#hopefully this was interesting and/or informative

[silverskye13]

how do you create helsmets? like, are they *opposites* or just personifications of negative traits?

A little bit of both! A little more of one in some and the other in the rest. [Wibble wobbles my hand back and forth] it's an art not a science I think!

Normally I start with two questions: What do I think makes most logical sense as a bad trait/fatal flaw? What do I think best matches that flaw that comes from the source.

So Fwhip/Flipside, since he's new.

Fwhip is a chaos-causer. A lot of his empires characters involve a strong personality built around a strong aesthetic, that then commits to a story and uses that story to stir the pot. As a goblin with his goblands, he spends his time digging beneath his friends' houses and stealing their stuff. When he's a prince(?) of the grimlands, he takes petty slights against him and amplifies them and throws them back on Jimmy and Sausage. On his single player worlds, he is building a kingdom, and he is deeply entrenched in the idea of making a cohesive world that makes sense.

As a character [on the whole], Fwhip's strongest traits are: Putting places to order, finding cohesion, and breaking cohesion [for the fun of it, to inform his previously established order and cohesion, to tell a story].

For Flipside, I decided making someone the complete opposite in a literal way [someone chaotic, who intentionally breaks or meddles in other people's story to rob them of stability, someone who prioritizes the individual] wouldn't be interesting. He would be a villain character, which wasn't what I needed. Instead I focused on what things a person who prioritizes order and story would fear, what would be a flaw? And I decided a flaw in that kind of person would be a deep need for security, and a tendency to build their personality off of that sense of security.

Flipside then, is a nervous character who is trying really hard to define himself, and so far has only gotten close by putting himself into the most stable and defined place in hels: The First Church. It's time consuming, it helps him run away from his listlessness and lack of identity, and it gives him a sense of purpose he desperately needs. As a helsmet, he is the personification of Fwhip's need for a story to feel "safe" in the worlds he's a part of, and reflects that Fwhip has a fear that he has no real sense of self or personality.

Meanwhile the one quick cameo of MythicalSausage basically amounted to: Sausage has an established evil character, that character is already a subversion of a lot of his personal character tropes [caring, secure in himself, selfless, kind], so I will keep his EvilSona as his helsmet. If I want to find [or build] depth into that, I can, but his basic building block is as he is now.

Hopefully? This helps?

#rns worldbuilding #hels worldbuilding #rns asks #anonymous #for the side characters they mostly stay a handful of character traits #i did some expanding here for Fwhip

[bayleedraws-sometimesx]

Emergency commissions

Some of you know what happened and where I’ve been, I’m leaving on Monday and going to a temporary supported accommodation until I can get my permanent flat because I’m going in  pretty much at the end of the month and that’s when this accommodation takes payment, I have to pay next months service charge and currently I can’t afford to which I’m really embarrassed about because in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that expensive  since that’s all I need to pay a month.  Without going into much detail- Four two character chibi pieces would cover it, I’m opening commissions again so hopefully  come next week, i won’t have to worry about it.  

Even if you can’t help, which I completely understand, sharing this really does help. Thank you 🥰

minimalist Chibis

Chibi

Backgrounds

Gradient backgrounds= free 

Collage backgrounds- £5 

Scenery background= £10 

Payment/ contact information .

if you’re interested/ or have any questions feel free to DM me or email me at [email protected]. payment will be through PayPal (my currency is (GBP £)

#emergency commissions

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

Ik this isn’t fully the correct interpretation of the song, the interpretation of Orpheus and Eurydice in Talk by Hozier is very interesting to me because the interpretation of Orpheus and Eurydice that I’ve often heard is more likely to deify Orpheus due to his attempt to lead Eurydice out of the underworld. This interpretation then proceeds to contradict this and reaffirm Orpheus’s humanity when he caves into the mortal temptation of looking back. This song, however, provides a different conception of the myth, instead deifying Eurydice by emphasizing Orpheus’s, “choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground,” showing his very human need to follow the divine through whatever trials necessary. This is further emphasized in the line, “the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around,” where Orpheus is clearly put in the very human role of the devotee whose lack of faith in the divine caused him to lose it all together. This makes Orpheus and Eurydice vaguely reminiscent of other stories, like that of Eros and Psyche. This is very interesting because gender. I do not know how to continue coherently elaborating on this. Oh well.

