#Input limit

[bathask]

視覚優位の視覚過敏自閉症スペクトラム眩し過ぎると感覚飽和リミッターかかり思い出が暗い夜の様な映像記憶に。ASD感覚過負荷で感覚過敏発作時も輪郭や文字の縞々模様が強調狂騒し制限され視界が見辛く不安MAX。大人の発達障害アスペルガー/自閉スペクトラム症の就労支援A型事業所送迎車待ち光の影撮影

[meyodenoche]

guys I'm a band nerd and have an untamable urge to assign every character ever an instrument based solely on vibes how do you think I did

To specify, Fuyuhiko is on Bari, Hajime, Kaito, and Kiibo are on Tenor, Mahiru, Komaru, and Tenko are on Alto. Those classifications are very important to me. Only Rantaro and Chihiro are on bass clarinet, everybody else is b♭

[actualartistgrill]

vanya & yaoyao!

[studentbyday]

it just occurred to me that i can "casually" learn french and japanese over the winter sem since i'll have the "time." juuusst one of the many many many things i've been putting off but want to do... i wonder if that's spreading myself too thin... my novelty-seeking brain wants to hear different sounds. in different contexts. it's probably a sign i need to get out more but that's besides the point 😂 what do i dooooo there's too many thingssss

[fictionadventurer]

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[wackywatchdotcom]

genuinely one of my fav things ot think abt wrt tadc is like. the technical side of things. like idrk a lot abt computer science but i know a little and also like sci fi so i can follow a little of it and its really cool to think abt. like to me? the reason why abstraction occurs is bc, in the circus, a person is effectively JUST their mind. the mind is in a computer and all the signals its got is being read and interpretted and thats what gets the player model and how the person percieves themself to be standing or smth. and then the computer just sorta puts them somwhere and goes from there. so then abstraction is those signals starting to get jumbled up and jumbled up until the computer cant read it anymore and it just... gives the person a mess of an avatar bc it cant interpret them any other way. and bc the persons mind is all mixed in w computer junk this process kinda... scatters them a bit? and the computer can only send signals to the mind and affect its perception, but once all the computer and the mind are too jumbled up the computer cant put it back together

[thelonelyshore-if]

When it comes to labeling sexuality in IFs, I think it does depend on a lot the setting and context, and specifically, is queerness an important conversation in the story?

If it is, then I personally strongly prefer to pick a specific label. But since the same label can have different meanings to different people, I tend to find myself wanting to be able to both choose a label and separately choose what genders I tend to be attracted to and how. I don't know how difficult coding would be, but it might be helpful to let players pick from a preset or type in their own label for their characters just like you do their name and then choose from the list of "I'm attracted to x gender(s)."

I don't know exactly what you're planning with trans and nonbinary MCs, but working under the assumption that there's going to be some measure of choice involved, you don't have to specifically tie one queer experience to one label. You could let the player choose something from the options that fits them best, i.e. "Realizing I wasn't attracted to men was difficult," "Experiencing attraction to a variety of genders felt surprisingly isolating," "I couldn't relate to my friends when they picked out the hottest cheerleader," "I felt like I was broken when I wasn't having those quintessential first crushes" etc. while using whatever label they chose or typed previously in the conversation. If that makes sense? That way players wouldn't be required to pick from the most known labels but could still discuss an aspect of queerness that they relate to their character. I'm just spitballing idk either way good luck!! It's not an easy choice to make because there's pros and cons to it all.

Thank you so much for your thoughts!!

There truly are pros and cons to it all, and I've spent the past few days sifting through them in my mind. I super appreciate this ask because you helped me settle on the approach I think I'm going to take (with room to shift/change in the future!)

Initially as I've been reading various responses I thought I might go for basically what you're suggesting. Label -> genders -> ace/aro specifics. But the coding would be a huge undertaking, and I'm not sure I have the skill and/or time.

Plus, a lot of the purely mechanical benefits to picking a specific label (like not having men flirt with MC if they're lesbian, for example) is already mostly covered by my interest/attraction system. ROs don't pursue MC (beyond playful flirting, for Beck&Yas, and I'm planning to let MC shut that down if desired) unless MC has already indicated interest in them.

So for now I'm planning on (mostly) keeping the system I was originally rocking with...

BUT (and the reason I'm hijacking your wonderful ask instead of just making a separate post), I really like your idea of having choices that aren't specifically label-based but more generally describe a variety of queer experiences. Your examples made something click really well in my brain.

I want to give the MC the opportunity to talk about their sexuality as well as their gender, if they so choose. And initially I thought that setting specific variables would be the only real way to do that, which is where this all started. But your examples showed me a really neat way to approach it! So genuinely thank you so much it's an incredible idea <3

[day-mark]

dream will spearhead change for youtubes streaming structure #I_BELIEVE

[t00thpasteface]

usually, when i'm asking "what did they mean by this!!!!" about a work of fiction or a creator's commentary upon it, it's 1000% rhetorical. if i'm compelled enough by a line or remark that i'm moved to say What Did They Mean By This then the ABSOLUTE LAST thing i want and/or need is for them to tell me, in no uncertain terms, What They Meant. let me have a little mystery. let me enjoy a noodle incident... a fun question is more engaging than a boring answer. if you stick the landing and nail the answer then hell yes, i'm eternally grateful, but unfortunately not everyone is an olympic gymnast and some explanations are just a crotch-first slam onto the pommel horse

[fiepige]

Okay guys, hear me out:

Sea Serpent Hobie!!!

