#I know their height difference isn’t this drastic but

[yerion]

hit the line.

before the race, you encounter your rival—jeon jungkook. instead of seeing him on the tracks, jungkook invites you to his waiting room to ensure that no eyes are watching but his. pairing : racer!jungkook x racer!f-reader. genres : mild fluff, mainly suggestive themes. content : jungkook is slightly toxic because he’s obsessed with you and has a tendency to grab onto your neck a little too harshly. word count : 2,4k.

this lobby is a pigsty. just an abundance of egotistical racers, mostly made of men, chortling and snickering about the petty little numbers etched into their records. nothing is ever different here, except the numbers beside your name. it’s the only salvageable aspect in this industry, considering that’s the only statistic that happens to be soaring significantly.

however, there happens to be a wild card in today’s race. all empty heads did turn at the news of him earlier, and of course, the room still remains inflamed, merely unnoticeable if a glance is all someone would offer. 

to be precise, it’s him—the variable. when he walked in the room full of unbending tension, your façade inevitably dulled at the sight of jeon jungkook—your one and only rival on the tracks.

you’ve heard of him, but this is your first time seeing him up close.

inquisitive, you drastically swing your head to the side, hoping to catch a glimpse of his infamous side profile. your eyes are half-shut in lack of interest as you scrutinise the average guy in his jet black race suit, sitting maybe ten metres ahead of you.

the only thing recognisable is that he looks as bored as you.

a solid 6/10.

as if he heard, jungkook lifts himself up from the couch he was sitting on; he didn’t seem comfortable because of how low the couch is for his height anyway. besides, considering the bored guise he has displayed on his excessively praised features, his decision to leave the lobby isn’t so surprising.

you continue to stare at him when he walks past you, and at the last second, he returns a knowing gaze before ultimately exiting the room without causing much commotion like before.

whatever that meant.

staring up at the clock mounted on a wall ahead, you bat your eyes upon checking that there’s plenty of time before your race. consequently, in your place of being a veteran racer, you’re beyond capable of dedicating a fraction of your time to unnecessary things like tailing his steps. 

you’re just curious.

a decisive breath slipping past your lips, you stand, determined to go through the same door. you turn a slight corner, retreating from your chair to push through the exit, palms flat against the door.

“i must be bothering you a lot.” you suddenly hear as soon as you let go of the door to shut.

viciously snapping your head towards the unfamiliar voice, you don’t even try to hide the obvious shock written all over your face when you catch jungkook smirking at your entrance. “say that again?” you raise a brow at his absurd assumption.

he’s not entirely wrong.

“i don’t see you denying.” his smirk still intact, he crosses his arms to test your temperament.

“you’re full of yourself.” you snarl as you lean forward to his face in hopes of erasing the triumphant smirk off of his face. to think the jeon jungkook is a conceited bastard outside of his car is an ego boost you didn’t think you’d need.

jungkook inches further, stopping when his forehead meets yours. “such a hypocrite you are.” he peers down at your shorter height before whispering, “i know you.”

“who doesn’t?” you bark out a scoff before trying to shove him away with both hands. jungkook doesn’t budge at that, so all you do is grit your teeth behind your own scowl.

“you’re right,” jungkook mutters under his breath. “after all, we’re surrounded by all these racers who think they have a chance against you.” grinning lopsidedly, he reaches out to play with a strand of your hair, twirling a lock on his index finger until your hair tightens around his digit.

you wince inwardly at the sudden tug of your hair. “isn’t it too late for flattery?” 

by slightly angling his head to the side, jungkook eyes the empty yet vast corridor. on each side of you, there’s two routes—to the left is the exit, and to the right are the waiting rooms. “if we stay here, someone will see us.”

“so?”

“you know, we look extremely suspicious right now.”

you watch your hair smoothly slide out of jungkook’s fingers. “two people can’t talk to each other?” 

“who says i’m talking?”

footsteps—you can undoubtedly hear someone—perhaps two, walking towards the door behind your shoulder. the weight of each step becomes heavier and louder with every second passing.

you didn’t want the world to fall into jungkook’s hands, but once again, today is another day that orbits around his control.

“just come to my room.” jungkook coaxes in a sweet whisper. “i’ll tell you what i think about right before pressing down on the accelerator.” he chuckles mockingly, “come on, it’ll lessen the thought of me in your head.”

“me?” you almost choke on air. “thinking about you?”

“you give yourself away too easily.” jungkook backs away with the truth in his mouth. “i saw you staring and now you’ve been caught following.”

“shut up.” you retort in embarrassment. “save the words and lead the way.” you roll your eyes, casually smacking his shoulder as you trudge past him—an insufficient blow for his arrogance, but it’ll have to do for now.

because you won’t lie, you’d like to figure out what lives in his head.

the journey to his room isn’t far. is it a coincidence that his room happened to be the first one down in the line? when jungkook stops at a door, you hover behind him, hoping to maintain a reasonable distance between the two of you. 

“so what is it that you want to know?” jungkook asks without giving you a minute to adjust in his territory. 

you scour his room absentmindedly whilst approaching jungkook who’s resting against the table supporting all of his equipment—an extra helmet, gloves and some clothes to change into afterward; all made by calvin klein. “weren’t you the one who offered a conversation about your mindset before a race?” you huff in annoyance, “unless you were joking like a piece of shit.”

“no way.” jungkook cracks a grin at your audacious demeanour.

“then?”

jungkook gestures to you to come closer, and at first, you’re adamant. you dislike how you’re agreeing with all his suggestions so far, but you choose to forfeit when you realise that jungkook has no intention to move and do anything for himself.

“what?” you observe jungkook’s maximised mien now that you’re helplessly close. there’s a tenuous freckle under his lower lip, and on top of a vein, an even darker freckle on the side of his neck has taken its place on his tanned complexion. there’s also a scar on his cheek—so fine and delicate; luckily the scar doesn’t seem like it carries trauma.

with all those considered, a 7/10.

“this is exactly what i’m talking about.” jungkook catches you red-handed again. it’s no secret you were scanning him directly in front of his face anyway.

“shut up.” 

“will you?”

“you’re telling me to shut—” the strength in your voice vanishes completely at the sensation of an arm suddenly snaking around your waist. 

privacy is what he was after.

once an arm of jungkook’s has clinged onto your paralysed body drenched in utmost surprise, he deliberately tightens his grip around one side of your torso to keep you alert. “if you want me to stop talking, do it yourself.” he implies suggestively. 

“just because you know me, that doesn’t give you the right to randomly touch me like this—” you cut yourself off, knowing your words mean nothing but pure entertainment to him. his unserious smile alone says a million words. “are you even listening?”

“it’s you i think about.” jungkook abruptly confesses as a means of dismissing your complaints.

baffled, you blink profusely at his insane answer. “are you joking?” you spit out, flustered by the amount of confusion and irritation jungkook gave like nothing.

“do i look like i’m joking?” he interjects as if offended. 

“how is it not?” you aggressively interrogate the meaning behind his words. “unless you happen to be a fan of mine.”

wordlessly, he circles both his arms around your waist to trap you in between his thighs. “what’s your thought on dating fans?” he tilts his head and grins cryptically with you in his proximity. “or how about someone who drives better than you?”

“choosing winners already?” you hiss at his stretched confidence before planting your palms against his shoulders to fend him from sticking to you further. “get off of me.” hands now grasping jungkook’s zipper above his adam’s apple, your eyebrows collapse into an intense furrow.

jungkook rocks his head back, chuckling breathily at your rough initiation before returning the undivided attention back to your weary eyes. “how about a bet?” unbothered by your grapple, he lightly taps his finger against your back a few times, knowing what kind of effect it has on you.

jungkook’s fingertips are like electricity; a part of you jolts as a shiver runs through your back, all the way to your nape. however, your ears perk up at the inception of a gamble. “what now?” a frown persists to mask your intrigue against him. “i swear, if it’s something stupid—”

a shallow laughter releases from his own depths. “now i have your attention?”

eventually, your grip loosens, and before you know it, your arms are back to your sides. “you surely do talk a lot.”

“that can be helped.” like someone who knows exactly what the next card is in the deck, jungkook is quick to yank your entire body towards a certain direction with the help of his arms; not even is there time for a breath to pass your oesophagus. he almost trips you over onto his thigh with the fuel of force, clearly unconcerned of your landing. you’re triggered to instinctively grasp onto his shoulders, desperate to avert any sort of injury prior to your race. “should i demonstrate how?” he asks once his eyes are locked with yours, catching the remaining panic in your orbs before they can diminish.

shit.

your whole body burns—from the centre and outward, the wildfire spreads at a speed different from a blooming flower. not only are you compelling every ounce of anxiety to subside, but you’re overwhelmed by embarrassment too—you’re helplessly tangled under one guy’s touch; a guy whomst you’ve never met before. any knowledge you have of him is what everyone knows too.

yet here you are, slowly enjoying every bit of temptation he’s feeding you.

screw it.

