#veliseraptor

[portraitoftheoddity]

A VegasPete for @veliseraptor!

#commission #kinnporsche the series #vegaspete #veliseraptor #lena's art thing #fanart #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham

[spockandawe]

Another quick pair of books! First off, we have another prototype book. But this one isn't for my recent experiments, it's, uh, for erha. So it's been 95% done for a WHILE, I just knew it deserved a title, so I hadn't photographed it yet, haha. Before I started cutting boards x13 and gluing my erha text blocks to things, I wanted to be sure my measurements were good. And they were! The only addition was me confirming to myself that magnets were definitely a useful addition to the cover flaps. That complicated construction a lot, and if you look at this, the flap sits nearly flush, but the magnet snap is so satisfying... still not sure which I prefer overall, but I'm happy with how both takes came out!

But first, cut to me scrolling through my file directories, looking for what chunky book I wouldn't mind owning another copy of. I've had my mind on Song Lan lately, so here we are, If Living Can Be This, by veliseraptor! I love this setting so, so much, once I settled on it, I wanted to use some of my fancy cloth for it. The color shift here is hard to photograph, but the dark colors felt thematic (which is how I chose the endpapers too), and the warm browns felt like they helped evoke both the shabbiness and gradually building cozy domesticity of the coffin house. And the gold in the endpapers also pleased me in a hee hee hoo hoo symbolism way. So I had a great time with this, even if it took me forever to finish the last step, and I love it a lot!

#crafts #bookbinding #if living can be this #veliseraptor #might make a box for this later #but im trying to drive the to do list DOWN first

[gloriousmonsters]

please recommend me horror vidya games

a quick list of ones I've enjoyed recently that I can remember!

Knock-knock. Made by the same people who made Pathologic, it centers on the Lodger, a weirdo who lives alone in the woods and does their best to maintain their house and record the world around them. But things are changing and going missing, nights begin to blur together, and it quickly becomes difficult to distinguish reality from nightmares. Excellent to play in a dimly lit room and give yourself anxiety, great 'woods creeping in' horror vibes.

SHUT IN is an excellent dark comedy/horror game exploring depression through a lens of 'there is something horribly wrong with your house that is really obstructing your quest to get some fresh air, also the narrator's an asshole'.

Endacopia is only a demo (though it looks like it got funded on Kickstarter, so fingers crossed we'll see more of it!) but I have to put it on here because I just find it so compelling. Guide a weird little kid in an exploration of his confusing, often hostile environment, with a aesthetic inspired by PC edutainment games.

Growing My Grandpa! (with a shoutout to the other games by this developer, Discover My Body and Water Womb World). A lonely little girl discovers the remnants of a bizarre experiment in her basement, and uses the dubious knowledge she gains to try and resurrect her dead grandpa, through... growing him out of black sludge in a burlap sack. Creepy with the potential to be kind of sweet, in a messed up way.

House. Described on Steam as 'survive the night in a house that's trying to kill you and your family' and yep, that about sums it up. Freaky and hits some good timeloop notes for me.

Mistrick is a tiny little RPG with Witch's House vibes, about a guy who gets out of prison and immediately gets hit by a car, and finds himself trapped in a fantastical pocket dimension with his previously-executed cellmate; he has a slim chance to return to life, and has to work for it while avoiding all the hilariously stupid ways to die. This one's more about the fun environment and extremely enjoyable dynamic between the dudes, but hey, Still Technically Horror.

Don't Toy With Me is a visual novel where you play the observing master of a dollhouse where a china doll named Dahlia lives alone (except for a silent stuffed rabbit). One day, you introduce a new doll to the closed environment. Cue slow burn, uncomfortable horrordrama, doll body horror, etc. Good if you just want a really upsetting time and some pretty art.

