#personal gw archives

[anaugustproject]

Hello my fella ana-girlies!

Tomorrow is the 1st of August.

Do you all know what that means?

This month will be OUR month!

If you had binges or didn't do well all this time, THIS will be our chance to glow up!

So this is an account that was actually made for personal use, but I thought, why shouldn't I share it with you?

Tomorrow YOU will stop binging!

You will work out!

You will archive your GW!

'But how?' You may ask

I have several tips for you that used to help me back then where I was at my lowest. (I was in forced recovery. That's why I couldn't go any further)

Do not fast. I know fasting is a very popular thing people do, but most of the time, if you haven't eaten in days, it causes binging on whatever you see. I never fasted, and tbh, it was the best decision I've made.

LOTS of fruits! Fruits are a very good substitute for when u crave sweets. Tho, you need to eat them in moderation since some of them can be high in cals!

The personal calorie limit I set is 300 - 500 cals MAX.

Workout. I have a workout that used to help me slim down, and it wasn't that hard even tho I felt dizzy. The workout is linked at the end. Do it as often as you like.

DRINK WATER!!

In the commentsection under this post you can talk about everything and ask for tips and questions! Might also find motivation.

I'll post daily blogs about my day to stay on track! Wanna join, too? Use the hashtag #️⃣ 4n4August and tell us about your day!

Visualise your goals! Everyone has different goals. Wanting to be thin, not get bullied anymore, fit in cute clothes, etc... think about YOUR goal every day, so it's less possible that u give up!

Good luck <3

[thisweekingundamwing]

This Week in Gundam Wing 2 April - 10 August 2023

Here’s the roundup for April 2nd - Now!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make next week!

~Mod Hel

(Had a large case of ‘couldn’t care enough’ but, here’s everything that’s been sent in since last time!)

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@cuteciboulette

Insomnia https://archiveofourown.org/works/46226203

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Duo can't sleep. Heero, on the other hand, didn't have that issue, thank you very much!

In memoriam https://archiveofourown.org/works/46324246

Gen, Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell

General Audiences, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death (well sort of... I mean no yeah there is but also not really ?), Science Fiction, Post-Endless Waltz, Mention of main GW cast

Heero had ended up believing he was immortal.

Of love and fresh water https://archiveofourown.org/works/46401502

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Quatre Raberba Winner

Teen And Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Humor, Romance

Friends... sometimes, we could do without them!

Coming out https://archiveofourown.org/works/47021254

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner, Chang Wufei

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Coming Out, Romance

Duo and Heero wonder if they should tell the other pilots that they are together. Once they have decided, how will the other three react?

A Saturday Night on Earth https://archiveofourown.org/works/47067700

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Humor, Parody, Romance, Porn with Feelings, Porn Watching, First Time, Getting Together

Duo wakes up in the middle of the night and does not see Heero sleeping in his bed. But where is Heero? In front of the TV. And he is totally fascinated.

***

- I don't understand," said the dark-haired man, not seeming to notice the state of shock in which his friend was. The two young men turned their heads slightly to face each other. - Uh... What don't you understand? - This," Heero said with a vague gesture of his arm towards the television. "The dialogue is almost non-existent and the script is totally incoherent. Duo laughed in a low voice, with great amusement and a bit of nervousness. Was he really going to watch a pornographic movie with Heero Yuy or... was he still dreaming?

A happy event https://archiveofourown.org/works/47882218/chapters/120717316

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei, Quatre Raberba Winner, Trowa Barton

Teen And Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Mental Breakdown, Pregnancy, (no M-preg), Mood Swings, Pre-Relationship, Friendship, Preventers (Gundam Wing), In Universe, Post-Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Depression, Duo Maxwell-centric, Angst

Duo's life is turned upside down when he learns of a piece of news that doesn't concern him closely, but that affects him more deeply than he would like to admit.

After the storm https://archiveofourown.org/works/47721808

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, POV Second Person, POV Heero Yuy, Getting Back Together, Holding Hands, poetic descriptions

It had been Trowa's turn to choose the location for the annual pilots’ retreat. When he had called you a few weeks earlier to tell you about the small town in the south of France, he had added that Duo would be there, and you had known then that nothing in the world could prevent you from going as well.

Safe with you https://archiveofourown.org/works/47266714

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell & Heero Yuy

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Friendship, Friendship/Love, Pre-Relationship, Serious Injuries, non-permanent injuries, Fluff

After a mission that went wrong, Heero wakes up in the hospital. Duo is less than pleased.

Better tomorrows https://archiveofourown.org/works/47124895

M/M, Trowa Barton/Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton & Duo Maxwell

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, Friendship, Male Friendship

Because these things happen, and nothing can be done about it.

***

The focus is on Duo & Trowa's friendship. Heero's feelings are unknown and only presumed by the others.

@doctormegalomania

Dirty Computer (Ch.32) https://archiveofourown.org/works/28577022/chapters/118025050

Multi, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei/Original Female Character(s), Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner, Dorothy Catalonia/Relena Peacecraft

Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Quatre Raberba Winner, Trowa Barton, Chang Wufei

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags Contain Spoilers, Minor Violence, Espionage, Unreliable Narrator, Post-War, Reference To Past Injury, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Original Character(s), Disassociation, Intrigue, Background Relationships

Years after the war, nothing is what anyone hoped for. Peace reigns supreme.

@helmistress

The Simple Things https://archiveofourown.org/works/48183811

M/M, WuFei Chang/Duo Maxwell

Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, 2022 GW Holiday Gift Exchange, Pinch-hit, cussing/cursing, Scrap Yard!Duo, Preventers!WuFei, Work stress, quiet dinner with the boy fixes all things

Duo and WuFei have a simple dinner together.

@miyurinq

All Alone https://www.tumblr.com/miyurinq/713691818693394432/all-alone

Quatre Reberba Winner, fanfiction

Heart https://archiveofourown.org/works/40914714/chapters/102532038

M/M, Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner

Quatre Raberba Winner, Trowa Barton, Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Chang Wufei

Not Rated, No Archive Warnings Apply, Post-Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Minor Violence, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Sex

All Quatre wants is to help. Even when the war is over, so many people suffer because of the consequences. Helping rebuild is the least he can do. But he seems unlucky, things go wrong all the time and people get hurt.

Trowa hardly recognizes Quatre. He has changed and seems to have problems. He reluctantly tells him about his bad luck, but Trowa doubts that it's just "bad luck" and decides to investigate.

What love is all about II. A cooking story part I https://archiveofourown.org/works/46555012

M/M, Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner

Not Rated, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Bad Cooking, Anal Sex, Love, Established Relationship

Quatre had only one task. Cook dinner.

But as usual, things don't go as they should and he needs a plan B. A plan that would distract Trowa from his mishap. When he sees the apron, he gets the idea.

He had to make himself the main course.

Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:

@ghost-proof

https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/715069737407791104/a-soft-bubble-bath-for-our-l2-guy

Duo Maxwell, fanart

@mio222

https://mio222.tumblr.com/post/720603596475990016/heero-and-trowa-on-a-school-mission-waiting-for

Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, fanart

@rxntwo

https://rxntwo.tumblr.com/post/708063270685261824/the-cat-and-the-bat

Duo and Heero, Duo/Heero, fanart

@signofoz

https://signofoz.tumblr.com/post/721694057287630848/ii-am-obsessed-with-gundam-wing-very

Zechs Merquise, fanart

@sweet-rabbit

https://sweet-rabbit.tumblr.com/post/715525196893847552/this-was-for-3x4-back-in-march-whoops

Quatre/Trowa, fanart, comic

https://sweet-rabbit.tumblr.com/post/716157177308594176/always-practice-proper-lifting-technique-even-in

Quatre/Trowa, fanart, comic

@theboringbluecrayon

https://theboringbluecrayon.tumblr.com/post/713624417233780736/title-family-pride-source-anime-gundam-wing

Trowa/Quatre, fanart

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@janaverse

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/719666238715019264/choose-your-battles-the-few-days-that-they-had

Heero/Duo, Sims, screenshot

Fandom Discourse:

@grey-sentry

https://grey-sentry.tumblr.com/post/721764345405734912/so-i-was-thinking

¾ Zine Idea

@thisweekingundamevents

https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/725306210148073472/this-week-in-gundam-events

Events Calendar

Quotes:

@incorrectgundamwingquotes

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/713708795065483264

Heero, Duo, & Trowa

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/714252303675293696/duo-whats-it-like-being-exactly-like-judas-but

Duo & WuFei

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/714343026998247424/zechs-is-it-just-me-or-do-all-of-your-plans

Zechs & Treize

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/714433581021347840/duo-ive-been-trying-not-to-call-people-mean

Duo

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/715067767300276224/duo-how-dare-you-criticize-a-national

Duo & Trowa

Calendar Events:

@gundamzine

Battle Scars and Kitchen Cabinets

Zines Away! https://gundamzine.tumblr.com/post/721658818960015360/zines-are-away-be-sure-to-check-the-email-you

Amazing late, but, it was here, so...

@gwcocktailfriday

Cocktail Fridays!

Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.

On hiatus until I can get more prompts.

In need of prompts!

@gwlemonyshenanigans

https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/713701315904143360/friday-april-7th-is-gundam-wing-day

Very past tense, but it was in all this stuff I’ve missed. *cries*

@thisweekingundamevents

Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/725306210148073472/this-week-in-gundam-events

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

@weedgrandpacookbook

https://weedgrandpacookbook.tumblr.com/post/715141768209956864/weedgrandpacookbook-420-blaze-it-up-the-weed

This is here a million years late, I’m so sorry.

[kedreeva]

I posted 8,066 times in 2022

That's 329 more posts than 2021!

1,893 posts created (23%)

6,173 posts reblogged (77%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@fiore-della-valle

@redbirdblogs

@idkfandomwhatever

@seananmcguire

@sleepymccoy

I tagged 8,043 of my posts in 2022

#stranger things - 1,920 posts

#asks - 932 posts

#steddie - 722 posts

#anon asks - 532 posts

#all the laughter - 517 posts

#good omens - 490 posts

#my pets - 481 posts

#good things - 438 posts

#peafowl - 405 posts

#eddie munson - 377 posts

Longest Tag: 96 characters

#we are all uncertain if our work is good or we've just been loving it despite its flaws too long

I sent 10 gifts in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I hope that once everyone's done laughing at the important blue checkmarks (no rush, it's fucking hilarious), Tumblr considers other icons we can put by our names. Like little hats or something we can send to friends for a day for a dollar. Little animal companions. Good job stickers.

28,252 notes - Posted November 10, 2022

#4

A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.

More video at the source account!

34,063 notes - Posted March 3, 2022

#3

Oh god, I just aged several years in a single second, a friend of mine sent me a snippet from a fic that read someone put a VHS into a VCR and took so long getting back to it to press play that the menu screen had looped multiple times

36,575 notes - Posted September 1, 2022

#2

When I was a kid, maybe 14 or so (which is, you know, 20+ years ago), I belonged to a Yahoo! mailing list for an anime called Gundam Wing. It was mostly populated by other teens, of varying ages, as it was started by a teen and her friends. Eventually it migrated, when Yahoo! groups started as forums, and even branched off into non-GW related stuff in a second forum.

One of the things I remember the most clearly is the oldest person in the group. Her name was Steelsong. She was a 40-something Dom with a sub whose name we knew even though we knew nothing else. She ran her own fanfic archive because the web was still handmade HTML and navigated in webrings and I’m pretty sure Google didn’t exist or was only barely, barely launched and not well known. She was kind and patient and we loved her. She treated everyone on the group with the respect given any adult, even though most of the rest of the world was still treating us like we were children. Not teenagers even, but children. She never once condescended to any of us, never made our youth a barrier to her respect, never treated us like we were incapable of being full people or like we were less than her because we were young.

I remember that she hosted our fanfiction, as absolutely terrible as it was (and I still have some of it, I am WELL aware of how cringingly terrible it is, just absolute nonsense garbage), right there alongside of other fic that was soul-achingly beautiful. Not a separate section for her friends or for kids, just right there like we were good enough to feature alongside other authors. I never once received crit from her that I didn’t ask for, only support. Only love. I am still writing today partly because Steel was so kind about our fic, fanfic and original.

I remember that when I started doing clay sculpture, she commissioned a tiny pair of dragons from me, to support me doing artwork. She sent a check my mom cashed for me, and my mom helped me mail it when it was finished. It broke in transit, and Steel assured me that she mended it and that it was still beautiful. It was a small gold dragon curled up with a small silver dragon.

I remember that her patience knew no bounds. I remember that she was there for us, regardless of reason. When we wanted to know silly things like what to do with a single AA battery, she answered. When we had serious questions about sex, she answered.  When we had questions about writing, she taught us. When one of our group members, a young gay teen in Australia, ended up in the hospital and then stopped making posts, and we all knew what had happened, she let us talk to her about it because we couldn’t go to our own parents, even though we had just lost a friend.

She was not a replacement to my parents, but she was an extra parent, in some ways. A friend, certainly, but someone that had been through more life than we had and was willing to pass on knowledge if we asked for it. Someone older that we trusted with things that were too uncomfortable to go to our parents or teachers or whatever about, because we already knew she wasn’t going to judge us or something, and that we would get an honest answer.

I don’t know why I’m remembering this so hard tonight, and I’m not sure if there’s a point to sharing this, except that I know she’s gone now. She was ill the last time we spoke, and her site went down a long time ago, and I miss her. She was a huge influence on my life, then and now. She was hope, for me, that life as an adult didn’t have to be boring, it wouldn’t have to mean giving up the things I loved and Becoming Only Responsible With No Fun. Her presence meant I had hope I could still write and play with friends even when I wasn’t ‘a kid’ anymore. And she’s gone, and I miss her, and I wanted to share her from the perspective of youth, and the perspective over twenty years later has provided me.

And I think of her, when people go off about older folks being in fandom with younger folks. I’m an older folks now, or at least middle aged folks because there are certainly folks older than me still, but I wasn’t always. I’ve been here since i was a younger folks, and I know how much Steel’s presence and support meant to me, how much she helped not just me but everyone on that group. And I think of the people saying older folks don’t belong in fandom, and that they shouldn’t interact with younger folks at all, and I just think... I can’t agree. I needed that kind of solid presence in my life back then and even at the age I am now, I need the folks older than me to stay. I want them here.

So I guess, like, if you’re here and you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or whatever, I want you here in fandom with me, still. Your presence here is a comfort. It is hope. It is a reminder that life will continue to be fun, even as I get older, myself. And if you’re younger and you have this sort of elder in your groups, I hope that they are like Steel. I hope they are kind and patient and supportive, and that knowing them gives you hope for your own future. I hope in twenty years you look back and remember them fondly.

