#made some edits to make the text more readable

[sleepincrow]

contains: toxic behaviour, toxic!reader this was itching my brain, idk what to tell you. i like having morally ambigious reader... or idk, is it too tame? i have no idea where the line meets and ends when it comes to dark shit cus i usually stay in the other side of the line. whenever i think of dark stuff its in a comedic-ish light and everything turns fluffy in the end idfk. tell me what else i should add in the warnings 😞

edit: i made it readable, i should really start readproofing.

hear me out..

reader who doesnt do anything when their boyfriend is mean. like theyre just generally pissed off and huffing at you when youre trying to greet them with open arms and a warm smile when they come home.

reader who doesnt confront them about their horrible behavior and how it affected them. no, just stay silent, take in whatever your boyfriend had to say or do and leave him be.

ohooooh, you mightve done nothing but youre going to give them something much worse than a silent treatment.

youre not a doormat. youre not a crybaby.

i want reader to be absolutely menacing. if that man doesnt come back crawling, apologizing to you, youre gonna make him.

do you understand me? the anger, the absolute disgust that bubbles in your stomach, that claws its way up your chest like an animal looking for a fresh breath of air before it starts to hunt.

youre silent all of the sudden, giving him the driest texts known to man, leaving him on seen with texts that dont technically need a reply instead of dragging the conversation longer with a picture of a cat you saw on your way home. youre picking up more work than usual, unable to cut some time, telling him youve got things to do—things more important than having to watch some tv with him, be in bed with him.

youre clever. you know your schedule, and you know his. rearrange everything, make sure to make as much commotion in your life that doesnt include him, so when he confronts you, youre technically telling the truth when you say youre busy.

because why bother coming home early, greeting him, surprising him with dinner and a loving kiss?

then watch it all go down. technically, youre not doing anything wrong, youve got your plate full with a screenshot of your planned calendar to pair with it as sweet, sweet evidence.

youre watching him slightly deteriorate. watch him panic. he'll buy you flowers, in which you put in a vase but never take care of like before. he'll buy you jewelry you wont wear because "theyre beautiful but i like the old ones too! ill wear them on a special occassion" that wont ever come.

the frustrated, panicked look on his face is priceless. it feels so good. he cant even be mad because youre not even cheating! you have all the alibis, all the witnesses. youre perfectly happy and sweet as before! just.. not as responsive, not as present. but thats not your fault, thats your job's!

if he pays for you, slowly start paying your half of everything. shows that you are stable and everything would be perfectly fine if he went up in left. in the end, thats why he got angry with you in the first place, right? he's so okay with being angry, not telling you his problems, that he can keep it to himself, right?

he doesnt need your lap to lay his head on, not your food that you prepare for him when he comes home, not the soft touches you leave on his overworked skin and definitely not the words that you coo at him everyday before he pissed you off.

make him know what the once delicious thought of takeout tastes like once he's left to fend for himself while you go out for overtime at work! trust me, its gonna taste a hell of a lot more bland, a lot more dull. depressing, really.

dont even get me STARTED on sex. (i wont, not now)

this is all justifiable, right? after all, this is how you communicate your feelings right? this is how you can show him how you felt when he showed you a cold shoulder at your warm embrace! let him have the full experience when you felt pathetic, miserable, useless.

plus, youre not wrong, arent you? you can leave whenever you want! who is he to tell you that you cant leave? as if he owns you—is that what he thinks? is that what he thinks of you? just a not-so-significant other that he can come home to whenever he wants and project his feelings unto?

no, no youre not. youre not gonna take that bullshit. he can roll it up, pack it in a bag and beat it if thats what he's thinking. no, both of you are holding an end of a rope in this relationship. a big, thick rope which you can cut off with that large ass scissor you both have.

this is just you telling him, reminding him that you can cut it whenever you like! its not threatening, not manipulation, straight truth! you CAN leave any relationship you like! its his problem if he doesnt like it, right?

your poor little boyfriend has to get his act together! start thinking straight! unless he wants to deal with your unyielding, harsh wrath for the rest of his soon-to-be miserable life.

after all, he made the first threat to your relationship, right? its just a reminder!

[xandezsims]

[Bodice Ripper Romance Novels]

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Dez came up with this in 2022: Harlequin-style trashy novels as unique clutter. The original concept was 2 deco books. It turned into 3 deco books, a full book set, and 5 readable books. So far.

The titles are modeled after 1980s romances. Dez went through hundreds of Simlish fonts, and finally modified the title font character by character to better match the English font, Georgia.

Every bit of text in this is Xan's fault. He went overboard. Back cover blurbs, book pages, the lot. Don't let a writer do anything.

The book pages were meant to be cliche racy novel schlock, but they came out much better than expected. Oops.

We hope you like this--and that, if you do, you'll tell us. Between research, screenshots, photo-editing, font-editing, meshing, writing, testing, designing and redesigning, we spent actual, real-world months on this. And we're proud of it. But it was a lot.

Despite that, Xan is considering a semi-historical version. (Let's be real: dirty books are not a new invention.) So that might happen.

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[heck-theo]

ROTTMNT Pride Flag Icons

The response to my last post about these was very encouraging so I finished them! Here are some examples using popular headcanons and/or headcanons that I like (so hard to pick cause there are so many great ones).

Below these examples are some rules for use and then below that are the blanks with the green flags for you!

Rules: First I wanna acknowledge that there's nothing I can really do to stop people using these however they want, and while I would disapprove, I'm not going to get mad and fight you about it. I won't give you the attention.

If you have any good faith/genuine questions or criticisms about these rules please let me know.

TLDR:Keep it respectful and PG.

Who can use these? I don't mind anyone using these if it follows the rules. Please credit me in some way if you use (even if it's just a text post), and don't claim that they are your own. If you would like to use it in a way that isn't specified here or with a flag not mentioned, feel free to ask.

Editing? I don't mind if you want to add small details, adjust colours etc, but I'd rather you didn't make large adjustments that could really change the overall picture.

How do I use these? I actually have no clue how to mask over a colour in a flat image, these are all clipped over the flag colour layer. If you do know please feel free to leave a comment. If you would like to request a specific flag go ahead and ask. If I only get a few requests I probably won't mind doing them for you. This is not a guarantee though, and it just depends on what I have going on and how I feel at the time.

What flags can I use? This is intended for flags that represent or support LGBTQIA identities. To be clear this does NOT include anything like TERF, MAP or Zoo flags. Also please don't use any flags representing kink and stuff.

Country flags? That is not the intended use and I'd really rather you didn't, however in the end as long as the flag isn't being used in a way that supports war, genocide or bigotry I'm not toooo fussed.

I really hope I'm being paranoid and this won't be an issue but I feel the need to say it cause I've been on the internet long enough to know it's full of trolls, grifters and creeps. If you see anyone being problematic, bigoted or disrespectful with these feel free to let me know. Free block list.

One last thing: There is a more "fem" leaning/alt version and a more "masc" presenting version. I tried not to get too carried away with changing their designs in the alt version. Also I'm still trying to figure out this style so it's not perfect but I was flattered that you guys were interested so I wanted to finish them off. Also they were designed to read well on a small scale so a lot of choices were made specifically to try and increase readability when they're itty bitty and some things might look slightly odd on full scale? Anyway.

Ok without further ado here are the blanks (I hope you can get some use out of them and enjoy ^^):

[rq-producerperson]

Hi April!

I have some of questions about the public-facing transcripts of Magnus Protocol.

They have a very “shooting script” vibe. Are these the same as what’s given to the cast, a very close derivative, or something else?

