#written live on stream

[orcelito]

OK WAIT here's a ITNL chapter 14 section that's not really spoilers. just a sweet lil section

after this is where it's more Spoilers. but for now. HERE U go. happy birthday vash & also Uhhhh @ ITNL readers I PROMISE i am working on the chapter. things r just hard lol

#speculation nation #itnl shit #spoilers bc of uhh. Conversation. i wanna keep the conversation a secret for now lol #not bad spoilers it's just better digested as a whole probably #ANYWAYS heres some more vash & kaite bro time. god im gonna miss kaite when we gotta say goodbye to him #but he's still here for now and he gets to watch vash tinker with his (very internally fried) arm #before and after this section is vash inspecting the damages & thinking of what he can do to try to fix it #which i do have a lot written. but im gonna be going thru it for accuracy & also keeping in mind the thing from earlier #the possibility that average operational power of his arm comes from vash himself rather than extra batteries #this is with the assumption that a (relatively) small output of electricity is not smth that would fuck with his lifespan #just a normal expenditure of energy. like moving his flesh muscles. just a constant lil stream of electricity that he gets from eating & w/ #no need to dip into his life reserves for it. bc if he did that would get impractical. #idk im going to think about it more. i really dont Need to figure out how his arm works #but listen. ive built a robot before. im in polytech. i wanna think about wtf his arm actually Is #even if this is coming in the context of all the internal wires being blown & a bunch of shit straight up Melted #his arm is... very very blown... he's gonna be going one-arm for a While still lmao. oh well #i think it's a good thing to remember that he is in fact physically disabled. he can make up for it Especially in a fight #but it still will inconvenience him in a lot of ways. cool biotech arm is cool but also it's nice to remember that he Is physically disable #and so i am embracing it. he's tinkering with his arm in his free time but if he has to spend weeks (or months) w/o his prosthetic #well that's just the reality he's gotta live #anywyas. Here u go. snippet. that's a few hundred words so idk if this counts as a snippet but im calling it a snippet. Here You Go

[khaenriahkhaenriah]

Posted this when the banner was announced.

In over 250 pulls using freemogems and birthday money I got:

a) yoimiya (the one I actually wanted)

b) aquila favonia (yay for kaeya)

c) tighnari c1 (love him)

d) raiden c1 (first five star she deserves it)

e) two kiraras (somehow)

f) mika (phys kaeya being realised)

g) countless bennetts and saras

Wanna know who I didn't get?

FUCKING CHEVREUSE

#its honestly amusing at this point i guess im cursed to never have her #but im thrilled with all my pulls though got really lucky outside of that #technically ive now spent money on the gacha system but not sure it counts when it was a gift card you got four years ago #that has $20 left on it and will expire next month. like wtf else was i going to do with it #anyway. chevreuse i am so mad but at least i have a firework girl and a beefier raiden #also i get why cons make meta players do so much more damage. i activated the con and raiden just instantly started hitting like 15k more #honestly i think ill go for her c2 next time it comes around and make her my most invested five star #funny how i really dont like how she was written and shes basically a different character in my mind #but shes one of my favourites anyway. i remember seeing the trailer live on the stream and just being in shock #like cmon. her charged attack? gorgeous? and its the only time theyve made a female playable do anything halfway bad #so if you ignore the worst written sq in the game shes really interesting #anyway how did this turn into a raiden thread when i did 250 PULLS AND NO CHEVREUSE

[darubyprincx]

I’ve been showing some of my friends your Mianite liveblogs and it’s nostalgic bc my friends and I all met via Mianite back in 2014, it’s just nice to see people discovering and liking such an old series. Glad ur having a blast! You would’ve loved it live in 2014

hi anon!! glad you're enjoying me enjoying this series!

i've been having the absolute time of my life going into mianite blind with my only context being that i vaguely recognized who captainsparklez is and that the series was centered around three gods. i got into hermitcraft in 2019 and empires smp in late 2022 and honestly vibes-wise mianite has aged incredibly well in comparison, especially for a series made in 2014, the year i downloaded Minecraft. it all just feels very familiar despite this being my first time watching it yknow?