#ik the song is about the guy being like omg babe yea were totally like orpheus and eurydice and if i say that enough #hopefully she won’t be able to tell how bad I wanna fuck her #but this is still interesting to me #disclaimer: i was raised catholic so that heavily informs how i interpret religious imagery as a thing #hozier #talk hozier #talk by hozier #andrew hozier byrne #wasteland baby!

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

alright. know what? with Secrets of the Obscure right around the corner and plenty of new Mists-related sky island settings coming with it, I'll just bite the bullet and interest-check a little something I've been turning in my head for a long, long while.

would YOU be interested in a Mists-based GW2 roleplay guild that uses a lore compliant multiverse system to allow canon, canon-adjacent, lore-breaking, and otherwise 'contradictory' muses to coexist in the same setting?

simply put: every writer's cast would be set in their own self-contained universe. as such, everyone could bring whatever muses they want with their own personal headcanons, and no one could dictate what is or isn't canon for anyone else. so long as your muses are GW2-based, you're good to go! bring your Commanders, bring your canon-divergent OCs, bring your canon muses-- and yes, even the ones that are 'supposed' to be dead. who can say what might have happened in a strange world far across the Mists, after all?

neutral hubs and in-character safety guardrails would be in place to keep all muses on a relatively even playing field regardless of their power, history, and prestige, too. play hardball if you like, but it might not end quite the way you'd hope. the main rule would be to maintain good OOC etiquette at all times: no godmodding, no metagaming, no theft, don't blend IC and OOC, and so-on.

if that sounds like something you might have interest in, please interact with this post! and if you've got questions or concerns, I'd love to hear them; feel free to send an ask or a DM, or just reply to this post!

#GW2 roleplay #GW2 rp #GW2 #my posts #so there's a LOT of reasons why I'm putting this forward #but the biggest is that I really want there to be a place that's actually inclusive for all the creativity that exists in this fandom #there was exactly one Mists multiverse event a while back and it was well-received from everything I saw! #i know i for one had a lot of fun AND felt a lot more welcome and comfortable than i have at any other event #and then... we proceeded to just never have another again. #like. we could have more of that. that niche could still use filling! we can do SO much more with this!!! #and especially with SotO coming out we could have some REALLY interesting locations to meet up too! #I'd be happy to kickstart this stuff but the thing is: it WILL need support. I just can't do it all alone and that's a fact #example: if we want a guild hall in-game we'd have to work together to get one; that'd be great for hosting public and private events #my personal goal is 5-10 participants so that we can have enough to run small events and mingle muses a bit #IF there's enough interest i'll roll out more information at that time. for now tho i'll just leave it at this to test the waters #reblogs are HIGHLY appreciate here: i'm a smallfry in a big sea and not many people check the tags. spread the word if you want to see this #on that note: thanks for reading and hopefully i'll hear from some of you soon. o/ #(side detail: that sky pic is a screen i snapped at night in Istan. it's so pretty there ok)

[the-masked-artist05]

Late night doodle wip of Spatium

I got inspired by some body horror content and I wanted to try a slightly different spin on their alt design. I'll be doing the same with Materia and Tempus. I also want to do horror designs for the yeehaw trio based on these designs correlating to their respective delegators as well!

#art #my art #digital art #mask chats #oc #my oc #[spatium] #im gonna go for a centaur/centipede mix for the lower body bc why not and also I think it would look cool as well #im doing some character writing for Spatium along with looking up stuff about using canes and trying out different character ideas for them #im thinking of writing them with did [which I'm currently researching and would love any advice people would like to give me] #also im in the beginning stages of writing for them so im primarirly looking up information and other bits as well #im trying my best to not misrepresent/stereotype anything about them [and other characters in general] #so hopefully i get it as right as i can and if anyone wishes to say anything to me #feel free to do so! it'll be greatly appreciated #i can elaborate more on this and my ideas for Tempus and Materia as well is you are interested

