#willing to chat with people if they're curious

[whateveriwant]

Hey! I love your writing so much, and I was wondering if you could do 141 HCs with an albino GN!reader? Or a reader with tics but not tourettes? Either or!! Have a lovely day!

I'm sorry it took me a little while to get to this, anon! I went with the second option!

Ghost

Can you say 'twinsies'? Because Ghost definitely can 👯‍♀️

I can totally see Ghost having tics of his own – motor ones specifically, mostly confined to his face, but you wouldn't know it because they're always hidden by his masks

Thus, when he first notices you ticking, he immediately clocks it for what it is and he (almost giddily) thinks to himself 'Finally! Someone who gets me'

Because of this, he quickly becomes your second shadow, following you around everywhere like a little big puppy

Naturally, he'll get incredibly protective over you, especially when it comes to people who stare or make comments under their breath or even outright approach you and ask something rude regarding your tics

If he catches anyone doing anything of the sort, then he goes into scary dog mode real quick: arms crossed over his chest, head cocked to the side, an intimidating silence as he glares with a gaze so menacing it could melt steel

Price

With a man as sharp and attentive as Price, much like Ghost, he takes instant notice of your tics

And as protective as Price is, he'd probably get fairly concerned about you to the point where he even pulls you aside one day to have a little chat

He knows that… tics, he thinks they're called, aren't necessarily indicative of anything health-wise, but he just wants to make sure that you're okay; that there isn't anything he can do for you

Even after assuring him that you're perfectly fine and healthy and good, that doesn't stop him from looking out for you like you're his own flesh and blood

Similar to Ghost, if he sees anyone staring or making snide comments about you, then he's definitely going to step in and shut that down

However, rather than giving them an I'll tear your spine out through your throat look à la Ghost, he'll mutter something in their ear – the specifics of which you're unsure, but it always has them making a swift, shaky-legged departure

Gaz

While he too notices your tics, Gaz would never ever mention them out of respect for you and your privacy

He would wait for you to be the one to bring it up, should you ever choose to, that is. And if you never do, well, that's a-ok to him. Whatever you're willing to divulge, he'll be there waiting without pressure or judgment

However, if you were to talk to him about it (and thus invite a conversation) then prepare yourself for a barrage of questions

He doesn't ask them meaning to be offensive or intrusive or whatever; he's simply curious. He just wants to get to know you well, and that means knowing what makes you uniquely you

Unlike the other 141 men, if he notices someone bothering you about your tics, he's not going to directly (more like aggressively) confront them over it

Instead he'd harmlessly distract them, drawing their attention onto himself until they've completely forgotten all about their interest in bugging you

Soap

This man, bless his heart, would be totally, astoundingly oblivious of your tics even if they punched him in the face

In fact, the closer you become with him, the more he finds himself unconsciously start to mimic them

Kind of like when you like someone and so you start mirroring their movements/patterns of speech? Yeah, it's like that but with your tics

Of course, if you were to say something about it (and especially if you said it made you uncomfortable), he'd immediately apologize, explain how he wasn't even aware he was doing it, and make sure he never does it again

Like with Ghost and Price, if Soap noticed someone being rude towards you, he'd go into guard dog mode, but he is the most feral by far

He'd be all up in their face, furious, practically foaming at the mouth as he yells to "Mind yer own fuckin' business while you've still got workin' legs to mind with!" … only to turn to you afterwards all sunshine and rainbows like he didn't just tear that person a new one 😇

#wiw asks #simon riley x reader #simon ghost riley x reader #ghost x reader #john price x reader #captain john price x reader #captain price x reader #kyle garrick x reader #kyle gaz garrick x reader #gaz x reader #john mactavish x reader #john soap mactavish x reader #soap x reader #simon riley #john price #kyle garrick #john mactavish #tf 141 x reader #task force 141 x reader #cod x reader #cod mw2 #call of duty #modern warfare 2

[amypihcs]

Hello! More news from our dear Watson! Let's see!

Watson is QUITE surprised by Holmes' deduction being right

But he still suspects some trick! Well, knowing Holmes' theatrics Watson does well in being suspiscious but this time there's no trick at all!

Watson is still curious enough to ask aaaaand Holmes slips the mask back on JUST IN TIME!

Watson will learn in time that it doesn't do interrupting Holmes when he's thinking, but for now Holmes is willing to explain and well!

Watson might be young, this might be his work, but he's always himself. Watson, that verb next to that EXCLAMATION is making it very difficult for me to be mature about this all stuff.

MEANWHILE Holmes is quite enthusiastic about having something to do and asks Watson to read a letter aloud for the very first time!! The letter is from Gregson asking Holmes to help

Holmes truuuuly has a high opinion of the yarders, eh! In this passage it's so clear that they're so young, That comment about having fun looking at the two cats fighting each other is one i could EASILY make when i'm out with my friends and chatting about uni or something else!

Holmes seemed quite enthusiastic of the case but he's not very sure of taking it. After all there will be no merit at all for HIM, he's ready to bed the yarders will take all the credit for themselves!

And i'm ready to bet it's not the first time this happens. Well, he takes it and invites his new friend to come along.

And Holmes being Holmes he's happy and spends the cap ride infodumping!

And of course he starts instructing Watson about deduction. No theories before the data! But meanwhile have i told you about *VIOLINS*??

They arrive and Holmes... wait, what is Holmes even DOING?

AH. OOOOkey?

Ah, so this is Gregson!

And here what Holmes was doing! looking for footprints. He's furious enough to insult Gregson in a QUITE transparent way. Gregson AND Lestrade. Apparently Holmes loves the herd of buffalo metaphor. And i guess it's appropriate.

Now while scemo & più scemo are trying to give THE OTHER all the fault, the kid of the situation decides to enter and... WELL, THERE'S A CORPS.

Watson is NOT HAVING A GOOD TIME

Someone hug this man. Watson has sure seen many dead people in his service and in his study as a doctor, but this is truly horrifying him

Hugs for our Watsons and see you with the next letter!

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #john h watson #dr john watson #holmes being furious to the yarders #inspector lestrade #inspector gregson

[heartfullofleeches]

Scars

Self indulgent blurb about reader with scars. (Tw: implied self harm [not by reader])

"I've always been curious.. Can I see what you look like?"

An innocent question. You've been talking with this person for some time now. Friends; maybe even more in another scenario. It was no surprise that they asked for a photo; more of shock that they hadn't before now. There was just one small problem.

"I don't know about that..."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to over step any boundaries... but if I may ask - why can't you show me?"

You bite down the flesh of your bottom lip. You know you can trust them. You know they'll never hurt you.. but that doesn't make it any easier.

"I.. have a few scars. They're not extremely noticeable, but you can see them if you look close enough."

It takes them longer than usual to reply. Your stomach drops.

"That it? I mean- I know it's not an easy thing to handle, but I'd never say anything negative about you, Y/n. If your personality matches your looks I know you're nothing more than breaktaking. Please let me see you... if you're ever comfortable with it. And if there's anyone who's given you trouble- let me know."

You think it over for the rest of the night; the conversation returning to its regular topics. You notice added sweetness to the passing compliments they made; a subtle nod at their care for you. As you ready for bed, you decide to give yourself a moment of vulnerability and send them a picture of yourself after you take a shower. Your finger hovers over the screen so long that it starts to cramp before you finally hit send.

They don't reply for a while - longer than before. As your eyes grow heavy, tears form in their corners for fear of the unknown. Before you can bunker down in the safety of your blankets, you receive a new message. It's an audio file.

"You're so beautiful."

Their voice runs through your mind like a chill. You had heard it before, but never with such raw emotion; and through just a few words. The chat returns to text form as they send you a few more messages.

"I'm sorry, was that weird? You're so cute I felt I had to say it personally."

"It was kinda hard putting a face to who I've been talking to, but I always knew you'd look way cuter than anything I could imagine. "

"Can I see another? I wanna make sure I get things right"

"-the lighting is a bit off in the first picture I mean."

You promise to send them another one in the morning, and when you do it's nothing more than perfection. True be told, your little friend had been you many times before; but it's so much better when you're looking at the camera. Ah, that face- If you were a piece of art people would travel for miles to see you. It was such a shame to hear about your self doubts, but they'd take them all away soon.

Cut by cut; burn by burn, they'd share the same wounds as you. To show you have someone willing to share your pain, and to mirror the burdens you've left on their heart. They so longed for the day they could work the nerve to meet you in person and present themselves as the one who's been there for you all along.

#yandere oc #yandere #yandere imagines #yandere x reader #yandere scenarios #yandere x you #yandere insert #yandere headcanons #yandere blurb #yandere drabble #yandere x y/n #yandere x darling #yandere writing #yandere fic

[dokukoi]

In relation to the ask game answer, could I get a lore dump on you and Ren? I won't deny, radio dj falling in love with thier kidnapper is a concept that's got got me hooked!

Don't feel pressured to answer and only include what you want to, I'm just super curious about that now :3

-@woof-ships

omg yay!!! thank you im so happy you like my silly self-ships to know more about them 🤭🤭🤭

it's based off of my own experiences being a radio dj and i wanted to have my own storyline that parallels btd2 canon but is more self-indulgent :D hopefully this makes sense (and is not ridiculously long) bc ive never written it down before dkakfjak

under the cut because i failed at keeping it short lmao

so, while trying to make friends by surfing gore and snuff forums, ren stumbled upon noe's late-night show (10PM - 4AM). it's an international block, focusing on rock and metal from different countries. much to ren's delight, there's also a vkei, jrock, and jmetal showcase hour. after a few days of listening to the show, listening to the DJ during their voice breaks—ren's heart races. they have so much in common, they sound so kind... they're the friend ren has been looking for! so, he finally decides to call in a request.

noe is delighted, obviously—not many people call in to radio shows, let alone late-night ones anymore! they're even more delighted when ren becomes a regular caller. there's only so much you can do to occupy yourself when you're stuck in the studio for six hours. noe is more than happy to chat away!

while it starts off as short conversations, about the music, the bands... ren quickly pushes the conversations to be longer, more personal. nothing too invasive, yet. it's basically having a pen-pal... right? noe is just happy to have some company and willing to overlook some of the more prodding questions.

meanwhile, ren is becoming increasingly parasocial. he anxiously waits for 10PM and if there's a minute delay to hearing their voice, he gets nervous. he dreads 4AM, the radio cut off. in the rare case someone else calls in—he gets irritated. why do they need to talk to someone that's not him? to ren, noe is already their best friend, their partner, since the lines are so blurred for him.

he needs to be closer to them. he needs to see them, to touch them... after weeks of asking, begging, pleading noe for him to be a guest co-host for one night, noe agrees. they've been talking to him for a few months... he seems nice enough. he's just passionate about the same kind of music they are! nothing would go wrong, would it?

yeah... while the radio station is struggling to find someone to fill their slot, ren has his very own best friend/partner/plaything now! complete with a shock collar and a cute lil ankle shackle. aren't they such nice gifts?!

after this, it loosely follows the routes in the game

ren's lovebombing and sadism quickly breaks noe in—especially after ren breaks down after almost permanently breaking them. he really, really just wants a friend—this is the only way that he knows how to treat friends, to have fun with them.

he just doesn't want to lose his best friend after he just found them. ren quickly shifts to just... trying to have a normal relationship with noe. well, what he perceives as a normal relationship sans the brutality. he just wants to love and be loved!

to help noe have some sort of semblance of normalcy again, he makes a home-made radio transmitter. they host a small radio show together every week. slowly but surely, noe warms up to ren and his affections now that ren is no longer 'playing' with them.

their laugh on the radio waves sounds just like when he first met them now. to anyone listening, they just seem like a couple head over heels for each other. not a captive and their captor.

i haven't decided how lawrence fits into this, or if ren becomes fox/the announcer in this storyline (im leaning towards fox being an au)

i hope this made some sense?? im not the strongest writer! thank you so much for asking though woof 😭🫶

#woof ships #🐇🦊 #🪩 you've got mail! #🪩 noe writes #kinda?

