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[shortcakelils]

E4 of this post!!

[thetimecrystal]

i burnt my fingers making dinner

[mouschiii]

dude- i- are we twins-? im literally going for the same major and im also a freshie :D hyped

hrghghg your art is so crunchy btw have a good day/night :)

OH MY GOSH IM JUST SEEING THIS, That’s awesome!! I’m taking digital media and design at my SUNY college currently because it aligns more with what I want to do but I love graphic design so much. It’s definitely my passion and I’m aiming to get as many skills under my belt as possible! :>

AWHH THANK YOUUU I APPRECIATE IT! :D

[reluctanttrabbit]

science test tomorrow.. hrghghg...

[autistic-fuckwad]

hrghghg days need to go faster i want to buy my cart now

[stone-stars]

THE SPIRIT GUARDIANS I'M CRYING. HRGHGHG??????

[insertive-not-assertive]

ive hit a scaling problem in stardew now hrghghg im too op. everythings a waiting game. accumulating money game. i wish i had more farm space/house space to build and farm

[froggie-deadinside]

ghrghgh Dean and Cas were in love with each other hrghghg

[sparxwrites]

Came from the archive (your quackbur fic to be exact) to say hello and welcome back to the world of minecraft youtube fandom. Your Lying and Kirin fics were my favorites back in the day. Though you seem more focused on Last Life right now, I thought I'd ask what POV of Dream Smp you watched? I'm assuming Quackity or Wilbur because of how well you capture their voices

hello! thank you for the compliments, and for the warm welcome. another one for the "ex-yogsfans who've come crawling out the woodwork" list; the higher the number grows, the more amused i become.

hilariously, i think at the point i'd wrote the quackbur, i'd watched like... techno's pov of the execution, a bunch of tommy's exile arc, and then the uhh. the one where wilbur goes to last nevadas for the first time, and then the "unhealthy competition" set of streams live (i.e. everyone was raiding everyone consecutively, so i watched like wilbur then quackity then tubbo and/or ranboo).

so i had watched some of them, but not really tonnes and tonnes. i think a) they're both like... very strong character archetypes, in terms of behaviour and motivation, and b) they have reasonably distinct speech patterns. and, without sounding like a conceited asshole, i'm pretty good at picking up on speech patterns with, say, a few hours of constant exposure - it's a problem irl where i often have to stop myself from copying people unconsciously, but very useful for fic.

you'd also be surprised how easy it is to make characters "sound like themselves", once you've got the trick of it; it generally only takes maybe two or three distinct "quirks" for each character that you sprinkle in to their speech to provide enough triggers for the reader's brain to start kind of... filling in the gaps wrt intonation and accent etc.

for example:

wilbur, especially when he wants something, has a habit of saying people's names twice, with a particular sort of wheedling intonation on the second one ("quackity. quackity."). he repeats himself a lot, actually; generally not verbatim, but he says the same thing in a different phrasing (or at a different point in the stream of speech) as though to hammer the point home: "my friend, my old comrade! there's no need for that, there's really no need to be so stand-offish, i'm just here for a chat. a little parlay, if you will". he's also got a very smooth sort of patter when he's speaking, and he often picks slightly formal or fancy/dramatic words, usually for one half of a repetition pair - again, especially when he wants something or he's in Speech Mode (but even when he's stressed or angry!). so there's very few 'hard cuts' or full stops, and a lot of commas and run-on sentences: "quackity. quackity. come on, there's no need to be like that, really, i'm just here for a chat. just a pleasant chat, between old friends, old buddies, you know how it is! come on. for old time's sake.".

