#this list is such a clusterfuck. lol.

[hamaonoverdrive]

tagged by @storekn1fe to do a top 5 characters poll:

others that might be in slots 3-5 depending on how I feel on a given day:

Marisa (SF6)

Falke (SIGNALIS)

Gesicht (Pluto)

other Old Flames that I still am really fond of but haven't really engaged with/thought about as much lately and thus excluded from the top 5:

Goro Majima (Yakuza/Like A Dragon)

Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Noi (Dorohedoro)

Ladd Russo (Baccano!)

Tagging assorted mutuals, no pressure to do this if you don't want to:

@rivellons @madlyfluffy @majortomiscominghome @biblicalyuri @good-wine-and-cheese @strawberryclementine @soleilenchaine @nicomrade @fullmoondagger @kimtranssexler @teakasumi @takis-breathing-dragon @claudkotouwu

[fandom-geek]

just watched alien romulus and 10/10, the horror film utterly horrified me

like idk, alien has always had me more scared and squeamish than any other horror series (i say this as someone introduced to it by isolation and who has only seen alien and prometheus). but still - fantastic horror film with really good pacing.

the acting was also really great, especially the guy playing andy. the synths are always a highlight of these films and i'm glad to see this lived up to that. the actresses playing rain and kay are also fab, and genuinely it's the same across the cast. everyone was acting their pants off.

i was also nearly shocked (if not for the still my cinema used as the thumbnail for the film) that the guy who plays mal in shadow and bone was in this? i completely missed him in the trailer but he does a fantastic job. there's a moment where his character goes into shock, most of which is in the background, and it's perfect. he really got to show off his range here compared to what i remember from s&b.

i was going to say there's a few moments of fanservice and, tbh i stand by that, but apparently i missed a few references. either way, unless you're a massive alien nerd, there's probably only 2-3 things that will stick out to you. one i vaguely wasn't sure abt while watching but only because i'm faceblind so it was like "i recognise this but i don't know how". the other was clearly a reference by the delivery but kinda tracked bc it also called back to earlier dialogue and the delivery was super in character. the third also made sense in context and for the character but is such an iconic line it's hard to miss, lol.

also 10/10 for the extremely phallic/yonic imagery. there's a shot that is pretty much a dick coming out of a vagina, so they really nailed that giger imagery. they also threw it an almost "blink and miss it" moment of the film going full hog on the romulus/wolf of rome imagery, so congrats on that. i may hate the telegraph but they were fucking hilarious for saying this won't do anything for national birth rates. yeahhhh, they're really not wrong abt that.

[dazzlingdisaster]

I'd like to know what substances were abused for Apple to think that changing literally everything in iOS 16 was a good idea, because I really kinda wanna encase said substances in a brick and fucking beat them with it.

Here's hoping they un-fuck that shit soon because it literally just... no. NO. What in fuck hell.

[toskarin]

what warband mods would you rec? I only ever played vanilla warband years ago and that was probably on fairly low AI settings, but I'm definitely intrigued by getting the full feudal clusterfuck experience as well as indulging in some nostalgia.

there's a few qualifications to these, because I usually like them for different reasons and I have something wrong with me, but...

< ! PREEMPTIVE WARNING ! > you should be running modules in Warband Script Extender even if they don't say they need it! people have historically been really bad about clarifying when it's expected

Bannerpage - vanilla for people who want More of it, and then more after that. it reminds me of a spiritual successor to Floris Modpack. an enormous expansion that's also a bit of a tongue in cheek what-if for "Bannerlord, except as continued development of Warband" with increasing complexity. this one will probably spoil you a bit on other modules just because of how many little enhancements it pulls on the native systems lol

Prophesy of Pendor - the premier feudal fantasy rpg experience. this one is brutally difficult and throws some battles at you with genuinely bewildering enemy force sizes. I'd feel fairly confident in calling this the most difficult of the major total conversion modules that maintain core M&B gameplay

Touhou Gensokyo Warfare~the Castiron Flame - this is straight up glorious kusoge and I love it dearly. it often breaks so severely due to its own design decisions that it creates a unique high-skill gameplay expectation that exists in literally no other mods, but also it can't really be called "core" M&B gameplay anymore. this module actually consists of three chinese mods (Touhou Tinder, Touhou Origin, and Touhou Beat), one of which is derived from a fork that was extended by /jp/, another which was just translated by /jp/ (a shoddy translation but not distinctly a 4chan translation, if that's a concern), all of which were merged into one mod and managed by a passionate and cool chinese mod team. none of this comes to a consistent artistic vision. every single character looks like kigurumi cosplay and they all look like they're from different manufacturers. this is my favourite module. I could play it for years.

Perisno - a strange bird of a module that I don't see mentioned much anymore. a shame, honestly, because it's quite fun if you like higher fantasy settings. a bit overconfident with its own setting lore at times, but that really just makes it more authentic as a high fantasy setting, doesn't it? anyway they funnelled the mod development efforts away to a standalone game in the setting because of that, and I wish them well, but you know how it goes with that sort of thing

Gekokujo Daimyo Edition - a modification of an older warband module that was originally a touhou hijack that was originally a mod for the non-Warband game made by japanese players annoyed that nobody in the western playerbase was making mods with a japanese setting. it's buggy, it's incomplete, it will explode at you randomly, but it's still pretty neat. there's really no other mod out there that gives you such a thorough "I HATE THE TANEGASHIMA I HATE THE TANEGASHIMA" experience. Sengoku Era, a successor mod, will probably replace it on recommendation lists when it eventually releases.

