#i also have like 15ish live commissions

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

sorry if it seems i've been tumblr awol a few days, please know that i pack all my orders by hand and I've cleared over 200 orders in the last three days

i feel like the emotional equivalent of the baby dented meme

[midasinc]

ah! idk if this sends but headcanons about queer jehan, or grantaire's approach to art (yeah grantaire does art, but what kind of art), courferre headcanons?

feel free to ignore, theyre just prompts i thought might be interesting, safe travels!

oh id love to do any of these! i can do a separate post for courferre for my series of modern hcs for relationships and tag you in it :)

for jehan:

-canon era jehan is always a little for effeminate than the other boys he grows up around. not in the sense that he’s twinky, but he’s very fond of the house’s older maid who talks with him while she works and he’s very sassy and outspoken and all that

-jehan i picture being a big dude, def stocky and well built and his parents talk to him a lot about marriages and jehan is always just a lil distracted by other stuff. books to read, creeks to wade in, writing poetry and all that

-he has several relations with young women before paris bc jehan is a CHARMER and can spin many pretty strings of compliments and can play piano and violin and all that

-in paris, though, jehan finds himself in the company of other male students his age and there’s one particularly charming law student aaaaaand

-it’s courf. one of his father’s friend’s sons. jehan learns a lot about queerness from him and they have more of a beneficial friendship thing going on

-jehan is quite interested in other men but he still likes women. and he likes the masculine people in courf’s bars that dress in women’s clothing

-he experiments a lot with dressing femininely a lot, but really only at those clubs bc jehan’s heard stories of other people getting killed for doing it in public

-jehan sees one man for a long time, a baker’s son. he writes him many letters and takes him out to the countryside and plays him songs and writes him verses. he last sees him on june 4th and left him a letter on the nightstand before leaving

grantaire art hcs:

-in canon era i imagine him doing normal portraiture and commissions for rich individuals

-he doesnt do very well in art school mostly because he just has no drive at all

-in modern era i actually hc grantaire to be an animator!

-he specializes in 2d animation and had been doing it since he was 15ish. art school was a fucking nightmare and he struggles to find work after school BUT

-when he turns 30 he gets hired by a big animation company and he’s so overwhelmed w joy that he has to sit down on his living room floor for a moment and cry

-his personal style is usually either very cartoonish or a mix between anime and realistic, just depends on the project he’s working on

-the company he works for does children’s cartoons, though, so the shows he draws for are also cartoonish.

[themeatlife]

the Meat Life Stay-At-Home Watchlist

Chronicling what I have watched or rewatched through the pandemic so far

The world has changed around us the last few months, particularly in the United States since March 11.  With the lack of events to hit up, like most Americans I’ve been catching up on some watching through the various streaming services and my own digital copies of movies and shows.

I didn’t really think of keeping up with what I have been watching until just recently, but here is what I can remember hitting up so far since I’ve spent the majority of the time at home.  Some are favorites that I would have watched anyway.  Some were unfinished until I got a chance to get back to them.  And others just became available.

Here’s what I remember of the watchlist:

The Office (Netfilx) This is a favorite of me and the wife.  We watch this on the regular though.  My wife uses The Office as her lullaby of sorts, putting it on in the evening as she gets ready for bed and is in bed to fall asleep.  I did a post on the 15th anniversary, so I won’t really deep-dive.

Gossip Girl (Netflix) Another one that my wife rotates with The Office as her lullaby.  The series is not bad, it’s basically The OC in Manhattan (both are created and developed by Josh Schwartz).  It also takes on a new perspective when you think about star Penn Badgley is the creep in You.  So Dan Humphrey gets this weird creeper Joe Goldberg vibe at times.

Parks and Recreation (Netflix) I never got into Parks and Rec on its original run.  I was encouraged to check it out by some coworkers since I liked The Office.  It is a great show, very funny, and poignant in a way.  It feels like a throwback to when people could disagree politically and still get along.  There is a lot less of that nowadays.  We might need more Parks and Rec in real life.  I started this right before the pandemic and finished around the beginning of things getting locked down.

Frozen II (Disney+) The sequel debuted on Disney+ early on in the quarantine period.  My family enjoyed it.  I thought it was entertaining, but I felt like it was weighted down a bit by the mythology explaining.  It seemed too busy explaining a lot of things.  Still an enjoyable movie, but the first is better.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness (Netflix) Intriguing.  The series debuted early in the quarantine period and became a staple of stay-at-home viewing and a runaway hit.  Lots of WTF moments.  It was like the train wreck analogy to the Nth degree.  But you can tell it was made in a way that leans in favor of Joe Exotic, making him look like a victim in the last couple episodes.  Also gave way to memorable memes ever since.

