#and the logo is based off of the actual now that’s what I call music

[mikeystrawberry]

It’s here!! A playlist compiling every song reference made in the main campaign, with a playlist cover illustrated by yours truly

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads fanart #dndads s1 #dndads glenn close #the only song missing is the Kidz Bop version is WAP which will be added once it’s available on here #the title is in reference to the book they checked out from the Library back in episode 6 #and the logo is based off of the actual now that’s what I call music #specifically album 9 #also if there’s somehow a song missing PLEASE tell me #there was already three that I caught after finishing my full relisten so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s one or two more I didn’t catch

[kawaoneechan]

Why I don't like Unity

There's three reasons, basically, besides my personal inability to get any custom character assets into Unity, Unreal, or Godot.

Let me tell you below the readmore.

Reason #1: it managed to fucking bluescreen my system just trying to start.

How do you fuck that up? I download an installer and run it. This gives me a launcher. From there, I'm supposed to install the actual product I wanted to begin with. That's bad enough, to be honest. But then the fucking launcher managed to break so badly, I had my first BSOD in several months. With all I do to my poor laptops, I so very rarely got crashes like that it honestly threw me the fuck off.

If the launcher is gonna play like that, forget about installing the actual product.

Reason #2: CPU pegging up the ass.

On my previous laptop, attempting to run basically any Unity-based game would peg the CPU, all cores, until the poor thing ran so hot within mere minutes, it'd commit preventative sudoku. Maybe if I was lucky, I'd get a chance to set all the things to "lowest", and that might let me, I dunno, play long enough to get through the goddamn tutorial?

And I'm not even talking about state-of-the-art 3D games, but simple 2D games with low-resolution pixel art. Why would those run a dual-core at 200% until it fucking kills itself? Makes no sense.

Now, Phil Fortier of Icefall Games is an acquaintance of mine via SCI shenanigans, and when he released Snow Spirit (soon to be rereleased as part of Chronicles of Cascadia), I lamented to him about how his use of Unity would mean I couldn't run any of his stuff. So Phil looked into it and found a Big Fucking Thing to optimize. This basically makes Phil's SCI games the only things made in Unity that I can personally trust won't Do That.

Reason #3: About those 2D games...

I'm gonna dip into my Twitter archives for a bit and repost some stuff for this part.

*wavy flashback effect*

This is Angel Jump, a simple little arcade jumping game that's available on itch.io:

It's delightfully low resolution and has like four seconds of audio all added up. Can't be more than a few MB, depending on which sane development framework they used, right?

33 MB, actually. Because Unity. Let's see how it breaks down:

Unity main exe: 623 KB

Main game assets file: 1.19 MB together

A folder full of support DLLs like terrain and cloth: 7.17 MB, 90% or more of them never called because this is a 2D pixel-art game.

Unity's default resources: 3.41 MB. Mind that of these, only the splash logo is actually used because Angel Jump was made in the free edition.

Mono embedded runtime: 2.61 MB, and each game gets its own copy, much like how Electron apps each have their own copies of Chromium.

And another 17 MB for the Unity Player.

All in all, 33 MB of files for a game like that. Why? Because Unity is a bloated crapsack, I'd conclude from a cursory study like that. Let's compare that to some other games.

This is Elevator Girl, which is not on itch.io.

It has a lot of different animations and three fairly long background music tracks. It's only one file, 18.7 MB. I'm willing to bet most of that is the BGM, but I can't confirm it because it's just the one file.

And just for some historical perspective, the entire Crystal Caves trilogy is 1.31 MB, including some chaff. Commander Keen 4 on its own is 740 KB. Now, Keen and Elevator Girl both have OPL soundtracks, but the latter's is probably streamed.

Noxico is only 1.25 MB to download as a .7z file. Its only optimization that I myself actively apply is that I crunch the PNG files. The rest is text, and since the game uses a .zip file by another name as a game data source... yeah. That's a cheap win.

Now, back to Angel Jump. I went through the game's own resources to see what size it could conceivably have if it was not made in Unity. 54 textures, ten of them actually used. Tiny font stored in a weird way, possibly for distance field trickery which has no business in a 2D pixel game if you ask me. 921 KB of WAV files, high-quality bleepity-bloops, two of them jingles. 4.22 KB of PNG files, crunched like Noxico, for all but the creator's logo and the font. 973 KB for a copy of SDL, and I'd estimate at worst two MB for the main EXE.

The entire Angel Jump game could be no more than 4 MB and a half-dozen files, It's actually 33.2 MB, 92 files.

There's a more general computer programming issue that this reliance on Unity for even the simplest, smallest games seems to spring from: the bigger and better the computers get, the more lazy the developers get. Only have like four MHz, 640 KB of RAM and, what, 720 KB of diskette space, and no guarantee of an HDD? Better make the most of it, developers! But now the pressure's off and there's no more reason to exert any effort into keeping small games actually small.

*sigh*

#unity #rant #twitter

[5sosfanfictioncatalogue]

Bisexual!Michael Masterlist

but then i hear u calling (there u are) (ao3) - orphan_account michael/luke N/R, 933

Summary: michael and luke have always been the closest. friendly kisses lasting no longer than 3 seconds are shared frequently between the duo- calum and ashton watching from a distance, almost admiring their friendship. until it wasn't a friendship anymore.

How You Get the Girl (ao3) - 1loulu5 michael/calum, michael/ofc T, 2k

Summary: “Wh… What does ‘castrate’ mean?” Michael sounded perplexed.

Calum laughed, “It means I’ll cut your balls off.”

