#uploading both versions cos i like them both

[idkplzhalp]

Hi guys, here's a long nerdy ramble about my Caroline Portal 2 x Miss Pauling TF2 au/headcanons because I've had thoughts about them for years and TF2 comic 7 awakened it in me again to expand on it further. (This is huge I'm so sorry but I gotta keep my title of biggest CaroPauling shipper and I need to spread my truths). I tried to jam as many facts/reasoning as I could into it because I am Portal lore queen and canon info is so important to me to incorporate.

To start this, both are a bit queercoded (GLaDOS subtext of liking Chell + Pauling lesbian confirmation/subtext) therefore it's nice because they absolutely would get along, relate to each other, and being established as queer makes them fit like puzzle pieces together in my head.

(^ I think Valve artists should keep drawing Caroline so I can continue editing their comic versions together, lol, this is all I got)

I think Pauling after comic 7 should go to work at Aperture Science (since presumably she drops the australium down a trench and is living her life, based on the turkey she sends for the Christmas party- shes made the choice to stop Admins cycle and not be cruel like her) and now lives with Caroline as they run Aperture together being sapphics in loveeee. Also we know Pauling is still unmarried then because she keeps the Ms. term instead of Mrs. on the little card from the turkey (also it's the same last name, obviously). Therefore. Cue Caroline entering the scene, because she's not married either (at least not to Cave).

They could've met during the time of TF2 in 1968 because of the Wheatley Ap-Sap, so maybe they met and got along and then Pauling later remembered Aperture after dumping the australium and was like "Hey this is close enough to working for the Administrator". Like maybe after dumping it, she was left wandering a bit trying to find a place to live and sees a billboard for Aperture which motivates her to go there. She could work as an assistant/bodyguard to Caroline, especially in Caroline's time as CEO, or be taught by her how to work in the lab.

When Cave dies, Pauling could be sad because she knows Caroline could've had similar attachments to him that Pauling did for Admin. So she's A) trying to comfort Caroline while she mourns and B) reliving her own grief from Admin. Maybe trying to convince Caroline to break her own cycle of how Aperture is run or work with her to stop GLaDOS..

If Caroline still gets uploaded to GLaDOS, then have Pauling either A) put in stasis and then later during the co-op tests where they free the humans, GLaDOS tests her and is like "WAIT my wife,,, a woman who wont kill me,, I want her" and now Pauling gets to hang out in GLaDOS' chamber while they test other people, B) keeps the australium to protect it and uses that to live forever alongside GLaDOS, or C) is uploaded into a core, it could be the core in The Lab core calibration game that's late and ran to get to the slingshot test since Pauling and that core share a voice actress (Ashly Burch)! It could be that she has less in-depth functions because we know when a person is uploaded to a smaller computer, they don't retain all their memories or full functionality unless they are then switched to a larger mainframe like GLaDOS/CaveDOS (ex: Cave in Aperture Desk Job, unless we want Lego Dimensions Cave core or Cave cube to count too, which contradicts this). So we could make things tragic and have Pauling not remember anything from her human life/GLaDOS could be unsatisfied because we know she more often has romantic feelings for humans (Chell or if including Lego Dimensions then Batman (from the Jonathan Coulton interview on the end song)) and they're now trying to fix it so they fit together again. Maybe GLaDOS gives Pauling GLaDOS' old mainframe seen in co-op mode.

Though Pauling would have to deal with the personality shift from Caroline to GLaDOS and maybe is scared of her because it reminds her of Admin, although GLaDOS wouldn't be as abusive to her and maybe it adds something because of how almost in love/obsessed Pauling was with Admin (trying to stay with her for so long/thinking Admin isn't that bad/trailing her no matter what). It could be complex because Pauling is fighting memories of past trauma with Admin while trying to maintain her relationship with GLaDOS. Maybe Pauling could bring out Caroline's personality more? Pauling is also a bit like Chell (ex: very determined fighter) therefore I'm just gonna say that's GLaDOS' type aha.

Back to the human versions now. Because Pauling got a first name reveal, Flo, we could have Caroline take on her last name, since we don't know Caroline's last name already. Lesbian marriage solving a name crisis 💀. Caroline Pauling doesn't sound that bad!

I think these two would just work really well together since they've had similar experiences and could support eachother/understand eachother like they haven't had before. To me they're both neurodivergant so I feel they could bond over their interests/teach eachother cool stuff. Like Caroline teaches Pauling science and Pauling teaches her about weaponry. Also they could do the activities that Pauling listed doing with friends "skating, look at gun catalogs". Because of that I used to headcanon that Pauling rollerskates and Caroline ice-skates so they do those together. Also Gargoyles and Gravel! They'd dress up as a wizard and witch together when playing or something haha. Also the assistants clipboard of the year conference Pauling goes to with Bidwell, she could go with Caroline and Greg and they all fight over office supplies as they should be. Maybe Caroline teaches Pauling how to bake!

I think working at Aperture, Caroline either wasn't able to defend herself verbally or wasn't listened to, not really being considered or appreciated by the other employees. She's considered modest so I think she was likely conditioned to not appreciate what she did. She's brilliant and incredibly intelligent but being a woman in that position during that time, she was probably ignored by anyone who wasn't Cave a lot. So I'd like to think if she wasn't being listened to and Cave wasn't around, Pauling could swoop in and tell those people off since she's really blunt and will tell things how it is (like in the tough break update when the guy flirted with her and she told him to leave because she was getting people killed for money), and is now a scary guard dog privilege to Caroline, even if Pauling is still a tiny anxious woman and Caroline can probably fend for herself lol.

Uhhhhh and heck, let's send Cave's other assistant Greg to go help Bidwell and Reddy in running Mann Co. That could be really funny to see, I feel they'd all get along. They're slightly more rational than Hale so I think it would be interesting to see what they do with this insane company!

