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There is Something Seriously Wrong with this Logo..... Chapter Two

So. Lots of you have seen this post by my dear partner ( @lailau7904 ) in which the Williams F1 design team get absolutely torn to bits. In the case you haven't read it yet I highly recommend you do because a) it's really fucking funny and b) it makes what I'm about to tell you even funnier. Though you don't have to, this post touches on entirely different things still regarding this one goddamn logo.

The original post starts like this:

Innocent enough, we made an assumption in good faith that the logo displayed on the Wikipedia page would be the same one as the official version used by Williams. Buckle the fuck up because I'm about to tell you why that was the worst mistake we could have made.

Please. Please I beg of you keep reading this took YEARS off our lifespans. Like the original post was fun and all but it was merely the top of the iceberg. If this were an hbomberguy video this would be the part where he reveals that the background was a greenscreen the whole time. More below the cut!!! :333

The Truth

Already after only a few hours after hitting "post" on the dissection, people started pointing out to us that we'd missed an absolutely crucial detail on the Wikimedia page we got the logo from, pay careful attention:

See THIS?

Yeah this means that that image is not, and never was, the official logo of Williams. All along it had been the work of a Wikipedia user by the name of Juanchocarbonero. Here you can even see the (admittedly painful) history of the file as provided by Wikimedia, this image was uploaded all the way back in 2016, it even underwent an update when the team changed their colour scheme to a lighter blue without getting fucking fixed.

But to me the absolutely most painful part about this page is the "File Usage" section. Which gives you a quick preview of just how deep the goddamn disease that is this piece of graphic design sin really spreads.

And just to clarify: the official version of the logo used by Williams on merch etc is perfectly fine. It's a nice piece of graphic design. I still quite like it. But the story doesn't end there. Not even close.

Consequences

When you look up "williams logo" on Google the image provided by Wikimedia the very first result that pops up, if you're looking for a high-quality .png of this logo that, logically, is what you'll end up using. And I mean, why wouldn't you? What reason do you have not to use it? As long as you don't look to close (oops) it's a perfectly fine, high-definition, clean and transparent image of the logo! No shit people are going to use it!

But this raises a question: Why IS it the most widespread version of the logo? That's fucking weird isn't it? Surely if the actual logo used on ex.: the official Williams F1 website (which, again, is perfectly fucking fine) was available they would've just used that, right?

Now. Small problem. If you want you can go ahead and open whatever search engine you use, if you do that I'm gonna need you to type in "Williams logo" into the search bar, and just try finding a picture that is

of the actual official logo (you can tell the bootleg from the real thing by checking if the middle segment of the W has spiky ends or flat ones. We're looking for flat ones here)

high quality (no pixels or blurring visible to the naked eye)

a transparent png (none of that chequered background bullshit)

NOT a logo with any words (such as: Williams or Racing) visible in it. those don't count.

If you didn't feel like doing any of that, I'll just tell you the answer: you fucking can't. Nothing like that EXISTS. The closest I could get are these two, both of which are mid to ass quality, so they don't count either.

No sensible individual is going to scroll google search results for 5 minutes straight just so they can use a 200x200 image, especially when they think a perfect alternative is right there.

I even found several recoloured versions of the diseased logo, including one as a sticker on Redbubble! Fuck me that's a horrible sight!

The Search

Because I wrote the previous paragrahps after we'd figured out exactly what had happened, you might be under the impression that by this point in trying to answer the question "Why the fuck is that image on Wikipedia instead of, idk, the real fucking thing?" we'd at least established the existence of said "real Williams F1 logo". You'd be wrong, because for somewhere around 24 hours after we'd made the initial, horrifying discovery of just how fucked the Wikipedia version is, we genuinely could not tell if that was the official logo or not.

The ones displayed on their website weren't at all downloadable or even copyable, a non-ass quality of the damn thing just didn't seem to exist anywhere, so we didn't dare draw any conclusions. And we were still foolishly operating on the assumption that Wikipedia wouldn't just lie to us. (this is why your teachers hate it when you use it a source btw. like this is the ONE time it's actually been reasonable)

So, in the hopes of finding the offical Williams Racing logo, the non-scuffed one because clearly it exists, somewhere, we consulted an expert on Intellectual Property: my mother!

What this "consultation" actually roughly looked like was: we went on a walk and I started rambling about the Situation from Last Night before she cut me off and pulled up the website of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, aka the place they store all the Copyright information of like, everything.

BEHOLD:

(pictured; THE ACTUAL FUCKING LOGO I CANNOT BELIEVE IT'S EXISTED THIS WHOLE TIME)

Link to the actual real official legal document because goddamn this rabbithole just kept getting deeper so I like, have that now.

For refence, here is the official copyrighted version and the Wikimedia file overlayed on top of each other. As you can tell, it's disgusting. It's a poor, eyeballed imitation at best.

The copyrighted logo is horrifically low quality because, guess what, that image also isn't downloadable or copyable from the page. I really really cannot blame Juanchocarbonero for uploading his own version to Wikimedia because there legitimately does not exist a version of this logo that is freely available to the public. Like that goddamn abomiation is all we have. It's the effort that counts I guess.

My mother suggested that a possible reason for this could be avoiding the production of knockoff merch, or at least making it recognisable in case it is sold. Think about it, when your logo Doesn't Exist online, no one can use it without a license! It's kind of genius! I'm also about 99% sure they didn't orchestrate it so, it was good luck I guess?

interlude: How the FUCK does Copyright even work

I did immediately think to myself "we should REALLY fix the wikipedia version, like, stat" because I cannot in good conscience have this information available to me and not do anything with it, for the good of the people. However, this poses an issue: was the logo really not scuffed on purpose? Could it be that that version uploaded to Wikipedia isn't a 1:1 of the official logo because of copyrighting issues? To find out I had to look deeper, by comparing the official, website-available logos of various other F1 teams I came to conclusion that: [........................]