And this isn't recent and I feel like I've talked about it before lol, but *meme post voice* have you played the Strange Men series? you should play the Strange Men series. when will you play the Strange Men series

#mistrick is a prime example of.... i think the dev and i really disagree on some things #there are a couple of statements that make me roll my eyes a fair bit #but regardless they made something/some characters that are ridiculously up my alley #some of these are definitely better known but hopefully I got at least some you don't know already lol #veliseraptor #murder is cool actually #vic talks

[curiosity-killed]

anyway I wish you would write a hua cheng/mu qing fic, I have no idea if you're remotely interested in that as a phenomenon but I feel like you'd have a neat take on my favorite tgcf pool noodle

this is so extremely not what you asked for but uhhh

til my feet are memory

Hua Cheng/Mu Qing | 11k | violence

Send me an anymous (or not) summary of the fic you wish I would write. (maybe I will write a tidbit) (or do something unholy idk)

#adjlgh i have nothing to say about this #(this is a lie) #but anyway #here are some ????? thoughts i guess??? #asked & answered #veliseraptor #my writing #huaqing #tgcf fic

[neuxue]

at risk of spoilers, sheng lingyuan

a challenge! I've tried to keep this spoiler-free beyond where you've read to, or at least extremely vague

notes

On the one hand, moonlighting as a lightning rod after you've come back from throwing yourself into a fiery abyss is pretty much the definition of intense. On the other hand he is alarmingly calm about so very much of it.

He's only half an angst-lord for the same reason: a weapon isn't forged to feel pain.

Yes you can be the state and also an enemy of the state at the same time

Does Sheng Lingyuan have friends? Good question. It's complicated. More so because being his friend is something of a death sentence.

Yes I ticked sidekick owner for Xuan Ji

How is Sheng 'stormclouds literally gather in his presence, named for the abyss' Lingyuan even remotely inclined towards the 'ray of sunshine' side of things? Here's the thing. He's only awful company if you're a) Xuan Ji, b) any member of his family, or c) in his way

Untouched by history? History sometimes wishes it were untouched by him.

He is neither sadistic for fun nor altruistic for fun but a secret third thing: a weapon forged for a purpose, to whom 'fun' does not apply*

He loses one or two points on the 'scary smart' scale for one very specific reason and that reason... has something to do with bloodplay on a bridge.

He doesn't need 1000 weapons; he is 1000 weapons. As for weapons he'd want... well, there's one, and that's enough to tip the scales on this particular slider.

Pretty much literal enemy of god, or the cosmos, or the natural order of everything, depending how you translate. It's fine.

Given who I am as a person I expected to tick 'more trauma' for every character in this meme but here's the thing. The narrative would reveal some element of Sheng Lingyuan's Trauma, or inflict some fresh new trauma, and every time I'd go 'yikes that's fucked up but it could be more fucked up if--' and the narrative would look at me in patient scorn and then a few chapters later I'd just be sitting there as every terrible implication was explored to its full agonising potential. But fuck, he suffers so beautifully.

*occasionally tormenting Xuan Ji notwithstanding

#need to get back to the creative drive he inspired. i've been stalling. #unfortunately i went to ep8 of the donghua to get a screencap though #and now there's a good chance i'll just spend my evening rewatching it #because lhjc just sort of lives constantly in my brain now #ask memes #veliseraptor #asks #烈火浇愁

[sugarbabywenkexing]

lyyyymond/gabriel :D

Glad I could get bingo for The fucked up ship

I waffled over whether I should check off they need to get weirder because I don't know if they actually can get weirder? You can't call your nemesis a sorry hungering slut and be normal about it. But if it's possible I would enjoy it

#asks #veliseraptor

[wizardysseus]

💌 I probably did it last time but hey why not

it's ok, i associate you with more things!

longer-than-lotr-length fanfiction and Very Funny Tags (i still laugh when i think about 'should have been korrasami / was actually korrasami') and disapproval at blonde celegorm and dinosaurs and the villain couch and especially that specific abandoned younger sibling villain type who has never done anything wrong in their lives and "bad" bi representation

& all of those things are good, actually.

send me a 💌 and i'll tell you something i associate with you

#veliseraptor #ask

[highladyluck]

this isn't on tumblr but I remember in the spirit of the meme: i'm pretty sure you were one of the first people ever to comment on my wheel of time fic and i was like "??????!!!!!!!!" about it, and then i was reading your mat/tuon fic, and talking to you, and at some point you mentioned livejournal and i was like "oh hey maybe i should get over there" and then ~4 years later i visited your college campus. wild

