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[takunwilliams]

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[miidnighters]

@sorrowsick sent [ braid ] Cross braids Hartley's hair

Hartley was not one for braids, typically. She preferred to keep her hair flowing and loose, thought it looked more attractive cascading over her shoulders. But if Hartley was one thing, it was not a fool. She'd watched Cross braid their own hair and noticed the way their fingers continued to flex, just a little, like they needed something else to keep busy.

So now Hartley sat, cross legged in front of Cross while their sure fingers rake through her hair, deftly engineering the French braid she'd promised. "I'm going to be in Europe next month. Maybe I can stop in Munich and you can show me that rooftop, if you'd like?"

[tojisun]

in that damn lake house, taking you apart in that room that your family always extended to him. he tells you things like your partner doesn't get you; doesn't know how to take care of you.

but simon? he's always promised to take care of you, didn't he? croons things like, "you don't even haf'ta say anything to me, petal, you know that. i've always been the one here for you."

and he does these little things that pile up; these things that make you see just how stark the difference is in the way they treat you. yeah, your partner loves you but simon? he's always adored you. he's always cherished you – he's always kept you safe as he tucked you in the pockets of his ribs.

(you mistake his greed and possession for an honest love; and the cage for a warm embrace.)

cheatint on ur partner w cbf simon. i need to write it noewj

[kikmessenger]

reaaaaally wanna go to this sims rave at a gay bar in my city but idk which iconic character i could go as… really wanna go as the social bunny or smth but cbf with an entire mascot outfit plus don’t wanna be mistaken as a furry … HELP PLEASE 🙏🏼

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Zero tolerance against racism in Brazilian football: points deductions and stadium closures

A new protocol sees tougher punishments for racism in soccer grounds, including points deductions, as debate rages in Spain over abuse aimed at Real Madrid forward Vinícius

Even the great Pelé had to endure the toxic scourge of racism from the time he was a teenager and starting out at Santos. Before he became a global icon, he was derogatorily nicknamed “Gasoline” because of the color of his skin. “If they had stopped every game where someone called me a ‘macaco [monkey],’ they would’ve had to stop every game I played,” he used to say. At the turn of the 20th century, soccer in Brazil was a fledgling elitist practice, forbidden to Black people. It would be some time before “the people suddenly realized that soccer should be for all colors, a classless soccer, all mixed, very Brazilian,” in the words of the distinguished journalist Mario Filho, whose 1947 book, The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer, was a classic of national literature.

Thousands of Black players from different generations found in soccer a means of social ascent, if not of survival, always menaced by the plague of racism. Racial prejudice lingers on in a country where more than half of the population identifies itself as Black or mixed race, with enormous levels of inequality. Brazil has seen its political and ideological polarization hit alarming heights in recent years following the rise to power of the ultra-right-wing leader, Jair Bolsonaro. When Lula Da Silva reclaimed the presidency of Brazil in January, he passed a law equating racial insulting to the crime of racism, which is imprescriptible, non-bailable and is punishable with harsh prison sentences. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) was then reviewing its measures against racism and it worked closely with the Observatory on Racial Discrimination in Football. This entity has been tracking all acts of racism, homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia in stadiums since 2014, providing detailed annual reports that demonstrate the enormity of the problem.

As such, the CBF has implemented a new sanctioning mechanism for racist behavior, whether carried out by members of the public or by any individual at a club. It involves financial sanctions for clubs (whether home or away, and even if only one fan hurls a racist insult) and heavy sporting sanctions for players, coaches, referees, employees or managers involved in an act of racist abuse. In the event of repeated serious offenses (such as a sizeable group of people abusing a player), the stadium will be closed. In addition, a points deduction in the competition is also included, something that is not stipulated in the regulations of any European federation. Punishments will be handed out administratively by the CBF. Cases will be referred to the STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice), which will rule on the application of a fine, closure of the stadium or a points deduction for the violating club.

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[just-write-studios]

2024 Celebration and Recap!

I have never been so excited to celebrate the end of a year. 2024 was far and away the most challenging year of my life, and there is an ENORMOUS amount to show for it!😤

In addition to the strides made with the demo's development for Catalyst: Blind Faith, hundreds of thousands of words written and edited for the full game, and a staggering amount of progress on art and animations, we've had an avalanche of community support. MANY innovations in accessibility were made possible by the Ren'Py community and our Discord's killer members too!

