#i guess we'll have to see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[pocketgalaxies]

Not gonna lie, I think a big part of this might be a Vax issue?

Like. Stream Vax is great and complicated and flawed! And meshes with Keyleth beautifully because of their respective strengths and weaknesses and hangups! Part of why they have so much time between the kiss and getting together is because as the situation changes their respective reservations/concerns do too, and it takes a while to align and that's Interesting!

Vax in TLOVM feels a lot like the fandom caricature of Vax. A brooding black hole who is sad and mopey and sometimes says something Deep or Hilarious, but only sometimes because he is Brooding and Tragic, and has given 1000% of his life to the Raven Queen. When that's... really not who he is (and I don't think Keyleth would be in love with that version of Vax either).

I'd hoped that after Season 2 'the Vax and Scanlan season', Season 3 would balance things better. Especially after Vex and Keyleth's arcs each getting shunted into single episodes, and Vax cannibalized the acquisition of Trinket. But... well.

If this is how they're juggling Vax and Vaxleth now (by just holding Keyleth's ball in one hand and yeeting Vax's comically high over and over), I'm worried about how they'll do in a hypothetical season 4 or 5 when things get *very* delicate.

(To be clear I don't think this is a Liam issue, I think it's a writing/pacing issue, and them trying to keep the Raven Queen angle very much at the forefront. When, I dunno, Vax could have gotten visions about Percy or Scanlan or both to fuss over at some other point, or about all the deaths Raishan caused. Matron why did you cockblock them with a vision like that, seriously. rude!)

to be totally honest i don't know if i've spent enough minutes of my life thinking about vax to give a good answer to this, but i totally agree that there's no way to know how they're gonna do future vaxleth scenes when they're approaching it quite differently here. i was already Very surprised by how different these first three eps are from the events of the stream so it kinda feels like we're just rewriting the campaign at this point, and the jury's still out on whether or not that's overall a good or bad thing, i think

[ddddd-pixels]

Uta... may be complete now?

I'm not sure, I wanted to include custom voice acting for her, but I've never got the time alone to actually record anything yet, so that may have to wait for later.

I also was going to include a Climax Super (she has engine features based on KOF XV), but it seems like my plan was too ambitious for my current skill level. I'll probably add that in a later update...

As a celebration of her completion(?), have a little combo I figured out using both of her supers:

(Mai character is by animochi, I don't have a link for them but I know they're on MUGEN Archive and MUGEN Free-for-All)

[spoondoodles]

Drawing the Sides in outfits I own, Part 2: The Creativitwins, Remus and Roman!! Part 1: Patton So I kind of alluded to it in my last post but I had these two sketched up while drawing Patton and thought I'd clean them up for posting too! Roman's outfit is a typical autumn/spring outfit for me (minus the sword) of blue jeans, green trainers and my comfy bomber jacket. Remus' on the other hand is a casual party outfit, of chunky studded belt, black ankle boots, fishnets and vest with a funny slogan. Hope you enjoy! I have an idea for Virgil already so we'll see if I get around to drawing him too...

[helpimtrappedinthetextbox]

Ayup! It's me! Ya boi! Comin @ you with the first chapter of a new fnc fic

Modern day au, Chibo boi is a dumbass Gay, Jay laughs, Gil is also there :]

Also, in case you didn't see my discord message yet @cant-think-to-save-my-life , I offer thee this humble morsel

[eriquin]

The Prophetic D&D Game Masterlist

I guess I have three parts to this now so I'm making an updateable, followable post about it:

Part 1: game introduction Part 2: real characters revealed and game started Part 3: conclusion of the first session Part 4: in between sessions Part 5: the next murder Part 6: reasons to role-play Part 7: cuuuuursed Part 8: inspiration takes many forms Part 9: haven't we learned not to split the party yet? Part 10: tragic backstory Part 11: how to uncurse someone without a walkman Part 12: anticlimatic epilogue to session 3 Part 13: inappropriate jokes about giants Part 14: debate about physics Part 15: combat, communications, and cross-dimensional travel Part 16: start of session 5, resolving the cliffhanger Part 17: planning an attack Part 18: transportation and conflict Part 19: final session Part 20: bait-and-switch Part 21: the wrong way to split the party Part 22: concurrent combat Part 23: the end of the game Part 24: erica gets read in Part 25: breaking the curse Part 26: gathering the party

Now on AO3 as well. And now complete and part of a series: The Oracle of Roane County

Taglist: @weirdandabsurd42, @10moonymhrivertam, @blueskiesandstarrynights

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 5, day 22, this thing just keeps getting longer and longer XD I need to go to bed so I didn't finish the next part of the animation, but you can see where I'm going with it! The loop will be seamless by the time I'm done, this I swear!!!