Warsword Conquest - this is the Warhammer Fantasy mod. it has all the problems you'd expect from that. that being said, the sheer level of detail in this mod makes it more than worth dropping in to check it out. some of the environments are gorgeous enough to make Warband feel like an entirely different game, and with a surprising variety of firearms, the average campaign ends up being a pretty wild ride

Brytenwalda - I'm not recommending Brytenwalda as an experience, because it's actually not that good a very interesting moment in M&B modding history. Brytenwalda is the birthplace of a lot of mod tropes that became standard in mods going forward, namely most culture-related systems and the modern standard for module graphics. it also introduced tripping and represents the moment people started making really annoying attempts at jury-rigging balance into the game before Warband Script Extender came around and actually allowed them to modify the lower systems of the game. still kinda neat if you like historical settings, and definitely foundational enough to warrant a look

Last Days of the Third Age - infamously hard-headed in a way that only a mod for a feudal warfare simulator rpg made by Tolkien nerds who insist on book>movie aesthetics could pull off, this isn't really core M&B gameplay and is very rigid, but it's another case of something being so detailed and passionate that it's a fun experience anyway.

Solid and Shade - this is actually the best hardcore survival horror experience made for Warband, which is a bit like saying that Harvester is the best FMV game ever made about waking up in a town named Harvest. the Harvester comparison is more than surface level. the writing often feels like Harvester. this is one of the only modules (hell, one of the only games even!) I've ever seen that successfully pulls off the concept of corrupting players with the promise of immortality. it's a horror mystery where every single character creation option affects your longterm gameplay... but to provide a fair warning, reading the developer's commentary on this mod will sour you on it. the developer is an edgelord who just kinda kitchen-sinked horror elements in a way that reminds me a lot of Revolution of Terror (the old Well of Souls mod). the compelling esoterica and atmosphere seem to have been achieved largely on accident

[stellae-de-baphometis]

Using Latin Chants To Summon Daemons: A Daemonolatry Info Post

This is something I've been wanting to make a post about for a while, but I completely forgot to write about it lol. It's been sitting in my drafts for forever now, thanks to my clusterfuck of an AuDHD brain. 🤪 I FINALLY got it finished though, so here it is!

Okay so I've been summoning daemons using Latin for quite a while now, and I thought I'd write about it because I figured other practitioners might like to try this out too!

Full post under the cut. ↓

~ What's The Deal With Latin?

Daemons have long been stereotypically associated with the Latin language. But why is this? Well, I speculate that it's partially because of the fact that many historical books on demonology and witchcraft were written in Latin (e.g. grimoires such as the Ars Goetia and Liber Officiorum Spirituum).

However, the link between daemons and Latin goes back further than this. It's most likely and primarily due to the fact that the Roman Catholic Church retained Latin as its liturgical language. Many of their scripture and rites (including the ones regarding exorcisms of mainly "demonic spirits") remained written in Latin. And so, daemons starting being conflated with the Latin language as a whole.

~ Why Summon Daemons In Latin?

Nowadays, Latin is a rather obsolete language and isn't largely spoken in most parts of the world anymore. As a result, some people may find that it adds an extra layer of mysticism between the practitioner and their magical workings. Given how ancient the language is (as well as its associations with daemons and The Devil in the modern day), this can give it more subconscious power when used in your craft.

I've personally found it helpful to evoke/invoke daemons in Latin, and I find that it helps me connect with them better.

~ Why Not Just Use Enns?

Personally, I don't like to use the well-known enns to conjure daemons. From what I know, the demonic enns seem to originate from the works of S. Connolly, and I'm not a huge fan of her books in general... Personally I feel that a lot of the information in her books is poorly researched, and that the Dukante stuff and demonic enns are likely fabricated, and I find that she's just a highly problematic and culturally-appropriative person in general, which tends to show within her books (in my personal opinion; don't sue me ffs). So I try to stay away from her stuff, as I'm paranoid that it might potentially negatively effect my craft.

This is one of the reasons why I actually came up with Latin chants to conjure daemons in the first place; I like the idea of demonic enns, but I personally just don't want to associate with any of Connolly's stuff whatsoever. But that's just me though. If you like using the enns and it works for you, that's okay! It's just not personally my thing.

~ How To Summon Daemons Using Latin

I came up with a specific type of Latin chant that can be used to summon daemons; It's called a vocatum.

The word "vocatum" literally means "called", "invoked", or "having been summoned" in Latin. A vocatum can be iterated as a chant in order to invite or request the daemon's presence, as well as to help you get into a meditative state so you can communicate with the daemon better. You could also just say the vocatum once, if that personally suffices for you.

Here are some daemonic vocatums I have personally come up with and used in my own practice:

~ Simplified Vocatum ~

✧ Vocatum: "Ave [Daemon's Name], vos invoco/evoco." ✧ Translation: "Hail [Daemon's Name], I invoke/evoke you."

