not the only ones who want it to happen. They would be pissing off a lot more than just us. The show tried to separate them and it backfired. Buck being bi was huge. So they have ga approval, and that can make them SO MUCH MONEY. Giving up on that because a writer wants to be petty is crazy even when said writer hasn't stated in multiple occasions how important a pairing is for the show like Tim has. They know what they have. They can go down in television history. They're not gonna throw that away because people are being mean on the internet. The fandom fucking hated every single love interest for no reason with no consequences. Why would this be different? It's not their job to monitor fandom spaces. And it's not their job to punish viewership when that viewership is the clear majority of their audience. Like, PLEASE.

Also, not doing buddie after making Buck bi, continuously using Ryan in the promotion with Oliver, and having multiple people on record saying that they were studying ways to make Eddie queer too, along with the way the show established Buck as Eddie's partner in universe, would sink the show. Abc is not that stupid. They know how that looks. They just bought the show, they're not gonna shoot themselves in the foot like that.

[itsblasttothepast]

Ugh, forget the rabbit hole, we are back to the usual Marko (AKA Darth Sidious) hate for Checo, I knew it was too good to be true. Why is this old man has the need to open his mouth every day? One day says something, the next one changes the tune... give it a break, man!

You know what would be great? If RBR is actually firing Checo, then just DO IT! Stop the bullshit and the mind games. When they let Pierre, Alex and Nyck go, they didn't keep saying to the press 'oh, everything can happen' or 'we'll see how the next races go' or any other stupid argument that suggest they want to give Checo the exit card.

After Racing Point, I'm stuck with the permanent fear of teams screwing drivers over. Let's remember they fired Checo after the summer break, when most of the teams had their lineups ready, which is why we as fans thought the dream was over. I fear RBR is going to pull the same stunt, and if this is the case, I hope Toto Wolff pulls a Horner and calls Checo to Mercedes, even for just the 2025 season.

Checo doesn't deserve to be played around, always facing backslash no matter what he does. If he had a terrible accident, he was at blame, if he doesn't get points, he's a failure, if he gets p2, oh, he didn't beat Max, if he wins, oh, Max gave him a chance. It makes me SO....

Anyway, I still hope that Checo has a plan B (a different one, not the one he said in interviews about RBR being his plan A, B, and C), and he decides to screw RBR over, win the next two races and then say:

And finally go to a team that appreciates him (did I say he should go to Audi with Nico? No? Well, he totally should).

It would be funny if he goes to Haas, to be Ollie's teammate, as he was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy.

At least I'm happy because I could use the 'adiós tonotos' meme a second time.

[sntechsupport]

how does the "development" of a game like SBURB go in general? That is, it literally moves players to another reality and destroys entire civilizations, how can its "code" be changed?

and by the way, the question is also different: if you are the developers and technical support of the game, then... Who are you? In this case, you are even more powerful beings than the gods themselves in the game.

Answering this is not as trivial as it might seem, because since the start of my work on Sburb (as SkaiaNet called the game when we started making it) a lot of retroactive coding has been introduced it.

Initially we were developing the game for desktops, but they didn’t really… have the capacity to hold it. Since ~ATH code works with real-life conditions (especially nearby deaths), the logical step to “okay, let’s make the game play out in reality” is super obvious. Or at least it was to us. I think that at this point Glue, who worked on the inner codes, got the game infovirus.

Our first wave of testing was done by yours truly, I was one of the dedicated members of the testing team. I was there when the game was in 2D only. Test Sessions didn’t play the full game out, we looped and cloned one Incinisphere and changed its inner variables… Kind of like making a balloon animal, except instead of a balloon you use a bubble of existence.

The second testing wave was releasing the Sburb Alpha. That went… better than we expected, but much much worse than we anticipated. The “destroys the entire world” bit took us by surprise. We didn’t know how it was possible that the game released across countless timelines either. Granted, we didn’t want to be obliterated with the rest of the planet, so… We went down to the core code and instead of the game code we changed our code.

You see, ~ATH is amazing: It is a code that can describe anything. Even a living being. How it acts, what it looks like, how it reproduces… and how and if it exists. What we did was that we made SkaiaNet stop existing in those timelines in which Sburb destroyed our planet. We created a backup of those alternate selves we had there and merged them with “ours”.

I have (had) a lot of parallel memories. I am a lot of Gears, but ultimately I am just Gears. That delete-and-merge code is still active and it has eliminated me and our entire SkaiaNet to one singular instance.

And then it deleted that instance and made us literally not exist. We have always existed and yet never existed in the first place. Hence why time is sort of weird for us and we are on the wrong edge of the whole reality thing. Our SkaiaNet Headquarters is every single SN HQ that could have ever been (but of course, never was). I am every single Gear that could have been, but of course never was. A lot of those Gears could have never been born.

Currently at the HQ there are just 4 (I have absolutely no idea where Marketing Department is… and it is not my problem). All of us are infected with the game infovirus, so our placement is also a sort of a quarantine. Is the virus a computer virus or a disease-virus? Yes. When you think about it, there is no difference. It is a string of information that compels its host to replicate itself. It is now integrated into our own source code (and DNA). It has overwritten parts of code that are vital for people to remain, well, people. For example our death mechanic is ultimately broken. If we die, our bodies repair themselves, we get up and carry on. And that’s even if there is nothing left of the bodies.

The catch here is: The infovirus is the core-most line of the game itself. That’s it. The game wants to spread and exist… and so we work on it. We have to. We literally can’t stop. We can venture deep into the source code that allows us to manipulate the fundamentals of the game itself, I literally carry around brackets and spaces and backslashes and order the code physically around. Having the infovirus makes me part of the core source code, and makes it possible - I presume that without it the abstract strain would tear my consciousness apart, which is what happened to a couple of my colleagues.

So… Technically I suppose that the four of us are incredibly powerful and we have the capability alter the foundation of reality itself. But we can’t. Because it would make a shit game. And we can’t not make a bad game. We have to make the best game possible, one you’d play and suggest to your friends and family, one you’d play with your children and schoolmates.

