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stardust-falling · 4 months

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Hi! I keep seeing ppl debating if SQQ's eyes are canonically green or black. What do you think? Somebody said SQQ's eyes are green in the cover, but if you think otherwise, why? If you've discussed about this before in your page, may I see the link?

Hey! I posted this one on my meta blog (this might be what actually stirred up the discussion), but I still need to update the post there to include the timeline and all relevant information provided by various commenters.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and give a little summary here.

SQQ has black eyes in the novel, and they're explicitly described that way (黑，乌黑 specifically, color words meaning black and crow-black (like jet black)).

This means that a depiction of SQQ with green eyes is contrary to novel canon.

At some point, people on the wiki said his eyes were described as 青 (qing）which is turquoise green/blue. I'm not exactly sure where this came from, but one very, very loose potential for this could be a misreading of the following description: 眉清目秀 which is used to describe the appearance of a young SJ. It's possible, perhaps, that the character 清 (clear) here was accidentally misread as 青（green/blue) but i don't think that's a particularly easy misreading, especially since in that phrase the 清 is linked to 眉（brows) instead of 目（eyes). But anything is possible, and this is the only place in the novel I could find reference to "clear eyes" in regards to SQQ, and the only potential way this misreading could have basis in the novel. Either way, his eyes are never described as 青, so that's an incorrect assumption.

So, the only thing I really consider canon proper is the novel itself, but that's my own stance. A wider stance would be considering the novel as primary canon, while the donghua/manhua are secondary canon, and things like official art could be tertiary canon. In this framework, details included in the donghua that aren't in the novel but aren't contradicted by it would also be considered wider canon and fill in those gaps, while things that contradict the novel would be canon as well, but specifically alternate, donghua canon. The same would apply to official art-- if it doesn't contradict the donghua or novel, it fills the gap, otherwise it's another kind of alternate canon.

Under this wider system, then Shen Qingqiu's canon eye color would go this way:

Primary canon - Black eyes Secondary Canon - Grey Eyes Tertiary Canon - Black, Grey, or Green Eyes

So depending on what you consider canon, then the answer can change-- but in my opinion, the novel overrides other sources.

Okay, so let's go into the secondary and tertiary canons, then. On the post on my meta blog that I linked earlier, in the replies and reblogs, there are some references about the evolution of SQQ's character design in donghua and fanart, so I'll leave those explanations to speak for themselves.

Let me talk a bit about the official art, then.

Though the English edition has the most vivid green eyes in character design, it is NOT the only cover art with green-eyed SQQ!

Across translations, he is depicted with varying black, grey, or green eyes, as follows (using purple color for grey since tumblr doesn't have a grey color):

Taiwanese (OG) - Black Taiwanese (Revamped) - Darker green, occasionally darker grey (some variety here) Thai - Lighter grey Vietnamese - Black Burmese - Medium grey or dull green (again, some variety) Korean - Black, but may vary to grey or very dull green (resolution not high enough to tell)

And then of course the vivid green of the English edition.

So when it comes to official art, it's basically evenly split, with three black, three grey, three green (counting the ones that vary).

Green-eyed SQQ is not exclusively a western fandom thing. I mean, on some levels, it makes sense for character design-- matching his eyes to his clothing color.

Personally, I wouldn't call it canon. And I think if anyone does want to claim it's canon (via the tiered system), that it would be a good idea to preface that you're going off of alternate canon instead of novel canon, so that it's not used as an argument when the discussion is specifically centered on novel canon.

There is a level of canonicity to either green-eyed or grey-eyed SQQ, but such depictions still contradict the novel, even if supported by other mediums, since his eyes are specifically described as black there.

I guess, it depends on how you want to define canon at the end of the day. I'm not here to tell other people how to play in their own sandboxes, I just personally like to play in novel canon only so that's my stance on it.

Hope this is the sort of info you wanted!

#svsss #answered #anon #shen qingqiu #at this point #my sqq eye color posts will be a treasure hunt across tumblr lmao #zhuixing svsss

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cannellee · 6 months

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I really love your Tokyo Revengers a/b/o-verse very much and there’s smth about it that’s satisfying.

If possible would it be ok for you to write head canons of Draken being the alpha is in a relationship with two sweet omega’s who’s Emma and Reader. I thought that this would be very interesting to look at!

Here’s some ideas…

- An A/O/O relationship in which one Omega (Emma Sano) is very anxious and gets depressed a lot when left alone so the Alpha suggests adding another Omega to the relationship so they won’t be as lonely anymore when the Alpha is busy. Both agreeing but being nervous as the Alpha tries to find an Omega that they think will be suitable and quickly becoming attached to a very sweet and cheerful Omega (the reader) …the Alpha being thrilled when their current Omega forms an immediate attachment to the new mate that they chose

- An A/O/O relationship and whenever one Omega (Reader) gets mad at the Alpha, the other Omega (Emma) almost always takes their side because they are extremely sensitive to their Omega mate’s distress and they get very upset with the Alpha for making them unhappy

Source copied from: https://www.tumblr.com/omegaversethings/154244909092/poly-relationship-headcanons (Im also new to the a/b/o-verse so that’s why I had to look through some sources so plz forgive me 🙏)

TOKYO REVENGERS OMEGAVERSE ★

୨୧ alpha! Draken x omega! Reader x omega! Emma

— tokyo revengers a/b/o headcanons (if it's too long you can start reading after the cut, the first part is not necessary to understand the rest of the fic)

my masterlist : ☆

(I love this request so much! I hope you like it!! btw I'm sorry for the long wait😭 I'll also probably do something similar in the future bc I'm not satisfied with what I wrote, but the idea is just so cute!!)

emma and draken have been in a relationship over a year now.

draken was the one who started courting a very impatient emma and soon after they became inseparable.

both were very happy, a clear dynamic had settled between them.

emma had finished high school and planned to definitely stop her studies to focus on herself and her relationship, while draken worked at his bike shop the day and often participated in gang's meetings at night.

as emma's alpha, draken vowed to provide for his omega the most he could and to protect her until the very end.

he is very dedicated and takes care of emma the best he can.

that's why he rarely comes home, he's so focused on making sure he can guarantee emma's well being, making enough money she won't have to work herself.

and emma understands that, she's really moved by her alpha's motives, she's glad draken is here to cater for her.

but emma's stressed, she gets anxious rather easily and not having her alpha around most of the day is hard. especially since she spends most of her time alone.

sure she goes out a bit, sees some of her friends, but nothing can compares with a few hours with draken.

she desperately feels lonesome and out of things. her alpha wasn't there when she needed it and draken's absence, no matter how noble his intentions were, took a toll on emma's mood.

it didn't go unnoticed by draken though.

he was coming back from the shop, emma didn't know exactly when but only that it was pitch black outside, his hands black and greasy from fixing bikes. his white clothes only showed how hard he was working for the both of them, and this thought alone made emma feel even worse for unconsciously blaming draken's.

she knew he was doing all of that for her. draken never cared for anything else more than her.

when draken stepped inside, a sour smell straight away invaded his nostrils. so used to his sweet omega's flowery and sugary scent, he was stunned.

he immediately dropped all of his belongings and followed the scent that he was sure belonged to emma, worried sick and hoping nothing bad happened to her.

when he saw her, curled up in a messy nest, curtains and windows closed despite the heat and the horribly distressed smell she was emitting, draken's eyes softened and he relaxed a bit knowing she was there.

he approached slowly, making his presence known as to not alert his omega any further and spread his own pheromones. he hoped that would appease emma.

he then called her name quietly and carefully caressed her head. he took his time comforting her, making sure she knew he was here and was not planning on leaving her anytime soon.

and when she felt better and her crying had stopped, draken urged her to spill everything she's been bottling up. his instincts were screaming at him to resolve and fix anything that was wrong in his sweet omega's life.

and when she did, draken's whole world went crashing down. he hated not taking care better of his omega who eagerly needed him, he thought he had done everything right. sadly, he couldn't just suppress some of his work hours ; he had to make sure emma could count on him in terms of incomes, make sure he could feed her, assure her a roof and a stable life.

he was torn apart and couldn't come up with a conclusion that would satisfy his omega. draken who was ordinarily so composed and thoughtful couldn't stop his brain from fidgeting.

upon hearing his mate crying, draken came out with a solution. he didn't know whether this would please emma and he wasn't sure himself if his idea was going to work anyways.

if his omega was so lonely, what's better than a new companion? he carefully explained his thoughts, that he was busy and that it wouldn't change, no matter how much he wished he could spend his days clinging to his omega.

emma didn't appear offended, they both had often brought up adding someone to their little pack and she seemed to be seriously considering this idea.

though hesitant at first, she agreed and asked draken to find a suitable omega for them...