✰ Example: "Ave Satanas, vos invoco."

~ Complex Vocatum ~

✧ Vocatum: "Salve, [Daemon's Name]. Magnus [Rank], reverenter vos invoco/evoco." ✧ Translation: "Greetings, [Daemon's Name]. Great [Rank], I reverently invoke/evoke you."

✰ Example: "Salve, Glasya-Labolas. Magnus Comes, reverenter vos evoco."

🌟 Note: Use "invoco" for invocations and "evoco" for evocations.

Here is a short list of the Latin translations for the daemons' ranks (mostly from the Ars Goetia):

King/Queen - Rex/Regina

Duke/Duchess - Dux/Ducissa

Prince/Princess - Princeps/Principissa

Marquis/Marchioness - Marchio/Marchionissa

Earl/Count/Countess - Comes/Comitessa

President - Praeses

Knight/Sir/Dame - Miles/Dominus/Domina

~ Difference Between Invoking And Evoking

Many people may consider evocation and invocation to be the same thing, but personally I differentiate the two. Here is my personal gnosis on the differences between them:

☆ Evocation is when you call upon a deity or spirit and ask them to preside during rituals or magical workings; You're basically asking them to come and hang out with you in your space.

☆ Invocation is more so a form of voluntary possession. You're inviting them into yourself, and they are (partially) merging their being with your own; They are manifesting within you, instead of manifesting alongside you.

If you're a beginner practitioner, I would personally hold off on invoking daemons before getting to know them better through evocation first; But that's just me. Some daemons' energies can be very intense and quite overwhelming, especially if you haven't met the daemon before.

E.g. Upon making first contact with Quing Paimon, I invoked them instead of evoking them, and their energies were quite heavy and overwhelming when they partially merged their soul with mine; I ended up feeling a little dizzy, became mentally exhausted rather quickly, and also got a mild headache (but maybe the headache was just from the incense I was burning LOL). I've had similar experiences with Count Glasya-Labolas too.

But once you get to know a daemon and adjust to their energies overtime, you should be fine. Please don't let my personal experiences discourage you from pursuing a relationship with the daemons you feel most drawn to!

Welp, that's pretty much all I had to write about regarding this topic. I hope you found this post helpful! And, as always... May you be blessed by whoever it is that you venerate, and I wish you all the best on your spiritual path. <3

~ ~ Ave Satanas ~

+ . . . Divider Credit . . . +

[marrows-field-guide]

Welcome~

I'd like to start off by thanking you for taking the time to take a wander through my life's work.

That said, allow me to formally invite you to the experience that is my clusterfuck of a comprehensive Pokemon Field Guide~

My name is Marrow A. Honeysuckle, and I am a Field Researcher who specializes in any and all variations from standard Pokemon phenotypes. I am in the process of creating an illustrated guide of the multitudes of different variants one may encounter across the World of Pokemon.

My main focuses are on the more obscure alternate appearances Pokemon may exhibit. Right now I've been really interested in the phenomena of Ability Forms, where a Pokemon's appearance is effected by their natural ability, as well as documenting the various unique differences in Pokemon such as those classed as subspecies.

This blog will serve as my digital archive for whatever observations, illustrations and experiences I may gather, create and encounter on my journey.

I will also share any other interesting tidbits I find online or otherwise~

{{I'll add a list of tags as I figure them out}}

[Mail/Mystery Gifts] ON

...

Anywayyyy

now that all the "Professional™" shit is out the way

allow me to introduce myself~

Heyo~

Name's Marrow, sometimes they call me Field Researcher Honeysuckle. Who's "they"? fuck if I know lol

I use any and all pronouns: with Masculine, Neos/Neutral, and then Feminine being in order of preference from most to least frequent

I'm 27 and grew up in Kalos, I got my starter around the same time I started working under Prof Sycamore in my mid-teens

The last several years of my life have been spent in Galar, interspersed with trips back to Kalos for shit like conferences and whatnot.

I'm currently in transit to Paldea I have arrived in Paldea after I received some forwarded correspondence the Prof Sycamore accepted for me from a Professor by the name of Sada. he apparently got it[and accepted it on my behalf] like 6 months ago and hadn't gotten around to sending it to me till last week BUT WHATEVER I GUESS

Luckily I was able to stop by my partner's place[aka, home sweet home] since I pass through Kalos on the way. Which meant I could see them for a sweet little rendezvous and drop off some of the Pokemon I gathered during my time in Galar.

My party consists of:

Bean | Espurr ♀ | Ability Variant | My Starter

Skai | Vivillon ♂ | Unique Subspecies Shiny

Hem | Mimikyu ⚥ | Shiny

Still need to evaluate these to know if they are battle capable or not:

Pepper | Sprigatito[?] ♀ | Unidentified Variant | Sight Impaired, unsure to what extent

Plums | Yamper ♀ | Espeon Hybrid | Need to check some things around why she exhibits as half-evolved

I also carry with me an orphaned forever-Snom whom I've named Girasol. He doesn't fight and prefers to ride on my head so I don't count him in my party

I've been told there is a 'mon waiting for me when I arrive in Paldea. They said her variation and appearance has made it difficult for them to adopt her out as it "gives the new trainers 'bad vibes' despite her rarity". They have refused to give me more info. So that's great. I have collected the 'mon. She is an adorable, mostly blind, super fluffy Sprigatito with an un-identified variant subtype.

