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tittytania · 2 months ago

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🚨PLEASE HELP SAVE LUCKY THE CAT FROM HEARTBREAKING ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AND STOP A MAJOR PUBLICATION FROM PROFITING OFF OF ANIMAL ABUSE🚨

Back in August, The Cut (@thecut), an online division of New York Mag (@nymag), published a story by an anonymous woman who, after giving birth to her baby, started to despise her cat Lucky and chose to abuse her, including starving her and leaving her to live in filth.

Some selections about Lucky from the article:

Obviously, openly admitting to chilling animal abuse did not go over well with The Cut's readers. People were rightfully outraged at both the anonymous writer and the magazine for publishing the article and profiting off of animal abuse. After the predictable backlash, The Cut put the article behind a paywall and added an editor's note to the beginning, claiming that they confirmed the welfare of the cat prior to publication. (Here is an archived version without the paywall. Look at a more recent capture to see the note that was added.) The magazine also made a post to their Instagram about the situation, reiterating their claim of confirming Lucky's safety and health. They are limiting comments on their socials to remove comments that relate to the backlash about Lucky's abuse, and they are blocking accounts that comment on it. A screenshot of the Instagram post is below.

(note: I cannot confirm or deny the claims of racism and misogyny. I have not seen anything like that myself, but someone on reddit claimed they saw a person call the anonymous woman's behavior "white woman bullshit." That is the extent of what I have heard on that. I also cannot comment on the claims of abuse and threats towards the staff).

Clearly, The Cut's claims about Lucky's welfare are bullshit. The resolution of the article ends with the author saying simply "I haven't fallen back in love with Lucky, but it could still happen. I'll shut the windows til then." According to the article itself, Lucky is still in the home with an owner who is abusing her, an owner who has, and I quote, "an unwillingness... to change anything about (the abuse)." By definition, this means Lucky's welfare is not being probably cared for. You cannot claim that Lucky is ok when her owner already said that she is abusing her and is unwilling to stop the abuse. New York Mag is hiding behind activism buzzwords to protect an animal abuser and shelter themselves from the justified backlash to their publication's choices so they can continue to profit off of animal abuse.

Please please please help to get a real update about Lucky's condition.

What can I do?

There is a change.org petition requesting a real update about her, which as of writing has over 17,000 signatures. You can also reach out to the magazines' staff and demand a real update from them. Their emails are listed below:

The email of Jim Bankoff, the Chairman and CEO of vox media (which owns New York Mag) is [email protected]

Here is an email template that you can follow.

You can also report online animal abuse to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) here.

If you are in New York, you can contact the 311 website or call 1-800-577-TIPS (1-800-577-8477) to report ongoing online animal abuse or neglect.

The Instagram account @lucilletherescuecat has a story highlight where she has posted several resources in addition to the ones mentioned here.

My heart deeply aches for poor Lucky, who cannot understand why the human she loves has changed so drastically. Why her life changed from daily brushies and pillow snuggles to being ignored and starved. She used to have her own space heater, and now she doesn't even have water. I'm devastated at the thought of how heartbroken and miserable she must be. Her owner even admitted that she would be in jail if she did this to a person. While I doubt this will result in a jail sentence, we can at least make sure that Lucky is rehomed to place where she is properly cared for.

Please share and encourage others to do the same, using the #SAVELUCKYTHECAT hashtag. Thank you so much for reading.

#animal abuse #animal activitim #saveluckythecat #signal boost #save lucky the cat

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amelias-zelda-calamity-quintet · 3 months ago

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Amelia's Zelda Calamity Quintet Resource List

Hi there, I'm Amelia (she/they). You may also know me as Hart or Echo (my old handle was echosound). This is a master post of links for my works as well as all the tags I use on this blog. This post will be pinned on the blog and I will update it as needed so check back if there's something new.

You can find my profiles here: AO3 - Wattpad

Expanding Hyrule Community Discord (16+)

Quick FAQs

Is this a main blog? This is a side blog, my main is @amelias-hart. To keep this blog mostly to fic updates and as a reference tool, I reblog LoZ stuff on my main, to include art and fics.

Can I draw fanart of your characters? Yes, absolutely. I should clarify. You are more than welcome to draw art based on the descriptions in my fics and the resources I put out for them. I work with other artists though for most of my character art. If you are going to use those designs, make sure you're familiar with their opinions on fanart.

What kinds of LoZ fics to you write? All of my fics are fully original legend and long form stories. My average chapter length is 3k and the shortest of my fics (not in a series) is currently drafting to be like 100 chapters.

How adult/mature are they? It ranges, but typically it's pretty tame. I don't really handle gore and explicit scenes, and I'm not a fan of dark fantasy generally as a writer. If fics are rated adult/mature, it's typically because the characters are largely adults.

Is there romance? We're on that Zelink train, absolutely! There are no explicit scenes, again, so the range here is fluff (GoS, RA) to some more mature flirting with some innuendo being about the most serious content (DAD). Maybe a more intense kissing scene once the slow burn gets through to that (MoaH).

How do you write so much? Autism baby. Got that clinical hyperfocus going.

Do I need to read your fics in a certain order? No, all of them are stand alone but they do share a linked timeline in the following: GoS -> MoaH -> RA -> CoL -> DAD (And honestly it's really just GoS and MoaH with any "serious" timeline lore connections)

What's the Convergence? To the previous point, it's referring to GoS any time it comes up. Really only a thing in MoaH and MoaH does try to explain it within the text.

Will add more as they come up. If it's not here, it's probably below. If not, send it as a reply or an ask and I'll add it!

Other Custom Tags List

#originallegends/#lozoriginallegends - Pending community tag for Legend of Zelda fics about original iterations of Hyrule. Check out @expanding-hyrule for more details.

#moahmemes - This is for memes and quotes redone with the MoaH cast for fun, mostly for character exploration and cause it's funny.

#moah worldbuilding - In character worbuilding snippets about various topics for the MoaH era of Hyrule.

Open Ask List

I'm always open to asks, but I have a few prompts I figured I'd throw out if y'all want ideas.

Web: Asks for an update to the MoaH Obsidian web

WIPWednesdays: I'll post a snippet of MoaH, very likely will contain spoilers for a later part/book than is out.

Star: I'll give ya a random factoid about something in one of my fics, you can add fic tags if you'd like a specific.

Q: Check to see how far updates for MoaH are queued out

Character asks: I don't have art, but you can absolutely send in character asks for the cast. I love these, they're great character voice practice. Please keep to one question per ask, but you're welcome to send as many as you like.

Fic List

Goddess of Secrecy (Complete on Wattpad, New Edited Chapters On Wednesdays & Saturdays To Both) - #goddessofsecrecy, #gos, #gosspoilers

Hyrule has only ever dreamt of an end to the resurrection of Demise. With the returning of an ancient power, that dream could finally be fulfilled. Can the Hero of the Fourth Goddess save Hyrule once and for all?

Fic Links: AO3 - Wattpad

Mark of a Hero (Updates on Tuesdays & Fridays, 1 of 9) - #markofahero, #moah, #moahspoilers

Hyrule is at peace, or so the Royal Family would have its people believe. Something is afoot in the kingdom, and someone needs to do something about it. Least likely would be Marksmen Link Sayre- a mercenary and monster hunter doing his best to get by. Until a job goes wrong, and he gets roped into the secret plans of Hyrule's princess. Now Link must play the part of the Hero to dive deeper into the mystery, and maybe stumble into a legend of his own.

Fic Links:

Book 1: AO3 - Wattpad

Book 2:

Book 3:

Book 4:

Book 5:

Book 6:

Book 7:

Book 8:

Book 9:

Series Link: AO3

Arc Progress & Spoiler Reference

Character Reference Page

General Setting Resources Page

Restoration Age (Hiatus) - #restorationage

Hyrule has grown. The fairy tale kingdom that has endured for eons is no more. And while historians argue over what history needs to be preserved, Hyrule endures and thrives in the modern age. With the proverbial guide book gone, where will the kingdom go now? And what would a Hero mean for a country that no longer needs a Hero?