[biblicallyaccurateandrogynoussex]

Slimecicle character notes/headcannons for myself that definitely has NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES under the cut (feel free to tack on your own ideas or takes on Slimecicle guys™ I'd love to see them)

SMPL!Charlie

Aka "Live"

Absolutely shameless, he loves cursed shit.

Always has a kazoo on him

Pathetic in a "all of his pranks goes wrong" kinda way

SCU!Charlie

Aka "Godcicle"

Half elder god half trickster god don't trust this guy

Loves to fuck with his domains just to piss people off but plays it off as trying to make things easier

Never fucks with apples of any kind though.

Does not sleep so he just hovers over them menacingly.

100d!Charlie

Aka "Survivor"

Always incredibly tense, but easy to talk to

Very jumpy, easy to startle

Obsessively makes sure everyone is ok at all times.

Is scared of silence

Dsmp!Charlie

Aka "Guy" or "Bones"

Very goofy and cheerful but still incredibly smart.

Good at picking up subtle changes in people but bad with other social cues

Will in fact try to steal your books to try and read them

Mr Cycle

Constantly seeking out new stimuli, 100% an adrenaline junkie

Hates repeating himself

Still has a slightly staticy "speaking through a mic" voice

A sort of faking being chipper kinda guy

Esmp!Charlie

Aka "Pal" or "Goggles"

Not a big fan of repetitive tasks/doing something over and over again

Enjoys caves, especially if they're overgrown

Pretends to be a happy goofball but he's paranoid and sad

Osmp!Charlie

Aka "Slime"

Pretty laid back and silly

Likes to become unreasonably small to harass people

Pretty cool with going along with whatever plan people have involving him

Curious to the point of self destruction (See: finding a desert to see if he dries out, letting Ranboo make him into a slime farm)

Qsmp!Charlie

Aka "El Backflipo"

Hopeless romantic but derogatory. Falls hard and fast and immediately tries to back track angrily

100% un-fucking-hinged. But also mellow. It's like a light switch

Likes to fuck around but not find out

Void Mod!Charlie

Aka "Dr Cicle"

LOVES science and the scientific method

Also likes to poke fun at people

Almost always cold to the touch

Kinda like your crazy science teacher, loves experiments

Lava Ravine!Charlie

Aka "Chesticuffs"

Cheerful and loves nature, but most importantly loves his card/chest game

Very easily focuses on one subject and blocks out everything else

Goofy but smart, kinda bad at tactic games though.

Surgery Mod!Charlie

Aka "Subject"

Unhinged

Willing to be experimented on for the potential bits

Goes from 0 to 100 really quick

All in or all our kind of guy and he's always all in.

Superhero!Charlie

Aka "Strange"

Things are about to get strange

GL!Charlie

Aka "Spirit" or "Demon"

He's gunky and slimey

A bit of a nasty boy y'know

Kinda just wants friends but he's bad at it

Will goop you to make you his friend

Other than that he's fucked up. Do not let him dry up he will DIE

Ghost Hunter!Charlie

Aka "Haunted"

Definitely not a professional

Doesn't take things all to seriously

Easily scared and doesn't like being alone

Ghost Gun

Chad Bussy

Gives 0 shits attitude

Actually pretty smart he just doesn't care

Secret nerd so he sticks up for the little guys

Definitely owns a metal bat

Walking Dead!Charlie

Aka "Stranger" or "Caller"

Always carries around a disconnected phone that he sometimes gets "calls" on

Simply carries out the whims of the chat that calls him

Not good at surviving but somehow he did

Kissed a guy once cause chat told him too

Something something burger king pizza hut monstrosity. Burger on pizza… what.

Slime Story!Charlie

Aka "Researcher"

Very passionate about researching slimes in their natural habitat

Doesn't shy away from the darker aspects of slime ecosystems

Will insult them but he loves them

A bit blunt

Slime Rancher!Charlie

Aka "Rancher"

Laid back farmer guy

Likes working with slimes, but Glooby is his favorite still.

Enjoys learning how they interact with each other but doesn't do much in depth research

Once he sets his mind if a task he won't rest til it's done

Can be a bit cruel/mean if he thinks it'd be funny

#slimecicle #charlie slimecicle

[shihalyfie]

i forget if i've asked something similar (apologies if i have haha) do you think the 02 and appmon groups would get along? also a bit curious on if the 02 and hunters groups would vibe well or not, since both sequels are commonly disregarded from what i can tell

It's okay, I may have answered a question like this before but I've also forgotten if I have, so I'll gladly answer it again!!

For the 02 and Appmon groups, absolutely. Both of them are the type with, how do I put it, "aggressive friend-making energy"; they love meeting new people, expanding their friend circle, and just chatting others up in general. I'm pretty sure @digitalgate02 and I have made jokes about theoretical scenarios where some villain tries to pit the teams against each other framing the other like some kind of evil wrongdoer, only for them to meet each other face-to-face and conclude within 5 seconds that the other isn't hostile.

For the 02 and Hunters groups, this one depends more because the definition of a "Hunters group" is kind of vague (due to the question of which characters get included or not), and while I do think it might be a bit more hostile at first, it'd probably be okay in the long run. Tagiru's kind of an uppity type, and he's probably going to beeline to all the things that irritate Daisuke a lot, but this fanart takes the stance that they'd probably end up frolicking chaotically anyway, and I'd have to agree.

Ultimately, I think the 02 group's aggressive friendmaking abilities (Daisuke especially) comes from the fact that, when things come down to it, they want to think better of others and make use of opportunities to make friends, so even if they get a bad first impression of someone, they're willing to put in the effort to work things out with them.

#badmistmountain #digimon multi series talk

[creepswrites]

This is my first time requesting anything so I hope this makes sense. Can you make a oneshot or headcanons of the Sinclair brothers meeting someone who is deaf? Like y/n is deaf and their car breaks down nearby and they need help. I’m curious to see what the brother’s reactions would be to someone who is deaf. Especially Vincent since he’s mute. ✌️

I love writing the Sinclair brothers, yes! Hope you enjoy! :]

Sinclair Brothers w/ a GN S/O who is deaf (SFW)

Bo Sinclair

Bo's used to sign language and you're no exception. Though he's a bit surprised, only person he knew to really use it was Vincent

He was the one to find you while he was out scouting for potential victims. He found you with your car broken down and decided to help

He's not sure why. You were just different. That's all, swear! (Vince and Lester know he thought you were drop dead gorgeous when he saw you)

Where you differ from Vince and what does take adjusting for him is that he can talk to Vincent and he'll sign. He's not used to not being able to talk to you at all

Sometimes he'll be talking to you and you'll just be sitting there and he'll facepalm when he remembers you can't hear him

He'll play his music in the garage louder so you can feel the vibrations

If you can read lips, it'll come in handy sometimes when he forgets you can't hear him. Regardless, he starts making effort to signing for you when he talks and bitches at Lester to do the same.

Vincent Sinclair

He meets you after Bo brings you into town after your car breaks down. At first he's hesitant to meet you at all, assuming you'll be the next victim, but once he sees you he's gone for

Owes Bo so many favors for not killing you. He's sort of "responsible" for you because Bo's certainly not going to be

He's the easiest to talk to honestly. He's not able to speak normally so he's at ease talking to you

Doesn't really play loud music but will let you sit against his chest and feel him hum

Vincent happily translates his brothers conversations for you so you can keep up with what they say!

He gets insanely protective of you and has snapped at Bo and Lester for not signing when talking to you. They can sign, they should!

Lets you borrow his walkman and headphones to enjoy music if you want to. He's got mixtapes he makes for you even though he knows you can't hear them

Lester Sinclair

Lester is the first to find you on the side of the road. He's a bit surprised to see you using sign but he recovers quick! Growing up with Vincent made it easier to chat

He's a bit rusty but he's able to hold conversation. Once he gets chatting, muscle memory takes over

Will actually keep you secret from Bo and Vincent for awhile, citing the car he needs fixing as one of his new ones. Usually the twins strip cars for parts but Bo's willing to get the car fixed

If you decide to stay with Lester though, he loves having you around the house. He lives away from them so you'd be safe!

Vincent still enjoys talking to you and you probably get along best with him after Lester! Bo's just... reserved.

Lester likes to just sit in silence with you out in the forest surrounding his house. Loves taking walks with you and Jonesy while holding hands

Brings you little gifts he finds or makes! Never tells you they're from dead victims of the twins, that feels weird to him. He tries to keep you out of the loop as long as he can though!

The unpromising sounds of your engine sputtering did not fill you with confidence. But breaking down in the middle of nowhere hadn't been on your list for your trip out of the city! You were trying to just get out of town for a few days, see some new sights, not get stranded. The sounds of incoming cars made you anxious though. You couldn't exactly move your car in this state and if people started yelling at you to move your car...

The two trucks seemed in varying states. One was a teal color and dirtier while the other was a sleek navy color with a broken headlight. Odd.

Stepping out of the truck closest to you, the navy one, was definitely a mechanic. The overalls and grease stains confirmed as much. You could tell he was speaking to you but you struggled to read his lips. "Sorry, do you know sign?" You tried, preparing for the worst.

Blinking for a moment, you braced yourself to need to get a paper and pencil for him before he signed back. "Sure darling, what's got you stuck out here?"

You felt the smile on your face as you sighed internally, explaining to him how your car had broken down and you couldn't get it towed. Hard to call a tow truck when you can't hear and all. The man introduced himself as Bo, mentioning his brothers Vincent and Lester were still in the trucks but he could give a look under your hood. He worked as a mechanic, he could give it a shot.

He gave you a wink when he mentioned his brother being mute. You weren't sure what he meant to imply until you felt a gentle tug on your sleeve and turned to see a man in a mask with long hair staring down at you. As soon as he introduced himself as Vincent, you two were signing a mile a minute to each other, finally able to have conversation with someone fluent.

A younger, scruffier looking man made his way around the trucks, grinning at you. He spoke before going quiet, looking over at Vincent who was telling him to sign for you. The man Lester was a bit... rusty. You tried not to laugh when he messed up on some words but he was clearly trying, you could appreciate that at least.

