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hopepetal · 1 year
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Warning: System power critically low.
The warning flashed red in front of Scar’s eyes as he stumbled forward, the calm voice reading out the words a stark contrast to the panicked voices of his friends, connected through his programming to see and hear what was happening. Raising his mechanical arm, Scar braced the upper part of his arm with his other hand before firing. The projectile sent out by his built-in blaster slammed into the next wave of faceless AI soldiers, knocking several back into the far wall and scorching the white tile. 
“Scar!” Mumbo’s voice crackled with static, but the engineer’s panic was audible as the facility’s alarm continued to blare, summoning more soldiers to Scar’s position. “You need to get out of there before you run out of power! There’s no way you can take them all on by yourself anyway!”
Scar grit his teeth, charging up his blaster again. “We’re not leaving without the hard drive!” Firing again, he stumbled back from the force of the blast, panting heavily. “Grian, what’s your status?”
In the background, he could hear keys clacking as Grian frantically worked. “Still not done,” the hacker got out, his focus on gaining access to the database, “I need more time.”
Checking the little icon that flashed in the corner of his vision, Scar let out a slight growl of frustration. “I don’t have all that long left, G.” Turning around, he started down the hallway, away from the approaching soldiers. “I can distract them for a few more minutes but I have to fall back.” He tried to keep his voice level to ignore the fear that was slowly rising inside him. 
It was supposed to be a simple mission. Get in, grab the drive, and get out. Scar hadn’t expected to run into a veritable army of AI soldiers ready to kill him on sight. The fact that he had once been a part of that mindless mass made him shudder slightly. He hadn’t even charged beforehand, hadn’t thought it would be necessary when they were going to an abandoned facility in the middle of nowhere. 
Cursing his decision now, Scar sprinted down the hall, the loud clomping footsteps of the soldiers gaining behind him. Glancing over his shoulder just in time to see the first of them round the corner, Scar ducked just in time for a bullet to shoot over his shoulder just barely nicking his ear. The little warning icon in the corner of his vision seemed to flash brighter as he sped up, rounding the next corner. “Grian, how much time do you need?” he pressed, noticing how he was getting closer to the room his hacker was currently in. “I’m approaching your location,” he warned.
“Just a little longer!” Grian sounded like he was shaking as he answered, frustration giving rise to panic. “Goodness gracious- okay, okay, I’ve almost got it.”
“Scar.” Mumbo’s voice crackled back into existence, drawing the AI’s attention. “Something’s wrong- some of your systems aren’t functioning correctly. Are you injured?” 
Scar quickly glanced down at himself and groaned. “Yeah, I didn't even notice. They must’ve gotten me earlier-” Turning slightly, he fired another shot over his shoulder at the approaching soldiers before rounding the corner- “probably one of those ranged models with the blaster. I-”
Warning: System power at five percent. Some features may be unavailable or limited.
Scar’s vision dimmed, his steps stuttering as exhaustion hit him. Gasping in a painful breath of stale air, the burning in his lungs at the forefront of his mind alongside the heaviness of his legs. The voices of his friends were cut off suddenly as his internal power dropped, the unison marching of the soldiers pursuing him the only sound other than his frantic panting and the blaring alarm overhead.
Leaning heavily against the wall, Scar forced himself onward, a stumbling run that made his already exhausted body scream in opposition. He had to trust that Grian would get the hard drive, had to trust that his own body would make it just a little further, had to hope and pray to whatever cruel god was out there that they’d both make it out of this alive. They’d get back home, where Mumbo was waiting with an exasperated sigh on his lips and a scolding on his tongue, and both Scar and Grian would sit there sheepishly while Mumbo began repairing Scar’s systems. They’d promise to be more careful next time, because there would be a next time, Scar was not going to die when he was so close to getting his memories back-
Warning: System power at four percent.
The voice that had previously read out the warnings was gone now, replaced by a constant, insistent beeping. Legs shaking, Scar had to put all of his focus into moving lest he fall over. One foot in front of the other. Come on. Come on, just a little further!
He had forgotten the soldiers.
Scar did not feel pain. That particular function had been turned off at five percent. What he did feel was weightlessness as an explosion sent him soaring through the air and slamming into a wall with enough force to crack the tile. Blood- fake, of course, only there for the purpose of “realism”- seeped from his head and smeared against the dusty white tile as his body slid down to rest against the floor. Groaning, he raised his head to gaze at the approaching soldiers as his vision blurred and darkened.
Oh.
He wasn’t going to make it.
A soft laugh mixed with a sob bubbled up as Scar sent a mental command through his programming. Resignation filled him as the confirmation window popped up in his view.
Do you wish to turn off power saver? You will have full access to all functions and systems, but your power will run out more quickly.
[Yes | No]
Scar’s vision brightened as he turned off power saver, the voices of his friends reappearing in his head once more, every bit of panic and worry. Despite his situation, he had to smile. Gosh, he loved his friends so much.
He was going to miss them.
“Scar,” Grian was saying, “Scar I got the drive, we can go, it’s going to be okay, we-”
Mumbo’s voice mixed in with Grian’s, harder to understand but still audible. “Turn power saver back on- too dangerous- we’ll meet-”
“I’m not going to make it.”
Mumbo and Grian went silent.
Scar let out a trembling sigh. “I can’t move. The soldiers- they’re here. My power’s almost gone.” Forcing a smile, he continued. “But- we had a good run! We did our best! Yeah, it didn’t work out in the end, but at least… at least we tried!” Tears welled up in his eyes and spilled down his cheeks even as he smiled. Crying was yet another function made purely for realism, another function that wasted precious energy. “So… Thank you, for everything. And I’m sorry for causing you both so much trouble.”
Warning: System power at three percent.
The silence was nearly as loud as the cries of Scar’s aching, mechanical heart. He faintly wondered if other AI were programmed to be heartbroken by grief, or if that was simply another unusual quirk of his. 
“No.” Grian’s voice shook, a cocktail of anger, fear, and grief. “No, we are not- that’s not how this is ending. We’ve gone through too much to just have it end here! I’m coming to get you and-” 
“You can’t.” Mumbo had never sounded so small. “You would die as well.”
Scar made a soft noise of agreement, holding back a sob at Grian’s desperate cry. “C’mon, G…” The soldiers were getting closer. He had to be quick. “I’m not even human, anyway. You and Mumbo are smart, you guys can just- create another one of me. I’m sure there are plenty of other faulty AI soldiers left in the trash somewhere-”
“Don’t you dare say that!” Grian roared, his voice glitching as his volume exceeded normal capacity. “Who cares if you’re human or not?! You’re our friend!” He quieted down, desperation seeping into his words. “You’re family.” 
Warning: System power at two percent.
Tears continued to pour down Scar’s cheeks, the salt seeping into his split lip and causing him to wince. Nevertheless, he continued to smile the kind of smile only seen on those who knew their time was up. “If that’s how you really feel…” He sniffled, letting out a shaky breath. “It has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of your family.”
Warning: System power at one percent.
“Scar, wait-!”
The soldiers were so close. “Keep the hard drive. Look through it. Even if I don’t ever get to know why I was created…” 
“No, no no no you’re going to know, I’m coming, just hang in there-!”
“Grian- god, Scar, I’m so sorry…”
“...remember me, okay? I love-”
System power at zero percent. Shutting down…
The soldiers closed in.
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fandomele · 2 years
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239 FREE static mobile headers in my ko-fi shop, about disability and pride! (gif versions are coming), 640x360px obviously most are the same I used to make the icons, also in my shop, because there aren’t that many usable, faceless, resources. Share if you’d like for more people to see these, see source to find my shop!
In my shop you’ll find two different downloads: “static tumblr headers about disability, 13 images with a transparent background, each on top of 11 different pride flags” (examples: first two rows of this gifset)
“static tumblr headers about disability, 10 images, each with 11 different pride flags colors” (examples: last two rows)
Each of these have one folder abou sign language (for the trasparent one there is an extra one for blindness!), one folder about wheelchairs users, one about hand or leg prosthetics.
Pride flags used are: ace, agender, aro, bi, lesbian, mlm (where it applies), nonbinary, pansexual, aroace, trans and rainbow.
As always no one is excluded on purpose!
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lovelctters · 2 years
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it’s been busy day and hoping to settle down in a bit . probably just pump out my faceless gif sets & work on static icons
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facesmadeforsmut · 5 years
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AESTHETIC: SimplyG. Icon pack. (284) Like/reblog if you’re using them. INCLUDES NSFW ICONS.
( samples / download )
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ENA!Yuu
I'm just here to mix-and-match different kinds of Yuus with different kinds of personalities to see what monstrosity I can make. That being said,,, ENA!Yuu brainrot!
"Salutations, kind strangers! May you please point me towards the direction of my abode? I seem to be lost in your odd and lovely world!"
They wear a two-tone colored mask that changes its appearance and color depending on the situation.
How does it change its color and appearance? Magic.
The default is color, of course, the iconic blue and yellow ENA has.
Their voice also switches sporadically between male and female.
No one has ever seen what they look like behind the mask.
People have tried and all have failed.
Gives others a bit of uncanny valley vibes because of their body movements and actions.
They move as if they're a GIF on loop and it just looks a bit too unnatural.
Can't help but just think of ENA!Yuu going,,,
Yuu: "I came here to bring you a gift! :)" holds out hands
 Character: "There's... nothing there?"
 Yuu: cups the character's face :D
 haracter: "..." loading :v
 Character: realization "!!!"
ENA! Yuu considers Twisted Wonderland a peculiar world.
Mostly because they live in a surreal world that makes no sense.
Therefore, being brought to Twisted Wonderland, a world with sense, is senseless to them since their normal is not normal to Twisted Wonderland and Twisted Wonderland's normal is not normal to them, ya get me?
It's alright if you don't. I even confuse myself sometimes.
Probably likes it at Heartslabyul since it has a surreal and nonsense feel to it that would make them feel kind of at home.
They got very nervous one time that they vomited static/noise.
The static turned into an hourglass dog.
Grim now has this weird-looking dog following him all around the school.
He says he doesn't like the dog but we all know he's lying.
