#it didn't make it that far in the brainstorming phase

[tricoufamily]

hey the godfather's free on youtube have i ever told you that an axed villareal reboot idea was set in the late 1960s and heavily based on classic mafia movies. straight up michael corleone hugo

[crying-fantasies]

Hiii! Sorry if I keep sending you more ask-

I was wondering what if Mayhem accidentally got transported into the TFP universe? (Considering it's the Idw comics, anything wacky is possible 😭)

How will Soundwave from that universe react to Mayhem? And will Mayhem react to his 'dad'?

Thanks for the ask! Sorry for being so late.

In reality this could go down in many different ways.

TFP Soundwave, as far as I've seen him, holds Laserbeak as his own last shard of sanity, maybe in the past he had all of them and, well, the gladiator pits, the war, that little drone is all he has left, I don't know if in TFP the concept of sparkling or new sparks exist like it does on BV or this AU, but maybe Laserbeak was someone like that for him.

Having that in mind, as in by some fucked up chain of events (as in having Sunset near with his inherited bad and absurd luck), Mayhem were to fall in any other universe (because after the whole Brainstorm-made-a-time-machine-and-teared-the-whole-reality-apart well, now we have a multiverse!) you can bet that first and foremost Soundwave, as in the one in this reality, will tear even more the barriers between realities to have his sparkling back.

Meanwhile TFP Soundwave looks at the sparkling with a big interrogation mark on his visor, because where did he come from? How come his bio signature is so similar to his but he can't pinpoint from where, or what, the other part has come? How old is him? Depending of such, if Mayhem is still a newly forged mech then you can bet TFP Soundwave will guard him like a jealous mother (in that phase they aren't different from human babies), no one can look at such delicate little sparkle of joy, if Megatron asks nicely and is obviously in his right mind maybe he would consider it, if Mayhem was already an operative mech it would be so much difficult to hide him, and he has to drag him back more than once when he tries to reach the autobots, Mayhem has learned a lot from his sire back in his own reality, to this point everyone knows about him, the vehicons know better than stop him because he can only get so far before a pair of tentacles catch and drag him back again, no matter that his sharp digits claw at the ground, once back inside he is given a portion of energon to please be calm.

He would never let him interact with Starscream by obvious reasons, maybe Breakdown can talk more comfortable with him, but absolutely no permission to talk or interact or even be in the presence of Shockwave or Knockout, Soundwave doesn't like their look of "science" when they look at Mayhem.

Now with SG Soundwave, believe it or not, Mayhem feels even more horrified by different reasons, all his life his sire, his father, has always been taciturn, quiet, maybe a little gloomy, but overall he always thrived in his affection, while not so big like he has seen with other families, he knows his father loves him with little things.

SG Soundwave makes him sputter with his headband and overall colors, the way he talks and moves are so unnatural that make him feel itchy, but above all else what gets him totally out of his zone is that SG Soundwave makes a quick scanner at him, processes the data in two clicks, and soon tackles him down with a hug calling him "my baby".

In the SG universe they know of different realities thanks to Cliffjumper, and SG Soundwave has to recompose himself a moment and let go of the young mech, there is paint transfer in both of them due to the obvious crash.

If TFP Soundwave was creepy to Mayhem, he can't even start to describe SG Soundwave, but he does recognize him as creepy in his own way.

Obviously this is the most talkative Soundwave, "How many centuries are you? Have you been well from where you come from? Are you a medic? So proud! Do your do my young mech! Did you came from the hotspot in Kaon like me? If you didn't that's fine too!"

And obviously so, this Soundwave gets on the slightly different wavelength Mayhem does, "Do you have a sire? A carrier? Did I've you alone?" as he shows every other righteous decepticon the young mech, Mayhem has never seen other decepticons so fast and easy, they look happy to see him, totally different from his reality, "Such a handsome young lad!", somebot says, and SG Soundwave is quick to answer: "Sure is! Bet he got it from his other mentor!" as his visor shines green with absolute glee, the questions previously done return and Mayhem doesn't know if he should mangle this reality and tell him, he decided not to, because everything is backwards here, what if you are different too?

Mayhem doesn't want to answer, and he gets another cybertronian equivalent of aneurism when he meets the cassettes of this reality, at least he got to meet SG Ravage, because he never meet the one of his reality, never had the chance.

SG Soundwave is maybe the only one to help him return to his reality, retracting his battle mask to give a little peck on his helm, "Take care of you and the fam', Lil' doc".

Once Mayhem is safely returned, SG Soundwave makes a bee line to you, who seems to have a very bad day or your usual sour and tired expression is somehow worse, drinking some kind of human beverage to keep your sanity intact, but every ounce of sanity it's throw out of the window when he sits next to you, hands together as if he is begging or praying, your coffee is dripping from your mouth as he says "I wanna've your sparkling, my amor", because he recognized the wavelength of Mayhem's spark mimicking the one of a human, a human he knows very well.

Flatline has to come and help you as your coffee goes down the wrong way, Soundwave has this idea on his helm and nothing, nothing,will take it away.

Your destiny is sealed as Megatron looks at you helplessly, maybe you have a reason to date Soundwave now.

[pintsizeninja]

Writing Update

I'm back! I spent quite a few days this past week wrestling with my inner demons and beating them into submission. I'm feeling better, and I'm hopefully on the other side now.

I crossed an important milestone a while ago and didn't even realize it. I've written a total of 126,676 words since February of this year!

It's astounding, really. I've never been so inspired and it is by far the most I've ever written in a relatively short period. I've "won" NaNoWriMo twice, so I wrote 50,000+ words during the month of November, but that was literally all I wrote that entire year.

I'm going to aim for 80,000 more words this year, so a total of 200,000 words.

Not all of these words made it onto AO3 of course; some are brainstorming words, or words that were eventually deleted, or entire scenes that never made it out of the draft phase. But I think it's important to count these words too, because it's an indication of the sheer amount of effort that goes into the final published pieces you read on AO3. The word count on AO3 for this series is 71,233 and I've got about 11,000 words written for the sequel, so you can do the math.

