#i want to add more little touches to the structure to give it some extra pizzaz but im happy with this base

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Been a while since i updated yall on my minecraft world, so heres the greenhouse i designed last night that im planning on building to house my bamboo and the allay i nabbed last week or so :] the smaller section is for an attached bee farm

This design is actually 100% mine!!! This is the first time i havent used a tutorial as the base of a build, and while it still needs a few tweaks and extra decorations, for a first pass im pretty damn happy with it. I did use a site to help me with the dome shape, it's called plotz and it was extremely helpful especially while using the 2D model :]

Also please look at my diamonds rn, holy fuck

[rafeyscurtainbangs]

⭐ Republished ⭐

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝟑

𝟿.𝟼𝙺 𝚃𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝

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𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚟𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚝!𝚁𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚡 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚂𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝!𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛

📖 Rafe is your boyfriend… You just don’t know it yet.

⚠️ warnings contain spoliers ⚠️

swearing, Stalking, pet names, degradation, namecalling, public masturbation, dark!rafe, mean!rafe, perv!rafe, mentions of cum play, mentions of unprotected P in V, ownership kink, mentions of rough oral, violence, threats, blackmail, fighting, blood, gore, mentions of sextortion, Rafe sneaks into the reader’s room, panty stealing, panty sniffing, takes pictures of the reader’s private images, cum tasting, oral male receiving, oral female receiving, twist dark reader, mutual obsession, rough oral, gagging, kissing, reader doesn’t ask rafe if he wants to go further than oral but he does and she starts anyway, messy sex, squirting, praise, drinking, smoking, mentions of drug use

✨ “Just do it, baby girl,” I moan, watching as she pinches her top button. I grab mine as well, tugging it open with her. I hiss at the sensation of my rock-hard cock in my hand, feeling some relief. This is the first time I’ve touched myself all day. I was edging myself as I studied her Instagram and TikTok page, saving my favorites to my phone. When I saw her in the parking lot, I swear I could have cum untouched. ✨

Rafe’s POV:

“So, class. What does its structure contribute to the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night?” The professor drones on, sliding her reading glasses down her nose as she looks out onto the lecture hall. I shrink in my seat slightly, along with the other boys, doing my best to avoid her gaze.

Required reading, my ass. Did she honestly expect us to read this shit on a Thursday night? Barely drug my ass outta bed for class. Thank fuckin’ god. I relax in my seat as one of the front-row nerds saves the basic population who doesn’t give a fuck.

“Repetition. The poet used it to stress his key theme for his readers.”

I nod, scribbling a little line of nothingness on my paper, keeping up with the facade. That shit went in one ear and out the next. “Hey, Cameron.” My frat brother elbows me on the side. “You good for the kegs?”

“Yeah, sweetheart. What else can daddy get you?” I sneer as I roll my eyes at Billy, who laughs and scoffs. “I get paid back first, plus 10%. Get me a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle; I ain’t drinkin’ Coors, and I ain’t pickin’ that shit up either.”

“Thanks, daddy,” he responds in a breathy voice, snatching the wad of cash off my hands. “We need ten kegs between the Deltas and Phi Mu… You good for that-”

“Fuck you, ‘Am I good for that’?” I cut him short through a breathy laugh. “You’re holdin’ the cash in your hands, bitch. Stop askin’. Add an extra 5% for questionin’ me-”

“Rafe.” My stomach sinks as my professor’s eyes zero in on mine. “Am I interrupting something?” The old bird cocks an eyebrow, her annoyance visible, matching my own.

“No,” I answer simply, crossing my arms across my chest and relaxing at my desk.

“Splendid. I assume you know the answer then. Correct?” She challenges me, trying to catch me off guard. A smirk pulls on her lips as she does just that. Cunt.

“I agree.”

“The key insight about death in the poem is, ‘I agree’?” She belittles. I stare at her blankly, blinking a few times to let her know she’s wasting her time. She’s not gettin’ shit out of me. I’ve got an A in this class, bitch. What’re you gonna do about it?

She chuckles weakly, shaking her head at my resistance. “Am I wrong, ma’am? I have a bit of conversational anxiety… If you’d like to repeat the question, I’d love to try again,” I ask through a shit-eating smirk, letting my sarcasm drip all the way through, irritating her even more.

“Anyone else?” She invites in a shrill voice as she dismisses me, looking around the room to find another. Some of my frat brothers snicker in the back, making the professor’s features even more rigid. “Miss. Y/n?” Her demeanor changes instantly, shaking off my defiance, moving on to another one of her perfect pets.

Who’s that?

Holy shit. I swallow hard, feeling my mouth dry up as I see her. She twiddles her fluffy pink pen, acknowledging the teacher with a smile. Y/n? Jesus fuckin’ Christ. How have I never seen her before? I watch as a football player shuffles down the row of the lecture hall. My question, answered in a moment as his broad shoulders cut off my line of sight. No. I stretch back, cranking my neck to get her in my sights again.

“The key insight’s that death should be fought against, even though it is inevitable.” Her beautiful voice fills the lecture hall like a song. The teacher smiles at her again, praising y/n for her correct answer. Y/n grins and nods, averting her eyes as she catches the room’s focus. Her cheeks blush the prettiest shade of pink, matching her glossy lips.

Those lips… I lick my own, thinking about the way they would look wrapped around my cock, drool running down her chin as she deepthroats my dick. I’d grip that little ponytail like a handlebar, using her mouth like a toy. I chuckle at myself, still surprised that my mind went there almost instantly, but I know myself too well. I am who I am.

Y/n looks so goddamn innocent… Not for long. She’s a slut for praise. I can tell. I can work with that.

My eyes work lower, following the curve of her cleavage in her low-cut shirt. Fuck, I can’t wait to get her on top; watch ‘em bounce in my face. I’m gonna cum all over her perfect rack. Tiddie fuck her while she cries for daddy’s dick. Smear that shit- “Earth to Rafe?” I grit my teeth as I’m torn from my fantasy. “Buddy, you good?” Billy chuckles, his voice taunting as he follows my focus to her. “Mmm… Y/n,” he sighs blissfully. “So fuckin’ hot, bro. She’s a Phi Mu girl.”

“No shit?”

“Mhmm… Transferred from LSU. Smart, funny, sexy… But she’s mine, buddy. Aight? Been layin’ down groundwork all semester.” He elbows me playfully, chuckling to himself, actually believing his own words.

“All semester, and you haven’t made a move?” I spit, eyes rolling in his direction. This whole conversation is laughable. Has he been sitting on this all semester? Really? She was mine the second I looked at her, buddy. You’re done.

“Long game,” he defends himself.

“Long game?” I scoff. “Doesn’t sound like you got any game at all...”

“Hey. Fuck off… I know she wants me. Her bedroom faces mine and she doesn’t even close the curtains when she changes anymore; she texts me all the time. See?” He gloats as he thumbs through his phone. I don’t even bother myself with the semantics. Why the fuck does that shit matter? What’s he gettin’ at? “I’m gonna help ‘em after class. They have some car wash fundraiser downtown.”

Is that so? “I like the sound of that,” I smile, feeling my cock growing stiff in my jeans at the thought of seeing her in next to nothing, wet and soapy no less.

“You can’t just take her from me, Rafe,” Billy mutters in annoyance. A laugh rumbles in my chest as I take in his empty words. “I’m not fuckin’ around. She’s mine.”

My head turns slowly in his direction as he bends in mine. I mean, the guy’s big, but I’m bigger. He can fight, but he’s not willing to see that shit through. Billy’s got that moral compass that urges him to stop where I couldn’t care less. And he knows it.

He balls his hands up in fists at his desk, jaw tightening as he does his best to intimidate me one last time. My boy’s a bitch.

“Mine.”

I study her movements as she glides through the halls. Her hair bounces with each step brushing along her backpack, half-hiding her perfect ass. Her bum shakes a little as she walks, just a tease for me. Y/n slight skirt grazes just a few inches below her ass, leaving her bare legs on display.

I wonder what they’d look like over my shoulder… Spread wide on my bed as I devoured her perfect pussy. Damn. I bet she makes some pretty sounds. I can’t wait to hear that, to see her face, as she squirts all over my mouth and cock.

Where are you going, pretty girl?

She hooks a left, heading toward the coffee shop. I continue to follow my girl, watching as she strolls inside. Y/n walks toward the line, stalling next to the case of pastries, eyeing the bottom. Do it for daddy, baby. C’mon. There you go… She drops down, surveying the options. That goddamn ass… Does she know I’m watching? She’s gotta know. The paisley material tugs higher on her thighs, a peek of her round ass poking out the bottom.

She stands up again, taking another step, moving with the traffic flow. Y/n reaches into her purse, pulling out her phone. She smiles as she looks at the screen. Billy Hargrove 💕. I feel my heart pick up pace, my breathing quickening; rage boils inside me.

I gave him an order. This shit’s not up to him. I roll the tension out of my neck, fingers twisting into fists of my own. Where’s the fucking loyalty? She bites her bottom lip and smiles at the message, making me physically ill.

I’ve got distracted by her… Say somethin’ to make her forget about that.

“Uh, hey,” I rasp. Y/n continues to type up a little message. “Y/n?” I reach out, resting my hand on her arm.