The dog operates on cartoon logic. It's virtually unkillable.
And by that I mean someone flattened it into a pancake by accident.
Everyone was silently horrified to see the dog flattened on the ground.
Only to see it snap back into its original shape with a pop, unharmed and good as new.
Speaking of accidents, Riddle was probably the one who made ENA!Yuu nervous.
He probably said something about breaking the rules and Sad ENA!Yuu took over and started self-deprecating themselves.
Someone made ENA!Yuu too sad one time and put them in full sadness mode.
Their mask just glitched and it suddenly turned gray and faceless which freaked the others out cause this has never happened before???
Yuu, are you okay???? Do you need anything?
ENA!Yuu quickly covered their "face" and stomped their feet, their words muffled and ineligible as they cry and warble and have a mental breakdown.
Of course this just made their friends panic more cause yuu,,, having mental breakdown??? And their "face" gone???? And they can't understand them????
What do they even do in this situation???
Thankfully Happy ENA!Yuu takes over the next moment before they can hurt themselves and calmly drawls out a simple, "Ah, my apologies."
Also, Crowley vs sad ENA!Yuu
Crowley says something along the lines of "blah blah blah, aren't I so kind?"
Sad ENA!Yuu: wailing loudly "I'M SORRY, I DON'T DESERVE IT!!!"
Everyone in the immediate vicinity: stares judgingly at Crowley as usual
Whatever shite Crowley tries to pull, sad ENA!Yuu will be there to guilt trip them back to responsibility.
Crewel vibes the hourglass dog.
Probably thought the dog was a bit weird-looking at first but it grew on him.
It plops itself onto his shoulder whenever it sees him and he lets it.
Sam most likely starts selling marketable plushies of the hourglass dog because it became popular among the student body.
Hourglass dog has become the favorite squish toy.
Does ENA!Yuu also become a marketable plushie? Hmmm...
When they have enough simps, Sam probably will with Yuu’s permission.
ENA!Yuu: pops up from behind a counter :D 
Trey: in the middle of baking "Yuu?? What are you doing-"   ENA!Yuu: "Turrón!”   [Cue Trey having no clue what the hecc is going on as Ena!Yuu keeps repeating "Turrón" again and again until he realizes that Yuu most likely wanted to eat turrón so he makes some for them.]
Sometimes Grim becomes worried about Yuu.
He occasionally catches them 'glitching' away and being replaced by a mannequin for a split second before they return back to normal.
Sometimes it's a mannequin, sometimes a mess of a polygon.
He asks Yuu about this only to be met with a nonchalant shrug.
ENA!Yuu themselves has no idea what's happening.
Grim leaves it be for now.
Also...   Azul: trying to get ENA!Yuu sign a contract   ENA!Yuu: "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no-"   Azul: "..."   ENA!Yuu: "-no, no, no, no, no-"   Azul: "..."   ENA!Yuu: "-no, no, no."   Azul: "A simple ‘no’ would've sufficed..."
Yuu mostly 'glitches' when they get 'hurt'.
Floyd likes to squeeze Yuu a lot because of this since they look funny.
I like to think that ENA!Yuu doesn't have any concept of pain in this so they just let Floyd be.
At first, that is.
It’s just that they don’t realize that they’re hurt.
I mean, how do you get polygons to feel pain?
They probably don't bleed in the first place anyway.
That being said, ENA!Yuu probably had a polygon form body before they arrived in Twisted Wonderland.
They only got their 'human' body when they arrived.
It's kind of like the world is 'fixing' their entire being to be more understandable in the new world.
Like some kind of filter to make the human mind understand their form in a logical and reasonable manner.
Like getting a patch to make the game run smoothly and fix bugs.
Cause I mean, I dunno 'bout y'all but if I started seeing a hyper realistic person made out of polygon in the real world I would be scared af and my brain would not be able to handle that.
That's like some eldritch level stuff right there.
So pain is a foreign concept to them.
ENA!Yuu not understanding why they feel a stinging feeling and panicking the first time they see themselves bleed.
They glitched heavily.
Which made the others realize that ENA!Yuu glitching = ENA!Yuu hurt = glitching bad!
Floyd didn't find the glitching effect fun anymore.
Yuu having to deal with overblots and at the same time newfound sensations and feeling caused by their 'human' body.
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troutfishinginmusic · 3 years
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Guide: Lesser-known nu metal albums that hold up
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Nu metal is a genre that’s easily derided. It was caricatured as over-the-top angst, baggy jeans and casual misogyny. It was one of the biggest genres when I was first discovering music.
There was plenty of bad music, but to say it was all bad would be inaccurate. It was extremely diverse compared to other metal scenes. It also put issues like child abuse to the forefront, showing survivors they were not alone. Nu metal took a genre that was showing signs of wear and reinvented it. While it soon became saturated by faceless bands (as every popularized genre eventually does), it was important.
As the genre regains popularity, there have been plenty of retrospective lists about bands like Slipknot, Deftones and Korn. There have even been lists detailing some of the lesser known bands. The podcast Roach Koach has done a great job reassessing the genre (It was the catalyst for me making this list). In no order, here are seven nu metal albums you might be less familiar with but are worth your time. These all roughly come from the genre’s original era of popularity.  I’ve also put together a ranking of more established nu metal records at the end.
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I love the first couple of Static-X albums, but Cannibal is truly a high-water mark. It’s catchy, concise and extremely heavy. While it has some more straight-ahead metal flourishes (guitar solos!?!), no one could mistake this for another band. And, if nothing else, Static-X is a definitive nu metal band. Cannibal seems to find Static-X revitalized after kicking out a problematic member. Vocalist Wayne Static (who died in 2014) knows exactly what he wants these songs to do. His barking delivery finds spaces in each of these spartan industrial rippers. It represents all the things I like about the genre.
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Oracle represents somewhat of a break from the more straight-ahead nu metal sound of Spit, so it might not exactly fit on this list. But ultimately Kittie is forever tied to the genre (much like Deftones), even if they’ve branched out in other directions. Oracle doubles down on heaviness by incorporating death metal influences. Morgan Lander’s vocals kneecap a lot of her more melodically inclined nu peers. It also shows the band progressing, despite losing guitarist Fallon Bowman. When people dismiss the nu metal as an outlet for white male whining, though sometimes deserved, they overlook great albums like Oracle.
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Apex Theory’s only album, Topsy-Turvy, is brimming with creativity. Much like System of a Down, which originally featured lead vocalist Ontronik Khachaturianon on drums, the band channels its Armenian heritage. Yet Apex Theory leans into something more melodic, mathy and possibly emo (in more of the At the Drive-In sense). Every aspect of this album feels so precise and thought out. Khachaturianon’s vocals can leap out like a barrage of stream of consciousness yet can just as easily smooth out. It might’ve been a bit too weird for radio but, in a world where SOAD broke, it certainly could’ve happened.
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Apartment 26’s final album might be one of the strangest on this list. It’s apparent that it was made to be more “marketable.” Yet those touches make it even weirder. The production here is very polished, but this is still an album that incorporates swing jazz into metal through programmed horns. It’s that oddness, intentional or not, that benefits Music for the Massive. An added bonus is the great cover of “In Heaven” from David Lynch’s Eraserhead (the band’s name is a reference to the film). Apartment 26 easily surpasses its legacy as Geezer Butler’s son’s band on this album.
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Taproot’s debut struck on something deeply vulnerable that the band has carried through on subsequent albums. What is often missing on those other albums, though, is the heaviness found on Gift. The band’s raw talent is on display here, recalling System of a Down’s debut. Like that album, influences peek through but the band sound fully formed and unique. Stephen Richards’ distinct vocals, while not for everyone, bend around every twist and turn of these knotty songs. The band moved away from the genre, but created some of its best work within it. Oh, and bonus points for instigating this.
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Orgy’s goth-y, processed guitar crunch was often imitated (Deadsy, etc.) but has never exactly been replicated. Candyass in some ways seems like the obvious choice, but there are some awkward growing pains. And really Vapor Transmission is just as good and possibly better. The hooks are bigger, the band commits to the futuristic themes and vocalist Jay Gordon is at the top of his gender-bending industrial crooning game. Orgy remains notable in this era for poking holes in the genre’s inflated macho exterior at every turn. There’s something so transgressive about the way the band operated in nu metal.
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New Killer America’s cover always caught my eye when I was a kid. Album art was and still is a big deal to me. I love how subtly gross this is. At the time it was more affecting than the over-the-top gore common on metal albums. It fits the music. Skrape wallows in heavy post-grunge sludge. As Ulrich Wild did on the Static-X albums, there’s a good balance struck between heaviness and accessibility. Skrape had a mysterious vibe that was missing from similar acts that had a tendency to over-share. Despite some awkward vocals/lyrics that come up, NKA is noteworthy.
Honorable Mention: Coal Chamber-Chamber Music, Powerman 5000-Tonight the Stars Revolt, Nothingface-Violence, Mushroomhead-XX, Sevendust-Animosity
Established Classics Ranking
1. Korn-Korn: This was the album that started the genre. Every element that other bands would copy is here. It also features some of the rawist emotion ever recorded (”Daddy”) and some great singles (”Blind,” “Clown”). Some of the lyrics are definitely dated, but there are few metal albums that are as influence and heavy (well, in terms of subject matter) as this.
2. Deftones-White Pony: This album defied every stereotype the genre had. It seamlessly incorporated trip-hop and post-rock influences without sacrificing any of the heaviness. This is the highpoint for a band that rarely has a misstep.
3. System of a Down-System of a Down: SOAD’s debut is heavy, political and completely left-field. It still sounds like nothing else. All of the band’s records are good to great, yet I love how the death metal influences poke out more on this one. That’s a personal preference I guess, I really could’ve picked any SOAD album.
4. Sepultura-Roots: This album is so unbelievably heavy. It’s such a bummer that Sepultura didn’t make a record with this lineup past this point. It’s political in a way a lot of nu metal wasn’t. It seamlessly incorporates the band’s Brazilin heritage. It up-ends any perception about the genre being light-weight.