Speaking of, I’ve procrastinated by answer this long enough, back to those giraffe-necked Prospitians.

Gear out.

[versegm]

“Tonelico! Are you okay?!”

The fairy sits up without so much of a groan, bringing a hand to her nose. She’s smiling, as usual, but Mash could swear she seems annoyed. Something in the crease of her eyebrows, perhaps. “I’m fine, I’m fine. It was just a bad fall.”

True. Mash knows firsthand how durable Tonelico is. Tripping over a root shouldn’t be able to do much to her. Mash leans down, extending a hand to help Tonelico up. They still have to gather firewood for… tonight…

“Ah.” Tonelico blinks, bringing her hands below her chin by reflex. “This is unfortunate.”

She’s bleeding.

It’s nothing big; just a nosebleed. Droplets of red running down her upper lips to end in her palms. The kind of benign injury regular humans get every day.

Mash stares.

She’s never seen Tonelico bleed before, she realizes.  Tonelico is not a frontal fighter; her default attack spell is Throw A Ton Of Knives At Once. Mash has seen her get backslash from her own magecraft, has seen her get burnt, has seen her get cursed, but she’s never seen her get cut. 

“Let me see.” Gently, Mash cups Tonelico’s face to take a closer look. The crimson flashes against her pale skin, drawing her gaze in. The color is so vibrant, like the full moon cutting the sky in half. It’s a fascinating sight.

Tonelico sniffs. “See? It’s already healing. I’m fine.” Her smile softens at the edges. “It’s just some blood. It’s just some mana.”

It’s just some life. It’s just some soul.

Servants need mana to survive. Mash is only partially a servant however, and in an environment rich in od to boot, so it’s not a necessity for her. Still this means: Mash can taste mana. The few times they’d been desperate enough to have Mash suck blood off Senpai’s fingers, she’d smelled more than just blood, tasted more than just copper. 

Would Tonelico’s mana taste any different? She never had anyone else to compare this to. She never had anyone else she considers herself this close to. The thought won’t leave her head now. Would it?

“Mash…?”

Mash leans in, and, softly, drags her tongue under Tonelico’s nose.

It’s a bit bitter, obviously. Blood is blood, no matter the circumstances. But there’s something underneath, a sour sweetness like sugar sprinkled in lemon cake.

She can’t taste it well, though- there’s simply not enough of a sample to truly identify it. Mash pulls back, just a little. There’s blood on Tonelico’s lips as well. She leans down again and licks Tonelico clean of all this red.

It’s different indeed, a much more potent flavor than Senpai’s blood- from having better magic circuits, most likely. It’s hard to describe properly, but- this is not a taste Mash dislikes. 

She pulls back, intending to share that newfound knowledge with Tonelico; the fairy is a genius when it comes to magecraft, surely she will find that worthy of interest.

That’s when she notices Tonelico’s face.

The fairy is staring at her with wide eyes. She’s not smiling; her face isn’t doing anything at all, in fact. Pure shock seems to have struck her dumb, unable to restrain any of her surprise.

Suddenly, it occurs to Mash that what she just did was absolutely deranged.

“I’m sorry!” She squeaks out, pulling her hands away from Tonelico’s face so fast her skin might have been burned. “I didn’t-”

She doesn’t get to finish this sentence. Tonelico reaches up first, cupping her cheeks, and brings her down to kiss her full on the mouth.

There are lips. And tongue. Mash has never felt anything like this before. She likes it. She likes it very much, warm and wet and sour-sweet once again. She kisses back enthusiastically, pressing against Tonelico until the fairy has her back against a tree. Tonelico responds by wrapping her arms around Mash’s neck. Mash can feel the fairy’s blood being smeared against her skin everytime Tonelico touches her.

“... Ah,” Mash pants out eventually. She’s breathless. Her body feels hot. She’s feeling- a lot of things she is really not used to right now. Most importantly though, she’s nipped Tonelico’s lips, and her back probably hurts from being pushed so hard against bark, so Mash should calm down. “Sorry, I didn’t- didn’t mean to hurt you-”

Tonelico’s hold tightens, forcing Mash closer to her.

“Then mean it this time,” she says, and kisses her again.

[theglitchmaster]

IT IS DONE

I have FINALLY beaten Ocarina of Time (3D) and I have Thoughts.

I can honestly say that I dislike the game a lot less than I did before.

For context I've tried at least half a dozen times to beat oot throughout my childhood, but could never get farther than the Forest Temple before becoming bored out of my mind, putting the game down, and then just not picking it back up. I've never been able to get attached to any of the characters (Sheik being the exception 🏳️‍⚧️), I wasn't a fan of a lot of the background music or sound effects, the gameplay was pretty clunky, and in general just did not find the game fun (to be fair i did play it mostly on gamecube back then).

The gameplay still feels clunky but since the game is older than me I'll give it a pass there, and the 3ds controls are a hell of a lot better than the gamecube version.

Navi is as annoying as everyone makes her out to be you were right.

The first three dungeons are still a drag, and I think Jabu Jabu's dungeon is my least favorite dungeon of every zelda game I've played so far. Awful thing.

This is one of the few games that has made fishing almost fun.

The Forest Temple was fine, I liked the poe sisters and I thought Phantom Ganon's fight was fun. Stalfos personally own me money fuck those guys.

The Fire Temple was long as hell and I kept getting lost. Volvagia hits like a truck but is otherwise a fun boss.

I know the fandom has ongoing memes about how every water dungeon is confusing and a pain in the ass, especially the oot Water Temple, but it was fine? I didn't get lost and most of the puzzles were fine. I got more pissed off at the Ice Caverns than I did the Water Temple. I loved the eerie vibe of the illusion room and the Dark Link fight was easy but fun. Morpha was annoying but not too bad.

Bottom of the Well was very cool and spooky, I can see how this would have traumatized children, and probably would have traumatized me if I had ever gotten that far as a kid.

