#i don't remember what my tag is for these things. i' have had to redo my tags everywhere else why not here??? ;skljfd;lksfjd

[neverendingford]

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[thefreakandthehair]

“Oh shit, your shirt’s a little… uh, well, you probably shouldn’t wear it.” Steve grimaces and nods at the black band tee strewn across the bottom corner of the bed, crusty stains settling in from where Eddie had impatiently wiped himself down before Steve got back with a warm washcloth.

“Yeah, that thing’s a biohazard right now. Honestly, it’s fine. We can always get a redo, if you really, really want one, tomorrow or something. I doubt any places are gonna let me in without a shirt. My big scary tattoos will frighten the midwestern townsfolk.”

Steve places both hands on his hips and Eddie wants to kiss him.

Again, and again, and again.

“Just wear one of mine. Your jeans are fine, so here.” He turns around and flits through the drawer once more, tugging out a shirt and tossing it to Eddie with a hesitant smile.

Among the many rumors that have circulated about Eddie Munson, the one he holds in highest contempt is that he’s stupid. That he took so many tries to graduate high school because he was dumb, incapable.

He’s not.

Eddie isn’t stupid, and he’s been around Steve long enough to learn all about the courting rituals of a jock, about how his teammate’s girlfriends and partners wear their names across their backs to show they’re… well, theirs. 

So when Steve hands him a maroon tee-shirt with white hems, the Indiana University emblem on the front and Harrington written across the back, he knows what the gesture means. 

He pulls the shirt over his frizzy mess of curls and secretly hopes he’s right.

↳read chapter three of slipped between these ribs of mine [explicit] on ao3! written for @steddiesmuttyseptember!

some people asked to be tagged and I can't for the life of me remember so just tagging some peeps who expressed interest (lemme know if you don't wanna be, of course!): @sageclipse @pearynice @steddieasitgoes @stervrucht @runninriot

@lunaticmarunatic @lihhelsing @steddie-island @kas-eddie-munson @sidekick-hero

@spectrum-spectre @hbyrde36 @queenie-ofthe-void @kkpwnall @starryeyedjanai

@just-my-latest-hyperfixation @steddieas-shegoes @vecnuthy @hyperrbolic-orange @hotluncheddie

@stedumpsterfire @fkinkindagauche @pluckedstrings

[amaiguri]

OC in 15 Tag Game

Thanks to the @the-down-upside-finch for the tag! It was forever ago and I think I need to redo my Tumblr intro to warn people that I do all my replies in bursts and I still love you all...

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

I will, of course, be honoring my beloved Arlasaire today with a combo of spoken dialogue and narration. That being said, I don't really write good out-of-context bangers lines lol -- everything only barely works because of the context. (I wish I was. I'm not that cool though.)

"And it was my fault! Because I wasn’t enough!"

"You don’t care about me."

"You don’t know me."

"Nesa… I warned Zal so I’ll warn you too: I’m not very good at relationships."

"…I’m not a lady. The Aftokratoria has stripped away our titles, remember?"

"I was just House d’Magnia’s ward. They took me in after a Dragonstorm burnt down my village. Fed me. Trained me. Gave me purpose."

On that first day after they found me, — back before I was “Arlasaire”— I’d been the one to kill the spider crabs chasing Lord Einharde’s second lieutenant.

"Lord Einharde embodied the House words with all his heart. “Eshew Axiom for Ascendancy.” This made him cold, but he was good to me."

His name rotted in my memory now.

"…The Arlasaire you knew a year ago would not have slaughtered anyone, if YOU had asked."

I felt the familiar knife twist in my chest. I stifled laughter. Euphoria. What a beautiful liar…

The Burned Maiden bled from the body and it was just the girl. Just me.

"And then… I fell for this priestess lady. We kissed. And then… she also tried to kill me."

"It is too cold and dark to be kind. Spring is not like this in the North. You have to actually wear clothes."

"You… like me? Are we… a thing?"

...Guys, Arlasaire's so edgy and angsty, omg. I swear, she's actually a huge softie underneath, she's just not feeling safe in the narrative... And familiar toxicity feels safe...

So YEAH! I'd like to gently tag @maiemorrae @spideronthesun @marigold-clouds @words-after-midnight @wordswrittenbynight @nemaliwrites @cee-grice @zebee-nyx @junypr-camus and @dragonprincedawn -- and if you've done this already, feel free to just link me to the thing. Or do it again! Whatever!

[calamitoustide]

writer interview game

thanks for the tag @messrsrarchives @inevitablestars @angel-daydreams

how many works do you have on ao3?

74? which is fucking crazy what the fuck who let me do that but only 64 of them are currently up on ao3

what's your total ao3 word count?

1,574,345 somehow

your top 5 stories by kudos?

Teach Them How To Dream It Was Rare I Was There I Remember It Absent Mindedly Making Me Want You Dear Reader You Don't Have To Save Me (But Would You Run Away With Me)

do you respond to comments?

I certainly try but I do go through times where I don't respond to like any of them but recently I've been better at it!

what's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

uh I'm gonna go with like multi-chapter fics because I've written so many one shots where james dies so we don't have to get into all that but also i'm a baby so I think the most angsty ending is Stars Will Fall? Reg is dead... or it could be Anyway Don't Be Stranger because jeg are broken up and aren't getting back together... but also A Stranger in The Alps is also pretty angsty but also not like jeg never got to be together in that life but also they didn't get to date in Stars Will Fall either

okay I'm going with Stars Will Fall that's my final answer!

do you write crossovers?

No, and I probably will never but you never know I guess

have you ever received hate on a fic?

A few times yeah I had someone comment on one of my fics saying how they hated it but they finished it? for some reason. Mainly right now the only hate I receive on fics is how I characterize Sirius.

do you write smut?

I did for a time but not anymore it's boring for me to write I'll read it but it takes forever for me to write and it is not meant for me. It was a time while I was writing it though...

have you ever had a fic stolen?

I haven't been like plagiarized but someone put teach them how to dream on wattpad once without my permission uh and I think that's it? from what I know.

have you ever had a fic translated?

