#it was still covid times
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#having weird feelings again#<very lowkey me lore my brother had lung cancer a couple years ago hes fine now>#i dont talk about it rlly ever#and its also bc... i just also wasnt involved in it#like... our parents sat us down and told us but like....#it was still covid times#we couldnt go with him or see him in the hospital or anything#we had to go to school i had to take care of my sister#there wasnt ever a time for it to set in#and idk if it still has#i had like. a math test the day he was in surgery and my birthday was in two days#it was just. idk#nightjay blogging
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If you've ever told a person who's had to be bedbound for a period of time that you wish you could "just stay in bed", DO IT.
Stay in bed. For days. But don't get up if someone needs you to, or you get bored, or you get antsy. Don't do anything other than rest. Just lie in your bed, whether you need to get stuff done around the house or socialize or anything else "productive". You'll have to cancel on people, you'll disappoint them, they won't understand.
And if you're thinking, "well, i CAN'T just be in bed. There's stuff that has to be done - I have plans", maybe ask yourself why you assumed a disabled person doesn't have plans or things to do or desires.
#Disability#Bedbound#Housebound#Actually disabled#Chronic illness#Long covid#Chronic fatigue#Inspired by my boss asking what I did over the weekend and I said I couldn't get out of bed and he said that sounds nice actually#I'm literally only able to work bc I am in bed at all times I'm not at work and it's still so hard and painful#I can't get my own groceries or cook my own meals or socialize or eat at restaurants or go to movies or take care of my own pets#If I didn't have a loving generous caring spouse I'd be dead by now
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this might be a hot take but i think we should still be required to wear masks on airplanes
#my parents got covid for the first time from flying back in february :/#i still haven’t gotten it but i fly a lot and i flew today and there was barely anyone masked#covid hasn’t stopped happening lol#yeehaws
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boobed up tboys unite :P (he/him for both)
some fanart for @wolfertinger666
i really like salem's design, and wanted to draw him and my own fursona. i always really appreciate your positivity, and wanted to share some of my own. hope you like this!
#sable#oc#fanart#art#salem#wolfertinger666#sable's white markings on his chest are meant to look like my chest hair. :)#i've been on T for 3 years!#but i'm currently non-op and still undecided if i ever want to get top surgery lol#right now though with covid it's not really safe to spend prolonged periods of time in hospitals... sadly... so i couldn't even if i wanted
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Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will
#svsss#scum villian self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#the fact that people think scum villain#-a series that examines and criticizes common tropes in fiction-#is somehow against criticism or being a little hater is wild to me#especially since shen qingqiu never gets punished for being a hater#heck- he's still a little hater by the end of the series#he mostly gets punished for treating life like a play and like he and the people around him are characters#(or in other words- he suffers for denying his own wants and emotions and his own sense of empathy)#I think some of y'all underestimate how much writing/art is inspired by creaters being little haters#like example off the top of my head-#the author of Iron Widow has been pretty vocal about the book being inspired by their hatred of Darling in the Franxx#I think my interpretation of Shen Yuan's transmigration is also supported by the fact that this series is an examines writing processes#side note- though i understand why people say Shen Yuan is lazy and think its a valid take it still doesnt sit right with me#i am probably biased because my own experiences with chronic pain and depression and isolation#but ya- i dont think Shen Yuan is lazy so much as he is deeply lonely and feels purposeless after denying parts of himself for 20ish years#like yall remember the online fandom boom from covid right?#being stuck completely alone in bed while feeling like shit for 20 days straight does shit to your brain#the fact that no one came to check on him + he wasn't exactly upset about leaving anyone behind supports the isolation interpretation too#+in the skinner demon arc he describes his life of being a faker/inability to stop being a faker now that he's Shen Qingqiu#as “so bland he's tempted to throw salt on himself” and “all he could do is lay around and wait for death” (<-paraphrasing)#bro wants to be doing stuff but is stuck in paralysis from repeatedly following scrips made by other people#another point on “Shen Yuan isn’t lazy” is just the sheer amount of studying that man does#also he did graduate college- how lazy can he really be#he doesnt know what hes doing but he at least tries to actively train his students#and he actually works on improving his own cultivation + spends quite a bit of time preping the mushroom body thing#+he's experiencing bouts of debilitating chronic pain throughout all this#but ya tldr: Shen Yuan's transmigration is an encouragement to write and not a punishment and also i dont think its fair to call him lazy
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[DAY 6 - POST COVID] no time for morning smooching the god damn pancakes are burning !!!
