#im too lazy to finish detailing the flowers so here we go

[starthistletea]

Things found outside in the yard

[cryptiles]

Hey I'm sending a request for the match up event, and I would like it to be for Obey Me please.

My personality type is INFP, I'm a taurus and a non-binary, bisexual. I practically live off of coffee and energy drinks and I adore any content that has to do with horror. In my spare time I love to either read my mangas/comics, draw, take photographs of flowers and plants or listen to rock/metal music and take naps. I'd also say that I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert, however once I get to know/grow more comfortable around certain people I'll begin to talk a hell of a lot more.

(I hope this was enough info and if it wasnt/it's too much sorry)

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MATCH UP FOR COFFEE ADDICTED ANON

— details ; obey me x non-binary! reader ; match-up based ; obey me m.list ; no stated pronouns

— requests are open as of 22/8 —> 5 match-ups left

— a/n ; hello hello you didn’t give me a name so i hope the nickname is okay for you aha 😼 im finishing up requests in my inbox so i’m speeding through these.

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drum roll ~ i match you with … belphie !!

• if you live off energy drinks and coffee i’m assuming you’re tired most of the time and therefore need these drinks to keep you awake.

• what better than to have this sleepy fuck constantly try to cuddle with you in bed even when your alarm is ringing.

• its constantly getting snoozed by belphie or you.

• the first few times you both shared a bed with one another belphie would allow you to get out of bed when the first alarm rang , not without some whines here and there.

• as time went on he would move towards the night stand on your side , snatch your phone , snooze the alarm and put your phone on his side of the night stand.

• sneaky little bastard.

• if you scold him for it he’ll just snuggle up closer to you , i mean you cant scold him if he’s that cute right ?

• he adores taking naps with you , its his favourite part of the day.

• anytime anywhere if you need a cuddle buddy and personal body warmer feel free to sleep right next to him and he’ll instinctively wrap his arms around you.

• both of you enjoy the horror genre a lot and occasionally watch really bad ones just to make fun of them.

• if you both watch with mammon it’ll be you guys laughing at his reactions instead of the tv.

• belphie loves smelling flowers and occasionally walking in the garden , he finds it relaxing and the smells of the fresh flowers are comforting.

• he’ll bring you out to the garden to take pictures and plant new ones to grow just for you.

• belphie will point out which flowers look the best on camera , believe it or not he picked up a few things about photography through asmo.

• when he’s awake , he’ll scroll through the internet to find new places with nice scenery for you to take pictures and bring you there to indulge in your hobby.

• you like comics / manga ? no problem theres a whole shop in the house itself called levis room.

• if you mention a comic / manga you want to read he’ll barge into levis room , take it and give it to you. [ he says levi agreed but we all know he just took it and is too lazy to deal with levis shit so he’ll deal with it later. ]

mini scenario !!

“ the main character is hella stupid , like god the killer was right there a second ago why did you go and check the same exact spot ? “

“ right. i mean at least come up with a better way to kill them off. “

“ its lazy , boring and overused. “

“ at least taunt the victims more to build up suspense. “

“ yeah taunt them like how y’all did to me. “

“ mc no- “

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© 2022 cryptiles. please do not repost / translate my work and post it to other social media websites without permission , thank you.

[ladyshadowqueen]

my process of making an embroidery 

so i mentioned that i took a lot more photos while doing my latest project and asked if anyone wanted a more detailed post and someone said yes so here we are. 

i used a free embroidery pattern from DMC threads (they have a bunch on their website that are free to download. this is the one i used. 

when i use a pattern before i transfer it onto fabric i always look at the instructions of the pattern and see if there is anything i want to change. for this pattern i decided to remove a leaf because i felt like it would have been too cramped, i changed the colour of one of the flowers (based on the threads i have in my collection) and i decided to use a satin stitch on the flowers rather than long and short stitch simply because i find it easier in such small spaces. 