5. Slipknot-Iowa: This is really the only album from this era that rivals Roots in terms of heaviness. The band draws from a different well than Sepultura, packing Iowa with horror movie imagery. Much of this was to no doubt channel vocalist Corey Taylor’s troubled childhood. There’s something so frantic and desperate captured on this album, which probably has to do with Ross Robinson producing it (he produced Korn’s debut, as well as a lot of other iconic records).
6. Incubus- S.C.I.E.N.C.E.: Few nu metal records are this legitimately fun. Every part of Incubus is bursting with stoned creativity here. It also channels its influences much better than its peers. Somehow metal riffs and bongos go together here. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. showed a more easygoing side of the genre that still retained all the heaviness.
7. Linkin Park- Meteora: Though Hybrid Theory has a lot of singles, I always preferred this one. I think the band forged a bit more of its identity here. It gets a bit heavier, yet retains all the pop smarts. Definitely worth revisiting if you’ve just re-listened to Hybrid Theory to celebrate its recent anniversary.
NOTE: Yeah, Limp Bizkit is not on this list. The band has some cool songs, but ultimately its albums are pretty scattered. Fred Durst is a lot for me to take. The rest of the band is amazingly talented, especially Wes Borland. If its exclusion is annoying to you, please make your own list.
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slendermanlore · 5 years
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Happy 10 year anniversary to the Slender Man Mythos! (June 10, 2009)
10 years ago today, Something Awful user Victor Surge (Eric Knudsen) created the Slender Man on a “Create Paranormal Images” thread. 10 days later this creation prompted Marble Hornets, a found footage webseries that cemented the Slender Man as an iconic monster, meme, and quasi-urban legend.
That much, everyone knows. But what if I told you the Something Awful thread influenced subsequent Slender Man media more than we realize?
We’ve all read enough dry, decontextualized summaries to know the Slender Man’s traits: no face, suit, steals children, starts fires, exists throughout history. What they don’t mention is that all these come from the same thread as the first posts, including fictional history that still slips through the cracks. Victor Surge’s minimal backstory let users fill in faceless blanks with whatever scared them most, creating an ever-changing monster only static in the atmospheric sense. Nearly all Slender Man lore attributed to webseries actually has precedents in the Original Mythos; yes, including metafiction, more tapes, conspiracy theories, cursed family legacies and inheritances, malfunctions, fractured fairy tales, other associated monsters, cryptic human puppets, and the thrilling tension between the Slender Man’s erasure and propagation of itself in our awareness.
One user claiming to “hate the whole web 2.0 thing” said “the thing about ghost stories that all those shaky green tv shows miss is that people like telling ghost stories as much as they like hearing them”. Therein lies the Original Mythos’ unique charm that other online horror can scarcely replicate: the communal experience of fears. This collaboration actually abounded with continuity, not of  “canon” but of tone. With few precedents for immersive web-original horror (unlike the paradox-of-choice we have today), writers’ reference pools of H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, House of Leaves, Coast to Coast AM, sincere cryptid sites, and real-life mysteries or conspiracy theories of the day make the Original Mythos the most hallowed of Web 2.0 relics. Writers’ rapid-fire associations and the images’ “worst kind of Where's Waldo” quality, all stemming from a sublimely simple monster, made something truly memetic, i.e. invading the subconscious.
“Slenderman is the shadows under the trees. Slenderman is that brief moment before you turn on the light when walking into a dark room, and the same moment when you leave. Slenderman is the leaves you can hear skittering down the road, but are unable to see. Slenderman wakes you up in the middle of the night and won't let you go back to sleep because you can feel him watching you.”
The Original Mythos is lilting guitar and ghost stories by a campfire. The Original Mythos is evening radio static on an American highway nowhere, bloodstained footnotes on European woodcuts and Egyptian hieroglyphs, yellowed news clippings on anomalous missing persons cases. The Original Mythos is the night air of summer that heals you before slumber and suffocates you in a cold sweat moments after. The Original Mythos is a bewildering daydream weaving its way into every shadow you trace on the sun-dappled playground of your childhood.
The Original Mythos is the iconic horror anthology no one knows. And I hope my archive could be just one of many to change that in the next 10 years.
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bauhurricane · 5 years
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★·.·´ ❪ Visage  🎔 Andrea Joy Cook ❫  🎔  ❝ Her skin has turned to porcelain. to ivory. to steal.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Visage  🎔 Britt Robertson ❫  🎔  ❝You will move mountains when you are older.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Visage  🎔 Jane Fonda ❫  🎔  ❝I wasn’t made to sit still and look pretty.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Answered ❫  🎔  ❝ She is going to prove you all wrong.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Musing ❫  🎔  ❝She is a diamond. They can’t break her.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Desires ❫  🎔  ❝You can touch me with slow hands. Turn it up and make me sweat.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Ask Meme ❫  🎔  ❝I know how to play this game.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Interactions ❫  🎔  ❝Pretty words all strung together.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Verse name here ❫  🎔  ❝❞ ❰Canon❱
★·.·´ ❪ Verse name here ❫ 🎔  ❝❞ ❰Private with ❱
★·.·´ ❪ Verse name here ❫  🎔  ❝❞ ❰Alternative Universe❱
★·.·´ ❪ Higher Ground ❫  🎔  ❝she used to be someone else and that person made her into the woman she is today.❞ ❰Alternative Universe❱
★·.·´ ❪ Verse name here ❫  🎔  ❝❞ ❰Crossover❱
★·.·´ ❪ Undecided ❫ 🎔  ❝ Not sure where she belongs in this world beside team other. ❞ ❰Undecided❱
★·.·´ ❪ Verse name here ❫ 🎔  ❝❞ ❰Group❱
★·.·´ ❪ Headcanon ❫ 🎔  ❝ The truth hurts but secrets kill.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Faceless ❫ 🎔  ❝ She doesn’t need a hero because she is the hero.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Wardrobe ❫  🎔  ❝Just another dressed up heartbreak.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Isms ❫  🎔  ❝Turn the pain into power.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Ships // Willifer ❫  🎔  ❝Ask me again.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Ships // Jeid  ❫  🎔  ❝I’ve always loved you. I was just too scared to say it before. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Aesthetic ❫  🎔  ❝She doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Wanted Plots ❫  🎔  ❝Write a little wish list and then burn it under the stars.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Queue ❫  🎔  ❝When the lights go out in the BAU.❞
★·.·´ ❪  Will LaMontagne ❫  🎔  ❝Home isn’t a place but a person with a heartbeat. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Astrid Jareau ❫  🎔  ❝Life is tough but darling so are you.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // All ❫  🎔  ❝A collection of things I done over time.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // GIFs ❫  🎔  ❝Almost like a short little video but not.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Drabble ❫  🎔  ❝Sometimes I write things just to write them.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Watch Me Edit ❫  🎔  ❝Watch me edit and have fun.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Fanfiction ❫  🎔  ❝We write to fill a hole in our hearts.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // tutorials ❫  🎔  ❝Step by Step instructions made by me.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Screencap ❫  🎔  ❝Quickly snap a picture because it will last longer.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Static ❫  🎔  ❝Just a wonderful edit.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Videos ❫  🎔  ❝Sometimes you just wanna watch a show.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // PSD ❫  🎔  ❝A special coloring here and there for everyone.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Icons ❫  🎔  ❝feel free to use these when you rp.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Drawings ❫  🎔  ❝Sometimes I like to get a piece of paper out and draw.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Mine // Polarr ❫  🎔  ❝Sometimes making a free coloring is worth it.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Saved // Positivity ❫  🎔  ❝Your message has made my day that much brighter.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Dash Games ❫  🎔  ❝Just going to play a little game.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // Out Of Character ❫  🎔  ❝Signs her letters with x’s and o’s.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // Self Promo ❫  🎔  ❝A little self love never hurt anyone.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // Giveaway ❫  🎔  ❝Here is a chance to win.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // Blog Masterlist ❫  🎔  ❝Making a list and checking it twice.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // Other Promo❫  🎔 ❝Amazing blogs full of beautiful writing.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Jen // About ❫  🎔  ❝She used to tie her hair up in ribbons and bows.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Rules ❫  🎔  ❝Everyone has a set of laws they follow inside of them.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // All Replies ❫  🎔  ❝ A collection of writing that is magic. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // All Answered Asks ❫  🎔 ❝ A collection of writing that is like a book just begging to be read. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Mains ❫  🎔  ❝ Sometimes we have people that just click. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Where to find me ❫  🎔  ❝I have a lot of places that I might be. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Exclusives ❫  🎔  ❝ Sometimes we have people that just click. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Ships ❫  🎔 ❝ She would lay down her life for them because of love.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Permanent Starter Call ❫  🎔  ❝ Like for the randomness that is me. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Permanent Graphic Starter Call ❫🎔 ❝ Like for the randomness that is me. Or just comment on this post if it is easier.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Starter Call ❫  🎔  ❝ Like for a starter. If your a multi muse tell me who you want the starter to be thrown at. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Meme Call ❫  🎔  ❝  Like for a meme. If your a multi muse tell me who you want the memes to be thrown at. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Navigation ❫ 🎔  ❝ She traveled the world looking for the beauty without stopping to see that she was what she was looking for. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Verses ❫  🎔  ❝ Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Credits ❫  🎔  ❝ Sometimes we have things that aren’t ours so shout out to these people that helped. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Tell Me If You Can See ❫  🎔  ❝ Please comment on this post to let me know something. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Stats ❫  🎔  ❝ There was once a girl who would die to protect others.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Biography ❫  🎔  ❝ Her story isn’t a pretty one with a happy ending. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Introduction of Jennifer ❫  🎔  ❝ Hello and welcome to my blog! Learn more about me here! ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Canon Divergence ❫  🎔  ❝ Changing canon just a bit at a time because sometimes canon sucks.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Verses Information Drop ❫  🎔 ❝ Learn more about the wonderful verses of this blog. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Starter Call ❫  🎔  ❝ Like for a starter. If you are a multi muse please comment on who you want the starter for. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Format Change ❫  🎔  ❝ This is for anyone that is on mobile and unable to see a reply with my generated fancy text. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Helpful  // Tag Drop ❫  🎔  ❝ Just a drop for all the things that need to be dropped. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Helpful  // Reference ❫  🎔  ❝ Might need this someday so going to reblog it. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Helpful  // Vocab ❫  🎔  ❝ This word is on the tip of my tongue just can’t remember it. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Helpful  // Wishlist Plots ❫  🎔  ❝When you wish upon a star and hope for the best. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Spencer Reid ❫  🎔  ❝He is my best friend and I would do anything for him. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Preferences  ❫  🎔  ❝Just filling this out so others can learn more about me. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Please Read ❫  🎔  ❝All of the important things to start with. ❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Reblogged ❫  🎔  ❝ In case you haven’t seen this before or I changed something.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Dash Only // Navi Sections ❫  🎔  ❝ Sections make things easier to take care of and update.❞
★·.·´ ❪ Noah Jareau ❫  🎔  ❝He is the only one in this world that knows my deep dark secrets.❞
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Top 25 Songs of 2018: Honorable Mentions
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It’s year-end list season again! And with that comes my sixth annual top 25 list.