“go on,” is all you say.

that puts jungkook at a pause: his eyes widen in a way that appears unbelievably innocent—at least in this strange second, he’s not as arrogant and egocentric. instead he just looks like a lost kid who got permission to kiss a girl for the first time.

8/10.

containing your chuckle, you proceed to sling your arm around his neck in ease. “not so confident now—” you tease, “—huh, jungkook?”

“well,” jungkook smirks knowingly. “no need for confidence if you’re going to make things easier.” one arm latched around your waist, jungkook lets his other hand creep up towards your nape—and again, you feel it—your body tensing and squirming internally in resistance as if you’re being electrified. 

sucking in a breath at the feeling of each of jungkook’s fingers wrapping around your neck, you purse your lips to exaggerate a frown purely made of frustration. “just kiss me already.” you suggest boldly. “we can’t be doing this at the start line, can we?”

“i would.”

“what the—”

“go on a date with me after this.” 

before you can utter a single word, the tightness surrounding your neck intensifies, restricting you momentarily from any movement. all the oxygen in the air melts away, and silence jails the two of you—every second starts playing in slow motion, and you feel as though you can dissect each second if you were given the job to do so. 

“how should you respond?”

all you do is nod, and immediately, the concept of distance detonates. jungkook pushes down on your neck, letting your head dip further towards him. you don’t dare to breathe or make yourself known to him right now, instead you take him into your heated embrace, feeling as if that’s the only thing you’re authorised to do—or are you?

just like that, jungkook’s gaze sinks, focusing on your lips for seconds before inching forward to press his lips against yours. unlike the rest of his body, his lips are gentle. it resembles a fragment of the past; you envision the jungkook who froze at your reciprocation. at that, you begin to notice the fuzziness taking place in your chest as you familiarise yourself with him and his antics.

however your thoughts are cut short when jungkook tilts his head to deepen the kiss. as his lips part, yours does too. his hand still remains secured around the base of your neck, left with no necessity to escalate. his weakened grip grants you a single opportunity to break away from his lips, but your arms stay, eager to contain all of his heat for yourself.

“do you do that often?” you murmur, side-eyeing the hand holding you captive.

“thanks to you.” jungkook replies, his voice now profoundly tender.

“can i get a different answer for once?”

“i mean it.” this time, jungkook cups your cheek with the hand that kept you down. “i race because i wanted to meet you.”

race.

shit.

your race.

his race.

the race.

“jungkook?” you call out his name for the first time. “our race?” upon glancing at the clock behind him, you try to rock jungkook’s shoulders by flailing your arms. “hello? i need to make a living?”

“if that’s your only concern, i can manage.”

you dart your eyes back to jungkook. “i get that you’re obsessed with me, but can you let me win the race first?” you sigh dramatically, “you didn’t even tell me about the bet.”

“i didn’t expect you to—” 

“shut up.”

“how about your questionable habit while kissing?”

“if it wasn’t for you, i wouldn’t be gripping onto the steering wheel that fucking hard.”

#jungkook #jeon jungkook #bts jungkook #jungkook x you #jungkook x y/n #jungkook x reader #bts x you #bts x y/n #bts x reader #jungkook fanfiction #jungkook fanfic #jungkook fanfics #jungkook imagines #bts fanfiction #bts fanfics #bts imagines #jungkook scenarios #bts scenarios #jungkook fluff

[emi-writings]

Hi! I'd love to know how you envision cwilbur, I might want to take inspiration from it for my own headcanon

Okay, so I am really not an artist in any way, shape, or form, so words and some occasional reference images are all I got for anyone interested in this potential design idea.

Also, I have seen some people discuss maybe changing up C!Wilbur's name, and I am intrigued with the idea, though I haven't really done to much thinking about it, so I am curious a little bit on the community's thoughts about it.

Physical Interpretations

So, first of all, Wilbur’s eyes – the Minecraft skin has no indication of eye color, so that is completely free and up to interpretation. After some discussions, I think that heterochromia would be an interesting and unique addition to his design. So, I think Wilbur would have his right eye be a teal green, and his left eye would be blue, similar to his father’s eyes.

Then there is height. All Minecraft skins are the same height, and very few characters have stated their canonical heights. I think making Wilbur 6’ tall would be interesting. I could ramble on about how I think this could result in fun symbolism and all that, but that’s not why you’re here.

The hair is a little bit harder to mess around with… or it would be, if not for the hood attached to his jacket. I am choosing to interpret Wilbur’s hair as long, and just constantly tucked into his head. He probably keeps it in a ponytail or something. As for length, maybe something like this?

As for other physical details, I think that his face would probably have some freckles, he’s spent a lot of time in the sunlight in the early DSMP days as well as his later few DSMP days. Some additional scars would also make a lot of sense, given all the violence and explosions he’s been subjected to.

But I also think Wilbur might have some tattoos. What type of tattoos, I think witchy/magical tattoos similar vibes tattoos like this, this, this and this, would work very well given that potions in Minecraft are considered magic, and Wilbur is pretty associated heavily with potions.

Outfit Interpretations

Now, the outfit is much, much harder to interpret as drastically different, but there are some thoughts that I have on it.

First of all, the yellow shirt – there isn’t anything that indicates that what Wilbur is wearing under the jacket is a sweater or shirt. And I am choosing to interpret it as a yellow, low-crop top. Not enough of a crop top to be always showing off his stomach. But when he stretches, he would be showing off some tummy. Just because I want to add some more gender to the design. Personally, I do think the idea of him with a dark blue shirt instead would work better with him as a character but working we’re with what’s given.

The gloves are things I am debating on keeping, mostly because I don’t know if I want to give Wilbur gloves like this, or if I want to give him some magical bracelets, like this lapis lazuli bracelet, though not necessarily lapis lazuli is the gemstone being used. Maybe both could work, but I’m not sure if it would clutter the design as I can’t actually draw them out myself to test that. But talking about accessories, I think he’d wear the friendship emerald Phil gave him as a necklace like this, but with an emerald.

Species Headcanons

I like to headcanon Wilbur as a mockingbird hybrid, specifically a northern mockingbird. So, he’d have mockingbird wings! But that's very much a headcanon and is something that wouldn't be able to be argued as being there with the current canon design.

#c!wilbur #Build a C!Wilbur #DSMP Wilbur

[insertdisc5]

Devlog #10: Questions and Answers

Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s devlog!

If you just stumbled upon this, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I’m the developer, writer, artist, main programmer, etc of the game. The game being In Stars and Time, which is the next and final game in the START AGAIN series, following START AGAIN: a prologue (available here!).  You can find out more about In Stars and Time here!!! 

LET’S GET TO IT. This devlog is all about questions!!! So many questions!!! I’m gonna answer them all!!!

Happy 2023, everyone! It’s the year of In Stars and Time! In Stars and Time will release sometime this year on PC and Nintendo Switch! I hope you’re excited!!! In the meantime…

Nothing much to talk about this month! I am still fixing bugs, playtesters are still playing, etc. So… here’s another Q&A (Tumblr asks edition)! They're mostly characters/story based, because that's what Tumblr is all about. No spoilers though, I promise!!!

(PS: you can ask me questions whenever on tumblr btw teehee)

Anonymous asks: Hi!! Thank you for making such a wonderful game with lovely little characters!! I spin them in my head like microwaved macaroni. Can I ask what everyone's hobbies are? And their deepest fears? (If that's not too spoilery) Also have a good day!!

Siffrin likes to do wood carvings! Isabeau likes fashion, designing clothes, sewing them, that sort of thing. Bonnie likes to cook! Mirabelle and Odile both like to read- Mirabelle is a horror fan/YA type stuff, while Odile prefers non-fiction.

As for their fears, most of them are spoilery, but Odile is really afraid of heights.

Anonymous asks: I am DYING to know what that rope is on Mirabelle's outfit is, it's sometimes visible and sometimes not and I don't know what it's attached to?? I want to draw her but this rope!! Is getting me

It’s a rope that works as a belt! It goes around her waist, not her hips. It’s so her dress isn’t all flat and boring

Anonymous asks: oh DOES Sif like wearing slippers?? They seem like a slippers guy. Also what small things ticks the characters off?

YOU FELL INTO MY TRAP!!!!!!!!!!! Siffrin prefers socks. Mirabelle is the one who wears slippers.

Hm… I think saying those would be spoilers also, so I’ll just say that Odile hates when people keep secrets from her.

Anonymous asks: What is each party member's favourite season? While we're at it, what's their favourite kind of weather?

Hm… I think Siffrin is split between winter and summer (they have a good cloak that works for all kinds of weather!). Mirabelle’s and Odile’s are fall. Bonnie’s is summer (coastal kid!). Isabeau hears everyone say every season except spring and picks spring.

