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vermutandherring · 9 months

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By chance do you have a list of all the cc in your builds? I'm obsessed with the old style you make but can't recreate it with my limits

You just reminded me that some time ago I wanted to make a post where I'd share links, divided into historical/aesthetic styles. Mostly because I often can't find the original mods and their artists lost in the corners of the internet. I may come back to this idea later. I currently have about 40 GB of mods that I've been collecting since the game came out, so I'm not sure I can name absolutely everything I use. But I can give a list of those artists whose works I use in my buildings all the time.

Here we go:

• TheJim07 (furniture, fine arts, building stuff)

• FelixandreSims (building stuff and furniture)

• ArtysSims (fine arts)

• Cliffou29 (furniture)

• Lili's Palace (furniture, building stuff)

• Anachrosims (building stuff and furniture)

• Regal Sims (furniture and fine arts)

• AnnaDeDanann Stories (furniture)

• Stereo-91 (building stuff, furniture)

• The Marble Mortal (furniture, fine arts, building stuff)

• ChâteauSims (furniture, fine arts, building stuff)

• NaviDesings (furniture, fine arts)

• Zx-ta (The Sims Medieval conversions)

• Thesensemedieval (game conversions, medieval themed cc)

• ShinoKCR (Art Nouveau - 1 | 2 | Art Deco - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | French Quarter - 1 )

• Pinkbox AnYe (dark academia, shabby chic, cottagecore, french/provence chic, deco food)

• Kerrigan House Designs (victorian, dark academia, vintage, food/cooking deco, cottagecore, shabby chic, themed sets)

• Sims4Luxury (dark academia)

• sims41ife (different vintage objects)

•Milja Maison (dark academia) Inactive. You can find their sets on the internet

• Hydrangeachainsaw (different vintage objects)

• Lady Moriel (magic stuff/game conversions - Dishonored set 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |)

• Mara45123 (TES: Skyrim conversions)

• Etheric (Resident Evil | Devil May Cry conversions)

• Natalia Auditore (vampire, gothic)

• Syboulette (gothic, dark academia, vintage chic, themed sets)

• HyggeSims - Bruxa CC Set

• Jennisims (vintage, retro, antique decor)

That's not all CC I use in my builds, but most of it. Some of it is maxis match, other is high poly. There are standalone objects and mods that require meshes so you must pay attention. There are many mods whose authors are inactive, their blogs have been deleted, and their collections are scattered all over the Internet so I can't share them. But you always can find interesting stuff yourself.

Hope it helps~

#sims #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #ts4 simblr #sims 4 cc #ts4cc #ts4 cc finds #sims 4 custom content #ts4 historical #sims 4 vintage #sims 4 historical #sims 4 gothic #ts4 dark academia #sims 4 dark academia

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dduane · 1 year

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Hi there! I'm not sure if this is something you've talked about before in another post, but I just finished the first draft of my first novel, and I was wondering if you could talk about what your experience was like getting your first novel edited and published. I have this story that I'm excited about but no idea what to do with it now that I've reached "The End," do you have any advice on what my next step ought to be towards eventually getting it published? Thanks in advance!

First of all: thanks for asking. ...And now I have to warn you that I am possibly one of the worst possible people to ask about what their first novel's publication looked like... as it was completely atypical.

Not that that's going to stop me, mind you. (And you know what? I'm inserting a cut here, because this goes on a bit. Warning: contains [calculated] dissing by old friends, pulp non-fiction, unexpurgated language, unexpected awards nominations, and advice that's worth just what you're paying for it.)

What happened with me and my first book goes like this:...

In the late 1970s I was starting to burn out on psychiatric nursing, and was offered a job as assistant to the novelist and Star Trek ["The Trouble with Tribbles"] writer David Gerrold. I took it happily, as I was in a place in my life where I really needed some kind of change. The work with David was part-time; I also occasionally did special duty nursing shifts to help make ends meet.

Now during this period, I was writing for my own amusement (as I'd been doing all my life from about age eight onward). Right then I was working on a project I'd been tinkering with from my late high school years right through college, nursing school, and my first couple/few years of practice as an RN. This was the background worldbuilding for a vaguely Tolkienesque, somewhere-between-late-Medieval-and-early Renaissance fantasy scenario featuring a couple of moderately unusual magic systems, a sexually diverse culture, and a pair of "These Two Idiots"-style protagonists with complex interleaving problems.

While I was working for David, I had a lot of opportunity to observe, close up, what the life and workflow of a career writer looked like. Slowly, over a year or so, the realization crept up on me that what David was doing, I could do too. And it was at this point that I finally admitted to him that I thought I might want to write as well.

David's (as I later discovered, extremely calculated) eyeroll could probably have been seen from space. "Oy, not another one," he moaned. After which I went away from the abortive conversation pretty much resolved never to speak to him about this again... but also with a single thought filling my brain: You fucking supercilious sonofabitch, I'm going to show you that I'm not just another one.

...I'll never be able to thank him enough for that. Fury can be so motivating. :)

In the aftermath I got busy pulling together my background material with much more focused intent, and beating the most significant parts of it into something that started looking like a plot. It came together with surprising speed and unnerving insistence—one of the very few times in my career when a project, once begun, has simply flung me into the writing chair and insisted that it was the most important thing in my life and needed handling now. And when in the fullness of time David went on vacation, leaving me to house-sit at his place in LA, I immediately started using his very early computer to transcribe my novel's so-far-only-handwritten draft material.

I took what I thought was considerable care to cover my tracks... but not quite enough. On his return from vacation, when he was putting out the trash, David found some of my discarded draft pages, read them, and confronted me (with a certain amount of friendly teasing) about what had been going on. Then he said to me, "What I've seen of this thing doesn't look too bad. Let me see it when you're finished, and if it looks good enough, I'll ask one of my publishers if they want to take a look at it."

So that's what happened. I finished my first draft and a polish of it in about six weeks, and passed it to David. He read it and immediately handed it on to his editors at Dell, who were just starting a fantasy line for which they needed product. Two weeks later, they said they liked the novel and made an offer, which I accepted. Not a vast amount, but respectable enough. So there it was, my first sale: this book. Which then got me nominated two years running for the Astounding Award, and opened the door for the sale and publication of So You Want To Be A Wizard, as well as my earliest Star Trek work and my entry into the animation world.

I remember very little about the editing process, except that it was painless. What was not exactly painless was the book's cover, about which...well, the less said here the better. But the book came out to generally good reviews. So, with this series of events behind it, you can see why as regards first-publication stories, I'm a first-class outlier and should definitely not be counted. (Also to be avoided by new writers if at all possible: the experience of having half their strongly-selling first novel's initial print run pulped in the warehouse* because it was taking up room needed by a new book by a world-famous novelist.) (Whom I have long since forgiven, since it wasn't his fault, and...well, what can you do? Shit happens.)

...Anyway, that's more than enough about me. Now let's talk about you.

My first advice about what to do with the novel you've just finished? Stick it in a drawer (literally or figuratively speaking, whichever suits your case better) and don't look at it for at least a month. Two would be better. You can spend those two months thinking about your next moves... because you need to give those some consideration before you do anything else.

The question that you first need to answer is going to at least partially shape what you do next. And it's this:

Are you seriously considering making a career out of writing?