But before we countdown the best that 2018 gave us, here’s 15 songs that just missed the cut. Like in 2017, this year had more quantity than quality when it came to singles, meaning although there were only a couple legitimate contenders for the top spot, there were plenty of solid songs that I had to give a shout out to. So apologies to great acts like boygenius, Florence+The Machine and Childish Gambino (although he easily had the best music video this year) for just missing the cut.
Let’s get into it!
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“Nobody” by Mitski
There are plenty of songs about loneliness, but Mitski turns that emotion into insanity on “Nobody.” 
Her emotions ramp up and become more desperate throughout the indie-pop track, as Mitski’s pleads for companionship intensify. She wants to find love, but frankly, she also just needs human connection. And as the one-word chorus repeats into oblivion — “Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody...” the situation becomes more and more helpless.
My main issue with Mitski’s 2018 album, Be The Cowboy, was that most of the short vignette-style songs weren’t memorable. That’s not the case for the manic, disco-tinged “Nobody,” which instantly became a standout in her impressive catalog.
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“Heat Wave” by Snail Mail
I’m not sure what it says about indie rock that its most hyped newcomer is mostly copying the sounds of the ‘90s, but when the tunes are as good as “Heat Wave,” I’m not going to complain.
Nineteen-year-old prodigy Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, delivers with a simple love song perfect for lazy summer days. Jordan’s vocals are charmingly warbly and mesh well with the crunchy guitars that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Pavement album. It’s catchy enough for soccer moms and with enough alt-rock nostalgia to grab any indie rocker’s ear. There’s a good reason Snail Mail’s star has shot to the top this year among the Pitchfork set.
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“Me and Michael” by MGMT
IT’S THE COMEBACK OF THE CENTURY! 
That’s not even hyperbole: After they released three generation-defining classic singles, MGMT’s relevance disappeared after their 2010 album Congratulations intentionally alienated audiences (despite being pretty solid). Then, their 2013 self-titled album was straight-up bad.
But thankfully, MGMT decided to return to the synthpop jams that brought them success 11 years ago, while keeping their weirdo quirks intact. And it was a winning formula, as the bombastic single “Me and Michael” proves.
“Michael” is painfully ‘80s, from the glittery keyboards to the thundering drum machine beat. Yet, many of the instruments are off-key and frontman Andrew VanWyngarden’s hipstery vocals aren’t exactly Duran Duran-esque. And the clash of styles helps create a solid tune, the band’s best in eight years.
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“Elastic” by Joey Purp
Remember how Azealia Banks used to pump out hip-house bangers like it wasn’t even hard? Then she lost her mind, and now “212″ is a relic of a better time.
Thankfully, Chicago native Joey Purp is picking up the slack, although he puts a much more minimalist spin on the sound. “Elastic” is a very simple, skeletal song, with Purp nearly mumbling over a steady, bouncing beat with couple vocal samples to liven things up. “Elastic” shows that when it comes to club bangers, you really don’t need to overthink things.
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“Nameless, Faceless” by Courtney Barnett
Melbourne indie rocker Courtney Barnett’s second album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, had a noticeably more frustrated outlook than her 2015 debut. A prime example is the album’s lead single, “Nameless, Faceless,” all about the difficulties of being a woman in a world that treats them horribly.
Barnett goes after internet trolls during the song’s verses with the droll, snarky tone that made her indie-famous, but the chorus is where things take a dark turn. Paraphrasing The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood, Barnett sings, “Men are scared that women will laugh at them ... Women are scared that men will kill them.” She then adds that she holds her keys between her fingers in-between her fingers to protect herself at night. 
It’s a fearful song for fearful times, and more proof that Barnett is one of indie rock’s best songwriters.
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“Electricity” by Silk City and Dua Lipa
Producer giants Diplo and Mark Ronson teamed up to create a perfect homage to ‘90s house. It’s bouncy, effervescent, and features one of pop’s best voices: Dua Lipa. The fact that a dance jam this perfect was only barely a hit in the U.S. is a total shame.
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“After The Storm” by Kali Uchis feat. Tyler, The Creator and Bootsy Collins
I’m not typically an R&B guy, but I couldn’t resist newcomer Kali Uchis’ debut Isolation this year, especially its smooth throwback single, “After The Storm.”
Uchis glides over the off-key synth backdrop, expressing post-breakup optimism with ease. The sticky melody and relaxed vibe are helped out by a blast of smooth (if off-kilter) loverman shtick from Tyler, The Creator and some fun adlibs from funk icon Bootsy Collins. But this is Uchis’ show, and she barely needs to lift a finger to hold listeners’ command.
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“Please Don’t Die” by Father John Misty
After releasing an overstuffed and underwhelming album last year, Father John Misty, AKA singer-songwriter Josh Tillman, decided to keep it simple this year, and I’m back on his bandwagon.
One reason for that is how blunt and personal his songwriting is again, particularly on “Please Don’t Die.” Tillman’s concept album God’s Favorite Customer focuses on the real-life story of how his depression caused him to hide out in a hotel for two straight months, and the heartbreaking “Please Don’t Die” tackles this scenario from the singer’s wife’s point of view. 
She constantly reminds Tillman that his potential suicide won’t be a victimless crime during the soaring chorus, and he laments how his spiraling has affected her in the somber verses. There’s no snarky winks to the audience here — just Tillman nakedly depicting how his emotional chaos effected those around him.
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“My My My!” by Troye Sivan
I never paid too much attention to Australian former YouTuber Troye Sivan. Now I’m regretting that choice, thanks to “My My My!”
Pure bubblegum pop doesn’t play much of a role in today’s music landscape, so it’s hard to call any version of that subgenre “modern,” but that’s honestly how I would describe this jam. It’s a slice of stuttering tropical pop with some indie and ‘80s flavor to it, and Sivan himself sells the tune like he’d been singing these types of songs for years in a boy band. I’ll be keeping tabs on Sivan from here on out.
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“Light On” by Maggie Rogers
Last year, I was floored by Maggie Rogers’ unique blend of rootsy nature sounds with blue-eyed soul, particularly in her stellar single “Dog Years.” It seems like she isn’t fixing what ain’t broken, as “Light On” is a continuation of that sound.
Although it isn’t quite as transcendent as her early singles, “Light On” is still a quality power ballad, with a nice mix of acoustic guitar and organic synths, complete with a showstopping, melancholy chorus. Rogers still knows her way around a gorgeous melody, and I’m sure she’ll continue to fill her niche as the best music you’ll probably hear at REI.
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“The Opener” by Camp Cope
Camp Cope have had it up to here with shitty men, and “The Opener” is a scathing indictment of the hypocrisy the trio constantly face.
Lead singer Georgia McDonald wails over a ‘90s alt-rock groove about sexism both in the dating world as well as the music industry. The latter is where she reserves her sharpest lines, going after men who’ve said her success isn’t her own doing, and being told to book smaller venues by the same guys who will “preach equality” in public. And of course, how do these men in power maintain their faux-feminist image? “‘Just get a female opener, that’ll fill the quota.’” Scathing.
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“We Appreciate Power” by Grimes feat. HANA
If “We Appreciate Power,” the (as of writing this) brand-new Grimes single, was trimmed by a minute or so, it might have made the actual list. It’s a smidge on the repetitive side at its current 5:30-length.
But dear lord: This is a BANGER. As just about every critic has said, the production here is an aggro mix of Nine Inch Nails and Korn, complete with squealing guitars, a pounding, synthetic beat and some random screams thrown in the mix for fun. And yes — it works. Put it on during the next workout and see how fast you start going.
Throw in some legitimately creepy lyrics about artificial intelligence and totalitarianism and you’ve got a classic Grimes single. If only it was a bit shorter...
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“Lake Erie” by Wild Pink
For a band from Brooklyn, Wild Pink are shockingly good at creating music that sounds like the sun setting on a Midwestern corn field. 
“Lake Erie” is so close to The War On Drugs’ signature sound — heartland rock mixed with whispered vocals and shoegaze-y atmospherics — that I’d call it a ripoff, if it wasn’t arguably better than anything The War On Drugs has put out in a few years. It’s emotive, gorgeous and not too pretentious, like something Bruce Springsteen could’ve released 35 years ago.
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“Noid” by Yves Tumor
No, unfortunately, “Noid” isn’t about retro Domino’s ads. It’s much darker than a claymation pizza mascot.
Yves Tumor’s art-rock track is fairly normal for its first half. It even has shades of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in the lyrics wondering about the sad state of the world. Then, things get weird: the bass starts playing in a different key, the background fills with static and screams, and Yves Tumor keeps singing along, and his lyrics about being “scared for my life” start to seem less like a protest anthem and more like a horror soundtrack. It’s a chilling experience.
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“Party For One” by Carly Rae Jepsen
Queen Carly releases another pop banger and you think it’s not going on my list? Come on, now.
I’m not going to pretend like “Party For One,” Jepsen’s triumphant breakup anthem, is on the same level as her all-time classic singles. It’s the kind of bubblegum that she could write in her sleep.
But why penalize a perfectly great song just because the artist has done better in the past? “Party For One” might not be “Run Away With Me,” but it’s still a solid piece of synth cheese that no doubt makes Canada proud.
