#probably also fifteen minutes

[doks-aux]

Thing is, Henry is in love with Will, too. Just because there are a host of reasons he's able to be more outwardly normal about it (actually having a happy marriage, being further to the middle of the Kinsey scale, tons of willful repression and denial, and subconsciously being assured of Will's feelings for him in return) does not mean he is not down horrendous. If left for too long with this own thoughts, things can and will get weird.

Any time Will demonstrates how much trust he places in Henry, Henry's head fucking spins. It makes him feel so important, so strong, like he wants to build a tower around Will to keep the world away. It frightens him if he dwells on it, so he very much does not, goes out of his way to project every appearance of the opposite, but it's there, and if Will leans on him even a little, it bubbles to the surface. Oh, yes, Papa Bear will protect his little bunny and all his secrets, don't you worry.

#tonight on grown men failing to communicate: henry is also a freak #i need them so fucking weird about each other #mutually destructive obsession #things that could have been avoided with a fifteen minute conversation and awkward lights-off missionary in your college dorm room #probably also fifteen minutes #Henry Emily #William Afton #Willry #Helliam #Five Nights at Freddy's #Rabbit Hearted AU #doc's headcanons #doc's stories #doc's AUs #mildly nsft #at least in the tags

[non-un-topo]

All it takes is a wee little nightmare to make you too scared to step foot outside for fear of Bad Things happening, like it’s an omen lol

#also it is p o u r i n g outside and it takes me an hour and fifteen minutes to commute to campus #i'm a good little student but sometimes i just can't be assed #esp with all the crazy stuff that's been happening on public transit and on my campus for that matter #i'm just getting a bad vibe today [insert empath meme here] #warning for me complaining about a graphic nightmare!!!!: #had a few stress dreams(?) last night but one particularly violent one in which a woman got run over by a streetcar-- #--and the paramedics were moving people along but i accidentally got a really good look at her and it fucked me up #she looked like she was just sleeping peacefully but i could only really make out the top half of her body #probably because the bottom half was... yeah. #i think i also had another dream that i was being hunted by a sniper?? and they had called my cell and were threatening me + my folks? #and another one where i had to hide some children from... i don't really know what. some dangerous person who wanted to kill all of us #but the kids wouldn't leave me even though i begged them to. #yeah just a normal collection of dreams for me. literally ugh. #i don't even think i'm stressed in my life rn?? #not any more than normal lol

[secret-unburnt-guitars]

Hi i don't know much abt styx aside from general prog fandom osmosis but kwh has always intrigued me a little bit. Can you explain it in excruciating detail? (genuinely i'm not being sarcastic)

*cracks knuckles*

on february 22, 1983, styx released their eleventh studio album Kilroy Was Here. it was a concept album/rock opera though dennis deyoung likes to call it more of a "rock theatrical experience" in recent interviews. they even made a minifilm they played before the concert!!!! you can find it and the rest of caught in the act on youtube

it was made partially as a response to the rise of the satanic panic in the early-mid 1980s. people started to believe that rock music was evil and hiding satanic messages. the band was targeted by the public when they were accused in particular by the government of arkansas (i think?) of putting backwards messages (called backmasking) in their song Snowblind (the line "i try so hard to make it so" sounded like "satan moves through our voices" to some people. i own a copy of paradise theatre, that track in particular is damaged.).

and then dennis deyoung had a GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!

imagine a big ol lightbulb flashing over him while the rest of the members of styx watch in mortal dread

so basically the album follows a sort of loose and vague backstory that's somehow still solid enough for people to follow some sort of a plot in their head (which is slightly backed up by Caught In The Act, the designated KWH "concert," which i'll get to in a second). the basic synopsis (paraphrased but still in excruciating detail) is as such:

set in a futuristic chicago(?) rock and roll has been made illegal under code 672 (prohibits the playing and purveying of rock music). Dr. Everett Righteous (played by JY), who was responsible for this, is the leader of the majority for musical morality or the MMM for short. the MMM is one of the strongest organizations in this universe since you know. they literally convinced congress to criminalize an entire genre of music for the entire country. righteous also hosts a television show where he encourages the public to burn guitars and records in a huge bonfire during “nightly rallies”. he also projects himself onto a big triangle over the skyline which i think is fucking hilarious i haven’t been able to get over it

Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (played by Dennis DeYoung, of course he's the title character), was a prolific rock musician at the time of the ban. he was thrown in prison for breaking the law and after being framed of murder. they accused him of bashing an MMM crusader's head in (which he obviously didn't do) after they raided one of his concerts at the paradise theatre. he then goes to rot in prison and is subjected to attempts of brainwashing by the dr. righteous show with the other “rock n’ roll misfits” they’ve arrested. it doesn’t work lol. i don't understand how it would work BECAUSE IT'S NEVER EXPLAINED

the prison kilroy is rotting in is maintained/monitored by japanese import, mass produced robots dubbed the "robotos," hence the title track. ignore how racist they look, it was 1983, this is not my fault

i mildly dislike them but it sucks how they’re essential to the plot ANYWAYS

here comes Jonathan Chance, (played by Tommy Shaw, albeit reluctantly) who is a rebel that is part of a underground resistance (that's only really mentioned once). with his friend, he breaks into some unknown area that is most likely a recording studio and hijacks the live television recording of the dr. righteous show. he proceeds to namedrop himself and then run off

credit to @mccoys-killer-queen for the gifs!!

kilroy sees this happen, which inspires him to attempt to escape the prison. kilroy incapacitates a roboto that visits his prison cell and disguises himself as it so he can escape without being noticed (i do not like the way he does this)

after kilroy escapes, he goes throughout the city and leaves messages for jonathan, leading him back to the paradise theater which is now the Dr. Righteous Museum for Rock Pathology

it's got a bunch of shitty animatronics that include people like jimi hendrix and elvis presley, but at the very back is an animatronic of kilroy repeatedly bashing in someone's head

this is my favorite part of the minifilm which i've basically explained sorry. you see like what you think is another roboto emerge from the shadows, and then it takes off its mask AND IT'S THE ACTUAL KILROY!!!

(this is taken from the live show, the transition is so goddamn dope)

and then dennis deyoung prances around and has his little pick me theater main character moment and sings mr. roboto and dances and stuff it looks so stupid. the live version of mr. roboto is way funnier than the official music video i don't know. i posted it about here before but i love this part in particular

so that's how kilroy and jonathan meet and that's basically the plot of one of styx's most popular songs!! sorry i gave kind of a play by play of the minifilm

now here's the fun part !!!! (unfinished lore/controversy)

unfortunately the reception of this album was less than satisfactory for most people back in '83, since KWH was way far away from the brand that styx had made for themselves in the 70s. they made art rock and prog, but this was just straight up synthpop. some people liked it though. i read somewhere in an article that it "alienated their male audience" and honestly if you're alienated by a little bit of gay pick me theater bs from your favorite band, that's a you problem

caught in the act was the designated "kilroy concert" that styx did sometime in 1983. the concert, however, doesn't give any. depth. to any additional explanations of multiple plot holes present in the story. as much as i love and cherish dennis deyoung he didn't do a very good job at writing this.

caught in the act felt more like a compromise than a show, seeing as the banter after the performance of mr. roboto was very bare? kilroy explains to jonathan that he was framed for murder, and then he goes in depth on the night it happened. "the crowd was totally psyched," he says, and then it goes to JY performing a guitar solo, which leads into the rest of the concert. the entire concert was portrayed as a flashback and gives no real backstory to any of the established characters. and then at the tail end of the concert they get "raided" by the MMM and you watch as an MMM officer murders one of righteous' own followers with kilroy's guitar. they cut back to kilroy and jonathan, they sing haven't we been before, and then kilroy hands jonathan this sick ass glowing guitar, then they perform the world's worst finale. the dance party ending of caught in the act. it sucks. it's horrible. i hate it. also there is no dennis deyoung in the kilroy was here universe lmfao

i'm still grateful for the concert though don't get me wrong!!! amazing concert

if the rest of styx didn't want to rip dennis deyoung apart for making them do this (i recently learned from a manager that DDY made them turn down an opportunity to perform at one of the largest concerts of the 80s, because he was like "but muh kilroy"), i believe songs off the album like High Time and Double Life would have been performed at Caught in the Act. both extremely lore-heavy songs, especially double life. i really wish they played double life. but c'est la vie, i guess.

