#Story Tidbits

[mothtv]

Epoch Tidbits

note: I havent uploaded in a while, so here’s a first-edit tidbit of my book Epoch :)

“Tira, we need to talk.” Beckett kept his voice level. Tira was sitting in a red chair faced towards the window, reading a book. She turned her head and raised an eyebrow.

    “No ‘darling?’ Someone is in trouble,” She said in a less than enthusiastic voice, then motioned towards the chair next to her. Beckett took a deep breath and shook his head.

    “I will stay standing, thank you.” He said, clenching and unclenching his fists. Tira’s shoulders dropped slightly and she sat up straighter.

    “I see. I really have done something wrong, then.” She closed her book slowly and set it on the side table, then turned her attention back to Beckett. “You may continue.” Beckett nodded, shifting nervously.

    “I don’t like the experiments,” He said. 

    “I’m sorry?”

    “They make me uncomfortable. Those people are my friends, they’re your friends. It’s not right, no matter what way you look at it.”

    “Beckett, I thought we were leaving work business out of our relationship.”

    “This is more than work business, Tira, you’re scaring me. You’re hurting people.”

    “I’m doing nothing of the kind, my experiments are for the greater good-”

    “When have any of them worked?” Beckett interrupted her. Tira’s face changed, she wasn’t used to Beckett interrupting her. She shook her head and waved him off.

    “We’ll continue this conversation later.” She said, but Beckett shook his head.

    “We’ll continue this conversation now, Tira. I want you to stop the dangerous experiments. We’ll find a different way, remember your reanimator? We’ll make zombies or something-”

    “It’s not the same!” Tira slammed her hand on the glass side table, shattering it. Beckett took a few steps back, surprised. Tira didn’t seem to notice the table or her bleeding hand, and stood up from the chair. “It’s not the same as a sentient human. Besides, we have the Revive Machine. I always bring them back afterwards.”

    “Playing around with life and death is dangerous in of itself, one day that hunk of machinery is going to break.”

    “Are you questioning my creation?” Tira took a few steps toward Beckett, and he instinctively took a few steps back. A few drops of blood from Tira’s hand landed on the carpet and Beckett grimaced. That was an expensive carpet.

    “I’m not, my love,” He stuttered. “I’m just-”

    “Then you agree that I know what I’m doing?” Tira cut him off, still walking closer, and Beckett still backed up.

    “Yes, but-”

    “And you agree that I’ve been in this business far longer than you’ve known me.”

    “Well, yes-” He stepped through the door frame and out of the room. Tira stopped, grabbing the door.

    “Then we’re in agreement that you should leave these things to me, and you should stay in your library.” She sneered, and shut the door in his face.

#writing #Story tidbits #short story #creative writing #original fiction #fantasy writing

[fumifooms]

Omg guys he just genuinely likes bugs and mollusks and critters 😭💘💔 Forced to noble when he just wanna crouch and watch things skitter in the dirt…

#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #toshiro nakamoto #shuro #tfw you latch onto the first person you see that shares your interest #I’M SOBBINGGG #Yeah i didn’t know the hag monster tidbit existed so now I’m adding stuff into my masterpost #6 yo toshiro watching a snail and tuning out his nanny calling for him I’m screaming #This post is blowing up so: just for your information I made a masterpost on his whole family situation we do get a lot of info on him #His character goes quite deep it’s just not relevant to the wider story so Kui doesn’t go into details in the plot #So yeah look for that on my blog if you want. Also he likes flowers <3 #Nature lover toshiro

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

#content warnings for sex violence self harm and general angst #six chapters 41K words #people who have asked for longer stories of these two please give this one a look #I've watched this unfold since late may? early july? and it's been an exciting experience #I'm not a writer I think it's better than what I could've come up with #honestly though the way he managed to get inside Machete's and Vasco's heads was uncanny their mannerisms and thought processes are spot on #some of the events aren't canon but they might as well be #and most of the background details and backstory tidbits are accurate believe me he's very well versed on their lore #big history nerd so the worldbuilding is intense #you get to meet the dog pope #there's saint sebastian #roommate hijinks #it gets kind of bleak at times though so be mindful of that #it's not all fluff and good feelings #Separation #Heinaven #RoobrickMarine #own characters #own art #artists on tumblr #CanisAlbus #Vasco #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #if you end up reading the whole thing it would be really sweet if you left a little comment as a thanks for his hard work

[whinniebee]

Doing story planning and backstory development for some characters and realized how many of them are driven by a misguided and unreciprocated love for a parent… hm. Hmmmm.