“Oh, hi… Umm, Rafe?” She says my name, making everything stand still. I look down at the beautiful eyes and soft, pouty lips, the corners of which curl into a sweet smile.

“Uh, yeah,” I answer, trying to level my tone. “We’re in class together.”

“Yeah… She’s kind of a bitch. Right?” Y/n asks weakly as her eyes soften on mine, showing me pity like my feelings might have been hurt by that little exchange between the professor and me.

“Yeah, she sucks,” I laugh lightly, tossing my head down in fake shame. “The boys and I got a little rowdy last night. I didn’t read that shit. Did you? I mean, obviously-”

“On my way to class,” she giggles as she looks around playfully for our professor.

My mouth falls into an open smile. “Naughty girl. Coast is clear, by the way,” I rasp through a little laugh.

“Good,” Y/n sighs as she tucks some hair behind her ear.

“You’re really smart.” I praise, watching her cheeks blushing again, this time closer than before, making my heart bang in my chest.

“Thank you. Oh, umm, you’re a Delta. Right?” She asks, solidifying her answer as she eyes the embroidery on my polo.

“I am. And you’re Phi Mu?” Y/n grins as she nods in reply. “I’m headed over to your car wash after this.”

“Awesome. Yeah, Lyndsey was worried that the University might question where the money came from if we made anything off selling beer tonight.”

“A cover-up?” I smile down at her as I stuff my hands in my jeans.

“Mhmm,” she breathes. “The party’s gonna be huge. Do you think we’ll get busted?”

I chuckle at the sweet nativity of her question. “‘Course we will. Over 500 students in one place… But it’s a block party. Right? So they won’t be able to pinpoint anybody. Not usin’ the frat’s money directly. Cash. The boys are gonna pay me back as they sell cups. Untraceable.”

“Aww. That’s so nice of you,” she smiles. Her demeanor hasn’t faltered since we’ve spoken. She doesn’t seem to care about the material shit; my Breitling watch, the gold rings on my fingers. Her face didn’t light up when I dropped the fact that I would buy beer for the masses. She just said it was nice… Fuck, she’s perfect.

“I try… But, if we get busted, I’ll blame it on some beautiful Phi girl I know.”

She gasps playfully, smacking me in the chest. “You wouldn’t!” Everything tenses in my body as I fight back my arousal, covering the growing excitement in my slacks with my notebook.

Y/n looks over my shoulder, catching the girl’s eyes behind me as she tells us to move forward. “Sorry,” Y/n sighs apologetically, clearing the open space between us and the register. Y/n steps up to the counter, ordering a latte and a muffin before reaching into her purse.

“Oh, shit. No. Sorry! Let me,” I breathe as I hurry to her side. “I’ll pay for whatever she’s havin’ and a coffee for me: one cream, one sugar. Thank you.”

“Wow. Thank you, Rafe. You didn’t need to do that,” she coos.

“No problem, y/n.”

Gifts… That’s what my girl likes.

Well, shit. She’s gonna need a grand gesture. I can sneak into her room tonight. Check the essentials: dress size, music taste; the little things she enjoys.

I’ll take a look at her nightstand. How could I not? Gotta know what she uses to please herself so I know what I’m working with and what it takes to get her there. I want to know her better than she knows herself.

I follow along, trying to keep my eyes on her face, but I can’t help but roam her body. I’ve never seen anything like it, never seen anything so perfect for me. I never wanted anything so bad.

The barista walks over, setting down my coffee. I suck my teeth, regretting my choice, knowing if I got the same shit as her, I could have stayed. But I shouldn’t. “I’ll come by. Yeah? Don’t kill me… I gotta big ass truck, and she’s dirty as shit.”

“No worries,” she smiles sweetly. “I’ll see you there, Rafe. Oh, and thanks for the coffee again.” She reaches out, resting her hand on my arm.

“Of course, sweetheart.” I test a pet name, watching her smile widen. Just gorgeous.

I step away, walking towards the door. Looking over my shoulder as Y/n pulls out her phone, that same smile for Billy setting on her perfect lips.

He’s fucking dead.

I pull up toward the parking lot, falling into the line of cars; a caravan of dicks with their windows already rolled down. Fuckin’ dogs. I lean out as well, surveying the scene looking for her. Jesus fuckin’ Christ. I watch the gaggle of girls prancing around in their bikinis, excitement building as I frantically look for her.

My heart skips as I see her sporting the most clothes, donning yet the sluttiest outfit of them all. She’s an absolute fuckin’ tease in her cut-off jean shorts and white t-shirt, soaked with water. The material clings to her curves, teasing me with her little triangle top, gathered slightly, barely covering her tits.

She leans over and reaches into the bucket, pulling out a sponge before ringing out the soap. A guy rolls down the window of his Mercedes, bending his neck to watch as she washes the side. I can already tell where this is goin’. He smirks, watching her ass as she leans down, cleaning the rear fender. “Aww, sweetheart,” he soughs, “Uhh…You missed a spot.” Y/n smiles sweetly, lowering to where she was before, making me huff out an aggravated breath.

Her friend walks over with a hose, spraying down the suds that y/n left behind. Tori Clarence, a late-night Delta regular. She says something that makes Y/n laugh. Y/n claps back, teasing her sister through a wicked smile. Tori lifts the gun, spraying y/n with a stream of water, hitting her directly on her tits.

Y/n gasps as her shirt turns from milky white to practically see-through, the chilly water running down her perfect body, making her nipple hard. She panics to get warm, reaching for the bottom of her shirt. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. She pulls it over her body: soft skin, perfect boobs, and wet hair. Little lines of water cascade down her bare skin, rounding her curves catching on the denim of her shorts. Her eyes fall down her body, eyeing her damp state.

“Just do it, baby girl,” I moan, watching as she pinches her top button. I grab mine as well, tugging it open with her. I hiss at the sensation of my rock-hard cock in my hand, feeling some relief. This is the first time I’ve touched myself all day. I was edging myself as I studied her Instagram and TikTok page, saving my favorites to my phone. When I saw her in the parking lot, I swear I could have cum untouched.

I start to fist my cock as she leans over the trunk, her body perfectly positioned like I’m taking her from the back. Goddamn. I’d snake my rough hand up her soft skin, following the curve of her arched spine, drifting into her hair. I’d pull it back, feeling her pussy clench around my big dick. I’d spank her, cracking her tight little ass with the palm of my hand, leaving her red and bruised. Just one of the many ways I’d mark my girl. “Fuck, Y/n,” I moan her name as heat radiates through my body.

She walks along the side of the next car, letting me see her little triangle top: light blue, thin material, the blush of nipples visible. I roll my hand over my tip, whimpering at the sensation, imagining myself hitting the back of her throat as tears pool in her pretty, innocent eyes. Y/n looking up at daddy, mascara running down her cheeks as she throats me like the slut I know she can be. I’d hold her head in my hands, using her mouth to stroke my cock. My perfect little toy…

Fuck. I got a Fleshlight with her name on it. I’m gonna use those pictures when I get home… Gotta get myself ready for tonight. She has no clue what she’s in for. What I wouldn’t give to have my cock in her hand instead of my own. I’d make her jerk me off as she pleaded for my dick deep in that pretty tight cunt. I bet she’s so goddam wet. So, so fuckin’ tight.

“I know, baby. Daddy’s gonna give you his dick. Don’t worry,” I mumble, feeling my breathing start to increase with my pleasure. I thrust into my hand, fucking up into my fist as I watch her undo the loosened side strings of her bikini, tightening it again.

I eye the sign, catching the time. 11-4 PM. Yes… They’ll be here all afternoon. Just need to make a pit stop. Grab a pair of panties. Whatever I can get. I need to taste her. Stuff ‘em in my mouth as I study my prize. My hips stutter as I feel myself about to bust, imagining just how sweet she’ll taste. I work myself quicker, taking hold of my steering wheel as I rut into my hand.

‘Rafe. Rafe. Rafe.’ I can hear it now. See my little whore creamin’ on my cock as I give it to her over and over again.

“Fuck, I’m gonna cum, baby girl. Where do you want it?”

‘Deep in my pussy… Please, baby’. She’ll whimper and beg, pleading to get stuffed full. I’m gonna brush my fingers over her swollen clit, making her gush all over my cock and thighs, wetting everything around us until I’m pumping her full of my cum.

I’ll watch it drip out of her puffy pink hole, fucking it right back in, cleaning the rest off with my tongue before spitting it in her mouth.

My perfect cumslut.

I need it drippin’ out of her for days. Watchin’ my little angel walk into class, knowing just how good I dicked her down. I’ll watch her from my seat as she cleans the little cum tear off her inner thigh, slipping it between her lips as her eyes flick to mine, sucking it clean.

No one will have her again. “She was made for me.” The thought alone has my hand faltering; jaw falling slack. My stomach sinks, eyes doubling as she looks in my direction, matching my gaze. “Fuckkk…” My eyes roll back in my skull, toes curling, head thrown to the headrest as I cum harder than I ever have. Shit. I don’t even care if she saw. If she’s any girl of mine, she’d want to see it anyway.

My dirty little whore.

I look down at my jizz covered hand and lap. Goddamnit. I clear the gap between my car and the next before ripping off my shirt and wiping away my mess. I flip my hat on, snagging my protein shaker bottle from the passenger’s seat floor as I try to disguise the real reason I’m covered head to toe in sweat. I do my best to control my breathing, still running high from my climax, hit with the post-nut clarity that she may have seen it all.