44,929 notes - Posted July 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

If you're ever worried about whether your writing is too self indulgent, I just want you to remember that Sharknado had 5 sequels. I'm only partway through watching Sharknado 6: It's About Time, but already they've traveled through time and ridden a pteronadon into a Sharknado so they could use the magic teleportation portal inside of it to travel forward in time to King Arthur's time, where they are currently battling a Sharknado full of fire-breathing dragon sharks with Excalibur, which is a chainsaw sword that calls lightning. You're fine. In fact, be a little more self indulgent if anything, because I am having a BLAST watching this specifically because I can see how much fun the writers were having.

45,937 notes - Posted June 17, 2022

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[verai-marcel]

Author Interview

Tagged by the illustrious @a-shakespearean-in-paris

1. how many works do you have on AO3?

125 (my god, so many)

2. what’s your total AO3 word count?

507,692

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Used to write for Dragon Ball Z and Red Dead Redemption 2. Now I just write for Baldur's Gate 3.

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

One and Only (RDR2)

Getting Into Character (RDR2)

Something New (RDR2)

Know Your Place (RDR2)

Your Hearth Is My Home (BG3)

5. do you respond to comments?

Yeah, I try to respond to most of them, although sometimes when it's just one word, I'm not sure what to say, haha.

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably Midnight Rendezvous, and that one isn't even that angsty because I wrote a sequel to give Arthur x Reader a happy ending, haha.

7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The majority of my fics have a happy ending (wink wink nudge nudge). But seriously, which would I say has the absolute happiest? Hmmm... Probably The Light That You Shine, which is my only John Marston x Reader fic, strangely enough. I think I put the characters through some shit and they come out very happy at the end.

8. do you get hate on fics?

Not that I'm aware of?

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

Do I write smut? HAH. I write nothing BUT smut, my dear. Well, with a few exceptions. As for what kind of smut? Not sure how to answer that. I write between canon characters and between canon character & reader, and I've got some OC x OC stuff too. Or is the question more like what genre of smut? I've probably written most kinds (soft & gentle, hard & rough, and everything in between).

10. do you write crossovers? what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Well. I could lie and say I don't. But unfortunately in high school I wrote a DBZ-Sailor Moon-YYH crossover, and I regret its existence.

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of...

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! But if someone wanted to do it, they have my blessing!

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, with the wonderful @shootybangbang

14. what’s your all-time favourite ship?

Hmmmm.... All-time, you say. I'd have to say... probably Vegeta x Bulma. Even after all this time.

15. what’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a OC x Arthur fic that I really liked making the story for, but it'll forever live as a few drabbles cobbled together. Oh Grace, you'll never get a full fic and I'm sorry.

16. what are your writing strengths?

I've been told that I know when to summarize plot points so that the story doesn't drag on for too long. Also I've been told that my smut writing is some of the best, for its clarity and hotness. I'll accept that compliment, haha!

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

Not descriptive enough at times. The most comments I get on my Google docs from my friends are "elaborate more on this point". Totally fair! And personally, I think I have the writer's equivalent of 'same face syndrome' that some artists have. Like my "reader" character tends to be pretty same-y through a lot of my Arthur x Reader fics...

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

If a character is using another language, I try to make sure that there is a reason for it, that it isn't just for flair. For example, if I have a character blurt something out in another language suddenly, then it means they've been thrown off guard and are going back to their first language. Or if two characters are speaking another language together, then they're either hiding something from others, or they grew up that way and are falling back to old habits.

19. first fandom you wrote for?

Oof, I had to go back to some archived files to figure this out. Probably Yu Yu Hakusho, back in 1999, although I suspect I had some older fics in the Gundam Wing fandom, but I don't have any digital evidence of them, I think they were on a GW Mailing List from Yahoo, of all places.

20. favourite fic you’ve written?

The one I'm writing right now :D (Your Heart is My Home)

Tagging @shootybangbang @twola @cheesewedge @sad-sweet-cowboah @riskpig

[utau-4-you]

Resampler/Wavtool Directory

Resamplers and wavtools are what make your voicebanks sing! Resamplers together with the wavtool take your samples and take them apart, pitch, edit, apply flags, etc. and then reassemble them to create the audio output for your voicebanks. They also are responsible for generating FRQ (or other types of frequency map) files so that they can quickly go through this process.

Resampler List

resampler- this is the default resampler that comes with UTAU

fresamp ver11 ver14 by Ameya- known for strengthening voices and reducing background noise. Can have a nasally quality on higher notes. (Mod heta note: I personally think fresamp11 produces higher quality renders than fresamp14)

world4utau (w4u) by Ameya - is very picky with voicebanks, reacts very strongly to background noise. Requires FFTW files to work. Comes with source code. w4u Zany ver. by Zany is an updated version. wn4u/worldend4UTAU by Zany ports a different version of WORLD0.2.0

phavoco by Ameya- Phase vocoder, adds a vocoder effect to renders. phaavoco is an updated version. There's also an archive of this resampler's download in case the UTAU site goes down put together by Mod heta.

Model4/M4 by Ameya- was a privately distributed through UTAU Days, an invitation only SNS. Beta resampler that was never publicly released due to instability.

doppltler by Ameya- Supports 16, 24, 32 bit .wav files, Supports mp3, OGG Vorbis and FLAC encoded voicebanks. OTO files should look like ".mp3.wav" in order to use them. The R flag reverses samples and can be used to create pseudo-CVVC. There's also an archive of this resampler's download in case the UTAU site goes down put together by Mod heta.

f2resamp by Ameya- A completely new resampler meant to be part of the fresamp collection. There's also an archive of this resampler's download in case the UTAU site goes down put together by Mod heta.

TIPS by ScientistB- usually works really well for softer voicebanks. Can make banks have a metallic quality and emphasize background noise more than other resamplers.

bkh01 by Zteer- With the right flags, you can get more realistic renders with softer voices but with stronger voices, it can create a lot of distortion, metallic and nasally qualities.

tn_fnds by Zteer- Uses looping samples to render files instead of stretching unlike most resamplers. Using the e flag will make it stretch. Similar to TIPS but doesn't seem to magnify noise as much. Requires FFTW files to work. tn_fndsX and tn_fnds_PB by Zany are variations of tn_fnds. young3 by Zany is a version of tn_fnds that uses Harvest.

EFB-GT by Custom.Maid- Works very well for soft voices and smoothing out noise while getting crispy consonants

EFB-PB by Custom.Maid- Likely works well for soft voice but requires EFB-GT to work (See below for why it be hard to use) (Mod heta note: I don't think I've ever been able to get this resampler to work in 12 years of using UTAU; you can get away with not downloading it.) Requires FFTW files to work.

EFB-GW by Custom.Maid- overseas users have had trouble getting this resampler to work. (Mod heta note: I don't recall being able to get this resampler to work in the 12 years I've used UTAU) Requires FFTW files to work.

WARP by Custom.Maid- Works better on lower notes but renders fast. Uses .llsm files. EFB-BS by Zany is a version of WARP that can use FRQ files instead of llsm files. EFB-BH by Zany also can use FRQ files but uses HARVEST.

moresampler by Kanru Hua- Based on libllsm. Flags can greatly change the voice such as breathiness, tension, growl, etc.

utaugrowl by _torifly- patches resamplers with growl capabilites and flags.

presamp by Delta- Automatically converts USTs between formats such as CVVC and VCV. You need to patch resamplers to use.

PyRwu by Delta- PyWorld based resampler.