If they aren’t what’s given to the cast, when in the process do they get made?

A weird copyediting question: What drove the change from the monospaced font (I think Courier New) to the bolder sans serif font? And is there a reason the headers and footers are the old style?

An esoteric “my masters is in rhetoric” question: The scripts contain quite a bit of content that isn’t in the audio. In the other hand, I hear that The Magnus Protocol is a podcast. Are you able to talk about your personal opinion on their relationship to the text? I’m not asking for an answer on authorial intent or the “on high” answer, but I’m curious how various people involved in making Protocol think of them. (As an example, I’ve been thinking of them, to go back to the as “apocrypha”; I think of them as true, but also not as part of the text, if that makes sense. More like annotations or marginalia.)

Anyway, welcome to the public Tumblr stuff! It’s cool to have you here.

Oooooh very happy to answer this, mostly because I think it’s a neat example of how we work as a team.

The short answer is yes the transcripts are derivative of the shooting scripts but they aren’t the same.

Alex and Cathy are both very sensitive audiophiles who have worked together to make those layers and layers of interesting audio bits some people catch but others don’t (the lie glitches are an example as well as the whispers in episode 10) Conversely, I have mild progressive hearing loss and handle the transcription.

As I am also the producer, I know all of the plot points, beats, and important bits that need to be communicated for the story to work. I use the shooting script as a guide and listen to the final release audio along with the shooting script and make edits as I go. Sometimes different takes are used, sometimes audio cues change etc. I also try to obfuscate information that’s not yet revealed in the timeline.

I will admit I don’t catch everything, and definitely make mistakes, but ideally the transcripts are designed in such a way as to make sure people who may not be as keyed in to the highly detailed audio execution can get a similar experience by reading the transcript. I have such respect for Cathy for the work she puts in artistically, we want to make sure people know what they’re hearing.

Our audio team are exceptional in such a way that they are constantly trying to balance creative narrative with accessibility. You can get all of the information in the audio, but we recognize that’s difficult and we are often people’s first experience in audio drama, so we balance it with the extra information in the transcripts.

The layout and design of the transcript was influenced by external guidance for the visually impaired who recommend 14 point bold Ariel as the most readable. We also release Word versions so people can use dark mode or adjust font size and style if needed. Accessibility is different for everyone, we do our best to make sure we have options available.

—

For amusing behind the scenes mistakes I know I have made:

People may have remembered the old pilot had ‘Norris’ labeled as ‘Martin’ this was because we changed Norris’s name so many times I didn’t know what to call him and accidentally forgot to change the Martin placeholder. 😬

So yea. I’m not perfect and nor are the transcripts but we try our best.

[eddiediaaz]

hi lovely!! do you have any tips on making cool fun and sexy typography?

hey joanna!! this made me giggle haha, i'm not quiiiite sure how to answer that, but here are some tips i keep in my when i do typography, and some examples:

FONTS

don't be afraid to "shop" for fonts and try funky fonts you've never used/seen. i often try so many before settling. i almost always use at least 2 different font for gifsets, even 3 sometimes. i think a good font pairing can do a lot for a gif. it's usually something like:

serif + cursive/funky fonts (example)

sans serif + cursive/funky fonts (example)

serif + sans serif fonts (example)

two different cursive/funky fonts (example)

or even simply the same font but all caps + all lowercase (example)

in case you're unsure where too start or want inspiration, here's a great resource: usergif's font pairing guide and its fonts page

BLEND MODES & LAYER STYLES

i think playing around with different blend modes and layer styles will always elevate your typography game, in my opinion. it's usually a bit more dynamic than just an opaque color. tho this minimalist typography can also be really good.

when you double click on a text layer, you get all the layer style options, as well as the blend modes. a very popular layer style is setting the layer's blending option to difference, paired with a color and/or gradient overlay (often set to multiply/color dodge). a drop shadow is also important so the text is more easily readable. we often see a black soft drop shadow, but don't hesitate to be creative with it, for example a thick, hard line, colorful drop shadow.

i feel like this step often takes the most time for me because the possibilities are endless. definitely play around with layer styles, especially drop shadow, color overlay, gradient overlay, stroke. and also try different blending modes for these settings.

as for the layer's blend mode, also definitely play around with them. and keep in mind that the text's color will also give a different result, it doesn't have to be white + blend mode set to difference, even tho this is a classic that works well.

TEXT WRAPING & POSITION

a great feature on photoshop is definitely the text warping tool. to access it, right click on a text layer and go "warp text". from there you'll get a few different styles and setting sliders. my favorites are flag and wave (example). you can always go back to edit these settings once they're done by right clicking again. and you can even keyframe/animate these settings!

typography doesn't always have to be centered and straight, i often prefer it on a side and rotated a little. you can easily rotate typography by selecting the layer(s) and hitting ctrl + T. you can also play with the skew and pespective after hitting ctrl + T by right clicking the canvas and clicking on either. these will give different ways to move your text.

SIZING

i love playing around with different font sizes, it makes the typography more interesting in my opinion, and it's a way to emphasize some words.

so for that reason i usually put each word on a different layer so i can edit each word separately. sometimes i will also put each letter on a different layer, because it can be interesting to offset/rotate some letters sometimes (example) (another example).

i often pair a quite small serif or sans serif font with a much bigger funky font (example). and often that bigger font will also have different sized words (example). i play around a lot with this!

ADDED EFFECTS

there are some things than can be done to enhance typography:

adding a colorful rectangle block behind the text (example)

using text symbols such as quotation marks or backets (example)

using lines around the text (example) (another example)

these can definitely bring typography to a different level

MORE RESOURCES

great font website

usergif's typography tag

my fonts tag

this is all i can think of right now, i hope it helps :D if you have any question on a specific text effect let me know, i can definitely make a tutorial!

[detailtilted]

Index of Enhanced Edition Con Videos

I'll maintain this index in a pinned post for easy reference. Click the links to go to the YouTube videos, or click here for a more readable Google Docs table which includes these links plus a tab noting which events I skipped, temporarily or permanently, and why.

Direct link to my YouTube channel.

2007-11-11, Chicago - J2 Breakfast (00:23:42)

2007-11-11, Chicago - Jensen Solo (00:21:55)

2007-11-11, Chicago - Jared Solo (00:29:44)

2007-11-11, Chicago - J2 Main Panel (00:38:24)

2008-07-27, San Diego Comic Con - SPN Panel (00:50:52)

2008-11-16, Chicago - J2 Breakfast (00:26:16)

2008-11-16, Chicago - Jared Solo (00:26:20)

2008-11-16, Chicago - J2 Main Panel (00:35:04)

2008-11-16, Chicago - Jensen Solo (00:34:36)

2009-08-30, Vancouver - J3 Breakfast (00:31:53)

2009-08-30, Vancouver - Jensen Solo (00:27:17)

2009-08-30, Vancouver - J2 Main Panel (00:30:25)

2009-11-15, Chicago - J2 Breakfast (00:32:24)

2009-11-15, Chicago - J2 Main Panel (01:08:50)

2010-10-10, Chicago - Mishalecki Breakfast (00:32:48)

2010-10-10, Chicago - Misha Solo Panel (00:24:22)

2010-10-10, Chicago - Mishalecki Main Panel (00:29:33)

2010-10-10, Chicago - J2M Main Panel (00:29:07)

2011-08-27, Vancouver - Misha Solo Panel (00:54:47)

2011-08-28, Vancouver - J2 Breakfast (00:30:40)

2011-08-28, Vancouver - J2 Main Panel (01:03:46)

I've finished the last panel for which I have videos from the amazing AgtSpooky. I'm now circling back to some of the older conventions I'd skipped, starting with Comic-Con 2007.

Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest in these videos. The reblogs and likes all made me very happy, and I especially appreciated the kind comments some of you left in your reblog text and tags. I'm unsure of the proper Tumblr way to respond directly to that in a way that won't annoy people, but I've definitely noticed and appreciated it!

An explanation of this project and my plans for it are listed below the break. A lot of it will be familiar if you've read my earlier posts, but it's more detailed -- and excessively long! There's also some info on how you can help, especially if you have any old videos or audio files that you'd be willing to contribute.

Why Do You Call These "Enhanced Editions"?

The videos I'm using are not my own, but I've spent many hours adding enhancements to them. My goal is to make these the most watchable and accessible versions of these older convention panels published to date. Credit and links to the original videos are in the video descriptions. These are the typical enhancements you'll see:

When possible, I'm upscaling the videos. This doesn't always work, especially on videos that are lower quality to begin with, but sometimes it makes a significant improvement in video quality.

When necessary, I'm correcting colors on the videos to try to make them look more natural and consistent. I'm very inexperienced in this area, and I don't consider it to be one of my strengths, but I'm learning.

The original videos are usually in multiple parts, but I'm editing them together into a single video as cohesively as possible. I may use videos from multiple sources to provide the most complete video possible, and I'll select the ones with the highest video quality and/or the best view of the action available. Sometimes I have to make difficult choices between the video with the best view (meaning a clear view of their actions and/or facial expressions) and the video with the best quality. I usually lean toward the one with the best view in those cases. I also choose the clearest audio I can find, so the audio you hear didn't always come from the video you're watching.

I'm adding extra content to help clarify references people make during the panels. The videos I've worked with so far don't take up the full width of a modern video frame, so I've taken advantage of that extra space to display the extra content to the side where it's less obtrusive. There are explanations for obscure references that are way funnier when you understand what they mean, plus episode references to help jog the memory for those of us who haven't rewatched the show a million times. In rare cases where I think it will enhance understanding, I'll insert brief episode clips that highlight what they're talking about.

I'm putting a LOT of time into adding good, color-coded English subtitles that can be turned on and off with YouTube's CC button. These videos can be frustrating to understand because the audience often drowns them out and Jared and Jensen tend to talk at the same time when they're together. I can't always figure everything out, but it's far better than the crazy, auto-generated nonsense that many videos have. YouTube can then translate my English subtitles into other languages, so this improves their accessibility. The color-coding helps with telling who's saying what: red for Jared, blue for Jensen, green for the general audience, yellow for the current fan at the microphone, and white for other people such as staff.

If there's missing footage that I can't find anywhere, then if I can find a source that seems to have reliable details about what was discussed, I'll add static images with a brief summary and a link to my source in the video description.

What Conventions Do You Plan to Enhance?

I don't want to make grand promises that I'll enhance videos for every old convention, although I definitely love the idea of doing so. How far I go with this will depend on how much sustained interest there is from other people and how much spare time I have myself.

My main focus is the panels with Jared and/or Jensen. They're the ones I'm most interested in and it takes a certain level of obsession to spend this many hours watching the same video over and over as part of the editing process! If I obtain any mostly-complete videos of Misha's solo panels that upscale well, I may also do some of those. I have done a couple of his already. He will also of course be included if he's in a panel with Jared and/or Jensen.

I haven't quantified exactly what "old" is, so I can't tell you I plan to work on all videos up through a specific year and then stop. For now I'm just plowing my way through with blinders on until one of four things happen: 1) I don't feel like I'm adding any value any more, 2) I no longer have the time or energy for the project, 3) everybody else has lost interest in the project and nobody's watching anymore, or 4) I've reached cons that are recent enough that the original video takers don't want their videos used for this project.

Can I Help?

If you have any old convention videos or audio files that you're willing to contribute, please message me! Maybe I can use them, maybe I can't, but the more I have to work with, the better chance I have of creating something more complete. If I do use your material, I'll credit you in whatever manner you prefer.

Even if your videos are on YouTube, it would save me a lot of angst if you could reach out to me and let me know about your channel in case I haven't found it already and confirm if you'd be ok with my using your videos. If you have videos that you don't want me to use, please let me know that too and I will respect that. I spend a good amount of time trying to track people down before I use their videos. If I can find a way to reach them, then I request permission first. I've managed to make contact with several very generous people, but a lot of people have also fallen off the face of the earth. If I can't find an active account for someone, then I go ahead and use their videos, but always with some trepidation that I might eventually piss someone off. Many of the older videos have already been republished by other people without credit, and I do always credit my sources, even if I only use a second or two of audio from their video.

If you send me videos that I'm able to upscale and/or color correct, then I'd be happy to send those updated versions back to you for your collection regardless of whether or not I use them.)

Even if your video looks terrible, you might just have a missing piece of footage that I couldn't find anywhere else, or your video might upscale more easily than another. Some of the footage I've gotten the most excited about has been audio-only footage or very low quality video footage that captured a few seconds from a panel that nobody else captured. If nothing else, I might be able to hear something in the audio that will help me fill in a subtitle I couldn't figure out.

I've greatly appreciated everyone who has contributed to this project by freely sharing their recordings. I also appreciate everyone who has watched my videos and especially those who have taken the time to let me know that you're enjoying them or benefitting from them in some way. Thank you!

[malviolet]

im back after ep 4 umibros.... and i come bearing my thoughts.

pls note.... i have a huge advantage as i know some major spoilers, but i still had fun trying to figure out who did what and why.

i did NOT know who killed who or how many killers there are, or how many accomplices there are or who they are, i went through the red truths and thought about it.

anyways. major spoilers and theory stuff undercut.

this is the list of stuff i already know. i wasnt planning on reading umi at the time, but i was curious and ended up looking some stuff up before i started.

crop for fun & readability.

anyways. onto my thoughts.

when reading through the tips i kinda got surprised reading the note under Rosa, it immediately made me think of Maria because of what happens in ep 4. that + her kihihihihihi laugh made me think that anyone with the kihihihihi in their tips page was probably killed by maria. i have no idea how, but because all the heads were smashed, im assuming a GUN?

Not going to pretend I know how the Shannon body thing works. Everyone else lured out by Maria or Shannon.

you may be asking, okay. how dod they get into eva & hideyoshi's room. well. i am currently working under the assumption of a hidden passageway. "BUT THE RED TRUTHS" STOP!!! Beato says there is no more than 1 hidden passage way..... but... IF THEYRE ALL CONNECTED.... perhaps that counts as one? :) I have convinced myself that there are secret passageways throughout the mansions for quick traversal. With this premise, they can simply leave Eva & hideyoshis room via the secret hatch..... and its just Maria and Shannon/Kanon, so theres nothing really threatening about them as they're children, it's wouldnt be SUPER weird for them to be invited in. or they simply came in and left from the same secret entrance.

i do not know why the servants are going along with this.

I believe either Maria or Beatrice shot Natsuhi. My brain says Beato, but the text makes me thing Maria?

I explained most of everything else in the post, but i have no idea whats up with battler.

-------

EDIT: after chatting with oomf about why I think think the way I do about what happened, i have stumbled upon MANY ADDITIONAL SUSPICIOUS things.

1) HIDEYOSHI IS EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS.