She looks happy to see me… Real happy. Y/n smiles, making my heart race again as I meet her gorgeous eyes. She greets me happily, trotting up to my truck. “How are you doin’, sweetheart?”

She dunks her hand into the soapy bucket, grabbing a sponge. “Livin’ the dream,” y/n smiles, moving closer than expected. I take in her perfume, already so familiar to me, the smell of it revving me right up again.

“Sorry. I’m a sweaty mess,” I sigh. Her gaze falls down my body, studying me with a bashful smile.

“Just got done with a workout?” She asks.

“Mhmm…” I smile and nod in reply. “Pay now? Pay later?” I invite as I snag my wallet.

“Now,” she sings. “Donation based, so whatever you’re willing to give.” I thumb through my wallet, plucking out $200.

“Rafe…” She breathes, taking it off my hands. “Are you sure? This is a little much.” Y/n looks down at the cash in her hands before meeting my eyes again.

“Positive,” I assure.

“Well, that is very nice, Rafe Cameron,” she coos. Y/n uses my last name, making my stomach drop. She wouldn’t have known my last name unless she did some digging. I didn’t give it to her; I never said anything in class before today. She must have looked me up on Instagram or Snapchat… Maybe she asked one of her sisters about me.

I fight off a wide smile as she gets started on the car. She takes her time, putting in a little more effort than the cars before. She walks to the front of the cab, leaning over, breast jiggling as she swirls and circles the sponge on the hood. She rises a little higher on her tippy toes, unable to reach the rest.

“Here you go, babe.” Her friend sets down a ladder for Y/n. She bends over once more, the angle alone making my cock rock hard again as I imagine us fucking raw. Tonight… I’ll bend her over on the bathroom counter, just like she is now, the bass of the party on the street not even loud enough to cover her cries and my moans. I’ll pound into her as the slaps of our skin fill the bathroom. Her eyes shift to mine, catching my stare. She doesn’t drop focus, keeping her eyes on me as she continues to scrub. A smirk spreads on her lips, mirroring my own.

Baby girl…

Y/n steps down from the ladder before walking to her friend, grabbing the hose off her hands; taking her job instead. She sprays down the truck, cleaning off the suds. The light breeze catches the flow of water, sending little beads of it flying, catching on her perfect skin. My mouth waters as I imagine licking the glaze of it off her skin. Fuck… I don’t think I can take this.

“Alright, Mr. Cameron. You’re all set,” she smiles as she eyes her work. I bite my lip and nod.

“Thank you, princess. See you tonight.”

I pull forward, watching her from my wing mirror as she greets the next car. Her excitement fades as she welcomes the next. Good fuckin’ girl.

Next stop, Phi Mu.

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[adobe-outdesign]

Bit late for xmas, but have you reviewed snover?

Snover is very cute. These little evergreen-like creatures are known to be friendly and inquisitive towards humans, and will even gather around human footprints like we do with yetis. Aw!

Visually, I do like their design a lot as well. The brown, dark green, and white palette is unique and looks really nice, and it's not overly busy. The brown bottom kind resembles a pine cone or maybe bark, which fits with it being a "young" tree. I like the tail as an extra beastly addition, and the head fur resembling a snowy mountain peak is also a nice touch. Good stuff all around.

What's neat is that instead of just becoming a bigger tree creature, Snover evolves into the abominable snowman (that also happens to be a tree). It works great conceptually and gives the line a unique theme.

And visually, I like how it strategically drops the brown from its palette in favor of emphasizing the white and green. Said colors are nicely balanced, with it having a primarily white body with just a few accenting points of green. The shaggy face and big ol' eyebrows are also good and give it a great expression.

And mega Abomasnow's pretty decent. I really like how it's moved into a semi-quadrupedal stance kind of like a gorilla—it makes it look all the more dangerous. I also like that it doesn't really add any unnecessary new elements, instead just changing the anatomy up a bit, adding more fur, and expanding the four spikes on its back into a set of icy cannon-like structures.

My only issue with it is that the sheer amount of fur is a little overwhelming—there are at least five rows of it from the head back, not counting what's on the back spikes, chest, and arms. Obviously you want more fur than the original, but I feel like just dropping one or two of the back rows and simplifying the ones around the back spikes to one might've made it just a little easier to read. Still, not a big deal in the long run.

Overall, some really excellent weird tree creatures.

[ourloveiselectrifying]

Hello hello! It's me DFP

I'm wondering where you learned/are you learning to Code? I find the structure of your game quite entertaining and I like to take a little inspiration from it (If I'm allowed)

And I tried to make images that are options but apparently I'm still a long way from leaving the beta of my projects So I wanted to seek advice from you

(Also, if this is not the correct account to ask this I apologize, but if you have some very good advice that can help me please feel free to go to my DMs)

Hello DFP! :3 (I'm not exactly sure what you mean by structure sorry, but probably yes haha) 

I didn't learn coding. In fact, the scariest part of my game is the code itself! I would like to take classes in art and coding someday! It's just not a great time in my country to be spending money atm ahahahaha- (cries in national housing and inflation crisis)

If you're using Renpy to make a VN, smart people would recommend giving the Renpy and Python's offcal guides a good look and watching Renpy tutorials on youtube.

For me, I'm the kinda person that only takes in information by dissecting and breaking things, then learning from the mistakes. I looked at the front page of the Python pdf, and it made my ADHD repossess my body despite being on the max dose of ritalin. I immediately closed it then skimmed through the Renpy quickstart, not really taking in any of the information, jumped right into designing the main menu, minced up the code, caught a bunch of errors, and had to check out fourms for fixes.

Have some random tips that may or may not be helpful since I don't know your skill level and I, am infact, not skilled in Renpy, I have no idea what I'm doing half the time! :3

Make new files for everything, don't just put it all in the script or it's going to get ridiculous.

Scripts get LONG use # and add notes, so you can CTRL + F and find stuff easily.

If you're like me, check out renpy's reddit/lemma soft fourms, if you're not getting good goog search results, it might be the words you're using, I had this issue a lot, try changing up words in your question (options/preferences/choices/decisions)

When you're learning copy and paste the code/answer, once you know the the code and can type it out fast, then starting manually typing it out.

Always check the dates on posts, there's a bunch of old renpy guides/fourms that don't work anymore.

There is more than one way to skin a dingo (sorry kevin), if you've found a fix that seems ridiculous but it's working, keep it!

If you have anger problems prepare to get fuckin' pissed off! Before you start coding have a coffee/bottle of water/energy drink beside you, so you have to walk away to take angry piss breaks and can clear your head.

If you absolutely cannot figure something out, make a copy, put it aside and work on something else until you're a little more skilled.

I have three copies of olie, the one that works, the one that I'm experimenting on, and the one on a USB I copy when I get drunk and forget which is my "fuck around" code and which is my "don't touch it, it works" code and I annihilate my game. Make regular backups to your USB for any emergencies, houses burn down. Limit your drinking while coding.

Compare code to the game base if you're coming up with errors. Goog the exact error that pops up when the game crashes. (renpy expected statement)

Click the blue text and it'll take you to it. Sometimes it's not very accurate and you need to look a little above or below the line the error happened. 70% of the time your error is a missing space or "," or an extra space!

I also recommend checking out all the shortcuts on your code editing software (I'm using visual studio code!) I was manually adding indents to each line, which was wasting an insane amount of time LMAO ;w; 

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by images that are options, but I'm guessing an imagebutton? If you search "renpy imagebutton" there's a few forums and tutorials that will guide you but it's like this.

You need a screen for your buttons, an image, if you're feeling funky add transforms to the button, else just use a different image for idle/hover!

Add the anchor before you do xpos/ypos because it messes around with the positions and you'll have to re-adjust the xpos/ypos again. You need anchor for the transitions to work properly.

If you want the button to make a sound on click add activate_sound or remove it if you don't want one, it's optional.

This is how you make the transform, you can do a TON of different transforms. This is a simple idle/hover transform. ease is the animation type/speed, alpha is transparency, 1.0 is fully visible, 0.0 is transparent, at 0.5 on idle, it has a dimmed effect. the zoom makes it bigger. Make a new file for this one!

Buttons have a TON of actions to choose from, this is a time I actually would checkout renpy's offical guides. This one does the same as a jump at the end of a label or choice.

If you want your game to not pause when your buttons are visible, just use "show screen nameofthescreenhere zorder 20" (zorder is the layers, 20 is like usually the top, you can go higher though)

If you want your game to pause while the screen is up, use call screen instead of show!

I probably won't do too many of these coding/renpy support things on my tumblr but, OLIE'S discord server has a few game dev channels for coding support if you'd want to join there! :3

I wish you well and goodluck on your game!!! 💖🫡🍀

[spaceorphan18]

If you had the power to change the episodes after 6.08 what would you change? Isn't it strange Kurt and Blaine had no bigger plot, separately or individually, for several episodes? What do you think about their plots after they got married?

Oohh, this is a great question, Nonny!

So - I do see what they were doing, structurally, with the season. I can see the white board, and I can see how they got to episode 8 and had it be the climax of the Klaine and Brittana stories. And then I see that they had the last two episodes of the season be the finale, the one before that be the Sectionals competition, and they had two extras - so they decided, hey let's give one to the new characters and one to Sue. And then were done with their plotting for the afternoon.