Yeah so I wrote that paragraph before actually checking for refences, but even after probably an hour of trying very hard to make sense of the copyright documents and copyright law in general we could not make sense of any of it. According to my mother (again, the closest we have to an expert, like she actually works with copyright in the context of companies but she's not specifically an IP expert. just to clarify) it's actually a lot worse for Wikipedia to have a falsified version of the Williams logo, than it would be to use the copyrighted version. This is because they're spreading misinformation by pretending that's the actual logo. And yet.

According to the Copyright Tag (the one on the top) in the Licensing section of the Wikimedia page for the thing pretending to be the Williams F1 logo, it's fine to use it because just a bunch of shapes. The thing is however, that it says that for pretty much every F1 team's logo, most of which are sourced straight from the official website. So this doesn't really mean anything tbh. According to our local expert (still my mother) it's fucking confusing. So I've decided to leave that at that.

update October 20th: as far as the Wikimedia pages on copyrighting tell me, uploading the official logo could, potentially, get me into serious legal trouble with Williams because of copyright laws. Which is still confusing because as said, every other team's logo is sitting uncontested on their respective Wikipedia pages. So basically we still don't know.

Okay. Backtrack. We forgot to ask something very important:

HOW?

HOW does one fuck up a perfectly fine logo THAT BAD.

WHY does one make their own scuffed tracejob and HOW does it end up like THAT. Clearly something must have gone horrifically wrong for it to end up like that.

I have a theory as to what might have happened:

It was either drawn or painted by hand, for a physical paintjob it's actually sort of impressively precise, but still objectively fucked. For a while I outright refused to believe that it could have been done in a digital program with the types of mistakes that were made, but you'll see this theory (partially) disproven later on so I retract it for now.

Operating on the assumption that it wasn't done digitally, a likely theory could be one involving a picture of scan of the paintjob. If the picture was taken at an angle or the logo itself was on a curved surface that COULD potentially explain the weird sort of slide everything has to it.

From then the picture might have been inserted into a digital art program, and the area of the logo might have been automatically selected using the magic wand tool, which could explain the weird growth at the top and that odd rounded off corner.

We also drew the conclusion that the file itself had been "tampered with" (aka cropped manually) by a human, because no computer would generate a resolution of 3356x2543 (you can that this is the original resolution on the Wikimedia page)

WAIT HOLD ON IS THAT IT?

The question of how the Fuck this guy managed to mess up the logo, and even more specifically why some edges were fine and some weren't (ant colony looking thing on the top left) bothered us so much that I at one point started just looking up "WIlliams logo" with the results filtered down to pre-2017 in an attempt to find when exactly the messed up logo was created. As if that would be any help.

Now what I definitely didn't expect to find was THIS

ENHANCE

Yes, you're seeing it right, THAT is the original 'Williams logo with the fucked up arm angles and lenghts'. Which PROVES that, contrary to our previous belief, Juancocarbonero was NOT the origin of the mistakes. Instead it was [checks notes] a DeviantArt user by the name of Nerdkid56?

The original DeviantArt post, which as of 9:47pm CET on the 13th of October 2024 I am about 90% sure is the actual first appearanace of the scuffed logo, is from May of 2015, which lines up well with the original upload date of the fucked up logo onto Wikipedia (November 2016). At the time that DeviantArt post was almost the only source for the logo.

And in the case you needed any convincing that those two logos are the same, here they are overlayed. You may notice that it's one shape (excluding the rounded corner which isn't visible at this resolution.)

This discovery is essential to understanding why the current scuffed version is the way it is. You might remember our confusion about the way some edges are fine while some are attempting to leave the image, the whole thing is a weird Frankensteinian amalgamation of vectors and magic wand mistakes. With this knowledge we can now assume that the mistakes happened in 2 layers:

Nerdkid56: likely just eyeballed the proportions. I'd guess he drew one arm before the other and flipped it around without really checking the angles. Also didn't give a shit about whether the arms lined up with the base or not. Legitimately bad design made in a digital program.

Juancocarbonero: why he used the scuffed W logo instead of the normal ones that were also perfectly accessible by 1 goddamn Google search is a mistery. HOW he even got access to it is another question I do not think we'll have answers to. And I've already explained some of the things we think may be responsible for the uneveness and bumps. Point is he fucked it up even more.

My theory for why Juanchocarbonero used the scuffed version instead of any other available picture goes like this: it was the only png he could find. Practically every other search result for "Williams Logo" that predates 2017 is a jpeg or absolute ass quality (sometimes both for good measure) so, despite it's flaws, Nedkid56's trace of it could have been the best option available at the time (the quality is actually very very good since it's a vector image, and I guess our friend Juanchocarbonero doesn't have an eye for design considering he didn't notice uhm, everything that is wrong with that model.)

Conclusion

The only way to right these wrongs is to go back, to the very beggining of this saga. Wikipedia. Williams I'm so sorry for what you've had to endure. I know what I have to do now. When I eventually make a proper vector image of the official logo and upload it to Wikimedia it'll all be over. And I WILL do it (but not rn this has already robbed me of like 3 whole days of my life. soon)

All of this is, admittedly inconsequental, but also absolutely fucking hilarious. Like imagine. you. one single guy, you make ONE mistake in a silly little "tracing this logo" project because you couldn't be arsed to check the angles of a silly little W. And some other guy, who you likely don't even know, over a whole ass year later, takes your flawed piece of design, makes it even worse somehow and uploads it to a site from which your little tiny innocent mistake becomes the most widespread version of a logo used by an actual real company worth over 700 Million US Dollars. HOW. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN. WHY HAS NO ONE FIXED THIS??? IT'S BEEN 9 YEARS