i've also really enjoyed getting into a series that has a much smaller fandom than what i'm used to (there's like seven people here on tumblr who regularly post about mianite and i only found ~370 fics under its fandom tag on ao3 orz)! i've been liveblogging watching this to my priv discord server at the same time and two of my other friends have been there to provide context or go "oh yeah that's a thing that happens and it's fucking insane" and like. dude its awesome

im glad this is giving you and your friends some nostalgia! and don't worry, s2 has close to a hundred episodes in it from what i can tell so i'll probably be going for a while

#ray's tag #answered #mcyt #mianite #gods this is the most ive drawn and written in like. months. im flourishing #as for the enjoying it live thing i think i would have loved it! well the edited vod uploads anyways. streams arent my thing o7 #but man i woulda loved to be able to liveblog this in its heyday #whatever. i dont care. this experience fuckin rules either way

[zorasapphires]

the way vampire fiction has been lining up for me? daresay it is fate that I become a vampire literature lover and appreciator?

june: friend messages me that he's getting rid of old books and do I want any? dracula is in there so I'm like hm I really enjoyed frankenstein so let's try dracula

july: T2 (where zak works) releases a penguin books collab and the sci fi/fantasy book is dracula

september:

I get bg3 and am fully taken in by a character I thought I'd hate??? who is a vampire.

zak decides he really wants the dracula T2 collab bc staff can finally buy it and he thinks the mug is cute (it is)

I am so enthralled by bg3 that I start reading again for the first time since like march - dowry of blood (much different than what I thought but I appreciated the themes, 3.5/5) and am now reading dracula

it is september so there is a daily dracula thing going on where ppl read dracula very slowly and only read the entries of each day...i am going to join in!!!!! (gonna read the whole book first then come back and read each entry as it happens - will help me digest it I think!!)

#thoughts live stream #i just think its neat to enjoy art (of any kind like written too) #also i think being off my meds is like...im actually feeling full spectrum of emotions again #and while that might not be good when im down its very nice when im feeling enjoyment and appreciation...feeling with fullness and entirety

[dilfsisko]

I hope that Will Liverman continues to get leading role after leading role at the Met tbh.

#els.txt #musicposting #I’m lucky enough to be able to catch the occasional Live in HD series the Met has #got to see the first Met staging of X: The Life and Times of Malcom X #and he (of course) played Malcom X #but I was also really lucky to see the stream of the first staging of ‘Fire Shut Up In My Bones’ by Terrance Blanchard #where he played the journalist Charles Blow #idk I just think he’s neat I think his voice is incredible and he brings such a rich emotional performance to the stage #he’s also!!! written opera himself!!!! #and he’s not a tenor so that automatically sells him in my book

[magentagalaxies]

one of these days i need to make a kids in the hall iceberg based on all the increasingly obscure side projects/behind-the-scenes info i've acquired over the past few months

#the only thing stopping me is all the super obscure stuff is scott related bc i don't know as many obscure things for the others #but anyway i'm currently listening to ''accidentally cool'' which would definitely be a deeper level #(it's a rock band kevin played guitar in. also i befriended the lead singer her name's tiffany) #fruit blog would also ABSOLUTELY be a super deep level #i think the most obscure one on the list might be scottland (tv show)??? bc even i can't find much info on it??? #like. it might genuinely be a piece of completely lost media which is why i NEED someone to explain it to me #scottland was a tv show scott made that was supposed to be the first internet sitcom #he made it in 1999 so quality streaming video was decades away. youtube definitely wasn't a thing it was his own website #the premise for it sounds completely bizarre #and i can only find one article mentioning its existence and 2 other places online where there's any record of its existence #(both with no major additional details) #the only image we have from scottland is an image of buddy cole dressed in cartoony kings robes #scottland fucking haunts me. most buddy cole things even if i can't find them online i have reason to believe someone out there has footage #or if not there's at least reviews of the live shows and like. solid records they happened. #some of these projects were even cancelled or on websites that no longer exist. but they're been referenced since #but scottland. scottland has only EVER been written about in one 1999 article #and all other records of its existence are COMPLETELY MISSING

