#lakidaa

[scumsuckart]

Tentaspy page update

may 5th, 2023

My Scylla (tentaspy OC) page has been updated to conform to my new layout.

We now also have some seperate pages to make the page a shorter, more organized scroll.

Scylla Gallery

Interview with Lakidaa on origins of Tentaspy

Ollie and Basile character pages

2021 version of the page

The splash image fills the whole page so you have to intentionally scroll down to view the story.

[tempural]

origins of tentaspy

Interview I conducted with Lakidaa (known as Engineer on the chan) about the origins of Tentaspy, and other old TF2chan stuff.  Interview conducted March 29th, 2020.  Content warning for discussions of Scout x Spy shipping (pre comics, no incest you sillies!) and racism on the chan.

If you were ever curious about where the Tentaspy meme came from, here ya go!  It’s also a nice lil documentation of some older fandom stuff, before it all moved to Tumblr (then combusted).

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scumsuck: About Tentaspy.  I was on TF2chan in the pre-2009 days, and I recall it being part of a little mermaid AU?  With Scout as the little mermaid and Spy as Ursula?  Is my recollection true?

Lakidaa: Ah yes.  Yes!  I was Engineer [on TF2chan].  It was because we were on a kick of watching Disney movie songs in their native language & Beauty And The Beast is a French story.  

scumsuck: So Tentaspy started as a SpyScout thing, then it got into Teufort monster territory.

Lakidaa: Right.

scumsuck: When you say 'we were on a kick of watching disney', you mean you and other people on the chan?

Lakidaa: Yes! There was a steam chat we hung out in.

scumsuck: Do you remember who else was there on the disney movie thing?

Lakidaa: Uhhh me? Jones. Khorosho, the mod who was an Aussie, Dr.Tanner, oh! Yeah uhh Kilomonster.  Idk the exacts because it was 10 years ago.

scumsuck: The vagues are fine too!  10 years dang...

Lakidaa: A big problem was that the mod was Aussie and kinda oblivious to racism lmao.  It’s why I quit.

scumsuck: oh boy I remember a LOT of casual racism on the chan.  like the 'nickname' for demoman.

Lakidaa: Yyyyyeah. It’s why kilo bounced and why I eventually bounced.

scumsuck: bounced off the chan, or out the TF2 fandom in general?

Lakidaa: Both?  I was an actual administrator; I had full powers on the Chan itself.  And I got sick of Tanner’s racism and then Mog (that was her name)’s defense of it claiming the usual ‘oh we’re not Americans we do t Do that tee hee’ defending.  And it was the fandom.  This was before tumblr, really. I was doing LJrp at the time.  So if you weren’t posting on the chan there wasn’t really anywhere to get your fix.

scumsuck: I guess there were a lot of people sick of the racism back then, but the chan culture was too much.

Lakidaa: Yeah. We hadn’t realized that it didn’t have to be that way :V

scumsuck: I think I remember that the chan was made cuz everyone else on 4chan's /v/ was sick of the 'ironic' gay porn posting?

Lakidaa: Right.

scumsuck: So besides TF2chan , there wasn't the mass exodus to Tumblr yet.

Lakidaa: Because [LiveJournal] didn’t suck enough yet.

scumsuck: Curiously I don't remember that much of a TF2 community on LiveJournal.

Lakidaa: There wasn’t.

scumsuck: I remember ones for other shows like Metalocalypse and Venture Bros and so forth, but I guess TF2 never stuck on LJ.

Lakidaa: I was very LJ at the time.  Those shows were shows and like. I don’t think fandom had developed enough to take these characters which were, at the time, broad sketches, and do stuff with them.  All the meet-the videos weren’t out by then.

scumsuck: Now we can take vague-as-hell characters, like the ones from Overwatch, and mash em into something workable.  I wonder if the OW fandom could have thrived pre-tumblr.

