#we're just getting started folks

[linskywords]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jamie Benn/Joe Pavelski, background Ty Dellandrea/Wyatt Johnston Characters: Jamie Benn, Joe Pavelski, Dallas Stars NHL Team Ensemble Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Wandering Hearts, Pining, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Slow Burn, Getting Together, Rare Pairings Summary:

Jamie gets to soothe other people’s hearts all the time. How could he be lonely?

#it continues! #we're just getting started folks #hockey rpf #jamie benn #joe pavelski

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

#Pactw #QSMP #Pac #March 18 2024 #As much as I love keeping people updated about Pac / the other Portuguese-speaking creators #I think I might not make as many transcribed posts for their clips anymore #I just don't think I'm qualified enough to be transcribing things for a language I don't know #like yeah we have the Qlobal Translator and Aypierre's translators to rely on #And I'm always upfront when I'm not 100% sure about a translation #but I've been thinking about it a lot and it kinda makes me feel a bit icky. Idk. #I might be overthinking this but I just I don't want to spread around translations I'm not super confident about #esp. since I know a lot of people cite my clips in analysis posts or link them to other people as resources #and 90% of the time I'm like ''Hell yeah I love seeing people getting a lot of use out of the archive'' #but sometimes I get a bit anxious like ''Did I do a good enough job translating this'' #''Am I ruining someone's entire perception of a conversation or character because I left one word out or mistranslated something?'' #And like I said that's normally not a HUGE concern since if I'm not certain about a translation I just won't post a clip. but you know #idk it might just be the anxiety talking but I really really don't want to spread bad info #Happy to hear other folks' perspective #I'm really grateful for people like Bell and Pix and others who translate clips and I always try to reblog those #but we don't have a ton of people posting clips & translating things on Tumblr since we're so English-centric #which is part of the reason WHY I like sharing clips of the non-English-speaking CCs #but at the same time I want to do an accurate job representing what they're saying #Maybe I'll just start posting things and give a TLDR context of what they're talking about but not a transcript #that way native-speakers can hop in and add translations if that's something they're comfortable doing #and if not then well. at least I'm not sharing something that isn't super accurate #idk I'm just thinking out loud a bit in the tags #But I'm open to hearing other people's thoughts on the matter #Anyways giant rant aside. q!Pac is NOT doing ok rn

[pcktknife]

this drive startin to feel like five nights at freddys I gotta get out this car yall

#theres fucking mechanical creatures(big rigs) trying to Get Us and we're just tryna make it to daylight #oh great it started raining #anyways in ohio good mornin ohioans or whatever yall called im not sure #good lort theres lightning #kae.txt #morning to the folks from indiana too slept thru yall like i said sowwy

[zichqec]

Simplicity Template v1.0.0

Hi. It’s me again, emerging from the depths of ukagaka hell to bring you new and strange things.

So here’s the thing about ghosts, I helped make this one called Needle for ghost jam 2022, and it’s kinda sorta maybe the best thing I’ve ever participated in. And it maybe kinda triggered a big shift in how I think about ghosts. And I think maybe, the process doesn’t need to be nearly as complicated as it is. 

Right now, the existing ghost templates are very, very big. Everything everywhere will tell you that making a ghost is a long project that requires a lot of dedication. And that can be true! There are some wonderful and detailed ghosts out there that take a long time to produce. But as we’ve seen in ghost jams, that’s not necessarily true! Ghosts don’t HAVE to be big! Ghosts don’t HAVE to be complicated! And even ghosts with a lot of content don’t have to be a huge project that eats up months of your life! Just about everything in the existing templates is optional, but I always feel like I’m cheating or doing a bad job if I skip things.

The more I think about it, and with a lot of the work I’ve done lately, I think it is easy to get burned out by the amount of tedious work you have to do filling in side functions that many users won’t ever see. New devs may find those functions uninteresting, or confusing, or just simply overwhelming from the sheer amount of them. And I think a lot of folks may not realize they can be omitted entirely without causing any harm to the ghost! SSP has default dialogues for the stuff that there need to be dialogues for!

Additionally, I’ve started to see more possibilities for ghosts lately, and the existing templates are making me feel very boxed in. Many ghosts right now have the same premise of “X character but on your computer”, and I don’t have anything against that, but there’s lots of other interesting ideas out there that we haven’t explored hardly at all! What if it’s not that a character has appeared on your desktop, what if you’ve appeared in their world! What if you’re not actually human? What if they know you already! There are so many things I would love to see happen, and some ideas that I’m hoping to start exploring myself.