“Oh-”

~~~

Michael calls Calum, his ex for the past 4 years, for relationship advice.

Not Just a Stupid Game (ao3) - coffeemuke michael/luke E, 2k

Summary: A game of truth or dare leads to Michael following through on a dare.

Paint Me - @daydadahlias (cornflowerblue (daydadahlias)) luke/ashton, michael/crystal E, 17k

Summary: “Holy shit, hold on a minute,” Calum says, “is that who we’re supposed to be drawing?”

“I can’t draw him,” Michael gawks, “I’m not a Goddamn renaissance painter.”

Or, the one where Luke is an art student practicing realism for a month and Ashton is the nude model in his portrait class.

Promise (ao3) - boomercal calum/ashton, sierra/luke, michael/crystal, calum/ofc M, 115k

Summary: Live music photographer Calum does one favour for a friend (filling in last minute for a show), and his life changes for good. Finding his muse, world-famous pop/rock sensation Ashton Irwin. He thinks once the shows are over, he can pack it in and forget all about it, but a Google search and a phone call set him up on a North American tour where he'll see the man every day... Too bad his Google search revealed the man of his every fantasy has a purity pact with God. So what's a..promiscuous young man to do? Repress it? Sure, that'll work.

Tangled in a Triangle (ao3) - orsumeuphoria michael/crystal/ashton E, 9k

Summary: “You ever have him like this, Crys?” Ashton asks. Crystal doesn’t say anything, but she must shake her head because Ashton continues, “Shame. I think you’d like it. He’s so pretty on his knees.” Michael keens. “C’mere.”

Crystal’s immaculate sneakers appear right behind Ashton’s boots.

The next command he gets isn’t spoken. Ashton only has to tap the base of his jaw for Michael to look up.

The image of both Ashton and Crystal towering over him, Ashton smiling softly and Crystal looking intrigued, is one he burns into his memory.

“Hi, dove,” Ashton murmurs softly, “Fucking missed you.”

The Blower's Daughter (ao3) - MyMy michael/calum, luke/ashton M, 13k (WIP)

Summary: “Did you need something else?” Michael inquires politely a little confused himself.

“I was wondering if I could get your number actually?” The stranger asks biting his lip into his mouth quickly.

“Oh sure!” Michael replies happily. He reaches around the register to the side facing the customer and feels around for the little stack of cards with the shop info on it and the logo embossed in solid black.

“Here this has the shop number right here.” Michael points to the tiny row of numbers on the card. “So if you need anything don’t be afraid to call, okay? We can do special orders as well so anything music related we’ll try our best to get it for you!”

The Gayest Thing I've Ever Done (ao3) - coffeemuke michael/luke, calum/ashton E, 1k

Summary: Band bonding crosses the line between normal and weird, and it's Luke's fault. But the boys don't seem to mind.

The Posse's Origin (ao3) - Jay_isnotokay calum/ashton, michael/ashton E, 6k

Summary: "...I've been apart of the princess posse for a few weeks now and I still don't how you two got 'initated' in the first place." Luke said.

"Alright, LuLu, have I got a story for you."

~

Or Luke wants to know how the posse started and, well, they tell him.

up to your mouth, feeling it out (ao3) - orphan_account michael/luke, luke/ashton E, 9k

Summary: Ashton's the one who suggested it; after all, he would know how well Luke would do in the industry, since he spent most Friday nights with his best friend's lips around his cock. Luke, on the other hand, didn't know he would end up fluffing for a record-breaking pornstar who is like, really really hot, and definitely his type.

or, Luke is broke and has a talented mouth (and a tongue piercing).

your string of lights is still bright to me (ao3) - merlypops michael/calum E, 81k

Summary: Michael is struggling to be the father his daughters need. Until he meets Calum again.

#5sosfanfictioncatalogue #5sos fanfic #masterlists #bisexual #bisexual!michael #bisexual!michael masterlist

[psychangels]

happy wip wednesday!

for anyone who saw my post about chai having a rival that hates music (and the follow-up reblog i did discussing the half-baked oc i actually came up with based around that idea), i kept Thinking about it and cooked up half a skeleton of a story. and then i couldn't Stop thinking about it, so i wrote out a bit of a scene that popped into my head.

this will probably be in the prologue? i don't know. i was thinking that it'd be a slow build-up sort of story, where spectra doesn't Really get involved until later (sold myself on the idea of spectra being involved at all because the concept of spectra kale being like, "you have mommy issues...i have mommy issues...we should team up" is hilarious to me)

i probably won't get back to this any time soon (i already have 2 big fic projects i'm working on, after all, and a 3rd one that's already on the backburner), but i thought i'd share it anyways!

i wouldn't mind talking more about this idea, though, in the meantime. maybe i'll make a post about the story itself or something. and if you have any questions, feel free to send me an ask!

Indigo stops and turns upon hearing clattering behind themself. A TEC-78 is coming down the hall, carrying a big box overflowing with what looks like computer parts. They’re grumbling about something. Probably the fact they have to carry it, knowing how lazy those models are. Though, to be fair to this one, a CAR-11E would be better suited for this.

Just as Indigo is going to get back on track, and as the TEC-78 is turning to go down another corridor, something falls out of the box. They don’t stop, seemingly not having noticed.

They consider just letting them deal with whatever consequences will come from leaving whatever it was.

They sigh after a second.

“Hey! You dropped something!” they call, jogging back the way they came.

When the TEC-78 doesn’t respond, they huff.

Reaching the corridor they went down, Indigo is shocked to see that they’re already gone. Since when were those units so fast?

Frowning, they look down to see a hard drive. They pick it up. Eyes narrowing, they inspect it. There’s the familiar Vandelay logo on it in bright red on one side. On the other is a different logo. Squinting, they can just barely make out the text. SPECTRA. What the hell is that?

Indigo looks down the hall again. The TEC-78 is long gone by now. They don’t have the time to go hunting them down just to return a hard drive. So, they pocket it. They’ll just hand it off to the next TEC-78 they see. Better than leaving it on the floor to potentially get stepped on and crushed.

#hi fi rush #hi fi rush oc #indigo #wip wednesday #angelwrites.txt

[pancitmousse]

Thoughts on Holostars Tempus (New Members)

Gavis Bettel

First Impressions: honestly his design doesn’t really appeal to me. my friend said he looked like a TWST chara but honestly i can’t see it based off what I know about that game. also his name makes me think of betel nuts. that said i like the little skits he did for his pre-debut vids.

Debut: he has a very… “bro-ish” voice lol. also he’s talking really fast. idk if it’s bc of the nerves or not. pulling out the slide out of his hat was very creative ngl. betel nut man confirmed. idk what to make of his comedy, it’s good but not really to my taste. he’s really loud so i probably wont watch him much or my ears may explode. mascot is cute tho ig. purple likers based. also… this guy laughs at his own jokes? at least he loves himself so good ig? actually nvm he doesn’t RIP. fuck cockroaches tho. he plans to do drinking streams? oh god i can’t imagine how chaotic he’ll be on alcohol. also he can’t cook?! dear lord. omg that catwalk is pretty af. also his design has grown on me, bro jumped out of an otome LMAO.

Machina X Flayon

First Impressions: he looks like a tiny little apple 🍎. baby boy, baby (or is he? i didn’t follow these guys on twt so i wouldn’t know). but lmao at that edgy-ass name 🖤🥀⛓. then again one of my oshis also has a chuuni name (but its in japanese so my monolingual ass can ignore it kek) so i can’t really judge. it seems the name was chosen to fit with the design as it is more overt abt the sci-fi stuff than all the others. friend said he looked like an edgy und3rt4le oc and while i get the edgy oc part i don’t get the und3rt4le part. his skits were frankly amazing and i don’t think anyone can top them.

Debut: that intro screen is so cute oml. also the logo bounces around like a tv on standby thats really neat! music is cool too! omg he did a “behhh” i like him alr! his lore video was nice and funny too. if im not mistaken he’s the first tempus member to have a dedicated lore vid right? now that i’m hearing his natural voice it sounds really pleasant! must protecc. i may be shorter but im calling him short anyways for lols. he looks cute when he’s angry www. his layouts are pr creative i love this man. he screams loud but its okay he is babi. vegetable dislikers are based and no one can tell me otherwise. if this is him at low energy, how would he be at high energy? headpats tskr. outro is cool.

Banzoin Hakka

First Impressions: pretty boy. purple is my favorite color + most of my oshis are associated with blue so his indigo color just makes me mesmerized. and because of that it would be funny if his voice was deep as hell. my friend said he looked like a jenshin chara and while i do understand that bc jenshin is many people’s first exposure to this kind of fashion… okay yeah he kinda does look like a jenshin chara. instant roll lmao.

Debut: his intro is pretty dope, especially with the music. omg he can do metal screams?!? his voice isn’t deep as hell but its still not what i expected. weirdly enough it still fits. i really like his sense of humor the most so far. he talks at an average speed to me but ppl have said i talk fast so im probably not the best judge i retract my statement he actually does talk fast. OMG A VOCALOID FAN B A S E D. i think i can hear an accent, a pretty thick one at that. yknow what, shinri has competition when it comes to who’ll get demonetized first. my boy drawing with ms paint lmao. probably gonna become my oshi for this wave (?).

Josuji Shinri

First Impressions: the boing boings are on full display. pec nation has won. now we must prepare for the ultimate battle, the battle against demonetization. jokes aside his design is kinda generic imo but if it works it works. also he actually looks slightly older than everyone else so thats a plus. friend said he looked like a himbo and tbh i get that. but from what ik he doesn’t seem like one so far? he’s giving off more “father figure” vibes to me.

Debut: the intro bgm is chill which makes me hope he’ll be chill too. holy shit his voice is really deep, like probably the deepest out of the vtubers i’ve seen so far. i think his laugh is cute. so far the chillest of them all, which admittedly isn’t a hard bar to clear. i do appreciate the simpler debut this time, the other guys production values and ideas were good but this one will definitely age gracefully. daddy (platonic). mans has his priorities in order. the little JRPG section was neat, my friend called it when they said “jrpg vibes”. yet another league player, nobody is perfect. probably won’t watch him much if he goes ahead with the horror stuff bc its not my genre but i appreciate him carving out a little niche for himself.