#also this like the first proper time i draw pc creek…#go easy on me i’m still learning how to draw them old x-x#south park#sp fanart#south park fanart#sp art#tweek tweak#craig tucker#sp creek#craig x tweek#sp tweek#sp craig#south park post covid#pc creek#tweekweek2024#[idiotic art]
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On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?
*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)
*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)
(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )
(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)
#polls#tumblr polls#I'm mostly in the 0/1 - 25$ category. Maybe the rare month is a bit over $25 if there's something specific going on like birthday.#Which I'm NEVER eating in an actual restaurant (erm... covid... plus I just hate restaurant environments. i would rather pickup#the food and bring it home to a peaceful quiet environment that I control lol). But more typically like stopping by a grocery store deli#section or something. I don't have coffee that much. And I can't eat fast food much due to my health issues/diet restriction stuff#so if I'm out like coming back from an appointment and I start feeling really sick and weak. I know that a hamburger will just#blow up my system and cause nausea or something. So I try to pick the breadiest most#neutral looking turkey sandwich at the safeway deli to eat during the hour ride home or whatever lol#I actually kind of wish I could do stuff like get food more often vecause it would take the burden of cooking everything off of me#but.. alas... Money... and Health Things... T o T#I still wouldn't do it ALL the time but like... once a week instead of once a month or something.. or maybe turning into a coffee#person.. I do love drinks A LOT .. i am a drink person who will have 5 different drinks sipping on at all times#But i just have to make them all myself mostly lol#And I cant really have too much coffee since it will make me sick. so like.. teas and juice mostly#When I inevitably become a millionaire by never using social media never networking and only finishing one#sculpture every 5 months which I dont even post about or sell - then I shall... get more drinks..#I will somehow wean my body onto coffee and drink one a day solely for the ritual of it#Though even then... I would still probably just like.. buy the mateirals to make it at home or something#Like if you had a million dollars you could just buy a kitchen grade ice cream machine and other stuff to make your own milkshakes and#coffees and smoothies and bubble teas. Genuinely I think even if I were a BILLIONAIRE I would still look at playing likr $8 for a single#coffee and go .. uh.... I could just buy the equipment to make this and then save that money. PLUS. its in my house now so no need to#have to leave. I can make my own drinks in the comfort of home. .. ideal..#Like no matter how rich I ever got I would still have the lingering scroogey stinginess. like i am NOT paying for that. I will jus#make it myself. Especially if it was an Everyday thing. Anythign thats part of my routine I try to optimize and make as efficient as#possible... ANYWAY.. In an IDEAL world I would get treats. but probably not that much. as on a daily basis it would start to get#to me and I would just save up to buy kitchen machinery if I was rich lol
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some selected frames from the upcoming animation!
#kasane teto#vocal synth#utauloid#utau#vsynth#sineads teto project#my art#my animation#the animation is coming along well! i did what i feared i would do though. i did all the nice easy shots and now all thats left is the-#-complicated stuff#i currently have covid from someone at work so ive been spending most of my time in bed#today was the first time in a week ive had the energy to do some shots#theres 5 shots left to animate!! still cautiously optimistic about mid january as a deadline#we will see
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Also this is a crazy stat 😯😳
#formula 1#charles leclerc#sebastian vettel#this stat just spat in my face pushed me down the stairs and called me old#my perception of time just has not been the same since like covid ngl. it's like we've been on super speed since 2020 and i hate it#but yeah the brain just. doesnt compute that they're now at 6 seasons each at ferrari. and charles still has so many left to go#i just hope he has something to show for it (wdc) at the end of the road#although i have noticed that he looks noticeably older now. not in a bad way just. i sometimes get nostalgic for like#that early ferrari charles. idk in my mind he looked so different and had this v distinct energy#and he was so... idk unpolished? prone to saying the first thing that came out of his mouth and wearing his heart on his sleeve#and publicly sulking and making googoo eyes at his teammate and laughing at a joke he didnt fully grasp and glancing away#alexa play everybody's changing by keane 😭
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I got covid for the first time this week so I am suffering with you. We are illness buddies. We shall travel together and defeat our illnesses with a might swing of our swords and then we will hold hands and walk into the rest of our lives, healthy and happy.