[prapuna]

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#WHY AM I ONLY THINKING OF THIS ONCE THE SEMESTER HAS ENDED #so the final essay assignment was about culture (esp pop) and all that n i wrote about the impact of technology in local pop culture spaces #BUT. i could've written about the prominent classism issue ive always been mad about #classism exists everywhere and its sucha fucking pain to encounter it in fandom spaces #couldve been a beautiful paper #the scope is very narrow but i think it wouldve been great #as with pop culture a lot of people are in on the bandwagon and the practice is mass & the stream is v fast #and the more successful ppl are almost always the ones who had more money beforehand #low budget creatives are looked down upon especially if their works aren't at the very least groundbreaking #'good' is simply not enough. paying for services is not enough. making your own equipments instead of buying expensive brands is not enough #and man am i fed up with the fucking arguments because ppl are missing the point of like #'if you cant afford to be a creative in local spaces then maybe there are things you should prioritize first' and this alone pains me bcs #yes there are things to prioritize because god forbid ppl like me make art without worrying about tomorrow's meal #and while i believe being a creative shouldnt be this expensive i do understand what they mean. i get it first hand #but this simple of a point still goes over people's head who took it as 'dont create art if you're poor' #'when you've paid a lot on something and some low budget artist comes in with their work getting more attention' #'if youre poor the least you could do is not making it worse by doing art' #ARE THEY HEARING THEMSELVES. #do they not realize what they're essentially saying they dont think poor people should make art #I LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHEREIN MY PURPOSE IS TO SCRAPE BY AND BE AN EXAMPLE OF THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY #got a little heated there sorry tehee give me $500 #krispeaks #idk if you noticed from my ramblings but it does get tiring to enter fandom spaces full with rich kids whose only problems are fandom drama

[skeletalheartattack]

smoking a fat blunt <- using an inhaler

hey lemme get a suck off that bingo bongo?

#ask #raidendotcom #i almost went into typing out the donkey kong country theme song but i had to stop myself #dont ask. stream of consciousness and all. #smoking that shit that makes me say heyo. look out down below. here he comes banana slama. donkey kong. #i think its because i was thinking of kongo bongo #the island theyre on in the show. kongo bongo? you know it right? where they live? crystal coconut? bluster kong? #tags written by donkey kong trying to pull cranky out of his dementia #sorry raiden this is just how my brain works bud #thank you for your insight raiden :) a quick honk though? off that fat dart? #donkey kong doesnt have to know

[izumistrauma]

this is a cause for concern

#for context: songs written in jp are: #s.hikabane no odori #p.atchwork staccato #r.urus su.icide show on a live stream #and. (gags) *fragile* #ALSO THE NEXT 5 WERE BAD GIRL ONLINE. ELECTRIC ANGEL. SECRET GARDEN. *HITORINBO ENVY.* AND AMYGDALAS RAGDOLL/?????

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

Progress of zls rewatch btw; 315 screenshots , finished ep9. I’ve been trying to pace it- it’s a surprisingly(?) gripping show,,, uncertainties over writing aside, I love it TT it’s cute, funny, gorgeous art style, great seiyuu, informative about Saga-ken 😂😂 and so so unique!!! Living zombies!! I WANT MORE SERIES LIKE THIS!! 😭💕 it hit me in the heart … I wanna be able to trust the writers more… srsly. I wanna be able to watch s2(+whatever else it gets) with pure joy.