Shadow Temple was cool. Big surprise that there was two Dead Hands. Very freaky torture chamber. Bongo Bongo was a bitchass mother fucker. Yes he looks cool but was not a good fight. It was easier to kill him by chasing him down with my sword than it was to try and shoot him with the bow.

I think in general I don't like playing as kid Link in oot but I thought how they mixed both kid and adult requirements into the dungeon was clever. The darknuts/Iron Knuckles also owe me money fuck them as well but less than the stalfos. Also fuck floor/wallmasters. The Iron Knuckle Nabooru reveal was pretty cool though.

I did find how Ganon's Castle requires you to solve puzzles themed after each sage to be pretty clever and cool in theory, unfortunately I did not find it all that fun. I did have to leave at one point to get Fire Arrows because I could not continue without them. (This one is completely on me, I have a terrible ability when playing a zelda game for the first time to somehow completely miss important things and unknowingly make the game harder for myself. Examples including: first time playing tp and only learning 2 skills from the Golden wolf and no others, how I ever beat darknuts without a backslash ill never remember; somehow playing through all of albw and never once coming across any sword or armor upgrades. That yuga fight was hell. So obviously any extra difficulty i experienced in oot for not having everything is def my fault) Ganondorf's first fight was a pain in the ass, it wasn't hard I just kept falling and he wouldn't stay down long enough for me to get more than one hit in at a time. Not a fan of the no floors. Ganon's pig form is cool in this one, I like his design. This fight was actually fun, not hard by any means but cool.

Still not a fan of a lot of minor sound effects, most of the music was nice. Everyone is a lot less ugly (and triangular) in the 3ds version, can't say I'm gay for this Ganondorf though. Still didn't get attached to many characters. Sheik is still my beloved but most of his Cool Character points go into 1.Mysterious and 2.Transmasc coded as fuck. I like Impa. I would still personally throw hands with Mido. I really like the zoras' design in general but Ruto is as annoying as I remembered. Nabooru is cool. Malon and Saria are okay.

I think if I was older and this had been my first loz game I would have liked it a lot more for Nostalgia Points alone (or I never would have gotten into zelda idk), but as one i grew up with later it was okay. I don't hate it, but its definitely still one of my least favorite 3d titles, and there were times when I played it where I actually missed playing Skyward Sword and its dogshit motion controls. If I were to have tried to beat my gamecube copy I think it would have been a repeat situation of picking it up, putting it down, and then never beating it; and I don't see myself replaying it from the beginning unless I were to do it for a youtube channel or a twitch stream or something.

Ocarina of Time was aight butman do I wanna go replay Twilight Princess. Ganon sorry I killed your moms.

[i-am-bitterly-jittery]

On Death's Doorstep (pt 37/?)

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Word count: 1344

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Karrot Kings

Warnings: Kidnapping, supervillain activity, Thomas Sanders and the terrible horrible no good really bad day

~~~START~~~

Thomas’s only thought as he lunged for Nico was that he’d already lost his son and grandson, he wasn’t about to lose his husband too.  

Of course, it wasn’t until he’d been seized too that he realized that both of them getting kidnapped by a supervillain wasn’t much better than only one of them getting kidnapped — at least they were together.  

Maybe it was because he’d never been kidnapped before — by a supervillain or otherwise — but it wasn’t quite what he was expecting. This guy — “Backslash” he’d been yelling in the mall, like all he’d cared about was that people took note — seemed to have been expecting them as he brought them to the basement of an abandoned warehouse (did warehouses usually have basements?), where two chairs were already set up, waiting for them. He tied them to the chairs, a strangely blank expression on his face the entire time — not gloating, not menacing, just completely empty, like he wasn’t really aware that they were even there — then left them alone, returning up to the warehouse. A heavy door clanged shut after him.  

“This is weird, right?” Thomas asked quietly after he and Nico had been sitting in silence for a while. They were both bound to the chair by their wrists and torsos, as well as having their legs bound together from ankle to knee, but Backslash hadn’t made any attempt to gag or blindfold them.  

“Definitely the weirdest thing to ever happen to me,” Nico agreed, tugging at the ropes around his wrist. Despite the lack of interest their host had shown in them, the bonds held tight. “But hey, at least we’re not dead.” 

“Yet,” Thomas couldn’t help but add. Nico’s face dropped.  

“Yeah,” he agreed quietly. “Yet.” 

Time passed. It was hard to know how much seeing as how no natural light drifted into the basement, and their host hadn’t even been kind enough to leave their watch faces visible behind the ropes. It was a while.  

Thomas was exhausted, and by the way Nico’s head kept drifting down before snapping up again, he knew his husband was too. Nothing had happened. Their host had yet to reappear, and if he had any associates, they didn’t show themselves. Other than a few randomly spaced reverberating thuds from the warehouse above, the only sounds were those that came from either Thomas or Nico themselves.  

Thomas was just about to suggest that Nico try to get some sleep when a series of thuds started up from upstairs. For good or for ill, something was happening.  

“I love you,” Thomas said, because if this was it, he wanted those to be his last words.  

“I love you too,” Nico promised sadly.  

The basement door was thrown open, clanging even louder than it had when it had been shut, and rapid footsteps descended the stairs. Thomas tensed up in anticipation for whatever was to come but relaxed slightly when he finally saw the figure.  

He and Nico had been doing a lot of research into superheroes on the off chance that Virgil had been given a new code name and transferred without letting them know, so when they saw that Clover was here, they knew they were being rescued.  

“Don’t worry, citizens!” The hero declared boldly. “We’re here to save you!” 

Clover was relatively new on the scene, having started a little before Virgil disappeared, and one could assume, relatively young. They had the powers of divination and probability manipulation, so Thomas felt fairly safe following them up the stairs despite the sounds of battle that were now freely drifting through the open doorway.  

“Fyrebrand is almost done,” Clover told them. “You’re lucky she was available, if this was going to take much longer, I wouldn’t have been able to come.” 

“I’ll make sure to thank her,” Nico commented dryly. Clover didn’t seem to pick up the sarcasm.  

As promised, by the time Clover led Thomas and Nico around all the machinery — which seemed to have been moved since Thomas last saw it, but he couldn’t be entirely certain — towards the doors, Fyrebrand had Backslash subdued and restrained.  

“Subdued” didn’t seem quite accurate as the villain was just as blank and empty as he’d been previously. It was hard to subdue someone who was already, for all intents and purposes, subdued.  

There was something not quite right about the whole thing, but Thomas didn’t have time to dwell on it as Clover was leading him and Nico out of the warehouse into the sunlight. There were reporters and camera crews all over the place, most of them were trying to talk to Fyrebrand and Clover, but a few of them tried to get Thomas or Nico’s attention. Fyrebrand stopped to talk to the reporters, but Clover continued to lead them to a waiting car, not turning their attention to the press until Thomas and Nico were safely inside.  

Thomas had expected the car to take them to the SSP building, or at least a police station — he thought someone would want to talk to them about what happened — but no, the car stopped outside of the hotel they had been staying at.  

“I think there’s been a mistake,” Thomas told the driver. They hadn’t spoken to anyone other than Nico’s comment to Clover, no one had even checked them over for injuries. Surely this wasn’t protocol for a supervillain kidnapping.  

“This is your hotel, isn’t it?” The driver asked, not exactly unkindly, but certainly not helpfully.  

“Yes, but–” 

“Then no mistake.” 

Thomas blinked, then looked to Nico, who only shrugged.  

“Um… thank you?” Thomas said as he and Nico exited the car.  

“Have a nice day,” the driver said, pulling away as soon as the doors were shut.  

“Curiouser and curiouser,” Nico sighed as the two of them watched the car disappear into traffic.  

They were too tired to deal with the seemingly lacking response to their kidnapping, and since Backslash hadn’t stolen anything from them, they still had their hotel keycards. Everything else could wait until they’d had a few hours of sleep.  