Fic Link: Wattpad - Not yet imported to AO3

Cinders of Life (Hiatus) - #cindersoflife

Hyrule has burned. No more is the vibrant kingdom that was once protected by the Hero. Now is the reign of evil, an evil without end. Hope is a word used without meaning, and hero is all but lost. Could one even stand if the people of Hyrule don't even know what they would be calling on?

Fic Link: Wattpad - Not yet imported to AO3

Day After Destiny (Hiatus) - #dayafterdestiny

Hyrule is beginning its new golden age. The king and queen prepare to hand their crowns to their daughter and her husband. It is a union out of legend, though legend is far from anyone's mind in Hyrule. For who would call upon ancient war heroes in a time of peace? The wars for Hyrule have been won.

Fic Link: Wattpad - Not yet imported to AO3

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annellspethraven · 8 months ago

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It all started here. I woke up and looked at 'my' Discord server for the bloated tic of a fanfic (hey that rhymes, neurospicy two seconds!) I write with my partner SonaBeanSidhe, Aran Thranduil's Dining Hall. There hadn't been enough tea yet so the natural response was 'wth is this?' Well, THIS was going to Hoover my next two days and counting. Just visit the post, dear friends of the writing persuasion and you would see (I'll save you time because I'm nice this way) that there are many screenshots supporting just what the meme says: This Instagram OP knows a writer who found herself in a steaming pile of mess with the Google Docs TOS (which is really also the Google Drive TOS, making it somewhat difficult to locate said TOS. I'll save you more time. Here:

This information comes from https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Csexually-explicit-material So, it was the act of sharing the files, not having created or stored them that triggered what had happened. Okay, still not reassuring. In the meantime, I was concerned enough to post what had happened to r/FanFiction. Within minutes, my post had been frozen by the mods there. I can see their concern. I believe they had only seen the meme-like first screen of the Instagram post, and it does come off like a bad Snopes Fail. They asked me for more proof. The first thing I did was a search for previous instances of Google having frozen Drive accounts previously. They are limited, but they exist. The concern here had to do with the current lack of information as to why the action happened, and whether we who collectively authored and had shared Docs with explicit content were about to have our Drive accounts fall before the scythe of an overzealous AI rollout on the part of Google. Which led to the second part of this. My first response to the mods was as follows:

A little while after I sent this, an update appeared on the Instagram OP's account (easy to find) so I added this:

The salient point of the update was that the author had received restored access to her Drive, but NOT the Doc that had started the entire difficulty. I waited for a response. And waited, and waited. In the meantime, I had no means to add to, respond to, anything to my original post or defend myself against some fairly sharp initial criticisms leveled against me by individuals who clearly hadn't read anything beyond the initial meme. Special. While I understand a sub this large likely has a lot of messages to field, I also felt that given they managed to freeze my post in a matter of minutes, they were really taking their time responding. So I weighed in on Instagram with a message of support. If nothing else is taken away, please take this: Back up your files. It's easy to create an alt Google account; this other account will have its own Drive storage. Share your folders and files with yourself. If you don't already realize, in Docs under the File dropdown menu the third option is Make A Copy. If you have shared the original document 75 times, you won't have shared that copy at all. Consider backing up your works to Indie platforms like Get Hermit, Ellipsus and The Quill. There may be others. Your own external hard drive is also a very good idea. But wait, you ask. What about just using MS Word, or having copies as a PDF file in the Adobe cloud? Not so fast, my friend. Look at Microsoft and Adobe's TOS regarding sexually explicit content...you'll get an unpleasant surprise. I did. In the meantime, a third update came from the OP on Instagram shedding far more light as to what had likely gone wrong. She had shared the Doc with she guessed 18-20 people as beta readers. The belief is now that one of these persons actually turned her in to Google via their abuse form. To quote one of the commenters on that update: "I heard from an agent that Google will only do this to your account if someone reports it. Google isn’t scanning docs for explicit content (except maybe images), but yeah, for this to happen, someone had to report her document to Google." This felt like a relief...and yet is still packaged inside a cautionary tale. How many of us have shared by 'whoever has this link'? I have, or rather, I had. I revoked all such permissions to all large stories and folders in favor of my few trusted long-time friends and beta readers. The works are on AO3. I don't need those Docs links to be free floating all over the place, not after seeing what can happen. I was on vacation in England some years prior when I realized I had lost the ability to send out all outgoing Gmail. It took me several days to figure out what had gone wrong and nearly lost me my ability to receive Covid test results at a time when that was a travel necessity...almost disastrous. Fortunately I had multiple email accounts and could work around the problem. Which brings me to the last of this.

While including the subreddit mod's responses here may seem retaliatory/petulant on my part...I'm at best miffed at their shortsightedness, maybe mildly insulted, mostly shaking my head at the fact that there is something to have been learned here that could have affected any one of us. No one was spreading misinformation. Something had indeed happened. The source of it had been unknown at the time of posting. Had they left my post alone I would have gladly redacted as it unfolded; the reason for placing it on that sub was not to create a giant stir but to let others know of the risk of this happening at all and to encourage backing up that which most writers invest a considerable amount of their emotional well-being; the safety of their written works. Yes, I'm neurodivergent. No, I don't always see the world as others do. No, I still don't think this difference allows the response to be interpreted as much other than a slight and working against the interests of authors (I'm on their side and last I checked, readers need the authors to have the things that are written in order to have the things to read. Just saying). Whatever, what really matters is, if you feel this is worth sharing, share, take away the important bits, and if someone out there just wants to write it up in 3 sentences so it isn't a tl;dr, do that too.

Have a Googly day, to all near and far, in these times in which we live...>.>

#google docs #google drive #terms of service #writing #fanfic #slash fanfiction #smut fanfiction #service provider #beta reader #Instagram

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thewertsearch · 2 years ago

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You're right - it's time for the Official Wertsearch Troll Rankings!

I'll forgo the tier list for now, and rank them top-to-bottom, by simple personal preference. There's obviously going to be a bias towards trolls who've had more focus so far - but I'm sure this will even out over time. I'm planning to update it successively.

Without further ado:

Kanaya. I don't need to explain myself, and I doubt her position will change. At some point I might write a post outlining why Kanaya is cool as fuck, so we'll save any in-depth discussion for then.

Karkat. The most likeable hater in the comic. Karkat is full of huge, misdirected emotions that he doesn't understand, and seems poised to take command of the Zodiac trolls out of sheer crabbiness. Karkat thinks he despises everyone, including himself, but I think he needs to acknowledge that there's a reason he's also an expert on love.

Terezi. Probably the funniest troll, but also the one who keeps you guessing the most. She started off as one angry alien among many, demonstrated her malevolence in the Davesprite arc, settled into her role as an awesome weirdo in Hivebent, and now we're learning about her partnership with Vriska, which seems to paint her as an overzealous murderer, even for Alternia. You never know what you're going to get with Terezi, but a lot of the comic's best quotes are in leetspeek for a reason.

Vriska. What can I even say? She's the troll. I could write dozens of posts analyzing what the fuck her deal is - and I probably will. Vriska's great, and awful, and is going to do magnificent things. (Note that magnificent is not synonymous with good. Or successful.)

Aradia. I'm incredibly invested in this girl's arc. So far, Aradia's story is tragic, and we only got to see the real her for a short flashback. Many of the other trolls are trapped in unfortunate circumstances, but at least they have the opportunity to be themselves. I want to see the actual Aradia as a Player, and I want to see her break her strings.

Sollux. I have a soft spot for my troll. Sollux shares my zodiac sign, my trollsona's blood color, and (possibly) my Aspect, and I really do vibe with the little nerd. He's also the one who introduced programming to the story in earnest, and I'll echo my earlier sentiment - this code boy needs to show me more code.

Tavros. Most of his appearances so far are marred by their proximity to Vriska, but I think Tavros has a lot of potential. Left to his own devices, he's a pretty relaxed troll who dances to his own tune, and this makes him - pardon the pun - a breath of fresh air. I'll reiterate - get him away from Vriska, and we'll see him fly.

