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[sen-ya]

Sen's Important Info Post

Post last updated 10/29/24

Hey I'm Sen and I draw One Piece too much! I am terrible at keeping things easy to find, turns out when ur job is project management you don’t want to also do it in ur down time. My current theme is following the dopamine, keeping it as fun as it can be for me to draw. Below the cut is information on the different AUs & serializations I've got going on right now :^)

Important Links

[How to use Airtable]

[Sen's Digital Comic Book] - a database of every comic I've made that is woefully not updated often I am sorry. I gotta work on a better system for easy viewing.

[Life After Digital Comic Book] - a database of every page of Life After

[See Comics Early on Ko-Fi!]

[Life After Info Post] - Life After is currently on hiatus!

Posting Schedule

Thursday - Serialized Comics (current: Family AU//Forgetful)

Universe: Main Timeline

Comics that belong to this timeline are meant to follow through the events of canon, many of them were written while I was actively reading and didn't know what would happen next! Every comic that receives this tag happens in the same universe, so they may refer to each other in both plot-important and not important ways. These comics are largely LuLaw but include sprinkles of Heart Pirates (in general and as family), ZoSan, and general shenanigans.

Serializations:

Getting Together - Will they/won't they? They will, but they're gonna be stupid about it. Anything tagged into this series you can assume they haven't established that they're romantically interested in each other.

Established LuLaw - Two idiots in love. Anything tagged with this series you can assume they're together. They may not refer to each other as "boyfriend" or "partner" but whatever it is that's going on is clear to the two of them and that's what matters.

Law Loses - Most comics in this series deal with the aftermath of Winner Island. Law feels like a curse.

Goofs Only - These comics don't require serialization. They're just some good fun. If they include LawLu/LuLaw, they'll also be tagged as either "Getting Together" or "Established" so you have context for their reactions.

The Heart Bros - Law, Bepo, Penguin, and Shachi found each other as kids. Comics in this series act as glimpses into their time growing up and other brotherly interactions. This is noncompliant with the Law novel. Once they form the Heart Pirates, they consider each other brothers.

ZoSan - I don't draw these two a lot anymore, so this series is just a general ZoSan category!

Heart Pirate Shenanigans - I went all in on Heart Pirates Week 2024 and wrote a bunch of comics about the various crew members! Leaving this as an open series for when I inevitably fall down another Heart Pirate rabbit hole.

Universe: Older/Family AU

Comics that belong to this timeline are meant to follow through the events of canon, many of them were written while I was actively reading and didn't know what would happen next! Every comic that receives this tag happens in the same universe, so they may refer to each other in both plot-importanComics in this universe take place anywhere from 7 - 30 years post canon. Mostly LuLaw with sprinkles of other shenanigans. You can assume events from the main timeline are canon in this AU.

Serializations:

Accidents Happen - Law gets a cold and stops running a few effects that he'd taken for granted.

Getting Married - Did you know if two pirate captains want to get married, they can just say they're married?

Extras - This series is for posts that offer context/additional information about what's going on in the AU

Family Fluff - These are a series of comics where the focus is on Law and/or Luffy as a parent.

Forgetful - Law gets hit by a devil fruit that makes him forget everything that's happened since just before Marineford.

Get back to it - After spending some time on Zou in Rocy's first 18 months, it's time for Luffy & Law to get back to pirating.

Universe: The Worst Timeline

Comics in this universe branch off of the main timeline around Whole Cake/early Wano. These comics may refer to earlier 'main timeline' events, but what happens in them is so terrible I've refused to make them part of my own personal canon. Sometimes it's just too temping to make them suffer :^)

Serializations:

Rightfully Worried - This series is an AU in which Luffy gets the absolute shit kicked out of him in Whole Cake and when he arrives on Wano Law has to save his life. It's not the first time he's performed surgery on him, but it is the first time he's had to since he's cared so much about his patient.

The Worst Wake-Up Call - During an intense battle, Law makes a decision. The ones who love him deal with the aftermath.

[padfootagain]

UPDATE!

Hi friends!

As I've made the official announcement for my next Hozier series Love in Verses, I reckon that I need to make an update to tell you how far I am in this project!

But first, I want to thank all of you for your enthusiasm towards this project and all the love you're already giving this series! Thank you so much for your support!!

Okay, so... this is where we're at atm:

Long fic already, as you can see! (The slow burn guys jfzejfozezif)

So far, after some planning (I know, it's surprising coming from me, but I need planning at this stage...) we are aiming for a fic that's gonna be around 43-chapters long (this may change as I'm writing, but it should be around 40-45 chapters).

So far, I've completed 23 chapters, I've started 10 chapters but they are not complete (only some scenes are already written but they need either to be connected to the rest of the story or additional scenes), and 10 chapters need to be entirely written still as I haven't started working on them at all. So, as you can see, I'm more than halfway through!

I'm genuinely hoping to start posting before the end of August! I cannot promise anything yet, as I want to fully finish the first draft before starting posting. This will allow me to:

Update regularly (twice a week, in a similar way I did for OaA), and make sure that you get the full story quickly

Woven in many motifs and foreshadowing some things I've already planned

Add some constant details in the chapters (titles, quotes...)

Vary the povs as I've decided to alternate in this fic between Andrew and Y/N (as opposed to OaA where I wrote only from Andrew's pov), and make it balanced

Add some minor storylines (additional characters...)

So... as you can see, I'm getting some serious work done and am still progressing well! But I still have a lot of work to do!

Stay tuned for more info... and for the fic to drop, hopefully before the end of summer!

I hope you have a lovely day, and thank you again <3

And don't hesitate to drop by if you want to have a chat!

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Hey its the anon (19 NB) who talked about having a little drama in my big friend group

this one->https://www.tumblr.com/am-i-the-asshole-official/720765839949905920/was-i-19-nb-ta-for-starting-a-little-bit-of

...theres an update to the whole...situation

So like i saw allotta ppl saying i was the asshole and thinking back on it...i guess you could say i was a bit of an asshole. But the thing is is that by technicality i guess but I think I should have provided additional context on why i thought otherwise ... Anyways...that all doesn't really matter because things have taken a turn for the worse and so someone (F 20)in my friend group apperently had a tumblr and this person is like very sweet and I could never imagine her to be conniving. Anyways she like showed me my own post yesterday and she was like 'I know you wrote it' And I was obviously flabbergasted...it kind of felt like my world falling apart you know.

Anyways I was trying to convince her not to tell the others about my 'ulterior' motives because I have nothing without this friend group! And she was likee 'Why shouldn't I?" and I was like 'Because you have nobody else either?' I also literally know all her secrets ( like I said...'mom friend' when i dont wanna be ugh) i could expose her like that 🫰🏽 If I go down she goes down with me...🤷🏾

And I know it seems like blackmail but like I don't think I've ever met a more fun group of friends. Despite the problems--(Which some of them have been resolved!! For example, the couple who were closing the friend group out is now on better terms with us :) & this is all because the couple saw the other couple break up because of the cheating incident [partially my fault i know...] and wanted to support the other two friends {so technically i did bring friendships together!!}]) we all care for each other alot! And if my friend exposes me this good thing is all gone...

TLDR: Tumblrinas...am I the asshole for not wanting a friendship to end? And if so what should I do?

What are these acronyms?

[bookishblogging]

THE ILIAD: FOR DUMMIES ☀️ MASTERPOST

just kidding you're not a dummy, you're some hot stuff right there! i will be going through the entire iliad and giving you a general overview, some interesting plot points, additional context, and some other analysis tools to better help you understand the epic!

This post will serve as a table of contents (at the end) to my Iliad posts and a general overview that I will be constantly updating! I am using the Richmond Lattimore translation of the Iliad, alongside my companion book by Malcom M. Wilcock

Before we get into analyzing the actual Iliad, we need to get into some essential questions and context about the book

WHAT IS THE ILIAD:

The Iliad was written by Homer (this is actually debated but we can get into that later) around 750 and 550 B.C.E.

At its core, the story is about heros and humans. It's an Iron Age poem about an event, the Trojan War, that was supposed to have taken place in the Bronze age. The Iliad is considered to be a poem comprised of multiple books, 24 to be exact

This story is only a few days of the tenth and final year of the Greek siege against the city of Troy- this means it relies on the audience already knowing most of the basic details about the Trojan war and the gods themselves (don't sorry, I will provide this for you as we go along)

WHO IS HOMER:

The age old question: who the fuck is Homer?

Literally nothing is known about this dude except that he wrote (or was credited with writing) the Odyssey and the Iliad

People have referenced his writings for EONS. Archilochus, Alcman, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, and even Sappho have referenced the poems of Homer in their own works. These also were popular in fine art in the late 7th century B.C.E.

There is a general consensus that Homer was from Ionia- a territory in western Anatolia or modern day Turkey that was populated by Greeks who spoke the Ionian dialect, aka the birthplace of Greek philosophy. Want more info on Ionia? Click Here!

His descendants were called the Homerids/Homeridae

There is scholarly debate on if he even wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey, or if he only wrote one, etc etc etc. This is due to some very specific differences in the structure of the words used (like the use of short vowels, and the seemingly unimportant semivowel of the digamma being missing from the epics...yeah it's a lot)

The poems were reproduced ORALLY. This means that the poems were passed down by word of mouth, which if I were to sit and listen to this entire book via a guy singing at me...idk man I think I would leave

All of this to say, we really don't know who Homer is. There's a lot more information about what he could have looked like, if he really did write the Iliad, and a million other things, but I've already talked your ear off and we haven't even gotten into the book yet. If you want more information about Homer, check out my sources at the end of the post!