~~~

That afternoon, rested but no less exhausted, Thomas and Nico were unceremoniously kicked out of the SSP building. According to Agent Sophia, they were “knowingly, and maliciously” wasting the Agency’s time and resources with their “absurd exaggerations of reality”. Apparently, the vicious rope burns on Nico’s wrists didn’t count as proof of mistreatment by a supervillain, and even if they did, the Agency wouldn’t care anyway.   

Without any more leads to pull, and weary from their supervillain encounter, Thomas and Nico decided to cut their trip short.  

Nico handled the checkout while Thomas ordered an Uber on his phone. The hotel was understanding and didn’t charge them for the extra days they had booked. By the time the Uber pulled up — black Honda Accord, driven by Franklin, four stars — Nico had joined Thomas in waiting outside.  

“Uber for Thomas?” Franklin said.  

“That’s me,” Thomas confirmed. The driver nodded and popped the trunk for their luggage.  

Once they were settled in the backseat and the car was pulling away from the hotel, Nico sank into Thomas’s side.  

“I don’t know what else we can do,” he groaned, taking Thomas’s hand. “Maybe he really doesn’t want to be found.” 

Thomas laced their fingers together and squeezed gently. “That’s not our V. If he didn’t want us looking for him, he would have told us that himself. I’m not sure what our next move is, but I know we can’t give up.” 

“I know what your next move is.” 

Thomas and Nico both jolted as the driver spoke. Through the rear-view mirror, Thomas could see that their face had changed; no longer the face of Franklin, their Uber driver, but someone entirely new.  

And most ominously, they were wearing a gas mask.  

