#if i get any more specific it'll get convoluted and then i may as well categorize them by breed xD

[horse-breed-a-day]

Hello, I'm a writer and I've ended up putting myself in an interesting spot involving horses.

You see, I have this fantasy world and there are definitely horses. Except these horses are carnivorous pack-hunters. Which is awesome to think about. And I totally want to make a handful of species/variations so I can give them to different characters as ~characterization~.

My problem is that every time I try to research horse breed types, it's so complicated? Like, with dogs, you've got your toy group, hound group, herding group, etc. But horses????

Could you offer any insights or a general overview of horse types? Or even just a link to a place about horses for dummies?

hello there and absolutely! that concept sounds very cool! (i bet you'll find it interesting that horses -very rarely- are opportunistic carnivores) but yes anything horse related tends to be very complicated :P so here's how i tend to break it down!

ponies, miniature horses, cobs, light horses, light drafts, and drafts

ponies are any horse under 14hh in height they tend to be stocky and stubby

miniature horses are horses that tend to range around 34in in height while still retaining the same proportions as a regular horse (this might help explain further)

cobs are pony-like drafts... or draft-like ponies! theyre often short in stature and have feathered legs (that poofy hair around the hooves you see on big horses like clydesdales)

light horses are the ones you see the most, think thoroughbreds, andalusians, quarter horses, warmbloods etc

light drafts are sort of an in-between of light horses and drafts! they tend to be draft-height while retaining the proportions of a light horse

drafts are the ones that most people on tumblr like and you'll see posts of, think of bretons, ardennes, percherons etc! they often range from 17-21hh in height and are all muscle! they often have crested necks and square snouts making them look very Solid

i hope that helps narrow it down in a more structured way and best of luck on ur writing!

[zeldotsbrainrot]

Easiest Mod You Can do in TF2: Hitsounds

Hi friends,

I recently changed my hit sounds in TF2 to 'Oktoberfeeest!!' and my kill sound to 'Thanks for standin' still wanker!', some of my favorite soundbites from Medic and Sniper respectively. If you vocal stim a lot or simply want to hear different fun little sounds, YOU SIMPLY MUST DO THIS!!! I love TF2 but I vocal stim A LOT and of course I quote a lot of my favorite lines from the game. Changing my hit/kill sounds is lowkey the best fucking thing I've ever done... ever.

SO anyway, I thought I'd share my wisdom with the fine people of Tumblr.

DOWNLOAD A SHORT (1-20ISH SECOND) .WAV FILE - MUST BE 16 BIT - MUST HAVE A SAMPLE RATE OF 11025, 22050, OR 44100 HZ, (44.1 is most reliable.) Too specific? No worries! This website can convert your file to fulfill all of these specifications: https://onlineaudioconverter.com/

THIS IS WHERE IT GETS A BIT CONVOLUTED... FINDING/NAMING YOUR FOLDERS AND FILES a. Go to Steam, open your Steam library, right click on TF2, click 'browse local files.' Your file path should look like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2 b. click on the file labled tf. In that folder, go to the sound folder and delete the sound cache. Go back to your tf folder. In sound_workshop, do the same thing if necessary. Finally, go back to your tf folder once more. You may already have a file named 'custom,' if not, create one. Just name it custom in all lowercase, nothing else- IDK for sure if it'll mess up if you name it Custom but there are other files here that *will* bug out if you have any variation on the name. c. Make a folder in custom called customsound. Again, be sure to keep things simple and sweet with all lowercase letters, no spaces or symbols. In this folder, make another folder just called sound. Once more you may have to delete a sound cache file here. Then make a folder within the sound folder simply named ui.

THE FUN PART: ADDING THE SOUNDS Put your hit sound and your new kill sound into the ui folder, and name them hitsound and killsound respectively. I cannot stress this enough, all lowercase, no spaces. Computers are not smart and can't read as well as humans sometimes.

MAKING SURE YOUR SOUNDS ARE THERE a. Boot up tf2 and go to your advanced options, making sure that the killsound and hitsound is on default. b. Press ` to go into your console and copy and paste these three lines of code: play ui/killsound tf_dingalingaling_lasthit 1 tf_dingalingaling 1

GO INTO A GAME AND SEE IF YOUR SOUNDS WORK!