Iirc Hideyoshi & Nanjo are the only two people to really "see" Shannon at the beginning. I believe it is simply implied that she was the same as the others, but never actually seen by Battler.

Further more, this makes the Eva & Hideyoshi locked room much more sensible. It's possible Hideyoshi killed Eva, but I don't think he really would? I think it's more likely Hideyoshi helped kill & move the other 5 adults in the shed. And later on, Sayo kills Eva & Hideyoshi? I'm not 100% sure what happened there, but I now believe Hideyoshi is extremely suspicious and in on it. I also choose to bump Maria down to accomplice instead of active killer.

2) "Maria's" involvement

Due to the above, Maria's involvement now make more sense to me, as I didn't really think she could shoot someone. However, I will also say that the kihihihi's in the tips are probably Beato's delusion of Maria. In that this is what Beato's believes Maria would want / she is pretending they are doing this together in her imagination.

3) Something I'm missing

Currently, I believe I am missing SOMETHING, and I think that something is relates to accomplices. When thinking about the other episodes, I have now started to believe that someone is chosen at random for... some reason... and that they and their family temporarily become "in on it".

I was thinking about Hideyoshi & Eva with this & working with the assumption that, along with Hideyoshi, Eva was also in on it and maybe George? But only temporary. So basically:

-someone is chosen at random(?) to be an accomplice

-that person and their family temporarily become in on it

- that family can never survive and must always die in their given episode

I don't feel like typing it all out again, so here's what I said to oomf:

"I think, for whatever reason, each episode someone is randomly chosen to become an accomplice. Idk how or why. And the accomplice that's chosen, it's like... their family temporarily becomes in on it? But they almost certainly are killed by the end.

I'd have to think more about episode 2, I don't remember it well, but.

IF this is somewhat correct...

Hideyoshi is almost certainly in on it at this point. And to that extent, Eva & George may also temporarily be "in on it". I'm not too sure about this part. Anyways. Hideyoshi & Eva are killed with stakes and George is "missing" at the end.

I don't remember the details of episode 2 very well, but Maria & Rosa were a central focus and I THINK they both died in their end?

In episode 3, you kno I'm sus of Batter and his family for the Eva-Beatrice & Hideyoshi thing. They all died.

In ep 4, Jessica and Krauss are both sus, along with others. It's not as prevalent but it is there somewhat.... Jessica's family all died as well.

Curious....."

In conclusion, for episode 1:

Thanks for coming to my Umineko Ted talk.

[ladyteelia]

Still working on this but some alphabets for Mandatory!

Feline or Cats Scratch - is indented, so anyone can read it even without sight as long as they can touch since it's the clawmarks in the parchment that makes it readable, text is on textured rollers or haptic screens for monitors so they can read messages from their supervisors or the council. To become a Median you must have some knowledge of Cat Scratch and Cats Tongue to become verified and be given your handle.

Media's Type is directly related to Cats Scratch, but is designed for the computers and haptics, all Medians must learn this.

Avian or Birds Peck - works similarly and is both pecked and clawed, so there's more openness on interpretation of the letters but it's easier to do with a talon.

Primates Sign is written and signed often, it is the least used in Media but was made for ease of having an alphabet in Deviate. They also have a short-hand which is intensely more complicated but shortens sentences significantly. I may make it in the future or have it cameo in the comic!

Weasel's Claw is a new edition and is done with their finger tips and entire paw print for each letter, a much bigger font for some, not so much for ermines.

Canines Dig is the simplest, but can be the hardest to understand.

Each is referenced or inspired by certain alphabets to keep it mildly educational to myself and it's really fun so far! c:

[aashiqeddiediaz]

Hi!

I was just wondering if you have a tutorial on how you created this effect in your gifset, it's something I'd like to try but have no idea where to start. Your set is so pretty! Any helps appreciated x

https://www.tumblr.com/tawaifeddiediaz/712911415428743168/ill-take-you-with-me-then-well-both-die-you?source=share

Hey Nonnie, thank you! This is super late, but I don't actually have the psd for this set anymore (I delete them as soon as I post them), so we're just gonna wing it with a gif I made the other day. I think this ask is about the text, but if it's anything else, just drop me another line and I'll get to it when I can!

I'm pretty sure I got this tutorial from the wonderful @eddiediaaz but I then turned it into Lazy Girl Hours :)) anywho, here we go!

We’ll be making this gif:

This tutorial assumes basic knowledge of gif-making, Photoshop, and coloring. I’ve only described the typography tutorial in this, but you can reach out if you have any questions.

Tutorial under the cut:

Couple things to note beforehand:

There is a lot of trial and error involved when doing any sort of effect, and this is no exception! You might have to play around with the colors and the settings before you find something that looks good and readable and that fits your set!

This text effect works better on big gifs (540px width).

For this, I find that a simple font works better than a fully-cursive one, but play around with what you like. The boxes may need some adjusting if you use a font with too many tall or tail letters (i.e. text where all the letters aren't on one uniform line - that's why capital letters work so well.)

Movement works really well with effects like these, but again, it depends on your gif + readability. If you have a blended gif, it may take a little more trial and error.

I work in frame animation for all my text effects, but this works just as well in timeline as well.

We’re going to start with this gif:

First, I like to put my text on the gif. You can obviously move this around later so don't worry too much about how it looks right now.

The dialogue is "Just don't feel it." "Feel" is one of those Big Words for this quote, so I'm going to emphasize it with cursive text.

I am using Moon for the sans serif text, and Santa Fe Spring for the cursive text. Keep both of these in white for now:

Next, we're going to use the rectangular marquee tool to draw our rectangles around the capital letters (we're not touching the cursive text right now). I just eyeball this, and then try to center it as much as possible.

(The rectangular marquee tool has a keyboard shortcut of M, and it's the second tool in that little toolbar on the left of most people's Photoshop.)

This is what that'll look like:

Next, we're going to go down to the icons at the bottom right of the layers panel and select the half-black half-white circle > Color Fill.... You should get a color dialogue box. Choose your color - I'm using #8d0000. Then, we're going to move that layer below the corresponding text layer, and set its blending mode to Difference. This is what that looks like (click the image for better quality):

I'm going to repeat that with the other two boxes as well, using the same color. The boxes will look different with the Difference blending mode because of the shadows underneath.

For example, the box with "it" looks like a solid red square because it's against a completely black background, while the other two have some blue shading to them since there are some highlights behind them.

This is what my gif looks like now:

Next, I like to go The Lazy Girl™ route and put all three color-fill layers into one group underneath all the text layers. This just lets me edit the drop shadow of all three of them at the same time.

Right-click the group and open up the Blending Options. In Drop Shadow, these are the settings I'm using. The drop shadow color is #0c6477:

(Note: uncheck "Use Global Light" especially if you're working in frame animation to make sure all the drop shadow has the same angle on all frames.)

This is what my gif looks like now:

Now that we've finished that, time to move on to the cursive text.

I usually match the cursive text to the palette of the rest of the text, and since the drop shadow is our "accent" color, so to speak, I'm going to use a lighter version of that color. I am also going to add a drop shadow for readability.

The color I used for the text is #acfffe and I actually ended up adding two drop shadows, just because I needed something subtle that doesn't overwhelm the text, especially since it's a delicate font. Here are the settings for both layers:

And here's what my gif looks like now:

Now, before we move on to the lines, just check the adjustment of all these text layers, see if there's anything you want to change. It's easier to change now than after the lines are added, since you'll most likely have to redraw them if you move the boxes after the fact.

To draw the lines, we're going to use the Line Tool. I just freehand all of this, and I try to go from center to center of the boxes when I can. It all depends on your angles.

