#round 1 part 1a

[hubristicassholefight]

Round 1 Part 1a

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche (Evilious Chronicles)

Propaganda below the cut (Spoiler Warning!)

John Gaius

when you're introduced to him, the main character knows that this is God and she is unworthy. jod asks her to call him teacher and more or less plays with her sense of authority and reality throughout the whole second book, up to and including hiring a friend to kill her and then acting shocked when he actually does try to kill her. harrow the ninth ends with his saint/old friends turning against him and trying to kill him for the way he's been manipulating them. (it doesn't work and he spends the next book as a background character somewhere else, but from what you see, he's lonely and miserable and about to destroy the world and start over again and wipe everybody's memories so they forget his mistakes and forgive him) the third book has a series of flashbacks where he describes how believing he was right and everybody else was wrong ended up triggering a nuclear bomb that ended humanity, then resurrected only what he wanted to live. he literally plays god for years and every time somebody sees his tricks he wipes their memories and starts again so they still love him. there's probably going to be a lot more propaganda so for the 'brought low' part I'll point out that the last book still isn't out yet and I cannot imagine it ends happily for him

Destroyed the world and killed all his friends, and it STILL didn't put a dent in his ego.

was gifted necromancy by the earth in order to save her; subsequently killed the entire solar system out of spite. wiped all of his friends' memories, made half of them metaphysically eat the other half, then let the remaining half die fighting the planets' ghosts. also he turned the earth into a full-sized barbie and she hates him for it. he's depressed as fuck about it now

Riliane

A fourteen year old tyrant princess, possessed by the demon of pride. She taxes and starves her kingdom in order to give herself the fanciest feasts and parties. She executes people over the tiniest issues, even threatening her own twin brother with death for not letting her win a game (she didn't remember that he is her brother). She starts a war and massacres the women of another nation because her fiance broke off their engagement to pursue a peasant girl. She is THE Daughter of Evil.

[wasted-women]

ROUND 1A, MATCH 5 OUT OF 8!

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Sherry Polnareff

Cause of Death: Raped & Murdered on Her Way Home

Propaganda:

TBH I'm honestly just submitting her because the whole way she's handled pisses me off.

Nobara Kugisaki

Cause of Death: Killed in Battle

Propaganda:

Built up as the main female character in the series and part of the main trio only to get killed off halfway through to show the stakes are high and give the male main character someone to mourn (even though he already just lost someone else). Apparently it’s ambiguous whether she died or was horrifically injured but she’s never seen again and almost never talked about despite the series supposedly being close to ending. Was a character who made people say the series was feminist friendly only to get killed off for no reason

[the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever]

round 1a: losers

[ultimategenshintournament]

Ultimate Ship Tournament: Round 1A

Propaganda below cut

Lyney x Traveler:

Reason 1: Flirty magician develops genuine feelings for a potential enemy of the organization he secretly works for due to his tragic past as an orphan, all during a trial of a murder that happened during his show. Plus he has a major panic attack at jail, and traveler was the one to comfort him. Plus he says that he is "rarely so open like that with anyone" He trust traveler enough to let his guard and facade down, and consider them to be a part of the family, a family he cares more than anything. Also. Helloooo? The angst potential of a FATUI dating TRAVELER? he is the next head of the house of the hearth after all. Even if he is being performative, he has the best rizz. So many flirty voice lines, and the rainbow rose! Don't forget rainbow roses have a romantic meaning! Reason 2: He is like that for both Lumine and Aether. Bisexual win

Arlebina:

I don't care if one of them isn't even out yet and we know almost nothing about her, I think they could be real fucked up together 👍

[winterspider-bingo]

WinterSpider Bingo Round 1!

Hello! Welcome to WinterSpider Bingo, a creative fandom event for our favorite boys: Bucky Barnes and Peter Parker! No sign-ups for this event, just fun! There are two (2) cards (found below), one sfw and one nsfw, with five (5) alt prompts if you’d like to/need to swap any of the squares. You can do one card, or both!

Standard bingo rules apply: five (5) spaces horizontal, vertical, diagonal, four corners + free space, or black out! But you can fill as many or as few of the squares as you’d like, no pressure! You can write fic, make fanart, playlists and more! All fanworks are welcome, and there are no word count minimums or maximums for fic.