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Nope. it was racist so I discontinued it

#knox rambles #monkie kid pirate au #sofia03keidy #asks #ive said this before actually several times #i got new information that made me realize aspects of the au were racist so i decided to discontinue it. #the au has been discontinued #i thought about revamping it in a more respectful and appropriate way but honestly the au just ended up being about ships and i am #not really interested in shipping so #yeah discontinued for various reasons. this'll hopefully be the last time i have to address this #if not i swear y'all ima go back and delete the entire au i would like to move on from it #im not mad just tired lol #hope y'all having a stellar dayv

[wanderingmind867]

Nico di Angelo was born the same year as Jimmy Carter. Learned that from Wikipedia today. I doubt this is useful information, but I still just think it's fun to share random facts like this. For example, 1924 was also when Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando, Benny Hill and Allan Sherman were born.

#nico di angelo #random facts #random information #this is my only real contribution honestly #I went to wikipedia and found people born in 1924 #hopefully someone else finds this interesting #percy jackson #pjo #pjo hoo toa #random thoughts #autism #asd #adhd

[boxwinebaddie]

ok ive been wanting to ask this for a while but i didnt know if youd be able to answer since its giving a lot away.. but f it lmao. does ravenstan know jersey kyle is HIS kyle? bc he hasnt said anything but how many ginger jewish jersey boys are there named kyle matthew broflovski hsjjdks im assuming one

ooooooh. ok...Hm.

so, i stared at this for a while and...

you know what, my friend? i should, one, prolly stop randomly jumping the line of 34973 ask memes in my box whenever i get a new one bc i get super excited & have no attention span, but also this is...Important.

and tbh, one of the Big reasons that rm got so tricky for me was because i got overly anxious about the timeline, too worried abt what sequence of events the fic should follow/what things should you know and when, etc. so i actually have a lot of random rm itinerary/lore that i wrote that i was going to drop you guys in other chapters but wasn't sure if it was...Time yet?

buuuuut given that posting to my ao3 has been super stressful for me as of late/i'm still trying to ease back into it/i feel more posting comfortable stuff on here -- combined with the serious bummer that i can't really write updates in the sorry shape i’m in rn with settling into my new workplace and grappling with my mental health/healing my complex feelings abt writing

which is a Serious Bummer indeed because i try to be as fun and zesty as possible in my ask responses, but i really want to give you all something more solid to Read, you know?

so this is my little compromise for you. :)

basically i wrote this little scene thingy like a month ago and Almost put it at the beginning of rm6...but it was too complicated and i was like maybe i should wait, idk...

but i am feeling chaotic today!~

and the fact you guys care enough about my weird little fanfictions to regularly send me thoughtful, kind, excited messages abt it even when my updates are few and far between — idk, that means so much to me. you all mean a lot to me…and you guys know i am unhinged and cannot resist posting snippets/spoilery things.

so…i’m closing my eyes!! but also it’s not a spoiler if i was going to post this earlier Anyways…right? dhsksks

( if you want to read it it’s under the cut w/ more info xx )

it is however…a draft. it’s really…not that good. like i said i was going to fix it / rewrite it when i figured out where i wanted it to go, but i wanted to answer your question without saying too much about it sooo i think this little scene thing should tell you/give you the information you seek while also keeping you confused/interested?

maybe?? idk?? i’m sweating, smh.

( some of lines just ended up re-written in my actual fic so if they look familiar that’s why — ANYWAYS! )

the Context is actually abt Kyle’s CRIMINA LAUR class, which if you rem(ember), jersey was writing an essay that was due at midnight but got rizzed too hard by raven and passed out and couldn’t turn it in!!! jersey kyle was ready to fight for his life ( aka lie out of his ass abt why his essay didn’t get uploaded w/o mentioning crimson dawn bc Ew ) but mr. mackey said that a Compelling Case was submitted upon his behalf by a

Third Party

and waved the missing homework assignment, where, in the section where kyle would have uploaded a copy of his essay, a video had been uploaded and submitted.