to transfer the pattern i use a frixon heat erasable pen. i put the fabric into the hoop and lay it face down on the printed out pattern, which allows me to see the lines through the pattern. i then go over the pattern, removing parts that i dont want (like the leaf). i dont worry if i fuck up a little bit here because this pen is removed later. i then flip the fabric round the right way so the pen is on the right side. 

then i just start stitching. i dont really do a specific order when it comes to colours (all of this embroidery is using the same satin stitch so that didnt matter). i started with the flowers simply because i didnt have the right greens so they were in the post when i started. i just kept stitching until i had filled in all of the pattern. when im finished with the pattern i get a hairdryer and run it over the fabric on a hot setting which removes all of the pen left over that isnt hidden under a stitch. honestly these pens are so helpful with embroidery and make life so much easier than using pencil. 

because this embroidery is a gift for someone i decided to try backing this one for the first time. my technique was not perfect at all but overall i dont hate it. i just used the base part of the hoop as an outline and cut out a circle of felt. i had already finished the back in the way that i normally do (trimming the excess and a lazy backstitch all the way round) so i just did a whip stitch to attach the felt to the fabric. 

and then thats it. thats the embroidery. i did this one slowly over the course of 4 ish days but i would say hours wise it was maybe 7-8 ish hours of work? overall i quite like it. 

[winnipegpatty]

1+31 for niall!! 🌷

flowers + serenading

a/n: lol i reblogged that ask game and im not actually sure if this is supposed to take place on valentines day? i guess so? cus its a valentines day ask game??? but tbh i don’t want it to be on valentines day lmao so i just wanted to do it as a cute thing niall does for you so hopefully you don’t hate me lmaoooooo. oh, also never written about niall a day in my life so hopefully this doesn’t fucking suck! haha

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It’d been a long day, a long week. Really, it’d been a long month. And with Niall spending most of his time in the studio, preparing his second album, you guys hadn’t seen much of each other. Sometimes these days were harder than the times he was on tour. Knowing he was around, just minutes away, and yet just as far off as if were in another country, that was hard to deal with. 

Niall had been particularly focused on a new song he’d been working on, but he refused to give any details. He just kept telling you the time wasn’t right yet. 

But the weekend was here, and hopefully Niall would have enough time off to spend time with you. After all, Valentine’s Day was coming up and you really hadn’t made any plans to celebrate. That was normal, in fact, you and Niall had never really had a Valentine’s where you were both in the same place before. It was just arbitrary anyways. You didn’t need some special day to know that Niall loved you; he was perfect at telling you in his own way. 

Work this week had been hell, and all you wanted to do was get home, sit down, binge something on Netflix and relax. Maybe take a shower with Niall later and then crawl into his arms in bed and fall asleep. A lazy Friday night sounded perfect. May they’d go out for dinner because there certainly wasn’t anything to eat in the kitchen. You hadn’t had a change to go shopping with how crazy your week had been. 

You finally made it to the your shared home, unlocking the front door, surprised to find the front of the house completely dark. Niall must not be home yet, but that was odd considering you’d come home late too. You tossed your keys on the entryway table, slipped out of your shoes, and padded further into the house, It wasn’t until you got out of the front hallway that you heard the soft sound of the record player coming from the dining room. There was a dim light shining down the hall. Curious, you followed the noise. 

When you rounded the corner and entered the dining room, you found Niall bent over the table adjusting a bouquet of flowers. 

“Babe?” You whispered, not wanting to break the atmosphere.

Niall popped up, “Shit, didn’t hear you come in.”

“What is all this?” You asked looking around at the candle lit table, already set with food ready on the plates, wine waiting, and the beautiful flowers pulling it all together. ‘

Niall blushed, “Just wanted to some something a bit special, ya know?” 

“Niall, it’s beautiful, thank you.” You whispered leaning in to kiss your boyfriend.

“I know you had a rough week, and I haven’t really been about to help much. I”m sorry.”

You sighed leaning into his side, “You’ve nothing to be sorry for.” 

