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demonsfate · 2 days

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Congrats on getting the collectors! When it came out I couldn't pre-order on the Bandai website bc it gave me an error every time. It seems their website just sucks in general, I saw a bunch of people having issues. Maybe I will get the Jin fig on ebay but it's usually a bit pricy...

Are the cosmetics you just posted from the current battle pass? Did it come with the collectors?

Thnx! I am so so happy with it!!! <3 And that doesn't surprise me much! Jin is usually pricy but like... it still beats that $300 price on their website if you ask me! Maybe wait before buying it, you might get lucky like I did and find one with the other stuff it came with for a good price!

The ONLY CHARACTER outfits that came with the Collectors are the gold suits (for both the male and female characters), which I made a gif set of Jun and Kazuya in 'em if you haven't seen it yet! The rest of 'em have all either been battle pass or base game stuff!

The Collectors came with a lotta avatar shit for some reason lol. Such as Jin, Kazuya, and Jun avatar skins.

I haven't bothered taking a pic of the Kazuya one yet 'cos I love the Kazamas most and get excited about them. ^^; it also comes with a Kinjin avatar skin - which is like Mokujin, but golden and a king lol. And it comes with a whole lotta avatar shirts - basically a tee-shirt of every character, typically using their "classic" arts/renders. (Other than the newer ones such as Claudio or Reina who don't have old school pics LOL)

And most importantly, it comes with the Season Pass, therefore the next 3 new DLC characters (along with Eddy, of course) will be made playable for me! I think I may even get 'em earlier than players without the season pass 'cos I think that's what happened with Eddy?

I think that's all the game DLC stuff the Collectors comes with! But still pretty cool to have! I just wish you could change the color of the suits. I get they were advertised as GOLDEN suits, and therefore they want them to remain that. But like... the sequin suits would be prettier imo if I could change them to blue, or silver, or anything that isn't gold. I'm just not the biggest fan of the color gold / yellow.

#✏️ - ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏsᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ // (ooc)#✏️ - ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ? // (inbox)

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just-bible-musings · 5 months

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Something has been wrong with my legs. I've been numb from the waist down for a week, and I can't feel my feet at all. I've done my own research and I think it's sciatica. The chiropractor seems to agree. I don't like doctors after the way they ruined my mom's health, but I don't have a choice.

I suppose it's a blessing in disguise, because all my efforts to try to get a doctor's appointment have simply made me hate this world more and look forward to the day when Jesus comes back to burn it all down.

I have at least learned how to walk with this new condition so that I'm no longer so unsteady, and I've started mixing up my routine so I'm not sitting down while I'm at home. But I still will need a doctor's note to be able to get one of those standing desks at work (I know I need one, I've been dealing with tailbone pain for 4 years). I'd hoped the chiropractor could give me one, but he said a doctor has to do that.

After days of prayer, research, and scanning through my insurance, I decided on an osteopath, because I'd rather have a holistic doctor that treats ME and not just my symptoms. There's only one on my insurance that's taking new patients. I can't schedule anything during a work day because their hold times + registration is longer than my break. So I decided to walk in. And I got told, "No, you'll have to call in so we can input it in our computer. No, we don't have a form you can fill out and hand back. There's only 2 of us receptionists, and we can't take that much time to register new patients over the counter." Granted, it's been years since my mom had to sign up as a new patient anywhere, but I don't remember her going through this. She just filled out a bunch of forms.

So I come home, I call, and the first thing I get told is that I'll have to call my insurance and get them to change my primary doctor, because even though I haven't gone to a doctor, it seems that my insurance automatically assigned me one when I signed up for health insurance. And when I looked at the list of doctors: they assigned me an OB doctor! Uh, hello?! I'm not pregnant, I'm not even married, I'm just fat. So first off, thank you very much for reminding me of all my insecurities. Second, where does anyone come off TELLING me who I am and am not supposed to see for my own health?!?!? I didn't think the government had socialized our medicine YET. I guess this is just the first step....