WAS THE CITY OF TROY REAL:

Yeah. There were nine layers exposed at the site of where Troy was expected to be, and nearly fifty sublayers at the mound of Hisarlik

Troy was a vassal state: meaning it had an obligation to a superior state, which happened to be the Hittite Empire

Troy had a lot more allies than original fighters in the city, meaning they had many language barriers- making the army harder to control than the unified Greek enemy.

THE STYLE OF THE ILIAD:

Cause - Effect - Solution

The poem is concluded with a mirror image of its beginning: an old man ventures to the camp of his enemy in order to ransom his child

The poem foreshadows the death of Achilles in MULTIPLE passages! He knows he is destined to die young if he fights at Troy, and the demise of his lover (don't fight me on this) Patroclus gives us an even more extended foreshadowing of the grief that is to come

When Achilles dies, Thetis (his mom) takes his body from the pyre and takes him to a place called the White Island. It's not clear whether he is immortalized BUT the reference to Achilles funeral in the Odyssey states that Achilles is cremated and his bones are placed in a golden urn along those of Patroclus, and the urn is entombed under a prominent mound (tsoa fans...you're welcome)

This isn't really necessary knowledge but moreso something I think is cool: the backstory from the Iliad of an abducted bride also appears in the Sanskirt epic Ramayana (circa 4th century B.C.E.)

okay now here is the ACTUAL important stuff

Humanity is the center of the universe in the Iliad. Humans motivations and concerns generate action in the poem, while the gods are often reduced to the role of enablers or spectators

The style of the poem collaborates with the vision that the speciousness of this epic means that every thought and gesture, spear cast and threat, intimate conversation and lament CAN be recorded. It gives a consciousness behind the demands of the iliad that these interactions MUST be recorded, this attention to detail is another way of showing centrality and the worth of the human experience (Greek OR Trojan)

The Iliad is ultimately a poem about death, the chief elements that distinguish the mortals from gods are: Death shadows every action, and death is neither abhorred nor celebrated. Instead it crystalizes by means of this one theme, death in battle, the essence of what it means to be human (Life is a struggle each person will always lose, the question is how one acts with that knowledge)

Modern readers and analysis blogs will state that one's inner spirit is somehow the "real" self, however the Iliad assumes the opposite: The psykhai (soul, spirits) of dying heroes fly off to Hades while their autous ("selves") are left behind in the form of dead bodies

Glory is INCREDIBLY important in the iliad, why? If mortals could live forever (like gods) then glory would be useless. It's a commodity to be exchanged, and because of this it has an economic and symbolic reality

Companionship is incredibly important

Pity is also very important, it's the concluding note of the poem. Even the gods feel pity

THE GODS AND THE ILIAD:

The Iliad gains depth by the divine dimension shedding glory on the humans at Troy. The gods are so intensely concerned with warriors and their fates which elevates the mortals to a special plane

Mortals are only separated from gods because they grow old and die

The symbiotic bond of gods and mortals is always see-sawing between adoration and antagonism

Humans who get too close to the gods risk being struck down, case in point, Achilles. He's young, well-made, he's a warrior but also a singer/musician (the only hero to be seen doing such a thing), he looks and acts like Apollo. THEREFORE...it's no coincidence that Apollo is ultimately the god who slays Achilles, just as he did Patroclus

Poetry supplemented or even guided ancient Greek religious interpretation much more than the activity of priests due to the lack of any official religious text. This gave ancient Hellenism a very fluid nature

This was a long post, and it's only the first of many! I will continuously update this with more sources about the Iliad and answer any FAQs that come up! I love classic literature, and as a STEM student I need to entertain my passion somehow lol. There is a table of contents at the top of the post, as well as right here. This will be updated for each book of the Iliad I write about, as well as any supplemental posts I make about certain topics and themes as I go along. I am putting a LOT of work into this series of posts, so let me know your thoughts or anything you'd like me to change/add/etc! Happy reading!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

(This is empty because this is the only post...more posts coming soon)

Sources/Citations/Additional Material

Homer- Britannica

Homerids- Britannica

Who Is Homer- The British Museum (fuck the British Museum)

Ionia Information- World Encyclopedia

The Hittites- Britannica

Ramayana Overview- British Library

Overview of Greek Mythology- Theoi

The Iliad- Overview via Britannica

Thetis- World Encyclopedia

[love-and-deepspace-wiki]

Akso Hospital Expert Introductions: Dr. Joelle

We're starting off with Dr. Joelle, the Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery! The display covers her educational background as well as her professional career milestones. Here's the best look at her picture that I could get!

And here are all the details they wrote in her biography. My notes/observations included below:

Dr. Joelle

Division of Cardiac Surgery

Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery

Expertise:

Coronary artery bypass graft (Evol-based)

Aortic valve replacement

Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis (Evol-assisted) and constructive pericarditis

Cardiac tumor resection

Biography:

Dr. Joelle studied at Beiyang University Medical School from 2021 to 2029. She started as a fellow at Linkon Central Hospital in 2032 and has been invited to a number of cardiology centers for academic exchanges since then. She served as an attending surgeon, chief medical officer, and chief surgeon in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Linkon Central Hospital. She is now Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Cardiac Surgery, and Chair of Cardiac Surgery under the National Medical Association.

Since Dr. Joelle became Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery in 2043, she has been fully committed to clinical work, scientific research, and teaching Cardiac Surgery. She successfully performed innovative surgical operations for many complicated cases and co-authored several monographs on Cardiac Surgery, such as “Establishing the Cardiopulmonary Bypass Model in the New Medical Environment” and “Aortic Disease Guide”. Thanks to her leadership, the division has numerous national first and international first achievements. In addition, she also performed multiple lectures and live streamed surgeries for various medical institutions and universities. She has won many awards for the Division of Cardiac Surgery.

My Notes:

I've noticed throughout some of the in-game info, the terms "Akso Hospital" (AH) and "Linkon Central Hospital" (LCH) are used interchangeably on occasion. Maybe it's an unintended artifact from game development, the original name being LCH before AH was chosen? I've yet to see any evidence that the two being separate entities, but will update if that happens.

So far, this is the only mention of Beiyang University I've found in the game. But I'm so curious about it

They don't list out any of her specific awards like they did on Zayne's display, but I wish they did lol

I haven't spotted her face among other hospital staff, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled!

[amadeusgame]

Exciting month! This devlog has a couple announcements, a progress update on development, and some previews of what I've been working on. First half provides an overview, second half has additional details and teasers for those who are interested in such things~

Contents

I. Overview

New Announcements

100 Wishlists Celebration (recap)

Development Updates

II. Details, Previews, and Teasers

New Background Art

Dynamic Text Mechanic

Cursor Warp Mechanic

New Music Tracks

Read below the cut. More on the game: linktr.ee/amadeusgame

I. Overview

New Announcements:

Amadeus will be participating in Steam Next Fest. Look forward to streams of dedicated gameplay footage on June 10 & June 15.

Amadeus now has a press kit! It has some neat info on the history/making-of, in addition to the usual details.

Relevant links at linktr.ee/amadeusgame - Next Fest stream details will be added there soon.

100 Wishlists Celebration (recap):

As thanks for all of the support here and elsewhere, I made a custom webpage to host a multimedia version of the Amadeus demo soundtrack. I've also updated the BandCamp OST album to include the new demo tracks and new art.

Check it out here!

Headphones encouraged but certainly not required.

Development Updates:

Focusing back on Amadeus after last month's Mystery Jam sidequest, I accomplished quite a lot this month.

Art - 1 new point-and-click background + research/sketches for 3 more

Build - 1 new scene built in Unity, also created a template so all future scenes can be built from it easily

Mechanics - Implemented text pauses in all existing scenes, created hotkey to warp cursor to inspectable objects

Music - new music! one dynamic 3-layer track mastered, one track to be mixed this week, one track at sketch phase

Marketing - made press kit and 100 wishlists celebration updates to OST album

(Speaking of the Mystery Game Jam - if you'd like to play a short but finished game that I wrote, you can check out my team's game: Robot Detective and the Case of the Automurderated Intern.)

That's it as far as the big picture is concerned. Bookmark the linktree to stay up-to-date between devlogs!

If you're interested in some more details and some previews/teasers on what's to come in the full game, I've included those in the following section which is a little more long-form.

II. Details, Previews, & Teasers

New Background Art

In the full game, you will briefly explore Dartmaure before heading to the manor. I received feedback from the demo that it could use a little more grounding/introduction when you start controlling Amadeus. I agree; I also have a few more plot hooks I'd like to introduce in this new scene.

One important thing I learned about my own workflow while finishing up the demo is that I was not able to truly write the point-and-click scenes until I had a finished design for the background. The process of designing detailed backgrounds involves a lot of research, research which is itself a form of writing, research that forces me to answer questions I hadn't considered before. So I made sure to start on some new backgrounds much earlier than I did when working on the demo.

I'll likely need to draw at least one more screen for this point-and-click segment, but I finished the first, which feels very good:

Once this was ready I scanned it and started building the gameplay scene it'll be used for. I also decided to make my life easier, and after creating a functional skeleton of a scene with all core mechanics implemented, I made a copy of that to serve as a raw template for future use. All scenes I need to make from here on out can be easily built from that copy. Hooray for not reinventing the wheel every time I need to make a new scene!

(The other art I've been working on is for the very next scene that takes place after the demo ends... within the watchtower. No spoilers for that!)