This event is open from August 1st - December 31st

The AO3 collection (winterspiderbingo) will open on August 1st. Also, please tag this blog in your posts here on tumblr, and use #winterspiderbingo so that your work can be shared here for all to enjoy!

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RULES

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Have fun!!!!!!!!

[beansprean]

Queening the Pawn Act 2 part 2

Act 1

Act 2: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10

Nandor probably fully thinks breaking a pinkie promise means he has to cut it off.

Also what? It's Thursday?? Yeah I'm gonna update Tuesdays and Thursdays now lmao, once a week is toooo loooong

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID: 1a. Close up on Guillermo in profile as he sits on the loveseat piled with various throw pillows and furs, frowning. He furrows his brow at the floor and says, “Uh, so. I actually don’t even have the energy to yell. I’m still angry, obviously, but I get why you felt you had to keep this from me, I guess.” In the background we see the now closed door. 1b. Reverse shot of Nandor sitting across from him in a wooden chair, the front of his coffin behind him and a lit fireplace beyond. Guillermo continues from offscreen, “It’s pretty consistent with your personality, actually.” Nandor squints in response, curling his lip, and confusedly protests, “Heyyy…?” unsure if he’s being insulted or not.

2. Reverse shot of Guillermo looking up at Nandor, eyes round and pleading but stern. He gestures at Nandor, palm open, and says “But, Nandor, If you want me to forgive you… I need you to be honest with me from now on, okay? No more lies, no more keeping things from me because you’re afraid of my reaction, no more avoiding telling me things that I need to know.”

3a. Shot over Guillermo’s shoulder, facing Nandor fidgeting uncertainly in his chair. Grimacing, Nandor says “Umm… this does not usually work out in Colin Robinson’s sitcoms…” In profile in the foreground, Guillermo angrily snaps back, “I don’t care if you tell me I look fat in this sweater, I care if you keep it to yourself for ten years that I’m fucking un-turnable!” 3b. Close up of both men in profile on a mottled red background as they lean forward in their seats to gripe at each other. Nandor whines, “We don’t know that you are un-turnable! And you do look fat in that sweater.” Guillermo responds, “No duh! Truth, Nandor. Promise.”

4a. Close up on Nandor on a mottled pale yellow background as he leans back in his chair, eyes closed and mouth curled into a scowl, throwing up his hands in defeat. He relents, “Fine! I promise.” 4b. Profile shot on a mottled red background; Guillermo leans forward again, expression hard as he holds out his pinkie and demands, “Pinkie promise!” Nandor leans forward as well, looking nervous, and incredulously repeats “Pinkie promise?!” “Yes,” Guillermo insists. 4c. Nandor relents again, closing his eyes and linking his pinkie with Guillermo’s, saying “Okay, I promise with my pinkie.” Guillermo allows himself a small triumphant smile. /end ID

[yall-hate-kids-tourney]

Who has been screwed over by the fandom more?

Propaganda below the cut

Six:

Six was born into a world that is desperate to kill her and every other child, and she has spent her every second in survival mode. If she makes the wrong choice or hesitates for even a second, there's a good chance she'll be killed. She has to make terrible choices, she has to hurt people, or she will be hurt, even if that means betraying her friends or literally eating a guy to not starve. To the fandom though, she's an irredeemable monster! Not the countless people hunting her down at every second, she's clearly the worst person in existence. She hurt a character the fans like (she could've died if she didn't) so she should suffer apparently

Amane Momose:

Where do I even start? So first of all she’s an cult child who was physically and mentally abused and tortured by her parents and then (presumably) murdered her mother after her mother killed a cat that she took care of.

Now everyone in Milgram is a murderer but when Amane came and her MV showed her murder and circumstance in an admittedly highly fictionalized depiction of it the audience decided to…repeat the cycle of abuse!

She was voted guilty for the main reason of “teaching her” and helping her “realize that she was abused.” I would like to note that this tough love approach is something her parents utilized against her. “We are only doing this to help you.”

So the audience replicates Amane’s abusers and repeats the cycle of abuse and that’s pretty shitty but it isn’t exactly “Fuck Em Kids” level.

And then Trial 2 happened. Cause Amane is bitter and angry and horrifically traumatized so she acts aggressive and hostile. Especially towards another prisoner.