By the time I got that straightened out, I didn't have time to call the doctor's office back and get registered before they closed. Thursday, I went to the chiropractor and then did all my shopping that I hadn't done because it took me that long to be able to walk, so again, I didn't have time to call. Friday, their office closes at noon. Seriously??? Friday is like the best day for people to come in so they have a whole weekend to recover from all the crap the doctor did to them, and find out if the new meds are gonna work for them before they try to go back to work!

So I figured, "well, they're open on Saturdays, I'll call this morning."

"Oh, we only register new patients during the week."

I haven't been able to feel my feet in a week. Do they give a fig? No. "We're a business, and you're gonna do things OUR way."

I am so livid right now. My mom is old enough that when she was a little girl, her mom could call the doctor in the middle of the night- like, the actual doctor, not just his office- and he'd either make a housecall at 2 in the morning, or grandma could take my mom to HIS HOUSE.

Nowadays, it's all big business, and all run by a computer. And it makes me so FURIOUS!!! I am not a computer, I do not appreciate being treated like one!

If I didn't feel like God wanted me to go to an osteopath, I would try a different clinic, because I am already thoroughly disgusted with this one.

I have to wonder if this is just one other thing God has done to show me just how bad the world is, and to make me pray for Jesus to return soon. Because with me, it may start out personal, but then I start seeing the bigger picture, how things are leading up to Revelation. I may be wrong, but I still believe the Mark of the Beast is driven by the Internet.

Father, please save as many people as what are willing to turn their hearts to you. And when there are none left that will, please send your Son to reap the harvest and burn the chaff.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:37-39

#testimony #doctors #revelation #prayer

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greenlodgecypher · 7 months

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Cypher Editorial and Update

by Adria

How things have changed. The community of a person, the society they live in, hasn't disappeared in the modern day; it's moved on.

We made our own communities. We published our manifestos of what we love. We found our own people. Haven't we, here, sought out the creativity and creations of others in our lives? Shared our enjoyments and mutual love? Isn't the Internet an echo of our cries to one another? Surely there is a future there! I hope so. But I wonder if those things can last. How long will a website be maintained? What, when they leave? E-mails can fall silent. Chat rooms die. The friends you have may not bother to stay in contact. There are so many things worth loving that will fall into obscurity. Getting specialty items is hard when they were published years ago and will never be again. There are so many films that have no proper release in this country, or in this time. Home video is an increasingly lacking medium. What will return on DVD? What callous license-holder will simply sit on their hoard of art that, though beloved to us, means nothing save a margin to them? How many passages of some soundtrack must I remember, and be fated never to hear again? It is all water in our hands. The Ensor Zone can be a strange place. People thought that it was rural, safe, and satisfyingly isolated yet conveniently close to the more commercially developed places in the state. But it is insular. Isolationist. It is part of a diverse state, yet people act as if it has nothing to do with the rest of that community. It has a lot of expensive estates, yet it also feels like it's full of houses and places that are slowly decaying away (yes, even before this year). The farm history is disappearing. Who now knows that the area was known for a women's jousting competition as recently as the 30s? Who learns the dark histories of the locale? That north of the Line, people were kidnapped and taken back here to be enslaved? Who remembers the early industry here? The clear-cut fields? How the world has changed. We remember so little of this, as a community. But what community is there? Even before we started having to move, what continuity of culture? Now that there are major pressures to leave, we find that these communities melt away into nothing. There is nowhere back and nowhere forward to move. Those with the money can leave. Families with ties elsewhere, perhaps. Those without any of this are dependent on the goodwill of an increasingly more hapless government to make do. They wanted me to cut that sentence. I don't care what Compliance wants anymore. I'm sending in this print file and they can shut me down for all I care. These things may be only a fig leaf, a remnant of the idea that anything can be done at all. There may be no future. I have a confession to make to you all. Gillian, my partner in the Cypher, has been submitting her articles from Wollstone, and soon may be leaving the state entirely. Her departure is due to several reasons, not the least the growing problems in our area. Kino may be moving to California, after the loss of their stock. Meanwhile, there is a new circle of trees on the field above my family home, where there were no trees before. We're having the yard inspected again shortly. I don't want to leave, but I may need to in the end. Remediation doesn't leave much behind. Because we could not leave before, and because inspections are starting to be made outside the Zone, there may be no more aid for us. There may be no Cypher next month. I don't think I can see this through. Surely, I tell you again, there is a future. But I don't know if I believe it myself.