We'll fight our way to good health - Together!
#ask#non-mdzs#digital art#Thank you very much for the super cute art and the well wishes!#I hope you feel better soon!!! I have heard very unpleasant things about the newer strains of covid...#I get stress sick easily but this is the first time in a while I've had a virus...Awful creatures!#Little dinks aren't even technically creatures. Or rather they are debatably creatures? Still. They much be obliterated.#I will hit your germs if my sword if you hit mine!#We'll get through this together!!! Illness buddies!#And because it is the flu season; best wishes to anybody else who's struggling with The Symptoms.#You can also join our Fighting Illness adventuring party. Is anybody willing to be a cleric?
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I imagine barnaby trying to be all cool and flirting with howyd subtly but his smoke gives him away fjsns
he thinks he's smooth smh...
#cracking up thinking about this ngl#like howdy continues on with work#and whoever's at the table with barn - lets say uhhhh idk julie#is like 'awww your smoke turns pink when you talk to him'#and barn just freezes a la 'excusemeitfuckingWHAT'#aaaand Slam that panic button#bbg didnt know....#rambles from the bog#wh fantasy au#anyway i think ill never draw a better howdy#i squandered my Him points on an au scribble- AN AU SCRIBBLE#ive peaked ill never get any better!#< lie. there's always room for improvement and reaching new heights#on the flip side i had such a rough time with barn#its always an exchange - i can either draw a good howdy or a good barn Never both smh#still though idk How this came out as good as it has i have not drawn in days#nary a line nor doodle to be found...#but covid is wearing off and babey i am BACK!#slowly. it beat me up pretty good ngl#it took me tf out im gonna be extra tired for a while...#but since my congestion has cleared up and im not Hacking and Sniffling anymore#stream soon probably! Normal Stream To Get Back In The Swing Of Things#it feels like ive been sick for a thousand years but i think its been like#three days??? i really dont know...#i hope everyone is doing well and Not getting covid. wear your mask#i wore mine but my stepdad didnt and Look What Fuckin Happened
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Guys.. I'm glad you guys are eagerly awaiting the updates for SEB, but please understand that I am just one artist working on this comic and this will take time. Time I barely have because hey! Life is a thing.
Comics take time, even more so when you have to do virtually everything on your own. There's writing, storyboarding, drawing the whole thing out. Polishing takes time. While I do have an editor with me onboard and my friends to throw in their input, it's still me alone who has to do everything else. Not to mention I was busy packing my belongings including my PC because of the big move that happened this past year. And then I got COVID. It fucking sucked being out for nearly two weeks because of that.
I have to stress that with each answered inquiry over the timing of next volume, I receive 4 more in its place. Scourge Eternal Blackout is a passion project that receives no monetary gain and I would like to keep it that way. However.. as of late I've noticed it has been reuploaded on other sites without my permission. In future uploads, all pages will have a watermark on them. Thank you for taking the time to read my post, and thanks again for understanding.
#patar speaks#updates#Scourge Eternal Blackout#I'm still dealing with the damage covid left in my system as I type this. It was really bad this time around.