Equius. Recent events have proved that his moral compass is a little on the fritz - but this is Alternia. It's not like he's the only one. Equius is the source of some of the comic's funniest conversations, and his commitment to the hemospectrum might begin to wane as we leave the planet behind. I'm interested to see how he develops.

Feferi. Cheerful, benevolent heiress to a millennia-old dystopia, raised by a tentacle monster from the dungeon dimensions. Feferi has just made a hell of an entrance, and I want to see more.

Nepeta. Has done nothing, but gets points for being a catgirl.

Gamzee. Has done nothing, but gets points for introducing me to Insane Clown Posse.

Eridan. His hemospectrum shtick is funnier when Equius does it, but his typing style is at least a little entertaining. All the trolls so far have revealed hidden depths, and I'm hoping he's the same.

#asks #full liveblog #act 5 #homestuck liveblog

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ariellewm · 5 months ago

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Writer Weekly Update

Good morning, afternoon, or evening to you fellow followers or those that have come across this weekly update post!

It's July! Hooray!!...wait...we're in July already?! My gosh where did the time go?? That being said, I hope you all had an amazing last week and a great weekend. I for one spent it relaxing at home as I try not to work on stuff during the weekends. Sometimes though I do end up writing up whatever comes to mind.

All of the weekly content that I have (Quote of the Week, Word/Dialogue Proses, Word of the Week) have pretty much been scheduled. Please, by all means, share those posts with others if you do see them pop up.

New character art is in the works for two of my characters and another that is done that I'll be posting hopefully later today. After that though I'm probably going to slow down on getting art done. Shio, B_Astora, and @wyyvernn that have drawn up my characters have done an amazing job! Would love though to get someone to draw up concept illustration landscape art in the future.

I'm going to try to work on rough outlining Act 1 of my novel, The World of Zarth (this isn't the title of the novel btw, it's still in the works). I'll be honest it has been a bit intimidating to even begin such a project. I know in the past I've said I would be working on it, but it's been pushed to the side several times (which is common for me and this large world I've created and its story behind it). Good thing "Coils of the Naga" is the closest I can get to bringing the world to life to you listeners/fans of the series. Speaking of "Coils of the Naga"...

I have written another bonus audio, "Coiled by the Naga Part 3", but I may save it for when I write up Part 3 of "Coils of the Naga". Just so the trend goes: Part 3, Bonus Audio, Part 4, Bonus Audio...something in the lines of that. But I also have "Under the Moonlight" and "A Pearl in the Sea" to also submit when the time comes.

When it comes to these audio dramas/audio roleplays, please keep in mind I do not know when these audios come out when I submit a script. Ycey Narrates, whose done an amazing job not only voicing my characters, but he also works on the entire production itself. He also has his own stories and other scripts to get through from other amazing writers in his community, which I highly recommend giving a listen. Personal favorites are "Your Mobster: Salvatore" series written by the amazing Ida's Little Corner and "The Archmage's Bride" written by the lovely Elleya_Lemon. Ycey has his own stories too, my favorite being "Scale of the Dragon"

And with that, that's all I have! Keep an eye out for those posts I've mentioned earlier and have a great rest of the week!

Arielle W.M.

#weekly update #fantasy writer #writer #writing community #writers community #creative writing #writers on tumblr #writing #writers of tumblr #audio drama #audio roleplay #ycey narrates #fantasy #fiction writing #july

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demons-and-demigods · 5 months ago

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Demons and Demigods Part Thirteen: Dreams are Weird, and Everybody's Confused

Heyyyyyy sorry for dropping off the face of the earth, whoops. I got distracted by other projects and going on vacation so I haven't done much work on this au in a while. But! I have a short little update here for you! I had originally planned to turn at least some of this into a fully written scene, and I might come back to do that at some point, but for now, have some nonsense that amuses me.

I wanted to do some episode rewrites for the spn boys because I missed them, and decided I'd do it for Ghostfacers and/or Jus in Bello. However, it felt weird to just veer away from the Argo II crew since there's so much going on there, and my brother suggested doing the episode rewrites through the viewpoint of Percy's weird ass demigod dreams so I started whipping up ideas for that because it immediately tickled me thinking about Percy watching the Ghostfacers nonsense go down.

I don't think there's much of anything for Jus in Bello mentioned here, I kinda fixated on Ghostfacers and then another idea I had instead. Anyway, here's some incorrect quotes style things I was thinking about and a bit of stream-of-consciousness writing.

Percy, dreaming on the Argo II: [witnessing Sam and Dean dealing with the Ghostfacers bullshit] The Ghostfacers: you have to go be gay for that poor dead intern/gay love can pierce through the veil of death to save the day Percy, a queer, waking up: what the fuck? ~ Percy, dreaming: [eavesdropping on Sam and Dean's convos] Sam and Dean: [bickering about Dean only having a few months left] Percy, waking up and immediately Iris Messaging them: hey, the FUCK you mean Dean only has a few months left what the hades are you talking about? Sam and Dean: [high-pitched, startled screaming and flailing that ends up disconnecting the IM] Percy: . . . Rude.

PERCY PARTY CRASHES ONE OF SAM OR DEAN'S DREAMS JUST LIKE 'oh hey haven't done this in a while' AND SAM/DEAN IS JUST LIKE 'WHY TF IS THIS KID HERE?' Bonus points: it's Dean's dream and it's a ~Trauma~ dream abt John being an abusive shit stain when he was little and Percy is just like oh fuck that actually and intervenes in the dream-memory to kill John (like mother like son) and then he and Dean trauma-bond over abusive 'dads' (Percy: hey next time I'm in the underworld I'll ask Uncle H if he knows where John is. that fucker better be in Hell or the Fields of Punishment and if he's not, he will be. // Dean: 👁️👄👁️ )

Dean pov on Percy gate crashing his dream and killing dream-john and them trauma-bonding over abusive ‘dads’ (neither John nor Gabe should be called a dad but for the sake of brevity). Percy pov on him watching the Ghostfacers nonsense through his weird ass dreams and overhearing the ‘Dean, you only have a few months left’ convo and resolving to call/IM the boys when he has the time to do so to demand an explanation for that bullshit and then Sam dropped the bomb that his brother is a dumbass and sold his soul to bring Sam back to life and now Dean only has a few months left before hellhounds are gonna come after him to drag his ass down to Hell and Percy is just like gods damn dude that’s some serious shit why didn’t you ask for our help? Did you ask for help from anyone in the Greek world?

And Dean is very firmly like no we didn’t and we aren’t going to. Aunt Sally has enough on her plate to worry about without adding my impending doom on top of it and we don’t exactly know anyone else in the Greek world, let alone how to get in contact with them. Also, anyone we do know would no doubt tell Aunt Sally about it and like I said, I’m not laying that on her. (Because he’s dumb.)

And Percy’s just like, what the fuck man, I mean I get it I always sanitize my quest stories for mom so she doesn’t freak out too much but still. What the fuck dude. And they have that whole heavy conversation where Percy promises to look into things on his end for any way to get Dean outta his deal and if nothing else talk to Uncle H and see if he can’t jailbreak Dean’s soul for him or smth. (Percy does, in fact, later ask Hades, begs him actually, to help Dean, to bring him back, to at least steal him and put him somewhere better than the Christian equivalent of the Fields of Punishment. Hades has to gently tell him I’m sorry but there’s nothing I can do and he is genuinely remorseful that he can’t help out his nephew because he has grown fond of him and he would be more than happy to personally place Dean Winchester’s soul in Elysium if he could but he can’t and so he holds his nephew as he sobs, mourning the loss of another loved one whose life was cut too short and prays that the Fates or the Christian God or whoever is in control of this all will give Percy a fucking break and that someone will free Dean Winchester from Hell.) (Enter Castiel, Gay Ass Angel of the Lord, who will grip Dean tight and raise his fine ass from perdition.) (But I am once again getting ahead of myself. So.)

Devolved a bit into my Destiel agenda there at the end, but this is my weird ass au and I do what I want lmao

Like I said at the start, I might come back to this at some point and fully write out the Ghostfacers nonsense, but for now, I'm gonna leave it at this and try to focus on figuring out what scene to cover next for the Argo II crew. I'll try not to fuck off into oblivion again but no promises, sorry.