What are flags

Flags are an editing feature that change the tone of the voice. Each resampler uses their own unique set of flags that you enter into the rendering options box in the project property or flag box in the note property. It should be noted that flags in the note property will override the flags in the project property. You can find out about all the different flags using the Flaglist by susrever. This document has the list of flags for most publicly available resamplers and what they do.

Resampler Plugins

Speedwagon by Custom.Maid- quickly creates FRQ (or whatever other file types) for resamplers.

Resampler Patcher by nmasao- improves resampler speed and performance, and also allows you to use multiple resamplers in the same UST. Uses flags to switch between the different resamplers.

Wavtool List

(Mod heta note: to be entirely fair, wavtools mostly change smoothness but you might not be able to tell the difference between them to be entirely honest.)

wavtool by Ameya- default wavtool. wavtool64 by Ameya ports it into 64bit.

wavtool2 by nmasao

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☄️ Introduction ☄️

Nice to meet you all :)!

❗👁️‍🗨️ TW: 3D, bodych3cking, sh 👁️‍🗨️❗

🫧 Don't report, just block!! this is a personal page and archive 🫧

📢MINORS DNI📢

STATS

🩵 23 years old

🩵 160 cm | 5'3

🩵 SW: 74 kg | 165 lbs

🩵GW: 53 kg | 116 lbs ✅

🩵CW: 51 kg | 112 lbs 🎉

☄️✨UGW: 47 kg | 103 lbs

ABOUT ME

🔮 Eli | she/her | english/español 🔮

Hello! This blog will serve as an archive for me to reblog inspirational pics and tips, memes, post my own progress and some rambling from time to time

I really appreciate how understood i feel when i browse through the tag, it has honestly helped my mental health (as weird/contradictory as that may sound) and i'm looking forward to meeting you all! My interests other than this subject are music, drawing, dancing, studying occult themes, gardening and watching anime.

This is all by now, buh-bye!

[thecoreworlds]

Oh. The waves. Really big waves.

The abuse the people running the Warhammer account on X have had to wade through is, frankly, horrific. Every post they make has been flooded with a combination of “Go woke go broke”, accounts (who probably never played Warhammer in the first place) proclaiming they are quitting the hobby, demands for “brothers of battle”, proclamations of 3d printing, accusations of GW only doing it because investors want a better ERG rating, claims that Warhammer is turning gay (I didn’t know that Man + Woman = Gay), and outright abuse.

It’s disgusting, makes me feel for the people who have the job of dealing with it, and makes me glad that the closest I get to dealing with social media on a professional basis is being tangentially associated with a product that archives posts for regulatory reasons.

On a related note, here’s an interesting video about rage bait.

Personally, I think it is overly kind to the rage baiters, but it is focused on YouTube videos rather than X.

Just what amount of waves did yesterday's news cause for the official account to jump in with a clarification?!

Well, it does not get any more canon than this really.

[sexymultifacetshadowling]

MEET MY OCS!

(All the pictures were made using TOON ME! PICREW)

Vanessa Maria Becker

Pronouns: She/Her | Age: 20 y/o | INTJ | Affect: Dark Matter

Summary:

A medical student sudelly turned powerful sorceress, Vanessa is trying her hardest not to freak out over the strange dreams and visions she's having since her affect manifested. A bright woman with a calculating mind and her goals set in ice, she will have her answers, or die trying.

Peter Hutton

Pronouns: He/They | Age: 21 y/o | ESFJ | Affect: Healing cuts and bruises

Summary:

Coming all the way from England and hailing from a punk music group, Peter just wanted to study and chill at UFFMR, but when he learns of Vanessa's troubles and they create a strong friendship, he's ready to help their friend in whatever she will need. A loyal and caring person, they'll keep the group together and maybe have a bit of fun and music on the way.

Basil Carvalho

Pronouns: He/Him | Age: 21 y/o | INTP | Affect: Seeing the Code

Summary:

Being born with the ability to see what the universe is made of has it's pros and it's cons. Being drafted to be the next Living Archive and connected to a magic library also has it's pros and it's cons. Basil was just trying to go to University and pretend for a minute that his impending destiny doesn't exist, but as a favor to his only closest friend, sure, he will help this random girl. What could possibly go wrong?

Dana Al-Makki

Pronouns: She/Her | Age: 22 y/o | ISFP | Affect: Sound-Wave manipulation thru air

Summary:

She is a singer, she is a guitar player, she will fuck you up if you try to mess with people she cares about. Dana is an accomplished mineralogy student and chronically incapable of leaving anything without turning it, and when she meets Peter and Vanessa, she just really wants to help this cute girl and start a band with this cool person, so yeah, how hard could it be to destroy a mystical creature that haunts minds?gw

[archiveloudsoflove]

June 10th – Sad-turday Comforting

Lagi-lagi (again) gw nulis ini dalam rangka 1 (satu) tahun sejak gw berharap akan suatu hal. Ya, it’s called “ketenangan” jadi sebenernya tanggal 11 tahun lalu hari Sabtunya wkwk tp yaudalayea... Sesuai judulnya, di momen tersebut gw bener-bener menitikkan air mata

Jum’at sorenya, gw ngelihat ke atas sambil berharap “semoga, saat kembali ke rumah... saya bisa pulang, dengan tenang.” Harapan itu gw ucapkan berkali-kali... dan keesokan harinya (tl;dr) seperti hari=hari biasa, campur nano-asem-mixed banget (?) euyy. Ternyata nggak seberat yang dibayangkan gw kok, t e r n y a t a/ Mungkin emang gw lebih baik tawakkal dan banyak bersyukur aja kaliya

Ok ini pembukaannya wkwkwk, bridging (tp maksa bgt mff) ke topik inti... yea here’s the archive

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Disclaimer:

For personal archive only. Do not take it srsly and/or no offense karena emang ini tulisan gw aj wkwk. Tulisan ini juga nggak berhubungan dengan sesuatu atau apapun, semua murni dari pengalaman gw

OK Let’s start!

Jadi, keknya gw tulis dulu ya tujuan gw nulis tulisan ini (ribet bgt bjirrr) yaa artinya itu lah wkwk. Bukan buat atensi keluar or apalah itu karena gw juga nyadar kalo gabakalan ada yg peduli juga........... yekhannn. Tapi, sebagai arsip (ya obvsly) dan... gw sadar kalau ini ternyata pelajaran... ya, gw belajar dengan nulis2 ini. Kalau orang biasanya belajar dari yg pahit2 eh gtw jugasik wkwk mff sotoi, ini gw juga belajar kalau ternyata, setiap hal yang ada di kehidupan bener-bener bisa diambil maknanya

Selain bermula dari gw nulis di tumblr ini, di mana memang ini arsip terkeren (mudah2an tumblr ga tutup) nanti mindahinnya repot euy, gw juga dulu sering banget nonton TV. Agak biasa ya... tapi emang kalau boleh jujur gw baru ngerasain nikmatnya dunia hiburan itu dr kelas 5 SDan. Sebelumnya, sempet nggak tahu mau ngapain jadi yaa main aja gitu ke rumah temen dll (musik DJ yiruma kiss the rain rmx)

Nahh dari nonton TV itulah gw ngerasa “ohh ini nih asupan hiburan gw” saking emg gabut juga kaliya wkwk ya gt deh. Pantesan gw juga jadi kacamataan giini :( tp gpp emang udah konsekwenzinya. Singkatnya, gw jadi tahu program TV dari 2008an-sekarang. Gak yang sampai seluruh program TV jugasikk, tapi gw paham perjalanannya kek tahun-ke-tahunnya yang laku itu apa, trennya, artis/host2 atau siapalah gt yang sering muncul di tipi gitu kurang lebih