#literally was developing one and paused like ‘huh. this is a pattern SLEIFJDJD not going to look any deeper into THAT tonight’ #wb #story tidbits

[post-it-notes7]

So… does Mir Authur know about the whole entire Mir Falspar passing out situation ?

He's heard.

#post's rambles #mir arthur #mir nonsurat #mir falspar #galaxy soldier army #post's doodle bin #I may have quite possibly intended to reveal this little tidbit to the story a month ago and then put it off for a million years #but here it is now! #and I am once again experimenting with comics as if I have any clue what's going on #my desire to make every mirrorverse comic in color is constantly at war with my desire to actually color them #this was a fun one

[9rumb0-burner-account2]

Grumbo Week - Day Six: AU

Week event held by @grumboweek

(Context: years ago there is a discussion of Soul Eater AU and I suggested Mumbo to be a flintlock firearm type weapon... and now its the chance to try it out :P)

#design tidbit 1: although being a classy Baker Rifle mumbo's function is very futuristic. auto-aiming and stuff #design tidbit 2: in this au mumbo gave one of his gloves to grian as a part of the weapon and for better resonate #I hope I haven't forgot much from the comic itself soul eater's story setting have so much to explore 🥹 #grumboweek #daysixprompt #hermitshipping #grumbo #90 draws

[goldendragonleaf]

"The pain of regret is far worse than the pain of discipline." ~Nathan Whitley

After like 5 days straight working on this I AM FINALLY DONE! My god was this fun to do. I think I included everybody but if I missed your oc I apologize I could not find the ref of your oc. I also tried to make the ocs dynamic with like, interactions and whatnot based on what I knew about their character so if I made em out of character I'm so sorry aosdfh I also uh, was gonna mention everyone underneath a cut but tumblr said no so the reblog is coming in like 2 seconds @kirbyoctournament (edit I forgot beamee sobbing in the corner rn)

#kirby #art #kirby art #oc #kirby oc #oc art #kirby oc art #story #angst #kirby oc tournament #loga #logama jeviti rihafo #lore #just a tidbit of it :) #I was gonna tag all the ocs but there are too many oop #so instead have #morpho knight #:) #land of paradise

[treasurechestsubs]

Author Notes from C151-C200 from 2HA Novel English Translated

Hello everyone~ ^v^

2HA Novel C151-C100 Author Notes are now available~

Please read them  >> Here (viewable and downloadable) <<

For easy viewing, here are the links to the author notes for >> C001-050 << >> C051-C100 << >> C101-C150 <<

Happy reading~:D

#2ha #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #the husky and his white cat shizun #novel #author notes #fan translation #english translated #meatbun doesn't eat meat #pure love #mini-theatres #2ha story tidbits #treasure chest subs

[cold-neon-ocean]

As for why Wolf has purple eyes (in case anyone was wondering lol), his eyes actually used to be brown when he was younger, but he was experimented on and and augmented to adjust to living in space- including his eyes, so that's why they're purple bc they're cybernetics

#Orca #Killer Whale #Ocean #Space #Orca OC #Orcafolk #[ I realized I never explained why he has purple eyes outside of discord lolol #or really talked much about him XDD #ngl there are reasons I'm apprehensive to talk more about his backstory outside of just vague tidbits laksdfg #but he originally came from a small coastal orcafolk community where he lived with his family #then was captured by aliens (idk who yet) and experimented on so now he lives in space #that's the long and short of it lol! #purple is definitely not a natural eye color for Orcafolk but I realized no one would have known that XD #well now you know!! #I would like to talk about him more I just don't want people to be pulling things from his story that aren't meant to be there sobs ] #Neon Ocean Art

[fishareglorious]

Huh, Arcana greets Vertin in Esperanto once she finally gives in and joins the Manus.

Which remains interesting to me, considering Esperanto is an auxilliary language instead of a dialect.