#dndv #demons and demigods verse #dndv lore #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #i think that's everything for this part but please let me know if you want me to tag anything else

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luckylewis · 2 years ago

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consider this a speed-run of all things beta that may be causing legacy users issues. if there's anything else that needs explaining, i'll update this post! let's go beloveds. 🤭

🟠 BEFORE YOU SWITCH TO BETA.

if you've been previously using new xkit, you will need to download xkit rewritten. that can be found:

here for google chrome users.

here for mozailla firefox users.

once you've installed it, you can install whatever add ons are your preference from new xkit. the one that you'll need to install and enable to cut posts on beta is called trim reblogs and it looks like this:

🔴 SWITCHING TO BETA.

switching is pretty straightforward for any former legacy users and you only have to do it once.

step 1: new text post.

step 2: a pop up for the new editor will show in the top right corner. click lets go!

step 3: press let's go again.

step 4: voila, shiny new editor.

🟡 USING BETA.

for the most part, beta has condensed features of legacy to be more intuitive, which means you need to remember less keyboard shortcuts. once you've written anything in the editor itself, highlighting it will bring up this dropdown.

the list of functions in the vertical dropdown are for the following:

regular is tumblr's standard font.

bigger is, you guessed it, bigger.

i think u can figure what biggest is KSJGSHJ

quote is for if you want any part of your post to look like the quote function.

chat will turn your font into the chat format (typically used for text/sms threads!)

indented will put your paragraphs into a blockquote for those that prefer them.

bulleted list is how you create a bulletpoint list like this one you're reading.

numbered list is same as above but with (spoilers!) numbers. 😎

the list that goes horizontally is for the following:

s with a strikethrough allows you to strike through text.

b is for bolding (the keyboard shortcut still works for this).

i is for italicizing (the keyboard shortcut still works for this).

<s> is for small text (the keyboard shortcut no longer works)

the link symbol is for adding or removing links (will be utilicized further in the gif url section of this tutorial)

and the paint can symbol is for changing the font colour if that's something you want to do.

🟢 CUTTING POSTS WITH BETA.

for any of y'all that are like stark, we don't care ab this, we just wanna cut our damn posts. firstly, feel that. secondly, it needed it's own section so let's goooooo. once you get used to cutting posts on beta it becomes seamless.

there's two ways to do it.

the first one is: after drafting a reply.

the process for that is as follows:

step 1: draft your reply.

step 2: once the reply is drafted, locate the scissors symbol in the bottom row of functions.

step 3: click it and trim the post you want to be rid of, in this case for me it's my previous reply.

step 4: click trim! and hey presto, you have a cut post that's all pretty and ready for you to reply.

the second one is: after posting a reply.

step 1: go to reblog the post.

step 2: write a reply (a better one than this one SHGSHJ) and click reblog.

step 3: i know, i know, it looks like a triple reply but it only will for a second. just like step one, locate the scissors, click it, trim! your previous post and then it will be cut.

🟣 REMOVING THE URL FROM UNDER YOUR GIF IF YOU COPY AND PASTE ONE.

step 1: paste in your gif.

step 2: click the link button in the bottom left of the gif.

step 3: highlight or backspace and delete the url, click done.

step 4: no url under your gif.

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this is to upload an image.

this is to post a song.

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editing tags: you no longer have to delete every tag that follows if you made a typo in one. siiiick.

auto saving drafts: a life saver (especially for this post!!) tumblr auto saves your post to your drafts as you type into it.

ANY OTHER Q'S:

feel free to hit me up and i'll help you if i can for anything specific!

this post will be updated with anything i forgot about.

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Can you tell me your writing process how you construct a chapter and how long it takes you to write Xxx

Oh dear I'm afraid my answer isn't a very good one lol

I write in drafts on here and back them up on my computer when I remember. I prefer it that way because I can write on the go. If I find I have 10 minutes before an appointment, maybe I'll write a quick paragraph or proofread something. Now, it has bitten me in the ass before when the app crashes before I can save, but I've quickly learned to save after each paragraph now lol

It's not the conventional style but it helps because I have a kid and I don't get a lot of "me time" so if he's playing and out of my hair, I'll write a little bit here and there.

When I'm creating a new story, I like to jot down bullet points of certain scenes or themes or quotes and then as I write, I move them around and fit them into a chapter outline. And honestly sometimes I just start writing and the words just pour out. The other day I was writing ch 9 to look what we've become and I somehow wrote 3.6K of shit that wasn't even in my outline. Those are really good days, I love when I'm in the zone and that happens. Other times it's a struggle to try to make a chapter halfway decent without seeming like I'm rushing through it.

And as far as how long, that very much depends on how into it I am. Sometimes I can write a first draft of a chapter in a weekend, other times a week. But I try to challenge myself to write a little bit every single day because it keeps me motivated. It's also why I update my stories once a week, it helps to keep me on task.

I also write a few chapters ahead in case I want to go back and add something that might come back later, so it helps to have two or three chapters in the first draft stage before I start posting.

Anyway long story short, don't ask me for advice on writing because I definitely don't have a good method 🤣 But I do appreciate you asking me, that is so thoughtful!

#anon ask #ask #I'm a mess

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homestuckdailyweekly · 4 months ago

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Homestuck Daily - Week 11 - 7/13/2024

Fuck you, past me. Getting an update out on time is easy! Just read the Comic over the course of the week instead of forgetting until saturday and then being too busy saturday to read the comic and write out what happened and your thoughts! If I can do it, you could have done it, and future us better do it if she knows whats good for us. Where was I? Oh right, Homestuck. And that was where I left off writing this post on Saturday, june 29th at around 10 am. Maybe 11. As I write this it's 2:04 pm on july 1st. I have been smited for my hubris and hoisted by my own petard. I have some bad excuses and some good excuses for not being able to write this up. Maybe I'll talk about them later. I don't think I'm going to finish this blog post today though. It is 2 days latter on July 3rd, and I still have not finished writing my blog update. I'm trying to get myself motivated to write this, but it's honestly still pretty difficult. I'll try to do it tomorrow.

I am writing this at 9:27 am on Saturday, July 13th. I am weeks behind schedule at this point. The hubris of this post's introduction is more apparent than ever. I will not go into what caused this delay in posting this blog about Homestuck. It is only interesting in the way it is painful, and that pain is not something I'd like to share as part of this project. I am keeping in my attempts to finish this post as a curiosity, and to highlight the unintentional humor of this posts original introduction. I have 2 weeks of Homestuck to catch up on, so without further ado, Homestuck from the week of June 23rd-29th. That week, we begin where was left off, with Rose suddenly disconnecting from Sburb, causing the car containing the green present and the SBURB Beta to fall into the abyss. John checks the PDA to see if Rose is still online, but while Rose has disconnected, his other friends are trying to message him. The Green-Texted GardenGnostic tells John that she had left to check on a nearby explosion- which turned out to be a meteorite- and mentions somebody named Bec. John meanwhile catches GG up with the state of SBURB and the apocalyptic nature of the situation they find themselves in currently, as well as the fact he now has to rely on the red texted TurntechGodhead to save Rose. Which then brings us to John's messages with TG, who has continued his Armageddon-based Raping in John's absence. John tells TG that Rose's life is in danger and that to save her, TG needs to play Sburb. That is a problem though, since TG had just lost his copy of the SBURB data-disks. Luckily, his Bro also has a copy, but according to TG, Bro is 'not going to be happy about that'. We then switch our POV back to Rose, who is still in her Observatory, and must make her way to the house's BACKUP GENERATOR by Jasper's Mausoleum in order to charge her laptop and continue assisting John's SBURB session, as well as begin her own once somebody is able to become her Server Player. Rose prepares for the life-or-death mission via Audience Prompts- including wrapping her laptop in a comfortable and stylish Laptop Cozy she had knitted a while ago, an attempt to equip her Grimoire as her Strife Specibus (Being prevented due to Dark Magic related to the Grimoire), equiping knitting needles as her Strife Specibus instead, an insight into the Zoologically Dubious Horror Terrors described within the Grimoire, and some shenanigans with Data Structures and Rose's Trees Fetch Modus. As Rose leaves the observatory, we are treated to an [S] page that I believe is a sequel of sorts to the [S] page where John leaves his house for the first time and looks up at the sun- but instead of a clear day, it's a storming night; and instead of a shining sun showing the potential of this day, it's a meteor shower that heralds the end of this world. The page includes a quote supposedly by American sports legend Charles Barkley, reflecting on the cruelty of April. And isn't the cruelty of Homestuck, at its heart, the cruelty of Homestuck made infinite? We then follow Rose into the hall of her house, expecting a confrontation between daughter and Mom. However, before any such confrontation can occur, the scene suddenly shifts, and we appear infront of a strange boy in shades. That week of update ends with learning this boy is named Dave Strider. This post is sadly 2 weeks late, but I am still going to include the original ending I had in mind: Happy Pride, Dave Strider o7. -eV

#homestuck #homestuck daily weekly

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briceterry · 11 months ago

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Happy New Year everybody!