OVERALL:

I like most of them, but I’m worried the group dynamic may be a bit unbalanced this time around. We got three loud guys and one chill dude, which will be an… interesting combo. These guys seem to have lots of cool ideas and potential, so I would be interested in seeing how they could improve. 8/10 stars, mostly enjoyed the relay.

#holopro #holostars en #holostars tempus #gavis bettel #machina x flayon #banzoin hakka #josuji shinri

[return-of-a-space-cowboy]

Nowhere pt 1

(Yandere Risotto x Female reader)

Based off of PlumsnPeaches backrooms au

I apologize for any Google translate errors, I did not pay attention in primary school Italian classes.

Warnings: Mentions of non consentual drug use.

It was a good night at the nightclub your friends had taken you to. You were finally able to wear your best dress. 90s to 2000 music played all night and the drinks were great, you'd even caught a few eyes. You were having so much fun and at this point you were a little tipsy. While you sat down with your friends you quickly checked your phone to see you had several missed calls from your roommate Jackie.

"Oh Jackie's been trying to call me. I'm going to the bathroom to call them back!" you yelled over the music so they could hear you.

"Ok" one of your friends replied as you got up and left.

You shuffled past crowds of people as you made your way to the bathroom, luckily there was no wait so you opened the door and entered. Nobody was in the bathroom, nor was it messy like you expected. Actually it looked nothing like a nightclub bathroom. Blue floor tiles, white wall tiles and a long stainless steel sink. It looked more like a school bathroom. You grabbed out your phone and tried to call them back but you instantly got an automated message telling you that there was no coverage. You sighed before trying again but the same message.

You decided you should leave for the night and see if anything happened since you wouldn't be able to get back in after you left to take the call.

So you walked to the door only to see an unfamiliar hallway that definitely wasn't part of the nightclub. You closed the door and opened it again to see that hallway. You closed it once more and looked around to find another door that you could have possibly entered from but there wasn't.

Were you tripping? You couldn't tell. You were drunk but you didn't feel nauseous. What if you were spiked? Perhaps someone had slipped something in your drink while you weren't looking and you were hallucinating. The alcohol you had probably made you not feel the effects of whatever drug you unknowingly took.

You looked at your phone again to see you had no reception. This was bad. You had to find your friends and leave but it was going to be extremely hard while you were in your current state. You nearly hyperventilate. All those warnings and stories rushed through your mind. The worst scenario you never thought would happen to you is happening.

Perhaps if you ran out of the bathroom and screamed your friends names that would deter whoever did this to you and alerted your friends that you were in danger.

You grabbed the door handle and swung it open. As you ran through the seemingly empty hallway. You screamed as much as you could but somehow you didn't feel yourself bump into anyone or anything.

You continued to run and scream before you ran into something but before you could figure out what it was. A hand slapped over your mouth while another wrapped around your waist and pulled you into a room.

"Stai zitto o li attirerai!" A voice hushed you in a demanding manner but you had no idea what they were saying.

"What?!" Was only just audible to the person who had a hold on you.

"Shut up or you're going to attract them" they scolded you now in english before removing their grasp on you. You bolted to the door but the voice warned you again.

"If you leave the room you're going to get yourself killed" they said.

Finally you turned around to see who was your apprehended. He was a tall man with a well built physique. He had platinum blonde hair that only just reached past his chin and blood red irises and jet black sclera. He wore a black sleeveless band tee that was well worn with rips and bleach stain that made the logo barely recognizable. He had denim jeans that were in pretty much the same condition and a belt with a buckle in the shape of an R. You also noticed a leather strap necklace he wore with what looked like a very old, antique syringe as a pendant.

"What's going on? Who are you?" You asked.

"My name is Risotto Nero and I'm not sure myself, all I remember was leaving a concert at the bar I bartended at. I opened a door and ended up here" he explained you, now that you were paying attention to him you could here the italian accent. You looked around and realized you were in a classroom.

"So both of us have just somehow magically ended up at a school?" You asked him.

"I wouldn't say this is a school, it's a nightmare" he corrected you.

"Nightmare?"

"It's impossible to escape, I've tried for I don't know how long to find an exit and never found one, not to mention those monsters that roam the halls" he explained as he sat on one of the tables.

"Monsters?!" You exclaimed.

"Yeah… I personally call them hall monitors, they're these corpse like kids with featureless faces that wander around. I nearly got killed by them when I first got here" he said.

"But I've figured out a few things about those creatures. They can't enter classrooms, loud sounds attract them in hoards, they vanish and reappear during a siren. I've seen for myself that a death at their hands is an excruciating one" he explained to you.

"So we're safe here?" You ask. 

"Yes but this isn't where I stay, we'll have to wait a while now since those things are probably nearby but when the next bell rings we'll make our way back to my base" he told you.

"Thanks" you thanked him as you fixed the bottom of your dress.

"So who are you?" He asked

"Oh my name is (Y/n), I was at a nightclub with some friends before I ended up here"

"I'm relieved that you can speak English or else I probably would have ran since I don't know a word of Italian" you mentioned.

"My aunt was an English teacher and since we lived in a pretty rural location she taught at the same school I attended, she'd also tutor me whenever I came to see my cousin" he replied in a pretty nonchalant manner.

You decided to walk around the classroom hoping you could find some clue as to where you were. You looked out the window to only see pitch black, like nothing existed beyond the confines of the school. You scratched it to see if it was perhaps painted but it wasn't or at least not on the inside.

You grabbed your phone and used the flashlight to see if it was a tint but the light didn't reflect on the window like it was nonexistent. You were still trying to figure out what was up with the strange windows when Risotto had grabbed your phone out of your hands.

"Hey, give me back my phone!" You yelled as you tried to snatch it back.

"Phone?" He questioned you as he inspected it.

"Yeah! You act like you've never seen one" you hissed as you finally took it back. His usual stoic expression changed to what seemed like dread.

"What year is it?" He asked you in a shaky tone.

"2022" you replied. He held his head in his hand before turning away from you.

"oh Dio, è passato così tanto tempo…" he muttered in his native tongue before slamming his fist on the nearby table.

"sono passati ventuno anni… ventuno anni da quando sono entrato in questo buco infernale!" He yelled before grabbing the table and threw it at the chalkboard.

You screamed in fear as you cowered in the corner of the room. A dread overcame you, even if you did not know what Risotto yelled.

#yandere jjba #yandere jojo's bizarre adventure #yandere x reader #yandere risotto

[steakout-05]

Discovering Halfbrick Lost Media

i promise you this is interesting! you might know Halfbrick for making Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja and whatnot, but their history spans over for YEARS all the way to the 90s. and today i discovered something really cool, and that's Halfbrick's long lost unpublished games from the 2000s. let's start from the beginning. this post will be LONG.

so today i was cataloguing every self-published Halfbrick game ever (as you do) and while i was looking through games to list, i remembered a page on Unseen64 i saw a while ago that talks about a game called 'Fuzz and Rocket', which was an announced game that was supposed to be on the Gameboy Advance, set to release in the mid 2000s. It appeared at E3 in 2005 and then was cancelled when Halfbrick couldn't find a publisher. it was pretty interesting to find out about when i first got hyperfixated on Jetpack Joyride and wanted to see if there was any lost media.

i took a closer look and saw that there was a snapshot of Halfbrick's site from like 2003, and there it was: the announcement for Fuzz and Rocket. so of course i go back all the way to 2001 and look at what we have here...

wow! it's old!

so, there's a lot to unpack here. first of all, yes, that is Halfbrick's actual old logo. and yes, that HTML is a bit broken. this isn't the exact page i was on when i first discovered this and the HTML was working properly, but this is Halfbrick's old website from August 2001. take in the pure Y2K broken graphic HTML ugliness.

but what i'm really interested are the games. if you look on this site, you might see mentions of 'Farma Llamma', 'Turbulence' and 'Defiant'. these were three online games Halfbrick worked on around 2001, all of which used JavaScript. out of these games, only one was released, and that one was 'Defiant'. here's the webpage:

Case 1: 'Defiant'

this was the page listing for the game 'Defiant'. according to this page, 'Defiant' was going to be a shoot 'em up, close to something like Touhou in terms of layout. it is 2002 and you have to destroy the enemy base, which probably isn't human. and, according to the game's features page, this game was gonna have "Tons of sprites on screen", "Transparent clouds" and "Funky intro music and tons of sound effects", to name a few. sounds pretty cool, right? you'd like to play it, right?

well, here's the unfortunate thing: you can't. this is where the lost media part comes in.

this game runs on JavaScript, severely outdated JavaScript that was not properly archived by the Wayback Machine. so we know that 'Defiant' was playable at one point in time, but now, it's been lost and is rendered unplayable. nothing much else to say, it's just unfortunate that one of Halfbrick's first only released web browser games isn't playable anymore. there is no information about 'Defiant' online other than this page and i would love to see it resurface one day. we do have screenshots though to get a feel as to what this game was like:

y'know i wish this game was found so i could figure out what on earth that pink thing is. he looks pretty cool yet so, so dated. there's a scoreboard too, which proves 'Defiant' was real and playable:

but yeah, 'Defiant's long gone now, and might probably stay that way. i doubt anyone has the game downloaded or if it even could be downloaded, and i doubt anyone who worked at Halfbrick still has it.

Case 2: 'Farma Llamma'

'Farma Llamma', as you can see from the site's description, is some sort of farming/resource multiplayer game that runs purely on JavaScript, including its servers. it has a neglect system where you farm dies if its not taken care of, so that's pretty neat! according to the features page, it was going to be a 2D game with a realtime world, and was, of course, playable online. there are no concept sketches to go off of despite the page implying there going to be some added. guess it was just never archived. to my knowledge there was never a link to play the game, and i suspect the game was cancelled from reading this post:

and from what i can find, no more updates were made on the game, so it was most likely canned, unfortunately, rendering it lost media. my theory is that workload as well as server costs contributed to the cancellation of 'Farma Llamma', though i obviously don't know for sure. an obscure game that was possibly never made, this is Halfbrick's second online game to remain lost, probably forever.

Case 3: 'Turbulence'

'Turbulence' is the game i am the least sure about. according to August 2001's snapshot of HB's site, 'Turbulence' was probably the one game that was the closest to completion apart from 'Defiant', around the time 'Farma Llamma' was put on hold. it was apparently gonna be something like a platformer/puzzle game that, like the other two games, worked in Java. it also had a 2-player mode. that's... really all we know about it. there is a concept art section which had quite a lot of sketches (including one of Elvis apparently???), but the images were not archived and thus won't load.

that's... it, really. we know it was a 2D platformer with 2 player mode on Java that might have been close to completion, but that's really all we know. an image of 'Turbulence' was shown on August 2001's snapshot, but alas, that too is broken. it was apparently for "next gen consoles", which i'm assuming is stuff like the GBA considering 'Fuzz and Rocket' was being developed for that console in 2003. maybe we might not ever know what 'Turbulence' was supposed to be, and it never ended up being released anyway.

Case 4: 'XGame'

WOAH! now that's a tonal shift, isn't it? on an older version of HB's site it mentions that the site isn't orange anymore, and then here comes THIS baby in 2003! and look at that logo! i think that's my favourite HB logo, it's so cute and bright and pixelly :D

so this is Halfbrick's game section from 2003, the same page where 'Fuzz and Rocket' was once listed up to 2005 along with HB's earlier works. one of the other games listed here was 'XGame', a puzzle racing game which was fast paced and "frantic". curiously, its gameplay and the screenshots available seems a lot like 'Raskulls', a game Halfbrick would later release in 2010 for Xbox. perhaps this concept was lifted from 'XGame', to which 'XGame' should really get some credit for (possibly) being an inspiration for one of Halfbrick's most iconic and beloved games.

'XGame' was going to be for the PC, and was suitable for handhelds and next gen consoles. they were looking for a publisher to publish the game, which i would assume was finished or close to completion by then. interestingly, there's some cover art mockups, both of which being for the PS2 and Gamecube. considering the time of creation for this game, yeah, that checks out. i'm not entirely sure of 'XGame' was its final name considering how HB usually titles its games, but there's a logo so....

the page for 'XGame' also mentions that "A PC based prototype of XGame is available by request.", which i'm assuming would have been for publishers looking to contact Halfbrick to get a hold of the game for consideration. this also proves that a playable prototype of 'XGame' was in existence at one point, but obviously has not been archived. 'XGame' stayed listed on Halfbrick's website until the site changed its theme in 2005, where it was quietly removed and fell into obscurity. weirdly enough though, 'Fuzz and Rocket' stayed on their site way up until 2008, which by then the DS, Wii and PS3 had already come out, making the ill-fated GBA game obselete.

does Halfbrick still have the PC prototype of 'XGame'? no one really knows. i doubt it, though. Halfbrick has changed so much since then, and even the long past of HB developing licensed games is relatively obscure to those only scratching the surface of their mobile games. i doubt they still have any of these games anymore, and i'm afraid that they'll stay lost for the indefinite future.

oh yeah, and i forgot to mention, Halfbrick also worked on another GBA game simply called 'Booze', which is... an odd name, for sure. it was actually being developed in 2001 but to my knowledge, was never mentioned on their website, just this article. nothing else exists of this old game except for this shotty prototype video uploaded to Youtube in 2014, and yes, there is that really old HB logo. this one is from later in 2001 and looks pretty sweet, much better than the older one, haha. so yeah, this is lost too.

Case 5: thats really it tbh

that's about all i can find. i love lost media and i think its really interesting how stuff can just go missing like that. obviously all of these are super obscure. and i of course like Halfbrick too! researching this was really interesting and know one else knows about it, so i thought i'd share it here. i did also find this page from October 2011 that had stuff from the super old Jetpack Joyride pre-release, called 'Machine Gun Jetpack' at the time. it's got some cool screenshots and i also found what i'd describe as a blinkie while looking on there too:

it's pretty swell! anyway that's all. sorry this post was super long but man i love infodumping about this stuff. it's really neat!

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This will be wrote differently compared to my other chapters due to the fact that there is no actual, point of view. It's bases from a Camera, so let's see how this goes

==

Harry Spengler and Ed Zeddmore are sitting in easy chairs in front of a fireplace, dressed in formal wear and holding brandy glasses.

"Hello. I am Harry Spengler"

"And I am Ed Zeddmore. Now if you have received this tape, you must be some sort of bigwig network executive. Well, today is your lucky day, mister"

"Because the unsolicited pilot you are about to watch is the bold new future of "reality TV.""

"Mmmm. We know you've had it hard during the crippling writer's strike"

"Lazy fat cats"

"Who needs writers when you've got guys like us?" Harry gestures and reaches for a cheap dimmer switch, dimming the lights down.

"Our team faced horrible horrors to bring you the footage that will change your world forever. So strap in for the scariest hour in the history of television"

"In the history of your life..."

"Strap in for..."

"Ghostfacers!" They say in unison.

At first there was a big, haunted house as the music started, "Ghost...Ghostfacers" It showed a montage of Ed, Harry, Maggie, Spruce and Corbett investigating the house, "We face the ghosts when the others will not. We're Ghost...Ghostfacers. Stay in the kitchen when the kitchen gets hot. Ghost...Ghostfacers" It showed Ed, and his name, "We face the nightmare, we face the dread. Ghost...Ghostfacers" It showed Harry, and his name, "When you trip and fall into the supernatural" It showed Maggie, and her name "We're who you're gonna call. We face them all" It showed Corbett, and his name, "Ghost....Ghostfacers" It showed Sam, and his name. Then it showed Dean, flipping the camera off, blurring his middle finger out and adding his name, "We face the faces, we face the dead" It showed Theo with her arms crossed, giving Ed and Harry a look; adding her name "We're Ghost...Ghostfacers!" It showed Maggie, Ed, Spruce, Harry and Corbett in a driveway of a house with a bunch of suitcases and a van all having the Ghostfacers logo.

==

Harry and Ed exit an AMC Gremlin with Wisconsin license plate, each carrying a metal briefcase with a "Ghostfacers" sticker. Western-Style Music playing.

Ed: [Voice Over] "You know, it can get kind of hard balancing our daytime careers with our night-time missions" It shows a close up of Ed;

Ed Zeddmore

Team Leader

Harry: [Voice Over] "Yeah, but Ed and I pretty much call the shots at the Kinko's where we work, so we can usually pretty much get off by six every night?" It shows a close up of Harry;

Harry Spengler

Team Co-Leader, Demolitions Expert

==

Ed and Harry are sat at a wooden table outside in front of a camera.

"Yeah, six o'clock. It used to be just, you know, you and I taking on the cases -- just Harry and me" Ed says.

"Two lone wolves"

"And two lone wolves need, uh...other wolves"

==

Phase 1: The Homework

Ed and Harry enter the Ghostfacers "Office"

"Morning, 'facers" Ed says.

"Good morning, Ghostfacers"

"It's seven p.m, dude" Spruce says.

"It's morning to a Ghostfacer. Corbett, what do we got, buddy?" Corbett is working nervously on a board.

"Oh, I'm just putting up some of the-" Ed walks to the board.

"Yeah, this has got to go up here. That's got to go here, got to see the whole field. Markers, eraser -- good job"

==

Corbett enters the kitchen of the office, carrying two brown bags.

Alan J. Corbett

Intern, Cook

"I first saw Ed putting up flyers down at the -- the outlet mall in Scogan, so I-I read one, and I thought to myself, "huh. Where do ghosts come from?" And now here I am"

==

Harry was tickling Maggie, making her turn around and hit him on the shoulder.

"Oh, Ow. Ed, your sister's abusing staff" Ed sat down at the table.

"That's adopted sister, thank you very much"

Maggie:[Voice Over] "Ed has been obsessed with the supernatural since we were kids"

==

Maggie is sat in the office alone, working on something; looking up at the camera.

Maggie Zeddmore

Research Team, Adopted

"You know, and then he meets Harry at computer camp...and love at first geek" She continues.

==

The Camera turns to face Spruce.

"Spruce here" Spruce says "What up, playa?" He says in a high pitch voice.

==

Spruce is outside, in a lawn mower cart on a golf field, driving around.

Kenny Spruce

Camera, Licensed Shamanologist, 1/16 Cherokee

"I am 15/16 Jew, 1/16 Cherokee. My grandfather is a mohel, my great-grandfather was a tallis maker, and my great-great-grandfather was a degenerate gambler and a peyote addiction"

==

They're all back in the basement, Ed walks to the board.

"Okay, people. Let's cut this chatter and get on a mission. Okay?" He writes down "Morton house..."