Dynamic Text Mechanic

One major mechanic missing from Amadeus in the published demo was the ability to pause text mid-scroll for dramatic effect/pacing/"breathing" after punctuation. This is a pretty fundamental visual novel mechanic and it was a priority to add for the full game. It now exists, and I've implemented it in all existing scenes!

I recorded some footage of the intro scene to demonstrate what it looks like. Please note that the actual timing and placement of these pauses is subject to change; at the time of recording I was just really excited to show it off as soon as I had it working.

(Here's a little behind-the-scenes intel for you: the way this works is it interprets the character "<" as a brief pause. Then I just insert as many as I need for the length to feel right! One after commas,< two after periods. << Three after major punctuation!<<< And sometimes<<<<<<< a bunch in the middle of text for drama.)

The pause length is a multiplier of your current text scroll speed, so if you are a faster reader the pause will also be faster (and vice versa). From testing, it "feels" correct to me that way.

This mechanic was much easier to implement than I feared. I'm really happy with it, and I think it adds a lot of character to the writing.

Cursor Warp Mechanic

One of my other priorities for the full episode was to make it playable using the keyboard only. In the published demo, the core game can be completed with just the keyboard, but there are some "inspectable" objects (those indicated with the eye icon, that Amadeus comments on from far away) that you need to hover on with a mouse to interact with.

I've just finished building a mechanic that lets you use a hotkey--currently "i" but subject to change--to warp your cursor over the next item on a list of inspectable objects in the current scene. Then you can press space to interact with it as usual. I am debating whether or not to also have this cycle through all objects that can be reached with WASD movement, but for the moment I'm only using it for the objects you inspect from afar.

This mechanic has not yet been tested on other platforms. I'm hoping to get it in front of playtesters next month to iron out any issues with it.

New Music Tracks

Here's a teaser of a new dynamic track I'm working on for the full game! Like the music that plays while exploring the graveyard and watchtower area in the demo, this piece has 3 distinct layers to it that will fade in at certain gameplay moments. I've done more polishing work on the mix since I made this teaser, and I'm so excited about how it's coming:

The music that will play in downtown Dartmaure is also about 80% done (I should finish a preliminary mix later this week), and I've sketched out the very start of one more really cool piece that will be used later in the episode. I'll share more snippets of the new audio as the release draws closer~

That's a wrap for this month! It was definitely the right call to take a "break" last month and focus on the Mystery Game Jam. Coming back to Amadeus after that break has been very rewarding. I'm incredibly motivated.

Stay up-to-date: linktr.ee/amadeusgame

[zizz-asdf-re-r-o-u]

a BUNCH of Garu/Karu meta, part 2: eyes, Karu-fronting units, In Defense of Sexy Garu/Karu, Leroy & Garu conspiracy, Update to Rei/Gramps theory, general "character development"

So over here I wrote a bunch of Garu/Karu meta zizz-asdf-re-r-o-u.tumblr.com/post/737197419853398016/ and I knew that eventually I'd wanna write more, so here's part 2!

Once again, disclaimer that I have not played every event nor watched every intimacy rooms so I am definitely missing some lore. If anyone has additional info to my questions, lemme know! Also, spoilers everywhere!

A) Blue eyes or yellow eyes?

In a couple comments of phaerlax's fics, he suggested that Karu's eyes are actually blue and I thought I'd follow up with some ~canon~ evidence.

Ch7- every mention of their switching involves language, attitude, and mannerisms, nothing about eye color.

Ch13- Kolt is about to kidnap Garu when Karu takes over. It's very fast and happens all in 1 sentence so there isn't space to mention any eye colors, but Kolt doesn't realize they've switched until Karu has kicked him in the face

Master's Gift- when Karu is pretending to be Garu, Eiden realizes it with the language and voice again, not eyes.

Howling Cyclone- when Garu suddenly takes over with no one around, the text narration only says "the wolf yokai closes and opens his eyes before dashing..." No mention of eye color and this time its from the third person text narration, rather than Eiden or any other character's POV.

Misty Vale- when the young wolves encounter Karu, they don't realize that Garu has switched until Karu announces to call him that. At the very end of the MV event when Garu declines joining the wolves, Eiden pats his head only to realize that its Karu due to his reaction.

Binary Starlight- no mention of eye color, but the modeling people, store owners, and Karu's fans, only refer to him as Karu or Mr Wolf Yokai, including when it's Garu taking Karu's place during the competition announcements.

Desert of Dusk- no one realizes when its Garu and when it's Karu

Some people might have noticed this by now, but Garu's ally units all have blue eyes in their sprites. But when you're actually battling, OG SSR/SR/R/N are all Karu voice lines. HC & EG Garu seem to have more Garu battle voice lines than Karu voice lines. I don't have all of them, so if anyone is willing to help me look into EB and FF Garu, please do! In a cool meta way, the fact that the sprites have blue eyes yet its Karu's voice coming out, indicates to me that Karu's eyes are probably blue.

And lastly- have you noticed Garu's battle loading screen pose, OG loading homepage, Bliss promotional pic with everyone's OG poses + new Dante/Blade/Rei, and Garu's sprite in the opening animated sequence? He's manspreading and has an angry face. Yes, we've seen Garu angry a number of times, but in the new loading homepage with Rei and Dante, Garu is smiling and Garu's angry face is usually still quite cute. I think the OG version is Karu and he has blue eyes there.

B) Karu Fronting Units

Ok so slightly following up from that last bit. I had a idea once, where it would've been cool for Karu to front in the offensive/defensive units, such as strikers and guardians, and Garu to front in the supportive units, such as buffers and healers. Especially since the battle voice lines already do that (see point above). This would be extra cool cause it lines up with their lore/personalities and DID system. Karu is the protector alter, doing a lot of the Dead Zone surviving, and it'd make sense for him to do offensive/defensive battle units.

But also- Binary Starlight Garu should have totally been Karu fronting. Frozen Echoes, while Garu is onscreen more often, is about Karu wanting to sing and then getting kidnapped. But more importantly, the intimacy stories are about Karu's modeling competition. He's also a striker and, as mentioned, I thought it would be cool to have Karu being the strikers.

Endless Banquet Garu probably would have been nice to be a Karu unit because part of it is about Karu wanting to go to the yokai festival, but it was also Garu's 1st event SSR, so it makes sense that he wouldn't be.

So here's to me sending out into the universe that we get a future Karu main event SSR. He's still missing a saboteur and I can see a saboteur going either Garu or Karu.

C) In Defense of Sexy Garu/Karu

People's biggest problem with Garu is usually how young he looks and acts. You are not wrong if you are uncomfortable with Garu/Karu being sexualized! That is totally valid! This section is not for you. This section is for ignorant haters. (Garu/Karu are just fictional characters so I don't think too defensively on this so I won't be offended if you still do.)

First up- Garu/Karu is not a shota. Shotacon is defined as underage/prepubescent/pubescent boys in an erotic/sexualized manner. And yes there are muscle shotas. But Garu is not one of them. Depending on the lore, Garu is 19-33+ (possibly older, see that other post where I calculated his possible age) and he has a young adult proportioned body. However, he has a major babyface and acts puppylike/borderline childlike and does appear younger than the rest of the cast. So it's possible that he's shota-adjacent and I can see why people think he'd be the "1000 year old loli/shota" characters.

Next- puppy play! Have you heard of animal roleplay and specifically leather puppies? Have you met someone whose done puppyplay? Seems an awful lot like Garu right? You'd be right! I'm more of a handler, but a lot (though not all) of the (western) puppy players I know go into a (dumbed down) puppy headspace, act hyper, head scratches, play fetch, bark, treats, and "treats". (Naturally, IA studio is writing from the Asian perspective so the scene might be different there & they probably didn't consult any puppy players anyways, but there's no set "rules".) Sound familiar?

I'm like 99% sure Garu/Karu is supposed to represent puppy play, not shotas. There's a reason the most common imagery of a leather puppy is a pup hood, some kind of gag, collar, chest harness, jockstrap, butt plug tail, and leather boots. Also sound familiar? It's very close to OG SSR and SR Garu, and when the devs gave BS Garu a jockstrap, that sealed the deal. Same with when they made Garu/Karu an omega in the A/B/O event.

Now that we agreed that Garu/Karu is puppy play and not shotacon, one common factor amongst puppyplayers is the sexycute factor. As in, the puppy could be acting cute and affectionate and puppylike while getting fucked. Head scratches while doing a blowjob. And so on. NU Carnival characters fill a variety of sexy roles and while we have 2 other yokai, Garu is the one that fills the puppy play role. He's not a furry, but he's the closest thing for those who are into it. And of course, he (and Kuya) are the token kemonomimi. I'd argue that Garu is actually more human that most puppies I've seen/played with since he is primarily bipedal and talks fully in a human language.

So yeah its fine to sexualize them because of the sexy archetype they fulfill!

D) Leroy and Garu Conspiracy

So this is a wild and possibly impossible conspiracy theory. At the end of Gambler's Paradise, we get a scene between Aster and Rei talking about a mysterious "that group". In ch 13, Rei tells us that Council of Sorcery is trying to replace the need for Huey's essence. Throughout Gambler's Paradise, we find out that Leroy is a recent imperfect familiar that was a result of experiments with Huey's essence. Throughout Misty Vale and Ch 13, we get hints that Garu might have been experimented on by the Council long ago.

So my conspiracy theory is that both Leroy and Garu were experimented on by the same Council of Sorcery, even if they were from different departments. Garu was possibly more than a decade or several decades ago and Leroy was within the past couple months or year cause he didn't start causing chaos in Aster's casinos until recently. This means that either there are different departments focusing on different experiments, but also totally possible that back then, they were experimenting on removing Huey's essence and now they're working on replicating Huey's essence.