They all prefer sunny weather for different reasons. Siffrin because it’s easier to travel when it’s nice outside. Bonnie because they like the sun. Mirabelle because she likes to read outside under a tree, same with Odile. Isabeau because “being under the sun gives your skin a healthy glow!”

Anonymous asks: Questions! Do you have a rough estimate for how long the game will be? If this isn’t a spoiler, how did the gang all first meet? And if it is a spoiler then… what’s each of the gang’s favourite colour? 

I don't want to give any numbers just because playtimes will vary drastically depending on the way you play, but I can confirm ISAT is SIGNIFICANTLY longer than START AGAIN: a prologue!!!

For the gang meeting, first Mirabelle went traveling to try to save Vaugarde, then she met Isabeau in Jouvente, then they met Odile while traveling, then they met Siffrin, and then they met Bonnie. The nitty-gritty details aren’t really that important so I haven’t thought about it much. Most of the details on how they met will be found early in the game, so you won’t have to wait hours to know!

As for their favorite colors (Looks at the game. The game is in black and white) Think you’re funny, huh? HUH!?!???! NEXT QUESTION!!!!!

felikatze asks: how did siffrin obtain their fantabulous hat? and who is your favorite character to draw?

Siffrin was born with this cool hat. Popped right off with it on. And Siffrin is my favorite to draw, with Mirabelle a close second. Bonnie is my least favorite to draw within the gang but I still love them dearly. The King is my least favorite to draw period

inverts asks: why does siffrin wear gloves? what's loop's favourite food? what's the KING's favourite food? teehee

Bunch of reasons, but really the two main ones are 1. Looks cool and 2. Keeps them from biting their nails.

Thank you for the Loop question. No one asked about Loop!!! If Siffrin asked them their favorite food, Loop would say “bananas”. But is it true? Yes. But is it? Yes, for sure. But? Yes.

The King’s favorite food are uuuh (I go through my rolodex of foods) carambolas. Yeah

Anonymous asks: what are the gang's favorite hot cocoa toppings?

I don’t know enough about hot cocoa toppings to answer this, so have their favorite nonalcoholic drinks instead. Siffrin doesn’t think they have a favorite drink but really it’s sugarcane juice, Mirabelle’s is either tea or orange juice, Isabeau’s is probably milk or something, Odile’s is tea (but it’s gotta be expensive), Bonnie’s is pineapple juice.

Anonymous asks: whos the shortest (besides the kid) and tallest of them all?

Within the crew, Siffrin is the shortest (besides Bonnie), and Isabeau is the tallest! The real tallest is the King, of course.

Jovial-gender-jester asks: did the kid & their sister ever cook together?

Their sister taught them how to cook, so yes!

Anonymous asks: will we learn more about how Siffrin damaged one of their eyes? 

Yes :)

Anonymous asks: what’s your opinion on speedrunning isat/saap from a lore perspective? as in, what do you think goes through siffrin’s head when they decide to do it?

>:3c teehees evil-y (⬅has added an item and lore made specifically for speedrunners)

Anonymous asks: is the gang gonna be okay. are they gonna be happy

>:3c I teehee evil-y once more

Anonymous asks: Is there a map of the world? Where are things exactly (e.g. where is Ka Bue compared to Vaugarde (?) ?)

Have this map I drew early in development of the countries around Vaugarde. The story doesn’t really need me to know about The Whole Map so I didn’t think about it. I only figured out two neighboring countries’ names too so I could say other countries’ names for Worldbuilding Reasons (as in, to show Vaugarde is a country inside a world, and not just The Only Country In The World), but I do see Vaugarde as being surrounded with many other ones. Could’ve figured out more country names, but two is a good number. Ka Bue is on the other side of the world- Odile has been traveling for A While. For country sizes here, think European countries!

jovial-gender-jester asks: is it alright to ask how you came up with craftonomy? it was cool realizing it's different from craftology, and maybe has no bearing? the concept's fascinating!

Welcome to insertdisc5’s brainstorm theater

Hi I am insertdisc5 and I am making the prologue> ok i need a magic system for this world > fuck i can’t use basic fire water grass because one of my puzzles is all around finding a fire > ok well every magic system in rpg games is just rock paper scissors really > so… why not… just… rock paper scissors > ok but what kind of world comes up with that tho > so maybe it’s all around Creating Things… you can make all kinds of art with rock (sculpting) paper (art, writing) and scissors (uh… idk cutting things) and i kind of like the idea of magic being something similar to art, so let’s call it Craft > ok now i need to create events with every fucking thing i added to the maps, and also explain the world a bit more > the study of craft… craftonomy > hey you know how you have astronomy (studying space) and astrology (adding meanings to constellations, horoscope) so it’d be funny if it was the same, it would be a funny joke > craftonomy (studying craft) and craftology (“if you’re rock type you’re probably very strong but gullible hehe”) are born

Punkitt-is-here asks: How is RPGMaker treating you ⬅(best wishes)

Rpgmaker is my little cat that stays on my lap cutely and doesn’t even scratch me anymore. This is in big part thanks to my programmer who takes care of the really hard code for me teehee (THANK YOU ISABELLA!!!)

hummingcrows asks: How do you stay motivated!

I genuinely don’t have a helpful answer for this, I don’t find it hard to stay motivated to finish things in general… The few times I felt discouraged, I just either went “ok what’s like A Small Thing I can finish today, so this day isnt a total wash” even if it’s just doing one sprite, or “what’s one thing that would make me really happy to add” like a small scene or something, or just making the chairs’ backs rounder for Lore Reasons, and then I do it, and I am happy, and I am motivated

Anonymous asks: what was it like converting the character designs to game sprites? did they transfer easily or was it difficult?

Pretty easy! Outside of Siffrin (who already has a very simple design), I knew I would have to convert them into sprites, so I knew I couldn’t go too detailed with them. Even with their first concept art, I made sure to doodle them as sprites as well so I could make sure they would look distinct from one another!

(Very First Concept Art for everyone except Siffrin. Got their faces first try! (Except Bonnie))

Honestly the main problem was with their height… In the prologue, they all are very small, since I used a 48x48 size, and Siffrin has a MASSIVE hat that takes almost half his size, so all the other characters had to be drawn relative to Siffrin’s size, which meant I couldn’t add as many details as I wanted. I’m glad that for In Stars and Time I found a way to make the sprites taller (they’re 48x96 now, but I’m not using the full height), so now they are all cute and not squished.

(Some of the first sprites I did for the prologue. Look at how squished everyone looks!)

(Profile sprites for In Stars and Time)

roebeanstalk asks: Have you run into any mechanics you've been excited about, but have decided it's better to save them for a future project to keep this one going? Kind of a "kill your darlings" but for game mechanics?

I’m very happy to say that I’ve managed to add all the things I wanted to add to the game! It helped that there weren’t that many mechanics I wanted to add in the first place lol. I even had time to add one I scrapped early in development because it wasn’t that important! But it made me happy to add it so it’s in now!!!!

galaksyz asks: how many siffrins must be stacked on top of each other until they overtake the eiffel tower in height (ok i just wanted to give you the mental image of the Siffrin Pillar)

actual question: once the game is released, what part of fan reactions & creations would you look forward to most/what would you hope for most?

i think it would be awesome to see fan comics or animations, or OST remixes, or YT playthroughs, analysis/essay videos, maybe AUs... if you had to pick just one of those sorts of things, what would it be that you'd like the most?

212.9 Siffrins. Thank you for asking

And I genuinely love every single fan reaction/creation I've seen so far!!!! I have many folders filled with everyone's reactions/creations that I love to look at when I feel down :')

Fan comics definitely have a special spot for me in my heart tho... Those were always my favorite kind of fanarts to make, as a fanartist myself. The comics I’ve seen from the prologue already make me so so so happy!!!

And also, people just writing about the game… Like, just about things they like, things they’ve noticed, or theories they have, there’s also been a few and they just make me so happy. My brain goes on a loop of “yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah”. This is why I love the theories channel on the discord so much hehe, I tried really hard to add little breadcrumbs so it makes me happy when people pick up on it!!! And someone made a post that was just a list of everything they liked about the prologue and it made me so happy it felt like I was floating for a week hehe

pixxyofice asks: I am always curious about gamedev struggles. So... how hard is it to fix bugs for this game in particular? With the time looping I bet it would be hard to figure out maybe.

Uhhh and also what are each member's favorite colors?

Not that hard! I haven’t done a lot of Big Weird Code inside of rpgmaker, so any bugs are usually because I messed up a switch or variable, so it’s just a matter of figuring out the problem and changing one (1) thing. As for finding out there’s even a bug, that’s what QA and playtesting are for!

Bugs related to the time loop mechanic have (FOR NOW?!?) all been taken care of, so the bugs now are mostly related to choices, since some choices appear/disappear depending on where you are in the story. So sometimes I get a playtester like “hey Adrienne, i don't understand this choice i'm getting here”, and it’s because i messed up and it shouldn't be here yet. OOPS!