Welcome to 2024... My most ambitious year ever. If you guys don't know, I have a Wattpad account, and I make different series of stories. Like my own series, Brice Talks, The Wrath Of Weird Ass Marketing, and my reviews on something I seen or read or watched. I love writing stories on Wattpad... And SUCK while doing it. All of them are hand made and not by Artificial Intelligence, because I'm not a lazy fuck who sits around eating boogers while playing Fortnite with no underwear on. I got more in the pipeline this year. I have to have Big Motivation Energy to do all of these... Here are all of the things to expect from me this year, from the new Brice Talks I published yesterday in order for the last part to be published at 12am:

First off with my Wattpad account:

On September, 5th, 2024, I have a new story in the works dedicated to 20 years of my life because I'll be 20 years old in 2024.

TWOWAM will be continuing.

Brice Talks will also be continuing, with one in the works right now.

A new original series is going to be arriving.

The dream journal is still being updated. So expect a new dream or a few.

The Mario movie review is starting to be written.

And coming soon is a less disgusting, less filled to the brim with incestery version of "How I met Blizzie". Now called "How I met Blizzaria" which will be matching with the Mockumentary I made in 2022 that I posted this year, and of course, my ultimate goal is making that story more approachable and not Disgusting along with an apology for making that story and the other stories that I made, they had really disgusting and controversial material, because incest is absolutely not okay.

On my Facebook account:

I will post random stuff about personal life updates, memes and nostalgia. But, of course I will be doing Live streams of me reacting to things of playing games for all of the people who mostly enjoy my Live Streams of how they turn into utter insanity.

The frog suit only run of Mario 3 is almost complete and we will be back to that in the middle of January or February (probably right in time for Valentine's Day). I've been saving up the P-wings for three notoriously infamous levels of Mario 3.

And I will be reacting to the Sanders Sides season finale parts 1-4 on a live stream when those come out... Hopefully.

On my Tumblr account:

I'm gonna do what I normally do on tumblr... What are those things you may ask? Two things.

Number 1: A bunch of shit no one cares about.

And Number 2: Sanders Sides Incorrect Quotes and other Sanders Sides related content.

I know that's what people wanna see, so I'll gladly except it.

Will I be doing incorrect quotes on Roman and Remus' brotherly rivalry? Yep!

Am I gonna do Logicality incorrect quotes? Yep!

Am I gonna do Princxiety incorrect quotes? Yep!

Am I gonna do more Demus incorrect quotes? Yep!

Am I gonna do Roman and Patton incorrect quotes? YEP!

Am I gonna do I incorrect quotes with all the sides, Including Thomas? YEP!!

Am I gonna do incorrect quotes for the orange side when they get revealed in the season finale? YEP!!!

Am I gonna do RemRom incorrect quotes?

NO!!!

Why would you even say that?

But I'll do all the other ships! All of them!

And of course. I'm gonna be doing fun things on Reddit like posting nostalgia of things I love in the 2000s, or things that scared me as a kid. And I'm gonna find great pictures and make great funny comments on Pinterest.

This might not be a success overnight and it might not be at all, I'm the only one working on these stories, I don't have anyone to do the artwork yet for all of these series including one that will be revealed soon. but I learned to overcome anxiety, so lets hope I can accomplish everything. Now, I'm gonna be taking a little break. I will be back in either January or February on all my platforms, so follow them to see something new:

Facebook: Brice Terry

Pinterest: Brice_Terry04

Reddit: Brice_Terry04

Wattpad: Brice_Terry04

Be back soon!

#happy new year #2024

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fate-tumbles · 1 year ago

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#LIVESTREAM

I just spent almost 2 hours writing what I thought would be one of my most favorite picture essays ever. And it had music and quotes and God knows what else in it.

Because I'll never know, because you'll never know, because Tumblr fucked up and it crash and didn't end up saving the draft. Or at least I couldn't find it.

But I came up with that idea and all my thoughts on it on the spot. And even in the raw form I felt like it represented me enough to share it because I knew the people who got it, would get it. Because I used too many references and layers, and some people can't fuck with onions.

And sometimes I start cutting my peppers instead because they feel more important at the time because that's how my brain used to work. But now I'm making it my bitch, since I know I'll always go back to the onions because I started there already. It's just not the right time for me to cut them now.

But I am capable of everything. And it's scaring me. Because now I want to live since I have so much to do, I'm wondering how I'll ever have enough time.

After my three car accidents for various reasons, I have been telling my family that I will eventually die in a car crash. But there is a reason why I didn't yet. And depending on what car I was driving and what I was doing to pay for it however much I could, I was either so grateful to survive or so. Despondent to think that it couldn't have been so easy.

I've never had a threat of suicide because I've always been too fucking chicken to actually do it myself. I've always tried, but I know half heartedly even though I thought I meant it. Because I wanted to give myself a chance to live.

Since I don't post anything to social media anymore, I didn't have anyone to bear witness, and I like that just fine.

Because I do it all baby. I can't box myself into a dating profile, but professionals and personals are supposed to know everything they know about me through my Instagram as you may?

No. To really understand why I'm about to commit seppuku is not because you're a fucking moron. Throwing yourself on someone else's sword. And inviting yourself to someone else's war on purpose than getting mad because you didn't research your tour guides enough and they let you astray. #thats ultra maga lame tbh #so sorry #hard knock life 🎻🎻🎻

You have access to my auto updating resume, and you might want me on your team because I'm a hard fucking worker. But you're too scared to even look because you know I'm going to come for your job as well too.

But you don't know that I never would because I'd be pushing you to succeed even more than me so I could succeed in my own ways. # we are not the same # thank glob # mutations rule # X-Men #freaksgive #beats

I'm already going to put competition, not collaboration, and I'm the fucking Capricorn on my merch so don't even think about it. I have receipts. And Tumblr always has my back.

And I finally know why they scream witness me before they throw themselves into oblivion. Because at that moment, they're falling into oblivion thinking they're doing what that gross dude at the top of the mountain was doing in Furry Road #funtypo #feelscute #maydelete #later but #enjoying #reading it #now #sothatcanbeenough #for me and #me only

Because he had the biggest balls and access to all the water and raped every single woman and child he made and came across. Doesn't seem like the guy I want to look up to. Even though he's put himself on the highest peak. Like I said, it's all about #perspective. Sorry I figured out the ultimate cheat code to my life and you haven't yet, but it took me a while. And I'm willing to help. Because I'm great at tech and video games and cheat codes and perma death, and whatever you're going to need in the situation because I'm also a gamer.

I'm better than you now but I've seen you succeed and outrun me every single time. And instead of getting upset, I finally get off the couch and run after you because it's fun to see if I can actually get you. Because friendly competition can exist. Because I can insult you and love you at the same time. Because you can't put me in a Venn diagram even if that's all you see your life as. Because I used to, and I used to force my thoughts into boxes. But now I'm following my thoughts and letting me take them where they lead.

