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snowviolettwhite · 2 months

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Inspiration Saturday

Tagged By The Lovely: @anewkindofme

Trying to catch up on The Rookie. So I can write my omega!Tim x alpha!Lucy fan-fiction. Basically my idea is Tim has not had his heat in over a year since Isabel his wife and alpha left him and they have not renewed their bond. Being in close proximity all day and training Lucy who is an alpha triggers his heat. It starts when they are on patrol. He is obviously in denial about it and there is nesting and cuteness and concerned Lucy and blushing cuddly Tim. There are not enough alpha!female and omega!male fan-fictions. I make the brooding tall characters omegas while making the tiny ray of sunshine characters alphas.

Trying to finish Suits so I can really get into my omegaverse fan-fiction where Harvey is an omega pretending to be an alpha and eventually something happens revealing that he is an omega. I see if there is a better way to start the story. I have been complicating whether I want it to be omega!Harvey/alpha!Donna or alpha!Donna/omega!Harvey/alpha!Mike. Because you can not convince me that Harvey is not bisexual and in love with both Donna and Mike. If you want let me know what you think about that. I love a good best friends to lovers troupe. I might complete change the first chapter.

Harvey Specter is an omega. He has been pretending to be an alpha to be taken seriously since working in the mail-room by taking illegal suppressants and scent blockers and not being sexually intimate with his colleagues and peers. But suppressing his true natural and side effects of the drugs start catching up with him. He is having parental protective feelings towards his new associate Mike and is catching feels for his tough as stones alpha assistant Donna.

Tagging But No Pressure @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad @lochnesswriter @kingofdarkness00 @rvspecter @staybeautifulmp3

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saintshigaraki · 7 months

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bf tomura once again on the mind

#also . also. alpha tomura but do i dare open up that a/b/o can of worms on this beautiful Saturday night #a/b/o tw #vicspeaks

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dirt-piper · 4 months

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Removing a Block.

From NSSS, to be specific.

Previously, most of the delays and pauses in NSSS's development were caused by other responsibilities - college, work, health, etc.

However, while these things are still contributing somewhat to NSSS's slow development pace, there is a new (and pernicious) factor that has been preventing me from so much as opening eclipse to work on the game.

Writer's block.

For the longest time I didn't even know why I had it, or even that I had it. I would keep opening eclipse, loading up some class file that I knew needed tweaking, and just... stare. I knew, essentially, what I needed to do. I knew how I would do it. But, for some reason, I just didn't do it. After a while I couldn't even get to the point of opening eclipse anymore. I attributed this to general busy-ness - I volunteer a lot of man-hours to a computer history museum, and this eats up quite a bit of my free time.

But then, when I took breaks from the volunteer work, and had all the time I needed to dig in to NSSS, I still just... couldn't.

What made this most frustrating was that NSSS still constantly occupied my thoughts - what I'd change, what I'd add, how this should look, how that should sound, how the launcher should work, what will be in the update after the update after next - all the time. My head was constantly bursting with ideas, but I just couldn't find the motivation to actually make them materialize.

Maybe it was because 1.1.12 was in feature freeze, and I was still banging my head against the cloud logic... but that didn't explain nearly enough.

Anyways, a user who had been playing NSSS since it was barely even 6 months old had reached out to me several months ago about possibly making some original music for the game. We chatted a bit about the general feel/tone/instrumentation said music should have, and then parted ways. This was about 10 months ago.

Well, last week they shot me a DM with one of the tracks they had been working on. NSSS was at the very bottom of my mind that day, but I decided to listen to it anyways.

The song was perfect. It was melancholy, soothing, and exciting, it sounded just like "minecraft alpha", it felt familiar and yet brand new, and it was exactly what I felt NSSS should have. And, as I wrote out my full thoughts to them as feedback (I'll spare you the full 10 paragraphs I wrote), it finally clicked for me why I wanted to make NSSS in the first place.

Previously, I always thought I had wanted to make NSSS because I wanted to fulfill my childhood fantasies, or to make a better minecraft than minecraft, or to polish the game as it was in 2010 and move it in a different direction.

But these are all closer to whats than whys.

Imagine returning to your family home and walking into your room and seeing it, not the way you left it, but exactly as it was when you were in elementary school, and there are toys strewn about the floor that you didn't even remember you had until that instant when you saw them again, and everything that was going through your mind, every tiny short-term memory that was in your head that day - what you ate for lunch, what you had to do at school the next day, what time Spongebob was gonna be on - are all just dumped right into the front of your conscious mind as if they'd never left.

But you're an adult. You're a different person. You can look at these things with a different perspective, see things that kid you never possibly could have. And that's never happened before. Like you've been handed a key to your own memories and told "go wild."

The past has been made brand new again. These aren't just dusty old memories that bounce around in your head, slowly getting distorted and thinned out over time. It's the very context that made those memories in the first place, and you're free to keep going from there, knowing what you know now, being the person that you are now.