Warriors, Poets and Elder Gods Update:

I didn't make a ton of word count progress this week for obvious reasons. However, thanks to a discussion with my friend Wendy, I've decided to take the fic in a slightly different direction that I am very excited about. It requires killing some of my darlings, so to speak, and I've cut about a third of the words I've written. I've also had to rewrite portions of the first three chapters. I redid the outline for the fic and it's looking like it'll be 33-34 chapters long.

This is going to be an epic tale, and a ton of work, and it's going to stretch the limits of my creativity - but it'll be so worth it.

I'm still planning on posting the first chapter in October, and I'm very, very excited to share this story with the world.

[steadfastmockingbird]

Happy STS! I've been thinking about starting a new project and am still in the very early just brainstorm phase, and it's got me thinking how other writers start from scratch! So my questions are: What are some of your methods starting a new WIP? How do you make a new project stick? Do you have any tips for starting something completely new?

Honestly, I don't have a really organized process here. For me it kinda depends on the project.

Daydreaming is my strongest asset, so I often spend a long time smushing mental barbie dolls together, sometimes for months, before anything gets made concrete. The way I see it, if I remember a scenario after going over five dozen different ones and keep going back to it, it must be good.

Then it's mostly a case of making notes. I fill pages and pages and pages of google docs just throwing everything that's stuck so far at the page. For my present WIP, maybe 5% of that has actually made it in. Things I was sure would happen didn't end up on the page because the story went in a different direction, but I have it there as a well to draw from.

Then, I draw a fishbone diagram of the plot outline, so I have something to ignore completey. I think the last one got lost in The Tantrum* along with my early drafts but the gist is that you draw the rough skeleton of a fish, and put the start of the story at one end, the end at another, and components of the A plot are the spine. The B and C and etc plots are the protruding bones. Much like a fish skeleton, it's not rigid, but it gives me an idea. My current WIP had 'Irena shoots someone and has to flee to the mountain' as the tail and 'Irena throws the troublemaker off the mountain and saves the town' as the head and some vague question marks in between around various people dying at the wrong person getting accused, which is why the troublemaker has to die... Somewhere on the bones were 'something happens with a debt' (still in the novel) and 'baby, what do?' (not there so much any more) and 'is Irena still an atheist?' (there still and a pain in my ass) and similar notes. It's a visualization tool, and I find it useful, but I worked in pharma for too many years and that's the kind of thing that makes you weird. If you're really keen you can cleave that fish skeleton into acts, but that's something I haven't got the hang of yet.

Then, I put words on a page. I hemorrhage words onto the page, and most of them will be awful, but with patience I can pan for sentences and paragraphs that make the grade and can go into the next draft.

*long story. Even by my standards.

[dark9896]

Day 31-2 [Zapp/ Zed/ Chain]

Prompt: "You know what you have to do..."

Zapp

This was just great, fan- f&^king -tastic. Of course. OF F&^KING COURSE, he forgot to plan something. This wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last. But it would certainly be one of the worst ear-chewing sessions he'd have to sit through.

And he wasn't exactly private about how he was feeling either.

"Is something bothering you Zapp?" Klaus was naturally the first to reach out, no matter how many times Zapp attacked him.

"Yeah, no." He moped across the couch, taking up the whole thing, "[Name]'s just gonna kill me later, that's all."

Klaus was the only one to feel bad about this. Before he could ask for further details from Zapp however...

"Only because you forgot their birthday, Monkey Brain." Chain chastised, "Maybe if you could see past your own ego, you wouldn't be in this mess."

While Chain was right, Zapp wouldn't let her say anything like that. The two bickered while Klaus attempted to smooth things over, avoiding conflict as his sole motivator.

"Just die." Chain said coldly.

"Dude," Leo piped up, "You know what you have to do, right? Like it's a really easy fix since you actually showed up for work today."

"Hey! No one asked your opinion Pube Face!" Zapp snapped, "Don't make me come over there!"

.

Zed

"Okay, okay. Run that by me once more?" You wanted to help Zed confess to his crush but he wasn't giving you enough details, "This person. Do you know them pretty well already?"

"Yes. I talk to them frequently."

This made for a delicate situation. Zed didn't want to go to you for dating advice, given that it was you he had a crush on. But in his pursuit of knowledge, he had asked both Chain and K.K. before you. Which meant one of them either told you directly or you overheard them brainstorming with someone else. Regardless, you had sought Zed out, wanting to help him with it.

"But you don't know how to tell them how you feel?" You pressed, "What kinds of things do you two even talk about?"

"Ah well." Zed scratched at the side of his face, "We talk about a little of everything. Especially topical things happening in the news."

You sighed, leaning back, "You know what you have to do, don't you?"

"No, not really." Zed tried looking you in the eye, but it was so difficult, "That's why I've been seeking advice."

"Just be direct and honest with the other person. If you talk to them a bunch, then they should know you say what you mean and all that." You stretched in your chair, Zed blushing slightly as he noticed your shirt pulling up a bit, "Worst-case scenario is they turn you down. But at least you'll have told them how you feel. Maybe write it down if you can't think what to say."

Zed sat there for a second. It was indeed solid advice. And a far better idea than what K.K. had suggested earlier. But...

"Oh, and if you don't think your message will be clear enough," Zed's focus snapped back to you, "You could always ask Klaus about flowers. Some have specific meanings. Wouldn't hurt your chances to have something to start a conversation and kinda hint what you wanna say."

"What?"

"Like roses typically have meanings of love and relationship depending on color. Or something like that." You tilted your head down, "It might be tulips now that I think about it. Or was it carnations? Maybe I should go ask Klaus about this stuff..."

Zed couldn't stop the soft smile across his face. The sooner he told you, the better he'd feel, but being like this wasn't all that bad either.

.

Chain

A recent attack on a medical lab had you clutching your side. Chain tried her best to help, but she was woefully unprepared for something like this. She was a spy, not a doctor. She knew how much it would hurt for her to phase through your skin, despite it being possibly the best solution for the problem.

And you were in enough pain as is.

Instead, she hastily rifled through various cabinets and drawers, ones she knew would contain the supplies needed to stem the bleeding. Chain didn't register her own train of thought streaming out of her mouth as she searched. Consistent ramblings of what was where and what all she needed to grab swirled through the air like smoke around Chain's head.