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a-study-in-dante · 2 years ago

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hello! i hope it's okay to ask, i love collecting notebook people's opinions: how and about what do you keep notebooks/journals? i'm curious, i never know if/how to separate my academic from the rest of my writing needs and can't seem to figure out a working system - one notebook for everything? one per subject? one for messy thinking-on-paper and for thought out journalling?? thank you :) 📚

Hello there ✨Thank you for the ask, it is most definitely ok to ask! I'd actually be interested to read other answers you've gotten :)

It is an interesting question, I'm afraid I don't have a foolproof (or coherent) system to offer but I'll do my best to walk you through my stash of notebooks. I'm still figuring out how to organize my academic-related ones so that might be useful for me as well to reflect on that. Disclaimer: this will probably be a looooong answer eh, I hope it's ok.

Let's start with the non-academic stuff.

First and foremost I keep a personal journal, where I write about my days, what I struggle with, what brings me joy... Sometimes I use it to figure out what I need to do, breaking down tasks to a goal academic/work-related but then it is a rough base of thoughts-dumping in written form that I would then transfer to my planner (we'll come to that in as second). Sometimes I write bits of stories or projects I'm working on before typing them. Mostly it's about documenting my life and memory-keeping, like a personal archive. And even if various subjects come up, I like to keep this personal journal separate from planners, note-taking notebooks, and whatnot just to have a safe-space, a notebook that I can leave at home if I feel like it's not safe to bring it somewhere with me, and it's easier to store after I finish it as well, because it doesn't contain any information I will still "need" after I finished it, it's only for me.

I used to try and keep reading journals but it always failed, I just couldn't keep up. And if I want to express thoughts on books or movies, just for myself, I can write them down in my journal. Nowadays I have a "commonplace notebook", where I write down quotes from books etc. that I want to remember so I don't have the pressure to make it organized, I just write whatever speaks to me on the first blank space I can find and when I'll finish it I'll have a little anthology of words I encountered in this time of my life and this is pretty neat I think.

I also have a travel journal in several tiny volumes but I obviously don't use this on a regular basis. Also have a notebook dedicated to stories ideas and some bits of writing, not updated on a regular basis either (it's like 180 pages long and I've had it since uh 2015 so 🙃 not a prolific writer here 🙃)

Now off to the academic related. I've used a bullet journal for my entire academic journey, and I usually use it only for planning. I don't have any particular "collection" spreads because I can't keep up with these either. I might dedicate a page to packing lists when I travel or things related to organisation in general but that's about it.

I have a... I guess a PhD bullet journal? Because I kind of exported the bullet journaling system to suit the long-term planning of my PhD (what to do for the next five years, spreads dedicated to specific parts of my dissertation where I can braindump ideas until I write the actual chapter, keeping track of the credits I validated, paper deadlines, etc.). And I keep it separate because since it will serve me throughout my PhD, I won't have to copy anything from planner to planner as years go by, it saves time and I know that everything regarding my thesis is in one place. However, I do have separate "thesis notebooks" where I take notes from articles or book chapters I read (for entire books, I usually type reading notes). They are dated and I have a digital index so even if the notes are scattered across twenty notebooks by the end of my PhD, I can still find information quite fast. (The digital index makes me look like an organization freak? Yes? No? *sweats*)

As for separating subjects, I remember that when I was a student I mostly took notes on loose paper sheets that I kept in binders, divided by subjects. Until my masters, where I switched to notebooks (one per term), and I kept all my subjects together. As long as you keep it neatly titled you don't even have to divide the notebook per subject: I used to write my notes for one class after the other, following the order they came in my week, and it worked for me.

Also should mention that I use traveler's notebooks so even if the notebooks are different, they can be mixed and carried around in the same cover. I usually have one with my planner and the ongoing "thesis notebook", maybe the PhD bujo; and another one with my personal journal and commonplace notebook (+ travel journal when necessary).

All in all I would recommend to keep your personal things separate from academic/work related thing. As to dividing per subjects, I think it's a good idea to see for how long you'll need notebooks for these subjects and try to arrange them accordingly, like classes of first term, then a notebook for the following term, or per year, and another notebook for more long-term projects? I don't know if that makes sense.

Sorry for this rent, I hope it's somewhat helpful! Have a lovely day 🪷

#Asks #Ask #Answered #Anonymous #Notebooks #Notebook #Traveler's notebook #handwriting

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ahanarhorse · 1 month ago

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This is great, I love hearing all your thoughts!(I gonna add my own if you don't mind)

Sky is so sweet! He's such a cute and soft character, but you can tell he's hiding something under it. I bet if something really bad happened to any of the links, Sky would flip like a light switch, he did kill a god after all. Every other time though he's so soft, singing songs about Zelda and cuddling with the other Links. Poor boy needs to go back and give Sun a big hug.

Four is so cool! I'll admit, I haven't connecting with his character much just because I hardly know anything about his games. He does seem like such a sweet guy though. He is very secretive, only revealing the minish to Wind and Wolfie and the colors to Wild. I can't wait for everyone else to learn about the colors, partly because I think they'll have a very different(and much better) reaction than Four thought they would have.

I love Time so much, he's so amazing. He definitely is the leader and a father/older brother figure for most of them but also a good friend(and younger brother to Warriors, but that's complicated). He's protective of his kids, and gives off the feeling that he would do absolutely anything to save each and every one of them. I also love his and Twilight's dynamic being ancestor and descendant, teacher and student in a way.

Legend is amazing too. He always seems stern and rough on the outside, but has such a sweet heart. It's partly a defense mechanism I think, he's already lost so much(I've played Links's Awakening recently, and oh boy would that leave a scar). He knows that one day the chain will break, he knows that one day he'll go back to his world and leave his brothers behind, and that's why he acts so stern and tough. If he doesn't get attached, maybe it won't be as painful when they break. "The best way to not get your heart broken is to pretend you don't have one" I think that quote is most of Legend's outward meanness summed up. When he does let his guard down though, more in the latest updates, he's so sweet, pranking people and bothering his brothers he loves so much.

Hyrule is so sweet too. His adventure was so lonely and isolated that it's amazing seeing him interact with the others in the chain. He did save Twilight's life, so he must have a good bond with him, but also adventuring with Wild, being with Wind and Four and he has a great bond with Legend, partly because they are also ancestor and successor. I have a feeling he was very nervous at first, but he's grown so much with being comfortable with the rest of the chain.

Twilight is such a big brother to everyone. Sure he's Time's son but to everyone else, it's big brother mode. Wild? Annoying older brother. Hyrule, Legend, Wind, Four? Sweet older brother. Sky? Same age kinda bonding thing going on. Warriors? True close in age brother energy, annoying each other, bad puns, bad jokes, bad insults, everything. He's amazing and I love him so much.

Warriors, I love Wars so much, he has such a personality and he's amazing. I see him very similarly to Legend, being aloof and a captain as a defensive action rather than that being how he always is. He's also just such a sweet big brother to everyone, including Time. I made an entire separate post about his relations with each member of the chain, but he's wonderful and I love him so much.

Wind is such a child, but a teenager kinda child, which is so fun to write, first off. He's the kind who doesn't want to be seen as someone who needs protecting, someone who is younger and more vulnerable. He wants to be seen just as much as a hero as everyone else. He can have his moments of being a child though, and just being so sweet, moody, cranky and up to pranking everyone. He definitely steals things from everyone because he's a little pirate and he's proud of his ability to commit crimes and not get caught.

Wild, I could talk forever about Wild I love him so so much. He is very much a teenager and he acts like it. It's such a great change from how he was before his adventure and it's so wonderful to see how he's portrayed. He's rash and is known for getting in trouble, but also responsible enough to cook everyone's food. He's such a younger brother to Twilight, an annoying kid to Time, but also an older brother to the younger members of the chain. His scars and challenges are a very important part of who he is, but it's also great to see that it's not, that he is so much more than who he was before the calamity and he's more than the hero who sacrificed himself to save everyone.

I love them all a lot, and I have a lot of thoughts. Thanks for sharing, I would love to hear anything else you want to share about them!

And I love the kitten!!

The anticipation for the next Linked Universe update is leaving me kind of restless... I don't want to miss it 😭😭😭

Does anyone want to yap with me about the Chain?