The Rocketeer (Disney+) I haven’t watched this movie since I was a kid.  Looking back, you can see a lot of The Rocketeer in Captain America - The First Avenger.  Easy to see though, since they share the same director Joe Johnston.  Prior to America’s involvement in World War II, a movie star Nazi goes after an experimental rocket pack developed by Howard Hughes.  The rocket pack is retrieved by accident from a down on luck stunt pilot.  Fun movie.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Disney+) I should have watched the entire Skywalker saga leading up to it, but I figured I have a ton of time to do that later.  This was a May the 4th watch.  I haven’t watched the Skywalker saga finale since it was in theaters.  It’s not a bad movie, I just feel it could have been a lot better with some modifications here and there.  Also, I believe this was going to be the Leia movie.  The Force Awakens was Han’s swan song, as was The Last Jedi for Luke.  I feel like this would have been great for Leia but obviously they were limited due to the untimely death of Carrie Fisher.  The scene where Ren/Ben speaks with Han after battling Rey would have hit harder with Leia instead of Han.

Trolls: World Tour (VOD) Cute kid movie.  Was nice to hear a lot of familiar music.  Sucks that rock was the villain in the first couple acts.  Seeing it once was enough, though.  Like the first Trolls, I am glad my kids enjoyed it but did not participate in excessive multiple viewings.

Onward (Disney+) Didn’t get a chance to catch this at the theater before they closed them down.  Great movie, but gosh.  Why does Pixar always pull at the heart strings like that?  I was quietly crying to myself at the end.  I’m glad we made our living room dark theater-style, otherwise my kids would have seen me all torn up.

Fast and Furious 5-7 (Fast Five - HBO, The Fast and the Furious 6/Furious 7 - Digital) I ended up not watching the entire series.  There is a great trilogy within the series, 5-7 was that trilogy.  Fast Five was the best of the FF franchise and where it perfected their movie formula.  It was like an action Ocean’s Eleven with cars.  6 and 7 expanded on that formula, upping the humor and ridiculousness factor.  6 had the exits of the Han and Gisele characters (they found a way to tie in Tokyo Drift to the rest of the series, Gal Gadot was on her way to becoming Wonder Woman for DC).  And 7 had that great ending with the tribute to Paul Walker to the sounds of Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.

Toy Story 4 (Disney+) Another Pixar hit.  Didn’t hit me quite as hard as Onward or Toy Story 3 did emotionally, thank goodness.  I thought this story was over the way Toy Story 3 ended.  But Pixar did a good job adapting to prolong these characters stories.  It did feel like it was a bit of two and three combined looking back.  Still very good, Pixar knows what it’s doing.

The Marvel Infinity Saga (Disney+/Netflix/Digital) Leading up to the one-year anniversary of the release of Avengers: Endgame, I went through and rewatched all 23 MCU movies.  This time, I went in chronological story order by starting with Captain America - The First Avenger.  I chronicled the order I watched in my last post.  Even after viewing many of these movies multiple times, I’m still amazed at how much I enjoy them and the scope of what Marvel was able to achieve leading into the climax in Endgame.

Community (Netflix/Hulu) I loved Community on its initial run on NBC but never watched any of the episodes when it was on Yahoo for its sixth season.  It has been great to rewatch the meta-humor and sitcom trope parodies.  And since Ken Jeong and Joel McHale started their own podcast called The Darkest Timeline (half COVID-19, half Community pod), it has been a good companion viewing.

The Back to the Future Trilogy (Netflix) Recent add to Netflix for easy viewing, these movies have been a favorite of the Mitra boys since childhood.  Upon viewing as an adult, there is some humor that I didn’t recognize as a kid that is hilarious to me now.  It is also crazy how well this teen time-travel sci-fi comedy works.  Some of the effects in Part 2 are dated and 2015 didn’t quite end up the way it did in the movies.  But overall very enjoyable on the rewatch!

Extraction (Netflix) High budget action flick funded by Netflix?  Written by the Russo Brothers?  And staring Chris Hemsworth?  I’m in!  Directed by long-time stunt man and Russo Bros go-to stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave (you can tell the Russo influence).  It has an awesome 15ish minute one-shot action/chase sequence that is top notch.  Don’t think much about the plot or the controversy of cultural representation, just enjoy the action.