This, above everything else, is what I have always wanted from NSSS. It's the mentality that has driven me to be so interested in history, period - it's why I volunteer at the museum, it's why I spent nearly a decade of my life archiving media from a certain other block game, and it's why I insist on using antiquated, obsolete tech for what it was intended for, rather than just letting it sit on a shelf looking pretty. I want to make the past brand new again.

After all, 'the past' is just a funny name we use to refer to the parts of the present that have already happened. There's no reason why it can't happen all over again.

To some extent, this is not an uncommon view - the term 'Nostalgia' exists for a reason. But 'Nostalgia', in my opinion, has the connotation of a biased, selective view of the past. It cherry-picks bits and pieces, either because they were remembered more positively, or because they are cheaper or easier to reproduce. A P.T. Cruiser may have 'vintage-y' styling, but it does not make the past brand new - it's too distorted and half-assed.

A few weeks ago I was hanging out with some friends when someone pointed out that Good Burger had gotten a sequel. I had never seen the original before, so we all watched it. Despite having never seen the film, everything about it - the set design, the acting, the fashion, the soundtrack - were extremely familiar to me, as though I had seen it a hundred thousand times before, but it was still brand new to me. And I enjoyed it! It was a goofy, somewhat contrived 90's movie with an only-somewhat-leaky plot and memorable characters.

Then, immediately after, we watched Good Burger 2 and I felt almost nothing. Part of that was because I frankly thought the film kinda sucked - the lessons Dexter learnt in the first film having been ultimately forgotten served to detract from his original character arc, for one - but the original movie was no paragon of writing either, so why did it get such a free pass from me?

Good Burger, despite my never having seen it before, managed to still seem familiar to me because, as a movie made in 1997, it had all the key qualities to slot right in as a movie I plausibly could have watched hundreds of times as a child. Good Burger 2, though clearly intended to capitalize on the 'nostalgia' that other people my age would have had for the original, completely missed the ball in that regard. It was no longer familiar, and thus, every other flaw in the writing, plot, etc. no longer got a free pass from me. It was no longer a 1997 movie with a 1997 movie's plot, it was a 2022 movie with half of a 1997 movie's plot and half of a 2022 movie's plot - it was half-assed. It, like a P.T. Cruiser, couldn't decide whether to be from the past or from the present and ended up in a weird, uncanny worst-of-both-worlds.

I've always been keen to be true to the historical context of whatever historic artifact I'm using - whether it be a typewriter, SGI workstation, palm pilot, or, in NSSS's case, an indie game from 2010 written in Java. It's why I develop NSSS using period tools and constraints - I use an old version of eclipse, maintain strict compliance with Java 5 (which came out in 2004), optimize the game for hardware that is now 20+ years old, built the entire website in .jsp, modeled the wiki after minepedia as it was in September of 2010, etc.

Because I'm not just doing this all to nostalgia-trip, I'm doing this to drag the past back into the present for us all to experience again. It's not going to be exactly as it was in 2010 - I do still want NSSS to be its own thing beyond just minecraft alpha 1.1.2_01 with bugfixes and QoL improvements - but it will be both familiar and new. It will have been made exactly as it would (and could) have been made back in 2010. And you can sit down and play it, and feel just as you did 14 years ago, not just in that you're playing the game as it was back then, but that you're playing a new game just as it was new back then.

As I put it in the discord server last year:

"I want to see someone who first played minecraft 13 years ago, back when they were young and wide-eyed and had never seen a game like it before, someone who got addicted and spent a solid week doing nothing but eat sleep & play, someone who almost pissed themself with fear the first time they got eviscerated by a creeper, someone who woke up their parents in the middle of the night shouting with glee when they found their first diamond, someone who fell in love with the game as it was then and stuck with it as it grew with them, changing and evolving and morphing just as they did, through beta and release and their highschool graduation and their first car and the combat update and the nether update and their first apartment when they finally let minecraft sit dormant on their PC for over a year, when they just lost the last remnants of the spark they had, and they don't even care enough to know why they fell out of love -

I want that person to play NSSS, shake off the cobwebs in their brain as they try to pull out the memories that have become faded and warped with time, just enough that they've forgotten just what this game did to them when they were younger, just enough that they expect the same old experience that they've grown more and more unenthused about over the years -

And I want them to get eviscerated by a creeper for the first time in 8 years and fucking shit their pants."

-DirtPiper

#minecraft #minecraft alpha #nsss #not so seecret saturday #nostalgia #good burger 2 #minecraft nsss #what do tags even do anyways

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the-sartorial-journey · 1 year

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Saturday Casual

Gabucci...

