#ive been finishing all my projects later than i wanted

[typheus]

anyways the projects i have next are :

1 my sisters blanket (is halfway done)

2 the skirt (idk how many rows this’ll take so im gonna do 50 for now)

3 the tablerunner (is halfway done)

once i finish the tablerunner im gonna finish the skirt. then its onto the next ‘set’ of projects i wanted to finish this year 👍😌✌️

[icewindandboringhorror]

[the-blaze-empress]

Small Gods

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza, Ranboo & Phil Watson | Philza, Niki | Nihachu & Phil Watson | Philza, Philza’s Relationship With Himself, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Technoblade/Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Phil Watson | Philza, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Niki | Nihachu, Toby Smith | Tubbo, TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Jack Manifold Additional Tags: Background Ranboo/Tubbo, Alternate Universe – Gods & Goddesses, Alternate Universe – Modern Setting, Trans Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Ranboo (Video Blogging RPF), Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Accidental Self-Harm, past transphobia, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Queerplatonic Technoblade/Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), God Ranboo, Other Additional Tags to be Added, Phil and Techno are very ambiguous interpret them how you want Summary:

Techno’s question weighs heavy on his mind even hours later, when the room is dark and Techno is snuffling in his sleep, and Phil knows he should be doing just the same.

Is he okay?

It needles at him. Pokes and prods and works its way in through the cracks Phil keeps trying to patch up. It finds the emptiness in his sternum and it writhes there, twisting and turning and aching.

The answer is clear.

— Or, Phil feels empty, and he’s not sure if that’s a good thing or not.

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Small Gods is back!!!

thats right!! it's back!! ive spent the last month slowly chipping away at editing wil out, replacing him with jack. it's my first time writing him, so he might be a little wonky in places, especially because he's covering up wil's lines.

there is a new chapter ready and waiting to be posted as well!! it's not out yet, but it will be in the next couple of days, when i have the time to post it properly. for now, all i've done is update the fic, and add a few new tags.

as ever, there is no upload schedule to this fic. and as ever, it isn't over until i say it's over. it may have taken me a year, but i still care about this fic so much and intend to see it through. it just might take a little more time than i first thought.

the sincerest thank you to everyone who's still here and still reading. thank you to those who have moved on, for enjoying it even in its half finished state. thank you to those who have been waiting patiently, and thank you to those who may have forgotten this even existed in the first place and are just rediscovering it. you all mean the world to me.

here's to another however many chapters of small gods!!

[shark-myths]

hi!!!! ive probably sent an ask like this before but how do you keep up the motivation to finish a longer fic? whenever i start writing a fic i know will be long i end up abandoning it or getting bored or not knowing how to continue / end it. the few multichaptered fics ive posted are incomplete and i dont know when they’ll be finished. i have a couple of longer fics in drafts but it just feels like such a challenge to finish them. how do you do it?

ooh i love this question! i am proud of being a finisher--in all my years of writing fic (it's been... many), i have only ever once started posting something i didn't finish. i generally wait until i'm really confident i can finish a fic before i begin posting it. sometimes, as you may have experience in real time with Rosewood Lane, there is a looooong time between updates... but i usually like to keep an update schedule. giving myself deadlines works really well to motivate me and keep myself organized! i also tend to be a daily writer, i'm happiest when i have a little time to sit down every morning and work on a project, whether that's rereading, editing, or writing deeper into the story. i actually am usually trying to make my fics shorter than they end up, but i feel like most stories have their shape already and know how long they need to be to do what i want them to, and i'm merely hanging on. i would love to get better at writing short pieces. having cheerleaders and readers helps too! i find it so exciting to share updates with everyone.

when a story gets boring--and this does happen to me--i try to jump around and write any shred of it i can find that feels interesting, or i go back to the last part that felt interesting and either change or entirely scrap what comes after it that went flat for me. i also avoid any type of real outlining or plotting (sometimes this is pretty obvious in my finished product, oops) because once i know everything that's going to happen, the why and how and where of a story's arc, i lose interest in writing it. i'm in it for the surprise and whatever's coming around the bend! if i have it all planned out, there feels to be very little point in actually writing it--instead it starts to feel like a dreaded task to me. work, not writing.

i also sometimes leave stories alone for a long time. i did this with Footnote, and i did it with Dirty Enough to Love, and i did it with my 1950s au when it was too much GENDER and REALITY for me to deal with. these don't see the light of day while they're on the back burner; the pressure to post can turn right into avoidance and dislike of a project for me, which is why i am so slow to start posting a story even when a significant portion is already written.

so i guess, writing tips from a shark, tl;dr version:

give yourself a schedule for writing and posting that feels organized and manageable

don't rush to start posting, this can turn an unfinished story into a task you want to avoid

find someone you can share your excitement with, whether they're in the fandom or not, and talk about your ideas and intentions with them

trust the length a story wants to be

also, trust yourself about the length of story you interested in writing

if it's boring, try telling it differently. jump ahead, jump back, delete the scene that got you stuck, change something, drop part of the narrative, skip some time or detail

don't be afraid to abandon something and come back to it months or years later

create more mystery and unknowns in the story to keep yourself interested. hide things from yourself! throw wrenches in your best-laid plans! let your characters completely sabotage you! obscure the path ahead so you are interested by the task of finding it again.

whatever you do, just keep writing. you will have a lifelong relationship to the craft and it will change over time, like our bodies, like the seasons. be where the joy is right now and don't get too worried about where you want to be later.

thank you for the thoughtful question! happy writing 💜

[infinitestarsdev]

Devlog 2025-01-25

Devlog

Happy sort-of, possibly still Friday!

Writing has been going well, both Infinite Stars and the sealed-with-a-kiss jam entry. Most of my time this week has been focused on Infinite Stars, but with the jam deadline coming up next week, I'll shift some of my focus towards that. Our newest two writers have also started working on their respective projects (Project Syndicate and Draegan Herald, both of which have not been receiving the TLC they demand until now), so we'll have some more updates soon.

I also realised that an Infinite Stars release might be sooner than later due to how the story is structured. It was taking longer than usual, and looking into it, we've kind of 'over' written. We had planned a release point, and somehow, we overshot it. That means the original planned content is about 4/5ths done, AND the next release after that is also 2/3rds done. Usually, I would say meh, we're so close we might as well wrap up the entire episode, but it's been a while since the last release, so I'd rather return to the original planned release and then have a shorter dev cycle for the release after the next one to finish Episode IV.

I also have some fun artwork to share for sealed-with-a-kiss! We swapped some sprites around, and I can now show you the final version of the Captain! (The image in the header!)