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I was inspired by this absolutely amazing piece :,)) I was listening to “We don’t talk anymore” from Charlie Puth while doodling this, so..I don’t know, do what you want with this information haha-
(Another doodle under the read more)
Wife, mother material. Made to be bred till no end, gorgeous bastard creature-
#kyman#post covid#eric cartman#kyle broflovski#implied poly main4#South Park#heeei…….#its been a while#sorry#I rarely have the time to draw South Park so ;;#im probably gonna appear from time to time and then disappear again#i want to be more active but life is being life and im succumbing to it hah#anyway#i hope you guys are doing good#i still receive a lot of your likes and I appreacite you all so much ughuuuuu#okay now i go for real#byeeeeeeeee#Theo art
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Article from Bloomberg by Jason Schreier, under a cut due to length.
"New ‘Dragon Age’ Game Faced Turbulent Development The studio head of EA’s BioWare says ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ received nothing but support from EA throughout its lengthy production cycle EA’s BioWare label hopes to find redemption with the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard Today we’re getting in-depth on the new Dragon Age game A new age for dragons In late 2020, when Gary McKay took over as studio head of BioWare, the Electronic Arts Inc. subsidiary best known for making big roleplaying games, the climate was dire. BioWare, which is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, had released two critically panned games and was facing turbulent development on a new one — while trying to cope with a worldwide pandemic. “We needed to shift how we were thinking about building our games,” McKay told me in a recent interview. BioWare, founded in 1995 and purchased by EA in 2007, had won over millions of fans with hit single-player RPG franchises such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect. But a 2017 entry called Mass Effect: Andromeda was widely panned, and the studio’s next game, the 2019 multiplayer shooter Anthem, flopped both critically and commercially. Both games had also gone through brutal development cycles that drove many BioWare veterans to exit the studio. At the end of 2020, studio boss Casey Hudson was planning to step down and called McKay to ask if he would take over. “We had a few conversations over the course of the next month around the people and the culture,” McKay said. BioWare’s next big project would be a new game in the popular fantasy Dragon Age franchise. But the game, which had been in development for years, was facing turmoil and had been rebooted from a single-player game into a live-service game with a heavy multiplayer component, which EA had been pushing across many of its subsidiaries in the late 2010s. Hudson, too, was interested in multiplayer games and had been the lead visionary on Anthem. Some employees jeeringly referred to the next Dragon Age as “Anthem with dragons,” which worried fans after I reported on the game at Kotaku. Enthusiasts of the series wanted another single-player game, not a repeat of BioWare’s biggest mistake. When he took over, McKay began to feel similarly. “We were thinking, ‘Does this make sense, does this play into our strengths, or is this going to be another challenge we have to face?’” McKay said. “No, we need to get back to what we’re really great at.” In the months that followed, McKay met with leadership across BioWare and EA and ultimately decided to reboot the next Dragon Age a second time, pivoting back to single-player."
The choice was obvious in many ways. Anthem had flopped while EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a single-player action-adventure game, had sold more than 10 million copies, helping prove to the publisher that not all of its games needed to be online. BioWare games were popular because of their focus on character dialogue and player-driven narrative decisions, which did not mesh with multiplayer gaming. “Once we made that decision, a lot of things started to fall into place,” McKay said. In the years that followed, he would go on to consolidate more of the studio’s projects, shutting down an attempt to reboot Anthem and selling off the rights to the online game Star Wars: The Old Republic to a separate studio. The goal, McKay said, was “focus.” BioWare then spent the next three-and-a-half years developing what would become Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the fourth game in the franchise. Out this week, the game has received mostly positive reviews and so far topped charts, although EA has not yet revealed sales numbers. Some things went right during development. McKay said they “had the game end-to-end playable” earlier than any previous BioWare product, allowing them to spend extra time iterating. A reorganization at EA, which split the company into divisions called EA Games and EA Sports, allowed Dragon Age: The Veilguard to receive more support from internal teams that might otherwise be stretched thin, such as research and data insights groups. “That gave us an extra boost in terms of the support and focus from the company,” McKay said. But the development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard still faced plenty of obstacles. The pandemic led BioWare to shift to hiring remotely, which McKay said made for cultural challenges. The game slipped past its original target date, although McKay wouldn’t say how much extra time it needed. “I’m never going to call it a slip,” he said. And it went through significant scope changes over the course of development. Then, last summer, BioWare laid off 50 people, including veterans with decades of experience. McKay told me the reduction, which arrived during a period of widespread layoffs across the video-game industry, “was all about focus at that time.” “When you have a really large team, you’re always compelled to keep everybody busy all the time,” he said. “When you have a smaller team, you have the right people in the right roles at the right time, some incredible momentum is gained at that point.” The stakes are high for the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Fans and pundits have worried that a third failure in a row might have devastating results for BioWare. McKay wouldn’t comment on the specifics of what would make the game a hit in their eyes. But said he has felt supported by EA Entertainment & Technology President Laura Miele. The game is so important to BioWare’s future that the company brought in its second team, which has been incubating a new Mass Effect, to help out during the final stretch of development. The Mass Effect team played a major role in finishing and polishing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Other companies across EA, such as its Motive studio in Montreal, also supported the game. Now, the company will look to see how players react to the next Dragon Age — and, McKay hopes, “bring BioWare back into the conversation as a top game studio.”