#arcana #vertin #reverse 1999 #certified storm moments #for anyone who speaks esperanto please feel free to correct or clarify anything though #am i becoming a lore guy? i don't think so im just transcribing the story and picking up new details that's why lmao #there's something about this little tidbit but i am not smart enough to pick through it #oh god. next chapter that need to be trascribed is green oranges. i don't want to go through the orange scene again orz orz

[un-pearable]

darkly funny to me that lloyd “father issues” garmadon is the one who introduced jay to starfarer

#text✨ #ninjago #having fic ideas…. #i am a comic collector (bad hobby to pick up but very fun and intoxicating). have a story idea of jay and lloyd working together to #collect all of the OG starfarer run and they never fully do (are Children) (older comics are expensive) (starfarer as fictional x-men and #the OG run starting with the equivalent of giant-size x-men no.1 that is STUPID expensive and one of the most valuable comics ever) #and then years later after they’ve both had to grow up more. years later during like. the year long gap or smthn they jokingly start doing #it again. half their original collection is lost or damaged from various times they had to move or the bounty was destroyed but they have #a good start. lloyd’s finding other comic shops in ninjago city while jay finds them occasionally out in the smaller cities #and they find The issue. the big one. when jay remembers that itty little tidbit about the other person in his life that cared about starfar #yeah that’s right obligatory reveal angst baby. i am nothing if not consistent >:]

[theosconfessions]

@ohsosims

if youd like to read the stephens from the beginning you can do so over here :)

if youd like to read the stephens continued you can do so over here :)

dustin- you have fun last night? theo- well good morning to you too, sugartits dustin- theo..[smirks] stop calling me that. theo- why would i stop if you secretly love that shit. youre mad because i went out last night. but you can rest assured that it was lame as shit. scarlett found me. dustin- she told me theo- and youre not mad? dustin- im mad, yeah . but not at that . thats just..[shrugs] something id hope we'd chill out on but theo- but thats not why youre mad? then whats up babe? tell daddy. dustin-[shakes head smirking] its annoying because you could do the shittiest thing and then you say some dumb shit and its cute. theo- im adorable dustin- mm most days. theo- then whats different today? dustin- you forgot your phone last night... theo- okay? im old . still not used to having a cell phone,man. ill try and be better. dustin- luke was texting you.

#the stephens continued #the stephens #theo kline #dustin stephens #little tidbits to what happened in the time jump here #dustins all but given up on theos bar habit #he has to have a vice i guess #the sims 4 #ts4 #the sims #simblr #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 #ts4 stories

[speciouspessimism]

around the ages of 3-5 i threw repeat tantrums where i sobbed about wanting to go home while in the house and my mom would tell me that we were at home but i would say “no my real home” i don’t know what that was about but i guess our problems never really change

#for context #i lived in the same house with the same people until i was 10 yrs old #my parents have told me this as a #‘creepy thing you did’ story #there are a lot of these #i was so badly tormented when i was younger #with no reason #anyways #longing #home #belonging #txt #tidbits

[pepperpixel]

Some new art of a very very old oc of mine! From like, when I was an 8th grader in middle school to freshman in high school I think, I haven’t thought about this character or the world she’s from in like… years, but my brain suddenly remembered she existed! And so I drew some art of her!

Visually, she’s absolutely mostly the result of my child self sticking Toko Fukawa from Danganronpa and Peacock from Skullgirls in a blender and lettin it fuckin rip. Personality wise she’s a bit different tho… she’s into politics! As in,,, she’s in politics ghgh, she’s like the chief of the surveillance department for the country of (mostly) witches that the story takes place in. And one of the advisors to the head ruler witch,,, she sucks! Hardcore! she’s def a villain lol

#I made 2 videos for this story and she’s in 1 of them #the idgaf video. at the 30 second mark #but. even tho I specifically remember when I first designed her she had the eyeball braids! #or at least eyeball buns #16 year old me got rid of em!!! for no good reason! #they were fun and cool and fitting for her role and character!!! what the hell 16 year old me! #original #original art #original characters #my ocs #artists on tumblr #eyes #doodles #the other video from this story I made is the something’s not right meme lol #the difference in tone is fucking tremendous #that one tho is more… a lore tidbit… like… it’s background on a phenomena of the setting… #as a middle schooler I did not give a shit about major or minor or background characters tho. or even actually telling a cohesive story? #like. I started w a few characters. and then. went on to characters they were connected too. and then characters they were connected too #and then on an on and on it was just a web of vaguely interconnected dudes in a vaguely interconnected world #no. real narrative lol. but I had fun w it! it was cool. I wish I still had my sketchbooks w the stuff I made for it #I feel like it’d be a fun thing to look back on… sadly fire took them… damn u fire ghg #* ​shakes first at past horrible traumatic experience * #anyway yeah! enjoy art of evil eyeball lady w no name lmao #*fist not first… spellings hard #partial nudity #in the second pic. but also u can’t rlly see anything so. I think it’s fine? #I’ll still tag just in case tho

