#i hope i dont sound pretentious

[princeloww]

Hi takin over the asylum fandom

I finished this show a few days ago and have been rapidly consuming everything I could fandom-wise. During this, I read most of the TOTA fanfiction I could find on AO3, and noticed a common pattern.

Writers, non-Scottish, tend to use "Aye", like the characters in the show, yet I've never seen a writer use "Nae". Maybe this is because they aren't too sure of it or how to spell it/correctly use, so I thought I'd explain it a bit if anybody is confused!

Disclaimer - I am not Scottish, but I am from Ireland, so I have a vague idea of some IRISH slang, which isn't too far from some Scottish slang. Feel free to correct me!

"Aye" means yes.

Everyone seems to get this one.

"Aye, but" = "Yes, but"

Simple as that. It doesn't necessarily always work with "yes" subbed in, but it's just an affirmative phrase, really.

It is from Gaelic. Gaelic is a Celtic language that dates back years and years ago. There are different branches (Irish and Scottish Gaelic, for example) that were caused by language spreading through things like trade between countries. Although Gaelic is not typically spoken, it still very much exists and is used in slang in both Scotland and Ireland.

On the opposite side, there is "nae", which means no. It is commonly used attached to can, "cannae", which is the equivalent of "cannot", and is very simple. It just goes in place of cannot.

"You cannae do that", for example, is the same as "You cannot do that", or "You can't do that".

If you want to make sure you're extra familiar with the slang before using it in fanfiction, out of fear of getting it wrong, just listen to examples of how it's used in the show (and its very often) until you're comfortable.

There are a lot more interesting slang terms to learn about, if you're interested in learning more about Scottish culture. (Ex. Dinnae - meaning don't, coming from "dae" meaning do.)

This is just for if you want to accurately copy the way the characters speak! I've seen a lot of writers disclaim that they might be out of character, as they themselves are not Scottish. You of course don't have to use the right slang for your fanfiction, it's still just as good without it, but some people prefer accuracy.

Hope this was semi-helpful! Please get writing fanfiction, I crave more content. Again, feel free to correct me - I don't mean to upset anybody, this post is mostly just for fun.

I've added some links below if you're interested on reading some more!

[peridotporygon]

i love jack stauber so fucking much. this is not a new statement i'm sure but i need to SPEAK.

i feel like people usually only listen to his micropop stuff (the extended songs, not the album) which isn't a bad thing!! some of my favorites are from there!! but i really want to bring more attention to some of his other stuff because a lot of it is really unique :))

so anyways. here's my list of super awesome jack stauber song recommendations

(under cut bc long post)

listen to the ENTIRETY of finite form. please. it's SO GOOD. but more notably:

'smooth' is a really fun song imo and it's one of those songs that makes me feel like i'm hanging out with friends :) very good vibes here

on the other hand, WINDRAG. this one makes me feel AUUUFHHFH. listen to this one to feel WORSE.

'trust flower' is another really emotional song, and i also 'the diverge' :)

again for hilo i BEG YOU to listen to every song on there but some highlights include:

'pad thai' feels like having a panic attack (so this one's pretty overwhelming) but SO GOOD. AUGH. 'it's alright' feels like the opposite, being comforted during a terrible time.

'pizza boy' makes me feel everything (and there's a very nice story behind the name, id recommend looking into that too :)

'getting my mom on' is just funny tbh. i love this one when i'm sad because it just makes me feel GOOD

'small world' and 'dead weight' are more popular, but it's for a REASON. they're GOOD. (particularly small world imo)

pop food is definitely the most popular for oh klahoma and buttercup but it's still good :) i don't listen to this one a lot so i don't have much to say about it, but i recommend 'my plea' and 'bothersome'

viator seems like a bit of an intimidating album at first (considering it has 35 songs,) but here's a few i like:

pressed flowers

bald rainbow

mara

lake

lifeline

and if you REALLY want some micropop songs then. here. i love these guys

order

4.99

polarizer

i hope you miss me in heaven

bubblegun

lima bean man

shattered molars

pumpkin pie

angel

blood pump

is anyone there

and for the extended songs:

there's something happening

out the ox

today today

al dente

the ballad of hamantha (i know this one's fairly popular but still putting it here because GOD IT'S SO GOOD)

thanks for listening to my deranged rambling. i love jack stauber so much if anyone wants to add onto this or tell me about lyrics or YOUR favorite songs then PLEASE DO!!!