==

Ghostfacers HQ 7:15 pm

Research Briefing

"...One of our bug fish" Ed says, turning to the others "All right, we all know the legend. Every four years, supposedly, this becomes the most haunted place in America" He explains "

"The leap year ghost, some call it. The ghost returns at midnight just as February 29th begins"

"And no one has ever stayed the night, right?" Maggie says.

"Yeah, well, every testimony that we dug up, every eyewitness has cut and run well before midnight"

"Well, that's all about to change, baby" Corbett walks over, giving Ed a cup of coffee.

"Absolutely true, Ed. Absolutely true" Ed took a sip from the coffee.

"Mmm. That's good"

"It's French vanilla, 'cause the other day, you said how much you like it, so..." Corbett trailed off.

"Thank you"

"You are welcome" Corbett walks away and Harry looks at the camera awkwardly.

==

Harry's sat in a car at the driver's seat, looking at the camera.

"I like Corbett. I do. Shows up early, does his job, lot of good hustles out --" Corbett knocks on the window to get Harry's attention and Harry looks to him. Corbett waves as he smiles; giving a thumbs up. Harry looks down and waves back before Corbett walks away. Harry looks back at the camera "I think he's got the hots for Ed, and that could spell trouble for the whole team"

==

Corbett's in the basement, looking at the camera.

"Ed's kind of the more rugged, with that really golden...beautiful sort of beard. Definitely nice. Uh, and Harry's nice"

==

Everyone continues to meet about the Morton House in the garage. Ed's standing at the board, writing things down.

"29th is this Friday, facers" He looks to face the others "We want this mission, we got to move on it now, or else guess what--He's gone for another four years" Suddenly, the garage door starts opening, making the board fall to the ground.

"Oh, watch out!" Maggie says.

"Who is that?" Harry asks. Eddie looks outside to see an elder an in a car.

"Dad! Come on!" He wines.

"Just cut the cameras" Harry says "We don't need that. We don't need this part. We don't --"

==

Phase 2: Infiltration

Now night-time, the Ghostfacers were in uniform of army printed clothing and cameras with flashlights, walking towards the Morton House.

"Stay low" Ed whispers "Follow formation" They continue walking until they get to a fence around the house "Okay, as suspected. A lot of people have tried to break into the Morton house. The local authorities have just gotten fed up"

"Looks like the cops have got this place pretty well fenced off" Ed pulls out a bolt cutter.

"Wait. Didn't you guys get, like, a permit or something?" Maggie asks.

"A permit? That's a good idea for next time"

"Yeah"

"Car!" Spruce whispers.

"Car. Shh, shh! Flashlights off!" They all turn their lights off, ducking into hiding. They listen to the song that plays as the car pulls up.

"Keep totally still" It was the Impala, with Dean, Theo and Sam inside. Theo shines a flashlight out of the window, Sam in the back doing the same before Dean pulls away.

"It's okay. Not cops -- just hicks" Spruce says. Ed uses the bolt cutters to cut the chains around the fence.

"Got it. Oh, right on" He opens the fence and they all run in. That walk to the house and enter.

"Hear that, people? Let's keep it quiet" Ed says.

"There's the kitchen sink" They enter the living room.

"All right, everybody. Ghostfacers, let's line up. Everybody. We'll set up camp right here. This is command centre one"

"We're gonna call this the Eagle's Nest" Fast forward footage of Ghostfacers setting up equipment. Corbett sets up one camera.

"Hallway cam one up and running" He informs. Ed is sat at the laptop; with a walki-talkie.

"Looking good, Corbett"

"Copy that, Ed"

"Uh...uh, you're welcome" Ed replies, awkwardly "All right, Spruce, how are we doing there, buddy?"

"Checking basement camera two, mein fuhrer"

"Maggie, I got no visual on you, Maggie"

"This is Maggie. Do you copy?" She speaks. Her facing coming up on the screen.

"There you are. Hello. Harry, are you alive?"

"Upstairs, Ed. Camera one"

"Looking good. I can smell syndication. All right, fellas. Let's regroup at the Eagle's Nest"

==

Morton House 10:40 PM

Base Camp

Everyone regrouped at base camp. Ed puts a camera with a flashlight onto his head.

"All right, Spengler. Battery check, battery check. Check. Okay"

"Check. Check. Yo, Corbett, dude" Spruce says, aiming his camera at Corbett.

"Lookin' good, Corbett" Harry says.

"You're Robocop"

"R-Robocop? You think I -- you think I look like Robocop?"

"Everybody, bring it in. Bring it in" Ed says. They al stand in a circle "We've all been here before. Standard walk-through" He looks to Maggie and Harry "Team one, West" He looks to Spruce and Corbett "Team Two, east. Spin the tires, light the fires" "He holds his hand forwards "Ghostfacers on three" Everyone put their hand in the middle on top of each other "1,2,3..."

"Ghostfacers!" They say, masking their faces with their hands.

==

Phase 3: Face Time

Morton House 10:51 PM

1st Floor: Team One-Ed &Corbett

Ed and Corbett walk down the empty hall with EMF's.

"Hello!" Ed calls out "I'm speaking to the restless spirits of the Morton house!" They look around the rooms "Hello! My name's Ed" He opens a door and they walk inside "Careful. Watch my back"

"Okay. Okay" They look around the room, finding nothing.

"What's your name?" Ed asks. He looks down at his EMF "3, .29"

"Is there an entity or entities here with us now?" Corbett asks "Can you give us a sign of your presence?"

"You got to breath, buddy" Ed says.

"I can't breathe"

"Corbett, you got to pull it toge-" Ed was cut off by something behind him, making noises making the two turns around.

"Whoa!"

"Corbett, night vision"

"Okay. Okay. Yeah" Corbett turns on the night vision, turning the view of the scene green.

"Calm down, buddy" Ed says "Breath, all right? Calm the whirlwinds of your mind"

==

2nd Floor: Team 2- Harry, Spruce and Maggie

The three walk down the hall, looking around.

"We're doing a basic EMF, EVP, temp-flux sweep. Looks like we've got all of our ducks in a row here" Harry says. The EMF starts to make noises and the cameras blur.

"Whoa" Spruce says.

"What?"

"The camera's on a fritz" Spruce answers. The camera pixelated and malfunctioned again so he faces the camera to him "I don't know. It's weird. It's gone" He turns the camera back to Maggie and Harry. He points to the door.

"All right. Get this. Get this" Harry says. He kicks the door lightly.

"Turn the knob"

"All right..." Harry says "...That's a good idea" Maggie opens the door and Harry kicks it lightly to open it the rest of the way. He's about to walk inside before seeing something.

"Oh, my God! Oh, my god!" He runs down the hall "Oh, my God! Oh, my god! Oh, my god!"

"It's just a rat, dude" Spruce says, pointing the camera at the dead rat.

==

During the Day, Harry's sat in the car, in the driver's seat, looking at the cameras.

"I don't really like rats. They're gross. Rats are like the...rats of the world"

==

Back to the night, in the Morton House. Harry walks back to Maggie and Spruce.

"What -- was than an apparition? Was that a spectral - was that a.4? What do we got, 'cause the EMP was just off the--" Spruce tosses the dead rat at Harry, making him jump back "Oh, god!" Spruce laughs "Oh, that is so not funny, Spruce!"

==

1st Floor- Ed and Corbett

They went to found out what made the noise, only to reach a broken window. “Oh, god!" Corbett says, sighing in relief "Okay, it was just...I think it was just this branch...Okay...In the windows"

"This is spooky man. This place..." Ed trails off. They look down the hall to see three figures, shouting in surprise. Theo turns on her flashlight.

"Freeze! Police officers! Don't move!" She says as she, Sam and Dean walk up to them.

"All right. All right. All right" Sam says.

"Take it easy, take it easy" Dean says "Let's see some identification"

"Come on. Let's see some ID" Theo says.

"What -- are we under---under arrest?" Corbett stutters.

"We are unarmed" Ed says as Corbett hands Theo his ID.

"Oh, god. Oh, God" Corbett breaths out.

"Want to explain that weirdo outfit, Mr...uh, Corbett" Theo says.

"Uh..."

"Whoa" Ed says, studying the three "I know you"

"Yeah, sure you do, sweet cheeks. Give me some identification" Theo says.

"Yeah, ho--" Ed started; aiming his flashlight at the siblings "Whoa, hold on a second. I know all of you guys. Yeah"

"What?" Corbett says.

"Yeah, huh"

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"What?" Dean and Theo asks in unison.

"Uh, West Texas...the...the tuple we had to take out. Those two goofballs that almost got us killed...The hellhounds or something?"

"[Bleep} me" Theo says.

"Sure would, hon" Ed says; Theo gives him a glare "Anyway, we're not hellhounds anymore, okay? It didn't test that well"

"Ed, what's going on?" Corbett asks.

"They're not cops, buddy -- no, not at all"

"Ed, Ed, you have a partner, too, didn't you -- A different guy?" Dean asks.

"Oh, yeah, yeah"

"Is he around here somewhere?" Dean asks.

"He's running around, chasing ghosts" Ed says sarcastically.

"Okay, well, listen, you and Rambo need to get your girlfriends and get out of here" Theo says.

"All right. Listen here, Hot lady, okay? We were here first. We've already set up the base camp" Ed says "We beat you" Theo clicks her tongue before looking to Dean and Sam.

"They were here first" She says.

"Mm hmm" Theo lets out a chuckle before grabbing Ed, pushing him against a wall, her face inches from his.

"Oh, god"

"Ed..." She drags out, fluttering her eyelashes.

"Yeah?" He asks.

"...Where's your partner?" She smiles at him.

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Cigar Smoke and Metal-Karl Heisenberg x Reader

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Chapter 16 You pulled away from Heisenberg. “God, I love you.”

“I love you too.” He said as he stood up, pulling you up with him. “What now?”

“Hm… I dunno.” You thought.

Heisenberg fiddled with his hat, but turned when a familiar whinny caught his ear.

“Oi, Pferd!” He laughed as Pferd trotted up to you both. “What are you doing here, boy?”

He nudged Karl’s hand with his nose.

“Yeah, yeah, I missed you too, ya big sap.”

“… Donna. We forgot about Donna! She was a mess when you died, no telling how much bigger of a mess she is now…” Your eyes widened in realization.

“Well, we got a horse, let’s ride over to her place.” Karl swung up onto Pferd’s back, and he pulled you up after him.

Pferd seemed to know the way through the creepy woods, which were littered with even more creepy doll paraphernalia than before.

“She really is upset…” Karl sounded a little worried as you rode through the mist.

“She puts the creepy stuff up when she’s upset?” You asked.

“They do it to themselves because the cadou senses she’s stressed. A lot of this is from when Claudia died.”

You wrapped your arms around his form.

Eventually, you reached the door to the house. You traced the plaque above the deposit slot.