IF THEY DON'T, RECHECK YOUR STEPS AND/OR CHECK OUT THIS REDDIT THREAD: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/15t7ayw/guide_to_adding_custom_hitsounds_and_killsounds/ IF YOU REALLY CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT, YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO PEEP THE COMMENTS THERE OR ASK THE OP, I DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT FUCK ABOUT MODDING STUFF BUT I TRIED TO RELAY THE INFO THE SIMPLIST YET MOST SPECIFIC WAY I COULD!

[elytrafemme]

hey, idk if this is a weird and/or insensitive thing to ask, but i have a character in one of my stories who is an alcoholic, and i was wondering if you had any tips for writing alcoholism? because i feel that i don't have enough experience to write something like this realistically, or respectfully yet, but it's too important a character trait to scrap. i've been watching some interviews with ex-alcoholics and stuff like that, but i still don't feel entirely confident and your cs!tubbo characterization is a big inspiration to me. obviously, there's no need to answer, and sorry for the bother ^^;;

MASSIVE WARNING FOR ALCOHOL TALK IN THIS ASK RESPONSE!

edited warning again to note that this should all be taken with a grain of salt, and i apologize if i worded anything carelessly, innacurately, or disrespectfully

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i think this is a good question! one thing i would like to make EXPRESSLY clear before i go into this though is that i do not, firsthand, have experience with an alcohol addiction. i have experiences being in close relationships of varying kinds with addicts in general, several of which being alcoholics specifically, but i am not, myself, an alcoholic. i do have what i would personally consider an addictive personality, but am not addicted to any substance in particular.

i just need to emphasize this because i think (1) what you're doing with research and those interviews is a valuable aid to this and (2) i may not be the best person to ask.

that being said i'll give some advice i've used but take it all with a grain of salt. people can absolutely feel free to add on

my main tip that seems obvious but does get often neglected is to make sure that you understand who the character is before you factor in the addiction. from what i understand of it, responses to substances can cause general cognitive responses and impairment, but can also impact the moods of the person. a person's moods, however, can be based off of who they are as a person. a hotheaded person will tend to be more angry in response to things rather than sad, etc. i explained that messily but i hope that makes sense.

it's also important in the regard that alcoholics are people and have no inherent morality attached to them because of alcohol. there's no good or bad alcoholics, and you can write a good person who happens to be an alcoholic and a bad person who happens to be an alcoholic and the emphasis there is the person rather than the drink.

with cough syrup for example (though that's absolutely NOT the best example of this, also i have a personally convoluted perspective on people's inherent moralities that i've set aside here so bear with), cs!schlatt is a good person at his core, with some solid morals, but was also an asshole who didn't have a lot of his values in the right place and would hurt people with some of his ideals. there's a lot to that inherently, but the alcoholism layers over that, and exasterbates those issues, rather than just Inherently Making Him Bad. cs!tubbo, due to having different personality traits, therefore is different. basically, like, alcohol response builds off of the character traits already there, but it doesn't assign morality.

moreover i think it's important to consider why the person began drinking because i think that definitely impacts it as well. were they a casual drinker that took it too far? are they self medicating? is it a form of deliberate self destruction? does addiction run in the family? did they have alcoholic friends? most likely it'll be several of these but it definitely is going to impact the character's thoughts on their own alcoholism.

for example if a character's whole family line drinks and they took it up to self medicate as well, they may view drinking as this necessary piece of their life and have a lot of rage towards it. wanting to quit but not knowing how. versus if someone picked it up with the intention to harm themselves with it, they may not want to quit it. or vis versa. neither is a 'bad answer' or 'option', but it impacts how they handle it narratively.

basically, the way that alcoholism affects a character is reliant on who the character inherently is, because alcohol cannot assign morality or give people personality traits; it amplifies moods which can then shift those traits in certain ways or cause people to act in bad ways, but it doesn't inherently define a good or bad person or define the person at all.

the way that alcoholism gets involved in that person's life impacts their view on it.

this is long so i'll call it here, but what i will say is once again: TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, AND I APOLOGIZE IF I WORDED ANYTHING INARTICULATELY OR IRRESPONSIBLY.

also, if you want any tips on writing characters responding to another alcoholic character, i do have direct experience interacting w various alcoholic friends and partners so i could maybe speak to that (albeit it's closer to home so i'm not always the best expressing it in writing so much as just understandiing it)