It's not that it can't be done! Of course it can. But it won't be easy... not at all. Anyone who tells you it will is either just outright lying through their teeth, or trying to sell you something. ...Or both.

Be honest with yourself as you consider this. If you aren't, you may be letting yourself in for considerable pain over a prolonged period... and I'd sooner you were spared that, if you can be. In particular, be clear about the difference between the statements "I want to write" and "I want to be a writer." Often enough people like the sound of the lifestyle and what they see as going with it—the signings, the book tours (physical or virtual), the interviews, the best-seller lists—without any real concept of the grueling, day-to-day, weekends-are-for-other-people, why-am-I-making-less-than-minimum-wage-most-of-the-time labor that underpins it.

If you simply want to write and be published—without the concept of a career necessarily being involved, or the lovely shimmering dreamlike vision of Giving Up The Day Job—you now have work pathways available to you that would've been unimaginable in the previous century. Self-publishing makes it possible for you to get your work in front of many, many eyes without necessarily having to submit yourself to the specific set of trials that go with achieving the initial stages of an intended career. Selfpubbing still has significant unique challenges of its own, of course, which have to be evaluated so that you can tell (as the commercials say) if they're right for you.

But if you're thinking of a career in what's usually being referred to these days as "traditional publishing", then you face a number of challenges that don't necessarily come with the self-publishing end of things. In particular: many publishing houses no longer consider manuscripts that come to them un-agented. So you're going to need to find an agent who's willing to represent your work... and this is a task that no longer looks anything like what it did when I found mine. (Or rather, when he found me, having been recommended to me by one of my editors. I've been with him for even longer than I've been with @petermorwood... and that's saying something. But this is yet another way in which my career's been wildly atypical.)

There is so much that could be said about this subject alone—the business of researching agencies to see which one seems like a good fit for you, the art of writing the perfect query letter to get their attention focused on a given book, and so much more—that I could hardly begin to even skim the surface of it here. There are whole websites devoted to shopping for agents, not to mention how to pitch yourself and your work to a given literary agency.

Let me leave this whole subject here for the moment. We can come back to it another time, because right now you need to be thinking this through. ...This I'll say, however. For the past six to nine months I've been pulling together links to various online resources that can be beneficial to new writers just getting started. These will be available as posts over at the FicFoundry.com site that I'm going to be bringing online before summer. I'm hoping to build that into kind of a compendium site or clearing house for online resources on this subject. We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, thanks for inquiring about this. You're standing at the first branching of what I'm hoping will be, for you at least, a fascinating variant of the Choose Your Own Adventure genre. :)

More on this later.

("Wait. Did she just call us idiots??")

*Now that we live in the era of just-in-time warehousing, this is something that fortunately doesn't happen much any more... as far as I know. But once upon a time, if somebody's new best-seller was going to the warehouse in its many thousands of copies, and your relatively-less-well-selling book was taking up space that could be used by the other author's "more valuable"/higher-priced titles, your books (5-10K of them, in my case) were simply thrown into a machine and turned into papery mush. And these go on your sales record as "unsold copies". (sigh) Some discussion of this phenomenon can be found over here.

#advice #writing advice #career stories

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vex91 · 11 months

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Kim Minji - I promise

Pairing: Kim Minji x Female Reader

Fandom: Dreamcatcher

Requested by: @dark-night-insomniac

Request: Hello there, just found your page and though i'd request but idk if Dreamcatcher is accepted. I was thinking of an fluff imagine of Jiu x reader, i usually love the hurt and comfort if that can help with any idea, maybe something from medieval times or the wars🤔 up to you dear author

Summary: You and Minji spend the night under the stars talking before she has to go on the war.

A/N: Hello, thank you for requesting <3 I hope that this is okay with you and that you'll like it😄

3rd's POV

It finally happened huh?

The moment you heard your girlfriend talking on a phone about her work, you knew that they were calling to tell her that she will be send to fight in a war that was currently going on. As much as you hated the idea, you knew that you couldn't do much about it since it was her work and you were proud of her.

When she finished talking she looked at you with sadness in her eyes. This could only mean that she didn't had much time to stay with you and it was hard to think about.

"When?"

"Tomorrow morning"

"That soon huh?" You mumbled but kept yourself together wanting to show Minji that you will be alright. You didn't wanted her to worry about you when she should be focused on fighting but the moment she pulled you into a hug and you felt her warm embrace, you broke down and started crying on her shoulder as she held you tightly, keeping her own tears in.

Later that evening you both found yourselves sitting on the rooftop of your house. You told Minji when you were choosing the house to live in together that you really wanted to have that kind of space on your rooftop where you can just sit or lay down and watch the stars. You spend there a lot of time, especially when Minji wasn't home. You loved to watch the stars with some music playing in the background.

That's exactly what you guys did right now. Sat there together with your favorite songs playing softly in the background. Minji's arms kept holding you close as you both observed the stars together. The moment felt bittersweet honestly. You were happy to spend time with her but you knew that tomorrow morning you will have to watch her go for god knows how long without knowing if she ever comes back.

"What are you thinking about baby" Minji whispered softly immediately catching your attention. You leaned your head on her shoulder "Just about how much I'm gonna miss you" Minji closed her eyes at your answer, feeling to many things at once "I'm gonna miss you too" She hated the fact that she had to leave you. She never regretted her job choices more than she did now.

"When I'll get back, I'm gonna marry you" Your eyes widened at her sudden statement. You pulled away from her so you could look at her and when you did you saw how serious she was. There was no sign of it being a joke on her face, she looked so sure of her words "What?" She took your hand in hers.

"You heard me. When I get back I will propose to you and marry you, I promise" Her words left you speechless. She was serious, deadly serious even. Soon you laughed slapping her shoulder "Yah, isn't that supposed to be surprise?" You leaned into her embrace once again. Minji chuckled "Well, I want you to expect it though. So you can think of it when I'm away" She kissed the back of your hand before laying down with you laying your head on her chest.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it" You said, stealing a quick peck from her lips before laying back down again.

The next few months or even years are going to be hard but you trusted Minji to make it back safely and keep her promise.

#vex writes #dreamcatcher x reader #dreamcatcher reactions #kim minji x reader #jiu x reader #kim minji #jiu

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thejoyofseax · 2 months

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An Early Irish Feast for Drachenwald's Spring Crown, AS LVIII

Spring Crown this year was hosted by Dun in Mara in the territory of Glen Rathlin. As with almost all SCA projects, this feast didn't quite hit all the things I intended. In particular, I'd been thinking of having documentation available alongside it, and of a few more dishes that didn't make it in the end. A fermented porridge was high on that list. Next time!

Before I start talking about food, though, let me thank my kitchen crew: THL Órlaith Caomhánach, Lady Gabrielle of Dun in Mara, Noble Mallymkun Rauði, Lady Erin Volya and Cassian of Allyshia. There were a few other folk in and out of the kitchen too (THL Yda Van Boulogne did excellent work on the various flavoured butters), but these five did the bulk of the work. Lady Erin also provided lunch; cooking at Crown for 80 people as her first event cookery is notable.