[persephoneflouwers]

🌷

[m-s-justice]

thinking about the Richtofens again and their relation to the narrative.

Like you cannot deny that Ultimis Richtofen was the protagonist of early zombies. Protagonist, not hero. Important distinction. How BO1 was him literally all about him stealing narrative dominance from Samantha, who was arguably one of the most important and sympathetic character, not to mention incredibly relevant as she was the main antagonisy. Then BO2 came along and his power was contested, which was obviously the next step in the evolution of the story. Give a character power, and then have that power be tested. There we have the interesting route of Richtofen failing that test.

Of course, we know that's most likely because of Victis' reception at the time and the success of the Blundell maps, but in story is definitely represents a shift in narrative power, the person driving the plot. I think that is represented best by Monty's handling of the "Original" Maxis when he arrives in the house with Samantha, being that he wiped him from existence. Maxis was apparently strong enough to depose of Richtofen while he was in the MPD (the closest thing to god-like status we had see so far), swap out his soul (something Richtofen needed an entire meteorite and vril device to do), and ascend to Agartha. For Maxis to be erased like that means whoever did it was way more powerful than anything we've seen before. It was indicative of a shift in the narrative, both in terms of scale and character. No more Nazi experiments or Illuminati conspiracies, we're going magical multi-dimensional, boys!

But afterwards Ultimis never really got that dominance back. Going forward he was certainly a powerful personality and retained relevance (like communicating to Stulinger and serving as a parallel to Pernell), but he never got the narrative into a stranglehold like he had before.

Then we're introduced to primis. While Primis Ed never really "seized power", but he definitely drove the plot. He single-handedly kept that cycle perpetuated. He had all sorts of plots, even needing a tie-in comic to explain, which is insane. Primis Ed got his own side story. Boss bitch move. So basically complete dominance of the narrative is transferred to him, with Samantha not even contesting him, Monty being too passive, and the Shadowman busying himself by rooming with the rest of Ultimis in the Ball. But Primis has the unfortunate luck of having his story be a doomed one. No matter what he does, he will always end (and begin) the same way. And he cannot break free from that, because it's him that's causing it. It isn't until he gives up his role as leader that things get moving again. It's all very tragic and no doubt extremely frustrating for him.

And it's such a fascinating thing to pick up and look at. These guys are both such forces of nature, they make things happen, and they even succeed to varying degrees, but they will ultimately fail every time. They will try and try and try and try but never get what they want. They want to be important and powerful and respected and relevant. And for a while, their own drive and determination allows for that, but then that drives flips. It backfires on them in some way, always their own fault (Ultimis teleporting Maxis and Samantha fails to not only kill them but allows them to orchestrate his downfall, Primis knowingly locking himself and his team in a time loop that can only be broken by his own death.)

[shootingstarrfish]

How do you not get angry when people use the same artstyle as you? /genq I struggle with this a lot :"

ohhh that's an interesting question!! assuming you mean other people in the wild happening to have the same style the easy answer is that i havent reeeally seen anyone like this LOL except like when people study my art,, for some reason,,??? who are you people and why

but my actual answer is that we're all silly lil humans and no matter how similar someones art is to mine, we'll never make the exact same artistic choices and i think that's very cool and also why ai will never truly do what we do we all physically draw differently, and style aside even the way we all interpret characters, prompts, ideas, and themes will differ so thats another factor

i think it's fair to be upset, art styles are a very personal thing but its also because art styles are so personal that i think it's good to remember that even if someone has a similar style to you, they will never draw quite the same as you!!

