#i'm working on playlists LOL

[juxtafruition]

jay listens to modest mouse, alex listens to weezer, tim listens to the offspring, brian listens to blink-182, and jessica listens to the cranberries

[cautiously0ptimistic]

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[seaglassmelody]

Six Song Soundtrack - Sabriel "Sabi" Ingellvar

Thank you for the tags @thedissonantverses and @mythals-whore!! I've always wanted to do one of these but I never take the time because music choices are so hard for me!!

I take these way too seriously....

Rules: make a post with links to music and/or lyrics describing six things/events about your OC/story.

In no particular order:

Your Bones - Of Monsters and Men (War of the Banners+Tearstone Isle)

The beginning of this one is War of the Banners (Troubled spirits on my chest, where they laid to rest-) and the end is Tearstone Isle (Said goodbye to you, my friend, as the fire spread-). The song overall is accepting the consequences of her actions.

Weight of Living pt. 1 - Bastille (Regret Prison)

Can you stand the person you've become?

When you just can't shake the heavy weight of living.

No Choir - Florence + the Machine (Her feelings for Lucanis)

But the loneliness never left me I always took it with me But I can put it down in the pleasure of your company

One of Sabriel's defining traits is a soul-deep loneliness that she'll never be able to rid herself of, but connections with others ease it (with Lucanis most of all).

Why Am I Like This? - Orla Gartland (Pre-canon in the Necropolis)

Maybe I'm an old soul trapped in a young body. Maybe you don't really want me there at your birthday party.

The sense of alienation from others feeds into the loneliness at her core. She tries hard to be liked, to be useful, to be kind, but she can't shake the feeling that there's still something wrong with her.

Is It Any Wonder? - Keane (Dealing with Solas)

And now I look a fool for thinking you were on my side.

Sabi wanted to trust Solas. She wanted to believe she could change his mind, that she could earn his respect. She thinks she can understand him, but at the same time she wonders if she does at all.

What Will You Leave Behind? - Max LL (Her relationship to the Veilguard)

I'll take your hand and guide you through All the steps one takes to move on to A place, a world unseen to us all But it's ok, we'll be together

Mourn Watch teachings will always be the foundation of Sabi's relationships, and her greatest guiding purpose is to help people move through pain and grief.

It's a little off-meaning for the song but I like to think "a place, a world unseen to us all" is more of the future, an uncertain life after loss, where they can support each other through whatever comes.

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Tagging @antivan-sprig, @tinyshoopuf, @therivercrow, @thecraftybaroness, @davrinsleftpectoral, and @erin-unknown if you haven't done it/want to!! I love being introduced to new music :)

[libr-0-cubicularist]

A thing I made based on the wonderful fic Corruption Loves Company by @hey-adora (clicheusername5678 on Ao3) ft. Biblically Accurate Vio

[carnivorousgoth]

YES i am still at work YES its been more than 12 hours but i am VIBING

[burning-academia-if]

Hey,

I want to start doing interactive stories but I'm kinda at a loss.

How do scripts even work? Sorry I'm just new to this and i can't find any tutorial or shit

I had an ask where I posted a long list of twine resources but either I didn't tag it properly or tumblr ate it lol

Anyway, I think the first question is; what do you want to use? I went with Twine (sugarcube specifically) because I already knew basic coding from web design/visual novel making. Some people prefer Choicescript because it's easier for them. Some use Ren'py or Ink. I'd test out a few to see which works the best for you!

I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by scripts? And I don't want to give you the wrong information by guessing what you mean, so feel free to send another ask to clarify!

Anyway, in case you are using Twine Sugarcube, here's the list of resources I have:

The 100% Good Twine Sugarcube Guide: covers pretty much everything you could want from the basics of basics to the more complicated coding things

The Twine Grimoires: Yet another series of tutorials covering the basics up to advanced coding. There's three volumes (I just linked to the first). This one includes Harlowe as well as Sugarcube!

If and Only If: I'd consider this a supplement to the above. It's basically about how versatile the <<if>> statement is.