The main idea here was to lean heavily on seafood, which isn't often done in SCA feasts in my experience, and represents the food of Ireland well. I also wanted to include pork as a main meat, emphasise oats and barley, and use plain vegetables presented well. There were to be condiments on the table, hence Yda's butters: plain, honey, mackerel and garlic-and-chive, as well as green sauce (largely Órlaith's work, with Cass finishing it out). Condiments and the number of them available were an important aspect of Irish medieval hospitality.

I also wanted to nod to the usual progress of early Irish feasts, which started with formal services and frequently ended up so raucous and drunken that the nobility woke up the following morning on the hall floor along with everyone else. So we served to the tables to begin, and then had a less and less orderly buffet.

The first "course" was a set of pottages. The main one was pork, cabbage, onion, carrots, turnips, and barley, which had been slowly cooked down over a number of hours. There was also a version with lamb, for those who couldn't eat pork, and this doubled as the gluten-free version, having no barley. And there was a vegetarian one, including barley, but substituting mushrooms for the meat. These were served with flatbreads, risen yeast dough having been a tough proposition in the Irish climate (and still is, really; that's why the most Irish of breads is soda bread).

As that was consumed, we stocked the buffet with: sides of salmon (steamed then baked), mussels (boiled), monkfish and mackerel (also steamed and baked), chicken pieces (baked), hard-boiled eggs, turnips with butter, carrots with honey, samphire (new to many, most enthused about it), caramelised onions, creamed leeks, buttered cabbage with and without bacon bits, and a broth-based porridge, accompanied by a variety of flatbreads and oat pancakes. And as that all cleared, we put out fruit, some cheese, some oaten biscuits, and a "cheesecake", of sorts.

Everything was plausibly pre-Norman Irish, with the exception of the oaten biscuits and the cheesecake base, which were egregiously modern - although I could argue for something very like them. Simple cooking techniques mean that those are broadly plausible as well - steaming may seem incongruous, but I'll have more to say on that again.

It all seemed to go down well. A number of people said they weren't sure about fish, and then followed with "… but that was great!", and the green sauce, the samphire and the cheesecake were particular hits. The technique of doing a wide variety of simple things usually does well, I find; even the pickiest of eaters can usually have a few things, and the adventurous can pile their plates with a wide variety.

And I had energy enough left to wander around the party hall later offering plates of fruit, cheese and biscuits, which is one of my favourite things to do.

#sca #society for creative anachronism #medieval #mediaeval #reenactment #food history #medieval food #irish food #pre-norman irish food #ireland #medievalcore #medieval cooking #drachenwald #drachenwald crown #dun in mara

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oneiromania · 7 months

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Welcome to oneiromania's RP blog!

♥ ABOUT ME ♥

Hi, call me Nei! I'm a 21 year old female student with just a little over a year of RP experience, though I've been writing for a lot longer than that. Ever since I got into the RP scene, I've been itching to write with others and finally let some of that brainrot escape it's fleshy prison. I try my best to be friendly and understanding, and I don't want or plan to get into any internet (and especially Tumblr) drama. I just wanna write!

I like to chat OOC when I vibe with my RP partners, and I'm prone to gushing about the characters, sending songs and playlists relevant to the RP, making Pinterest boards, sharing memes, and so on! I'd appreciate it if my partner shared the enthusiasm, but I get that that just isn't for everyone, and as long as the RP is fun and consistent, and my partner is respectful and understanding, I don't mind a more chill OOC experience.

♠ RULES ♠

Standard DNI criteria. MAPs, TERFs, racists, and other assholes, get the fuck off my blog.

You must be 18+. As I am an adult myself, I don't feel comfortable writing with minors regardless of the contents of the RP. I also prefer to write with people no older than 30.

I mainly write over Discord. I say mainly because I haven't yet decided if I'm going to make RP sideblogs for specific characters! I'll update this post if I do, but generally I don't RP outside of Discord. Additionally, I like making a private server for easier organization, and I like using Tupperbox. If you don't know what that is or how to use it, I'd be more than happy to teach you! But Tupperbox is not a must.

NO REALISTIC FCs. This might seem like a strange rule, but I simply cannot do RP when the faceclaim is a real person. This goes not only for actors, singers, and other celebrities, but really any photos of real people. You can use picrew or neka, or your own art, or even art you found on the internet. (I'm cool with using photos of real life outfits and stuff for reference, though!)

I write fandomless OC x OC, and sometimes CC x CC. I'll list my fandoms later, but generally speaking, I'm currently comfortable writing only a few canon characters.

My preferred ships are MxM and FxF, and I can also do ships with NB and genderfluid characters. I can do MxF as well, but I vastly prefer queer relationships, and I'll only do MxF if I really feel like it fits the RP. I hope you'll understand! Also: ships don't have to be romantic, I enjoy platonic and familial relationships as well, including friends, found family, and even enemies.

I write third person past and present, and I don't accept RP written in first person.

I can write anywhere from semi-lit/literate to novella. It depends on my mood and what the scene requires. Currently, I'm very busy, so I can only do shorter replies – around 2-3 short paragraphs, and likely not super detailed. Please just use good grammar.

Currently, I DON'T do NSFW. I'm comfortable with flirting and intimacy, but I prefer fading to black when it comes to sex scenes. It kind of depends on the RP and my partner if I'm willing to do more, because I need to feel comfy with writing it first!

I don't double. I know doubling means different things for different people, but however you define it, I don't do it.

My activity varies, as I am in college so sometimes life gets stressful or I get busy. I'll likely do at least 2-3 replies a week, though. At least one reply a week is what I ask from my partner.

Limits and triggers will be discussed before the RP.

Work with me when plotting! I CANNOT plot alone or figure out characters alone, if you're going into this with no plot or character ideas whatsoever, we're gonna have a difficult time figuring out what to write.

♦ WHAT DO I WRITE? ♦

I do both angst and fluff.

I like a lot of genres and settings! I have some plots in mind but I'd love to hear what you have to offer! The genres include: fantasy (high, medieval, victorian...), victorian settings, modern, sci-fi, supernatural, horror/thriller, futuristic, slice of life, and more.

I'm open to dark subject matter/whump. Since I enjoy horror, I also enjoy dark and gritty themes, as well as things that might be upsetting to explore. So long as we're both being mature about it, there shouldn't be a problem. This will, of course, be discussed in detail before we start writing.

I'm prone to making OCs on the fly or repurposing existing OCs, so even if I don't have an OC for our specific RP, I can make one in a matter of several days.

I reblog RP prompts and plots and make my own posts when I have an idea for a plot, so check out the rest of my blog and see if you like anything!

♣ FANDOMS ♣

This is a list of fandoms that I'm into! This doesn't necessarily mean I will RP characters from this fandom, instead, I'm listing them in case you're interested in RPing in the same or similar universe! I don't do CCxOC, but I do enjoy putting OCs in an existing fandom's universe, or making a world similar to that of the fandom. I also just get inspired by these fandoms, so if you look at any of these and think, "I'd love to do something inspired by this!", I think we can make some fun plots!

Fandoms which are bolded are those which I have CC characters I can RP, and I will write the characters I RP next to them

In no particular order:

Alice in Wonderland (the book, the sequel, the animated movie, Alice: Madness Returns)

Demon Slayer

Jujutsu Kaisen

Bungou Stray Dogs (have read the manga up until chapter 88) → can try my hand at a couple of characters!