[zoophagist]

The guest presses a fingernail to the vein on his throat, but does nothing to open it. He simply taps against it, a clear rhythm of two-one-two-three. His lips move, as if casting a spell, but he doesn't actually voice what he thinks: Water, may it be just water, may it do nothing to quench his thirst, nothing at all. "Sure, sure. Take your fill. Your teeth and nails are strong enough, right?" he says and smiles slyly.

He does not even answer; instantly Renfield's mouth is at the guest's neck. The savagery of teeth biting down into skin is thrilling, uncomplicated by any scruples as he twists and tears to make up for their bluntness. In the release of this beastly hunger there is even a quieting of his guilt, his embarrassment. To bite down and make the flesh part feels so very good.

Lips and tongue work over the broken skin eagerly to suck up the thick, red stream of LIFE coursing through the veins of such a powerful being — life that can be his, can be Renfield's. How wonderful it is to be rewarded, how excellent to take—

Water? The first pull slides over his tongue and down his throat and it tastes of nothing but clear, bland water. He falters, and the instant of stillness cannot but make his confusion obvious to the body under his mouth and hands. But surely this can't be... So he drinks and drinks, more and more heavily, waiting for the spark, the metallic tang of blood to slake his thirst, and he clutches more forcefully at the man, and he bites again, and again, and again, desperate, dizzy, starving. It is a frenzy, far beyond what the guest's offer could be understood to justify, but still his jaw works and his teeth sink and all there is in this gore is water!

Renfield makes an animal noise of frustration, and he thinks to himself, 'This is a trick. I have been lied to again and it is a damned trick!' Are they all so cruel, he had wondered only moments ago, and now the answer is clear as flowing water: yes. All cruel, all selfish, all temptations and takings and never justice. This useless, inert water may do nothing to warm his weakened, blood-starved body, but his fury does.

And that is when he begins to CHEW. "Liar!" He growls as he makes his teeth meet in the guest's neck and he starts to pull.

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

god the karma system in this game is so fucked. why am i getting negative karma for hacking moriarty's terminal. he's a bastard and i'm going to kill him asap, karma be damned.

[bookshelfdreams]

I'm sorry, but these just are not at all analogous situations.

Ah, see that's where i disagree (respectfully, of course).

Yes, the narrative absolves Stede of Nigel's death, but not on a technicality of whether or not he "actually" caused his demise. Stede is absolved because Nigel was a dick and got what was coming for him. On this show, bigots are wasted and no one needs to feel bad about it.

Nigel's death made Stede realize he is capable of terrible things. This isn't a terrible thing, but leaving his family was. Stede flashes back to Mary as he goes to his execution; that's the guilt that isn't resolved, that's the one morally wrong thing he did, this is what he feels he deserves to be executed for.

But! On the other hand killing Nigel (for whatever value of the word) is probably the first time in his life Stede defends himself against abuse. It is set up by showing us flashbacks to Stede's childhood, moments in his life where he was powerless, a victim of violence. He hits Nigel in the head and suddenly, isn't a victim anymore.

He's someone who can use violence to protect himself and others.

The scene with Ned is set up very similarly to the one with Nigel, I'd say. Both times, his ship is boarded. Both times, the catalyst is the soon-to-be-dead man taunting and humiliating Stede, insulting his friends. Ned, as I mentioned, uses racially charged insults against Ed, something that's always been a crime worthy of death on this show, not to mention the other explicit damage he does.

Of course the scenes aren't the same: Stede now knows for sure that hitting someone in the head with a heavy object will kill them, for one. Stede is, as you correctly point out, safe. He is warned against going through with it (when Ed says "I don't respect you enough to kill you", part of what that means is "You're not worth the dmaage killing you would do to me", don't you agree?).

There's a brief flashback to child!Stede's worst moments before he kills Ned. He's not that child anymore. He can hit back now.

And he does.

(I wrote a bit more about how I think it fits into the ongoing theme of violence in ofmd here, but I think you won't agree with that either 😅)

I'm not saying this is a good course of action. I can understand why you do not like this. I, too, would have preferred it if this had been a moment for Stede to realize that violence is poison, but I also think he's not quite there yet.

All I'm saying is, that this, to me, is a believable progression of his character, and a believable way to set up conflict between the two protagonists.

longer post to follow but i really don't understand people who thought stede killing ned and setting that dude on fire was out of character?? no??? throwing the violin at ned's head was only a tiny step further than hitting nigel with the brass sperm whale, and we dealt with that; established that this is something stede would do and feel no real remorse for. my boy is unhinged, he would kill a man and wouldn't feel bad about it either (especially if said man called ed classist and racially charged insults, hello??).

what was, however, out of character was him calling ed a coward

[awillowdryad]

I've always been dying to know what it was that Aslan said to Edmund in this conversation. Guess it's one of those things we'll just never know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway I did this a little while ago but have been thinking of painting it again with brighter colours... maybe... then again I probably won't be bothered to. We'll see.