Before either of them could even begin to demand answers, the driver pressed a button on the dash, and the car began to fill with a noxious gas. Thomas’s last thought before losing consciousness was yeah, this might as well happen. 

~~~END~~~

Once again, one chapter got too long and is now two chapters

This week’s fandom which is trying to take over my life is Now You See Me, Jack has such t-boy swag

ODD taglist

@royalty-of-all-things-snuggly @pixelated-pineapple @arsonic-knight @misunderstood-shadowling @lost-in-thought-20 @remy-the-lemon-berry @jinxcrafter @apinkline2715 @gothfoxx @donutsarepartybagels @xoaningout @meganmoneky14 @lunatatic

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Hi tumblr user backslash delta. What fob song would you assign to each of your fav glee ships

Hi tumblr user twinskeletxns. What an excellent question!

Relatedly, you might be interested in the time I assigned each album to a Glee character, or I picked a FOB album and assigned every Glee character to one of its songs, or my thoughts on Puck as a FOB fan.

I feel like I should do this without using the songs I've already giffed lol, that feels like cheating. But since it's on topic, I do definitely see Kurtbastian as Fourth of July and Klaine as Disloyal Order.

But let's suppose I can't use those, just for funsies. I'm gonna do 4 ships but if you have questions about a specific ship not included lmk! I also didn't have any of these in mind ahead of time, so I figured this all out just now flipping through FOB's discography. I reserve the right to change my opinions at any time lmao

Kurtbastian: Of All The Gin Joints In All The World

This is from Sebastian's perspective. And I'm obsessed. Sebastian talking about how Kurt doesn't know the real him, and if he did then he wouldn't want him. They ARE making out (maybe not inside crashed cars, but whatever)!! He never really cared about another person, he just wanted to live his life, but now there's KURT and that's all he dreams about now. Sebastian is definitely bad at talking about his feelings but he can definitely show Kurt how he feels about him ayyyy. He will NEVER be the same, not after Kurt. And Kurt is kind of untouchable - not in a literal sense obviously, but he's so strong, all of the things about Sebastian and his life that he thinks might deter Kurt, though don't, they can't touch him.

Actually, on further thought, I think FUTCT might be a Kurtbastian album... going to resist the urge to make a gifset series because I don't have time but it may happen eventually

Kelliott: The Last Of The Real Ones

You know I feel like this is very much a "everyone is fake but you're not, you're real, I was kind of alone in this big world and then I found you, other people might see you and think they need you but they don't really get you, not like me" vibe and that feels very them? Like they're both really unique and special and they see through people's bullshit. They are real ones. Even the "you were too good to be true, gold plated" I feel like is Kurt seeing Elliott for the first time and being like "ugh no this guy cannot be for real" but like he IS. And then Kurt SEES that finally and is like oh shit what was I thinking.

Klaine: Miss Missing You

This is very specifically season 6 breakup Klaine. "Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger" HELLO????? Kurt breaks Blaine's heart and Blaine is CRUSHED and they go through HELL but they had to go through those dark times to come back together and be better!!! Literally it's just them. It's them!!!

Klaine (but happy this time): Heaven's Gate

Literally this song is just talking about how much they love each other and they would give everything to each other and they will keep coming back to each other always, anything other than being together would just feel like a substitute, like a placeholder for each others' love. Anyway. Yeah.

Pizes: Favorite Record

This is very Puck just wanting Lauren, you know? "You were the song stuck in my head, every song that I've ever loved, play it again and again and again and again" which I feel like is very him just going after her and her being the only one for him even when she was making it difficult for him, you know? "And I spin for you like your favorite records used to" honestly she kinda has him whipped lmao but like not in a bad way! He'd just do anything for her. "And when you ask me, 'How I'm doing?' Like you know how much better off I am," like she knows he is a better version of himself with her, you know? And he knows. They both know. He can't remember how to forget how he feels when he's with her.

[steadfvsthearts]

Hey! Quick question in regard to Carl-Bot. Do you happen to know how admins have him set up to welcome players with random greetings and stickers once they join? I’m struggling with finding any tutorial! Thank you!

hello! so i only know part of this answer. to my knowledge, i don't think you can set up carl to send a sticker as there isn't a way to get the developer id for a sticker, or if you do get the id carl isn't set up to understand it ( again, to my knowledge, at least ).

i do know how to set carl up to pick a random welcome message from ones you specify and how to include custom emojis ( animated or static ) for something like that screenshot below.

read on if that's helpful to you !

in your carl bot dashboard, head to the welcome tab (red). make sure you have a channel set as your welcome channel (blue, recommended that this is the same as your landing channel ). then we will put the welcome message code in the green section.

to have carl bot greet with a "random" message use the code (with the curly brackets included):

{random: message 1 ~ message 2 ~ message 3}

where you divide each of the greetings you want carl bot to pick from with a tilde " ~ ". you can have more than three messages. i'm honestly not sure if there is a limit.

you can include carl bot's usual variables in each specific message or outside of the {random:} as well, such as:

{mention} - Mentions the person joining/leaving. {server} - The server's name {user(proper)} - The person joining/leaving's name in the 'Carl#0001' format. {server(members)} - The total number of members after the event has happened.

to put custom emojis in the welcome message, you will need the developer id of the emoji. to do this make sure you have developer mode on (instructions here), and then in a message space put a backslash " \ " followed by the emoji you want to use. the result should be the emoji name between two colons and a string of numbers. if the emoji is animated, it will have an " a " before the first colon as well. you do not need to send the message, it should convert right in the message text space. example below.

copy everything between and including the "<;>" into your carl bot welcome message and that emoji will appear when carl bot sends the message. ( sidenote, this is how you get custom emoji ids for use in any bot embed / message, not just carl bot ).

so for example, the text i used to get set up the test welcome message in the first screenshot looked like this:

{mention}{random: has arrived! <a:welcome:965642058339610664> ~ has slide in! <a:bluething_heart:965642187532541992> ~ has entered the fun zone! <a:PusheenLove:965642168117129296> }

i also would get the same result if i did this instead (moved the {mention} inside of {random:} to each specific message --- so not every message has to start or end with the user's name, it could fall in the middle or be a mix using this format}:

{random: {mention} has arrived! <a:welcome:965642058339610664> ~ {mention} has slide in! <a:bluething_heart:965642187532541992> ~ {mention} has entered the fun zone! <a:PusheenLove:965642168117129296> }

this is at least how i know how to get something to the effect of what you describe! hope this helps.