I think I did once but I don't think the person ever finished it so I don't think it's up anymore, but at some point absent mindedly was being translated.

have you ever co-written a fic before?

i've successfully co-written one fic and by successful i mean it's on ao3 here but I haven't written my chapter in months and I've unsuccessfully co-written one too that went up in flames so i think I'm gonna stick to not writing anymore

what's your all-time favorite ship?

jegulus i do not care about anything else i don't care you can throw any ship at me jegulus is better

what's a wip that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

the history fic I loved the idea but I don't think it'll ever be done like I'd have to redo the whole thing that I have like 50k of it written and the idea of having to redo all of that is awful so I really don't think I'll ever finish it it would also be really really long and I don't think I have the ability to get it done the way I want so alas it was not meant to be i fear

what are your writing strengths?

Metaphors? Does that count. I love myself a good metaphor and I think I'm good with hurting people with them. I like using them as a way to foreshadow too.

what are your writing weaknesses?

Describing anything other than emotion like if you tell me to describe a room or outfit i'm sorry it's not gonna happen. Which is weird because when I write I see everything like it was a movie but I literally can't describe it you have to teleport in my head and you'll see it.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it's fun but also I feel like every time I do it I do it wrong (i did in in tthtd and i got so many comments about how it was wrong lmao) so I stick with Reg calling Harry mon cheri and that's pretty much it.

what's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

I mean I think I've got my ships I have jeg I have moonchaser i even did rosestarkillerchaser like I have my guys and I've written arcane which I wanted to do but I don't like any other ships in that enough to write them. I have this idea to write for lilylene? so maybe that's it but I don't know I'd be content just to write jeg forever and nothing else.

what's your favorite fic you've ever written?

It's so hard I don't know I feel like my go to is Dear Reader that's my baby girl I love her but also the road trip fic is up there too I love the both of them they are my children and I can't pick so both! I dont' care I make the rules. Those are the ones I'm always rereading somewhat the rest I could take or leave but not those two.

tagging... honestly i don't know who did it or not this has been around for a while so I'm sorry if you've already been tagged or did it but @ephemeralstarss @starsworth @ultravioletbrit @rabidlittlestrawberry @static-radio-ao3

[my-name-is-markus-with-a-k]

prime numbers for the gif-maker asks? 👀

2. Least favourite set? Oh, I'm sorry but I don't want to answer that 😅 I've deleted any I really don't like, but I will say there's a set that keeps popping up in my notifs where I'm like 'really, that one again???' But that's all I will say. People like what they like.

3. The set with the most notes? This one with 1559 notes. I'm happy with that, it's a good set. The ones with Connor in them tend to do well.

5. Favourite movie/tv show to gif? dbh is my main fandom so yeah, dbh but more specifically, Markus. I just love giffing him, it's almost therapeutic at this stage.

7. Who are my top 3 gifmakers? @thirium @aghostinmyownmachine @mijchi for dbh gifs and also shout out to @babyjapril who is not a dbh giffer but her gifs are always incredible (sorry for the random tag ana).

11. One set I made that just won't die? I legitimately don't know what this means lol

13. Where and/or from whom did you learn to gif? I'm mostly self-taught but I have relied on a few tutorials here and there.

17. How many gifs do you prefer in a set? I guess 2? That's how many I usually make in a set, so that must be my preference. I do like a 4 set too though.

19. What I'd my giffing process like? Very on the fly, lol. I check to see if I have the footage I want, if I don't I screen record the scene I need. I upload that into ps, trim the clip to what I need, change the speed and crop. Then I brighten and colour them to whatever I'm feeling at the time. I always sharpen last. It's what takes the longest and I sometimes have to finick with the settings a bit until it looks nice on tumblr.

23. What's the thing you gif when you don't have anything else to gif? Take a wild guess. It's my boy ofc

29. Have you ever posted a set, realised you made a mistake later but realised it was too late? Oh yes many a time. Usually on sets with text and I made a typo. That's happens pretty often 😅 I usually go back and fix them anyway but then the old versions still get reblogged lol

31. Do you schedule/queue posts or do you post as soon as you're done? I usually post when I'm done. If I'm not really happy with a set, I'll save them to drafts and look at them later. If I decide they're actually OK, I'll post them, if not, I redo them. But I don't schedule posts, I'm too impatient.

37. What sets do you have planned to make in the future? There are a few sets I'm waiting to do when my skills catch up to my visions. But right now? There's a quote gifset I want to make with Markus but it will require time I just don't have right now.

41. Least favourite part of the gifmaking process? Oh my god, uploading to tumblr. I never really know what gifs are going to look good. Sometimes I'll spend ages on a set, upload to tumblr and it look like ass, so I have to redo the whole thing. It's infuriating.

43. Do you keep videos or delete them once you're done giffing? I keep them unless I need the space. I'm pretty lazy like that hahaha

47. Any advice for novice gif makers/people who want to start making gifs? Gif tutorials are your friend. I'm mostly self-taught but whenever I get really stuck, I search for gif tutorials. They are incredibly helpful.

That... was a lot of questions and I had to google prime numbers like a chump because I could only remember prime numbers up to 20 lmao

[snek-panini]

It's been a few weeks since I had new books to share, but I finally got photos taken of the newest ones so today's the day. Here, have a book:

This is Across Tides and Currents, a Good Omens siren AU by Sodium_Azide and @doorwaytoparadise (hi. I hope I tagged you right). My favorite thing about this AU is that, at its heart, it's about learning to communicate with someone who is so different from you that you can't even physically speak each other's language, and yet you've still got so much common ground that you find a way. It's way lighter and more fun than that description makes it sound, though, so go read it if that's your thing.

The cover on this is Lineco book cloth, scrapbook paper printed to look like leather, and blue foil htv. The foil was actually a nightmare to do. The first time I applied it, it wouldn't stick no matter what I did, and the bits that did stick peeled off as soon as I touched them. I had to peel them up very carefully, cut a new image, and try again. Thankfully it worked the second time but I don't know that I'll be using the foil type again unless there's no other way to get the color I want. The non-foil metallic was so much easier to work with.