#random rambling #irt Zombieland saga #I’ll likely screenshot stream s2 … but … screenshots… so many gkakcka #I have an oc who’s living zombie- was always told how unique it is and then zls came along and I- 😂now there’s 2 series like that w #(tho mine is rly different.. zls’ method is?? unknown!????) #I wanna watch s2 TT for so long I wanted to … but I barely even remember why I liked it other than that I rly liked it gkakcka #worried about how ep8 is written more than anything ig. it’s important… #this show has like 0 other “this might be bad” points- some of the ways they died being played for laughs isn’t great but could be worse #the jokes are genuinely funny most of the time- especially ep5! ep5 is GODLY 😂😂💕

[thegirlwholied]

okay I realize I don't talk about hockey much on Tumblr but apparently I'm invested enough to have just purchased an AHL playoff watch package

#i will admit i looked for live streams first but in VAIN #i went to my first AHL game - a playoff game - a week ago and it's the first time they've won a playoff round since 2005 so #I'm invested now whoops #when your hockey team is getting its act together but still not in the playoffs yet and the farm team is good! #i mostly don't check the tags on Tumblr #checking hockey comments is one of the few things i ever lurk on reddit for (becoming increasingly true for twitter too) #(I have met too many NHLers to be anywhere near the tumblr hockey fandom side of things) #sometimes in your own little fandom corner you forget RPF exists #and then sometimes you click on an ao3 profile to see what else a good author has written andddd someone you know is in the character tags #but yes semi quietly I'm very into hockey #let's do that hockey!

[bicurioustomhardy]

i think subconsciously i always knew i didnt want to move to nyc though like The Fantasy is always appealing but reading the words 'trailer park-themed bar in chelsea' in this book solidified that further

#txt #it's a very good book fucking whirlwind of a read though #idk if having it being in first person made it better or worse #very much read as not a stream of consciousness it was much too intentional for that but it was very hard to discern from what timeframe #or position the narrator was writing from especially with it being non-chronological #like it doesnt read as recounting memories that connect in some way to the next one from a point in the narrator's future #the experiences are being lived through and the emotions described as something thats happening at the time of writing #which is something i always struggle with concerning first person point of view #along with undefined timelines like the scenes themselves as they are written are very short but comprised together they make up like #six months of a relationship and boom all of a sudden theyre not just fucking but theyre going through the 'i love you' and breakup stages #which i THINK is intentional considering the character's proclivity for those kinds of cycles #what i liked the most was the descriptions of the recovery center and the ones of childhood #but i dont want to shy away from the romantic relationships bc thats like (arguably) the messiest part of the character #if i have the capacity for it i'd like to look at the usage of time bc i really do think thats the most intriguing part of it #or maybe it's a genre marker that i just dont know about lol

[thschei]

(I screenshoted and then deleted my post so I can disable the reblogs on this post and prevent it from escaping containment ❤)

Like not to ruin your day but will you listen to the chorus of this song (starts at 55 seconds) . bc I want to get in a fist fight with whoever produced the song (for legal reasons this is a joke etc)

#erin talks #photo #to be clear: I've been a (blank) fan since 2008 so this is not me mocking the culture or members of any groups mentioned #(in fact I feel very bad for the members & I know for certain groups they've even expressed that they don't like the songs given to them) #I'm frustrated with the decline of quality & views/popularity -> fans non-stop streaming the most dog shit thing you've ever heard #& looks prioritized over talent -> the death of live singing in (blank) & companies tripping over themselves to win over xenophobic/racist #american fans & the most bland songs written solely to make an eng ver with rushed & generic lyrics . etc etc etc #oh also like the first part of the song linked isn't very bad; it's not Good & I wouldn't listen to a song like that for fun #but I don't hate the kind of cutesy age appropriate songs groups are given early in their career & I like plenty of previous ones like uhhh #I Love pe/pe by c/lc . but the chorus of the linked song makes it unforgivable #I also wanna give the disclaimer that my taste in music is shit I like a lot of songs that most (blank) fans consider to be the worst #1st song a group ever got Ever; this isn't about my taste in music being superior or refined or whatever #an example of a hated song I genuinely listen to for fun is /watch?v=DE8wA64pYNY #anyway if you like me at all plz listen to that annoying ass song and see what the gimmick is <3

[racefortheironthrone]

Hi- er, this is my first-ever writer's strike, how does one not cross a picket line in this context? I know how not to do it with things like Amazon and IRL strikes, but how does it apply to media/streaming?