The Mighty Ducks Trilogy (HBO) Another childhood favorite of mine.  Nevermind that the hockey itself isn’t accurate.  This is about pure fun for an hour and a half at a time.  Come for the hi-jinx, stay for the heart.  Triple-deke, knuckle-puck, taking out the trash.  And leave it out on the ice!

The Harry Potter Series (Blu-Ray/Digital) This was not a go-to for me until Linda made me watch the entire series.  I guess when the first movie came out, it was too much of a kid movie for me (I was a high school senior at the time).  But from the second movie onward, it felt like the storytelling and movie making got better and better.  The Deathly Hallows was an epic ending, even if they did change the ending from the book.  I didn’t watch the newer Fantastic Beasts movies along with this though, my wife did.

Westworld - Season 3 (HBO) Recently got HBO back, so I caught up on Westworld Season 3.  I haven’t rewatched the previous seasons yet, but I may revisit it soon.  Season 1 was spectacular, Season 2 was confusing as hell but still entertaining.  Season 3 is somewhere in between, expanding on the ongoing storyline.  It was more straight-forward because its storyline is in the “real-world.”  For those of you that have watched, didn’t you think it was highly ironic that the Incite ball was basically the AT&T logo? (AT&T is the parent company for WarnerMedia and HBO)

The Last Dance (ESPN/ESPN+) The Michael Jordan docu-series has been a god-sent for sports fans devoid of live American sports for the past couple months.  Is it Jordan-biased?  Sure.  But it is full of drama and intrigue and full of nostalgia.  The NBA had commissioned a camera crew to follow the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls on their run for their sixth NBA championship.  Jordan owned the controlling rights to the footage and unlocked it after the 2016 NBA Finals.  So this documentary was years in the making and with the pandemic the release date was moved up.  Although it featured a lot of unseen footage, it also chronicled the years leading up to the 1998 Bulls title.  The last 5 Sundays have been awesome.

The Princess Bride (Disney+) I haven’t watched this movie since I was a kid.  It wasn’t one of my recurring watches back then.  So this was actually my second viewing of this movie ever.  I found it quite enjoyable.  It was cheesy, but fun, and a good family watch.  One of the many older titles available on Disney+.

Scoob (VOD) My kids had some of the older Scooby Doo episodes on DVD and watched them when they were younger.  This was a fun revisit for them and for us as parents.  It was actually cool seeing a lot of the Hanna-Barbera characters in one movie.  We watched this shortly after finishing Community, and my kids recognized Ken Jeong’s voice as Dynomutt.  My daughter hilariously shouted “Senor Chang!” when she recognized him.

The Indiana Jones Series (Netflix) I introduced my son to Indiana Jones a few months ago watching Raiders of the Lost Ark.  He loved it.  He lost a little bit of interest during the Temple of Doom, I think the character Short Round lost it for him (character hasn’t aged well).  The Last Crusade reclaimed his interest.  Harrison Ford was at his natural apex playing Indiana Jones.  I did not watch the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  I didn’t feel the need to revisit that installment, while it was enjoyable the alien ending ruined the lead up to it.

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Batman Begins/The Dark Knight - Hulu, The Dark Knight Rises - Digital) Every few years I try to revisit this series.  It is the best thing DC has ever put out cinematically.  While Begins and Rises is more comic book, TDK is a straight crime drama set in the world of Batman.  My favorite is Rises, but the absolute best comic book movie remains The Dark Knight, even with the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Jurassic Park/Jurassic World Series (Jurassic Park/The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Blu-Ray, Jurassic World - Digital, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Cinemax) The original Jurassic Park is such a great movie.  Rewatching, it’s crazy how well the effects for the dinosaurs hold up.  Steven Spielberg, Stan Winston, and ILM did a great job mixing animatronic and CGI dino effects that stand the test of time.  The Lost World was enjoyable but not as good as the original.  I skipped JP III, such a bad movie.  Jurassic World was a good way to reboot the series, basically a remake of the original but incorporating a lot of references to it.  I just finished Fallen Kingdom today.  Although Fallen Kingdom was entertaining, it fails to recapture some of the magic of JP and JW.