here’s the beginning of it

also jersey is in his pajamas, his hair is up, he looks radiant, he’s red bc having some box wine and his eye is twitching btw — pls tell me you can see it — also this was either going to go up before the hate or after it so i don’t think the time frame matters — this is just part of what happened while kyle was passed out back stage )

anyways! *jersey vc* Cheers! Mazel <3

;)

-uncle nina

#tw for me spoiling stuff #JUST KIDDING IM NOT I SWEAR U GUYS #I WAS GONNA TRY AND FIT THIS INFO INTO ANOTHER CHAP #but u guys are the best and have been very patient #and so dedicated and invested in my work #which is so amazing so #here is some interesting information #and i hope it helps answer ur question a little #u will probably have 20 more #so sorry friend #hopefully this was a thrilling uphate #i sent this on my phone #so im sorry if this looks crazy this also might be a crazy thing to do right before i dip for an event #but i love chaos let’s go babey #i feel like 75% of this is not ground breaking but IT IS CUTE OKAY I THINK ravenstan my beloved #he was so worried oh my god pleaaase

[wolfsbanesparks]

39. Share a WIP

(From your Ask Game 👀)

HI! I'm so glad that I have an excuse to share another snippet from my WIPs.

I had to think carefully about what to share (gotta avoid spoilers for the major plot points). Under the readmore is a snippet from Pretty Little Thing a few chapters ahead of where we are now.

Freddy watched Darla walk away, waiting until she disappeared through the front doors of the school before he hiked his backpack up higher and made his way off campus, keeping his head down so as not to be noticed by the throngs of people heading to school. He would have to be careful to not get caught ditching.

Despite what he’d said to Darla, he planned on telling his foster parents that his leg had been hurting and that he’d spent the day camped out in the boy’s bathroom, in too much pain to make it all the way to the nurse’s office. It was plausible enough that they would accept it—though he was sure they’d treat him overly gently over the next couple of days.

It was a long walk to Billy’s apartment—his leg already ached just thinking about it. But he knew he could handle a couple bad pain days with much more grace than he could the nagging feeling of not knowing what was actually going on.

That visit from the Daily Planet reporters had shaken him more than he wanted to admit. He had known that Billy was in trouble—but Billy was always in trouble, always one step away from throwing himself at every disaster. But usually he was the Captain when he did that, usually he was fine. He had superpowers and the entire Justice League on speed dial, there was nothing that he couldn’t handle.

But sometimes he did things as Billy that put him in danger, not really caring about the consequences. That’s what had Freddy worried.

So the question was whether Billy was in trouble because he was the Captain or because he was Billy.

#ask me whatever you want y'all #shazam #billy batson #dc captain marvel #freddy freeman #fanfic asks #writer ask game #Hopefully this teases some of Freddy's role in the future of the fic #I'm pretty excited for his parts and I can't wait to share the full thing #my writing #I really like the fact that he's working on his own set of theories with more information than the JL but not as much as Billy had #it's an interesting middle ground

[wyrddogs]

Protip to all the breeders out there: When a puppy buyer messages you privately about a potential health issue their dog may have, and provides you with both the health results and the full pedigree, of their own volition, for free, and which they paid for out of their own pocket, when you yourself do not health test at all-- don't spend ten minutes talking about how all of your dogs are perfectly healthy and have never had any issues in the forty years you have been breeding before finally offering a very limp "Sorry to hear about that."

Also, don't immediately throw the dam's breeder under the bus and blame literally the entire problem on her, when the dog in question is 75% related to your own lines. Especially don't circle the dam's maternal part of the pedigree and say, "Look for the source of the problem here."

It makes you sound like an ass.