My lines are 2px thick, but you can change these depending on your preference. Here's what mine look like right now:

We're going to do the same lazy hack that we did for the color fill, and put all three line layers into a group. Move this group below the text layer and the color fill layers. The reason for this is so that the lines look like they're coming seamlessly from the box, rather than from on top of them or something.

Then, set the group to opacity 50%. I like more subtle, simple looks in my gifs, so I don't like super high opacities.

And that's it! This is our final gif:

Some final notes:

Absolutely play around with the blending modes of the color fill layers for this effect. These two gifs are the exact same color we've been using, just two different blending modes. You can see how drastically different they look. The first one is Linear Dodge (Add) and the second one is Vivid Light:

It can change how your gif looks in a BIG way, so play around with it, see what you like, especially if you don't really like the "two toned" thing going on.

Sometimes, I also like playing with the width and height of the text in the font settings, making it shorter and wider, or making it taller and more compact. You can play with the letter spacing as well. The world is your oyster, etc etc.

One other thing I've started doing is erasing the lines with a big brush, just to fade them from his face a little, like this:

To do that, use a layer mask on the line layer folder, and a brush that's 0% hardness, and at least 200px big. For this gif, I also changed the opacity of the lines back to 100% so the fading effect is a little more pronounced:

(this gif isn't the best example for this, but oh well. Anywho, hope this helps, Nonnie! Let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy!

[evilliousunderground]

Detail from "Miniature garden girl" official PV that hasn't been noticed for almost 16 years!

Official PV of "Miniature Garden Girl" was released on July 3, 2008, and has a lot of illustrations, not only Suzunosuke's. And there is this illustration among another ones that appears between 03:03 and 03:19 :

By the way, curiously, Michelle's arms in this art are placed the same way as Eva's in "Moonlit Bear" PV, that was released on the same date as "Miniature Garden Girl" song (but not clip) — June 22, but a year apart.

The fact is that the background of this illustration is text in English. What's it about? Well, it isn't "Lorem ipsum", and that's all able to know. If the illustration will be edited by right way, only some of the letters will be readable, the rest is unreadable not so much because of the quality, but because of the outline of Michelle's profile.

So, these are all words those are able to read:

my thought ... (will?) no (... c_agens?)

(use?) my (eyes?) ... (remember?)

to... words (and want?)

As for any kind of (future?)

(reach?) you (sometimes?)

(...time?) (memory?) (together?) (some...?)

(not come) back (anymore in...?)

that that

(quietly a memory want?)

(and for height?)

quietly a (memory?)

(something _and?)

(stillness?) ... of a (wing?) feeling

(...stars) who (beg?)

millions of (years?)

(us ... impression?)

... (if?)

(not?) stop (we?)

As you see, the text is difficult to index at least because there is nothing to type into Google for getting any result. But does this make sense, what if the text is inserted as decorative feature only? Yes, the probability of this is high, however...

The fact is that the clip was made imitating the about Victorian or Art Nouveau styles, and yes, inserts in the form of text from English-language newspapers of the early 20th century are sometimes used for creation of pre-WW1 epoch. But here the case is a bit different: firstly, the text looks more like a passage of a letter or a novel, and secondly, the font used in the background looks like a font from a simple HTML page, without the serifs mandatory for newspapers of more than a century ago. Yes, the lack of serifs can be explained by resolution, but if they were really there, it would be even more difficult to read with such quality. Another thing to point out is the "that that", which looks like an obvious typo or machine translation error from 2008, which raises two questions: where did the text come from, and, if the text was made up by mothy or the illustration author, where is Japanese original?

However, knowing that the canon of EC was changed a long time ago, this is already of archaeological interest. But it doesn't cancel the fact that no one paid attention to this detail for more than 1,5 decades.

[httpsserene]

what's good my fellow f1 fiends. thank you for all the love and reblogs on let's go golfing w/ ln4 !!! a lot of people enjoyed the dynamic and my humor, so it made the effort put into it worth it overall. it was lowkey a bitch to make fit in a single tumblr post, since there's a ten photo limit. anyways i say that all to say, i need help deciding on my next next idea!

im working on one request right now that'll probably come out before whatever is decided here just so y'all know :), pls send me more requests

oh! i also plan to do a few kinktober posts! idk how many or when i'll post them, i've also never written smut before so it's a good time to try and get some feedback

so if you want to be added to a kinktober taglist lmk!

but all the possible ideas listed in this poll below are non-kinktober fics, just regular posts that will have a few requests and kinktober fics sprinkled in between!

my singular anon, u know who u are, i promise you this fic will be out by monday! i just gotta finish the ending, and edit it to be readable

[divineerdrick]

Warhammer 40,000 Balance Update for October 16, 2024 - Munitorum Field Manual and Errata for Xenos Factions

After writing, I decided to split this document up into the super factions for ease of use. I've also changed how I format rules changes. Let me know what you think! Is this more readable, would you prefer a single post, or should I do a post for each faction?

Edit: The color coding for points changes breaks every time I edit it. To fix it, I have to go into the HTML and correct where it's marking things. I just don't have the spoons for manually correcting that much text.

Aeldari

Form their lofty perch, Aeldari have gotten to a point where they could use some love. While their win rate is near spot on, they're having trouble making it to top tables. And the players that are, usually run Ynnari. But will GW give them much of anything or let them ride until their Codex comes out?

Here we run into another issue. The changes are being made directly to the Index. This is good. GW should definitely do this. But do they tell us what's changed anywhere? Answer, they've put it in the document for the Index Cards. It's important they put it somewhere, but I really wish they had it spelled out somewhere where the changes are listed.

So what's changed? The standard Autarch now has the basic Captain ability as detailed in the last Balance Dataslate. That's an important change to have listed finally. For FAQ, we get another common sense answer for Wraith Guard and clarification on how to properly position a jumping Yncarne.

All Corsairs: -2 pts/model Falcon: -10 pts Fire Prism: -10 pts Shining Spears: -10 pts/3 models Warlock Conclave: -5 pts/2 models Warlock Skyrunner Conclave: -5 pts/model Wave Serpent: -10 pts Wraithblades (5 models): -10 pts Wraithguard (5 models): -10 pts Wraithknight: -15 pts

As for the points, it's all good news! GW really is getting much better at understanding what's going on in the game! The important stuff here are the buffs to vehicles and Wraith constructs. I don't know if this brings Wraithknights back to the table, but small groups of Wraithguard might be worth taking again. I'm not sure these changes will convince anyone to bring a Conclave on foot though. All of this is good news for Eldar players!

Drukhari

The article warned that nerfs are incoming. Still I hope they only get a love tap. Their rankings are greatly bolstered by skilled faction specialists. No one is currently running out and buying up Drukhari models because the faction is good. Granted if GW successfully brings down the factions above them, there might be an issue. But I hope they don't go beyond a love tap.

For Errata, the Archon is specified as having its own ability, not Lord of Deceit. I don't think there's anything Drukhari can take to stack with it, so that shouldn't be an issue. My guess is the team is considering changing Lord of Deceit in some way. It is really strong. So this makes sure that change doesn't affect Archons. They also get a couple more clarifications for Pain Parasite, but there's nothing unusual here.

Archon: +10 pts Beastmaster: +15 pts Court of the Archon: +10 pts Drazhar +10 pts Hellions: -2 pts/model Incubi: +2 pts/model Lelith Hesperax: +10 pts Mandrakes (5 models): +5 pts Reavers (3 models): +5 pts

Yeah there's a lot there. I think that's a whole unit gone from many Drukhari lists. We also see that GW is continuing to recognize that some MSU spam is just really good. This really is a good thing, and may be slowly turning me around on purchasing units in bricks. But it sucks when you're already really nerfing an army.