So, on paper, I totally see how and why Season 6 ended up the way it did. Am I disappointed that we didn't get to see more of Kurt and Blaine interact at the end of the season? Yes, sure - I always want more. Am I surprised? In retrospect, not really.

There are a couple of layers to all of this though...

For one, the writers have had very poor follow up when it comes to their (Kurt and Blaine's) big moments on the show. After they get together in Original Song - they don't really have a conversation in a following episode reflecting on being boyfriends. The first time its dropped that they are boyfriends is in Rumours when Blaine isn't even around. And I'd argue that the following romantic moments in Born This Way, Prom Queen and New York are wrapping up Kurt's individual arc more than Kurt and Blaine as a couple.

The there's The First Time. Do they get to discuss what it was like for them after they've had sex for the first time? Nope. We get a deleted scene in the Christmas episode acknowledging that it happened, but no development for them, really, until Dance With Somebody.

And then there's Love Love Love - where they get engaged. And then.... nothing until we get into their couple dynamic in the NYC arc.

Really, the break up arcs are the most compelling because it lets both characters have reactions to what happened, have have character development spring out of it.

Coming back around to Season 6 - so, on that level, I'm not surprised the writers didn't really have them acknowledge that they're married.

Also - like Brittana, Kurt and Blaine don't have any individual story lines in Season 6. Their story is as a couple, and once they get married - their story is, effectively, done. But unlike Brittana - they're main characters on the show, and have to at least be in the background as the rest of the show wraps up. I do understand that they wanted to focus more on finishing Rachel's story line as well as getting the New Directions settled, because those are the two main plot lines of Season 6.

Did the newbies and Sue really need focused episodes? I don't necessarily think so (especially Sue) but the writers felt differently about the characters.

We do get a wrap up (and some what satisfyingly, even if it's scarce) to their story in the finale.

But yes - I do wish that we had gotten more for them in those final episodes. I'm glad that we got a few scraps - Kurt happy about his decision, Blaine going to NYC, but they don't have a single conversation from 6.8 to 6.13, and that's unfortunate.

But I always wish for more of their story.

Honestly, though, I'm not sure I'd add a whole lot more to what we have, if I want to keep the integrity of what the show was trying to do with them. I'd have liked the wedding episode to have been expanded - so they could touch just a little more on how moving forward they won't make the same mistakes as before. And I'd have liked a scene or two with just them -- getting to reflect on being married and what their plans are for the future. So, really, it's just a few more scenes in general that I'd want.

But I mean, in the long run of things - I think Klaine got lucky. What are Brittany and Santana doing with the rest of their lives? Where are they living? I'm sure not many people care - but are Puck and Quinn still together? How is Mike doing? Even Mercedes, Sam, Tina, and Artie - while having nods to their futures in the finale, don't have much closure either.

Glee always loved big moments and big things, but didn't do the details all that well. And at the end of the day - I always want more detail.

[newmayhem]

Wardrobe & Styling: Risika PT2

As always, I’ll keep using original names if I’m talking specifically about the original iteration and in quotations and stuff, but I’ll be referring to everyone by their new names in all other situations.

So, uh, sorry for taking so long on this 😅 I didn't realize how many different outfit possibilities there would be!

While part 1 was an overview of her general fashion sense and style trajectory, this one will delve into Roksana's specific outfits. I'm going to kick things off with her ‘Meet’ outfit to set the tone and then skip back to go over the historical outfits before circling back around in part 3 (because I guess this is going to be a 3 parter now) to go over her modern-day outfits.

Also, the scenes with the asterisks are original scenes that I (potentially) want to add to my version.

Opening scene ‘meet’ outfit (NIGHT 2)

Black square-neck crop top that's got a fitted bodice and flowy sleeves that gather at the wrist

Wide leg high waisted black jeans

Chunky black leather platform combat boots with lots of buckles

No accessories except her silver garnet ring

Minimal makeup—just some eyeliner, brown eyeshadow, and dark red lips

She wears her hair loose and wavy

Since this is the first time we're seeing her, I wanted this to be a very typical outfit of hers, something she would just throw on and not think much about. Like in the OG, she's kind of meant to look like a ‘stereotypical’ vampire here, which I like because at the same time, she's telling us all the ways that vampires aren't actually the way that popular media portrays them. She even insists that she's only wearing all black because it suits her mood. I see this as representative of how she's constantly trying to convince herself that she's not really like a vampire even as she's behaving in ways that are very vampiric. At this point, she's denying her own lived experience in favor of an ideal.

I wanted her to wear all black with little to no accessories here because right now she's still a mystery to us, she's only giving us broad strokes, no real details for us to latch onto.

I also wanted there to be some interplay between fitted/structured and sheer/opaque to reference her internal contradictions (her desire for freedom vs her need for comfort) and the slight mismatch between what she tells us and what we're seeing.

Veracruz

I'm still not qualified to speak on working class women's fashion in early 18th century Mexico, but I think Remedios needs a ‘meet’ outfit as well so I'm just going to make my best guess and update once I get more information.

This scene doesn't exist in ITFOTN, so I'm referencing Chapter 19 of DSTF, in which Rachel goes with her dad to look for her mother's family members.

She's in a city she's never been to before and expecting to meet relatives whom she's never met before, so she's wearing her best clothes (but not so nice as to draw unwanted attention) along with her mother's rebozo.

Her skirt is a solid dark red orange, kind of a rust color, and her bodice is matching. She's wearing very practical shoes because she's traveling, but she made extra effort to clean them and keep them clean during the journey.

She’s wearing her hair in a single neat french braid, with maybe a bit of volume at the crown (which is how I imagine a more practical working class interpretation of the tall hairstyle that was popular for western women in the 1690s would look like), tied off with a blue ribbon (to match the rebozo) and with the tail draped over her shoulder (as opposed to hanging down her back).

I want her dressed in warm earthy and reddish colors here as a reference to her human-ness and to hint at her subconscious recognition of/connection to her fire/witch heritage. That said, I wanted the rebozo (that belonged to her mother) to be blue so that it would stand out from her other clothing items and also to symbolize a touch of the supernatural.

I also imagine that most of the clothes she owned were her mother's old clothes (and because of the ~20-year trend cycle, they wouldn't have even had to be altered all that much to fit the current fashion).

First feeding

So this is actually going to be what she's wearing after her first feeding when Ather takes her through New Mayhem. I imagine Ather taking Roksana to her first feeding still in her night dress because she knows it has the potential to get messy.

Ather has her servants dress Roksana up in some of her old clothes. These clothes are much finer than anything Roksana’s worn up until then.

The dress Ather chooses for her is a mantua gown (which was fashionable in the 1690s going into the 1700s) made of black silk with some silver embroidered details. She also wears a pair of very impractical heeled shoes that match the gown perfectly. Even though it's a beautiful dress, it looks awkward on her because Ather is a little bit taller than her and not as curvy, so the fit is weird.

Ather is not so keen on lending out her jewels, though, so no jewelry for Roksana this time around.

The servants combed out her hair and put it up in a half updo with some face framing curls.

I chose this because it's so different from what she would've been wearing as a human. It's luxurious, fashionable, and more expensive than anything she ever could've afforded in her entire mortal lifetime. The color black symbolizes vampirism (kind of playing on her Meet outfit) and back in the day (around this time period, maybe a little earlier), it was the color of the Spanish royal court, so it also implies that she's now part of vampire royalty (as a member of one of the most powerful bloodlines). And the silver embroidery is to represent, well, Silver. The awkward fit, of course, shows that she's not at all comfortable with her new role. She's probably stumbling over her own feet because the shoes are so impractical and she hasn't gotten the hang of controlling her new vampire physicality yet (unlike her meet outfit, where she's also wearing impractical shoes but by now she can move in them just fine).

As for Ather's intentions, it's noted in the canon that she relies on the strength and reputation of her fledglings to protect herself, so of course, this is going to come through in this outfit that she's showing her newest fledgling off in. She'd want to present Roksana as an extension of herself, so she wants Roksana to be fashionable and dressed in a way that shows off her (Ather's) power and status but she's not actually fully invested (hence, no jewels), which reflects how she was as a blood mother.

Debut party*

So this is an entirely original scene that I wanted to add so we could see Roksana interacting more with the vampire world before she goes rogue. The setup is that Ather wants to throw a party to show off her new fledgling and get everyone’s mind off of how Malvada has just burned to the ground (but mostly, she just wants to have a party).

I'm setting this a few days to a week after Roksana was changed. By this point, the newness has worn off a bit and Ather's more interested in the party than she is in Roksana, so she just allows Roksana to choose whatever for herself from among her old dresses. Roksana chooses a dark red gown with gold embroidery. It has a long bodice, full skirt, an off the shoulder neckline, and long sleeves that puff out close to the wrist—a style that was popular in the ~1660s Spanish Baroque era. And she's wearing matching gold slippers. Ather also lets Roksana have a pair of rather simple gold earrings and a matching gold pendant necklace that she wouldn't mind losing.

She's wearing a little more makeup—rouge on her cheeks and lips, some kohl lining her eyes.