Fate/Grand Order → Merlin (Caster), Jeanne d'Arc (Alter), Gudao/Gudako, probably more

Hades → Zagreus, Thanatos

Detroit: Become Human

Deep Sea Prisoner games (Mogeko Castle, Wadanohara, Gray Garden)

A Night In The Woods

Bloodborne

Soul Eater (anime)

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Arknights (not super confident writing canon characters right now, but I'd love to use the setting)

Spirited Away

Spy x Family

RPGs (Mad Father, Witch's House, Pocket Mirror, Ib, Alice Mare, LiEat I, II and III)

Honkai: Star Rail

Noragami

Death Parade

Black Butler

Tokyo Ghoul

SCP foundation

Corpse Party

Little Nightmares (1 and 2)

and more, probably!

~LINKS~

A link to the overview of my current OCs! There's a short description for each of them, and a few of them have full docs ready, while for the rest, I can explain a bit more about them if you're interested in writing with any of them.

For my plot ideas, search the tag #nei's evil thoughts!

For my writing samples, search the tag #nei's evil scriptures!

I hope to find some more RP partners on here and write some incredible stories! If you'd like to discuss RP, please reach out to me via DMs and I will send you my Discord handle! Happy writing everyone!

#roleplay #rp #role play #rp finder #roleplay finder #rp partner #roleplay partner #nei's evil thoughts #nei's evil scriptures #[ rat bastard. ]#[ poisoned youth. ]#[ shattered doll. ]#[ apple of discord. ]#[ bloodied teeth. ]#[ fire in the blood. ]#[ crimson witch. ]#[ winter monarch. ]#[ golden fang. ]#[ ??? ]

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guessimate · 18 days

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What did the ancient Romans celebrate at this time of the year? Something like an all saints' day, Lemuria. And Mercuralia as well - a holiday all about the merchants' patron, but I don't really have merchants in town right now... A celebration for the god Vulcan is rapidly approaching, too. It's good to have musicians around during these festivities.

Apparently you couldn't get married around Lemuralia, which is interesting. I might make it a 'rule' for this round - no weddings, at least in the European part of my town (should someone run away to Sim Asia, it's fair game).

My sims are celebrating those who passed away young, before their time. It's especially the elder founders who mourn their children.

~*~

It took me a while to set everything up. A lot of NPC-s spawned... A garden club person, a masseuse and a cashier at the bathhouse lot... Two head witches and the charlatan as well...

The garden club lady sells tree seeds, which I totally forgot about. Ninurta Orange decided to take her on a date (he got his 5th first date wish, which is a big deal for a Pleasure sim). I'm so mad I can't gussy her up because she's the only garden club person in my game, so I'll have to ignore her everyday look.

They had a dream date and Ninurta managed to steal a kiss from her. He's halfway through his elderhood and it might be his last 'conquest' (not really, no woohoo or love happened).

I'd like him to get into the garden club, but I don't think it's going to happen since they just started a new garden from scratch on their new lot. And I didn't want to apply when it was raining...

~*~

The Oranges' heir (grandson, generation III) aged up on the same day as the puppy they had bought.

And it finally happened... The leader of the wolves came over to nibble the founder of the Orange household. I was a bit conflicted about it because I wanted it to happen to the Wolfens. But at the same time I wanted to have at least one of the founders become a werewolf, because they 'domesticated' the stray wolves, which was one of my 'milestones'.

Unlocking supernaturals also unlocks supernatural seeds. So if I ever have vampires, they could be interested in obtaining plasma fruits.

Ninurta Orange seems quite content with being a werewolf, he wants to howl and summon wolves every night. I had him encourage his grandson Ninildu to be a bit more playful, since he doesn't have much life in him left despite becoming a werewolf. I think the original founders will start dying off next round... or the round after that.

~*~

But that's not all. The ROS for this family was actually to meet an alien... not by stargazing, but rather by just running into them. And so an alien moved in with them. I will treat this alien as a fluid class so they can marry anyone they wish. I could treat her as a servant, but I don't think that's a good idea.

Primula Venus is joining the hood. I made her personality rather extreme because that's what alien personality is usually like, so I gave her some minimal values. She's a Scorpio: 9 Neat, 7 Outgoing, 9 Active, but also 0 Serious, and 0 Grouchy. She's a Knowledge sim because... she's an alien.

Her face (at least the ears) are courtesy of these awesome faces which have a baby version.

~*~

I was thinking about incorporating the poppy set, since substances were known in ancient times in Europe, but apparently their use declined later on in medieval times, so it's high time I made use of some... I'm not sure if that mod is working properly in my game, I have to test it... The opium set does work, it's just that I can only really harvest the opium and seeds once and I thought I could do it multiple times, but whatever, it works.

I'm still conflicted on how to deal with taxes and money in general. The original ToT doesn't really mention this at all, and I was using the MCC taxing system for the East part of my sim world only for now. I might incorporate it a bit later... The problem is all my sims are a bit loaded in the European part of the world (since I played them for 2 generations). I don't want to punish them for earning money in the previous era, but at the same time I would like them to pay some sort of a tax. I might start making them pay the rent next round.

~*~

Damu didn't give me any indication of how he wants to earn money in terms of occupation, but he keeps wanting to sell masterpieces and earn money, so I might let him paint a bit. I don't want to do too much of it though. I would like this family to produce milk, butter and cheese someday, since they did get a pair of goats. I think I may have to give them more goats, just from buy mode. Because I'm still not sure about everything, I didn't want to mess with their money yet. It's like a setup round since they just moved in to a new place.

#thesims2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #test of time #tot #ancient #plebeian #Orange #round 6

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modern-inheritance · 1 year

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Heyy! Do you have any ideas for the cast of Eragon's new series?? Btw I loveee your posts

Hey Anon! Sorry it took me so long to answer this, but I wanted to give you a better answer...and I have failed. Thank you for the love though!

I don't know many actors/actresses by name. And none that I know of (besides Jeremy Irons) would fit any of the characters. But I CAN give you a ramble on what I'd like to see!

Eragon: Get those high cheekboned, cleft chinned, twink lookin' pretty boys out of here. Eragon in book one is not pretty. He is not headshot worthy. He is a 15 year old farm boy, doing physical labor, rarely bathing, hunting in the wild, and not caring about his appearance beyond the average. He's got thick, dark eyebrows. Dark hair. Apart from that, we have little to no description of how Eragon looks, beyond the mention in Brisingr that his hair curls at his temples slightly. But he is not pretty.

I want an average, slightly rugged, farm boy teenager. Not some model.

Brom: Jeremy. Fucking. Irons.

Arya: Not white and not a redhead. Elves are played as asian based. I don't want a skinny armed woman either, Arya's noticeably muscled in the books. Black hair, green eyes if possible. No wimps. Must be able to do the stunts or at least look like she can.

Honestly though? If she weren't older (I haven't seen a recent picture of her for a long time so I'm not sure about it), I'd tap Michelle Rodriguez. I love that woman. She's got the tough looks, attitude, and abilities needed to give Arya the presence she needs. But I'm looking through MIC tinted glasses. For canon Arya, we still need someone with a presence, a woman who puts of a 'don't fuck with me' vibe but can also sometimes dip her head in respect to politics (I said sometimes, but I'm gonna get shit for this I know it), quiet but sharp, and looks and acts like she can hold her own. If they're going to be more centered toward an adult audience (which apparently they are!), let's not sexualize her. But the history of torture, PTSD, etc can def be delved into and someone who can portray that respectfully would be fantastic.