Still sad you did not pick my college but I think it was for the best in the end! Truly the internet of our childhood was a magical place :D

#veliseraptor #ask memes

[ameliarating]

@veliseraptor replied to your post “Just finished episode eleven, send help (Or just...”:

now squarely in "don't worry about pete, take your time in rescuing him, there's stuff going on"

​let’s be real, we were always in that camp

#veliseraptor

[mikkeneko]

In today’s installment of Untamed Fic Ideas I Won’t Write:

Suppose that, as the son of a student of Baoshan Sanren who grew up disconnected from his heritage, there was something unusual about WWX and his core that even he didn’t know about. The exact details are kind of handwavey, this is a Celestial Macguffin, which was destined to awaken/hatch/activate when he reached a certain age, and Something would happen.

Wei Wuxian died before that destined date was ever reached. But, this celestial whatever-it-was was tied to his golden core... so now it’s tied to Jiang Cheng. Sometime in the thirteen year gap, the Celestial Macguffin is starting to wake up. And now Jiang Cheng has to deal with whatever-it-is, while simultaneously having no idea why it is.

I think he would at least be able to figure out that it has something to do with Baoshan Sanren and that fated meeting on the mountain during the war. Without any better leads, I think he might then try to track down Xiao Xingchen (let’s suppose this is before all the Yi City stuff goes down) and see if Xiao Xingchen knows anything or, failing that, can take him back to BSSR.

A completely unexpected road trip ensues! Possibly with Xue Yang and A-Qing tagging along, who knows. (I admit the Road Trip part made me think of @veliseraptor , although the vibes aren’t quite right.) But at some point during the road trip they’d probably have the following conversation:

Xiao Xingchen: So how did this end up happening to you, if you're not one of Baoshan Sanren's disciples? Jiang Cheng: Right now my leading theory is that this happened the one time I met her and pretended to be Wei Wuxian Xiao Xingchen: Why were you pretending to be Wei Wuxian? Jiang Cheng: I lost my golden core, she was the only one who could restore it. Xiao Xingchen: Huh. Really? I don't think even Baoshan Sanren can do that. Jiang Cheng: She can't? Xiao Xingchen: Nope. Even when I asked her to restore my friend's eyes, the only thing she could do was... oh. ohhhh. hm. Jiang Cheng: What? Xiao Xingchen: are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you

[edit] if you’re looking at the Original Post now, @behemobarisoool did actually write out this scene!

#mikke fics #the untamed #fics I probably won't write

[portraitoftheoddity]

at this point it's practically Lore but: you drew art for my kinky Natasha/Loki fic, fast forward a couple years and you had me trekking up into the woods never having seen you before in person, such a good choice, a+ friend

The number of people who have followed me into the woods... 😂

I think I need a warning label:

Though I am eternally grateful you have stuck around with me, love. And that Gehenna was such juicy inspiration! <3

#lena answers things #why did you follow meme #veliseraptor

[regicidal-optimism]

things to bother believing in || an eretbur web weave for @enby-chaos for @mcytblrholidayexchange

entangled - genevieve leavold | pierced - aleikats | choose a very specific favorite trope of mine - veliseraptor | apple - meyoco | heaven will be mine | asoftersea -16 | poppies - tokyogenso | arthurianum marginalia | shitty horoscopes vol. vi - amrit brar | morning after ii - alyssa monks | shitty horoscopes vol. vii - amrit brar | a crazy night in the museum - shira barzilay | you need to slow down - vinegar and brown paper | return to the fallen tower - killian eng | shitty horoscopes vol. xii - amrit brar | et in arcadia ego - arcana obscura | obelisk and metronome

#dsmpshipping #eretbur #wilbur soot #eret #c!eret #c!wilbur #web weaving #mcytblrholidayexchange2023 #grace dot art #imaginary gardens with real toads #continue in tempo ignoring conductor

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Renegade Publishing 2023 Typeset Exchange: this world is gonna break your heart by lise

So I'd picked up a pinch hit in the @renegadepublishing typeset exchange, and was in the process of typesetting Regardless of the Hardships. One of the other potential fic @admiraltypress had on their list was a shorter fic, that I'd already read. And the gremlin part of my brain started to ask... but what if? What if we typeset another one? It's just little! It will make a great quarto (half-sized) book! It won't take long...