It was far from ideal, but you could walk Chain through the process of stitching up a wound. At the very least it would be passable until you could receive professional medical attention. Despite knowing it would hurt like hell, you knew Chain's ability to phase through solid objects was precisely what you needed at the moment.

It was just a matter of convincing her...

"Chain," You grabbed onto her wrist, "You know what you have to do sweetie. It won't work unless you attempt surgery. And there isn't enough supplies here for that."

The soft, strained groan that escaped her lips was all too telling, "But I don't want to hurt you [Name]. There... there has to be another-"

"There isn't." You reassured her, "I'll be fine. Just do what you have to. I trust you."

[dumbsack]

[PART 2 OF THE NO CLASS CHANGE CHALLENGE]

Oh whoops, I forgot to say what order I tackled the Benevodons. Let me get on that tangent real quick before talking about Zable Fahr.

1. Dolan

2. Dangaard

3. Lightgazer

4. Mispolm

5. Xan Bie

6. Land Umber

7. Fiegmund.

I decided to tackle Dolan first because the enemies in Chartmoon are absolutely relentless, plus he doesn't have a weakness. It went fine. Spiral Moon caused no problems. I then picked Dangaard because the four phases of its fight made me nervous... But that went fine, too. Just had to resaber and buff up and whack it to death. Lightgazer was next, again, because I had nothing to hit its weakness with. For the rest of them, it really didn't matter what order I chose, I just saved the simpler Benevodons with weaknesses for later.

I will note that neither Duran nor Kevin succumbed to Land Umber's Stone Cloud's petrifying properties. I was under the impression it was 100%, but I guess not.

Onto Zable Fahr...

Okay, not all of Crystal Desert/Dragonsmaw was a nightmare, but I would say it's definitely where I spent l most of my time during the challenge by far.

As long as I avoided Nightblades, it wasn't... the worst. But, if they got the drop on the party with a Split Image Slice, it was GG. Thank the goddess for savestates!

Ah, Zable Fahr. Strangely a comforting sight in this challenge. As explained in part one, by the default, ??? Seeds grant you class change items from the characters' light classes. These items can be pretty useful! I specifically farmed up ??? seeds to get a few Paladin's Tags for multi target Holy Saber for this fight. Radical. Yep, even Southern Slice was just a scratch on the fellas. Moving on.

Same for DSK. I also farmed a slime eye and bee eye to use on him, otherwise my idiots would not have survived his techs. He did hit hard still, don't get me wrong, but it was manageable without much trouble.

So, after running from enemies in Dragonsmaw like crazy and owning the three mini bosses, there was a room I was dreading the most... And for good reason.

No no. Oh my God. The enemies wouldn't stop coming, and you literally can't run. I had to restock healing supplies between rounds in order to make it through this. Without doing that, the challenge probably would have ended here, honestly. This place is just RIDICULOUS. High Wizards, Dark Knights, those green boulder eye things that give me the CREEPS. Awful. Terrible.

However...

My reward for that atrocious room was using 3 Matango oils to completely own this fucking scumbag. That's right. Had I not gotten my Matango oils earlier, I probably would have had to do the challenge all over again, or prayed for some lucky drops from magic seeds. Still, his spells didn't even hurt, but they were quite frequent.

(Lmao. What a little bitch. "I committed war crimes but woe is me a bloo bloo bloo." Shut up, dickhead.)

At last, it was down to the Dragon Lord.

Hoo boy. Awkward. Yeah, attempt one didn't go so hot. I had farmed two Shadow Zero eyes to decrease his stats at different points in the battle. When he gets low, he uses Power Up and Protect, making your attacks next to useless, even with buffs. But, once I used the second eye, he buffed up again. That FUCKING turd. I ran out of healing items soon after... Feeling defeated, I went to bed and went to work the next day.

I needed to brainstorm some things before trying again.

Throughout this challenge, I had forgotten Moon Coins existed. They decrease enemy HP, including bosses, by 1/5. 1/5! DL has 55000 HP! For reference, DSK has 18000 and CW 15000, and Kevin and Duran can hit about 200ish damage with their techs. That would take him down to 44000 HP in an instant. I couldn't pass it up, even though the ring menu was pretty tight. Thankfully, there were still monsters in Duskmoon Forest, so I got a moon coin from there. I also farmed up more ??? Seeds so I could get some Liege's Tags for more multi target healing.

If that all failed, then I had a backup plan.

You see, Kevin is glitchy. Very, very, very glitchy. I'm not sure if anybody play tested him in the original or remake to be frank with you. In certain parts of the game, if you activate his beast form then fly away on Flammie while still transformed, you'll keep the damage buff.

You can repeat this over and over again until Kevin is hitting 999's with his normal attacks. However, I felt that defeated the purpose, so I didn't want to use it at all if I didn't have to.

With that in mind, time for attempt two.

It was going well... Until...

cock.

I forgot my damn hammer to undo Moogling. Ffffuck.

Well, onto attempt 3.

For attempt 3, I had a theory. If I used a Spectre eye— which casts Anti magic... That would delete his buffs, right?

Wrong! It doesn't do that. It only clears enemy sabers and probably does something else, but I don't know what.

So, I had to do something scummier. I waited. I simply kept hitting the Dragon Lord with my piddly Polly prissy pants damage until he went into another elemental phase. When he did... Bam! That's when I hit him with the other shadow zero eye... with no buffs to undo the debuffs in sight to boot!

This was it. This was the attempt. The music was swelling. I could feel the end coming. I just needed to keep attacking and healing... Then, on my final healing item, a honey elixir...

The screen flickered. This asshole exploded.

I had emerged victorious! Woo! I beat the stupid game without class changing! I didn't even have to do the Kevin exploit!

Yeehaw! Roll the ending...

... What, are you surprised by me posting this?

Anyway... would I recommend this challenge to anybody else? Haha, no. The fun of SD3 is its unabashed jankiness, stupid ass storyline held together by duct tape and chewed gum, pure heart, and the ability to mix and match characters and classes as you see fit. Definitely class change the moment you can. You'll have more fun that way, trust me.