Murtagh: Again, get rid of those pretty boys. Yes, Murtagh grew up with a more pampered life, but just...I don't want these model types. It's an issue when I've seen every single fan cast putting these models on there and come on. This is a medieval fantasy thing. Paolini at least tries to show some more realistic aspects of life and war. Models are not included.

Someone that can show both Murtagh's darker side AND his overarching vulnerability and pain. Murtagh is a hurt individual that keeps having everything taken from him or used to hurt him. He's complicated, especially in the later books. We need someone who can show that.

Nasuada: Please keep her natural hair. I've got a friend who read the books with me who was so happy to see a black woman with her natural hair in a fantasy book because she never had seen someone with hair just like hers in fantasy before. We need someone who can slump down in private, the weight of an entire war and country on her shoulders, but draw herself up and show willpower, regality, dignity. Someone who can use subtlety when doing the politics bits.

Angela: Something that I and others I've talked to about Angela always forget is that Angela looks no older than Nasuada, who is about 18 at the time of the books. Wild energy. Wild, curly hair. Not afraid to hold a live frog/toad for a scene.

Galbatorix: For the love of whatever the hell is holy, not John Malcovich. I get that we didn't know what he looked like at the time, but what the hell was that?!

Durza: Scrawny lean ass pale dude and can we move away from the scary fingernails and yellow teeth bit? The pointy teeth thing, fine, that's canon, prosthetic teeth are a thing. Otherwise I just want someone who just oozes lithe, cocky, oily, psycopath. Bared tooth, smirking, twisted grin type.

Uuuuuuh....who else? Roran can't be a model either, and he's more beefy than Eragon even in the first book. Someone who can grow a damn fine beard.

I'm probably forgetting a ton of mains but I am currently very hungry and my roomie is making me lunch so I must go stare at her like an unfed dog. Feel free to reblog with questions or send another ask for particulars, but again I won't have specific actors/actresses. If you know an actor/actress that fits any of my descriptions/wants then please mention them in a reblog or DM or ask! I'd love to see!

#eragon #Modern Inheritance #inheritance cycle #the cyclists #Ket's Modern Inheritance Cycle #the inheritance cycle #eragon show #mic asks #eragon asks #eragon fancast #but like a failed fancast because i dont know any names #also FOUND IT

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zarvasace · 4 months

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if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!

Another? 😅 Okay. How about three formative experiences?

1. In high school I was known as a happy person obsessed with Disney (I was maybe a little obnoxious, but I enjoyed myself, which is what matters.) Junior year, I thought, hey, what if I went goth for Halloween? That'd be so funny, antithetical to myself. Aaaaand then I did some research, found (among other things) the website Gothic Charm School and a YouTube playlist full of goth music, and oh man we're really in it now. I'd always loved Halloween and the spooky, and I found that I really loved the music and aesthetics and realized that I could do that for myself. I could do that. Years later and I'm still happy with my decisions. Lesson learned: I like goth music and dressing that way too.

2. For a period of time a few years ago, I was unable to walk without a lot of joint pain. Stairs were awful and so was anything else. I was very glad that my bedroom was on the ground floor! It took a year or more of seeing the chiropractor multiple times a week to start feeling better, and even now I go once a week. I still remember the first time I took the stairs one level down to the office instead of the elevator. I still experience a bit of pain every so often but not nearly as much or as often! If you ever see me skipping or jumping down the stairs or dancing as I walk, it isn't because I want to be obnoxious, it's because I'm happy, and I'm so so grateful to be able to do it.

3. Abstract art requires a different sort of thinking. People understand representational art much more readily, and make the jump to look for symbolism a little more easily. I mean, it's easier for me personally to hypothesize about Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere than it is about Pollock's Lavender Mist. I really enjoyed university art history classes, particularly the one that discussed pre- and post-medieval art. I think people's ideas of what art is supposed to be is really cultural and generational and subjective—but that's a different discussion.

My moment was, after half a semester marking the developments from frescoes to mannerism to impressionism and everything in between, Brancusi's Bird in Space was presented, and it really did something for me. I haven't seen it in person, but I can imagine the way the reflections warp across the surface, and it really does look like this piece of metal is moving, somehow. Seeing this and almost getting it connected something for me, and abstract art is easier for me to talk about, now. It's not just the meaning or the symbols or the metaphors but the experience of seeing it, physically what it looks like or feels like or sounds like. I could go on and on. But this piece holds a special place in my heart:

Doesn't it soar?

#i speak from the coffin

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chiropteracupola · 1 year

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I am on a foth kick and I would like very much to know about to keep it real and green knight, if you have things you want to share!

to keep it real is currently in a weird state where it doesn't quite know what it wants to be, since it's certainly not the fic I set out to write, but I don't want to abandon the original idea entirely. the original idea would have been a mostly plotless practice scene based on the 'his wife has filled his house with chintz' post/poem, featuring Ewen visiting Keith at Stowe House in some nebulous future, but I got a little carried away with setup, writing interactions with Francis, and attempting to research the location itself.

the trouble with houses that keep getting used is that they do very much keep getting updated, and frankly, it's a little more effort than I'd like to put in right now just to figure out exactly which ostentatious bits of architecture would have been there at the time that Keith would have been! there appears to be some kind of 3d model of the house that might get looked at later on, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around a) figuring out how the ground-plan has changed since the mid-eighteenth century, and b) the sheer scale of these gardens (for the record, I'm using a garden I'm more familiar with as a reference point for the size, and it's only a seventh of the size of this place. yikes and other such exclamations.)

due to the nature of this particular story, I'm going to want a pretty detailed interior design plan for the room, since it's the sort where I'm essentially making what amounts to a dollhouse in my head. so that's taking a while! someday I will pick this thing up again because It Compels Me, but right now I really do not know when that will be.

the green knight story is based on an idea from @tgarnsl, and is basically exactly what it sounds like - a Gawain and the Green Knight AU with Keith, Ewen, and Alison.

it's been slow going writing it, as I'm having trouble settling between my usual writing style and the more poetic, kenning-heavy style that I use for things like Rat Piper, as well as the fact that I thought it would be very funny to get it done by Christmas and that very much Did Not Happen. and then there's the fact that the name Keith simply doesn't sound right to me in the sort of quasi-medieval setting I've been working with - well, there's not really any way out of that one that I like, so that's just something that I'll have to figure out as I go along. or probably I'll just leave him there, all incongruous as he is.

and since you've read all the way through that, here's the prologue for that particular tale:

His mother’s hand is on his shoulder, and his father’s sword is belted at his side, its bright blade so, so, much lighter than it looks.

“Go and do it, won’t you, Keith?” He doesn’t need to be asked. Every eye in the hall is on him, and he steps forward, and lets one knee bend so that he can dip just far enough to take the offered weapon. His fingers are on the axe-handle — good! — and in one smooth motion, he’s up again and that shining arc of steel is cutting through the air with a sound like church-bells. In that half-second before steel meets skin, the strange knight smiles, and tips his head a little to one side, his loosened collar slipping to show a line of pale skin.

Keith strikes true.

