#what is an optimal posting time anyways.

[norstrum-art]

[Image description from alt: A drawing template titled: "Favorite characters in each unit of Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!" Below are six boxes, each one listed with a unit with digitally drawn half body, flat color characters inside. Most are in their original unit outfits. The unit Virtual Singer has Rin grinning and winking, holding a peace sign to her head. The unit Leo/Need has Honami smiling nervously, tilting her head to the side. The unit More More Jump has Shizuku in her "Draw Your Bow in this White World" event outfit, smiling and holding a hand to her chin. The unit Vivid Bad Squad had Toya in his 2023 birthday outfit happily. The unit Wonderlands x Showtime has Emu cheerfully waving her hand in the air out of the box. The unit Nightcord at 25:00 has Mizuki and Mafuyu; Mizuki is smiling with a cat mouth (:3) while making a heart sign with both hands, and Mafuyu looks at them neutrally from behind. End image description.]

*throws this out of my WIP folder* and STAY out!!!! No but seriously this was actually really fun figuring out how to draw everyone!!!

[landinrris]

On Our Terms- Chapter 4

Pairings: Carlos/Lando

Rating: E

Tags: Football Player Carlos, Artist Lando, More specifically Lando does pottery, Unintentional Outing, Explicit Sexual Content, Established Relationship, Minor Angst, Always a Happy Ending, Fluff and Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Euro Cup

Chapter: 4/?

The prospect of traveling to Germany for the Euro Cup is surreal to put it lightly. Lando’s never been to Germany— had never even been out of England until he’d traveled to Spain to meet Carlos’ family way back when. But here he is now in Berlin with the entire Spanish National Football Team trying to blend in like he belongs.

Read Chapter 4 || Read from the beginning

[zebratimw]

Spirit animal SQH

[whitefangz]

her ass is not listening

[theygender]

I've got too many games I want to play and not enough free time 😭 I still need to finish my BG3 playthrough but since Endless Ocean: Luminous came out I've been playing a lot of that instead. Also just got back into Wizard101 last night. Started playing House Flipper again last weekend. Still need to finish BOTW so I can start a TOTK playthrough and finish Pokemon Shield so I can start on Pokemon Violet. I've been fighting off the urge to start up a new Skyrim playthrough for weeks. My brother just told me that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is getting ported to the Switch. And now I'm suddenly feeling inspired to replay DAI... And throughout all of this I'm also playing the hell out of DragonVale on my phone. Someone just pay me to play video games all day please

[karnalesbian]

tagged by my girl alice @transfemininomenon!

last song: Black Betty, but the caravan palace cover

currently reading: :( I haven't done much non-academic reading in a hot minute unfortunately which means my answer is thoroughly meh: Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination, 2nd ed.

currently watching: oh man tagging me in this post is just a trap to expose me for being boring, clearly. as some of you already know I hardly ever watch shows, so the closest thing I have to an answer is that I've been watching NBA summer league games because I have no better basketball to watch right now. OR my parents have been binging Monk lately and I occasionally catch bits of episodes if I happen to be eating when they start watching

currently craving: actually just had some chocolate covered raisins like five minutes ago so not craving anything all that much rn! also if I think too hard about this I WILL start craving something else which would be bad so I'll leave it there

coffee or tea: oh my god this one really was designed to make me specifically have the most boring possible answers.. I don't drink either of them, mostly on account of my adhd but also I don't feel particularly drawn to them even putting that aside. my mom has a coffee problem though so I will say coffee as a show of solidarity, but really it's neither

standard disclaimer that you are free to completely ignore this if you don't feel like briefly reliving the mid-2010s via this post, but I'll tag @raeii @loz @fieldlands @firedell @hungwy @poguniversity @legofrans @ingleaisle @romcommunist and @captoring! and also any friends and mutuals bored on a tuesday morning (timezones do not interact) that want to do this, just assume I tagged you too

[torchickentacos]

[selfiesforalgernon]

So humiliating, I was gonna play UFO 50 all night, while optimizing a route for Night Manor, I got a deathless run and took notes, then spent... THE REST OF THE NIGHT writing this route which I then posted on the subreddit 😓 so I might as well post it here too lol UFO 50 is so amazing even fucking TALKING about it can eat up your time like nothing, now it's almost 2 AM

Beware spoilers for Night Manor, the horror game in UFO 50:

Night Manor route optimization (for fun)

What a good game first of all, so IMO Night Manor is a very easy cherry and they should've made the cherry a deathless run.. that being said after I cherried it I noticed a lot of bait in the game vs what you need to at least kill the guy (after killing him make all the noise you want, play the piano, listen to the jukebox, flush the toilets and watch tv the world is yours) here's some things I found when I rebooted and messed around till I got a deathless run, for any who maybe want to go deathless but have trouble (infodump incoming):