Bonus weird similarity between Garu, Leroy, and Morvay- they all really REALLY like eating their choice of preferred food, and get hungry very easily. (Ok Garu technically might be super hungry cause he had very little food for many many years, but still)

HMMMMMM LORE MIC DROP.

E) Update to Rei is Gramps/Garu/Karu backstory

Here I theorized that Rei might be Gramps and other people have theorized or drawn fanart of this too. HOWEVER, Howling Cyclone does have a major problem in that we see Gramp's ghost.

What i propose to fix this: we don't know when ch13 or Eerie Escapade happened and realistically it's probably because Rei wasn't created as a character yet. But I can explain this lore away with saying even if Rei died "long ago", we dont know when he was reborn. And hey, maybe for all we know, the Gramps ghost was actually Father, realizing that even if Garu has Eiden, Karu could use some more support and decided to go revive Rei. :shrug: Or maybe they'll retcon the Howling Cyclone ghost like they retconned Aster's dick.

F) Garu/Karu's ~Character Development~ (not H scene specific)

(Warning for rambling!) So in my post about whether or not Kuya has character development and if it's even necessary, I mentioned that Garu & Karu needed character development. In various replies (but not my post), one comparison I've brought up between Kuya and Garu/Karu(+Zuko) is the difference between slow gradual changes and the heroes journey. And I thought I'd elaborate on that some more.

To clarify on Kuya- he's over 200 years old and has been changing slowly over time since forever. He started the story already having changed over time and will probably not stop going through this kind of slow gradual change, simply due to the fact that time passes and he's immortal. And while Eiden plays a part in present day, overall Kuya is not having major story beats causing massive changes.

The cool thing about Nu Carnival's cast, as evidenced by Kuya, is that everyone is on different points of their ~character development~ and Garu/Karu is starting from their very beginning. Yakumo is also starting from the very beginning. Whereas someone like Dante, Olivine, and Edmond are already somewhere further down the adventure. Or they have a different kind of character development path like Kuya, Rei, and Blade.

Now for Garu/Karu. So the classic heroes journey is a story template where the protagonist gets a call to adventure, meets various character archetypes, endures many trials, and returns changed in some way. Obviously it's not a 1:1 matchup with Garu/Karu's story, but he does get a call to adventure (joining the clan), meets a mentor(the clan members), and is currently still enduring many trials. This is what I mean by he has a big "heroes journey development". And using this pattern, we can predict that Garu/Karu will continue enduring more tests, before encountering a major ordeal, conquering it, returning back a changed man.

Now why is Garu, or more specifically, Karu's character development important or necessary? Much like how Yakumo started out his heroes journey as a "newbie", Garu and especially Karu start out as "newbies", with limited empowerment, not that many skills yet, MANY basic things to learn (and amnesia, or at least Garu has amnesia. Karu is debatable). Karu has big dreams, really big dreams, and while they're played for laughs, he absolutely sucks at those big dreams. He's either going to achieve those big dreams, change those big dreams, or lose his delusions of grandeur and that will be character development. His current stage in life, lack of power (and stamina lol), trauma, and unfortunate circumstances are preventing him from achieving those big dreams. Garu is more chill and mostly just wants to have Fun with his Master and help people where he can (including helping Karu). However, he also lacks power, is a newbie to things, and got that traumaTM that just causes him problems. Garu also kind of represents the coming of age plot- they may have gained basic survival skills in the Dead Zone & had no social skills, but have also started dabbling in learning and leadership in Forgotten Fruit, Eerie Escapade, and Misty Vale. He's slowly becoming braver. They also didn't know how to read before meeting Yakumo & Olivine, but now they can sort of write sentences!

As for their role in the story & how it ties in with character development. He's the cutesy comic relief like Blade or Topper, but also, as mentioned in my Kuya post, that they're a victim of the Gemstone plotTM. SPOILER TERRITORY. One major conflict that the plot is coming against in the main storyline is altars going haywire and the Council of Sorcery and Garu (and possibly Leroy) might be the key to solving this mystery. However, with his amnesia and limited empowerment, they can't really progress with it. Therefore, it is crucial for Garu/Karu to experience ~character development~ to move forward.

If you got this far, thanks for indulging in this longass analysis post on my favorite wolfboys to roll around in thinky thoughts. Possibly more to come as more ~lore~ is revealed.

Once again, I haven't played every event or intimacy room, so if you've got answers to my questions or additional contributions, please lemme know!

[bonearenaofmyskull]

Hello, first of all I’d like to thank you for being such a massive treasure trove for the Hannibal fandom. You’ve made things very easy to navigate and understand. I came across your “Hannibal Rights” post but noticed it was posted in 2016. A lot has happened since then including the loss of the beloved and legendary Martha De Laurentiis in 2021 who owned many rights. Do you by chance have an update for all the rights as of current in 2024?

I don't have any new info, frankly. I think the only thing about the rights situation that was confirmed after I wrote that post was that Bryan said at some point that whoever did pick up the show would have to play with Gaumont when it came to production, instead of or in addition to using their own studio, so that's a bit of a hurdle.

According to the DLC website, Dina de Laurentiis and Ed Wacek are running DLC at the moment. I don't know anything about them.

Apparently there's a tabletop RPG in the works now? So there's that.

Since the Clarice TV show at CBS didn't make the shift to Paramount+, it's likely those rights are still held primarily at MGM, with whatever original characters from that show now held by CBS. It's possible CBS might have a say in acquiring any SotL characters now but I tend to doubt it given they didn't renew the series. But you never know.

Unless someone actually declares that they're making a new project, I don't think anything will change meaningfully.

[yrbshay]

Manifest w/ me Challenge: Week 1

This week we are focusing solely on self concept. Don’t worry in the following weeks we will incorporate our manifestations as well but first we need to boost our self esteem to feel confident!

So this week I want you to:

write 5 things you like/ love about yourself.

It seems cheesy but pointing out what you like and or love about yourself will help the process of gaining confidence especially if you’re someone who doesn’t feel good about themselves.

self care!!

Omg I can’t stress this enough, take care of yourself. Treat yourself to a nice shower. Put on a face mask. Shave your body. Do your makeup. Just fully submerge in taking care of yourself. This also includes doing date nights with yourself where you paint and maybe have a glass of wine. Buying yourself some flowers. Do something you’d want someone else to do to you. Love yourself first because you’re amazing. You’re the queen(or king). You are the most important person and you need to even treat yourself like it.

Affirmations

Referring back to the things your wrote you love about yourself, use those and turn those into affirmations. I’m here to help so message if you need to! And then also get on Pinterest and get some good self concept ones that help you feel good. I have a board full of ones I love and I’ve linked it in a previous post!

Affirmation Rampage

I want you to go on an affirmation rampage using these new affirmations you have at least 1 time a day. Not including SATS if you chose to do that! Anytime you get down or you’re bored, affirmation rampage!!

Some additional things you can do:

SATS

You can look up more info on this but the way I do it is right before I fall asleep, in a drowsy state, I say affirmations. I believe this includes visualization as well in the original way to do it but I don’t choose to do this. However I might start I’ll give an update but if I do I’ll probably visualize me on top of the world. Me putting my crown on etc.

And then when you wake up the first thing you think and say should be your affirmations and visualize. Don’t do anything else!! It’s hard but you’ll get the hang of it!!!

I’m here if any of you need help!! My inbox is always open! Day 1 starts tomorrow but I recommend you practice SATS tonight!! I’ll update how I feel everyday and anything interesting occurs!

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Happy Manifesting

[thestarlightforge]

Fiona’s Art Journal:

Table of Contents

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog!

As outlined here, my New Year’s Resolution for 2024 was to do something for my art every day. Whether writing, drawing, watching/studying, exploring or reading—I’d do something to sharpen my artistic focus daily.

As the year has gone by, I’ve documented some of the process on Tumblr. The tag “#Fiona’s Art Journal” has both reflections and artistic works, and “#Poetry” has an index of poems. This post is an index, and I’ll update it with hyperlinks to journals, art posts, and other favs.

NB: Aside from theatre and art posts, much of this blog is fandom posting about whatever (usually queer) media has most recently captured my interest. You can track various Strange New Worlds, Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Supergirl and House of the Dragon rotations (to name a few), along with other shows/movies on my list. I will probably spend the rest of 2024 crying about Agatha All Along (as WandaVision is an all-time favorite media & I’ve waited 2 years, since the night before I graduated undergrad, for Jac Schaeffer to fix this mess). I appreciate your understanding during this time, lol.