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when draken first met you, you were visiting the bike shop he was working at, hoping to find a few pieces to fix your brother's motorbike.

you looked absolutely clueless and shyly asked draken to help you out.

he was tall, and strong and exuded a really strong aura that made your knees tremble.

to say draken was definitely your type is an understatement, in fact, he probably was everything you were looking for in an alpha.

you ending up with emma and draken was due to a serie of unexpected events, leading you to coincidentally meeting draken multiple times in the streets and chatting for a bit, before eventually meeting his omega, emma.

she was the sweetest and you guys clicked instantly. sharing the same interests and tastes, you found out you both had a lot in common.

you found yourself hanging out with her more often, with draken or not, depending on his work days.

draken noticed a change in emma not long after you started hanging out. uncharacteristically of her, she reached out to you and initiated your outings. having a friend to fill her lonely days seemed to lift up her mood considerably.

her alpha was so relieved to see such a change in her. his worries persisted, but he knew it was only a matter of time before you completely healed emma.

he was glad he found you and emma was ecstatic each time he mentioned your name, becoming more and more enthusiastic when the three of you met up.

the more you guys met, the more draken and emma knew you were the perfect match for them.

and now you & emma were practically always together.

wherever you went, you could be sure emma was as well. she was not leaving you anytime soon.

you guys spent most of your days inside, cuddling with each other and draken would always fondly watch the scene, happy with how well you suited each other.

emma and you were now the 2 most precious people for him, and he was glad you were there for one another. now he didn't feel as guilty for leaving you so often and knew you had each other to rely on0.

now your daily life is filled with warmth, laughter and a lot of cuddles.

draken loves scenting you both and emma especially likes it when you smell just like her. now draken has put his claim on the both of you and you couldn't be happier.

when you guys are cuddling, you're either in draken's soft embrace while emma is attached to his side, or you're emma's little spoon while draken is hugging her.

in those moments your pheromones are all mixing up to form one single scent that emma can't get enough of. she's purring so loudly and draken is just releasing the best protective pheromones you could ask for. it makes you feel so safe!

the softness of it all reminds you of your first couring gifts. you had learned emma was very strict during the courting process, she didn't let draken give you anything that didn't get her approval ; she wanted to impress you and show you that they were perfect for you & could make you happy!

emma knows how to sew, so she made you all sorts of things. from clothes to blankets, you can't even count the amount of gifts the both gave you.

even now, emma gifts you all sort of things all the time.

when the three of you are out, emma is usually grabbing at your arm and guiding you wherever. you both don't have a care in the world when draken has been scenting you for a few minutes before going out and especially since he's right behind you looking all big and menacing. he's your private guard dog and nobody even dares looking your way.

now you and emma rarely get into arguments, you both nag a little but that's about it.

however, it's a different story when draken is involved.

you remember the day of your 1st anniversary, you went out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate it. but draken had to ruin it all and leave early because of work >:(

the moment he came home after finishing his urgent matters, he was excluded from your nest and couldn't join you.

you made him sleep on the couch and forgave him a few days later after countless of apologies and gifts from him.

emma is always one to follow you no matter what.

the day draken forgot to bring home your favourite snack while you were the most sick you ever were, your scent had never been this sour.

looking back, it was a bit exaggerated but your sick state made you more sensitive than usual!

your displeased pheromones made emma upset as well and she nagged draken for you since you weren't able to.

her solidarity with you is unbreakable and you love that about her.

a life with the both of them is indeed hectic but they take such good care of you. your mates are so devoted you wouldn't trade them for anything <3

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front-facing-pokemon · 2 months

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thank you so much, I use this blog to help me draw pokemon faces all the time

this is something i've heard before that was an unexpected but welcome benefit of the blog! i have to say, i have no clue what i'm going to do once i get past silicobra—now that we're getting into newer generations (the queue is already into gen 8), my typical sources of models are starting to become more and more unreliable and there are some pokémon that i just can't find anywhere on the internet. not sure exactly what i'm gonna do if i can't find them, to be honest, and the current state of the blog has already been getting rougher around the edges behind the scenes anyway. i've been told to just go on indefinite hiatus until some more models are ripped, but i don't really want to do that. comments like these are really why i don't want to, even if the blog isn't exactly conducive to my mental health—y'know. it's been on a consistent schedule for this long, and at least two people are waiting for these every day so. i can't just give up. but i still don't really know what i'm going to do. it's a little scary, looking into the future, but i just hope i can keep providing in the same way y'all have come to expect from me. not many of you are here for me and a good majority are obviously here for what i call Regularly Scheduled Programming, and since asks usually only get around 20 notes max, i doubt a majority of those folks will even see this—and that's fine; they're here for silly front-facing pokémon and i'm doing my best to oblige. but the problem with that is that i know how the tumblr userbase can be, and i'm slightly afraid of what would happen if i did go on a random hiatus. who would even read the post saying why? the dedicated ones, sure; the ones that enjoy my commentary, sure. but i already said i don't want to go on hiatus, so i suppose i'll have to find a way. i don't know what that way may be, and i imagine that way is only going to make this harder on me

there is more that i could say here, but it may get a little too personal for hijacking your ask to talk about it, anon. my apologies! very long story made short, i hope there won't be any turbulence and that the general followerbase (that's you) won't notice anything, but don't be surprised if there is and you do. now take some nose ratings

#not pkmn #nose ratings #i hope this isn't Too personal. and to finally answer the original ask: of course. i'm grateful i could provide a service like that to you #and artists everywhere‚ i suppose #i would say thank YOU‚ but it's not like i'm necessarily getting anything out of this. i'm not the famous one—it's the pokémon

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weebsinstash · 11 months

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What if Miguel gives you a suit anyway even if you're not a spider person to protect you? 👀👀 one that moves when it senses danger so he's less worried about you when he's not there (but also with commands only he knows and really only he can disable? 👀👀👀). Reader can't take the suit off and realizes too late 👀👀👀👀 (I'm user filthdumpformeself btw)

Godddddddd it would open Reader up for some real manipulation and potential abuse. To be a NORMIE? At least some of these characters are scientists and inventors, but if you're just a powerless civilian, you'd be almost jumping at the opportunity to be something more, to mean something in this super-powered world you're in

I mentioned in another idea, 'what if Reader lost their home universe and they live where the Spider Society is' and you just 24/7 have to have a bracelet on or you'll glitch out and no on will know what will happen. Usually you'd return to your home universe, but since YOU don't have one, would you just POP! cease to exist? He never tells you, but the thought TERRIFIES Miguel, and once a week he's making sure to personally perform routine exams on your wristwatch to make sure it's functioning. So imagine if he eventually expanded on that. The suit would need some sort of source to project out of, so he combines it withe the bracelet. You still need to bathe after all!

As a person with a physical disability, I often think about and well, grieve over the abilities and physical fitness I'll never be able to have, and I think Reader in this scenario would have a similar experience. You're a normie surrounded by superheroes and genius scientists and they're all doing flips and hanging upside down and have zero fear of heights and natural invulnerability and EVERYTHING! You're in Spiderman Super Central and you're the only one who isnt allowed to be in the super special big boy club. It would make you so isolated and depressed, especially because like, Nueva York looks HUGE, so like there's definitely parts where all the normal people live, but Miguel insists you live in the Society to keep an eye on your bracelet (and also to keep you around)

This is where you're vulnerable to the manipulation and potentially having to do whatever he asks. You're DESPERATE for the freedom and fun and feeling of fulfillment only the suit can provide. It's a proverbial carrot he's dangling over your head. You want your powers back? Behave yourself. Do whatever he wants.

Just imagine it. You're high on the euphoria of getting to run around with other spiders and actually have some sort of purpose and, a new Spidey friend of yours is like "hey I got some goons in my home universe, what if you tagged along?" And suddenly Miguel is getting a little ping on his own bracelet "bracelet number 8364937 whatever tf just warped to coordinates XYZ" and he FLIPS OUT. They had you exposed to danger? They had you fighting?! And he storms all the way over there to see you're actually doing great and fighting fine, but so much of that is the suit, and you and him start an argument until he snaps. He didn't give you this suit to run around in suicide missions, and he scolds you not to do this again.

