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[stone-cold-groove]

What’s going on behind the scenes at Indy? Ad for Esso racing fuels - 1968.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

I’m an artist now and I realised that means I can share with you my like decade old AU ideas.

Anyway, this is Nova the very real, organic, not at all robotic Hedgehog. He is very definitely not Neo Metal Sonic in disguise as a normal hedgehog to try and trick Sonic into a false sense of security while he steals the data of all his friends and then takes over the world he is just a scared teenager who was kidnapped for Reasons by Eggman and definitely did not stage her appearance. He is very normal and knows what gender is.

Jokes aside, the idea for this AU was a sort of alternate-Heroes, where Neo Metal Sonic didn’t act like a dramatic bitch and, well, y’know, instigate the whole plot of Heroes but instead used his shapeshifting ability to disguise himself as a normal non-metal non-Sonic hedgehog and infiltrate them from the inside while stealing their DNA without anyone being any the wiser by staging a situation Sonic would have to “save” him from. Admittedly very badly he cannot resist pointless cruelty and violence but it still definitely left an impression.

Sonic is very fucking confused as to why this weird hedgehog is alternating between gleeful violence and paralysing fear along with snarky banter to weirdly stiff attempts at normal friendly interaction but like, he's made friends in weirder situations and this Nova fellow(?) seems kinda sad and lonely and looks like he’s about to cry whenever he recieves the slightest kindness so how dangerous can he really be? (Very.)

[yellowsubiesdance]

good thing i have therapy today, because i’m feeling absolutely horrible

[blorbo85]

sometimes listening to madlo is too much for me bc will toledo voice 2 damn sexy 😞 like why am i blushing to can’t cool me down rn

[mulholland-driver]

Nomad's Lament

I breathe in sun, Now I breathe out ice. And I wish I could be enjoying The familiar aroma of pumpkin spice.

But I can't.

Because I'm numb And I'm torn Didn't ask To be born, And I'm cracking My teeth Between smokes.

But I'm stoked

For the scantily clad life That awaits me Because all this time, I've only been trying To Escape Me. To break free From this life And this town And its staunch crowd That Hates Me.

My teachers The stress My parents The mess I held on And I bent And I broke.

But I meant Every word I've written Since the day you came. Finding myself smitten With each vowel in your name.

A-E-I-O You are all I think about, Even though I'm just Queen of the concrete now.

Homeless, day one Still feels like A freedom run. All alone, I am Second To None.

[troiings]

you all have shown me great kindness in the past, and i'm afraid i must ask for that kindness again. i'm just over here trying to afford rent and insurance but apparently every time i think my head's above water something has to happen. i need to go get my brakes checked out after the weekend and you know how that goes.

anyway if you have a few spare bucks laying around, would you consider buying me a coffee or dropping some cash directly into my paypal? (a reminder that ko-fi charges for goods and services, paypal you can choose friends and family with no service charge. up to you, however.)

as always, i also do copy editing/proofreading (can provide credentials if interested) and will do so on the cheap if you have an essay or something that needs another eye. i might also be able to do some beta reading for tips (SPAG and general continuity only if i’m unfamiliar with the fandom). Just ask and I’ll let you know if what you’ve got is in my wheelhouse.

since i'm apparently in a gif-making mood i can also take gif requests for tips though lord knows i cannot guarantee any sort of quality where that's concerned lol.

thanks as ever for reading <3

[firemama]

I'll tell you, I'm kinda disappinted with the whole chatgpt thing. How it will *probably* die, and how it was either demonized relentlessly or used ruthlessly and thoughtless without moral.

Like, the sheer usefulness of it as a tool with a simple method of use was incredible. No you shouldn't have used it to write your story or essay, but no it wasn't *exclusively* a theft-machine like other ai inventions (such as the ai 'art' generators that are, yeah, just theft machines.)