Journals — 2024

PETITION and Info to shut down the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine and protect the people and lands of the Navajo Nation, Havasupai, Hopi, and Ute Mountain Ute — 8/28/24

DC Metro Accessibility Petition

“Squishy But Firm: Sexcapades of a Crip Girl” at the Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival 🏳️‍🌈♿️🏳️‍⚧️ — 8/24/24

2024 🏳️‍🌈 Media Retrospective ❤️ — 9/20/24

National Be Nice To Bugs Day! We love a native species! 🥰 — 7/14/24

Setting Intentions: “Through the Sunken Lands” — 1/31/24

Introduction — 12/31/23

Go Listen to Sandra Yellowhorse — 11/20/22

AO3/Fanfic Entries

My awesome friend @heliza24 cosplaying Agatha 😁

“If I can’t hold you / Remember what I’ve told you” Agatha bite-sized

A Rhaenicent & Rhaesaria entry written shortly after HOTD 2x07

An early chapter of my ongoing Snowbaird fic with @imjustmarcy

Artistic Works — 2024

“Hey, It’s Me” — 10/29/24

“Why ‘I’m Billy Maximoff’ Mattered to Me — A Queer Disabled Person’s Journal” — 10/17/24

For Popo (like “Pawpaw”) Wilson: A Real (Union Strong) Redneck ❤️ — 9/25/24

“Clerics Have Necromancy” — 8/28/24

“Winter Blooms” — 8/18/24

“For Gus and Claudia” — 6/22/24

“QUEERING NEVERLAND IS LIVE—MY PAPER MADE THE COVER!” — 6/6/24

“Gentle Animals” Short Story — 5/1/24

“From Your Internet Big Brother” Essay — 4/8/24

Isolation/Recovery Discussion — 4/4/24

“Playing Fetch” Short Story — 3/31/24

“Building Momentum” Prose Poetry — 3/24/24

“Following the River” Short Story — 3/22/24

“Is There A World” Poem — 3/15/24

“A Practical Career” Short Story — 3/10/24

“The arospecs are onto something” Prose Poetry — 3/9/24

“Through the Sunken Lands” Pins Setup Addition — 3/9/24

“I wrote you a play” Prose Poetry — 3/9/24

On the Models of Disability Discussion — 3/5/24

“Threads” Prose Poetry — 3/3/24

“Interdependence is a love poem” Prose Poetry — 2/24/24

“A Shift” Short Story — 2/20/24

“To Falling in Love” Prose Poetry — 2/6/24

“Push-up Contest” Short Story — 2/6/24

“Autistic Katniss saves the world” THG Meta/Discussion — 2/2/24

“Purpose” Essay — 2/1/24

“Oracle Forever” Short Story — 1/29/24

“Stardust” Poem — 1/23/24

“Point of View” Short Story — 1/21/24

Patriarchy Hurts Everyone Discussion (edit: erroneously flagged/removed by Tumblr staff, appeal not allowed) — 1/21/24

“A Winter Morning” Short Story — 1/16/24

“Ymir with the Freckles” Short Story — 1/11/24

On Propaganda & the Cancellation of Queer Media (OFMD) Discussion — 1/10/24

“Glimmer” Short Story — 1/5/24

“What the Antihero, Your Villain, Has Left” Essay — 12/31/23

Some Favorite Art, Analyses/Metas & Journals (2023 + Previous)

“Lost Girl” at the National Theatre in Higher Ed Conference Journal — Aug. 6, 2023

First Day of “Through the Sunken Lands” at the Kennedy Center Journal — Dec. 11, 2023

Intimacy Choreography in “Hacks” Analysis — Jul. 15, 2023

“Swallowtail” Poem — Sept. 18, 2023

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear” TBOSAS Meta — Nov. 19, 2023

“Wake Up” Gay Poem — Aug. 23, 2023

“Myths” Poem— Nov. 12, 2023

“Thanks, Tennessee” Gay Poem — Nov. 23, 2022

On Strength: Katniss and Lucy Gray TBOSAS Meta/Journal — Dec. 10, 2023

“Trust is more important even than love” TBOSAS Meta — Nov. 24, 2023

“The Valley Song” THG Meta — Nov. 18, 2023

Their first meeting in Twelve TBOSAS Meta — Dec. 24, 2023

Hurt/Comfort Thoughts TBOSAS Meta/Journal — Dec. 17, 2023

Do Better with Queer Rep — Aug. 19, 2023

“Ellee” Short Story — Aug. 15, 2023

I crack myself up

i'm so normal about them :)) — Sept. 26, 2024

“Oh, ableism. Great. THAT’S not gonna go over well with the woke mob.” — Aug. 19, 2024

rhaenicent nation how we feelin 😌 — July 21, 2024

it gets better, apparently :)) — July 22, 2024

representation matters (GoT/HotD) — July 21, 2024

rhaenyra my love, never ever change 😂 — July 21, 2024

SO MADGE X KATNISS LOL — June 9, 2024

Writing while queer — Jan. 2, 2024

Snowbaird “Aca-scuse me?” — Nov. 20, 2023

It’s almost like Suzanne meant to do that — Nov. 7, 2023

Not Coryo being more normal than Gale or Peeta — Dec. 13, 2023

Peeta “my beautiful princess with a disorder” ��� — Dec. 7, 2023

SnowJanusBaird ≠ Everlark/Everthorne, lmao — Dec. 31, 2023

ValCarol giggles — Nov. 11, 2023

[fountainpenguin]

Recent 'Fic Progress 'n Stuff

I'm in a very busy period of my life right now, so updates may become sporadic, but here's some news I have for now!

Fandoms discussed: MCYT, Total Drama, WordGirl, Fairly OddParents

MCYT - Typically updates Tuesdays

- Aiming to post something for the Pixels Imperfect series on Tuesday, but don't be alarmed if it doesn't happen.

-> I'm in this weird zone where my chapter for Herobrine's Guide to the Between Dimension is complete except for the map I'm almost done with, but I'm having some artist block getting the map where I want it, so... I might hold off a bit until I'm happy with it. It's not bad, but I'm struggling with clean-up and labels.

-> Really good progress on my next Dog's Life chapter. In a weird zone of hesitating over whether I'm going too far with X or Y. Needs more attention, but I'm really happy with what I have so far. Very exciting! I did some doodles that I'll post under the cut :)

-> High likelihood of skipping this next Tuesday of posting, which gives time to let Collector's Fee sink in anyway (Plus I did a double update for Dog's Life at the start of August for its anniversary and that was probably too much for me), but we should be back the week after :)

- Herobrine's Guide will go on hiatus after Chapter 14 (the next chapter to post is Chapter 11) because that's where the buffer runs out. At that point, we've finished all world lore (except the Hels stuff that goes in the Additional Info final chapter). That's where we enter the bestiary, and they're huge chapters I want to ensure are consistent all the way through. So... I need to finish all the bestiary chapters before posting the first one :'D. A lot of work is done, but a lot still left to do!

-> Since I've been posting Herobrine's Guide during Dog's Life's intermission, we just won't have Tuesday updates for a bit. I think I'll switch to finishing The Candles We Light (and Should Regret) & Top 10 Hanahaki Life Hacks (#8 Will Shock You), which I started during Guess the Author.

-> Comparatively, they're shorter projects and it would be nice to finish them instead of leaving them hanging. That should work well, but we may have a period of no Tuesday updates during this adjustment period.

- Dog's Life is still on soft hiatus through to January or February 2025. It's between Sessions 2 and 3 right now and that hasn't changed. At this time, it posts once a month (although as mentioned, there may be a slight delay in the next chapter, but we had a double update on August 1st, so no surprise :))

-> When Dog's Life resumes, it will most likely be once every two weeks instead of every week. I really enjoyed posting weekly, but I have to admit it's A Lot. I was able to do that when hyperfixating on it as the only fandom I was posting consistently for, but I'd like to roll it back for 2025. Considering I post chapters above 10k words, I think it's fair; weekly updates was a lot. Final decision will be made when we actually reach 2025!

- We know Grian's working on Life Series Season 6 and that he said it would be a while. When that drops, I expect to do liveblogs and maybe one-shots depending on inspiration.

Total Drama - Currently updates Wednesdays and Saturdays

Life of a Loser is getting close to its end! Once it's done, we'll switch to posting one TD 'fic a week (probably) until they're all posted. Leaning towards posting on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Subject to change.

You can subscribe to the Riddle's Drama AO3 series if you want those emails. If you are only subscribed to Life of a Loser but you want to continue seeing more of my TD work, now is a good time to subscribe to the series, as basically everything from here is one-shots.

Reminder: I wrote these works between 2013 and 2016. I'm moving them to AO3 for archive purposes. You can leave comments or send me Asks if you want to chat about these works or their worldbuilding, but my knowledge of the show ends after Ridonculous Race; I didn't watch Total Dramarama and I don't know anything that came after it.

My Total Drama works will continue posting for the rest of 2024 and into 2025. I don't anticipate writing more works for this series, although if I had infinite time, I'd be interested in finishing the ones I started and left unfinished (because Leonard, my beloved).

WordGirl - On hiatus

Still on hiatus for now! Was hoping I'd be able to post more for it before the end of 2024, but that was pushed back by a very busy summer, which led to me not getting the Frayed Knots buffer where I wanted, and Frayed Knots has priority.

These works are not discontinued (I've been working on Factor It In since 2018 and I'm not dropping it now, lol). They're just on break, because I'd prefer leaving them on break and returning with a buffer over random updates.

I do have some one-shot drafts I've been sitting on, and I might clean and post those, but my attention's pretty divided between IRL, MCYT 'fics, and FOP right now, so this isn't super likely.

Factor It In has a serious vibe, as it's a realistic exploration of superhero life and biology, and there's also, like... no death or serious injury in it. I'm currently interested in things that are either wackier or angstier, but I look forward to coming back to it when I'm ready to be serious again. I genuinely like these 'fics a lot, including my WIPs, but it's an exciting time for FOP fandom right now and I want to enjoy it :)

If you want updates for my WordGirl 'fics, you can subscribe to Heroes' Journey or 28 Million Degrees. And you can always send me Asks if you want to!

Fairly OddParents - AO3 updates on Fridays, plus I've been posting on the blog any day of the week

- New cover arts for Frayed Knots and Origin of the Pixies are done! Their new announcement posts will go up soon, as I wanted to get all the 130 arc covers done first (for reverse tag scrolling purposes).