He steps back, his footsteps crisp as if against frosted-over ground. A thick slap of meat against stone, a flare of iron-scent in the air, a gasp from the assembly. The head rolls to a stop at Keith’s feet, the seeping blood staining the toes of his shoes as the strange knight falls to his knees.

But what is this? This man so lately slain is reaching out a hand for balance, reaching out towards Keith as he slowly, slowly pulls himself upright. His head is in his hands, gold-green hair trailing over lichen-pale fingers, but his blood runs down red, red, red to splatter on the rushes at Keith’s feet. Keith looks down, the axe now heavy in his hands, and watches as the stain sinks and blurs into the shadows, red turning back to green. His hands tighten on the haft of the axe, its weight solid but not at all reassuring.

Now, Keith no longer has to look up to meet the Green Knight’s eyes, for he holds his head just at the right height for Keith to see. And for all that this man is bleeding and headless, impossible and out of place, he smiles like the sun.

#em writes stuff #heronposting #if you are here for foth things then you are in luck because I have Things planned... Things I'm drawing...#me: it will be a fast quick short thing. me several months later downloading pdfs from the national trust: oh god oh no.#at some point I want to come up with outfit designs for the green knight thing but that would mean settling on a time period and aesthetic #so I Haven't. hooray.#aaugh. the readmore keeps going in the wrong place. hell and death.#for pete's sake it just did it AGAIN! BITING!

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kalinara · 6 months

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I'm starting to get a little obsessed with Rings of Power, I have to admit. I'm not entirely sure why - perhaps I just really have a need to rejoin a fandom that is full of hyper-pedantic purists who nit-pick endlessly over contradicting canon material, racist "historians" who apparently never heard of the Moorish invasion, Mongol invasion, the Silk Road, or any of a thousand other reasons why actual historical people of color might have ended up in medieval Europe, and the usual victim-blaming villain apologists. (I won't lie, I also think the Feanorians are pretty compelling. I draw the line at blaming the invaded people for not wanting to hand the magic rock over to repeated mass murderers though.)

Eh, maybe I'll stick to my own corner. There's some good fic out there though.

These are my initial observations from the first episode:

1. There's more indirect Silmarillion references than I expected. From fan reaction, I thought they were scrapping the entire thing. But it seems like most of Elrond's fucked up backstory is intact. Or at least not contradicted. (I think there's even a Feanor namedrop in a later episode?)

2. Galadriel is so pretty, OMG. And her armor doesn't have boobs!

3. Elrond is adorable. Of all the fannish complaints, I have the most sympathy for the one about Elrond having Steve Harrington hair. I feel like it might be a character beat though. They seem to be leaning a bit into the idea of the Peredhel being not quite accepted in general elf society, so maybe that's meant to be a tiny little rebellion?

3b. The idea of the Peredhel not being particularly accepted does seem like a deviation from the Silmarillion, but then that was pretty broad strokes. We know EVENTUALLY Gil-galad and Elrond will be homoerotically joined at the hip, but it might take a while to get there.

3c. I would like him to grow it out eventually though. The current look doesn't suit his face. I think something longer and pinned back a bit might work better with those angles.

3d. The idea of Elrond not being an "elf lord" seems particularly offensive given the poor guy is arguably the heir of every elf kingdom under the sun. Then again, none of those elf kingdoms actually exist anymore. Except the one Gil-galad's running. But I actually really like the poor put-upon clerk with quiet ambitions aspect of his character. It's pretty rare to see open ambition treated as, if not a positive trait, then a neutral one.

I feel like there's this thing, in popular western media, where we adore the wise and powerful figures - the wise king, if you will, but we don't like the idea of someone actually wanting and trying to achieve that role. The only good powerful person, we say, is the one that doesn't want it. They get it by chance, by birthright, by being in the right place at the right time. Even if they "earn" it, it's generally by doing something heroic, completely unrelated to governing people or dealing with politics. THOSE sorts are almost invariably the Wrong Choice.

But what if you want to enact real, positive change? What if you want to protect people or take care of people? How do you do that, if you're not in a position of power? How do you get power, when you're not really allowed to want it?

(I might be projecting too many good motives onto my historically favorite character, but I have future canon knowledge that he does a pretty decent job when he actually IS in charge of shit, so there you go.)

4. I love that Galadriel and Elrond look like they're the same height. Google tells me he's 6', and she's 5'4". I'd never have guessed. Nice camera work. Or phenomenal job at hiding the stilts.

5. I love that elf aging seems to be completely arbitrary. Elrond and Galadriel look like babies. Gil-galad looks middle-aged*, while Celebrimbor...well, I guess being only non-murderous Feanorian is really stressful?

5b. It hurts me to say that as Gil-galad's actor is maybe a year older than I am. But alas, that's life.

5c. Celebrimbor also has short hair. Maybe it's a Feanorian thing? That'd be kind of interesting. Did Tolkien ever specifically SAY they had long hair?

6. I have no idea who Arondir is. It's probably worth noting that I haven't read the Silmarillion since college, which might explain why I'm not really nitpicking anything. Whether he's one of the umpteen tragic elves from that book, or a canon newcomer, I don't care. I want to keep him.

6b. I'd like to see that elf who said that there were only two elven-human marriages and they ended in death and despair to say that to Elrond's face. Wait, no. I think he might cry. Say that to Idril Celebrindal. I fucking dare you. (Tuor would absolutely hold her flowers.)

7. I wasn't expecting the hobbits. No one mentioned the hobbits.

8. Also, no idea what the Southlands are, but it's an interesting story beat. From an average human perspective, what makes one powerful overlord better than another? Especially given some of the shit the good-guy elves got up to over the years.

9. Everything looks really pretty and nothing's really happening yet, but this is Tolkien. I sat through the extended editions of the movies (...might have fallen asleep at one point, but that's between me and the Professor), I can wait a few episodes before things start to happen.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing the next one.

#sparkly elves and their jewelry #for your own sanity don't look up Elrond's family tree #an essay crept into my list - sorry #I remember the parts of the Silmarillion I cared about. The rest was all dead elves and humans with annoyingly similar names.#The parts I liked also have dead elves and people with annoyingly similar names but they also had or led to my favorite character

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bedlamsbard · 1 year

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For the ask game, 1 and 24.

the character everyone gets wrong

I said Steve the last time I did this (and I do think he gets it the worst) and while Loki is the obvious runner-up, I find that the Thor films (+ A1, IW, Loki) are so inconsistent that tbh, that's more understandable. So -- Natasha. There's a huge tendency throughout the fandom to flatten Natasha out in ways that are wildly inconsistent with her actual portrayal in canon, some of which is spillover from comics, some of which is just taking her at face value, some of which is just being unwilling to pay attention to what's onscreen. Like, the number of times I see people being unwilling to acknowledge that Natasha is Clint's best friend? A lot! Or that Natasha is (minus five minutes in CACW) consistently on Steve's side, not even in a shippy way? Also a lot! Or -- this might be a more cosplay-specific one, but I've seen it in fic and edits and art as well, the idea that Natasha is very...I'm probably going to use the wrong word here, but that Natasha is very, very femme, in a "always wears bold makeup, paints her nails, red lip, has her tits out" kind of way. The only time we see Natasha do that kind of, mm, performative femininity is IM2 and the beginning of The Avengers when she's literally not being herself and I'd also make a strong argument for AoU here, though with AoU I do think she's deliberately presenting herself in that specific for PR purposes. (Besides, you know, Joss Whedon being terrible about her.) Obviously there is a certain amount that's there because this is a movie and everything is a little more exaggerated. Like, even though in all movies but one Natasha is in heels or wedges in her tactical gear it's at least partially because they have to get 5'3" ScarJo into the same frame as all their six-foot tall boys as well as being ~sexy; Natasha is probably not wearing 3-inch wedges into a fight, and we know that because none of her shoes in BW have a heel/wedge on them. (I also strongly suspect BW may be the only film where she's wearing a sports bra in the suits.) Some of it is probably spillover from comics, because comics Natasha is more femme fatale-ish than MCU Natasha.