It took me several days just to organize this recap, due to the astonishing amount that was accomplished. I could not have done a fraction of this much work without the love and support of my partner and CBF's producer (I love you Gob <3), the entirety of the legends in Just Write Studios, and all of you who have been cheering development on!!

We'll be celebrating in the community Discord on January 3rd to bring in the New Year! Whether or not you can join us then, I hope you have had happy holidays and are just as excited for 2025 as I am.

The filesize limit and link embeds on Tumblr are a little prohibitive, so I couldn't share every gif, animation, and devlog link here. You're very welcome to check out the high-res versions of all these pics, and the other gifs on my Patreon here!

Without further ado let's dive into this utterly ridiculous recap. I tried to make it easy to read but it's still a lot. I hope you enjoy!!!

ART AND ANIMATIONS

CHARACTER CONCEPTS, SHAPE LANGUAGE, AND DESIGNS ARE CEMENTED FOR:

Father Richard Anscham - Main character

Ray - Arguably actually the main character

Ofelia "Eagle-Eye" Banks - Optional party member

Celegwen - Optional party member

Lord Yech the Disgusted - Optional party member

Orgoth - Antagonist

You can read more about the extensive considerations for these characters and their shape language, silhouettes, AND MORE in this devlog here!

Over 92% of the demo’s camerawork and animations are complete!

WIP sketches are in place for all visuals, transitions, character designs, expressions, poses, and more!

Here on Patreon we have a short trailer showcasing a ton of that action for patrons at any tier! 💖

🙏 Concepts for every deity's CG in the pantheon are a WIP, I am fighting god to not spoil anything but I am very excited 🙏

And the longest animation in the demo, the timelapse near the start, is complete!

Its timing has been improved and thoroughly tested.

It can also be paused or skipped at any time!

MENUS AND ACCESSIBILITY

locked in for this one

The photosensitivity splash screen has been replaced with the Options screen immediately displaying upon first starting the game. This immediate prompt only shows when first starting the game, but the Options screen can be accessed by players from any screen at any time.

A huge visual overhaul of the Options screen and navigation has been made to improve colors, icons, and its layout for maximum clarity!

The Ren'Py Default Accessibility menu has been given a complete style overhaul, massively clarifying features. It also now matches the other menus in Catalyst: Blind Faith. 💖

Created a color picker for the high contrast text feature, with the incredible help of the Ren'Py community. This innovation in accessibility was a multi-week endeavor, that now allows players to choose their font color and contrasting background in real time, all without restarting the game!

The Content Warning, Autosave Preference, and Saves Unlocked screens have had their verbiage updated for clarity and brevity! They are also presented entirely with code, making it (and all other menus) compatible with screen readers and all other accessibility settings!

I've replaced 13 flat images used as placeholders for the chapter title screens with final code! This freed up a whopping 10MB by removing those placeholders.

Now I can display all chapter numbers, titles, and subtitles in any combination with smart interpolation of variables in parameterized text!!!

What this means for players is regardless of how you progress through the game, your chapter numbers will always accurately count up – and if any wacky time travel stuff is involved, it accounts for that neatly too!

The text in-engine also just looks so much nicer aaaa

Text tags (bold, italics, underline, etc.) now render on the History screen!

The timelapse from the prologue also now populates in the History menu!

ADDITIONALLY✨

The main menu's layout and positioning is complete! A total overhaul has been done to its buttons and animations, freeing up even MORE placeholders.

Complete revamp of the Gallery is done, using the Multi-Touch Zoom Gallery code by Feniks!

Custom navigation for the gallery has separate sections for Places, Characters, Gods, Demons, and Demo Endings.

New features in the Gallery include improved navigation, zoom (with mouse, keyboard, gamepad, or touchscreen), rotate, and a timed slideshow with auto-play.

The "Momentos" category has been cut from the gallery, as key item acquisition is now handled with the in-game screen signifying their narrative importance. They populate in the Inventory tab of the Journal menu for reference.

YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH UI BUT THE JOURNAL HAS BEEN FINISHED AND DESERVES ITS OWN SECTION

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Final assets are completed!!!!!!!!! Matching the quality, semi-realistic, and painterly style of the final release. 💪💪💪💪

Greatly improved clarity on all assets! Tons of care put into improved ease of navigation! I spent weeks on finalizing the UI design!!!! 🧠🧠🧠🧠

Navigation is now in alphabetical order, with all tabs spelled out (rather than using images alone for deities).