[meatsex]

whats ur opinion on the kurt was trans theories?

id have to do more reading about him and do so with the scope of looking for signs of him being transgender other than the show where he wore a dress and pictures where him and the other two were using skirts i think? it seems to be an idea thats brought up often within fan circles (take what im saying with a grain of salt cuz online circles =/= real life circles which are the actual deal)

i dont think thats something that he considered, obviously this is just my speculation, he seemed more like the kind of guy that would support the communities he advocated for and well, supported rather than just partaking actively in them (in the sense that for example i dont think he was a gay man, although "partaking" in them would only really apply to this specific case i guess) soooo basically an ally

i dont think ive seen lyricism or commentary that would imply this idea, i havent read his journals yet, but ultimately im not a trans woman so i feel like i might lack the connection one could find in (theoretical hypothetical) proof of kurt being transgender

ultimately i think either way making theorizing on the gender or sexuality of people alive or dead will always be a bit weird, especially since i feel like these are way more sensitive and personal topics that only said person should explore and decide on what they share about that

[wizardmp3]

"philosophy is pretentious" love? my best friend love is pretentious? platos symposium opens to talk about love amd hes one of the big three socratic philosophers. what is love by haddaway is pretentious? baby dont hurt me, dont hurt me no more?

[tasmanianstripes]

Sad to see how fast people turned away from "cringe culture is dead" and turned to "anything not canon compliant is bad and annoying"

Character regression

[uniquezombiedestiny]

thinking about senet and votive again (explodes into a million shards. walks into the ocean. lays on the floor. god)

it couldnt be real. i couldnt believe it, couldnt believe in it, so i crushed it. now it's shards on the floor and all i can do is look. i can look, it's bearable to, but all the light that was once in it is gone

when senet finally gets what he wanted, when he looks back so utterly joyfully, at votive who has suffered nothing but misery. it surrouned her always, leading so many others to their demises too, because that's just what she is. there's nothing else to it, so she learned to be happy in misfortune and to find it in misery itself

and then senet came along and proved her all wrong. every hardship he beared through with her, and when when he wavered, votive (as much as she obscured her words and intent) still picked him back up, for some reason. maybe it was the community they saw in eachother.

two disgraced nobles, prince and heiress. two travelers, wearing the same masks, chatting along as they walked a path alone, as noone else would come near them. the innocent and the knowing, the pitying. the knowing one who was proved wrong in the end by someone who, entirely naively, refused to stop hoping.

and when he finally found a cure, a way out, for the entirely unknown ailment that was leading him to a slow, likely miserable death for so long, she stared in bewilderment. the most emotion she'd expressed in a long time.

it couldnt be real that he found happiness with her by his side - with her there. it couldnt be real that she had anything to do with hope and joy and happiness

so she betrayed him at the very last second. just to prove it. to prove something to them herself

votive is an omen of misfortune and misery

senet is the innocent, naive traveler who made the mistake of staying by her side

senet is the one who weathered through the storm, who hoped against all odds, until he made it out on the other side

no. senet was not the one

senet is the idiot, senet is the fool in this play, the one who made the fatal mistake of trusting her, the one who dared to challenge his puppet strings, the one who couldn't see when to possibly quit and stop trying to give affection to a mere dead mass of brambles and thorns

he's the one who won, his victory now forever scarred by a betrayal he will never understand, one that did nothing at all to change anything.

and votive is the idiot, alone, looking up and wondering where her puppet strings are

[sheepishs]

dumb question but how do you do those color studies for fictional characters (like the one you did for the dr2 cast)? i can do color/light/shading studies when i have a reference but when i try to make them up from imagination my brain has trouble checking whether the shadows and colors are accurate. any books/videos youd recommend?

there are no dumb questions when it comes to art!! its hard to figure things out on ur own :D

honestly its difficult to describe how i do them because for me its a very self-indulgent "turn my brain off and put colours wherever until it feels right" type of activity. but i will put my general advice under a cut because i talk a lot about drawing

my main advice would be to keep doing what ur doing, studies will always be more useful than anything else. for me i see the most improvement when i just chill out and observe things irl even if im not drawing them. i genuinely just stare at things and think about their colours, no need to do anything more than observe.

im the worlds #1 art tutorial hater so i don't have any cool youtube recommendations or anything but The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed is public domain and is very good for just bringing ur brain back to the fundamentals of how drawing works if you haven't read it before.

in practical advice, my drawings improved hugely once i started paying attention to values. its easy to check this when doing digital art by having a layer thats just a flat midtone grey with the layer style set to saturation. i constantly turn that layer on/off whenever im drawing to make sure im happy with the amount of contrast between dark and light, and also to see whether im happy with the shapes of the highlights and shadows in my drawings.