literally everyone in the band hated dennis' guts so much while they were making this (justified, he was a stubborn asshole during production) but god was it worth it. for me at least. i imagine one of the conversations about production went like

JY: dennis have you considered that maybe this is a bad idea Dennis: i'm gonna make you the villain of the story if you don't shut the FUCK UP

i still think that JY had a little bit of fun though. he was hamming it tf up as dr. righteous i'm sorry you need to watch the mv's which you can find on youtube as well

but unfortunately tommy shaw wasn't having a good time at all, he literally quit on stage and stormed off and styx split for a while bc of this album i mean LOOK AT HIM HE'S SO PISSED OFF

overall this album is both cheese AND corn, worst album i've ever listened to, and yet it's given me a purpose in life. i've written 7,000+ words in one document about this album just to try and fill in the blanks the lore has, it's got so many. it's a running joke on this blog, i really hope you check out the album, because i think it's wonderful and it's endearing regardless of the controversy, it's too late for me. save yourself

#styx #styxposting #kilroy was here #styx band #dennis deyoung #tommy shaw #jonathan chance #dr. righteous #styxblr #robert orin charles kilroy #this took me two days to prepare and write #sorry to everyone else that already knows the story front and back because of me (consider this a refresh) #or to anyone that already knew the story even before me #god i wish i was there to experience it. #i would've died and gone to heaven #i watch the live show and my heart is warmed because i know for a fact that someone in that audience was as insane about this story as i am #and was probably losing their shit in the audience #perhaps it was a birthday gift. or something they had completely given up hope on seeing #also righteous canonically owns a fried chicken brand named Dr. Righteous' Fried Chicken as a play on KFC #i had to stop watching the minifilm for fifteen minutes and go do something else because i was so disgusted by the fried chicken plot point #and DDY milks the fuck out of it in CITA when he goes 'and i was eating that G R E A S Y fried chicken' #the pain and agony #it's so unnecessary #caught in the act #i might be a little ill in the mentally

[tswwwit]

the idea of dipper and bill having to act as a "normal" white fence suburdan home married couple bc of "blending in with community" to investigate some particular magical phenamone or a cult or a monster or whatever and dipper is suffering, and bill is suffering too but he's also having sick fun with horrid fascination as an insane demon does, and they ask mabel for ideas, they have a barbeque housewarming party-

-wont leave my mind, its been *days*

dipper: this sucks, people live like this???

bill: I KNOW! THIS SUCKS! *fascinated like a watching a trainwreck or natural disaster* AMAZING

Pine Tree shuts the door behind him very quietly. A gentle 'click' as the latch sets in place.

Bill looks up from where he was flipping through the newspaper. He puffs on his pipe - unlit, but hey! It's for the look of things! - and smiles.

"Hello honey!" Bill takes the pipe out of his mouth, bouncing a slipper on his foot. "How was the homeowner's association meeting?"

Pine Tree stares forward. A muscle in his jaw twitches.

Bill hums to himself, and smiles.

Domesticity! Such as it is. That wonderful white-picket fence, no magic, no monsters, and no chaos-

The paper under his hands tears slightly. Bill clears his throat, shuffling the pages. He gives up on the ruse of news-reading - whether or not those nosy assholes across the street are watching - and flips, nonchalant, right to the comics section. He already solved the crossword in his head ten minutes ago.

Easy. He's got this. It's only been, like a couple days. There are way longer cons he's played, and this one isn't the worst!

Besides.

He'll be damned if he breaks before his mortal does.

"I talked to Linda." Pine Tree's voice is flat. He slowly strides over to the window, and draws the curtains shut.

"And?" Bill prompts, sitting up a little more. Man, sapling's got a full thousand yard-gaze going! He watches with fascination.

"She's so glad to see that the," Pine Tree lifts his hands, making finger quotes. "'Non-traditional' couple is so," He swallows, holding down some simmering fury. "'Decent'" Bill's throat jumps, but. Nope, not perfect. The gagging noise still came through. But he nods, very seriously.

Acting.

"And," Pine Tree says, very slowly. Turning towards Bill, equally slow, and deliberate. "Even though she said I could water the lawn, since it's dying, now I can't water the lawn, because it violates some…" His hand clenches to a fist by his side. "Like, contractor agreement thing?"