Snapcut to him finding out you did it again, and even confronting you WHILE another Spider is showing you the ropes and letting you train and fight (who will receive a severe punishment for it later). The two of you just start really arguing as you vent your feelings of uselessness and anger on him, maybe even saying something like "you can't just... try and CONTROL ME like this! You gave this to me, it should be mine to use!" And he just looks at you coldly. "You're right. I AM the one who gave it to you." And suddenly he's hitting a button and, you're still standing there in a suit strikingly visually similar to his own, but you can feel the exoskeleton kind of slack off your body, you feel heavier, and when you storm away from him angrily, you find out that your suit has had every function disabled. Every single one. No slinging webs, no defying gravity, no invulnerability, no super strength. Your Spider friends invite you for a swing around the city? You have to tearfully turn them down, and suddenly you're all isolated again. You're having to constantly turn down your friends and watch everyone have fun without you until you're going back to Miguel in tears, begging for his forgiveness, asking him what you can do for his forgiveness. PLEASE don't do this, with that suit you could help out around the Society and in other dimensions, or, you could at least just live a fun life in this place, and you're begging him with tears, PLEASE please please don't take away your new purpose

Not to mention you would have no idea but he can just constantly spy on you. He can find your location, he can listen in to your conversations and I imagine if you're all suited up, that he can potentially even control your movements. You mouth off and he just crosses his arms, "ok then. Power suit, activate protocol TO-1H" and suddenly your legs are marching you to your room and forcing you to give yourself a time out for an hour and he's monitoring you on a SpiPad while you cry by yourself and he can hear you whimpering all your private thoughts. "I just want to mean something... why is he doing this to me..."

An idea I had for the Spider Reader vs Evil OTHER Spider Reader which can also be applied here is, like, imagine you start clearly sinking into a depression during one of your "no spidey time" punishments and you're just feeling alone and sad as you eat in the food court with other Spiders and you're just looking down at the watch and suddenly you just say "do you think if I took this off I would die?"

The entire fucking cafeteria has their Spidey Sense go off and everyone looks at you. And you force a laugh, feeling super awkward as your face burns, and before you can laugh out "it was just a joke", something is casting a shadow over you, and you look up to see Miguel towering over you, one of the rare occasions he came out to socialize with other people. To try and eat with YOU. And he just heard you say THAT? THAT'S when he decides, you know what, I'm making this bracelet/suit unable to be taken off without special permissions 😤 no suicide or leaving allowed

But I imagine even if he doesn't want to see you taking risks and potentially getting hurt, he probably feels so warm and fuzzy and proud when he's teaching you new Spidey things and you pick up on then and do a good job and he praises you and you hit him with a big smile that makes his heart melt as he decides, ok, MAYBE he can let you play with your little suit, but only because it gives him more excuses to spend time with you ❤️

#atsv #yandere spiderverse #yandere miguel o'hara #yandere stuff #sinprompts

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qqueenofhades · 4 months

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can i ask you for some advice on how to reach out to a professor (at a university you don't attend) to ask about helping them out with their research? i'm not currently enrolled in college for a variety of financial/logistical reasons, but i really care about research and i really want to gain the skill of doing good research. i like to think i'm good at writing and critical thinking, and i'm eager to both learn and contribute.

i know i'm going to have to cold email professors and show that i've read their papers and find their research interesting, especially since i don't have much on a resume. i've read conflicting advice on how to email people -- some sources say to keep it as short and easy to read as possible, and others say to provide in-depth analysis and possibly constructive criticism of the research they've done to show you're committed. i really don't think i'm in a place to provide constructive criticism on what professional researchers are doing, LOL, but it might help to provide some commentary to show i understand it.

so my questions are, how much is too much, and how little is (probably) too little? i'm thinking of aiming for the equivalent of ~two paragraphs per email. also, are there any reliable indications of how well a professor treats the volunteers or employees/grad students who work for them? (and whether they could use extra help?)

thank you so much for reading!! i hope you have a wonderful day, and i love your blog ❤️

I admire your initiative and your desire to improve your research skills, which is why I'll have to gently say that I'm not sure this is the best way to go about it. There are a few reasons for that, namingly that first and foremost, professors are very busy and overworked people. They don't have time to do all the things they actually need to do and/or are actually paid for, and having to take extra time to summarize their research and/or organize it for an outsider who doesn't attend their university is, I'm afraid, probably going to be a pretty hard sell for most if not all of them. There's also the fact that if they do have the kind of research where it's useful to have a student assistant, there is no reason for them to give that spot to you and not one of their own students at the university, who are already actively enrolled, paying for their time, and contributing to their job and institution's research goals and projects. Not to mention that there are university confidentiality agreements, work-study arrangements, and all the rest, which would all preclude a professor just hiring a random non-student assistant off the street. Speaking from my current spot in university/department administration, I can say that it would definitely be a non-starter for us for a number of reasons. We just had an issue with flagging a student who wasn't technically enrolled in our specific program within our constituent college, although she was enrolled in the university, so bringing in someone with no connection to the university at all wouldn't fly, alas.

If you're really interested in working with THIS particular professor for some reason and not just a name you picked off a department directory with a form email that you're sending to any likely-looking candidate, you'll have to explain why in considerable depth, what you're doing or what your project is for, why you think it would be valuable for you AND for them for them to collaborate, and why you're contacting them directly instead of say, central Human Resources or the Careers page for the college. There are sometimes spots for research fellows, part-time lab assistants, or other jobs with the kind of work you seem to be looking for, but that requires you to go through the formal application/interview process like any other job and isn't something for which you can just slip in the back door (a professor would, for one thing, not likely be willing to just take you on without you going through the regular selection process for these posts and being interviewed by the university's regular hiring people).

As noted, there are legal liability issues, restrictions on what kind of information they can share with people even within the university let alone outside it, and the fact that it's not their job to hire and screen potential assistants for a research project UNLESS they are running an active project as the Principal Investigator (PI) and explicitly looking for student volunteers/employees (which even then will likely be searched/filled from within the university first). A cold email out of nowhere asking if they have some work for you, Random Stranger, will, unfortunately, go straight into the junk folder. If they're feeling polite, they might respond by directing you to reach out to HR, but that's a stretch. If you are planning to attend this university in the future, you might lead with that, because then they'll have more incentive to discuss what kind of options are available and so forth, but yeah. It's just not something I would expect to have a very great success rate and I know that if I got that kind of email, I would discard it pretty much out of hand. (I did get an extremely weird email a few weeks ago from someone asking ME if I would help THEM with their research, wherein they never specified so much as the basic subject area, what university they were at, what the project was, how they would envision me helping, why they chose me to contact, etc. It was basically a cautionary tale in how not to ask an academic to collaborate, and yes, it went pretty much straight into the recycle bin without a reply.)

If you still think after hearing this that you have a legitimate option to contact and at least feel out the waters (after all, never say never, stranger things have happened, etc) then yeah, uh, don't go with the "absolute stranger the professor doesn't know from Adam makes an unsolicited critique of their work and then asks for a job." Academics are used to receiving constructive criticism and it obviously comes with the territory, but it also comes within structured forums and at expected times -- when you present a paper to your peers at a conference, submit to a journal, etc. Popping out of nowhere to give unsolicited academic crit is as rude as popping out of nowhere to give unsolicited crit on a fanfic or something else that you've posted outside of the specific expectation of receiving it, wherein some "I Just Wanna Help" obnoxious mansplainer (gender neutral) says a lot of "helpful" things that nobody asked them for and then seems shocked when this isn't well received. I don't know who gave you that particular little nugget of uh, wisdom, but as you think, it's not something that strikes me in any way as a good idea, and would probably piss the academic off in a way that would have them venting to their friends and colleagues, and might therefore do you more harm than good in a number of different ways.

If you want to independently improve your research skills and work within the structure of academia-adjacent realms, what I really recommend doing is volunteering at your local public library, history/science museum, or other similar institution. They're always eager for volunteers and/or part-time employees, they have a number of different tasks and skills that need doing, it's a great way to build professional and community connections and see how things are done behind the scenes, and it looks good on your CV when or if you do apply to college (and then have a much easier path toward working with professors in the way you want to do). So yeah, all told, that's strongly what I'd recommend -- good luck!

#anonymous #ask #school stuff

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valdevia · 1 year

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Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I would rather ask then do it outright, but is it ok if we can use some of your concepts for our own stuff. I’m really fascinated with all the bone stuff you do and wanna try and use the concept for my own stuff, but since they’re your ideas I figured it would be more polite to ask first! :D

It really depends on what your own stuff is!

I'll take the opportunity to lay out my general rules on inspiration and using my concepts:

Fanart/Fanfic: Always OK! Just make sure to direct folks to the source material! (and tag/DM me so I can see it!)

Inspiration / Derivative ideas: if you like one of my concepts and want to do something new and different based on it: just go for it, no need to ask or credit!

TTRPGs: (I get this question a lot, so I'm making it its own bullet point) It's totally OK to adapt my stories for a tabletop RPG campaign that you're playing with your friends! If it's going to be played publicly, thought, refer to the last point!