Bug fixed, by adding a named but previously missing asset related to events with the Goddess of Time.

The bookmarks, sub-menus, scrollbars, and all pages now remember where you last left off too. It feels amaziiiiiing

A hover image has been added for the inventory with its final asset! This really helps with controllers especially, for clarity and ease of navigation.

Isometric maps are complete too! Art, their modular nature (areas you have unlocked are the ones that are displayed), and the final code!

The code has been so massively streamlined, I removed 28 redundant lines of code and 1.54MB of images! 💪

The Hover Hand™ has been programmed!

Upon hovering over the first page of any deity's section of the Journal, a shadow will appear of the MC's hand with a nice animation.

The appearance of the hand can change depending on if the player's choice have caused the MC to lose a ton of blood (a little shaky), if he bulks up, different poses to reflect extreme emotional states, etc.

The art asset of his hand will be updated with its final visuals to reflect the MC’s lanky physical appearance before our next build!

🪞 ON THE NOTE OF REFLECTING THE APPEARANCE OF OUR MC 🪞

A new "Find Reflection" feature is now available at specific, story-appropriate moments!!!! Catalyst: Blind Faith is seen through his eyes, so this is so you can view his reflection in appropriate nearby surfaces when it makes sense to.

Just like how the “Find Reflection” feature reflects the MC’s current appearance, his appearance reflects your choices. (Please take good care of him 🫶)

FITTING ROOM

Just for fun (this has no effect on the in-game appearance of our MC, as that would be changing continuity and wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense lol), we have a cosmetic image viewer!

You can view appearances you have unlocked from any playthrough in this demo screen, the "Fitting Room," on the main menu.

This feature is a WIP. A demo version will be available in the upcoming build!

ITEMS OBTAINED SCREEN

Upon acquiring story-significant items, a new screen now displays!

This screen for obtaining items contains an image of the item in question, its name, a description, and accompanying SFX.

Items seen in this fashion always populate in the “Inventory” section of the player’s journal, along with its flavor text.

WRITING

Home stretch and this is the biggest section. STRAP IN

Editing has been completed on all demo chapters! 🎉 The demo script's 46,000+ words across all 13 potential chapters is now 100% complete, with no edits required for future updates or the full game!

The player’s service dog and best friend, Ray, has had his design finalized! New content has been added to 8 separate chapters across many individual scenes in the demo alone to account for the spiked collar that this colossal English mastiff wears.

The structural and continuity considerations for those edits were so extensive that I wrote a devlog about it earlier this year! You can find that here: https://just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-blind-faith/devlog/738445/devlog-flowchart-insanity-and-why-it-massively-helped-me-with-extensive-edits-this-month

Achievement names for each demo ending have been revamped, thanks to our Official Discord Community’s votes!

Our itch.io page and the game's description have been updated!

The most intense sequences of body horror throughout the trunk of the story (a WHOPPING 130+ chapters) were evaluated for sensitivity concerns and authentic portrayals of body horror and its psychological ramifications!

4 months were spent on that sensitivity editing, with the incredible review by our lead editor and a team of sensitivity readers, bringing the heart of the story to ~95% completion. Only a few niche combinations of those events remain to be written!

If you are interested in that branching structure and how I manage its complexity, there's there start of a narrative devlog series here: https://just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-blind-faith/devlog/846233/devlog-narrative-design-and-the-branching-structure-of-catalyst-blind-faith

Embarking on writing the darkest content in the game – a route where you pursue your relationship with the God of Vengeance above all others - has taken LEAPS AND BOUNDS longer than anything else I've ever done.

It should come as no surprise that writing such serious content with the gravity and care it deserves has been far from a solo endeavor! 💪

SHOUT OUT to KnowledgeDomain, our lead editor. Her standards for quality are astronomical, and only paralleled by her professionalism and dedication to her projects. I am intensely proud to work with her. 💖

In Just Write Studios, we have numerous Quality Assurance experts!! HUGE shout out to our narrative consult, Cirno, who has been working on Catalyst: Blind Faith since day 1. His sensitivity reading, continuity checks, and feedback is invaluable, along with all of the hours he's spent hearing me ramble about outlining and what content to cut or keep. 😂🫶

I've also had the help of a dedicated critique group (QueenofOj and TheRealWiwaxia, you ARE REAL ONES, thank you!!!), as well as a small army of volunteers who have shared their experiences, offered focused sensitivity reading, and an overwhelming amount of support.