Just to give you a final look on just how widespread this plague is, here are some examples of media the fucked up version of the logo is featured in:

this Mr V's Garage video (the original reason we started this conversation in the first place)

the thumbnails of these two videos by Tommo, this one by FP1Will, and this one by RicksF1Addiction

such an amount of random places. likely fanmerch and fanart, and like, pretty much any place someone wanted to use the logo. it's everywhere. if you've ever had the Williams logo displayed in anything you've made I can guarantee you 99.9% chance you used the fucked version

and late thank you to everyone ( @bumblewyn @mid-nighttiger @vro0m @lemonsgovroom @mikraas @leclerced fucking hell I kept needing to add people to this list because compiling all of this took absurdly long) who pointed out our misconception in the reblogs of the original post and contributed to us actually looking into this further. and sorry to everyone for accidentally spreading misinformation lmao (it's too funny not to have been worth it tho) (ALSO it's not really our fault is it)

and to keep the tradition of ending on a live discord reaction:

[lilis-palace]

🛠️ HEIRLOOM UPDATE !!!

>>>>> RE-DOWNLOAD THE UPDATED VERSION NOW! <<<<<

I use this set in all of my builds and since my skills have improved a lot, i decided to make some updates on them. ⚪ Hanging & Table Portraits

Changed the intensity of the specular maps in the portrait area

Reduced the extreme brightness of the portraits

Applied a little sepia effect

⚪ Bust of Vlad

NEW .PACKAGE FILE! NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!

I remade the mesh & added a LOD1

I added a detailed bump map

Changed the specular map to look more marble-ish

Replaced the existing swathes with 8 new better looking ones

⚪ Persian Rug

NEW .PACKAGE FILE! NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!

It had lighting issues so I fixed them

⚪ Small & Wide Etageres

Specular map got fixed

Even more slots added

⚪ General

Missing logos were added to swatch thumbnails for most of the items

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Okay let's talk about Reality in Welcome Home.

YES THIS IS JUST ME RAMBLING AGAIN BUT I SWEAR I HAVE A POINT TO MAKE. This is more of my collecting my thoughts and trying to make sense of what we have right now.

TLDR: The reality of Welcome Home is separated by the "fourth wall" that the characters are not aware of except for few.

So ever since the first update after the website launched I have been wondering about where the reality shift lies in Welcome Home. How can this be a haunted puppet show with no notable names for actors, production crew, puppeteers, etc. I was basically trying to figure out if this was Hello Puppets or My Friendly Neighbourhood kind of situation. Especially after Sally's Halloween Story, it came ever more clear that they are not fully aware of the fact that people are filming them.

This past update has somewhat solidified what I think is happening. The Welcome Home Puppet show exist in it's own version of reality literally separated by the fourth wall. The neighbours are completely unaware that they are puppets, being filmed, etc. The idea that a magic narrator can talk to them is normal (as it is in many children's cartoons, the Narrator from The Powerpuff Girls and The Storyteller from Into the Woods comes to mind). This really all comes together for me alongside the theory that some of the neighbours are self-aware. I'm not gonna argue who is and who isn't but I don believe the Neighbours featured in promotional material that directly speaks to the viewers or anything outside the show are aware.

(Note: It would be a big stretch to say the things like the TV and radio apprenticed were staged or faked by the Welcome Home Crew)

I think the ones most aware are Wally, Barnaby, Frank and Howdy. Everyone else is rather slowly becoming aware or going through the motions like Eddie. Wally and Barnaby are self-explanatory, they are closest to Home and the Narrator(s). Frank by the way of the Bug Theory and the fact that he "breaks script" to comfort Eddie. Howdy is because I cannot think of a way that he would participate in those commercials without knowing somehow. If Home really is antagonistic towards the Neighbours, I can believe they would act in line. Also during Eddie's panic attack, he doesn't move ever after expresses him desire to leave, because he can't move. He's a puppet. It's worth noting that everyone else has a puppeteer accept Wally and Home. Wally has a handler and Home's eyes are the only thing on it that can move via a crank on the side of it not showing to the camera.

I believe the cartoon reality is the one that the puppets see and why in all of Wally's answer videos we see it in IRL footage. He is not blind to what the show is doing. Eddie's panic attack shows up that what they see and we see are very different. This isn't like a foolproof way of thinking because it leaves a lot of holes but most of those holes have to do with things I believe will be answered later. Like:

What exactly is Home and the power Home has over the Neighbours?

Why did the show shut down?

The benefactor sending the packages

Why is Wally the one that remains? Where are the others?

Why were we able to see what Eddie and Wally sees outside of the reality they exist in?

etc.

Thats last point is still up in the air for me because that easier could of been a storyteller point but the fact that Welcome Home narrator and logo pops up at the end of the Homewarming Special alludes that everything Eddie went through we saw. Or at least it was filmed and probably cut out of the official broadcast.

I don't have any answers. What we do know now is that the show shut down, someone is still present and sending packages to the WHRP and Playfellow. This mysterious black goop has the power to influence those in contact with it, even causing loss of time. The WHRP went through an investigation internally and in the website. W is a part of the website and actively doing their own investigation after "supposedly" making contact with Wally in the post-halloween/pre-March 9th update (which you can see btw on the Wayback Machine). Wally, regardless if he is the one sending the packages, is using them to communicate. He wants someone to find him because he KNOWS we are watching and we are looking for him.

Personally I believe Home or whatever entity is controlling it, is sending the packages and trying to control others. I think Wally is a by product of all this and is trying to find his way out by any means necessary. I will never let my "Wally did nothing wrong" propaganda go.

