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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months ago

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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh #AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game #(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random #townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can #browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around #and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho #Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly #i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol #I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T #Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things #But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense #That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length #text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres #visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol #Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered #boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world #and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY #more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL #Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool #idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh #the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope #''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months #learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have #a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that #and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY

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plantaagomaajor · 1 year ago

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Only Friends hierarchy of needs

(and then they need to end up together in the most mutually unhinged and codependent relationship possible a la HIStory 1: Obsessed)

#I think I like Nick so much that his delusions have started rubbing off on me fr #like I fully believe that Boston really was on the verge of falling in love with Nick in a truly possessive and unhinged way #and I too hope that BostonNick is endgame #and probably the worst of Nick's delusions that I've picked up is that Boston isn't awful and maybe his hotness really does cancel out #the fact that he's done some really problematic shit #most people have seen the HIStory series right? I feel like I was like the last one to watch them #remember history 1 obsession?? that was some good and also really insane stuff #that's the vibes that I want for BostonNick #like damn those two are so lucky that the other one is into that particular brand of crazy because if not holy shit #like Jiang Jing Teng pretending that he has memory loss to get close to Shao Yi Chen and then saying #that if he couldn't be with SYC then he would have killed him #and SYC was so into it because he felt the same way like wow these two are perfect for e/o and really shouldn't be with anyone else #b/c they're crazy fr #anyway #only friends the series #ofts

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nientedal · 10 months ago

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wish the megawhiners would stop tagging their fucking hate. go make a "megacritical" tag or some shit and stop being so boring and annoying in the megamind one, ugh.

time to go on a blocking spree lmao.

#megamind #vent post #the takes are fucking rancid #O No it doesn't look like the original!#buddy if you were expecting it to that was a stupid expectation and your disappointment is on you #we live in a time when shows and movies are shitcanned before they're even released #and i am staring down the barrel of a gun labeled TAX LOSS #so uh #FORGIVE me if I'm a LITTLE TWITCHY about the seething morass of negativity starting to make its way over here from the Twit Pit #you could AT LEAST voice some excitement or some acknowledgment of the good stuff or the enormous win this is #if you're already doing that this ain't about you #but jesus h roosevelt christ some of you people are annoying

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agentartemus · 1 month ago

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I thought today was a good one..

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carcarrot · 5 months ago

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this time last year i was probably sitting in the kitchen while my dad started making an early dinner of chicken bolognese trying not to get too nervous about the concert i'd be going to in a few hours

#the nyc concert was last year. LAST YEAR .#thats so insane like yeah that feels like a year ago but good god the insane amount of stuff that has happened since #but god i remember that day so well #it was cloudy and a little rainy in the morning which made me ough thinking it was a bad omen and wouldnt be as fun #and i remember going to library and printing out my silly letters (i should have just. not done that lol)#and on the DAY OF on the way back home from the library #i even bought a cropped black blazer specifically for my concert outfit. havent worn it since lmao #and my dad and i even watched a movie at lunch #a short movie but a movie nonetheless. lol and even then i was like oghh my gosh excitement and nervousness #and then the car service getting there i felt so fancy and as the drive started the clouds were magically dissipating #so that it was a nice clear evening when i got to the theatre #and then all the insanity of the show. god i cant believe it still after all this time. wowie #going to listen to a playlist of the show setlist im gonna get emotional now. guys........#one of my fave memories is how everyone started standing up as they went into so may we start so i was like ok are we all doing this #and stood up too and then stood for the entire rest of the concert. i think the first 3-5 rows were like that for the whole show #surreal and insane i was front row. those guys were REAL and CLOSE #i was also very excited to notice russells new shoes :) when i wasnt like awooga (how i was 99% of the time)#there was one so may we start jump that was well. yeah. front row baby #i think after latte i was like ok i cant film i gotta just vibe #religious experience doing the 'ah ah ah's during that. really interesting #ok im not gonna go through the whole show again but wowie one of my most insane nights. second only to hollywood bowl #wow what a fun year it was. just so many incredible moments #ok yay 💖 happy one year to all that. love those guys so much #spars #ok not actually done beaver o lindy was INSANE LIVE!!! AS WAS EVERYTHING ELSE. so fun ok now done for real

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marcmorrigan · 11 months ago

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i have decided this year is His Year so i guess i have to learn to draw water and also finalise his outfit designs. smh. the things i do for love.