Adaptation / Translation: If you want to directly adapt one of my stories to a new medium (like narrations, videos, games, or others) or translate it to another language, please ask me first! I'd be happy to check it out, provide feedback and help out where needed! (Or even do an interview segment, like I did for the Curious Archive video!)

Commercial Projects: If you want to use any of my ideas for a commercial project, make sure to ask first! It might be ok if it's just tangential inspiration, otherwise you should probably get a license! (just email me at [email protected] and we'll figure it out!)

And if your case doesn't fit any of the categories above or you're not sure, feel free to ask! My DMs are open! You can reach me here, on my Discord, Twitter DMs, or email!

#please let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know!#ask #Ask Val

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lopposting · 2 months

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Korea Game awards Game Director interview transcription <Lies of P>

Source (KR)

Hey so, I went through some Korea Game Awards stuff. It looks like there was a lot of content recorded for the event, but it doesn't really seem available online. I did find this interview with the director uploaded by a ruliweb user. It ended up being more of talk related to the industry and not all that related to LoP, but I figured I might as well share it since and I had gone through it anyway [and who knows, this could all be lost media one day!].

On LOP winning GOTY - South Korea

The Metacritic score was honestly higher than he expected

Talk about expanding the console games industry in Korea. Again, in South Korea - a leading world of PC Bangs and E-Sports, MMORPGs reign supreme! [Reading around the k-net supposedly LoP is notably one of the first major south korean developed single-player console title? I want to write about this more]

Influenced by other console, single player titles like Naughty Dog's Uncharted Series. [me: I love you, NG's The Last of Us.]

I'm pretty sure that based on his answers he will continue to spearhead the Lies of P IP

Send me an Inbox if you have a correction or see possible error/clarification needed!

[The "footage" doesn't seem available so it's a little hard for me because we can't hear the phrasing, so it's my best guess]

[VERY ROUGH TRANS]

ENG

Hello, nice to meet you, I am Choi Ji-won, general director of Lies of P [Jiwon Choi]

What games have you participated in developing so far? Asker Online, and just recently I was in charge of Lost Ark. [note: MMORPG and he did combat direction]

What do you think are the virtues of a good developer?

Above all, I think it's being clear and unwavering in direction

To what extent have I achieved compared to my goal? I think I've achieved about 80% of it.

I think the remaining 20% area

I want to at least overcome that level of fun I had, and the remaining area is one where the goal is to explore new fun

To do that, you have to put in a lot of effort, enjoy the game a lot, and talk a lot with your fellow development colleagues to achieve the fun you want

I want to get into that zone This is really honest

What advice can you give to juniors who want to become developers? Above all, you must become a gamer 'Does that fun really move you?' And do you want to give this feeling to yourself by becoming a developer?' I would like to take this opportunity to tell you once again that it is more important than anything to make an effort just to have fun

Why did you become a game developer? I've been a console game fanatic since I was young So, while enjoying famous masterpieces in console games, I also want to create a game that can provide this kind of fun I think it would be The Uncharted Series at that time I think I was able to analyze why this was fun while playing So I decided to become that kind of developer

What do you think about the Metascore rating results? [note: I'm assuming they're talking about the metacritic score, which is a critic aggregate (Lies of P currently sits at an 80)]

I'll be really honest about this too I thought it was a better score than the score I received. [Note: This is what he says, but I think what he means is "It was a better score than the one what I was expecting"] When I saw the evaluations of the metascore I realized I was only thinking about a small aspect and thought, 'I was [too] focused on the completion of just this area' But now, 'I need to think about a broader field and focus on it again.' It was that kind of experience

What is your ultimate goal as a developer?

Rather than being a developer who receives positive reviews from users, I actually want to remain as a developer who has a positive influence on other fellow developers in the field I hope to become someone who can serve as an opportunity to further improve and develop the development culture and development capabilities of our country's game industry

How do you feel when you receive positive and negative feedback?

(If you think positively) Thank you But I think we should never be satisfied with that (When receiving negative feedback) More and more, there were instances of reflection from a gamer's perspective like ‘Okay. I should have been more in his shoes.’

Any last words you would like to say? I don't think this award is ever meant for me I think this is an award given to everyone on the team I will take this as a sign to work even harder in the future We will continue to do our best to become a developer that can provide only fun and emotion

KOR

안녕하세요 반갑습니다 <> 총괄 디렉터 최지원 입니다

Q: 그동안 개발에 참여하신 게임은 ?

<애스커 온라인>, 직전엔 <로스트아크> 프로젝트를 담당했습니다

Q: 좋은 개발자의 덕목은 무엇이라고 생각하시나요?

무엇보다 뚜렷하고, 흔들리지 않는

방향성을 제시하는 것이라고 생각합니다

Q: 내 목표정에 비해 어는 정도까지 달성했나요?

약 80% 정도는 달성했다고 생각을 해요

남은 20% 영역

본인이 느꼈던 그 재미 이상을 넘어서

새로운 재미를 추구할 수 있는 영역이라고 생각을 합니다

그러려면 정말 노력도 많이 해야 되고

게임도 많이 즐겨야 되고

같은 개발 동료분들과도

원하는 재미를 정말 많이 한 방향이 되도록

대화도 많이 해야 되거든요

저는 그 영역에 도달하고 싶습니다

이게 정말 솔직한 겁니다

Q: 개발자가 되고 싶은 후배들에게 해줄 수 있는 조언은?

무엇보다 게이머가 되어야 됩니다

그 재미를 통해서 본인에게 정말 감동이 되는가?'

그리고 이 감동을 본인도 개발자가 돼서 선사하고 싶은가?'

진짜 재미만을 위해서 노력하는 게

무엇보다 중요하다는 것,

다시 한번 이 자리를 빌려서 말씀드리고 싶습니다

Q: 게임 개발자가된 계기?

저는 어렸을 적부터 콘솔 게임 덕후였습니다

그래서 콘솔 게임에서 유명한 명작들을 즐기면서

나도 꼭 이런 재미를 줄 수 있는 게임을 만들고 싶다

그때는 <언차티드 시리즈>일 것 같아요

플레이하면서 이게 왜 재밌는지를 분석을 할 수 있었던 것 같아요

그래서 그러한 개발자가 되기로 결심을 하게 됐습니다

Q: 메세타스코어 평점결과 에 대해서 어떻게 생각하시나요?

이것도 정말 솔직하게 얘기할게요

받은 점수보다는 더 나은 점수라고 생각을 했었어요

그 메타스코어에 대한 평가 내용들을 봤을 때는

납득이 가더라고요

작은 영역에서만 생각을 했었고

'그 부분에 대한 완성도만 봤었구나...'

근데 이제는 '더욱더 넓은 분야까지도 생각을 하고,

또 정진해야겠다.' 그러한 계기가 됐었습니다

Q: 궁극적인 개발자로서의 목표가 있다면?

유저들에게 좋은 호평을 받는 개발자이기보��는

현업에 있는 다른 동료 개발자들에게

긍정적인 영향을 미치는 개발자로 사실 남고 싶어요

우리나라 게임업계에 대한 개발 문화나

개발력이 더욱더 개선되고 발전하는

그러한 계기가 될 수 있는 사람이 되었으면 좋겠습니다

Q: 긍정적 & 부정적 피드백을 받을때의 기분은?

(긍정적으로 생각해주시면) 감사하죠

하지만 그것으로 만족해서는 절대 안 된다고

생각을 하고 있습니다

(부정적 피드백을 받으면) 더욱더 게이머 입장에서

'아차, 제가 더욱... 더 그분의 입장이 되어야 했었구나'라고

반성을 하는 경우도 많았었습니다

Q: 마지막으로 하고싶으신 말은?

이 상은 결코 저에게 주는 상이 아니라고 생각을 해요

팀 모든 분들에게 주어지는 상이라고 생각을 하고

앞으로도 더욱더 열심히 하라는 뜻으로 받아들이겠습니다

오직 재미와 감동만을 선사할 수 있는

그런 개발자가 되도록

계속 최선을 다하도록 노력하겠습니다

#man my korean is really not good #I am going through some LOP IRL stuff first! sorry for the wait for inbox answers.#I did come across some other interesting game-related stuff that I plan on sharing later #lies of p #liesofp #lop #lop irl #lop bts #jiwon choi #translation #korea game awards #full disclosure: i put it through google translate and then went through it manually a couple of times for error check/edits

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badbatchblog · 22 days

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Hello everyone! This is Omega. Since we've just started up this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to have us introduce ourselves!