Give up your memories.

You took off the necklace Heisenberg had given you all those weeks ago and tentatively put it into the slot.

The door unlocked.

“Donna?” You called into the house as you stepped inside. It was deathly quiet.

“Hate this place…” Karl shuddered.

You made your way through the halls until you ended up in a great room of sorts. A portrait of a scar-less Donna and Angie was hanging on the wall.

One of the dolls that was sitting in a corner looked up at you. “STOP IT!!! YOU AREN’T REAL!!! YOU’RE DEAD!!!” He screeched, punching himself in the face.

You picked up the doll. “Donna, stop. It’s me. We’re back; we’re real.”

Donna appeared just behind you, touching your shoulder.

“you’re… y… you’re… you’re back…”

“Yes, we’re back.”

Donna sobbed as she crushed you and Karl into a hug.

“WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!! WE THOUGHT WE WERE ALONE AGAIN!!! YOU DUMMIES!!! YOU BUFFOONS!!! YOU NINCOMPOOPS!!!” Angie screeched as she ran in circles around you three.

“Sorry, Donna. I didn’t exactly mean to die.” Karl mumbled, unable to breathe under the pressure.

Donna let you both go. “I thought I had lost everything again… I’m so glad you’re back.”

You smiled at Donna. “Don’t thank me. Karl was the one who pulled us both out.”

She looked confused. “He was conscious?”

“Yup. Those crazy experiments were good for something after all.” Heisenberg fidgeted with a chain around his neck.

“You know, I’ve been thinking… what are we going to do now?” You asked, steering the conversation away from the experiments.

Angie handed Donna some papers.

“I did some research,” Donna said, showing the screenshots that she had printed out, “And there’s a program in Italy where you can purchase an old castle for a small amount of money. It will be a fixer upper, but—“

“Yes.” Heis said immediately. “Italy is the land of pasta, right? I wanna go there.”

You giggled. “Yes, it is. We’ll get you all the pasta you want, Heis.”

One month later, you all arrived at the Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport early one morning.

“This is some building, buttercup.” Karl marveled, looking at the scenery around him.

“… Karl, it’s an airport. It isn’t supposed to be pretty. Can I get a coffee?”

“According to the directory, there’s a Starbucks right by our gate.” Donna pointed at a map of the airport.

“I wanna double shot espresso!!!” Angie screeched from her baby carrier.

“Absolutely not. You are getting six melatonin pills.”

“Karl.” You sighed. “She’s like five pounds, max.”

“And?” He put a hand on his hip.

You rolled your eyes. “Come on, let’s get through TSA. How much metal do you have on you?”

“… my organs are made of metal.”

“Good grief. This’ll take a while.”

So much had changed in the past month. Getting Donna and Karl used to the real world had been… a challenge, to say the least. As you got into the TSA line, you recalled when you gave Karl his first cell phone.

“So, this phone calls people, sends messages, takes pictures, plays music, and gets on the internet??? All of this in this tiny little box???” Heisenberg asked as soon as you left the store.

“Well, it does a lot more than that…” You began to list off other things it can do.

“Your world really is as brilliant as they say… why didn’t I think of making something like this???”

Unfortunately, Karl was a tinkerer at heart, and he had managed to bust three phones in the span of a week. Good thing you bought insurance.

You also remembered when you took him shopping for the first time.

“Karl, people don’t wear greasy trench coats and leather straps everywhere they go. People will think you’re a… um…” you sighed. “A very strange man.”

“I am a very strange man, dollface.” He surveyed the shopping mall. “Let’s go to Hot Topic. That looks my style.”

“Karl— no—“

He had bought all the varieties of metal chain that the store carried that day.

He had also bought some metal band tees— something else he appreciated about the outside world. He was wearing one containing the logo of one of his new favorite bands—Halestorm— now.

Donna had adjusted easier than Karl; she already knew a little bit based on books she had read. She prefered more ‘girly’ clothing, like the green sundress she was wearing now. She still wore her hair to cover her scar, but she was no longer wearing her veil.

It was a whole ordeal getting through TSA, but you made it out just before your flight. You made it to the gate in time to board the plane. Donna was in the window seat, you were in the middle, and Karl was in the aisle.

“I can’t believe it…” Heisenberg mumbled, taking your hand.

“Can’t believe what, Karl?” You asked, absentmindedly flipping through the movies on the airplane TV.

“I’m free… I’m really out of there.” He squeezed your hand.

You stopped and looked at him.

“I actually thought I was going to be stuck in that hellhole for my entire crappy life,” he said with a laugh.

You gave him a soft kiss. “But you’re free.”

“You helped free me. I dunno how I’m going to make it up to you…”

You smirked. “Oh, I have a few ideas…”

The plane took off. You took one last look at Romania, remembering everything you had gone through. Though it was a part of you, as everyone’s trauma is a part of them, you wouldn’t let it define you. Nor would you let it define the people you had come to love. As you rose higher and higher into the sky, you left what had happened in Romania behind and looked forward to a bright future. You looked at Karl, and he was doing the same.

“To a new life.” you mumbled as you kissed his cheek.

“To a better life.” He responded, smiling as you crossed together into a new life.

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what do you think the characters would be doing after the show/how would they be using their platform? for example, i think lottie would be using hers to give people astrology readings and stuff and i think the season 3 mc would be sooo problematic online

ok but you know what? definitely! s3 mc would be causing the stir she wanted to in the villa and couldn't. i'm almost certain she would be raging and saying absurd things to get attention, something like gabby hana you know? BIG YIKES.

one thing is certain... all of them (purposely or not) would be making thirst traps... and definitely supporting masks and registering to vote. so that's a certainty for almost all of them.

lottie. witchtok constantly. not necessarily giving readings but she would be an apologist and majority on that tag. her instagram would be split into two accounts: one for her personal endeavours like thirst traps and *looks of the day*, and a second for her brand as a makeup artist/personal stylist. cause i think that would be so fucking cool! lottie knows how to perpetuate her personal brand and would use social media for that as well. here's some edits i did in the past to explain it better. i headcanon a collab with elisa for wigs that they would both wear on social media, so that's something i really like! plus, advocating for women's rights, especially when a male politician says something dumb, so you know, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

bobby. in the middle of the pandemic? can't help thinking he would be doing some humorous videos, but in my head they're not the funny type. just some cringey ones... don't get me wrong, but bobby is only funny when he's not trying to, and in social media he strikes me as the type that not only makes videos but also puts the towel over his head to play a girl, so that's probably the majority of his content. some food of course, and DEFINITELY some *cute* selfies that he knows it works as thirst traps. i think he talks about registering to vote and blm, but doesn't give his opinion on anything else, politics wise. here's bobby's feed for the rest.

gary. i'm not thrilled to inform that gary would be thirst trapping all the time. now that he's relatively famous there's no reason why not posting those pics and videos. between tik tok trends to show off his muscles, and instagram to... well, do that exact same thing, he might take some time to show nan and the soup kitchen, but overall... thirst traps. possibly being blunt about masks and registering but his content is very closed off. also, he will get a dog and encourage people to adopt. there's a lot of pranks on dicky and vice versa, so that's something i thought for his social media, just couldn't find a good faceclaim that has a variety of pics.

lucas. mostly bringing awareness about covid and the use of masks, probably pointing it out a couple of political disputes, and definitely advising people to be careful about their votes all around the world. i like to think he's a huge advocate for legalization of a certain practice that women have to beg to have (you know the one), and i think he knows exactly how to make a thirst trap without making one. stop asian hate and blm carrds present, and often giving his followers the incentive to donate. DEFINITELY 'look of the day' for at least the weekend, and lots and lots of landscape from the places he's been visiting or wishing to.

henrik. he's everywhere and he takes his phone to talk about it. no doubt henrik is having the time of his life by travelling alone, or with his wife, and doing lives at all times. i think you would see him doing lives in the middle of the night, or watching the sunset/sunrise with his followers, besides making his *questionable* forest foraging and recipes. survival videos? MOST LIKELY THAN YOU THINK. here's his social media, where i covered mostly of what his relationship would like on instagram. (heavily based off "beyond the hill").

carl. the amount of rpg on his stories? immaculate. chess? you bet! lots and lots of carl's launchings for his company, which does have a separate account but he can't quite separate himself from it and it shows on his feed. his relationship would be discreetly displayed with cryptic captions since he's not so sentimental. here's his feed with some personal things he would be encouraged to post and boost that confidence of his.

anon that asked for more hannah stuff, this is for you:

hannah. i have one for her because i do like her aesthetic. don't mind the faceclaim, it was the only one i could find in so many situations. horses, books, some *cute* selfies, travelling pics and more. on tiktok definitely booktok, no doubt about it. she might do a lot of the "telling the story of my book as a story time" trend to promote it and say "technically it's real life."

elisa. it's all about branding and she knows how to do it well! some influencers might not get political because of how they can be perceived but i think elisa doesn't give a flying fuck about that. she talks often about blm and vaccines on her stories. i get a jackie aina vibe from her when talking about brands that support/encourage dark skin models and influencers, so that's a plus. she will give shit to a makeup brand that doesn't care for shade range and won't hide her feelings about it. here's her usual feed, with looks and tours (that i'm certain she would do a lot). i also think she'll eventually cave and have a brand of wigs, clothes and makeup, AS SHE SHOULD.