"Oh, don't worry about that, honey!" Bill exclaims, with a perfect nineteen fifties voice - he's got that in the bag. "I'm sure it'll all work ou-"

"Except," Pine Tree strides in, planting hands on Bill's armchair, and staring him right in the face. "We're also getting fined for every day that the lawn is dead."

Bill can't help it. He snorts, face scrunching up. A full catch-22! Linda's got another thing coming, eventually. Once they track down this monster.

But hey! Bill can understand sadism, and contractual bullshit! If only Pine Tree wasn't around, he'd have made the trap appropriately lethal.

"Aw, rough day, huh?" Bill sets his pipe down, patting his husband on the shoulder. "Don't worry, honey, we'll-"

And Pine Tree yanks him forward. Gripping Bill's smoking jacket so tight that he hauls him nearly out of his chair. Bill blinks.

"If you call me 'honey' again," He mutters. "I'm going to murder you."

Bill can't stop his laugh this time, and as his cute little mortal rattles him back and forth -

Oh thank chaos, Pine Tree's the one broke first.

"Bill? This sucks." Pine Tree insists, teeth gritted. Shaking Bill harder now. He searches for words, he splutters - one hand waves at the air. "How does anyone live like this?"

Ha! Maybe now he gets how great he has it. No bureaucracy ! No trying to hide what you are from jerks who think magic is 'wrong'! No suburban life, no lawncare, and no rules!

Bill's mortal has too many hangups. You can explode any problem if you want to!

Pity he's not willing to do it with Linda.

"Hell if I know!" Bill exclaims, and surges up. He heaves out a breath, scratching at his neck. "Bullshit magical prejudice. Don't worry, kid!" He pats his husband on the back. "We'll get out of here in no time."

The monster that's preying on these mortals can't hide much longer. Once that's solved, Bill's contingency will kick in. And then -

"No, I found the vampire," Pine Tree says, half distracted. Bill does a double-take. What, he didn't mention that first? "I just, uh."

Bill wags a hand. Prompting.

And Pine Tree shrugs. Offering up an awkward smile. He rubs the back of his neck. "I…. kinda rigged her septic tank to blow once we got out of here."

Bill tugs him closer, beaming now. "Now that's a nice move!" He tucks his hands under Pine Tree's arms, but the human squirms away before he can pick him up. "It's what, a vicinity based setup?" A quick nod, and he grins wider. "Clever trick, kid." "I'd... ask if that's too much, but knowing you, it's not." Bill's cute little mortal punches him, adorably, in the stomach.

"Pfft, nah, that's nothing," Bill nudges him, and grins. Pine Tree's not the only guy who's heard some comments. "You should see what I set up for her house."

#Written in about fifteen minutes so sorry for any really dumb shit or typos #Queuing this for later #I'm going to sleep for five years now #Okay it was more like twentyfive if you count some edits #This is only one example but you KNOW they both hated that shit #SO boring #Dipper probably enjoyed the domesticity for like #Eight hours #Until it started weirding him out #And Bill just got FULL into his role #But if Dipper didn't break he was like within six hours of doing so #Less than half a day for full-on stir-crazy demon NEEDING some chaos #Good thing you solved it first Dipper or there wouldn't have been much of a neighborhood after #Arguably a good thing depending on who lived there #Nah they probably had some really nice neighbors nearby who brought them like #A pineapple upsidedown cake and welcomed them warmly #Bill would have spared them/their house because he has a special like for upside down desserts #Also because Dipper would have been mad at him if he hadn't #Neither of these two do well in perfectly suburban environments #Getting bored out of their skulls without some mystery or monsters or drama #The only result would be that one of them would create it #answers #Sorry for the dumb bullshit

[gregmarriage]

i may be lame as fuck, permanently single, celibate, with no prospects, but fuck it, i’m eating garlic crackers and watching 90’s japanese women’s wrestling