IN FACT THERE IS SO MUCH TO BE SAID ABOUT ALL OF THIS WRITING, I began a 10-part devlog series to do justice to it all. That’s where the flowchart all the way above comes from!

I am really looking forward to picking up on those deep dives into the narrative and technical structure, as well as how I handle things like unreliable narrators and sensitive content all throughout 2025! ❤️ We are well on our way to plowing through its crazy narrative structure, and I have also outlined all other routes and narrative structures for the full game!! ✍️

AND LAST

BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST

COMMUNITY

VN CONF 2024: I gave a very well-received 20 minute talk at the start of the year with analysis on choices in games! You can find it here on YouTube: "Choices in Visual Novels – What Makes Them Meaningful?"

VN CONF TALK COMIN UP IN 2025: I'm giving a talk on accessibility in games on January 25th! More info here!

HAD A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEMO IN JANUARY 2024

50k+ interactions on Twitter!

Over 200 auditions!

5 voice actors were cast for a 4 hour live performance: Anicia, Kiri, Lord Rexworth, Cren, and RizzosBT!

Their talents will be featured with voice effects in the full game! 🎙️💯

1,500+ followers on Bluesky in our first 2 months!! ❤️❤️

165 MEMBERS IN OUR COMMUNITY DISCORD ❤️❤️

SO MUCH GOOD FANART (PLEASE GO SHOUT AT THEM ABOUT HOW NICE IT IS)

5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF OUR COMMUNITY DISCORD 🥳❤️

Partnering with Feniks to make a tool out of my SFX toggle in a SFX suite of tools to improve accessibility for other Ren'Py Devs!!

Worked with the support of the Ren'Py Discord for the High Contrast color picker tool!!

Many streams of the early development demo this year also aaa! ❤️❤️❤️

AND THIS ISN'T EVEN ALL OF IT (but that's quite a lot and just about everything huuuge)!

I'm elated to rant more in our community Discord and on Bluesky daily with updates. Catalyst: Blind Faith is an epic endeavor and I mean that in every sense of the word.

Despite the incredible hardships 2024 brought for me, I could not be more proud of everything that was accomplished, and am ecstatic for what the new year will bring!! Next month I'll be releasing a roadmap of my goals for 2025. You can find my devlogs here on Patreon and on itch.io!

January 25th is the Visual Novel Conference, where I'll be giving a very short talk on accessibility in games, and all the rest of the year will be blasting ahead with more work for our demo!!!

I'll see you all on Discord, Bluesky, itch.io, and hope to see you at our Discord New Year's party on January 3rd!!!

Thank you for reading!!! Here's to conquering every demon 2024 had to throw our way, and to a very happy New Year!🎉🎉🎉

[bisluthq]

As someone who has been in the fandom since debut, I think the focus on her wealth is because for a long time she was a joke - she was a teenager so not taken seriously, she wasn’t ‘country’ enough, then it was the joke of her being a man eater… she was mocked but so were her fans in a way that was reserved for boy band obsessions of ‘oh those silly little girls’ BUT the numbers never lied. She outsold all her fellow nominees in CDs and tickets and radio play. She was winning BMI awards for songwriting and being praised by big artists and now icons (all the lists of ‘what famous people said about Taylor’ - it used to be her contemporaries or just the generation above her, but if Ari said she loved Taylor it would be meaningless because Stevie nicks and sir Paul have praised her extensively yk, so her fellow current highly successful pop star who debuted as a recording artist after Taylor just doesn’t count anymore?

Anyway, Taylor’s success is a validation of her fans who were bullied for being a fan of her at school and by the media. So it’s vindicating for people who still hold those wounds… and if we go deeper, which I feel like you will get at least what I’m going to try to articulate - taylor is a symbol for a lot of people, so she was the coping mechanism through their parents divorce and when people mock Taylor, they feel like it’s their parents divorce that is being mocked. Or if one of the 50 things they were picked on for was liking Taylor, it’s easier to focus on Taylor when she’s still in their lives compared to thinking about when they had no one to sit with at lunch and they were teased for their nose/ eyes/ eyebrows/ clothes/ hair/ whatever cause people are mean.