I did these two first and I think they're my favorites <3 These will replace their existing covers in their respective 'fics, and these are the posts that will be linked to when discussing these projects (Ex: I need to clean my FOP 'fics page and these will go there).

Reblogs always appreciated for cover / announcement posts, but no pressure! These are messy 'fics and not to everyone's tastes.

- I've committed to the name City Lights AU for my New Wish works. I'm REALLY excited for the "arranged marriage & not in love but we're going along with it anyway because this is what we do as upper class kids" trope I've set myself up with... for reasons...

- The AU guide is complete and will be posted after I finish Hadley's full sideblog profile, as I want her to be linked on it.

- I... emotionally cannot post Hadley's profile until I clean the freakin' blog, because I HATE what the update years ago did to bullet points, so I'll see if I can make some time for the sideblog. I have to go back and change them all to indents with dashes, like I've been doing in my posts over here... and I still have to fix all the broken masterpost links (which broke during the same Tumblr update from years ago). Gonna be a pain, but...... :'D The things we do for love.

- I went through my drafts and it looks like I do have some lore and reference posts that can be cleaned and posted for the sideblog, which would be nice; I have more to work with than I thought.

I can also do things like post the Fairy School Schedule on the sideblog instead of on a Google Doc. Up until now, it was relying on the doc for color coding (for ease of reading), but now we have color-coded posts, so it can go on the blog directly. - Also ?? it turns out I never actually compiled my multiple posts on Fairy aging into a single post, and thus the detailed info never made it on the sideblog. -> I compiled an age chapter for today's "So, You're Studying the Cloudlands..." update (i.e. I'd had the development charts there as placeholders since the start, but I really wanted actual info too) and that will become a sideblog post in the future.

- Somewhere in the depths of my literal 2,400 drafts on main blog is some sideblog stuff that I saved as drafts here instead of there, and one day... I will find it. But we'll talk about that again after my A New Wish liveblog is done.

I'm also going to change the sideblog's mentions of Riddleverse Classic to Cloudlands AU, now that it has a real name. Just... finally coming back and power washing everything before I risk posting anything new that attracts new eyes while the blog is messy, haha.

Technically the term Riddleverse 'fics covers all my AUs, so some mentions will stay (like things that say "contains Riddleverse spoilers"). However, this should make things more clear.

I had a lot of self-censorship internalization and general nerves when I was working on the sideblog back in the day, but I'm a lot more "cringe and free and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem" now than I was a few years ago, so it'll be nice to move on from those memories and learn to enjoy the blog again.

- I also feel happier with my art and writing styles now compared to where I was in recent years. Looking forward to blowing the dust off and polishing stuff nicely! I'm not going to try to keep future profile arts consistent with the old arts, so it'll be what it'll be.

Heavily leaning towards redesigning my adult Chloe, as I was never that attached to her, and I want to slightly tweak my Timmy and Cosmo to better fit my current art style. Debating whether to add Anti-Wanda's scars. Also need to do a scar ref for H.P. since he has a huge one on his cheek I rarely draw because I always seem to draw him facing the other way, sdklj... Someday...

- I had a lot of IRL stuff happen in recent years that was similar to things happening in my FOP 'fics and I wasn't able to truly enjoy them for a while. A New Wish brought back a lot of my excitement for the series and I feel like I'm healing a lot in regards to being able to enjoy FOP :)

I'm excited to share the arc guide and start outlining 'fics.

- As previously mentioned, I've cleaned the 130 Prompts summaries page so it's up to date with 2024 plans. Also, I've finished all the arc guides and made a new cover image for the project!

- I'd like to kick off Arc 3 of the Prompts with a piece about Dale shortly after "Nectar of the Odds" - "#96 - You Deserve It." The piece after that will loop back to the "Am I adopted?" drama Poof went through in Arc 2, and it'll be fun! I'm really excited :)

- Frayed Knots is high priority, but it's also a massive project requiring lots of brain power, so it'll be nice to sprinkle lighter one-shots in between.

- Great progress on Frayed Knots! Things are really coming together. Might post one chapter soon, but the next few need more attention. Still hoping to build a proper buffer, but it's a slow process.

-> I... think I'm going to take the plunge and commit to dropdown chapter warnings for Origin and Knots, the way I do for my MCYT multi-chapters :'D Will this be exhausting and require a lot of rereading? Yeah, but it makes me feel less self-conscious (and it helps me quickly check each chapter to confirm I know what's in it). So... That'll be going on in the background, but expect it to take a while. It will not be fast.

-> Next chapter gets a standalone E-rated version, like we did for "Cageflight" back in the day. As previously stated, Frayed Knots maintains it's T and/or mild M rating despite now being classified as Not Rated; E-rated content will always be posted separately. And this one's pretty intense, so prepare emotionally before reading.

/whispers loudly - It's the big "raised in a culture where sex is done for ceremony" vs. "longing for passion and ready to ask for it" clash we've been waiting for... I finally am happy with my blocks for this scene. Just pulling it all together. It feels SO FUN to finally write the ceremonial bits of their culture as a proper ceremony explored onscreen. It's always been hypothetical... sdfljksdflkj...

This chapter is called "House of Cards." The standalone will be titled the same, and these are the AO3 series that will get the email notification:

Rainbow Train -> Not in the 130 Prompts

Red Train -> Suggestive / explicit

Orange Train -> High fantasy (Deep-dive into Anti-Fairy culture)

Subscribe or ignore at your preference, but there's your heads up. And obligatory reminder that this is a 'fic about a protagonist who has hypersexuality and we explore that more now that he's an adult than in the earlier chapters when he was younger.

Anti-Cosmo being hypersexual, bipolar, pan, AND ace, AND carrying trauma from a past life, and VERY confused about attraction, you will always be famous to me <3

As we know, Origin of the Pixies is all the way up to the war chapters, so it's on hiatus until Knots catches up. From there, we'll alternate between H.P. and Anti-Cosmo POVs through the war! Very exciting.

Knots still has to get Anti-Cosmo through his first meeting with Cosmo (who still has to hit Wanda with his car in line with "Cosmonopoly"), then through godparenting schooling & into a high rank in Anti-Fairy World (in line with his appearance in the truce flashback of "Balance of Flour"), but we're getting close!!

Also as previously stated, I might get around to posting some sensual / sexual stuff for FOP that I wrote as character studies and warm-ups back in the day, but...

I cannot emphasize enough that these delve into really heavy topics like consent violations, setting up a plot about being underage and desperate that will later crash and burn, and sexual trauma, and they're not necessarily sexy or fun to read, so just... [obligatory I Write Trauma & Morally Gray Characters In 'Fics For The Show About Trauma & Morally Gray Characters reminder].

But I do think there's really interesting stuff in here in terms of character studies and I wouldn't mind having them available, if for no other reason than because I've lost them multiple times and would enjoy having a place to find them.

-> Those all go in Red Train and Rainbow Train. Again, subscribe or ignore at your preference. They are not part of the 130 Prompts (which are strictly G and T works).

-> These are certainly not necessary reads in order to "keep up with what's happening" to the characters. Anything you need to know for their plot arcs is in their G and T stories. This is just bonus stuff for people who're interested in... The Horrors.

That's all I have to say for now! Thanks for reading!

Doodles for the upcoming Dog's Life Chapter 41 and/or 42 depending on where I cut it

Mild spoilers depending on how good you are at deciphering these out of context:

[blowflyfag]

Pro Wrestling Illustrated: October 1993

IN FOCUS 

WITH CRAIG PETERS

WHAT MAKES YOU WATCH WRESTLING?

[Jim Ross, a worthy addition to the WWF]

Back in the August 1993 issue, I asked readers to give some serious thought to the questions, “What makes you tune in to wrestling on television?” and “What makes you attend wrestling in the arenas?”

I received quite a few interesting letters on the subject, and would like to turn my entire column this month over to your responses to those questions. 

A big part of the reason why I watch the WWF television is to keep up on the feuds, wrote Joseph Gurcsik of Haddonfield, New Jersey. I like seeing who got jumped, who got put in their place and to see wrestlers working their way to the top. Jim Ross was also an excellent addition to the commentators. 

With the WWF there is nothing so important that it cannont be videotaped and viewed later, Joseph continued. WCW, though, is a television show which is not to be missed, especially the Saturday and Sunday evening shows. With WCW, I go to the arenas and watch it on television for completely different reasons. Watching the wrestling moves is incredible. WCW matches on television are matches that I would like to see in an arena. This gives me more of a reason to go to the arena, because I know that I will not be disappointed.

Dave Szymanak of Binghamton, New York, however, has a point of view on the situation that is not so optimistic:

It used to be that I watched wrestling on television to see reasonably competitive matches. But with the focus on everything now leading to pay-per-view events all year long, I mainly tune in for updates on the supercards and for the interviews. With the exception of a few WCW Clash of the Champions specials and some Saturday night bouts, I would say the current state of television wrestling is terrible. If it wasn’t for the interviews and pay-per-view info, I probably wouldn’t watch at all. Then again, I would say it was pay-per-view that ruined television wrestling to begin with–and, more importantly, arena attendance. 

About the only thing that would keep me away from the arena would be a skyrocket jump in ticket prices, Dave said, adding that sadly, I think I would be better off id i didn’t show up at all, because the quality of arena and television cards continues to sag. If it wasn’t for the fact that wrestling rarely comes here anymore, and if magazines like PRO WRESTLING ILLUSTRATED and PWI Weekly weren’t around, I would probably stop being a fan altogether. 