You both sat down to eat dinner, talking about this and that. The progress of the album, your problems at work, Niall’s plans with Shawn later in the week. Anything and everything, you could talk about it. 

As they were just finishing their food Niall finally said, “Oh, I finished that song I’ve been working on.” 

You smiled at him, “That’s good.”

“I wanna play it for you,” Niall smiled. He got up to leave the room, coming back quickly with a guitar in hand. 

You held your breath, knowing that what ever Niall played would be amazing. Hearing Niall sing wasn’t necessarily special, but the moments when he sat down and sang just for you were special. Niall began strumming on his guitar beautifully. You leaned back into your chair, just enjoying the harmonious sounds. And when Niall began singing, words flowing out of his mouth like they were coming straight from his heart, you know instantly what he was singing about. 

There’d been a conversation the two of you had had recently where you’d discussed a long term future for the first time. Niall had just casually said, “You know when we’re married we should look for a place back in Ireland. I know I don’t go often now a days, but it would be nice to have.” He hadn’t even realized what he’d said until he’d seen you staring. “You wanna get married?” You’d asked quietly, and Niall had just chuckled awkwardly. He scratched at the back of his neck before saying, “I mean of course…don’t you?” 

And now, hearing Niall sing about it, sing about how he wanted to spend the rest of his days with just you….well your heart was melting. You just knew you’d really found the one with Niall, and there wasn’t a better feeling than that. 

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lol anyway, is this how one blurbs? i’ve never done a blurb haha. 

[firstpuffin]

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake

-Note: It’s kind of embarrassing to admit but my comments around the visuals of A Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening are straight-up incorrect. The two games did not share the same visual style and I honestly don’t know why I said that; I most definitely knew better. Still, I’m not going to get rid of it because the internet needs more examples of people admitting to be being wrong.

I say a lot that I want to be positive, but it’s really gonna be hard with this one. See, at the latest Nintendo Direct it was announced that they would be releasing a remake of the 26 year old game, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. As it happens I was already considering writing something about this game in a “Games from my Childhood” article, but that would actually have been positive! This one is… well, I’m going to at least try and balance every negative with a positive.

-at least the title screen looks good-

  So where to begin: I won’t cover the story because spoilers but how about some personal background? The game came out a year before I did (ha! bad jokes) and I have no idea when I got my grubby little paws on it, but it was a part of my life genuinely for as long as I can remember, along with the Pokémon games. I never completed it as a child, but my memories of it were so good that I returned to it as an adult and completed it, learning its sad secret.

-hey! according to this it released the same year I did; me getting my years mixed up I guess-

  Link’s Awakening (LA) was originally a pet project made outside of work hours which is why it borrows resources from other games such as the Mario series, but it was eventually released to critical acclaim. The gameplay is much the same as its immediate predecessor A Link to the Past (LttP), but with a number of new items and a unique soundtrack. Visually it is much the same as well, although its original release was black and white for the GameBoy with Link’s Awakening DX adding colour for the GameBoy Colour.

  So let’s start with the visuals as that is most of what we have right now: the original shared its visuals with LttP what with them using the same assets (tools, resources etc) and LttP had a sequel recently that looked really nice. But the upcoming LA remake looks nothing like it; I wouldn’t expect it to but when a defence of the artistic choice is that “it’s an update of the original graphics” (so why not use the assets from the LttP remake?) or that it somehow “reflects the atmosphere of the original” except there’s no reason for it to be any different to, again, the LttP remake. And in response to the “atmosphere”, LA was one of the darker yet in some ways more whimsical games; this new style is childish to the extreme.

  Don’t get me wrong, I love something that is good and childish, but there is a level when it stops being great and starts to feel like they condescend to the player. Bright colours, simple faces, high pitched noises- Oh god the noises!! I’ll expand on the sounds later but I’m still on the visuals. I’ve heard the game described as looking like Claymation, which isn’t wrong, but my immediate thought was that it looked like cheap plastic. And after watching it again and again as I discussed it with a friend, this opinion stuck.