More book photos under the cut!

I went with a coptic bind for this one for a few reasons. The first was that I wanted to try one on a quarto-size book to see if I could. I also wanted to try the mitered corners thing I did when I bound Strange Moons, and see if I could have the same effect on the interior. (That bit didn't work out so well; the front is fine but I mismeasured the inside and the lines didn't match up, so I trimmed some pieces of cardstock to cover that up. I really like the layered look though, so that's fine. It's quirky.) The third reason is that not long before I decided to bind this one, the authors published a new chapter after two years of no updates. That's the best possible reason to have to change plans, and the glueless bind means that if they ever do that again I can just redo the stitching to add more pages. Win-win.

Getting whimsical with title pages here. This took way longer than I thought it would, probably because I don't like graphic design and I did it in Word where I do the rest of my typesetting. Usually what I do is grab an image and put text around it or on top of it and then just play with fonts and sizes, but this time I drew the lines and then made the text follow them. This is the first time I've used the word art feature since...probably 2009? I'd forgotten how. I have no doubt there are better ways to do this but if I'd had to learn a new program at that point I'd have quit. And I do think it was worth it--it's cute and fun and looks about how I imagined it.

Couple of photos of the inside. Sorry the first one's blurry, I had someone trying to get my attention when I took these. The section break image came from rawpixel, I just made it gray instead of black so it's more subtle. The fic has very nice illustrations that I specifically got the artist's permission to print and then I failed to get any photos of them when I did my little photo shoot. They look very nice, though. I swear.

The last image is something I've started including in my latest books. I'm calling them "A Note from the Bookbinder" and it's basically just me talking about why I chose that story, the experience of reading it for the first time, stuff that's going on in the fandom, stuff about the process like the new chapter coming out as I was preparing to print. It's kind of...like marginalia? Part of fanbinding is preservation and that's linked to archival work, and something I know archivists love is marginalia and diaries. I don't like writing in my books and I've never found any fun in journaling, but sometimes that kind of context is important so I'm trying to add it. Someday, decades from now, I may not remember all the details, so I'm trying to preserve them. IDK, this got philosophical on me. Go read about mermaids now. Promise it's a good time.

[piperslovebot]

Tag game

(Stolen from @the-badger-mole lmao. This looked fun, so I thought I'd do this too.)

1. What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care anymore?

Bamon. I still love them, but I’m not invested in tvd anymore and no matter how hard I try, I can’t get back into it.

2. Which ship would you consider your first one?

Mickey/Minnie

3. Your first fanfic belonged to which couple?

Bamon. I ended up making a redo, since I wasn’t happy about how my first attempt turned out. It’s on FFNET.

4. Do you remember the first couple you saw a fanart over?

No

5. Did you ever get into ship discourse?

Yes. I wish I didn’t, but I have.

6. Did you used to have a NOTP or have it currently?

Nikki/Nate as a couple. They aren’t weren’t my fave in S1, but even after S2, I still don’t ship them. I love their friends with benefits arc, but that’s the only way I ship them. I’ve talked a few times on why I don’t want them to be a couple again (check my #anti niknate tag) so I’m not gonna repeat myself haha.

7. Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

It was moreso a family fic, but Red/Kitty and Jay/Leia were the pairings.

8. Currently, do you have any OTPs?

Too many to count: Jay/Leia, Gwen/Nikki, Eric/Donna, Jackie/Hyde, Eric/Jackie, Eric/Buddy, etc.

9. Is there any couple, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

Bonnie/Damon & literally every Bonnie ship I have, but if they had been canon, I know for sure Plec would’ve fucked it up like she fucked up every good thing in tvd lmao.

10. Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

Nikki/Nate, and Jackie/Kelso (not as much tho rn b/c I’m not fixated on them). Neither are endgame material imo tho in canon.

11. Do you have any ship that, in the past, was considered normal but now would be canceled over?

Maybe Zig/Maya?? Idk.

12. What was your favorite crack ship?

Gwen/Nikki and Toph/Azula always. I'm not even fixated on ATLA anymore, but the latter will forever be a fave.

13. Who is the couple you read more fanfics of?

Honestly I've been writing more fic than reading it 😭😭😭

But out of all the ships, I feel like I read Gwikki fic the most.

14. What do most of your ships usually have in common?

Enemies to lovers. It’s just my thing.

15. What do you absolutely hate in a ship?

OH MY GOD I HATE ships with Person A going after Person B without taking no for an answer. Person B's agency isn’t being taken into consideration and it’s like they’re a prize for Person A.

Granted there are ships with that trope I do like, but it’s moreso b/c of the other good stuff in the ship and it outweighs the bad.

Like Kl*roline, there’s literally nothing about that ship I can say that I like except for the fact that the actors are pretty and I liked the paper scene (and even then, Caroline was shamelessly giggling with Klaus while her boyfriend was watching. Her boyfriend who Klaus killed, forced to become a hybrid, and made him into his slave).

Tagging: @randomwriter23 @disneymbti @berryzxx @astraeasilvers @blairwaldcrf @theonewithallthefixations and anyone else who wants to join

[finn-m-corvex]

First Post Redo!

Hi everyone! My name is Finn, and welcome to my blog for silly little lego men. I was originally in the fandom ~2017ish, but I fell out of it pretty hard. Luckily for everyone here, I am back with a vengeance.

All of my blog tags (pertaining to me) can be found in the tag section of this post ^^

🔴 My ao3 is Finn_M_Corvex! That's where I post any of my stories over 5k words unless it's under special circumstances (which is. most of my stuff lol). My requests are OPEN so feel free to send any in, although I am reserving the right to turn one down if I so choose. Find my masterpost here!

🟠 No DMs unless we've talked in tags / reblogs OR you're a moot please! I'm not scary though; ask anyone whose had a conversation with me and I'm like a tiny golden retriever. I have so much social anxiety though help-

🟡 I am 19! But I still have boundaries!! Don't be weird please!