The other crew members for the game are all done, and we even have our first-ever CG scene. I'm not a huge fan of CG scenes (I prefer theatre of the mind), but it's mandatory to qualify for the jam.

On the personal side, my partner is travelling overseas for work, and we're saying goodbye to each other this Sunday. It's only for a week, but it will feel like forever. It's the longest we've been apart in 10 years. I'll also be solo parenting for our little one during that time. I dread their inevitable tears from not understanding where my partner is, but we'll get through it.

On a more positive note, 2025 has started off great. I've been getting more work done (day job and Infinite Stars), and I feel pretty good and hopeful inside my bubble despite all the changes and uncertainty in the world right now.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Patreon has been nagging me that I need to update our tier rewards and pricing, as we haven't done so in nearly 4 years. I'm working on that. I'm planning to introduce the new pricing structure (and tier rewards) from 1 March 2025. I hate inflation; I hate paying more for my basic necessities than I did last week or the week before that. I hate having to increase prices and being part of the problem, but the reality is I have to. We'll add a new tip tier at the same price as our current 'ensign' membership. Most tiers will see a $2-$3 increase, which is quite high (percentage-wise) on the lowest tiers and quite low (percentage-wise) on the higher tiers, especially if you divide it by 4 years to get the average annual increase, which we haven't done for the past 4 years, and I hope not to do again for at least another few years. It also means that you'll be seeing a short reminder about this every week until the increase does happen, as I don't want to blindside anyone.

That's it from me. Have a beautiful weekend, be safe, and try to remember that everyone you interact with is dealing with something, so be the catalyst for kindness.

[imnotasuperhero]

Look into my eyes (search your soul)

Wanda Maximoff x Reader

Summary: Your love for Wanda could make you go the distance and more, just to see her happy. 

A/N: I honestly don’t know what this is. Just a needed filler chapter for the final coming up? I should admit I’ve hit a wall that if it wasn’t for @wandabear​ who slapped me with out of the writers block i don’t know if I’d be able to continue this, lol. I just want to say that tooth-rotting fluff is coming. Hope you enjoy this mess (:

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII

Getting out of your car, you couldn’t help the smile growing by the second as your chest inflated with pride.

The house you’ve always wanted was about to be finished. After all the hard work and the re-designs, in just a few more days your forever home would be ready for you to fill with thousands of memories.

“Hi, James!” You greeted your contractor.

“Hi, Miss,” he bowed mockingly.

“Cut the crap, asshole.” You laughed at him.

“What? My salary after this will ricochet. It’s only fair I treat you as royalty.”

“We both know we’ve had bigger projects. Don’t you?” A raised eyebrow accompanied your smirk.

“This was the most challenging, though.” He countered as you both walked through the front door. “Which leads me to-”

“Please, no.” You whined disappointedly, feeling the happiness melting away.

“It’s big,” James informed. “Remember how we were greatly surprised the water pipelines were practically new?”

“I don’t get it. The inspection came out right.” You felt a tug at your heart as you spotted the huge hole in the floor.

“We still have to figure out exactly where the leak is. We’re waiting for the inspectors,” 

“How long?” You braced yourself as the anxiety took over.

“To move into the house? Around 7 weeks.” 

“The fuck? You know my lease ends in less than 6. Right?” You growled.

“I’m sorry, Y/N. Might as well make sure everything is okay so you don’t have to fix it later on.” James reasoned.

Sighing, you just nodded defeatedly. The news about you being homeless even if for a bunch of days only increased the anxiety absorbing the reduced oxygen your lungs needed to function properly.

“Do you know a trusted storing company, by any chance?” You put your hands in the pockets of your jeans, trying to hide the shaking.

“I’ll send you the contact later, yes?” He looked up at you with a sympathetic smile.

“Thank you,” you smiled sadly before making your exit. You didn’t have it in you to inspect the remodeling anymore. Much less to ask about details.

Closing the car’s door harder than you should’ve, your fists collided against the steering wheel repeatedly. To say you were furious was an understatement. It was in times like these that you questioned how much of an asshole you have been in your past lives to be paying such karma. 

You see, having to ask for shelter wasn’t something that worried you because you knew your friends would happily take you in. But what upset you was that it happened right when you had not one but two different clients that had requested a 3D model of their projects. And if the chaos your workplace turned into had you moody, you didn’t want to imagine how it’d affect whoever decided to host you.

But before you could dwell too much into your disgrace, your phone took you out of your reverie.

“Yes?” You tried to steady your voice.

“Uhh, troubles in paradise?” You cursed yourself for failing such easy tasks.

“Don’t remind me,” you grunted. “What’s up, Bucks?”

“Everyone is here already. Don’t tell me you forgot?” You could hear the voices of your friends talking in the background.

“Right. I didn’t forget,” you sighed. “I’m on my way, now.”

The way to Natasha’s was spent trying to calm down your anxiety. Today was a day to just enjoy your friends' company and have some good times. There’d be time to worry about your problems later.

But of course, that was better said than done for as you raised your hand to knock on the redhead’s door, your phone started to ring and the name of your most exigent client flashed on the screen.

Inhaling a long breath, you picked up the call. “Good afternoon, Mr. Coleman,”

“Hello, darling. Is there any chance you could send me the design for the guest house?”

“But there are a few details to finish,” you reasoned with the old man as you smiled exasperated to the redhead at the other side of the door.

“I understand, but I’m here with my son and he wants to check it out before you finish it just to get-” You walked inside the apartment, plopping yourself on the three-body couch in the living room, not interested in the explanation the man provided you.

“Alright, Mr. Coleman. I’ll send you the sketch right now.” You bumped your head against the padded backrest of the couch repeatedly at the lack of room to scream. It wouldn’t be very professional of you, after all.

“Thank you, darling. Have a nice weekend.” The old man greeted and you could only answer in the most cheerful voice you could fake before hanging up and leaving a loud grunt.

“I want a sugar mommy,” you whined, earning the laughs of your friends.

“Didn’t peg you for a sugar baby,” Natasha scrunched her nose at the thought.

“Ehh. If the pay is worth it,” you shrugged looking around. “Where are my babies?” you pouted at Wanda.

“They’re with Vision,” the redhead smiled tenderly and you ignored the trembling of your heart.

“Bummer.” You sighed. “Nat? Can I borrow your laptop?” You then turned to the redhead, who was looking at you with a knowing smirk.

“Sure thing,” she pursed her lips trying to keep whatever she was thinking to herself, making it impossible for you to stay glued to the couch.

“Why you looking at me like that?” You questioned the older woman as you followed her to her study.

“Sugar mommy? Really?” Natasha laughed mockingly.

“You know it was just a joke, right?”

“Does Wanda, thought?”

“What does she has to do with that?” You frowned confused.