Her hair is worn loose, in her natural waves, maybe with some red ribbons on the sides of her head (which also seemed to be a popular Spanish Baroque style).

I chose these colors because obviously, the red is for blood, but I also wanted her to shimmer and glow in the candle light, alluding to her connection to the Tlahuilli (Light) line. The gold embroidery details also symbolizes how the opulence of the new world she's in is starting to infect her.

These clothes fit her better this time around (because Ather's servants had time to tailor them), which is supposed to represent how disturbingly well she seems to fit in with vampire society.

The style of the dress and her hair is a little outdated to show that even early on, Roksana still wants to hold onto the past/something more familiar (I'm not sure if the timeline works out, but maybe the dress was a similar style to the fancier dresses her mom left behind).

I wanted Roksana to be the one to dress herself here because I wanted to put her in a weird position where she's tempted by all the opulence around her and at this point, she's willingly trying it on rather than having it forced upon her. I wanted to see her deal with the guilt of not rejecting this stuff outright the way she imagines her brother would've. The intention is that in this scene she becomes disgusted with herself and how easily she fell into all this decadence, which is what causes her to run away.

Roksana on the run*

So like I said above, in my version, Roksana runs away from Ather during her debut party (Ather's not all that invested, so she doesn't even realize the girl's gone until a few days later). She runs away still dressed in her party outfit, which is not only not very practical for life on the run, but she also doesn't like how it reminds her of how she seemed to enjoy all the vampire luxury she experienced, so she gets rid of it the first chance she can. Being from a working/lower class family though, she wasn't going to just dump it and let it go to waste.

I'm thinking she comes across a home where there's laundry hung out to dry and some livestock. By that time, Roksana's probably hungry, so she drinks from one of the large animals, steals some clothes from the line (without much care for what they were or how they fit), and then leaves the dress behind as ‘payment’, keeping the jewels on her just in case.

She probably keeps these stolen clothes for a while (since vampires probably don't sweat or secrete oils) and trades them whenever she comes across something more fitting.

I think out of habit, she probably wears women's clothes for a while, but then switches to men's clothes not too long after both for mobility and because she didn't want to be seen as a target for being a woman traveling in the wilderness alone. Her switch to men's clothes could also indicate that she doesn't intend to return to human society any time soon (I'm not sure about what the norms were for gendered clothing in that time and place specifically, but I'm thinking that it would at least attract more attention than she'd be comfortable with).

Roksana returns home

So I have two different ideas of how I want this scene to go and I would style her differently depending on which one I go with.

In the canon, when she comes back home to check on her family, she's wearing men’s clothes because getting around in skirts was annoying and her hair is a mess because she hasn't bothered to maintain it, which probably speaks to her distressed and hopeless state of mind at the time. I think this sort of unkemptness also signals that she didn't have any intention of interacting with or being seen by her family and she just wanted to torture herself by watching them move on without her. I think this is a really compelling angle and if I'm sticking with it, I'll keep her in men's clothes and messy hair. The clothes, she probably would've stolen from a clothesline (at this point, she's not even willing to feed regularly so I don't think she'd have it in her to steal from her meals) so they wouldn't be the type of thing she'd pick out based on style, but I do think she'd try to alter them to fit her better since the whole reason for wearing them instead of women's clothes was for mobility (and in my headcanon, she and her sister did some work mending clothes on the side to help support the family). In contrast to how messy her hair is, I think she'd actually take pretty good care of her clothes because she wouldn't want to have to go through the trouble of stealing new ones all the time.

The second idea is to change it so that she's in denial about her vampirism and she actually does return home with the intention of going back to her human life (which is kinda tragic in its own way). If I go with this one, I would have her wearing the same type of clothes that she used to wear when she was human, styling her hair the same way she used to style it, and I would even have her putting on some makeup so that her complexion isn't dull as death and she can mimic that lively human glow.

First fight with Andros

So in my version, I thought it would make more sense to have this interaction happen after the whole stepmother thing. idk, the order of those two scenes in the og text never really made sense to me, but that's a discussion for a different post.

I'm not sure why, but I kind of pictured her wearing a green dress here. Like she's camouflaged in the trees that she's hanging out on. If I do decide to go with putting her in menswear in the stepmother scene, I think having her wear a dress here might be a good way to show that in addition to begrudgingly accepting the fact that she needs to feed on people regularly in order to survive, she's also getting used to being a vampire and having vampire powers/vampire physicality that make it much easier for her to get around regardless of what she's wearing. I think it would also show that she's becoming more of a hunter (rather than a scavenger) because a reason for why she would wear women's clothes would be to blend in with humans so she can better hunt them (or maybe even, in contrast to one of her motives for initially switching to men’s clothing, she's using it to lure in men who would intend to harm a lone woman, which would fit in with the canon that at this point she's cool with eating people as long as they're bad people). And then it also raises the question of where she got this dress—did she steal it off of one of her victims? Let's make it a nice fancy dress (like this one but green) because I like to think of her eating the rich!

As for her hair, I want it to be big! It wouldn't be unkempt like the last time we saw her, but it also wouldn't be necessarily styled or neatly contained in a french braid like it was when she was human.

She wears shoes whenever she has to go into town, but otherwise, she prefers to go barefoot.

It's like being away from human society has allowed her/forced her to connect more with nature and with the earth, which isn't exactly a bad thing for her.

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So that's it for now! Hopefully the next post doesn't take as long!

[melissas-blogs]

3D Printing - Creation

Like most projects, I start with a general block-out to get the overall shape, using human and dragon references to ensure the shapes match up. I began with the original art of Dracythr and then used other concepts and my own adjustments to fit my vision, often making the wings bigger, the head larger, and giving the body a much wider build.

Next, with the blocking done, I began sculpting by joining all the separate meshes together and applying all of the modifiers to be re-meshed into one large mesh. This process caused a lot of lag, considering the numerous parts that had to be joined, but after a few minutes, it was completed. With it re-meshed, I began sculpting the muscle details, referring back to male human anatomy, and adding scales on the thighs and feet. I worked to maintain a clear distinction between the membrane of the wing and the bones, which often required a lot of back-and-forth carving into the mesh, leading to it becoming too thin.

Once I finished, I realized I had forgotten to add the teeth and claws to the body. Therefore, I used the snake tool, which pulls out the mesh to create more structure. While this worked well for the claws due to their thin nature, they looked blurry and lacked the extra geometry needed for detailed work. To gain more detail, I would have to re-mesh, which in the end, would lose a lot of the detail I had already sculpted.

Finally, with the sculpting complete, I was able to start with a rig. Since it wasn't planned to be used for games, I didn't have to worry about perfect controls, weight painting, or even the skeleton. I only needed to focus on moving it into a pose. With this in mind, I completed the rig fairly quickly after a few minutes of trial and error until I got the pose I wanted.

Once I had the desired pose, I applied the armature to the model, fixing the pose and allowing me to go back and adjust the mesh. At this stage, I did a few touch-ups where the rig or weight painting had messed up some of the model and fixed other issues that became apparent after moving the model, such as stretching.

With these adjustments done, I was ready to send it off for 3D printing. After receiving some advice from the 3D printers local to my university, I was informed that the file needed to be in STL format. They also mentioned that the file and model couldn't be too large, as it could cause the printer's program to crash.

Looking back at my model it was clear it was too big and needed to be re-meshed to a lower poly count. Instead of re-meshing, which often loses a lot of details, I used quad re-meshing, which is cleaner and allows control over the number of vertices. To help maintain the sculpt's details, I duplicated the high-detail original and shrink-wrapped it around the quad-remeshed model, forcing the quads to wrap around the details, bringing them back but in low poly. This method works well for 3D printing; however, with really bad topology, it would never be optimal for games.

With my first print returned back, I was able to examine how well it turned out. At first glance, there are quite a few issues; however, as this is my first print, I shouldn't be too upset about it.

Firstly, there are holes within the wings where it has been misprinted, likely due to the model being far too thin for the printer. Additionally, the wrists are very fragile; when holding the model, I can feel that there is very little support because of how thin the wrists are. Furthermore, the model could not stand on its own. Despite the pose spreading the legs apart to distribute the weight, it struggled to balance nonetheless. While these issues are disappointing, they provide important insight ready for me to reprint with potential changes.

With these issues noted, I began to research and plan how to tackle them. I focused on touching up the model, primarily by adding more thickness to the wrists and wings. To help the model stand on its own, I used the "Pose" tool in sculpting to move the tail down to the same level as the feet, providing extra support. With these touch-ups, I was ready to print again, this time larger, in hopes of reducing the thinning in some sections.

[homebrew-a-la-traumaverse]

Interesting take on a martial Druid. Love the flavor. Always seemed weird that Spores Druid tried to encourage you to get into melee but didnt give Extra Attack or anything.

Some notes under the cut:

Druids already get shield proficiency. There's still the bit about not using shields made of metal for some reason even though weapons are fine.

Getting basically an extra HP bar is nice, but - ignoring comparisons to other druids for a moment - what reward do you actually get for being in melee? Risen Warriors at 10th level is neat, but that's still 8 levels where you're seemingly expected to be a subclassless martial, except with worse AC, worse damage (no fighting style or even cantrips to supplement your attacks) having to choose between your attacking stat and your casting stat, and not even being able to attack on turn 1.