As for their favorite colors (I look again. The game is STILL in black and white. I try to run towards you but I'm held back) lemme at ‘em, LEMME AT ‘EM– (a few minutes pass, I calm down) Ok. What's the last question?

itr13 asks: what's everyone's favourite colors?

…..

Mirabelle’s would be a warm pink, Siffrin’s black, Odile’s dark green, Isabeau’s sunflower yellow, and Bonnie's black (but really, light blue). ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!?!?

That’s all I have to say for today! Let me know if you have any questions, or if there’s any aspect of the game development struggle you’d like me to talk about! See you next time!!!

AND DON’T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ON STEAM ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THAT’S THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!!

#devlog #in stars and time #start again start again start again #ask tag #this is very long!!! thank you to everyone that sent a question!!!! thank you!!!!!!

[burgerspeople]

Height headcanons because it’s 1 am and I have nothing better to do because what’s sleep?

Everyone thought J-Ju would be the tallest in Tina’s friend group, but they’re wrong!

Zeke hits a big growth spurt and winds up towering over everyone. In elementary and even briefly in middle school, Tina was taller than him, but he quickly shoots past her in high school.

Tina isn’t particularly small, but there’s still a pretty drastic height difference between them. It makes for perfect hugs because he can rest his chin on top of her head while she snuggles her face into his chest.

It also makes his tee shirts and hoodies incredibly cozy. The sleeves swallow her arms, but the enormity of his clothes on her definitely encourages Tina to pilfer his shirts on at least a biweekly basis.

It also helps that he can reach absolutely everything, no matter how high the shelf is, so when they go out in stores together, little old ladies basically hunt him down to get items off of tall shelves.

It’s hilarious because Tina knows it gets old to him, but he’s too polite to say no.

Tammy is always the shortest one. There’s a literal foot between her and Jocelyn by the time they’re both finished growing.

Louise remains the smallest Belcher, but she winds up passing Tammy in height. Not drastically, but she still makes sure to rub it in Tammy’s face on any and all occasions.

#brought to you partly by my gangly uncoordinated tall person self #tina belcher #zeke whose last name remains undisclosed #zekina #tina belcher x zeke #louise belcher #tammy larsen #Jocelyn whose last name I also don’t know

[neonthewrite]