Okay I'm done now, pls tag me in any CaroPauling posts you see because I'm saving them all to my phone to look at them lovingly, I have a collection lol <3.

[kalpeavaris]

Papaver somniferum

'tis the day of me uploading my finished, although sketchy, design for Poppy in my PPT AU :) While I do not believe that Stella is Poppy in the game, I do made her into an AU-version of Poppy for my own version. Poppy (the doll) does exist, but she is just that: A doll toy, while Stella took inspiration from her design to basically "become" another version of her after she was attacked by 1006. More about her story in the AU can be found down below the break!

Stellas position in Playtime Co. is similar to the game's story: She's in charge of Playcare and well aware of the Bigger Bodies Initiative (BBI) going on. She worked very closely with Elliot, whom she shared a (platonic) friendship with as both of them (at least in their eyes) figured that their doings were meant to benefit children and their love for toys. Though she didn't agree with Harley Sawyers obsession with immortality she did view it as a chance for the Orphans to experience the ultimate "joy" in life.

Little did she know that her doings would just fuel another kind of "joy", more reminescent of "rage" in the experiments that happened under the hands of the BBI. When the Hour of Joy happened, she was cornered in the upper part of the factory by 1006, who in his blind rage injured her before realising who he was attacking. He hesitated before allowing Stella to escape, knowing that she wasn't like the other scientists who worked with the orphans.

Stella barely managed to escape due to her blood loss, but she survived and swore to come back to get revenge on 1006. What she wasn't aware of: 1006 was someone she very well knew, but didn't realize it yet. When she found back to her old strenght she returned to the factory, essentially becoming a new person: "Poppy". Themed after and inspired by the doll that brought Playtime Co. it's fame she swore revenge on 1006 and headed on to find him.

What she did not anticipated was the return of the Protagonist (unnamed) to the factory and essentially killing off key BBIs still roaming the factory Stella/Poppy avoided to the best of her abilities. Seeing an ally in the Protagonist who could help with her plans of revenge she eventually enticed them to follow her deeper into the factory and entering Playcare... where the two of them were encountered by old and new faces and experiments.

[theheartnexttophan]

Philm Club Notes: Liveshow: December 19, 2018

Omg I wrote wayyy too much (and this is the super edited down version) but this was so interesting! I totally cried even knowing that they’re back now. (Also I’m super late with this but just pretend I’m not lol)

* I hadn’t realised how much their humour has changed since 2018

* Dan talking about how he doesn’t like going to his family’s house because it feels like regressing, poor Dan 😢 I hope it’s somewhat better now

* Dan making a big deal about Phil being gone then revealing that he’s going with Phil for a bit, they are soooo

* They’re connecting to Phil’s phones hotspot again, like they mentioned in the last philm club, ✨domestic tidbits✨

* The tree rotated?!? That’s kinda terrifying ngl

* Most popular tumblr answer time ever, nice, it’s the phannie webbed site phorever

* “Filming in front of A bed” PHILLLL

* Awww Dan looks sad about the end of dvp

* them saying they played so much heartthrob over the years, soft launch fr

* Oh no I’m gonna cry here it comes

* Phil looks so sad noooo 😭😭

* Saying they could come back in 3 weeks? 6 months? 52 years? At least they beat that one!

* “Objectively the best five sims videos” “Big life moments” “Close this chapter” 😭😭

* “Giving everyone the dilmas Christmas treat they deserve” Like Dan said in the mukbang 2 that he felt like they had to do the year of giving the people what they want in order to have permission to stop, they really wanted to leave people with the best farewell presents possible

* “This (ending Pinof and Dapg at the same time) wasn’t planned, it’s all just happening at the same time” “For years, the plan has always been to ten” interesting…I wonder when they decided that? Was it after tatinof? Bc they had that whole bit about future Pinof… Did they already know then that they were only going to 10?

* “If we end it now it will always be special” “magical” them calling Pinof magical is sooo 🥺🥺 they knew it had that special energy that wouldn’t be the same for much longer 😭

* “Doing things that make it look like the first Pinof” dan mentioned the walking around with plants like walking around Phil’s house in Pinof 1, I’ve never noticed that!

* “Plenty of recurring series” there are?? What series are they talking about? dan said in 2024 mukbang that the end of 2018 was meant to be the end of dnp, were they just trying to soften the blow here?

* “We could keep baking” Did they ever really plan to?

* Dan: “Personal growth, positive things for mental health, take a moment to pause for yourself and think about what you’re doing and what you sent the future to be”

* Chat: “We just want yall to be happy” I hope they do know that this is still true, like yes we beg for uploads constantly (I’m extremely guilty of this recently lol) but we do want them to be happy before anything else

* “The first day of dilmas is the best one” It’s boys in the big city, awwww I’m gonna cry, that video is soooo, they’re projecting soooo hard, such a soft launch and it’s so sweet and domestic, and probably really nostalgic for them

* “I got myself a coat which Dan hates” why does dans opinion matter huh? They’re cuteeee, married sillies

* “It’s easy for Phil to look cool” with his hair and complexion, yesss Dan compliment Phil!

* Phil looks so pleased with himself for riling Dan up and getting the chat on his side, he’s adorable

* “You didn’t try that hard for me” Phil doesn’t have to try to impress Dan, they can just be themselves with each other 🥹

* Dan complimenting Phil’s mum is sooo cute

My main thoughts are: were they actually believing they’d still film stuff together? (They mentioned baking, mukbang, consistent Dan videos, etc?) Or were they just saying that to keep people from freaking out all at once? I mean later (mukbang 2) dan says that was supposed to be the end, like Dan wanted to kill Dil. Was Dan saying that they’d still do vids together for the audience’s sake? For Phil’s? Or both? Was it that Phil thought maybe they could but Dan knew they were done? Or did they both know and just wanted to leave the audience with hope?