hope. there's no question about her activism on social media and i like to imagine she would be speaking up against anti-vaxxers and racism, mostly. just like yewande, she would probably talk about every time she felt the show might've favoured people that don't look like her. we would be getting the hot tea on everything since she's so honest. there's also lots of looks and promoting her friends' products because she supports them so much. priya's clothing line, elisa x lottie collab, etc. here's the feed i made for her a while ago.

chelsea. she might not be that deep into politics but she'll talk about covid and how people should be more careful about it, "wearing all these cute masks my babes lozza made for us!". LOTS of *look of the day* and tours on the spaces she decorates, besides the behind the scenes of parties and weddings (of ex-islanders) that i know she would throw. her feed also includes her closet, supporting her friends' endeavours and promoting them, besides some random mug collection shots and FOR SURE a pug selfie with mc.

priya. there's not much to say except for the occasional thirst trap (with those amazing thigh, ffs she should), lots of vaccine warnings, definitely political anecdotes and her clothing brand. i love to think she would have an actual boutique once things get settled after covid, and she would use social media to promote every line. her feed consists mostly of her travelling, designs, supporting the girls and her photoshoots.

kassam. lots and lots of backstage photos and that *prickly* way of demanding people to use their brains and wear a mask, besides getting the vaccine. in studio or just before the stage, selfies with a clothing line with his logo and definitely pics with islanders he didn't get to meet but is now friends with. during covid he would be using his lives to play for his followers, like lots of dj's and musicians i've seen doing on reddit and tiktok, probably called "late night music" or something like that. encouraging followers to donate for causes as well.

noah. not so huge on social media, might be the most discrete of them all. there would be lots and lots of pictures of the mornings before he opens the library, because i sincerely think he would keep his job. not the most outspoken about certain matters but carrds like the blm's and 'stop asian hate''s are on all of his bio's. i do like to imagine him taking selfies with the boys from the show, like ibrahim. he would be so present in noah's feed it's not even funny. the casual "cute unintentional" thirst trap too. family photos from ages ago and lots of his siblings as well. he does love to write long captions for whenever he posts his girlfriend. one thing though, during the first few months on the outside, he wouldn't be so present, afraid of facing the bashing on him if he got with mc in the show. that could be a reason for him to stay away until people "forget" about it.

marisol. SO - MANY - SUITS - SELFIES it makes me cry happy tears. between advocating for women's rights in a more technical way, she would definitely be using her platform to also talk about lgbtq+, especially after the realization she had during her journey. lots and lots of activism about those things, and i think she would be doing a fine job. definitely promoting the girls' products/services and an occasional thirst trap with a braless suit look.

rocco. covidiot. (i just wanted to use this nickname one more time). he might get a hard time from followers and villa buddies because of his stance on vaccines. i just hope he reads some articles instead of sharing bibity-bobity-bullshit on facebook and instagram. there's lots of vaccine memes on his comment sections no matter what he posts though. it's gonna take a while for the public to move on.

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where is hawai'i? can you point to it on a map?

if someone asks you to point to hawai'i on a map, where would you point?

before colonization, there was (and continues to be) an island called "hawai'i". the entire chain of islands is called "hawaii" and there is a state called "hawaii" made up of a large number of those islands.

now, because there are too many things named "hawaii," the island of hawai'i is often called "the big island", because o'ahu, the island where the city of honolulu is located, is what many people think of when they think of "hawaii". it's a mess.

on top of that, we have the "main hawaiian islands" (aka "southeastern islands" aka "windward islands") vs the "outer islands" (aka "northwestern islands" aka "leeward islands").

most maps of "hawaii" show only the "main" islands. the map above (created by USGS) shows more of the hawaiian islands, but omits the names of two of the islands in the "main" chain: lana'i & kaho'olawe. these are not insignificant omissions. lana'i is 98% owned by larry ellison, founder & chairman of oracle corporation. kaho'olawe has been relentlessly used & abused by the west. it has been used for ranchland, military training, and most notably, as a munitions testing site, resulting in the continued contamination of the island. after many years of protests & lawsuits by native hawaiians, the island is now only accessible by native hawaiians for cultural, spiritual, & subsistence reasons.

meanwhile, this tourist mug with a creepy colonial-style map of hawaii includes both kaho'olawe & lana'i. good job, tourist mug!

there are actually over a hundred islands in the hawaiian archipelago. the state of hawaii includes 137 of them (source). midway atoll (made up of 3 islands) is part of the archipelago, but not part of the state. it is one of america's territories: an unorganized unincorporated territory.

additionally, some of the islands "are too small to appear on maps, and others, such as Maro Reef, only appear above the water's surface during times of low tide. Others, such as Shark and Skate islands, have completely eroded away." [source: wikipedia page "list of islands of hawaii"].

in the course of writing this post, i failed to find a map that shows & names all the hawaiian islands and failed to even find a list of all of them (plus if an island only appears sometimes or has disappeared entirely, what do you even do with that?). if you find either or both of those, let me know in comments.

so where and what "hawaii" is remains a mystery.

but this has not prevented commercial & official interests from using maps of "hawaii" in all kinds of places! here on the islands, hawaii map imagery is all around.

maps are very common on tourist items:

the hawaiian telcom logo uses dots roughly arranged in the pattern of the islands on a map:

but i guess only five islands are worth including (i understand. branding needs come above all else!).

this souvenir cloth item is interesting because it includes all the main islands (including ni'ihau, lana'i, and kaho'olawe - which are often excluded), but smooshes them into the available space without much consideration for where they are in relation to each other:

the postcard above has the main islands in their rough places, but squishes them all together so that they fit in the space. also the islands are made more similar in size to each other so that you can better see the little illustrations.

here's a more "official" map to show where the islands "should be" in relation to each other, and their sizes relative to each other (although both of those can change depending on what projection the map uses):

in my mind, though, the ultimate hawaii map fantasy lives on the ubiquitous reusable walmart cloth bag (available for 50 cents at checkout to all who have forgotten to bring the right number of bags. there's a plastic shopping bag ban in hawaii.):

in the walmart commercial universe (wcu), the only islands that exist are islands that have a walmart. the general outlines of the islands & their general orientation is preserved (along with a rough topology too!), attempting to convey a sense of adhering to a recognizable reality, but islands without a walmart have been not only omitted, but the space where they would be has been eliminated as well - as if they were never there to begin with. in the walmart version of reality, what makes something "hawaii" is whether or not it has a walmart on it.

i've had a lot of time to think about this remarkable image because i have a whole bunch of these bags. this is the bag of the people - everyone uses it for everything. the one in the above photo is in a typical state - pretty rough - because it probably came from the side of the road. you can almost always find one on the side of the road. so wherever you are, you are probably within sight of the walmart version of the islands.

so why does it matter whether or not you can point to "hawaii" on a map? well, maps are political documents, meaning that they reflect the vision of whoever has the power to put the map in front of your eyes. so if you're the one with the power to make some of the most commonly-seen maps of hawaii and you decide to remove a few islands, well that can really shape what people think "hawaii" is! we're a sea of islands - many people here have only ever been to one or two of the islands. if it wasn't on the map, you might not know that it existed at all.

hawaii is incredibly important to the united states, not just for tourism, but in terms of global strategy. it's the largest outpost of american power in the middle of the pacific. it puts america & its troops half an ocean closer to some of america's biggest competitors, most notably, china. it's a springboard to all the other island territories of the pacific (which you maybe haven't heard of because they almost never appear on maps):

once you see a map of all of america's territories in the pacific, along with the exclusive economic zones (eez) that extend out for 200 miles around each island, you start to get a better feel for the extent of america's power in the pacific.

when a place is left off the map, it can be easy to make it (including its people!) invisible. so if you're america, with bases across the islands of the pacific, with a nightmarish history of atomic weapons testing in the pacific (rendering islands uninhabitable and leaving both land and waters too contaminated for people to use), perhaps you might not want some of these places to appear on the map.

in Foreign Policy in Focus, Khury Petersen-Smith writes:

"Many of us living in North America who are concerned about climate change, for example, have a sense that Pacific Islands are facing particularly severe impacts from rising sea levels. But that knowledge tends to be vague and limited, as actual residents of these islands are rarely invited to the table to speak for themselves.

This is not accidental. Commenting during the Nixon administration on U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, which share the same region of the Pacific as Guam, Henry Kissinger said “there are only 90,000 people out there. Who gives a damn?”