Now, again, everyone here is a fucking murderer (of atleast could be constructed as one) These people being able to Harm is a core concept of this series.

Yet for some reason it feels like people treat Amane as a “delusional creepy kid who wants to kill people” which completly takes away the nuance of her character. She does have the capacity to harm! Everyone here does! She’s not Uniquly Dangerous! She just has a Reason to be Dangerous. A Reason we GAVE HER by REPEATING THE CYCLE OF ABUSE.

In short: In a series full of Murderers I’m honestly a bit pissed that the 12 year old abuse victim is the one who’s treated like the guy from American Pyscho.

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TL;DR: "We metavoted this abused, indoctrinated child guilty in trial 1, but it didn't work. Now she is a threat to three grown adults: one who is fully free and two whom she has been shown to get along with. Please metavote her guilty again so she will be restrained and unable to attack them, even though that means subjecting her to further psychological torture." Amane Momose is the youngest of ten murderers, prisoners of Milgram who are to be judged innocent (forgiven) or guilty (unforgiven). In the first interrogation (voice drama), she said that what she did was in line with her religion's doctrines. If we judged her the "wrong way", she said she will just deny the verdict. Combining the voice drama and music video, you could piece together that she was raised in a cult and abused, even though she is cheerful and downplays her pain. She never shows *who* she killed, only *why* she did. After the first day of her vote, she was 81% innocent, but this wouldn't last the whole three months. Many people voted her guilty so she would "see her sins", part of the practice commonly known as "metavoting". Her innocent percentage rapidly decreased, and she hit guilty in the last 15 days, finishing at 51% guilty. At the end of the first trial, Jackalope (who is something like a host) went over all the prisoners' verdicts and commented on the general reasoning. When he got to Amane, he *laughed* at the audience for voting that way to make her realize her sins. Trial 2 rolled around, and it was revealed that Amane's victim was her abuser. On day one, she was at 74% innocent. Seems like a cut-and-dry case now, right? Well... in the intermission, two of the prisoners (Fuuta and Mahiru) were badly beaten up and became reliant on the care of Shidou, a doctor. Amane became hostile to Shidou because what he was doing was against her beliefs. She visited all three of them on their birthdays to convince them to change their ways. She seems to be especially close to Fuuta, who is now murmuring about salvation. Guilty prisoners are psychologically tortured, forced to listen to voices that reject their beliefs. Fuuta and Mahiru both say that the mental strain is worse than their physical injuries. But Amane, who also looks worse for wear, was thrown under the bus because she isn't injured and is considered a physical threat to them (never mind that she gets along with them). She's considered a threat to Shidou, a grown man who is twice her size and fully free, while she is partially restricted by the long sleeves in her trial 2 uniform. She might indoctrinate Fuuta even though, in a prison of ten people and one guard, she's the only voice of her cult. Fortunately, she got a break. Her vote was falling at a similar rate to the first trial. But this time, it stabilized at 51% innocent, 12 days before the end of her vote. But there's no way this is over.

[whumpfish]

Extractions! (Tooth vs. Nail)

I've been wanting to do this one for a long time, for all you torture fans out there...

So I metabolize lidocaine like a motherfucker, and any time I get a local, I always have to get a second one halfway through whatever is being done. For the most part, doctors and dentists listen to me when I say this... for the most part.

Tooth

(The oral surgeon did not give me my second shot when I asked for it.)

1. Any fillings you have will collapse under the pressure of an extraction, even a medicated one. (I'm not sure if this is true for metal ones; all of mine are plaster.) It produces a half-crunch, half-thunk sound that reverberates in that half of your skull and sounds absolutely terrifying.

2. The pain of an unmedicated extraction is acute and radiating at the same time. The acute part feels more like having a stiletto stabbed upward into that space than a tooth taken out in a downward motion.

2a. In maxillary extractions, the stab goes straight up, and depending on the location of the tooth, that stab can feel pointed anywhere from your eyeball (frontmost) to right into your brain (rear).

2b. Mandibular extractions* stab downward from the chin (frontmost) to the hinge of your jaw and straight down your throat (rear).

3. The radiating part spreads like a flower blooming, from a concentrated central point outward in a rolling movement.

4. Your ears might pop like an airplane taking off as that blooming pain reaches the hinge of your jaw. Sometimes only in the one ear.