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#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: dreadwolf#dragon age 4#the dread wolf rises#da4#dragon age#bioware#video games#longpost#long post#covid mention#mass effect#mass effect: andromeda#next mass effect#sw:tor#anthem#(this is from nov 1. but i'm still looking through backlog piles of headlines from the time i was hiding in the spoilerbunker so this post#is late)
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Me In 2020
Everyone: “Don’t worry, COVID will be over within a few years.”
Expectation: *The virus will fade away to a point where it becomes rare, and hardly anyone will ever get it anymore. Vaccines will become available that will completely eradicate it. Long COVID sufferers will eventually completely recover. Everything will be exactly like it was pre-2020.*
Me In 2023
Reality: *Everyone pretends it doesn’t exist anymore, even though it’s as rampant as ever. 1,000+ people are directly dying from COVID in the U.S. alone each week. Thousands around the world are still getting infected with the virus each week. Long COVID sufferers are still suffering, with no sign of getting better in sight. We’re learning more and more about how dangerous this virus actually is, yet people are caring less and less. Very few people still wear masks anymore in the United States; and social distancing is nonexistent. You’re probably more likely to be harassed by a stranger for wearing a mask now, than come across someone who actually still takes this seriously.*
Things are actually worse now than 2020, because unlike 2020 - when safety protocols were in place, no one cares now…
#nat speaks#activism#coronavirus#COVID19#almost 7 in the morning time to remind people#that COVID still exists
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note: the following is three (almost four) years post-game
okay fine i'll just draw comics for my au since writing is so dang hard smh
anyways welcome to two coins! where loop shows up again but siffrin only got the one hat ending
edit: part two
#2024#isat two coins au#isat loop#isat mirabelle#isat siffrin#isat spoilers#on technicality#isat#in stars and time#this was also an excuse to play with mira's hair again bc i wanna see her in braids so bad! with beads that click clack as she walks!#hairier isabeau... oh merciful neptune oh sweet aphrodite i thibk i hauve covid#also none of these outfits are like... definitive. i'm indecisive so i want everybody to have a wardrobe#LOOP'S HAT IS NOT SIFFRIN'S BTW they prioritized hiding from siffrin over finding where it landed oop that thing is GONE gone#that coin attached to the tip of that hat is also not siffrin's... but siffrin doesnt know that...#also hey yall ever think about how loop can kinda turn their light out and maybe be invisible? i do#anyway this au is also loop/siffrin/isabeau just fyi... also maybe the tiniest of shoutouts to loop/odile if i'm feeling cheeky#also also also... loop still uses they/them but there will be more feminine terms used for them in this au ;u;#baby finally started seeing themself as a person again and is reevaluating their gender#people around where they've been frequently traveling call them miss lu or some call them lady#eventually when the polycule is complete i want siffrin and isabeau to both call loop ''my lady'' bc the thought just makes me melt#you don't /need/ to know that but i'm telling you#okay i've been trying to articulate my thoughts in the tags for half an hour so i'll stop now...#have a good day/night i love you mwah mwah mwah
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