Anyways! That was a whole lot of words for me to introduce my new template. I’ve made a new template called the Simplicity Template, and these are the things I hope it accomplishes:

Makes ghost making less intimidating for new developers by having less to fill in

Helps more ghosts reach completion by getting straight to content first, with very few side features to fill in

Gives developers more freedom to experiment and try new ideas, and to break away from the current formula

If any of that sounds interesting to you, give it a try! You can always add in more features later and build upon the simple base that is here!

#Ukagaka #English Ukagaka #Template #ZiUkagaka #ZiChrono #//Sorry I have so many feelings about this #//I still haven't?? made a post for needle?? but i probably should #//I just!! genuinely love and adore needle so much ok!!! #//Needle is literally 99% just dialogue!!! #//But it's so DIFFERENT and I get to play with so many concepts!! #//I wanna make SO MANY COOL THINGS and X. Template just isn't suited for my purposes anymore #//As it is if I wanted to start a new ghost with X. Template I would have to spend a few hours carefully removing stuff i DONT want... #//Which was the reason I made X. Template in the first place... So it's kind of outlived its usefulness to me #//Anyways I feel much more confident in this template and I hope that other folks will find this approach as freeing as I do #//Make cool things!! Sit down and plan out what you'd like your ghost to be and then start making content!! #//I'd show a picture of the ghost itself but it's literally just some gray rectangles lol #//You can... you can pet the rectangles #//Oh god I never replaced the placeholder petting dialogues GUESS THAT'S JUST WHAT WE'RE GOING WITH BOIS

[biaswreckmepls]

Gentle reminder - reblog!

Hi everyone!

Not sure if you've been keeping up with all the changes that keep happening on tumblr, but every single time this website and company is acquired by someone new, they try their best to turn it into another facebook, or instagram, or tiktok, or whatever the cool new social media platform is. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how this platform works and the benefit of the anonymity and workings of the unique algorithm. But every single time, they've tried. First when yahoo got it, then when it went to verizon, and then when they sold it to automattic. Now with the death of tumblr live, they're trying to do another rebrand.

Tumblr is one of the few remaining online spaces where we get the opportunity to truly curate our online space, and share and experience things in a way that can't be capitalised on. The concept of a tumblr influencer doesn't exist, because there's no advantage of it, there's no benefit of being an 'influencer'. But the only way we can keep this website around, is to keep using it as the way it was originally intended, in the way that other websites have not worked.

Likes on tumblr are not the same as likes on instagram or youtube, they don't really do anything! They don't help the creator, they don't help promote the post itself in any meaningful way, it's just a way to safekeep it for yourself later. And while that's a totally valid reason to want to like something, just as a reminder of something and a way to revisit a post later in the future, I would highly encourage everyone to try and reblog things as well!! Whether it's art of your favourite ship, whether it's a gifset of your favourite onscreen couple, whether it's a meta around a certain show, or whether it's discussions of the latest major current news event, the only way to truly circulate it and create a positive impact is by reblogging! The more people that get to see any given post, the better.

As an example, KOSA is becoming a thing again, and we're all being encouraged to act against it. I wouldn't have found out about KOSA if someone I follow hadn't reblogged it first, and then i reblogged it again. KOSA is one thing that could impact our online experience DRASTICALLY, and it's imperative that we spread the word about it - forewarned is forearmed, and only when we know about it can we take action against it, right?

I'm not saying this to try and promote this blog at all. I won't lie and say a few more reblogs on this blog here and there wouldn't be nice, but frankly at the end of the day my blog contributes little to nothing to the larger fandom discourse in the grand scheme of things. I'm saying this for everyone else out there. If you want tumblr to survive and thrive as our internet experience continues to evolve in the coming decade, keep using it as much as you can! Reblog anything and everything you can! Your one singular reblog can have a butterfly effect on a post. When you just like, the movement of the post stops there.

And tying into my blog (sorry lads, i'm only human and have to make it a little relevant for me as well 😭), if there's one type of post on the website you encounter anywhere that I strongly recommend you reblog, it's a poll. A poll only serves it's function if it reaches people who can actually vote on it, and we can only get a true reflection of the views of the masses when the most number of people get to participate in it. That's democracy, babey!

Anyways, that's my biannual rant. Back to your regularly scheduled programming, and see you in 6 months for the next big rant!

