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[a-mag-a-day]

You can actually hear the eyeball in the spectrogram, if you pay attention! It's an extra layer of static (not the usual Eye static, more of a hiss) starting at "The job is yours" and getting briefly louder at the word "flashes" when we reach the pupil. The image fully ends after "the vanishing of well-known faces," but it fades out of audibility before that.

Interesting!

[cameoappearance]

Crabs! :D

[ashes-in-a-jar]

A fun theory

In this brilliant post, op shows how Jane Prentiss encounters and mentions all 14 Fears, describing them as though she deeply understands them all from within her corrupted lens. Op calls it an early hint in the narrative to the Fears and their role in the world but I want to posit an in-world theory.

I think that part of the reason the Web sent a spider to cause Jon to break the wall and lead Jane to act earlier than she wanted was because Jane's rudimentary ritual to bring the Corruption to the world (through the circle of worms which Tim later found) would have actually worked in bringing all the Fears because Jane was already marked by all of them and was now in a place of power (the tunnels under the institute) and ready to incubate and create a corruption-based apocalypse.

This is something that the Web did not plan for and would not be able to control, because, as Jon said in episode 152, "what did Elias call it? – Filth. I don’t think it really plans much. It just starts to grow wherever it can get a foothold, and, if no one stamps it out in time… game over." The Web has no control over a thing that doesn't plan and had to "stamp it out" before it caused a "game over" by derailing all its schemes of a controlled eyepocalypse, ruled by its puppets (Jon and Jonah).

[gammija]

the fanfiction showcase was a lot of fun (vid is on twitch if you missed it!) Makes me wish I'd taken some of my comics and rewrote them as scripts to send in

[theineffablesociety-dc]

Tea Tasting

You know what it’s like when you don’t know anything at all, and yet you're totally certain that everything would be better if you just had a particular cup of tea?

@shinyhappygoth will be holding a tea tasting at our TIS-DC meetup on March 1st in New Carrollton, MD! Black, white, green, tisanes—come find your Aziraphale-approved (or Crowley-inspired!) new favorite blend!

Check the pinned post for the latest info and join our Discord here. We hope to see you there!

[jenniferstolzer]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @ibenholt

how many works do you have on Ao3?

31

2. what’s your total Ao3 word count?

434,069

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Psychonauts and Babylon 5 right now but I've written for Beetlejuice, Halo, Good Omens, Discworld, Transformers, Reboot, and others.

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

Beetlejuice Family Plot fancomic - 553 kudos

Castaways - Halo - 224 kudos

The Hornblower Incident - Psychonauts - 192 kudos

Rise and Fall - Good Omens - 147 kudos

5. do you respond to comments?

I respond to all comments even if it's just a thank you!

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

Rescue - Transformers.

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

Nearly all of my works have happy endings. I guess Family Plot is probably the happiest.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No hate yet.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No smut. Just hugs and an aching need to belong to someone.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don't write many crossovers. I wrote a Harry Potter B5 crossover for a friend once.

11. has any of your work been stolen?

People steal fanfic?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! A fellow B5er translated it to Russian

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

Not past me talking through plot points with friends.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Sasha/Milla is the OTP to end all OTPs.

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

Aside from one-shots with open endings, I'll probably never get back to my Tron Run/Rs fanfic.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I've been told I'm good a dialog, the difficulty is keeping the characters from talking for miles and miles of text lol

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Repeated words. Repeated themes. Repeated phrases.

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

I am guilty of Google Translating foreign languages into my stories but I try to keep the sentences direct and short to cut down on how generally bad google translate is at interpreting ideas.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The Lion King? Boxcar Children? I made a transformers picture book as a little kid.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Right now I'm pretty addicted to the Hornblower Incident as it's the only thing that brings me pure joy, but I also return to the Beyond the Rim series, Rise and Fall, and the fancomics pretty often.

I tag @shinyhappygoth, @sukikobold and @radical-rad1986

[thunder-of-dragons]

Writing Meme!

Thank you @candybarrnerd for metaphorically kicking me in the rear to get back to writing more after my writing got taken in a bunch of different directions throughout November. (And for indulging me in my knitting obsession that's taken over my life throughout December.)

I, too, am ignoring the rules and sharing the last paragraph I wrote. It's for an RP, and feel free to ask if you'd like to hear more about it.