[lucigoo]

Weekly Roundup 1st July - 31st July

As we can tell, im way behind, so it will be a monthly round up until I catch up, and then back to weekly. Especally as I plan to do a mish mosh version of Nano, hoping to write 50,000 words, but finishing as many of my current wips as I can (theres a few)

So, July, I uploaded 8 fics with 19,043 words between them. As aways, recs first and then my fics under the cut <3

The Last to Know - kathkin - The Hobbit (Jackson Movies) (Bilbo/Thorin, its full of fun homour)

Summary: “I think you ought to know,” said Gandalf, “you have eight or nine dwarves courting you.” / "Now, I think I would have noticed!" In which dwarves have a very particular way of courting, Ori thinks Bilbo has a nice bottom, Thorin is an awkward puppy, and Bilbo learns that sometimes actions speak louder than words.

custodial - PenAndInkPrincess - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types (Geralt/Jaskier)

Summary: Ciri finds Jaskier first and Geralt only comes along later

Jaskier is not handling co-parenting well

A Future Together - Slayer_of_Destiny - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types (Geralt/Jaskier)

Summary: When Jaskier ends up at Kaer Morhen for the winter, something unexpected happens when he goes into heat, something that only happens when an Omega is around an Alpha they trust, and somewhere they feel safe. The future after this heat is going to change both Jaskier and Geralt's lives forever.

For Better or For Worse - loflight501 - The Witcher (TV) (Geralt/Jaskier)

Summary: King Geralt wants to end the war with Redania, but the only way to do it is to marry the omega son of his hated foe. Prince Jaskier is thrilled to be free of his abusive father, but isn't optimistic about marrying a king with a brutal reputation.

Chiaroscuro - krabapple - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (Sirius/Remus)

Summary: Remus Lupin returns to Hogwarts as the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor after the Battle of Hogwarts, and finds a year where he and his students struggle with the leftover contrast between light and darkness.

I hope everyone has a wonderful month and my fics are under the cut as promised <3

I have 8 fics for this month uploaded, I hope you all like at least one.

I love you as you are (Sirius/Remus, written for a prompt for the @marauderswithpalestineproject)

Summary: During the war Bella cursed Sirius, now he is a dog hybird. A dog hybrid who hides it from everyone but Remus and Harry in their home.

Now he is stranded in London with no way to get home.

Don't look into my soul if you just want to steal it (Sirius/Remus, Sirius & Regulus)

Summary: Walburga Black wants a perfect heir. Instead she had one ugly child and one willful one.

She will do what she must to make sure neither boy ruins the Black Legacy. No matter the cost to those involved.

Mahal hear my plea. I'm ready for you to take me home with thee! (Gen fic, Dis & Dwalin)

Summary: Dis has survived the Ring War. Her and Dwalin both.

Both are ready to go to the Hall's of Mahal. Both are old and the only one the other has left.

Dis wants to go home to her family. Will Mahal hear her plea?

Fear is a Sickness:Witchers are the cure (Geralt/Jaksier, wirtten for @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt - Fear is a sickness)

Summary: Cirliia is safe, Voleth Meir is gone and yet the surviving Witchers still have to send their fallen brothers off.

So much grief, so much pain, but at least these witchers have a bard to sing them farwell.

Flight of Destiny (Female Sirius/Remus, a fic written for my beloved @brandileigh2003 <3)

Summary: Sirius is finally free of her abusive husband. As a widower she has gone on her first muggle holiday. On the way home she meets the love of her life.

Mahal, Why Have you Forsaken Me? (Gen fic, Dis & her giref)

Summary: Dis is packing up the things of her children's that she will take to Erebor with her. Things they will never need again. Things that are all she has left of them.

Maybe one more, baby? (Sirius/Remus, written for @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt - mybe one more)

Summary: Sirius and Remus are watching their son, Teddy Lupin-Black, as he graduates Hogwarts, their family surrounding them as they do so.

I burn with a smile on my face, for you are safe (Jaskier & Cirilla, unrequented Jaskier/Geralt, written for @flashfictionfridayofficial's prompt run fast and far)

Summary: Jaskier found Cirilla first and he will protect her, no matter the cost

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-11-06

It was Bandcamp Friday so I'll open with a rundown.

Listening: One song per album let's go

Do The Hate by MiSLeD, off TERRORTORIES, a deeply uncomfortable sounding song.

I originally picked up MiSLeD's acoustic album a few Fridays ago and took a while to come around on their unbelievably blunt and hyperlocal style. A sledgehammer through Johannesburg concrete, I have come to love 'em. Do the Hate has an aggressive chant that makes it genuinely kind of uncomfortable to listen to and also extremely fun to yell along with.

The Length of the Chain by Chamber Mage, off their 2022 demo tape and thus far their only album release unless you go see them live.

I picked these guys up off I think the Topic Lords podcast? Solid reliable heavy metal. Can't wait to see their first full album, they're from Denver so if you're from that part of the world definitely find out if they're playing.

All On Fire by Double Sun, from the album of the same name, Pretoria boys playing bluesy punk.

One of the last bands I saw in Johannesburg before I moved. I had the three-part Dead Wreck Beach stuck in my head for a good long while. I'm still not sure what it is about Gauteng that produces so many psychedelic punk bands but I'm not complaining.

Two Jack de Quidt albums, soundtracks from Friends at the Table which I have been getting really into.

First up, The Tower, As Built By The Divine Candidate Chital, from the soundtrack for COUNTER/weight, meditative track to match the meditative and still incomplete two-player game The Tower.

Apperances of The Tower in F@TT games are always great. It's a game that the GM and composer have been working on forever and they get really, really into it.

Next, gotta be Marielda, from the season of the same name. The clarinet from this is so memorable.

The intro tracks to every game are obviously the ones you hear the most, and they're all bangers.