Drukhari could be hurting.

Genestealer Cults

I'm about to say something that might shock some of you. I honestly don't think GSC is doing that badly. They've actually got solid numbers, though this come from the fact they're a niche faction with skilled specialists. But I think that's okay. I think it's okay for some factions to be there for the fans and require a little skill to play. It's very obvious that while GSC can struggle in match ups, you can get results with them. What they mostly need is internal balance, and I think that will come to rules.

For errata and FAQ we get a revision that makes sure you take a GSC model as your Warlord in the Brood Brothers detachment. We get a common play clarification for Tunnel Crawlers, but a very interesting clarification for Brood Brother Kasrkin. Despite not having the Voice of Command Army Rule, Kasrkin can still give themselves orders. That makes them a much more powerful and versatile unit in the Brood Brothers detachment. Still not sure that's enough to make that detachment even close to good, but it's interesting at least.

Abberants (5 models): -15 pts All Acolyte Hybrids: -1 pts/model Acolyte Iconward: -10 pts Atalan Jackals: -2 pts/model Benefictus: -10 pts Jackal Alphus: -5 pts Neophyte Hybrids: -5 pts/10 models Patriarch: -10 pts Primus: -10 pts Outlander Claw: - Serpentine Tactics: -5 pts

Oh boy! Christmas just came early for my cults! Still, I'm actually going to say these aren't the best changes. A lot of these changes benefit Outlander Claw, the Mad Max style detachment. And that is currently the best GSC detachment and my personal favorite. While the other detachments will love these changes too, I'm worried that Outlander is going to become the only way to play GSC. There's already a Wolf Jail like list running around the scene, and no one likes dealing with that list. The only good news is I doubt this is going to bring a huge flood of players to the faction spamming toxic bike lists. So while GSC isn't going to become a problem, it's only going to be a rare problem list that will frustrate players now and then.

Leagues of Votann

The Kin are another force that looks good from win rates but is actually struggling quite a bit. Like Death Guard, the Leagues struggle to secure the points they need at mid boards and up. This will hopefully get better if GW continues to get them new units, as their roster is still quite small. But for now, points aren't really the answer here.

FAQ wise we only get a timing clarification for Grudge tokens. And points don't have much either.

Einhyr Hearthguard (5 models): -10 pts Hernkyn Yaegirs: +10 pts

Okay. Yaegirs probably did need to go up, but I'm not sure this was the time for it. With so many other factions that are performing better getting all buffs, this is bad news for the Kin.

Necrons

After a brief stint as our metal overlords, Necrons have shifted to a pretty good spot. The main thing they need is some internal balance for their Detachments, and I don't think points will do that. Hypercrypt is just such a strong way to play the faction. Nerfing the models in the Hypercrypt builds threatens to drop Necrons too low. I think maybe only the Monolith can take a nerf without too much interference.

For Errata we start out with some Keyword fixes. Obeisance now benefits all Nobles and not just Overlords. And the Silent King is now officially part of the Triarch! However Plasmancers have had their ability to target Lone Operatives removed. So it's not all good news there. The FAQs are just common play clarifications too.

Annihilation Barge: -10 pts Catacomb Command Barge: -10 pts Deathmarks: +1 pts/model Doomsday Arc: -10 pts Lokhust Destroyers (1 model): +5 pts Lokhust Heavy Destroyers: +5 pts/model Monolith: +25 pts Obelisk: -25 pts Tesseract Vault: +25 pts Triarch Praetorians: -4 pts/model Triarch Stalker: -15 pts

That's a lot of shifting things around, and it's going to take me a moment to dissect it. As predicted, they bumped up the Monolith and Tesseract Vault with it, though I don't think many players were taking the latter or that it could be used as substitute. The dropped the cost on the Obelisk, but I don't think anyone's gonna try it out. Points aren't the problem there. My biggest problem here is Destroyers. While Hypercrypt did often take them, so did all the struggling detachments as well. And while faction specialists are going to experiment, I don't think these changes are enough to make Obeisance Phalanx really viable.

Things could be getting bumpy again for the Necrons.

Orks

As was said earlier, Orks are not in a good spot. While the nerfs they took didn't seem all that severe, they turned out to be nerfs to pillars that were holding the faction up. Since then, Orks have fallen hard and are the worst faction that has actual rules or isn't competing for its own players. And they're likely going to need a lot to rise back up.

The first big change is a clarification change to many rules that might help with some timing issues and future proofing. All or most rules active when you call the Waaagh now read they are active while the Waaagh is active for your army. This means if they change the timing on calling the Waaagh, as many Ork players would like, you wouldn't lose these buffs during your opponent's turn if you went second. While this looks like it might be nerf to Bully Boyz, the FAQ specifies that their abilities still work. We also get an FAQ the clarifies that when Snikrot uses Kunnin' Infiltrator, he doesn't count as moving for the purpose of Fire Overwatch. Though, he does still count as being setup on the board when he comes back down for the same stratagem.

Beast Snagga Boyz: -1 pts/model All Big Meks: -10 pts Boyz: -5 pts/10 models Deff Dread: -10 pts Deff Koptas: -10 pts/3 Gorkanaut: -15 pts Hunta Rig: -15 pts Kill Rig: -15 pts Kommandos: -15 pts Meganobz: -5 pts/model Morkanaut: -15 pts Tankbustas: -20 pts

And that is a lot of green, and a lot more green you can put on your table! As expected, Meganobz got some of their nerf rolled back. But a lot of boyz, including the popular Beast Snaggas, got buffs. Also, at some point the Gorkanaut and Morkanaut have to become playable as just a pile of wounds and guns on the table.

This is not going to make Orks into one of the top factions, but it should go a long way to getting them back where they should be.

T'au Empire

Tau are in what I'd call an okay spot. They're not where they need to be, but they're not doing that bad. They're performing just slightly above par, and only one of their detachments is struggling. They're what I would consider a textbook example of an army that shouldn't be receiving any external balance passes, so that they can rise up to where they should be when the meta changes. Internally, Kroot need help. But I'm not sure points can fix that.

The big fix here is to the Puretide Engram, which I think has been broken since the Codex came out? It now does something, letting you get a CP back on 4+ when you target the bearer's unit with a Stratagem. The new FAQs start by clarifiying that Crisis Suits always have a Pivot of 0" regardless of how you model them. Then we get two clarifications that, while they are how the rules work, are doubtless going to feel bad to Kroot players.

Commander Farsight: -10 pts Kroot Carnivores: -1 pts/model All Kroot Shaper: -10 pts/model Kroot Rampagers: -5 pts/model Krootox Rider (1 model): +5 pts Piranhas: +5 pts/model Riptide Battlesuit: +10pts

It looks like they're trying to do some internal balance, and at least help Kroot somewhat. But I don't think this is anything close to enough to make them viable. I don't think the other changes are going to affect Tau much, though we might see Farsight a bit more.

Tyranids

My beloved bugs have really turned it around with the Pariah Nexus changes. Despite losing Spore Mines, the changes to Synapse and Shadow in the Warp means we can actually get some damage now. That means we aren't always on the losing end of trading games. Neurotyrant with Zoanthropes also make for a fun and interesting tech piece. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them take nerfs, as well as the Swarmlord. Unnending Swarm could use some love though.