🟢 My pronouns are he/him OR she/her, but he/him is preferred please! No they/them or neopronouns!

🔵 My favorite ninja is Jay and that's who the majority of my stuff is about so he's not your thing you may kindly show yourself out. Feel free to request other characters though!

🟣 If you remember seeing my name somewhere, this is my second blog! My first one was hacked and unfortunately deleted so this is my do-over

🟤 Always willing to help with homework and stuff if you need it, just drop it in the Finnbox (asks) and I'll see what I can do!

⚪ Do not be an asshole on my things, I will not hesitate to block you on sight, esp if you're a weirdo. I've had enough not-great experiences on here and I'm not very tolerant.

⚫ YOU CAN ALWAYS DO STUFF WITH MY WORK EXCEPT FEEDING IT TO AN A.I. Podfics, fanart, translations, anything like that! Just make to credit me and tag me properly so I can see it!

[eldritch-elrics]

i started playing the silent hill 2 remake!

uhh... buckle up i guess, because i have a LOT to say. probably too much to say. (and probably will have even more to say in the future - i will make a liveblogging tag!)

i got as far as the entrance to the woodside apartments and then stopped. overall, i'm really enjoying it!

i think that what surprised me most - as someone whose experience with game remakes admittedly comes most from nintendo games and the 2018 shadow of the colossus - is how much this is not an attempt to redo sh2, but to rework or remix it. i knew this would be the case to some extent, but it both surprised and excited me how little of the original game's finer details of progression are left intact. i thought i would know where to go, which paths to take, which items to look for, and then... i didn't! this is very fun! it means that even though i played the original about a month ago, and it's still fresh in my mind, i'm still getting the "new player" experience to some extent. on a meta level, it feels like the town's ever-shifting nature has caught me off guard. it's leading me to doubt my memories of the original game, and that's just very cool!

side note: there have been a handful of moments so far where the screen pixelates a little and james clutches his head. i wonder what those indicate! i know that one of these moments happened when i tried to get onto the road where you get the radio/plank in the og, so perhaps they're little hints like "hehe, you're remembering the wrong game!" (i also love all the new little mysteries: new memos, new strange photographs that have their own space in the inventory...)

even with the changes, it feels like, so far, the new/remixed levels are in keeping with the spirit of the og. for one, you've got displaced iconic moments from the og that have been inserted into new contexts - such as the "james sticks his hand in the suspicious hole" bit, which also has a fun little difference in the fact that you have to make him stick his hand further in. (does this indicate that remake!james is less unhinged?)

overall it feels like the game is taking full advantage of the fact that it has a ton more processing power to work with. it is legitimately so cool to see silent hill rendered in such realistic detail. it makes it feel like a real town! it's so beautiful, even when it's gross and run-down. i looooove being able to enter into so many of the buildings around town. i love how much it feels like people really did live here. i love the rendering of the fog and how much consideration has been given to even the smallest, most mundane of visuals. i LOVE being able to smash windows and interact with objects inside display cases. it's like a whole new layer of the town has been unlocked. that's exactly what a remake should do - reimagine the original game with new technology.

speaking of new technology... my god are the autosaves a welcome addition. by far the aspect of the og that felt the most dated!

the acting is also very good. don't have much to say on that front yet. james undeniably feels different - a little more open, vulnerable, cautious, certainly more emotive - but i still completely accept him as a version of james. there's lots of good additions here, such as the way he clutches his side when he's hurt (had me going "poor baby..." out loud way too many times, to which my friend who was watching responded "that is a grown ass man.") or the way he looks in the direction the camera's pointing. the one James Thing i sorely miss is the way he comments on random objects he interacts with. even if it's not a lot, it's a great way to learn about him as a character, and i'm sad to lose it.

i'll use this to segue into some of the game choices i don't like:

the ui decisions are for the most part quite bad. i haaaate that the main font looks exactly like the default font in microsoft word. doesn't fit at all. i also hate the way the screen goes red around the edges when james gets hurt. it's way too unsubtle an effect, and it makes it suck ass to run around at low health. (i turned it off pretty quickly - james's slow pace and stumbling at low health are more than enough incentive to keep him healthy.)

i will begrudgingly accept the general "tutorialization" of the whole game; that's probably a necessary addition to a modern game that doesn't come with a manual, even though one of the things i enjoyed about the early silent hills was how little they explain themselves to you. some parts of the remake veer close to encroaching on the "fuck around and find out" spirit of silent hill - i didn't appreciate the reminder (like 2 hours into the game) that you can break windows to find pathways and items; that's something the player can figure out from earlier tutorials. but it's probably for the best.

another "probably for the best" decision is the little dot that turns up on screen to indicate an interactable item. it's a change that i'm definitely grateful for, but it does ruin a little bit of what i might call the "rpgmaker spirit" of running around trying to interact with every item in case james has some funny dialogue about it. (hmm, maybe that's why they have less environment-thing-description dialogue now?) but overall, in a world with this insane level of detail and realism, you kind of have to find a way to signal to players what they can interact with. maybe that could have been done in a more elegant or diegetic way? maybe they could have preserved that feeling of "oh man, the protagonist could potentially have something to say about anything!" or "whoa, anything here could be important" somehow? but who knows. it's an interesting dilemma regardless.

i'm not a huge fan of the combat so far. it seems too fast-paced. wish it were clunkier. i'm sure i'll get used to it, though.

by far i think the worst decision in the game is the "over the shoulder" camera perspective. i know that this is ultimately a holdover from resident evil 4. i know that it probably makes combat easier. i do not care. it makes james feel too separate from his environment. i want to see his whole body in the frame! i want him to feel small! like he is just one more character in silent hill! it's unfortunate but understandable that the remake had to do away with the iconic fixed camera angles of the og, but, if they were willing to make that change, i don't understand why they couldn't be more lenient with player camera control. ugh.