(The stats issue is actually even more pronounced here - you want Dex for AC, Con for concentration, Wis for casting, and Str for punching. You couldn't get a more MAD build if you tried. Yeah, you could use a rapier, but is that really the aesthetic you're going for here?)

Getting that much thp twice per short rest isn't weak per se, but it doesnt enable the game plan that this seems designed around. Spores at least gives you an extra d6 of necrotic damage and the aoe spores in melee. With this you're probably better served just being an extra bulky spellcaster, which makes having Extra Attack a little bit of a letdown. You also don't have anything to help your concentration, which is where a lot of Druid's best spells lie.

Speaking of the game plan - what do you actually do as this subclass? Even if you do want to play along and go into melee, what are you going to do on turn 1? Druid surprisingly doesnt have very many BA spells. Are you planning to use Healing Word? It's turn 1, that's the least likely time to need heals. Shillelagh/Magic Stone? Well, now it feels bad that you have magic punches and you arent even using them, but it does solve the ASI issue. Maybe Flaming Sphere t1 and Stone Form t2? That's 3 turns until you can throw a punch.

Grappling is, admittedly, fun as hell, but it's a game plan that inherently just doesn't work sometimes. Being able to shove people and also force them to take damage from your Risen Warriors is a nice combo. Maybe you could even lean into that further.

This isn't even touching Moon Druid's existence, but Moon Druid is not a good measuring stick in any sense of the term. Though at least it avoids the Bladesinger/Hexblade issue of being an extra durable caster for its melee tradeoff. As a baseline druid, you don't get much value out of hitting things with a sword; having thp doesn't make you sword better.

I'm not trying to be mean and dunk on your creation. I love the flavor, and I really want this to be a good subclass, one that fulfills its vision. I cant see it doing so as is, though.

Double damage vs structures is a cute touch.

How might these issues be fixed?

It might be as simple as moving the 10th level feature down to part of the base Stone Form. That would make it feel significantly less bad that you don't get to punch T1, and encourages melee by making that already be the range you want to be. You still have the issues of your stats, AC, and concentration; now that you're in melee, enemies will surely be attacking you, and your stone spikes go away when your THP does. Shillelagh solves two of those problems and fills out your action economy, but if you're getting magic punches and not using them that feels like a design issue. Plus, doubling up on Spike Growth would be funny. Not particularly effective though, since you and your allies aren't immune to the actual spell.

(Before anyone asks about multiclassing Monk or Ranger or Barbarian, needing multiclassing to function is also a design issue.)

Maybe add a flat AC to the form a la Barkskin? Let you maintain the form even at 0 THP and make unarmed strikes provide THP? I dunno. There's a lot of angles that can solve the issues here; mine may or may not be the best.

Druidic Circle: Circle of Ruin

I just put out an update to my Circle of Ruin!

Ever wanted to play a stone based druid, or a druidic knight, well here's the subclass for you!

A front-line warrior druid that lets you make stone armour, grants martial weapon proficiencies, and just lets you grapple and pummel your enemies if you really want!

If you grab the PDF from the link above, you also get 'Lady Ethel of Scarwood' a CR6 NPC statblock with lore and tips on how to run in combat!

[blindbeta]

How do you think infrastructure would be different in a culture where everyone is blind?

Hi anon! I like this question. I think it would obviously depend on the culture and time period, but I have a few ideas. I’ll just try to write ideas for a general Western culture, because I am aware of more of that, but obviously the culture itself would influence what changes occurred or did not occur.

Education.

Look to blind schools! I’m thinking about training for Braille as very small children, which mostly includes strengthening finger sensitivity. Braille would also be taught the way reading regular print is, either in schools or at home. Regular print would probably also be available and large print would be normalized, especially to minimize eye strain. Computer literacy would include screen-readers and Braille displays. Websites would be designed for accessibility for everyone and this would include large for those who like to read some print.

In classes, people would use a slate and stylus, Braille notetakers, etc, depending on time and what was easier to carry. Braillers would also be more high tech in general, even if it might be considered old school, or the high tech stuff would have come sooner for each device.

Braille, O&M, and life skills classes would be normal for everyone. O&M would probably be done mostly by people with some sight, although this might change if everyone is blind anyway.

Lifestyle.

Things like telescopes (monoculars, minifiers) would be normal for low vision people, maybe even something cool like ‘oh I got the latest telescope model for my birthday!” It would be something shared with friends for fun. Something like SunuBand would be like, I don’t know, a car of something. People would show status through how cool their cane was, if they had a Sonar cane, like WeWalk, etc.

In schools, and in life, I think people with some sight, like me, would not face any pressure to use it. In real life, people with residual sight are expected to use what sight they can, even if it is inconvenient or painful.

More emphasis would be places on other sense, such as touch, smell, and soatial awareness.

Safety.

The world would probably be safer, structurally. There would be high contrast stairs everywhere, if there are stairs at all. There would be more in place that makes it safer to walk around outside, such as, idk, less of a risk of hurt yourself by stepping off a curb? I’m not even sure if roads would be designed the way they are now. Would people drive if they have some vision? Would everyone have cars that don’t need vision? Anyway, more safety with blind people in mind.

Transportation.

Transportation would be better. Maybe public transportation would be more accessible, easier to navigate, and more readily available in rural areas. Maybe trains would be more popular in every country, because they run on a schedule and you can carry more people for longer periods of time. Trains can also allow people to travel long distances, which can be harder for blind people (who almost always can’t drive, as far as I know) who can’t drive cars and may not have money for flights, or want to avoid them for environmental reasons.

Accessibility.

Braille would be everywhere. Buttons would be tactile, especially on kitchen appliances. I imagine a lot of the tools blind people use in the kitchen, such as bump dots for microwave buttons, would already be standard. Talking or otherwise accessible things would be cheaper, more common, and considered staples for everyone. Because they would be made for the wider population of blind people, accessibility would not be a niche or extra thing. It would not be associated with kindness, but a standard fare.

Clothing would be different. Designs would be tactile and/or high contrast, where they are often flat. I think colors would still be important, for everyone, but the tags would probably have labels. Some brand designed for blind people have actual Braille fabric on the clothes, which is cool. While color scanners do exist and would probably be used, I think other methods would be utilized if clothing is designed with blind people in mind from the start. Wearing glasses would be cool, you guys.

In terms of entertainment, I think most of it would audio-based or interactive. The radio and live theatre would be more popular than they are now. If visual mediums still existed, they would all come with audio descriptions and they would be better than they sometimes are now. TV would be written with audio descriptions in mind, if they didn’t talk about more of what they were doing.

Art would be tactile, period. Maybe we would have something by now that allows you to feel digital art. There are already amazing forms of tactil art out there, so think more of that from all cultures. Rather than adapted or described with the blind in mind, art would be naturally tactile even if the artist could see what they were creating well enough.

Online.

Obviously image descriptions would be everywhere, although I feel people would naturally include less screen-shots and less pictures. Again, accessibility would be a more mainstream thing than it is now. I’m thinking there would be more self-care posts, such as about dealing with eye strain headaches. Although I think some of the issues we have would be lessened when the entirety of humanity was on the blind spectrum. I’m also thinking about fun quizzes like, Describe Your Dream Home and I’ll Guess What Type Blindness You Have. Debates about disability in general would happen in regular spaces. YouTube would have contained audio descriptions from the start, and perhaps highly visual content would be less common or naturally described in the video, such as person describing what they are holding before talking about it.

Work/Career.

Productivity would be measure differently. Accessibility would just be a thing. Like, at a meeting, “What tools do you like to use the most?” Working from home would be an option. Work would be open to and even designed for blind people. Blind people wouldn’t have the low employments rates they do now, or else no one would work. A lot of tools we use to make things accessible wouldn’t be necessary if things were designed for blind people in the first place. Subminimum wage would not be a thing.

There would probably be jobs and career opportunities that don’t exist now.

Blind people wouldn’t be more likely or even expected to live in poverty.

Money.

Money would be tactile, labeled, large print, and high contrast. If we still used cash at all.

Inovation.

I think we would have a lot of cool stuff. Countries might even compete to be the first to create things for the blind population which, again, would be everyone in this scenario.

Food/menus.

Restaurants would be easy for blind people to navigate. Menus would be offered in Braille and large print. Maybe plates would be made sectioned so people could know where their food was. I’m thinking about blind accessibility videos and restaurants run by totally blind people. Hmm. Glasses would not be as common at all, because they can be hard for people to see. I have broken too many glasses myself.

If people were to buy food, such as local produce, bags would probably come with homemade Braille or large print signs. Canned food and boxes for cooking would have Braille on them initially. Giving food to others, such as bringing food or snacks for the home when you visit, would come with either an explanation about what it was or a label.

I could go on. I don’t want this too be too long. Basically, what I want to get across is that a lot more than accessibility would changes if everyone is blind. I didn’t want to get into too many heavy topics because this is more of a fun question. However. feel free to add whatever you like. I believe history itself would be altered in many, many ways that have influence on life today, so I could have gone on about that. I could write books on the lifestyle and safety and work sections. And all cultures have their own ways of viewing, supporting, and limiting blind people, so this could change a little or a lot depending on what your culture or the culture you are writing about is like.