to me making sure the values are correct is much more important than anything else. its always possible to go in and change the hue or saturation of a colour to make the drawing more cohesive, but much more difficult to correct the values if you've placed a bunch of colours in the same mid value range.

while im doing studies or just drawing in general i also save swatches of colours that ive used that i think look good (not sure if this is a feature on all drawing applications but i think it is in most major ones like photoshop, procreate). you can probably see similarities in colours that i use throughout the things ive posted because if i feel like i don't know where to start, i often start by placing colours that ive used before and then modifying them to whatever i want. its also fine to look at real things when you're drawing fictional characters, i'll often just take breaks to look at a bunch of photos or videos or even just go outside to refresh my brain on how things look.

last and most important thing ever is that sometimes ur colours will just look like shit. i have made so many bad drawings in my life with muddy colours and poorly done lighting but i just keep going until i make something that i like 💪 i think for me the most important thing ive ever done is just let go of the expectation for my drawings to be good. sometimes they are just complete garbage but to me thats an indicator that im doing something outside of my current skill level, which is exactly what leads to improvement. so i wouldn't worry if it feels like your brain is having trouble working through certain things at the moment, it just means your practical skills are in the process of catching up to your observational skills

[cryptojuice]

take this with a grain of extremely drunk but at this point I'm my journey? now? I'm like literally the idealest person in the world and I think everyone else has something wrong with them

[hightaled]

my schedule and my classes are so fucking awful and i am filled with more contempt and vitriol than ever this year

[fappellmoan]

how appropriate is it to be like semi personal and mildly informal though still respectful in an email to an alum u met..

[ammaterasu]

seeing old arguments hashed out of the grave again and sometimes I think haven't we gone over this 100 million times old man but everything is cyclical there will always be a new generation that hasn't heard of it before and it takes a bit of empathy and patience in this space to say ok they are naive just let it run its course again

[hells-fvry]

🌈 🎈🎂❓ ❤️

🌈 — name(s) & pronouns: Skippy/Skips/Skip (fun fact its a nickname i got in highschool after getting in trouble because of skippy brand peanut butter lol) and they/them!!

🎈 — gender and/or sexuality: nonbinary grey-pansexual is the most accurate way i can describe it lol

🎂 — age and/or birthday: i just turned 26 on may 9th uwu

❓ — three adjectives that describe you: uh uh uh Passionate, Open-Minded, aaaaand Loud (im hoh its hard Not to yell sometimes lmao)

❤️ — what are some of your best qualities?: okay well tying back into the adjectives one, i guess its my passion and open mindedness i like the most. i dont like to do things half assed when it comes to the needs of living things; and what i mean by that is ill buy an animal/plant from the store if it isnt doing well because it isnt doing well and i wanna try and help. im willing to drive hours if someone/something needs me to (say liiiike driving over an hour with a baby hummingbird i found outside Much too small to care for itself because that was where the closest bird sanctuary was. distance didnt matter, the bird did). i always get asked why i do stuff like that, go out of my way for people/things and like. why not? why not give that guy with the homeless sign a few dollars? who cares if they arent actually homeless? youre going to potentially not give someone five whole dollars because they might not need it? id rather be scammed and think i helped someone than wonder if i ignored someone who needed help. if they scammed me, thats on their consciousness not mine. i alwasy think its funny when i get called gullible or w/e when i do stuff like this, people tell me im going to 'get taken advantage of' like can you imagine judging someone for being too kind? its Wild to me idk

[questor-thews]

something that I've been seeing which really annoys me is people talking about critically panned franchise movies by saying that they only got bad reviews because the critics aren't fans of the franchise but like. maybe you like it because you already have an emotional attachment to the characters

I'm a mario fan but I'll be the first to admit that the mario movie is sanitized and boring as sin if you're not already a fan. and like. it's okay to admit that you like something because it's part of a franchise you like. it's okay to like a movie that is corporate or cliche or even bad like that's fine you don't have to pretend there's some conspiracy against a massive corporate franchise like it's fine. fnaf didn't get panned because critics are plotting against gamers they panned it because it's a boring incoherent movie