my final thought for now is a bit of a larger scale question. as i wandered through the town, listening to the familiar, spooky akira yamaoka ambiance, i had a very strange thought: why is there silent hill music? which is obviously a silly question, but i phrase it this way for a reason. despite everything, despite all my positive feelings on it, there is some significant way in which the remake, at least so far, does not feel like silent hill. i'm not sure what it is. it might be the slight surfeit of ui. it might be the fact that there's no grainy filter, that i'm playing it on my friend's 4k monitor. the extreme level of detail creates a fundamentally different type of realism than that which was achieved on the ps2 in 480p - a world that was uncannily realistic because you could see light and shape but little detail. honestly, it might just be the fact that the lighting and shading is so, so different. the original trilogy has an incredibly strong identity, and this remake just... doesn't fit in with a lot of the hallmarks of that identity.

there's a bit of the "shadow of the colossus 2018" question in here. i've talked before about how i think the sotc remake creates a beautiful but ultimately uninspiring atmosphere because it goes for a very generic sort of video game realism, as opposed to the bright, stark emptiness of the original game. it's hard to say that sh2r doesn't benefit from the particular aesthetic it's got going on. the level of detail legitimately does so much for it. but it also loses some parts of itself too. loses some of the spookiness for sure - i talked earlier about how much it looks like it could be a real town, but there's also some important affect that's gained from the og's feeling of stylistic wrongness, the ways in which it doesn't feel as real as it should. just something to ponder...

[livewireprojects]

Stuff involving Classic Sonic

I forgot I had this, I’m thinking of eventually redoing the design especially since I made him look too much like Cheryl from Silent Hill whose outfit(after looking up the game) was inspiration for him.

So here’s Classic along with him before he became who is today.

I don’t remember if I’ve said this before but due to how things go in my Lost Prince AU Classic wouldn’t be past Sonic.(So Sonic from an alternate universe) In my version he’s called Classic by Modern because someone pointed out how he looks along with classic Tails’s stuff looking a little retro style. I guess an excuse for him showing up in Sonic Generations was classic Tails trying something out that allowed for dimensional travel & bringing Sonic while Classic Robotnik happened to already be there & testing out the time shit with Eggman. This also is an excuse for everyone to be like “Thanks to these guys it’s not our first time dealing with alternate versions of ourselves.” if I do anything with other versions meeting cause lol.

I was looking something up & the wiki mentioned that there’s no Classic Shadow because of timeline stuff. I guess my version can get away with him being there since my Classic Sonic isn’t the past Sonic.

I don’t really have plans to do much with my version of Classic past the times he shows up in modern Sonic games.(Maybe pics here & there) I don’t really have any connection with Classic since I’ve mostly been around early 2000s & modern Sonic especially since my first Sonic related media was Sonic X. I guess if we count Sonic sprites fandom on YouTube maybe that counts but dunno.(Probably not since that’s classic sprites used for modern) The point is due to not having a connection I don’t have much to do with Classic.

I do have a plot which kind of explains "past Classic" which was simply called "Christmas Island" but I don't really have plans to do much with it but I'll try to work on it one day.(Maybe)

The whole idea is that Robotnik & Sonic are heading to Sonic's home town on the island Christmas Island. Sonic's friends find out & tag along while wanting answers that neither the doctor nor hedghog are giving.(Given Sonic is selectively mute they're not getting a straight answer anyway) The gang end up in a Silent Hill based adventure as they finally learn Sonic's backstory & what was left behind.

Summary for classic Sonic:

Sonic or Classic as he's called when visiting his new friends in an alternate universe is an energetic, friendly guy that can be a bit sassy. He's selective mute but that doesn't stop him from being expressive, his friends(even Robotnik) have learned to figure out what he's trying to say as it's very rare for Sonic to choose to talk.(Also not helped by lack of use)

Sonic use to be Robotnik's adopted son, Robotnik before becoming a villain was a family friend that was asked to take Sonic in when something bad happened to his home town. It's unknown what happened with neither Sonic nor Robotnik like talking about it. Though they're fighting against each other & not exactly on good terms they have times when they still see each other as family especially Sonic as Robotnik has been his only parental figure after being removed from Christmas Island for his safety.

[p5x-theories]

Hey there! I'm interested at taking a peek at the files for the game to look at the models (I love studying how models are made as a 3d modeler myself!) but I've hit a wall when it comes to getting the assets! I'm not inexperienced when it comes to looking at game files, but I think this game in particular has encryption (maybe unique to Chinese versions of Unity?) that makes it difficult to rip the assets, so I was wondering how you were doing it! Sorry if this is outta left field! <3

They are in fact encrypted! I ran into the same problem with both the second and third betas, haha (the encryption gets stronger each time), so I've been in exactly this position.

The way I ended up getting past it (which, note, only works for the 2D and 3D assets, not audio files as far as I've tried, though that should be fine for your purposes it sounds like!) is to do two things:

I set up AssetStudioMod for viewing and extracting the files, which you can find here: https://github.com/aelurum/AssetStudio * Note that it requires a few other things to be installed to set up correctly, explained in the description on GitHub, although it was a bit more complicated than I first expected. I had a friend who's more familiar with code and programs help me, though I don't know if that was exactly necessary since we ended up doing it wrong and having to redo part of it anyway, haha. For that reason, though, I can't really walk you through it, because I don't remember exactly what we did that was actually necessary. I am pretty sure the actual version of AssetStudioMod I downloaded to use was one of the GUI versions from this release: https://github.com/aelurum/AssetStudio/releases/tag/v0.17.4

I then used a script to remove the dummy encryption on the files, which you can find here: https://github.com/SerenoV7/scripts/blob/main/python/p5x-asset-converter.py * There's a note at the top of the script that says where to put it, though if you're not familiar with scripts, after putting it there you'll have to double-click it to actually run it on the files. This script was made for the second beta, but worked for me in combination with AssetStudioMod to view the third beta's files as well.

If you're just trying to look at the second beta's files, the original AssetStudio + the script in #2 worked for me for that, but AssetStudioMod was necessary for the third beta's files in my experience. If you run into any trouble, I can try to help, though again I only sort of remember what I did that worked.