I’m not trying to add to the pile on that is lobbed at the fandom, but there is a sense of arrested development on some big blogs/ stan accounts. I’ve been dealing with this issue myself because I want a do over of the last 15 years lmao so I DO NOT want to grow up and DO NOT want to have to “act my age” and why has nothing worked out like I thought it would and why is everything so expensive and people are still mean and judgemental and this was meant to end in high school and wasn’t I meant to have spent a few months in Europe by now like other people made look so normal?!?!?! 😭😭😭😭 But I’m learning how to just not be a rigid adult without being a Disney adult lmao. And I think adults in general need to learn how to have fun and be carefree without needing to be reckless again, which was part of what eras was (and most Taylor concerts are tbh) because people dress up and laugh and don’t take themselves seriously - and others think it’s fun instead of mocking you!! but they pull out all the glitter and sequins for one night and then go back to “normal” which for a lot of people isn’t apparently very fun or exciting.

I went in a lot of circles, but I do think there’s a lot of overlap. I used to take attacks on Taylor personally, sometimes it was like ‘22 year old is boring and stale and reads in her ugly antique chair like a loser’ and im like ‘but i like that chair? And reading? Am i a loser? 😢Fuck you she outsold your fav!! 🤬Therefore she is better and you know nothing, therefore I am better than you too! 😅’

It’s a weird copium. Also, this could be weird projection because I’ve been very unwell and spent a lot of therapy talking around the issues and that included saying ‘people are being mean to Taylor Swift and it feels like it’s happening to me’ (because it was easier to talk about my feelings through her, like when kids reenact their home life with dolls and drawings) than it was for me to open up about myself until I felt safe and comfortable enough with that therapist. I’m still unwell lol but I’m getting there!

Sorry I wrote so much, I’m very tired and cbf to read it before I send it now 😂😂😂 but I hope it was worth the read for you lol and I hope I made some sense. I find fandoms, particularly this one, such an interesting anthropological phenomenon (would have loved to study anthropology but also want a degree with job opportunities lol)

I get that - fandoms are very anthropologically interesting to me too lol and the things that we use for coping with life are also very interesting to me lol and the things that we hold onto or dear to us (so Taylor or whatever other shit we hold onto). And I know what you mean about liking Taylor having been so embarrassing for so long that people take like the success as vindication that it was cool all along even when they were being laughed at for it. That all makes sense to me.

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Seleo: presidente da CBF diz contar com Ancelotti para Copa Amrica

foto: Icon Sport CBF espera que Carlo Ancelotti assuma seleo na Copa Amrica de 2024 Aps anunciar Fernando Diniz como tcnico interino da seleo nesta tera-feira (4), o presidente da Confederao Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) Ednaldo Rodrigues confirmou que conta com o italiano Carlo Ancelotti para comandar a seleo no prximo ano. Em uma conversa informal com jornalistas aps o anncio de Diniz, o…

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[maiverie]

NIKI THE PRETTY ICON SHE IS <3 AND MAI I DIDNT SEND U A PROPER ASK BUT UR THEME >>>>

GOSH I CAN KEEP STARING AT IT FOR HOURS, IM NOT JOKING U SERVED WITH THE HEE AND THE PINK, I LOVE PINK AND PURPLE SM <3

ALSO I SAW U TALK ABOUT WRITING TRIAGE DRABBLES? OR SMTH LIKE THAT ???? PLEASE I ACTUALLY MISS TRIAGE SM I WANNA CRY </3 I NEED HEEYN BACK

UNPOPULAR OPINION, I NEED OPEN SESAME EXTRA CHAPS, HOT ROOMATE HEE HAS ME ON CHOKEHOLD

NOOO OMG I REALISED I WAS SUPPOSED TO SEND U A PROPER ASK TOO ??? LIKE I REREAD WHAT I WROTE AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO ASK U HOW U ARE BUT I FORGOT TO ADD IT 😭

BUT NOOO it's nothing special plsss I love how clean ur theme is :(( ALSO HEESEUNG FR HE'S PLASTERED EVERYWHERE ON MY BLOG ITS A DISEASE HELAHASDH

and omg YESSS I rlly gotta write extra chaps but I've been working on diff things 😭 ALSO HELPP DEF AN UNPOPULAR OPINION BUT IM CACKLING HWEFHA roommate heeseung in a robe is actually my fave headcanon 🤓 I was actually thinking of writing another roommate!au for heeseung but maybe ill keep it to a oneshot cos I cbf writing chaptered series anymore 😭

ANYWAYYYY HRU BAEE HOWS THE HOONIE ONESHOT COMING??

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headers brasil para a copa!

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