#just consider it bonus content!

[calocreek]

Saw it was treebark week so enjoy some assorted treebarks 🐺

(my minecraft + mcyt tag)

[bodycountgame]

happy holidays nell!!! literally was just sitting and scrolling through tumblr and suddenly thought ugh i miss atticus 😔 so here i am stalking this blog bcs apparently it's atticus missing hours™️

now i'm not going to rush you to update the story. take all the time you need! i'm just wondering, if you would release patreon snippets to public? because i miss those! and i swear i remember you had another twine game where you put those snippets/short stories?? ...or was i wrong?

fuck it, yeah, alright! for anyone who, like me, is in their missing body count hours and wants some juicy extra content, you can now (hopefully) all access the body count bonus hub here:

had a lot of lovely messages asking how i'm doing and i am super touched that people are thinking of me during the festive szn! i'm doing okay - just getting my shit rocked daily by a rambunctious little human whose greatest loves are busses, porridge and the elderly. sending love out into the ether to you all!! 💕

happy new year!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[bonus-links]

This series is amazing! I love the character depth you added to Slate and his ... death? But my question is, why is Era of the Wild Zelda (do you have a different name for her?) so jaded in the last bit? Was there something Loft did that I missed? It seemed like everything was done with good intentions, and Zelda would have noticed that.

here’s what I was thinking when I wrote the scene, and sorry for writing a bit of an essay lol: Loft did have good intentions, and both Zelda and Slate know that. But there’s also a whole tangled mess of reasons why they’re both pretty put out with him about it anyway, most of which he could have never known the context of, but kind of stumbled into trampling all over anyway by being so bullheaded. (To be fair, Loft has his own complicated reasons for acting the way he does here, but that’s not what this post is about)

For Zelda, she’s had a long time to come to terms with the struggle over her sealing power, the things her father said and did, the tragedy of Everything, etc— but the thing about being in limbo fighting tooth and nail for so long is that it makes all that trauma feel both like ancient history and as soon as yesterday. So for Loft to a) inadvertently (and he really didn’t mean it like this, but that’s what it sounded like) imply the sealing power she suffered so much over wasn’t even enough and b) pressure Slate about his inability to access his own divine power,,,,it rankles. Regardless of whether Loft meant it that way, that’s how it felt from her point of view. She’s also just, like, kind of protective of Slate about things like this.

[kay-claire]

What really gets me with the whole watcher thing is that like, there are ways for them to have made this decision without it going so horribly wrong. Like they could have said "hey we want to be more independent and not rely on platforms like Patreon and YouTube as heavily as we currently do. So moving forward we will be moving all our Patreon content over to our new streaming platform. Content will be posted there a week/month earlier than YouTube, and we will still be posting our regular content on YouTube, but we hope that you will consider joining our new streaming platform in the future." and THEN, after a few months, they could have said "We're planning to make brand new shows that will be exclusive to our new platform, and we'll share the pilots of those shows on YouTube, but after that the rest of the episodes will only be available on that platform. All your favourite Watcher shows will still continue to be made and posted to YouTube, but reminder that they're available earlier on our streaming platform." Or something like that, that could have been a gradual change. People would have still probably been like "lol no" but they wouldn't be unsubscribing in droves.

Asking people to pay $6 a month for a new platform that doesn't have any content on it currently, and they only put out 1 video a week?? This was never going to work. People are willing to spend $5 on Patreon a month to support their favourite creators, but there's a big difference between supporting someone's Patreon and paying for a product they used to be able to get for free.

(Also why the fuck was the announcement video 14 minutes long?? I skipped to the very end to just see the actual announcement, did anyone even watch the whole sob story?)

[phoenixtakaramono]

Truce - Ch3 Preview 2/?

This is in reference to this. I’m agog that I’d somehow forgotten to share this upcoming scene in Truce its entirety—when I thought I had. Honest mistake, luvs. I shall rectify it immediately.

A snippet of my favorite part from this lil interview section:

“Not to worry. Between you and me”—the chair creaked as he leaned in, lips quirked sideways, his brows expressive, and his hand hovering beside his cheek—“Butcher and I got a secret bromance happening behind the scenes, I tell you what.” The discreet Lavalier microphone clipped somewhere on Homelander’s supersuit had picked up the hushed whisper, making the audio crisp and clear. Thirteen different camera angles captured Jimmy’s brows shooting up. He repeated, “A bromance.” “Yep. A bromance for the ages. Color me stoked.” The plastic shell of his features melted away, resembling a more complete flesh-and-blood human. Easing back into his seat, Homelander said, “I just think, like with any large and aggressive attack dogs, as owners we have a responsibility to properly train and socialize them. Now I don’t own a dog myself but if I did, I would keep my mutt on a short leash—and obedient only to me. He won’t bite, not unless I tell him to.”

The full scene the snippet belongs to:

A/N - I’m sure y’all remember Jimmy Fallon’s cameo in S1. It only makes sense to replace Translucent with Homelander now. I originally considered Cole Cameron to ask the hard hitting questions, but he dies in S4 (thanks, Ashley). So I elected to not go with him.