Aside from the initial trigger in the kitchen (you have to do this, you can't sneak past and you can only do some of bed and bathroom before this) I counted 3 mandatory noise triggers you need to do to get to the point where you can erase him, unfortunately he may still find you, idk if it's just rng or there's something that says "get the player after x minutes" with some good luck and quick play you only need to worry about the noise triggers

These are: crowbar on cabinet to get egg, music box to get 3d glasses (highly important don't forget this little item it gives you directions for the maze), and crowbar on mirror in second bathroom (very tense area, very quick solution if you know what you're doing)

Avoid clock, piano, jukebox, all tvs and toilets, anything that could creak just to be safe, garage door and car, in fact outside of the items you get there, garage is all bait, 2 noise triggers and for what? A bad ending that's unrelated to the rest of the game

Now a tip on the baddie himself, I recommend you hide at least twice, more if you get bad rng and he won't leave you alone, but I found out if you attack him with a weapon like knife or basic hook, then immediately leave the area, he immediately de-aggros, you get a message and can go right back to the room you were in and he's gone, this works at least twice but if you keep doing this eventually he swats it away and instakills you (that's why you should throw in a hide or two at the beginning the earlier the better so you can reset if you get unlucky) in the cramped bathroom this is very useful, and to give you a better chance because of needing the right inventory item you can run to another room first, get the right inventory screen for say, knife, wait for him to pop up, stab, then run. Also try to make sure you don't run into a room with a hiding spot as this will trigger the hiding instead of an instant de-aggro.

Now, your goal is going to be loaded crossbow% lol meaning you need crossbow, bolt, and because bolt is in the hedgemaze sadly, all 4 gems and directions (idk if you can manually go through the maze if you know the way, I find it easier and faster to just tank the music box aggro for the glasses) I recommend (if you won't get confused and forget to go back and comb through rooms) leaving all items alone that don't help with these conditions, it helps with inventory management, keeping an eye on your knife at all times for a quick stick and run (e.g shovel just gets car keys, leave it) you still need shed it's very useful, the first time you go to garage too it's also useful grab all items (duct tape, oil can, gas can, crowbar, flashlight) (if you don't know where batteries are it's bedroom near entrance, I was thorough writing this but in general it assumes you've played before)

Ruby is basically free, gas and matches in fireplace gas is in garage matches right on mantle

Emerald also pretty free but you need shed so hook (room near start) duct tape (garage) and pool cue (upstairs lounge room with beaten looking door) to grab corpse in pool, that gives copper key which unlocks shed, I BELIEVE sack in shed gives bronze key which you need for crossbow in attic, iirc hacksaw is greenhouse box so grab shears and chop up the greenhouse box (I could be mixing up bronze key and hacksaw but either way you should have both), stab sack in shed with knife, grab shears and if you were bold enough to already smash the cabinet in dining room with the crowbar for egg (one noise trigger done), the vice is there to crack it, popping it shouldn't be a noise trigger I checked, and that gives gold key which is massive, it unlocks master bedroom from the lounge room where you found pool cue, you need it for 2 gems so yes at some point, you are gonna have to smash and grab in the dining room with the crowbar, you can do this very early on so you might as well try to hide this one out.. FINALLY hacksaw gets the ring off the mummy hand in bathroom which is used outside of house on fountain statue to give emerald

Topaz and diamond are where you're ringing the dinner bell left and right, topaz is in body bag so that's hacksaw and balcony, which is accessed through master bedroom, unlocked by gold key from egg, see? Still easier than diamond

Diamond is in safe behind painting in master bedroom HOWEVER you need safe code, which is in the secret-looking bathroom connected to the master bedroom, a door goes from bedroom to office, a gold book on bookshelf in office opens the way to the bathroom from there.. Now a couple words here, it's cramped and frankly pretty tense, this is the pivotal moment of a deathless run, if you hid a couple times first and haven't stabbed him too much, before anything, hit the bottom arrow to unlock the bathroom door to the hallway, then what I like to do is smash the window, he spawns, don't try to read code just gtfo, then you have a brief moment in the next room, make sure knife is on your inventory screen, he'll pop up again, don't miss lol grab it and stab him then run again, to any room.. if he didn't bat it away you should be in the clear, you can go back to bathroom and read the code then enter it in master bedroom on the safe behind painting for diamond