#the green lodge cypher #tglc oct 97

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jilytoberfest · 3 years

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Author - @ghostofbambifanfiction

Thank you very much for taking the time to do this! Find her on ao3!

1. What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

Maybe it's that I perform all of my scenes to myself as I'm writing (also before and after) because it helps me to feel immersed and figure out how natural the dialogue sounds? I do the voices and all. I have different mannerisms for different people. It's a bizarre and tragic disaster.

2. What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your stories?

That I actually can tackle serious subjects and write less-than-happy if I want to, and that I'm good for more than just comedy and witty banter, but also that it's okay for me to write exactly what I want and not what I think my readers want.

3. Do you have any suggestions to help others become a better writer? If so, what are they?

I always say this, but the best tip I can offer is to read your dialogue aloud to ensure it sounds like something that an actual human being would say. There's nothing more off-putting than stiff, stilted or unnatural dialogue, especially if you're writing a romance because relationship-building is one of the most (possibly the most) vital aspects of the story, and dialogue is a huge component of that. Also that a little bit of research into what you're writing (example, you're not from the UK but James and Lily are, or you're writing one of them into a job that you're not familiar with) can go a long way towards establishing your own sense of comfort within the world you're inventing, and in bringing your readers into that world.

4. What do you think makes a good story?

For me, and to put it simply, stories are about people, and a good story is a story with characters that I can get a strong sense of and feel invested in. Obviously there's a lot more that goes into a good story, but just sayin', I can forgive a lot of plot nonsense if the characters are holding my attention.

5. What is the first book that made you cry?

I read Little Women when I was too young to fully understand it, and I vaguely remember having a cry when Beth came down with scarlet fever, then spending several months living in fear of getting it and dying because I had no comprehension of the fact that medical science has advanced pretty significantly since the 1860s.

6. Does writing energize or exhaust you?

Both in equal measure, depending on the day. Writing is fun, but it's still work, at the end of the day. After about sixteen years of doing this regularly I still haven't mastered giving myself permission to get up and walk away on the days that it does exhaust me, even though those are the days when I can only churn out about 100 words in three hours.

7. Have you ever gotten reader’s block? If so, what are your tips to overcome it?

I feel like I've had reader's block for about a decade, although it's less of a "block" for me, more "being so busy with work and my house and my kid and my partner and various health issues and the never-ending drama of my family that something had to go to keep me from mental burnout and that something was reading." I really miss curling up on the sofa with a good book, but there always seems to be something more pressing to do, so it rarely occurs to me. If anyone else has tips to overcome it, send them my way by all means, I'd be very grateful.

8. Do you think someone could be a writer if they don’t feel emotions strongly?

I think that anyone can be a writer if they have the desire and the will for it. How strongly you feel emotions has very little to do with how effectively you can communicate your observations and ideas, in fact I think it would be pretty gatekeepy of me to suggest otherwise.

9. If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?

Don't start so many new stories without finishing the ones you're already working on! You do not have limitless time!

10. What was your hardest scene to write?

It's difficult to pinpoint one, so I'll have to say all of chapter 3 of The Fight Before Christmas because I was about 5000 words into it when I decided to delete and rewrite the entire thing. That whole fic was so impossible to write that I'm still a bit amazed that I finished it in the first place.

11. What is your favorite childhood book?

Not a single book, but it's a dead tie between the Adrian Mole series and the Anne of Green Gables series, and honestly I think my love for both shows in my own writing.

12. How long on average does it take you to write a one shot or a chapter of a fic?

Anything between a couple of hours to several years, I am not a reliable updater. I'm on form maybe 15% of the time, so most of what you see me post is something that I rustled up very quickly after an exceptionally long dry spell.