Bo stepped back into your line of sight after a moment, informing you that your fan belt had snapped but he'd have a spare back at the gas station. Lester offered to give you a ride to Ambrose, their little hometown.

How could you refuse?

#🔪 creeps writes #slasher x reader #slasher x s/o #slasher fanfiction #house of wax #vincent sinclair #bo sinclair #lester sinclair #bo sinclair x reader #vincent sinclair x reader #lester sinclair x reader

[nyxthejinx]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 - 𝐏𝐭.𝟏

𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬: The harbingers dealing with a kiddo but it's actually a funny sight.

𝐅𝐭.: Pierro & Capitano (on crack, a bit ooc)

A/N: These headcanons can adapt to a more general context, but some parts will be about things I specified in THIS post about a project I'm working on, check it out if you’re interested, or curious about this "curse" I'm speaking of. 👀 + omg gotta split this cause I’m having too much fun and it’s long bye.

𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

Alright, big scary old man.

 Ngl he gives me a bit of Silco vibes, for those who watched Arcane. Stoic outside, soft inside. I can see him as someone who doesn’t bat an eye even at chaotic situations, mostly because no one dares disobey him or anything like that, a glare of his and everything goes quiet.

Not you apparently. Lmao F in chat for this guy who has to deal with you.

No well, the curse won’t start eroding for a few years, so 4-11 y/o you will be a typical curious but quiet kid for the time being. Though it doesn’t mean you won’t stir up trouble. You know they can’t lay a finger on you, so you just do whatever you want and expect them to follow around without complain. Even the great Jester.

He spends most of his time behind a desk, despite being the strongest, hence you don’t really seek his boring office out unless there’s something you need or want to ask.

He’s not even pissed when you rant while he’s doing paperwork, he’ll entertain a full ass conversation without lifting his eyes or stopping the movements of his hand. He’s that patient. And wise too, he’s seen so much in his life prob.

You usually stay with him when something upset you. Whether you need advice or just someone who will listen until you’re done, he’s here -mostly because he can’t outright kick you out, but also cause he doesn’t mind. 

If someone is foolish enough to do you wrong he won't uh, slaughter them, but rather make a mental note to check their nominative later and confront them peacefully.

Aka tower over them with his usual glacial aura and let them know they're walking on thin ice.

Not big on physical contact, just a couple of headpats if you do something right. Carries you to bed when you fall asleep somewhere in his office.

Will lend you some books if you’re getting bored, even help you with words you don’t know.

If you're gonna be a Harbinger (the main reason why the Tsaritsa took you in, for sure) you need to be cultured and an expert in different fields. Low-key makes it his mission to hone your already sharp mind. He feels like it's his duty, though no one ordered him to do so.

MIGHT spill some bedtime stories. Just expect a lot of violence and philosophical depth. Don't worry, he'll cut out/soften the most gruesome parts.

Overall understanding and willing to help. His advices are top notch cause he doesn't give you the solution, but rather teaches you how to reach it with the tools you have.

Give it some time to learn his indirect language and he'll go from "zero degrees cold" to "warm blanket around your shoulders during winter" warmth.

9/10 recommended grandpa.

𝐈𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐨 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧

This guy, what to say about this guy

From what Viktor says in his dialogue, I can picture him as a fair person.

Gives credit where’s due, treats well his subordinates. Calm, collected, serious. Kind of like Pierro, but I feel like he could be more vocal and less stoic. 

He’s strong. Duh. Of course. And busy as hell too, given his position as captain. 

So he’s never around because of it, not even when new recruits could use some of his experience. Childe says he doesn’t pay any attention to those who are weaker than him, so you’re even further out of reach.

Can’t see you. Literally, you’re too short.

You’ve probably seen him fight against people he deemed worthy and, yes it was breath-taking. 

He’s not someone who basks in his enemy’s blood, he’s someone who dances with them, keeps them on their toes and then cuts thru like a gust of wind. 

The Tsaritsa eventually asked him to train you a bit once you became old enough to handle weapons, and from what you could see -very little- he didn’t look content, nor bothered.

You, on the other hand, were happy. Until he showed you that no, just because you’re the Tsaritsa’s child he won’t go easy on you. 

It’s not that he’s extremely violent or anything, he does his best to calibrate his strength and follow you step by step, but his stamina is like a thousand times higher than yours and forgets about this most of the time. Will "look" at you confused when you lay on the ground, wheezing, after barely two hours of training.

Struggles a bit when it comes to explain a technique verbally, as he’s not used to fly low and overall teach, but you’re quick and observing his perfect poses and movements is enough to get the job done. 

As time goes by he’ll grow more comfortable in his teacher role. He’d have almost fun sparring with you, and would be secretly proud when he barely escapes one of your new, original moves. Gives you headpats too, but what you really cherish is when he reaches out after kicking your ass again and offers his hand to pull you up from the dirty floor. 

You’ve never seen him doing it with anyone he’s defeated. EVER. 

He’s more like a proud brother sob, that brother who pats your shoulder and sends you flying into the wall /hj

When the curse starts to hinder you physically but you still insist on fighting, he’ll either swoop your ass and threaten to call the Tsaritsa or literally drag all your way thru the HQ to your room.

Poor man is worried :( But when you start to discover the powers that come with this same curse he’ll help you out at the best of his expertise. 

Don’t ever tell him if someone’s pestering you.

Ever.

It won’t be a bloodbath, no. It’ll be EMBARRASSING.

He’s married to the idea that honour comes first and foremost, and he's willing to pull out his 25 slides long PowerPoint to prove how wrong the person's behaviour is.

Just make good use of his teaching and punch the guy's jaw till they can't speak.

Yeah.

Another harbinger you can't really see thru unless you've spent a long time in his company

Don't let his lack of perception kill you, cause he won't realise you're about to melt in your own sweat.

Incapable of being angry. Literally seems too level headed for it. Worst case scenario he'll give you the cold shoulder till he gets the opportunity to clean the floor with your face.

7/10 good brother figure

BROO THIS TOOK ME FOREVER and it's only the first two. But my perfectionist ass can never let it be 🥲 hopefully this will give me the right charge to start the fic fr lmao. Also, lemme know if there are typos, checked this 420 times and still don't trust myself lol

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Curious about the VRChat equality thing

Oh boy time to get into weird shit about how capitalism infects the brain through being able to benefit from it and how despite the stigma, even pirates and communists believe people deserve fair compensation for goods and labor but what is fair is an often debated topic.

So this is going to be a really long post if I'm actually being entirely honest, and as such I will give you a tl;dr up front, however I will say that if all you read is the tl;dr you're going to maybe understand about 15% of the overall situation on this and that's merely because there's no way to explain everything without giving a ton of context and information first and then going into dumb details about it all.

TL;DR essentially people took a model of a communist utopia, learned they could profit from it; and then capitalism took hold and is now destroying not only an entire application through basically micro dosing on micro-transactions, but also through creating extremely hefty barriers of entry to an already expensive hobby that once existed in a way that equalized people.

Now to actually get into the meat and potatoes of what I'm actually talking about here. If you've followed me for any amount of time you likely know the drill by now, I'm putting a "Keep Reading" here to save everyone's dashboards in case you don't already use the feature that automatically scrunches long posts since this is likely going to be pretty hefty as I'm fairly passionate about it and have a lot to say.

I ask that if you've made it this far, and actually clicked the keep reading button; that you stick with me and don't go skipping all over the place. I say this because I'm going to start off pretty boring and seemingly off topic but I promise this is all important for understanding my views on this topic; if you don't agree with me that's totally fine but I ask that you at least try to understand how I'm looking at this from my specific viewpoint.

Point 1 - We are all equal in the eyes of the Internet.

The internet, yea? It's kind of weird to talk about the internet because different people will see it as a different thing. Some of us may see it as nothing more than a collection of data that can be updated, called, and sent between a shared network all over the world. That alone is pretty cool, but others of us may see it as a visible extension of cyberspace. I'm somewhere in the middle myself, I feel as though people ask too much of cyberspace. While I won't get into it here, I have a lot of thoughts on the topic of things like "phantom sense" as VR becomes more of an accessible thing for people, I've found that specific subcultures begin to pop-up, and among them there are people who desperately want Virtual Reality to simply drop the "virtual" and become akin to meatspace.

Now if you're asking me, I personally think that much of the appeal of cyberspace comes specifically from the "cyber" part. Virtual Reality is inherently Virtual and there's nothing actually lesser or wrong about that. People gauge much of Virtual Reality AGAINST Physical Reality, which is dumb. They're both their own reality, why do we want them to be functionally identical, we could make use of so much of what Virtual Reality has to offer if we embrace that it's Virtual. Let's take a quick moment and think about that, what does it mean to be Virtual? To exist within a digital realm?

Well here's a thought experiment for you, let's say I take you and 9 other willing participants and put you all inside different rooms. In these rooms you have nothing but a computer and a desk. On that computer you can access a virtual chat room, there are no profiles, no images or avatars; you merely choose a name to represent yourself and are dropped into a chatroom with 9 other people.

How old are the other participants? Are they around your age group? Are you even aware of their age? Does it matter to you? Did it matter before I asked?

Following this line of thinking, let's look at some other features, are they all the same gender, or different genders? How tall are they? Do they come from a wealthy family? Do they have a job? Are they perhaps disabled at all, in any way? Do they make a lot of money if they do have a job?

I do ask these questions genuinely, so to make this little thought experiment easier to manage let's have you think of this; narrow the number from 10 participants to just 3, you're 1 of them so there are two other people here with you. You cannot physically see them, and everything from their usernames to their appearance is up to your personal interpretation. So I ask you to look over those questions and give them even a baseline answer, it doesn't need to be elaborate; you don't need to give it a lot of thought. You're not making a D&D character with a lengthy backstory. For anyone who said "I'm not doing that" I'll do it as well right here for you, you can ignore this if you wish to do this yourself; I do believe it's important to making my own.

The first other participant other than myself will be an older woman in her late 50s who works as a butcher, she lives a fairly average life; she has a roommate to help pay the bills as she is lower middle class. Even living in a fairly average home, renting no less; she has to save up for any purchases that aren't absolutely necessary for survival.

The other individual I am in this chatroom with is a younger nonbinary individual who claims to be 23, they don't currently have a job as they're studying and attending law school. They come from a wealthy family and while not rich; do enjoy a life as an upper middle class household. Despite their hefty schooling costs they're never short on money to pay for things they want.

Alright cool, now I know who I'm here with; and you know who you're here with, so here's the most important question to ask.

...Does any of that really matter here?

This isn't a deep philosophical conversation, it's a very simple question. Let me elaborate.

Does age define knowledge? Not really, it can help understand something better if you've spent a lot of time with a specific field of study, and yes our brains pick up knowledge better at certain age ranges, but overall it has no real merit over how well we can navigate something. If a 50 year old and a 20 year old are both passionate about learning how to model an avatar, script a code; or exist within a VR space they'll both be able to do so roughly just as well as the other. Sure we're all human and have our own quirks we work through, someone might pick up something far easier than someone else. However the capability to learn is always there.