At Odds with Himself

Today's prompt, "Dream", gave me some trouble. I decided to cheat a little, by writing about an AU that originated in a dream that @creatorofuniverses had, none other than the Doppelganger AU. This AU is characterized by there being two very different versions of Colfax, one a wizard and one a thief. They get along about as well as you'd expect a strong personality like Colfax to get along with himself.

~~~

Coco blinked rapidly, wavered on his feet. “Was that a dizzy spell, wizard? Really?!” he griped, putting his hands over his eyes as he tried to regain his sense of equilibrium. He knew the wizard had a number of tricks up his sleeves, but it was odd to have magic, real magic, actually turned on him. Sure, he’d been pushing the guy’s buttons since arriving in this strange world, but he didn’t know what he’d expected when Colfax finally snapped and aimed a spell his way.

Colfax’s words echoed in his head in that eerie mimic of Coco’s own voice, words the wizard had invented himself for his spellcasting. A faint fog around him dissipated as the spell finished its course. Wisps sank into the well worn stones of the floor.

Stones that, Coco realized, were a lot wider than he remembered. In fact, there was suddenly a lot more space around him than he remembered there being in the wizard’s tower room. The nearest shelf, before only a foot or two away, was several paces from him. He tilted his head back, taking in the suddenly castle-like height of a simple bookshelf.

Whirling, he found other vaguely familiar furniture standing so much bigger than he remembered. He hadn’t been in this renaissance faire world all that long, but he had spent plenty of time all over the castle. He knew what the place looked like. The workbench, the charts on the wall, the window, they weren’t supposed to loom so high overhead. He was like a toy discarded on the floor.

Coco’s heart jumped to his throat. This wasn’t right. It couldn’t be right. The world had warped beyond recognition in the most frightening way. He turned his head this way and that, taking in details he never thought he’d see. As recognition crept up on him, he began to think he might have underestimated this crazy world.

“No way …”

“Don’t act so surprised,” a voice, familiar but not, rumbled overhead like a mild storm. “You were repeatedly warned that you’d face consequences if you kept trying to steal from me.”

Coco turned to the source of that voice, tilting his head back to meet the eyes of a man who stood as a giant over him. The face was normally a mirror of his own, a bizarre double that had grown up in fantasy land instead of the world Coco knew. He was the reason Coco needed to go by a nickname around here‒all to keep anyone from confusing him for the socially-inept wizard that spent so much time playing around with magic.

It was hard not to tease a guy like that, a version of himself that had never bothered to learn how to read people. Had never learned how to hold a basic conversation. He had never needed to blend in, to steal and lie just to keep his family fed. Really, Coco nicking a few golden coins here, some odd little magical implements there, were just practice. Teasing. A fun way to pass the time while stuck with an insufferable mirror of himself.

Now, though, he had a couple regrets. He held up his hands as if calming an agitated horse. “Come now, Colfax. Fella. Isn’t this a little drastic?”

Colfax narrowed his eyes. It was a chilling expression, full of all the intensity Coco might expect out of a Colfax, especially one who never bothered learning to tone it down. His heart fluttered in spite of himself.

The tower that was Colfax-the-wizard shifted, took a step forward. Coco’s gaze dropped to the footstep that covered all too much ground towards him. Seeing a giant coming his way cut right through his thoughts, sent an instinct for survival jolting through him more powerfully than any police chase.

He pivoted on one foot, already aiming himself for the door. It stood impossibly tall, too many paces away, but there was more than enough space beneath it to escape if Coco could just make it that far.

After that … no ideas leapt to mind just yet, but for now the important part was to get away from himself.

Behind him, the giant wizard started muttering something else in those made up words of his. Coco’s heart did a flip and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. Something was coming, and he had no intent of waiting around for it. On some kind of instinct, he juked to the side and did a quick somersault, changing his trajectory for springing back to his feet. To his side, he saw something bright and quick dive into the floor where he’d been an instant before.

Wizard-Colfax wasn’t discouraged. He took a few more steps. Coco felt them, each and every one, through the floor. They rumbled beneath his frantic steps, so casual compared to him running for his life.

“C-Colfax! Can’t we talk about this?!” Coco called, still making his bid for the door. It was his only chance if the wizard had moved on to slinging spells around.

“Tried talking,” Colfax replied, his voice cold. “You refused to listen.”

He wasn’t precisely wrong. Coco swore and shook his head as he ran. He wasn’t about to convince the guy of anything now. He had happily bothered him, tried to find ways to get under his skin. And it had finally worked.

More spell words echoed overhead. Coco’s chest tightened and he prepared to make another dive out of the way. Just as he did, though, a thick fog washed over the floor, overtaking him with more speed than any vapor should be able to. He stumbled. The room around him was lost to his sight and he grabbed the cowl that hung loose around his neck, frantic hands holding it over his face just in case the gas was dangerous.

A scoff rang out overhead. “Don’t be so dramatic. I’m not poisoning you.” Colfax’s voice no longer came from behind him. It came from somewhere to the side. Coco glanced uselessly in that direction before turning the other way to get some distance.

Not three paces later, he tripped on something that appeared as if from nowhere in the fog. With a yelp, Coco toppled forward, hands shooting out to catch himself. Rather than stone, however, they met a pliant surface, something almost leathery. It radiated heat, and while the fog retreated as fast as it had rolled in, he came to the horrifying realization of what it was.

A hand. A hand so similar and so different from his own. Coco stared in shock at a lifeline longer than his torso, felt a heavy pulse beneath his own hands.

The vertigo of falling onto a giant hand was soon replaced by real vertigo as that hand shot into the air. Coco tried to flinch back into motion, only for the fingers and thumb of that hand to spring closed on him as if released from a trap. He was pinned all too securely in a fist as the floor dropped away.

Colfax-the-wizard stood from his kneel, dark eyes fixed dispassionately on Coco. Coco could only twist enough to catch that look in the corner of his eyes, and his body shuddered as the helplessness really sank in under his skin. “You got me,” he said, his voice a lot weaker than he hoped for. “I know when I’m beat. I’ll take the bounce, if you just put me right I’ll leave you to it‒”

“And let you go terrorize the rest of the castle?” Colfax cut him off. He turned and the dizzying speed of his pivot cut off any protests. “No, you need some time to yourself.”

He approached his workbench, scattered with all kinds of magic implements, crystals and tools and herbs and the like. Coco imagined being pinned like a bug on a board and squirmed while his stomach did flips. “What are you plannin’, mind if I ask?”

“I don’t mind,” Colfax dismissed, stopping before the workbench. For a long couple seconds, he scanned his various supplies before grabbing a jar from the back of the bench. A few fragments of leaves remained at the bottom, and when he maneuvered the large cork out of the top a faint but bitter smell almost immediately filtered out.

Coco thrashed, but couldn’t do a thing about Colfax holding that open jar underneath where he was suspended in his grip. Before dropping him in, though, Colfax nodded at him. “This will keep you out of trouble. Be grateful it isn’t the dungeons.”

“Grateful?!” Coco sputtered. “C’mon, Colfax, don’t‒” his voice gave way for a yelp as the grip around him released and he felt, for a small instant, the terror of freefall. Even knowing the jar was there to catch him, he couldn’t help but twist in fear, reaching to catch something, anything. And then he landed in a heap on a glass floor, the real floor looming so far below him.

When he looked up, Colfax was already fixing the large cork in place. More of those spell words got past the cork and some kind of magic seeped into the jar, and then no sound reached him at all.

#gtjuly #gtjuly2023 #mywriting #colfax hammond #wizard!colfax #thief!colfax #doppelganger au #trust au #g/t #gt #giant tiny #g/t handheld #fearplay

[shandycandy278]

OH

I think i meant a story your friend made, but now i’m also kinda curious what your favorite story is that you’ve written before :D?

Oooooooo alright!

Prepare for a LONG post lol

Well, my favorite story ever that a friend has made is a hard one. My friends are either mostly artists, or writers that tend to write once in a blue moon and privately. A lot of the favorite stories that I have with my friends are roleplays, actually!

One that I’d like to say with some uncertainty (I don’t know if they consider me a friend) is At Their Mercy by @devtemrys. Their rendition of the FGOD AU and everything surrounding it gets rotated in my mind of “ideas I’m obsessed with”, along with Suspect (and the CKtE verse in general), my Gasterblaster AU (I PROMISE IM WORKING ON IT 😭), and a few others. They did an amazing job with spacing out the story, whether they even had that in mind or not, and it was the perfect blend of humor and serious topics.

If you like FGOD, or Errormare, or Error being an oblivious dad™️, then this is 100000000% the fic for you. Highly recommended!

Although, if I had the time and mental capacity, I would do my best to list all of my friend’s works. My friends have amazing minds and bottomless imaginations, and it’s super inspiring. ùwú

As for MY OWN works… ugh, I can’t choose! How dare you! /t /j

In all honesty, I have SO MANY MORE fanfictions than you see on my AO3. Before I switched to there, I actually used to write and post my fanfiction on Amino. I also was in the Miraculous fandom at the time, and honestly, sometimes it feels like a fever Dream. (I’ve posted over 100 works on that platform.)

So I’m not going to list these in my favorite, but as for what they taught me and how I developed, if that’s okay? Because I’ll always hold them close to my heart for that reason.

The A Cat of Many Things series (three works total) helped me to experiment with POV changes, how knowledge isn’t shared between characters… and was also 100% self-indulgent, LOL.

My work, A Story of Love, was my first one-work-only project that got REALLY LONG. It helped me make Alternative Universes feel like they could actually happen. Maybe it was DRASTICALLY different from canon, but I made it work and connected it in ways people appreciated and cherished.

Wordless Miracle was my first work that was more day-to-day life than following a plot, romance, or drama. It was my first self-healing work where I actually focused on a character’s trauma. It helped me give characters more depth, explore their weaknesses and use them to my advantage. It also inspired Crippled.

Crippled was a very short project, but it let me explore physical disabilities. It also allowed me to figure out how to empower the character despite those weaknesses, to help them reach greater heights while that disability is still a part of them.

(It was also after I wrote this that I learned how exactly some disabled people feel about the world “cripple/crippled”. I kept the title though, as it had become popular and how the feeling of the title changed as Adrien learned to accept his paralysis and feel less bitter towards it. Which was a really nice effect.

Please do not get on me about that!)

After that was where I switched to UTMV, and honestly, Curiosity Killed the ErROr is probably one of the better-put-together works I have. It beat A Story of Love as the longest single-work that I have and allowed me to experiment with telling a story of day-to-day mystery instead of action or adventure. It was a change that worked uniquely for that work, and allowed me to play with characterizations of characters and the unique interactions it would bring.

