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[albireon]

1. Yippee!

2. My personal interpretations of a few of the details in my last post since my friends enjoyed hearing them

3. The background image comes from here. The specific one I used is labelled "Page 7 View – Voice 5 QBASS2"

https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/psb-lovequi/

[1alchemistart]

HEHE NEW CHAPTER

tbh if they end up dancing im going to expect them to be goofy JKAKLSDFK but waltz drawing OBLIGATORY obv

have this little anya too

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS THING IS SCUUUFFED AS HELL & ITS ALSO THE BEST THING I HAVE ANIMATED THUS FAR. IM SO IN LOVE WITH EMIZEL. JUST WISH I GAVE HIM MORE STUPID TATTOOS. NEXT TIME THO. NEXT TIME. I ALSO LOVE VEX&VIV SOOOO MUCH. charlies flavor of Deranged is my FAVORITE!!

[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[autism-swagger]

Various Quakes I drew while thinking entirely too hard about alien/human hybrid physiology.

Reblogging is better than just liking.

[swampbrick]

Y’all have waited so patiently for me to get my shit together and format this post, and for that, I thank y’all endlessly (for not calling me out on my avoidant personality and procrastination xoxo)

Without further ado, I give you…

Swamp’s GhostSoap Recs

PART TWO

(electric boogaloo)

My qualifications to make this post are that I’m neurodivergent and have read over half the damn archive at this point.

If you see your fic featured here and don't want it included in a rec post, just shoot me a dm! Will remove any from the list without question or complaint at the author's request.

Notes: I tried to sort some of them out into some broader categories for easier perusal, however, some fics might touch more than one of these topics. I went with whichever category was the MOST relevant in regard to the fic's content. Fics in italics are under 10K words. Stuff involving religious guilt and heavy religious undertones are marked in orange. Some fics are privated by the author- in that case the link might not work for you if you’re on mobile, so just look it up by author and title once you’re logged into your AO3 account. Happy reading!

Random Fics I Enjoyed and Can't Sort Into Broad Categories

The Wedding Lt. by SomnolentPavana

Like Watching Paint Dry by Grangers_apprentice

Mission Briefs by BleedingTypewriter

Don't be Scared by the Starting Gun by Suliana

Afraid (of Changing) by EmpressCirque

HALO by Cryypticchaotic

Tough Love by The_neurodivergent_nerd

Smooth Sailing on Choppy Water by coderaven

Poison Apple by surveycorpsjean

Punch Drunk by Drolly

Tesco's Finest by Vanemis

If You Don't Stop, I'll End up Believing You by Hochseeperle

Assorted AUs

like the dust (that hides the glow) by ArcadeGhostAdventurer [soulmates]

In My Time of Need by WhisperedWords12 [omegaverse]

lotus flower by exavibus [tattoo artist x florist]

Damaged Goods by Red_Clegane [lawyer x prostitute]

Safety Hazard by Red_Clegane [president's son x secret service]

On Leave

No Reqiuem by ice_hot_13

set your teeth against my throat (give me something pretty to wear beneath my blood-stained clothes) by aetherealmoss

let these hills absolve me by flowersferns (THE SHEERP FARMING FIC SOBBING CRYING)

solemn prayer, poppy in my hair by congee4lunch

A Scottish Bastard's Smile by SnarlingGherkin

The Fairtytale of Manchester by MildLimerence

Injury and/or Discharge

all that's said in the low light by headlocket (my favorite fic of all time actually if you haven't seen my 9000 other posts saying so)

My frozen heart (would melt just for you) by Red_Clegane

Clue by Wispscribbles

I Woke Up Underground by WispScribbles

Vicissitude by crows_and_curses

Yours Sincerely by LeoDoesGames

i'm a fire and i'll keep your brittle heart warm by marviless

Affirmative, Sir by Wixiany

To Drive a Man to Madness by Crypticchaotic

This Is (Mostly) P0rn

After Dark by Sylencia (THE BDSM CLUB FIC WOOF WOOF)