“Dude, you can’t say those things in front of her. She has it bad for you,” 

“Oh, shut up. She doesn’t.” You shook your head as you pressed the keys to access your email.

“I’m telling you, you’re so smart for a lot of things but so dumb when it comes to her.” Natasha walked away, leaving you dumbfounded with her words replaying in your mind. 

But there’ll be time to try and decipher her words later. Now, you have to tend to your irritating client.

After what seemed like a few minutes too long of you fumbling with the touchpad, you clicked on the ‘send’ button and logged out of your account, turning off the laptop in the process.

The way Natasha's eyes were set on you despite having her girlfriend by her side made Wanda's blood boil with jealousy. Even more so at the way you were fidgeting as you kept stealing glances at her. The secrecy of it all had Wanda's fingers itching to pat the redhead’s smirk away.

Truth be told, it's been a few days since Natasha had taken her place in your life. Granted, you still visited each other frequently like you used to. But most times than not, Natasha was present when Wanda visited you. And even though Wanda knew the redhead’s heart belonged to Maria, she couldn’t help the greeny monster taking over her.

"So, how's the house going?" Wanda's attention picked up at those words, turning her gaze to you.

"Painfully slowly going." You whined, chewing the bite you just took.

"I thought it was almost done?" Bucky asked.

Sighing, you positioned yourself with your back against the armrest of the sofa and Wanda couldn’t help the soft caress in her heart at seeing you so relaxed if it wasn't for the frown on your face.

"James found a leak in the water pipeline and it'll take longer for me to move in, so now I'll be homeless when my leash ends next month," you sighed looking down at your hands and Wanda's words stuck in her throat as Natasha beat her to it.

"That sucks. But you know you can stay with me for whatever long it takes. Right?" The redhead offered.

"And have Maria having a meltdown?" 

"Hey! I'm not that bad." The brunette complained.

"Who are you kidding? I can tell you the times you scolded me for being so careless when you saw me working," you chuckled heartily and Wanda couldn’t help giggling at the image playing in her mind.

"In my defense, it looks like a tornado passed by after you finish it." She shrugged.

Wanda didn't get to understand your retort as she was taken to the past, when she had stayed -multiple times- with you as you worked through the night building rooms and molding different miniatures of furniture out of cardboard and wood sticks as you created the mock-up of the design you were working on. Feeling the calm taking over her as she got to see you so at ease into your element even though it left you crying sometimes. The way you always patiently instructed her how to cut or glue the small objects had her heart skipping a beat when your hands would brush against each other. The calloused yet soft skin of your fingertips against hers had shivers running down her spine. 

The pang against her side had her back to the present as she looked at her brother, frowning when Pietro’s eyes were moving weirdly.

Raising an eyebrow, Wanda silently asked him what his problem was, only for him to signal at you with his blue eyes.

But even though they shared a special bond thanks to being twins, sometimes it took more than a look to communicate. 

And Pietro seemed to think the same as he sighed before he spoke. "Why don’t you stay with us?" Wanda's head tilted to the side as if her brother had grown a second head.

"Not sure it'd be ideal, Piet. With the twins and Wanda working from home, I don't want to impose," you nodded in the negative. Wanda's brain was trying to catch up with whatever was happening.

"Pretty sure Wanda wouldn’t mind. Right?" Wanda had to muffle a grunt as yet another finger poked at her side. Looking back at his brother, she saw him gesturing to agree with him.

"Of course not," Wanda tried to give the most convincing smile she could muster. "Lord knows I could have another adult by my side to try to understand the twins' babbling," 

"We'll see. I still have a few weeks to solve it." You shrugged it off, signaling the end of the discussion; leaving Wanda thinking about the prospect of you living in her house even if just for a few days and she’d be lying if the idea didn’t get her heart somersaulting.

The upcoming weeks we spent between you working nonstop trying to finish as much of your projects as you could just so you didn’t turn Wanda’s house into a mess with your supplies and boxing whatever you didn’t need for the time coming as your possessions along with your furniture would be sent to the storage facility James had recommended you.

“I finished with the kitchen,” Natasha spoke, walking into your room.

“Thank you,” you eyed her sitting on your bed, her green eyes looking at you expectantly. “Can I help you?”

“Maybe.” The redhead pursed her lips, obliging you to release a grunt as you busied yourself packing your clothes. “I need you to answer me something.”

You hummed in acknowledgment as you took a ripped jeans from the pile you had decided would go to the storage, folding it neatly before you put it in the box.

“I’ve been thinking,” Natasha paused and it took all the patience you had just to swallow your growl. “What if you and Wanda get together? Where would you live?”

Her words had you turning your head so fast that you felt dizzy for a few seconds. “Where do you get that idea from?” You frowned as the redhead groaned painfully.

“I swear to God, you’re so dense, Y/N!” Natasha rolled her eyes exasperatedly.

“I'm not. It’s just-” You paused trying to organize your thoughts, too afraid to misunderstand the signals both your friends and Wanda constantly gave you.

“I don’t want to hurt,” you sighed defeatedly. “If she really felt something for me, she wouldn’t have rejected me for prom night.”

“We were kids back then,” the redhead took a seat beside you on the floor, taking the crumpled shirt off your hands. “She was afraid,” Natasha took your hands in hers, squeezing them.

“Afraid of what?” You felt your heart cracking at that confession. Why would Wanda ever be scared of you?

“That’s something you have to ask her,” Natasha spoke softly, almost pitifully. “But what I can tell you is that you just have to open your heart in order to see,” 

But before you could voice your feelings any further, the ringing of your doorbell had the redhead walking to greet your friends, ready to help you with the moving.

After having loaded all your furniture and boxes into the haul truck Bucky had managed to borrow from a friend, you both drove alongside Steve to the storage place while Natasha and Maria drove to Wanda’s with your baggage.

“I think we deserve a nice dinner as a welcome.” The blonde spoke, gaining your attention.

“It’d need more than a dinner to thank you, guys. You’re literal live savers,” you smiled truthfully.

“Ehh. It’s nothing, dude.” Bucky shrugged you off with his eyes glued to the road. “But you need to keep us updated.”

“With what?” You frowned at his words.

“With Wanda, you dummy,” Steve giggled.

“Not you too,” you whined, throwing your head back.

“What? We deserve the dits as your best men,” Bucky smiled toothily and you didn’t have it in you to break his heart.

“Can we not go there? It’s not like we’re moving in together,” you rolled your eyes.

“Yet. You’re not moving together, yet.” Steve corrected and your hand itched to lovely pat their faces.

To say the rest of the afternoon was full of mockery and laughs was an understatement. You barely had time to spend with the boys as adulthood had you all pretty busy, so you tried to make it the best of the day as all three of you worked together to put your belongings into safety.

