#mishmash-mod

[poptartmochi]

y'all i have created a Monster 😮😳😳

[monsterbutch]

ummm. i may have just started the process of a new planet type. just to make everything a little harder on myself

[wanders-in-stars]

when you've finally got the Perfect combat overhaul after combining so many mods

[shalomniscient]

thinking modern!au feixiao thoughts again… feixiao who loves having you as her pretty passenger princess in her souped up supra. alongside her fighting skills, her car is something she’s also super proud of. she worked a lot of shifts at her uncle huaiyan’s shop to convince her guardian yueyu that she could get one, so she holds it near and dear to her heart. all of the car’s mods were done by her own hand—with some helpful assistance from moze, specifically when it came to tuning the ecu. and she certainly put it into action, sneaking off to participate in a street race here and there. it’s how she ended up making friends with an older foxian, yukong, who would also haunt these meet-ups in a downright monstrous nissan gtr that other racers could only look enviously upon. yukong’s retired now, though, very busy looking after her 2 year old daughter that feixiao adores.

in any case, feixiao’s had a bit of a history with living life in the fast lane. it’d always been a source of worry for jiaoqiu and moze, but feixiao had mostly just let their concerns go in one ear and out the other. she cares for them, she does, but how could they understand what it’s like to live life on a timer? she can’t let the world pass her by, needs to chase it down, and if that means doing nearly 200 on the freeway then so be it. but somehow, that worldview had since fractured—and she can trace it back to when she met you. now, with you in her car, she finds herself wanting to slow down. to indulge in every soft laugh, every sigh, and every breath she can draw from you. her car has gone from a place where she comes to forget, to a place where she wants to indent every moment into her memory.

she loves taking you out on long drives, maybe to go somewhere out of state for the summer. she’ll have several playlists on her phone, a mishmash of your favorite songs and her own, and you both take turns belting out the lyrics in the car. if you get some food at a drive-thru, expect to be hand feeding her fries or helping her sip her drink. she’s gotta keep both hands on the wheel, after all. and if the drive stretches on into the night, and you fall asleep in the passenger seat, she’ll slowly pull over and grab a blanket she’s started keeping in the backseat and draping it over you. when the car starts moving again it’s with an intentional, quiet gentleness, the machine purring softly as it moves down the road under feixiao’s expert hand. it’s a long journey, but there’s a warm comfort that’s wormed its way into her heart, knowing that you’re right there next to her for the entire ride.

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Hey new to the aphmau fandom, like days old, and i was wondering what order to watch her rps as its kinda confusing to me

This is going to be such a long post because there’s so much to say! (There is a TLDR at the end if you don’t care about specifics and just want a watch order)

The inclusion of side-series and stuff just convolutes things a tad. But I promise, you will get an answer.

First;

I suggest a side series to start. Which isn’t to say that they’re all short, they’re just not relevant to the Big Two.

But, yeah, just dip your toe in the pool first.

Dreams of Estorra- never watched it. But it’s popular. It should be on the Aphmau Stories channel instead of her main one, if you can’t find it there. If someone can offer me a summary for it I would love you.

A Royal Tale- a weird mishmash of Disney and the Aphverse. A lighthearted fantasy show with some adult humour, Lo (< an icon), and romance. It will introduce you to some of the characters from the other series without overwhelming you with references you won’t understand. Aarmau, but they’re exes who hate eachother. It’s only a roleplay

Mermaids Tale- similar thing to ART, a mermaid au for Aphverse. Very Aarmau centric, there’s lesbian mermaids. I cant actually remember the plot but it got me into my train (the singer) phase. It’s only a roleplay

Mod Mod world- never watched it, but it did get a sequel that I’ll bring up later. Again, would love a summary from someone.

My Inner Demons- it’s one of the only non-aphmau centric shows and doesn’t include ANY aphverse characters. The main character is Ava, and it’s set up like a Harem Anime with a bunch of male demon love interests for her. It has quite adult humour, but it’s pretty cute aesthetically and deserves a second season. It’s only a roleplay

HeartPoint- a girl sees how much people like her platonically and romantically by little stats that appear above their heads. I believe Aphmau is the only Aphverse character, and whilst the romance is pretty obvious to me, I’ll leave who she ends up with blank as that’s kind of a part of the series… iirc. It’s only a roleplay.