I’m not sure what I will hit up next.  I might hit some Keanu Reeves movies like Speed, the Matrix Trilogy, and/or the John Wick Trilogy.  Maybe Top Gun.  Maybe rewatch Friends or How I Met Your Mother.  Maybe something on HBO Max when it comes out like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.  Maybe Terminator.  Possibilities are endless, at least until some American sports return.

[swapdancepapyrus]

Am I the only one?

I am only currently raising awareness. If i lose some of you, feel free to ask me questions. 

Now i havent been a fan of The Deep End of Undertale. Never really have. But yet this is the internet, im bound to see it. Artists out there have dabbled in the topic for at least a year. or two. I love the fandom. This doesnt mean that im quitting. Nawwwnawnawww... 

I meant in the state that Im in, add the fact that i entertain solely people under the age of 19 ( and SFW age upwards), cause i KNOW that there are people out that dont want to see the nasti. Especially for the more... “sexier and suave” kind of AUpapyrus. 

I will keep to my word, i wont do nsfw. suggestive ideas and stuff? Its been rolling around. But i dont think it merits me to change myself completely to entertain the masses. It made me feel uncomfortable

Im watching so many people, So many people... that draw for NSFW. They have time and energy to watch their followers look at their stuff and ask for me. I do the same with SFW. only the problem is, Im not Attractive to the Adults/Adult-minded people, that want to see all that. Im not attracting Adults who want to NOT see Nasti AU shenanigans. 

WHY!?

It made me consider wanting to go to the other side, just to get that attention that may or may not help me get that help and push that could help me out later on. 

I have fallen into the “I need to obey the audience’s wishes or i will lose support” Mindset. The “Maybe if i ditch my normal self i can finally get the support i need to live. “ Mindset. Is this ok?

Im also finding it REALLY.... REALLY hard to find comics that doesnt involve a Swap/Fell papyrus and [Suggestive theme]. This alone, cuts my Youtube activity. have yal SEEN my youtube uploads? When was the last comic dub that i actually made? (shuffles through my tabs) Feb 13? October 15th? DUDE! THATS BAD! Put SWAPOUT 4 out there and it makes me look like im a SLOB of a content creator. Cuts my views and revenue by more than 50%. Hence my slight quitting of Youtube.  

Im a small time creator. I make things here and there. Thats why i honestly NEED your support. May that be 3$ on my ko-fi, or the 5-10-15$ monthly tiers on my Patreon, or whatever you want to give me through my paypal.

My Suggestive audio commissions have actually been a thing, sure they are about 15ish$ But as you can see, its for a reason! 

I got two weeks before things go to Complete Madness. Its serious. Do i really have to turn to Skeleton Ectodicks and Company to get money?

[bedlamgames]

Q&A #60

Ones where I appreciate the report and will look into it: owned slaver issues, squirm and writhe/spawn of light issue, unbanning from the pit, Hold back the dark reccs, and after the break the ones that need a more specific response including whether bigger is indeed better, sourcing some parts of the latest HMV, and the living who may or may not be also dead.

asapien1: Wouldn't it make sense to have a bonus value spot for more petite slaves as well? (rather than the value just going up as you increase asset size). Im thinking in particular of the "girlish" package from the Keldan missions, it seems odd to "pay" someone to physically alter a slave to have significantly less value. Maybe if both chest/ass size are at that point they should have a "Physical Assets" value modifier for having a proportional, girlish figure.

There’s a couple of reasons why it works the way it does currently. Bonus value for a start is only a reflection of what you think the slave is worth at auction rather than a judgement of size preferences. While the higher sizes are worth more this is counter acted by losing positive traits and gaining negative traits which penalizes value. 

I’m also planning to expand the Fulfil Opportunity assignments when more training options are done where the reward is purely based on what is requested and how the slave matches and there will be clients looking for more petite slaves. 

Anonymous: What is this TF version you keep mentioning in you update posts? 

There’s a full explanation linked to the $5 tier on the patreon but to give a quick description it gives more freedom for your starts allowing you to play scenario starts in regular games, be able to play the gender transformed portraits from the start rather than need to go from male to female, and be able to select certain things at the start that normally that would need to be unlocked like being Possessed, take some of the aspects that normally are scenario only, or are normally certain races only like Insatiable. 

Pledging at that tier also helps support continuing development, you get to vote in the commission poles, and I really do deeply appreciate it :)

Anonymous: imgur /a/bKFo0 can't seem to be able to get to endurance x4 after healslut training.

x4 you can only get with a crit on x2 so that’s correct. It’s a really, really minor bonus compared to the difference from x2 and x3 and it’s only in there as there as I didn’t want to have a different reward based on how many times it had been completed. 