All Through the Night [Patrick's Version], from the Titus Andronicus demotape for their most recent album The Will to Live. Rough cuts from studio sessions.

I adore The Will to Live, when I'm honest I really don't care much for most of Titus Andronicus's work other than The Monitor and now The Will to Live. These are good at capturing what I like about live performances: performers going ham and not necessarily performing well but definitely performing the most.

And lastly, Threshold from sungazer, off the album Perihelion. This was an experimental piece combining rhythms at both extremes of human perception, with the overall rhythm of the song being as slow as possible with individual bars being impossibly fast.

There's a whole Adam Neely video on it, because he's one part of sungazer.

Alright on to the rest of the show:

Reading: Back into The Count of Monte Cristo, rapidly seeing the roots of many other stories I've read crystalize into this genre, most notable Eoin Colfer's Airman.

Watching: The various Hackaday talks that have been uploaded over the past week, some good ones lately like A Hacker's Guide to Audio and Video Formats.

Playing: on Saturday evening I finished making dinner and sat down to play Titanfall 2 from the start because for some reason my save was incomplete and I figured I'd just start over. And then it was two in the morning and I had beaten Titanfall 2. Great game.

Making: Abortive attempts at designing some adapters for my vacuum cleaner because I realized I took my reference images wrong and had to start over, fortunately before I wasted any filament.

Also Hack Week at work, so I'm working on some original code with two much, much more experienced python developers, which if nothing else is a good learning experience.

Tools and Equipment: Modern text editor configuration systems can be rigged to almost completely bootstrap themselves if given an internet connection. You should use this to your advantage. I use lazy.nvim in bootstrap mode now and it's so easy.

Side note, nvim's lua configuration mode is real nice, major improvement over vimscript when you want to do anything complicated. Sorry Tim Pope.

[reiyuine]

Intro Post

Hi ^^

I'm rei, or I also sometimes go by qys/QiuYue/ShenQiuYue. Pronouns are she/her.

Art blog is @rei-qys where I post drawings/sketches and other writing if I ever get round to it lol (no reblogs on there so it looks much cleaner cos this blog is a MESS).

i will probably rarely post things and reblog A LOT, but hey, who says that won't ever change.

If you want to know more about me, check under the cut :))))

My other accounts: - Discord (qy_s337625) - Instagram (s.qiuyue195242) - AO3 (Rei_YuiNe)

Um. I draw (both digital and traditional but I only draw digital fanarts and yh, traditional are all like more serious pieces so no uploading those ^^) and I write... sometimes. Although they might be shit (writing and drawings) please don't steal because morals and what's even the point. So, those will be the main things I post about.

In terms of tags, I'll use #gallery (rei's version) for art and #notebook (rei's version) for writing. If I'm just shitposting, well that will be under #bullshit (rei's version).

I am in a lot of fandoms, some more so than others: - LOTM (I'm still reading the original so all I know currently is Ting Gen arc) - QQGK (Which I have finished, and yes I ship 154 and 922 - 91 not 19 mind you) - GHG (Still reading original as well lol) - BSD (keeping up with updates although its kinda faded a little) - Blue Lock (although I don't keep up with the manga or anime anymore, I'm just waiting for new ReoNagi content cos hehe) - The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother - Genshin Impact (although I stopped playing since Fontaine came out, but I've been keeping up with characters, plot line and art stuff cos the fanartists are so fucking talented) - HSR (never played it but RATIORINE like pls) - ALNST - Other manhuas/manhwas/mangas/games/etc that I am also in but can't list off the top of my head. I will add to the list when I do remember.

Of course, also into various classical and modern literature (after all, where else do I find inspiration for my writing). Being an art student as well (sigh), of course, modern and classical art is also an interest of mine, so come talk to me about anything related :DDDD

Shoutout to @yuinerei @ilyfynn @theembergazer heehee, love u all. If you do happen to read up to here, go check them out cos they're my freaky little guys ^^

[ilaac-art]

Hello again,

Thank you for answering me previously, your zed model is indeed awesome ^^ he's indistinguishable from the real model!

May I ask did you rip the game models yourself for the others or use someone else's upload? Did you use the models resource ones by slipsy?

I only ask cos I'd like to try my hand at some funny little animations with the characters as well and have nowhere near the modeling prowess to make them myself 😅

A million thanks if you can give me any leads 🙏

The answer to this one is... both! When we only had the PS5 version of the game, I used the models uploaded by Slipsy, but once the game was released on PC, I ripped them myself. It makes no difference, the PS5 and PC models and textures are the exact same

[randomvarious]

1990s German Trance Playlist (YouTube)

Chicago had house, Detroit had techno, and with both of those world-changing dance genres managing to resonate so profoundly throughout much of Europe, you just knew that that continent was gonna then take all that inspiration from those two styles and eventually create something of their own that could stick too. And the big genre that they came up with was trance, which in its earliest days, was heavily nurtured like no other in the city of Frankfurt, Germany.

Now, although he's not strictly known as a trance musician or DJ, it's safe to say that trance music would not exist in its current form if it weren't for the legendary Sven Väth. Sven, a native of Frankfurt, co-founded Harthouse Records in the early 90s with some other folks, and that label would then prove integral to both the rise and spread of trance and hard trance. Sven was someone who had spent many a vacation in the party capital of the world, Ibiza, Spain, and he had also been to the tiny, coastal Indian state of Goa as well, where the beach parties there had DJs spinning all sorts of psychedelic tunes in order to induce their revelers into a state of trance 😵.

And Harthouse's first release was a trance record by Sven himself, along with his trusty sidekick Ralf Hildenbeutel, who seemed to have more of the technological knowhow in order to make Sven's ideas into a reality. Together, under the name of Barbarella, they released "My Name Is Barbarella," a 1992 song that sampled a line of dialogue from the French-directed Jane Fonda sci-fi flick that they had taken their own name from, and also sounded deeply inspired by Ibiza as well. As an undisputed early trance classic, the 9-plus minute version of this one is currently sitting at over 163,000 plays across a bunch of different uploads on YouTube, and it's the song that kicks off this little ten-song playlist here.