Nail

(I have been doing minor self-surgery** for years because I am genetically predisposed to ingrown nails, and if I don't catch it in time, they grow straight down and I have to extract them to be able to trim them. If I really don't catch it in time, they grow straight down and then curl backward, and I have to get an actual surgeon involved.)

1. Self-surgery, split off edge of nail, 0 to 1/2" down and backward: You have to wiggle these in a sawing/rocking motion back and forth in order to get that tiny bit of root to let go, and when you "saw" backward it feels more like a steak knife than a butter knife, this time moving with the direction of the nail. Then it reverses when you actually yank.

1a. The yank hurts more than the sawing, sharp like a stab from a steak knife instead of one being pushed in slowly.

1b. You will get the best whump out of a whumper splitting off the edges of the nail and doing this and then yanking the middle part

2. Medicated: Locals in the toe/finger area hurt like a bitch. They're sharp and needling like a stiletto to a paper cut, then if someone tried to pry that cut open. At the same time, they feel hot, almost burning. (Hotter than anesthetic being pushed through an IV, if you're familiar with that sensation.) And there are so many nerves involved that just the first round of locals takes 3-4 shots.

3. Unmedicated, grown down and backward, 1/2" to 3/4": The last time I went in, my surgeon said "given the amount of times I have to shoot you up, you'll probably hurt less if I just yank." (She was right.) This sumbitch goes in both directions, down/back from where the root is, then forward. The down/back is a stabbing pain. The forward is like somebody trying to pry open that papercut, a sensation probably caused by the fact that you are in fact messing with something stuck in a very small cut in the skin, in my case the cut was just caused by the nail that has now been removed.

4. If it is a toenail extraction, you are going to bleed significantly more than teeth or fingernails, because your body has to work harder pushing blood up through your leg veins than it does pushing it down into your shoe. Especially when you take a step. Ibuprofen makes this worse. If you take ibuprofen at all that day, expect your shoe to fill up when you take a step. (Mine did, scaring the tar out of everyone present, including me.)

Pain Intensity Verdict:

Teeth > Nails. By a LOT.

Happy yanking!!

*Because of nerve fuckery, dentists using the sonic cleaning tool despite my warnings results in a pain on the level of extractions, and the sensations described here are based on my experience with that.

**This never fails to horrify my friends. They'll see what I'm fixing to work on and say, "Oh ouch, that's bad, go to the doctor," and I'm just like "nah, just get me isopropyl alcohol and some office supplies, I got this."

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1A, MATCH 1 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ariel (Animated):

Because someone had to submit her. I mean the animated version, specifically.

She may make very stupid decisions in the name of her special interest, but you've got to admire the dedication at least! Also goddamn her singing voice.

Part of Your World still hits so hard and makes me so emotional, despite not feeling very attached to this movie. Jodi Benson has such a beautiful voice! I haven't watched the live-action remake so I don't know how good that rendition of Part Of Your World is, but this one is so incredibly powerful.

Ariel (Live Action):

She's just so cute and beautiful and sweet and her singing voice is amazing!!!

I LOVED the live action! Ariel was portrayed so well and given a lot more depth. Plus, her and Eric's relationship was ALSO given a lot more depth <3 The scene where she breaks something (i don't quite remember what it was XD) and shows him what was inside? Them bonding over their love of learning? Hovering over a map? Scurrying around and hiding from Eric's mom? Couple goals, imo. idc if I get into a relationship or not, but if I ever do i hope to god they will geek out with me as much as these two nerds did <3

tbh i have despised all of the new disney live action adaptations, and haven't watched them since the less then stellar beauty and the beast was released in 2017. but everyone was going on about how good this one and when i finally watched it was pleasantly surprised. sure there were general soul-less disney remake moments - but halley bailey's ariel was so beautiful and genuine! her passion and determination, her beautiful voice, how flippin expressive her eyes are. ironic that a little mermaid was such a breath of fresh air. an absolutely beautiful character adaptation

She was forced to listen to Awkwafina rap, she deserves SOMETHING.