Mungkin memang pas sekolah itu gw purely nonton aja as hiburan, bukan buat belajar wkwkk yakali ude sekola berjam2 ngapain nonton belajar lagi, pada saat itu. EH maksutnya abis sekolah yee duH gpentink mff. Jadi yang ditonton yaa acara2 musik aja kek dasyat inbox mantap oveje yks dsbdsb nahh banyak khan.... itu keknya udah termasuk variety show. Dan gw gak nonton acara2 reality yang macem kameramen-mobil-grasakgrusuk gt karena udah pusing duluan

Korelasinya? Nah ini diaa... gw pun pas mulai kuliah th 2016an juga masih nontonin acara2 itu. Meski emang udah gak intens ya, karena saat itu gw juga tergolong “anti-idealis” ke tipi yang masa kini itutuu yaa taulah ya. Bukan buat ngediss atw gimana juga, gw pun tetep nonton acaranya wkwk. Tapi yang gw komentarin dulu kek “dih apaansi kaku bgt” “elah mo ketawa pake mikir” karena emang acara2nye idealis bgt khan, ingin mengedu-kasih. Tapi gw rasa nggak ah, yg nonton tipi kek gw mah pengennya emang ketawa aj gapake mikir awkawkawk terlihat menyedihkan yh

Tapi, gw jadi belajar dengan melihat alur2 program acaranya. Terlepas dari gimmick/settingan yang digunakan di tipi2 (gw juga nggak peduli sama ginian), ternyata alurnya itu bener-bener ngebantu banget buat gw belajar interaksi as-professional or at least with orang asing yang memang ada keperluan untuk berbicara dengannya. Kalau gimik sama joget2 mah yaudee buat ketaawa2 aje atau ga gwnya main hape doang dengerin wkwk. Ada juga sikk acara yang emang sampis bgt sampe artisnya aja bingung ni arahnya mau kemanaaa sambil ???. ya gitu deh, emang gw akui ga semuanya bagus

“Terus, apa yang lu pelajari dong tan dari media massa yang jadi konsumsi masyarakat ini?”

Ya, setidaknya gw belajar dengan salah satu acara variety/talkshow kaliya, jadi kek program sejenis tanya jawab dan... keknya emang semuanya dirancang buat tanya jawab dan ada tamu2 gitu dehya. Ntar juga dikasi gimmick kek lagi outing di mall/jalan/apalah2 terus sambil nanya2, jadi yaa sama aja isinya ngobrolll/interaksi tadi. Kecuali gameshow kaliya, mungkin ada tapi dikit porsinya

Gw mempelajari bagaimana host2nya bertanya, dan bagaimana tamunya menjawab... keknya itu poin pentingnya. Pertanyaan2 itu bisa aja didaur ulang sehingga bumi ini makin hijau-gdenk, tapi jawaban2 tamunya? Nahh ini dia kalau kata orang “tantangannya” alias susahnye wkwk ribet bgt jaman skarang pake tantangan2 siape coba yg mau nantangin lo. Gak semua tamu bakal ngasih jawaban sesuai dengan yang diinginkan acara tsb... inilah yang gw pahami tentang naik-turunnya popularitas & program TV

Gw inget semuanya, mulai dari halo pakabar – kesibukan / kegiatannya apa-yuk kita main games/anothergimmick-sampai pada akkhirnya, “kira2 apa nih harapannya buat ke depan” udah itu2 aja. Paling yaa dihubung2in dikit sama profil/peristiwa yang terkait dengan tamu atau tema programnya, itupun kalo ada yaa wkwk karena gasemuanya ngasih ini. Ada juga kok acara tipi yang keknye emang buang2 duit aja, kamera nyorot kemaana2 sambil narasi udah gw juga gangerti wkwk

Pola2 itu gw coba pelajari berulang-ulang, karena emang gitu2 aja kan. Tapi, poinnya adalah bagaimana pola tersebut disesuaikan dengan yang tadi, yaitu tamu or peristiwa or tujuan dari program/kegiatan yang diadakan.  Hampir semua program yang gw temukan mirip2 kek gitu, jadi adaa aja dikait2in sama tamunya, meski yaa terkadang emang suka “ngorek2” gitu yaa... mending artisnye yang gw tahu lah sekarang siapa aja bisa masuk tipiii wkwk males bet mending w buka tanyarl

“Ohh jadi tanya jawab itu ya, emang pengaruhnya apa sih tan dari tontonan2 itu?”

Pertama, gw jadi berani nulis ini... wkwkwk awalnya gw emang ngakuin kalo gamudah ngutarain yg ada di kepala ini. Takut gapenting lah itulah tp emang kadang gapenting juga sik. Setelah gw belajar dari “pola tivi” ini, bisa gw runutkan dan terkadang ada juga kok program yang emang gagal di hari itu, dan dibahas mulu wkwk. Jadi gw bisa sekalian belajar di situ

Konkritnya, pengaruh pola2 ini buat gw adalah... gw jadi bisa nyusun pertanyaan untuk wawancara, bisa bridging (dikit2), gimana caranya biar interaksinya dua arah... dan yang paling penting adalah bisa menghargai orang lain yang sedang berbicara. Iya, setidaknya meski emang ga 100 persen sempurna - gw bisa menerapkan hal itu. Seneng banget ketika bisa nanya harapan orang ke depannya, karena gaada yang tahu kan siapa aja yang denger dan ngedoain? Dari sinilah gw bener2 belajar dari apa yang gw dapatkan, yang gw lihat, dan gw rasakan (hasek) yaa gt deh

Selain itu, gw juga mempelajari bagaimana sikap perilaku dll dan semuanya dari kebutuhan industri tivi untuk kehidupan. Gw pun sadar kalau gak semua orang aware dengan hal ini, tapi setidaknya dengan tulisan ini bisa jadi arsip kalau tontonan TV dan dunia nyata pastinya ada bedaaa sribu persen. Jadi emang gaboleh dimakan mentah2 info yang diterima yah, apalagi kite gatau kan kalo kamera udah dimatiin apa aja yang mereka lakukan di sana. Jadi tetep pilah2 informasi, dan sesuaikan dengan kebutuhan

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Ok sekian dulu yh tulisan sribu kata ini WKWK elah kepanjangan mulu w klo nulis. Tapi gapapa, dari sekian banyak arsip inilah salah satu yang paling nyata dan riil mint buat gw karena bener-bener based on experience meskipun gw tahu ini emang kaga penting2 bangeet

Setiap orang bisa menemukan cara belajarnya masing2; termasuk gw, belajar dari melihat orang lain, mengamati orang lain, dan menentukan langkah bagi pribadi berdasarkan hasil pengamatan, bukan perlakuan secara langsung

June 10th, 2023

[cuteciboulette]

GW anthology vol 4, story 2; 5 pages.

Bat!Duo!! This is the Bat!Duo story!! Completely forgotten I once owned it!

[pyreo]

Loreposting about Abaddon

Abaddon doesn’t get a lot of attention. As a deposed god he doesn’t seem relevant to the Guild Wars timeline after Nightfall. But I keep thinking about him because Abaddon is probably the most influential character Tyria ever had.