Lakidaa: I don't think so. OW itself is the descendent of TF2’s character-based shooty.  I also admittedly have no fucking clue what’s up with the gator Sniper. (in reference to me asking if they knew the origins of Tentaspy's counterpart, the gator Sniper.) That was way later when I was in 40k

scumsuck: I love this stuff, and I'm trying to get together more memories of the chan and it's culture.   Do you remember Teratomarty?

Lakidaa: Yes!  And makani!  She famously did the administrator as a fan thing and got scooped by Valve.

scumsuck: Heck yeah!  Makani what a legend.  There were a lot of -isms and -phobias in TF2chan, as a part of the awful chan culture, but a lot of great art was made there too.

Lakidaa: Oh yeah.  I still have some documents too.

scumsuck: Oooh what sorts of documents?  I know the chan's been like... deleted and reformatted a couple times since I was on there so a lot was lost.

Lakidaa: Old fiction!

scumsuck: Do you recall who drew some of the first pieces of visual art for Tentaspy when it was created?  And who did the first fics?

Lakidaa: Me for fics lmao.  But for art I don’t remember.  There used to be a pictochat. (a site for multiple people to draw on the same canvas at once)

scumsuck: Do you still have your Tentaspy fics?

Lakidaa: Maybe!  I’m on phone and it’s all on the desktop lmao

scumsuck: They're important historical documents!

Lakidaa: Bro I read the post on tumblr about the 70s spirk fic in A&M University.

scumsuck: Ye Olde Yaoiz.  This stuff is honestly important!!!  I know I wouldn't have developed as an artist without all the slash I was reading back in my youth.

Lakidaa: Same.

scumsuck: Does Tentaspy predate 2010?

Lakidaa: I believe so.  Aha 2008 stuff.  I do have some [writing] that's Tentaspy, but it's chat; I'd have to find Jones and ask them if they're down

scumsuck: 12 years... Good timeframe though, that's when I was actively browsing the chan.

Lakidaa: It does have some nsfw on it which is double why I'm asking. This doesn't look like it's a chat chat tho it looks like our old DMs

scumsuck: Did Tentaspy originate as a NSFW concept from the getgo?

Lakidaa: For about 10 minutes it wasn't NSFW and was just us ragging about.

scumsuck: How do you feel about fanworks of tentaspy?  I'm working on a doujin of Tentaspy, and this is one of the reasons I wanted to contact whoever created the concept.  If I were to print comics of this concept you and your friends created, would they feel odd to you?

Lakidaa: Not really!  It's perfectly fine. It's a concept that's left my hands.  I'm not in TF2 anymore (Overwatch and 40k and my OCs honestly) so I'm like, 'at least someone's enjoying it'

scumsuck: Oh yeah, the fandom ghost that will never leave.

Lakidaa: yes :p

scumsuck: I haven't been into TF2 since like... 2009-2010, but I got back in the last couple years and have had a blast figuring out where the fandom went post-Tumblr.  I love this like.. metacontextual historical stuff

Lakidaa: Yeah! I'm glad someone's on it.

scumsuck: I think that's all I have to ask you for now, I'll wait and see if Jones responds!

Lakidaa: (._.)7

[lastlivyatan]

evolve together

[dragkingandreweldritch]

I was tagged by @celesticadream to post my lockscreen, last photo saved to my phone, and last listened to (well, podcast, bc I listen to those way more than music nowadays):

I'm tagging @thejgatsbykid @fae-father @likejosta @darth-tantrum @audible-smiles @padme-amidalanaberrie @lakidaa @zach-villas @angryinterrobang and anyone else who wants to do this

[ao3feed-assassinscreed]

A Date for dates

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2VSqh7X

by Lakidaa

This is a tiny scene in an AU in which Master Assassins are a sort of supernatural creature; the ghoul. Altair chose to take that step, and Malik hasn't made any decisions yet. Altair breaks the quarantine newly-converted ghouls are held to, and seeks out Malik, who is essentially in that awkward time between passing your finals and actually graduating. They talk. A little.