[guiltycorp]

...the way i interpreted the jayvik part is that this is going to be Arcane's version of the League lore when Viktor stole the magic thingy from Jayce in order to heal a bunch of people but Jayce misunderstood and thought those people were being violently experimented on by Viktor, killed them all and attacked Viktor himself, a tragic miscommunication rather than a direct fault from either one of them (altho it was clearly Jayce's fault lol... but also Viktor's methods were implied to be a little questionable due to possibility of mind-control after the successful operations + he was a bad communicator so it was still interesting and fun). Lines up pretty well, I guess we'll see though. Jayce's leg brace is a very interesting detail implying that he legit hanged out somewhere where he could have gotten his leg hurt and then fixed up, and yeah overall visually it IS satisfying that he grew closer to Viktor's original aesthetics, not sure what that's all going to be. And I think the rune in his arm is just doing what it originally did in Jayce's flashback when used by that mage, teleported him back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just bc it would suck if it's like ooh magically iNflUenCing him... I mean it did also shine a bit when he charged his hammer and he was all like 'noo' in the moment so eh.

Whatever the case, he should have definitely cried about it after the fact 🤔 I just hope it's not going to turn out that either a) Jayce was mind-controlled/manipulated and didn't mean to do all that, b) Viktor's powers are legit a bad thing making everyone into magic zombies/magic timebombs that would go off in a bit. Like what would be the point of that for their characters and for the moral of the story?.. So yeah REALLY hoping it's not that. So far b) seems a little too realistic ugh.

[clatterbane]

How Many Prosthetics Do Amputees Need?? *The Reality of Amputee Prosthetics*

Another older video from Jo, which turned up after I rewatched that other one in a recent self-reblog.

Yeah, this is why I was so relieved to find out recently that here the system will apparently cover more than one full leg setup at a time, for different use cases, without any actual fighting required. (Plus evidently a swim fin foot, if I do end up wanting one.) And the prosthetist sounded like this was just a given. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because different hardware is good for different uses, and a lot of the time pennypinching insurance companies and some other single-payer systems will only let you have one every few years. If you need more than one setup, you'd better make do with an old one that may be worn out and/or "just" not fit right anymore--or you'd better find some kind of grant or charity willing to fund something newer.

And we are talking about something roughly on par with a car in the US. So you can walk around. The special socks and stuff that you'd already have to use with a second prosthetic really ain't gonna account for that much of the cost estimate.

Feeling unfortunately lucky not to need to worry about that, AFAICT. Still waiting on the first socket to be built now, then I guess we'll see how many legs are forthcoming.

[uninformedartist]

So we got a trailer thing on hazbin.

So it was delayed and is getting released in January (which is summer in my country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so she didn't technically lie) and its on Amazon prime, which some fans guessed already.

Animation is nice, I said my say too many times before on my thoughts on the character designs and Backgrounds. But kicker is (ಠ_ಠ) they got clearance for a so2. Is that a guarantee even if so1 is horrendous, we'll just have to see.

Also again the pacing was shit as always things moved way too fast and...fucking damn man 💀💀💀 this design is here, think shes an overlord but fuck I thought this design was buried long ago.

[extralively]

Satoru's apartment (Part 2)

We're back! After Part 1 covered the living room area and kitchen, we'll take a look at the bedrooms this time around!

This is Satoru's apartment that I built in TS4 based on my fic series Under the Cover of Shadows, and it's essentially what I imagine what Satoru's apartment would be like!

As a refresher, this is the layout of the place:

Let's go take a look at Satoru's own bedroom now, shall we?

This is it! It's pretty open and spacious (I struggled a lot making it, and I'm not sure I'm 100% satisfied with it even now lmao), and following the same idea that I mentioned in Part 1, that Satoru in general doesn't populate his place with a lot of personal items, it's much of the same here. There are a few every day items scattered around, like slippers, wallet, phone, tablet and whatnot, but most of his precious keepsakes are kept secure and out of sight.

(The photo strips he took with Yura during that one summer vacation are kept in his bedside table drawer. He likes to look at it every now and then.)

(Also Yura tends to sleep on the left side of the bed and Satoru on the right, and as you may notice, it's her side that has an alarm clock on it lol)

Here is Satoru's bathroom, and you can see it was actually built like a western-style one instead of the Japanese-style bathrooms he grew up with in the Gojo Estate. I guess Satoru just wanted something different for once ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(This is also the biggest bathtub I could find to put in there, but I still imagined it even bigger ʘ‿ʘ✿)

Nowadays, there's a lot of Yura's stuff scattered in his bathroom, and while Satoru wasn't too used to sharing a space with someone else at first, he actually got used to it pretty quickly.