Just a bit more about me:

I'm a mostly nocturnal bitch, the sun bothers my eyes[and the insane insomnia doesn't help my case lol] and I'm a nomadic researcher by nature.

If you stumble across me in the field during mid-day I'm more than likely to be piled up sleeping with my Pokemon, usually without even a shelter to cover me. I don't mind being in towns/cities but I'm always [just passing through] usually I'm just stocking up on supplies or delivering something for whatever reason

Oh! And I like sweets. But the more "light" ones, not the "heavy" rich ones. Think sweet lemon over chocolate mousse

{{THE FOLLOWING IS ALL "OOC"}}

We follow/like from @r-e-dax-t-e-d as it is our main blog

We are the [REDACTED] System. Outside of this post all OOC will be prefaced as such or written in {{xxxxx}} brackets. THIS BLOG WILL LIKELY CONTAIN TRIGGERING/ADULT TOPICS AT SOME POINTS

We have not pinned down what it will contain exactly but a warnings list will be added in the future. We will likely touch upon horror typical themes at times. We are an adult and prefer to interact with other adults, so while we won't make [No Minors] a hard limit we will be limiting our interaction with underage blogs

We are a DID system, so while we are "roleplaying" in the sense of telling a story as if it were actually happening, Marrow does actually exist within our system and the general arcs are based off of her life within their source. Please act respectfully and keep this in mind

We will not typically discuss pokeph**ia, and on the off chance we do it will be in a mythological context We are taken IRL and Marrow is IC as well. So no serious flirting please[exceptions being obvious jokes/for the bit and only if a we have established a prior level of comfort/connection{i.e. NOT FOR RANDOS}]

We will be adding more to this as we figure shit out

[trulybetty]

Sunday Week In Review on a Monday

How is everyone doing? Did we make it through the last week? Those who got a long weekend I hope it was a good one! Yesterday was a clusterfuck and I had the mother of all naps - the type where you wake up and don't know where you are let alone what day of the week it is lol.

So here is Sunday's Week in Review, on a Monday edition! 💕

Truly Betty Updates This Week…

Strings IV

Sequins

First Sentence Game

Fics I Enjoyed This Week…

A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore (Ezra) by @oonajaeadira

While I’m still undecided if I truly enjoy Prospect, I absolutely do love a good Ezra fanfic and this one doesn’t disappoint. It started as a late-night read last Sunday when I was the only one awake and once I started I couldn’t stop. It also seems to have popped up for a lot of other readers as I’ve seen it all over my dash since. @oonajaeadira master list is a joy to go through on Sundays at the moment. 

Until Now, Until You | Chapter 1 (Javier Peña) by @wildemaven

This was all the right levels of sexy and spicy and leaving you wanting more and I can’t wait to see how this plays out when the two run into one another again!

Leave off Your Wanderings (Joel Miller) by @oonajaeadira

This series is a total balm to my TLOU2 feels - this is the ending Joel deserved (and in my mind the official sequel to TLOU) and in the third instalment the autumn vibes are warm and cozy, and the build-up between Joel and Songbird is soft in all the right places. This whole series is a warm gentle hug and the writing is so good - definitely check this one out.

Hungry Hearts | Atlantic City (Joel Miller) by @atinylittlepain

I’m sad that this series is nearing its end, but that means I get to go back and read it again. Between flashbacks of young Joel with baby Sarah we’ve got Cherry and Joel reconciling in present day and never knew mini-vans could be so sexy, so check it out!

The Layover | Epilogue (Frankie Morales) by @goodwithcheese

This finale was bittersweet - it has been such a pleasure to follow this story, so much so that it was a highlight of my week. The story wraps up in a way that is perfect for reader x Frankie with them both on pace with one another. It’s done so perfectly that I read it more than once. I will be revisiting this story for sure.

Late Night Texts | Epilogue (Javier Peña) by @mvtthewmurdvck

Another fantastic story that came to a close this week *sigh*, this was just  the perfect ending. This story is a delicious rom com romp and I know will hold up to multiple reads. I don’t want to give anything away if you’ve not read it, but it’s a delight.

The Window (Dave York) by @wildemaven

This was a delight to read and Heidi crafts a great story of longing from a distance that has a soft ending that is all enveloping and lends itself to multiple reads. 

Bush Pilot (Frankie Morales) by @legendary-pink-dot

Oh boy, this one *fans self* this one was something else. Frankie taking you to see the sunrise but makes you see stars instead in the back of his truck. Oomph, all kinds of good spicy smut here that lends itself to a second read… or three ;) 

sam and diane, eat your heart out (Marcus Pike) by @chronically-ghosted

I could easily be biased as this was written based on the prompts I sent Taylor - however, Taylor blew it out of the park with our boy Marcus! This was spicy in all the right places and honestly, I would love to see more of these two. This is a take on Marcus Pike x Reader that I haven’t seen before and it will be on my perma reread list that is for sure! Also, peep the Cheers reference, *squee*

IRL | Part 2 (Javi Gutierrez)  by @grogusmum

I’ve had a hard time finding some good Javi G. fanfics, but this one here is so good in its characterization. The story of Javi meeting Reader for the first time since meeting online, is incredibly sweet and I had been waiting in anticipation for this second chapter since I finished the first. It’s also one of the few plus sized reader fanfics that nails it without going over the top and making the character a stereotype. I have this bookmarked to go back and re-read this week, because that ending has been living rent free in my head all week.