Does money carry any weight in a digital world? Well, here in this chatroom no. It really doesn't. There's no pay to win system in a social setting like this. Having $1 to my name, or a million doesn't make a difference. I'm not able to see what computers everyone else has, perhaps someone has a really fancy, fast, nice computer; while I'm working with something a little more "run of the mill" but at the end of the day they both access the same internet data.

Things like money, age, physical ability, even social or economic standing; they have no real sway over the virtual. Not unless you account for third party outside influences.

Point 2 - But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge.

So now let's go back to a simpler time on the internet, when VR was still new and we all had to pay upwards of $200 - $300 and even sometimes $400 to strap an oversized projector to our face so we could experience what it's like to have a monitor not even inches from our face. Applications like VRChat were all the rage because most VR applications and games felt more like tech demos, people didn't know how to use the tech yet and most actual home VR headsets were development kits.

VRChat was fairly open source at the time, lending most of it's success to a community building assets, systems, and avatars for their own use within the application.

As with any good open source application a lot of the files and thus the understanding for how things worked were being shared around and people began to notice a pattern as with any form of labor.

Not everyone wanted to put in the time and effort to actually learn. In fact plenty of people who were purchasing VR headsets were fairly wealthy people, sure not everyone; some people got them as gifts or saved up money over the course of a long time; or they'd use large sum of money given during tax returns or holidays as a means to purchase a VR headset while they were on sale.

However yes, a lot of people had a lot of money sitting around and wouldn't mind throwing a couple bucks your way if you were willing to go through the trouble of making them an avatar, world; or asset.

Now, this isn't anything bad on the surface; but it poisoned the well and it began the conflict.

"So you're saying artists commissioned work is bad and it should all be free and artists should starve." Only as much as I'm saying we should piss on the poor. Which is to say, no I'm not saying that; but if you jumped on that train immediately I don't blame you for thinking I'm going there, but bear with me.

As time went on and we developed more and more for VRchat's main engine; we also developed tools like Udon; a scripting language made for VRChat specifically. The ways in which we could customize avatars, worlds, and even assets was ever changing and it seemed like it was only getting more and more complex.

So what happened? Did people provide tools, lessons; and understanding to those around them in hopes there were others who would pick up the knowledge and create brilliant things to continue the ever exponential progress?!

No. Well yes, but mostly no. See some people did in fact provide easy to follow tutorials! You can find plenty out there, at least for basic things; but many saw the chance to really make a point with this.

A point that they understood the system, and you did not.

A point that you were better off paying them for the things they know and you don't.

A point that you should never question them, and that if you fuck up it's your own fault and maybe next time you'll listen.

If you think I'm exaggerating you should consider yourself lucky to have not come face to face with the truly disgusting underbelly of asset sales.

See I don't mind selling goods and services; I am an artist myself and I believe fair compensation is important! If someone likes what you're selling and deems it a fair price that's great, that's a win win; everyone's happy.

However what if the person purchasing your wares doesn't understand their value?

Asset flipping is something we see a lot of, done entirely legally through fair use mind you. People will buy assets along with their commercial license, and then quickly and easily slap those assets onto an amalgamation of other cheap gimmicks only to sell the new model at a profit from it's component parts.

"But that's how things are sold Cryptid, what's so weird about that?"

Well, okay let's look at how sales in physical space works right?

If I buy a single banana, and that costs me $1; then to turn a profit I'll need to sell it for something like $1.25 this is literally just because once you buy my banana, I don't have any more bananas to sell.

So if I sell the banana for $1 I'm at a net neutral, I don't have the ability to generate any additional funds off the single banana I've bought. So let's say I buy 4, I sell each for 1.25 and all 4 sell, now I can buy an additional 1 and I've only made .25 cents.

Well shit, it looks like I need to hike the price by a decent margin if I'm actually going to make any sort of sustainable income from selling bananas right?

But what happens if we say, I have 1 banana that generates infinite bananas. I bought my infinite banana generator for $25 + Tax. Now I could say I want to sell my bananas for $30 because I had to pay $25 to get this one.

However, I can also make infinite bananas, and if my bananas are good quality; they should sell out; or at least sell a decent amount. So rather than pricing a single banana higher than the original price, I should logically sell my bananas a lot cheaper; let's say I sell them for a simple $1.25 same as before. Once I've sold about 20-ish bananas I'll have not only made my money back, but I'll likely have made a small bit of profit.

"But Cryptid, you could have made way more from selling even one single banana at $30! Why gamble on 20 people buying a banana instead of just selling the one!?"

Because if I sell my banana at $30, but you can buy an infinite banana generator for only $25, what's stopping you... wait... what's stopping you from-

No. Hold on you don't know how it works! You couldn't possibly use the banana generator like I can!

NO DON'T GO LOOKING AT THE SOURCE SALES, SURE I LEGALLY HAVE TO CREDIT THE BANANA GENERATOR BUT-

Listen to me it's a very difficult device to understand! You don't have the years of understanding I do! You should pay me instead! You'll only fuck it up! You'll WASTE YOUR MONEY if you buy it from the original creator!

IT'S ME BOY THE PS5!-

Ahem, sorry I got a little sidetracked there. My point with all of this is how digital sales work far differently given that I'm not actually giving up any resources when I make a sale, the product is infinite; and I could sell it over and over again. So selling it for less than it's component parts is essentially saving my buyers some money over buying each individual part and putting it together themselves. I save them time as well since I'd likely have put together all the shaders, blend trees for emotes, menus and submenus for toggles- oh no... hold on why is that still pink? OH MOTHERFUC-

Point 3 - Missing and Outdated scripts, assets, shaders, and best of all fear mongering!

See a big part of this whole sales concept for virtual good comes from the idea that if I sell you an avatar, world, or asset; I'm selling you a completed product. Something I devoted my time and expertise to that you may not have to devote to it. So then what happens when I no longer allow you to contact me for support, and half the product is missing? Well there's no refund policy on the website I use so uh, tough.

This is unfortunately very common. Outdated scripts never being updated while assets still remain up for sale with scripts in them that will absolutely DESTROY your project unless you specifically dedicate time to going through your files with not only an understanding of what each file controls, but also the surgical precision to remove the files in such a way that doesn't accidentally trigger a chain reaction.

Because believe it or not, most of the avatars, worlds, and assets for sale are not ACTUALLY quality made models.

"But Cryptid, the artist sets the price and the consumer deems it fair when they purchase the goods!"

Correct! However, at what point do we argue for false advertisement?

Not only are many of the avatars, worlds; and assets for sale priced at insane prices (we're talking upwards up $150 - $460 for some) but most of these avatars, worlds, and assets do not disclose important information about their products that consumers should be allowed to know prior to purchase. Like how in some cases a file is so big that it can take more than 2 real life days of uninterrupted loading and then still crash unity. Enjoy your $460 world map that doesn't have active support, says you're shit out of luck if you fuck up importing it at all; and doesn't actually load because don't forget, there's no refund policy.

So let's say an avatar, world, or asset DOES actually import correctly.

Once you get through all the fear mongering about how you need to import the model, and no I'm not joking; people are openly lying in their readme files to scare people into following useless instructions.

i.e according to one readme if you import the shaders after the avatar your entire project will become corrupt beyond saving and you'll need to restart from scratch. In reality shaders automatically update if a model calls for them; so importing the shader at any point would simply just update the model to use the correct shaders. In that same vein let's address "YOU NEED TO START A NEW PROJECT, DO NOT IMPORT THIS AVATAR INTO AN EXISTING PROJECT OR IT WILL FUCK UP AND I WILL NOT HELP YOU" guess what? I tested it, like any other avatar/model importing the unity package at any point in the project just, you know; imports it.

I have also heard stories of people saying there are scripts in the unity files that can corrupt your computer's core files if you don't follow their instructions SPECIFICALLY, which A. isn't true; and B. why are you selling what you basically call a potential trojan?

So anyways, once you get through all the fear mongering about how you clearly can't do anything on your own (literally one of the readmes had a link to visit the site that tells you how to log into your account. For reference/context you're not even allowed to get to this point and upload an avatar/world until you've logged into VRChat and been an active user for about a week. They talk down to you and treat you like you're stupid because they rely on you NEEDING them to tell you exactly how to navigate this "super scary" application otherwise you wouldn't pay them upwards of $80 for a model they basically took from other people and used a plugin to glue together.) You can now look over your avatar/world, since you've managed to do the unthinkable and import a unity asset pack correctly!

Not all assets are made equal, and I think it's very important to understand that while yes the artist and consumer enter into an agreement over price that they both deem fair; it's important to understand how capitalism comes in many forms.

In this case I've noticed that Gumroad recycles almost all of their assets from other people on the website, and their models are extremely sub par when you compare them with far cheaper models on Booth. While some Gumroad shops do link back to their Booth counterparts, a lot seem to want this to remain a eldritch knowledge.

So on the off chance everything just works, you're good to go; congratulations I genuinely hope you enjoy your likely overpriced avatar because ultimately that's what matters, if you're happy with what you paid for then there's no harm done.

However in more cases than I care to admit, the readme will tell you to go buy various other plugins and asset packs to make the thing you just bought work.

Now as an example of how to do this right, and it's still shitty; but at least I think it's done right. There's a fishing system for sale that directly mentions in it's website based description that you'll need two other asset packs, those both being linked. Here's the hard part to justify though, for the system itself is about $23 after conversion, the other two asset packs are respectively $50 and $10, so in total something you thought would only be $23 is about $83 if you want it to actually be functional.

Now again in that case everything is listed on the website clear as day and this is at least generally how I see things being listed which is okay with me. However I've seen more cases than I care to admit where this information is advertised as "this avatar has XYZ" and then in the readme says "you'll need to purchase XYZ from [User] to get the XYZ system working!" So now we have false advertisement AND hidden fees?!

When avatars can cost more than $250 and not be a unique model of your own OC or something commissioned and still be missing additional features, sometimes shaders; which require a monthly patreon subscription to access. Only to then see that the avatar/world/asset comes with a ton of stipulations and regulations of use? It's all very hard to figure out what "fair" is anymore.

It may just be my opinion, but when someone sells me something I expect it to be a complete thing that I then own, not something I'm not "legally allowed to edit" or that isn't entirely completed and that I'd need to go purchase additional things for.

Important reminder here, all of this is for a VR application where you just kinda vibe and hang out in a virtual space. People are happy to pay expensive prices for good quality, but few people are willing to deliver good quality; fewer without a ton of rules and restrictions.

Literally not but a week ago my partner was looking at an avatar that specifically said VIEWING the blend shapes was "breaking terms of service" so that's cool. For the record blend shapes are literally just adjustable values most people use for editing an avatar without needing to mess with the mesh. It allows you to hide parts of the avatar so that clothing will fit over the mesh without clipping, or lets you easily adjust face shape to better manage your expressions or facial features.

Can we also quickly touch on the fact that I was helping a friend edit something on their avatar, and found out that the person they bought it from had positioned an entire 3D watermark of their username inside the head of the model which;

they bought the base from someone else. they bought the clothing from someone else. they bought the gimmicks and additional features from someone else. All they did was actually slap it all together.