[rulers-of-hungary-tournament]

ROUND 1A, MATCH 1

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WHAT MY PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY SAID ABOUT THEM

I.István (Štefan I.) 1000-1038

unifier of the Magyar tribes and first crowned king of Hungary (the damn crown is named after him for fuck's sake)

a literal saint - though not because he was particularly nice, mostly because of the fact that he was the first Magyar leader to be a proper Christian (unlike his dad Géza, who did get baptized, but still retained some of the pagan customs); plus he actively spread Christianity among Magyars (founding of the first Hungarian bishoprics, the one church for every 10 villages rule etc.), for better or for worse

created the basis for later Hungarian administration, including the minting of first Hungarian coins and the first law code in Hungarian history

helped Byzantines conquer Bulgaria

infamous for imprisoning and blinding his cousin and successor Vazul (chronicles blame his wife's influence, but they're probably just being sexist)

IV.Béla (Belo IV.) 1235-1270

called "second founder" of Hungary for his part in the country's recovery from the Mongolian invasion (which is why I put him against the first founder of Hungary, geddit?); one of the longest ruling Hungarian monarchs

feuded with basically everyone on his court, from the nobles (whom he famously didn't even let sit in his presence) to his stepmom, whom he apparently imprisoned (it's not clear from my notes what she did); to be fair, he wasn't wrong in thinking the nobility needs to get knocked down a notch, I mean he did have to ascend the throne after fucking II.András "Hungary's own John Lackland"

hella important for the development of administration of Hungary, especially cities; he invited the Germans over to repopulate the country after the Mongolian invasion and gave their settlements the first city rights

also as part of his recovery programme - he built A LOT of castles, especially stone ones

in the second half of his rule, he led "more active foreign policy", read "participated in some wars"; namely War of the Babenberg Succession, on the losing side

[sciencegeniusgirlshowdown]

Welcome to Science Genius Girl Showdown, where your favorite she/her scientists go head to head to see who is the smartest* of them all!

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Submit your Science Genius Girls here! Submissions will remain open until July 30th! Due to the high number of submissions received shortly upon making the blog, submissions will now be closing on July 20th! Submissions are now officially closed! Preliminaries are planned to be held over the next couple days, and the bracket itself is planned to be announced on July 22nd or 23rd!

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[hubristicassholefight]

Round 1 Part 1a

Andrew Ryan (Bioshock) vs Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Propaganda below the cut (Spoiler warning!)

Andrew Ryan

So you’re an objectivist tired of the world. So you build a city underwater for everyone who shares a mind like you. You think you’re so great. Then shit starts to happen. You watch people become monsters because you added zero drug regulations to your city. You have people be imprisoned and then turned into big daddies just for disagreeing with you . Third. At the end of it you just become a dictator, and go against your own beliefs. You send a woman down into the slums of rapture for disagreeing with you. You focusing so much on being so much of an Ayn Rand fanboy leads the woman with a completely different ideology than you to rise to power after your death. That’s, that’s Andrew Ryan for you.

Elinah Magchard (?)

Dude learned about evil fear gods and went "hmm power" and proceeded to feed all of his friends to fear gods, kill people to make himself immortal, emotionally kill and traumatize so many other employees, make his most manipulatable employee experience the horrors of the earth, and then force them to end the world, all so he could be his fear god's specialist little guy... and then still ended up begging for his life from said traumatized employee (who's coworkers he also got killed). The gall of this guy.

So like...he thinks he knows everything and can control everyone and he's an asshole and then one of the people in his office who he thought wasn't dangerous shows the police the recordings of him killing two people and he goes to prison and he's like "Buahh???" So yeah his hubris was thinking he was above being overthrown by the people under him ig. He's super duper obviously gay and is like really manipulative and he's a bitch but he's OUR bitch

[wasted-women]

ROUND 1A, MATCH 1 OUT OF 8!

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Jiang Yanli

Cause of Death: Stabbed; Self-sacrifice to save her brother.

Propaganda:

she's your pfp that's got to count for something

I love JYL don't get me wrong! But also. She is solely written as a part of the male characters and does not get much in her own right. She is Wei Wuxian's older sect sister, or Jiang Cheng's sister, or Jin Zixuan's fiance/wife, or Jin Ling's mother he never got to know. Even what characterization people give her (like liking soup/cooking or standing up for her family despite being gentle) are things that have to do with her brothers. I wish we got more of her in her own right.