Private Dick (Tim Rockford) by @wardenparker

Speaking of plus size reader interpretations - this was one of the few that really resonated with me. I haven’t come across many Tim Rockford fanfics (if you have any others, please send them my way) - but this felt like a perfect interpretation - great at reading situations, until they’re too close to him, but he’s in a process of redeeming himself through his relationship with Reader.

Fics I’m Looking Forward to Reading…

My TBR List is still a work in progress, will share it when it’s done 💕

Light Me Up (Benny Miller) by @musings-of-a-rose

Thanks to Jess and Heidi I seem to be straying into Benny territory this week and have been recommended this story to dip my toe further in. I mean the opening premise alone is enough to have me excited to get stuck in!

Double Dealings (Javier Peña & Ezra) by @julesonrecord & @stardustandskycrystals

1920’s, New Orleans and the potential of two Pedro characters? I cannot wait to get stuck into this one this week over my morning coffee this week!

Posts I Enjoyed This Week…

@shirks-all-responsibilities reminding me of my grumpy Joel (Pedro) header for the mobile layout of my blog. Now has me thinking about making a seasonal one now! September is Halloween Eve of course! 🎃

@wildemaven’s early morning thot post that just took on a life of it’s own 🥵

@rhool’s live blog of the pilot of the Pedro show that never was ‘The Sixth Gun’ entertained me while I had a tame evening watching something Mr. Truly wanted to watch while sipping on a non-alcoholic beer lol.

Things I’ve Enjoyed This Week…

The long weekend - didn’t do anything, no one slept through the night, but there’s something satisfying waking up on a Monday and knowing you don’t have to work.

Saturday’s interactions and posts were a delight to go through and helped my Saturday working go by so much quicker and made for a more enjoyable day.

This Week’s Song…

This recommendation came from @gnpwdrnwhiskey who told me it was Dieter x Bryony coded and it totally is. I’ve listened to this on repeat and I’m dying to revisit these two again, and have something up my sleeve 🎃

Hope everyone has a great week this week and Monday is treating you well! 💕 xx

[mediumtires]

It's two days into the summer break and I'm already going through vroom vroom withdrawals, so I re-read Seven Years then decided to nitpick season 5 of DTS. Seven Years is so stuck in my head (especially with last weekend's ass grab) that I started to wonder how Christian and Toto's relationship would affect DTS. Would there be a full episode about their relationship? Would they be more included in each other's episodes? Would Netflix try to get footage of the two acting like a couple? The only guarantee is that Tumblr would be analysis every interaction between the two because we already do that.

Also, I use Microsoft Edge over google so I thought you might find this funny.

The first thing they list is that he is a racing driver, not a successful team principal, a racing driver. :p

ohhh this is such an interesting take!

personally i didn’t make dts a thing in seven years because i just didn’t want to deal with the mess of it. it adds a whole other layer of emotional clusterfucks of being exposed to the wider public (outside of the f1 bubble even), even more cameras following them around the paddock, mic-ed up 24/7. there is a snippet i started writing after the whole “change your fucking car” business that i couldn’t even finish because the whole thing was so messy and i could not come up with a proper way to solve this because i was so embarrassed for them lmao.

but let’s walk for a second. let’s say their involuntary outing happens and dts are around for it all, i do think netflix would be a perfect vessel to promote lgbtq+ visibility and rights in motorsports and both pr teams would jump at the chance. obviously an outing like this is a huge fuck up marketing wise, nothing was planned, no one was prepared for it so they’d need to act quick and with netflix around, they’d have the perfect opportunity to angle the narrative any way they want. plus for netflix it would obviously mean Millions. everyone and their mother would watch the new season.

not sure they’d have a full episode. don’t think christian or toto would agree to this during some of the worst moments of their lives lol and in seven years i tried my best to not glorify or romanticise a shitty situation like being outed by someone else against your will. but i do think they’d both still want to be on dts, they enjoy the spotlight and the attention too much. in my mind they’d both show up to their netflix interviews smirking, a little ala “look at you and your lil cameras, i had a secret you couldn’t even imagine being true, you only know the things i choose to tell you, i’m in charge here”. to me that’s kind of a power move. i also think certain questions would simply be blacklisted so all we’d get would be ambiguous layered eye-twinkling comments about the rival team principal while touching their wedding rings. “oh toto slammed that desk *eye roll* yeah he’s so emotional *smirk*” or “christian has a big mouth, don’t believe everything he says, i don’t” or “singapore last year? yeah i think…. i think we won. did we? can’t remember, i was a little busy” but they don’t ever talk about singapore directly.