#kermit's sire's breeder is a piece of work #the talk went exactly like I thought it would #his breeder took the news better than I was expecting #expressed interest in screening #I gave her the information and hopefully she follows through #dachshund people make me so tired #kermit #dachshund #IVDD

[mitamicah]

My tattoo appointment got rescheduled so now it is on Tuesday instead of Monday - if anybody was curious now you know x'D

#funny coincidence that two out of three tattoo appointments has been moved once now #hopefully this wont be moved again :'D #and it was at least a shorter wait than last time where the date was moved weeks :'D #but alright the artist was sick and that's understandable #btw the third appointment was not really an appointment - it was a walk in x'D #this is all pretty trivial information but maybe some of you find this interesting to know xD #yeah #I will go back and see if the movie is done loading now x'D #micahs foolery

[sunnymused]

INTEREST CHECK:

for The Daycare Attendant ☀️ or🌙

for Montgomery Gator ⭐️

for Simon Petrikov/Ice King 👑

for Mabel Pines 🌈

for Margaret "Ma" Pines 🚬

for Metal Sonic 🔹️

#( interest check. ) #( comment the emoji of the character(s) youre interested in receiving asks/starters from ♡ #( i was going to spam but i think this is more concise #( ill reblog this several times and gather information #( hopefully thisll help me out ♡ #( also commenting 'all' is fine too #( and dont worry if you dont want to comment or anything this is for those who feel comfortable ♡♡♡

[sleepdepravity]

I got an idea of doing a YouTube channel that is just “reviews” where I say a short sentence about a movie and then give a rating, like:

Glass Onion - “five old people play among us in it” 10/10

Pinocchio - “SpongeBob voices Mussolini” 9.5/10

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - “there is buttplug-activated fighting skills” 10/10

#it’s sort of an appealing idea #I just don’t think I’ll do it #I don’t watch enough movies or consume enough media in general for it to be sustainable #but I’ve already sort of set up a sort of philosophy of the hypothetical channel in my head #it would sort of be a silly way to give awareness of like #maybe some movies that might get less attention #or wouldn’t be in the mainstream radar #and it wouldn’t go for things that are made by already huge-name studios or whatever #it’s only going to be movies that interest me though (which does mean the rating would likely all be high) #(because if the movie already interested me enough to watch it then obviously it’s more likely that I’ll love it) #more information would be in the video description (such as genre and director and studio) #but there’s never any in-depth opinion about it anywhere #the intention isn’t to try to distill the movie into one sentence #just to take some odd detail from it that stuck out to me and was funny #something that obviously isn’t ‘the thing the movie is about’ and hopefully wouldnt turn it into ‘that movie with among us’ #anyways it’s a nice idea. I’d like to call that hypothetical channel ‘review’ #but I bet that one’s taken or something #personal malkylife

[densitywell]

it is wild to me how defensive ppl are getting on behalf of the gods though. like they're immortal beings with way more influence over the lives of individual mortals than in reverse. many of them are canonically, unambiguously evil! but whenever a pc expresses that they don't really care for the gods the tag fills up with "you guys are being like, super mean to the unaccountable ultra-powerful beings right now" ass posts

#this of course does not mean ludinus is right or that the ruby vangard is good in any way #the answer is of course not replacing one dominating power with another whether it be predathos or exandrias tech ceos (wizards) #just like. so much interesting conversation (and criticism) that could be had about the hells philosophical discussions of gods #and their relationship to mortality. the shit deanna said about the afterlife and batteries is FASCINATING #and how the hells perspective is informed also by their lack of knowledge about the calamity #but for some reason ppl cannot accept any critical thought about their best friend the raven queen #as if she really cares what imogen temult from bumfuck arkansas thinks. wild #critical role #cr #alright hopefully i have exised this from my soul and i never have to post abt it again even though it will certainly continue #i do know ppl have vibe checked the gods btw. hi raven queen. but your average whitestone andy is not doing any god killing yknow

[arolesbianism]

So I may or may not have spent a good chunk of my day trying to learn how to look into onis code and while I may not have yet succeeded I will likely keep fucking around with shit tomorrow and if I manage to succeed it'll spell great doom for my sanity as oni becomes the interest I've officially poured the most effort into analyzing