"Yea but that takes effort" no it really doesn't see that's the thing about Avatar creation, the more you know the less any of this makes sense!

There's a plugin called Modular Avatar, it basically does all the work for you, all you have to do is select the clothing, hair, whatever you want to add to your model; right click it and select modular avatar's "setup outfit" button. It then manages all the bones for you!

This person put more effort into branding the model than they put into putting the avatar together!

I know this because while working on adding one thing to the model, one of it's core outdated scripts fucked up and caused a bunch of issues that we managed to work around by literally never allowing the avatar to enter play mode. Which makes it significantly harder to work with, so we're using two variations of the same project open at the same time, one of which is entirely fucked; but lets us nab values from the avatar while it's in play mode; the other can never enter play mode and must continue to contain a broken and outdated script; because removing it causes the blendshapes to entirely fuck up.

This would be like if I went to google images, found a bunch of pictures of anime characters; slapped one of their heads on another ones body, took another one's hair and slapped it over top, poorly merged all the layers together and then aggressively plastered my signature on it while also totally admitting where I got all the art.

Now I do admit there's a little bit of weird grey area here, see no one is commissioning these avatars; they're just up for sale. So someone who buys it is saying they feel like purchase of this avatar as it is, is entirely fair for the price. Whether or not that's true is besides the point because you could argue that the buyer wasn't forced to pay for something if they didn't want it.

But like, let's do a quick simulation...

Hi welcome to my Gumroad shop, $30 please.

What do you mean you do not want... uh... Shipiku my totally original avatar I made (with assets from other creators) for like $30?! HE HAS GIMMICKS.

...Okay yea looking at that image is physically painful to me, I have created something truly horrific. We should move on, to my favorite part of all of this which is-

Point 4 - The Eroticism Elitist-ism of the Machine!

With the Oculus Quest being a more budget friendly VR Headset for people to pick up more and more people got into VR and thus VRChat by extension. So how did VRChat respond? By making the Unplugged Quest basically the standard for "good quality" which means that a ton of worlds and avatars just won't be accessible to the VR equivalent of taping a chromebook to your face; and yet that will be the new norm. This created a pretty sizable divide in how things function. Now you have a camp of people who refuse to even permit entry to their private worlds unless your avatar is rated "good" because of "performance issues" but why would they care about cramming so many people into their world?

Oh... it's because they are monetizing access. Yea, of course they want everyone to have access to their world, the only way to get in is to know someone who's already in, or sleuth around until you find their discord; then you need to boost their discord and more often than not pay either micro-transactions inside VRChat (because that's a thing now) or pay directly through patreon/donations to the world creator.

On the other hand you have some creators who outright refuse to let quest users access their world. Even though technically the world is optimized enough that a quest user COULD access the world, there are scripts that have been implemented into various worlds that are outright hostile towards quest users, where if it detects you're using a oculus quest headset that isn't plugged into a computer; you'll essentially not be able to interact with the world. There are many ways this is accomplished, in some cases it's literally just having hostile entities that cause you to constantly respawn, other times it's more directly just moving your spawn point to a box way off the map so you're effectively locked behind a prison you can't respawn out of.

As you can imagine there's a good bit of elitism on both sides. Which yes, is just another way people are gatekeeping VR behind a paywall. Not only do you need an expensive headset, but you better buy "the right one" not to mention you'll likely want to/need to pick up full body tracking, and pay a considerable entry fee or upkeep fee to a good handful of private worlds.

"but Cryptid, people are allowed to charge for access to things they create, that's just business!" Yea I'm not saying it's not allowed, I'm saying it's shitty.

I don't insert these blurbs as though I feel like you, the reader; are ALWAYS aggressively saying these things while reading my post. I put these here because they're things I've been told before, and they're things I want to address. So please understand that these aren't hypothetical cases of arguments in my head; nor are they meant to project any personality onto you.

That in mind, let's address this; I'm not saying people aren't allowed to seek capital investment in their hobbies. Obviously as a streamer I would love if people donated to me. However this is more akin to locking my streams behind a paywall, again; totally legal and totally allowed but still kind of a dick move. Why do I have so much problem with it? Well let me explain it this way

I work at an escape room, my CEO once asked my manager what the difference between a group of 7 and a group of 2 was. My manager confidently responded "we make more money from a group of 7" to which the CEO corrected him "no, there is no difference. We do not use any more or less resources, we don't take more time to reset the room; there is no difference." We have also been asked if a group of 2, and a group of 7 come in at the same time; who do we prioritize? The answer? Whoever booked first.

What's the core concept here? Well it's a simple ideology, if we don't use any resources hosting a group, there is no difference between groups; if someone took the time to book with us earlier, we see to them earlier. It's basic logic that we take into account the care that someone has put into being here, and also what we lose in providing them the service of our escape room.

So let's apply this to a private VRChat world.

Remember, VRChat hosts these servers, so I'm not paying any upkeep costs for having an active world. Considering how scripts and programming work I have little need to pay someone to monitor or moderate my world; especially considering I do not take responsibility for the acts of those who visit my world.

Then what is the difference between a private and a public instance of my world?

Well, I'll tell you because there actually IS a difference here.

See private worlds have two very special properties.

Public display, whether streamed to an audience or done in a public world; of any NSFW imagery or behavior will result in a ban. The important take away here is if this is done in PUBLIC. Private worlds and instances are exempt from this. VRChat doesn't care what you do in private as long as it's not being streamed publicly.

Likewise, Private worlds require access to be granted via someone already in the world, and the only people who can access the private world are it's creators. Meaning that if someone wants into my world they HAVE to go through me. If I make it public, then anyone is allowed to access the world, and even host their own private instances of my world. There's one more thing about this that people don't like but we'll get into that a bit later because that's going to be a pretty lengthy discussion.

So what IS the difference? Is it just that you can partake in NSFW shit in a private world? Well, kind of; but it's more that second point that's important.

People understand that VRChat as a whole is a very, let's just say passionate place when it comes to ERP. I have no judgement on the topic, but I think the exploitation of it is a bit unnecessary. By which I mean the hosting of private worlds designed specifically to be clubs, sex parties, or otherwise exclusive NSFW events that people must pay to access. Now obviously any NSFW world is going to be private, but not all require the use of financial compensation to access.

If you're wondering how I know all this:

A. I frequent NSFW communities, my side gig is literally adult animation. Who cares. B. I have a lot of friends who participate in that sort of thing, I personally live with my partner and while I do understand the appeal of that sort of thing, it doesn't really interest me.

Regardless, it's not exclusive to NSFW worlds, more so that those are the ones I've seen asking extreme prices.

More often than not it's done through patreon, you are given a special role in a discord or you're given access to secret worlds if you pay enough monthly, with some worlds stating that for $100+ a month you can have your picture in the world. Yes, a picture; of your avatar; in an exclusive paywalled world... for $100.

Again I know this goes back to "if the consumer and the seller deem it fair blah blah blah" but if you're still arguing that, you're missing the grander point here.

If that's the case allow me a moment to try to make sense of a summary:

the internet is a place where we leave behind any inequality; a place where you and I, no matter our background, financial situations; or social standing, are equals. We bear no difference in status; only in interests. That is, unless I have access to parts of the internet you do not.

So you pay $499.99 for a headset, congratulations; you had to get a cheaper model because it's what you could afford. Now you're the target of much harassment and general dislike as you bought "the wrong headset" without consideration for how you'd be treated for it. You can't access much of the virtual net, so you decide to spend even more money to buy a few accessories; a cable that will link you directly to your computer for example (or better wifi if you use the wifi link, which yes; good internet also costs money and isn't available to everyone depending on their location. Again it's inequality.)

Now you blend in, you appear to be a PC user like anyone else, congratulations you now have access to almost just about everything, except you don't. You try to join me in a world only to see I'm in a "private instance" and my social obligations say I'm not allowed to answer your invitation request because you didn't pay to be here. I send you a discord link, it's to some random group you've never heard of, you need to join this if you want access to this one world. You can live without it, so you don't click it.

The next day you see I'm again, in a private world. You go to a few public worlds and find they're mostly populated by younger children, random people who don't want to talk to you; and most only have 1 - 2 people, with most instances of even the popular worlds being set to private. So what do you do? You ask to join me, and I again; send you a different link this time. A patreon link, that states you can gain access to the world I'm in for $10 a month, payment up front; and then you'll need to get approved through a discord.

Oh but you can't show up like this, your avatar quality is "poor" you'll need to optimize that. Looking it up online most people say to buy something off Gumroad or Booth, so you look; most avatars are extremely sexualized; the ones you can find aren't "good" quality nor are they optimized and some are outdated by a few years.

Eventually you find one that's not horrible; it's an extra $25. At this point you're paying the following, grabbing these numbers directly from the internet mind you:

$499.99 for a headset. $79.99 for a link cable (it doesn't even charge the headset) $24.99 for an avatar that is allowed on the world. $10 a month for access to the world. Oh but wait, you're not assured a slot in the private world; it can only support up to 30 people per instance and if you want to reserve a spot you need to boost the discord server, so let's tack on nitro as well, and extra $9.99 per month.

Even if you only do these as a one time payment to access this world once. Here's what you're out, in total: $624.96 before even factoring in taxes.

All of this, so you can experience a few hours of hanging out with a friend. Well, was it worth it? Let's see;

In America, the average hourly wage (not minimum, average) across all 50 states is $29.81 as of December 2020. You can look that up if you'd like I found this number via Indeed so grain of salt and all that.

But let's go ahead and say it's $30 an hour. Now for the record, most people I know work for far less, but we're not concerning ourselves with minimum wage just yet, but we will.

So if you're making $30 an hour, and you need to reach a total of (again rounding to be fair here) $625 and we're not accounting for tax eating half your pay, we're looking at:

((30 an hour * 8 hours per day) * 5 days a week)

or 240*5 = $1200 a week.

Well hey that's not so bad! You make enough in a WEEK to almost buy this all twice o-oh no. I didn't think about cost of living...

Well no this is fine let's just check the average rent!

A quick internet search will tell us "The average rent for an apartment in the U.S. is $1,718."

Well... okay, that sucks. How much is gas right now? Right okay well Forbes says "today's average price of gas in the U.S. is $3.47 per gallon" and I need about 30 gallons per tank, and I need to get gas about twice a month, I live about 15 minutes from my work and I drive a fairly fuel efficient car but that's still roughly $208 I'm spending on gas each month.

What about groceries? Again a quick search says "on average, Americans spent $779 per month on food in 2022" which means we're looking at, without even factoring in utilities, taxes, or ANY leisure activities a grand total of roughly $2,705 per month?!

This mind you, is the AVERAGE. We're low balling some of those prices and not even caring about taxes, fees, and utilities.

But hey it's okay we're making 1,200 per week! So we take that number and multiply it by 4! That means before taxes we're left with 4,800!

Hey speaking of, how does that work? Let's do another average!