And right after "My Name Is Barbarella" then came another Harthouse classic: "Spectrum," by Metal Master, which was a duo that Sven Väth was also a part of, along with one of Harthouse's other co-founders, Matthias Hoffmann. The record that this song comes from, Vol. 1, is the one that started to establish Harthouse's harder edge towards trance, as its first Barbarella release was actually a much softer affair. True to the name that they'd given themselves, Sven and Matthias seem to have incorporated some metal guitar into this one, in the form of long, atmospheric, and distorted chords, which when combined with string synths, really manage to cinch the whole song together, making for quite an astounding piece of dance music 🤩. Currently nearing 112,000 plays with its multiple uploads on YouTube.

But while those two tracks are wholly important in the history of trance music, I also bring them up here because Sven Väth's other halves from both of those duos happen to have trance tunes of their own that are excellent too. Ralf Hildenbeutel had a song that's really hard to believe was made all the way back in 1993—because it sounds so much more modern!—called "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)," which he released as Progressive Attack. As its title suggests, this one is indeed hypnotic, as well as deep, and more than any tune in this playlist that precedes it, also feels like a blueprint for what trance would soon become. And across multiple YouTube uploads, it currently has under 18,000 plays.

And Matthias Hoffmann's contribution is simply one of the most breathtaking pieces of trance that I've ever heard in my life. Back in 1994, he released a song as Brainchild called "Symmetry (C-Mix)," which was put out on another label that he and Sven Väth had also helped co-found called Eye Q Records, which was closely associated with Harthouse itself. Then in '99, "Symmetry C" was re-released on Multiply Records, a subsidiary of UK label Telstar, and on it came a whole bunch of remixes, including a "Breakbeat Remix" that was done by the UK's Lange. And this is a tune that currently brings the whole playlist full circle too, as it serves as the final song while also taking us back to trance's origin point of Frankfurt. Currently sitting at over 341,000 YouTube plays across many different uploads.

Now, we're almost done here, but I'd be remiss if I didn't, at the very least, make mention of a few more tracks on this thing, all of which come courtesy of Hardfloor, a duo from Cologne, who, although they'd become more known for their techno prowess, applied their mastery of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer (the machine that yields electronic music's famed acid squelch) to some trance tracks, including "Trancescript" and "Into the Nature," both of which appear on their acclaimed 1993 debut album, TB Resuscitation. "Trancescript" is currently at under 85,000 plays and "Into the Nature" has over 130,000. And I also included an excellent remix that they did of Chicago native Robert Armani's "Circus Bells" as well, which currently has over 146,000 plays.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Barbarella - "My Name Is Barbarella" Metal Master - "Spectrum" Hardfloor - "Trancescript" Hardfloor - "Into the Nature" Robert Armani - "Circus Bells (Remixed by Hardfloor)" Marco Zaffarano - "For My Love" Progressive Attack - "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)" Paul van Dyk - "Words (PvD's Words for Love Mix)" Pitchrider - "I Know" Brainchild - "Symmetry C (Lange Breakbeat remix)"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music too.

So with this opening shot, we start with ten songs that clock in at a total of 75 minutes; a bunch of classic, historic tunes along with some that have lower play counts too.

And next week will not be nearly as much of a cohesive history lesson, but I'm planning on revisiting these German 90s with a slate of favorite techno bangers 👀.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[isabellebissonrouthier]

Hi!! I found your blog recently and I absolutely love it! It gives me so much inspiration to keep on writing, so thank you so very much!!!

I do have a question (and I'll understand if you ignore it if you find it to be ridiculous) but I'm curious about how you felt about the whole process of self-publishing?

As someone who does not have a single clue about the first thing of self-publishing and sometimes dreams of publishing their own work, that whole ordeal seems very scary and confusing. So I thought it would be interesting to see from the perspective of someone who already went through it.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my question and I wish you all the best!!! :D

I hope this hasn't been sitting in my inbox for long cos I only just noticed it!!!

It's actually incredibly simple to self publish through Amazon!!!

You pretty much just have to make an Amazon KDP acount and it guides you (their help page is absolutely massive, like step by step guides for pretty much everything)

But basically you upload your formatted manuscript (they have a free tool for that called kindle create, incredibly simple) and your cover file (they give you all the measurements needed), and you fill in all the details and set a date and BAM

It can be both an ebook and a paperback!!

The only costs with self publishing on Amazon are absolutely optiona

Cover designing and professional editing are the big ones, and frankly you don't have to do either

Then, there's also the ISBN. Basically a number assigned to each version of your book. They provide free ones, but if you want to eventually self publish elsewhere too, you have to buy your own

I was terrified myself but it's acc so easy. The only advice I really have is to build some kind of social media presence beforehand so people will actually know about and buy the book. That part is the most painful imo, but I also love it agdhhdd

Amazon just takes a percentage of the cost of the book (it's the majority), so you don't directly pay them anything at all

Do not give up on your dreams!! It's so much easier than I'd ever expected lmao

[ohbo-ohno]

20 questions for fic writers

thankssssss @ceilidho for the tag <333 i'll tag anyone who sees this and wants an excuse to do it lmao (also @vanderilnde)

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

a measly 10

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

a less measly 215,864

3. What fandoms do you write for?

call of duty!!! + a couple wips from a couple scattered fandoms, but really just cod

4. Top five by kudos.

kinktober, don't leave me locked in your heart, i'll eat you whole, run until you feel your lungs bleeding, and then my collection of x reader drabbles

5. Do you respond to comments?

i kinda wish i did more, and i usually respond to my friends! but tbh i noticed when i first started posting that i would feel like crazzzyyyy guilty if i didn't respond to every comment, so i decided it was better to respond to none. also i kept saying the exact same things again and again