If there are specific models you're interested in, and the above sounds too complicated or you can't get it to work, I could also just export the ones you want and put them in a .zip for you, so let me know!

[rainytypology]

https://www.tumblr.com/rainytypology/743184004363223040/guessing-riize-mbti

Hi! I saw this post, and I was wondering if Anton could actually be an ISTP (or INFJ or ISFP)? Like, hear me out (sorry if I made a mistake, I am not too involved in MBTI):

Se because he was a swimmer, a celloist, then became an idol and is into music production. And he even took part in the music production of a movie. This seems more like Se than Ne because Ne is more concerned with entertaining the possibilities/ideas while Se is concerned with actually doing things and interacting with the physical environment.

I even remember seeing a post where after seeing EXO, he grasped the opportunity to become an idol so he doesn’t miss out and regret later on, which seems like Se-Ni mentality imo.

And Shotaro and Seunghan even once said that while in the US, Anton had a list of things to do and when Taro suggested going somewhere out of the blue, he got upset and said that “when you go somewhere, you plan it”. I admit this made me think of him as an INTJ, but I don’t see Se inferior (I always look into inferior functions while typing someone). This seems like Ni, because of the specific vision he was pursuing (like the planning) and getting upset because of his plans getting disrupted by Shotaro (if Anton were a Ne user, I assume he’d change his plans and tag along).

And from his W Korea interview: “I made music out of curiosity because I was curious about what would happen if I made music while being exposed to good music.” This seems like Ni-Se behaviour. Ni speculates about how things would go and potential implications when it comes to a new idea. They are very attracted to abstract concepts or things that appear like a mystery to them. And I kinda see Se in the sense that he is relying on the external environment to guide him ahead (like the exposure to good music).

I don’t have strong arguments regarding Ti-Fe, but in the Talk Saxy reaction (especially Sohee’s bridge), he was more concerned with the production of the bridge, which seems like Ti to me since I feel like Ti is concerned with how things work, and they usually like to look into the internal process of a system. And maybe him not being expressive could be a sign of inferior Fe? He’s kinda like Eunseok but rather shy and soft while my man Eunseok took the stone in “silver stone” too seriously. But at the same time, I also don’t know about Fi-Te. Ti-Fe and Fi-Te can be hard to distinguish at times, hehe.

But honestly, Anton’s one of the hardest to type simply because of how shy and introverted he is. But I do think that he could be an INxJ or an ISxP. (And I will never forgive PDB for ruining his consensus cause there’s no way he’s an INxP, and most INxP voters don’t even have any proper arguments besides him being quiet and shy and sweet and caring and all and the whole vibe-typing which also ruined Wonbin’s consensus in the beginning)

(And I also feel like Sungchan could be an ENFJ or ENTJ, but that’s for another story)

Ooooh those are some interesting observations 🤔🤔 I was planning to redo my guesses on them someday, after I finish some of my other drafts first lol. But with your observations, he could be an Ni-Se user rather than Ne-Si... The only ones I'm very sure about are Wonbin = ISTJ and Shotaro = ESFJ. Eunseok seems like he uses Ti the most and Fe inferior...

But yeah you're definitely right about how he is a bit tricky to type considering how quiet and private he is compared to the others. He does seem to lead with an introverted function though. It hasn't been a full year since their debut yet, so hopefully Anton will open up a little more throughout his career and make it a bit easier to determine his functions.

Fi and Ti are the most confusing functions for people to differentiate, so don't stress too much about confusing those lol.

I'll take your observations into consideration 👍 I need to observe more RIIZE content for a better analysis

[moved-accounts-btw]

Yeah honestly I think the reason rewrites are getting so much hate now is because of like 2-3 popular rewrite creators being really pushy about people making their own rewrites. It’s the same reason Shaw was getting so much hate in the beginning too because most people don’t like having things forced onto them. I can’t know for sure obviously but I’ve been following a couple of rewrite creators for a long time and before these 2-3 popular creators started being so pushy I never saw any of the other rewrite creators get any hate, I’ve seen people get death threats for using Bright or Shaw but never for a rewrite. I seriously miss the days when having a rewrite of Bright was just something others would do for fun or to make the character more personal to them but now it’s being forced as some moral obligation.

As for how I write Bright I don’t plan on giving him some sort of redemption arc but I have removed the possession anomaly and amulet so he’s just immortal and unable to be harmed kinda like Clef. However I can’t change the name or anything else because then he just starts to feel like an oc as opposed to an actual established character. Although I do enjoy most rewrites and even Shaw I just can’t get attached to them in the same way sadly. Also I can’t really speak on removing the Dr Bright tag from rewrites I know some of my friends get triggered by seeing rewrites in the tag but I can’t personally attest to that.

I have to disagree; most of the popular blogs are stating their boundaries, telling people why they don't want their stuff to be labeled as Dr. Bright contents, and providing information on why they don't want it. People don't actively seek out people and demand that they make rewrites; if you think what they're doing is pushy, block them. 

Point blank: The reason people disliked Shaw was because DJK was presented in such a terrible light and had stolen credit from the real creator, who was a victim. I can understand Shaw because DJK claims he ‘killed’ Bright, which in itself was really shitty and performative as to boost his relevance by introducing ‘his’ cool new OC. He didn't ‘kill’ Bright; he didn't do jack shit. Hell, he didn't even acknowledge the antisemitism. At some point, racism, incest, or sexism were attached to the character. Simply changing his name does not fix anything; in fact, it sweeps it under the rug and still treats it as the butt of the joke. Not only that, but people found out that the real creator of Shaw actually had plans to redo and fix the character, not to completely erase Dr. Bright but to remove the negative parts. They decided to remodel the character as well because Dr.Bright was suppose to be self-insert by AB.

People wanted to do the same thing because they didn't agree or because they wanted to make a version of that piece. Either it's changing the character as a whole, changing the amulet and the lore along with the name, or keeping everything the same but rewriting the lore and lightly changing the name to have the same hold as Bright. 