Hi, this is a great question, because it allows me to write about the difference between honoring a picket line and a boycott. (This is reminding me of the labor history podcast project that's lain fallow in my drafts folder for some time now...) In its simplest formulation, the difference between a picket line and a boycott is that a picket line targets an employer at the point of production (which involves us as workers), whereas a boycott targets an employer at the point of consumption (which involves us as consumers).

So in the case of the WGA strike, this means that at any company that is being struck by the WGA - I've seen Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Warner Brothers Discovery, NBC, Paramount, and Sony mentioned, but there may be more (check the WGA website and social media for a comprehensive list) - you do not cross a picket line, whether physical or virtual. This means you do not take a meeting with them, even if its a pre-existing project, you do not take phone calls or texts or emails or Slacks from their executives, you do not pitch them on a spec script you've written, and most of all you do not answer any job application.

Because if this strike is like any strike since the dawn of time, you will see the employers put out ads for short-term contracts that will be very lucrative, generally above union scale - because what they're paying for in addition to your labor is you breaking the picket line and damaging the strike - to anyone willing to scab against their fellow workers. GIven that one of the main issues of the WGA are the proliferation of short-term "mini rooms" whereby employers are hiring teams of writers to work overtime for a very short period, to the point where they can only really do the basics (a series outline, some "broken stories," and some scripts) and then have the showrunner redo everything on their lonesome, while not paying writers long-term pay and benefits, I would imagine we're going to see a lot of scab contracts being offered for these mini rooms.

But for most of us, unless we're actively working as writers in Hollywood, most of that isn't going to be particularly relevant to our day-to-day working lives. If you're not a professional or aspiring Hollywood writer, the important thing to remember honoring the picket line doesn't mean the same thing as a boycott. WGA West hasn't called on anyone to stop going to the movies or watching tv/streaming or to cancel their streaming subscriptions or anything like that. If and when that happens, WGA will go to some lengths to publicize that ask - and you should absolutely honor it if you can - so there will be little in the way of ambiguity as to what's going on.

That being said, one of the things that has happened in the past in other strikes is that well-intentioned people get it into their heads to essentially declare wildcat (i.e, unofficial and unsanctioned) boycotts. This kind of stuff comes from a good place, someone wanting to do more to support the cause and wanting to avoid morally contaminating themselves by associating with a struck company, but it can have negative effects on the workers and their unions. Wildcat boycotts can harm workers by reducing back-end pay and benefits they get from shows if that stuff is tied to the show's performance, and wildcat boycotts can hurt unions by damaging negotiations with employers that may or may not be going on.

The important thing to remember with all of this is that the strike is about them, not us. Part of being a good ally is remembering to let the workers' voices be heard first and prioritizing being a good listener and following their lead, rather than prioritizing our feelings.

#labor #unions #wga strike #labor history #labor 101 #boycotts

[ayakashibackstreet]

Yes, I'm a MILH (Man I Love Hasunosora)

#they're the Love Live group for me now #why am I always the most attached to the side projects......... sigh........... #and no I don't want them to get an anime actually #because when Niji got an anime and became more than just a 'side project' they also got that season 2 #where they sanded all the edges off R3BIRTH #to the point where Shioriko doesn't have any personality #and they scrubbed off the original story off the face of the earth when they EOS'd SIFAS #and GOD I loved the plotline with the Association it was the most interesting thing LL had done at the time #I know it was controversial and it wasn't exactly well-written but consider this #I think Lanzhu slapped #and the plotline had so much potential #sighhhhhhhhhhhh............ #also the student council president arc with Setsuna and Shioriko was actually pretty good that doesn't exist anymore at all #and people actually liked that one! so! frustrating!! #Shioriko is just There. She's like a potted plant #though potted plants stand out more I guess #anyways stream Ouka Ranman stream Mirage Voyage stream Do! Do! Do! #Hasunosora country

[zorasapphires]

brooooooo astarion's act 2 romance scene ;;;;;;

#i know hes the most popular or whatever but. leave me alone. #hes written so well. actually gonna cry a bit lmao #fully went into thia game thinking id not like him/ignore him and yet. here we are. here we are #bg3 #thoughts live stream