In the end, the challenge came down to clever usage of in-game items, and maybe a pinch of luck. If, for whatever reason, you want to try this challenge, anyway? Well, go for it! Maybe you can try it on a different route? Maybe you know something I don't know?

...

Hmm, am I forgetting something...

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Aaaaaaaaa-

[imts2023]

Sprint 1

Brainstorming

The artists and I brainstormed some artstyle ideas, with our Pinterest board, the first mindmap result and the client meeting the week before we had a better understanding of what we wanted to make. I wouldn't personally start on the UI art quite yet as I'll base this on the art of our game rather than ideas, but I still wanted to be part of the process.

Artstyle brainstorm result:

cozy/cute feel

Animal crossing

soft/pastel colours

Animal NPC’s

Tiny characters-Big environment ( Like Grounded; It takes two)

hybrid humanoid animal characters (like animals/spirits from ATLA)

Adaptive backgrounds

Narrative

One of my ideas was chosen during our client meeting, which meant I already had some idea of how to design the narrative. I used a template I made myself during my minor on storytelling as a base and wrote down the premise, character goal and progression goal. I used my initial idea from the brainstorming and expanded it to have more of a story.

Premise

MC (Main Character) receives a quest: All the realms in the universe are in disarray. Each realm lacks a key social skill and without it, the realm is lost. They need someone to save them and MC is the hero they need. MC is special, they are smart, empathetic and most importantly a social expert, however, what they lack is the power of confidence to go out into the world. MC needs to travel through the realms, in each realm investigate the core of the issue and teach them the social skill they lack. They meet many different creatures along the way and as MC teaches others they also gain valuable insights themselves and grow their confidence. After the realm is saved MC is rewarded with a key/charm/token, upon collecting all they’ve fulfilled their quest and become the new keeper of the universe. Creatures in all moral alignments attend the ceremony and can tell MC how they impacted their lives.

I wanted to use the Hero's Journey for our story as it's a tested and true method for storytelling. I knew the first level "Introduction" would always be level 1, which would serve as ACT 1, but the other levels could be shuffled around in any order depending on the curriculum of the school. This means ACT 2 would consist of the remaining 4 levels and ACT 3 would be the aftermath and conclusion of the game.

I started on the next level on the list: Giving and Receiving Compliments. I researched how people generally struggle with compliment giving and receiving and how to remedy these difficulties. In this early phase, I wanted to only make a setup so I could receive feedback from the team and our project lead Fin Rovers.

Over the holiday, we received documents of the curriculum from our client that would be used alongside our game. I was able to make some iterations based on this, but my own research already fit the curriculum very well, so I didn't have to make many adjustments.

We held a team meeting to talk about the first concept art and game mechanics, here I was also able to share what I worked on so far regarding the narrative. After the meeting, I talked with Fin to implement some ideas he had as well: collectable sidekicks and a boss in each level.

Iterations of the introduction and compliments levels based on curriculum, meetings and feedback.

Learning goals

Aside from the Narrative and brainstorming I also worked on my learning goals a lot this sprint, After receiving feedback from Hester and talking about my goals in the first landing with Rob, I asked for help formulating what I really wanted to achieve during IMT&S from Rob. After this meeting, I felt more confident about my learning goals and was able to address Hester's feedback as well. My adjusted goals are better measurable and give me achievable goals to work towards.

My extended learning goals are:

During IMT&S, my main goal is to increase my employability as a narrative designer by gaining experience and improving my craft. I want to do this by deepening my experience in narrative design and implementing it in serious games. I will develop a clear understanding of the objectives and goals of the serious game and apply this to the narrative design. I want to apply the hero’s journey to improve the immersive experience of the user. Finally, I want to research how narrative design influences gameplay.

During IMT&S, my main goal is to improve my UI/graphic design using Adobe Illustrator and learn to apply it in the context of a game. I will do this by learning how to create fitting UI designs for different products. I want to learn how to match UI design to the artist’s art direction by communicating and collaborating. I will go through the steps of moodboarding, stylesheet and designing in Adobe Illustrator. I additionally want to work on the logo design for the game using customized typography.

During IMT&S, my main goal is to become proficient in using Figma as a tool for UX design. I will follow an interactive Figma course from Befront and a Figma UX design course by a professional UX designer. I will complete the assignments and projects provided in these courses to deepen my understanding of UX design principles, Figma's features, and best practices. This will enable me to efficiently create high-quality UX designs using Figma that I can apply to IMT&S projects and any work I do in the future.

During IMT&S, my main goal is that I want to streamline my work process: work smarter, not harder. In previous projects I’ve had the tendency to overwork myself at the cost of my health and sanity, therefore I want to identify where I go overboard by analyzing my work routine to find where this negatively impacts my health. For this, I will look into how to implement a hybrid workflow that doesn’t jeopardise a qualitative project outcome. I need to learn to set boundaries for myself to protect myself.

Overall I accomplished a lot this Sprint and the team and I made some great progress for BeeYou.

[monstermaster13]

Becoming Aykroyd Dan Aykroyd TF. NOTE: This is a tf story told from my character's point of view of my character into Dan Aykroyd and this is all based on personal experiences, experiences i've had and it also explains a lot about me as a person.  And this is also based on numerous dreams and thoughts I have had. This is also sort of a follow-up to Becoming Stallone and Becoming Walken in some way.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How do I describe what my work is like as a whole? Well... let's put this way, my work is often varied, sometimes it's too unusual for some people to handle and sometimes it's just right. But that's just me. Of course you know who I am by now. I am Nathan Forester aka Monstermaster13 and  i've been a Deviant for 9 years and whew...what a ride it has been so far,  I have been through many faces and phases in the past selection of years but I think the form of myself is the best I have ever had.  I have been sharing my stories with you for several years and some of you - actually not some, all of you...really like them, i've gone from being a Daloli-verse's favorite target to being a darling over the course of several years.  Does my work make sense?  Not really.  You're not going to come into my story and expect to receive a grand masterpiece that Steven Spielberg would be jealous of,  what you see is what you're get.  Yes, i'm weird but hey...aren't we all?  My work doesn't have any deep subtext to it, it is just unapologetic-ally me.  Who said that my work needs to have some inner meaning to it?  That one guy who said 'I used to like Nathan's work but then I realized there's no story to it and there's just a bunch of references to movies and shows that he knows and TVTropes jargon with some thinly veiled attempts at pseudo-revenge-fics'?  that one guy should have known better than to say that because it made him come across as a traitor.  'He claims to be a fan of mine but he dared to bash me like that? Hmph. How dare he treat me like i'm an ex-girlfriend of his! How dare he treat me like i'm the Russell Brand to his Katy Perry!'.