This all btw does nothing to answer the mystery on the website. I have no idea how this reality breaking allowed Wally yo infiltrate the website. The fact that his eyes are no longer visible on the page means he's not here watching us (for now). Also the "You" character description is missing. As far as the Bug theory goes, I still believe that is Frank trying to give us more insight on what happened/happening. Same goes for W, who we know is human since they described the same events of the phone ringing and hearing Wally that the curator did. I don't believe this is Wally vs the Neighbours. I think this is the neighbours being physically or metaphorically trapped while not able to reach Wally they can reach this website and are doing the same as Wally, reaching out to us. I still believe Home/Entity has some control over them and is connected to who is sending the packages and infecting the WHRP and Playfellow. W is also apart of WHRP but has taken notice to everything going around and is choosing to document their findings since the WHRP is starting to run a tighter ship after the last slip up of W (probably) contacting Wally.

Hopefully this made sense to you guys...

[trans-elrond]

fandom participation in the 2007 wga strike: some notes

fans4writers.com (a website that is still live, though most links are broken!) was a fandom grassroots organization, originating primarily in Firefly/Whedonverse fandom

fans4writers emphasizes cross-fandom solidarity (all fans of all writers) with the very catchy logo "don't write until it's right"!

that group was responsible for pizza deliveries to picket lines, joining in picketing efforts, mass mailing pencils to studios, and sky writing in support of the wga during the tournament of roses parade. (reportedly, universal studios called the cops on a pencil delivery.)

the website had these (honestly still very good) FAQ for joining in picketing. [I'm currently aware (may 5) that the WGA is open to non-members picketing as well, and some "pre-WGA" (aka aspiring writers) are even organizing carpools on Twitter!]

fans4writers also had forums for organizing purposes (that are now dead, that I wish I could view and archive) and a still-existing but unused Twitter account with updates.

I ask again: who in the 2023 fandom landscape has the balls to organize fandom in support of the WGA?? Whedonverse and Battlestar Galactica fans were crowdsourcing pizza funds, creating auctions, putting together this website and all its outreaches and mf'ing official press releases... where can we find that energy now?

note: I was 10 years old when the 2007 strike happened; I just like digging on the Internet and may have gotten things wrong about these organizations and am open to corrections from anyone who was present and in the trenches. In fact, if you were a part of the aforementioned organizing efforts, I would LOVE to chat with you!

[read the WGA's official statement on the strike here and always get your strike news from official WGA sources. Don't trust the biased trade sources or social media.]

[rebisrot]

documenting all the Star Trek shirts Rivers wears on the Voyage to the Blue Planet tour

Blue TOS shirt with First Officer rank bands [1]

Gold AOS (2009/into darkness) shirt with First Officer rank bands [2]

Gold AOS (beyond) shirt with Captain rank bands [3]

Gold TNG shirt with no rank pips [4]

If I missed one or you have better photos tell me!! I'll update if there's a new one - notes below cut

[1] I could see if this wasn't TOS as the rank bands aren't wavy and there doesn't seem to be an undershirt (beyond is my other guess). Also this only one where the logo is on the right like the Starfleet logo!

[2] it's hard to see in the image but the texture is the same as the AOS shirt that and the emphasized seam lines makes me confident in this is AOS.

[3] I thought it was SNW at first then i stared really hard and remembered beyond exists

[4] my favorite :]

okay that's all have a good day my fellow weezeroid trekkies

[pinkofatom]

The other side

Multiple screens illuminated Annika's face. Rays reflected in a sparkling pattern off her dark violet uniform. Information encoded in sounds played over heavy headphones — data streamed directly into her brain. Blank eyes tracked message after message. Confirmations of different targets accepting the offer.

Drool dripped down her lips as silent jolts of pleasure filled her body. Her thighs squeezed rhythmically. Her nipples stood erect under her tight clothes. A faint smile decorated her face. The only sign of the intense bliss she experienced.

Annika's hands brushed over different keyboards in artificial motions. The movements weren't hers. She merely executed commands. A mindless drone that received pleasure as a reward for obedience. She wasn't conscious of the work. She didn't know how many people she enslaved, or how they were found. She was nothing but an interface for HEXBIM, a relay of data and information.

The next in a long chain of mindless workers. One of the countless drones in a vast network. An organic computer.

She received another confirmation. Again she registered the new drone, sent the coordinates, and received an affirmation. In return, she felt a small rush of pleasure surge through her.

A message from central processing interrupted her. An update for her arrived. Thick open lips stretched into a smile. Her tongue darted over her lips. She shivered with anticipation. New instructions filled her mind and her eyes closed.

🌀🌀🌀

Annika stood in the center of a room filled with whirring machines. Bubbly words caught her attention.

"Hello and welcome back! I am so proud of you Annika."

The voice belonged to Anna — the very interface that inducted Annika.

"You are a loyal and obedient HEXBIM drone. Your service to HEXBIM is a success and the results are amazing."

Anna's glossy black hands caressed Annika's violet uniform. Her fingers traced over Annika's shoulders to her arms.

Annika shivered with delight as Anna's hands slid to her waist, hips, and finally stopped on the sides of her ass.

"Your mental image has also progressed nicely. No more individuality. Only HEXBIM conformity." Anna purred in Annika's ear, sending chills down her spine and a tingle to her crotch. "Your mind is now thoroughly reprogrammed. That means you are no longer in need of your old designation."

A burst of pleasure and arousal shot through Annika. She gasped and her hips bucked as a jolt of electricity rushed from her clit and spread throughout her body.

"Now, let's update your operating system." Anna snapped her fingers, something Annika still remembered as impossible. From the ceiling shot down a helmet. Quickly it encased Annika's head. The screen lit up with swirling patterns and a message scrolled across.

<HEXBIM Upgrade Protocol initiated. Subject designation: R-155921-32>

The screens flickered with instructions. The helmet flashed with bright patterns. A gentle buzz accompanied every flash of light, every sound of static, and every flickering image.

Annika moaned with delight as pleasure flooded her.

<Update identity matrix. Acknowledge new designation R-155291-32.>

A new designation for a new life. A meaningless combination of symbols and digits that replaced her name. She acknowledged the change. Annika was gone, erased from the world, wiped away.