If I ever saw you try to be a saint (I'd be appalled) by Xalethar

Chicago Whiskey by Serpentwyne

Make Me Bad by Serpentwyne

gimme just a little bit (more) by applepieces [09!ghostsoap]

Promise Ring by LXVERSOFFENSE

Want It All by TuxedoHummingbird

A Fool's Gambit by MildLimerence

tame me by MikaelLo

the human condition by bilbhoebangins

All the Sins You Never Had the Courage to Commit by mothbeast

The Worthy Vessel by MildLimerence

Hotline by MildLimerence

Bonus Fic!

Here's a Gaz Centric, Poly141 fic that has ghostsoap in it but does not focus on it heavily enough to go in one of the other categories. This is Kyle's time to shine.

Hand Around My Heart by Grangers_apprentice

[cobra-wives]

…you cobra husbands authors really took “it’s my father. he wants me to take over the company or else he’s taking away my inheritance” and RAN WITH IT. HUH.

[sunset-bridge]

love this animal. the soap

[the-spoingus-show]

my current project: jump forever!

this is the first of those scheduled posts i mentioned earlier!!! i figured i would start by talking about my current project - that way i can start posting updates about it without confusing you, Michael. The next post is gonna be about the beginning of this whole Godot thing i've been on, and then i'm thinking about maybe doing a Before Godot post as a bonus once i've talked about all my godot stuff (i love saying this as if anybody cares (besides you, Michael)). setting all that aside, though: this one's gonna need some backstory, so you should buckle in.

around this time last year, me and my little cousin (he's still in high school, but we've always been pretty close) got really competitive about a little game called Jump Forever. it's a side minigame from WarioWare Mega Microgames (the GBA one) where you just jump over a little rope until you fuck up. it's really fucking fun as an addictive little mobile game, and with a quick lil emulator it was one. thus, the addiction began.

truth be told, the phase last year didn't even last that long, but i had a long bus ride a couple of weeks ago and found myself opening the GBA emulator on my phone to pass the time. that led to a little bit of playing at home, which led to beating my cousin's score, which led to getting even more into the game than i was before. as our scores get higher, we've turned to better controllers than a phone touch screen for serious record attempts - i use a ds lite i had lying around (that i reshelled! it was very fun) and he emulates on pc with a controller (i think). this got me thinking about a potential "definitive edition" of the game - probably still on mobile, but with controller support, better touch controls (the game only needs <-, ->, and A!), faster resets, selectable skins, and maybe even unlockable skins? of course, when i finished my work on fnaf (ooh foreshadowing), my sights were immediately set on a Jump Forever remake.

with all that said, welcome to the game as it currently stands! at the moment, i've got wario, the rope swingers, and the score all just about set up, with one exception; the characters have collision, the rope swings (at varying speeds, even!), and wario's speed and physics feel very accurate - but i'm still working on the ai (if you can call it that) of the rope guys as they walk back and forth. i want it to work exactly the same way as it does in the original but i always overthink random mechanics like this. hopefully the next update i give will be about how i cracked it! even if the implementation ends up jank, though, it wouldn't be the first: the rope guys check if wario is too close to them to make it over the rope with an Area2D that just checks for wario when the rope hits the ground. it works! i could just like check wario's position in the code (and it'd probably be way more efficient), but this way just... works.

i still have a buncha crap i still gotta implement before the game's even really playable - the walking ai, the title screen, the little "Ready?" animation, etc. - but that's only the beginning of my work. firstly, i'm probably gonna enlist chloe (oooh foreshadowing) to help me out by drawing some new assets (if she's free, it is finals season), and then changing the game's native resolution from 240x160 (the GBA screen) to something not fucking insane. i've got "reworking all the sprites into easy to read spritesheets" on my to-do list, and after that, making the new assets (and then maybe the skins?) will be as easy as drag & drop. once it's got the new assets and all the polish that needs to come with a shiny new resolution, i'm gonna transition into the next phase - researching how to release a game!!!