Dream’s pregnancy wasn’t planned, but the second I thought of it I just KNEW that Nightmare also had to be curious in the story. It couldn’t just be Error and Ink with their vastly different subjects of curiosity- a side character ALSO being curious to a fault was a touch that enhanced the story so much that I can’t even imagine writing it any other way. It’s the first work I’ve been satisfied with as a whole, and considering how much I’ve written, that’s saying something.

And finally, my current fanfiction Blorbo- And For a While, I was the Suspect.

I’m not sure what this work is going to teach me and how it’s going to help me improve as a writer- but I just KNOW it’s going to be something. I’m going to look back on it and think “yeah, I wouldn’t be where I am today without that experience”, and it just makes me excited.

And… yeah. Those are my “favorite” works!

If you want the links to my works, feel free to ask! I just knew there were going to be a lot, and Amino can be stupid™️.

#ask sc #works #writing #story #fanfiction #fic rec #reccomendation #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #alternative universe #AU #UTMV #undertale #undertale multiverse

[thestobingirlie]

oh the thing about saying dustin ends up taller than steve is so dumb when gaten is 20 now and 5'5 like ??? i'll never understand the whole messing w height thing for characters that are played by a single actor and only exist in one form of content. like it's different for characters adapted from comics (esp comics considering the number of different ppl they will be drawn differently by), books, musicals where they end up played by a variety of different performers over time, even characters that end up in multiple adaptations or remakes where they are played by different ppl (like the multiple versions of james bond), etc. where you naturally end up w a preference toward picturing them a certain way bc there is no one specific version of them in existence. but for something like stranger things where the character is played by this one performer and all other content (like the comics) is exclusively based on that performer it makes no sense to me. like i know what they look like and it's not what you're talking about.

yeah, i never really get drastically changing what a character looks like for a work like stranger things. like you said, for books and other forms of media, totally fair. but for a show that isn’t an adaptation, what’s the point? we know what they look like.

i can understand maybe writing/drawing them a bit shorter, or younger looking, because obviously canonically they’re all in their mid-to-late teens, but played by actors much older. but other than that, i just don’t really get it.

#stranger things #asks #anon

[gmanwhore]

Also the g’zian height difference is very drastic (seeing as G’ is 6’10” and we know from the photo that Azzi is shorter than Eli, who isn’t very tall to begin with) so I can see her grabbing his tie and pulling him down to kiss his cheek…

YESSS YES YES

Also like. Her just holding his hand and leaning on his shoulder while they are both sitting down. And smiling up at him and admiring him and he sees just as much beauty in her.

#g'zian #I AM VERY SOFT FOR THEM

[animebw]

If I were to describe Fruits Basket season 2 in a single word, it would be “solidification.” This season takes everything the first season did and delivers on it with more clarity, more focus, and more determination to see its vision through. By the end of season 1, I loved Fruits Basket; by the end of season 2, I understood it. I understand how it views the cruelty of abuse and the many ways it manifests. I understand how it views the weight of trauma and the different ways it binds people in place. I understand how it views the importance of recovery and the complex, imperfect paths people take on the road to escape their demons. It is one hell of a show, unafraid to dive headfirst into challenging topics and let the raw, imperfect emotions they bring up fester. But it’s equally unafraid to pull those dark emotions back into the light, to show how even through the worst suffering a person can endure, hope will always spring again.

This show is good. It’s really good. My only real issue with this season is- surprise, surprise- the Arisu/Kureno subplot. And it sucks that a show I love so much is intrinsically tied to such a shitty, unsalvageable component. This isn’t just a running joke I can overlook or a background subplot that’s easy enough to ignore; this is an increasingly critical part of Froobs’ plot development. And I hate it. I hate that I can’t just put my head down and ignore this one issue like I did with most of season 1′s problematic aspects, even as season 2 also goes a long way in resolving or repairing those problematic aspects in the midst of this ill-considered age-gap plotline. I want nothing more than to say with my full chest: “Fruits Basket is utterly amazing and I love it with all my heart.” But I can’t. And unless something drastic changes with this subplot, I likely never will.

And yet.

The increasingly godlike character banter. The heart-wrenching backstories for everyone in the Sohma clan. The redemption of Kagura with one of the show’s all-time best episodes. Akito’s ascension to the single most genuinely loathsome anime villain I’ve ever seen. Tohru and Kyo’s absolutely perfect budding romance. Yuki’s incredible self-motivated journey of healing and self-actualization. The increasing weight of Tohru’s own repressed grief and exhaustion. Everything- and I mean everything- about Hatsuharu. This season has been so incredible in so many ways, hit so many heights, accomplished so many feats, filled me with so much joy and laughter even as it breaks my heart into a million pieces...

How could I not love it all the more?

So yes, even with how much I despise the Arisu/Kureno stuff (oh, and I guess I’m still not really sold on the student council either, but that’s a far more minor complaint), Fruits Basket season 2 is a triumph. It’s one of the most affecting stories I’ve ever consumed, something that’s touched me so deeply that I doubt it’ll ever let go. It’s beautiful. It’s remarkable. It’s so, so, so much fun. And whatever waits for us in the final season, I know this show has already earned its place in the pantheon of anime’s most enduring works of art. So until next time, I give this season a score of 9.5/10, a score I give out only to the truly deserving. Will the final season achieve a perfect 10? Only one way to find out.

#anime #the anime binge-watcher #tabw #fruits basket #froobs #1819 aniwatch

[erosoftitan]

HEADCANONS

Eros of Titan, the Avenger known as Starfox!

tagged by: @fasciinating (this ruled omg)

Tagging: @overclocks​ @defyxoblivion​ @reyestr​ @cxpt​ @killermindtricks​ @sebastianshaw​ @hexsreality​ @magnetic-regent-magneto​ @bothsidesofaquestion​ @eternalzenith​ @astraloutlaw​ @soulcluster​ (anybody cosmic) @atimebomb​ (bro) @masteredlegacy​

—    basics.

 is your muse tall/short/average?    He's fairly tall. 6'1. Though he knows a lot of really tall people so sometimes it's almost like he's average. Unless he's hanging out with huge aliens, then he's short. (Or his brother.)

are they okay with their height? Sure. Doesn't stop him from wearing heels though.

what’s their hair like?    Eros' hair is incredible. It's red, like, lipstick red, not ginger. He has a mallen streak now because his redesign is fabulous. It's thick and soft and wavy, and he kinda slicks it back, but somehow he's always got cowlicks that stick up like devil horns. He is quite devious so it works.

do they spend a lot of time on their hair/grooming? This is an interesting question.  His hair is naturally pretty awesome so he doesn't have to do too much to it, but grooming? He spends an incredible amount of effort on his grooming. But by now it doesn't take him too long to get his normal look. If all else fails he can use cosmic power to  slightly manipulate his body, like stopping facial hair from growing, but he finds comfort in grooming and fixing his face. It's like a way to shield himself, too. Not a mask, but a layer between him and the dangerous world.

does your muse care about their appearance/what others think? I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the thing he cares the most about in the world. It's everything to him, his appearance is all that he has. But he knows that not everybody has the same taste in people, clothes, appearance, etc, so if somebody isn't attracted to him he understands on an intellectual level even if it causes him to panic or doubt himself momentarily. When it comes to clothes and makeup, he wears what he thinks he looks good in and makes him feel good and it's not what you wear, it's how you wear it. At the same time, though, it feels REALLY good to be admired for your fashion and taste.

—    preferences 

indoors or outdoors? Forcing Eros to choose between things is cruel. But if he had to choose one, he'd choose the outdoors. Outdoors is where everything that isn't anthropomorphic lives, it's the moon and the water and plants and birds chirping, or the vistas of the mountains or the vastness of a city skyline. The sky is the place where you can fly.

rain or sunshine?    Sunshine. Everybody is happier in the sunshine. 

forest or beach?   Beach. Beaches are where people congregate to have social fun. It's where you show off your beauty and glamor, cabana parties, lying in the sun - it's where you get to go into the ocean and get knocked over by the waves. The soothing sounds of the tide. The endless horizon. Laughing children making sandcastles; young adults letting themselves getting buried in the sand. It's always a party at the beach.

precious metals or gems? Gems. Every gem is special: a mixture of all sorts of different molecular structures that all have different origins; even the slightest difference in how they were formed can change their appearance drastically. And each one has different inclusions that give them character. Their inclusions and their chemical composition can tell you where they are from, even. 

flowers or perfumes?  Flowers are natural perfumes with the added joy of being beautiful.

personality or appearance?    Appearance. Eros will welcome and befriend anyone of any type of personality. He will find a way to love them. But appearance is the first thing people notice, and the most influential. Appearance also reflects personality, it's a false dichotomy. 

being alone or in a crowd?   Being in a crowd. It's how you know you're alive, and that other people are alive. To hear, see, feel them; taste their emotions. Anything but being alone.

order or anarchy?    Peaceful anarchy where people make decisions mutually on an even playing field of power will hurt less people than order, even order with kindness, so anarchy - but it has to be anarchy with kindness, too, or else everybody will get hurt.

painful truths or white lies?    White lies. People put too much stock into truth as this fundamental ethic. It is not. First off - what a lot of people consider "painful truths" - your friend looks bad in that dress - are just their opinions. Two, pain hurts - if you tell a cancer patient, especially an older one, that they have cancer when you could instead say they have something else that doesn't sound so scary and fatal, their likelihood of survival is literally lower. If you can't tell somebody that everything is going to be okay when you know it's not, it's not because you're honorable, it's because you have no compassion.

science or magic? Eros is much better with science than with magic. Science is more than just doing stuff, it's also about answering questions. Not that Eros is big on intellectual pursuits, but science has cultural value for Titans.

peace or conflict?   How could anybody ever choose conflict? Peace!

night or day?    Well . . . a lot of fun happens at night. But the day is bright with the life of the sun.

dusk or dawn?    Dawn. It means you lived to see another day. Then again, a lot of people only party at night, and dusk is when night begins . . . .

warmth or cold?    Cold, if you're with other people, so you can give each other warmth . . . So warmth, actually.

many acquaintances or a few close friends?    Many acquaintances. Eros meets as many people as he can, knows as many people as he can, but does not often allow deep connections. Knowing lots of people means having a lot of social resources, and always having somebody to turn to in a pinch. But Eros has friends and relationships for fun, not to share weakness or pain. But he will always be there to help if somebody, even an "acquaintance," needs him. Also, when you're 6,000 years old, you're going to outlive everybody you know so getting too close will only cause pain.

reading or playing a game? Playing a game. Games are interactive and you can play them with other people.

—    questionnaire.