-tell me this doesn’t look like claymation; this isn’t a game, it’s an animated short film-

  You know how shiny and tacky cheap plastic usually looks? Imagine an entire game like that; an entire world like that. Fans of anime may understand what I say next, but there is a large element of “chibi” in this new game. Large head, tiny body. It’s often seen in short 4 minute spin offs of popular series.

-as you can see, chibi is hardly meant to be taken seriously-

-just to hammer things home-

  So shiny plastic, silly chibi art with a soulless expression. Oh yeah, that. Link’s eyes have zero soul behind them. Zero. He’s a freakin’ monster. Have you seen those Funko Pops? You know how empty they look? Some have said it somehow reflects the original game’s art again, but back then they didn’t have the technology to make him look soulless and young me always thought he looked determined; it was really cool.

-determined; dead inside-

Okay, so I said I would try and be fair, and I have shat upon the plasticine toy-box long enough, so here’s what is good visually. The areas are actually really nice. 

Ignoring the nail varnish sheen on everything, things are really detailed. There is an unfortunate trend in games, likely due to technical limitations, to have flat textures. Basically, imagine the difference between a tile or wood panel floor, and a picture of a tile or wood panel floor. But this game looks to have really tried in these areas. The grass looks thick and lush, tiles look like more than a photograph on the floor and even the flat flowers on the ground look decent. Just a shame it all looks like LEGO. Actually, a LEGO Zelda game would be awesome. But this is not that.

  I haven’t explained that very well, it’s an area that I am new at but I will say that clearly a lot of care has gone into the assets and the world. It is not a lazy game in any way.

-don’t tell me those trees and rocks and- well, everything, don’t look like LEGO-

Next I’m going to talk about the sound. First of all, I’m convinced that they have artificially increased the pitch of Link’s voice so it is painfully sharp to the ears. I’ll admit, I have an unusual sensitivity to lights and sound and thus I prefer darker colours and quieter sounds; I avoid clubs like the plague and not just because I’ll likely catch it there. So maybe, just maybe, I’m noticing something that won’t be a problem for most, and is just unfortunate for me. And let’s ignore that it doesn’t match the darker tone of the game.

  And the music? Also quite high pitched. And super cheery. It doesn’t have either the dreamlike or dark tones that could be expected (and just thinking of how it could be dreamlike gives me shivers; it could be so good) but is instead inanely cheery. In fact, I hope they sped everything up for the trailer and the pitch is just an unfortunate side-effect.

  On the plus side, the trailer opens with a cool cinematic and I swear the music changes from a nice, cheerful rendition (I don’t dislike cheerful in-and-of-itself) of the Zelda main theme to the death squeals of various instruments that I mentioned before. On top of that, it ends on a really nice vocal version of the LA theme, Ballad of the Wind Fish. If the trailer had been the cinematic and that closing song alone then I would be beyond excited about the remake. Thank heaven it wasn’t, I’m not sure my love of the series could survive such a plummeting disappointment.

-and here’s the actual trailer for your perusal- 

So I’ll finish here. I was originally very pleased, excited even that they had decided to remake what was a favourite, underrated and apparently forgotten game, but I kept my expectations low because I knew what to expect from these companies. I thought I did anyway. I was still disappointed. I thought I had prepared for the worst. Still, at least it gave me something to write about.

  But, the game has clearly had a lot of work put into it and gameplay-wise it actually looks to flow really well so I’m sure it controls like a treat. But the visuals and music are too big of a deal for me to let slide; if it keeps up like this then it could literally be painful for me to play. Still, games do change a lot from the initial trailer to its release and I even put forth an idea of why the sound may hurt me so much here. Maybe the final game will be a lot better. Unfortunately, the things I want to be done in games and such rarely are, and I am often alone in my complaints.

And finally, yes I am aware that the famous and incredibly popular Wind Waker entry in the series also had similar complaints and became, as I said, incredibly popular. I wasn’t a part of that crowd, I was too young and honestly, Link’s Awakening was the only Zelda game I had actually played at that time.