For errata, Surprise Assault gets some cleanup for timing and targeting. The Swarmlord gets the same treatment as Cypher, the Archon, and Ventris got, meaning it will keep its version of Lord of Deceit. Unseen Lurkers has been updated to the rules changes on Stratagems preventing your units from being targeted. Hunting Grounds, and all rules that trigger when a unit arrives from reserves, are clarified to trigger when a unit didn't go to reserves but was set back up on the battlefield. Rules that say "cannot arrive" on the battlefield during a turn take precedent over units that "must arrive" on that turn. While it doesn't specify, I do believe they can still arrive the next turn under normal Strategic Reserve rules. All the rest I believe are common play, though I was initially confused by the Neurogaunt/Neuroloid answer. But Neurogaunts specifically say that they have to be within range of a friendly model.

Carnifexes: -10 pts/model Lictor: +5 pts Old One Eye: +10 pts Pyrovores (1 model): +5 pts Von Ryan's Leapers: -5 pts/3 models Winged Hive Tyrant: -10 pts

This all seems fair to me. Carnifixes on their own got cheaper while Old One Eye got more expensive. The full unit still dropped in cost though. Pyrovores continues a trend as to how much GW wants you to pay for a single unit. And the Lictor has honestly been under-costed for a while.

I'm happy with this. I think we'll be just fine.

Final Thoughts

And with that, we have our balance changes for October! Space Marine players of all stripes aren't going to be too happy. Even Dark Angels, who initially thought would do well, will hate the base points changes in the Codex. Only Space Wolves . . . you know . . . THE ARMY THAT NEEDED NERFED THE MOST!!! . . . will be fine with these changes. Dedicated Ultramarines players will likely get something to work though, now that their Primarch is back in play. Sisters and Thousand Sons are in for a drop. Sisters probably won't drop too far, but, and I know I said this last time, I'm worried about KSons. Drukhari are really going to be hurting, though I'm sure Archon Skari will still find a way to win. I'm also worried about Leagues of Votann, Necrons, and World Eaters too.

Orks are looking like they'll start to rise again, but I don't think they're a top faction. CSM and GSC might be in a position to fight for the top spot. Wolf Jail is dead! Long live Jackal Jail! I also think Aeldari might have a reversal of fortunes too. The rest of us will only shift by percentage points, which is exactly what you want when the balance is this tight.

[chevvy-ryder]

WIP WEDNESDAY

got tagged by @aggravateddurian ! <3

again only writing:

Cyberpunk 2078 — Pandemonium:

Technically I can already start layouting the 2nd chapter as the written part is 100% done, but I am still missing some VP where I have to place Hizumi, Vijay and Ryder in the Afterlife and, ofc I am either too lazy to do that or I just forget about it bc I distract myself with other stuff (that also wants to be done). But as soon as I get to it you can expect the 2nd chapter! At least for those who are interested in it.

New pinned post coming soon:

I am about to make a new pinned post, yes it will be a brand new post but contain more or less the same my current one has. I just wanted to refresh my boys profiles, tweak the formatting a little and make them a bit better readable but they won't differ much from the current ones. I'll exchange the profile pics with given time tho as I'm not satisfied with most pics but have no time to throw each after another into the game just to get the perfect pic for it.

About Blorbos:

I am trying to sort out/clean up my boys' wardrobes. E.g. I noticed Thyjs has too much stuff and from every piece like up to 3 versions. I force myself to get it down to one piece, which doesn't work all the time, but I slowly get there. When he's done I'll have to do the same with the other boys thow Ryder is the most unproblematic of all as there's only one iteam in black for him in the first place of most mods.

I don't want them to wear all the same clothes unless it's basic stuff or shoes. I also try to get rid of most replacers unless it's stuff that hasn't been made as xl yet or need to be kept for color reasons and what not. It takes me so long because I also clean up my folders where I storage their original files as well sorting out those I have taken out. You know each of my boys has their own save file. I am also renaming some files to have a better overview as bru I tell you thjys is close to 300 mod files.

Chrome Chamber Rave concept:

Prepared some posts already but I am hesitating to push the post button bc my brain is stupid telling me shit I shall not listen to.

that's all for now. I promise next wip post will contain some pics or sth cooler than just text! I don't like it either.

tagging:

@astarionhistears, @nervouswizardcycle, @gloryride, @elvenbeard, @heywoodvirgin, @rosapexa, @streetkid-named-desire, @therealnightcity, @wanderingaldecaldo, @koda-shoulda-woulda-but-didnt, @breezypunk, @ouroboros-hideout and anyone who wants to or has to show something. No Pressure and if tblr mentions don't work, I'm not even trying to edit it as I am tired of it not working properly.

[voiceoutofstars]

Hi! How are you? I'm Bat ^.^I chanced upon your blog while trying to research some HSR lore, and I really like your data bank readability side project. Is there any chance that this will become another main project? Will this be limited to relics? What would it take for this to happen, for instance better resources, language translaton, or blog interaction, etc? No pressure at all though, I am just curious!

Hi, thanks so much for this ask!

Will this become another main project? Possibly? The primary limitation on the stuff I do for this blog is time and motivation. I really enjoy making both the audio stuff and the readability stuff, so there's no real reason to keep the readability project relegated to the back. Initially, I assumed that nobody on the planet would have any interest in reading what are basically just fan-edited lore of dubious quality. It was absolutely just a 'for me' thing. So, to be honest with you, just seeing interactions like this ask is motivating! I'm a bit bamboozled and heartily honored that anyone read this and enjoyed it. You've made me think "huh, I should be doing this stuff a bit more. There's somebody out there other than me who likes it!" Thank youuuuu~

Will this be limited to relics? I focus on relics because that's a relatively small category of often story-relevant lore that doesn't expand as quickly as other readables. Also, the relics entries tend to have a bit more character to them. Other data bank entries (like the Aeon or Terminology entries) are super interesting but (I think) benefit less from this type of readability revision because they're written in the same sort of encyclopedic format; relics, on the other hand, feel much more varied in their narrative voice. It was this chorus of clearly varied voices that made me want to try a readability revision in the first place. Having said that, if I were to finish readability revisions on the relics, the next thing I'd turn to might be the other in-game readables (or, possibly, the Memory Bubbles from Herta's station). Alternatively, I would be delighted to take suggestions. That's true currently, and wouldn't require waiting out my plodding progress through the relics. If there's a series of letters from Penacony or a missive from Xianzhou that you think has been done a disservice by its in-game text, I would be so, so happy to give you an alternate piece of disservice to enjoy :D

What would it take for [this becoming a main project, or for this to expand beyond relics] to happen? I am pretty restricted by my own limited language skills. So, I could certainly do more of these kinds of posts, but I'm not sure how I could improve the quality further without investing time I don't have. In particular, I absolutely can't guarantee the accuracy of the lore in my readability revisions because of the language barrier. (A thing that would be just the coolest would be...if there are other people doing this stuff? Wouldn't it be an absolute dream to have a compendium of readability revisions made by fans, all with their own voices, linguistic knowledge sets, narrative styles? This is what I'd want most, I think--to contribute to something of that sort. If you are enjoying these posts, then I'd like to ask you in turn--might you want to give such revision a try for yourself?)

In summary, I'd say this:

If you'd like MORE posts of this sort, every interaction helps! It tells me that someone out there is enjoying this stuff, and that makes me want to actually put forth the time to make more of it. If you'd like HIGHER QUALITY or MORE ACCURATE posts of this sort, that's a tougher ask because of my limited skillset--but I'd be happy to hear from Chinese speakers/readers (or from those playing HSR in other languages who notice clear discrepancies in their own data bank) who can point out specific things I've getting wrong or obfuscating further.