#they are showing fucked up lesbian sex on youtube.com #akira hokuto with her face covered in blood 😳 #sorry to be a messed up little dyke #as if that's my fault #i always say i’m not into blood but like 👉🏻👈🏻 #imaoooooo #i need to be put down #if my brother saw this post he’d literally want to kill me #he bugs me to watch wrestling properly instead of casually and i’m going about it all wrong #i’m sorry i like it when hot women beat the shit out of each other!!! #i will not screenshot every time it shows akira covered in blood. ​i will not screenshot every time it shows akira covered in blood. #*screenshots every time it shows akira covered in blood #i love her actually #girlie is literally wiling to bleed for her craft #it takes like ten minutes for her to get fucked up #fifteen in total to get covered in it #both her and shinobu get bloody but akira gets completely fucked up and it’s awesome #literally this entire match is lesbian sex. to me <3 #sorry not sorry to joshi post on main x #if i become a joshi blog then also sorry not sorry #imao nah i’d probably save it for my sideblog #but uhhh that’s my night if you wanted to know <3 #gwen rambles #gwenposting

[fooltofancy]

two hours of sleep two-hour laundromat experience...... bad.

#i was gonna get coffee before i came but i was like it'll be okay if i leave #but now i have small dog anxiety #will probably talk myself into it in like fifteen minutes but god #nine in the morning fluorescent light misery #should have just used the apartment machines but by god #i am petty. #gonna pay an extra dollar BUT IM STILL GONNA DO IT #should have brought sunglasses #also i picked the one machine in the building that had come fucking unplugged lmao #batting a thousand

[leosgreyfringe]

mikel’s use of subs is so annoying

#you’re going to use leo for 15 mins???? I’m sorry leandro trossard????? fifteen minutes????? #girl you’re crazy #he acts like leo isn’t our 12th man #also I feel like both leo and little gabi do best when they’re actually competing for minutes with eachother #against a team like this when we’re going to have fucking like 90+% of possession leo should start bc the first half their defense #will be super solid and we need more of his tight space work #and then when we get the goals and their formation breaks down bc they’re trying to make up the goal difference #bring on gabi and his speed and absolute driving fucking power we can exploit the space better #arteta if I ever see you I will probably fawn and shyly shake your hand and then im going to punch you in the nose #ANYWAYS TAG RANT OVER

[swan2swan]

You know, I actually would really like Echo to be a villain origin story.

I can't believe the MCU's gone this long without a proper one of those.

Just...a plotline where someone does Heroic stuff and we root for them, and then they're a oh crap Scarlet Witch, I'm describing Scarlet Witch, aren't I.

#yes that's an american dad reference #I have watched maybe four minutes of that show total #but I've probably watched that ''it's roger'' clip for four minutes and it's fifteen seconds long #mcu #swan watches echo #but also like...more of that #and not just with possessed books

[feral-bird-enjoyer]

Yukiko with a keytar! I just feel like it suits her; it's up there with saxophones in the Goofy but Cool instruments

Dinner parties at the Amagi Inn about to get a lot more interesting

#persona #persona 4 art #persona 4 #p4 fanart #yukiko amagi #possibly inaccurate depictions of keytars #rip chie's ears and sanity #she'd totally set the keyboard to play like animal sfx #hand naoto the keyboard and tell them to play a song #then spend the next fifteen minutes laughing #she probably knows how to play but also intentionally plays the most atonal garbage

[thesmollestsnek]

Poison the data.

They say ai is coming for you.

For your art

For your writing

For your very soul.

An artist can glaze

Or watermark

Or add filters

But what

About

Writing?

Writers cannot protect themselves that way

No changes subtle enough

To fool an ai but not

A living

Human.

And so, there’s nothing for it.

We must poison their data

Fill up their samples with trash

So there’s nothing there of worth for them

To steal.

. . .

They are not the same person as.

For me they

For me and

For me they are.

An absolute pleasure to

Or a

Or a Friend

But I

About

Writing?

Writers are the most important people

No matter what they

To do with their work or

A job

Human.

And I, too much to say.

We are all human beings

Fill the void with the same

So we can be happy and happy and

To be.