I'll go first. Like I said, I'm Omega! I'm the newest member of the Bad Batch, and although I look like the youngest, I'm actually the oldest! I used to live on Kamino working as Nala Se's assistant until my brothers came to rescue me after the Empire took over. I'm really good at using an energy bow and playing strategy games. I have a Tooka doll named Lula that my brother Wrecker gave me. And my Trooper doll too! Oh, and I have a pet! Her name is Batcher, she's a Lurca Hound. Gonky and AZI are part of our family too, but I don't think they'll be joining the blog. Umm. I'm not sure what else to say about myself! I'm still trying to figure things out, honestly. But I'm excited to meet new people and chat with all of you!

Ok, here are my brothers! -Omega ☀

*****

heya everyone! I'm Wrecker! I like to blow stuff up and eat good food and cause a ruckus! the last part is what Tech and Crosshair say I do anyway haha. I'm the biggest and strongest of all of us and proud of it! I also get called the sweetest one by other people, but idk I think Omega is the sweetest one. I do think of myself as a nice guy tho! just don't get on my bad side hehe. uhh let's see, what else... oh! I only have one eye! my other one's a fake one. if you saw the scar on my head, you'd understand why! oh yeah and I know Omega said I gave Lula to her... which I did! but we still share her. Omega just gets to keep her more often. I don't need Lula THAT much! ...don't listen to anything Crosshair says otherwise. ok I think that's all! lookin' forward to talk with you guys sometime!

-Wrecker 💪🏽

*****

Hello. This is Tech. I am the main source of information and the main mechanic for the Bad Batch. I possess a high level of intelligence and dexterity that allows for me to bear these titles. I set up this blog as a means for us to get to know the people of this website better, with the hope that it will provide some much-desired information about the society culminated here. In fact, it would be much appreciated if we could get specific information from those who choose to interact with us; anything you're willing to provide will do. Oh. Omega has informed me that this was supposed to just be about myself... I'm afraid the rest will have to wait until another time. Or perhaps saved for potential inquirers. Regardless, I look forward to whatever is gleaned from this experience.

Addendum: It appears as though there's some confusion surrounding my existence. Misinformation, if you will. Well, I can assure you all that this is one hundred percent the real me, and any rumors surrounding my death have been greatly exaggerated. If you require further proof, by all means, ask for it. That is all.

-Tech 🧠

*****

Echo here. Wrecker already stated it, but I'm actually a former member of the squad. I'm also a former member of the 501st Legion. I still consider myself a part of the family though (and the others do as well), which I appreciate. I have several cybernetic augmentations and limbs, curtesy of the Techno Union, thanks to an accident I endured a few years ago. It's fine, I'm over it now. I've accepted who I am, and if other people can't, then that's their problem. I probably won't be as active here as the others, but I'm more than happy to answer any questions thrown my way.

Thanks. -Echo 🔌

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hey. name's Hunter. i'm the leader of this squad. i have enhanced senses and am good with blades. my face has half a tattoo on it. i like to keep my hair back with a bandana. don't mess with my squad or you'll regret it. i don't know what else to say. i'm no good with technology stuff.

(Addendum: It's true, it took him 15 minutes just to write all of this out. -Tech)

-Hunter 💀

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The name's Crosshair. I'm a sharpshooter, and the best damn one you'll ever meet. If you want to know more about me so badly, then ask me yourself. Information like that doesn't come for free, after all. I don't care how much Omega fusses at me about it either. Like she's doing right now. Yes, that's correct. Keep fussing, kid, and I'll just keep mentioning it. Pout all you want. Cry, even. Anyway... my actions speak louder than my words. Send me questions if you want, I don't care. Just know that you're more likely to get a decent conversation out of me than Hunter. The man can't even capitalize his sentences correctly. So go ahead. Ask me something. Just don't expect anything... pleasant in response.

Oh... and Wrecker was totally lying about Lula.

-Crosshair ❌

#the bad batch #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch rp #tbb rp #mun note: please read the pinned post before interacting; thank you!!

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jihyocentric · 1 year

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could we get some soft fwb!jeonghyo? like just them cuddling and being all lovely, yk just them being fools acting sm like a couple while not confessing their feelings

thanks in advance, I love sm your work <333

thank you for reading! ...and this is the last fill that i mention the word 'birthday', i promise!

missing class was a rare occurrence for jihyo and jeongyeon, but when they were both tired and sick from the other night, none of them had the energy to get up from bed.

jeongyeon's bed became jihyo's as well, because for the past months, she'd been crashing at jeongyeon's room. not only for funny business, but because jihyo liked being hugged when she slept and jeongyeon provided the best source of warmth. it reminds her of the times when they were younger and had sleepovers. nowadays, they wouldn't talk about new game releases, daydream about their crushes or complain about their parents, but they'd share some other kind of intimacy that only adults should be allowed to share. they'd still laugh together, but the difference from when they were young was rather clear.

"don't move." jihyo whines, feeling her throat sore and forehead burning.

"i have to call in sick to work," jeongyeon says, trying to remember where she'd placed her phone.

jihyo's arms wrapped around her waist didn't allow her to move much, and one thing about jihyo when she was sick was that she got impossibly needy. jeongyeon knew from experience, because not only was she jihyo's friend since they were teens, but she's been living with park jihyo for more than a year, and that was enough to know just how clingy and whiny she got when sick.

now jihyo was her problem to deal with. she knew what would be the consequences of stealing jihyo from her birthday party to play with her in snow, but she didn't regret it at all. it made the night way better, and jeongyeon could still remember the big smile jihyo had on her lips the night before, and how it grew bigger each time jihyo threw a snowball on her.

jihyo hugged jeongyeon tighter, her forehead touching jeongyeon's back. she was way worse than jeongyeon was. jeongyeon's problem was the tiredness that came from a cold, but jihyo was feeling feverish and her body was hot. jeongyeon's bed was bigger than jihyo's, but it wasn't that big either. while they didn't have to stay glued on each other to be able to fit on the bed, jihyo was holding jeongyeon like a baby koala. and, with the way that they were positioned, jeongyeon could feel how strangely hot jihyo's body was.

"stay in bed with me." jihyo asks, her voice husky and whiny.

jeongyeon sighs and makes sure she won't forget to ask one of their friends to buy some medicine for her and jihyo when she gets her phone.

"i'll be right back, i promise."

jihyo lets go of her, hesitantly. before jeongyeon leaves the bed, she sits and touches jihyo's forehead, frowning when she feels the skin burning under her hand. jihyo pouts and moves jeongyeon's hand away. "just go already, so you'll be back quicker!"

"i'm just checking up on you, princess." jeongyeon says teasingly because that's what mrs. park calls jihyo, and laughs when jihyo punches her leg.

"don't call me that. it's for my mommy only." jihyo whines.

jeongyeon clicks her tongue, and the answer was quicker to leave her mouth than she had time to think through. "sometimes you call me that too..."

it was a lie and even then jihyo got offended. before jihyo could hit her harder, jeongyeon ran away. unfortunately, jihyo was skillful enough to manage to throw a pillow at her before she left her room. jeongyeon had a hard time finding her phone, but when she found it, the first thing she did was message nayeon and ask her to buy medicine for jihyo and ingredients for homemade soup. she dealt better with her own cold, and apart from having a slightly runny nose and feeling her limbs heavier than usual, she was relatively fine. just not fine enough to work and go to college.

after she calls work and uses her sick day, jeongyeon returns to her room and sees that jihyo is hugging her pillow, waiting patiently for her return. jeongyeon joins her in bed again, and jihyo lets her take the pillow back.

"you look dead." jeongyeon says, face to face with jihyo now.

"thank you, that's exactly what a woman wants to hear." jihyo replies, unbothered, getting closer to jeongyeon like a magnet. she snuggles into her neck, searching for comfort. "i feel like a car ran into me."

jeongyeon laughs. "i warned you we'd be sick."

"and you still brought me to play in snow with you. you played dirty." jihyo retorts, her hand moving to jeongyeon's bare arm. she squeezes her biceps, and something feels different. "did momo finally convince you to go train with her?"

"you liked it," jeongyeon hits back. "and yes. why? do you have the hots for my muscles?"

"maybe." jihyo shrugs. it's a matter of seconds for her to feel jeongyeon's hand over her shirt, squeezing her tit firmly. jihyo quickly slaps jeongyeon's hand. "i'm sick, you pervert!"

"i thought we were playing the game of 'touch your favorite part on your best friend'." jeongyeon says and jihyo groans.