Though a great deal of your skills were bolstered by innate talent, your journey to the Captaincy has required a lot of lost sleep and sweat and even some blood. Anyone who would dare say that you haven't earned your place here and that it only came to you as a result of nepotism clearly hasn't been sailing the seas for very long, and they had better hope they've heard tales of your prowess with a blade, lest they make an ever bigger fool of themselves.

these are the rules that I am also ignoring

Rules: post the last line you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line

I'm tagging @candybarrnerd (ha! we demand to see more!), @tsundanire, @andithiel, @marshmallowmcgonagall, and @shinyhappygoth

I encourage anyone I've tagged to ignore the rules as well! And, of course, anyone is welcome to take this as an open tag.

[voxofthevoid]

https://www.tumblr.com/hobbular/770166503520845824/shinyhappygoth-holeodemony-karimitic

This is exactly why I try not to share too many identifying details in public for my weird experiences. 😝

LMAO

Okay, yeah, I also wouldn't want my IRL and online spheres to cross...like this.

[youremysunshine8]

Thanks for the tag @kittyamongstthecats

tag game: pick stuff from your room and have people vote on which one they want to take home.

If you would like to play, @an-aura-about-you @shinyhappygoth, @leeshajoy or anyone else who is interested

[a-mag-a-day]

Jon is the one to announce that they have reached the end of the ladder. Therefore, he is lowest on the ladder.

Basira warns Martin about his next rung being loose. Therefore, she is in the middle and Martin is highest up.

Martin jumped first, then Basira, then Jon.

Conclusion: Martin and Basira had to fully yeet themselves away from the cliff face.

Yuppp

[euripidesredux]

Extended credits for Museum at Tomorrow episode 5

Below the cut are all of the folks who I used (and asked to be credited) for recordings in Museum at Tomorrow episode 5- specifically, the "This is not for You" recordings.

(The list was too long for podcast episode descriptions)

These recordings were mixed into the soundscape of the show, heavily processed- so you may or may not be able to pick out your voice. Each unique recording is preserved as rhythem, timber, and shape within the episode.

Thank you for your work in creating the canvas of this piece.

Kate Bullen

K R Forsyth

Vega Jacobsen

Charlie

Rovi

Grace Gamble 

Wesley Lee Balete

Charlie Sloykowski

JC Hendry

Courtney Brothers

Arabella McDonald

Hanc Finestra

Katie H

Galacticguppy 

Beck Smith

GreenHeronHive

Micheal Vee

Mira Singer

Laurent J.L. Hall

Carley Mothersell

woaaah

cmt

November_Clouds

Elliott Neptune

Enrica Jossi

Ace

Jahan Shah 

Morgan Galagher

Niall LG

  Bates

Caroline Mincks

Daniel Kurtz

AJ Fidalgo

Tani

Shura

Zedek H

Halebop

Malia Northstar

Greg Ruddick

Solstice Hannan

Jessamy Thomison 

Cassie A.

Rachel Spokony

miss mr meow

Arti Richardson

Mattie J.

Geddy Cary-Avery,

 Ophelia Cary-Avery

Sophie Kaplan

X Speaks

Devin

Craux

Cap

Joe R

Ray Goldberg

Mog

The Marble System

Tina Case

Kate Bullen

Marionette

LD

Maddy Searle

Remi P

Meg Taylor

Beth

Evan Tess Murray

Amanda Jones

Amanda Ehrhardt

Nathan Fisentzou-Haji-Leonti

Johanna Andersson

Tess Huth

@faeriebullshit

Olivia Lion

Ange

Bridget M. Mueting

Wil Williams

Katie Utke

aceofgames

Savy Stay

Graham Rowat

Meredith

spaceacebreakface 

Molly Walsh

Belinda Parker

Erin Celovsky

liz

Caden Osojnak

Danniac 

Ray Schrader

Atlas Byrd

AJ. S.

JayseHasNoGrace

Fay Blackmore

Sharon Peterson

Katharina Abschlag 

Izzy

Ace Tayloe

kat B

Siz Hart

moth

Kathryn Cox

G. Honnigford

Pine Gonzalez

sisyphus

Essay

artie eigengrau

Rook Davis

Izzi Mata

grayson

Tamara Jones

Willow

G.F.