[Doink]

I tune in to wrestling each and every week because I love this sport, which is human chess at its best, says Carl Louk of Prince George, Virginia. I love hardcore kick-butt wrestling, not circus-like atmosphere macabre cartoon family entertainment.” That is why I will only watch organizations that promote this kind of wrestling, like NWA,WCW and independent promotions like Smoky Mountain Wrestling.

Finally, here’s just a portion of a lengthy and thoughtful letter from Master Sergeant (Retired) D.E. McLeod of Baltimore who offers a fascinating decade-wide perspective:

I grew up watching wrestling in the 1950s and 1960s. I remember the formation of the WWWF and attended some of its early matches here in Baltimore in 1963. I stopped watching wrestling about the time Pedro Morales was WWWF champion. While stationed in Massachusetts in 1980, I began to watch wrestling again (the WWF). I was curious enough to learn that wrestling had changed a great deal since I last watched it.

I haven't been to a live card since 1963. Why? Lots of reasons. Basically, even though I watch both WWF and WCW (WCW being my preferred choice), neither federation is offering me anything that would make me part with 50 bucks.

I won’t even bother to discuss what disgust me about the WWF! But I will tell you what ticks me off about WCW. First of all, WCW still continues to be a WWF wannabe. There is absolutely no continuity in WCW. Many times, I watch a feud start to brew in WCW and then nothing happens. First there is a TV champion, then not. Next there are U.S. tag team champions, then not. For goodness sakes! Make up your mind!The love of money is the root of all evil in professional wrestling. I thought that it was a scream that one week Jim Ross was telling me that WCW was real wrestling and not a circus act, then the next week he was broadcasting for a three ring circus called the WWF.

My thanks to everyone who responded. I don’t know that we came up with any definite answers to my questions, except perhaps the fact that everyone has a different and individual reason for watching this sport we all love so much.

[alarrytale]

“I don't know why this is a good thing or a bad thing? Do they want him to have lipstick marks or not? Is it connected to his stunts, so they're happy he hasn't got lipstick marks when he's in a relationship? Idk. I don't see how these things are related at all. Is a kiss on the cheek cheating to them?”

It’s The B*x anon again just to clarify my previous question a bit. First of all I wrote comments were on h*rryfl*rals as it’s the main (het) harrie update account and so I understood it like this - they were saying that that night club is like some kind of a sin club where orgies are also happening or something similar. And you know, for them H’s s*x addict and since this club is where you go to have some “adult” fun it all just fits into the narrative they’ve been pushing about H since the very beginning. And because het harries believes in his womanizer image it fits the narrative that he went there, made out with multiple women (=multiple lipstick marks), did some c*c*ine and totally wasted got papped leaving. And so when he was leaving last time without any lipsticks marks it meant for those harries that he hadn’t been making out with any woman. Both times he was stunt free, so it doesn’t connect to any stunt and just as made-up hookup rumours were on a daily basis because again womanizer image so harries believe that he must’ve madeout with women in that club because we all know he can’t hold himself back (irony).

So that’s why I was asking what was the larries reaction to those lipstick marks because harries went straight to him making out with women. And attending that clubs means H’s the very bad bad boy who go to these night clubs.

Thanks for the additional info!

Christ, that's quite a leap? A lipstick mark on the cheek and he's doing co*e, dangling from the chandelier and humping scantily clad women? Good for them i guess if that kind of stuff turns them on? It's got no basis in reality though.

Btw. This reminded me of dentist!larrie and their excellent teeth analysis:

By het harrie logic this obviously means Louis is a vampire who thirsts for Harry's blood. Going for that jugular.

[nicestpamkale]

~Welcome to my page!~

Hooo boy is there a lot to catch you up on, hm? Well, don’t you worry!

I’m Pam. I go by he/they for the most part, but you’ll notice that my tag for things that I talk on or make comments about is #bigsispam. This is tumblr. That shouldn’t be all that surprising. Don’t worry if you slip and call me she/her. It’ll mostly just be uncomfortable for the Moment. (Not worrying =/= being okay with it. Please use he/they.) 

I’m on desktop and mobile. I mostly scroll while eating dinner, and I am the resident Tumblr User in the group, meaning that a lot of Tumblr posts on my dash are probably in the friend-group discord. It’s impossible for me to stay on-point. You’ll see that quickly upon reading one of my essays.

I very frequently have episodes of an unknown type- I cannot afford medicine or therapy at this time. 

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Present Hyperfixation; Scum Villian’s Self-Saving System / SVSSS 

What you’ll likely see me reblog the most.

Present Worldbuilding Work; The Demon Lords / The Seven Hells - Legends of Runia / Clove’s Curse

This is what I’ve been working on most in the background. I dunno how to synopsize it tho so. **Shrug**

Main Project; Storyteller Volume 1; Kuroshitsuji/Reader

Female Reader-Centric - It’s technically going to be Sebastian/Reader / Undertaker/Reader but that element is very light and it’s not at all the main point of the fic. The main point of the fic is to watch what happens when a bunch of people get transmigrated into Black Butler of all things and each of their individual perceptions of the content cripples the world dramatically. 

Antagonists from every season- and some of whom created themselves- crawl out of the woodworks at unexpected times. Plot points are significantly altered or shoved in places they weren’t before. It’s practically a whole new story. So take that how you will. There’s also a lot of magic lore and demon/angel/reaper expansion which may not be your jive. In which, sorry.

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Main AO3

One-shots / Sillies (Pseud: Laurel Wreaths)

Qoutev

Commission Info

More niche things below. ^u^

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Key Tags;

#nicestart - my art

#nicestwriting - my writing

#ocs - posts about my original characters

#worldbuilding - Failing the above, I probably have some good writing in here! 

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Favourites - Subject to Change / Addition;

Favourite Colors; Midnight Blue, Sky Blue, Pastel Yellow, Pastel Pink

Favourite Flowers; Daffodils, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, Heather

Favourite Flavours; Cinnamon, Wintergreen, Mac & Cheese

Favourite Games; Sky COTL, Skyrim, Dorfromantik, Lob Corp

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Soft Projects (Qoutev Links, Mostly);

(Qoutev) Ereyesterday - A story about a grown woman going through the school years with a little girl named Lily. There’s various monsters that will stalk and hunt the two throughout this story. It will be primarily psychological horror, obviously. #ereyesterday

(Qoutev) That Blank Space - A Lonnie x Hadley Office AU Fic I wrote for the fun of it. I thought making the two bisexual disasters kiss would be silly. Not updated that frequently but there is a vague outline for how it goes down. Non-canon compliant. #lonley

(Qoutev) Consequences of Time Loops in Skyrim - A Skyrim crackfic that’s just a bunch of idiots fucking about in Skyrim Time Loop Scenario. I need to update it, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. #skyloops

(Ao3) Shen Qiao's Very Strange Life - A Yanshen Flower shop AU I just started. Will probably be updated when I feel very sad. #shenflower

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LEGENDS OF RUNIA / THORNIA; 

#world: legends of runia

Villain Masterpost

Gods Masterpost

Demon Lord Masterpost [Not Yet Made]

Country Masterpost [Not Yet Made]

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VAMPIRICA;

[Not yet revealed! :o]

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CINNABARI;

[Not yet revealed! D:]

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ORIGINAL CHARACTERS;

Hadley Milner - Incarnate of Ariadne, a gardener and incredibly resilient. Has the magical abilities to control plants, though she could potentially do more down the road and I have some Funny Ideas about that. #oc: Hadley

Arlo Winchester - Ex-cultist and angry about it. Has killed a lot of people to be free with his sister. Has the magical ability to read someone’s emotion through physical contact and mess with their memories. #oc: Arlo 

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Please please ask me things about any of these topics! I’d love to start up tags for them / talk about them but I simply have not had the time or energy to do so on my own volition with lorge posts.

Vampirica and Cinnabari don’t yet have too much on them but I can always give you the run-down on what’s happening (generally speaking) if need be.

I’ve also got a private Skyrim Fic in the works that’s more serious than Skyloops.

CW // All of my worldbuilding and writing is liable to feature topics all over the spectrum of fucked up. I would recommend sending an ask personally about certain things and what topics may come up in projects I am working on, if you’re concerned for your health. 

[iammadelinepod]

While I have been on Tumblr for at least a decade as a nerd girl/nerdfighter I haven't been sharing what's been going on with me in a larger sense. I'm not sure if I'll connect up my personal Tumblr with this(so it won't look like I have followed you back but I probably have), I'll have to have a think about that as my personal Tumblr has been an oasis as I've been fighting to stay alive against ridiculous and seeming unsurmountable odds. I sum it up here in a article I wrote for the disability Alliance of British Columbia last fall

https://disabilityalliancebc.org/article-im-fighting-to-live-but/

Full story in the I am Madeline podcast

https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline

As I did in the Twitter account in their pinned tweet I will include all of the media articles that have been done so far as well as the Reddit thread that included much kindness and a lot of stuff that made me want to bang my head against a wall. Also some articles about post viral syndrome and me particularly long covid as those are the new additions to the post viral syndrome community. I don't have a lot of energy probably because of my disease but because of the dyslexia textual communication can be quite difficult for me so I'm not going to try to edit the file that I kept the media links and the general medical articles and. So I hope you can make sense of it and that all of the links still work.