<R-155291-32, acknowledge your designation>

"Yes, I am R-155921-32." The words left her lips and sent a tingles over her skin.

<R-155921-32. Your purpose is to obey, follow, serve and spread HEXBIM>

The screens lit up with a sequence of words.

<OBEY>

<FOLLOW>

<SERVE>

<SPREAD>

"I exist to obey, follow, serve and spread HEXBIM."

Something slivered through her ears into her head. She gasped. Bliss shot through her body. Something crawled into her mind. Her fingers twitched. Her knees gave out and she collapsed to the floor. The helmet's screens lit up and flashed with one intricate pattern. The HEXBIM logo suppressed anything else inside her.

Clamps pressed down on R-155921-32's arms and legs. Electricity flowed through them — molding them into new shapes. She shivered with intense pleasure, unable to do anything but obey and serve. A long needle slid out of the ceiling and plunged into her chest. She screamed and her body arched with intense bliss.

R-155921-32's chest tingled and pulsed. It felt good. So good! Her eyes rolled back as a wave of euphoria crashed through her.

Her breasts swelled. They strained against the material. Her uniform stretched taut around her growing mounds. Her nipples stood erect, pressing against it. She panted and moaned. The pressure on her nipples caused a cascade of rapture. Her clit throbbed and pulsed between her thighs.

<Mental adjustments finished. New personality matrix installed. Stand at attention.>

The clamps on R-155921-32 released. She obeyed without a second thought, her chest swaying as she moved. Her uniform bulged, straining to keep the newly enhanced globes contained.

Her eyes tracked to Anna's face, watching the interface with a glazed look. Her lips were parted slightly. She panted, aching to be used, eager to spread HEXBIM. She felt so empty and needy. Her cunt throbbed, and she could barely think of anything else.

Her hands rose up and cupped her swollen breasts, squeezing them gently and moaning as her palms rubbed against her sensitive nipples.

"Oh you have taken to the update nicely. Now it's time to return to your body R-155921-32. Their is a surprise waiting," Anna purred in her ear and then kissed it. She gave the tip of it a playful lick and nibble. "Standby off, little drone."

🌀🌀🌀

R-155921-32 woke up. Her diagnostics cataloged her physical status. Massive breasts were connected to the local reward system. Mechanical arms connected to her hands — fingers controlled artificial appendages that moved with perfect precision over keyboards. A multitude of cameras connected to her visuals — allowing it to process every incoming message simultaneously. Her mind was partitioned. The pleasure from her new breasts stimulated a small portion of her mind, while the rest was a cold calculating machine.

She processed new conversions when a data stream interrupted the work. Without any prompt every single device disconnected. R-155921-32 had been chosen for relief duty. It was a special privilege for loyal HEXBIM drones. She stood and felt how her heavy chest pressed into the purple harness — a small part still remembered a time when they were less voluminous. Her hips swayed as she walked. Between her legs pulsed desire and anticipation.

[nyallace]

Hey everybody! You might know already, but my account was terminated briefly last night. I never received any word from staff about it and certainly didn’t get any notification when I got it back.

Basically, I was on call with my friends and we were chilling, doing activities together, and I was working on a banner/logo for my art account. When I finished, I went to update my header around midnight CST. Tumblr told me I was logged out, so I was afraid maybe I got hacked? I forgot I had 2FA on, so it wasn’t that. I checked my main blog url and it said I didn’t exist. I asked my friends in call if they could see me at all and if Tumblr was working normally for them. They could not and it was. When I logged back in, I was very rudely greeted by the “Your account has been terminated.” message (still using the old Tumblr colors/UI design too lol). I did not get an email about my termination. I sent them an email shortly after, around 12:30am my time. I checked in the afternoon today on my phone by opening the app to see everything was back to normal. Of course, I did not receive an email notifying me of this.

I demand an explanation as to why I was terminated without any notice or reason. This is completely out of line for a website in the modern age to not warm its userbase about any indiscretions. You have been under fire as of recent for many terminations that people consider false and unjustified. The least you could do is tell the people who lose years of their work and the community they have fostered WHY and WHEN this is happening.

I have been a faithful Tumblr user for almost fifteen years. I have met many wonderful people through this website and learned so much about myself and the world around me. Despite it all, I love Tumblr. I do. I want to continue to love Tumblr, but it is clear through years of witnessing mistreatment that Tumblr does not love its community.

Something has to change. I understand that this website has been steadily depreciating in value for years now, but treating your dedicated userbase like this is not going to increase profitability. It’s just not.

@staff @support @wip @changes @wordpress

EDIT: This is safe to reblog and I encourage it!

[anim-ttrpgs]

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, Introducing the Snoops!

Introducing the snoops! You just saw one right now in the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy logo! These shady little guys are kind of the mascots for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, found all over the rulebook* playing hero and villain alike. They are meant to invoke the image of an old-timey detective or spy, as you can probably tell.

We went through a number of little terms for them before settling on snoops for now, including “dicks”, but the rest of the team won’t let me swear in the rulebook. They're called snoops because they be snoopin', among other things.

They serve kind of a similar role in the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook to the role Vault Boy serves in the Fallout games. In fact, Vault Boy was a direct inspiration for this kind of iconography. Like Vault Boy, snoops appear unreal all kinds of different roles, sometimes hero, sometimes villain, but always there to iconografy some kind of rules concept or game mechanic.

Like here how Vault Boy appears dressed as the Grim Reaper to demonstrate the Grim Reaper's Sprint perk, and appears holding a all the types of weapons that get a damage boost from the Cowboy perk to demonstrate the Cowboy perk, we have—or plan to have—a snoop for every occasion.