Once you reached the house that would shelter you for the next ten days, you couldn’t help the sweat forming in your palms and the feeling of utter uncertainty at the prospect of breathing the same air as Wanda’s twenty-four-seven. 

Natasha’s words from earlier did nothing to placate the anxiety tugging at your heart.

“Thanks for having me,” you smiled something crooked at the redhead on the other side of the door.

“It’s nothing,” she smiled toothily and you couldn't help your heart skipping a beat at the shine you saw in those green eyes. “Hope you don’t mind that I cooked pasta?” Wanda scrunched her nose in that way it had you all mushy over the floor.

“As if you didn’t know me,” you rolled your eyes playfully, earning a laugh from your host.

“Where are my sunshines?” You walked further into the house looking for the twins, wanting to escape the uncomfortable silence that had settled between you both just a second ago.

While time ago you’d be more than happy to spend unlimited time with Wanda, now it was only anxiety what you felt as you wandered into the very-well known house as your inner fears slowly manifested themselves, making it hard for you to feel at ease in what you once considered your second home. Too afraid to face the reality you dreaded to recognize laying at the back of your mind.

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[omophagic-beast]

for the tarot rpg ask game! The Fool, The Empress, The Hierophant, The Chariot, The Hanged Man, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Sun!

!!! wowow hi!! thank you for all the questions, im gonna put them under a read more as to not clog up peoples dashes

from this ask game

The Fool – What do the earliest stages of work on a game look like for you? OR How did you get into game design?

i have a notes discord server! and a channel in there specifically for game ideas. previously i had a big word document titled "game ideas", but its easier to access discord from my phone lol

usually i have an idea and i stick it in there first

heres the start of the pillars of creation :3

and then ill noodle around with it, just brainstorm and slap spaghetti around. this is another reason why i like discord for this at the moment, its informal and easy, much less daunting than a word doc

i didnt end up using most of the bits here lol

and then ill move it into a word doc once its clear that ive got an actual project / game starting to form!

the one problem with this is sometimes ill keep an idea in there for much longer than i should and it becomes a mess of me replying to myself, terrible to follow. this is the current problem with moonlight whaling, sigh

The Empress — Where do your ideas come from? OR Do you seek out or avoid inspiration while working on an idea?

a lot of places!! tumblr being one of them, sometimes ill see a post where im like "huh that could be a game in some way" and ill stick it in my notes discord for later. but really anything, books, movies, songs, other games. im not the first to say this but u gotta read / watch / experience new things to make new things

The Hierophant — Who is a fellow game designer you’ve learned a lot from? OR What is a piece of popular wisdom about games you think is nonsense?

i answered the second one here so ill answer the first!

ive learned a lot from any designer whos game ive played or read, to start. but i wanna shout out @thydungeongal on here, her posts abt game design and rollmaster / d&d are highly highly fascinating and helpful to me, as a guy who hasnt even played d&d let alone any old school stuff and just kinda jumped into the indie scene from the start.

kinda makes me wanna play rollmaster, ngl. whats it doin with all those mechanics and tables =w=

The Chariot — What is the next project you’re planning to start OR What is the next project you’re excited to finish?

this has been my big question to myself recently, what game to really focus in on next. i have games that just need to be finished, but i think my next one* is gonna be this time travel game ive been thinking of

working title is Hooked, and the reason i think im going to start (and finish) it next is cause ive already got the main mechanic figured out, where when you fail a roll you can choose to create a hook, and in doing so succeed the roll

but that hook is a place where a future you has traveled back to that point in time and given you what you needed to succeed, which means at some point youre going to have to come back and close the loop, or else risk creating a paradox

too many paradoxes and the universe explodes so like. be careful :3!

it is going to be a lot of work, i want the general aesthetic to be the journal of a time traveler, with notes from all their future and past selves scrawled in the margins in different colors. and theres the question of if its a solo game or multiplayer, or both. solo-friendly is my current thought, but encouraged for more than one person. but we'll see how it actually plays.

The Hanged Man — What other creative pursuits do you have? OR What current trends in game design are you most interested in?

someone should ask me this again cause i wanna answer the other one also :3c

but! i have a crochet project on the mind so i wanna talk abt other stuff im into also :3

im currently considering ADHD and how it could possibly relate to myself, so just keep that in mind when i say ive dipped my paws into a whoooole lot of different creative hobbies. sewing, knitting, pottery, bookbinding, needle felting, jewelry making, and yea, crochet, are all stuff ive been into at one point or another

but my favorites are crochet and cooking / baking. for most of my life i thought my career was gonna be in food service! ive been a baker, cake decorator, and diner cook before, and loved all three of those jobs.

and crochet is great mainly cause you can make stuffed animals / amigurimis >:33 i loooove little guys and being able to choose what soft yarn im gonna make em out of, though its been a minute since ive made one. but!! like i mentioned ive got a project on the mind, as im gonna try and make the "something strange and indescribable" from the Before the Flood backerkit campaign and im very excited abt it :3 stay tuned for posts abt my success or failure on this front

The Devil — What motifs or mechanics do you just keep coming back to? OR What is a game you’ve enjoyed playing in the last year?

NIGHTHAWKS by @titanrpg is really really good. it has a heart in it, one that beats at an all too-familiar rhythm. when i played it we told a story that was perhaps a touch too close to home as well, disparate sad people sitting several stools apart at a dive bar in a small town.

i have a tendency towards comedy when i play ttrpgs, but my favorite moments are all when ive been deeply serious and sad, and thats what i got from NIGHTHAWKS

The Tower — Talk about about a game you tried to make that crashed and burned.

center of the known universe was an anthology of games i wanted to make a while back, all inspired by the part of the nevadan desert i live in. i dont think its crashed and burned necessarily but i certainly never finished it and im not sure i ever will, though i still like the ideas for some of the games and may release them individually

The Star — Talk about a game you’re working on and what excites you about it.

a game ive been working on for a looong time that i dont think ive really talked abt on here is The Lady, The Tiger, and The Accused. its a descended from the queen game based on The Lady or The Tiger? short story, where (to put it very briefly) a king has created a new form of justice where the accused is put in an arena with two identical doors in front of them.

behind one door, a lady of an appropriate social standing for them to marry, behind the other a very hungry tiger. this leaves the verdict up to fate, for if the accused is innocent they will surely pick the door with the lady, and if they are guilty they will choose the door with the tiger.

but the accused in the story is also the lover of the lands princess, and when they look back at her for the last time she raises a hand and points towards one of the doors.

the question in the story is one of love. would the princess rather see her lover dead, or married to someone else?

what comes through the door, the lady or the tiger?

but! there are other characters in this story, with agency and lives of their own.