[sme7ktjun]

KIDS

Ah, there you got me..

Who’s the biggest of em all?

Yah wie?

Oui se la mon francais une Bonn

Brucellosis antidote.

Lost my IPhone waiting for the Ford Jeep

Not to brag about how I snatched the junk out of uAe.

Turned around and wauw he said.

Got scared, and said sorry. Cover of infirm Devine titled Album ofcourse infinity.

Checking the facts was what, not to, MMMSTRDAM thought me. At least the last time I was invite. No one was around thought well if or when not gay than how. Let’s go past the bottom or top annoyance of romance.

I wanted to crash a party, first ofcourse went to the kookooks house, which is probably which I’m guessing correct me may I be wrong Politically correct way to cal gays in Poland. The bartender sent me away, either they closed early. Someone did come to check my energy, impressed he said.

I still, had a jointly, way of saying thanque LaVash querie. Es in it is me. None familiar to the eyes of the seen but still get tested on my degrees.

Chapter A closed, next verse will be, higher entier. Does it end here?

Asking the com DOESN work anymore cause well you know a lol of writing, which in most cases was not lol but lungs out I need some fresh C. I won’t even call that word and it all ready disgusts me, cause I don’t like bacterial cellular economy. My drone always erased and given to me by Steve Jobs, you don’t have to ask, that much he’s interested in my intellect or should we call it writing. By timing yes. But that does the… match. Lighter got high and lost his paradise, saw some shit in the urinoir, backslashes of highschool made him fall so hard where he just ran away and picked the two stupid FAKE lenses out and threw them off. And made the wish well when shit is what I get for escaping it all, by that all of the hate of the daddy calls. Then change mine more than more and make the ones that believe in my return will still see the black and while I was done with one and the voice started which was Dakar. With my boyfriend Ike’s I don’t even know how I still had themselves let alone wear someone else’s. I asked do you want to see what’s behind my wall, after a long spiritual mutual connection we made about talking off what made us wanting just to be someone that DIDN fall. Meaning that when fall comes winter still ain’t winter so summer fall.

He replied yes, and I still was relaxed enough and proud to show that miracle did happen when \V/ as in me turned into. Don’t even start with the question into. Was also one of our ways to wake up our genitalls by that I mean our black balls.

Where should I end it with?

DADA ARE YOU EVEN READING THIS?

MANA DBINA MOLV TE KSA KSA KSA

Still on the waiting line. Catch me at goodbye.

Zero zero five, my code is better than thyne VV

[ashla-respect]

Linked Together by Blood

Chapter 2

***DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN The Legend of Zelda or Linked Universe or any of the songs I end up using; Nintendo OWNS The Legend of Zelda AND jojo56830 OWNS The Linked Universe AU AND the original artist OWNS the songs***

**I ONLY OWN Tyra any other OC’s AND the story plot**

*Mature rating for swearing and violence*

I hope you enjoy and if you don't like then don't Read nor comment I will not tolerate any hate I only wrote this for those who would possibly enjoy it.

Thank You! And enjoy!!

Chapter 2: Who Is This Woman?

(A/N: When I was first writing this chapter it took me a while to figure out how to introduce Tyra to the Chain and how she convinces them to believe her about who she is. I made Gacha character designs for the ten Hylian’s and posted it on my TikTok here)

Twilight's POV:

That fight was more difficult than it needed to be, mostly 'cause we were low on fairies and potions when they came outta no where an' got the jump on us. Well at least that's over now, all we gotta do is find somewhere to camp for the night... 'huh? Not again! Of course our bad luck would do this to us!' All of a sudden we see a bright flash of light and once it clears, right there standin' before us is a female hylian armed with a sword and shield.

"WHO ARE YOU?!" I'm not sure who said that first 'cause I heard 8 other voices alongside mine shoutin' at the woman. 'Just who is this woman? Is she the one who sent those black-blooded lizalfos and bokoblins on us? Is she our enemy?' All of a sudden just as all 9 of us are about to start attackin' her since she never answered who she is, she managed to shock us enough to not fight her which rarely ever happens to us. 'Why is she disarmin' herself and surrenderin'? It doesn't make any sense... is she not an enemy?' I'm even more shocked when I look down at her shield. 'Hold on is she from Ordon?'

I look around me and notice that the others haven't taken their eyes off the woman who looks to be in her early 20s. "Miss, are you perhaps from Ordon Village?" As soon as I ask that it's like the others finally woke up and started talkin' over each other 'till Time spoke up.

"Quite! All of you! Now prey tell young lady are you from Ordon Village?" And of course Time has to ask while lookin' highly disappointed, frightenin' the woman. The woman sighs.

"It's a long and crazy story that you might not believe heh." She answers Time. "We've had crazier things happen to us so prey tell." Surprisingly Legend said that. I didn't expect him to say anythin'. "ROAR!" Oh great a moblin! 'Was she the one who brought it? Did she purposefully distract us to take us out?' Wait what is she doing? Is she fighting the moblin?! 'She took down the moblin in 4 heavy swings from her sword! Why does she know the Helm Splitter, Backslash, and Ending Blow?! I've only been starting to teach Collin those moves!'

"She's really strong."

"And she fights like the old man and the ranch hand." I hear the others around me discussin' how after that display their startin' to trust her. Wait why is she going to put down her sword and shield again? I stop her from putting her sword and shield on the ground. All around us the rest of the chain is wonderin' if she's another reincarnation of the Hero's Spirit. 'She might be. It would explain why she knows moves only me and Time know.'

Once I stop her from disarming herself I say. "You don't need to disarm yourself we trust you not to attack us, but we still need to know who you are. Are you another reincarnation of the Hero's Spirit?" She gets flustered for a moment and it's kind of adorable- 'wait did I just think this woman is adorable? What is wrong with me? ...But I do feel a sort of connection with her like I've met her before and I know her but I don't remember.'

Narrators POV:

After they determine Tyra safe enough to be around Time says; "Alright enough dawdling it's time to find a place to camp for the night. Let's move, you as well miss." They find a nice place to camp with a river near by and no monsters in sight. As Wild is cooking dinner for the now 10 hylian's, Tyra tells them her story. "The truth is yes I'm from Ordon Village but I'm not a reincarnation of the Hero's Spirit..."

"What then who are you?!" Nine voices question at the same time. "...My name is Tyra, daughter of the hero of twilight." Tyra finally says. "WHAT?!" All 9 Links scream. "You're my daughter?! Then how and why are you here?" Twilight asks Tyra. "Well..." Once she finishes her story dinner is ready so they wait to question her more until everyone is done eating. When Wild comes back from washing the dishes with Warriors they then resume questioning Tyra. "Wait how do we know you're not fucking with us?" Asks Legend.

"Language!" Scolds Time, as Warriors starts snickering. "You want me to prove I'm telling the truth?" Tyra asks. Instead of an verbal reply she gets nine hylian's nodding at her as an answer. Tyra sighs. "Alright then." Tyra says as she turns to look her father straight in the eyes and says... "Pa, I know EVERYTHING about your childhood and how you came to live in Ordon Village." Twilight stares back at her with his eyes wide and his mouth gaping.