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

personally i think it's either "run until you feel your lungs bleeding" or "i'll eat you whole", just because i feel like both of those have my meanest version of ghost? so it feels angstiest to leave johnny/reader with him lmaoo

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

ummmm maybe my price x reader meet cute drabble? or this kinktober gaz x reader? could be this 141 x reader kinktober drabble?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

no!!! not on ao3! i've gotten a few comments here and there that are pretty clearly making fun of me, but never a straight up capital-h Hate comment

9. Do you write smut?

exclusively

10. Craziest crossover.

couldn't do it, sorry!!! however if someone out there wants to write a moon knight x hannibal crossover where will is one of marc's alters, link it to me and i'll give you my life savings

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of? but i've had at least one uploaded into an ai bot, which i count as stealing personally

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

not that i know of!

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

i have not! i would be totally totally willing to, if i could get over my personal crazy low writing self-esteem lmaoo

14. All time favorite ship?

klaus and caroline from the vampire diaries and it's not even close. i don't think it's a lie to say i've read over 600 fics of them. they're my everything

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

an old abandoned konig x reader. gave up on it about 2.3k

16. What are your writing strengths?

i genuinely could not tell you lmaoo. i've got a really negative view of myself so i have a crazy difficult time evaluating my strengths and weaknesses!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

i really struggle with anything that doesn't actually lead to sex, as much as it makes me sound like a gooner lmaoo. i have a hard time moving Plot along without it feeling super obvious that that's what i'm trying to do

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

i hate hate hate when it's not translated immediately. sorry, even when the perspective character isn't supposed to know, i get really annoyed when i don't know what a character is saying lmao

19. First fandom you wrote in?

god, maybe shadowhunters? i tried my hand at writing a few pages for pretty much everything i liked when i was younger, so i'm really not sure what was really the first one. could be shadowhunters, grey's anatomy, five night's at freddy's, harry potter, percy jackson.... any one of those is totally possible

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

it's probably my least popular fic but i wrote a werewolf soap x monster hunter ghost drabble that i still love so much. but i also really really love i'll eat you whole still :)

[project-sekai-facts]

I'm going to break character on this one so badly sorry guys. D4DJ and localisation in one post makes me do the neuron activation gif.

Weronika is an unusual choice as you said, normally ヴェロニカ would be translated as Veronica. As you said, Weronika is a possible localisation of ヴェロニカ, and it is an actual name (it's the Polish version of Veronika), although there's nothing to suggest that Weronika is polish in the game and as far as we know at the moment she's 100% American. The name sticks out a lot from the other Abyssmare names (ik there's Neo but the name ties in with her arc and I think that was on purpose), so I think it might've been picked on the basis of "sounds foreign" and also she kinda has a wolf-themed outfit so maybe they thought it sounded like werewolf.

Haya-coco is the official romanisation here's a screenshot

I'm not a localisation expert or have any actual traning in the matter outside reading the blogs about Ace Attorney localisation and a language qualification from high school, but something I've noticed is that こ or コ (both "ko") are quite often localised as "co". An example would be the Yazawa sisters from Love Live: Nico, Cocoro, Cocoa. In hiragana, their names are spelt にこ, こころ and ここあ, which if you were to romanise them exactly, would be Niko, Kokoro, and Kokoa. Their younger brother Cotaro has his name written in Kanji, but again it would normally be localised as Kotaro or Kotarou. The C is probably just to make it look more "Western", since a lot of english names use a C to make a K sound, such as Cate or Caiden.

Another example of making names sound more Western is when Rs are localised as Ls, because Japan doesn't have an L. An example would be Arale from that bandori vtuber project that never happened, whose name is written as あられ (Arare).

Sometimes names are straight up turned into English ones through localisation such as Eli, Sarah and Leah from Love Live, whose names are actually the Japanese names Eri, Seira and Ria, which just so happen to be the usual phonetic spellings of the names they are given in the official localisation. Happens even in Vocaloid with Len and Luka, whose names are actually the Japanese names Ren and Ruka (no source for this but if you think about it enough why are their names english when everyone else is Japanese? it's not like the others have Kanji/Hiragana names - all the cryptonloids have names in kana - so my theory is that they just did it to make them sound cool. if anyone has a source to disprove this hmu i barely know shit about vocaloid despite running a project sekai blog).

Anyway that got offtopic, back to the letter C. I think Ichica was maybe a localisation that was considered by staff at one point. As I said, using a C instead of a K is not out of the question. However I think in this instance it was a mistake, since they'd already confirmed the official romanised names at this point. Someone probably just uploaded the file with the wrong name by accident.

On the Japanese Project SEKAI website, some image files spell Ichika's name as "Ichica". The file for her chibi SNS icon and SNS icon border both use this spelling.

It's possible that Ichica was the original intended localisation of her name, but it seems unlikely since her name is spelt as Ichika in the Leo/need trailer.

[lenaoxton]

it was love at first set

commission by @rewhined !

[thebibliosphere]

Welcome to the blog of international bestselling author Joy Demorra, aka the Crucifix Nail Nipples Editor.

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Set in a pseudo-regency meets fake-Victorian Gaslamp Fantasy world, complete with gothic castles, enchanted forests, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust. Phangs has been described as "like reading the queer, goth love child of Terry Pratchett meets Jane Austen," and no amount of marketing buzzwords I say can ever top that.

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[nightswithkookmin]

I MADE MY OWN VERSION DJ

Why are they staring into each other's eyes😣😣😣

Tae my supreme boy😭😭😭😭

I made my own version because I like to save natural photos of Jimin in my camera roll🙄

Overly edited photos of him, as beautiful and artistic as they are, makes me feel I dreamed him in my head.

It's why I love Tae's blurry and Jingi's candid photos🙈

Who posted????