The Lady, The Tiger, and The Accused instead asks a question of trust. when The Accused looks back towards their princess, and she raises her hand, do they trust her? do they open the door that she points towards?

its a game for three players, with each person playing one of the titular characters. it uses the descended from the queen format to create the character of the princess throughout play, along with the characters of The Lady, The Tiger, and The Accused.

its a good game!! ive got a bit more work to do on it, mainly on the tiger role. not everyone is comfortable being an actual tiger and role playing scenes that involve communicating with humans or attending parties and such, it turns out.

but im really excited abt it overall :3 its good and fun and i think it uses the descended from the queen format really well and hopefully one day ill do a crowdfunding project for it and get enough money to hire a bunch of different artists to make princess illustrations for it >:333

The Sun — Talk about a game you’ve made that you’re proud of.

im proud of all of my games, in one way or another. but, with an obligatory Before the Flood mention (crowdfunding now!), im really and truly proud of my body is your body is our body is

it was my first kinda big game that i published, and there was a lot of stuff with the first edition i really wasnt super happy with. im really, really proud of myself for finally going back in this year and fixing it. its so much better now! in a lot of ways.

and i mean it was good to start with also, most of my problems were with the programming side of it. when i was making the second edition reading back through the game made me cry a bit lol. theres a lot of banger lines in there and a lot of feelings.

[unnamednarrator]

What an incredible job you did on Broke Your Every Heartbeat.

I was dying for a modern au like this with a touch of angst but a happy ending.

What inspired you to write this fanfic and how was your creative process like? how long did it take to write everything?

this is so kind of you omg! i’m really happy you enjoyed it and so flattered that you’re curious about my writing process 🩷

i’m putting it under the cut bc i don’t want to bombard the tl in case this isn’t someone’s cup of tea!

lately i’ve been in a very “just write something to finish it” mood. ilyis is a much longer project (i’ve been working on it for over a year now) and while that’s very rewarding in its own right, sometimes i just need a lil serotonin boost of having finished something entirely

that’s why i asked for oneshot requests last weekend and luckily anon came through and gave me a brilliant prompt (not only a gracie song but also a whole concept?? so generous of them 🥰) it fit in perfectly with my usual creative process, which is to become obsessed with an idea and let the momentum write the first draft haha

i’m not a very description-heavy writer in my 1st drafts so i normally just write basic setting, the emotional arc and dialogue. dialogue is usually the only thing for me that stays very similar from the first draft to the final one. unless what i wrote was garbage. i also (maybe controversially?) really love editing my work! sometimes i’ll write loose lines or paragraphs and then connect them later with actions or character development

as for how long it took me to write, maybe 3-3.5 hours in total with another hour of editing? recently, ive been challenging myself to write for at least 30 mins a day (i find time-based writing sessions work better for me than word count-based ones) so that worked really well for me in finishing this fic!

i hope that was at all interesting! lmk if you want to know anything else too! thank you so much for your questions, it means a lot that you care 🥹🩷

[bismuthburnsblue]

Lady Stede part 3: The Pocket Hoops

(why yes i am starting on another part before i finished the last one)

So quickly, if you dont know what pocket hoops are, theyre the part that gives 18th century dresses their iconic shape! Theres various names for these kinds of garments- Crinolines, Hoops, etc, but they all serve the same purpose: extending the hips out. Generally in the earlier part of the century they seem to have been one garment with oval shape boning that you would step into and tighten around the waist (with slits for pockets but no enclosed bottom) but ive gone for the later style of splitting it into two sides as its going to be much easier to travel with. The bones form a horseshoe shape that sits off the hip & are connected with a waistband. It was still relatively common to leave the bottom & sides open (fabric was expensive, after all!) but enclosing them means you can turn the entire garment into somewhere to store your bits, rather than just open to your tie on pocket underneath. Thats what ill be doing :)

Ive got three books that reference a pattern for a pocket hoop (Corsets & Crinolines, Patterns of Fashion 5, 18th Century Dressmaking) and they all have some differences that im making note of for this, but i think my basic plan for a pattern is to start with a rectangle and work my way in until the shape is right. some taper the sides, some curve the top edge, but ill see what actually works for me as i play about. One of my concerns is that all of these patterns will have been made for people much smaller than me (especially in the hips, so if i just use their measurements, its at very least not going to be proportional, if not vastly too narrow front-to-back)

Ill also need patterns for the side and bottom- the side should just be a rectangle with maybe a little tapering above the top bone thats the width i want the hoop to be, but ive heard the bottom can be a little fiddly to get right. my current plan is to get the general shape & trace the arc of the bone to make the horseshoe!

One last thing: ive looked at a lot of pocket hoops at this point, and if theres one thing ive noticed, its that theres definitely.... a sweet spot. a goldilocks ratio, if you will, to the way they fall off the hips. a lot seem to fall too low, but just as many square off too fast too (those ones also seem to lift away from the body as they drop, a sign to me that the top length is too short). I think im going to end up fiddling with that for... a while, to make sure it sits exactly as im wanting. heres a couple of examples of what i think im aiming for. pretty high, but also a gentle curve.

Materials!! Im just using a plain white cotton for the main fabric- its a bedsheet from my mock up fabric stash- i did look at creams that might match my stays, but nothing i had was perfect, so white to match with my shift i guess ¯\_(���)_/¯ Ive also got white 25mm twill tape, which ill use for all my ties & boning channels i think. One thing i considered was that i may want a sturdier base to these if im going to load them with all my comi con sundries, and with my recent corsetry order i picked up some sail cloth! i didnt pick it up for this purpose, but it might be pretty cool to use here, its super stiff & coated, and man, im making a costume of a guy who built his own bespoke boat, wouldnt it be cool to make sail cloth in there? Ill see as i get into the patterning.

One last thing- i went rogue with my boning :) the supplier i like only sells hoop boning or reed in bulk quantity, and i need maybeeee 6m for this project (and have no future plans for it) so i walked my ass on down to the hardware store. i was looking for some kind of flexible metal that essentially was boning, but at my local place they didnt have any metal strips at all. what they did have was pvc mouldings in shortish lengths. after standing there with my mum messing around with all the options (god i hope nobody was watching on the cameras) i found that 18mm scotia trim worked... really well. the inner curve with the legs out the back gave it quite a lot of resistance to the bend (which will help it keep its shape), but also not so much that it buckled under the pressure. it also came in the perfect lengths to cut up into bones :) i really hope it works in practice because i feel way too excited about this, actually.