AND ALSO. ALSO??? HER DEATH MAKES. NO SENSE. Okay first of all - she was in Lanling grieving for her very recently dead husband & taking care of her newborn baby. Who would let that woman out of Lanling????? WHY???? How did she get out of there SO FAST????? She doesn't have a sword/isn't a cultivator (at least in MDZS) so she couldn't have flown. And then after she got there WHO LET HER JUST OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLEFIELD???? WHY DID SHE GO THERE???? Even if there was a short part of her saying "I need to talk to Wei Wuxian about how he killed my husband and I'm going to get there no matter what" would've clarified things a little bc it's like okay she needs to go there even if we don't know how. Where are my answers MXTX, where are my answers????

Qin Su

Cause of Death: Suicide; Stabbed herself with a knife. (NOTE: In some versions of the story, she was being controlled and thus forced to kill herself.

Propaganda:

I'm fairly certain this character was only created as set dressing for the main villain's tragedy. We get zero insight into her inner life, zero hints that any such inner life might even exist, and after she dies basically no other named character other than the aforementioned villain is shown to be majorly affected by her death, even those who logically should have meaningful relationships with her.

Compared to the other two main female characters in this series (who are also fridged) Jiang Yanli and Wen Qing, Qin Su is probably the least aggravating because she's barely in the show and has very little character that we see. But I still think it's worth noting. I really wish that she could've survived and been there in Guanyin Temple IT COULD'VE BEEN COOL OKAY.

Wen Qing

Cause of Death: Executed; Burned to ashes.

Propaganda:

The fact that Wen Qing is the character that originally said the thing about "I'm sorry" and "Thank you", which is repeated multiple times in the post-resurrection parts of the series, but is so rarely mentioned by name is so aggravating! She's such an important part of the plot that did SO MANY THINGS but just basically disappears after her death!!! The only time I really remember her being mentioned is when her brother, Wen Ning, mentions her integral role in the golden core reveal. Jiang Yanli's ghost haunts the series after her death, but Wen Qing's really doesn't, and that's so fucked up to me. She even dies during the same time that Wen Ning does, but then it's revealed he survived (well, "survived", he is a zombie, but he was that beforehand too) SO WHY COULDN'T SHE HAVE SURVIVED TOO????

[strawberrytalia]

How I imagine the Arrow appearances: Part 1

Emiko: I think Emi should really take after her mom. She has a long torso and longer arms just like Shado, and overall a slimmer figure. Her hair is jet black and very straight, like a 1A texture unless she intentionally styles it. She has dark brown eyes that, unlike Shado, instead reflect a boldness in them akin to Ollie’s gaze (queen genes). Her skin tans easily, especially after moving to Star City. Her face is slightly longer and more oval-shaped. Her nose is straight and longer than her mom’s. She has full lips that are rounded (no cupid’s bow). Also has relatively low cheekbones, making her look younger than she is, to her annoyance. She has an average height of 5’6, beating Shado by a couple of inches.

Mia: Ok first of all, I believe in Mia having a round face. She’s like the type of person who just looks really youthful, even after aging past 20. Also after living with Ollie and getting access to like proper food and care for once, her cheeks get fuller and her skin returns to a more healthy, glowy look (at least compared to before). She has a short button nose and lips that are fuller on the bottom than top. Her eyebrows are a darker shade of blonde than her hair for some reason and it drives her crazy because she’s a natural blonde but no one believes it. I think she’s like in between Emi’s naturally thin figure and Cissie’s super athletic body, where I like to think Mia is on the average side. She’s toned and trains regularly but not to the extreme like those two. She carries weight most in her thighs, than anywhere else. Her complexion is like the average white person in California lmao, pretty tan. Most importantly!! Mia has big dark brown eyes!!! Her eyes are round-shaped and she’s perfected the deer in headlights look. Her hair is also thick, but it’s fried as hell lmao because of all the highlights and homemade dye jobs she’s done. It’s also another aspect of how she gets healthier once living with Ollie (nutrients help hair growth). Also she’s the shortest at 5’4 in the fam!

[ultimategenshintournament]

Okay!

I've taken all of your wonderful submissions and made the official bracket for the Ultimate NPC Tournament!

Just like last time, all Round 1 matchups are randomized to avoid any kind of bias on my part.