[talenlee]

Decemberween 2024 — Fox!

There’s a nonzero chance that hearing a guy gush about his partner might be something you consider ‘cringe,’ in which case I wish to issue you an anti-content warning. You should read this article anyway because such complaints are not based and indeed, even wack.

I don’t think I qualify as any kind of a Wife Guy but I think it’s important to recognise the best person in my life at least once a year.

Fox made a bunch of stuff with me this year. One of the big shifts we’ve been dealing with these past year is a slow bleed of production opportunities for our games. DriveThruCards has changed its printing policy, which makes the production of our games more expensive to make and export to us. In order to address that, Fox has made an enormous spreadsheet that shows the things we make and the prices we’re going to need to make to produce more games.

Through this research, which is largely just her work, we’ve been able to find production systems that still work with our game types, and we’ve been working to upgrade our games into this new system. This means amongst other things, different storage methods and new rules. As I write this, our newest game, Lysen Co is being processed by one of these options, and that game gets to appear in a metal tin with a rules booklet. Through Fox’s work doing layout and editing, making my rules text presentable and readable for an audience in a way that works with the interface of the game, that game might even be available for sale at Cancon in January.

That’s incredible considering all the work necessary to make it happen!

Straight up, working with Fox let me double my video production for the year, and opened up a type of video I don’t normally have it in me to make. Full playthroughs of some of these games is, in my opinion, a great way to surface elements of the games that an overview treatment can’t give proper attention to. It was originally meant to be a standardised format, where I’d record a playthrough with Fox, split it into two or three, and then use Sony Vegas to upload it with any necessary edits. I even wrote an article explaining parts of that process that were slow and cumbersome.

Fox and Talen Play Loom — Part 1 of 2!

Watch this video on YouTube

Thing is, because I’m working with Fox, and sitting there and talking through the actual method for doing it, we started work on making the videos in ways that are more efficient, easier to do. That led to the method I currently use, where I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate into the games, with my new keyboard that Fox got me when she noticed that I was using a keyboard where the keys occasionally failed. To do this I learned a lot about OBS, and that meant learning that some types of video I do — especially those that are just ‘slide show plus puppet’ are really easily made with just OBS. Thanks to Fox’s involvement, starting with (say) the Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People videos, I was making thumbnails before the project, I was going in with prepared sound options, and the videos were easier to make, faster to upload, and the process of uploading them was almost immediate after finishing recording them.

All because Fox helped smooth through one major part of the process!

This smoothing meant we’ve also been looking into further upgrades. After all, a lav mic is unnecessary when the core of my video production is just me, but when it’s me and Fox and we both have animated avatars we use for lip sync, that introduces a new kind of technical option. We’re experimenting with ways to make video that has both of our avatars in it, lipsyncing to our specific tracks. At the same time, because this process is being done months in advance, we’re able to recognise the ways that the process can be improved from point to point.

The Hollowness of M*A*S*K with Doc Destructo

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The video I made with Doc Destructo talking about M*A*S*K was a product of this kind of work! I was able to put all this together so that the heart of what happened was a single call. Now, because it was a single call, the way that Doc’s call got garbled was inescapable in the edit, as was the Bonus Dog Content of Elli barking. Part of the point was to have a pure conversation with Doc, which did create some problems, and now I know I want to have a pause-and-restart recording option for that kind of situation. It’s rough but it’s also a breakthrough of sorts because it has the animated avatar with eye tracking and lip syncing and my friend on the other call.

And this is just ‘stuff Fox has done with me this year.’ This is ignoring that Fox has also been contribtuing to virtual tabletop projects across two systems, contributing to Pokemon Infinite Fusion and oh yeah, also having a job as a web developer.

This is the twentieth year of being married to Fox. This is not our twentieth Christmas, but it is our Twentieth Christmas as a married couple. Our first Christmas was so very uncertain, and this year, we have some new uncertainties to grapple with. We’ve both had concerns throughout the year, we’ve had things that have set us back – but Fox has been relentless in finding ways to push forwards doing things in ways that work for her, that do what she wants to do with her effort, in the time she can expend it.

Fox is part of why I’m using kind.social. Why I’m using Duckduckgo. Why I’m using Office Calc instead of Microsoft Office any more. She set up activitypub. She manages the websites. She wrote plugins for functions on this website I that do things I want because she’d rather a solution be done right rather than whatever I can cludge around. In terms of things Fox can do and make she is absolutely interested in a particular philosophy of why not do things the right way?

She is my housebeast and my best friend, and I say it every year, but every day with her is a gift.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[dudosha]

I managed to edit a little, change the font (and even add something) so that the text became readable. I apologize for not noticing the problem right away. Since I was designing it on a tablet, it seemed to me that everything was readable, and then I looked at it from my phone and said, "Oh, it's awful." But I can't enlarge the text anymore, since I broke it in terms of atmosphere and meaning, and there are too many pages.

Please, if you are interested, use a translator. I was very afraid to translate, since I do not have the necessary level of knowledge to do this. Sorry.

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Time to reason🙏

As for me, the Geto family is structured, even like a model Japanese family, but only from the outside, of course. Father Suguru, as the true head of the house, is at the helm. He appears to be a strict and reserved man. It is fundamentally important to him that everything works like clockwork. No mistakes (and if he made a mistake, then this mistake was made by him). The man raised his son with the same mania for perfectionism.

On the opposite side was Suguru's mother, who was always comforting the child after yet another conversation or strict lesson from his father. To entertain her son, the woman taught him to cook or quietly played with him.

This terribly irritated Suguru's father. How does he raise a man, a worthy successor, if his mother is always coddling him?! Because quarrels in the house were not uncommon. The boy blamed himself for this every time and vowed to one day become big and significant, as his father wanted, but only in order to protect his mother. It is necessary and follows that the sorcerer's self-criticism and tendency to withdraw into himself.

I really like the idea of ​​Suguru's parents being different. Considering how sensitive he grew up. After all, living on "tectonic plates", they learn to adapt and determine by just one rustle. However, do not think that I am exaggerating and painting Suguru's childhood as dark. No, but it is a problem. I would very much like independence to show some codependency between the hot-tempered and melancholic personalities. And between their types, opposite in his emotional spectrum, Suguru was squeezed. It is not that adults did not care about their son's condition after their skirmishes, rather they themselves could not find an emotional balance, and therefore did not attach special significance. "A quarrel and a quarrel. Not the first and not the last. Others have worse." But the most interesting thing was how Suguru saw his parents when he decided to kill them. If they were more caring and thought about the consequences of their thoughts then in the child, this would have been a "stop" lever for the broken Suguru. He could not find anything in the "monkeys" except ignorance. Even in natural parents.

• Father as the embodiment of ignorance. A man's anger and inability to control himself as his "sins", for which the son will judge.

• Mother as a "victim" who will be a victim at the heart of the new world.

It is especially interesting that this concept looks like this in the twentieth year after Suguru put on his monk's robes after all this.

- You always protected me. So do it one last time. Let me protect myself from you

These are how I imagine Suguru's last words to his mother.

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That's all. I don't know what kind of impulse carried me away, but I'm glad that I was finally able to finish this part of my reasoning about the Geto family. In the process of writing my story about how parents learned about the way their son was raised. I'll try to format it and make it READABLE🫂

(Well, what can you expect from me, an ignorant monkey)