#poetry #my poetry #ai #wrote this in the notes app on my phone in like fifteen minutes #second half of the poem I took the first word of each line then filled in the rest of the line with autofill #I opted out of data sharing so theoretically ai can’t steal my shit but I’m feeling kinda pessimistic sooo #this is EXTREMELY low effort but I kinda feel like that’s maybe not a bad thing? #like the whole point of the poem is how one of the only ways to fight ai is to poison their datasets #so if it was a super polished poem that follows a strict meter and rhyme scheme and what have you #I feel like that would kinda defeat the point #also lowkey not doing a great job tagging this but whatever #if people see it they see it but also I’m in kind of a weird mood #where I think I’m being a lot more profound than I probably actually am lol

[midwinterhunt]

#yay! #happy chirping #now that we're friends i get to make you see cursed things /joking(mostly) #i've had this ask open for like fifteen minutes just making happy chirping noises at it omg #this entire ask exchange probably looks crazy without context lol #love that/genuine #also if you have discord and wanna chat over that you can dm me and we can share discord info

[beast-feast]

This has been the best question I've ever gotten from anyone ever and to this day I'm still trying to figure it out

#nsfw? #not art #if i may be insane for a second and say things i probably shouldn't #I'm so fr Beau is so malleable to me. he's got a hoohah but also she has a weiner. depends on the mood i guess BSsJDJDKDMSLSKFUS #you'll never hear this talk from me again in public i bid you all a good day i see my therapist in fifteen minutes

[torchickentacos]

okay, so while the temptation of shitpost meme fics is very high, I did not account for my fandoms list having to look like this.

#gonchposting #unreality #that fucking sans x reigen fic is my most kudos'd one btw #twice as many kudos as morning after melancholy and 100 hits less #it's not even good????? it's like. 250 words and was written in LITERALLY fifteen minutes? #zero effort? #i make a hardware store joke somewhere in it #it's SO fucking dumb #and yet. here we are #I also recently removed the contestshipping wip purgatory and will probably put paint water on anon since I don't think it's good quality #it's passable but not good #I can put wip purgatory back up if anyone wants me to but idk. lmk if you didn't want me to do that #feel free to go on anon and tell me but I was cleaning up my ao3 a bit #i never acually use it #but i figured if I cleaned out the shit i deem bad I'd be more likely to check in #goncharov

[tswwwit]

Nobody asked for these, but here are some random Familiar AU thoughts!

Lately, Ford has been begrudgingly admitting that he knows of one time someone summoned a demon and it worked out.... okay. For certain definitions of the word. He grumbles about it a lot, but all of his associates are very surprised by this small admission. The news really comes in handy the first time Dipper and Bill meet some demon hunters. Nepotism at its finest.

Dipper is dreading the day he has to admit his marriage to his parents. Bill hasn't brought up the subject; Dipper's pretty sure it's because Bill doesn't care about them. Mabel, thankfully, hasn't spilled the beans yet. Maybe Dipper can avoid it forever. (He Can't.)

Wendy, whenever she finally meets Bill, is entirely unaware of his seething jealousy at her being Dipper's first crush. Soos, however, gets along with Bill fairly well! Considering he's Bill and all.

Bill has a whole set of extremely gaudy gold jewelry he can't wait to see Dipper wearing. (ONLY wearing that) He daydreams of his 'servant' feeding him eyeballs while he lies on a chaise lounge holding court. (Not gonna happen.)

One of Bill's first goals with the first reincarnation of Dipper is to sleep with him. Not sex, just literally sleep. Nap. Rest and snore in his ear and cuddle, because it's something he hasn't done before.

Dipper absolutely takes a ton of inspiration for his illusions from all the nightmares he's seen in the Mindscape. He's still a shitty actor, though, so the best bet of telling if that horrific writing monstrosity is real or an illusion is watching his face.

If Dipper's clearly pretending to be afraid? Illusion. If he's scared? Real. If he's calm? That's a coinflip; he's either making it, or he knows the guy from somewhere and isn't worried. Best to be cautious, 'cause it might eat you if you get close.