[lazywriter-artist]

Tell us the love story behind Archmagos Mantis and Crab Logis. I crave this knowledge

Oooohh hhehehe

They adamantly will deny being in love while cuddling smh smh

But no their love story is pretty silly (and still in its rougher stages of drafting as well but I can share what I have thus far) they had met before really gaining their respective titles (ArchMagos & Logis) as techpreists, finding a strange spark with each other that they were certain wasn’t just static electrical shocks from their currently still remaining flesh (they tested) and found themselves spending long hours together to study and help one another with their work. Sharing philosophy and praying to the omnissiah together 🫶

Eventually they started to explore a bit further their bond, cuddling becoming something of their favorite as they studied together. It was a bit devastating when they slowly saw one another less and less to the point both felt empty without the other (lots more testing to be sure it wasn’t an oil deficiency trust me-), and their work became harder to fulfill. Though, the Omnissiah still needed them, so they pushed on. Of course, by will of the Omnissiah (rejoice) they ended up being paired together for an assignment and before you knew it their time was eaten up nice more working together.

of course one can’t deny results and boy did theirs sky rocket so they were permitted to remain paired together, their work all the better for it, and over time they just got more and more inseparable. You get a double deal when you request to see one- and god forbid you threaten one bc the other will be over you with binary death threats so fast.

All and all,

Pretty sure they’ll explode if you do—

#is this lore accurate? probably not. do I care? not particularly #they’re my silly gay robots let me live #theyre both ace too— not as important to their love story in particular but :3 #some lore tidbit #though somewhat important to their love story is they’re both awkward as hell about showing affection when others are around. so a lot #of cuddles are saved for when they have down time #warhammer 40k #wh40k #wh40k oc #admech #adeptus mechanicus #log & explr #lazy text #lazy answers #lazy’s ocs

[goombasinastack]

splatoon 3 hot take turned impromptu essay

was stuck offline in splatoon 3 because internet was actin up and i realized how pretty the photomode splatoon 3 filters are compared to the actual game

i was taking photos on brinewater and thought. damn. this game looks fine but i miss how VIBRANT splatoon 1 was! i wish i could play sploon 3 with this photomode filter on all the time. and brinewater is the best map for this because of the sunset lighting! so i went to one of the worst offenders mapwise for general color—undertow spillway. it is a warm gray mess:

for someplace underground, it’s WAY too warm of a tone—even if there are skylights, they aren’t very well defined, as they’re off in the background—they’d be better with some light shafts to pop out more, imo.

so here’s undertow with photomode filter #6 (this would’ve been a video but tumblr limits to 1 video per post):

and i think this looks a lot nicer, colorwise! the icky warm gray is shifted to a soft pink—and while that’s still not in keeping with the lack of obvious skylights, it works better than warm gray.

so then i opened ibis x paint and got to work on a filter that would hopefully help elevate the entire game’s look:

on top is photomode filter #6, in the middle is the original screenshot, and on the bottom is my proposed filter.

i upped the contrast, brightness, and saturation a bit, then added a 5% pure magenta (#FF00FF) overlay layer on top of that. then i added a slight gaussian blur to emulate antialiasing, which nintendo refuses to do for some reason!

and i wanna play splatoon like that! i miss the vibrancy and intricacy of splatoon 1…

incoming splatoon 1 essay‼️

not only were the colors eye-bleachingly bright, but the overall game feel was much more immersive—especially in ink physics. you could paint trees, and the ink would drip down through leaves as if it were rain… ink splatter would respond to the movements of platforms, keeping its intertia as it dripped! you could see the textures of surfaces through the ink, as if it were an actual liquid instead of a layer of thick oil. 3 doesn’t have any of those special touches.