We're not outwardly telling people to change; we're just asking them to remember the victims and to change the lore of that character. Remove AB from the lore and create your ideal of 963. If it's the sexy Tumblr man, cool! Do it! Be happy and set your lore! But don't be disrespectful about it. We do it for fun, but there's people who have disrespected us and refuse to which started this whole situation. We asked many times for people to not tag our stuff as Jack Bright/Bright/ or anything of that manner, as we do have our own tags, which are 963-Rewrites/Bright-Rewrites/ or our Rewrites name. That's why we keep pleading with people to respect our wishes, but many people don't.

Many people haven't. Or many people have created a fuss with our wishes.

Most of the Doctors or personnel are well-known OCs from the authors because they have been around longer or when the whole fandom began to rise up. Everything in the foundation is someone's OC or creation. That's the whole point of creating for someone to see your creation, or OC./lh/NM

[thebramblewood]

Thank you to @venriliz for tagging me! I'll tag @thecrumblingisle, @sweetbeagaming, @cactusblossom, @simatomica, @10000dreams, @solarlemonade, @lotuso3o, @cinnamonferns but feel free to ignore! I know it's a long one.

1. What’s your favorite sims death? Oh my god, I forgot the running with scissors death in TS2 existed until @venriliz mentioned it, but that made me remember I once killed off an unwanted legacy heir using that method. :/ Don't ask me why I couldn't just move him out and leave him to his own devices. Anyway, I think death by cowplant is pretty classic.

My LEAST favorite Sims death is freezing because I had a really traumatic experience in the second generation of my legacy where my Sim Phoebe made the bright decision to host a birthday party for one of her housemates at the Bluffs in Windenburg in the dead of winter and everyone decided to start swimming and like three people froze to death, including the birthday girl. It remains a horrifically vivid memory to this day, lmao.

Putting the rest under a cut!

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? Maxis Match for the most part. I find that anything alpha just ends up looking too out of place unless it's closer to the Maxis side of the spectrum.

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? If it fits their lifestyle, I'll have them work out/eat healthier, but I try not to interfere otherwise.

4. Do you use move objects? Absolutely, it's permanently activated!

5. Favorite mod? MCCC is obviously essential, as well as anything that makes CAS better looking and more efficient. I also wouldn't play without Sunblind these days! I can't get enough of those gorgeous sunrises and sunsets.

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I think I got City Living and Seasons at the same time. I was kind of a late adapter to TS4 but fell very quickly down the rabbit hole.

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? I want to think I pronounce it like LIVing because I know that's technically correct, but I think half the time I still pronounce it like aLIVE in my head.

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? Oh, this is so hard... If we're going solely on Sims who originated in CAS, there aren't really many options! Most of my Sims have been born in-game. I am really proud of Helena, and I think everyone can tell how attached I've become to her. Hmm, I need to make more Sims, I guess.

9. Have you made a simself? Noooooooooo. The Sims for me is very much an escape from myself, so I don't think I ever will.

10. What sim traits did you give yourself? I would probably give myself music lover, perfectionist, and socially awkward.

11. What is your favorite EA hair color? The lightest blond, I think? The one that looks almost platinum and isn't quite as yellowy as some of the others.

12. Favorite EA hair? That short choppy hair from Cottage Living (the one the Creature Keeper has). For a while, I was absolutely eating up every single variation I could find.

13. Favorite life stage? If I'm being honest, young adult. I find that my gameplay is most varied and interesting when my Sims are in that stage because they're traveling, meeting a lot of people, trying new things, etc. Once my Sims settle down and start a family, it's easy for me to forget places and people outside their home lot exist and everything becomes more routine.

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? Me, a builder? That's a funny joke. I'm definitely more in it for gameplay and storytelling. I'll do everything I can to avoid building a lot myself. I don't mind redoing interiors, but it takes me forever, so I try to limit how often I do that, too.

15. Are you a CC creator? No. I've done a couple very basic recolors/edits for myself. We're talking kindergarten level stuff. I don't really have the willpower for learning anything more complex right now.

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? Sim squad is such a weird term to me. I do still feel like a bit of an outsider in the Simblr community at times, but I also have a handful of mutuals who I've enjoyed connecting with, and it always makes me happy to see them in my notes and on my dash!

17. What’s your favorite game? The only games I've ever been heavily into are The Sims and those Nancy Drew computer games... I think you can guess which one is my favorite. But if we narrow down the franchise, The Sims 2 has a very special place in my heart.

18. Do you have any Sims merch? No.

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? No, and as someone who can't stand hearing or seeing recordings of myself, it would be a nightmare.

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? I've honestly wondered about this myself! I don't think it's really changed so much as become more refined. I don't make a ton of Sims, so I don't think I have an obvious aesthetic style. But my play style has definitely changed in that it's more storytelling-geared, which does mean I spend less time actually using gameplay mechanisms and more time setting up. My visual style (e.g. composition, editing, etc.) has definitely evolved a lot even over the past few months.

21. What’s your Origin ID? Going to pass on this one! My sister and I share an account, and I don't upload anything on the gallery anyway.

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? Oh, so many! I will download basically anything that sforzcc or softerhaze upload. My absolute favorite hair creators are simstrouble and okruee. And I've been using a ton of stuff from awingedllama and leaf-motif when decorating lately. But those are just a few that come to mind.

23. How long have you had a simblr? I only just started my Simblr back in January or February. But I've been on Tumblr itself way too long to admit out loud.

24. How do you edit your pictures? I try to let Reshade do the heavy lifting, but I also like using a few of these actions in Photoshop to make them pop a bit more.

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? City Living because San Myshuno is one of the only worlds that really feels "alive" to me and I think it does festivals best, and Cottage Living because it's the complete opposite but the slowed down, quiet, countryside aesthetic is so serene and relaxing.

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I don't trust EA to do it right, but all I want is bands and another super dense and populated urban world and more apartments! I would also never like to see another world inspired by an American suburb again.

[juniperberries-canisroot]

Tagged by @debaited thanks!

I don't really know many others who have multiple OCs for Skyrim, so if you see this post and wanna do it go for it! Tpy can tag me of you want. I wouldn't have seen this game had I not been tagged.