Well it turns out because of how taxes work averages are hard, but I'm seeing that about 13.3% is a safe bet, so let's go with that.

13.3% of 4800 = 0.133 × 4800 = 638.4

okay, that's not TOO bad right? That leaves us with 4161.6 and then we can pay the monthly costs which leaves us with $1,456.6

Alright so now we can afford rent, gas, groceries, taxes, the works! Plus we have enough left over to pay for our fancy headset, an avatar, and access to a world, plus nitro and... jesus that's a lot isn't it?

What are we left with after all of this? $831.64

I sure hope you don't have any student loans, no credit card payments; no other obligations.

You're left with less money for the month than you made in a day of work.

"Okay sure, but the bulk of that comes from the headset!" Correct again!

One of the cheaper headsets available at that!

But did you notice that the average person would only be able to scrape by if they went out of their way to purchase something and jump through all these hoops? All for what? Paying an extra roughly $45 (20 of which renews every month) for basic access to the thing they bought the $500 headset for? That's considering the avatar you bought was actually only $25, actually still functional; and has everything included with it.

I won't make us run all the numbers again, but I want you to consider that minimum wage in America is $7.25 or just $290 before tax PER WEEK.

Let's contextualize that...

an avatar that costs $25? That's 3.44 hours. $10 access to patreon? 1.37 Tack on another 1.37 for nitro boosting.

Total cost for that $45? 6.18 hours of work before tax.

Now if you're lucky enough to have a full time job, that's not TOO bad; but this is also just for one singular world. For one singular avatar.

Remember, the cost of living stays the same; the price of gas doesn't change just because you don't get paid as much as the guy at the pump over from yours.

Working at minimum wage you'll make $1,160 a month again; before taxes. That's not even enough to cover the average cost of rent.

So if you don't make enough money to splurge on patreon and discord access, I guess you're just going to have to stick to public lobbies.

Again, it's possible; and it's legal, and that's all fine and whatever.

It's not about whether you CAN; it's about whether you should HAVE TO.

Not only is it true that not everyone can, but I genuinely don't believe anyone should have to.

It's not that I don't believe people should be paid for their hard work, or that some work doesn't "deserve compensation" rather I believe equality extends to things like paywalls.

There have been studies that prove that piracy drops the second people can afford a product. Using a piracy as a "try before you buy" format is one of the most popular; and we see this being so prevalent because for so many people, money is just so tight they can't afford the luxury of leisure activities.

Technically speaking you can access VRChat without the need for a VR Headset, however most worlds are designed around the headset and hand controls. Furthermore, arbitrary rules being held by people with private worlds allow creators to literally make the demand that you use a VR Headset and in some cases you'll not be allowed in the main instance of a private event unless you have full body tracking; which can cost upwards from $300+

Which yes, does in fact mean that gatekeeping doesn't just stop at the paywall, it extends to the disabled.

Imagine if you will, being turned away from a private event that you paid money to go to; just because of the fact you happen to be in a wheelchair and not have the ability to use leg tracking. You love to see ableism slipping into "quality control" don't ya?

Okay so what all do we know now? Let's quickly recap before I get to my last point because boy is this one gonna be a doozy and I want to make sure we're all on the same page before I break that ice and dive into that iceberg never to be heard from again.

For starters we understand that, as far as the internet is concerned; we're all equals. Money, social standing; even your background don't really mean anything here. You're an identity you put forward, allowed to be whoever and whatever you want. Chatrooms, forums, blogs, video games; these things DO but shouldn't; gatekeep their communities by putting up paywalls quite often. This is generally frowned upon more often than it's not, even when it's understood.

We know even when a company states they need to charge membership for the sake of keeping a game running or keeping a website up; we still frown upon the idea of a company gatekeeping content or usability behind a paywall. Yet in spaces like VRChat this gatekeeping is often disguised behind the idea of fair market trading and "supporting indie developers" which in some cases, is actually what's going on, and in others is sleazy cover from the likes of people like me who will point out when putting up a paywall and making demands of your users is, while totally legal and technically allowed; STILL just as shitty.

Which brings us to our next point, which is that even among that market; we have extremely overpriced and broken avatars, worlds, and assets; many of which don't come as a complete package requiring you to obtain other goods and services from other creators to get them working; most of what you can find is a jumbled mess of other people's stuff, haphazardly thrown together and thrown at you for a quick buck, a typically overpriced quick buck at that. With extremely predatory fear mongering designed to keep you from exploring unity and the VRChat Creator Companion to possibly find out how to do things yourself, because remember that this is all absolutely just wizard magic and if you fuck it up your computer will catch on fire and open a portal to hell and then slenderman will come out and Jeff the kill you! Or... you might need to restart unity or something, yea that's more likely... Oh and speaking of actually using VRChat!

Most of the actual populated worlds are hidden behind discords, patreons; or other paywalls. With most public worlds including additional features only available via patreon or by purchasing a subscription through in app micro-transactions. With costs for something as simple as having your picture presented in a world costing as much as $100 per month in same cases. If you attempt to go the route of using the non-VR app you'll likely face elitist gatekeeping where map creators do not want "ugly default posing avatars" in their private worlds they charge people to get into, so you'll still not be let in unless you buy a proper headset, and no; they don't mean the cheap ones, unless you're willing to purchase an additional attachment to make it function just like the $1,000 alternatives. Even then you may STILL be kept from the "main" instance if you don't have additional $300+ full body tracking in some cases.

So then, what do you do?

If you want to enjoy the absolute brilliance of VR in the modern era, if you want to see what it's like and experience it before capitalism chokes even more life out of it where are you to turn?

Point 5 - AHOY! WE BE COMMUNIST PIE RATERS ON THIS HERE INTERNET, TAKE YOUR CAPITALISTIC ASS BACK TO YOUR 9-5!

I have never seen such hatred and fear for anything like I have for piracy in the VRChat community.

Now this might largely stem from the idea of "rippers" people who literally rip assets live, this is why a lot of people won't put their worlds up for the public. Because they fear someone will come along and just reupload their world; and I think that's really silly because if you pay attention, it happens and it doesn't change anything because the people who are actually going to publicly available worlds continue to access the same publicly available worlds they've been going to, rather than reuploads. Most people use favorites lists or find a world through a creator, so reuploading the world will only really fool maybe a small handful of new first time users into maybe actually spending some money on a micro-transaction for a reuploaded world. Which can easily be remedied by getting rid of micro-transactions and instead maybe relying on a direct donation system if anything.

People are very up in arms about people ripping avatars and assets; and the reasons for this branch from "that's stealing" to "it's a violation of someone's personal identity!" Which sure, I can understand that somewhat.

So here's the other thing to consider, the majority of models; including "unique models" are actually just pretty simple edits or whatever of existing models.

You may not believe me, so here's a quick example:

Popular Vtuber and Twitch personality Filian!

Great model, absolutely stellar work on this one; and I am not joking, I'm not being sarcastic. Yea, I love Jingo's work... what? You thought Filian made that herself? Oh no wait you likely thought it was commissioned right? Like she had this made specific for her?

Nah she's using a Rindo base!

AND THAT'S NOT A BAD THING!

JINGO is a great avatar maker, and Filian has done some minor edits to the $46 avatar:

Oh huh? Yea no you heard me correctly, Rindo is only $46 USD.

She comes with a few toggles for outfits, she has plenty of blendshapes (and JINGO won't yell at you for adjusting them), she even comes with her own custom emojis and voice clips! Really easy to edit features and tons of clothing that is very affordable you can easily set up using modular avatar.

If you're not a fan of her base, you could use a Moe, or maybe a Selestia base fits you better, or a Kikyo; oh you want a male avatar? Try Minase he's pretty good as a base, he's the male counterpart of the female base; Shinra! All of these base models come complete with everything you need baked right in, or if they do need a shader; it's entirely free for download and the link is provided; the prices for these? Roughly range around $50 entirely affordable, easily editable; you can make your own entirely unique avatar right now using any of these as a base.

"Cryptid I thought you were talking about Rippers! Where's the PIRACY!"

Oh well, do you remember what I said before? When you make something affordable people will still buy it. There's a ton of places where these models are available for download whether or not you wish to buy them from their proper respective shops. However most people I've spoken to admit they go back and purchase the base after making their model with it because "it's affordable, a fair price for what you're getting; and the bases are very good quality!" Couldn't agree more.

But I also say this because if we humor the idea that someone rips Filian's avatar, what do they really get? They get a free Rindo with minor changes. They didn't hurt Filian, they hurt JINGO if anything; and even then "piracy is a victimless crime" applies here as well.

I will say I don't really endorse the idea of ripping things live, but the idea that live ripping is any different than piracy is also a little silly if I'm being honest.

When you build a 10 foot paywall to entry, people are going to build an 11 foot ripping tool to get over it. That IS the internet, and I wouldn't care if there wasn't such a big stink about rippers and piracy in general when it came to VRChat.

There's this idea that if you pirate something you're stealing from a small indie creator uwu and that's bad because now they can afford to eat because you were greedy! Or this concept that by pirating something and using it on your avatar, in a world; even if they'll never know, even if you're only using the models privately, you have in some way violated their privacy and commit identity theft.

As someone who has actually been the victim of identity theft multiple times, let me tell you right now, unless someone uses my avatar to specifically open another 5 Verizon accounts in my name I don't really care.

This is the only time in my life I've seen the internet HATE piracy so fervently and it made me wonder why; until I recognized that the loudest people were in the readmes of those gumroad avatars, the loudest voices weren't the creators of popular bases or models like Rindo, Kikyo, or Selestia; they were people on gumroad who fear monger and spread this message that "if you didn't pay for this avatar I will block you from my discord, ban you from ever accessing my world, and you'll never be able to buy from me again!" Like okay man I'll just go directly to the source you buy everything from get over yourself, guess I won't give you money for another overpriced avatar with awful optimization then.

When I listen to the way people talk about piracy in VRChat it's never seen as a victimless crime, it's never seen as being a normal thing the internet does, it's seen as a vile, evil; horrible soulless act of devilish greed! But they all share a common word that being "my" or "your" when people talk about it they say "yea rippers will reupload YOUR world without any care" or "yea someone took MY asset and reuploaded it on a file sharing site"

It's personal.

"Okay what about you Cryptid wouldn't you be mad if-" No.

Let me make this abundantly clear, if I ever made something for VRChat, an avatar, a world, whatever. I don't care what it is; if I made something and I put it out there on a site for like $5 and then I saw it on a website with someone saying "hey does anyone have this? I want it buy I can't afford it/don't want to pay for it." I am NOT fucking with you, I would simply answer the post myself and say "yea here ya go, if you need any help getting it set up let me know; I made it. If you ever feel like tossing me a donation or tip I'd appreciate it but don't worry if you can't afford it."

BECAUSE THAT'S COMMUNISM BAY-BEE.

I have, in the past; and even now, benefit from piracy. I'm pretty sure most people have. The only way I will ever listen to someone tell me piracy is wrong and bad and evil, is if they have literally NEVER benefit from any form of piracy, communism, or sharing of files and information; and even then I will simply understand that their opinion comes from a place of privilege.