post outing i don’t think we’d get much husband material on dts. i tried very hard to write them as being private about their relationship and i still think that rings true, even post outing. there were instances where i thought it’d be significant and meaningful to them as a couple to show their support for each other a little more publicly (or maybe just a little less secretively) but those moments were about them more so than an act for the public or the cameras. in my mind they wouldn’t walk hand in hand through the paddock just because they can, not mid season on a thursday morning anyway. they’re professionals and they’re at work. but it’s a different thing when a netflix camera zooms in on them through a window and they’re having a quiet lunch tucked away in some corner of rb hospitality, or a brush of hands or a discreet smile when they pass each other somewhere and a camera is around to pick up on it.

so that’s my take! the most interesting angle to me though is how the public perception suddenly changes from seeing them as individuals to seeing them as a unit. it rewires your brain from “oh these two are fun, they hate each other” to “oh these two….. don’t hate each other. in actuality they…. they seem to love each other enough to be…. husbands. huh”

[jerzwriter]

🍸☔👻 for Trystan x Carolina

🍗🎮 🌎 for them and the WTD trio

🐱 for Pietro and any/all others that it applies to

Thanks for the asks, Ren! From this list.

🍸 Carolina & Trystan's Fridges:

Carolina's is covered in the magnets of places she's visited or places she wants to visit. Some are souveniers from friends, but all have meaning. It's a clusterfuck, and she loves it.

Trystan's, those of us who are not in his tax bracket, wouldn't even know where the fridge was if we were standing right in front of it. lol These two are a picture of contrasts, but they work. Oh, they are also at her place 90% of the time, so that pricey fridge isn't getting much work! lol

☔ Carolina & Trystan's Favorite Weather

Carolina loves fall most of all, and a rainy fall day is near perfection for her. Trystan prefers the spring, a bright day with flowers in bloom.

👻Fears

This is one they share: Death. Not for themselves, so much, but the fear of losing one that they love. They both know, all too well, how real of a threat that is.

You have me wanting to do more CoP now! lol Thanks Ren, I'm going to answer the others separately :)

[dokidoki-muffin]

hey there!!!

I'm a huge fan of your art, any time I get a notification you posted something new I practically leap to my phone, lol. I had a quick question for you!

Have you ever read the Stormlight Archives series? If so, have you ever considered doing artwork for it?

Thank you for your time!

Hello! 😊 Aw thank you so much!! 🤭💖💖💖💖 That makes me really happy! 🥰🥰🥰 No, I don't think I've ever heard of this 🤔🧐 But High Fantasy sounds nice. It's been a while since I've read anything in this genre. My plan to watch/read list is an absolute clusterfuck tbh 😂💀😬 But maybe I can check it out some time ^^

[iasmelaion]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤

I've been out of town since Friday for a wedding, and now I'm battling jet lag, so I declare tumblr dashboard backread bankruptcy, and I have no idea who's already done this or not! So I will pass it on to anyone who feels like being excited about and proud of their fics!

My list, split between my account that's actually clearly linked to this username, and the side account that's not (it isn't, like, secret at this point, I just don't really want to make the link super obvious for easily-overwhelmed-by-too-much-social-media interaction reasons.) Also these are just my favorites right now.

only a full house gonna have a prayer (17776): I had a ton of fun writing this Yuletide treat, and I'm still really proud of nailing the voice and general vibe of 17776 here. Also very pleased with my title choice, even so many years later!

the pleasure principle (The Good Place, Eleanor/Tahani): god, I had so so much fun with Eleanor's voice in this Yuletide fic. I think this fic is pretty damn funny--I made myself lol multiple times while writing it!--and sexy too, and I just really enjoyed playing around with The Good Place's style of humor, and Eleanor's dirtbag-with-a-heart-of-gold nature.

god loves everybody, don't remind me (MCU/Black Panther, Erik Killmonger fix-it fic): I worked SO HARD on this one for SO LONG, lol. I'm very proud of it, and while I wish I could have done it even better justice, particularly prose and voice-wise, I'm still 100% satisfied with the structure and arc. It was my first time writing time loop fic too, and oof, it was hard, but I stuck with it and I'm still proud of it! Also Erik is absolutely my poor little meow meow and I knew my ideal version of this fic and/or a redemption/restoration arc for him would not exist unless I wrote it, so I'm proud of myself for following through despite how long it took.

you're already home and you don't even know it (MCU, Sam/Bucky): With a lot of my writing, I set out with a particular thing I want to try or improve or play around with, and with this fic, it was trying to cram in as many ways for these two to say or show "I love you" without ever saying the actual words to each other. I think I was really successful at that, and at showing tenderness and intimacy, while also totally indulging myself on the h/c and "they're so IN LOVE" fronts.

if I'm gonna get back to you someday (MCU, Steve/Bucky): I was so pleased to finally find a home for the punchline of a "clusterfuck of Steves" here, lol. But also, I just really enjoyed writing this and playing around with AU versions of Steve, while also wallowing in some angst with Bucky. Also, I went ALL IN on the water imagery here, and I'm still really pleased with the continuity of that throughout the fic.

[cewyll]

ALT DA:I VERSE — void and vessel, sheath and shear.

VERSE TYPE: open ( linked with @sanctamater ) VERSE TIMELINE: anywhere within the events of dragon age: inquisition and trespasser. if plotted, before and after this timeline are also workable!