Can't tell you an answer....

But I'm gonna share with you my thought process especially on their posting habits.

Jimin likes to tag his posts and post cute heartwarming vulnerable messages such as "I want to visit this place again" it shows you his feelings, his sentimental nature, and his ability to share his deepest feelings. That's the opposite of JK whose messages as heartfelt as they may be come off as one word one phrase generic headings.

Also, when he tends to double post. When he posts on Twitter he posts on Weverse most times. It's how you know staff do be posting like him something cos they forget his habits. I think sometimes too he forgets but will upload to the second platform later on.

His last known actual post like this is this

On both Twitter anf Weverse.

The last time he posted to Twitter which sparked conversations on whether staff had posted for him and hours later he posted to Weverse. I found that sus but whatever.

And most often he's posting after JM or vice versa. I like to think JM hits him at the back of his head when he forgets to post a thank you note to Army following an event.

Like this

He posted this to Weverse hours/ a day after Jimin had posted a series of messages to Twitter expressing his joy at a major event. All the members came out to express their joy.

It's almost a tradition. He posts when he's really happy💀 If we make them happy they share their appreciation.

With these kinda posts, it's rare that he posts the same message twice because the way he uses Weverse is different from how he uses Twitter. He uses Weverse to interact with fans, when he wants to read fan feedback etc.

Twitter serves a different function for him in my opinion but lets not get into that today.

The second thing I've observed is how he's stopped using his official tags- JKK, JK in recent posts- not that he posts often to begin with.

And it's interesting to me how JM uses guggie instead of JK's official tags in his posts with him.

Jimin not only tags his posts, but he likes to tag the people in photos with him. Jk, moni etc.

In conclusion, I think this post was made by JK or Tae🙄

I vote strongly on Tae since he's online and posted not too long ago. He has a habit of hording stunning photos of JM and the order in which he posted the photos was sus. Jimin, Jikook, him, scene.

If it's him i love how wholesome he is, they've all been lately with their Vminkook agenda. It's healthy seeing them act like they are in a polyamory with each pair making room for the other pair to thrive. It shouldn't be Jikook over VMin all over Tae kook.

I love seeing how close Tae Kook. This is them. This is their dynamic. They are close too. Tae is able to say when he misses Jimin but what happens when he misses JK too because that's his partner in crime😒

Tae and Jimin are lowkey lesbeans and so I can see how either of them will post a heading like that to a photo.

I didn't believe JM for a second when he said he was alone- as if Jk will let him go all by himself😫

but like why would you say that when you know you wasn't💀

So messy.

Now your soulmate don exposed you😴

My left brain says JK posted this too for some reason. It feels like something JK will do always outing Jimin like😖

Jimin will spill TMI tea no one asked for about JK sneaking to his room at 1am but he draws the line at letting us know he went to see the ocean with him🤣

I respect that.

Also are yall thinking what I'm thinking???😏

GOLDY

[randomvarious]

1990s Trance Playlist

Got a couple sweet adds for this 90s trance playlist that I haven't updated in a while, with both of them coming from a source that some people might think a tad unlikely: the catalogue of Guerilla Records.

Co-founded in 1990 by the great William Orbit, Guerilla would not become chiefly known for its trance output, but for playing an indispensable role in the development, growth, and spread of progressive house instead, long before that genre would become a predominant 'sound of the dance underground' in the late 90s and 2000s, with mix series like Boxed Records' own Global Underground selling like relative hotcakes.

But here's the tangled-web thing about early 90s electronic music and progressive house and trance in general: that part of the decade had some Wild Western attributes to it when it came to not only categorizing, but producing music itself. You would see overlap between genres within the same song, and you would see people who didn't know any better using words like techno and house interchangeably too. Everything was always changing and so fluid. When genres were in their earliest days, no one had even really realized it yet, and no one had a name for it, so it got categorized as the thing it sounded most like, rather than the new thing it actually was, and it was because there was no generally accepted name yet for the thing that it actually was. And to complicate matters even further, progressive house and trance already have similarities between them, so it's not all that uncommon to see songs get labeled as either-or, which really came to a head at a certain point when some DJs started to just say that they were 'progressive,' rather than fleshing out what kind of progressive they were, because regardless of what they would end up declaring themselves as, they played essentially pretty similar types of music anyway.

So all of this is to say then, that even though Guerilla was a premier progressive house label, a natural byproduct of it was some killer trance tunes as well. And sometimes it just happened as one of those either-or cases, and other times it was a far more deliberate thing, like when one of the remixes on a 12-inch was clearly a trance tune done by a trance act.

But the Guerilla tunes I have for this week feel more trancey to me than they do prog-housey. And they're both midtempo early 90s bangers: UK duo Spooky's "High On Hedonism" mix of UK duo Dr. Atomic's "Schudelfloss," and UK duo Lemon Sol's "Deep Blue" mix of their own "Aquamarine." Guerilla itself actually referred to its own strain of progressive house as 'dub-house' back then, and with these tunes being both slower than your typical trance ones and their infusions of dubby basslines, you can definitely see where the label was coming from with that specific term. But regardless of tempo, if the final two minutes of a song with over 56.6K plays like "Schudelfloss" don't sound like trance of any type to you, then I dunno what to tell you, because that's very clearly what they are.

Dr. Atomic - "Schudelfloss (High on Hedonism mix)" Lemon Sol - "Aquamarine - Deep Blue mix"

But with the YouTube version of this playlist, I was able to add both those songs, plus a few more that can't be found on Spotify too, some of which come from the Guerilla catalogue as well. We have UK duo Ernie & Bert's steadily beating and calmly hypnotic and hazy 1992 "Travelling at the Speed of Light" mix of UK duo Euphoria's "Mercurial," which currently has around 68.4K plays across a handful of uploads on YouTube, and we also have the eminent duo of John Digweed & Nick Muir—aka Bedrock—providing their mix of "Intoxication," a song originally done by a UK act called React 2 Rhythm, who both Ernie & Bert happened to be members of too. The original version of "Intoxication" came out in '91, but in '97, another UK progressive house label called Jackpot seemed to get ahold of the Guerilla catalogue, and had artists create new remixes for a bunch of their classics, including this one, which, despite the name recognition of a dynamic duo like Digweed and Muir, only currently has over 3.6K plays on YouTube across a few different uploads 😮.