#ahanar rambles #creative's comments #legend of zelda #linked universe #lu wild #lu sky #lu time #lu wind #lu legend #lu warriors #lu hyrule #lu twilight #lu four #erea actually thinks

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lyra-brie · 2 years ago

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Intro Post

(Every few days I remember something I forgot or have new links to add lol it's constantly changing a little bit)

So I go by Lyra (or Library lol) and I use she/her pronouns. That's all I can think of to put here lol.

I'm a reader and a writer. I love romantic fantasy in both, but I'll read almost anything. Not really into horror, but I've dabbled in most other genres when it comes to reading, all the way to non-fiction. I'm always accepting new recs even though I have a ridiculous tbr and wishlist lol.

Always happy to talk about books with anyone, but be wary of that once you get me started I won't ever stop annoying you about it lol.

Some of my favorites right now are:

The Folk of the Air trilogy [the cruel prince, etc]

The Grishaverse books [my favorite is either Crooked Kingdom or Rule of Wolves]

Once Upon a Broken Heart series (as of Oct 15. I'm hyperfixating on this one, so you're getting a lot of fandom content for them)

I have ADHD (if you couldn't tell from my overuse of parenthesis and brackets [every thought comes with a bonus thought and sometimes an extra bonus thought like this!]). I'm a Christian with more progressive theology, but this blog is a safe place for everyone as long as we're all loving to each other and respect each other's beliefs and identities (and I love having good faith dialogue [not debates!! 0 interest in theological debates.], I love hearing other perspectives and getting to talk about it, so feel free to dm me about that, too). I'm an ISFJ and a 9w1, and I don't know that much about it yet but I love typology. I also love video games, mostly Stardew Valley and the sims right now (thinking about making a secondary blog for that).

I post fandom stuff and writing things for my wips. You'll probably get lots of stuff for my wip Idk, Dragons ocs once NaNo starts. And just random stuff for whatever I'm hyperfixating on in the moment lol. I'm totally open to asks about anything involving my wips or fandom-related asks. I participate in Storyteller Saturday and Worldbuilding Wednesday every week, and feel free to ask for any of the other events, too. Tag games are also cool!

I also have an instagram @lyra.brie and you'll find a couple pics of my crocheted dinosaurs, some random faith thoughts, and song. I'm very inactive there, but feel free to check it out.

And now the fun part!! Intros to my wips and ocs:

Wisteria and Wanderlust: you can find the blurb here, as well as the link to my wattpad which has a few snippets and skits and full character intros. An overview of Zal and Clay's dynamic here.

Short overviews of the original three here.

Unnamed Academic Rivals WIP: here is a sort of summary I wrote.

I Don't Know, Dragons [this is a placeholder title, but I might just keep it lol]: this post isn't exactly a blurb, but it's everything I know so far that I can share without spoiling. (I actually need to update it and make a real post for it soon lol. The main development is that Elara's love interest is a werewolf boy.) This one is still in the planning stage so everything is heavily subject to change. I'll be doing it as my NaNo project this year, so it's posted about a lot right now. New Cynthia post here.

The Flourescent Iguana: here's the intro post. I've finished the first draft of this one, but it needs heavy replotting/rewriting.

Writing Snippets

I only have two actual writing bits on here so far, but I intend to have more, so I'll update this as I go! (Let me know if you guys want me to post the Wisteria and Wanderlust stuff I have on wattpad here, too, cuz I can totally do that.)

Idk, Dragons:

I have a bunch of small snippets posted under #nano updates

Fanfics:

EvaJacks "Who Are You?" FanFic

EvaJacks Bunny Saving FanFic

EvaJacks Baby Dragon FanFic

Wisteria and Wanderlust:

Just a quote

Poetry/Songs:

Just Broken

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So that's me! I'm always happy to make new friends and my dms are open, feel free to message me just to ramble about your wip or a hyperfixation!

@writeblrsupport

#blog intro #introducing myself #writeblr #writer #writerscommunity

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popcorn-kitten · 4 years ago

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new hiveswap info and development timelines just dropped on the Kickstarter ✌️

Over the years, a lot of misinformation, as well as deliberate disinformation, has spread around about the history of Hiveswap. The purpose of this post is to clarify these matters for backers who've been wondering what the truth is.

The Kickstarter was planned by the What Pumpkin business development team in mid-2012. One member of the team was a crowdfunding specialist who led the planning process and managed the contracts with the developer. Prior to the Kickstarter opening for pledges, What Pumpkin worked out a plan for a flexible game concept that could be refined according to how much the campaign ultimately brought in. As Hussie was still working on Homestuck full time at this point, the plan was to hand over his game concept and story outline to a development company that could deliver the project.

The crowdfunding campaign finished out at a gross total of $2,485,506, as well as a gross total of $207,930 from PayPal pledges. But because of platform fees, as well as the costs of producing and shipping merchandise to backers of the campaign, the effective budget was significantly lower than the gross pledged total:

The above deductions from the gross total do not include taxes.

After determining the final budget for the game, What Pumpkin signed an agreement with the contracted game company (hereafter “GC”) to develop Hussie’s game concept. WP and GC entered into a development contract on November 30, 2012, shortly after the conclusion of the Homestuck Kickstarter. WP paid $788,000 to GC in late 2012 for development.

Because there was an understanding that delivering the complete game development documents would take some time, during which it would be difficult for GC to make meaningful progress on the Hiveswap game build, GC inquired about getting involved with other Homestuck-adjacent projects to do immediate work. WP let GC know about the Act 7 animation plans. With an assurance that this work could be done in parallel with a flexible timeline and would not impact the development cycle of Hiveswap itself, Hussie and What Pumpkin saw this as a good opportunity to establish a working relationship with this organization prior to the start of development and agreed to contract GC to do animation work for the Act 7 project. WP and GC agreed that this project would have a separate budget from the Hiveswap Kickstarter money, paid for from WP’s regular operating funds. As the existence of this animation itself would not be revealed until its release in 2016, this was not publicly announced at the time. GC and the lead animator on the project specifically requested not to be credited upon release of the animation.

Hussie initiated the “Megapause” on April 14, 2013 in order to devote his full attention to finalizing the Hiveswap development documents. What Pumpkin soon provided its story documents so that GC could formally begin core systems development. In July of 2013 WP and GC mutually agreed to push back GC’s deliverable dates without penalty. Hussie would share an update in 2013 detailing the state of predevelopment:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game/posts/708686

In 2013 following receipt of WP’s deliverables, GC enthusiastically assured WP that it was positioned to begin development. GC would deliver its first prototype in early 2014.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qSXwWKD5Km1yL-3Cj_W5IevW-IA978zJ/view?usp=sharing

This prototype, linked above, was sent to WP on 2/18/14. At this point, it was becoming a significant concern among backers that WP had yet to show proof that the game was being made, so WP was looking for any sort of tangible progress update from GC that was suitable to share with the public. But Hussie and WP found the quality of the prototype somewhat alarming, and decided that sharing any shots from the game would only cause embarrassment for GC. Nevertheless, WP was still willing to assume that this was a very early draft of something that would develop into a more promising product soon, and gave GC some more time to improve on it.

But the improvements didn’t come. No other advancements on the prototype were ever made. After waiting weeks with no update other than assurances that progress was carrying on smoothly, Hussie initiated the “Gigapause” both to take care of personal matters and later to get directly involved in the development of the game himself. He decided to move to southern California from the east coast in hopes that working directly with the GC could help them overcome whatever obstacles they were facing with Hiveswap’s development. GC responded positively to the prospect of Hussie’s involvement, but when he made the move and tried to coordinate a time to visit the GC offices and meet, GC insisted it was a bad time due to office renovations and a busy schedule. Here is a timeline with quotes from emails exchanged between Hussie and GC:

May 12, 2014 - from Hussie to GC

“Just letting you know I actually moved to the west coast recently. I'm only an hour or so away from LA now.

I could drive down and check out the office, see how things are going with the game and animation in person some time soon. Is there a time that would work for you guys? In a week or two maybe?”

May 15, 2014 - from GC to Hussie

“That's awesome about being on the west coast. It'd be great to have you come to the studio.