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Plus size Chinese fc anon, back again! Those guys from Produce Pandas seem to be perfect (though I usually avoid singers, as I find they don't have a great range of resources), so I'm going to go look for a gif maker who will make resources for one of them. Thank you so much for helping, I know it was a difficult one.
Finding Produce Pandas really saved the ask! It might be difficult because they're not well known and that might limit the resources you get but a) you don't have to use resources on every reply and b) faceless / cropped parts of their face static icons of all three might be an option! Either way, I'm still so happy you wanted to keep this character fat it's so uplifting when other people roleplay fat characters too! 👏👏
IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE RESOURCES OF PRODUCE PANDA’S HERE ARE SOME USEFUL LINKS! 
https://www.youtube.com/c/ProducePandas
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Produce+Pandas - some videos made by other companies / people! 
https://www.instagram.com/producepandas/ - they also have individual Instagram pages which are links in pictures! 
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What is a studio ?
A neutral space (inside/out) could be a bed sheet outside. The content can be wholly defined and controlled by you.
Thomas Duffield - http://thomasduffield.com/just-couldnt-get-the-shoes-to-fit/4o48mumotxao1rr6hjdfxylbu7snlc
What qualifies as/discounts as a portrait ? 
I really love this shoot I like the minimalistic and soft look it has by using the white sheet and hanging it outside in natural light. My favourite photos are those where Duffield and his grandad swap places you get this feeling of they are very similar and that they are both vulnerable around each other. There is also this sense of huge admiration that they both have for each other. In the text along with the photos Duffield discusses how this vunerability has shifted, as he has got older and how his grandad has aged and is no longer as strong and nimble as he use to be. 
Christopher Nunn - http://www.christophernunn.co.uk/fallingintotheday http://www.christophernunn.co.uk/edith
Remnants
Constructed representations
Nunn acts almost as a vouyer in the way that he observes and documents a space yet he remains faceless and almost impartial with the image taking. He creates this feeling of death by using objects to communicate them in obvious ways and sometimes in ways that feel less black/white. An obvious symbol would be the mouse laying belly up and the flowers browning next to an old photo of a man that we assume Edith is grieving for. But some a little less obvious the neglected bathroom with a hoard of items init so it is no longer fit for its purpose. I assume as the viewer that this Edith’s coping mechanism holding onto stuff and bringing in more stuff in as a source of comfort. With the documenting of the empty rooms we could assume that this house is being cleared and done up ready for its next owner but I am not entirely sure of the circumstances of these photos. 
Hannah Starkey - https://saatchigallery.com/artist/hannah_starkey https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/hannah-starkey-2683 
Highly constructed 
What do you want to be seen ?
lonely in a crowd 
Sadness
Isolation
Use of actors/actresses
Cinematic
Narrative 
Starkey’s work very much reminds me of Crewdson but rather than focussing on the aesthetic so much it focusses on creating an image which reflects society at that time. The work feels like social documentary but elevated and constructed like a reality tv show its based on real events but they didn't necessarily happen. This is a really interesting concept for photography because we often see images as factual but in recent years with rise of photoshop and the phenomena of fake news we often question images and say they are fiction. Where as these sit in the middle somewhere they could very easily be real but they are not.  
Jeff Wall - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wall-a-view-from-an-apartment-t12219 https://gagosian.com/artists/jeff-wall/
Beyond static
Stillness
highly constructed 
What happened before
Again similar to Starkey these photos are incredibly constructed but they are still based on something that is real. These images on the other hand do have a stillness to them they feel more rigid therefore they feel more like a still in a film than real life. The image “A sudden gust of wind” is very poetic and cinematic in the way the pieces of paper fly in the perfect line across the sky like they would  in films.
Gregory Crewdson - https://gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/
Crewdson is the master of cinematic photography every photo looks like a perfectly constructed scene from a murder mystery film. The images are too perfect to be real Crewdson uses a mixture of artificial light and natural to create his artificial ambiance of his photographs. 
Crewdson takes around 20 images with different exposures and then layers these to get the perfect exposure.
Because he is so influential he has the ability to command spaces and have his demands met
References the cinematic 
 Tom Hunter - http://www.tomhunter.org/persons-unknown/
Notes from lecture 
References painting 
Contemporary
Growth
Religious connotations 
Raises questions
Iconic objects
Its bound to reality
Window of reality
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unifyingleaguelore · 6 years
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LeBlanc, The Deceiver [Fan Rework]
Role: Disruptor (Catcher) | Assassin “A mysterious pale woman, and perhaps a faceless one, who is rumored to a deadly beauty behind the most clandestine, insidious cabal on Runeterra.”
Lore
Mysterious even to other members of the Black Rose cabal, LeBlanc is but one of many names for a pale woman who has manipulated people and events since the earliest days of Noxus. Using her magic to mirror herself, the sorceress can appear to anyone, anywhere, and even be in many places at once. Always plotting just out of sight, LeBlanc's true motives are as inscrutable as her shifting identity.
Abilities
[Passive] Mark of the Black Rose:  “The Pale Woman of the Black Rose has many enemies, all of them have been mark for death by her and she has been many safe havens from which to strike. LeBlanc marks her foes for death and can retreat to safety when the worst might come upon her.”
LeBlanc's spells mark affected enemies with Mark of the Black Rose for 4 seconds. LeBlanc's next spell that hits the target will shatter it to deal 30 - 300 (based on level) (+ 80% AP) bonus magic damage. Mark of the Black Rose cannot occur on the same target more than once every 5 seconds.
Black Rose Sanctuary: Active Allied Turrets are marked as safe havens, LeBlanc can select a nearby turret within 1000 range to reappear there from her current location. 300 second cooldown.
[Q] Ring of Roses: Range: 800 | Effect Radius: 250 | Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 MANA | CD: 8 “LeBlanc uses twisted fae magics to mark territory for the Black Rose.”
LeBlanc enchants a target location dealing magic damage [55 / 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 (+ 50% AP)] after 1 second to all enemies within the area. The area lasts for 3 seconds after being placed; while Leblanc is within the area, she gains invisibility. The area disappears if she uses a basic attack or ability while she’s inside it.
[W] Trickster’s Weave: Speed: 1600 | Cost: 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 MANA | CD: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 “‘LeBlanc’s identity is as intangible as the whispers that describe her, as ephemeral as the illusions that give her shape.’ LeBlanc uses her powers of deception to strike at her enemies in an unusual way.”
On Ally Cast: LeBlanc teleports to the target allied champion (550 range) and takes on their appearance for 10 seconds. The disguise includes the target's current health, mana and emotes. The disguise is broken upon casting a spell or attacking, or upon your or the disguise's health.
On Enemy Cast: LeBlanc dashes to a target enemy champion (600 range), damaging them [40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 (+ 20% AP)] upon arrival and leaving a static clone at the cast location for 4 seconds; the clone disappears upon taking 100 damage. After a 0.75 second delay, she can recast Distortion if her clone is still active.
[E] Puppeter’s Chains: Cost: 40 MANA | CD: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 “The cabal of the Black Rose digs its claws into everyone and it hurts when drags its victims into the shadows.”
Passive: Basic attacks and abilities mark champions with a string for 6 seconds, which breaks if they move more than 1000 units away.
Active: Pulls all marked champions up to 250 units toward you, dealing damage [40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+ 50% AP)].
[R] Devious Mimic: CD: 54 / 42 / 30 | Shadow of the Rose: Range: Global | CD: 160 / 140 / 120 “LeBlanc uses forgotten magics to artificially re-create her own illusions.”
Active: LeBlanc can reactive a basic ability without it costing mana and putting it on cooldown. After 8 seconds, Mimic is deactivated and its cooldown is refunded. Also, after activating her ultimate, LeBlanc gains access to a new ultimate - Shadow of the Rose.
Shadow of the Rose: LeBlanc summons a clone at the target location, refunding Devious Mimic's cooldown but placing Shadow of the Rose on its own cooldown. This Mimic immediately disappears upon casting its LeBlanc’s most recent cast ability.
Playing As LeBlanc
As LeBlanc, you're a devious illusionist who uses her positioning and enemy perception to create a deadly disappearing act. Sow your nefarious plots by laying down Ring of Roses and tie up your enemy with Trickster's Weave, leaving them in a dizzying state.
Once you've sowed the seeds of deception, unleash chaos as you pull your enemies back into the grasp of the Black Rose with Puppeteer's Chains, before repeating the process with Devious Mimic to spread more of your dark magic.
Design Influences And Choices
The most glaring choices are LaBlanc's Passive, her Ultimate, her allied cast of Trickster's Weave, and Puppeteer's Chains. Both of the latter we're taken or adapted from removed items that I thought would fit LeBlanc's identity much better than her current kit.
Her passive is nearly the same as before with a name change and a little added flair - the damage no longer delayed by 1.5 seconds since she has less roaming potential in deeper enemy territory and is now safer around allies. I left her ultimate mostly alone because it was the most fluid part of her old kit, that I thought was iconic - I simplified it, instead of giving access to empowered spells, it just allows you to re-use a basic ability.
Ring of Roses was one of the bigger departures from her kit. It was meant to evoke imagery similar to Shatter Orb and Distortion, however the function of it is way different and alternatively, it can be used a defensive tool for herself.
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lovelctters · 3 years
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104 static icons of Deniz Akdeniz guest starring as ALADDIN on once upon a time.
 mostly posting so I don’t lose them, but seeing as how there are hardly any icons of moc, free to use if you reblog. some are faceless, some have Jasmine, most are just Deniz. No PSDs or borders, just made from screencaps from ouat fansites. 
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Notes on Northern Exposure, S01E02: “Brains, Know-How and Native Intelligence”
We begin the episode with Chris Stevens delivering his first ever “Chris in the Morning” address on the show, in Cicely’s local radio station, KBHR, or “K-Bear”. Why “K-Bear”? Well, firstly, it’s customary for radio stations to be given easily pronounceable names inspired by their initials, for the sake of marketing. But there’s an additional fun fact regarding this particular station’s origins: both KBHR and its nick-name belong to a real-life local radio station in Big Bear City, California. Surrounded by the Alaskan wilderness, Cicely undoubtedly has more than its fair share of bears, so the nickname remains appropriate.