Twine or Treat: A youtube playlist where you watch a guy make a game from beginning to end. This is more about making a puzzle type game than a more narrative game like BA, but I just watched and took what I needed from the series

Finally, some of these might be a /tad/ broken since Twine had a new update this year that apparently broke some of the coding (I never updated my twine to the new one LOL) but the basics should be the same even with the update to my understanding!

Once you're familiar with it, remember there's the Twine Documentation as well. I find it a lot easier to navigate once you know what you're doing.

[dickinson-devotee]

Random Bruce thing I've noticed recently is that he's started to unironically use "dude" on a regular basis, whereas it used to be reserved pretty much only for when he would quote Americans 😄 Now it keeps sneaking its way into his interviews in other contexts, and it just delights me every time lol

[scribblingmuchlyrexan]

I'M AT 478 VIDEOS OUT OF 505 FOR MY 5.0.5. PLAYLIST AND I JUST HAD A GREAT IDEA I WANT TO REMEMBER:

MAKING A SECOND SHORTER PLAYLIST WITH ONLY THE INSTRUMENTAL/NON-VOCAL VIDEOS RAAAAAAHHH. SOOOOOOO MUCH LISTENING TIME <3 <3 <3

[freyafrida]

tagged by @gogandmagog, thank you! ❤️ was passingly familiar with most of your artists but hadn't given any of them a proper listen, so am having fun doing that :D they're on my 'to listen' playlist which i loop while playing the sims

tagging @cherryblossomsatsea @asymphonyofstarlight @casualoddities @librarylexicon and whoever else would like to! <3

[keekeenuggets]

Velvette playlist with BIPOC music artists 💖

I noticed when I was looking at Velvette playlists on Spotify that a lot of them had mostly white artists, and that bothered me (particularly when a playlist would have a lot of rap music but the majority was by white people). I guess because I like playlists where it feels like the character's "voice" is behind the songs (if that makes sense), and Velvette is Black.

I'm not criticizing anyone (I have a larger, private version of this playlist with white artists too), but I wanted to make a playlist with only songs by BIPOC because of it, just to highlight BIPOC artists more. There are a couple collabs with white artists, but no songs that are only by white people. Non-Black artists were included as long as they're POC.

Anyway, enjoy!

[ofgoldandfear]

Physical differences between Margot and P

Hi I'm back - a bit late, a sorta-flu has been kicking my ass since last week, the New Year happened, then I got back to work and my sorta-flu decided to get worse - ANYWAY, get yourself some tea and check out one of the new tracks from Margot's playlist while reading that post.

While I'm slowly starting to write my fic, I've decided to show some differences between Margot and other characters. If there's a thing I LOVE in this game, it's how varied the characters look, the devs didn't shy away from giving them specific traits that makes them very unique in a "would see them in the street" sort of way.

I've been picturing specific traits for Margot in that aspect, and found a fitting model for her as well last week - Olivia Hussey. Her parents also have models, I'll show them later. Let's just say Margot is a proper mix of the traits both of her parents present.

Anyway, here is the quick rundown of the facial differences between Margot and P.

If you can't read my handwriting, here are the explanations:

Jaw: Margot's jaw is v-shaped with a pointy chin, P's jaw is squarish with a wider chin;

Eyes: Margot's eyes are almond-shaped with a rounded inner corner, P's eyes are droopy and semi-hooded;

Lips: Margot's lips are downturned and her lower lip is notably fuller, P's lips have a more balanced fullness between the upper and lower lip.

Both of them have a dark lash line with long eyelashes though lol However P's hair is dark brown while Margot's hair is black, and P's eyebrows are more angled than Margot's. Margot's cheekbones are a bit more pronounced than P's, he has a bit more roundness at the cheeks. P has striking blue eyes while Margot's are dark brown. Margot has an even porcelain-like skin with a beauty mark under the left eye and particularly red lips, while P has freckles and two notable beauty marks above his upper lip and on his lower lip.