what are some of your muse’s bad habits?  Partying: He'd much rather drink, dance, and have sex than live in the real world where things are scary and he might have responsibilities. Avoidance: He will put off addressing problems in the way that young people do with they think not acknowledging them will make them go away. Naivety: Nobody is too evil for Eros to not love, no act too atrocious for him to not forgive. This is his duty, it's why he exists. The real problem with this isn't that it leaves him open to avoidable disappointment, the real problem is when giving people who don't deserve chances a chance ends up hurting other people. [Also, Eros is such a liar by omission that he is omitting it here.]

has your muse lost anyone close to them? How has it affected them? While Eros thanks you for your concern, losing people is a part of life, and he's fine. Treasure what you have while you have it, but not in a way that makes you fear the day you lose it. Besides, in the past few decades, it seems that if people are significant enough, they will simply return. Death is probably satisfied now that she has Mar-Vell. 🙃 (If you're curious, his homeworld was destroyed and almost everybody on it killed to the last person and he lowkey blames himself for it.)

what are some fond memories your muse has?  Too many to count! But honestly when Genis was born, that was special.

is it easy for your muse to kill?   Too easy. This is the main reason why he has never tried to seriously hone/train his powers. He could easily tear bodies apart with his bare hands, or with his mind. He can make nuclear fusion from his hands. He can shoot lasers from his eyes. Hell, if he smiles at you hard enough he'll put you in a coma. And he has. He has done all of these things. He has killed, he is a killer. In times of war, like on Titan, they say to kill or be killed. It's what his father said. And mercy too, sometimes. If anything will make Eros go insane it's this, Lady Macbeth style. But don't worry, it would've happened by now.

is your muse capable of trusting someone with their life? Sure, in a shallow way, if that makes sense - he's so hard to kill that it doesn't really matter. And apparently he'll just come back again anyway. Plus, actual death wouldn't be too bad. But being able to trust somebody with your life is a great feeling. The camaraderie of being brothers and sisters in arms is exhilarating and fulfilling. There are other things he is far less likely to trust people with. 

what’s your muse like when they’re in love? Well, there are all types of love, right? In many ways Eros falls in love hard and fast but it's very, very shallow and he doesn't fixate. In other ways he's in love with everybody and everything. But if you mean that special person kind of love, true love, the "I want to be with this person for the rest of my life and be one with them" kind of love - he's already going to be very close with the person he's in love with. It's a matter of trust. So in a funny way he's going to be less happy, less cheeky, less confident around you. He'll let you see his sadness. (But it's not going to be you. This has happened, oh, once, in nearly 7,000 years, and it was so painful that it will never happen again.) 

#I know bad ideas [meme!] #also im a gem collector thats why i had such a strong opinion about gems #This is actually a homework assignment I expect ALL of u to do it and tag me in it

[chloemew]

Felt like dumping some of my ancient Megaman art on here, partly to make fun of it but mostly because nostalgia is fun! All of it is over a decade old at this point, and some of the earliest stuff is uhh... odd, to say the least

More under the cut!

^ God, look at this relic. I was still in school when I drew this and I had absolutely no idea what anatomy was, and even less idea how to go about drawing their armour. Look at their LEGS jesus christ also I think I faintly see Woodman with eyebrows on the other side of the page?

Apparently in 2010 I had a thing about drawing characters as OOC as possible! This included making Crash French for a brief period, and making Metal obsessed with getting people to try his famous home-made pies that were baked with love and sawblades, mostly sawblades

I actually re-drew this one a few years back lol, can’t be bothered to go look for it rn though

And then there’s... this. I really liked drawing them super off-model apparently! I think Crash’s face dates this pretty well. I don’t even remember what those meme eyes were called but I drew them on characters all the time, when they weren’t instead doing the awesome face

Something more normal! If you can class me drawing Crash’s drills being capable of bending to be normal. I mentioned the other day I used to draw him wearing shades a lot, as demonstrated here - I think like 90% of the reason for that is because of this remix of his stage theme. He’s just a cool dude!

At some point I stopped drawing robot masters as deformed meme goblins, and started drawing them more normally. And by normally I mean their anatomy was still all wonky, but this time it wasn’t on purpose. I also had a thing about slapping random brushes together and calling it a background.

I very quickly latched onto Quick and Flash, finding their sibling rivalry to be a lot of fun. I also tended to draw Flash way too big and Quick way too small.

Like, jesus, look how tiny he is here!!!!! My Quick is short but not to THAT extent. 😆 My Flash is also pretty tall, but the height difference between them isn’t quite this drastic.

This was me making fun of the fact I always drew Quick with a big cheesy grin and Flash looking like he wanted to murder everyone, so I swapped their roles! To this day I still don’t know why I used to draw Quick’s head as a circle, and even now it feels weird to not draw him with a circle for a head.

This one still makes me laugh, even if I was too lazy to do an actual background. They are encased in butter

I’m posting this one too because I did this entirely with a laptop touchpad. I didn’t even have a MOUSE until late 2010, let alone a tablet!! I had such insane patience back then that I definitely don’t have now.

To finish off, here’s Quick sadly holding a banana while standing in front of the world’s most boring background

#Quickman #Metalman #Flashman #Crashman #Woodman #Megaman #doodles #I fixated pretty hard on the MM2 guys for a good while #like an Idiot Fool I didn't start appreciating the later RMs til a few years later #also I keep giving my younger self grief for being lazy with backgrounds #but I still don't do backgrounds even now lol #backgrounds just involve too many small fiddly tedious details #and my brain is not wired to be able to deal with that

[rogalion]

Wanna know *more* about Skew-Ts

read on if so i guess. i have a test in forecasting today so this’ll help me study. i hope. please. meteorology is so hard.

last time i talked about all the lines so this time i’ll tell you how to figure stuff out from the lines.

so let’s talk about INVERSIONS.

As you get higher in the atmosphere the general expectation is that the temperature will decrease with altitude. The higher you go, the colder it gets. If you’ve ever been on a substantial hike you probably have experienced this, maybe.

INVERSIONS are when that isn’t the case, and they happen all the time pretty consistently. This is when temperature increases with height. These are also stable layers, but I’ll talk about stability eventually.

There are a few different kinds of inversions. Here’s a random example skew-t from this morning in Oklahoma 

just in case: RED LINE IS THE TEMPERATURE CURVE, AND DASHED BLACK LINE IS DEW POINT HERE. these things aren’t standardized because fuck me i guess

wow look at all that data. From what I’ve already explained about inversions you can probably see a few of them. I don’t really know how much the temperature has to increase for it to be considered an inversion and it generally seems to depend on who you are talking to because science is way more subjective than you think it is and it’s weird.

So on pretty much EVERY SKEW-T GRAPH EVER at the bottom of the red line that is our temperature curve you will immediately see an inversion.

These are called Radiation Inversions and it’s because of ground heating. As it turns out what makes it feel warm outside is the surface of the earth radiating heat upwards, and this is the engine that drives a lot of our weather. Sun heats the earth’s surface via radiation and then the earth radiates heat. This is important and I will come back to it constantly.

Radiation Inversions are characterized by being located at basically ground level on a Skew-T, having light or calm winds (the definition of this depends on who you are talking to and I hate it), usually dry above it, yea.

Above our radiation inversion a little bit is another inversion! This is called a Subsidence Inversion and they look similar to Frontal Inversions which i bring up in the same paragraph because they’re similar and there’s also a Frontal Inversion right above the Subsidence Inversion in that skew-t. 

Subsidence Inversions happen because air is sinking at an elevated level. They’re associated with mid-tropospheric ridges (high pressure in the middle of the troposphere). It’s generally very dry above this inversion, and the major difference between this and a Frontal Inversion is that Subsidence Inversions have no wind shift (that’s the wind changing directions).

So above that is a Frontal Inversion and you can tell because the wind direction goes from the north-east at the Subsidence Inversion and then to North and then to West and eventually South-west. This motion is called BACKING and is associated with a Cold Frontal Inversion (meaning there’s a cold front). There are also often cloud layers near these inversions.

Warm Frontal Inversions look similar, but the wind shifts in the opposing direction (clockwise, called Veering). These are frequently seen where there is severe weather about to or occurring (thunderstorms). Here’s one from Texas from this morning that’s a good example! You can see where the wind shifts drastically in a clockwise motion. Tbh this might not be the best example but I’m tired.

There’s also a lot of other nicknames for certain patterns of inversions.

The last major Inversion type is the Tropopause. This is when the temperature curve overall starts trending in the positive direction as seen in the KDRT sounding at 200hPa. That tells you where the Tropopause is.

Maybe I’ll explain atmospheric layers someday but it’s not what I’m studying rn so too bad.

So yea that’s inversions wahoo. 

#weather #jamie's weather rants #it's not a rant im just studying #meteorology

[the27percent]

𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.  

Name:  goes by Atieno (Sharifa Kidenda if they need a full name)

Eye color:  Black sclera. Occasionally enough white in the eye so people can know that they are looking right at you.

Hair style / color: Tends to shift between locks, braids -in a long crestlike pattern, have worn the occasional bob as well. Dark blue, black and purple colors melding together.

Height:  ranges. at their shortest 6′0. In larger forms can range closer 8-10 ft off earth. If in even larger forms.. well, height just isn’t even a useful metric after a certain point.

Clothing style: mostly casual space goth attire. occasionally sharp formal looks - layered suits and sharp drastic skirts, heightening the haunting presence they give (although they don’t stay at such functions for too long)

Best physical feature: Maybe their eyes. Maybe their hair. Maybe the way they move. It really seems to depend.

𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐎: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.  

Your fears: “Someone trying to control me... occasionally being overwhelmed by whatever sentience I may have. ”

Your guilty pleasure: “people-watching can be really interesting in all kinds of places. I like learning about different behaviors and seeing what can be made out of such things..affection.”

Your ambitions for the future: "tending to my responsibilities in my travels and presence throughout the multiverse. learning about different ways of being and existing. preparing for a larger end of a cycle but that’s quite some time off.. so.”

𝑻𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑮𝑯𝑻𝑺.  

Your first thoughts waking up: doesn’t quite wake up as one traditionally would do so but.. ‘...alright. here again. let’s see where I’m going now.‘

What you think about most: “observing where I am, tending to patterns in the universe, maybe thing of interesting things I’ve seen in my travels, dealing with idle thoughts i don’t know if should do anything about, maybe wanting to craft something for the fun of it..”