Words: 2612, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Relationships: Malik Al-Sayf/Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Additional Tags: It's a funky AU, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, I'm putting this here so I don't have to fight Google Docs anymore, Shy hay-based makeouts

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2VSqh7X

[lastlivyatan]

Ur drawing of skekgra and urgoh spooning is THE softest thing I've ever seen, it makes my heart feel so full 😭 thank u so fucking much for sharing it

thank YOU! the secret is i am married to a skekgra, @lakidaa

[dragkingandreweldritch]

oh mood, @lakidaa, that's basically exactly my feelings on it, like dude pretty obviously wants to have his cake and eat it too wrt representation with the whole "they're whatever you want them to be uwu"... as well as not realizing that nb/agender/genderfluid and ace ppl can all *BE* gay

like I have a hunch if Terry Pratchett (GNU) were still alive he'd just have been like "yeah they're gay" and that would've been it

[notcuddles]

gurl would they smooch a ghost and if so what about other non-human, possibly dead, maybe incorporeal beings would they smooch?

HAHAHA that’s not even one of the questions but I don’t care.

UM PROBABLY NOT?  The idea of smooching an alive, regular human is fairly alarming to them (in game they have a crush on the possibly evil sorcereress NPC who is So Hot and they like...literally don’t even know to do with these feelings).  Then again maybe there’s less pressure if its a ghost?

On the other hand, one of their favored enemies is the Undead, so...I feel like that might also be a sticking point.

However, if they had to smooch an incorporeal being for the safety and well-being of the party they would definitely do it.

[flannelfrog]

lakidaa replied to your post “lakidaa replied to your photoset “More fun with Fuse, this time it’s...”

It's honestly more the 'naked person' part. It's not sexual, but the model IS naked. It's not safe for work in a more technical sense.

I don’t agree with your definition of NSFW but I will respect your needs/desires and tag the rest of my Fuse stuff for you

[dragkingandreweldritch]

lakidaa reblogged your post and added:

Maybe? Is there a history of dude witches, or is it dudes emulating the ‘authentic witch style’? 

There’s some things associated with witches in style- usually indirect, usually not very, er, combustive? Tends to be transformative or altering in nature, often involves curses.

But yeah, witching seems more to be a lifestyle. Living alone is a big one, or with other witches. Pets/familiars. Nice hats.

Well, in some folk religions, there isn’t really a designated social role of “person what can do magic”, it’s more of a case of everyone knowing some basic stuff -- herbal medicine, basic protection charms, that kind of thing. But a lot of what gets lumped under the umbrella of shamanism is either open to any gender or not chiefly practiced by women. 

Thing is, real-world shamans tend to not live isolated from the community they serve. Plus, their services tend to include mundane medical care alongside the stuff we’d consider supernatural. If a distinction is drawn between medical spirit-work and sorcery, they still aren’t necessarily contrasting roles. 

There are some examples in real-world cultures where the folk healer is fully part of their community while the purely magical practitioner is a malevolent loner. But you know how a lot of non-Christian religions tend to have a good/evil dichotomy foisted on them? I have a feeling the same kind of thing is the case for a lot of these.

Anyway tl;dr the modern witch archetype is kind of an amalgam of elements from a whole bunch of different IRL practices and also, like, several centuries worth of negative stereotypes too probably, depending on if we’re talking about good or bad witches.

[notcuddles]

what if i commissioned you to have a space marine make out with his armor for a valentines day thing would that b cool (the OCs i have, i s2g)

That’s exactly the sort of shit I want to draw tbh.  Bring it on.

[flannelfrog]

lakidaa replied to your photoset “More fun with Fuse, this time it’s Iachello!”

bruh tag your nsfw :V

Sorry, I didn’t realize it was NSFW, the render has no genitals and isn’t doing anything sexual

[tearitar]

i am here for your ego and the thing i like best about u is how u put 100% into your feelings about the stuff u consume as in like animes or books or pictures or movies. you never half-ass feelins bout a thing u saw and i like that.

AHAHAHA. THANK YOU. I just... love lots of things very much. I know I can be.. a handful. with things i love. ;u;