13. A fic that inspires you?

The fact that you're asking me to name just one is cruel, so I'm naming two specific fics because both are examples of masterful storytelling. The first is @fetchalgernon ‘s The Art of Self Defence, which is an immensely complex story about forgiveness, family and what we owe to each other, but handled with Kristina's usual humour, and this uniquely beautiful brevity that I really adore about her writing. James starts that story in an unfavourable position that is entirely his fault, but he wins his way back into Lily's (and our) good favour by making genuine efforts to be a better person, which really speaks to Kristina's values, as well as her skill. The second fic is Elevator Love Song by @bcdaily which I was obviously going to name, not only because she wrote it as a gift for me but because it is a gorgeous self-contained story in which two people meet as strangers and end, mere hours later, so open to being honest and vulnerable with each other that they've already sidled into a healthy, communicative partnership, and at no point is it even a little bit hard to believe, nor is there ever a worry that their attachment to each other is based solely on physical attraction, because the relationship is so wonderfully established and developed.

14. How do you edit your work?

In the worst possible way, as I go, which hinders me greatly because I am compulsively going back and picking at what I've already written instead of writing anything new. I do not recommend it.

15. Where does inspiration come from?

The supermarket. I've had most of my best ideas in the supermarket. That's not me being facetious either, I genuinely have a lot of ideas while I'm strolling around there in search of avocados.

16. Who has been helpful for you as you write for the fandom?

Kristina ( @fetchalgernon ) was the first person I ever co-wrote fic with. We spent hundreds of hours practicing dialogue and aiming to make each other laugh, back in the day, and I look back on those times with so much fondness and warmth, because not only was it utterly essential in my own development as a writer, it was a whole lot of fun to improve my skills with one of my all-time favourite people. I started writing with my beloved @bcdaily years later and of course she is phenomenal and I was an admirer of hers for a literal decade before we became besties and I thrive under her influence, but she also empowered me to advocate for myself when faced with anons and reviewers that are entitled or unkind. Aside from that, my readers in general are so lovely and enthusiastic and generous, and some of the feedback I've gotten from certain readers who have turned to my fic during low points in their own lives have given me such a sense of purpose and accomplishment. This fandom is such a cosy, comforting part of my life, even though I don't have as much time to give to it as I did ten years ago.

17. What is your fav POV to write from?

James when they're teenagers, Lily if I'm writing them as adults.

18. What is a fic you would love to write but are worried you won’t be able to accomplish it/nervous it wouldn’t work out?

I have an idea for a soulmate AU (SO not my thing, I know) that involves parallel universes and certain amounts of tragedy, and in my head it plays out as a beautiful, romantic story, but it's also incredibly sad at points, so I don't think I'd actually have the will to carry it out because I don't like writing sad for too long.

19. Do you ever self insert in fics?

I post a lot of little tributes to friends in my fics, and I definitely draw inspiration from people I've known in my real life for the more unsavoury characters like Helena Hodge, or Lily's crappy co-worker Ed in An October of Unconventional Courtships, but I don't self-insert. I find that pretty weird. Every writer leaves a bit of themselves in their writing because it's impossible not to, for example, I'm pretty sure that some people who have read all of my fics could give you an accurate rundown of what my values are, but I've never inserted myself as a character. There are clearly defined differences between all of my characters and me.

20. What is the story you are proudest of?

I can't pick one! They're my babies! I'm proud of An October of Unconventional Courtships because I actually managed to write that beast in under a month and managed to talk a lot about unhealthy family dynamics in a way that resonated with people even though it's just a text fic. I'm proud of Careless Texter because, for me, it made me feel like I had properly returned to the fandom after a hiatus of idk how many years. I'm proud of Shelf Awareness because it was tough to write in places but I stuck with it and finished it, proud of Wherefore Art Thou because it's my favourite… honestly I could name a few others but I'll stop for the sake of my own ego.

21. Do you prefer writing canon jily or muggle au?

AU by miles. Hogwarts is super antiquated (even by 1970s standards) and canon is restrictive, even when I'm trying to write something completely mundane, like gifts, for example. Whenever I had to write something that involved a character getting a gift, I'd struggle for ages to think of something that wasn't Honeydukes chocolate, or whatever. Plus, that whole "devastating war that killed them far too young" thing really doesn't jibe with this light, happy, comedic world I'm trying to cultivate over here.

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts

#jilyinterview #writers interview #jily #authors interview #jilytober

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