OC: shaide (he/him)

#my art #my ocs #KatH #dailies #shaide #hes sooo fun to draw ngl... i never draw his arms big enough in these tho. gotta work on that #he is TOO DAMN TALL btw. not the tallest KatH character by a long shot (thats isaya) but shaide is Up There #i think hes thirrrd tallest in the main cast? isa and letei definitely beat him but i think everyone else is 5'10 or shorter #idk if he or letei wears taller shoes tho lmao. but even in their platforms neither of them is as tall as isaya #anyway the year of shaide is off to a good start bc i connected SEVERAL dots about him today... for instance #relevant to the shoe talk #he got the idea for his boots from looking at rauel! and rauel doesnt know that. which is so Chefs Kiss to me considering rauels complexes #and! i had an idea for how to narrow down shaides ending... ive known where his arc leaves him at the end of the story for a while but #i think ive come up with a way to make it even better AND tie it in more to other plot stuff >:o)#and it maintains the kind of bittersweet vibe i wanted + gives him a little more content With Rauel which i think is Needed tbh #anyway yayyy i said i was gonna draw my daily and i did!!! now my mutuals dont have to beat me to death with sticks <3

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dare-g · 4 months ago

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I've been to a number of 35mm showings lately and even when they're new releases the films have noticable damage to them and I am wondering why that is? Is it just inevitable wear and tare because film is fragile? Is someone rough with them? Something else?

#im not like complaining btw like it doesnt bother my experience watching the film or anything like that #im really just curious #like tonight this film just started this weekend #this was only the 6th 35mm screening since the opening and it was already damaged #and even if these reels were the ones at fests or whatever it shouldnt have been used that many times to have bits missing i think #and like i feel like screenings on film of older films sometimes dont have as much as new stuff #so part of me wonders if the way film is made or kept has changed over the years or something #also we supposedly have a really good group of projectionist like theyve even sent them out to train other theaters #o i like to think it isnt them hopefully #its prob fragility and ware but idk i wonder

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hippo-pot · 8 months ago

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C through G got smudged and didn't photograph well (I really have to draw stuff darker if I don't want it to lose all clarity when it smudges, or buy better pencils I guess), and there's only so much I wanted to mess with photo settings tonight, but having never really tried to draw hands before, here's how it's going. I've been drawing these over the past week or so, I guess 11 in total since that's how many letters there are from A to P

she can be taught

#i feel like the photo manipulation did some work in the last one. like no way did I draw the O that good #or no you know what. it's more that the photo smooths stuff out because my phone camera just isn't that powerful #like in my actual sketchbook you see the pencil marks so much more #it would actually be nice to have a good phone camera #my husband's phone camera is probably literally 100x more powerful #maybe more. idk how you measure camera #but with mine it looks grainy the instant you zoom in a little. and with his you can zoom in soooo much #also wait i just wanna add. the quality is improving but it still takes so long #and if it's the first drawing of the day? spend forever just figuring out where to start. end up erasing all my initial line attempts #that's where i'm at now lol #took photos of my other drawings so i wouldn't have to start q

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gloriousmonsters · 1 year ago

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read camp dama.scus. enjoyed some stuff, really wish i didn't have the experience so often reading a book that's Good and Progressive and about Queer Affirmation etc of feeling like i'm side-eying the author like 'and you know that delineating the people that oppose you as pure evil that therefore deserves torture or death or being eliminated from society entirely is bad, right? you know that, right??'

#it's kind of funny bc the main character is a jack chick tract atheist in a way bc #she rejects her religion (REALLY quickly and easily lol) and immediately starts... conceiving of HERSELF as a prophet/god #as in. starts making up 'bible' verses that are about Her and how awesome she is #and how she's going to bring down her enemies with the righteous flaming sword of vengeance and wrath and truth etc #which i would love as a character Thing if the narrative didn't just treat this as 'super metal' with absolutely no further examination #(seriously she casually drops that she's been making up bible-style verses abt herself and her ideas #in convo with her Token Good Christian friend. by CITING ONE OF THEM #LIKE IT'S A BIBLE VERSE. and then going 'o yeah i've been making those up'#and her friend's reaction is just 'haha that's sick' and moving on)#listen i'm all for god complexes and edgy bullshit but the presentation along w the general #descriptions of the Enemy as 'cartoonishly pure evil' and implicit 'haha nice!' around the idea of THEM getting tortured forever #just leaves me ://///#i might be oversensitive to this after stuff like Sorrowland and Pet but.... just. ech. i wish i didn't have to play the game of #'do you think torture is ok if it's someone you don't like?' and 'do you consider people who do bad things as human?' in the first place #also it was just a HUGELY underwritten book lol it'd make a decent movie but viewed as a book it gets funnier the longer i think about it #was marketed as conversion camp horror. 0 conversion camp content bc IT ALREADY HAPPENED #0 relationship development bc the two people the MC connects with she ALREADY HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH. THAT SHE FORGOT #so you can 'i'm falling for x again' all you want dr tingle that's not what's happening the work is not there #also ofc the other two people are just. The Tech Guy and The Cool Hot Nice Love Interest (2 aesthetic traits no personality)#so yeah like. some very good horror moments/concepts! but some Problems. For Sure #vic talks #book talk