#i've tried to not make this blog particularly political bc that's for my main blog #but yeah this is also about palestine #it's about kosa too duh but idk if i wanted to mention palestine in the actual post body #if you have any sympathy for folks in palestine but don't have the means to actually help out in any tangible way #even just reblogging someone else's post could make a difference #bc it could allow someone else who DOES have the means to see it #knowledge is power and only works when we get to share that knowledge so that we all have that power #sorry for getting all passionate yall i have Feelings about this #anyways back to fics sdjfklsdjfsjd #not a fic rec #me #gentle reminder #reblog posts!! #also i know. i KNOW. this makes me sound so goddamn salty #call me out idc #i specifically wrote on the last poll 'please reblog after voting so that more people see the poll' #how many votes? 14. how many reblogs you ask? 0 #i mean. i know i've only just started this new thing but damn. nearly 4000 of you here and this is what we're doing? #makes me really question why i'm even trying to do this at all

[batz]

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#frank.txt #also shit is FUCKED rn . im so STRESSED #my landlord had a landlord moment so we're moving. also this place is getting unbearable #we live near freedom convoy folks and ive been called all sorts of slurs just trying to walk to 7/11 so . idk #maybe the next place will at least have homophobes that aren't as shouty and angry n shit bc GOD. GOD #that one guy that followed me halfway home just yelling slurs like yeah maybe moving out is a blessing in disguise #also this house haa no insulation which is awful in summer and winter #the next place we're going to is more expensive unfortunately but like. its insulated. doesnt have squirrels in the attic. or asbestos. #so uhm yayyy #its in a very secluded farmland area. tbh maybe thats what i need rn bc my physical and mental health arent super sturdy rn #physically feeling a bit bettr tho! just having bubble baths about it <3 #i only post now on my priv twit @dykefiend rn #once things are settled ill go back to posting art . #bc i RLLY want to draw my own stuff soon i just gotta work on commissions wnd then start PACKING #genuinely almost cried last night thinking abt how i'll probably be able to see stars at night again #its the outskirts of the city in a rural area. super rundown broken down house but gorgeous yard. all u can hear is wind ans birds #no sirens or yelling or cars!

[rowenabean]

#the wedding was lovely and i am so sad #managed to get most of the sad out of the way Friday and Sunday so i could be glad for them on the actual wedding day #but still. i'm going to miss her. #we always talked about living together and we never did and now we probably never will #i've got a model of married folk living together in community but i don't think they do and it has to be something you choose #her family are lovely and i was really glad to meet her friends and cousins that she talks about so often but they don't really get it #they get to have her!!! she's moving somewhere that's more convenient for literally everyone other than me! (this is not hard to do) #really good to get home and hug my dad and my little sister and have people who are my people around #was actually really good at the reception that there were a few other folk from my current town - i wasn't the only person who was #mixed joy and tears #i said something about us giving her over in my speech and they said yes that's exactly how we're feeling #but it wasn't till her husband responded to that in his speech that i started crying #everyone has been so kind to me but it has been SO good to get home #hoping i can get a bit more sleep as well. emotions are bigger when tired even though they're real still #(her cousins invited me to come stay any time and tbh i can see that living in Auckland could be actually really nice if you live where they #do. but i couldn't live where they do and do the work i want to do it is quite far away from the places in Auckland i could imagine working) #rowena adventures #btw no photos of me currently but probably some later??? not that we took many the groom had been sick the previous week and was #still pretty wiped so they got like two photos with the bridal party and ten with just them and that was it

[mantisgodsdomain]

we don't think any of you guys know how fucking hard masterposts are

#we speak #<this is a joke. we are joking. this is something that We Did To Ourself due to our need to be meticulous on tagging and such #directly hampering our ability to post things even if they're As Good As Done by now. or even done entirely #realistically if we could hammer our a masterpost like those guys we see doing like. “day 1 (shipname)” then we would be done VERY fast #but we have DIGNITY and also we uhh. cover a wider range than most whump folks we see on stuff like this? #we cover Relevant Info because we dont generally. stick to One character. or One set of characters. or One fandom. or- #yknow the fact that during the latter days of this challenge we were going like “6 cordyceps works is probably Enough” #“we need a better goddamn idea for this prompt. if we more of these in this narrow of a period of time we'll start recycling things” #probably says something about us. unfortunately we are fundamentally incapable of being the sort of person who can slam out #29 days of the same ship like we saw in a handful of those masterposts #which. unfortunately. means we need a more involved tagging system for masterposts since we can't just do “all of this is (x)” #and then we spend another hour hunting for a painting we did in germany that we couldve SWORN was in our luggage #but that we just CAN'T FIND anymore that we're starting to have a sinking suspicion we left somewhere in germany #anyways if any of our posting gets further delayed. assume we're in the rotatatron. and also trying to set up ao3 postings.