The subject of Chris’s speech, and a significant chunk of the episode, is the 19th century poet Walt Whitman, an American literary giant and one of Chris’s leading artistic inspirations. But not everyone approves of Whitman. Chris recalls being “blindsided by the raging fist of [his] incarcerator,” at the juvenile detention home where he spent his juvenile delinquent days. This stern authority figure told Chris, in no uncertain terms, “that Walt Whitman's homoerotic, unnatural, pornographic sentiments were unacceptable and would not be allowed in an institution dedicated to reforming the ill-formed.” Whitman’s sexuality has been the subject of endless debate, but it’s generally accepted that he was either homo- or bisexual. That Whitman, “that great bear of a man, enjoyed the pleasures of other men came as a great surprise” to Chris, leading him to “reconsider the queers [he] had previously kicked around.” Yes, Chris wasn’t always the open-minded liberal we otherwise see him as. He was, in his youth, capable of homophobic violence. This makes me, a confirmed homosexual (or “homo-romantic grey-sexual,” if we’re being particular), rather sad. It also makes me more inclined to be wary and critical of Chris in this episode.
Chris reads Whitman’s “When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865), a poem written following the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865), during a period of national mourning over the then recent assassination of former president Abraham Lincoln. The poem doesn’t explicitly identify Lincoln, but it’s generally thought that that’s who the poem was about. However, the final line of the first stanza – “And thought of him I love” – may have been presented in this scene in order to underline the topic of Whitman’s sexuality. For Whitman’s clearest expression of homosexual love in verse, one should really examine the “Calamus” sequence of poems written in or before 1859, included in the third edition of Leaves of Grass, originally published in 1855. (I nearly read some to an ex-boyfriend on his birthday once. I regret not doing that. But they were aware of the thought, and I got a lot of love for it, so it balanced out.)
We catch a glimpse of Maurice fishing whilst listening to Chris’s show. He clearly isn’t impressed by all this talk of Whitman enjoying “the pleasures of other men.” Maurice was established as being, at the very least, a sexist and racist bigot in the previous episode, so any homophobia on his part wouldn’t come as a surprise. This still doesn’t prepare the viewer for what Maurice will do next.
Meanwhile, in this week’s instalment of “Will They? Won’t They?’ Joel and Maggie are in the Brick, having a go at each other over plumbing. This argument at least feels as if it springs from a natural cause, compared to last week’s glaringly-contrived-in-order-to-establish-the-formula bickering. Joel is talking to Maggie as his landlord, about a faulty toilet. Maggie teases Joel over his lack of self-reliance: why not try fixing it himself, or go out and fertilise the scenery? She winds up calling him a “helplessness junkie”, an odd turn of phrase he’ll spend half the episode grumbling about and later delight in throwing back at her, when she visits him in his surgery over a self-inflicted knee injury.
Joel’s chauvinism is out in full force again, as he offers to treat any puncture wounds Rick may have received from Maggie walking all over him in her heels. Yecch. And then he comes on to her in a way that fictional characters in a “Will They? Won’t They?” comedy set-up routinely get away with, when he says “you’re clearly attracted to me.” Of course, the show will routinely remind us she is. But in real life, if you said something like that to someone, it would be widely and rightly considered inappropriate. Unlike the utterly irredeemable and thoroughly loathsome Ross Geller in Friends (NBC, 1994-2004), Joel is a genuinely likeable character under all the sexist asshattery the writers insist upon having him say. I hope the situation improves, and soon.
Joel remarks that he’s “not the Grizzly Adams type.” This is a reference to John “Grizzly” Adams, a nineteenth-century mountain man who hunted and trained wild animals (including, you guessed it, “grizzly” bears) for use in zoos, menageries and circuses, from New England to California. An outdoorsman and a showman (he partnered up at one point with another American icon, that jack-of-all-trades P.T. Barnum), “Grizzly” Adams became, in the popular cultural consciousness, an iteration of an American frontiersman archetype, akin to Davy Crockett. Joel does not resemble that archetype at all – but Brick proprietor Holling Vincoeur, according to Joel, does. We’ll see how that comparison bears out in the episodes and seasons to come.
Meanwhile, over at K-Bear, the “raging fist” of Maurice Minnifield comes raining down on Chris Stevens like the fist of that faceless authoritarian in Chris’s juvenile detention home. I find the violence Maurice inflicts on Chris in this episode jarring. We later learn from Joel that Maurice threw Chris through a plate-glass window. We see bruises and band-aids on Chris’s face, and his arm in a plaster cast. We learn, towards the end of the episode, that Chris snuck in a decent left-hook – but that still, to my mind, doesn’t make up for what might be one of the single most unpleasant things Maurice has done on the show.
And while we’re on the subject of violence, what about Ed’s response to Joel describing his current spat with Maggie? He asks “Did you hit her?” Where did that come from? A more uncharacteristic thing for Ed to say – even just two episodes into the show – is hard to imagine. Is it meant to suggest that Ed grew up in an environment where domestic violence was the norm? Or that Cicely’s foremost cinephile learnt everything he knows about human interaction from the movies? I don’t know. I just know that it’s a weird, discomfiting line.
Ed introduces the episode’s secondary plot, which is about Ed’s uncle Anku (Frank Sotonoma “Grey Wolf” Salsedo). Ed tells Joel that his uncle is a “witch doctor,” which briefly leads them into a variation on the famous “Who’s on First?” comedy routine.
Ed’s uncle is seriously unwell – as in, there’s blood in his urine. And blood in your urine is nothing to be sniffed at. 11 years ago I had a urinary tract infection thanks to the onset of type-one diabetes. The pain was unreal. Imagine passing red hot needles instead of water. TMI? Ah, DMY. My point is, it’s not something you can comfortably ignore. And as a doctor, Joel knows it’s not something you can afford to ignore. And so, at Ed’s behest, Joel spends a significant chunk of the episode befriending Anku and trying his best to persuade him to seek medical attention. But, unbeknownst to Anku’s family, Anku has already sought medical attention and learnt that he has prostate cancer. He just needs Joel to pressure him into swallowing his pride as a medicine man before seeking further treatment.
Joel will, in dealing with Anku, realise in an on-screen “eureka!” of an epiphany that pride is the theme binding all the episode’s narrative threads together. Anku’s pride, his own pride, Maggie’s pride, Maurice’s pride, are all wrapped up in a neat little package. Is it too neat, too tidy? Maybe, but I like it. It’s a reassuring sign that Joel’s character won’t remain static, that he’ll gain new insight into the town and its characters, learn new things and continue to develop over the course of the series.
“Keeping it in the family”: Mrs. Anku is played by Armenia Miles, the mother of Elaine Miles, who plays Joel’s secretary, Marilyn Whirlwind. In future episodes, she’ll play Marilyn’s mother.
Anku asks Joel if he’s ever seen the film Little Big Man (dir. Arthur Penn, 1970), in which Dustin Hoffman plays a man who, as a white child, was rescued and raised by a Cheyenne tribe. Is Anku drawing a connection between the Jewish actor and Jewish doctor, to whom he imparts some of his own “native intelligence”?
Joel, after explaining that he can’t keep chasing after Anku, pleads with Ed not to “do this northern brooding thing, I can’t stand Bergman films.” Is Joel intentionally using sophisticated cinema references he knows Ed will get? Because if so, that’s kinda cute. Couple that with Ed watching Joel as he sleeps, and I wonder if anyone, anywhere, at any time, has thought to ship these two characters?
As Maurice takes full control of radio K-Bear we learn he’s a huge fan of musical theatre, something that’s often been depicted as a stereotypical trait of gay men (less so these days, but very much so in the nineties). Is the episode replaying the old, unhelpful cliché that “all homophobes are repressed homosexuals”? I don’t think so. It certainly doesn’t underline or lean into that idea. As much as Maurice’s showtunes are driving the residents of Cicely crazy, he’s never mocked for the fact that he enjoys showtunes.
At a town meeting, angry Cicelians call for the reinstatement of Chris Stevens as radio presenter. Maurice isn’t having it. “One of our own, Chris Stevens, made a mistake,” he “did a bad thing” and “he had to pay for it.” What was that mistake? We get an answer, of sorts, when Maurice returns to the airwaves the next day and attempts to explain his recent behaviour. It’s a speech that causes the entire town to stop in its tracks, suggesting we should stop in our tracks too and take what Maurice is saying seriously.
Maurice recalls his devastation upon discovering, as a child, that his hero John Wayne didn’t do his own stunts. The gist of it is, Maurice doesn’t want his heroes to be humanized, to have their weaknesses exposed. “Sure, we’re all human,” but do we have to be reminded that our heroes are human too? Maurice is an advocate of the “Great Man” theory of history, the idea that the greatest achievements in human history were brought about by great men (and with his ego, he no doubt fancies himself one). Maurice wants his heroes to remain on their marble pedestals as untainted paragons of manly virtue. “We need our heroes. We need men we can look up to. Believe in. Men who walk tall.” Of course it doesn’t occur to Maurice, just as it doesn’t occur to most advocates of the “Great Man” conception of history, that those heroes could include women or minorities.
Maurice considers Walt Whitman a hero. Though “Walt Whitman was a pervert,” in Maurice’s bigoted view, “he was the best poet that America ever produced.” Maurice concedes that Whitman was, most likely, a homosexual. He’d just rather not know or be reminded of that. Because Maurice is a homophobic bigot who believes that homosexuality is a weakness, a character flaw that should be hidden from view, never to be acknowledged. But just because Maurice believes that “there are damn few of us who deserve to be called heroes” and that, despite his own bigotry, Whitman deserves the title of hero, doesn’t make Maurice less wrong or less of a bigot.