The U.S. has long had an interest in Marshallese and other Pacific Islanders remaining “out there” in the American mind. This marginalization helps allow the U.S. to carry out military operations in the region, along with policies that further climate change and other harms, while keeping most Americans unaware of these practices’ impacts in the Pacific." [FPIF]

often hawai'i (and alaska - which is in many ways similar to hawai'i in its relation to the contiguous US) doesn't even appear on national maps of the USA.

here's a screenshot from the new york times homepage on march 21, 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to spread:

there is no alaska and no hawai'i on those maps. so if you were looking for information on the most important issue that was happening at the time, and you live in or are concerned about hawai'i and/or alaska, there would just be nothing. and what does it say about the people who run the top newspaper in america that they decided it was fine to omit these two states? are they not states? do they not matter? do the readers in those states not matter? and this is not an unusual thing at all. it happens all the time.

i'd like to finish by sharing with you a poem by CHamoru poet Craig Santos Perez. CHamoru are the indigenous people of the mariana islands (which include guam, saipan, tinian, rota, and others).

in this poem, Craig Santos Perez writes about not appearing on the map...

“Off-Island CHamorus”

My family migrated to California when I was 15 years old. During the first day at my new high school, the homeroom teacher asked: “Where are you from?” “The Mariana Islands,” I answered. He replied: “I’ve never heard of that place. Prove it exists.” And when I stepped in front of the world map on the wall, it transformed into a mirror: the Pacific Ocean, like my body, was split in two and flayed to the margins. I found Australia, then the Philippines, then Japan. I pointed to an empty space between them and said: “I’m from this invisible archipelago.” Everyone laughed. And even though I descend from oceanic navigators, I felt so lost, shipwrecked

on the coast of a strange continent. “Are you a citizen?” he probed. “Yes. My island, Guam, is a U.S. territory.” We attend American schools, eat American food, listen to American music, watch American movies and television, play American sports, learn American history, dream American dreams, and die in American wars. “You speak English well,” he proclaimed, “with almost no accent.” And isn’t that what it means to be a diasporic CHamoru: to feel foreign in a domestic sense.

Over the last 50 years, CHamorus have migrated to escape the violent memories of war; to seek jobs, schools hospitals, adventure, and love; but most of all, we’ve migrated for military service, deployed and stationed to bases around the world. According to the 2010 census, 44,000 CHamorus live in California, 15,000 in Washington, 10,000 in Texas, 7,000 in Hawaii, and 70,000 more in every other state and even in Puerto Rico. We are the most “geographically dispersed” Pacific Islander population within the United States, and off-island CHamorus now outnumber our on-island kin, with generations having been born away from our ancestral homelands, including my daughters.

Some of us will be able to return home for holidays, weddings, and funerals; others won’t be able to afford the expensive plane ticket to the Western Pacific. Years and even decades might pass between trips, and each visit will feel too short. We’ll lose contact with family and friends, and the island will continue to change until it becomes unfamiliar to us. And isn’t that, too, what it means to be a diasporic CHamoru: to feel foreign in your own homeland.

Even after 25 years, there are still times I feel adrift, without itinerary or destination. When I wonder: What if we stayed? What if we return? When the undertow of these questions begins pulling you out to sea, remember: migration flows through our blood like the aerial roots of the banyan tree. Remember: our ancestors taught us how to carry our culture in the canoes of our bodies. Remember: our people, scattered like stars, form new constellations when we gather. Remember: home is not simply a house, village, or island; home is an archipelago of belonging.

–Craig Santos Perez

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thank you for reading this post! please let me know if you see any errors.

if you'd like to learn more about some important issues in the pacific, here are just a few:

july 2, 2020: "US says leaking nuclear waste dome is safe; Marshall Islands leaders don't believe it" - Los Angeles Times

may 30, 2021: "Pacific Plunder: this is who profits from the mass extraction of the region's natural resources." - The Guardian

april 5, 2021: "75 years after nuclear testing in the Pacific began, the fallout continues to wreak havoc" - The Conversation

june 4, 2021: "Guam won’t give up more land to the U.S. military without a fight" - The World (radio program)

aug. 24, 2021: "The US is building a military base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Micronesian residents have questions." - The World (radio program)

and if you'd like to learn more about how maps are political, here are a couple articles:

june 5, 2014: "The politics of making maps" by Amanda Ruggeri, for BBC

july 11, 2018: "Politics and Cartography: The Power of Deception through Distortion" by John Erskine, for the Carnegie Ethics Online Monthly Column

#pacific #hawaii #hawai'i #islands #maps #geography

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Rough Draft Dump: The Wrong Shirt

Just a scene that was going to be part of something longer... 

General, Sova/Breach, ~900 words.

Sova didn’t remember the previous night, or even this morning all that well.

He told himself it was because of routine. Sova was being kept off missions after some serious injuries, so he was feeling stifled being trapped at the base all day and night. After doing the same thing over and over, each day melted in with the previous. Last night… last night, Breach had come to his room seeking some late-night attention, but that was almost a daily occurrence these days. They kissed and cuddled, and Sova listened to Breach’s voice through his chest as the other man hummed a song, one that was gentle enough that, when paired with the rumbling feeling, lulled Sova to sleep.

When he woke up, he was being held oh so gently by the larger man, face to bare chest, and fists clenched around Breach’s boxers. Whenever he fell asleep being held by Breach, the other man would use pillows, clothes, blankets, anything to soften the feeling so that Sova wouldn’t wake up with a sore neck. Today, Sova felt his head on his pillow, but as he rearranged the bed, he felt the soft fabric of an undershirt underneath. Which made sense since Sova was also shirtless at that moment.

“Sova?”

That’s right. Skye had called him out for being a little late for their morning routine. He grabbed the shirt and the nearest sweater and sweatpants before joining her for their early morning stretching routine.

All that was the same. The same workout, the same shower – how did he not catch this mistake then? Did he not notice? If he didn’t, why not? It wasn’t like Sova to let something like this gloss over.

“Is that… Breach’s shirt?”

Right. He was standing on the outdoor field with a few other agents undergoing Viper’s evaluation to see if he could keep up. That’s when Sage asked him for an extra layer to which he happily obliged. He was growing too hot anyways, and he would prefer the near freezing breeze to the unbearable heat. And someone – what it KJ just now? – had pointed out that this was not Sova’s shirt.

He looked down at the black tank top with the white logo showing proudly on his chest. His eyes flickered to Breach’s in a panic as he tried to defend himself.

“N-No.” This was hard. “I have started listening to them. I… enjoy their music.” That part was just a half lie. He didn’t enjoy Breach’s taste in music, but he enjoyed when Breach would hum along.

“Is that what you were doing with my phone that day?” Breach was smirking, intent on making Sova feel as though his insides were turning to dust as it seemed he was on his own to own the embarrassment and the lie.

“…Yes.” He was careful not to show anything on his face, but he was sure that his cheeks were tinged pink. At least that could be interpreted multiple ways. “Some of the songs were… nice. I was just curious.”

All eyes were on Breach now, eagerly to see how this was going to unfold. And if Sova could disappear right now, that’d be great. At least his kind, sympathetic, caring lover would surely help him now…

“Damn, kinda creepy don’t you think? You didn’t even order the shirts properly. Always order a size down from them.”

And alright, at least the embarrassment faded into frustration at the taunts. Other than Skye, who knew exactly was what going on and was silently chuckling to herself away from all the others, no one knew the actual context. So, Sova now looked like he was just mildly obsessed with Breach, and while that was true, this was not the right context, and he was certain that everyone here would come to one conclusion. And that conclusion was definitely not that they were happily dating.

“It’s almost cute.” Skye said from a distance. She hadn’t moved closer to the drama, and instead lobbed a grenade at it from her safe spot beside an exasperated Viper.

“Yeah, you’re adorable.”

“Why are you hiding it?”

“It’s great that you two are getting along.”

Sova finished removing his arms from his sweater and handed it to Sage. He quickly glared at Breach who was on the verge of laughing and jogged over to Skye and Viper. The faster the drills started, the less air everyone else would have to tease him.

When Breach tip-toed into his room that night, it was all apologies, and lips pressed up on Sova’s face and neck in a silent plead for forgiveness. Sova didn’t even have to look to feel the curve of the lips and know that Breach wasn’t sorry, he just wanted Sova to let it go.

“What did you do with the shirt?” Breach paused at some point to ask.

“Skye’s dog.”

And that was all he needed to hear apparently because Breach was on his feet, ready to storm out towards the greenhouse, completely ignoring the black tank top hanging off the back of Sova’s chair. When Breach came back a couple hours later, still slightly damp from a shower he must’ve taken, and frustration in his eyes as he flicked the lights on, waking Sova from his rest, all he did was sigh at the shirt, unharmed and on the back of the chair.

“Very funny,” he muttered, turning the lights off again and curling around Sova. “You know… you looked good in it. Keep it.”

#also there's fanart for this #that i'm just in love with #I really wanted this scene in #but idk it just didn't fit what i wanted i guess #my writing #Valorant #valorant fanfic #valorant fanfiction #Sova/Breach #Val Sova #Val Breach