Tagging @ghostfacedbat & @rossthren-nsfw-read-bio cause I know they have multiple OCs, only if you want!

Favourite OC: Gotta be my main girl Chantilly Leice. She's the most developed story-wise and she's multi-faceted. Glitters-like-Stars is another fav too. Corveau the Reaper might be a third fav due to her interesting story & the situation she's in.

Newest OC: Cassata, a Dunmer I made on my newest save, named after an Italian cake. Besides the name and colour scheme, I don't have anythin story-wise planned for her yet. I know what factions and stuff I want to do, but backstory and all the character traits are blank right now. I think I want her to be a Boethia fangirl and worshipper of Sithis.

Oldest OC: Dyce. A Skyrim DB I can't play with cause all her save data got erased in some freak incident. I don't even remember making it to Bleak Falls Barrow on her save, I remember thinking the game must want me to go there since I only had the Golden Claw quest and getting horribly lost. Chantilly Leice was made years after Dyce as her 'redo'.

Meanest: Soleil just being herself. I don't really have any mean OCs, like ones that will insult you unprovoked. I have some evil characters but 'mean' wouldn't be one of the first words others use to describe them. Soleil just isn't friendly and she's a bit crass. Besides Sorcha, her cousin, not many can get over her RBF and blunt and dry comments. Even Isran admits she's a bit hard to work with due to her anti-social personality. She only wants to socialize with the bare minimum to get the job done, everything else is unnecessary and a waste of time and breath. Sorcha is the only other person Soleil allows to be in her company, thou even Sorcha themself doesn't entirely know why.

Softest: Ginseng Thorn-Summons is most outwardly soft in her actions; she gives second chances when people probably don't deserve them (not criminals just people of bad character). She gives everyone the benefit of the doubt, thinks the best of them before the worse even when being told the worse by others and she wants to think everyone is capable of good. There's nothing *wrong with the way she thinks, everyone should have a healthy bit of optimism, but for Ginseng, she doesn't have a healthy bit of pessimism until she gets burned or her trust betrayed. Her mostly disregard for people's not so good traits opens her up for others to take advantage of her kindness and generosity.

Glitters-like-Stars and Chantilly Leice are the most 'secretive' softest thou. They'll pay debts for older people who can't pay it themselves, or maybe just someone on hard times, without asking for compensation or acknowledgment. They'll assist others without payment for the betterment of the situation (unless that person is being a dick about it).

Most aloof/standoffish: Soleil. Besides her cousin, she doesn't make an effort to talk others unless she has to, or the 'conversation' is just buying somethin from a shopkeep and leaving. Chantilly Leice used to be standoffish when she was younger, (20s and below) but she was also very un-trusting so that played a part in it. Even still, she would talk to others like Guild and faction members without being rudely short in conversation like how Soleil is.

Dumbest (affectionate): Vanta Iris. She has the capacity to make intelligent decisions, she's not dumb as in 2+2=3 but she doesn't think things throu. She'd much rather rush in then stop to make a plan. She thinks hard not smart.

Jethro is intelligent, thinks smart not hard, but he likes the chaos of being a lil dumb sometimes.

OC I'd probably be friends with: I always find this question weird cause I don't see myself being friends with almost any of my OCs. I have several vampire OCs, but that doesn't mean I would be friends with a vampire normally or approve of their lifestyle in a real world setting with real world consequences.

So assuming I was plopped in the world of Skyrim and followed the same idiosyncrasies, rules, thoughts and world set up as NPCs or even my own NPC, Electra. Socialable, knows when to draw the line, not hard to talk to, plays nice with others until you piss her off. She's not typically a petty person and she'll tell you straight away what's on her mind rather than beating around the bush or saying one thing to your face but cursing you out behind your back.

[2scene2emo]

Currently I'm going to be treating this as a log of sorts to keep track of my progress and things. Along with other things. :)

since I've had a log before this, below the cut will be what I have written so far. Then at later log updates ill make it its own post and keep it all in the #log tag for easy searching.

I'm deciding to try to write more correctly now but before now I haven't and I dont feel like correcting it.

UPDATE LOG

10/20/23 12:04pm; conception of this game, and begining of making it. 2:31pm; finished the art gallery (no art yet) and got working teleport pads! 6:02pm; finished the house (empty atm).

10/23/23 forgot to log so im logging this on the 24th… built a house but hated that one so i rebuilt it w some help from msbgshay ^_^ added some artwork in the gallery

10/24/23 almost done with room 1 and room 2 just need to add details (hate roblox and their decals. got introuble like twice.) will plan out the third room then work on the living room and filling up the other areas of the house then i can move on :3

10/25/23 finished room 1 and 2, just need to make more special animations ^_^ working on the rest of the house now + their animations

10/26/23 1:36am. ^^… started building hot topic, added swings/playground/vending machines that obviously arent mine i got them from the toolbox :3 started finally working on the third room, really like it so far but it is an odd shape for a room so a little difficult to work with but thas ok ^^ 8:00pm i believe we've finished the main bits of thehouse!!! OMG!! added special tiny stuff around ^^

10/27/23 i think we've finished most of it minus minor details and hot topic ^^ yay!

4/22/24 Finally picked this game back up after a few months of leaving it in the dust. Currently planning on finishing the hot topic. I've also rearranged ALOT of the surrounding area, the house is no longer in the middle as I felt it was sorta cramped there. I've removed the avatars around as I feel they don't really serve their purpose anymore. I also need to remember to add more into the gallery. But I'm also tempted to just remove it honestly. I probably wont, but I'm considering it. Oh I also edited the obby to be easier, I really had no reason to make it that difficult before... LOL. I also want to remake the thumbnail, and banner and mayyyybe make some ad posters, but I'm unsure about that last one.

I'm tempted as well to completely redo the morph room but I feel like that would be such a pain in my ass but I think some stuff is bugged that I'm not sure if redoing it all myself would be easier. Because all of the accessory morphs are the ones from the tool box yk? though edited to fit properly inside the room, and some deleted if they're duplicates.