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emjiroki · 1 year

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Sneak Peek Saturday

This week I decided to do a little of my insert piece for my Yakuza series! I've missed Alpha Enji ALOT

You awoke to a warm hand against your back, your body instantly stiffening as you slowly turned your head to look behind you. You weren’t sure what you had been expecting but it certainly wasn’t Enji curled up on the floor next to you, face half buried in his pillow, and his right arm extended out towards you. He had obviously tried to keep some distance but it didn’t seem to be working. Goosebumps broke across your skin at the feeling of his warm hand against your back through the thin cloth of your t-shirt. You couldn’t help the heat pooling in your gut as he grunted in his sleep, hand curling around your side in an attempt to pull you closer. Maybe you should have restrained yourself a bit more as you arched into his touch and scooted a bit closer, allowing him to tug you into his chest, but you had little to regret at the feeling of his throbbing cock pressing up against your panties that were getting wetter by the minute. You relaxed in his hold for a minute, listening to the soft sounds of his breathing and the comforting warmth of his body heat until he shifted in his sleep and lightly thrust his hips up against you. His grip tightened against your side as a moan accidentally escaped, your cheeks burning like open flames at the responding growl rumbling from his chest.

#alpha enji x omega reader #alpha enji todoroki smut #enji todoroki #enji todoroki thirsts ‼️#emji 💕#sneak peek saturday #em talks 👄#scheduled post

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kingdom-dance · 6 months

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There’s such a build up to the Chase FWB route rn in-game that on the surface Niamh is gonna be 🫣🙊 when she’s propositioned, but really she put perfume on her ankles just hours before

#shepherds of haven #Niamh Valendil #chase knows what he’s doing with the anticipatory factor in all this #one thousand percent it’s so intentional #because too soon and she would not have agreed so well played #but also they haven’t slept together yet and by hangout 3 she’s already beginning to develop real feelings for him so I’m a win is a win ig #also while Niamh is not ace she kind of turned off that desire center in her brain bc her trust issues surrounding intimacy so like #talk about ‘I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me😳’#sorry for the weird OC fucking rant I’m unhinged on a Saturday afternoon in November #I so sometimes forget that while Niamh isn’t exactly a season veteran in the sexy dept she also knows what she’s doing #but like also don’t get it twisted she’s aNXIETY personified in that before moment she ain’t thaT slick #shoh alpha build spoilers kinda?

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puppeteered-poetry · 2 years

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Wait, we can sent requests? If so then can we have a drawing of you? I just think you are neat

what do you wanna kiss me or something anon? here you go. Mmmme.

#Creative Endeavors.#Autobiographical.#It's saturday I'm chilling SLOPPY STYLE #the author #the author markiplier #I stole Alpha's old shirt <3

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college-girls-blog · 10 months

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Savannah Saturday, Ashleigh Ferrara & Jordan Peterson

University of Alabama (UA)

Zeta Tau Alpha

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twistedwit · 2 years

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“Every night I go to sleep knowing that I gave everything that I had to give.”

@spynorth liked for a lyric starter

#spynorth #~ v. subject alpha ~#<33 #beebo never lets me down #say amen (saturday night)

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dirt-piper · 13 days

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Just Around the Corner...

I've been waiting to say this for a very, very long time:

1.1.12 is almost here.

...Kinda. It's nearly ready for playtesting. I've got one last feature to smooth over and then it'll go out to the testers for feedback. Once the testers are happy with it (and I'm happy with what the testers are happy with), then we'll test multiplayer for a bit - and then it's time for full release.

It's been a looooooong time since NSSS last got a major update - September of 2021, to be exact. Sure, there have been tweaks and patches since then, but even then it's been over a year since 1.1.11_111-1. NSSS has been at version 1.1.11 for three years now - about half as long as NSSS has existed, period.

I'd like to think of 1.1.12 as the beginning of a return to form - wayyy back when NSSS first started, Vulpovile and I were releasing updates once every two weeks. I doubt I can maintain that pace, but at the very least I can avoid any more multi-year update droughts.

I've already got ideas lined up for 1.1.13, 1.1.14, 1.1.15, etc... - many of which I've been daydreaming about for years! I really want to finally sit down and work on these ideas, and make them reality once and for all.

There's a couple other things I'm hoping to polish up. First off - the website. I put it up a few months ago but it's been sitting semi-finished for a while now. The other day I finally dug up my FTP login credentials to actually upload the NSSS multimc instance and server jar there so I could fix the broken download links in the original forum post. Sorry for letting them sit broken for so long - I was very busy with IRL work. I'm going to be fleshing the website out a bit more soon - maybe I'll even get the in-browser applet working!

The launcher is also getting renewed attention. I figured out Oauth a while ago (so you can actually log in to microsoft accounts with it - yippee!) but was struggling to deal with https connections in older versions of Java. I think I've figured out a solution that's workable, so the launcher should finally be ready soon - here's hoping!

Lastly, the forums. Yes, there are official NSSS forums - but the URL has been somewhat hidden for a while now. I've been having trouble getting the phpBB theming to look the way I like it - if anyone has any experience with phpBB themes, please reach out! The increasing futility of trying to present information on discord has made it clear to me that it's for the best if most NSSS-related discussion were to happen on an actual public-facing website rather than a glorified IRC chatroom. The discord will still exist - but it will no longer be forced to do the triple-duty of "information repository", "public forum", and "community chat".

Let's see how much of this I can get done before 2030...

-DirtPiper

#not so seecret saturday #minecraft #minecraft alpha #nsss #1.1.12 #nsss 1.1.12

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