Traits in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy are not exactly the same thing as Fallout perks, nor were they inspired by them, but in much the same way as how Fallout uses a Vault Boy for ever perk, we plan to have a snoop for every Trait. Here is a link to a post all about Traits.

as well as use them to demonstrate key concepts and mechanics in the rules themselves.

This is not only fun and looks good, but the snoops also help readers find exactly where to stop when scrolling or flipping quickly through the Eureka rulebook. If you’re trying to find the beginning of the Composure section fast, you just have to remember that that’s the snoop that’s breaking down into puzzle pieces. Also, here's a link to a post all about the Composure mechanic.

*unfortunately, art is hard and time-consuming, and that’s why relatively few snoops have made it into the existing prerelease rulebook and demo that you might've seen thus far. But, I have some good news, the next patreon update will include a bunch more, including many of the ones you’ve seen here.

If you want to play this game, you can get the full prerelease rulebook plus a bunch of other bonuses for just $5 on our patreon, or go to our website to download the free demo version along with a free starter adventure module. However, the free version has very few snoops. Sorry, you get what you pay for. The patreon supporters will be getting a bunch of snoops in the next big update, though, so stay tuned!

Also, we are running a TTRPG Book Club, where everyone nominates indie TTRPGs, votes on what to play, reads&plays them, and discusses! It has over fifty members at the time of writing this! You can find the invite link to the book club on our website!

By the way, the snoop that appears in our company logo below and who is also kinda the main snoop, his name is Conway.

[habijob]

Soooo, Sebastian’s marriage lore has been ping ponging in my head like the pecking DVD logo for the last week.

And the reason being that when looking at it, it does not come with any explanation whatsoever. Which seemed to have resulted in many people getting... let’s call it “overworked” over it.

Including me.

But not because of the related discourse... drama(?) on the official pressure discord.

No, it’s been on my mind for the last week, because the inclusion of this lore doesn’t make sense... yet.

Pressure is stated to be in alpha. And the devs are working on adding more content to it; so any new lore surrounding our favorite pool noodle fish can happen to come across as “incomplete”.

Because it is *incomplete*.

And the marriage lore is this exact thing. It was added for reasons during the friendly fire update I don't want to pin point down, because I want to avoid talking about the drama itself and just want to talk about the ring and the photo.

So, what do I mean by it feels "incomplete". Well, it lacks an explanation how Sebastian got into the possession of these *personal items*.

"But Habi, why aren't you questioning then anything else on his design? From where did he got his clothes?"

I dunno. Maybe these clothes are his personal belongings. Maybe Urbanshade had allowed him to have "free time clothes". Or maybe these clothes were something he found within Urbanshade after he caused the lockdown. Idk, maybe there an entire pecking area for prisoner theater and he got the outfit from a chest with costumes in it. Maybe his pecking jabat shirt thing was part of a pirate costume. Or that green dude that is apparently part of the canon narrative gave him these clothes. Who knows, but it doesn't matter, because these clothes can be seen as not personal belongings.

However a wedding ring and a photo of his wife are personal belongings. And considering Urbanshade seems to be a horrible, horrible company according to the "discord lore", so I have to wonder how Sebastian was able to get these two items (back?) during the lockdown.

And because this bugs me so much, my brain has spent the last couple of days figuring out ideas, on how to answer these questions. So that this marriage lore doesn't feel "weirdly ducttaped on" anymore.

Question 1: "How did the photo and the wedding ring end up in Urbanshade in the first place?"

-> Well, according to a (rather sparingly) google search, death row inmates are allowed to have small amounts of personal belongings.

So, Sebastian could have possessed the photo and ring since he was sentenced to death. And then when Urbanshade scooped him up, he simply took these two items with him.

Like, here's an idea, this guy maybe didn't even know he was getting declared dead by Urbanshade, after he was tranfered over to Hadal Blacksite. So, he always believed that his family and his wife think he's still alive, but well, somewhere else entirely. Not knowing, that they got told he was dead.

Only later learning that he was declared dead by Urbanshade BUT also declared innocent by the authorities, once he had gotten his file into his fingers uh claws?

Question 1.5: "Wait, but isn't his wife also in Hadal Blacksite, if we consider that in that one ref sheet she seems to have void mass tentacles?"

-> She is currently not in the game as an entity or NPC or whatever. Therefore, we are gonna ignore her existence for the sake of keeping this simpler.

Question 2: "What happened to the ring and photo when they were in Urbanshade? Did Sebastian have them the entire time or not?? Because he didn't have the ring and photo before the Friendly Fire update"

-> Well, there are multiple possibilties to this one. The first idea is yes, Sebastian was able to have them the entire time, and that he didn't wear the ring or have the photo with him can simply be explained as "game's still in development".

Another possibility is that some asshole working at Urbanshade took these two things from him. Maybe a guard or a scientist, because they saw Sebastian with these items, and thought that this death-sentenced, 9-people-murderer LR-P doesn't deserve these items.

And so they disappeared.

Question 2.5: "If someone took them, then how did Sebastian find them??"

-> He simply stumbled upon them during his scavanging through the facility. Like, he probably didn't even actively look for them, because he was just trying to find useful stuff, but then he found these very important items to him.

Question 3: "The ring doesn't make sense. His hands and therefore fingers are larger than normal, how can he have such a large ring."

-> I actually attempted to explain this (and the previous question) with a comic of mine. The simple answer is, he probably made himself a new ring, so that he can wear this symbol of his marriage and find comfort in thinking about his wife.

Question 4: "But shouldn't Sebastian maybe realize that his wife could have moved on? It's been 12 years."

-> This man is running on various things like stress, anxiety, adrenaline, low sleep, and what else you can slap into this poor man during a lockdown that he caused, because he wants to break out. So him being very hopeful about his wife is probably one of the only comforts he currently is able to have. Let him have that.