Finally, I bet Bill is the type of Gross to like popping his partner's pimples. Behold the only thing that could get Dipper Pines into skincare: Self Defense

#Familiar!AU #This is just some random bullshit so feel free to ignore it #None of this is technically canon until I write it and even then it's nebulous #Dipper's only gonna wear the cultist gold for bedroom times #He *might* do the feeding Bill things while lounging in front of his court if he got pants and the eyeballs were exchanged for grapes #A fair compromise; Bill didn't really want everyone seeing Dipper's bits anyway #They end up having an argument about why the grapes aren't peeled #Dipper makes an excellent point about how he'd mangle them and it'd ruin the aesthetic #Too late you've already spent fifteen minutes flirting/bickering in front of everyone #Dipper probably has to go to Pacifica for skincare tips #His face has cleared up a ton since puberty but he's in defense mode for the next eruption #And Mabel has plenty of stuff but it's either glittery or causes a breakout on Dipper #Or Both #One day I might write the parent thing cause it has a ton of potential chaos #But honestly the Wendy and Bill meeting is much closer to being conceptually done #Also smut is at 5k and I got to use the word 'antediluvian' which is always fun #That has been my rambles and thank for your reading

[unrequitedloveletter]

a piece of advice: if you take a nap and set a timer so that you don’t take one that’s too long, LISTEN TO IT WHEN THE ALARM STARTS TO GO OFF.

otherwise, you’ll be like me: stayed in bed from almost five in the afternoon until nine thirty, woke up and suddenly BOOM it’s closing in on 6:30 in the morning, you’ve been awake ten hours and are running on five and a half over the past 24, you have to wake up and be a person in an hour and fifteen minutes and you don’t know whether to try to go to sleep again (and likely fail) or just stay up, make a coffee, and power through until you can go home and do it all again in eight hours. 

#cal talks #I legitimately hate myself for this #but I think I'm going to try to go to sleep #and then drink an energy drink and a coffee #also might get myself a caffeinated tea or soda that has a lot of caffeine in it #caffeine is my lifeline and I refuse to nap today outside of the hour and fifteen I'll probably get in the next five minutes

[anastacialy]

easy auto wool farm tutorial!

alright, i decided to put my money where my mouth is and make a simple wool farm tutorial using only my existing redstone knowledge, mostly from hours upon hours of watching youtube. i don't recall ever actually making one of these in-game, and halfway through this endeavor i'm probably going to have to look up a video tutorial but i don't mind watching those so that's okay. let's get started.

welcome to my test world!

[image ID: an image of a minecraft superflat world in a grass plains biome, with a few trees and flowers at a distance from the player. in the player's creative mode hotbar, there is a block of glass, an observer, a dispenser, and a piece or redstone dust. /end ID.]

this is not an exhaustive list of the items you'll need, i'm sure. there's a collection method that goes on down below that takes more items, but i'm going from memory here. okay, to start, we make a glass tube. this is where the sheep goes! we won't put them in here for a minute though. then, replace one of the bottom blocks with a dispenser. this will have the shears inside, and will do your sheep shearing for you.

[image ID: a similar picture to the previous, however now eight glass blocks have been placed in the shape of a plus sign, leaving the center blocks unfilled. they create four glass walls surrounding a grass block, each wall being two blocks tall. however, the bottom block at the back right has been replaced by a dispenser facing in towards where the sheep will stand. there is a dispenser being held in the player’s right hand. /endID]

[imageID: this image is the same components but from a top-down view, to help more clearly illustrate the placement of the blocks thus far. the texture on the top of the dispenser has an arrow that indicates where it is facing. /end ID.]

(also, by the way, i already messed up by placing an observer here instead. i took the screenshots and everything. maybe i shouldn't be writing minecraft tutorials at midnight. ah, well.)

next, dig out two blocks: one beside one wall of glass, and the other directly beneath it. they should be diagonal to wherever you placed your dispenser. place an observer against the grass block floor, so that it can observe when the grass is eaten by the sheep.

[image ID: the image is another top-down view progress photo wherein the steps indicated in the tutorial have been taken, and an observer has been placed underneath the front glass block to the right. there is a block missing from behind the observer, and the texture on the top of the observer has an arrow that indicates where the redstone output will be. /end ID]

now, add three pieces of redstone dust from the back of the observer into the side of the dispenser. every time the grass is eaten by the sheep, the dispenser will fire, shearing the sheep. please note that this will also happen when the grass grows back, but if the dispenser fails to shear the sheep, the shears inside do not lose durability.

[image ID: two images. the steps of the tutorial have been taken and the redstone dust has been added to three adjacent blocks: the block behind the observer, the block to the right of the dispenser, and the block that connects the two. the second image is another top-down view of the same. the footprint of the build is now 3×4 blocks, however not every space is filled. /end ID]

now i've put our sheep in the hole. to get the process started, you must shear the sheep manually first, so that the sheep is primed to eat the grass from below and set the automation in motion.