"i hate you. i mean it from the depths of my heart." jihyo says. "but we can kiss. we're both sick, so getting anybody infected won't be a problem."

the suggestion is tempting and jeongyeon isn't going to say no to kissing jihyo, even if they weren't in the best physical condition. she brings jihyo closer, so jihyo was almost lying on top of her, and smashes their lips together. jeongyeon's lips make jihyo forget the painful headache she had since she'd woken up, and being in her arms made her feel safer.

it makes jihyo remind of the first months after she'd left her parents' house, and whenever jihyo was sick, she'd call her mom. it was convenient, since her parents lived not more than an hour away from the apartment she shared with jeongyeon, but then again, she wasn't a kid anymore, and so, she had to show her parents that she'd grown into a mature woman. so, eventually, jihyo stopped asking for their help. which meant that jeongyeon took care of her now, and she took care of jeongyeon.

jihyo just never thought she'd end up like this, and if maturing meant she got to make out with jeongyeon when she got a cold, then she was glad she was all grown up now. at least when she kissed jeongyeon, she didn't feel her throat aching and her body didn't feel as stiff anymore.

jeongyeon breaks the kiss first, and jihyo lies comfortably on her lap, with her head over her chest.

"nayeon unnie will arrive soon with your medicine." jeongyeon comments.

"good. but you'll have to pay me back for making me lose my classes." jihyo replies, feeling jeongyeon pressing a kiss at the top of her head. "kisses won't make me healthier, yoo jeongyeon."

"it's good for the heart," jeongyeon reasons. "and you should stop blaming me. you had more fun with me than at your party, admit it."

jihyo hums. "maybe."

"grumpy." jeongyeon sighs, resting her hand on jihyo's thigh, the other one caressing her back mindlessly. she hears a sound and it's jihyo yawning, clearly still tired. "you can sleep for now. i'll wake you up when unnie arrives."

"of course i can." jihyo says in a low tone. "and you should keep quiet. pillows don't talk."

it makes jeongyeon laugh at her pettiness. she knows jihyo won't let go of her until the fever comes down and the cold ceases, but she figures it wont be that bad to have a needier version of jihyo on her side all day long.

#anon #jeongyeon #jihyo #jeonghyo #fwb!jeonghyo #sfw #fill #ignore typos #i'm sleepy. as always #its just that i only find time to write before i go to bed

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houndsharkk · 2 months

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quick disclaimer, I am not asking for a diagnosis or anything of the sort (since, while I love y'all, you are likely not medical professionals and also don't know me irl) -- I am working with a team of doctors to diagnose and treat me; I only want to use community resources to either quiet my worries or bring up as anecdotes while having a conversation with my doctor

okay !!! so

hello hEDS community. I need some help 😭 the resources available on the internet (at least that are easy to find) are not providing me with any like written or photographed evidence of physical symptoms besides the most extreme side of the spectrum so it's very difficult to figure out whether some of my symptoms are actually worth bringing up because I'm not sure if I meet the criteria or not

for some background information, I am a chubby teenager (16+) with diagnosed HSD (hypermobility spectrum), POTS, bunions, some mild developmental problems with my ankle tendons (they grew wrong or something?? i guess), diagnosed with ADHD and have a professional confirmation (not formal diagnosis, though) of autism, on testosterone (have been for nearly 2 years now), have a few mild skin conditions (eczema and keratosis pilaris), and have had untreated carpal tunnel for about 5 years

(I only mentioned all of those because I know some of them are comorbid with hEDS and some can affect the skin and cause similar symptoms so I don't want to confuse those for hEDS symptoms!!)

I am not really sure how to word this so I guess I'll just jump right into it?? the symptoms that i've been really confused and back-and-forth on are: not having any dislocations ever (possible subluxations but I'm not sure? nowhere says like.. what those feel like so I don't have a reference point), mildly stretchy skin only in some areas (around scars, stretch marks, under wrists, neck, some parts of stomach area), veins that seem to be more visible as time passes (not just in my hands/arms, but on my chest, neck, armpit area, feet, and very lightly in my legs), and very small rounded atrophic scars that seem to be showing up way more frequently (mainly on my chest where some stretch marks are, side/ribcage area, and back of my shoulders, but there are one or two on my arms as well)

I really have no idea if these actually meet the criteria or if my body is just a little bit weird but not hEDS weird?? I've found 0 sources that actually show symptoms like these 😭

symptoms I have that I know meet criteria are: heel papules, hypermobility, I think soft skin, stretch marks that seem to grow and become irritated despite my weight percentile staying mostly the same throughout my life (+ I don't gain enough weight in a short period of time for them to be as bright as they are), mild dental crowding that I had to get braces for, and chronic joint pain

any responses with like similar stories or confirming/denying that these count would really be appreciated!!!! my parents won't take me to a specialist because the rheumatologist I went to said she couldn't check for hEDS (which?? what..) and they took that as being a "you don't have that" moment so I need to wait a little bit to find one myself but I'd rather not waste my money on an appointment if it's not necessary

thank you!!!!!!!!

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copiasblair · 8 months

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My Dearest Copia,

How are you, my love? I hope you're doing well and taking good care of yourself in between rituals. You're eating well, drinking enough water? Sleeping well? I know, that's rich coming from me, but hey, if anything it's something I'm more aware of, since I struggle to remember things like that. I know you're usually more on top of it (except when you're sucked into a new video game ;3) but you can't blame me for being worried! I'm your spouse, it kind of comes with the position, does it not?

I've been anxiously counting down the days until I can see you again. It's driving me up the wall not having you here with me. I miss your cooking, I miss playing video games and watching movies together, I miss falling asleep in your arms. I feel like I've been tossing and turning for the first time in a while, I mean my plushies can only provide me so much comfort at night! Don't tell them I said this, but they're not exactly a perfect replacement for the comfort of your embrace. To say that I'm looking forward to September 12th is an understatement, to say the least.

I know I must sound like a broken record at this point, and maybe I'm extra emotional since I miss you so much, but wow I just. I love you so much. I don't know how I got so lucky to have someone like you, but goodness am I glad I do. I feel like we just…fit together, you know? Like you were the missing part of me I didn't even know I was missing.

I can't imagine being with anyone else but you. When I fell for you, it didn't even feel like falling. It felt like this is where I was always supposed to be, that it would be silly to deny it. A matter of when, not if. I mean, you're charming and charismatic, sweet and funny, endlessly talented and handsome beyond belief, just to name a few of your qualities. What was I supposed to do, not want to spend the rest of my life with you? Every day, I am so happy I found you. You feel more like home than any place I've ever been.

I know that sometimes you doubt yourself, you worry that you're somehow not living up to other's standards of you, or that what you do and who you are just aren't enough. It hurts my heart to think of you feeling this way, my love. I dearly hope I can be a source of hope and confidence when you feel that way. I would do anything to make sure you feel and know that you are always enough. You're not just enough, you are everything to me.

I think on some level I always worry that I'm…not a good person. That I have to make up for the fact that I exist at all by making myself as small as possible, by trying not to be a burden and keeping all of my problems to myself. But you don't ever make me feel that way. Quite the opposite, actually. You always make time for me, you're always making sure I'm comfortable and happy, and you never make me feel guilty for seeking out comfort or asking for help. You make me feel safe in expressing my feelings, in being assertive and taking up space. It's something I think I'll always have to work at, I'm still not perfect, but I know that with you here I'll feel more confident to keep trying. I think I'll always be incredibly grateful for that.

Oh wow, this got long, huh? Well, I can't help but ramble when it comes to you. I adore you, fully, wholeheartedly, and forever. I am forever grateful to have you by my side. I can't wait to be together again, my beloved.

See you soon,

Blair

P.S. Love the gold jacket, it looks wonderful! (But of course it does, you look great in everything ;3)

#hi. it's late and i'm going a little crazy don't mind me #my honey bun 🖤#what do you have to say doll?

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sheriiam · 1 year

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can you pls explain the last episode of yuumori?

the last thing i remember is everything burning, then sherlock confronts william and then theres a TEA PARTY?? T-T

Mee, I'm sincerely hoping that you mean the anime and not the manga (since you said 'episode'). I'll be elaborating on the anime itself, but if you're talking of the manga please just lmk I'll do my research on it too.

I just rewatched the entire episode― I have a good memory but it's super selective so I needed to make sure that I remembered enough to talk on this.

Okay so it goes this way:

Liam goes to Sherlock's place to give him an envelope which provides location of 1. Where William had kept the paper-work of all his plans (like blueprint of the Noahtic ship) 2. The place where the Final Act of the Lord of Crime would take place (i.e. the Tower bridge).

Meanwhile Sebastian and Albert burn the Moriarty mansion and the fire engulfs the slums of London too.

Sherlock reaches place 1. where he meets instructor Jack. He sees all the documents and paper-work and Jack gives him a letter from William (yes the love letter in which William says that Sherlock adds colour to his life and that he wishes they could he reborn as friends).