[hi, not to ruin my own amazing transition but: it's 5am and i'm running back to edit this because i completely forgot to mention that i have currently implemented a 2 frame input delay on all inputs, because that's how the emulator appears to behave when i go frame by frame. every single day i rethink this decision more and more. surely there's no way that's how it's supposed to be, right? but i feel so weird changing it now!!! i definitely fucking have to though. next time i work on it. ok anyways]

now. i've posted games to itch.io before. but even then, i kind of fucked it up (i could never get the resolution of my web games to work right???) - so it's no surprise i've always been completely daunted by the idea of "releasing a game". when you post it on real stores, that's when it becomes... real. i'm excited about the new challenges it'll pose, though! now, a mobile release means a couple of things - bite sized fun, simple progression, and fun customization. i've already got the first part nailed down, and i figured i could nail the other 2 at once with a currency system based on how many points you get (or maybe even an xp system? that goes up 1 for each jump? maybe even both???) and skins (purchasable with said currency) that let you customize the player, rope swingers, background, and maybe even the rope itself.

pictured above is my stupid ass skins mockup (i literally just made this). the rope is rainbow, the background has a snow effect and a bunch of snow on the trees/ground (isn't it great?), wario is a lil version of the rope guys, and the rope guys have santa hats. i'm not sure how many different ropes you could really make with how i'm planning the rope to move, so i'll probably end up prototyping the graphics with chloe to figure out how to lay out the sprite sheets, and if they should actually have a seperate hand-grabbing-the-rope sprite for skin purposes. it'll definitely make things really confusing, but if i go for a mobile release i don't want to run ads, and so a currency you can buy with real money (and maybe one or two goofy supporter skins that cost real money, like a solid gold guy or something, as a form of donation) is a good way to make a lil bit of money from people who like the game.

all of this is fun to think about, but it's important to remember that the next thing i have to do is that walking ai. i've gotta Make The Fucking Game before i can do all this crazy other bullshit. i'm sure the ui design for all this is gonna be soooo fun, but i need a game to attach it to first :p

this went on reeeally long but i figure if this is a dev diary or w/e it's gonna end up running long no matter what, and the more info, the more i have to look back on fondly and say "oh shit, i know exactly when this was!", which is kind of the end goal of the project. of course, these incredibly long posts about shit that only matters to me are also incredible content for you, Michael, so i'm sure you're just eating this shit up. enjoy, you weird little man.

[scalproie]

Alright typing it down before I forget

The Maximo clan were ancient followers of the Prime Liege Maximo (before his betrayal of the other Primes) and are a prestigious and influencial group in cybertronian society. They are in charge of a large amount of energon mining, storing and refining much like their Prime used to, and they are also desesperate to keep their image clean after what Liege Maximo did even if it had been millenia ago.

Their leader is Ironfist Maximo, a former gladiator, who is well-known and respected among the higher spheres of Tarn. For that reason he is frequently asked to mentor newly-forged bots but he denies each request every single time, UNTIL ONE DAY when he himself demands to mentor a newly-forged named Bluestar, seeing potential in him.

Everything seems fine for Bluestar at first, now Bluestar Maximo, but its not long before Ironfist goes mask-off and show him the true and insidious secret nature of the Maximos, master manipulators for whom power is everything. Ironfist then starts pushing Bluestar harder and harder, fanning the flames of his ambitions, destroying his empathy, and crushing him to better rebuilt him over and over, in order to make the perfect weapon, and therefore the perfect heir.

Despite all this, Bluestar never seem to reach the impossible standards forced upon him by Ironfist in the latter's eyes, and the two grow more and more frustrated and hostile with each other. It all culminates in Ironfist, one day, taking Bluestar off Cybertron on a distant volcanic planet and telling him that he should fight to earn the right to leave here and go home, or die trying. Bluestar loses, and Ironfist leaves him for dead.