And this is Satoru's closet! Just imagine there are a lot more clothes in there lmao, all of it designer stuff because of course.

Those rack/shelves on the right are essentially all Yura's stuff now. She used to bring in an overnight bag when they got started with their "arrangement", but then she slowly started leaving more and more stuff behind so now she doesn't really need an overnight bag anymore. She could comfortably spend several days in his place without needing to go back to her own apartment lol

Now on to the guest bedroom!

This is where Yura stayed in a couple of times, in particular before and after her trip to New York. Not a lot of people have stayed in this bedroom, to be honest. Satoru doesn't usually have people over aside from Yura, Shoko, or the Fushiguros.

(I hadn't initially envisioned the desk there, but actually building it made that area feel so empty lol. So I thought it fit nicely!)

And finally, the guest bathroom. There was a particular scene in chapter 23 (The Aftermath p 1) of Out of the Shadows that has Yura having an emotional crisis in this very bathroom, and I think this must have been the first room of Satoru's apartment that I properly envisioned along with the guest bedroom! We only got to "see" his own bedroom much later, so I also didn't think it up until then.

Alright, there are still a few rooms left for me to post, but this is generally it! And boy oh boy did this entire apartment give so much trouble lmao and I'm not even done with it yet. It was really hard making things look somewhat closer to the picture I had in my head while working within the constraints of The Sims lol. I think this was especially daunting because it's supposed to be a ~luxury~ apartment, so I had try extra hard to make things look ~fancy~, but I was having a lot of fun! And I also downloaded SO MUCH stuff that my game looks completely different now lmao my inner architect was happy.

[enderwolf91]

I should be asleep it's 5 am but I came up with a decent(?) idea for overwatch seasons after thinking over the season 12 battle pass (mainly the skins)

What if, after a certain amount of seasons (maybe somewhere in the range of 5-10), there's a season dedicated to the concept art and designs that were runner ups to what made it in the season? Hear me out.

There's a lot that goes into making a season, including a ton of ideas that may or may not make it into the game. That includes art concepts for skins and cosmetics, right? So what if they take the concepts that almost made it into the game, and make them into the game?

The best way to see what skins and cosmetics the community would want would be to do more player questionnaires showing the concepts they have and asking what you'd want to see in game, which means more community interaction (which is never a bad thing and they honestly should have more of it).

"But there's a reason it didn't make it into the final selection for the reason!" Okay? I guarantee that there will be people who see some of the concept art and would love to have it in game, maybe not everyone, but there will always be some. And what's wrong with just some people wanting that concept skin? I guess not as much money being pulled in, but you're still getting money from the people who do buy it. In my opinion I'd take the small income than none at all.

But that way, with some people on the team focused on actualizing the already made concept art; the concept artists can focus on making content for upcoming seasons and future events.

I don't know if my insomniac brain is making sense but this is something I came up with at 4 in the morning and needed to write down somewhere before I forgot about it. Honesty if this doesn't make sense when I'm up at a reasonable hour then I'll probably delete it, but we'll see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[lobstermatriarch]

2, 11, 24 and 63 for the writer meme! Thanks! 😄

No no, thank you! 💖

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

I usually start with an outline that maps things out chapter by chapter, but whether or not I stick to it is anyone's guess. I like to at least have a rough idea of what the full plot is going to be before I get started so I don't write myself into corners, but it happens sometimes anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

Ooh this is a hard decision. I'm gonna limit myself to just bg3 otherwise we'll be here all day:

Perfect Slaughter by imagineitdear - m!Tav/Astarion. this is a tough read but if you're into dark fic it's truly exceptional. AU where Tav (Tyrus) is turned into a spawn alongside Astarion, spanning life in the Szarr palace up to Ascension. Mind the tags.

Happiest Place on Earth by partingxshot - tonal whiplash! Wyll/Astarion crack Disneyworld AU lives rent free in my brain forever. Read for a good laugh.

Bloodlines by sayler_antimony - is it cheating to rec friend fics? It would be on my favorites list either way. An outstanding look at Cazador's history with Vellioth, how it's reflected with Astarion, and what it really takes to break the cycle of abuse. Also mind the tags.

Also reading for TLT and Mass Effect but I'd never be able to narrow it down to 3 with them included.

24. Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

Anything that starts with "never" or "always". I think there are exceptions to every rule and writing is such an individualized process that we've just got to run with whatever works for us.

63. Something you hate to see in smut.

Weird euphemisms are the big ones, but also losing sight of characterization for the sake of being sexy. "He would not fucking say that" takes me right out of it.