[starvingnarcissistmusic]

whats this? an end of year post?

heyyy so. heres kind of how im feeling now and what you might expect for the future.

i really love we sapient stardust, and mdp(m) was a lot of fun, but i always kind of have this feeling of "well what the hell am i going to do now?" when i finish things. post-project listlessness, lmao. had it with atme, having it with we sapient stardust, this is just sort of A Thing with me.

for new stuff, since the release of we sapient stardust, i wrote a bunch of songs that were sort of Sort Of Just Okay, and i am once again in the hell that is my creative process (ie. write, scrap, rewrite, scrap again, rerererererererererewrite, fml why is this how i work). next year might be a few unrelated singles while i try and figure out what im gonna do from here. ive got a few directions i want to try, but its all in vague ill-do-it-later-maybe-land so we'll see how that goes.

guarantees: at the very least one single. a lot of new songs are in work-in-progress hell rn, but i do have one basically finished song that i think is really fuckin good. youll definitely be hearing that one next year. its a pretty fun one, and its also got some of my favorite lyrics ever

over in the realm of maybes: an ep perhaps? i released atme and we sapient stardust in 2023 and 2024 respectively, and while i am super proud of those albums, releasing two albums in two years is kind of insane. so this year i am planning on holding back a little bit, giving myself some room to breathe and live life like a normal person. being locked in your room all day working on albums is not how the human body is supposed to function i think

this years been all over the place for me mentally. feeling the lowest youve ever felt while three days away from releasing your proudest work is a weird place to be, but nothing makes sense these days so its whatever. i made it. thats all.

tldr; working on new stuff, next years probably gonna be slower than the last two.

stay safe everyone, dont forget to drink some water

[sybaritick]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love

pleaaaaaaase

ok i took SO long to answer this but thank you!! <3 i will absolutely rec some fics... man my five favorite EVER? i'll have to think. let's do a lil countdown 5 to 1.

5. hiding a dagger in a smile

amechu (!!!), 1.6k, M, power dynamics/age gap/literally just international relations

yes a deep cut. a fucking hetalia fic, in 2022?? but i do sorta love how this one came out. it is, to me, a love letter to the first fandom i was ever part of and the first fandom i wrote fic for, a decade later.

Yao knew Alfred was a little tipsy from how easily he had said it. Hiding a dagger in a smile. He pondered whether it was an idiom Al had learned from a language book or if he had read it in the Thirty-Six Stratagems some fifty years ago, waiting for Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai outside a meeting room.

4. oh, rotten little thing

bloodweave, 1.9k, M, vampirism/power dynamics/corruption

i think this is my fave of the bloodweave fics i've done just because it gets to the crux of what i find interesting about their dynamic

Some part of Gale was always aware that the magical trinkets he fed to the the Netherese orb buried his chest were only a temporary appeasement. He's always spaced out the feedings as long as he could bear, praying that he wasn't making it stronger-- though of course, over time, it was inevitable that he was. It would only grow hungrier as it consumed each little taste of the Weave. Some part of Gale knows what it pulls him to consume instead. He just doesn't want to accept it.

3. Criteria

tavtash, 3.3k, E, torture/competence kink

for some reason i really like how this came out. hits a really nice flavor of nasty

There was a moment of pause at the clink of metal against metal, where she considered failure, that she had misjudged the puzzle— until the key slid fully into the lock, and she turned it until it gave a soft, lubricated click. Enver smiled, and his tongue flicked out to briefly tease his lower lip in an expression so visibly satisfied that Faline might have rolled her eyes if she were not equally desirous and simply better at containing herself. "Does it still surprise you?" she asked. "I never tire of it." A lie. But if he did, she would find another game which he had not yet tired of.

2. that urge often miscalled free will

galetash, 4.3k, E, noncon/body horror/drugging/mind control

i love this one ive said it before but it's true. combination of too many of my favorite things

Once a tenday he’s inspected and modified in a way he fears and appreciates in equal measure. It’s always the same engineer with the same broad frame: dark-eyed and unnerving, with a mop of unruly black hair. The man has a particular liking for him, Gale knows, and an ambition so sharp it impresses even him, Gale Dekarios, Gale of Waterdeep, teenage prodigy who had been granted the time to finish his degree on the homeworld solely out of respect for what they knew he would become. What’s Gortash, to rival that? Not Waterdhavian, not a pilot, not a nobleman. A mechanic he’d estimate is only a couple years younger than him, but more talented than any other he'd had, and more dangerous besides. Threatening, always, that if Gale wants to stay at the top of his game he'd give and give and give these pieces of himself over to the machine until hardly any of his body belongs to him at all. It’s your mind that is you, Enver always insists. The rest is only a tool and an interface.

1. Tephra Year

galetash, 25.9k, E, power dynamics/corruption/yes feedism too i confess

i'm sorry i know i need to fucking finish this (i'm working on it i promise) BUT i do love it. my favorite project for sure. all my favorite topics :3c

Karlach did not need to know the full extent of what Gale had written to Gortash: only that his expertise in magic might well be valuable enough to trade for the replacement of her engine. A wizard's hubris was useful, sometimes. One had to know their own talents to make the best use of them.

[autisticblueteam]

Appears from the ether again, after months of only being present enough to fill my queue up, with some WIP snippets from the gen:LOCK re-write I mentioned before...

And also finally adressing these tags lmao, sorry @thesouppond I realise these are like 3 months old.

#FUCK IM JUST SEEING THIS NOW???#FUCK YEAH 2024 SEASON OF EVERYONE GETS TO REWRITE GENLOCK CAUSE FUCK S2#Ahem anyway hi genlock moot :)))#I love your writing btw! Ive read your existing GL fics theyre great!#at this point if someone can give me a GL fic i havent already met I will forever be indebted to you i am DYING for GL content

We're really out here trying our best to do better by GL than HBO did huh!! I've been loving Reloaded, it was so nice to see someone else pop up in the gL tag after it was comparatively dead for so long. I've been working on my re-write since just after s2 came out and it was lonely in there for a while there lmao.

So I'm glad you enjoyed the couple of fics I've already done! I'm re-using parts of one of them for the actual re-write since I'm going for the 'keep the basic bones of s2 but aim to fix the execution into something less shit/re-work the worst bits' and I didn't want to write that first nemesis fight over again from total scratch lmao...

I want to finish writing all of the re-write before I post it in full, but that does mean it's taking forever whoops.

I'm still not past the introduction of Sinclair as his portion is so involved and I keep getting distracted by other projects/hobbies, but I did finally get to a point where my take on Sinclair is actually fun to write! I'm keeping his boyfriend because I did at least like that Sinclair was made canonically queer and they're actually cute when I'm just doing my own thing.

So since I feel like posting some WIP bits, here's my favourite Chris/Sinclair stuff I've done so far.