(Obviously for cosplay purposes do whatever the hell you want, these are just trends I've noticed; I am in this community too, which is why I see it come up over and over again in the first place. This is the only time I've gone "wow, I do not have the tits for this," which is actually quite disconcerting if it's never come up as ~something to be self-conscious about before.)

Some of it is also fandom's general propensity to flatten female characters in general -- the team mom thing, the only one with the braincell thing, the femme fatale thing, etc. Like, yes, it's funny the first ten times, and then it's "...we're really not watching the same movies, huh?"

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

this is more like a "top five" topics than a single one SO in no particular order

was baby Loki kidnapped or rescued (child abandonment was and is a real thing, but in ancient/medieval cultures it is both (a) real and legal and (b) a common mythological trope, have you never heard of Oedipus)

Sokovia Accords and everything surrounding them (even canon regretted this one, which is kind of a shame because I would have liked to see the MCU treat it seriously after CACW -- only Ant-Man and the Wasp and Black Widow actually started to deal with it, and it got resolved offscreen years later in She-Hulk)

did the Asgardians deserve to be genocided (what the hell is wrong with you people, why have I been in real fandoms where this is a real question)

Loki/Sylvie (not my ship, I don't care, but hoo boy)

is Endgame good or bad (woof)

#windona #bedlam replies #bedlam watches the mcu

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flaetsbnortoriginals · 1 year

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Since some time ago I've talked about a random idea for a dungeon that I'd had for a while but don't think I'll be able to do right now, I'll do it again today.

But first, I need to talk about Eternal Darkness.

I first discovered TTRPG when a random guy in my school came up to me and asked me if I wanted to play. We weren't even friends. I don't even know what system it was - looking back, it feels more like one of those Lone Wolf style CYOA books, especially because it was one-on-one. I took that idea to my friends and we created new systems based on that one game, vague ideas from digital RPGs like Final Fantasy and Pokémon, and out of our buttholes.

Since we had no idea for what could be a setting for a RPG, we made them up, usually inspired on videogames. That was how I started playing a one-on-one game with a friend that was basically a TTRPG remake of Eternal Darkness.

Eternal Darkness is a 2002 survival horror videogame for the GameCube. It's mostly known for its sanity mechanic that often messed with the game in a meta way, like pretending to lower the volume or erase the saved files. But my favourite thing about it is that it took place over a very long time. It had four locations that were visited centuries apart by people in different moments of history. A buried temple in the Middle East is visited by an invading Roman soldier, then two millenia later by a Canadian firefighter putting out post-Gulf War fires. This meant that as you progressed the game you'd switch from swords to crossbows to flintlock pistols to assault rifles.

My idea from this is what I call a Time Funnel. A group of adventurers go down a terrible dungeon to destroy an undying evil. They fail. The next group takes a few centuries to show up, but at least they have better technology now.

I'll now proceed to vomit up some of the things I've thought up about this cenario...

I have some ideas about the setting. It would obviously need to be a forgotten island... close enough to shore that even ancient folks might feasibly end up there, but in a remote enough location that it would never become something well-known.

The concept for the evil that needs to be defeated could be:

the last holdout of an an Assassin's Creed-style precursor race

the seed for a very long term alien invasion force

why stray from the source? a temple to an ancient chtulhulesque may be perfectly fine

The rooms that are closer to the surface might become time-damaged once adventurers break into them, so the more you explore the dungeon, the easier time later adventurers will have. But this inverts as the heroes approach the core, as its evil actually becomes stronger when it's released and possibly starts infecting rooms that were previously safe and making defeated challenges come back more dangerous.

I've thought of the time periods as something like this:

Literal cavemen (sticks, stones)

Almost prehistoric (crappy swords, spears)

Ancient era (less crappy swords, bows)

Medieval (good swords, longbows, crossbows)

Age of piracy (fancy swords, flintlock pistols, muskets)

Victorian age (revolvers, shotguns)

Modern age (automatic guns, grenades)

Cyberpunk age (laserguns, drones)

Space opera age (nuke it from orbit)

Oh yeah, an idea I've had is that if the party dies enough times the last party is from a distant future in which the threatening entity has almost awaken, and you are humanity's last hope. So you've got the best technology a perfect future civilization can muster, but the enemies have also become equally powerful. I'm not sure if that kind of shift would work; might be a cool capstone if a campaign lasted that long.

Problems I foresee, however:

This definitively requires a OSR/NSR like system, and I'm not sure how to mechanically differenciate a crappy Bronze Age sword from a less crappy Iron age sword, for instance. Simply adding damage would create a power creep that makes modern weapons too powerful, while tactical advantadges might make the whole thing too complex too quickly.

In a regular funnel, when a character dies, a new one immediately replaces it. But this setting absolutely requires that a character is not replaced until a new expedition centuries down the line. What do the players of downed characters do?

Fine-tuning the difficutly would be paramount, and I'm not good at all at it. Although I imagine erring in the side of too difficult would still result in an interesting name, albeit maybe not a satisfying one.

The setting essentially required that everything happens in the dungeon, with no encounters with friendly NPCs whatsoever to break the tension. I fear that this might quickly become tiresome. Would exploring rooms without breaks still be fun just because now you have a rifle instead of a crossbow? (I do have a related idea in which there is an entire island with factions and stuff, but that's so much more complicated that it's basically a different idea.)

So... a cool idea, not one that I'm confident I could pull of now, or even in the foreseeable future. So instead I post it on Tumblr to throw it out across the winds.

#tabletop rpg #ttrpg #osr #nsr #idea #dungeon #I'm never gonna make this am I

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sasslett · 1 year

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This is @driftward and I wish to give you these ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I would like to ask that at least one star be for "With You Through It All". :)

oh goodness, thank you! I guarantee it'll be the only thing I talk about, because... Well it's the only thing I have to talk about, aside from a medieval fantasy story I'm writing that'll never see the light of day.

So. This longfic. I'm currently at 115 chapters across 450kish words, and that's just to the end of 4.0, with oh so much important stuff to come in ShB and EW.

Is writing the entire MSQ all over again a stupid idea? Absolutely. Did that stop me? No. In fact, I didn't even realize that it could be considered so ridiculous until I was starting Stormblood and thought, why am I doing this?

The answer is because I want to.

I never intended to publish it, and I'd been writing for an entire year before I even began to put it up on ao3. The only reason I even did was because I was in a discord group at the time (which I've since left thank the gods) who encouraged me to do so. Without them, it would still be sitting in my Google docs untouched.