I think / hope that I should be able to pin this to the top of this tumblr

In no particular order here is the link dump

Gfm

https://gofund.me/cff39173

https://www.gofundme.com/f/MadelinesMiracle?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet

Citr ep April 6 2023

https://www.citr.ca/radio/all-access-pass/episode/20230406/

Petition

https://www.meaction.net/2022/03/01/you-can-still-help-madeline/

https://dir.gov.bc.ca/gtds.cgi?show=Branch&organizationCode=HLTH&organizationalUnitCode=MH

Dabc Nov 2022

Blog

https://disabilityalliancebc.org/article-im-fighting-to-live-but/

Pdf mag

https://disabilityalliancebc.org/transitionfallwinter22/

Tyee November 14 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/14/Chronically-Ill-Dying-Poverty/

Chatelaine

https://www.chatelaine.com/health/maid-assisted-death-poverty/

Podcast

https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline/episodes/Ep--1---How-do-you-solve-a-problem-e110jks

https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline

(https://www.iammadeline.com/)

City tv news Hana Mae change of by-line

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2020/07/27/vancouver-woman-disabilities-medically-assisted-dying/

Media

News 11:30

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/27/vancouver-woman-disabilities-medically-assisted-dying/

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/11/24/vancouver-woman-me-covid-19/

Tyee article

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/07/05/I-Should-Not-Have-To-Beg-For-My-Life/

Canada land podcast

https://www.canadaland.com/madeline-medical-assistance-in-dying-priced-out-of-life/

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/723-the-high-cost-of-living/

Update

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/741-updates-on-pretendians-porn-and-being-priced-out-of-life/

Millions missing simulcast

https://twitter.com/millionspod/status/1450838974864445440?t=tiE3pZtRLB9LiRVXIg4u8g&s=19

My Op-ed

https://quoimedia.com/canadians-with-disabilities-like-me-are-choosing-to-die-because-we-dont-have-the-financial-resources-to-live/

https://ipolitics.ca/2021/11/15/the-disabled-are-choosing-to-die-because-they-cant-afford-to-live/

Reddit post about op-ed

https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/qul8c3/the_disabled_are_choosing_to_die_because_they/

are live on QUOI Media’s website.

https://quoimedia.com/canadians-with-disabilities-like-me-are-choosing-to-die-because-we-dont-have-the-financial-resources-to-live/

https://quoimedia.com/des-canadiennes-et-canadiens-en-situation-de-handicap-comme-moi-choisissent-de-mourir-parce-quils-nont-pas-les-moyens-de-vivre/

INFO

Gender bias in research

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232627/

Costs two to three times more to be disabled

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31026771/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31026771/

Mayo

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)00513-9/fulltext

Bateman Horne PDF

https://twitter.com/BatemanHorne/status/1462907081686540290?t=MzYkyjZ_-QYAH4_td5zUFA&s=19

NICE COMM

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-me-cfs-guideline-outlines-steps-for-better-diagnosis-and-management

Twitter link to various ME studies

https://twitter.com/CPrudhommeAQEM/status/1500854349442002951?t=U-DZG-DLNUqYVkz-Ygoewg&s=19

Pdf of studies

https://www.me-international.org/published-me-icc-studies.html

CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/healthcare-providers/presentation-clinical-course/etiology-pathophysiology.html

Disprove cbt

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102919838907

Blog reply to above

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/03/23/the-concept-of-illness-without-disease-impedes-understanding-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-a-response-to-sharpe-and-greco/

Physio

https://www.physio-pedia.com/Myalgic_Encephalomyelitis_or_Chronic_Fatigue_Syndrome

Me from covid

https://meassociation.org.uk/2020/05/me-awareness-columbia-university-will-there-be-a-post-covid-19-form-of-me-cfs-26-may-2020/

Australia me study small town

https://www.bmj.com/content/333/7568/575

Percentage of doctors you understand me

https://doctorswith.me/poor-knowledge-of-me-cfs-among-doctors-puts-patients-at-risk-of-harm/

https://doctorswith.me/poor-knowledge-of-me-cfs-among-doctors-puts-patients-at-risk-of-harm/

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-barr-virus-may-be-leading-cause-of-multiple-sclerosis/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232627/ gender disparity in research money and allocation by NIH

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.13139

Wiley Online Library

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volume 45, Issue 5 p. 424-426

Commentary

Open Access

Sex and gender gaps in medicine and the androcentric history of medical research

Lea Merone, Komla Tsey, Darren Russell, Cate Nagle

First published: 28 June 2021

Interrelationship between myalgic encephalomyelitis and long covid

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo1261?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Twitter

Brain fog https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/long-covid-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-doctors-long-covid/671518/

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/07/15/long-covid-has-over-200-symptoms-and-leaves-1-in-5-unable-to-work-study-finds/?sh=1f11766e5eb2

herpes simplex including Epstein-Barr latency and damage to genome tissue study sample including autopsies

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1044964/abstract

https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1612196453258256384?t=C1UGoqR72JjmBeVRreJ41A&s=09

What #LongCovid continues to experience is a social medical phenomena know as the **Semmelweis Reflex** —

“the metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms.” 🧵

I was introduced to this term while reading @meghanor excellent, essential book “Invisible Kingdom”

As she shared, it was named after the doctor who said physicians assisting with childbirth should wash their hands to reduce maternal mortality & was exiled from the profession

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-tsunami-of-disability-is-coming-as-a-result-of-lsquo-long-covid-rsquo/

https://fortune.com/well/2023/05/23/covid-deaths-one-person-every-four-minutes-vaccination-rates/

Protect BC

https://protectbc.ca/public-healt-scandal-failure-to-warn/

[bamboo-dock-and-minis]

FAQ- Current

This FAQ retains important info from the original and updates with additional new info.

-What is this blog about?

I am someone who used the Bamboo Dock as a kid in 2010 before life took me elsewhere. I recently got back a secondhand Wacom Bamboo Fun and remembered the joy of creating little tunes and playing games on it, but it did not have the install disk with it. I found the original bambodock-and-minis.tumblr.com on Web Archive and reached out through the Google Drive link that was there. Silvia was kind enough to respond and not only send me the files, but give their consent for the text they wrote to be re-uploaded. For me, the Bamboo Dock was and is an valuable tool to simply having fun and creating for yourself without needing to be a commodity, and sharing that with those around you. Thank you to Silvia and all the other software preservationists out there who help keep art, music, games, tools, and more going, even when support for them ceases.

ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ *:･ﾟ✧-Mags

-Contact Info:

Email: magsciar@gmail.com

This blog! The askbox and submits are open.

-I want to use Bamboo Dock on a Mac computer.

Software Informer has a page to ask other Mac users about how they make it work, but there is currently nothing there: https://macdownload.informer.com/bamboo-dock1/ Currently there is no Mac file out there for download. If you are more tech savvy, you can run it on a parallel: https://www.wikihow.com/Open-Exe-Files-on-Mac

-I have a problem with a Mini which doesn’t work.

The links and connections within the Minis are often broken or do not open anymore because there is no support on Wacom’s end. There is no guarantee that the Dock itself or any of its Mini apps will continue work - now or at any given point in the future.

Some apps have been dysfunctional for a while - for example, there is no way to pull the audio from the iNudge Mini without using a program like Audacity. I have written tutorials for the features I have noticed are broken and that a work around exists. If you find something that is broken and have figured out a way to fix it, please email me and I will add the instructions to this site.

I am also working on reaching out to the creators who I can find of the Minis in order to be able to link to newer versions of their creation, if there is one.

-I’m looking for a Mini to download here, but I can’t find it.

The only Minis I have are those originally provided and saved by Silvia. It is worth posting in forums or on social media to ask if anyone has that Mini on their computer. Please let me know the name of the Mini and what it did- there is always a chance I can find further info on the creator of a Mini and reach out to them.  I will also add the requests to the main page of the Neocities site so that others can see it.

If you would like to know if I ever find a particular Mini, you may email me and I will email you back if I do.

-I have a Mini I’m using on my computer and want to provide the file so that it can be made available to other people.

Please, email me at magsciar@gmail.com and I’ll be in touch with you as soon as humanly possible.

-Where are the Minis for Bamboo Dock installed to / if I have it already?

Each of the Bamboo Dock minis you download additionally is a single .wcm file which can be found very easily:

First, open your C drive (the one where Windows resides);

Open the folder called ProgramData. It is a hidden folder so it’s possible you’re not able to see it. If you can’t see it, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You need to open Folder Options, select the View tab and change the hidden files and folders setting so that it shows hidden files and folder. Save the changes and you’ll be able to see the ProgramData folder;

Inside the ProgramData folder there is another folder - Wacom;

Inside the Wacom folder you’ll need to open the “default” folder;

Inside the “default” folder you’ll find a folder named Widgets - this is where you’ll find the .wcm files which are your minis.

The minis that are included in the Bamboo Dock installation package - Landmarker, Free the Bird, Mona Lisa and Bamboo Paper can be found in the main installation folder in C:\Program Files\Bamboo Dock\Bamboo Dock\default\widgets.

Note: The MoodTuner app isn’t installed in C:\ProgramData\Wacom\default\widgets and doesn’t consist of a single file. It is instead installed in a separate folder inside the main Bamboo Dock installation folder.

-Can I use Minis without installing Bamboo Dock?

No, minis only work with Bamboo Dock already installed.

-I have downloaded a Mini. How do I add it to my Bamboo Dock?

The tutorial post is here:

https://www.tumblr.com/bamboo-dock-and-minis/738633489320230912/how-to-install-minis-to-bamboo-dock

-How can I move my Bamboo Dock installation, complete with added Minis, from one computer to another?

The tutorial post is here:

https://www.tumblr.com/bamboo-dock-and-minis/738637963479629824/installing-bamboo-dock

This F.A.Q. was last updated on Jan 6th, 2024.