there’s also the music… 1’s ost feels so much more WEIRD and experimental than the later games, and that really helps cement that this is not human society—this is a new thing—which tracks for splatoon 1, as it was so zany nobody had ever seen anything quite like it before! splatoon 2 follows this sheer melting-pot of brashness and creativity with evolving and varied styles—where once was punk and weird samples in Squid Squad is now groovy rock in Wet Floor, jazz in Ink Theory, and also whatever Sashi-Mori was. also i <3 chirpy chips. splatoon 3’s music goes back to that punk, but i feel that it loses some of the charm and creativity of the first two games. C-side is pure metal, and hardly uses any weird instruments. there have sparsely been other splatbands involved with regular battle music—Yoko&tgb call back to the jazz of Ink Theory which i love! Off the Hook’s new tracks delve into a new style in piano rock. but the main band kind of falls flat to me. :(

let’s talk stages. in splatoon 1, stages were wildly different from each other, including skateparks, construction sites, underpasses, malls, sewage plants, and other locals that are culturally underground. the rest of the trilogy moves away from this in a story standpoint, as ink battles evolve from punky, diy competitions into full-fledged championships in 2 and 3, with advancing battle infrastructure as time progresses. that’s fine, and honestly it’s cool to see that kind of worldbuilding! but in 1, each stage was designed about and influenced by the area it represented. Arowana Mall is a straight line with high vantage points on the second/third story because it’s a mall. Pirahna Pit features convenyor belts that shuffle refuse around because it’s a trash plant. Blackbelly Skatepark has so many hills and valleys because it’s a skatepark, for goodness sake. splatoon 3’s original stages have some of this charm, but it feels lost in ambiguity. why doesn’t Mincemeat Metalworks have small moving platforms on cranes or other heavy machinery? Idk, have some grates and one-way drops, and a car on a post. why isn’t there any water incorporated into the stage design of Brinewater Springs? Idk, have 2 paintable walls and a tetris piece. 3’s original stages have little to no connection between their locals and the geometry, which make it feel same-y compared to previous games.

maybe this is because of the inflexible philosophy of the designers—or their corporate oversight, maybe. for stages, you need to make a straight line or tetris piece with few routes to push, in an effort to promote the game’s main premise of Chaos. for music, you need to make punk songs that aren’t too weird so they don’t drive away the parents. maybe the little ink touches could have been missing because development was rushed?

i honestly dont know why it happened out this way—perhaps the splatoon team just needed more time to cook, in order to squeeze out that extra 20% of game feel? or maybe it was that speculated corporate oversight, i dunno. things WERE missing on launch—notable exceptions being X rank, online tableturf lobbies, and no more than three salmon run maps. i know we’ve yet to even get the DLC but for being about 75% of the way through the game’s content lifespan, but splatoon 3 feels incomplete. there have been improvements, yeah! i just wish there could’ve been more. i would rather have waited another year for splatoon 3 if it were polished that much better, y’know?

i honestly feel like splatoon 1 captured that creative, no-holds-barred mantle of Chaos better than 3 does. 3 feels… flanderized, in a way. the curse of trilogies, perhaps? writing about it more, it feels like not only have the in-game sports of turf war been ripped out of its seedy home and thrust into the spotlight, and gone “mainstream” (see: massive squidsport companies investing in multimillion battle lobbies with holograms and lockers [sunken scroll about that!], flying coffee machines that grant you brief invincibility, new rules and techniques that allow squid surges and rolls, etc.), but also the Real Life Physical Video Game Cartridge of Splatoon has been popularized massively with the sequels on the Switch. maybe i’m not missing the “vibrancy” of splatoon 1 when i look at the colors and photomode filters of splatoon 3, but instead the inherent punkiness and counterculture inspiration that i see in the original.

fuck capitalism, i guess!

#splatoon 3 #long post #i did not think i’d be writing an essay tonight #on SPLATOON no less. i feel like im on storming the ivory tower #thats a good blog site btw i love their stuff #but anyways... i was like 12 or 13 when i first got splatoon 1 #i was an orange n-zap/carbon roller (i forget which kit) main #i never played any of the splatfests but i imagine they were really fun! #my internet connection in the basement was never really that good so i never played much.... i never finished story mode until years later #this also means that i'm probably misremembering specific splatoon 1 tidbits. let me know if i messed anything up? or whatever you think lo #it's 2:11 am and i need to wake up early lmao #goodnight and thanks for reading