-BlindBeta

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For the fake fic title, if you're still doing it: Why do you hate me? (I honestly don't know where I came up with this lol)

X-Men AU!!! Found Family + Anxceit friendship. TW: child soldiers, child endangerment, abuse etc

(So typical X-men universe set up: some people are born with the X gene, which typically triggers during puberty, giving that person a mutation which normally results in cool powers. Many people hate mutants for their differences (/ bad press of people using their mutant powers for the evilz) and so most mutants live in hiding. The Xavier Institute is a school set up by an extremely powerful mutant which seeks to provide a safe space for young mutants to learn to manage their powers, get a regular education and hopes to see peace between humanity and mutant kind. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is a group of mutants who believe humans will never let mutant live in peace and do various anti-human, pro-mutant vaguely terrorist-y actions (there’s like a billion version of the x-men and these details may not be correct for all the versions all of the time because comics but this is the vague idea))

ANYWAY PLOT - Containment breach at the Super Secret Child Soldier Lab (SSCSL) - Subject VII has escaped. Subject VII is only 6-7 years old but his mutations were artificially triggered much younger than is normal. He can warp reality and create very sophisticated illusions, but has very limited control over his powers.

Cut too - Virgil and Dee, a couple of teenage mutants living on the street. They find a little boy with a buzzcut wandering around The Bad Part Of Town and Virgil immediately decides they need to adopt/help him (Dee makes more of a fuss about how this is not their responsibility and the kids barely even talking and do you know how hard I work just to keep you and now you wanna add another mouth to feed?? Huhh?? but obviously does not actually say no) (Dee is like. Barely any older than Virgil he’s just dramatic). 

Naturally, just as the three of them have had time to bond, the SSCSL and other assorted bad guys show up to try and take VII back. There’s a big fight, Virgil and Dee have a lot more experience with flight and would probably have ended up dead if the X-men (Patton and Logan) hadn't shown up to save them. 

But they lose VII.

Patton and Logan take them back to the Xavier institute to recuperate and offer to let them stay. They can go to school there, get some training and help the X-men track down VII and the whole SSCSL. Virgil says yes, Dee says no.

(So, reasoning - Virgil's mutation developed when he was 12. It was not pleasant. Various students at his school were injured and the media set up a which hunt for the mutant that caused the chaos. Virgil ran away from home because he was worried about the backlash on his family and about hurting anyone else again. So to him, this school full of mutants who can help him control his power, can offer him stability and a return to normal structures and routines, who are promising to help him get in contact with his parents if and when he’s ready?? This is like every fantasy he’s ever had come true

Unlike the other characters, Dee’s primary mutation is physical. He was born with it, its very obvious and its resulted in him being rejected for most of his life. He bounced around increasingly disturbing foster homes before running away when he was very young, so most of his memories are of living on the streets and surviving on his own. So, to him, number one: all adults are inherently untrustworthy idiots and number two: stay at a school? where they expect him to have a curfew? and, what - write essays? follow all their random arbitrary rules? rely on them for food and heat and all that shit? Completely ludicrous.)

It doesn't occur to either of them that the other one isn't going to agree with them. The resulting argument is epic and cruel, both hurling accusations at the other (Ungrateful /controlling are two of the big ones..) and both basically feeling hateful and 100% betrayed. Dee leaves and although they look for him, he’s got a lifetime experience of hiding and they cant find him.

CUT TO - 5 years later. Virgil is a (semi) well adjusted 19 year old junior X-men. He’s still a bit withdrawn, but is very close with Patton and Logan. He’s still holding out hope of finding VII one day and still firmly pretending he’s not listing out for any possible news of Dee (there were rumours some years ago of him joining the brother hood of evil mutants but then it all went quiet) who he, of course, hates for his betrayal. 

BUT THEN - mysterious knocking at the door in the night. Dee, now wearing a hat and cape and calling himself Janus, has returned. And he’s brought with him a little boy with a buzzcut and a tattoo of XXII on his foot.

Janus and Virgil need to put aside their resentment and work together to help XXII, who really does not seem interested in helping them, and hopefully use any clues he can give them about the SSCSL to track down VII. But that's difficult when they’re both still struggling with their own trauma and have no idea how to reconnect - both of them want to ask why do you hate me but are a bit too scared of the answer. ...

This already got way to long so mutant power/ extra back story descriptions under cut!

Patton - 22/27 years old. An extremely powerful telepath/empath. It takes him serious concentration and focus to not hear peoples thoughts and its almost impossible to not feel their feelings. Some people dislike him because of this as they feel he's spying on them. Grew up in the Xavier institute and 100% believes in and is committed to the future where humans and mutants live in harmony. Has pretty limited life experience in the real world. Sometimes floats. (inspired by professor X)

Logan - 21/26 years old. Fires destructive laser beams from his eyes. Was in a car accident when he was younger leaving him with permanent but apparently harmless brain damage - until his mutation developed and he slowly realised that no matter how much he trained he just couldn't control his power. Has to wear specialised eye guards at all times to keep himself from accidentally destroying everything around him. Had big plans to go to university and was angry at his mutation for a long time for getting in the way of that. Eventually enrolled online and is now a very dedicated teacher at the Institute. (inspired by cyclops) 

Janus - 15(?) / 20(?) His primary mutation is  lizard/snake like scales over most of his body, but especially the left side. Has oversized fangs, and yellow eye and a short lizard tail. His secondary mutation makes him immune to almost any sort of mental based mutation (so Logan could still knock him on his ass with his lasers, but Patton cant sense anything form him and Virgil cant whammy him). Spent a lot of his life on his own and got by being sneaky, cunning and charming. Initially took Virgil in because he saw that his powers could be useful for keeping them both safe, but eventually Virgil became his first real friend.

Virgil - 14/19. Shadow manipulation and ‘draining’. Virgil can make himself (and with practice, people he touches) literally disappear into the shadows. He can also direct shadows as powerful energy ‘blasts’, but in order to do so he has to drain any surrounding living things of their energy. When his mutation first developed  he took out half of the school hall where his exam was being held, leaving 15 students in a coma. (inspired by rouge/shadow cat)

VII - 6? / 11? Reality warping/illusion powers. One of the institutes first successful subjects. He was able to escape by changing the wall of his cell into a door. He finds it hard to talk but can project his ideas as lifelike illusions who can talk for him. One of his best is the image a handsome grown up Prince and he will often use this Illusion as an avatar to communicate. When he was 6 he did have some hazy memories of outside the SSCSL and expressed a desire to go home. Current status is unknown. 

XXI - 7.  Illusion powers  (reality warping has been removed from the program by his time as subjects proved too difficult to control). Has no memories of outside the institute and is extremely uncooperative with his new captors/guardians. He does not understand the affection they’re trying to show him and lashes out a lot, often by creating a lot of extremely disturbing and graphic illusions. Bites. 

[vermilionstarlight]

Bro, if I could like. take control and just call some shots in Mojang, I would enact the following changes as will be henceforth stated within this here post:

Update the advancement system to be a partial tutorial. Different tabs of advancements are different tutorials on different parts of the game. These advancements would contain a small little blurb giving a hint towards what the advancement is asking you to achieve, but the advancements can also be clicked on to open up a more helpful guide on the specified game mechanic. As a prime example, take the breeding issue where it's somewhat obtuse which foods can breed which animal. The hint would be as it is now, just implying that you ARE able to breed mobs, but not explicitly stating with what or how. Upon clicking the advancement, it opens with some text and a cute visual aid displaying which items can be used to feed which animals. This way, people can still go in blind if they so choose, with only nudges in the right direction, and can decide if they've having too much trouble figuring out how one specific mechanic works, they can ask the helpful in-game thingy-majig <3

For the more challenging advancements, maybe make a separate tab of Challenge Advancements that don't give ANY hints, and are more about the challenge of the requirements rather than explaining the feature to newbies. For example, breeding every type of animal, or eating every type of food, or "How Did We Get Here?"

Also, add a few more toasts for new players, in all honesty. Some people can go a while before even realizing that they can place a crafting table down with right click, then interact with it again with right click to craft more things. Or they will try to interact with entities using left click instead of right click, ending up hitting them. Etc etc.

Add an extra nine slots to the inventory. Four rows of inventory, plus the hotbar. It's not that hard, Mojang.

Bundles are now able to store two "stacks-worth" of items in one slot. For example, a bundle could hold a sword AND a pickaxe inside of it, but nothing more, because those are two "stacks-worth". It could hold 128 dirt blocks, or 32 ender pearls. This is meant to also help with the simply MASSIVE (and ever-expanding) variety of blocks that can be found in a Minecraft world.

If you want librarians to require more exploration, how about this! Require that some enchanted books require an additional item to be given to the librarian in order to get the book, rather than just some emeralds. I understand why some enchantments are special and locked behind high level librarians. We can keep that, but DO NOT make enchants dependent on the villager's biome. Upon reaching max trading level, a villager will instead randomly choose a book as its final trade, picking between Protection III, Unbreaking III, Efficiency III, Sharpness III, Mending, Silk Touch, and Fortune II. Make it so in order to get a mending book, you need to give the librarian an echo shard (because it's like crystallized experience extruded from sculk or somesuch). Or in order to get a protection book, you need to give the librarian a piece of netherite scrap. Etc etc. This encourages exploration and can add some usefulness to possibly underutilized items, or give alternative uses to items that already have a primary use.