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icewindandboringhorror · 8 months ago

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examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

#BEGONE!!! *wizard beam blast leaving a black smoking crater in the middle of the tumblr dashboard*#I think another downside to everyone doing everything on phone apps on shitty tiny screens nowadays is the inability to really see details #of an image and thus its easier to share BLATANTLY fake things like.. even 'good' ai art has pretty obvious tells at this point #but especially MOST of it is not even 'good' and will have details that are clearly off or lines that dont make sense/uneven (like the imag #of a house interior and in the corner there's a cabinet and it has handles as if it has doors that open but there #are no actual doors visible. or both handles are slightly different shapes. So much stuff that looks 'normal' at first glance #but then you can clearly tell it's just added details with no intention or thought behind it. a pattern that starts and then just abruptly #doesn't go anywhere. etc. etc. )#the same thing with how YEARS ago when I followed more fashion type blogs on tumblr and 'colored hair' was a cool ''''New Thing''' instead #of being the norm now basically. and people would share photos of like ombre hair designs and stuff that were CLEARLY photoshop like #you could LITERally see the coloring outside of the lines. blurs of color that extend past the hair line to the rest of the image #or etc. But people would just share them regardless and comment like 'omg i wish I could do this to my hair!' or 'hair goallzzzz!! i #wonder what salon they went to !!' which would make me want to scream and correct them everytime ( i did not lol)#hhhhhhggh... literally view the image on anything close to a full sized screen and You Will SEe #I don't know why it's such a pet peeve of mine. I think just as always I'm obsessed with the reality and truth of things. most of the thing #that annoy me most about people are situations in which people are misinterpreting/misunderstanding how something works or having a misconc #eption about somehting thats easily provable as false or etc. etc. Even if it's harmless for some random woman on facebook to believe that #this AI generated image of a cat shaped coffee machine is actually a real product she could buy somewhere ... I still urgently #wish I could be like 'IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. YOU SEE???? ITS NOT REALL!!!!! AAAAA' hjhjnj #Like those AI shoes that went around for a while with 1000000s of comments like 'omg LOVE these where can i get them!?' and it's like YOU #CANT!!! YOU CANT GET THEM!!! THEY DONT EXIST!!! THE EYELETS DONT EVEN LINE UP THE SHOES DONT EVEN #MATCH THE PATTERNS ARE GIBBERISH!! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE NOT REAL!??!!' *sobbing in the rain like in some drama movie*#Sorry I'm a pedantic hater who loves truth and accuracy of interpretation and collecting information lol #I think moreso the lacking of context? Like for example I find the enneagram interesting but I nearly ALWAYS preface any talking about it #with ''and I know this is not scientifically accurate it's just an interesting system humans invented to classify ourselve and our traits #and I find it sociologically fascinating the same way I find religion fascinating'. If someone presented personality typing information wit #out that sort of context or was purporting that enneagram types are like 100% solid scientific truth and people should be classified by the #unquestionaingly in daily life or something then.. yeah fuck that. If these images had like disclaimers BIG in the image description somewh #re like 'this is not a real thing it's just an AI generated image I made up' then fine. I still largely disagree with the ethics behind AI #art but at least it's informed. It's the fact that people just post images w/o context or beleive a falsehood about it.. then its aAAAAAA

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deus-ex-mona · 2 years ago

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it’s ✨okay✨, right~?