What you think about before bed:  ‘ah. time to dissipate for a while. good enough for me.’ they don’t quite sleep in a way one would expect either. although if they are resting somewhere in a more ‘sleep-like’ fashion. ‘oh.. alright. time to just kind of drift off. be hidden from the world for a while.’  

What you think your best quality is: “I’d like to say I can be a thoughtful presence. ”

𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻’𝑺 𝑩𝑬𝑻𝑻𝑬𝑹?  

Single or group dates: “Single more than likely. I don’t date much but.. I think I need to space (heh) from others to really allow myself to ‘relax’ with someone.”

To be loved or respected: ‘to be respected.whatever love is, if there’s no respect it doesn’t matter. ’

Beauty or brains: “Brains is what is going to ensure anything for me. Looks alone don’t actually cut it for me.”

Dogs or cats: “No particular preference. But I think I would enjoy getting along with cats reasonably well.”

𝑫𝑶 𝒀𝑶𝑼…  

Lie: “I can do it. But it’s not too often because I feel little reason to do it unless absolutely necessary.”

Believe in yourself: “... I don’t really know what that means for me honestly.” .-.

Believe in love: “Eh. vaguely. It comes in different forms and different ways from what I can tell..”

Want someone: “There are moments..”

𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑩𝑬𝑬𝑵…  

Been on stage: “A few times, dancing here and there over the years has been kind of interesting..”

Done drugs: “Yes. But it doesn’t .. really do much for me. So. I don’t do so often.”

Changed who you were to fit in: “Not necessarily to fit in, because I don’t really do that well. But I do adjust a few things to make interactions a little more.. possible if I want it to be..”

𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑺.  

Favorite color: “Dark blue, black, silver, purple.”

Favorite animal: “Too many options. But I am always kind of fond of a raven or crow-like creature..”

Favorite movie: “I.. I feel like I could name something but you wouldn’t have seen it. Off planet films can be truly fascinating affairs. ”

Favorite book: “No. But I do love reading a good cultural commentary, or historical criticism. I do like exploring different scifi works and seeing what seems to register and what doesn’t. Or seeing how the depictions are a reflection of a given time.“

Favorite game: “Finding weird items and trying to trace back a potential purpose for the, Or even reworking them into something new. .”

𝑨𝑮𝑬.  

Day your next birthday will be: “I don’t really have a birthday”

How old will you be: ... Not even bothering to answer this. Off the scale old though.

Age you lost your virginity: “Virginity is a weird concept. I don’t exactly recall the first time I got intimate with someone. I know I have but like.. I vaguely remember it but time is such a fuck for me that trying to remember exact ages is besides the point. ”

𝑰𝑵 𝑨 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵.  

Best personality: “Hm. I like people who know themselves and how they want to move un-apologetically. But I do appreciate also the combination of drawing the line in terms of boundaries and still finding some enjoyment. Some little things that they appreciate. A bit of silliness and playfulness is good. And openness to experience and learning is also a good trait for me..”

Best eye color: “I have no specific preferences for that.”

Best hair color: “Still no specific preferences for that..”

Best thing to do with a partner: “Explore different places, have close conversations, I do like having a good meal with people too.”

𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑰𝑺𝑯 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬.  

I love: “love is such a strange thing. Hard to say what exactly I love..”

I feel: “a lot of waves of intersecting and complex things..”

I hide: “behind my responsibilities and duties as a way to deny the self from time to time.”

I miss: “periods where I was more.. assured I guess.”

I wish: “to not be so worried about being present and just do so at times..”

tagged by: stolen from @magioffire

tagging: you

#info #long post

[kaeyaseeds]

i am only on here today to write a hateful letter of condemnation to my enemy so that it’s off my chest once and for all <3

you are a bitch. yes, you. first let me get my petty feelings out of the way: you are one of the ugliest people i have seen; your collection of features would look nice on anyone else but knowing that your personality is so rotten and vile at its core i can only view you with disdain. you have no lips and yet you think you are permitted to speak… the audacity you have! you look like a little twig. i could and would break you in half over my knee. our height difference is not that drastic and i’m the one who pursues combat sports. i do not even enjoy violence but your existence has made me intensely bitter toward you.

your personality, now. tut, tut! you are such a disgraceful thing. a layer of scum floating atop a forgotten pond. have you not learnt, in your twenty three years of life, the importance of honesty? you have no integrity. the lies which you so happily weave are easily disproven but it brings me great ire to learn of them because they are directed at people i care about. they harm others— and you do not seem to care about anyone except yourself. claiming to be mixed native american while you guzzle from the cup of white privilege because you’re extremely white passing and no one looking at you on the street would mistake you for anything other than that. and the fact that you only bring it up when it is convenient for you… i am asian every day, even when it gets me physically assaulted because i am mistaken for a carrier of disease. maddening, how you pick and choose what parts of yourself you must play up to be more vulnerable.

it’s also disgusting how you can make such disturbing jokes with that face. as previously mentioned, you look white. it’s not really your place to joke to a group of visibly asian people that you’re going to kill them and their entire bloodlines just because of small and petty things. <3

and oh, the lies you tell about my friends and significant other… to my face, too. now that you’ve been found out, you twist the truth so he looks like the bad one and she sounds like she abandoned you, yes? when in reality you put everyone around you on edge with your repeated cries for attention - which, wanting attention is hardly bad, but the way you did it… let’s just say people don’t enjoy being suicide baited every damn day after they finish up at a stressful job or are dealing with almost being deported. i’ve had to comfort her after the times you called her screaming and crying about your alleged hospitalizations while she was at risk of being homeless and her family was dying around her because you made her feel as if she were responsible for your life.

it’s very interesting to me that everyone who didn’t give you what you wanted is branded as an abusive manipulator who kicks puppies and burns and salts fields for a living. it’s very interesting to me that you are terrified of the screenshots coming out. let’s not forget that you gleefully bragged about trying to ruin the friendships my significant other did have because of more petty game things. you’re some anarcho-communist if you can’t grasp that ‘theft’ and ‘borrowing’ common resources is a staple of our minecraft worlds. so what, you had a vault? everyone needed a piece of the diamond hoard you had. (i’m partially joking. i know this isn’t communism, but god. it’s very obvious that you grew up raised in a white household and never learned to share. you nasty, horrible, terrible little individualist…)

lastly, i can’t believe that you lied about dating him and called him ugly and worth less than shit. i mean, i understand vilifying people who have hurt you — or rather, people who wouldn’t allow you to manipulate them. but it’s very amusing to me! you drew that horrible little picture of him and made him look… so bad. he does not look like that. it’s laughable how talentless you are, really. even my dog could do better and she lacks opposable thumbs and is colorblind.

in conclusion, you are less than dirt beneath my feet. you are vomit, you are a craven little cockroach, you are a pustule in the crack of the devil’s smelly armpit. i sincerely hope you have the worst lot in life.

[dujeu]

Comment empêcher votre vide du robot de passer sous les meubles

Robot vacuums are packed with sensors to help them avoid objects, and many advanced models can also judge if there is clearance to make it under furniture. But these features don’t always work as planned, and homes can have many different kinds of furniture with varying heights. So, sometimes robovacs get stuck.

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How to keep a robot vacuum from getting stuck under furniture

How do I stop my Roomba from going under the couch?

What about Shark Ion robot vacuums?

If this issue starts happening regularly in your home, it’s time to take action and make your robot vac useful again. These steps should help you identify and clear up the problem.

How to keep a robot vacuum from getting stuck under furniture

These steps should work with a variety of robovac models, but some may require more advanced technology. Get ready to check your app and review your options to figure out which steps are easiest for you.

Step 1: Keep the lights on.

This may sound like an odd first step, but many robot vacuum sensors work best in good lighting conditions. That’s especially true when they are navigating shadowy furniture in the living room or dining room. Schedule your robovac to clean during brighter times of the day, keep the lights on when they clean, and see if your situation improves.

Step 2: Clean out larger debris.

Sometimes a vacuum isn’t getting stuck because of the furniture, but because of lost items underneath couches and credenzas. If it’s been a while, move your furniture and look for toys, shoes, books, and any other larger objects that may be stopping your robot vac from working underneath it.

Step 3: Employ boundary markers.

Some robot vacuums come with boundary strips that you can set at stairways, in front of kitchens, and in other places where you don’t want your robovac to go. Use these boundary markers around the furniture where your model is getting stuck, so it will know to avoid it. Set the strips a bit inside the furniture space so they aren’t easily visible, and you should be good to go.

Step 4: Use robovac app features to set no-go zones.

If your robovac doesn’t use boundary markers, a solution in the corresponding app may be available. Head into your app and look for the ability to set zones that your vacuum will avoid. Roombas, for example, have the option to set up Keep Out zones in your rooms. The Roomba will naturally avoid areas if its overhead sensors aren’t working. Set these zones up once, and your problem is solved for the future. We have a whole guide explaining how to do it!

Step 5: Use furniture risers.

This solution only works in some cases. If your robovac’s sensors are in just the wrong place for your furniture height, it could get jammed under an edge. In this case, only a fraction of an inch in height could fix the problem. That means you could use furniture risers on the legs of your furniture to lift them a bit. Of course, that also changes how it feels to sit in the furniture, and may not be usable for all types of furniture, so plan carefully.

Step 6: Block off your furniture.

There are many ways to block the space under furniture, but it’s difficult to do it in a safe, aesthetic way. Basic wooden blocks or boards can work, and you can even spray paint them black so they aren't easily visible. Others suggest cutting pool noodles to the right size and stuff them under furniture. Either way, this is a more drastic option that’s best saved if nothing else is working.

How do I stop my Roomba from going under the couch?

Couches and sofas tend to sit lower than much furniture, so they are a common source of problems when Roombas and other models get stuck. In this case, furniture blockers can be a particularly effective option because they’re easy to hide under your couch and effective at keeping robot vacuums out. If your sofa is especially large, look at your iRobot app to see if you can set no-go or Keep Out zones. Roombas tend to have some of the best app features around, so it should be possible to set up this high-tech solution.

What about Shark Ion robot vacuums?

Fortunately, the SharkClean app also includes options to map zones and set walls where you want the vacuum to avoid cleaning. These may not work if you have an older Shark robovac, but it's a great solution for newer models.