In this age of Google becoming essentially unusable and thus information being harder to find from unbiased sources (or sometimes getting *any* information at all, because we all know these days that googling shit gets you things unrelated to what you asked for all the time now), chat gpt was so useful as a tool. You can't take what it says at face value because it doesn't know what facts are, but I used it to help invent a couple of words with prompts like "generate several options for the title of a doctor that would medically treat non-human sentient magic creatures. Generate these titles using Latin Root Words." And then I sifted through what it offered me for ideas and pieces. It would have taken me so long to google up various fucking Latin words.

Which is basically what chat got was useful for: quickly skimming information and data from the internet using a shockingly good quality algorithm to actually understand what information and context you *want*. The problem with generative written ai, especially the one fucking Google ai uses, is that they use the ai to *answer the question*, which usually leads to misinformation. Using the ai to fucking filter out the unwanted noise of the internet, and as a tool to gather the information you want, was just... revolutionary to my writing process.

It's unfortunate that people just fucking used that thing to write piss tier whole articles or books. It was a *tool*, not a writer. Neither evil nor good.

[thedeviljudges]

the last big apartment purchase (for now) is a mattress, so hoping to go to more stores this weekend to see what's out there. not looking forward to spending that much. 😭

but got an updated lease date (they changed office hours where they wouldn't be open on my start date, so had to change it). got electric set up (though i'll have to wait two days before it gets turned on bc they dont connect over the weekend 😑), and gotta do renter's insurance. then it'll just be getting the keys in about two weeks.

i still gotta pack tho... rip. all the stuff i bought was pretty much packed bc it came shipped. i opened it all to check that i got everything, and then filled in what extra space i could. but it's the room stuff that i need to get to.

[laesas]

KPTS Playlists

Kim's Album || Chay's Album

So the concept behind this is that Kim releases a post-canon album and Porchay releases an album of his own in response. I love the idea of how the songs on each of these would affect the other person listening to them, as well as giving both characters the ability to use songs to communicate feelings that they can't express openly in person.

KimChay - Why else would I tutor you?

A big mixture of both KimChay albums + some extras that didnt fit either album but fit KimChay as a whole or inspired me while writing.

Additional Playlists and rambling under the cut 🖤

VegasPete Shoot Me || VegasPete Let it Out

I love both these VP moods but struggled with mixing them in a single playlist! The vibes were too all over the place - so now theres one for the emotional stuff and one for the self-destructive decisions bourne from hedgehog funerals and bisexual lighting

SO! Thoughts on playlists:

The concepts behind the KimChay playlists are my favourite and they're the ones I put the most thought into! - I started them back in july and I'm still adding to them now! They're not necessarily all about Kim and Chay's relationship per-se, there are a couple that I think really fit Kim's relationship with his brothers for example, or the way that Porchay feels living in the compound with his lack of autonomy. I've tried to keep a consistent sound/vibe throughout and match both the lyrics and the sound to the melancholy post canon situation!

My absolute favourite is Chay's album (lovingly referred to as the chaylist). Picturing the absloute breakdown Kim would have listening to some of these songs sang by Chay is so delicious to think about. Hopefully these would be the catalyst to a KimChay resolution!

There are a couple of other less developed/experimental playlists like for KinnBig, Tankhun (sad lol) and KimBig on my spotify profile! (as well as some other non KP playlists)

If you liked any of these, found a new favourite, or found them useful/helpful for art/writing/rotating the faves in your mind, feel free to share and to come yell at me about them here! DMs are open, anons are on! I'd love to hear your thoughts!!!

[toytulini]

i may not be able to open posts from my notes or messages or get more context on posts via looking at the notes, but at least i can make fucked up coffee properly now

[stone-cold-groove]

Tiger powers Foyt to 5th USAC Championship! Ad for Esso racing fuels - 1968.

[feliciamontagues]

I was already considering the possibility of Mrs Devine/Flambeau, and then I realized their ship name could be "devine fire" and any lingering doubt I had been harboring immediately evaporated.

[dicaeopolis]

hustled $2k raw profit on ebay last week got hit this week with about $1200 of mostly surprise bills. the lord taketh away

[ebbpettier]

ONE OF THOSE DAYS

[authenticalt]

Every time I think I have loans figured out, I am met with the reality that I do not.