And yet, as the speech prompts Chris to go and apologise to Maurice, the episode seems to come down firmly on Maurice’s side of the argument. Not that there’s actually been an argument. No one in town has attempted to argue the opposite of Maurice’s position – that a knowledge of Whitman’s probable homosexuality does nothing to diminish him or his work. The implicit and unfortunate assumption in this episode is that it does diminish Whitman. That’s why we have Chris apologising to Maurice, saying that he also doesn’t want people reading Walt Whitman for “the wrong reasons.” What reasons are those, Chris? The only reason suggested in the episode comes from Ruth-Anne, when she tells Joel that all the Whitman has been taken out of the library as there’s “nothing like an interesting sex-life to get people reading.”
So, is Chris suggesting that he doesn’t want people reading Whitman because of his sexuality? Why not? Whitman’s “Calamus” poems meant a lot to me when I was younger, and I would never have discovered them had I not heard about Whitman’s sexuality and the poems’ reputation. I see in them a beautiful expression of the romantic feelings I then had for my ex-boyfriend, and I can’t read them now without getting misty-eyed. Like a lot of great poetry, the poems powerfully describe feelings of romantic/erotic longing, the distinction being that they clearly describe feelings of romantic/erotic longing between men. It isn’t “subtext.” You don’t have to “read between the lines.” It’s there, in the words on the page. Whitman’s sexuality informs his writing, even if his writing isn’t explicitly sexual.
Unfortunately, in the nineties there persisted this idea that homosexuality was something to be guarded against, lest it corrupt our children or our own imaginations when engaged in the intellectual enjoyment of nineteenth-century verse. Depending on where you are in the world, it’s an attitude that still persists or even prevails. And this episode of Northern Exposure appears to embody it.
For me, Whitman’s “Calamus” poems are a powerful reminder of a time in my life when I was young and happy and in love. But Chris appears to be suggesting that I’m reading Whitman wrong. Well… Fuck you Chris. There’s nothing wrong with highlighting the fact that Walt Whitman was likely gay or bi, or that a significant number of his poems appear to have been informed by his own homoerotic desire. It can do a lot of people – gay or bisexual people, for example – a lot of good to know that people who felt the way they do existed in the 19th century, and that they wrote beautiful verse you could share with a loved one.
It should be clear by now that, unlike Maurice, I don’t believe it’s a mistake to humanize our heroes. Knowing Mark Twain loves cats humanizes him. In no way does it diminish my love of Mark Twain (but then I’m a cat person, so I’m biased). Other than the very worst literary critics, who really wants to see the likes of Twain and Whitman reduced to cold, lifeless marble statues in the Pantheon of the American Literary Canon? It does us no harm, either, to learn the personal and political beliefs of our heroes, especially if we don’t want people thinking we share certain of those beliefs. Hero worship is problematic in general, but it’s impossible for us not to admire people, to have our own personal heroes. But as we grow and change over the course of our lives, we shouldn’t be afraid to update that list.
In the course of its run, Northern Exposure introduced a gay male couple; confirmed that its founders, Cicely and Roslyn, were a lesbian couple; and was the second US TV show to feature a gay wedding (the first being Roc [Fox, 1994-1994]). Northern Exposure was not only on the right side of history, it was consistently ahead of its time. If I’ve been especially hard on this episode, it’s because I know how far it falls short of the show’s future accomplishments.
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NPHofRPH’s Sing-Along Glossary of Roleplay Terms
The quintessential dictionary for the new RPer, or the veteran RPer who wants to get caught up on all the new-fangled slang them young folks are using.
(Note: does not actually come with any particular melody, but feel free to make one up as you go and hum it.)
1x1: A roleplay between just two people, you and your partner.
2x2: A roleplay between four characters. Not sure why it’s referred to this way. I guess the characters are all supposed to have paired up by the end of it?
4x4: Wait, are we stilling pairing them up, or can this just be eight characters?
32x32: Apparently we just like dividing by two in this neck of the woods.
Activity Check: A time when the admins go through the characters of a roleplay and make sure that they’re all still posting and haven’t run away from home.
Admin: The manager or moderator of a roleplay group; the one who’s in charge of creating the roleplay and keeping it running.
Angst: Piling on the hurt - usually emotional, sometimes physical - for your character to endure. Really fun. You should try it. Be a malevolent god.
Anon Hate: A message someone sends anonymously detailing why they despise you and what they’ve done to your mother, or threatening you in some way. Honestly, it’s hard to be threatened by that little gray fella with the sunglasses, but okay.
Apartment RP: A roleplay in which all or most of the characters live in a single apartment building.
Application: A description of your character to submit in order to be considered to join a roleplay group. Like a job interview, but not as painful.
Appless RP: A roleplay where you don’t have to fill out an application. Just insert a couple of details about your character onto a little form and you’re in. Quality may vary.
Ask Meme: A post containing a list of questions for others to send to your character.
AU: Alternate universe. This is where the characters of the work are placed in a setting or scenario not present in canon. For example, characters who are superheroes in their canon work meeting as ordinary high school students instead.
Backstory: The events of a character’s life that occurred before the beginning of the roleplay. Doesn’t have to be tragic. Is usually tragic.
Bandom RP: A roleplay in which the characters are in a band. It’s a pun, see. A portmanteau of “band” and “fandom”, I think. I’m assuming. I mean, I’m not a roleplay etymologist or anything.
Bio RP: A roleplay in which a detailed description of the character’s background and personality is required in the application.
Blogroll: A page which displays all the blogs that a user is following.
BroTP: Like an OTP (see below), except for best buddies instead of romantic partners.
Bubble Roleplaying: Roleplaying with only a select few characters or members in a group RP setting and ignoring the others.
Canon: The stuff that the original writer of a work made. For an RP group, this consists of the plot, additional info, and any characters made by the admins intended to be a part of the overall story. For other works, it’s simply everything that occurs in the work.
CBR: Could be related. Two faceclaims who could play biological family members.
Celebrity RP: A roleplay in which you play actual celebrities as characters. These exist for some reason.
Charrie: Short for character. Not to be confused with Carrie, a Stephen King novel in which a girl gets a bit power-crazy with her telekinesis.
City RP: A roleplay in which the plot takes place in a single city as its primary or only setting. Like a town RP, but the buildings are taller.
Closed Starter: A starter made for a particular blog to reply to. Sure, you can still reply to it if it wasn’t intended for you, but it’ll just lead to secondhand embarrassment for all involved.
Contained Theme: A theme that is frightened. It tries to hide from predators by curling up and making itself smaller.
Crackship: A relationship between two characters whose pairing seems unlikely or absurd.
Crackship Gifs: Gifs of two characters edited together so that it appears the characters are interacting with each other.
Crossover: A work consisting of elements from two or more works or fandoms.
Cross-tagging: Tagging a post with related things that are not actually in the post. For example, tagging a picture of Wonder Woman with ‘#superman’. Don’t do this. It’s all of the annoying.
CW: Content Warning. Same as trigger warning. See below.
Defiantly: Definitely, but misspelled.
DM: Dungeon Master. The person who is in charge of - wait, hang on, wrong type of roleplay. Sorry about that. Move along.
Drabble: Technically it’s a story of exactly 100 words, but it’s more used to just refer to a very short standalone piece about a character or characters in a particular single scenario.
Dry Docking: The opposite of shipping. When two characters who are a couple in canon are either broken up or were never together in the first place in your fan work or RP.
Event: In a roleplay group, an occurrence in the story in which all characters can participate. Also can be several days in which the verse is altered, such as a Future Week or other AU.
Exclusive: In a fandom-related independent RP, when the mun will RP with only one version of a particular character. For example, an indie RP playing Hermione Granger only interacts with a single indie Ron Weasley blog, and others who play Ron must go elsewhere.
FxF: A romantic pairing between two female characters, usually in 1x1 roleplay.
Face-chaser: Someone who pursues a roleplay or ship with a character based on their faceclaim instead of their characterization or the writing.
Faceclaim/FC: A real-life person used to represent what a roleplay character looks like.
Faceless Gifs/Images: Gifs or images that can be used in roleplaying regardless of the character’s faceclaim, since a person’s face is not visible or present in the gif or image.
Female Ban: An element in some works of dystopian fiction wherein the government or other higher power attempts to suppress a population by eliminating females and thus making it hard to procreate... Hang on, no, I’ve just been informed that it’s when an RP doesn’t allow any more female characters to be added to the group. Presumably, male bans exist too, but I think that’s just an urban legend.
First Look: A type of review based on a quick glance over the roleplay and what first impressions the reviewer gleaned from it.
Floating Timeline: A concept in roleplay that suggests that events in threads that are being written at a particular time do not necessarily take place in that time in-story. So, if a character has multiple ongoing threads, they are not actually in multiple places at once.
Fluff: Scenes that do not involve any significant obstacle and instead are intended to give the characters time to just have fun and be cute together.
Gif Chat: A type of roleplay thread in which each post is accompanied by a gif to illustrate the character.
Gif Hunt: Collection of gifs gathered from throughout tumblr or from various sources.
Gif Icons: Collection of gifs that are 100x100 pixels in size. Sometimes people make them 90x90 or 75x75 for what I can only assume are unsavory purposes. Don’t let your guard down around those things.
Gif Pack: Collection of gifs in which  all of the gifs are made by the person posting the pack, and usually are all from the same source (the same movie, TV episode, etc.)
Godmodding: Collectively refers to powerplaying, metagaming, or both. See below.
Gore: Explicit and/or graphic violence and blood. A challenge to see how many synonyms for “red” you know.
Gossip Blog: A blog affiliated with a roleplay group that talks about and passes judgment on the characters. Sometimes can be fun, if managed well, but often creates all species of drama.
Headcanon: Something that an individual or fandom believes to be true about a story or character, even though it is not shown to be the case in the canon work.
Hiatus: Taking a break from roleplaying due to real life occurrences taking priority. As if anything could be more important than finishing those replies, pfft! The nerve.
IC: In-character. The actions, thoughts, and posts of the character; the stuff that occurs in the roleplay proper.
Icons: Also called static icons, a 100x100 image of the character or faceclaim used to illustrate the character in lieu of gifs.
I’m sorry, what did you say?: An extremely vague starter. For some reason, people keep making this starter, despite it annoying and frustrating people. Like an Alvin and the Chipmunks film.
Independent RP/Indie RP: A roleplay blog or character not associated with any particular established RP group.