#s o rry rant incoming im just. re a l l y crabby after working for 8.5 consecutive hours with no proper break okie~? </3 #ayEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE ADMINS AT MY WORKPLACE CAN GO K I C K R O C K S #their time management is somehow worse than mine and i suck balls at it?????? SJCFJFFHDHHD I THOUGHT Y’ALL WERE BETTER AT YOUR JOBS MANSSSSS #the!!!!! admins!!!!!! sent in over a hundred samples without any info sheets and stuff so the morning shift literally couldn’t get started!!#doing the morning shift’s part of the job was. annoying. to say the least. especially when said work could’ve actually been done (ʘ‿ʘ)#dammit workplace admins you had one job </3 #and n o it’s not to send in the sample info sheet things at the same time as the pm shift’s reporting time </3 #and as if that weren’t enough.. the!!!! admin!!!! refused to go home in the evening?????? and sent in like 80 samples at like 8.30pm??????#and that’s not counting the samples that were yeeted in at 5pm </3 truly sadge #and o f c o u r s e we haaaaaaaad to be short-staffed today lmfao. the two workstations life compels me to lay down on the floor and c r y .#but bc i’m just ✨too great✨ at my job you see (lies) i finished my stuff way too early and had to do other extra tests too s o b s #and that included a test that i don’t fully know how to do (sadge)#well. at least that test involved the use of a microscope. thank you past me for attaining magic skills with microscope zooming and stuff #seriously. thank you past me. i can almost forgive you for choosing to enter the f r e a k i n g ✨s c i e n c e✨ industry of all things #but hmmmmmmm im amazed that i actually managed to finish everything across those two stations. am i too good at my job or ✨w h a t✨ (lies)#but man. m a n. none of this even gets into my secret beef with the data entry admin.#she can’t spell for her life. it s e r i o u s l y grinds my gears whenever i see her spell the word ‘content’ as ‘contant’.#but no. her spelling got on a w h o l e new level of questionable when she spelled the word ‘crackle’ as… ‘cracker’. like??? how????????#and she told me to ask the senior analysts if it was possible to retrieve the results for a test that we’d write the results for ✨by hand✨#from some kind of system????? like i was just so!!!!! baffled!!!! that she couldn’t understand that there was no system to check????#though. hm. i guess saying that i have ✨secret✨ beef with that admin would be an understatement. i think none of the others like her either #but! i do have secret beef with the janitor bc he alwayyys magically appears behind me whenever i’m doing something important/holding acids #well! at least we don’t cross paths when i’m working the pm shift. the janitor dude was spared from my presence for the week lmao #hfhfhfhhfhfhfhffffffff well. m. i’m sorry if you read all that. i’ll be more normal tomorrow i swear!!!! (blatant lies)#i feel like tling something ✨t o x i c✨ to match how im feeling thoughhh… hm. maybe the p a r a s ite chapter from the d*27m annequin anth…?#been thinking about that song lately ngl.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.#oh wellssssss at least i can try to enjoy what’s left of my long weekend lmaooo goodnighttttt #inedible blubbering

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welcometogrouchland · 1 year ago

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I will feel so tired that it's like my atoms are coming undone and I'm being made unreal...and then I will have a little chocolate treat and for 15 minutes I am whole and present again. Then the horrors

#ramblings of a lunatic #i remember feeling like this at the peak of my burnout and fatigue before #(also the same burnout and fatigue that took my interests and creativity and ground them into dust)#so I've concluded that i will just try and make it through the next two days as best i can (I GET FANCY RESTAURANT FOOD ON WEDNESDAY)#and then I'll just try to let my mental and physical health recuperate while finding excuses to hang w/ friends #cause that'll stave off thr madness of isolation #i wanna watch my shows and movies too and I'll finally be able to w/o guilt after the last exam :cries:#anyway. if you've noticed an uptick in me just sayin shit recently (in a way that may or may not be cause for concern)#it's bc I'm so close to getting out of the mines that having to wait any longer is driving me clinically insane #i wanna downplay the problem bc it's truly not that big a deal in some ways #but then i remembered that this is a) the longest I've gone w/o seeing my pals in like. nearly a month #and I've been at home doing the same stuff everyday for nearly a month too #and also IT'S THE FINAL EXAM I'M EVER GONNA DO BEFORE COLLEGE. IT'S A BIG DEAL MAN #so actually. yes I'm a bit of a drama queen but my slice of life problems have a place for mediation and bemoaning #but it's fine. bc we're gonna kill it #I'm gonna do sooooooo good on this test (<- manifesting)#it's. a little high pressure bc the last time i did a test for this subject (that I'm generally very good at) i majorly beefed it #but I've learned since then and I'm hoping. praying. also working hard but mostly hoping and praying #anyway. I gotta sleep soon bc i got so little sleep last night bc of the heat that i almost started crying at breakfast #LET'S GO LESBIANS (the lesbians are me. it's just me talking into a hall of mirrors)

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coneheadseekers · 11 months ago

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omg a conehead-focused account, am I dreaming??

I was STARVING through Tumblr searching for content of my fav little conical blue guy who can't catch a break and then, out of nowhere, I see this account, and I'm dazzled- Are you even real? Please tell me you are and confirm the existence of conehead enjoyers.

Believe it or not, fellow conefan, you're not dreaming. You've simply left behind the unconely transformer rabble and entered into...

✈🍧The Cone Zone 🍧✈

Please enjoy your stay.