“YEAH! Take that you fucked up tin can!” Sinclair winced. The shout was like an ice pick being driven into his skull, but it was also what finally drove him to lift his head. There ahead of him, wielding a large piece of debris in one hand, was a heavyset Asian man dressed in torn clothes and covered in grime. He reared back, and for a split second Sinclair thought that projectile was for him, until he heard an impact, and the last of the humming died. The man brushed off his hands, pride written on every feature, and in that moment he was the most beautiful thing Sinclair had ever seen. “Coast’s clear!” the stranger called behind him. There was movement, but Sinclair didn’t care to look, his attention caught by the man’s approach. “And we’ve got a live one.” Sinclair’s throat was so dry he broke down coughing twice, in the time it took the stranger to kneel in front of him. “I-I’m not Union. I-I know— with the uniform, and the—” Another violent burst of coughing cut him off. The stranger handed him a canteen and a crooked smile. “Yeah, no shit. You’ve got way too much emotion on your face to be even a defector,” he said, and if Sinclair wasn’t so busy chugging the offered water, he might have mustered a laugh. “That, plus, the lack of helmet, the collapsing, and the drone getting ready to turn you into a novelty cheese grater kinda gave it away.” “Christ, I could kiss you right now,” Sinclair blurted and then regretted in quick succession. Fuck. He’d been in near solitary too long, his filter had worn away to nothing and he was making a damn fool of himself in front of the first sane people he’d seen in weeks. Except the stranger just��� laughed, good-naturedly. “Close, the name’s Chris, not Christ. And I’d say buy me dinner first, but it’s a bit hard out here.”

AND then a little later...

“What about the refugee railroads?” Chris lowered his beer bottle and wiped his mouth. “Too far.” “Vanguard safe crossings?” “Too far.” “The— fucking Canadian border?” Chris laughed, “Too far. Further than either of the other things. Jesus, dude. You sure you haven’t got a concussion?” “Mostly,” Sinclair said, rubbing his face with his intact hand. “I just— you’re going to die if you stay here. A drone only has to get lucky once.” “And if we go deeper in, we’ll only die faster,” Chris said with a simple shrug. “We already have to pack up and move every few weeks when the line moves. And every time, the Polity border gets a little bit further away. Believe me, man, I want nothing more than to get outta here, but it’s just not happening.” “What if I helped?” The offer fell out before he’d consciously decided to make it, but Sinclair stood by it. Even when Chris looked at him dubiously. “No offence, dude, but you’re just one guy. And two days ago you could barely stand.” “And now I’m fine,” Sinclair insisted. “I’m a soldier. I was decorated for valour after I got my squad out of a run-in with the Union that should’ve killed us all. I was the only one who could even still hold a gun. I swear, I could get you somewhere safe. Are you really telling me you’d rather keep sitting around waiting to die than take a risk?” Chris’s brow furrowed, and he didn’t answer immediately, taking another swig from his scratched up bottle of beer. Sinclair sighed. “Look. I need to get to a Vanguard base one way or another. I don’t want to leave you guys behind if I don’t have to. I owe you my life. And maybe dinner.” Chris almost choked on his drink. “Wow,” he laughed, clearing his throat, “you sure pick your moments, huh?” Sinclair shrugged. “Figure if you’re not actually into it I’ll just blame the concussion.” “That you don’t have.” “Exactly.” Chris rolled his eyes, but he was smiling. “Smooth. Smooth operator. Alright, alright, fine, we’ll talk to the others in the morning. It might be a tougher sell when they’re not the ones getting dinner with a hot soldier out of it, but hey, guess we’ll see.” “Are you looking past the just-got-done-being-tortured chic, here, or is that part of the charm?” “Are you kidding? There’s a whole genre focused on how hot soldier guys look after they’ve been through hell.” “Not sure that’s the intended takeaway of action movies.” “Well,” Chris shrugged, starting to pick at a can of food, “it was definitely my takeaway.” Sinclair laughed. Honest-to-god laughed, in a way he was surprised he was even capable of after the last few weeks. The normality of the moment was like a balm on all the aching parts of him, mental and physical alike. For a moment he could almost forget that the reason he looked like shit was because he’d just escaped the worst experience of his life. For a moment it felt like the fight was over.

Now I just have to actually get through the remainder of my Sinclair set-up and then I'll be only one chapter away from finishing the first half of the fic... so close and yet so far lmao.

[irlgoomy]

Just finished working on another album... This time its somethin for Vast Error. I thiiink I can kinda talk about it since it was soft announced on their fundraiser stream a few weeks ago, and a few previews were posted. Thoughts are under the cut because I dont want to fill up your timelines with this lol.

I *finally* got to do an aspects album! Its something ive been wanting to do ever since I got back into hs in 2018. I just never had the time or reason, or platform to do it.

I kind of consider this album to be a sister to Cyber City Sound Pak. Homestuck and its fanworks, and Undertale/Deltarune are two sides of the same coin in my brain so it just feels natural to consider Duodenary as the other side of Cyber City Sound Pak.

Duodenary, Thats the name of the album, btw.

So I started this right after I released Cyber City Sound Pak... I dont think ive ever worked this hard on back to back releases before. Nose to the grindstone type mindset, lol. To be quite honest, I was certain that I'd burn out real bad after working on this. Duodenary is 14 songs, and an hour and a half long. And I somehow did all of this within 6 months.... Right after finishing up another album of a similar length (Duodenary is longer than CCSP! This is my longest album yet!). I mean, who wouldn't need a break after making like 30 something songs within the span of a year???

I didn't. Instead I think with this album ive finally broken through a mental barrier ive had with music production that I didn't know was there. I feel *renewed*. I want to explore more genres and make stuff outside my current wheelhouse and explore what I can just... Make. I've been trying to force myself to take a break but I really just can't. Not out of the need or pressure to constantly have a project going, but because I'm having a shit ton of fun with it. I feel like all of these projects ive dreamed about doing are finally in my reach, I can finally execute them in a way that i'll be happy with...

(I am however keeping myself from doing any projects outside of personal ones, since jumping into one would absolutely burn me out instantly lmfao. That I know for sure.)

Duodenary doesnt have a release date yet, and I don't want to say what the release window is yet, since that hasnt been announced through official channels yet. It'll be sooner rather than later and I'm really, really freaking excited to share it with everyone.