quackity, on the other hand, is a lot twitchier. he's prone to breaking off mid sentence and stuttering (which you can do with hyphens, and commas between a repeat of the same word, or even with mid-sentence full stops if you're sparing about it), and interjecting with nervous laughter (though again, use sparingly), even if he's not really nervous: "it's- wilbur, you- haha, you can't, you can't expect me to, to just-". he often says quite a lot of words without actually saying anything, partially because of the stuttering but also because he often refuses to pin himself down and instead leaves things open to interpretation by the other person: "it's just that- well, you know how it is, when you've got a country! it's just- there's. you know. there's a lot to do. lot of things to see, people to do, you know how it is." he doesn't use long sentences, generally. when he's angry, especially; then, he drops the stuttering and becomes a lot more fluent (and swears a lot), and the sentence/clause length drops significantly (which you can do either with lots of full stops/other "hard break" punctuation, or with lots of commas but putting "and" or something else between them that makes it clear these are multiple sentences strung together): "look. wilbur. i tried playing nice with you. i tried! i really did. but you forced my hand. you forced my hand, wilbur. so i'll give you one last chance - get the fuck out of las nevadas. or i will put this fucking arrow through your goddamn eye socket, and then i'll lock you away, and it'll be fucking deep and so fucking dark that no one will ever fucking find you. do you understand me, wilbur? do you fucking understand?"

(my watching habits go under the cut, since i got carried away and the ask is now Too Long)

i've now done all of exile arc (plus doomsday and... whatever the tubbo tommy and dream fight one is called, from tommy's pov), all of wilbur's vods, a few techno vods for a fic i really need to just finish writing, and i'm currently working my way through quackity's plot-relevant/lore vods and the lore vods of some of the other las nevadans (the lovely @thequackcity put together a playlist for me). next on the list is ranboo lore vods, and then probably post-exile (i.e. prison and resurrection and beyond) & early disc war tommy vods. maybe some awesamdude and eggpire lore stuff too, we'll see. i'm accepting suggestions!

(that's actually why i'm more last life atm - i'm on early quackity pov, and as much as i love the character, the streamer is... a little bit "let's go gamers!!!" for me to stomach in large amounts, especially when i've got irl stress going on lmao. so i'm supplementing my diet with something that has better audio balancing and less constant howling hysteria. i am not dunking on quackity with this, btw, it's just not the kind of streamer persona i'd usually watch if it didn't have a cool character attached to it! i also don't know why tommy is so different, despite them having oddly similar streaming personas; maybe something to do with the mic balance, or maybe the britishness helps temper the yelling?? my brain is mysterious.)

[cinderboned]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[drewlover]

have we ever considered a religious, specifically catholic, demigod??

like imagine the discussions. this demigod talks to leo and leo hates them, despises this demigod because it’s a reminder of what was done to him by his family, the religious trauma he’s overcome and now it’s all crashing down to him because of this fucking demigod.

the athena cabin wondering if maybe heaven is actually real?? but then they realise that all the dead go to the underworld and for once they wonder what it would be like to not see through the mist, to be truly mortal. would they see the underworld, or would heaven and hell be present? can those two worlds coexist? they’re going mad with questions.

the demigod having to come to terms with their godly parentage, and they wonder if they’ll be able to keep their religion as they sacrifice food to the gods. if i let it go, will my mortality go with it?

all of them actually having to discern their mortality from immortality, but how can you filter blood? how do you stop the red from glinting gold in the sunlight? how can you kneel and pray at the altar when ichor runs in your veins? do you kneel and do you look up at the cross and utter prayers with wide eyes? 

how do you pray to a being that might not even exist when you know that you’re a child of a divine being you can visit at anytime? is this what it was like, to be the perfect balance? is this what it was like to be a demigod?

there’s so much potential for it and idk i just want a whole book where monsters aren’t a problem just demigods questioning themselves possibly going into existential crisis maybe some bonding time between cabins and demigods or maybe a god visiting and they kind of just bond with each other over questions

[artnerd1123]

discord dead :pensiverat:

[seerofmike]

also i said this in a gc the other day but the peak of spn was the found family shit and im sure if you trace back the fandom history of like 70% of people 16+ up who enjoy the found family trope ur gonna see supernatural in that bitch

[acadieum]

i so desperately want to catch up with penumbra but i always get so ANXIOUS listening to eps that just dropped ghjfkd

ive hardly ever been caught up on smth and im so HHGUFHG

[knifehecker]

good god i want to sing again

[backfliips]

i really want to cosplay caesar zeppeli im itching to make the outfit but i dont have any materials pbbt