Overall, while both of them seem to physically be about the same age, there's some sharpness in Margot's face that contrasts with her rather delicate and youthful features, while P's face retains some dainty roundness (and some neotonous features like his freckles and rounded forehead) that contrasts with the otherwise typically boyish traits such as a square jaw and hooded eyes.

[askyofexplodingstars]

reintroduction to the snow

[keeps-ache]

i have a new hobby!! i listen to my playlist and say things like 'oh this goes hard' 'it just can't miss' 'it's so good, you have no idea' to my brother who cannot listen to it bc i am wearing headphones lmaoo

[heatherfield]

I'm back to writing more "Headless" fic—specifically, a "short" AU that came to mind a couple of months ago—and I'm so happy to be making progress. I can't wait to share but I'm trying to finish it all first so I can tweak things for plot/etc. if I need to.

So, given that roughly 4 or 5 thousand words are just outline/notes, I'm close to 50K already. I thought I'd be maybe 60K total but it looks like I'll definitely be over that. At one point I wondered if it would be 90K although I don't think it will be quite that long?? With my track record, though, who knows.

All this is to say I can't wait to share it and I wish I was ready to start posting now and hopefully someone will be excited to read it!

(I also can't wait to get back to "Walk Me Home" because I WILL finish it, I swear.)

[lyknest]

EXO | STAYC | RED VELVET | TXT

@userdramas 2023 Secret Santa 🎁 ↳ for @jaeewook: Favorite K-Pop Groups! @asiandramanet December Creator Bingo - Typography ☆ ★

[theflyingfeeling]

hi yes it's me writing another Olli/Allu shortie, inspired by the tags in @xgiuliawrites' latest fic (which y'all should go read immediately if you haven't), particularly I was intrigued by the tags sauna, masturbation, and accidental voyeurism 😳

~*~

Aleksi had not meant for it to happen, because of course he hadn't. He hadn't planned to let his imagination run quite so wild, too wild, while sitting next to Olli in the sauna just moments ago, trying to look everywhere else but Olli's happy trail, trying hard not to imagine the salty taste if he was to place a hungry kiss there (he blamed Porko's stupid playlist which had Olli humming a song about pouring tequila in one's belly button in between throwing more water on the stones, pushing Aleksi's agony to the brink of his sanity).

Likewise, he had not intented to grow a semi while washing himself, the knowledge that Olli might have been staring at his bare backside the entire time exciting Aleksi as much as intimidating him (he blamed the wonky reflection on the shower tap the revealed Olli's eyes travelling up and down his body as he showered).

Even less so, his intention being to get out of the changing room and in the cold winter air as fast as he could to kill his budding boner before it would become a problem, he most certainly had not forgotten his toiletry bag on the changing room bench on purpose. Yet, there he was now, mouth hanging open at the sight he was witnessing through the tinted glass door of the sauna, the toiletry bag and his plans of cooling down long forgotten (for which he only had himself to blame, let's face it).

With his long lashes resting against his cheekbones, it was clear Olli had not noticed Aleksi's return, otherwise he obviously wouldn't have ended up in this situation. That was why he should've turned back the second he had realised what was happening on the other side of the glass door separating the sauna and the changing room, as that's what a good friend and a decent person would've done, immediately and with no hesitation. However, as the past week had proved, Aleksi was not a good friend; verily, he was a horrible, useless, and immoral friend who had gone and started having sexual fantasies about his hot, funny and super cute bandmate late at night while sleeping next to that very bandmate on their song-writing camp combined with a winter holiday (even if no one could hardly blame Aleksi for it, because who wouldn't start lusting over the divine being that was Olli Matela, especially when one got to lay beside his gorgeous naked body at night).

Indeed, there was no denying Aleksi was no decent person either, not with his eyes nailed to Olli as he pleasured himself in the heat of the sauna.