I don't at all find it surprising that most of the people complaining about rippers and pirates come from:

Countries with good economies where they can actually afford shit (such as Norway)

Sites where they're allowed to sell the models at an extreme premium and offer no refund policy.

And that my friends, is just the tip of the iceberg of shit that goes on in Virtual Reality spaces regarding paywalling; gatekeeping, and general capitalistic bullshit.

Remember, piracy is all well and good when it benefits me, but if you want to take what I'm selling for significantly too much money, you're a soulless vile creature and I will make sure everyone knows it!

^ That's sarcasm if anyone out there has the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension.

I'm going to go eat a burger and touch grass.

[silverynight]

Idea: Each of the Hashira are sent on the same mission, mainly because this mission shows major signs of either Muzan, or at least the upper moons, being in the area. When they get there though, it's a trap, and before they know it....it's 2-3 years...in the past?! They're majorly confused....they have their memories? Second thought-Tanjirou! Especially Giyu, after the initial shock, is racing to see if he's at the estate...but of course he isn't. He's back home. Cue Giyu, the others behind him, racing to see if they can see Tanjirou, and with any luck, maybe even save his family. They're unsure how or why they're in the past, but maybe they could use it to their benefit! Anyway, they arrive at his village, searching for him. It's starting to get dark, which only spurs them on when- "Are you lost?" Tanjirou. He's staring at them, younger as well, his hair long and up as he carries his now empty basket from selling charcoal all day. The hashira can't lie-meeting him like this somehow only makes them fall harder. Until...."Tanjirou, youre not heading back up the mountain, are you? Get in here. It's getting dark and it's dangerous. Quickly!" Saburo exclaims. Tanjirou looks to the Hashira, putting up his hand and looking at Saburo. "Ah-I need to get back to my family. Though, I think these people here may not have a place to stay if...." Tanjirou peeks back at them. "You can all stay, but you're not going up that mountain! Not with what comes out at night." I'm curious to what the Hashira would do, considering they know it's Muzan who killed his family....and also, Tanjirou has no recollection of who they are, or that demons even exist.

They would definitely try to save his family, because they love him. They would make something up so he stays with Saburo and go on their way towards the mountain.

However (since I like happy endings) they do end up killing or at least stopping Muzan and saving Tanjirou's family.

So Tanjirou goes back home in the morning and finds his mother and siblings happily chatting with the nine strangers he met the night before.

They all have breakfast together and Nezuko explains what happened to Tanjirou; he feels guilty for not being there and protecting his family himself, but at the same time grateful with the strangers.

He bows in front of them and asks them if he can give them something in return and of course Tengen can't help himself so he blurts out: "Your hand in marriage!"

Kie doesn't like the idea, but before she can say anything Tanjirou replies: "Of course!" Even though he's a little bit flustered and part of him thinks they're joking.

But Kie's like: "No. But you can come pay him a visit whenever you want and maybe... eventually, you can start courting him."

She can tell they love him so much already (they're so bad at being subtle) but she doesn't know why. It's so weird to her to see them so in love with her Tanjirou already because they just met him.

But she knows they're good people and they just saved her family so she's willing to give them a chance.

Which is all they want.

#demon slayer #anonymous #asks #ask silverynight

[dez-wade]

Blue team stans yesterday: Fucked that team red was killing afk players.

The afk players:

Missa: typing in chat not long before he was killed asking to kill Foolish, not alone and with a teammate when he was killed, people argue whether he was typing or afk.

Bagi: Straight up not afk, trying to talk to Cellbit with her sword out.

Blue team fans today: if anyone says anything negative about team Blue today they suck.

I haven't seen a lot of neg about team Blue, did see a whole lot about team red from team Blue the past two wins. Not even just complaining about the fandom (valid). Complaining about the last second submission. About them 'villainising' poor innocent BBH who has repeatedly spawn camped them. About them killing 'afk' players. As soon as they are winning complaining is wrong. I hope BBH gets kicks out of OT. I hope people stop trusting him after this. I hope blue team isn't the cursed team. I hope it is green. I hope the server turns on him /lore. I hope Philza heals his relationships with green team. Would be nice to see if he could hang out with Forever and everyone. I hope this alliance lasts a little longer. And things get worse for blue. I hope BBH means they can't ally with anyone and no one trusts them.

I know how easy it is to get heated up with this event and with BBH (believe me, I've been there) but try to take a step back and see it in a more logical approach.

As Etoiles says "Hate the game, not the player". RP wise, Dapper told BBH "Run over whoever you need to win" and he took it to the heart. He's desperate to have his kid, he was never a very sane individual. But his kid gone, a chance to get him back, and being at the disadvantage of being a single parent I'm actually not surprised that he did all that. If he was allowed to do worse he would.

Thankfully the admins already patched spawn killing and last minute contract strategies and hopefully they'll keep balancing to be even better.

RP wise I do agree that it would be interesting if that makes a dent with his non-blue team relationships because a lot of them never see him being so ruthless and so evil, he always could get away by his "I'm just a little guy" facade, and this event clearly shown his true colors.

I don't think he'll be kicked out of the Order though because the leader is an insane cannibal who'd definitely kill a bunch of people if that translated to Minecraft skills (maybe not spawn killing though) and he was already going on a murder spree back on the island. So I think he'll be forgiven in this front, especially because he's doing all for Dapper.

I think it's completely valid to hate qBBH guts this event, and hell you can hate cc!BBH too as long as you don't try to spread negativity.

Red definitely wants his blood though, so I can totally see them doing their best to aid green so Etoiles and Roier, who also are itching to kill him, can get his ass. Red already has huge BBH paranoia.

I'm not sure if it'll happen today (or tomorrow?) because the event dynamics of protecting the egg, so that maybe will unite people because the eggs were something that always did it. Or maybe they're not willing to give away their win because of concern for the egg they'll get. Because there's no way they're not getting attached. NO WAY.

But regardless I'm curious how this is going to affect relationships in the future.

#i hope people can separate the game from reality and just appreciate having a crazy villain being ruthless evenwith an “honorable” intention #because if it gets 2 you and u spread negativity 2 the point the cc is discouraged it will be shitty to everyone including your favorite ccs #qsmp discourse #bbh neg #the tags saying “you” is people mad at bbh and soulfire in general not to you specifically anon

[greypetrel]

☮️ friendship headcanons for all! 💗

Hullo! :3

Thanks for asking!

Tis the prompt list

☮ - friendship headcanon

Alyra: She'll actively ask you about your special interest, about your life and hobbies. She'll make questions. For practical reasons -the better she knows you, the better she can assign tasks to you, the better she can provide for you- and just for sheer curiosity. It's not the easiest thing to enter in her good graces -and she will look at actions, not at words-, but after that... She's curious if she has an interest in one person, and pretty open minded. Her relationship with Leliana started the rockiest, she heard her presentation speech and was all but impressed. She started to make questions just to know what to make of "a nun with hallucinations" in the group. She ended up asking her to teach how to be a Bard, and they made friends.

Also, she's silly when you get to know her. She likes pub and singing together, she doesn't mind dancing, she has a dry (bordering on pitch-black) humour, she likes to joke. You just... Need to get high on her approval.

Raina: She will drag you in shenanigans and adventures. She has ideas about how exactly to spend a Saturday night, and if she likes you, you'll get invited and insisted upon coming. She's not exactly a person that's easy to say no to, she has charisma and a way with words. And indeed, there's never a dull moment around her, whatever she planned, it'll be up for some fun. Under the façade of sarcasm and recklessness, she is very sensible and she cares, so all introverts will be cherished too and won't get dragged any further than where they're willing to go. Any good karaoke night needs a clapping audience, after all, there's space for everyone and she will make it.

Also, she will know your chest measurement and knit you a bra with plush animals. Your gender doesn't matter, you will have a brossum. Cullen has one too, with lions (he'll die before admitting that he kept it).

Garrett: He's the one that will get an interest in knowing the favourite hobby of the person he has an interest with and either insist on doing it together if it's shared, or get the friend to teach him. He got taught by Merrill to forage and to use Blood Magic, Anders taught him Spirit Healing. Learnt quite some things about wines from Fenris (before he was a beer guy through and through, now he'll appreciate a good red. Will still say that champagne tastes like feet, tho). He shares with his sister the ability to involve and attract people, he's kinder and more easy-going than her. Raina will drag you out of your shell, he'll sit there with you until you're ready to come out yourself. But he will sit there. He ended up gaining quite some hobbies and a wide set of knowledges (after Act 3 he got away from Kirkwall with Isabela. You bet he knows, now, something of sailing).

Aisling: She has a strict and very precise schedule to hug all her friends. It's divided amongst those who need/accept a hug daily (Dorian, Josephine, Cole, Varric, Bull, Harding, Radha, Krem, Kieran, both Hawkes when they'll be in Skyhold), those who will accept one every other day (Cassandra, Leliana, Blackwall, Master Dennet, Lysette), those who needs one without a regularity or they will actively move to avoid it (Solas, Sera, Morrigan -yes she'll get hugs too-). She has a list of "Maybe, if the situation allows it" which is Vivienne -she hugged her after Bastien- and in canon Fenris when he got to Skyhold with Garrett ("I'd hug him but I'm pretty sure he'll skewer me"). It's a strict schedule she maintains thoroughly. It makes her feel better as well.

Radha: She's not for words of affirmation, but she'll tag along with you and just spend time together and exist in the same ecosystem. You like crocheting? She'll be sitting near you and read as you both go on with your hobby. If you want to chat she's there and she'll reply (she has little patience for small talk, but for deep conversations she's your person), but she's happy just in vibing together. She'll help out if you need, will offer help if she notices you need some, and she's very observant, chances are she'll pass you the next yarn before you notice the current one is finishing. She has a tendency to be overly brash when you ask for her opinion: if she doesn't like your partner, she will tell to your face to just dump them for X, Y and Z reason. She doesn't judge you if you don't, but you will know her opinion, in good or bad, if you ask for it (or if she's upset).

She looks detached, but really she enjoys physical touch greatly. She won't start it herself is she has not the highest possible confidence, but if you try it? It's always a yes. She's a great hugger. (She, Pavyn and Aisling all are good huggers)

#character headcanon #headcanon ask #alyra mahariel #raina hawke #garrett hawke #aisling lavellan #radha lavellan #clan lavellan number one features: HUGS

[okthatsgreat]

Pulled an allnighter and read opddmh in one sitting and man definetly one of my favourite fics of all time. Such an enjoyable fic I had an absolute blast reading it

Two questions

One, would fanart be okay?

Two are there any tidbits about ryoma that you can share? I'm rlly curious about him and his issues seem a little more subtle [? I think that's the right way to put it], as he's a quiet guy and mostly trying to rein in Mr. Wanderlust over there as of current. (Also can't wait to put him and Kirumi in a room together and see how it all folds. They're two sides of the same coin, both tied to duty I different ways (what ends you'll reach by trying to fulfill it, and who'll you'll become in the absence of it) and their similarities are thrown into even greater light by the two of them trying to protect/rein in/caretake in a way, of a another escaped contestant stuck in deep denial.)