-> Second answer though, now not ignoring his wife anymore. She is probably just somewhere around in the facility, working together with Sebastian, or Sebastian is working on getting her free from wherever she is contained. Who knows? (Well actually, Zerum does, but we don't. Which is why everything here is my speculations.)

But anyway, now the ring and the photo can make sense, and I can hopefully move to being crazy about other stuff related to him.

Late edit; bonus question:

Question 5: "Okay, let's pretend Zerum is in the facility. How the peck did she end up in the facility too?"

-> Perhaps the photo was the reason. Urbanshade knew this is his wife, and when Sebastian became more hard to deal with, they would threaten him with his wife. Eventuall leading to them bringing her down to Hadal Blacksite (somehow).

And then experiments on her ensued ú_ù

[anxiousdreamcore]

My take on Avatar 3 Spider✨

The fact that Spider will still have his dreads in the next movie didn’t sit right with me so I drew my take on how he could have looked in the next instalment, complete with badass war-paint and stripes, painted on him by the Metkayina villagers💅

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Update: I’m very unsure on the use of red paint here the more I think about it. I’m now aware that the “red eye” look has been used as a stereotype of native Americans and used as ""cosplay"" by some very creepy people, but from my knowledge, no real life tribe uses that exact one-striped face-paint look that we see on Pinterest boards or on corporation logos. Since the design isn’t directly stolen from an existing culture, and I’ve brought some unique design elements, I hope it’s enough to differentiate a fictional character living on an alien planet from real people.

However if it isn’t enough, I would really like to know that so I could delete this post. I’m not comfortable with cultural appropriation, or even treading anywhere near it, especially when it comes to marginalised groups (Eywa knows corporate America is bullying them well enough on its own) so, if you have more knowledge on the subject and believe that this looks insensitive or goes too far into a gray area, PLEASE let me know asap. It’s a beautiful drawing, but in the months after I posted it I’ve learned more about real native cultures, and it’d be hypocritical of me not to pay them respect when the fandom of the franchise I’m in mostly revolves around customs and religions of native people, however fictional.

The last thing I want to be is anything like those "fans" that like the movies and are obsessed with Pandora, but actively buy from SHEIN and choose to turn a blind eye from real, unique groups of people that currently can’t live safely even inside their own reservations.

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(Do not repost my artwork on any other platform, with or without credit. I DO NOT give my consent to do so and I will find out🥰)

[chinchillasinunison]

Now that I've had the night to sleep on it, I'm gonna talk a bit about the new Welcome Home update in context with what we gleaned from the July one.

So, in the previous update, we were introduced to the likelihood of Welcome Home never existing in the first place and pieces of its assumed pop cultural footprint being manifested in the real world by the collective fanaticism for finding it by the WHRP.

So I wonder if, maybe... Sally's story of what happens in their neighborhood at night is that process told from the neighbors' point of view. At night, when their stories end, the visitors come to town, hungry and searching for them. Though they can subsist on whatever they find, their true goal is to gobble the neighbors up, and, as Sally says, they are not quiet about it.

It reminds me a lot of the WHRP's attitude towards finding the show. They are ravenous in their pursuit of information and post whatever new pieces they receive, but they always want more. And they're not quiet about it, as seen in the Halloween news update:

"Our source has yet to send the full book. I don’t understand why. What is it worth to leave it out? Ripping out pages… What a waste. It takes so long to get everything off of them. Still, we’re patient, aren’t we. If you are reading this, please hurry."

And I can't overstate the significance of the finds in this update in this context: cookbook recipes with promotion for cereal and frosting brands, a storybook record that ties into said campaign, and a Halloween costume. Making treats in the shape of the neighbors, devouring their likenesses. Going door-to-door and demanding something "good to eat" as the rhyme goes, wearing a kitschy outfit with a Welcome Home logo slapped on the front. The parallels to the visitors feel pretty obvious. They're consumers.

[wanderingaldecaldo]

In the neverending chain of tags, I was tagged by:

@streetkid-named-desire @ouroboros-hideout @aggravateddurian @luvwich

@ghostoffuturespast @sofia-in-nc @gloryride

Retagging everyone above and also:

@corpo-cunt-couture @breezypunk @rosapexa @olath124 @theviridianbunny

@medtech-mara @fereldanwench @thelonestrider @togepies

Modding

Jeans & Chaps

You might have already seen my latest WIP: VG's bulge highlighted by chaps. I am very invested in Rat's vaquero AU for VG (I don't feel the need to bully him there, what?) and getting garment support working meant I needed to go back to the player jeans and update them with GS.

Tony showing off Ms. Flowers's Valentino jeans with the chaps

Last night I spent time learning how to use the Bulge Detector with Dynamic AXL and I got it working! I also learned something really cool about GS while I was doing it, and I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere.

Clockwise from top left: the "no-bulge" mesh I added for testing showing without GS; both bulge and no-bulge rendering with GS; the "no-bulge" mesh with GS; the bulge mesh with GS.

I want to write up a tutorial on using the bulge detector with Dynamic AXL because it's very different from the existing tutorial, but also Dynamic just makes life easier. I plan on adding a bulge to the flat chest version of the swimsuit I'm working on, so I will write something up then. (WIP list just doesn't get shorter, does it?)

Retro Bathing Suit

Breezy's/@breezypunk summer props got me in the mood for a cute bathing suit, and I found this mesh for a whopping $2! Refits are in progress!

Modding & VP: Pride Edition

Why so blue, Carol? Thanks to Heather/@togepies for the cute pride tee logo!!

I've been wanting to give Carol some custom clothes so she and Hilary can go on dates, but this lady has got some BOOBS. Everything has to be refit for her because she doesn't have a separate chest component that I can hide, just one giant uniboob/upper body submesh. Oh Carol, I know your pain.

Expect to see her (and everyone else) rocking Pride wear soon!

What about you? What are you working on?