Let’s just go over where he appears in-game if you start off in GW2. Everyone knows the six human gods. They’re in statues, temples, personal shrines everywhere. The base game story makes you detour through a sunken temple dedicated to Abaddon, while the Orrian temples to the other five gods are still intact on the surface. This is not by chance. It’s also nudging you to notice that there are no Orrian temples to Kormir, because she replaced Abaddon only two centuries ago. This is reflected again later on in Siren’s Landing on the other side of Orr, where the Five, and Abaddon, each have a personal reliquary, and Abaddon’s is central, connected to all the others, and still intact.

Building on that refresher on human divinity, in Path of Fire you visit the actual place Abaddon was defeated by the other Five gods and pushed into a side dimension to keep him out of the world.

And when you visit the archives of the Durmand Priory, they have an imposing Abaddon statue towering over the stairs. Other than being reflected in three major environments, he doesn’t have a role in the plot. BUT.

As Kormir explains to you, the weakness of the human gods is that their excess of power keeps fucking up the world. The Desolation, a map that covers only a part of the sulfur desert, is completely uninhabitable because Abaddon was destroyed there. This happened because Abaddon, who was actually the most powerful of the Six and the leader of the group, wanted humans to share in the gift of magic. He was the god of knowledge, after all. This proved disastrous and the other gods reduced and compartmentalised the magic, and Abaddon went on a whole attempt to overthrow them and become one, single god of all.

The destruction of Abaddon’s temples and relics was intentional. He was wiped from memory. The pantheon was called The Five until Nightfall, wherein the existence of Abaddon was revealed as he tried to drag himself back into the mortal plane. As a god his spheres of power were water and knowledge. Erasing knowledge of him was what made him powerless. (Interestingly, the Priory’s special collections contains the Scroll of the Five True Gods, an ancient record of what the human gods knew about the Elder Dragons, but one dragon is missing - the water dragon, who like Abaddon, has a damaged and erased history. The six Elder Dragons and six human gods have many respective connections.)

When he lived, Abaddon’s followers were the Margonites, who believed him the only real god and worshipped him exclusively, unlike other humans who revere all the Six together. They were rewarded with transformation into etheral beings with an extremely long lifespan, and were imprisoned in Abaddon’s Realm, the Realm of Torment, when he was forced out of Tyria. As the god of knowledge he had a realm to himself, and when fallen, his sphere inversed. Knowledge became madness, the theme his realm embodies. Temples were sunk, records destroyed, because to remove all knowledge of the god of knowledge made him powerless.

I can’t remember where, but it’s implied that by Nightfall comes around a thousand years after his banishment, Abaddon is finally able to claw his way back into Tyria because people are starting to remember him. There’s one side quest that sticks out in my memory called The Search for Enlightenment about a scholar stealing scriptures from an Elonian library which leads to a massive raid by Margonites. The scholar was ‘babbling’ about a forgotten god. Proximity to knowledge about Abaddon seems to bestow insanity, the connection between Abaddon in his inverted realm and his hold over anyone who knows he exists. Though the Five Gods tried, they didn’t erase everything (hell, Trahearne and Sayeh al' Rajihd give you a guided tour of an Abaddon temple). Over a thousand years, relics popped up and people began to remember The Five was once The Six. As they did his influence returned until he was able to attempt to merge the Realm of Torment with Tyria and become a single, all powerful god in the absence of the others.

But wait how does that make a forgotten god the most influential character in both games?

Well.

Guild Wars lore is nothing if not completely linked together. Every single thing has cause and effect, every event is a domino. The story is consistent from Prophecies to this day. So let’s start with the first GW1 chapter, Prophecies.

It all starts at the Citadel of Flame.

It was built into the volcano Hrangmer. The charr had been displaced, pushed out of Ascalon by the successful expansion of humankind. 450 years before GW2 the Flame Legion found this volcano and, inside, Titans. You know how Mordremoth’s minions are Mordrem, Zhaitan’s minions are Risen, etc? Titans are Abaddon minions, left behind and hidden after his defeat. They change their appearance to suit their environment. In a jungle they’re vegetative, in mountains they’re made of ice, in the Realm of Torment they’re twisted constructs of flesh, in a volcano, they’re fire. The Flame Legion brings the Titans back to the charr, charr worship them, and in exchange, get immense fire powers. Flame Legion completely takes over charr society and makes it a theistic, misogynist nightmare with the Shamans at the top.

Abaddon has just restructured charr society.

Using their overpowered fire magic indirectly from a human god, charr, ironically, rally against the humans and nuke Ascalon to pieces. The few survivors escape to Kryta. Charr are now pretty much unstoppable and invade all the way to Orr. Vizier Khilbron used a powerful stolen scroll to repel the charr with magic, and it completely destroys Orr, collapsing the island into the ocean.

Abaddon has just wiped out two nations of the humans who used to worship him, with Orr as the final goal - to tear down the resplendent city of the Gods who betrayed him. This is referenced, if you know what you’re looking for, in GW2. You can scale the Vizier’s Tower, where he read the scroll that sank all of Orr, and on the wall...

A mural to the lost god, a testament to power that, a thousand years later, one who was expunged from history had a faithful likeness depicted.

Ascalon’s a burning hole and Orr is underwater. Now what? Those Ascalonian survivors in Kryta find the place is controlled by White Mantle. The White Mantle are committing mass murder via bloodstone sacrifice (bloodstones being the power curb the gods introduced after imbuing humans with magic) in order to halt the prophecy of a Chosen One opening the Door of Komalie. Vizier Khilbron turns up, shaking out some mysteriously wet boots don’t worry about that, and leads you against these genocidal cultists. Which, whoops, does lead to the Door of Komalie being opened - and it’s a doorway into Abbadon’s Realm of Torment, out of which Titans power through. This was the apocalypse planned for Kryta. Unlike the first two, this one is thwarted by the player. Kryta lives on. Vizier Khilbron is the final boss and turns out to have been a lich.

That’s 3 of the 5 human nations. What about Cantha and Elona?

GW: Factions is the Canthan chapter in which Shiro Tagachi, the emperor’s bodyguard, continually visits a fortune teller until she inflicts such paranoia on his mindset that he believes he needs to kill the emperor in self-defense. His defeat causes the Jade Wind that creates the Jade Sea. As a spirit, Shiro then engulfs Cantha in a plague that warps people into tumorous mutants. The fortune teller turns out to be an Abaddon minion whose task was the eventual destruction of Cantha. This one also is foiled by the player.

GW: Nightfall is the culmination chapter. Abaddon is now powerful enough, well known enough, to breach Tyria and try to come back. His agent is Varesh Ossa, who slowly transforms into a Margonite over the course of the game. The player confronts the breach between planes and finally enters the Realm of Torment, meeting the shades of Abaddon’s servants that came before, the lich form of Vizier Khilbron, and the spirit of Shiro Tagachi, before facing Abaddon himself.

And that’s the end of it. In Guild Wars magic cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred, so another god ascends in Abaddon’s place. They are once again The Six.

It’s Abaddon that ruined half the Elonian desert, Abaddon whose sinking of Orr gave Zhaitan the perfect mass grave to necromance, Abaddon who froze the Cantha sea into solid jade, and Abaddon whose final death and eruption of magic started waking Primordus, leading to the norn, dwarf and asuran alliance to stop it in 1078 AE-- introducing the norn and asura to the rest of Tyria, and making the dwarves extinct, cutting their entire race’s existence short. If it wasn’t for Abaddon, the charr wouldn’t have been taken over by their magic-toting shaman caste, only to come to their senses and rebel and ostracize the Flame Legion afterward. Hell, the current Flame Legion Imperators STILL style their horns in an homage to Abaddon, and probably don’t even remember why! To a human god, gone for over a thousand years, who used their race as pawns in a revenge attempt at wiping out every nation the humans had built!