There may be more… I’ll have to look.

Anyways.

So.

Onto the behemoths.

Minecraft Diaries is the first of the Roleplays to really get her popularity. It’s a medieval fantasy, with both roleplay and let’s play elements in it. It ran for three seasons, seasons one and two being 100 episodes each, however season 3 ended short. It was never completed. Season three is regarded as the worst season, and most either don’t consider it canon or haven’t watched it at all, but I consider it canon solely because it introduces us Lo, who I love. The two main ships when it was popular were Laurmau and Garmau, and if it weren’t for MyS, they probably still would be treated as such.

If you want to watch the main series in chronological order, I would watch MCD first. It is my favourite tho so maybe I’m biased. The lore can be contradictory and the quality slowly improves over time. It started to get remade with Rebirth, which you can watch before hand to get a general gist of the show before you dive into it, though it isn’t incredibly accurate to how the original is. Seasons 1-2 are on Aphmau’s main channel (I think), but season 3 is on Aphmau Stories. You don’t need to watch MyStreet but, you will probably end up watching it anyways.

Brief intermission: Void Paradox. The Mod Mod world sequel, is also a side series for MCD s1, and was made years afterwards. Very high quality, probably one of the better side series in general, and deserved a continuation. MMW isn’t required to watch it, but for context on Laurence and what’s up with him, MCD s1 is.

The next is MyStreet. It started as a modern Au for Diaries with the side stories and The Big Move, however began to be made into its own series. It begins as a slice of life, and is very light hearted with an Aarmau emphasis. It faces a genre swap for Season 4, before reverting to a slightly more solemn version of what it once was, before it goes back to a darker vibe for s6. Until s6, it existed in a separate universe to MCD, and you don’t need to watch MCD to understand it (though it does provide some context for s6)

There are prequels and side series (and a three episode sequel, which is fun). PDH is the main one, and because MyS was made first, they can contradict, however you will need to watch PDH S2 for context for MyS S4. Otherwise you won’t know the villain or understand what the fuck he’s doing. After them, there is PDH: Graduation days, and FalconClaw University. Neither are particularly important, but again, FCU offers some context for s4, so… you could watch it. It’s just not mandatory. There’s Aphmau’s year after s4, which is just a recovery mini-season, and there’s Her Wish which was released before s6, but set after it. And I will give them credit, they did preplan when they wrote her wish and watching it after s6 and realising everything they did to retain continuity… oh it’s good. Her wish does require watching MCD S3/late s2 though, it won’t make sense without it.

TLDR;

If a series isn’t Void Paradox, Mystreet, MCD, Phoenix Drop High or FalconClaw Uni, you can just watch it whenever.

MCD / PDH / MYS is my personal favourite watch order, because it’s all chronological. But just go with whatever you vibe with!

MCD is the OG and fantasy Medieval, but is a mix of roleplay and let’s play, and doesn’t have entirely consistent lore. It has a partial remake and it’s final, incomplete season, sucked.

PDH is higher quality and a highschool drama with fantasy undertones but less relevant, and is a prequel for MyS

MYS is the most popular and is a slice of life with more fantasy undertones, as well as very high quality, but suffers through genre swaps, and requires some context from the other two in later seasons.

[utdrmv-confession-box]

Transcript: ‪Honestly I hadn't expected myself to send an ask here, but I felt the need to say this. ‬

1. I highly respect the mod for doing things the way that they are; must be a quite exhausting, dealing with a bunch of confessions every day, and I highly encourage breaks. I'm always entertained whenever I see an ask pop up on my feed, no matter what the subject matter is. It's a nice hub, I guess. Keeps me connected in a way to the opinions of people I haven't shared a word with, yet am part of this community all the same. But I digress- its super cool. Keep it up! <3

2. What im confessing.

I find this fandom to be one of the most impressive I've ever really come across, what with how it interacts between members, and how it somehow both disconnects and connects at the same time to the OG source material. Part of our wild and untamed growth as a fandom is BECAUSE of the game that we come from. Undertale is a game about choices and their consequences, we all know that by now- but what I've seen for the past NINE YEARS is what's come of the impact of that chance, that opportunity to dive into another world and spread it apart like a rotten log to see what gooey and weird curiosities are inside.