IRL: In real life. Don’t worry, you won’t have to use this one often. Nothing ever happens in real life.
Kik: Something that I recently learned is not a dating site, as I had thought. This is all I know.
KRP: A roleplay that uses K-Pop artists as faceclaims exclusively or nearly exclusively. This community has some terminology of its own that I don’t know, but most of it’s similar to the rest of the RPC.
Label: A brief descriptor or trope used to describe a character in an application. Some examples are The Scholar, The Heartbreaker, The Intrepid Reporter, The Lizard Tamer, etc.
Literate RP: An RP that is highly writing-focused and requires longer posts and replies than other roleplays. Despite the misleading name, it is not actually saying that other roleplays are illiterate.
LSRP: Legit Serious Roleplay. Same as Literate RP. Yes, this acronym is ridiculous, just roll with it.
MxM: A romantic pairing between two male characters, usually in 1x1 roleplay.
Magic Anon/M!A: A post for which you invite others to make your character take on a certain trait or action for a select period of time.
Main: In a group, the blog that contains all of the information and updates for the roleplay. Home base, basically.
Manip: A graphic edit of two faceclaims in which they are photoshopped to look like they’re in a picture together.
Mary Sue: A character whose unreasonable ease or difficulty in overcoming obstacles, forming relationships, and/or gaining accolades runs contrary to the intent of the writer and makes it difficult for the reader to get invested in the story or character arc. Also, apparently, a term used to refer to any female character you don’t like.
Mature RP: A roleplay that may contain dark or adult themes, and thus doesn’t allow players under the age of 18. Seriously, if you’re under 18, don’t lie about your age. That’s a dick move.
Meme: A post that features small prompts that others can send in to begin a thread. Elsewhere on the internet, this term refers to drawings of sad frogs.
Metagaming: Letting your character have in-character knowledge that they shouldn’t logically possess, just because the mun has it.
Mod: Another term for admin. We could never settle on one term for them. It’s like the couch vs. sofa dilemma.
Moodboard: A collection of images or gifs used to sum up a character’s personality.
Multifandom: Similar to Crossover, although usually used to refer to a work with elements from three or more works or fandoms.
Multi-Storyline/Multiverse: In independent roleplay, when the character exists in more than one universe at once, such that threads with a character do not impact the events of threads with a different character.
Mumu: Multi-muse. In which a single blog is used to play more than one character.
Mun: The writer/roleplayer. The person who’s controlling the character. You. This is you. Use this power wisely.
Muse: The character that you roleplay. Also, a Greek goddess who presided over the arts, although this definition is usually irrelevant in roleplay.
Musing: Posts that represent the character’s personality, history, or thoughts in someway, such as aesthetic photos, songs, or philosophical rants.
Mutuals: Blogs on tumblr that are both following each other.
MW: Most wanted. A character or faceclaim that admins or members in a group would really like someone to play.
NoTP: When some people think that two characters would make a good couple, and you would like to stab those people with a fork for being so stupid.
Novella: Very long format for roleplaying, in which responses should contain several paragraphs of writing. Don’t worry, you don’t actually have to write a novella; a reply shorter than 20,000 words is still acceptable.
NPC: Non-playable character. A character who is present in the roleplay’s universe, but is not played by any one particular writer.
NPH of RPH: That’s me!
NSFW: Not safe for work. Nudity, sex, graphic violence. Basically, the stuff that you absolutely don’t want to come across while browsing at the public library.
OC: Original character. A character you make that is not part of the canon or not pre-written for the RP group.
One-liner:  Roleplay consisting of only a single line or a few short lines. Sometimes referred to as “action roleplay” wherein actions are interspersed with speech. For example: “*Enters the room and throws confetti into the air.* I have arrived!”
OOC: Out of character. Can be used to denote that the writer is currently speaking or posting as themselves, rather than as a character, or be used to point out that a character does not act that way in canon, what are you doing, goddamnit.
Open Character: A pre-made character in a group who is currently not being played by any member of the group.
Open Starter: A starter that any character is allowed to reply to.
Original RP: A roleplay in which the plot and characters come from the admins’ and players’ creations rather than another source.
OTP: One true pairing. The ship that you love more than all the other ships. Except that most people have at least twelve OTPs, so...
OT3: One true threesome. Like an OTP, except there are three people.
Para: Relatively longer posts, consisting of full-bodied paragraphs or multiple paragraphs.
Playby: Another word for Faceclaim. Used more outside of Tumblr. See the couch vs. sofa debate.
Plot Bunny: A story that you would like to play out or see others play out through roleplay.
Plot Drop: A significant detail or event of the overarching story in a group RP that causes some change to the lives of the characters.
Powerplaying: Controlling another player’s character without their permission.
Private: In indie RP, a blog that only interacts with mutuals.
Promo: A post used to advertise a roleplay group or account.
PSD: Photoshop Data file. A type of file that’s designed to be edited on Photoshop or other image editing programs. It comes with the image separated into layers, so that different parts of the image, such as a background, a border, or text, can be edited separately.
Revamped: Extreme Makeover, Roleplay Edition.
RP: Roleplay.
RPA: Roleplay Advice. Like roleplay help, except, I dunno, maybe fewer resources, more questions answered? This one’s falling into disuse a bit. Oh, also Roleplay Assistant.
RPC: Roleplay Community. The group of us weirdos here who roleplay instead of just posting funny text posts and photographs of flowers like normal people. Alternatively, Roleplay Critic, a blog that reviews roleplays.
RPCHA: Um, Roleplay Critic/Helper/Advice. Seems a little over the top, but all right.
RPCW: Roleplay Critic Writer, I guess? I think. Same as roleplay critic. Think it’s used to differentiate from Roleplay Community.
RPG: Roleplay group. A group. That roleplays. Also can mean roleplaying game, or rocket-propelled grenade.
RPH: Roleplay Help. A blog that offers resources and answers questions to help people with roleplaying.
RPO: Roleplay Opinions. A blog that reviews roleplays. It doesn’t count as RPO if you just have opinions; you need to share them with the class.
RPT: Roleplay Talk. A blog that talks about roleplays and the roleplay community.
RPWCTOHA: This doesn’t stand for anything yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
Sample Para: A few paragraphs of your writing you include as an example as your work when you apply for a roleplay group. Do not just copy and paste a passage from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.” The admins will probably notice.
Secrets RP: A roleplay in which every character has a secret. These secrets are all listed together on a page in the RP, but it’s not revealed which character has which secret; that’s up to the other characters to figure out on their own through interactions.
Selective: For independent RP, when the mun does not roleplay indiscriminately with every blog or character that offers, but rather picks and chooses partners based on personal preference or certain criteria. 
Self-insert: A character who is a fictionalized version of the mun/author, with little to no change from their actual self. If they die in the game, they die in real life.
Self-para: When your character wanders away from the group for a bit to engage in their own sidequest or navel-gazing. Good times.
Semi-appless RP: A roleplay that sits on an ever-sliding scale, requiring more detail in an application than an appless RP, but less than a bio RP.
Semi-hiatus: Like a hiatus, except that you might still show up to the blog on occasion and do a little bit of activity. When your real life is busy, but you’re just that determined to roleplay.
Semi-selective: For independent RP, a blog that’s not quite as selective as a selective blog, but still maintains the right to refuse service to customers should they so choose.
Semi-truck: A truck that’s not as much truck as a regular truck.
Shipping: Holding up hand-puppet versions of two characters and forcing them to make out.
Shoutout: A brief advertisement for a roleplay group (or occasionally other blogs) that can be submitted to the ask box of a help blog.
Skeleton RP: A roleplay in which some details are given for the roles being offered by the group, but the applicant fills in the rest, usually writing the body of the character bio. Alternatively, a roleplay in which every character is literally a skeleton.
Smut: Sex. Doing the do. The horizontal tango. Bumping uglies. Woohooing. Written out in all of its gory detail. Not worth going to jail for, so for the love of all that is holy, don’t do it if you’re under 18.
Starboarding: Shipping a one-sided ship. When you want one character to be in love with another, but don’t necessarily want the feelings to be returned. The most relatable type of ship, honestly. More people should RP it.
Starter: The first post in a thread, one that is used to kick off a scene in roleplaying. Usually, especially in a group, anyone is allowed to reply and start a thread from that point.
Starter Call: A post that people like or reblog in order to request a starter from the person who posted it.
Supernatural RP: A roleplay consisting of paranormal elements such as magical creatures, witchcraft, etc. Not a roleplay about the TV show Supernatural, although I guess such a roleplay would use this tag too. This is a problem the showrunners should have foreseen.
Taken Character: A character in a roleplay group who is currently being played by a group member.
Task: In a group, a (usually optional) prompt or project that can be used for character development.
Thread: The series of posts and replies to said post that make up a scene between characters in a roleplay.
Time Skip: Usually indicated by a line break, this is when a thread moves from one scene to another without covering the time in between.
Town RP: A roleplay in which the plot takes place in a single town as its primary or only setting. Like a city RP, but the buildings are shorter.
Trigger: Something that makes a user anxious, panicky, or otherwise very upset when they see it on their dashboard without warning. Tag these. No, I don’t care if it doesn’t fit your tagging aesthetic, just tag them.
Tumblr: You are here.
TW: Trigger Warning. Used in a tag to indicate that the post contains content that may be a trigger. Please format as “#[trigger] tw”. Not “#tw: [trigger]”, and definitely not “#☾-*.:。-❝✿~~ tw ~~✿&&♛”.
Twitter RP: A roleplay that uses Twitter as its primary platform. Don’t ask me how. I can’t even figure out how to use Twitter for its intended purpose.
Urban RP: A roleplay focused primarily on PoC (person of color) characters in a city setting. Often uses musicians such as hip-hop or rap artists as faceclaims.
UTP: Up to player. An acronym used in skeletons to indicated that part of the bio can be chosen by the applicant.
Verse: Short for universe. A character’s world or timeline.
WID: What I do. A list or page on a help blog that lists what services the blog offers.
X-kit: A browser extension that’s popular within the RPC. It works to make tumblr usable again every time the staff creates a new bug and calls it a feature.
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