Euphoria - "Mercurial" Maxxtor - "Signals" Earth Nation - "Educated (Untouched Mix)" React 2 Rhythm - "Intoxication (Nick Muir & John Digweed's Bedrock mix)"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So with this new update we now have 20 songs on Spotify that clock in at 163 minutes, but over on YouTube, we're now at 31 songs that clock in at 257 minutes. So if you want more trance gems and jams that aren't as easy to find, give the YouTube one a listen!

And here's the growing list of comps and mixes I've used to compile this playlist so far:

Harthouse Retrospective Part 1 - 4 (1998, Harthouse) Jackpot Presents Guerilla by Phil Perry & Danny Howells (1997, Jackpot) California Dreaming (1994, Internal / FFRR) The Warehouse Remixes (1994, Djax-Up-Beats) La Collection (1994, Fnac Music Dance Division) Spundae Presents Interpretations by Jerry Bonham (1998, Spundae) Stars of Europe: A Trip in House, Trance, and Goa (1998, Hypnotic Records) The Dance Floor Chemist (1997, Hypnotic Records) The Uncertain Future - The Fourth Barramundi Sampler (1996, Barramundi / Antler-Subway) Trilogy, Part One: Empire by Christopher Lawrence (2000, Moonshine Music) Essential Selection, Vol. One by Fatboy Slim & Paul Oakenfold (2000, London Records 90) Perfecto Presents Another World by Paul Oakenfold (2000, London-Sire Records / Perfecto Records)

An update to a 90s London playlist next week!

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

FNAFSB-Ruin FanArt: Sunny Is Emma’s Weird Protective Dad

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Credit for FNAF series goes to Scott Cawthon

Credit for FNAF: Security Breach Ruin DLC goes to Steel Wool Studios

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we don’t know what the new main character’s name will be,

so her true name is hidden by using [REDACTED],

but her fan name is “Emma”,  named after the daughter Delilah would of had, who she would of called Emma  that is from Five Nights At Freddy's Fazbear Frights #3: 1:35 A.M....

so until we get news about what her name is, I’m gonna call her Emma.

I found out about this on May 31, 2022, so I did a Fan-Art of it.

don’t know which Animatronic will be this little girl’s adoptive parent figure.

one of the candidates would be Sunny/Moony, Bonnie, Foxy, Roxy, Monty, Chica and or the Staff-Bot that gives out Maps.

if Roxy, Monty and Chica are still corrupted, then the adoptive parent role

might go to Sunny/Moony, Bonnie, Foxy and or any other Animatronic.

if Gregory gets Freddy as his Faz-Dad, then Emma should as well.

where I first found out about this was on Youtube, and then I ended up sometime later after that, and it seems to be canon.

the outfit that Emma wears in this, might only match the teaser by maybe a little bit and the official colors of the outfit might be slightly different.

since I don’t know what her eye color will be like, I decided to go with the classic adorable hair-bangs covering the eyes thing.

she can still see through the bangs covering her eyes.

it be interesting if when Monty, Roxy and Chica came back to their original selves, they had to split themselves off from their original bodies (that the corrupted versions of them take full control of after they leave.)

and upload themselves into new Endoskeletons and even put on non-broken suits that look just like their original Glamrock suits.

if the ship between Roxy and Chica turned out to be canon,

and they both become guardians to Emma, we could view it as her having Two Moms....even if that might not happen in the canon, we can always have it in Fanon.

it’s awesome that the DLC that “Emma” will be appearing in, will be Free...

if it comes out Free for Xbox One as well, I might be able to play it.

not sure if I will be able to get it on the PS4...

plus I do plan to get the Xbox One version when it comes out,

so long as it isn’t the download version, and it is put in a game case like the PS4 and PS5 version....

I’m going to hope someday that once Yandere Simulator is fully completed,

it will get it’s own game case and card  like Doki Doki Literature Club Plus.

I’m going to play Yandere Simulator later after I post this and checkout some FNAF Fan Art on here.

and in case it might be hard to see what Sunny is saying,

I will say that he is saying “Don’t Come Near Me Or My Star-Angel, Again.”

and Emma’s thoughts are of course saying “My New Dad Is Weird.”

but anyone could see what Sunny and Emma are saying and thinking in this drawing, if they click on the drawing to make it bigger, so that’s good.

Sunny calling her both Starlight, Sunbeam and Star-Angel, just seem like something he would do.

and Moony would call her Starlight, Moonbeam and Star-Angel.

in this drawing, Sunny & Moony would be Emma’s Two Dads...

but right now, Sunny is in control and protecting their little starlight.

if Monty had the same open stomach thing as Freddy,

and had his body repaired, he could probably protect and Co-Parent Emma with Sunny/Moony.

Sunny/Moony & Monty Co-Protect Emma does seem like a interesting concept.

as to who Sunny is telling to stay away from Emma, it can be anyone’s guess.

it be funny and cute if he goes into panic parent mode

and yells out “WHERE’S MY BABY?!!”, while this happens, Moony tries to get him to calm down and try to reassure him that they will find Emma.

even if Emma/[Redacted] might have a different guardian,

and we don’t know who they will be or if they will be Sunny/Moony or if they will be one of the other Glamrock Animatronics.   

 if it turns out that Glamrock Bonnie is still alive, then maybe he will be the guardian for the new main character for FNAF Security Breach Ruin DLC.