And then I apparently entered into a fugue state, and typeset this in about eighteen hours. Fortunately, @veliseraptor got back to me quickly with permission to include this fic! (The event requires author permission, since the finished files are shared with everyone who participated.)

This Word Is Gonna Break Your Heart is a canon-divergent MDZS fic where Jiang Yanli survived instead of Jiang Cheng, and is the incredibly unlikely pairing of Jiang Yanli/Xue Yang. But... it works. In a tragic, heartbreaking way, it works.

I went with a font called Monument for the title, reminiscent of gravestones, and a lotus motif for Jiang clan reasons. Stark negative images and black and white match the tone of the fic.

I hope I've done the mood of the fic justice!

#fanbinding #ficbinding #typesetting #mdzs fic #this world is gonna break your heart #lise #jiang yanli #xue yang #fic to break your heart a bit #renegade publishing 2023 typeset exchange

[gloriousmonsters]

💌?

EXTREMELY belated reply!! Lise you are such a warm and thoughtful person and a joy to have on my dash even when we don't share any fandoms. I don't want you to think I just admire your writing output bc you're wonderful even when you're not writing at all, but I just really admire the clear thought and effort you put into your writing and your quality is a+. I hope life is a little gentler on you this year 💚

#veliseraptor #compliments meme

[curiosity-killed]

huaqing gay chicken!!!

i love this fic! love to! remember! where the fuck i was going with it! some day!!!

“I don’t have to beg. Not all of us have a stick so far up our ass pleasure is a foreign concept.” “Oh,” Mu Qing says, voice chilled to ice, “yes, you know pleasure. You’ve spent all these centuries rolling in it, only to find your beloved Xie Lian could never possibly think of joining you in it.” The irritation disappears from Hua Cheng’s face, vanishing into a hard mask. His dark eyes glint like obsidian in the hazy afternoon light. “Get out.” His hand’s closing around E’ming as he says it, and Mu Qing can feel the sudden quickening of resentment around them. Scoffing, he grabs his saber and clothes in a messy bundle. “You can’t imagine I want to stay,” he snips. Hua Cheng is on his feet before Mu Qing, and though he doesn’t yet swing the saber at his head, Mu Qing is familiar enough with his posture to know it’s coming. He ascends quickly. Landing in the central courtyard of his palace with his clothes still haphazardly clutched to himself, he realizes too late that he is still sweaty, half-naked, and half-hard. Half a dozen of his junior officials gape at him.

send me a wip title and i’ll share a bit of it!

#i know!! i KNOW there were thoughts happening!!! would love to know WHAT they were #the problem with my fic writing style is that #when i'm in the swing of writing #if i write down too many notes i will lose all motivation to actually write #so i just. basically never write down notes. #and then if i lose all motivation to write fic in the midst of writing said fic #i just.....never ever know what the hell i was planning #it's like a curtain drops and it's just gone #this doesn't necessarily mean that the fic is abandoned #(of swords and wings was one of these fics and then it turned into one of my faves when i finished it) #but it does lead to a lot of me just like. trying to reverse engineer my thinking #wip title ask game #veliseraptor #asked & answered

[hetamyuist]

it's merely that i am him, and you are me (aka, my ideal niou/yagyuu dynamic <3)

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#tenimyu #prince of tennis #tenipuri #2882 #niou masaharu #yagyuu hiroshi #kubota hidetoshi #mikata ryosuke #nakagauchi masataka #baba tooru #web weaving #was this a good attempt at web weaving? probably not. did it help exorcise some of my niouyagyuu brainrot? yes #and that's all that matters PERIODTTTT #they are soooo normal about each other and i am soooo normal about them <-lying