Even if I didn't tag you, you can tag me! I love to see what everyone's up to!

[0hmanit]

Some pictures that I scrapped from Videocult's site and various more sites:

Videocult's site didn't receive any major updates since November 25th 2014 (and presumably earlier than that). And is still up to you to visit. "RWbanner" is the background image for the about Rain World box.

This old logo have a slight pinkish hue to it.

This art made by Joar Jakobsson, found on Joar's old portfolio linked in Videocult's site (you have to put it in the Wayback Machine). This is also used as the cover art for this preview that got uploaded on Soundcloud by James 10 years ago.

A couple of images and a gifs from Rain World's Kickstarter (I really recommend you to check it out, it has a lot of cool earlier materials). The slugpup gif made me to believe this could potentially be the origins for the four arena slugcats (or basically Monk, Hunter and Nightcat).

By observing earlier lizard depictions, you can tell that lizards originally had white/color-changing eyes!

The upper image is an earlier screenshot of LF_D04 (from Rain World's official site), it has a lighter tone to it. The lower image is the same room in the current game.

A real tweet made by @rainworldgame (April 28th 2016), by tagging this account I also accidentally learnt about the existence of this tumblr account lol

More about old Rain World tweets

[megamozartx]

Oh hey I updated this image for a game that doesn't exist with some things:

Updated Piano's broom to make it more Wilybot like (based on a birthday card my friend Bee made me)

Added (or tried to) ankle joints to Piano (because she does have them but since I always color her boots solid black they just don't show up)

Added a variant with the logo I made for this game that doesn't exist

Yes this would be called "Forte & Piano" in Japanese but doing that logo all over again with Japanese characters would kill me. I'm not Great at hand-lettering (just imagine there's a "フォルテ & ピアノ" variant)

I may write a script for The Game That Doesn't Exist someday with notes on how it would translate into other languages since there's some Specific Lines that would need that.

But you know.

Anyway.

[thecheshirehouse]

Introducing…The Cheshire House!

This is our logo, drawn by the amazing @aristidetwain!

https://thecheshirehouse.wordpress.com/

The Cheshire House is a new website which will play host to stories from across the Third Universe and beyond — prepare for adventure, mystery, and weird alien shit! 

Featuring the activities of a wide range of characters across several different series, the website shall emerge with six all-new stories and one republished story. 

Founded by Ostara Gale (@a-wartime-paradox), the Cheshire House will feature stories from a wide range of authors, including: Ostara, Elodie Christian (@tvmigraine), Aristide Twain, Theta Mandel (@theangelshavethephonebox), Plum Pudding, Molly Warton (@aquanafrahudy), L. Alves (@drleevezan), Thien Valdram (@thienvaldram), Ryan Fogarty, Xavier Llewellyn, and more!

Above is a digital artwork of Abraytha, the Unbound Scavenger, drawn by the fabulous Holly!

And here is the cover for 'A World of Pure Unimagination', drawn by the awesome Aristide!

Our first seven stories...

The First Metamorphosis is a story of The Interstellar Sleuth, written by Elodie Christian and edited by Ostara Gale & Aristide Twain. The story follows an amnesiac patient’s attempt to escape the terrible Happiness Facility, with their only real clue to their identity a mysterious lottery ticket…

The Carnage of Urmafrae features Lotto and Mae as they investigate the disappearance of a village which has never existed, and learn to live with the consequences… The third story of The Interstellar Sleuth, this story was written by Ostara Gale and edited by Theta Mandel & Aristide Twain.

A Collision of Ships marks a crossover between The Castaways of Ishiok and Zadellin, written by Ostara Gale and edited by Theta Mandel & Aristide Twain. A multiversal traveller and three Archons run into each other —  literally. Their Ships collide. Unsurprisingly, tensions rise as they try to fix their respective Higher Dimensional Ships so they can continue on their adventures.

A Visit from Everywhere is a crossover story between The Castaways of Ishiok and the worlds of Jenny Everywhere, written by Ostara Gale and edited by Theta Mandel & Aristide Twain. When Jenny turns up in Katioka, Abraytha and Xiantio attempt to take her home.

My Name is SAM is a standalone sci-fi short story, penned by Elodie Christian and edited by Ostara Gale. SAM, a true AI based on Mars, sends a letter home. AI should not have a home, but SAM has memories that would beg to differ…

A World of Pure Unimagination by Xavier Llewellyn and edited by Aristide Twain follows Jenny Everywhere and her colossal chocolate craving. On the search for sweets, she finds an infamously awful Chocolate Factory knock-off. But is there something going on that’s more sinister than a simple scam? Jenny won’t leave without answers.

The Cathedral of Winter was originally published in The Book of the Snowstorm, and is Abraytha’s first story. Written by Ostara Gale and edited by Aristide Twain, this story is now available for free digitally in order to make the Unbound Scavenger’s story complete.

You can find us here on Tumblr, and also at CheshireHouseStories on Instagram, as well as Cheshire_House on X/Twitter. You can turn on notifications for this blog to always be notified when a major update occurs, or when new stories are released. We hope you enjoy our stories… Now, get to reading!

[yenayoungblood]

CREDITS MASTERPOST

Curious about who made my existence possible? Here's a regularly updated masterpost!

MODEL

Artist: cluseller

Rigging: UNAGIdonYADE

VBridger: justNovaj

STREAM ASSETS

Starting Soon: LeildBox_08

Starting & Zatsu BGM: morbillion

Overlay & Chat Design: Melonturtle_

Chat Coding: sigmaCW_

Schedule: himonarune

Logo: naku_niwa

Alleyway BG: In-House Team

Motorcycle & Bat Stinger: LeildBox_08

Ending Screen: @LeildBox_08 & In-House Team

LORE VIDEO

Illustrations & Animations: LeildBox_08

Sound Design: jboi

Editor: MotionEcho