Lord Townsend (minor character) is hosting a party. The commoners of London come to him and request to use his "loading dock" for fetching water (it's probably the nearest source of water they had). The Lord refuses but then Sebastian comes disguised as a commoner and reminds him (and the other nobles in the party) of "noblesse oblige" and some impactuful speech on duties and humanity (TT). The Lord ultimately allows the people to use the dock and the nobles and commoners work together to put out the fire. [This is what William's plan was, to bring down the class system by uniting people.]

Then comes the sherliam confrontation scene (place 2.) as you said, and they jump off.

Later it's seen how everyone is sort of atoning for their action (they used to kill people duh). Bond is in MI6, Fred is helping in rebuilding the burnt London (somebody kill me what sort of wording is this), Albert confines himself in a tower, Sebastian is shown probably farming or doing dairy work (which isn't even close to what happens in the manga TT). And our dear Louis becomes the head of MI6.

Timeskip, Sherlock goes to Switzerland and it's there that we realize that William is alive and that's how the episode ends.

Mee, I'm not at all sure where the tea party comes in (except if you're mixing the manga and the anime together). But I hope this is helpful. Sorry if it's too vague or anything I'm bad at explaining stuff TT~

In case you wish you read the manga, I'm leaving the link here.

Ily, take care <3

#yuumori #yukoku no moriarty #yuukoku no moriarty #sherlock holmes #william james moriarty #sherliam #ynm sherlock #ynm william #louis james moriarty #albert james moriarty

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nagisasstunningpersonality · 1 year

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Please stop making AI Fanfics; it's art theft.

AI programs still from pre-existing fics to write the prompts you ask of them, A03 is currently fighting against AI programs but they can't do much if people keep feeding the machine.

Please don't feed the AI!

So I did look into this, mostly because the state of the internet has forced my natural response to anything to be "don't believe it without evidence".

Since you didn't cite anything, I just did my own digging. It appears that this specific claim originates from a reddit thread. The OP cites this article as their main source. Ironically, a good chunk of the post is straight up copy-pasted. The website is Communications Today, which is apparently an Indian telecoms magazine, but I could not find much information on it at all about them that wasn't produced by them.

According to their own LinkedIn:

"Communications Today provides a platform to build corporate image and influence purchase decisions through advertising. The magazine reaches decision makers who allocate budgets for procurement of equipment and services and identify and evaluate vendors for supplies. In-depth coverage and comprehensive research has made Communications Today an important referral for telecom, network equipment purchasers, and broadcasters."

Source

This publication appears to have some guest writers who have legit positions, however the specific AI article has no credited writer. This is questionable. Point is, I have doubts about the trustworthiness of this source to begin with, but there is clearly going to be some level of bias involved with its reporting. The article is pretty sensationalist anyway. This is how the media world works - outrage and fear sells.

This post also includes three examples. As someone who has written research based papers before, this is far from enough to prove anything.

To be clear, the AI I used was not sudowrite, which much of this discussion seems to centre around. The one I used (nor sudowrite itself apparently) don't use user input as training. This means that it responds to prompts and questions, but this doesn't actually teach it anything new permanently. Thus, me using it in this way has zero impact on its dataset and is certainly not feeding it. I also paid no money to use it. Your claim of me interacting with a chatbot somehow making AO3 action (can't find much in the way of evidence of this either by the way) harder also appears unfounded. If it did specifically scrape and train from AO3, then the damage is already done, so again my interaction with it would not mean anything to legal action.

GPT3 (which is what these bots use) have sourced data from the scope of all areas of the internet. It is not, as far as I can tell, any kind of specific targeting of AO3 as a training ground. The issue in this lies in the way this information is presented. "AI BOT SCANS AO3 TO STEAL YOUR FANFICS" stands out a little more than the alternative. AO3 even responded to the OP mirroring the fact that bots are everywhere, have been for a while, and they can't do much about it - not sure if this constitutes 'fighting AI programs' as you claim.

Look. I've been on tumblr a while. I've seen fear explode and spread like wildfire before (4chan incident, for example). I think it's a little misguided to mass panic (about something that has existed for years). The only evidence I could find was those three examples on reddit. I really don't think that equates to the chaos on this issue.

I'll also be clear that I'm not exactly an AI defender, and I dislike Elon Musk for many many reasons. I do think AI writing is a little more murky than AI generated images (certainly worthy of concern) because it's hard to prove much direct copying, especially in the case of Fanfiction which, by nature, involves existing IPs.

Does AI call into question a lot of potential societal problems? Yes. Is it straight up nefarious and evil? Nope, not in my opinion anyway.

That aside I also don't really care on a personal level. For me, writing is a hobby that I'm fortunate to be able to share with others. I also think there comes a point where the concept of artistic 'ownership' becomes asinine anyway, but that's a whole other debate.

My specific posts:

I have been using my OWN existing fanfic summaries as a basis. I don't think I can really be accused of stealing my own work. And as I said, I don't see enough evidence to prove in anyway that these bots are directly ripping things from AO3 in the copyright sense (as in, content in tact enough that it could be traced to an original author).

In other words, thank you and all, but I don't really like this kind of scare posting. Especially if you're not going to source or back up your claims, whatever your intent this comes across as spreading misinformation. I found my little experiment both interesting and amusing, and ultimately what I share on my blog in my relatively tiny corner of the internet is my decision.

TLDR: Don't believe everything you read on the internet - do research before forming solid opinions.

#AI #ai bots #ai writing #sudowrite

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oboetemasuka · 3 months

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Can I hear the director's commentary on Mahiru’s visiting section of Order of Attack? I loved all the prisoners' visits, but there were many lines from that one I specifically enjoyed!

Hi, hi! Thanks for asking!

(Source here)

I've taken to writing in a notebook before typing and editing. It's similar to how I draw on paper, scan, and edit. So lucky for you, I can provide some cut content as well!

My commentary in purple, out-of-order writing in green, typed parts in red. Hopefully it's not too hard to read. If it is, I'll figure out something in a reblog.

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"Fuuta-kun…" Mahiru said as Fuuta opened his eyes.

Would you lot stop hovering over me while I'm sleeping?

Mahiru didn't seem to notice Fuuta's glare—or maybe he just wasn't able to be intimidating enough. Her hands remained on her shoulders, like they had been for the whole interim. She realizes nothing is keeping her arms in place anymore, right?

(Sometimes I realize I wanted to add something sooner. Since I've already written things on the page, I have to figure out where to add new things. For the green part, I had enough room to scrawl it in the margins. The red part was added during the typing process. So in other words, this detail that my dear readers love/hate was an afterthought. :))))))) )

"How much does it hurt?" she asked, still uncomfortably close to his face. Rub salt in the wound, won't you?

"Back off," he managed to say. Mahiru sat straight up, putting space between them.

"Sorry. I… I've been worried about you."

You and everyone else. "So what?"

( Around this point, I wrote a bit that I ended up scrapping. "I didn't mean to let it slip... what happened with you bleeding out." "You' rather have... let me... live a lie?" "N-no! I just realized it wasn't my place to tell you!" "What isn't your place is..." Fuuta struggled to catch his breath as a pain shot through his chest."Fuuta-kun? Are you- hey, I'll wake up Shidou-""No! ...don't need... stupid lectures..." Does this sound like Mahiru's VD? Yeah.)

"I just wanted to know if there's anything I can do to make you feel better."

You? Make me feel better? If it wasn't for you, someone might have saved me sooner! Yuno might have heard the attack right away.* Or Shidou wouldn't have sent Kazui out to protect you. Then I wouldn't have been so broken!

( Cut line: Then I wouldn't have bled out for an extra five minutes, and I wouldn't have permanent brain damage. I wouldn't have been unconscious and broken then. I wasn't sure what the actual medical implications are, so I decided not to include this particularly specific line. )

Whatever expression was on his face as he tried to get his words out must have caused Mahiru to tense up. Eventually, three words made it out.

(The part below, in green, was written in a different section of the notebook. I had switched gears to revise Mikoto's section. Well, to append the part where Shidou lectured Fuuta about lashing out. I'll show you what it originally looked like.)

"It's… your… fault…"

Mahiru looked very hurt, but not surprised. Her eyes started to quiver, like she was trying too hard not to blink.

( Original: [Mahiru is worried about Fuuta] "You... worried about me?" "Of course! After everything that has happened, knowing that-" "It's... your fault." Mahiru was taken aback, but she looked more hurt than surprised. She seemed to take time to process as Fuuta continued on. )

"You're… the cause… of all my problems!" Fuuta continued.

(Mahiru sat silently, guilt plastered all over her face.)

"You think I don't know that?" she responded quietly, tears streaming down her face.