And in that regard, I feel we're both the hands spreading it open and the bugs writhing underneath. What we've made, the good and the bad, is an ecosystem all of its own. The game is that metaphorical log. We merely live inside and around it, feasting off of it and spreading it even further.

That, to me, has always been gorgeous. It's a wonder of human imagination, in it's most convoluted and mishmashed form. That, if given the chance to peek and create from SOMETHING, we could do amazing things. Undertale was that chance. At least for me, that is. It certainly hasn't let go of its grip on my mind, that's for sure (send prayers lmao)

That's all. Ha, I'm tired. :'')) wanted to let all that out, in as much of a coherent thought process as i could. Thanks for the opportunity. This fandom just means a lot to me; i always found it to be something of a marvel, in spite of all its many, many flaws...(Sorry about how long this is!!! Btw!!!!!)

[i-identify-tanks-in-posts]

What tanks would be most like the GLA Scorpion?

The scorpion draws most heavily from two ww2-era designs:

The ČKD LT vz. 38, a Czech light tank that saw use and success with the German army in the early years of ww2.

The Italian Carro Armato P-26/40, an italian light tank that saw limited use, owing to its entering production in the summer of 1943. In the end, only about 120 were ever produced, and they saw only limited deployment by the Italian and German armies.

The three you posted above, which seem to be alterations from a rework mod for Command and Conquer: Generals, are a mishmash of various early war and interwar designs, run over with a coat of imagination and inspired by the somewhat-grounded original design.

[wixelt]

Just had an incredibly vivid dream where Hermitcraft Season 10 started and it was revealed Martyn, Joel and Sausage were all joining, plus 2 or 3 YouTubers I think my brain completely made up (though one of them was giving me Scott vibes, for sure, while another coild easily have been a mishmash of Shubble or Lizzie or KatherineElizabeth).

No Skizz, though. Damnit brain!

Also, they had a strange, abstract NPC mod installed for some reason, plus the minimap mod.

Make of all this what you will. I blame having watched Iskall's penultimate VH episode late last night. :P

[eldritch-spouse]

So I had an idea for when Vesper’s queen becomes a concubus, I thought of them developing moth wings and a floofy tail. Aswell as neck fluff and having heart-like features and sensory antennae.

I could see Vesper and his Queen wrapping their tails together to make it feel more intimate and loving. Aswell as teaching his Queen how to take care of their neck floof.

Def overstimulating them by licking or kissing their antennae.

I see the wings as being like one of those floofy blankets that keep you warm and just them wrapping their wings over him to snuggle and keep warm.

[You almost described that one moth girl from an FNF mod.]

It's pretty rare for such a wild transformation to happen, but then again, you're dealing with Icons, and Icons are often total mishmashes of characteristics compared to their more physically homogeneous subjects. So really, it could happen!

Vesper's not just going to teach you to groom your fluff, he's going to tell you how to use it your advantage. You have scent glands in there, you know? The King himself is drawn to them, shoving his face in any fluffed part of you he can just to smell your pheromones. You're even more irresistible, he can and will get high of them.

In fact, you're taught how to mark people with your fluff. Though you can only do that to Vesper mostly, just as he marks you with his own. In fact, you're going to have to endure Vesper rubbing himself on you like a needy house cat just so he can have your smell. You can also sell your fluff for a lot of money. Ludicrous amounts, really.

Vesper is also in love with the fact that you have something similar to his "whiskers", though your antennae are a lot more sensitive than his lashes. He's not just going to lick them, Vesper will take both into his mouth and suckle until you're spasming and paralyzed in sensation. It's one of his favorite things to do, because it leaves you open to all sorts of stimulus.

You're recognized all over Hell for being the "fluffy" royals.