[beautifulpersonpeach]

Looking at jm’s tracklist for FACE got me really surprised because the a lot of producers that posted pics with him aren’t on there (except for pdogg ofc lol)… it got me wondering if jm’s has plans on releasing whatever they worked on down the line if it wasnt scrapped… really glad abt the credit though because not only does it seem like FACE is fully in house project but we got Rm writing too (minimoni collab 💜💜💜) and most especially JM has writing credits on all of the tracks except for interlude!!! jm worked really hard and judging from the snippets we heard from the behind video, I know I’m gonna fall in love at first listen… sad that there’s no yoonmin tho, altho set me free pt 2 is potentially a callback for d2 interlude set me free. I’m looking forward to JM’s spin on it!! Some people are disappointed that the album is gonna be short but tbh jm has the least experience in writing/producing his own solo songs so I wasn’t surprised but i know for sure they’ll be quality tracks because of his historg of producing bangers. I had also been guessing that jm will be doing full promo and seeing that he has an eng vers for a track makes me certain that there are plans for us promo too!

Ive been laughing at your reply to the anon abt FACE all day bpp but it also has me delulu that maybe he’ll release a makeup line because that man can definitely sell out just from his face alone and the colors for the album itself def very similar to what brands are releasing these days… army twt def makes me delulu with all the edits too… like didnt nwjns release some kind of limited ed bag for their debut album??? imagine if one of the tannies did that…

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Ask 2: addtnl bec i accidentally pressed the button to send the ask without finishing

seeing pdogg in the credits for FACE tho makes me kind of wary that he’ll have jm use his higher register again but seeing that this is jm’s solo album and they dont have to worry abt his voice harmonizing with the rest of the members to make tracks that work i am very hopful that we’ll hear jm’s lower register more…

i’m hoping that at least one of the dance performance will have him doing some pole work too… maybe not the whole song but like a segment of it… i’ve been watching a lot of pole dance videos and there’s a lot of beauty that can be created in it it’s truly an art form too and jm has the muscle strength to execute those moves perfectly too… i really cant wait for march!!!!

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Hi Anon,

I loved reading this. Thanks for taking the time to lay out your thoughts so fully. But before anything else, and because I've seen this in a few places, I want to start off with one thing:

"Looking at jm’s tracklist for FACE got me really surprised because the a lot of producers that posted pics with him aren’t on there (except for pdogg ofc lol)"

It's possible those people still worked on the album. Visiting another producer can serve a myriad of purposes - those producers could have worked on the arrangement, Jimin could've used their sound engineers, recorded vocals in their studios for processing, etc. It's also possible you're right and these were initial meetings to discuss ideas and establish a relationship on which Jimin can leverage for his later music. But I'm saying this to point out we haven't seen the full credits yet. Pdogg as main producer and Jimin working with RM who has supported every solo venture Jimin has ever done, is obvious too, but we won't see the full credits until the album is out.

As for the make-up line, I think I've been saying forever that in my head, Jimin already has a fragrance house. What I want for Jimin is for him to delve headfirst into releasing a whole line of perfumes (sorry, make-up lovers). I know he loves flowers but for some reason, I imagine he smells more gourmand and musky with a hint of citrus and chypre, rather than floral scents. But yes just his face alone on any sort of palette would sell it out instantaneously lmao.

I think we're also getting a standard BTS cardboard album packaging lol. NewJeans is under Ador, not under BigHit, and we know that Ador and BigHit are fully independent sub-labels under HYBE, meaning what NewJeans does has zero bearing on anything BigHit does... for better or worse.

Your mention of pole dancing reminded me of that edit that dropped after Jimin mentioned wanting to do it for a Run episode.

(This non-Jimin is doing such a superb job)

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Yes let's have Jimin in a skintight mesh piece showing off his full back tattoos doing an inverted crucifix move with black hair and black nails. All our synapses will misfire (and this likely has an 80% of not happening), but after writing out my own outlandish wish list for PJM1 (now, FACE), who am I to say nay?

I'm not the type to analyze album covers, concept photos, or even album/song descriptions so I don't have much to say right now, until I actually hear the music. After the initial excitement, I'm now stuck in this 'let's wait and see' limbo, but I do have certainty about one thing:

Jimin is coming to fuck all of us up.

[blaeseworks]

Full Honesty: Im like kinda jealous of my teen self. Like I had the creative drive and ambition beyond my skill to at least try and fail to create three seperate fanventures on mspfa and the old mspa forums. Like they might not have been like "Good", but at least i had the chutzpah do it.. ya know?

I STILL want to finish the story for my original fankids and fantrolls. I just need to like get over having to be perfect about it and just churn it out at some point. Theyre all characters that I made when I was like 14 and hyperdumb, I think i can cut myself some slack on never being able to achieve baby me's ambitions.

Ive worked on other projects since then, partially to train myself up to doing some of the big ideas i had early on. I hope that theyll get finished sooner rather than later so i can finally bring my old kids home.

[elliotteisnoire]

im gonna keep it real with y’all. i don’t like the name MOUNT PURGATORIO.

the project has had a fair amount of names over the years, but they were all based on the lore at the time, and most of them were really bad. the sample chapter that birthed the project was called “it was all for you” and I called it that for like.. a month or two. later on it switched around much more, with names like “the pastor and the puppeteer,” “moonlit prophecies” and “the automaton prophet.” don’t ask about it, the characters and themes of the story were a lot different than they are now. i thought “franciscos inferno” was cute for a while, but even though it was the most “correct”/marketable name i had come up with (cuz it kinda sounds like the name for an edgy coming of age story) (and also the horrors beyond comprehension he witnesses) it didn’t fit my criteria for aesthetic precision. mostly because of franciscos name, but hey, i am way too deep atp. and so, i just picked MOUNT PURGATORIO as a placeholder and its been the name ever since.

now, let me disclose this by saying that i am not catholic. my only experiences with catholicism are 1. my catholic lola taking me and my sisters to her church and 2. having really bad religious psychosis at the age of 9. i am just pretentious. Mount Purgatorio is a significant location in Moonzinc that is a big focal point in GEN3, but the story is very different from Dante Alighieri’s poem. and I don’t think my project deserves a name like that. BUT UNFORTUNATELY NOTHING HAS COME TO MY MIND!!!

ive also been having problems trying to come up with a sort of “logo” or cool design to represent the project. i tried a spiral, franciscos antenna, aaaaand that’s pretty much it. idek what to do.

hhhhhhh. fuck. i need me a long, cool ass looking word or an even longer, even cooler ass looking sentence.

idk how to finish this ramble. im sick rn and i feel like a shriveled up date. i got no sleep last night. im working on occasion outfits for my characters. lmk if you want to see those. i finished tkam. it was a really good book. my article came out for the newspaper. i dropped journalism immediately after. my wisdom teeth r coming in. they’re making my teeth move funny. i cant stop passing out at school. i miss my friends. my grades are improving, kinda. aaaand that’s it :3 bye