[hella1975]

my mum now knows what fanfiction is and thinks it's 'really cool' and that i should 'give it a go'

#:'))) #it was such a sweet conversation actually #basically ive just had this two days with bam of just being able to totally be myself re my writing and fic and all that #bc it's a HUGE part of my personality that im used to just keeping top secret at all costs #and specifically just our time in waterstones was so <333 #and i was like okay this is actually a good way to bring fic up to my mum actually #bam i used your dissertation as a convo opener actually lmao i was like 'oh so it's super interesting basically-' #and i explained what fanfic was to her! and she thinks it's so cool! #she literally was not weird about it at all and i kinda knew she wouldnt be bc im very much the problem #when it comes to limiting myself like IM the one who internalised all this shame around writing IM the one so scared of being 'cringe' #and my mum has always hated watching me do that to myself so i think she was really happy just seeing me talking about this stuff #she made a really good point actually she was like 'every sanditon adaption is fanfiction bc austen never actually finished it' #and 'kate bush's wuthering heights could also be a form of fanfiction' #i was like babygirl you're RIGHT and you're getting way more into this than i expected lmao #next step: tell her i accidentally started a cult and am weirdly popular in the online writing sphere #we're making progress folks this is huge for me and it only took me two fucking years LMAO

[forbodium]

had a nightmare where my dad and i were stalked by the ghost of a serial killer called "bonny john" aubrey

#did we die? not sure. debatable. #i'm like dad all the locals are saying that bonny john's coming out tonight. we should leave #and he's like ok [does everything so it takes the longest time possible] #all the lights on the street we're walking on go out at once. he sees no reason to get to the van any faster #the van starts by itself before we even get there. he's like welp hop in #nope we're going to this house to try and ask for help. the van starts making unnatural sounds when we cross the street. #there's definitely a figure back there. i think it has a chef's knife. #nobody's answering the door. we go around to the back yard just to put more distance between us #and suddenly the brightest lights are shining out the back windows. there's a man standing at the corner of the house. #someone is screaming. or roaring. the windows shatter. there's a paper-white face in front of me. #the only thing i remember after that is watching a cat jump out of a broken window and run off into the night #so yeah i probably died but idk #bonny john also had his own folk song. i heard it on a record player in an old thrift store where somebody told me to watch out for him #i can't remember the tune or anything but it was a good song #cornelis appears nonetheless!

[varietydivision]

Some Long-Passed Online Friendships we still think and talk about irl a lot

-An old gaia pal that was a Huuuuge Batt/le Network fan that was the only friend (until very recently!!) that we ever were able to chat about it with. They also helped us navigate our first forays into jrock and Youtube Anime.

-Someone we competed against in a dA OCT that pushed us so incredibly hard to put out the best work possible, and helped us really understand how much of a struggle original fiction writers on the internet had (esp in the late 00s on dA)

-The dA artist that was kind of like a big sister to us for a hot minute, helped us with cosplay stuff, helped us develop a more solid art style, and figure out commissions (as well as was our First Ever Art Commission)

-A friend we made in the Sonic community who Rini screamed with Constantly about Archie-specific headcanons and favorite characters. Easily the period we were most active in that fanbase.

-The homie that we met through not-great circumstances, that was actually a creator we looked up to a good bit, and now everytime we see Kumamon or listen to Celldweller (even though we were a fan of Klayton long before meeting them), we think of them.

Anyway, here's your daily reminder that, even if you fell out of touch, there's a good chance someone somewhere is thinking fondly of a version of you that's saved into their internet memory banks.

#just some little positive musings for today for a few reasons #these are all long predating this blog #The last one actually I think we fell out of touch with in part because we stopped using the singlet blog and just got kind of focused #on living in the place we moved to and eventually system stuff once we figured that out #stuff since here as far as folks we have no idea how we'd even get in touch with anymore would be like... Jace haha #Since most of our other good buddies we still have on here or on Fb and can still see little stuff and give a virtual pat on the back y'kno #And now that we're settling back in post-surgery we can start actually having spoons to reach out again #But Man there was NO downtime after surgery #BUT ANYWAY #post in the tags I guess #abt VD

[tvrningout-a]

one hour turned into two but : ) time to write some stuff : ))

#i might concentrate on stuff @tvrningon bc the brainrot continues despite my nervousness :' )) #gonna try to get it out of my system a lil bit tonight and try to write stuff throughout the week from now on #it's just easy for me to remember/feel encouraged to write spice on the weekend bc everyone starts talking about it #but we're gonna try to get more comfortable with it folks!! any day is spicy day if the inspiration strikes!! #get ready to ramble | ooc