The Great War begin during the next cycles, and Ironfist decides to play both sides, striking a deal with both autobots and decepticons, and providing the energon from the Maximo mines to both factions in order to gather more influence and power in what will be left of cybertronian society.

At the same time, Unicron arrives at the volcanic planet where Bluestar and Ironfist fought in order to devour it, and is very surprised to find the corpse of a cybertronian with a very very dim spark that refuses to go out. Unicron reactivates Bluestar, who manages to make a deal with him by showing his force of will and immense desire for revenge that would make him a worthy avatar of chaos... and on top of that, Unicron likes the idea of corrupting someone associated with a Prime for himself. Unicron then transforms Bluestar into Hellbent Maximo.

Hellbent is then sent by Unicron to return to Cybertron to better destroy it (and Primus) from the inside. He encounters the decepticons and form an alliance with them, decoming a decepticon himself and promising that if they help him against Ironfist, once he is Maximo leader, Hellbent will break the contract with the autobots and all the energon in the Maximo mines will be theirs.

The decepticons storm the Maximo buildings and Hellbent faces Ironfist one more time, this time seemingly killing him. Afterward the cons expect Hellbent to fulfill his part of the deal, only for Hellbent to grin as he reminds them that he is a Maximo, master manipulator, and now that he has seized what was meant to be his, he's not gonna share it with anybody. He then takes control of Tarn and forces the cons back to Kaon as he establishes a third faction, his own faction, in the war.

Hellbent will then fortify Tarn to endure multiple sieges while he plans his own way to take over the whole planet for himself, but by that time, most bots and cons have left the planet since Cybertron has been majorly destroyed, Tarn is one of the better off cities thanks to the Maximo mines.

Another problem then starts to creep up on Hellbent as Unicron starts to slowly take over his mind, growing impatient with the severe lack of killing Primus. Hellbent isnt really fond of that, since he REALLY likes having his free will.

Enters Windwheel! She was part of another ancient clan made of followers of Primus himself, deeply close to their god despite not being Primes themselves. hidden for millenia deep within the planet. Unfortunately the war had found them and all but her ended up killed. Because of her background, she joined the autobots for their affiliation with Optimus, a Prime chosen by Primus, but despite their efforts she still felt isolated within their ranks.

She was tasked one day to infiltrate Tarn like many bots before her, but as opposed to them she actually managed to come face-to-face with the Maximo leader. But when she met with Hellbent for the first time, she immediately felt Unicron's influence on him. She offered to help, being able to channel a little of Primus' power to repel Unicron away enough from his mind and spark, and the two then formed an odd friendship.

But just as it seemed Hellbent was willing to loosen his grip on Tarn and maybe take actions that would help with peacefully end the war out of love for her, Ironfist came back from the dead with an apparently indestructible spark and challenges Hellbent, killing him for the second time before delivering his body to the decepticons, with whom he made a deal of his own.

Ironfist takes back control of the Maximo mines and by extension Tarn but he actually follows through on his promise to share the energon with the decepticons... what he DOESNT tell them though is that he wouldve 100% pulled the same stunt as Hellbent if the planet had been in better shape, he's just thinking in the long(er) term. Meanwhile Hellbent's (body's) whereabouts are unknown.

Unaware of what happened, Windwheel tries to find him desesperately and was close to giving up until she gets a reading of a signature similar to Hellbent's, and follow it to an old and forgotten Maximo deposit, finding out inside that Ironfist was even more twisted than anticipated, having Hellbent cloned back when he was Bluestar, intending to try and "raise" a better heir once he had killed him, had the war not broke out and kept Ironfist busy.

What was left of Unicron in Hellbent left him upon his demise and was now trying to occupy the clone, but thankfully Windwheel was here to protect him with the help of Primus' power. She manages to fend off Unicron but that act had the double effect of lighting up the clone's body with his own spark.