[limeade-l3sbian]

this is my current skyrim outfit. its mishmashed from loads of different mods lol. is this acceptable to spam in your group if you make it

Girl, yessssss. "Worst" case it'll just be you and me spamming each other back and forth 😭

[sweetrollbakery292]

The Tarkovification of stalker was a mistake

gonna go on a rant here, The valid criticism of the game, performance issues and bugs, get drowned out by gamma and eft fanboys whining about A-Life not being perfect, as if it’s the death of the entire franchise. eft fanboys, in particular, keep demanding features that have no place in stalker, treating it like it’s supposed to be some tarkov-lite experience instead of its own thing. Do these masochists even know what made the original stalker games great? Every complaint boils down to “gamma did this, and this game didn’t,” as if that modpack is the definitive version of the series. But here’s the thing, A-Life while ahead of its time and something that should absolutely be fixed in stalker 2, wasn’t the sole thing that defined the originals. The real core of the trilogy was its atmosphere. the tension, the dread, the beauty, the sense of immersion. Without that, the A-Life system would’ve been fucking meaningless. The dynamic world of A-Life only worked because it complemented that atmosphere, not the other way around. The obsession with the endless tarkov comparisons also miss the point entirely. stalker was never about cramming in features for the sake of realism or complexity; it was about creating a world that felt alive, haunting, and unforgettable, being challenging while not being tedious. the GAMMA modpack has completely warped people’s perception of what stalker is, and now they’re rewriting history to fit their nonsense. One review I see: “Far Cry with a stalker skin.” Then the inevitable “I went back to playing GAMMA.” Calling this game “Far Cry with a stalker skin” is lazy criticism at best, and the subreddit’s echo chamber keeps it alive. The game is a mess; it needs performance fixes and A-Life back as soon as possible. But calling it Far Cry and then praising a bloated modpack as a better stalker experience? kindly fuck off for us If you’re saying that, you don’t understand stalker. What you’ve been playing isn’t stalker. It’s a tedious, miserable mishmash of mods that barely resembles the originals. Go back and play Shadow of Chernobyl, Call of Pripyat, or even Clear Sky. Those games weren’t Tarkov clones designed to punish you for existing. They weren’t made tedious just for the sake of it. I blame the people who started the “STALKER is just Tarkov offline” narrative. More than that, I blame GAMMA and its smugass, fuckwad of a creator, grok. I used to defend GAMMA and Anomaly, but now I see the purists were right. I went back to GAMMA, and it doesn’t feel like stalker at all. It feels like it hates the very idea of being stalker. PS: To everyone who drops, “Well, I read Roadside Picnic and watched the Tarkovsky film,” shut the fuck up. You didn’t. And even if you did, you don’t understand them or their history. You just know the games were loosely inspired by them. Congrats on your trivia knowledge. Here’s a ribbon for your participation trophy. Now fuck off.

[aischunomelody]

Review: Geordie Greep- The New Sound

Geordie Greep sounds like a name made up for some kind of anti-drug PSA, but he's quickly become one of my favorite artists. One of the members of the now-defunct trio black midi, he recently released his debut solo album The New Sound where he fuses genres like jazz, prog rock, and samba in such an incredibly eclectic way that it's made me dust off my keyboard and start writing again. I'm convinced that with this album, he's on the forefront of, well, a New Sound, but with some caveats.

I was already familiar with Geordie indirectly through black midi, a UK rock trio comprised of Greep, Cameron Picton, and Morgan Simpson. Their song "Welcome to Hell" was put forth to me by The Algorithm after I put on the music video for Viagra Boys' "Sports" one day. Entranced by the visuals of their music video alone, I suddenly found myself playing it on repeat because it was unlike anything I'd heard before. It wasn't until I looked more into their past that I found out they popularised a mishmash of post-punk, avant-prog that came from a venue they used to frequently play- the Windmill in Brixton, South London- and it's sent me into a deeper genre hole I'm still exploring. Artists like Black Country, New Roads, Squid, and Shame fill that same space, and their manic-depressive tendencies tend to show themselves through how they sound.