[flaming-toads]

#oooooh #all these wips getting done today #PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR JULY FOLKS! #made a huge dent in art today #it's been hella nice #and tomorrow starts my birthday month #self indulgent art is on its way!! #oc's and shit and silly doots! #we're talking hackle! we're talking kyalin! we're talking a lot of dnd characters that no one asked for! #maybe the fic by the end of the month tho it's literally just for me #we'll see #happy early birthday to meeee~ #(人◕ω◕) #all of my favorite things!!! #hehehe #toad rambles #you get a hackle picture tomorrow #but the others are on lock down until cass' announcement

[scattered-winter]

it is time to rejoice ,,,, for i am Writing once again ,,

#i dont think ill be posting anything anytime soon because its slow going but. #it does feel good to be creating again. in fits and starts. #like im still kinda numb and i still have to make myself eat or sleep #but im at least getting my creative drive back. piece by piece #which is a very very welcome relief. #its actually one of my worst fears that grief will make me lose that part of myself #not necessarily grief for my friend but for all the other people i know im gonna lose very soon #its a terrifying thought because my art is who i am. always has been. and so ive hated not writing or painting or drawing or reading #at all this week because it feels like that part of me just got shut off. #but its not broken !!!! its just healing. slowly. #so this post is a happier one than the others. we're getting there folks. #winter speaks #grief tag

[becca-alexa]

✨personal so read if you want to✨

the people in my immediate circle all think i'm crazy for saying i'd want to be in a relationship for 2-3 years before talking about marriage and i think they're all insane for it but then i remember the average time from strangers to married for them is around 6 months

#becca.txt #legit do not think any of their relationships went on for longer than a year before marriage #my bestie went from absolute strangers to married in 4 months #they're adorable together but FOUR MONTHS???wild #they met around christmas and their wedding was in april - they just had their 1st anniversary and their baby's due next month #that's what happens when you're latina and religious i guess #not me thinking that 30s+ is a good age to marry and have kids and everybody thinking i'm insane 👀 #don't even get me started on HAVING kids -- nobody wants to hear that i can't conceive naturally they all say to stay hopeful!... #there's still a chance!you can do it!like y'all i got stage 4 endometriosis that's taken over both my ovaries i ain't having no kids 😂 #honestly i've said this before and i'll say it again - if i'm to have a marriage like some of them i'd rather stay single #i think only my bestie has a TRULY happy and functional marriage #i love her for it and her husband's an angel on earth -- everyone else's marriage is a literal dumpster fire #like my dudes if you're doing relationship counseling WHILE DATING then do premarital AND post marital couseling... #why get married???? like i am the biggest supporter of utilizing mental health services but something's not right there #and don't even get me started on how YOUNG they marry or how religious folk play round robin with each other til someone sticks #god forbid you tell anyone you don't want to get married in general or GASP!you marry a non-believer #everybody always talks shit about “missional dating” and how you can't do it!!but like... everybody does it #literally everybody #it's not a big deal #just because we're the same denomination doesn't automatically make you a decent person #and the opposite is true - just because we don't believe the same things doesn't make you a hellbound pagan #it's just frustrating y'know???idk if anybody will relate to this but i am so ready to just... do my faith on my own terms #so sick of people i've known all my life looking at me like i'm sick or something bc i'm 26 and still single #by this point if anybody in that circle tries to set me up with a guy it's an automatic aversion #not one man they've ever introduced to me is worth the light of day - and i'm not being rude #like buddy you're 30+ still living at home no job no career no education no ambitions....but he's christian tho!! #yeah sure but he's still trash #i want a partner not a baby imma have to support #just me rambling about things nobody want to hear but i gotta put this out somewhere or else i'll implode

[blu-engineer]

after a year and a half, we finally kinda sorta have a list of permanent alters maybe . Yay?

#bluposting #i dont know how long this was supposed to take #and i KNOW we're missing folks who haven't shown themselves yet #but we have a decent list! #at one point i started getting nervous about the amount of fictives we have #and if it was a sign that we were Somehow Accidentally Faking On Purpose ?? #<- which btw. it is NOT a sign of faking anything. sometimes brains just do that and it might just be how it is #we Have some nonfictives! sort of . kinda. hard to explain #we made a lot of progress the other day when 🎯 fronted for the first time in fucking forever #and i got to get him up to speed #after he dipped i took some notes and now theres Documentation #i have fucking Documentation for my System OS. do you get it. do you get th