"…doesn't… seem like…"

"You think it doesn't keep me up at night? Wondering what it would have been like if things were different? If I was the one alone, if Kotoko-chan had attacked me first, if you and Amane-chan didn't have to go through all of this because I wanted a little comfort? If…"

Mahiru's ramblings soon became engulfed in her sobs. But things are like this, Fuuta thought. I wouldn't wish this pain on you, but that doesn't mean you can waltz in here and try to make me feel better. As if you know me.

"You're… making this… about yourself…"

"I-I didn't mean…"

"…can't stand it… looking at you…"

(This is the end of the original block of text; the rest is written in a different section of the notebook. The rest picks up from the last green passage.)

(Mahiru kept crying for a few minutes. Fuuta found it impossibly irritating.)

Mahiru let go of her own shoulders to bury her face in her hands. Shidou walked up to her and whispered something in her ear. She nodded, got up, and walked out of the cell. Shidou sat down in her place.

(You told me that I made Mahiru "worse" even though she is physically unscathed. When she doesn't have to deal with the possibility of dying herself, imagine how much more time she has to worry about everyone else. And the way she tends to ramble on about things, I figure she would absolutely do that when under verbal attack.)

"Kajiyama-kun, what did you say this time?"

"What's… it… to you?"

"How many times do I have to tell you that your injuries are no excuse for you to treat everyone else like dirt?"

"Then maybe… they should just… leave me alone."

"I need their eyes from time to time. I can't monitor you constantly and in isolation."

Fuuta huffed. "Then tell them to… stop saying s…"

(Maybe I had a bit too much fun censoring the obvious words...)

"At this rate, they'll figure it out on their own."

(I guess the Shidou lecture came more naturally this time around since I had recently written the one after Mikoto's part)

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #mahiru shiina #bad things happen to amane #ask game #asks

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beyondthisdarkhouse · 2 years

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Shoe history: The personal side

I'm trying to break my posts into smaller, more digestible lumps of less than a thousand words each, so this one is boring technical stuff about my starting search parameters when looking for shoes to make and techniques to use. My chronic hyper-pronation and a significant leg length discrepancy (as well as some stuff about my ankle) are tough for me to accommodate.

I've got a lot of research to write up about shoes and their history that isn't really useful to me, except as examples of what won't work right now. Western fashion has been absolutely dominated by high heels since they burst onto the scene in the late 1500s, in a history that has both fascinated and surprised me. I'll write it up, but in conclusion, high heels are absolutely not for me.

Mooostly because I already have uhhh, a lot going on with my heels already.

The biggest thing I need to accommodate for in any pair of shoes is that one of my legs is two inches (5 cm) longer than the other. I turned down surgeries to prevent this when I was in elementary school, and damn I regret that now.

General reference points: Very few humans have perfectly identical leg lengths. According to research I've seen, leg length difference (LLD) of up to 3 cm is usually mild and only rarely requires treatment like corrective shoe inserts. LLDs greater than 6 cm are considered "severe" and corrective surgery is usually recommended.

I sit in the "moderate" LLD category of 3-6cm; doctors were concerned when I was five, thought I was fine when I was 8, but by the time I was 20, the strain on my knees and hips from walking unevenly was quite literally crippling. That's the era I walked with a cane, looked into wheelchairs, and took two years of wearing a 7/8" (2.2 cm) shoe lift before my pain abated enough in every joint but one to figure out that also, I'd been walking on a torn ligament in my knee for a couple years too.

(The day that I tore it, I was already in screaming amounts of pain from hip to toe, so I noticed it less than I might have. I honestly should have gone ahead and gotten a walker or wheelchair during that period, but my doctor then was very NO IF YOU GET A MOBILITY DEVICE ALL YOUR MUSCLES WILL ATROPHY AND THEN YOU'LL DIE. I should probably have a walker/wheelchair/scooter now, but I've so carefully excluded things that require lots of walking or standing out of my life that it never feels that pressing a need for my money. But I digress.)

For me, this means an orthopedic build-up:

(image source)

Usually, this means that I take my shoes to a nice person who carefully slices off the bottom of the sole on one of them, and then glues layers of foam to the bottom of the shoe. If the sole is thick enough that the bottom of the sole can be salvaged, he re-attaches it; if it isn't, he puts some other form of rubber soling on the bottom.

(Petty: This always makes me feel very selfconscious when walking in snow or mud. "Crap, I can't commit a crime here! I have mismatched shoes so Sherlock Holmes would catch me for sure.")

(Possibly more valid but also petty: The material used to create the lift is usually EVA foam, which comes in a limited range of solid colours. This makes matching build-up material to a shoe that's anything but white or black extremely difficult. Paint on the EVA tends to scuff off easily, and rubber paints that work on the rest of the sole go kinda weird on the EVA. EVA picks up paint and discolouring stains at a different rate than the soling around it, and responds differently to cleaning. This means that even when I find nice shoes that can be built up, the build-up feels glaringly obvious to me, so even if other people don't notice, it destroys a lot of my own pleasure in them.)

A shoe lift does increase my risk of stepping wrong and twisting my ankle, like with any platform shoe. This was especially true when I first started wearing one. It was safest for me to wear hi-tops or ankle boots that provided my ankle with a lot of stability from top to bottom, even though the ones I could afford (and that came small enough to fit me) were generally garish, juvenile, and absolutely not in any fashion I really wanted to wear. I hated shoes; shoes made me miserable. I tried not to think about them and whined when one pair fell apart and needed replacement. That was life.

And god, between the LLD, the bum knee, and the hyperpronation, it took me years and years before the ankle of my short leg could function normally. It was hypermobile in some directions, and hypomobile in others.

Basically: My muscles, tendons, and ligaments had all grown so used to the skewed way I walked and stood, that a lot of them were too short to comfortably reach the "ideal" standing position. It's easier to fix muscles that are too long, because building up muscles through exercise is basically asking them to contract and grow to get better at contracting. But while muscles will bitch when they're stretched but mostly get used to it, the entire point of tendons and ligaments is to not stretch. They're the body's great stabilizers. So the day my podiatrist got the x-ray back showing a 2" discrepancy in my foot, he said, "We're not going to put you on a 2" lift today. We're going to take at least five years to get you there."

(I'd like to take this moment to shout out my illiotibial band and extensor hallucis longus muscle, which were the real MVPs of a team that worked to make my life a living hell for those five straight years. I should have been in massage therapy every other week, but who can afford that, lol amirite? I started doing yoga, got massages as often as I could afford them, and made heat pads in my bed and a drinking glass, pitcher of water, and bottle of painkillers on my dresser a permanent part of my bedroom decor.)

I worry that people will take this blog as a how-to guide on how to make their own shoes for their own nonstandard feet. It is not. It is a guide to how to figure out how to make one's own shoes for one's own custom feet, so I absolutely need to explain just what that process has been thus far. It feels like my history is in itself a cautionary tale to be careful when tinkering with your own shoes. Even a small adjustment can affect a lot. If you're in pain, you need to know why before you can figure out how to make it better. I needed examinations by doctors both general and specialized, x-rays, MRIs, gait assessments, and functional assessments before we had any kind of grip on things, and it has taken shoe lifts, custom orthotics, ten pairs of shoes, dozens of hours of physiotherapy, hundreds of hours of massage, three exercise modalities, fifteen years, and half my liver to get to where I am, trying to make shoes that might fuck me up.

Please, for the love of GOD, do NOT use this blog's advice to make shoes for other people's nonstandard feet. I urge you to make use of every medical professional, medical resource, scientific study, and experienced shoemaker in existence before you rely on me. "Fuckups trained and competent medical professionals made when making shoes for me" could be an entirely separate post, so imagine how much worse things could be without all their training. Modern medicine has been essential to figuring out what the fuck is wrong with me, and figuring out which shoe modifications will help me and how they will work.

(And do not give me that "Well back in the OLD DAYS people didn't need--" crap. You know what happened to people like me back when we went barefoot or wore shoes made by the town cobbler? We were called cripples and we walked with sticks. If we needed to get someplace we couldn't walk to and were lucky, someone strong could carry us, or we could ride on an animal or in a vehicle. If we weren't lucky, we dragged ourselves around on the ground and didn't get very far.

I love the past, with its depth and richness. I love dressing up in its old clothes to feel what it felt like. I know that people with disabilities have always been loved and valuable members of human society. But it's precisely from knowing the history of disability that I can truly appreciate just how powerful and revolutionary modern medical science is. It's only by actually finding my spiritual forbears, people with disabilities like and unlike mine who lived centuries ago, that I can understand just how precious the unearned gift I have been given is, living in an era where scientific knowledge and medical treatment can benefit me.

#it's shoetime baby

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