Azalea wood. You have it completely damn right. It wouldn't be hard to add azalea wood at all. Maybe make it a nice greenish wood, or possibly a nice deep reddish brown somewhere between dark oak and mangrove. Get jiggy with it, I don't care, just GIVE US MORE WOOD TYPES

Update the old structures oh my heavens have you SEEN the monster spawner rooms? Fortresses? OCEAN MONUMENTS? It was good for the time but you have better standards now Mojang, we've seen what you can accomplish with the deep dark. Make spawner rooms not look like something straight out of early 2012 (unlit candles, a chain, iron bars, maybe a zombie/skeleton head), and make fortresses and monuments look more like abandoned remnants of something that people of some sort actually built and used a long time ago, instead of empty shells. Like maybe decrepit dining halls or dormitories in the fortress, or disrepaired stained glass displays in the ocean monuments, that kinda shit.

Just generally stop adding new shiny features and polish the old ones. Take a single update to just improve on old shit. 1.21 is the polish and shine update. Add functionality to the fletching table. Fix the abusability of villagers in a fun and engaging way that encourages exploration. Do SOMETHING, literally ANYTHING to make the game clearer to new players. Like, how in the everloving fuck is a player going to know that creepers and villagers and pigs will change if struck by lightning, or that charged creeper explosions will drop heads, or that a skeleton killing a creeper will drop discs. How will a new player know how to build a wither boss for a beacon, outside of the single painting that depicts the boss summoning thing. How will a new player know that nether portals need to be lit on fire in the center to be activated. How will a new player know that bubble columns only work on full water blocks, and that full water blocks can be created by planting kelp inside flowing blocks? How will a player know what specific enchantments do with vague titles (like sharpness is obvious, but what the fuck does Riptide or Channeling do on a trident? Which enchantments are applicable to which pieces of equipment?)? How will a new player know which items are alchemy ingredients without just chucking everything they have into a brewing stand and seeing what works? Or that redstone and glowstone and gunpowder and dragon's breath can be used to alter potions? Either use optional but accessible tooltips and tutorials, or include more stuff in your world that organically hints to critical game mechanics. Like making it so in villages, sometimes there will be a rancher building with a pen that's guaranteed to spawn only one specific kind of livestock, and depending on the given livestock, the chests inside will be filled with the appropriate breeding food for that livestock.

Wow the updates to villager trading in Minecraft are shit

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I found you on AO3 and let me just say your writing absolutely blows me away. I’m going through a Jason Todd hyperfixation at the moment and I finished Words with Friends in 2 days.

“Stick and stones,” Jason used to say in college after trading insults. But there were too many words between you, some said and some left unspoken. You weren’t sure which ones hurt more.

The dialogue, the way you described the character’s emotions, and the pacing of the story -jumping between character’s POV’s and from past to present. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING was so fucking amazing. You really nailed the mix between angst and humor too.

“Don’t touch them,” Jason snapped. “Do you know how much shit I gave my secretary to get those?”

He made his voice higher to imitate his voice, “‘Uhh sir, I don’t know if Mr. Wayne would like it if he knew you were charging a personal item to the company card.’” His voice went back to normal. “Well, Michael, you little fuck, I’m also Mr. Wayne, in case you forgot, so just order the damn flower

Poor Mikhail. Of course Jason wouldn’t bother to call him anything but Michael. If a secretary makes it past the 2 year mark, does Bruce or Dick give them a congratulatory plaque, a 2 week all expenses paid vacation, and a bump in pay?

Anyways I just wanted to pop in and rave over your work. It’s honestly had me thinking about writing a series for a reader x Jason Todd set in the young justice universe but I’m currently working on another series right now for a different fandom that I haven’t touched for a year.

Do you have any tips for writer’s block and for finishing a WIP? It just feels like I have so many ideas but the hardest part is getting the motivation to write or being able to transcribe what I’m thinking into something somewhat coherent on paper.

Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us. I’ll just be binging your other works in the meantime ❤️

You're so sweet! Thank you for enjoying Words with Friends and for taking the time to talk to me about it.

As far as tips for writers block and finishing your WIPs, I suggest just going at your own pace! Especially if you're in multiple fandoms, there can be this pressure to pay equal attention to both or to not start something until you've finished the other fic. If you're feeling stuck on one WIP, work on another one instead. I find that's an easy way to prevent burn out on your fic, the fandom and maintain motivation.

But if the motivation isn't there, don't force it! You're (most likely) not getting paid to write fanfic, so there's really no reason to get hung up or force yourself to do something that isn't enjoyable at the time. Writing should be a fun way to explore your creativity. Where's the fun in performing obligations?

As far as transcribing ideas from your head onto paper, try using bullet points for significant events or quotes and working around that instead of creating detailed outlines. I find that this bare bones structure gives me more flexibility to add details or see where I'm stuck in a story.

Also your question about compensation for Mikhail got my creative juices flowing so here's a fun lil Words with Friends extra below the cut!

Thanks for sending me a message!

As expected, there's a compensation program at Wayne Enterprises for competent and dedicated employees who report directly to any of the Wayne family members. It was actually Alfred who convinced Bruce of this - there's a lot of invisible work (and visible blood, sweat and tears!) that goes into making the Waynes successful, functioning adults. All employees that directly report to any Wayne member actually start at 1.5x the normal amount of PTO compared to other employees, that turns in 2x the amount after reaching the one year mark. The extra PTO is due to the stressful nature of their jobs; it also takes a lot of time and effort to train new employees to meet each Wayne's expectations so the 1.5x is also for retention purposes. They're also paid quite handsomely as well.

Only a few people know this, but Jason has a picture in his office of him and Mikhail at his 2-year employment anniversary. Jason's looking smug while Mikhail's face is neutral as he holds up a piece of paper that says, "I survived 2 years with Jason Todd-Wayne and all I got was this stupid fucking certificate." He originally had it posted on the WE Intranet but Tim quickly shut that down.

Along with getting all unwanted gifts that Jason receives, Mikhail also gets a lot of other perks that the other Wayne secretaries don't have: a paid for apartment in the nice part of the city so he can't complain about cost of living or living in a bad part of town; a company car of his choice so he can pick up Jason from wherever he is; and Mikhail surprisingly works less than the rest of them - Jason mostly wants him to manage his schedule and prevent annoying people from entering his office. Unlike his siblings, Jason doesn't like attending events unless they're mandated so Mikhail typically clocks in and clocks out. The other secretaries typically follow their bosses at all events or go in their stead. And the price of all these perks? Jason gets to be a dick sometimes and call him the wrong name.

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How I Styled My Zelda(SS) Wig

Zelda’s wig is by far the most effort I have put into styling a wig. Not only is it the longest one I own, but I also had to get creative to solve some obstacles that I came across. It was pretty thick and floofy already so I didn’t feel the need to tease it, that helped a lot!

1: To start off, I had to take care of the bangs. They were so long that they reached my nose! 

2: Once the bangs got a nice trim, I sectioned off the front of the hair. These sections are what became the front tails that get wrapped in ribbon (I did this while wearing the wig as well as the ears. Doing it like that just helped me figure out how thick of sections I needed so it wouldn’t completely cover up the ears when it was all on).

 After sectioning them off I brushed through them really good to get rid of any tangles. 

3: I then took clear bands for hair and tied them where I wanted the ribbons to start. After a quick brush through the tails again, I took got2b glued hairspray and sprayed the tail from the band down. Using my hand I smoothed it down to look like the picture. 

I did this to help add stability and structure to the tail while it was wrapped in the ribbons. 

I then added another clear band to where I wanted the ribbons to stop.

4: Adding the ribbons were by far the hardest part of styling this wig. I kept trying to figure out how I could get them to stay without using hot glue or something to keep them in place. 

The ribbons that came with the outfit were super wide and the colors of them were a bit off as well. I just didn’t care for them, so I went to a craft store and bought some that were thinner and a closer match in color. This also gave me plenty extra in case I messed up and needed more. 

Ok, so starting with the pink ribbon, I wrapped it around the top clear band once, and where it overlapped, I used a small dot of tacky glue and held it in place till it dried. I then started wrapping it down the tail leaving even gaps as much as I could. When I got to the end, I did the same thing as the top where I wrapped it around itself and used a dot of tacky glue to secure it. I made sure that the tacky glue never touched the hair, only the ribbon. 

For the green ribbon I basically did the same thing, HOWEVER you want to make sure that you wrap it in the opposite direction of the pink ribbon! I also tried to make the spaces larger as I wrapped the green ribbon. 

5: For the rest of the hair I basically repeated steps 3-4 after giving it a good brush through. This section was a little bit easier to put ribbons on since it was significantly thicker. 

The Aftermath:

I think the wig turned out great! However after wearing the wig for a few hours the ribbons did start to slip and fall out. I plan on restyling it again before I go to con and these are the changes I plan to make:

Trimming the front tails to be shorter and more like the actual length they are in the game

For the ribbons I plan to try securing them with double sided tape instead (nothing heavy duty, just some basic double sided scotch tape). My thought process is that the tape would be easier to get off and less damaging to the hair when it came time to cleaning, restyling, or reusing it (I can update how that goes later).

Hope this helps anyone who might be trying to style a Zelda wig or something similar. 

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