On the news that the trio dissolved for the time being after three albums under their belt came the news soon after that Geordie was releasing solo music. The album's main single, "Holy, Holy" came around at the beginning of last month, and even now it makes me wanna stomp around Downtown LA like a Looney Tune- enough exaggerated confidence to be silly, but with style. That song, along with many others on the album, tackles masculine insecurity, love, and validation among other feelings. The album as a whole paints a picture of a nameless deranged protag chasing after a prostitute named Terra that he thought loved him. With each lyrical track comes different stages of both life and grief, with the last being his acceptance that Terra did not love him. It's like listening to a man burn out in real time, but catchy.

In any case, I'm hoping this kind of sound becomes more popular. Since my teen years, I've had an affinity for Brazil that started with the whole "come to Brazil" meme, but it's grown into an appreciation of its culture, its people, and their impact on the world. It cannot be understated how much their homegrown genres like bossa nova and samba are incredible and starting to gain a footing in Western music again like the Mod 60s. Greep's album wouldn't be the first, but artists like Laufey, Billie Eilish, and even Mitski have been getting into the sound and it sets the stage for more thought-out and methodical music with calm timbres and hearts worn on sleeves. You can say that much for this album, but you can also add a little bit of the manic-depressive tendencies and raw aggression that comes with black midi's music.

All-in-all, we're all in for a saudade for the future. While not the newest sound under the sun, everything old is new again, and music is better for it. Hopefully it doesn't disappear after a while.

[royedismyaesthetic]

Hi mod! I’ve found myself rereading some of my old favorite RoyEd fics recently after a long dry spell and I desperately need new material, but I checked the AO3 Ed/Roy tag and there haven’t been many enticing new updates in ages. Have you put a fic rec list out before, or have you read any good/underrated fics that you can recommend? 👀 They can be platonic or romantic, parental or postcanon friends/coworkers, smutty or genfic, none of it matters to me! I just really miss Roy & Ed so much 😩

(Also, since I’ve followed you for years and never interacted directly, hi! This is canonical-royed reaching out! I just want to tack on a brief addition that I’ve loved your blog for years and hugely appreciate your dedications to the RoyEd fandom by regularly updating this archive. Thanks for keeping the ship alive, you’re the bomb!!)

Hello hello! It’s been a while since I posted a rec list- I’ve been meaning to put somethin’ together, but *shrugs* I haven’t gotten around to it just yet. And I’m in the same boat- whatever their relationship is… I wanna read about it! So! Here’s a mishmash of (kind of new-ish) fics that I read lately (or at least, the ones that I can remember off the top of my head): 

numerics by butbythegrace - In this fic, people are born with the time and date of their death on their wrist. I read this yesterday, and I don’t know why I didn’t read it earlier, because it was so good! It’s romantic with sexual content. 

The mortifying ordeal of being known by applecrumbledore - It’s post-canon and Edward works at a hospital. The characterization was really good. Just a great read. Also romantic with sexual content. 

Everything I Remembered by hunters_retreat - Edward has amnesia. The ending was sweet, and I liked how their relationship developed. That was also romantic with sexual content…

The Quiet Ones by BeyondTheClouds777 - That was parental RoyEd. I liked reading about them being injured and in the hospital together. They had some sweet moments.  

And then in terms of older fics, I recently reread For Her For Him by nomdeplume1313 , a classic... I reread Mistakes by Sevlow which is a zombie fic... and then of course I read Save Me by Sevlow for the tenth time for some heavy Roy whump.

I hope you enjoyed my terrible descriptions…

(And I’ve seen you reblogging stuff lots of times before- thank you for your kind words and for following me! Your ask made my day!)

[roidmude009]

i did it all for heart-sama...