TL;DR: elizabeth was raised in an isolated andrastian doomsday cult, intended to be a living nuke/messiah/world-ender. thanks to her mix of bloodlines and fade-related experiments done on her during childhood, her cocktail of powers is formidable: magic, capital D Dreaming, and the ability to interact with the veil and the fade — which is made stronger by the orb incident at the conclave.

this incident separates liz and amelia from the cult. in haven, they find each other again and start a new life away from comstock's power and control. once again, elizabeth finds herself becoming an idol. she is so tired.

detailed bio (lol) below.

this is gonna be an ongoing wip so i'm just gonna do a quick and dirty bullet point list for now.

in a secluded forest in the dales, scattered with abandoned orlesian estates, zachary comstock created a niche andrastian doomsday cult.

naturally, he wanted to create a baby messiah that would, at his bidding, fully end the world so that he could create a new one from its ashes. does NOT believe in magic, notably. he's like.... the anti-solas. lmao

anyway he marries amelia, an ex-bard who became a god-fearing woman, and "had a baby" "with her" (she had a lil tryst with booker, half-elven, a templar recruit passing through)

uh oh! baby is a mage! baby is a dreamer mage! baby is making friends with entities that want to be roommates in her brain!

after baby born, comstock recruits robert and rosalind lutece (mage-researchers who were exiled from tevinter for magic crimes) to help turn baby into a nuke.

amelia threatens to beat the shit out of rosalind if she doesn't help elizabeth not get eaten by a demon.

with the help of some cult-loyal former templars, they rework comstock house into a sort of... solitary circle tower? essentially doubling as a house for the family to live and a laboratory where elizabeth's abilities can be observed and analyzed as they grow.

AND BOY HOWDY, DO THEY GROW.

YOUTH, POWER, & THE SIPHON.

thanks to the absolute CLUSTERFUCK of the luteces' fade/veil experiments on baby liz, her magey magic, and her dreaming, elizabeth's power spikes exponentially when she hits puberty. this very nearly destroys not only her body and mind (abomination. yeehee) but the environment around them (tears).

this is a good sign. this means it's working. BUT it needs to be Handled.

underneath the house, the luteces build the siphon: some kind of... you know what i'm not gonna figure out how it works rn. but it's essentially a contraption(???) that suppresses her multidimensional fade/veil shit, stunts her dreaming abilities, and dulls her magic to normal-mage-people levels.

this allows comstock to have direct control of how much power elizabeth has! like any good dad should :)

as in infinite, the luteces regularly wipe elizabeth's memories of the experiments done on her, so she just thinks her power spiked and then dulled on its own for whatever reason. in general her memories of childhood are pretty foggy, though the one constant throughout is her bond with her mother, @sanctamater.

THE CONCLAVE.

oh boy i sure hope shit doesn't hit the fan!

elizabeth is sent to the conclave in an attempt for comstock and his cult to gain a foothold in general thedosian politics. she takes her mother amelia with her, but amelia waits in haven while the conclave happens.

shit hits the fan. liz suffers an orb incident.

interestingly, the new mark on her hand seems to interact directly with the powers she already possesses — this is something i wanna develop further but don't have the brain juice to think about right now. we'll table that for later.

liz and amelia are an inseparable unit thereafter. deprogramming them — especially amelia, who has been through A LOT — is going to take time. but i believe in them :)

shit will probably hit the fan again later when zachary finds them, but you know what? we don't gotta worry about that right now. right now, we're building an inquisition and cringing so hard when our mom makes sure we wear mittens before we go to emprise du lion.

and the rest is history (to be documented another time as threads happen)!

[beautifulpersonpeach]

How would you rank these hypothetical events in terms of what would break the fandom most?

Solo grammy win

Member (let's say Jimin) signs as a soloist with a different agency but remains with the group at hybe

Jungkook says that he's dating a woman

***

Exactly the ranking you've listed it in.

The narrative now is that the company is pushing Jungkook to replace BTS and they want him to be more successful than the group. That narrative hasn't got much legs to stand on unless you're paranoid to begin with, but a Grammy win is a tangible result that validates that theory since it's the one accolade BTS doesn't have yet. I won't be surprised to see even the most 'rational' ARMYs completely lose their wits if that happens.

Signing with another label will be a significant but not fatal blow to the idea of a united BTS. In reality it doesn't mean nearly as many bad things as it seems at first glance, and (in contrast to the Grammy win) k-pop stans will be fanning the flames like crazy (lol) and people here are dramatic and easily influenced. So yeah, that's going to be a clusterfuck.

I feel like JK has already primed parts of the fandom for a dating reveal. Seeing how things went down with Tae though, with JK I expect something like double the pain? Seeing how jikookers and taekookers react will be more interesting.

[detroitbecomeonline]

DBH MODDING (8) - NEW INFORMATION & SWAT CONNOR COMPLETION

Hello everyone and

Dear Diary

What a clusterfuck my last mod diary entry was, but like, in the best way possible since I learned a lot of stuff. Have a fully-complete SWAT Connor to celebrate! Here is a small photo shoot and another small photo shoot.