Leigh sharpe

Zelda MacFarland

Arkyn Wolf

Elany

Elaine Wiley

Mary Lewis-Phillipps

Claudia Elvidge

Kei Burke

Katie Vargas

Karleen Preator

Alicia Babich

Jonathan Sciance

Étoile

Hayden Laver

Barrett Vann

S Kramer

Maya Hiers-Lairson

judas

Archer Hickerson

Malinda

Nicole Liang

LF Haye

Louis Carroll

Stefanie K.

Autumn Wang 

jayvin

Badger Merriweather

Aiden

Sender Paulson

vexxervee

Rob Weiner

Peril

Lotte Schmidt 

fynn

Lor

Josie D. 

Jaryn Tyson

Common Blue Icarus

resplendeo

Claire Alpern

skelejor

Matt Weiss

M Zemlock

Kay Eileen

Callisto Holmes

Rhys

Noah Quinn

Sarah Elizabeth

Willow Belden

Amanda McCormack

Esrah Del Carlo

sunny

the Hartmans

Lee Ann Eden

Bob Proctor

Clueless

deda eliensis

Ohallo

Tara Schile

Marzi 

Flameheart Dryad

Sarah Lambrix 

JB Segal 

Ellis C

Ash

Autumn

Jaime Tamar

Haze Peers

Moose

Erin Bevan

Luci Tomich

Bryn

Michael W.

Kim Fukawa

Amy Strieter

Petra Hall

Mal

Charlie Rayshich

Susan Weiner

Everett Blackthorne

Vergess

Tor

ArionWind

M. Alti

N. B. Green

Aiden Nicholson

Jacky Rubou

Nura Lawrence

Gwen Clancy

Ollie M.

Caroline

Duo

Iris

ML Beck

Ray Makowski

Eljay Rich

MV8

Michelle Pigott

Rachel Pfennigwerth

Janika

Jamie Gump

Mason J Miller

Ella Watts

Cole

Mady Oswald

Valerie "ShinyHappyGoth" Kaplan

Anne Baird

Emily Ricotta

el-draco-bizarro

Ansel Burch

Nathan Sowell

LM Heß

Cy

Richard Peers

[beckyh2112]

9 people you would like to get to know better

Tagged by @mapleowl18, finally got my brains together to respond.

Three ships: Fox/Wolffe, Fox/Palpatine, Wolffe/Sinker/Boost

First ever Ship: Nephrite/Molly, I'm pretty sure. Couldn't swear to it.

Last Song: "The Humours of Whiskey" as sung by Colm McGuiness

Last movie: Watched "The Lost World" with my roommate because she'd never seen it

Currently Reading: Eunuchs and Castrati by Piotr O. Scholz, Battleground by Jim Butcher

Currently Consuming: Water and saltine crackers, because I'm a weirdo.

Currently Craving: More vacation days.

No-pressure tags: @calamitouscynic, @wynjara, @mistyautumn, @thornhands, @shinyhappygoth, @weirdlet, @mis-mcgifsten

[rabbit-dance]

I don't know what this means, but... TIME FOR CRAB!

Thank you, @shinyhappygoth!

[an-aura-about-you]

Tagged by @landscaping-your-mind and starting a new post about it!

Last Song: some nice jam that was playing on the community radio station, before that it was I Heard It Through the Grapevine sung by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Last Show: it might have been Good Omens but I'm struggling to remember. if we count youtubers then it was One Hit Wonderland.

Last Book: last book I finished was Camp Damascus. current book I'm reading is A Wizard of Earthsea.

Current Obsession: the Mediterranean restaurant that I was aware of near my office but somehow never tried yet. in my defense, there's a gyro place that's closer and doesn't have a hella stupid left turn to get to it. there's another restaurant on that same street I'm curious about too.

Tagging @zerozerorandom @shinyhappygoth @youremysunshine8 @forgetthetimetravel and @peachyindeed

[theineffablesociety-dc]

"Just William" Storytime

Get your bikes and prepare to break into an American airbase, because it turns out The Them are parodies of a particular children's book series!

@shinyhappygoth will host a reading of two "Just William" stories, specifically chosen to showcase the connection with The Them. She'll read two of the stories that were most influential on the depiction of Adam and his friends, and we'll have a fun discussion!

TIS-DC will be held on March 1st in New Carrollton, MD from 2-10 PM! Check the pinned post for the latest info and join our Discord here. We hope to see you there!

[youremysunshine8]

@shinyhappygoth