Of course my interest in transformations and monsters was all kickstarted thanks to a little show called Big Wolf On Campus.  Ah yes, that show made want to become a real werecreature myself like Tommy Dawkins. In actuality I was and still am basically more like Merton.  I even cosplayed as a BWOC style werewolf, granted my makeup artist skills weren't perfect...I really hope to get better one day.  And then I also discovered Buffy.  Of course my major kickstart into the transformation sub-genre and horror in general was An American Werewolf In London, good ol John Landis, my favorite director.   I used to work at a library and one thing that always brought me closer to discover who I would soon become was the shelf with all the Goosebumps and Animorphs books.  The covers of the latter inspired me to want to do my own morphs,  however...mine didn't turn out so good.  It's hard to find good enough morphing programs that mimic the style of the covers ya know.  'Sometimes you just gotta make do with what you've got'...and that's exactly what I do, i'm an actor...actors improvise and brainstorm,  it helps to inspire myself and others.

I had always been socially awkward, weird and shy...a theater geek who had a history of performing on stage in many of the local theater productions in my neighborhood.  My very first gig was playing as a snowman. No, I was not Olaf but I was a pretty damn cute singing snowman,  then I was a choir member in the local production of Joseph. Not a bad gig but we all know I should have played Joseph or Pharaoh. Pharaoh has the best songs after all. But the funny thing is, as much as I love performing in front of others,  i'm usually quite shy about it.  Even though I love to perform, I have always been a bit nervous about showcasing my talents,  I tend to be my own worst critic at times when it comes to judging my own singing and acting.  Most people don't seem to get that about me,  I don't ask for anything much, just a chance to show what i'm good at.  And what i'm good at is cheering people up. Flash-forward though to the current day,  it was Tuesday the 5th of May 2020 and there I was, in the lovely bedroom I had in my secondary home.  Because of the Coronavirus epidemic, everyone pretty much had to quarantine themselves up and keep themselves safe, which is what I was doing. That night, I was in my bed which I had customized to my specifications with a coffin/bat theme but with a neon red color and I was listening to classical music on my favorite radio station.   As I slept though I kept having wild dreams about Dan Aykroyd, not just about him but about wanting to be him,  wanting to turn into him...but why? I awoke from one of the dreams stretching my arms and pondering to myself.  'What is with me and these weird Aykroyd dreams recently? Why do I keep dreaming about becoming him?' I was puzzled as to what this meant so I thought for a few seconds.   All I seemed to think about was the dreams...'Wait, how exactly is this possible? I want to actually turn into Dan Aykroyd? But how? How is this possible?' I was perplexed, I didn't say anything about it because my peers would probably think I am weird. Well weirder than usual given my transformation powers and all.   I blushed, thinking about those dreams and also about that one...of Aykroyd as a ghost,  I swore I could still see him and that he was following me. I rubbed my eyes just to be sure,  and a few seconds later...he materialized right behind me. 'Hello, Nathan.'  'Dan! What the, how the? Am I dreaming again?'  'I've come here to help you.' 'That's good but what with?'  'Well I heard...' 'Wait...you heard about the dreams?'  

"Yes,  I have. And I don't think it's that embarrassing."

"Really?  But I don't know how to feel about this.  I mean I keep thinking about the idea of turning into you and it's bizarre.  I have this dream about you possessing me and I turn into you that way.  It feels unusual. But yet...oddly natural."

"Like you were meant to be like that?"

"Yes...like i'm just like you."

As odd as that sounded,  I realized how much I shared in common with Dan. Similar interests, social outcast, love of music..everything about me sounded exactly like Dan personality-wise, but how....it was like I was looking into a mirror, albeit a mirror from another parallel universe or dimension in which the reflection is Dan Aykroyd and not myself but still a mirror nonetheless, although who is to say that transdimensional mirrors don't exist?  Oh dear, I just realized just how Aykroydian that sounded.  Then again, it's plausible.  I looked over at Dan and then blushed, he chuckled. 'It's alright, there's no need to feel embarrassed.'  'What do you mean?' 'Well..I think it's cute that you want to become like me.' Dan scratched his chin for a few seconds, and then got an idea. 'What's your idea?' 'Well you write a lot of possession stories, how would you like to become me via possession?' 'You can do that?' 'Well of course I can. I can show you if you like.'  I was reluctant, but since I was eager to learn how he could do such things I watched as he took on translucent form and then gestured to me to open wide, which I did...I opened my mouth as he dove into it and down my throat,  possessing me in the process. 'Okay, now that you've possessed me. What's going to happen?'

Just as I was about to follow up on that question, I felt a little bit uneasy as my stomach gurgled and also swelled up, the process of morphing is a funny thing really but it' really fascinating also the very process of shifting from one form into another one physically and sometimes mentally really does teach you a few or two about yourself.  My chest and torso slowly puffed up too as my arms broadened and my hands enlarged.  My skin became a bit clearer and healthier as I examined my physique.  

You know,  I never got why they made a big deal out of Dan's weight in recent years...I mean it wasn't like he was always like this or anything.  I examined myself a little bit more as I saw my clothing changing into a sleek looking suit with a black leather jacket like the types you see bikers and rockstars wear,  fitting considering who I was turning into.   Several small selections of brown hairs slowly spread across my belly and the top of my chest and also on my arms,  I was never one for shaving anyway and even when I did shave it usually was just because I didn't want to look like a homeless person or like i'm the bastard son of Bigfoot. I chuckled a little bit as I could pretty much hear Dan's voice in my head and hey...i'm used to hearing voices, and so is he. I watched as my legs altered and my feet slowly contorted a little in size,  two of the toes on both of my feet becoming webbed.  If I had green skin and a long tongue I could possibly pass myself off as a human/amphibian hybrid,  as my rear grew a couple of sizes and plumped up.  Aaaaw...look at how softy and squishy I was becoming, I always knew he was the adorable one.  My back broadened as I shot up in height to 6'1, my shoulders broadening in the process.