And even after being thoroughly and completely destroyed, his magic STILL haunts Tyria enough for his statues to punish you for not showing the proper respect.

[spudinacup]

I appreciate the people following me for Steven Univeese content, however, please remember this is a personal blog and I will post other content as I see fit.

I have gotten some retaliation to my posting of dnd characters and I am not in the least bit pleased.

This is my blog, I will run it and post as I see fit.

Thank you for understanding.

If you want only the GW pages the archive blog is @suaugonewrong

[thisweekingundamwing]

This (month)Week in Gundam Wing 26 April - 25 March 2023

Here’s the roundup for February 26th - March 25th!

Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make next week!

~Mod Hel

(I’ve kinda dropped the ball for like, a month... whoops. Workin’ on gettin’ myself back on track.)

Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:

@cuteciboulette

As the year ended https://archiveofourown.org/works/45987340

M/M, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy

General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply, In Universe, Post-Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Get Together, Seasonal, New Year's Eve, New Year's Kiss, Archiving posting

Heero, a balcony, mistletoe in the pocket and the list of people Duo could kiss (and those for whom it has already been done).

@gw-ouroboros

Ouroboros (Ch. 7) snippet https://www.tumblr.com/gw-ouroboros/710868506045972480/ouroboros-ch-7-wip

M/M, Heero Yuy/Duo Maxwell

Heero was intense, deliciously aloof and so incredibly dangerous that Duo couldn’t help but feel attracted to him.

Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:

@2pcbart​

https://www.tumblr.com/2pcbart/711022723746447360/i-havent-drawn-in-like-half-a-year-but-ive-been

GW Boys climbing, fanart

@keiko1183

https://keiko1183.tumblr.com/post/710862379540512768/happy-3x4-day-from-space

Quatre/Trowa, fanart

@nullphysics

https://www.tumblr.com/nullphysics/710799355967356929

GW Boy doodles, fanart

@rxntwo

https://rxntwo.tumblr.com/post/710361649674141696/morning-cuddle

Heero/Duo, fanart

@sparkchemy

https://sparkchemy.tumblr.com/post/710343485701718016

Duo/WuFei, fanart

https://sparkchemy.tumblr.com/post/710875638903504896/not-me-being-touch-starved-and-projecting-onto-my

Heero/WuFei/Duo, fanart

Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:

@bobo-is-tha-bomb

https://bobo-is-tha-bomb.tumblr.com/post/710707223448485888/sometimes-i-forget-how-cute-the-gw-stationary-set

GW Stationary, photoset

@janaverse

https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/710910217149382656/a-very-temporary-situation-heero-had-looked

Heero/Duo, Sims, screenshot

Fandom Discourse:

@cuteciboulette

https://cuteciboulette.tumblr.com/post/712632207063367680/so-this-chatgpt-thing-the-only-thing-i-want-to

ChatGPT discussion

@ghost-proof

https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/710889845335228416/join-the-1x2x1-shrine-discord-server

1x2x1 Shrine Discord Server

Quotes:

@incorrectgundamwingquotes

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/710904113373855744/relena-you-know-heero-maybe-its-just-the

Relena, Heero, & Duo

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/710813438393319424/duo-whats-the-weirdest-place-youve-ever-had

Duo & Trowa

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/710722940160851969/treize-i-am-not-a-bad-person-i-just-have-a-bad

Treize

https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/710360535105961984/duo-after-being-caught-in-my-defense-i-simply

Duo

Calendar Events:

@gundamzine

Battle Scars and Kitchen Cabinets

Stay Tuned https://gundamzine.tumblr.com/post/710183033337217024/stay-tuned-next-week-as-we-spotlight-each-of-the

@gwcocktailfriday

Cocktail Fridays!

Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.

Here’s the prompt for Friday, March 31st! https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/712791949771423744/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-march

In need of prompts! (>_> sorry if y’all can tell I’m reusing prompts)

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Lemony Shenanigans 2023! https://gwlemonyshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/705715266075705344/hello-everyone-were-back-d-sign-ups-are-now

The crafting of goodies is now under way.

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Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/644080386309275648/events-calendar-update

If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!

(It’s in dire need of updating, sorry.)

[kedreeva]

When I was a kid, maybe 14 or so (which is, you know, 20+ years ago), I belonged to a Yahoo! mailing list for an anime called Gundam Wing. It was mostly populated by other teens, of varying ages, as it was started by a teen and her friends. Eventually it migrated, when Yahoo! groups started as forums, and even branched off into non-GW related stuff in a second forum.

One of the things I remember the most clearly is the oldest person in the group. Her name was Steelsong. She was a 40-something Dom with a sub whose name we knew even though we knew nothing else. She ran her own fanfic archive because the web was still handmade HTML and navigated in webrings and I’m pretty sure Google didn’t exist or was only barely, barely launched and not well known. She was kind and patient and we loved her. She treated everyone on the group with the respect given any adult, even though most of the rest of the world was still treating us like we were children. Not teenagers even, but children. She never once condescended to any of us, never made our youth a barrier to her respect, never treated us like we were incapable of being full people or like we were less than her because we were young.

I remember that she hosted our fanfiction, as absolutely terrible as it was (and I still have some of it, I am WELL aware of how cringingly terrible it is, just absolute nonsense garbage), right there alongside of other fic that was soul-achingly beautiful. Not a separate section for her friends or for kids, just right there like we were good enough to feature alongside other authors. I never once received crit from her that I didn’t ask for, only support. Only love. I am still writing today partly because Steel was so kind about our fic, fanfic and original.

I remember that when I started doing clay sculpture, she commissioned a tiny pair of dragons from me, to support me doing artwork. She sent a check my mom cashed for me, and my mom helped me mail it when it was finished. It broke in transit, and Steel assured me that she mended it and that it was still beautiful. It was a small gold dragon curled up with a small silver dragon.

I remember that her patience knew no bounds. I remember that she was there for us, regardless of reason. When we wanted to know silly things like what to do with a single AA battery, she answered. When we had serious questions about sex, she answered.  When we had questions about writing, she taught us. When one of our group members, a young gay teen in Australia, ended up in the hospital and then stopped making posts, and we all knew what had happened, she let us talk to her about it because we couldn’t go to our own parents, even though we had just lost a friend.

She was not a replacement to my parents, but she was an extra parent, in some ways. A friend, certainly, but someone that had been through more life than we had and was willing to pass on knowledge if we asked for it. Someone older that we trusted with things that were too uncomfortable to go to our parents or teachers or whatever about, because we already knew she wasn’t going to judge us or something, and that we would get an honest answer.

I don’t know why I’m remembering this so hard tonight, and I’m not sure if there’s a point to sharing this, except that I know she’s gone now. She was ill the last time we spoke, and her site went down a long time ago, and I miss her. She was a huge influence on my life, then and now. She was hope, for me, that life as an adult didn’t have to be boring, it wouldn’t have to mean giving up the things I loved and Becoming Only Responsible With No Fun. Her presence meant I had hope I could still write and play with friends even when I wasn’t ‘a kid’ anymore. And she’s gone, and I miss her, and I wanted to share her from the perspective of youth, and the perspective over twenty years later has provided me.