And the line about Butcher not being caped but quite clearly dark is lifted from the comics, as a lil Easter egg ;) but I changed it from Black Noir to Billy because Homelander’s doubling down on the lie/ cover story that he’s the one who “reached out his hand and brought Billy back from the path of villainy by inviting him into the Seven” 🙄

*Note: as always, keep in mind this is taken from an earlier draft; so there may be a couple changes in the final draft that’ll be posted to AO3 when the chapter’s ready. But this sneak peek is pretty much as close to its final draft iteration as you'll see.

(Chapters 1-2 can be read on AO3)

[dailydegurechaff]

Congratulations to @kalliblast for simultaneously being a terrible influence on me by telling to draw cowboy lergen and also innovating the Youjo Senki/Wild West AU

seriously how would this au even work.

is the empire like, some town thats just plagued by bandits or something and tanya takes it upon herself to become sheriff (thinking its a boring desk job with lots of paperwork) or whatever and ends up having to drive them off

[foxstens]

ok i'm actually kind of confused about the 'nicky wasn't the only one so easily swayed' line

so wymack uses public appearances as cover

and nicky says kevin just has to smile and they won't pay attention to what he's actually saying, because it works on nicky himself every time

then wymack thinks about how nicky isn't the only one so easily swayed, but nicky and kevin aren't aware of it?

sooooooo presumably he isn't talking about the general public, since nicky just mentioned that kevin's charm would work on them. but even if he is referring to andrew or anyone else we could think of, what does that have to do with public appearances

what am i missing here

[rise-my-angel]

Okay, real talk. The next main series chapter is up in arms when it will be released. I have it ready to go, but I also have an intermission chapter that are from various pov's from other characters to catch up with whats been occurring in Westeros during the past 3 chapters. I can release that sometime this week as a bonus chapter, or I can release it on Monday as the next proper update, and the monday after that we return to Jon and the Reader.

It includes pov's from characters we've yet to see through the eyes of, and a new book only character who will be introduced later, but there is no Jon or reader whatsoever, so it's up to you guys if you want that released as its own proper update as normal, or if I should release it in the next few days as bonus content.

[bapydemonprincess]

I'll be honest if the plan is to put some or somehow all of Green Witch Arc shoe horned into Season 4 instead of giving it its own seperate thing, I'll be.. highly upset

[hollowmorgve]

it hasn't even been a day but paying for jenny nicholsons patreon is already so worth it

[marioclash]

i love when companies put one last title on a console before it dies and act like "we are honored to have published the swan song for this incredible console"

and its something like... a port of the frogger arcade game for the genesis and snes

thanks.

[meownotgood]

my personal rating of the chainsaw man endings (in order from favorite to least favorite):

2-hundred-million-centimeter-long-blades - maximum the hormone (ending #3)

in the backroom - syudou (ending #5)

fightsong - eve (ending #12)

first death - TK (ending #8)

chu, tayousei - ano (ending #7)

tablet - tooboe (ending #4)

time left - zutomayo (ending #2)

dogland - people 1 (ending #10)

deep down - aimer (ending #9)

rendezvous - kanaria (ending #6)

violence - queen bee (ending #11)

chainsaw blood - vaundy (ending #1)

[titsthedamnseason]

HOW COULD I FORGET TO ACKNOWLEDGE LOREN HALE DAY. SORRY LO I PROMISE I THOUGHT OF YOU ALL DAY

[eliotquillon]

if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

[mcmansionhell]

ode to a faux grecian urn

Howdy everyone,

Today's house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia so the owners have decided to keep it period perfect (beige.) Anyway.

This 5 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom house clocks in at a completely reasonable 12,700 square feet. If you like hulking masses and all-tile interiors, it could be all yours for the reasonable price of $2.65 million.

The problem with having a house that is 12,700 square feet is that they have to go somewhere. At least 500 of them were devoted to this foyer. Despite the size, I consider this a rather cold and lackluster welcome. Cold feet anyone?

The theme of this house is, vaguely, "old stuff." Kind of like if Chuck E Cheese did the sets for Spartacus. Why the dining room is on a platform is a good question. The answer: the American mind desires clearly demarcated space, which, sadly, is verboten in our culture.

The other problem with a 12,700 square foot house is that even huge furniture looks tiny in it.

Entering cheat codes in "Kitchen Building Sim 2000" because I spent my entire $70,000 budget on the island.

Of course, a second sitting room (without television) is warranted. Personally, speaking, I'm team Prince.

I wonder why rich people do this. Surely they must know it's tacky right? That it's giving Liberace? (Ask your parents, kids.) That it's giving Art.com 75% off sale if you enter the code ROMANEMPIRE.

Something about the bathroom really just says "You know what, I give up. Who cares?" But this is not even the worst part of the bathroom...

Not gonna lie, this activates my flight or fight response.

If you remember Raggedy Ann you should probably schedule your first colonoscopy.

Anyways, that does it for the interior. Let's take a nice peek at what's out back.

I love mowing in a line. I love monomaniacal tasks that are lethal to gophers.

Alright, that does it for this edition of McMansion Hell. Back to the book mines for me. Bonus posts up on Patreon soon.

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[blumineck]

There are a lot of great educators out there, but too many people just critique without actually considering why it's like that.

(as usual, join on Patreon for bonus content)