"Hah! As if that's truly enough the ranch hand's probably told tons of people that story..." Warriors starts but then gets cut off by Twilight's shaky reply. "I... I-I have ONLY EVER told Rusl and Uli the truth of my childhood before living with them in Ordon Village." The other Links are shocked to hear this.

"Wait why only them? Did something horrible happen to your birth parents?" Came Time's panicked questions. 'Right at this point grandpa Time is fully starting to accept the reality that pa is his descendant but hasn't yet introduced pa to grandma Malon yet, so of course the truth about pa's past hasn't been revealed yet. Sorry pa; Sorry grandpa Time.' Tyra reflects to herself. "My past is not very pretty and I'd rather not relive it if I can, I only told them because I trust them and once I told them I made the decision on my own to never talk about it again if I could help it. But it seems like in the future I have such a close relationship with my daughter that I confide in her the truth about my childhood." Twilight answered Time's questions.

'I see it must have been so very traumatic for him to want to hide it. I can only hope one day he will share it with me before this journey is over.' Time thinks. "We're sorry for doubting your story Tyra. Welcome to the chain." Everyone says to Tyra. "Thanks y'all." Tyra says. Then before anyone begins to fall asleep Time speaks up. "Alright that is enough for one night; It's time to assign who's on watch tonight. Wild, you will take 1st watch." Says Time. "Understood." Answers Wild. "Pup, you and Tyra will both take second watch." Time ordered. "Yes sir." Twilight answered. "Roger that." Came Tyra's response.

"Finally, I will take third watch." Time stated. After that all except Wild went to bed. After Wild woke Twilight and Tyra for second watch, they mostly sat near each other in silence. Eventually Twilight spoke up asking his future daughter (the idea still not yet fully cementing in that this is true) a question he's had since going to sleep when Wild started his turn at watch. "Tyra, I have a question to ask you if you don't mind."

Even though he knows she's his daughter he doesn't want to step on any sore spots with questions she may not want to answer. "Of course pa, ask away." Came her surprisingly calm answer. 'She's ok for now but once I ask her it may be another story.' Twilight thought. "I was wondering 'bout how you got your twili markings? I saw them when you were headin' t' bed earlier." Twilight said. "Hm... Well, I was born with them and the ability to freely Change into my wolf form." Tyra answered calmly surprising Twilight in more than one way with what she said.

"What?! How?!" Questioned Twilight. Tyra then explained that from all the times he transformed into a wolf before she was growing in her mother's belly, his DNA and his wolf DNA combined to create a sort of hybrid DNA that she inherited and how her wolf DNA is a part of her and how it can sometimes become dangerous when she is enraged and how she has to be careful. "Kitten, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. Why are you looking like you're about to cry?" Twilight questioned. Twilight was about to blame himself when Tyra hugged him and managed to shut him up.

"When I was growing up you always called me 'kitten' and I haven't heard that nickname in the four years since you died and I'm just so happy and sad at the same time." Tyra said. After Tyra calmed down they both agreed to transform and howl together. Soon Time came over to start his watch while they were still transformed. "You two were supposed to wake me up five minutes ago." Time lightly scolded with a small smile. That's when they found out that Time had been awake during their whole conversation with Time giving the excuse of... "I didn't want to interrupt the father/daughter bonding moment."

Time's POV:

So another descendant but this time it's my first descendant's daughter how interesting. The kitten is very much like the pup it's almost scary. Twilight and I have discussed that champion might be his descendant due to similarities and what champion has told him about why the four Divine Beasts were given that name. "The Divine Beasts were named after the Hero of Twilight who could transform into a wolf and was first called a 'Divine Beast' by the princess of that time."

That's what the cub told Twilight. Pup couldn't even believe what he had heard, mostly because he's never been fond of his wolf form being called a beast; He said it brought back unpleasant memories from his journey to save Hyrule. I put Twilight and Tyra on watch duty together because I also noticed her facial markings that looked exactly like Twilight's and wanted to see how they would interact with each other when they were left alone. 'I'm glad I was awake to witness their interaction and not have to question the pup in private about how his conversation with his daughter went. This was the one time I am thankful the full moon was out keeping me from properly sleeping.’ Time sighs.

'Tyra knows everything that's to happen during this journey and since it's already been set in stone for her, she can't change anything that's to happen. Even Tyra's a victim to the flow of time and can do nothing to change it.' There are so many things not only regarding this journey, but regarding Twilight that I want to ask her, but I shouldn't. First, she can't risk telling us events that are to happen that could change history.

Second, she's not likely to reveal Twilight's secrets that he doesn't want revealed to the chain. 'But if Twilight wants to reveal one but can't he could have Tyra reveal it for him.' Well now I have one more descendant to tell Malon about, though I'm only going to mention Twilight and Tyra to her without revealing their names so it's a surprise for Malon. I'm certain Malon's going to love Twilight and Tyra; I know I do which is crazy because I'm still getting to learn more about Twilight along with the rest of the chain and only just met Tyra.

But the pup and the kitten both have a way of warming their way into your heart so easily. I'm sure Malon will agree when she finally meets them. "Oh Link, I love them so much it's like Twilight's my son and Tyra's my granddaughter!" That is what I imagine her saying when she meets them. "I hope with Tyra's help we can quickly defeat the shadow, but what much does hope do? I've learned time and time again that hope doesn't always help, in fact hope rarely helps the Hero of Courage during their journey(s) to save the kingdom of Hyrule. Yet here I am hoping for an easier journey now that Tyra's here, that is only going to put too much responsibility on her shoulders that she doesn't need."

Though something is still so odd to me Twilight is 22 and Tyra is 21; just how old was Twilight when Tyra was born? Was he ready to become a father when she was born? Maybe I'll try asking Tyra one day.

The future doesn't seem so bleak with Tyra here with us. I'm nervous but optimistic, which never happens when I'm away from Malon. 'How has Tyra given me this feeling of being home with Malon when I'm so far away from home and Malon?'

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[crippl-hacker]

Python Day 1

I have prior experience in Python but it's been a couple years since I last used it and I've forgotten most of it. I'm working through the book 'Learn Python the Hard Way' v3 by Zed Shaw. If you are interested in getting a copy feel free to shoot me a message and I can help you out! This is the start of my post series on learning Python - if you have any suggestions, comments, or questions I would love to hear more! Also for this post I have used brief Image Descriptions and did not include the full program in the ID. If you want me to include the actual code in the ID please let me know and I will do that in the future under a line break so my posts don't eat up people's feeds.