Upon seeing the clone, named Redstar, awake and helpless, Windwheel decided to leave a message to the autobots, telling them that she will stay with Redstar back at her old clan's grounds, close to Primus, to mentor him so he may appreciate as much as possible a life free from the horrors of war.

Meanwhile, having failed to inhabit Redstar's body and sensing that Hellbent's body was being reconstructed by decepticons scientists, Unicron returned to his first option for his avatar of chaos.

And thats what I got so far hooray👍

[bxsmxx]

bored so im gonna learn tifinagh today

[littleplantfreak]

distraught i wasnt born an octopus so i could hold more people’s hands

[kingpoet]

tagged by @orlaite to post five songs i've been listening to on repeat lately 🩷🩷

tagging: @bloodstreak @station26 (my airbuds mutuals!) and anyone else who wants to do this, say i tagged you if you want 🩷

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[cowardlychimera]

Chimera I'm staring at u w my autistic eyes please share your theories w me

I love love Yume Nikki and Omori parallels I once read someone's comment saying "Black Space is a love letter written to Yume Nikki," which is so true to me!!!!! AGHH

ah okay!! fair warning though that this might just be me getting excited over a cool idea lol and might be wrong

okay so: 2 things I noticed that seem similar in both. windows and doors.

when someone hears the word daydreamer, the first thing they think of might be someone staring out a window, right?

and we know Madotsuki and Sunny both prefer their dreams over reality. so windows = inaction. observing, going with the flow.

this fits I think, since in omori, what's one very important window?

this.

Mari says Sunny's seen this before, when he almost drowned. he almost drowned because he gave in. he didn't believe he could do anything, so he didn't.

don't have much for yume nikki about windows tbh though, just that from what I remember Madotsuki's name might refer to windows (if there's anything I don't know of/forgot please share!)

okay now doors!! doors definitely tie these 2 games together! doors = action. choosing to do something instead of just letting things happen

Madotsuki refuses to open her door. she refuses to make the choice to leave, seeming to prefer her dreams over reality. Sunny can do the same. the front door that Kel knocks on, it's Sunny's last chance to fix things. he gets to choose.

and in white space and Madotsuki's dream room? they can leave whenever they want to, through a door! same thing with nexus/door room/whatever you wanna call it and black space! they get to choose what doors to open. they get to choose whether or not they want to accept reality. and even more in omori, the door to Basil's bedroom and his hospital room. he doesn't have to open those doors. whether he faces reality and tries to fix things is up to him. and the door to the roof too! once he walks through the door, he can't go back. he already made his choice.

and sliding glass doors? I'm not 100% about these yet, but sliding glass doors could represent a choice they might want to make, but are hesitant to for whatever reason. they're like a combination of windows and doors! in omori, they're shown in both reality and black space/after finding the photo where Sunny pushed Mari. they're Sunny's want and choice to face reality and accept it, attempting to fix things. but in yume nikki? Madotsuki wants to escape. there's 2 events (I've only triggered one of these 2 so far, so info on one might be incorrect!) where Madotsuki can fly away, and unfortunately fall, the witch event and the spaceship + spaceship event. one has her flying through the clouds, and falling from the sky, while the other has her flying through the stars, also falling from the sky (if you manage to trigger the event, that is). Madotsuki wants to fly away. the sliding door could represent her want, and her choice to escape reality.

okay okay I'm almost done lmao hang in there

now, closets! (once again, I haven't explored any closet stuff in yume nikki yet lol so I might be wrong about stuff) first, in omori! it's obvious Sunny doesn't want to acknowledge the closet is broken violin is hidden in, going far enough for it to even disappear for him! the closet represents something he's hiding. there is a phrase, "skeleton in the closet", that refers to a secret someone wants to hide. so this theory fits the closet in omori! it might also fit the closets found in yume nikki.

Madotsuki doesn't want to find herself.

(also final thing: these things probably do represent more than just this. this is just stuff I noticed seems connected to both games so far! also also I haven't finished yume nikki yet lol so once again feel free to correct me if anything's wrong)