"Hey...this isn't so bad."

"I told ya you'd like it."

Seeing my much bigger body made me feel a little bit warm and fuzzy,  then again...it was like I was discovering my twin and who I was, as my neckline lengthened and my hair slowly darkened, shortening and becoming a bit wavier. My ears grew up a couple of sizes as my forehead enlarged and my eyebrows thickened, my eyes widening and giving me a sweet, doe-eyed innocent look.  Ah, there it is...the ol Aykroyd doe-eyes, those adorable innocent eyes of his..is it any wonder why Ray Stantz is the heart of the Ghostbusters? He's just a big ol adorkable sweetie pie with those eyes, optimism and that adorable innocent personality.  I already had similarities to Aykroyd due to my introverted nature and love of performing, but this just proved that this was like a role I was born to play. Like any good actor, it took me several years before I could find a character and a 'role' that spoke to me but now I think I have found it.  

I noticed an interesting change going on with my eyes as one of them remained brown while the other turned green, I instinctively raised one of them and chuckled as my nose broadened, a small cleft materializing in the middle of it...it itched but I resisted the urge to scratch it.  My lips puckered a little to become a bit more kissable as my face rounded out a bit,  my teeth brightening in the process.  I had never been one to pay much attention to my teeth, normally because of how self conscious I was and I thought the teeth I had before I had them fixed made me look too much like a mutant  rat-monster with a bad case of snaggletooth and if you asked me back then how I felt about them I would have been lying through my teeth, pardon the pun if I said that I liked them.  Part of me always wanted to have fangs. Then again considering all those body modification cases I have seen where people spends hundreds of dollars on surgery to make themselves look like something else only to resemble something that looks like something out of someone's nightmares,  i'm glad I skipped out on that.   Appearances don't really mean anything to me,  it's what on the insides that counts as in one's own personal inner being and who we are on the inside.  

Besides,  my personality was what I was focusing on as my features slowly morphed and reshaped themselves,  which I admit definitely tickled...morphing into a perfect likeness of Aykroyd's features,  I gotta admit he always did look pretty good, yeah I never got the 'he stopped being cool/funny once he became overweight' thing.   I like Aykroyd regardless of what he looks like because after all he is my celebrity twin personality-wise.  And now I was his twin appearance-wise.

I always had viewed Aykroyd as my twin and now it was literally true since I looked exactly like him,  it was like looking into a mirror...granted, it was a mirror in a parallel dimension but a mirror nonetheless..and who is to say that among the countless universes out there in the world including the one that we exist in that mirrors where we see ourselves as someone we admire don't exist?  And oh my...there I go again with the Aykroydisms.  I guess the similarities to him are already pretty prominent and i'm just realizing that in the group of friends I was meant to be the Aykroyd of that group,  yes we had a Murray and a Belushi but thank goodness we didn't have a Chevy,  having a Chevy in the group would have been an absolutely intolerable nightmare of almost monstrous world-destroying proportions.  And heh heh...there I go again.  I have not even completed the process and I haven't stopped taking on Aykroydian traits. There was a tingling sensation in my throat as my voice deepened and altered, smoothening and contorting to become similar to my appearance, developing the corresponding mannerisms to go with my appearance, basically I resembled Dan Aykroyd and now sounded like him,  my accent becoming a Canadian one as my mind and personality altered.

My memories,  mind and personality were all shifting to go with my appearance and voice which was a very striking and fitting match for Aykroyd's own, as I was remember being in all of the movies he was in and also his history at working as a Second City and SNL alumni and of course the memories of growing up in Ottawa and getting really into the paranormal.  And of a dear friend of mine...ah, I remember him...his name was John Belushi as I recalled and he to me..was like a brother,  even though he wasn't related to me...I felt like he could have been.  A few seconds later my transformation was completed and I was now Dan Aykroyd which fits me because as I mentioned earlier...he is my twin.  'How do you feel?'  'I feel good..this feels natural.' 'Well of course it is,  because it is like we are one and the same.'  'Now that you mention that, yes.

"Woah...this is actually reaallly interesting."

"I told you that you would like it."

"And you were right, what you have is a gift."

"Ah,  you mean what WE have is a gift...what WE have."

"Right...oops, sorry."

"No need to apologize,  everything's alright here."

"So what do we do now?"

"Embrace it of course, you're me...we're one and the same."

"Aye aye captain Aykroyd!"

And thus with that I decided to share my gift with my online friends and with some of my monster roommates, spending a night or two as Dan's twin was definitely worth it and I got to make several new friends in the process. I had finally found the role that I had been born to take on and that role or in this case form was Dan Aykroyd, and it's a very fitting role. I mean i'm socially awkward and adorkable with a love of music so it's a natural fit,  and also being a theater geek definitely helped with it...what can I say,  it may have taken several years for me to find the perfect role that fits but now I found one that is just about perfect and it's the role i've always wanted.  After all,  who wouldn't want to have an Aykroyd with them?   Aykroyd types are always loyal and true to themselves and that's what I am.  I'm a real soul-man, and yeah i'm odd but I think you'll love me once you get to know me and throw any and all misconceptions about me that you have picked up from sites,  because while I may be weird...i'm happy with who I am and i'm not changing that for anything, after all i'm a man with a mission, got some serious style.  You know that song by the Eurythmics? Oh you know the one...'you can fool with your brother, but don't mess with the missionary man.'  Well,  my mother told me good and she told me strong...she said 'be true to yourself and you can't go wrong'.  But there's one thing that you must understand, you can fool with my friends and my family...but don't you mess with the missionary man, and i'm that missionary man.

[canceramorem]

December 2017 and Black Mountain North Carolina.

Christmas eve, and the lovebirds Jason and Marie are about to make a game changing decision. Back in October, Marie Bear(that's my nickname for her)

Had gotten into a bit of trouble. Something to do with Walmart and loss prevention, I don't know. Because to be honest , I have never gotten into trouble with Marie up until this point. But it was a couple of weeks after I had met her., she had a charge for some petit charge. And then her court date was coming up . so in between the machete incident and Christmas eve. Where was the bridge at Walmart. Yes, I can't forget this one. It was a time that I like to think I had won her heart.