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[loving-n0t-heyting]

I think what fundamentally does not appeal to me about voluntary GITS style cybernetics is the deliberate discarding of my healthy body parts. Part of that is a feeling of loyalty: my feet (eg) are my long loyal friends and companions to have served me faithfully my whole life. I have the same horror at destroying them i do of tossing my old hardware while it still works, or callously abandoning close friends once i dont strictly need them anymore. Part of it is a horror at the erasure of what makes me stand out as an individual and creature of my own idiosyncratic circumstances and history, a winnowing of my particularity (this is part of what is so revolting about coercive intersex surgeries or solely cosmetic surgical treatment of polydactyly in children)

These have effects on what kinds of radical body mod fantasies i can enjoy. It doesn't apply almost at all to mecha-like pure augmentations eg. Its also easy to imagine enjoying a continuous furrification for example that transforms rather than destroys the old organs and keeps me as the feline image as it were of my native humansona in all its peculiarities. And i find it at least less horrifying (sometimes even in ways appealing) to imagine eg smth like the actual story of the major from GITS or phosphophyllite from LotL, whose original cyborgification was undertaken out of involuntary loss of body parts and life-or-death medical necessity rather than voluntary abandonment and whose eventual body is a distinctive mishmash forged of her/his peculiar life history

(I also feel this less about ((most of)) my innards, i think bc i just feel relatively unacquainted with them and also innards are gross)

[sturthepotofmadness]

TFRarePairingfest2023 Day 9: A Night in the Country

Pairing: Yoketron/Lockdown

Continuity: Animated

@tfrarepairing

As Arclight’s artificial sun set, Lockdown entered the makeshift dojo, one of many in the giant floating ship-city, carrying a few bags filled with goods and supplies. The lights of the main room were dim, and he knew the dojo master was in the backrooms of the dojo. He walked over to the door in the back of the main room and went through into the hallway.

Before he could get very far, however, something dropped from the ceiling and Lockdown released a yelp as he was pinned to the floor. He felt his master sitting on his back, using his pedes to keep his arms pinned.

“Yoketron…” Lockdown muttered, not bothering to attempt to escape.

“Good. You’ve learned,” the white and gold monoformer stated. Lockdown felt a tapping on his helm. “Deposit your finds in storage, then meet me out front,” Yoketron commanded, then stood up from his place and walked through the door Lockdown opened.

The mishmash of a mech pushed himself up off the ground and released an unhappy grumble. He entered the nearest storage and put the various goods and supplies on the ground. They could sort through them and put them where they belonged later. He left that storage room, closing its door, before going over to the room designated as weapon storage. He took out most of the blades he tended to carry with him, along with the detachable mods. The only exception was a small sonic dagger, something he knew Yoketron had with him at all times anyways. 

Once the weapons were in their place, Lockdown left, closing any open doors behind him as he went. He went outside to the street, spotting Yoketron standing by the sign of the dojo. Before Lockdown could say a word, Yoketron turned, grabbed Lockdown’s hand, and promptly began walking away from the dojo. Lockdown tripped slightly from the sudden pull, but fell into step with the elder.

As they walked, the artificial sun disappeared over the horizon, and all over the city lights from all sorts of sources kept the city alight. Even from just the streets they walked down, Lockdown spotted lights coming from windows, basic street lamps, fairy lights, hanging mimicries (mostly hollow shells that looked like flying creatures hung above roads by basically invisible string), small greeting statues, lanterns, forgeflights imported to the city (he remembered being told forgeflights looked like metal fireflies), and the biolights of mecha all around them. Lockdown frowned when he noticed he didn’t recognize wherever they were going, and he knew most of Arclight like the back of his hand.

After (what he counted as) fifthteen kliks, they arrived at the location Yoketron dragged Lockdown to, a ship docked to the ship-city meant to be detached if need be. Lockdown got a look at the sign outside, ‘Kalioken Gardens’, before Yoketron pulled him inside.

“It’s not perfect, but it’s the closest thing without leaving Arclight,” Yoketron stated, as if he was asked a question Lockdown never spoke aloud. He was about to ask what Yoketron was talking about before he saw the inside of Kalioken Gardens. It was a massive room filled with plants of all types, from Cybertronian, to Regelian, to Earthen, and so many more he couldn’t hope to count. He heard the chirps of organic birds and bugs as they went about their business, the rattling of leaves and twigs signified other creatures scattered about.

Yoketron dragged him out to a clearing and they sat down. The animal noises radiated around them. Yoketron immediately went into mediation and after a few moments, Lockdown decided to join him. He smiled. It wasn’t what he expected, but he’ll enjoy it.