#rat rambles #oni posting #for now I must sleep but hopefully tomorrow Ill figure out how to decompile files #the real question is going to be if Ill be able to do this on my shitty ass laptop or if Ill need to figure smth else out #I just want to be able to view stuff so ideally it won't make my laptop chug too bad but rly Im more worried abt space #I might have to try to do some cleanup and delete some shit maybe Ill go scan through the shit that came pre installed #and hey maybe if I can get this to work I can go mega hacker mode and tweak some stuff for funsies #probably wont since I don't wanna break my game and I dont trust myself but yknow #itd probably help if I actually retained any information from the Two programing classes I took when I was younger but alas #one of them was even specifically a video game programming class and lemme tell you I remember absolutely nothing #also from what little I was able to view without fancy applications I have no new info but I can finally fully put jean in the we 100% know #their last name zone cause while we definitely already 100% did Technically we only got jea- for first name confirmation #but theyre referred to as jean in a note in a bio bot story traits file ty whoever added the notes there #god I hope theres other notes in the files I want to read those so bad #btw this was all spurred by that one nails log that disappeared cause I have found a file that looks like it but I cant fully view it #and I desperately need to view it I need to view it #also if I can look in the code then in theory itll make copying down all the lore logs easier #also the datamining thread of the forums hasnt been particularly active so who knows maybe I can become a proper dataminer #(<- will not do that probably unless it turns out to be easier than I thought) #but admittedly I am interested in hunting for potential future update content even if I probably won't hunt too hard for it #again Im mostly just hunting for lore #hey maybe if Im lucky Ill find some genuinely new and usable information in that department #maybe the secrets of b363 and dr. holland lie in the files ooooo (they probably dont) #man it'd be nice if I had a proper pc itd make my life so much easier and my desk feel less enpty lol #in a world where I get to play videogames at a higher framerate than 10fps #I mean we do have some older computers laying around the house although theyre probably also crusty pieces of shit #idk maybe I can see if I can salvage one itd be nice to have a proper computer to fuck about with #Im sure my mom wouldn't mind as long as its one that hasnt been touched in years #which tbf I dont know how many options thatd leave me but we at least have one computer that could theoretically be usable #albiet its definitely packed with viruses from me and my siblings being dumb kids

[seventh-district]

vent post pt. 2, the dreaded sequel

#Seven’s Public Diary #vent #vent post #cw vent #cw vent post #okay the ‘never ever wanted to die’ part isn’t exactly true. i just don’t count how i felt from the ages of 12-15 or so #because that was a very strange time where i’m honestly not sure how much of what i felt was even real or honest #and how much of it was really just a kid needing help and expressing it very poorly #but from 15/16 onward or whatever exact age i was when i had my whole ‘oh holy fuck i really really don’t want to die’ crisis/awakening #from then i’ve always been vehemently on the side of life and wanting to live as long as i possibly can #which is interesting because things have done nothing but get exponentially worse and more difficult for me ever since #but smthn shifted in me when i realized Oh Fuck I Actually Want To Live and that desire has yet to be defeated #but anyways enough bragging about how much i don’t want to die lmao #it really does feel like bragging since it’s obvious to me that so many other people don’t feel that way #and i hate that. i wish no one ever had to deal with feeling that bad and death being the only thing their mind jumps to as a solution #sigh. anyways #i regret to inform y’all so i’m making this little announcement in these tags where hopefully no one will even see it lmao #but uh. unfortunately i’ll probably be delaying all of my creative endeavors for the next little bit #until i take care of the pressing real life issues that are weighing me down and until i am in a better environment #that will actually be conducive to my creativity instead of me struggling to make things while also struggling to just. like… live. y’know #and i know it’s not like there’s really anyone out there on the edge of their seat to consume anything i make #but this little announcement is more for myself than anyone else i guess. i have to almost force myself/give myself permission #to stop working on my various projects. and instead work on getting all of my irl ducks in a row. and get to a place where i feel safe(er) #because i’m really working against myself right now. cart before the horse almost. #so caught up in personal projects and future dreams that i’m ignoring the current growing issues in my day to day life #and i’ve done good in the later half of this year at beginning to tackle them one by one #but driving and potentially moving out of things don’t change here are the two biggest ones that i’ve yet to face #so i really have to accept that i need to change those and as a byproduct of that- stop dividing my attention onto so many other things #so my usual snail-pace of writing and video making (even tho the video making has mostly been behind the scenes work thus far) #is going to screech to an almost-halt while i focus on personal stuff. and next year should be much better as a result