Gary and I had been doing our little operation flawlessly, and one day , our mutual friend Z, came to the hill and told me " your girls under the bridge", I tried to play it off as if I didn't care. But deep down inside, my heart was doing a full flown investigation on how I was gonna get to that bridge, and Marie.

I think I even was like, - " fuck that bitch!", "what bridge did you say?" LOL he said Walmart bridge , and I said bye, and within ten minutes, I was rounding the bend at Swannanoa river road, and coming to the famous Walmart bridge . At first I saw one of those paper like Oriental umbrellas. It was positioned as to provide some privacy, for her, yes Marie was just sleeping in a sleeping bag someone had given to her, had clothes and food wrappers all over the place, and a little place , right not far from her head , where she actually had been

shitting .

After getting deferred from the plasma center and not being able to get her boots, I did what any man would do if he truly loves a woman- I decided to break the law for Marie Camp. Break the law and get her some boots so I could bring her to the hospital and get the infection on her arm treated. So, I got caught. Yes, Jey Pizzle got caught trying to leave Walmart with a pair of men's boots size 11, and a pair of "Uggs" type boots for My Marie. They must have felt bad for me. Because they only gave me a court date and let me go. This was around December 14, when I got caught stealing the boots.

So her and I both were facing Walmart -like stealing charges. She had this infected arm that was getting worse. And we were just in the honeymoon phase of this nontraditional relationship. We tredged up from under the bridge, and got her to the hospital where they gave her antibiotics and vicodins for pain. ( neither her nor I were ever into pain pils , heroin, or suboxone -downers) We were alike in some ways , and I was willing to do anything she wanted. I was is much in love, I had no logic. This Marie Camp woman had me sprung so bad. I would do literally anything she said. And when we brainstormed about what to do next. It became obvious that she did love me. She loved me enough to take a big risk. To take off from Asheville, and avoid her court date altogether. We were to be " misdemeanor outlaws" together. Her and I . that's when this relationship goes to one step higher. We had to get out of Asheville, and fast. So ,we made our way to Black Mountain, we'll figure it out from there. So , together, we took a huge leap of faith, and headed the 13 miles to Black Mountain - on foot.

@ashevillelovedope2018 @pizzlelovedope

@jeypizzlefire

@mariecampmarryme

@heartbrokenforever

@godhelpus

[allieebobo]

Hey there~~ found your game by pure chance!thank fuck i did~ loved it!couldn't stop remembering my prince of tennis phase lmao

I didn't get the moves and all to be honest so the cheats were a big help!tysm~ not a really a sports person myself(more like couch potato lol) so it was really cool to make my mc~ the ros(?there are ros??it looks super chill so i dunno??love it anyway!!!)and characters are great!!!loved the dad too! My fav is Tobin but like he is super cute~ can't resist~

the french dude was totally a hit too!he looks so misterious~

And cmon we got the rival too???you aren't pulling any punches are you author?? Lol tysm for your work!! even if it looks like is not your main project?thats ok sweety~ take all the time you need! Just wanna let you know i enjoyed myself a lot!

Dunno if you had ask about the characters answered already?are they tagged?i would love to know them a little more~

Anyway sorry for this mess of a comment! Tysm again and take care~~💞💞💞💞💞💞

HAHAH thank you for this comment! not at all a mess (with paragraphs and all!)

Yes, there are 4 ROs! There's some info about 'em in the masterpost and the list of characters but I'm certainly still working on building up more texture and depth! If you have specific questions bout the ROs, I'd be down to answer them, and it'd probably be useful for my brainstorming :) (And you're right about the tagging system, that'd be a lot smarter than what I have going on right now.)

I'm so glad you've enjoyed the IF so far!

P.S. College Tennis is very much my main project! Merry Crisis is my side gig hahah. Though I suppose my job is, strictly speaking, my main project xD

P.P.S. I've always wanted to watch Prince of Tennis. Would you recommend, in this day and age?

[normalayasstuff]

So I've been thinking... and so I wanna tell you all (for you who might know me :b, newcomers welcome)

As you might know already, I'm writing 3 fanfics currently ("It's just by Pure Coincidence", "Likewise, I need this Job!", "FaiTh - Fate in Threshold") If you wanna check them out, look at my bio links, I have my AO3 link in there.

And for dearly freaking reason GOD KNOWS WHY, my mind was occupied with an entirely different story right now, that wasn't any of the 3 I just mentioned (⌐■_■)

It's gonna be long so feel free to read more below, if you really interested (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Of course I didn't intend to abandon any of my previous fic! Just, I guess I need time to brainstorming the plots for now. Especially since one of them is currently undergoing rewritten phase, and I'm adding illustration for each chapter. Also another one is being put on permanent hold since I have nowhere to go with the story. Daily life really is my weakness. And I have an announcement in the last chapter of what's happened with that fic (ironically that one has gotten more views and audience better than Just Coincidence fic, despite being rather new haha TvT). Just to assure you who's familiar with this fic, I didn't really drop it, not really. Just change the entire fic with the base I had in that fic as of now in a new story.

*It's Grillbaes AUs harem if u wondering. HAH. I hope I bait you in reading them with this >:3*

I'll spill the plots little by little in this blog since, well, that's the point of having this blog to begin with ;b

Now I have another story, that I think won't be enough to be put into just fanfic, I'm planning to make a fancomic, and my resolution on this plan were, must I say, rather absolute besides my 3 other fics.

But once I got enough audience for them, and the plot has got the finalize story and finished revisions, I'll open another side blog specialized for this story. I wanna be pretty serious on this one, ngl.

Since I'm balancing this hobby with my study as well, it'll take rather unbalanced updates. And I'm in my last year of high school so... yay. College time is coming :'D

This fic will contain a lot of self-indulgent story, and I'm serious when I said it's that kind of story.

Nothing complicated. Just a story of which were my daydreaming self in the past, imagining how would it felt if at that time I have someone to hold me up, so it's like a self-introspection story in a way.