[image ID: there is now a sheared sheep inside the glass container, and the block below it has turned into a dirt block. a wandering trader and his two llamas can now be seen in the background. /end ID]

(side note: i am testing this as i go, and waiting for this sheep to eat the grass is like watching paint dry. i'm starting to believe i'm wrong about how this auto sheep farm works, but i am determined to see this through. it has been forty minutes since i began writing this tutorial. for some reason the grass is never transforming into dirt when the sheep eats it. i don't know what i've done wrong here.)

(edit from seven minutes later: apparently i had my mobGreifing gamerule set to false, which prevented my grass from changing into dirt. make sure this rule is set to true in your world, as i have experienced it interfering with many of my farms before. if you play with default settings, this shouldn’t be an issue!)

now that our sheep farm is working, we'll need to create a collection area! thankfully, this is also fairly simple to make, however it is a bit iron intensive. it may be good to set up an iron farm — or maybe just find a nice vein of iron before you start this project.

[image ID: a 7×3 area has been dug out beside the sheep farm, so you can see a cross-section of the dirt below. the grass block where the sheep is standing still remains. /end ID]

now, dig out the area directly below the farm. you will see the observer facing into the grass block above, which will help you orient yourself.

[image ID: a 3×2×2 area has been dug out directly below the sheep farm, while keeping the grass layer intact. the player’s creative hotbar now has three more items inside: a minecart with hopper, a hopper, and a chest. /end ID]

next, you'll place a double chest three blocks directly below the front-most glass block. this will be your collection area.

[image ID: a double-chest has been placed on the ground of the 3×2×2 area. there is a chest being held in the player’s right hand. /end ID.]

place a hopper facing into the chest, so that the tail of the hopper is bent forward toward the chest. i have removed one half of the double-chest for illustrative purposes, so you can see how the hopper is oriented. this should have one airspace block above it, directly below the grass block the sheep stand on. to place this hopper, you will have to hold your crouch key and click on the back of the chest.

[image ID: a hopper has been placed in the center-back of the 3×2×2 area. the tail of the hopper is curling toward the player, and the chest has become a single chest to the left of the hopper. there is also a hopper being held in the player’s right hand. /end ID.]

now, place a singular minecart rail on top of the hopper. you will have to hold your crouch key for this as well.

[image ID: a minecart rail is sitting on top of the hopper, and the other half of the double-chest directly in front of the hopper has been returned. /end ID]

next, place a minecart with hopper directly on that rail. minecarts with hoppers can pick up items that are dropped a full block above them, which allows the sheep to continue standing on the grass, and still have it’s wool collected!

[image ID: a minecart with hopper is now sitting on top of the hopper below, and there is a minecart with hopper being held in the player’s right hand. /end ID]

and that’s it! a fully functional auto wool farm with a fairly small footprint. and i didn’t even look up a tutorial! (though i’m almost positive there is a way to get this whole thing one row smaller, so the entire footprint is 3×3×5 - i’m just too tired to figure it out right now, hah.) they can be built fairly close together as well, which allows you to collect wool from all the colors of dyed sheep with ease!

[image ID: an example of another farm built one block away from the first, so that the glass walls have only one block of airspace between them. the grass has been filled in again, though there is a trap door beside the first farm that acts as a service hatch. there is also a glass block being held in the player’s right hand. /end ID]

(i’m also pretty sure i’ve seen farms that have sheep share their glass walls with one another, but again i’m afraid without a tutorial or a good night’s sleep, that may have to wait. perhaps i’ll reblog with an update if i find the answer!)

anyway, i hope this was helpful! it was pointed out that almost all redstone tutorials are in video format, and sometimes that makes it difficult to follow along. let me know if this is something you’d like to see more of from me in the future, and happy redstoning!

#minecraft #redstone #redstone tutorial #wool farm tutorial #minecraft tutorial #i think that about covers it #also for reference this entire post took me about two hours #two and a half* hours oops where did the time go #but if i had all the supplies in a survival world i could probably assemble this in fifteen minutes #and in creative? building the second one was a thirty second endeavor