And I think of her, when people go off about older folks being in fandom with younger folks. I’m an older folks now, or at least middle aged folks because there are certainly folks older than me still, but I wasn’t always. I’ve been here since i was a younger folks, and I know how much Steel’s presence and support meant to me, how much she helped not just me but everyone on that group. And I think of the people saying older folks don’t belong in fandom, and that they shouldn’t interact with younger folks at all, and I just think... I can’t agree. I needed that kind of solid presence in my life back then and even at the age I am now, I need the folks older than me to stay. I want them here.

So I guess, like, if you’re here and you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or whatever, I want you here in fandom with me, still. Your presence here is a comfort. It is hope. It is a reminder that life will continue to be fun, even as I get older, myself. And if you’re younger and you have this sort of elder in your groups, I hope that they are like Steel. I hope they are kind and patient and supportive, and that knowing them gives you hope for your own future. I hope in twenty years you look back and remember them fondly.

[lemontrash]

Here’s my fic for the  GW Holiday Gift Exchange 2020 and Trickzill! Thanks to 2pcb for beta reading!

Summary: Christmas. Wufei understands the concept, in theory. It’s a Christian festival now mainly about shopping, with some guff about finding the true spirit of family and happiness tacked on. It’s something both sentimental and aspirational, which to Wufei summarises Duo in a nutshell. Duo is famously a people person in the exact way that Wufei is not, and Christmas is very much a people occasion. An occasion that Duo's not getting this year unless Wufei does something about it. Armed with 24 hours and an awful list of suggestions from the Internet, Wufei's on a mission to deliver a last-minute holiday.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, No major warnings, Chang Wufei & Duo Maxwell Friendship Fic 

Additional Tags: Post-EW, Preventer AU, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Friendship, Local man attempts emotions for sake of best friend, Gift Giving

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[dis--parity]

SÄPO/CIA After-Action Report: HML-███-██-██-████

CIA/SÄPO Archives (Washington DC / Stockholm) CLASSIFIED: Subject to general declassification

Subject: After-Action Report of Operation Jinxed Winter; Mälmo Phase Date of Operation: ██/██/20██

Location: Reference; Map - Mälmo, Sweden. ██.██° N, ██.██° E

Reporting Officer(s): Capt. Liam Raynes, CIA, APO Washington DC. This combat report was compiled by Lt. William Brewer, SÄPO, APO Stockholm, as Capt. Raynes was unavailable.

On the ████ of ███████, 20██, SÄPO intelligence confirmed that a shipment of ███ 9mm semi-automatic firearms and ammunition to the Haemolife compound in Mälmo, Sweden. The number of firearms is confirmed to have matched the number of people in Sweden who have subscribed to a premium Haemolife membership; thus, terrorist motives were suspected, and similar purchases were confirmed to have been made and directed to compounds in Southampton, United Kingdom; Aarhus, Denmark; Albany, New York, United States; and Nuremberg, Germany. These reports will be compiled in the same dossier under Capt. Rayne’s supervision, and dispatched to the relevant authorities.

Haemolife and its affiliates have been deemed a threat to international security. The primary objective of this phase of Operation Jinxed Winter was to infiltrate the Mälmo compound, secure the firearm shipment and any other illicit materials, and capture the Haemolife leaders if they were present.

A joint CIA team (Sec. Com. Capt. Raynes) arrived at the compound at approx. 0930 hrs on foot, and rendezvoused with the SÄPO squad (Sec. Com. Lt. Brewer) on the roof of the Haemolife compound. Floor plans recovered by Lt. Brewer’s recon mission revealed an entry point on the roof would grant access to the main office of Rev. Whittock when breached. If he and Rev. Rosenfeld were present, they could be apprehended swiftly, and without resistance, completing the primary objective of the mission. While Sgt. R. Sweeney was delivering a SITREP to the squad, multiple and rapid gunshots were heard from within the compound. Capt. Raynes believed that the squad had been compromised, and detonated the breach charge early - coming close to injuring Cpl. Dugg in the process.

Breaching the compound, the gunfire continued, but no members of the team were fired upon. The breach location was confirmed to have been the office of Rev. Judas Whittock and Rev. Elijah Rosenfeld - and two bodies were discovered on either end of the desk, and the doors securely locked from the inside. The two bodies encountered when the team first breached were confirmed to be those of the targets - wielding 9mm firearms consistent with those reported to have been found in the shipment. After a brief assessment, Capt. Raynes deduced that the two men committed assisted suicide by gunshot; the entry wounds were found on the targets’ foreheads, and each man was still gripping his weapon at the time of death. Field medic C.Sgt. Bjorn was unable to preserve or resuscitate either of the VIPs, and they are now confirmed dead. All weapons, personal identification and immediate funds were seized by the CIA, and their bodies were disposed of according to SÄPO standards.

With the primary objective considered failed, the team moved through the compound to search for the shipment of weapons and secure it. Inside the office, Lt. Brewer discovered a concealed safe. 2Lt. Lindholm breached the reinforced door with thermite, and a mixed shipment of ██kilograms of cocaine, ███ grams of ecstasy, and ██ kilograms of methamphetamine worth approximately $█████.██ was recovered. Needles that were discovered inside the safe were consistent with those found to have been used in Haemolife’s brainwashing process - such materials were later discovered by Lt. Brewer’s squad in an adjacent room. It was concluded that the second floor of the Haemolife compound - reportedly inaccessible from the first floor by Capt. Rayne’s squad - was used for the bulk of operations such as production of brainwashing material, drugs storage and testing, and food production for consumption within the compound. These materials were collected by Lt. Brewer’s squad for analysis.

Meanwhile, Capt. Raynes and his squad moved to the lower floor to clear the area, as gunfire was identified as having come from the lower foyer - though by the time his team arrived at the door, it had ceased. A secure door was bypassed using a security keycard obtained from Rev. Whittock’s desk - and upon clearing the foyer, the cause of the gunfire was discovered. All ███ members in residence at the compound had subjected themselves to a similar fate to the cult leader, with all of them bearing a similar 9mm firearm and every one riddled with bullet holes in what appears to have been a mass suicide. At least two members of Capt. Raynes’ squad were reported to have become nauseous at the sight, as they were tasked with recovering the firearms; a task that required them to get closer to the bodies. Attempts to reach out to the team during this period were met with little response - Capt. Raynes was barely able to SITREP Lt. Brewer’s squad on their findings.

Clearing out the lower floor provided little else; the ground floor was the primary ‘storefront’ of the cult’s base of operation, with most living activities (fitness, dining, etc.) seemed to have been conducted there. The living quarters of each Haemolife member were located here as well - and L.Cpl Smehrik reported hearing strange noises from inside an empty clothing locker. 

Upon opening the locker, a single survivor was discovered sitting inside - a small girl with short, black hair and a mallen streak at the front of her head. She was brandishing a weapon, but upon being restrained by L.Cpl. Smehrik, it was discovered that the weapon was not loaded. Capt. Raynes ordered that the survivor be released from the pin and attempted to communicate with her - but she was found to be almost totally unresponsive, and Field Medic D. Wesley determined that she was in a state of shock. SÄPO agents recovered the survivor from the site for asylum.

The survivor’s mental state is awaiting assessment. A psychological profile will be compiled and added to the same dossier as this after-action report. The survivor, codenamed S001-IO/GW (or simply S001) is in the custody of the CIA. No civilians were in the AO, so no discreet debriefing is required. Capt. Raynes reports that when S001 is stable enough to speak, she will be interrogated for more detailed accounts on Haemolife’s workings, to be compiled in the dossier that this same report will be found in.