You can find a full list of all the Round 1 polls below the cut:

Round 1A:

Kun Jun vs. Carter

Rajkumar vs. Ararycan

Enjou vs. Anisa Purbiruni

Benben vs. Dunyarzad

Chouji vs. Moon Carver

Ekaterina vs. Ba & Giant Ba

Ying'er vs. Kichiboushi

Kazari/Hanachirusato vs. Glory

Margaret vs. Marjorie

Childish Jiang vs. Elynas

Round 1B:

Hui vs. Teppei

Dainsleif vs. Nameless Bard

Alice vs. Caterpillar

Adelinde vs. Caribert

Xinghuo & Echo vs. Kumi

Amos vs. Osse

Lyudochka Snezhevna vs. Ruu

Zhiqiong vs. Idyia

Neko vs. Cesar

Kama vs. Jeht & Jebrael vs. Mamere

Round 1A will be posted tomorrow! Remember to share this tournament with all the Genshin fans in your life!

[quacheta]

So a few months ago, there was at least one (1) person who got permission to, and started, the project of bookbinding AmevelloBlue's The Ghost in the Shell. And when they tried to print it, it was like 700-800 pages. Which is... a lot.

So I figured, since (1) I also love Ghost in the Shell, (2) I do typesetting semi-professionally, and (3) why the heckers not, I could probably get it down to a more reasonable size.

And I did. And then AmevelloBlue gave me permission to share it here, so.

The Drive Folder With All the Files.

File-specific information below. :)

(Please, for the love of Donnie's banana pancakes, read it. I am trying to answer as many technical questions in advance as I can, so people don't get overwhelmed or confused or frustrated.)

(But also it is a LOT of information, so if you need clarification please ask. This is for to be fun! Not scary!)

There are three parts.

GitS.p8: This is the straight PDF export, done in pages and not spreads. That means each page is its own page (a spread has 2+ to a page) and the pages are in order. If you want a pretty PDF to read on a device, this is what you want. If you want to run it through your own imposition software, this is also what you want.

GitS.p8_typeset: This is the imposition. That means the pages have been rearranged into signatures and spreads for bookbinding. There are 16 pages, or 8 spreads, or 4 sheets of paper (printed double-sided) to each signature. Each signature gets stacked, folded into a booklet, and then stacked on top of the next signature for sewing the book block. THIS IS THE WHOLE BOOK. If you want ONE file to send to the printer, in one straight run, this is what you want.

signatures (folder): These are INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURES. That means each signature is a separate file. If you want to do a test print of a single signature, this is what you want. If you want to run different signatures through different printers, this is what you want. If you want to do this piecemeal for any other reason, this is what you want.

(The last three signatures are three sheets of paper, not four. This is for the sake of balancing page count against structural integrity in the bound book.)

Why would you want different printers, you ask?

Because color printing is expensive. And I used color in the typeset.

The entire thing is designed to still be readable (and pretty!) in a regular, black-and-white printer. Because I wanted this to be accessible to everyone, not just people who can afford color printing. But if you want to split it, and send the signatures-with-colored-bits to a color printer, and save money by NOT sending the whole book, these are the signatures with colored bits:

0, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 25, 26, 28, 35

And if that's too many pages still, here are the signatures with the most important colored bits (i.e., the title pages and the illustrations):

0, 7, 35

All of the files are PDFs. All of them, specifically, are PDF/x-1a(2003), which means the color profile is CMYK only and all the fonts are embedded. So nothing should go screwy-whompus when you download it or send it to the printer.

TRIM SIZE: the pages are 5x7.5. This is (1) to allow printing on letter-sized paper more easily, and (2) to also allow for trimming of the book block without screwing over the margins. The imposition and the signature files have trimming / cutting guides (the little lines) for your convenience.

There are 36 signatures total, or 560-something pages (less than 200 sheets of paper, before folding, if printed double-sided). This is still a big book. Big enough that you will need to know about spine swell, and possible rounding and backing, if you decide to do the binding. Please keep that in mind as you plan your project.

EPUB: some people like to convert PDF book files to ePUBs for eBook reading. Due to how I designed the typeset, this is not going to be pretty if you try it with these. I am currently in the final stages of making the eBook for GitS, and will upload the ePUB to the drive folder as soon as it's done. It will not have the pretty background / border illustrations of the print file, but it will be neat and tidy and include the pretty title pages.

I... think that's everything?