Anonymous: in your some kind of warrior hmv where did you get the illidari, the raided-camp, nightelf deathknight horde toy, corrupted ysera and tyrande/sylvanas/jaina 3girl BJ scenes?Mind give me time stamps as I’m not sure all of those bits you’re referring to. I think most if not all of them are from Rexxworld but I’m happy double checking.] time stamps are 1:12 ish for the illidari, 1:15ish for the camp, 1:52ish for the deathknight, 2:16ish for corrupted ysera, and 2:26ish for the triple BJ

1:12 - zombinansfw.tumblr

1:15 - batesz2.tumblr

1:52 - audiodude.tumblr

2:16 - liard.tumblr

2:26 - dude017.tumblr

Heh whoops, so none by Rexx then though on checking I did find the fourth one from a Rexx reblog. 

celticcernunnos: Have you thought about implementing Undead into No Haven? The player can play Necromancers and recruit other Necromancers and the Necromancers turn Slaves into "Undead (Race) (Gender)". The key premise will be that Necromancers are rare and stay at camp while the Undead have few traits and can't train slaves. You swamp tasks with expendable Undead that you don't have to worry about losing. Have the ability to recruit super rare Vampires that are rare Necromancers but with super good traits.

Undead are tricky to me as it’s could be viewed as necrophilia, saying that Blightomancers are already in the game who share many of the same themes as Necromancers while being not quite as in your face about it, there are Wrights as recruitable race who may or may not have been dead once which is something I’m planning to explore, and there are two assignments already involving blight magic. 

Vampires I’ve had on the drawing board from day one as one of the advanced races I’ve mentioned on occasion, and I’m really looking forward to finally implementing them as race so you can see all the fun stuff that I have planned for them. 

Anonymous: imgur /a/vB4ln so the only way to actually change race/create futa currently is during the arcane winds? (excluding corruption/keldan alley)

Arcane winds don’t work either. Consider those two options as a preview of what incredible feats of biomancy you’ll be able to accomplish later after an assignment chain. 

Anonymous: imgur /a/7fieb a bit confusing having the same text for success and failure. Also, like 90% sure it should be "has proven themself"

follow up to text guy, somehow in spite of "failure" she became a slaver anyway?

That’s correct. It’s less likely but it’s possible that even though the assignment wasn’t a success your slavers can think that your slave did enough to prove anyway them self anyway while they were out there. 

Anonymous: how about you make a subreddit dedicated to your games, that way people could "publicly" report bugs, collaborate on more detailed reports etc. and have a centralised hub for complaining about dice rolls/percentages

Heh well there’s one reason not to have one right there :D 

Seriously though there are already large threads on TFGames and the Hypnopics Collective which I do look at every so often, I believe there have been reddit threads about No Haven before, and I’m sure there’s discussion in other places too. 

Anonymous: do you have a hidden biomancy/corruption counter that increases resistance with every application to a person? or am I just that talented at failing 90% rolls?

Corruption yes though that’s mainly just to stop the old really ridiculous outcomes when they’d picked up so many corruptions it kept hitting tornado as one of the few applicable results left, biomancy no, and quite possibly yes :)

Anonymous: Have you ever considered doing a scenario that is less slaver band, and more slaving "company", less reliant on supplies? I actually quite like the management feel of the slave training, but, and this may just be my own play-style, sometimes I feel like less of a slaver and more of a bandit or something who also happens to capture capture and train slaves. Mostly because a combination of marauding and infiltration missions are so lucrative that the profit from selling slaves is just icing.

Possibly yes as the game is more complete. I do think this might well resolve itself as the game progresses and there’s far more variation on what assignments are available. Something I’m keeping an eye on basically. 

Anonymous: the 0/0 assigning to bedwarmer is great, but I still can't assign a dominated slave to bed warmer.

Not sure what you mean on the first part, but yeah the other is a good point and will sort. 

Anonymous: Hey, what about vaginal virginity? It should be something magic here! Like resistance to fel, power of pure priestess, bonus slave value, and tasty virgin blood for vampires and dark ritual sacrifices!

There’s the Innocent trait already which currently partially reflects virginity as part of a general state of mind and does give a hefty slave value bonus. As others have pointed out though it does have some issues with the descriptions and I’m looking to sort those for the next update.