If you wondering wth am I rambling about since before, I'm talking about Undertale fanfic u all. Yes, this comic-in-plan will contain many character AUs as well, specifically the skelebros AUs-centered.

Yeah, I need those skeletons in my life somehow, since I'm kinda abnormal to begin with, let's become mad anyway. And share this story with everyone :v

Woops I got carried away there. Sorry for making this kinda long, thx for whoever reading this until the end. U all are awesome! (and so patient reading this far hehe) ^^

[hades-999]

Fun facts 😸

Your an Alien 👽

Since I had no better idea for April 1th, I bring you this (yeh, today is 2nd, take as a joke 😜)

💀

So, I know they are aliens, but let's take a look some of Ben aliens who has weird biology, even with with the knowledge what we have;

Side note; I won't count Ultimates

Ripjaws

So, one of the weirdest one was this alien. On his waist he has that loincloth like -let's say- skin.....or tail? Not clothes, organic part

However, seemingly Magister Patelliday doesn't have

And my greatest question about this species; how does they transform their legs to tail? They can wrap their "skin" around of their tail, but the finns look totaly different from their feet

Also, they can use this on purpose, because Ripjaws swam with both legs and tail.....

Terraspin

Oh, boy, where should I start?

So, personally I think he has two heads; one front and one under his Shell

I mean; there's no way he can drive his neck that way

And I always wondered, the top of his head black and plug one of the airways or technicly he has only a mask like face with a hole on the top?

What's the deal about his legs? He can form fuse them? He can morph them? Can he form something other than a big paddle?

Also; his shell is very solid, and seemingly made from one piece, only holes for the wind and the externals plus the head. How the hell can he rotates around his flippers?

And those retractable claws are bizarre too, but ok, I can work with that...

The worst

Can they regenerate or they posess enchanted durability...?

Also, why are they blocking their navels? Each of them cover it with clothes or if they are half naked, than they use something

And why they put bandageas to it? Aren't they indestructable? Or are they, but not invulnerable?

Lodestar

Separated head. Cool. Fall-off head. Not so

So, his head can control his body, but he can't control it when he is far. However, he can lift a big car from a half-street distance

Also, the connection strong enought to Lodestar be lifted by head, but a single movement can destabilase

Blitzwolfer

So, it's cool and I like the idea but how does his face-spliting? Doesn't he always salivate his chin?

Can he lock his "side jaws" together?

Also, in the real world it would not work; the sound generation tube (what is partly his mouth) becomes shorter making the howl deeper. Also, he could use a skin around his mouth more than this open mouth, because it makes a less concentrated sound wave

Big chill

Sofar, only Brainstorm and he had visible mouth which didn't move during speaking

Before complaning that's true for Atomix too, but his mouth never moved, so whe can't be sure it is a real mouth or he use an alternative way to speak

Back to the previous point; Brainstorm actually communicating by projected brain waves but Big chill just open it to shoots ice, but that's all.......

I found strange he rarely moving his wings while flying. But I completly lost when he wraped them around himself, like a clook (actually a cool one) and he still levitated. Than why does he even have wings?

About the intangible form; It somehow still belivable he can touch other "untouchable things" but two problem;

The Omnitrix completly wanishes. Not even it's siluette. Where does it goes? Mysteri....

He freezing objects what he phasing trought. Except when he doesn't.....

Echo Echo

So, maybe it's new information for some of you, but actually that white shouting amplifier is a robot outfit. The real creature is completly made out of sound. Technicly it's powering the suit

That would means he is spiting himself out each time he uses his power?

And a creature completly made out of sound has/have DNA, but a spirit from life energy (manna) hasn't?

Oh, and there's the duplication. Ok, I get it, he can make an other sound creature from himself. But how can he make an other robotic suit for himself?

Also; why does his suite looks like this? This is how a sound creature's 3D modell looks like?

Is his suit magnitazable? Can a Galvanic methamorph control it?

Nanomech

So, be honest.....: He doesn't even an alien, just Ben DNA fused with nanochip

So, that's all alien weirdo for today. If you hate it, you read it so far, joke on you....😜

[matthewbct]

Reflective Blog

Cards for play -

In the first studio project myself and melissa worked together to produce our cards, we toyed with a few ideas before settling on the one we used, I think that we took far to long to come to a decision on what we were doing and this caused our work to suffer, we left too much time between steps of the production, we were too short on time to troubleshoot our problems e.g. the resin had bubbles in it. I think that if we had better time management we could have addressed these issues and produced better cards.

Sound project - 

At the start of the sound project when we were tasked with making a soundscape I think that I should have collected a few more sounds, just to diversify my piece. I liked it and it created the feeling of dread like I intended but I think that I could have made it a bit better with a few more active sound e.g thudding rather than multiple drones added over top of each other.

During the instrument making phase, I really had no ideas and I struggled to get anywhere. Eventually, I had the idea to use different sounding static from an amplifier as my instrument, even after my original idea didn't work I changed my concept so that it would work. In the end, my instrument worked like I intended it to.

During the performance phase, our group worked reasonably well together, I think that we could have all contributed a bit more and challenged ideas we didn't like which could have made our performance better.

Film Project - 

I really enjoyed this project as the whole speculative aspect of it gave us a lot of freedom to do our own thing, We originally intended to make an animation but we realised that would have taken far too long so in the end, we decided to make a machinima using Garry's mod. The only problem we had was that we didn't divide the work evenly between ourselves and we didn't have good communication, which made the production of the video difficult.

Processing - 

I really enjoyed the first half of the programming course, I found that learning and writing the code was fun, I had the idea to make 1 player pong for my project which turned out to be far harder than I originally thought.

ICT - 

For each vlog I spent about 2 afternoons worth of time planning and brainstorming for each of them, I filmed them on my phone and I edited them in adobe premier. I was really pleased with them and I think they made the points that I wanted them to.

For the poster I spent a few hours trying to sum up, the message from my second vlog into 1 sentence, Which I thought was only going to take a few minutes. I found an abstract angular background similar to what AUT uses for its branding. In highschool I took media studies and know the basics of how to layout a poster and I think that it helped me make a poster that catches the attention of those who see it.