^ got a little carried away there, sorry. I hope you have a lovely day :D

AAAAA THANK YOU!!!!!! THATS SO SWEET OF YOU THANK YOU SM <3333 :]]]

FANART WOULD BE SO ALRIGHT AND IN FACT I WOULD LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER. AND ALWAYS. AND ALWAYS AND FOREVER ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

ill chat a bit more about ryoma under the cut >:]

ryoma is suchhhh an interesting guy to consider in a postgame setting.. and i love writing for him <3. he's mentioned before in the fic that he felt the "most prepared" out of all of them when he emerged into reality, because he had so little to lose. while everybody else had families and backstories that were all ripped away from them, ryoma has already had to experience that and had grown placated over the years, which leads him to being a lot less shell-shocked now. if anything, it's an even FURTHER reminder of what he DOESN'T have.

while writing ryoma i always keep in the back of my mind that deep down he is very scared of being hopeful. theres definitely a part of him that knows he could potentially have family out there, family that he had forgotten with the flashback light, but he just flat out refuses to even let himself get excited about that gfhdsjgk. he is NOT willing to go through that heartbreak again, which is also why he is so adamant on staying with rantaro-- he knows what it's like to lose everything and he KNOWS that rantaro is about to experience that full on despite rantaros best efforts to prove him wrong. ryoma is somebody who really tries to keep people at arms length, but he finds himself unusually attached to rantaro primarily due to their shared circumstances. which of course isnt to say that there isnt tension-- the both of them are still pretty irritated with the other for their own reasons lmfaooooo-- but despite it all ryoma isnt willing to abandon rantaro at a time of need. he's moody but he doesn't make a lot of his internal struggles known!!!! half because he doesnt want to bother akane more than he feels he already is and half because he's still trying to dismantle the "brooding tough guy" character arch type that danganronpa has shoved him into lmaoooo

i cant wait for him to have more moments with kirumi .... both of them are being forced into positions of caretaking due to guilt. kirumi feels it is her duty to protect angie not only as an apology for giving her an escape route from the hospital in the first place but ALSO she wants to repent for her actions in the simulator (which ended up being totally for nothing considering she isnt the prime minister lol). ryoma feels its his duty to stick by rantaro when the ball finally drops mostly because he is one of the only people from season 53 that already knows what it feels like to lose everything. theyre both sooooo RUOGGUGHGU i cant wait to write more GODDD

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH AGAIN !!!! <3333 HAVE A LOVELY DAY :]

#ask lee #opddmh #uninvited-eon

[another-dr-another]

Let's give a Higa shot. I do want to learn something from him.

Maeda, narrating - Higa, Higa, Higa... where are you, Higa...

Maeda - ...

Maeda - Higa's had this real bad, angry mark for a few days now.

Maeda - ...Tsurugi, Tsurugi, Tsuruu-

Maeda - Wait, fuck, no, I'm looking for Higa-

Maeda - I have no clue why Tsurugi came to mind...

~*~

Maeda - Hey!

Maeda - Higa, do you have a second?

Higa - Yes, Maeda?

~*~

Ask Higa to Hang Out?

[Yes] {No}

~*~

Maeda - Do you have time to chat?

Higa - Well, not like there's much else to do here.

~*~

Would You Like to Give Higa a Gift?

{Yes} [No]

~*~

Maeda - ...

Higa - ...

Maeda - ...Higa, do you remember the last time we hung out like this?

Higa - Obviously. Why do you ask?

Maeda - ...This is kinda reminiscent of then... huh.

Maeda - Anyways-

Maeda - You said you find everyone obnoxious, yeah?

Maeda - Does that include me? I could leave you alone, you know.

Higa - ...No.

Higa - You're fine-

Higa - Sure, I disagree with your viewpoints, but I personally am capable of looking past disagreements and getting along with people nonetheless.

Higa - You don't try to shove your beliefs down my throat, and I appreciate that.

Higa - Not to mention, you're the one who approaches me.

Maeda - Well, yeah, I approach you, but I was curious why you'd say yes to hanging out if you thought I was obnoxious-

Maeda - I didn't think you were doing it to try and protect my feelings, so I was kinda drawing a blank.

Higa - Hm.

Maeda - ...Most of the class is pretty quiet though-

Maeda - Aren't I the only person to physically throw hands with you?

Higa - ...

Higa - I refuse to let incidents like that get to me.

Higa - You're... a good moderate. You don't bitch and whine, but you're willing to express views, without telling me I have to agree.

Higa - And, while no one will admit that I had no ill intent with Kobashikawa, I do understand why you'd react the way you did with...

Higa - ...What happened, prior to us realizing we were trapped here.

Maeda - ...

Maeda - Hm.

Higa - ...

Higa - And I mean, I don't... understand what benefit there is to you rushing to coddle people-

Higa - But look at how well off I am.

Higa - You don't need to pander to others, Maeda. Maybe hanging around me will help you realize that.

Maeda - ...

Maeda - I... wouldn't say I pander to others.

Maeda - I just don't see any reason to hurt other people because they're disabled, or because they're queer, or anything else of the sort.

//Maeda gets up to leave.

Maeda - But, whatever you want to do, it doesn't really bug me-

Maeda - I mean, I care if you go around and fuck people up, because I like the people you tend to lunge for.

Maeda - But y'know. Your actions, your consequences.

//Maeda starts walking off, and waves, before turning his back to Higa and continuing to walk.

Higa - ...Being passive-aggressive is a real ugly look, Maeda.

//Maeda continues to walk.

~*~

Maeda, narrating - Well, that was a load of bullshit.

Maeda - I really don’t get what his deal is…-

Maeda - I mean, it’s not like he’s uniquely evil, the stuff he says isn’t anything I haven’t heard before,

Maeda - It’s just weird.

Maeda - Oh well, though. I don't really care about being friends with Higa.

Maeda - Just kinda hang out with him out of compulsion.

Maeda - Aaaanyways…

Maeda - We didn’t… set a time to meet up, right?

Maeda - They said they’d come get everyone when it was time.

Maeda - Should I head to the dining hall, in case we decide to eat first,

Maeda - Or should I go to the rec room, and see how set-up is going?

{Head to the Dining Hall}

{Head to the Rec Room}

#dra #danganronpa another #yuki maeda #mitsuhiro higa #chapter 3 #daily life #daily life 3 #free time events #higas ftes #september 1

[bowla-borscht]

so what is all this stuff about lockwood? I'm curious now /gen feel free to ramble ( also I accidentally unfollowed you sending this ask so I gave you an extra notification sorry)

Hdhshjd, accidentally unfollowing someone is such a mood😭

But anyways, hi!! Ok so Lockwood & Co is a new Netflix show that's an adaptation of one of my favourite book series, Lockwood & Co, written by one of my all time favourite authors, Jonathan Stroud <333

The story setting is basically that around 50 years ago The Problem appeared. The Problem is ghosts, of various power levels and hostility but if any of them touch you, you dead <3 unfortunately, only children can see them and as they transition into adulthood (~18-20) their powers fade until they're gone. The Problem effects everyone but adults can't do anything to fight it. So obviously it's time to throw child labour laws out the window! Though they still get adult supervision, not that it helps much. The Problem seems to only effect Britain, it's never really elaborated on or mentioned but this makes the most sense in story and I think that's hilarious.

The story centres on our protagonist, Lucy Carlyle, a no nonsense agent (ghost hunter) from the country who has run off to London after an Incident with her previous employer. Unable to find employment in any other agency, she stumbles upon a small company that's willing to take her in. The company, Lockwood & Co, is only run by two people, both of whom are Lucys age (~14-16) and very much not adults, but hey, who needs a childhood anyway?

The other members of L&C are the mysterious, stylish, kinda self centred owner deeply in need of a therapist, Anthony Lockwood, and his friend/employee the intially off putting brain of the group who is SO autism, George Karim (also known George Cubbins in the book, but the show decided to make him Iranian because honestly the books are. Very very white)

Together they try not to fall into debt, get killed on the job, get arrested for malpractice, and uncover a government conspiracy! Also there's a talking skull in there. He's a creep and I love him.

The show is an amazing adaptation of the book, keeping most of the good parts and improving others. It's a very sweet found family while also being an awesome and atmospheric supernatural mystery show. Also has the great message of Hey. Child Labour Is Kinda Bad

If you end up checking it out pls feel free to dm me so we can chat about it <33

#borscht speaks #lockwood & co

[djarinsbeskar]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! So close, just in time for spooky season 🎃🧙‍♀️😈🔮🕯️

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Do you mind if I ask… how does it feel to have a work of yours published? It has always seemed so daunting to me. What was hard about it? What was an easier part of the process? Have you thought about publishing before this? I spend hours in front of my computer, researching and going over plot, word choice, sentence structure, etc. etc. Are you relieved for September 22nd to come? I’m curious to peek into publishing as an experience. 🫣

It's so surreal quite frankly! In a manner of speaking, I'm used to having people read my work through here and on AO3, so I was surprised by how nervous I was about putting an entire book out there. Part of me thinks it's because of expectations, if that makes any sense. With fanfic, it's free and it's usually within the confines of a fandom that affords the pieces some leniency. With an original book, you're expecting people to spend hard earned money on it and, it might just be the perfectionist in me, but I want to write something worth spending money on.

I think you bring up some really fantastic questions and I'm all about sharing my experiences to make things easier for others who might want to do the same! So feel free to send in any questions and I'll answer them all as concisely as possible!

I think the first thing you want to be sure about when it comes to publishing, is if you're willing to wear many different hats all at once. You're the writer, the PR person, the marketing person, the advertising person etc etc. You are everything to this book and one thing I discovered is that, you're rarely going to be an expert in all of them!

This is why community is important. Having a group of friends or writers you trust who are in the same situation or are interested in the industry. Because I guarantee, they're going to be the ones you touch base with on everything. From getting a second opinion on a social media post, to understanding a vague or confusing requirement made by a distributor or market you plan to sell your book on, to just the support you need as a writer. Writing a book can be a lonely thing, especially when you're not getting the serial validation and feedback we can grow accustomed to by posting chapters of fics week after week. That makes your inner circle, if you want to call it that, invaluable to your overall experience.

It's always been a dream of mine to be an author, to finish a book and see it bound. So, I knew I had the drive, if my confidence was lacking in other areas. It really wasn't until one of mutuals here asked if I planned to publish, though, that I really gave it some serious thought as an adult (and not just the dreams of a child). I think if you love the story you want to tell, are open and aware that it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea and can accept that, as well as being willing to be your own biggest advocate, you can do it!

Honestly, I cannot WAIT for launch day. It'll be my first, and when I think back to when I first started turning this fic into a book, I knew nothing so I've learned so much along the way that I'm actually excited to get started on the next book to apply all those lessons going forward!

Thank you for getting in touch! This ask really made me think and as a result, made me so super happy to see how far I've come. So don't hesitiate to drop any more questions that you have here, or in my DMs. I'm always happy to chat!

#publishing corner #q&a