[ID 1: Exercise 10 program in VSCode. It uses variables and Print() to print out different sentences to demonstrate different escape sequences /ID]

[ID 2: Output of Exercise 10. It is a list with cat food, fishies, catnip, and grass. /ID]

Exercise 10 is about learning different escape sequences. For example if you are defining your variable text string with "double quotes" and want to use double quotes within the text string you need to use an escape sequence so it doesn't think you are ending your variable early.

Another important thing with Escape Sequences is to make sure that you are using the \ backslash instead of / forward slash.

An important thing with the book is he gives you Study Drills on how to experiment and learn more on your own. I really like this book due to that, in addition to how copying the programs helps train your eye to pick up small errors. Let me tell you - the amount of time that I have spent confused as to why my program was broken and it turned out to be a missing character is a lot.

[ID 3: Exercise 11 in VSCode using Print() and Input() to get someone's age, height, and weight /ID]

[ID 4: Exercise 11 output saying I'm 23, 5'5, and 198 heavy /ID]

The Study Drill asks me to research Input() and to write another form to ask more questions. Researching Input I found that you not need to use Print statements - you can print the user input prompt directly inside the parenthesis of Input. I decided to write a form that would get your short, mid, and long term goals without using Print() statements to get user input.

[ID 5: A python program that uses Input() to get short, mid, and long term goals before printing them all together /ID]

[ID 6: The output of the above program. My long term career goal is to work in Cybersecurity, my mid term career goal is to go to college and get a degree in Computer Science, and my short term career goal is to get as many certificates as I can in my trade school /ID]

Exercise 12 introduces the concept that you can skip using Print statements and has you re-write Exercise 11 without using Print statements.

Anyway that's all that I worked on today! Hopefully you learned something.

[37-children-of-the-dreams]

Well, after this episode, it really feels depressing

Dan is actually not main character, but he is leader of their team. But not main character.

And whole situation, damn Andrew's and V's dad looks like hybrid of Klipse and Jeredy, with beard and everything and being scientist, but who actually wants to help people. V looks like Six with hair, and Andrew with these glasses like small Jeredy. Maybe again, designs taken from monsuno as base as was with Backslash. And V, I can understand why he became like that, but still it's too much what he's doing, he'll die right after Andrew make him on good side again or he'll just accept their side and become new member of their team for next season(s). But damn, this g3 is dark as hell.

Wait until the next season. It’s gonna be more depressing because of the family drama. We’re gonna see TC choose between his brother Vakar over his new family with Dan and the turmoil that will follow.

Dan has been sidelined in this season, and that was a negative I have read in comments, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to be sidelined next season. Remember, Dan was the one who bonded closely with TC, and Vakar knows that. Vakar viciously threatened Dan and not the other Misfits for being the reason he and TC aren’t family anymore, and he’s looking to kill him and Drago to get TC. Dan is going to get his main character spotlight back, probably with TC getting more spotlight too.

Now, I don’t know if the animators have used parts of the Monsuno cast for the inspiration of V, TC and their parents, but boy do they remind me of the Suno and Klipse families. Though, don’t say that V’s and TC’s dad looks like a mix between Klipse and Jeredy because TC and V don’t deserve to be related to those two bad influences. I can take V being an expy of Six, he does remind me of him and the white hair feels like someone read my fanfic since Eira’s hair is white, and begrudgingly I can see why someone could see that TC looks like a mini Jeredy, but those two had a good dad who wants the best for the world and is actually helping his sons to things the right way, something Jeredy and Klipse don’t do for their sons.

As for V, like I said, he reminds me of Six, and while Six was loyal to Klipse only because Klipse did everything to brainwash him into a loyal clone, V’s father gave him freedom and raised him right and that ultimately is why V wants revenge. A good father died because of the Bakugan and all everyone sees that Bakugan are cool, leaving V and TC with nothing. That’s enough to make anyone go crazy, but V ups the ante with wanting to rule the world and having the Bakugans as slaves. I really don’t think Andrew/TC can do anything but try to defeat him to make V see reason because the brother he knew has gone bonkers. I do hope that V doesn’t die because if he does, poor Andrew is going to be in so much pain and Dan and the Misfits can’t do anything to help since TC has lost all of his family. If V manages to survive during his time as an antagonist because of Andrew and V stays with him and the Misfits for whatever reasons, no one is still willing to trust him with any tech or Bakugan, and considering how he hates Bakugan and doesn’t seem to care to bond with one that he can’t use as a pawn, V might be regulated to side character unless he lets go of the pain and learns to trust a Bakugan.

[mcnutcase]

So, given the obvious similarity between the URL and computer pathways examples above, what's going on?

Well, it turns out they're both computer pathways, it's just that the URL is on someone else's computer, and the way the servers are set up, they use the same slashes as Unix computers. Windows uses the backslash, because of a bad decision way way back in the first version of DOS, before nested folders (and thus paths) were a thing it could handle. But one thing it could handle was yelling at the programs you typed the names of, such that they'd do things a certain way. All operating systems can do this, and it's quite useful; for instance, a fair number of games include a way to yell at the game program to not play the damn splash screens. But anyway. Unix does that yelling by having you add the specific yelling you want with "someprogram -x" if the behavior you want is mode x. But way back in the olden times, DOS did it by "someprogram /x", which wasn't a problem until nested folders came along, and continued to not be a huge problem until computers started talking to each other. And now, Windows does path separators differently because way back, one decision was made, and the whole edifice was built on that decision. The trouble is, getting people to change how they do things is Really Hard, and people had become accustomed to the way things were by the time anyone realized it was going to be a problem.

If you're wondering, Macs do it differently as well. They use a colon. Which comes with its own set of problems with talking to other computers. Frankly, it's a miracle the internet works at all.

Remind me to look up the details and rant about how not even plain unadorned text is immune to this bullshit because the invisible character(s) produced when you hit the enter key for a new line aren't always the same. I know just enough about how computers work to hate them for it, and I'm always surprised when they do the thing without trouble.