Now directions, I usually do this pretty early but playroom I think has doll in rightmost corner, stab with knife, gives music box key, go to kid's room, use on music box, get ready for him to pop up, either stab or hide, do the opposite of whatever you did for the egg cabinet just so you're not spamming him with attacks lol, remember it's very easy to stab if you run to another room first to buy time to find your knife, then wait then stab then run again to clear him.. either way music box gives glasses, use on scribbles on wall (one of the kid's rooms I always mix them up)

If you still haven't grabbed crossbow go to attic (upstairs to the right, looks like stairs) use bronze key on chest for crossbow (it should be in sack in shed you cut it open with knife let me know if I mixed that up)

So, with gems, directions and crossbow, get your ass to the lion statues outside, order is obvious but left to right: emerald, ruby, topaz, diamond, enter gate, use directions in hedge maze, takes you to the statue with crossbow bolt, grab and load into crossbow, keep it on your inventory screen, ring the dinner bell (use a tv, toilet, etc hell you can even play the jukebox for him) he shows up, pop him with the crossbow, personally that's when I went and grabbed coins from couch and played the song, sit back relax, play out the rest of the game, content in the fact that the rest of it is free, just splash that ugly lil bro in the basement with fungicide whenever you're ready to finish the run

*A fun fact, though I recommend hiding early, you can totally grab the hook before triggering the guy, and use the hook to stab him then run outside, that's how I learned about the insta-clear

(Now for self-deprecation, I know I'm not the first or only one who figured this route out, I just haven't seen any posts on it, and this is what I really love doing with these types of games, so let the kid have it ok? How'd I do?)

[lupinuslepidus]

last couple of weeks of fieldwork happened but were filled with chaos that included a crew of interns, hiring nonsense, permitting nonsense, and extreme weather including both a record-breaking heat wave and thunderstorms. we were bouncing up and down the east side of the sierra (at one point we crossed the CA/NV border, like, six times over the span of two days because the mountains we were in were very precisely bisected by it.) the epic highs & lows of fieldwork included:

sampling in Death Valley National Park during the heat wave. this was actually less bad than when we were sampling across the way from Death Valley, because 8000 feet vs. 5000 feet of elevation is a very noticeable difference when it's over ninety degrees out.

we had a team of interns who were remarkably good sports and helped tide us over when our crew was briefly down to just 2 people!

i later found out that the interns had been, uh, maybe misled about how much work they'd be doing, which went a long way to explaining why they had a chronically exhausted air about them. that's academia for you i guess

got to see the ancient bristlecone pine forest on our days off!

ditched some gear in the field at one point bc i didn't feel like carrying a long metal thingy through an Active Thunderstorm while we were a couple hundred feet off a mountain peak

ditched our camp overnight bc didn't feel like taking the car back up a muddy road following an Active Thunderstorm, since the tires had real bad traction on mud

got told by a motel manager the night that we ditched camp that i? smell like pine? which. was not the worst thing. and makes sense given my constant layer of pine sap residue. but sure was an interaction that happened

got to swim in alpine lakes on our days off!

stopped taking my lunch breaks because it was the only way to even slightly keep up once our crew was back up to 4 people

and by 'keep up' i mean i was still consistently finishing 30 minutes behind the other

i don't. recommend this

a couple nights in various spots, we heard coyote packs yipping somewhere around our camp, which is a haunting and unexpectedly lovely experience. genuinely highly recommend waking up to the sound of coyotes at three a.m.

[quirkle2]

fav shot of reigen in this comic i think

[eggmeralda]

I need a massive sudden hyperfixation shock to happen again

[cartoonrival]

comic is done btw except that i need to fix guys leg hair in two panels. typical blunder. itll be posted tomorrow evening though im not doing that shite rn!!!

[goldkirk]

oh man, owning a body is way scarier than being in one while not owning it is

[breitzbachbea]

The idea that my historical AUs are just all the characters reincarnating at different times (sometimes at overlapping ones in different places) still holds intrigue for me. Simply because I love the idea of them spending their afterlives in liminal spaces and only THEN remembering their prior lifes, which leads to post-Imperial Rome AU Michele chasing Lovino around, yelling "I DIDN'T DIE FOR THE REPUBLIC SO THAT YOU LITTLE SHIT COULD RULE OVER ITS CORPSE!!!!!!!". Benny Hill type scenario.

[luckyemo]

i always forget naegi/togami is like... a popular ship i guess so theres ppl who think like Deeply about togami and i just wha

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

me @ myself: i do not need more gw2 character ideas. i do not need more gw2 character ideas. i do not need more gw2 character ideas. i do not n

my brain, ignoring me: but consider: a sentient jade-powered watchknight construct affiliated with the Tideturners, matching with the watchwork wings