The soles of Olli's feet were pressed against the foot rail, which was exactly how Aleksi had left him, but while Olli's knees had then been close together with his arms relaxed on them, they were now wide apart to fully expose Olli's cock, pointing towards the ceiling with his hand stroking it at a leisurely pace. The hardness of his erection, standing proudly while Olli's fingers slid up and down the length, was a dead giveaway that Olli had wasted no time since Aleksi had left – either that, or he, too, had felt the strange, steamy tension during their shared sauna moment.

While Olli's right hand was devoted to rubbing his erection, his left one was free to roam all over his sweaty torso, which did nothing to ease the building pressure in Aleksi's pants. Aleksi let out a lustful sigh as he watched Olli's hand caress his own abdomen, fondling the happy trail Aleksi himself had lusted over just a few moments ago. When the hand moved up again to massage Olli's chest and to tease a red, harneded nipple, Aleksi had to sunk his teeth into his bottom lip to stop himself from whining out loud. He craved to replace Olli's hand with his own, to be the one giving Olli such bliss that had his head thump against the sauna panelling and his stomach sinking in a deep, euphoric sigh.

Only then – hearing the thud of Olli's head resting against the wall behind him – Aleksi could bear to leave the sight of Olli's body and look up at his face instead. There, Aleksi found a small smile, only barely visible through the coloured glass door, but it spoke volumes of how much Olli was enjoying himself. Aleksi wished he could've joined Olli in his pleasure, perhaps even be the reason for it, but for now he had to settle for palming himself through his trousers to give his own aching cock some much-needed relief. Shortly after, guilt forced him to remove his hand and dig his nails into his thighs when he felt himself getting close to coming embarrassingly quickly.

He should leave. He should throw himself in the snow and let the blizzard bury him, or whatever it would take to reboot his brain and erase all the images of Olli sitting on the sauna bench with his legs spread and his hand pumping up and down on his long, rock-hard cock, because there was no way he would be able to look his friend in the eye after this, let alone sleep next to him under any circumstances.

Just when Aleksi had convinced himself to make his silent escape and perhaps drown himself in the hole Tommi and Niko had sawed in the ice for some post-sauna ice swimming, as that was the least he deserved for being such a pervert, a low moan from the sauna nailed Aleksi's feet to the floor.

His eyes found Olli's erection again to immediately notice that the earlier calm, almost lazy pace of Olli's hand had now been replaced with a much quicker one, one that was determined to take Olli closer to his release with each long stroke. His left hand had abandoned his nipple and was instead fondling his balls, which seemed to bring Olli a great deal of additional pleasure, if the ecstatic expression on his face was anything to go by.

"Aaahhhh... aaaahhhhhh..." Olli's grunts went straight to Aleksi's cock that was twitching inside his boxers as if to poke at Aleksi for his attention. He didn't dare touch himself again, though, having decided he'd rather freeze his own penis by sticking his hard-on in a bank of snow than walk through the living room with jizz in his pants.

As Olli's moans grew louder and more frequent, Aleksi realised he wouldn't probably even need to grab his cock to come undone in his pants from just looking at Olli, at his hardened bicep, at his hair-covered chest expanding and sinking rapidly, at his glistening cock inside his fist that hastened its movements by the second until streaks of white fell on Olli's stomach with one last moan (more like a whine (more like the sweetest single sound that had ever blessed Aleksi's ears)).

Aleksi ignored the throbbing in his pants as he devoured Olli, who was now relaxing against the wall completely, his fingers but resting on his still hard member instead of gripping it in search for an orgasm.

A satisfied, laid-back smile spread on Olli's lips, and all too late Aleksi understood what for. All too late, Aleksi realised he had missed his cue to cut and run in shame, when Olli opened his eyes to look straight into his.

Olli's smile didn't falter, and there was no sign of shock or embarassement in his dark gaze. If anything, the smile widened, and the already horny look in his eyes grew ever more lewd as it flickered between Aleksi's face and his crotch, Aleksi's hand doing a poor job hiding the tent on the front of this sweatpants.

Olli raised an eyebrow and nodded towards it.

"Need a hand with that?"