I guess I'm happy that I published it - the fact that you and 300 other people have even clicked on it is amazing to me. I didn't and still don't really expect anyone to - I mean, it's massive in length and tells the story of two OCs. The potential audience for that is absolutely tiny, and I'm fully aware of it. But all the same, it archives it somewhere safer than docs, and it at least gives the potential for someone out there who might enjoy it.

I do wish I had someone to talk about it to and enthuse and bounce ideas off of, though (and no that's not me being passive aggressive saying hey be my friend trust me). My one friend offered to read it and give feedback but he never opened it when I sent the link. My husband doesn't enjoy reading so that's out. My coworker offered but she doesn't play and I don't want to have to explain every single piece of lore to her ("ok so a chocobo is a giant chicken?").

All that being said, I'm so happy I actually wrote it, and continue to write it. Even if I'd never shared it I still would, just because I'm having so much fun both writing it and going back to read it later. The later chapters are written so much better - such is the curse of both ARR and me getting better as I go.

Thank you for the ask, and sorry for the ramble!

#Sassbox #Tyty!#I think I lost my train of thought

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sonicenvy · 8 months

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a solid 80-90% of my coolest craft/art/writing/making ideas come to me at the most inconvenient of times:

late at night when i am trying to sleep

in the shower

at work while im helping someone out with a thing

while i am biking or driving

when i am on a train car or bus having to stand instead of sit

tonight's inconvenient idea was for a new, different embroidery hoop that wasn't the pattern i downloaded and printed onto my dissolvable stabilizer, stuck onto fabric and mounted into a hoop (and then bought the thread for) and started on.

This idea was to do some of the images from the book of kells. I am especially fond of the very famous folio 27v which is from the gospel of matthew and depicts the symbols of the four evangelists (matthew, mark, luke and john as the man, the wingèd lion, the wingèd calf and the eagle). The one that seemed to be the least technically difficult to stitch in my mind was the wingèd calf (luke) so I cut the image out of the page in photoshop, enlarged it and printed it out. Once printed out I made a (clumsy) tracing of it onto another paper, which I'll have to refine and ink later. For now, I'd call that proof of concept.

After inking, ill probably scan it back into the computer and make a vector of it and print that vector out on the water dissovlable stabilizer to attach to my fabric. I decided to go about this route because, frankly, I'm shite at tracing things digitally with my ancient wacom tablet (and my ipad is too old to do apple pencil + procreate which would probably be better. Plus, like, I have a light box, why not use it?

As a side note I cannot draw AT ALL, but I am passable at tracing because of embroidery and because I traced stuff all the time for assignments back in primary school that we were supposed to draw stuff for if I couldn't get away with doing layer collages cut out with my x-acto knife for the project instead. (yes i was a single digit age child with an x-acto knife. my dad had an a+ parenting moment when I was like, maybe 5 and taught me how to cut out things (mostly my paper dolls) with an x-acto knife. I didn't even know how to use scissors at the time lmaooooooo. because x-actoing shit out is soooo much better, as I result i still stink at scissor cutting things.)

anyways. in case you were wondering about what the little guy im planning to embroidery looks like.... boom!

he's just a little guy! medieval monks drew all kinds of fun and funky creatures and frankly, dear old irish/scottish medieval monks, im obsessed. y'all dont get me started on medieval art and illuminate manuscripts or ill be here for 100000 years. my bones will be telling you about medieval art.

the other embroidery projects that are totally still going to happen:

the sea shell pattern i downloaded. good thing i didn't have to pay for it....

a blue morpho or a paper kite butterfly.

some kind of stitch sampler

other fiber art projects:

that crocheted shawl i downloaded a pattern for a kajillion years ago

the giant blue crocheted scarf that I got about 60% of the way through making from that pound o' love yarn skein.

mending. so. much. mending.

#margaret babbles #personal bs #obviously the actual thing that i need to be doing is working on my sleep and applying to grad school but hey here i am instead....#this post completely ignores the at least 5x projects i have going on in the pottery studio....#so much art ideas and soooo little completion #don't talk to me or my 10000000000000000 art concepts ever again lmao #also lets not think about my ever growing list of fic wips and giffing ideas #no siree

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OC x OC Original RP Idea, 21+, MxF

If you're reading this, hello! I came up with this universe a couple of years ago with a partner that I had a falling out with. I'm now looking for someone new to flesh out this universe further. Are you in? Firstly, let's start with the time period. The idea originally was in the time of the Japanese warriors, but due to (somewhat obvious) lack of historical knowledge, I think this would work better in a medieval-esque time period. You'll see why later on. The story is as follows: Small settlements and villages all across the lands have had major issue with these creatures that blend all too well into human society. Most get along well with humans, and oftentimes live peaceful lives amongst them. But there is a powerful band of these creatures that have found the massive power surge the taste of human blood can give them. The tradeoff, however, is that too much human blood too quickly turns these creatures into monsters, and human blood is so incredibly addictive and intoxicating, it's near impossible to stop once one has started. The king has hired a group of hunters to go out and hunt down these creatures before they become the monsters that have been plaguing the citizens of the kingdom. The hunters have specialized, enchanted blades infused with pure iron - the only weapons on the planet that can do permanent damage to these creatures. Otherwise, these creatures are immortal, and have a Deadpool/Wolverine-esque ability to recover from the most brutal of wounds. It's been several months now, and the hunters have all been but wiped out, leaving only a handful. All the hunters have been doing is providing a constant food source, and so what remains of the group has been disbanded. At least, that's what they want the creatures to believe. The creatures posses one of three elemental abilities, and thrive in areas that have access to the source of these abilities. The creatures with an affinity for water tend to live near the ocean, or lakes, or rivers. Creatures with an affinity for wind tend to enjoy open plains or coastlines, where the wind blows freely across the landscape. And creatures with an affinity for fire tend to live near volcanoes, or along the equator, or in places where forest fires thrive. These natural elemental sources not only empower the creatures further, but can heal them as well. Any creatures that are injured need to only embrace the power of their natural elemental source. But another benefit human blood offers, is that it can heal all wounds when consumed, even if their skin is burning after touching a pure iron weapon. The creatures can ingest human food and drink, but it does not give the same energy that their element or human blood would. Instead, most creatures ingest human food and drink simply because they enjoy the flavor, or would like to blend in, or both. That's not to say that the temptation to try human food isn't there, especially if someone is injured and bleeds around them, but most can control their urges to drink. Your character, preferably male, is one of these creatures. You've been living peacefully within your small little village, and you've never revealed yourself as one of the creatures. But you've never really had to. The village dwells right along the edge of your element (you get to decide what that element is), so you've never truly been in need of sustenance. But you can feel that something has shifted nearby, and that the group of creatures has infiltrated your village, especially when a hunter (my character, female) enters the village the very next day, following a lead she had picked up weeks ago. Yes, basically the characters are supercharged vampires, sue me. What happens next is really up to us, but ideally I'd like this to be slow burn romance with lots of angst and buildup. I write in third person, and can give several paragraphs per response. I ask that my partner does the same, but I understand that sometimes simplicity is better than overcomplication. I look forward to hearing from you, and will gladly answer any questions you may have.

#roleplay #oc roleplay #oc x oc #looking for rp #looking for rp partner

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