Here are some corrections and add-ons from my last entry:

SWAT Connor is in fact not something I have to keep private! I thought it was, but here is the full public step-by-step process to achieve SWAT Connor. I would've typed it out myself, but these instructions are from the source: Jamie. Can't get any better than that!

Kayla gave me a little more info about going into outfits and map swapping. Once I get into doing that, I'll definitely write out instructions.

In the comments you'll see a discussion about the DBH modding community. In reference to that, if you discover something or create something, please share it! I personally want to consume your content lol

It's 31/01/2023 and this is my third day posting in a row. (3X KILL STREAK). For measure of progress, I want to reference something I said in my first mod diary entry:

"I can't find info like this elsewhere. I have to figure everything out myself." Not the case anymore! As I get to know modders, they give me info and support! At the start, it all felt distant and information buried, but it's about looking in the right place and asking the right questions. "If anyone has any information or extra points, PLEASE say something lol." Still the case! If you know something I don't, please correct me! Reblog, reply, private message, ask, I don't mind.

If you need extra help from Jamie's tutorial on how to make SWAT Connor, here are some of my personal notes:

Connor's jacket is 00 00 08 B5 00 00 00 01 00 00 6D 84 (The string you need to find) and then the next 4 bytes you can replace with 99 99 99 99.

Originally, I used the browser model swapper to swap Connor (2) to Markus (Capitol Park). This means you don't have to do Jamie's first step. Additionally, I also swapped their walking animations.

To change Markus' backpack into Captain Allen, I searched for the backpack container (0D 9C 02 E1 08 00 00 1C C0 C7 00 13 17 2B 00 00 00 10) in my hex editor. Then, I copied Captain Allen's DATA_CONTAINER (18 B0 F8 00 00 B5 60 3F 00 A8 D8 EC 00 00 00 0B) from the data list (Steam version). On the hex editor, I highlight the backpack which should already be highlighted, but don't include the first two bytes which are 0D 9C. So only highlight 02 E1 08 00 00 1C C0 C7 00 13 17 2B 00 00 00 10. Press ctrl + R to bring up the replace option and the highlighted part should already be added, but double-check that at the start of the ID, the "0D 9C" isn't included. If it is included, delete it. Click on the textbox underneath and paste Captain Allen's ID into it. Click replace and save the file. File > Save. The backpack will be replaced with Captain Allen.

Basically, all these instructions boil down to this:

Make Markus with a backpack into Connor.

The backpack is like a shell around Markus, so if you put a model of a character in the same slot as Markus' backpack, it will shell around Markus.

The "base" character is who you put in Markus' shoes.

The backpack or "shell" is another layer which can be used for outfits or other model parts.

Make backpack into Captain Allen.

Make the textures of Captain Allen's face invisible so that you can see Connor.

Make Connor's outfit invisible so it doesn't clip through the SWAT armour.

Save your file.

Win.

This has unlocked unlimited wizardry for me, kids. Hope this helps!

~ Trinity

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

https://x.com/evysnosefreckle/status/1742933432576115129?s=46&t=vw4WI8Brl3poq10fUcDT9w

Literally 😭. When I saw this person searched for Evan’s name on the documents I couldn’t help but laugh. Why the hell would anyone think Evan’s name could be in there, he was a kid living in Missouri when all that started and also he’s not a super powerful/influential person like???? I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what the Epstein documents are, it’s not a list of people that committed crimes, it’s a bunch of court documents of the testimony from a victim with all sorts of random people mentioned, many of whom didn’t actually have anything to do with Epstein. Research and reading comprehension is key to a healthy society people please.

what on earth? oh my god lol who was thinking evan peters was somewhere getting a massage of epstein island?!

this whole ''epstein list'' is such a clusterfuck of misinformation and misunderstanding, much of which is being purposely misrepresented by social media users to push political agendas and conspiracy theories about celebrities. the names that have been released, as you said, are simply names that were mentioned in previously sealed court documents associated with a lawsuit related to jeffrey epstein/ghislaine maxwell. for instance, a name would show up on that list if during a deposition someone said ''(name) was at a party held at epstein's house in 2001''. there doesn't have to be anything beyond that, it's not a list of offenders who were partaking in anything illegal.

[sindirimba]

24 ANY FANDOM GO

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

oh boy. let me do this in list format

top/bottom discourse. and one side does not hold the monopoly on rancidity by any means. it's just a big clusterfuck that consumes masses of energy and attention in fandom and i'm so fucking tired of it

ANY and i mean ANY meta about booker and The Betrayal that goes deeper than 'he did bad thing and that's all there is to it' has people start calling people apologists and getting mad that people are interested in a character they hate and zzzzz.

remember 'ohana-thon? an attempt to encourage people to write more non-j/n focused stuff? and how some responded to this by getting huffy about the language used and how you get more flies with honey and you should create stuff you want to see instead of putting down what you don't (which is... what the event was, but okay)? yeah this whole thing is the top contender. the idea that some of us are here for more than the big popular overwhelmingly everywhere ship makes some people really bothered when we actually talk about that and don't just stay quiet about it. roll your eyes about a silly ship poll taking over tumblr? why do you hate fun? many such cases, etc. sensitive as fuck.

and of course the marines thing, lol, but i've talked enough about that already. but it does!!

(violence)