Dev has slowed a bit on our end, as we wanted to take a step back and really evaluate what was needed and the best way to achieve the features that have been coming online in the docs. We're continuing to break that all down so we can build and plan most effectively moving forward. We also wanted to find some simple formats for input from your writing team for dialogue content and are getting that squared away.

The best time to come by would actually be right after E3. Things are a bit nuts until then.”

May 18, 2014 - from Hussie to GC

“[Name redacted], sounds good. I'll set aside some time after E3 to make the drive down. As we approach the date, just let me know what works for you.”

E3 was June 10-12, 2014. GC did not invite Hussie to visit at this time.

Hussie and WP representatives were in LA over July 4th weekend, 2014. When they inquired about visiting the offices again they were still not welcome. A GC representative insisted that they meet at a restaurant instead. Yet GC continued to telegraph that they were receptive to the idea of inviting Hussie to the office well into the summer:

Aug 18, 2014 - from GC to Hussie

“We'd love to set up a new time for Andrew to come to the studio as well as a skype chat to meet the other team members.”

Despite apparent enthusiasm about meeting with Andrew in their email correspondence, GC continued the pattern of refusing to meet at the office or supply any signs of progress on the prototype.

Over that summer, GC delivered several pieces of concept art that WP had been requesting since January. Hussie did his best to present this publicly as a positive development as WP felt it would be counterproductive to the project and harmful to GC to publicly detail the development troubles at the time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game/posts/883860

There was no indication from GC that the Act 7 animation project was in any way in conflict with Hiveswap development. GC was enthusiastic about taking on this project, and bidded against other animators for the contract. They saw it as a useful tie-in to concept art work on Hiveswap, as GC leadership conveyed in an email to WP in early 2013:

WP also does not have any reason to believe that the Act 7 project in practice created a conflict that was not disclosed by GC to WP. Act 7 was a 2D animation project, and Hiveswap at the time was a 3D game, so it did not pull GC’s programmers or 3D artists away from work on Hiveswap. GC never mentioned the development needs of a separate project at all to WP, or cited any such reason as distracting from work on Hiveswap; GC instead repeatedly provided WP with various assurances that everything was still fine with Hiveswap.

Had GC communicated that they had scheduling conflicts or some other impediment preventing them from developing Hiveswap, WP would have terminated the contract even sooner.

WP moved to terminate the agreement with GC late summer of 2014, and Hussie pivoted towards establishing a new independent game studio while consulting with a designer who had stepped up into a leadership position during the GC development period. That individual lived in NYC, which is why that location was chosen to establish the new studio rapidly. They helped build the studio through a local network of professional contacts. While this “What Pumpkin NYC” studio shared a name with What Pumpkin, it’s important to note that all of WP NYC’s studio staff save for the aforementioned individual were hired without any prior affiliation with WP and thus had no association with the GC contract. WP documented this development on Kickstarter on October 30th, 2014. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game/posts/1035099

At this point, negotiations were very amicable; both parties agreed the project simply wasn’t turning out to be a good fit for GC, and were both ready to move on. There were no signs given at all that WP was about to have trouble recovering the remaining funds.

WP is legally permitted to discuss details of the resolution of the dispute only under very specific circumstances. WP may make additional disclosures outside of this post to individual backers in accordance with legal obligations.

Following resolution of the GC contract, in Spring 2015 the WP NYC studio was running at full capacity on Hiveswap. The main problem was the fact that WP management was blindsided by the revelation that much less money would be coming back than expected. The WP NYC project manager had designed the schedule based on the good faith presumption that most of the development funds would be recouped. When it was finally revealed the return was far short of what was expected, and the repayment plan could in no way keep up with the schedule as currently drafted, it threw the project into a period of chaos as plans were quickly redrawn. The length of Act 1 was slashed, and other modifications were made to try to fit the rest of Act 1 into the newly shortened runway. But in the end, the revisions still weren't enough to save the game as it existed, and the studio needed to be closed in order to reserve what funds remained to finish the project in some form.

This may have come across as a sudden or spontaneous decision. Part of this is because the WP NYC senior staff and WP ownership were doing everything in their power to save the project, including injecting WP regular operating funds into the project, until it was determined that going any further would be disastrous for the future of Hiveswap. Another is that WP was legally unable to give any detailed disclosures about the financial troubles, even to many of the WP NYC staff.

It should also be noted that originally the NYC studio was not going to be permanently closed, but only frozen for a reassessment of the project. But during this freeze period, there were some dramatic events. One staff member behaved in a destructive and threatening manner. For the protection of those involved, details shouldn't be disclosed. But these events made navigating the post-freeze issues impossible. Communication between ownership, management and staff broke down because of these events, and the freeze turned into full closure. This version of the project was then abandoned for many reasons, including these events.

Some misinformation claims that at the time the WP NYC studio was shuttered, its iterations of Act 1 and 2 were complete. This is wrong. Act 1 was very far from a shippable state and absolutely no work on Act 2 had been completed besides some concept and 3D art. Here you can see a video documenting one of many major bugs with critical path progression in the final build produced by WP NYC, where it becomes impossible to re-focus on the Simon Says toy if Joey fails and then exits out of the puzzle:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2mmkMx8Wkwp1VU_5IpMKDvngmUFS0IG/view?usp=sharing

At the point the WP NYC studio was frozen it was still difficult to finish a full run of the critical path without the debug tool, and the UI was far from complete. With that build, Act 1 ended the moment Joey passed through the portal on Earth. The current version of Act 1, where Joey makes it to Alternia and meets Xefros, is more indicative of the original length of the NYC version of Act 1. Not only did it need to be slashed from what the original script proposed, the NYC version of Act 1 still wasn't that close to resembling a shippable product after those changes were made.

Because of the amount of time and resources already devoted to this project, WP was initially very reluctant to lay anyone off or scrap the work being done. It was for this reason that the studio stayed open for months after the contract with GC was resolved; WP made every effort to deliver a game with that team, but at the time WP NYC was shuttered, the funds just weren't there to keep the studio running at its current burn rate and schedule slips. The game was never going to reach delivery with the funds available. The studio urgently needed to be frozen for a full reassessment, and then it was closed after the freeze due to the reasons stated above. This was the only course of action that could have saved the project.

To WP's knowledge every artist whose work was used in the final release of Act 1 was included in the credits. The final version of Act 1 was in large part built off concept art and storyboards drawn during the WP NYC era, and many of the artists who made them continued to work on the team that produced the final version of Act 1; the roadmap for the completion of Act 1 was specifically planned because WP had determined that the existing 2D concepts could easily be refined into a final product that would both be visually appealing and more economic to produce. Unfortunately due to the transition to 2D WP no longer had a place for the 3D artists or the original 3D engine, and all of those assets were dropped. They were not used as a basis for the finished assets in Act 1, and visual similarities to WP NYC 3D assets are due to the fact that final Act 1 assets are in large part refinements of the original concept art. Any artist whose work was used incidentally was included in Additional Contributions.

Both the GC and NYC phases of Hiveswap were setbacks to the overall fulfillment of the project, but not insurmountable. WP reorganized the budget to establish a new version of the studio, and Act 1 was released two years after the closure of NYC.

As an addendum, WP has identified the primary source of a disclosure to a well-circulated document of the Hiveswap development process. WP has been aware of a pattern of false claims this former employee has made since the end of their employment at the beginning of 2014. As this individual was not present during the end of the development contract with GC, nor the WP NYC development period, all of the information they have shared is based on speculation and conjecture.

At this time, WP does not wish to invite more controversy into the lives of anyone previously involved with this project, and considers these matters to have been resolved long ago. The goal for years has been to turn the page on flawed attempts by earlier studios, and simply move forward and bring Hiveswap to completion without sparking the chaos, disruption, and threats to personal safety that would have resulted from disclosing many of the details stated above. Doing so would only make it more difficult for the staff to rebuild the project during these periods immediately following the termination of the GC agreement and closure of the NYC studio. Since preservation of the project was the primary responsibility to the backers, making destructive disclosures that put the project at risk along the way would have been at odds with that responsibility. This policy also served to protect individuals from personal or professional harm, including those who were responsible for serious setbacks with the project. Please respect the privacy of any persons affiliated with GC and WP NYC.

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