#but in all honesty- this is a little project of mine that i started a couple months ago for funsies :^) i'm glad u like it!!!#i have also been where you were and also love dirge v much but couldnt find much stuff in the tags/search of this site bc it's so busted #so i made this sideblog to collect all the stuff i could find with any of the conehead seekers from tags from tf ppl i follow w good taggin #and then i periodically go cave diving* for more conely offerings (*combing through old tf blog archives for 10+ year old posts lol)#that i then put in a queue set to 2-4 posts per day so i don't overwhelm the dash all at once with cones. not that that's a bad thing.#either way- it's been interesting!#i'm trying to keep it well tagged and cone-focused. so hopefully it'll stay that way #o yeah- my main is @it-is-no-desert and the more dedicated tf sideblog i have is @energonnacinos just fyi #and now.. i sleep. i wish a coneful day 2 u all xoxo #asks

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wheelercore · 2 years ago

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Stop it from spreading.... Like a cancer. Right Nancy? Like a cancer?

#i am soooo normal about these roses and cancer-family trauma associations. i am completely normal about it all.#something i think abt all the roses im the creel home and the roses in the wheeler home seemingly originating from the Main Urn #bc the Main urn is one of the few w/o roses on it directly and is the last to fall #and i think about mike bringing flowers to el in lenora and el getting more and more dissatisfied with mike #'she doesnt need me anymore' 'a fight we cant come back from'#thinking about how el is full on in the rose symbolism by the end of s4 where karen STARTED #thinking about how that cancer has spread to el all the way in lenora #thinking about how 🙃 mike and ted are in the same shirt at the end of s4 🙃#how victor describes the demon 'nesting' and 'cursing their entire town' while in the attic looking at all the stuff #thinking about how we hardly get much information anout the hawkins adults respective families but for some reason they thought it was #important to let us know ted came from a 'good family'#just thinking. chewing. ruminating. losing it #rosegate

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violetsareblue-selfships · 1 year ago

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good morning!! :3

#75% exploration on that other region #i'm like pretty certain the rest is either during a quest or on the way of a quest #so i might start one of the world quests today :3 #beyond that a pair of earrings i ordered have shipped so :3 #(they're astarion inspired ones so i'm super excited ^^)#but yeah those are the plans for the day #maybe i'll get something written too; that'd be cool #otherwise i'll reblog more pics and stuff like last night #i forgot i had arle stuff saved since like last December (for when I made her an f/o because I knew she would be hehe)#but anyways!#i hope you have a good day/night!! <3 #morning rambles

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malachitezmeyka · 1 year ago

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Naming OCs actually sucks so much sometimes, especially when the creators of the source material have no fucking idea which culture they’re drawing from

#I’m trying to name Ghazan’s parents okay. cause if I continue my Haya fic it’ll come up #and the process just made me realise how much of a mish mash of cultures the avatar world is #and how hard it is to pick a name that would be appropriate #sometimes I wish I was 12 years old again and just picked stuff that sounded good #like there’s literally no reason for Suiren and Midori to have Japanese names considering ming-hua’s is Chinese and Ghazan’s is afghani #but again I was 12 and it’s been way too long and way too many connotations to their names have been formed for me to change them #just assume that since they’re in the red lotus their parents wanted to pick names separate from their respective nations/cultures. ok? ok #anyway back to my main point #I started with looking up origins for names I knew. particularly Ghazan’s bc I picked Haya’s on a whim #literally writing the first chapter of SotRL and typing up the first name that came to mind #which accidentally ended up being my actual distant aunt’s name oops #point is. it’s apparently hebrew. which really just throws everything off #so I looked up ghazan’s and it’s from an afghani dialect I believe. don’t take my word for it though blame google if I’m wrong #I checked multiple sources so I’m 80% sure if it #so I’m like. okay. and opened a list of afghani names on the side #then I remembered my recently adopted headcanon of Ghazan’s parents being originally from si wong desert #so I looked the sandbender tribes up and that’s when I started losing my mind #known names range from mongolian to chinese to thai #the sandbenders themselves are clearly inspired by arabs and north africans #so there’s a bajillion sources and o have no idea where to start #currently just scrolling through lists and writing out ones I like #I also want to avoid names with meanings that are too religious or ones that end in -aya or -an #so it’s a struggle lmao #there was a point when I thought it’d be funny if I named the mom Niloofar or Nilüfer cause it also means water lily like Suiren #but then decided it might be a bit too on the nose. I’m not really too into the whole ‘name your kids after family’ thing #even if it’s tangential #idk. it’s a cute idea but probably not the right call #writing woes #kind of

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