Sea Serpent Hobie who sinks any superyachts he comes across!

Sea Serpent Hobie who uses harpoon spears meant to kill him as piercings! And old anchor chains as jewelry!

Sea Serpent Hobie who attacks big commercial fishing boats that are destroying the ecosystem by overfishing

But also benign Sea Serpent Hobie, who aids those lost at sea!

Who helps smaller local fishing buisnesses with sustainable fishing

Who looks out for this small fishing community and in return they warn him whenever hunters show up in the area!

Sea Serpent Hobie who is huge but still manages to hide perfectly in the kelp forests!

Who has bioluminescence and uses it both to terrify enemies and as a way to calm down people in distress, as a way for him to signal goodwill - and to show off when he feels like it!

Who can change his pigmentation similarly to octopi to communicate his mood and feelings! Or just to blend in with his surroundings (also as a nod to the way he changes filters in the movie!)

Sea Serpent Hobie who's frequently seen swimming with whale pods- Orcas being his favourites to hang out with (they sometimes go on yacht sinking trips together)

Sea Serpent Hobie who likes to give people a show and will show off by breaching right next to unsuspecting boats

DO YOU SEE MY VISION?!??

SEA SERPENT HOBIE!!!!!!💙💙💙

[bathask]

自閉症スペクトラム交通量多い人混み街中は感覚過負荷でASD感覚過敏発作に。輪郭の縞々模様に視線囚われ視界見辛く不安MAXメルトダウン感覚飽和で感覚刺激入力にリミッター。眩しさも制限かかり夏の日の思い出は暗い夜の様な映像記憶。大人の発達障害アスペルガー自閉スペクトラム症の作業所送迎時撮影

[sheepalmighty]

Some more of that Chai joins Vandelay for half a day AU. Or just a picture of a kinda OOC Kale chilling if you wanna gloss over those comics. I'm still not sure if the colours are too garish or not.

These were mostly done with the premise of treating Kale's office like the hideout. I also really like how mundane, or familiar, the interactions between Chai and Kale can be in the game so I wanted to draw some stuff exploring more like that. But also, there's the ulterior motive of shipping so I included an out of context scene because I can't bother drawing the rest of it (though it seems like a huge jump in their relationship as a result. I think they're so big headed that they get stuck in a feedback loop of stroking the other's ego if an excuse comes up to do so)

[retconomics]

(would-be) game devs in chat.... if im hypothetically building a game that's meant to essentially be run/executed by a discord bot should i figure out the bot with all the internet protocol stuff first or build the game first

[once-in-a-blood-moon]

Hello everyone! Quick question:

[mistilteinn-magolor]

girl help how do you focus on easy ass schoolwork without immediately getting distracted by a million other things

[wearenemies]

i literally havent stopped thinking about ur peterick college professor AU all day.. its so good

giggles and blushes so sweet of you to say…. if you have any criticism at any point or any ideas of what to do with it i love how you write their dynamic and would be more than happy to sit my white ass down and listen 🫶

i've been thinking about the whole premise a little further and still am not sure whether or not they're going to straight up be married because i think patrick wearing a ring would be a good in for theorisation about his relationship status that would otherwise seem even more unnecessary, but i don't know if p2 marriage is an unrealistic and overly romantic stance to take, especially considering what went on in real life, so i'm still on the fence about that. i might just say they're engaged and leave it at that.... also unsure still whether our narrator would be a student or a coworker of theirs? i think the coworker situation better justifies this guy's interest in the lives of these guys because they'd want to make friends, and there are considerably more situations in which it would be appropriate for them to be interacting (after work drinks, etc. patrick could wear the stupid t shirt pete got him. beautiful world) but i worry that that'd betray to an immersion-breaking degree how little i know about the inner workings of american academia and employment at american universities and whatnot so. another glaring issue. i also realise that the whole keeping-the-narrator-in-the-dark thing might be much less realistic to achieve irl than i make it seem, so i’ll have to employ some serious lampshading + sitcom logic to make it work in a way that feels natural, but i figure that if you’re able to suspend your disbelief enough to imagine patrick pursuing higher education you can believe anything so peace and love.

on that note, the peterick history i’m imagining is that they would’ve been in the band but it never would’ve really gone anywhere because of patrick’s reluctance vocally, so they all (with the exception of andy: with how ridiculously skilled and prominent in the hardcore scene he was it'd be completely unreasonable to assume that he wouldn't have joined a band and made it pretty big at some point) ended up going back to school like their parents wanted. pete was vehemently against finishing his poli sci degree, and his parents decided to allow him to pursue something he actually wanted to do (that being literary analysis and creative writing) on the condition that he’d work as hard as he could and not touch narcotics or whatever, and it was a hard sell but after he graduated he decided that he’d rather be doing that than anything else, and since his parents had the funds to support him and running on mani mostofi’s logic that ‘if pete didn’t get famous, he would’ve ended up in jail’, they considered it a productive and wholesome use of his time, and pete just kind of stayed in academia. i imagine he’s very well known in literary circles because of his general charisma and bizarre angles on things, and i can see him having written several significant (and not to toot his horn too much but pretty great) journal pieces on the works of his favourite writers, and a wider fictional bibliography than just the single weird roman-a-clef that he has to his name in real life.

patrick’s a little more difficult to work with conceptually because he graduated from high school with significantly worse grades than pete in real life, doesn’t have weirdly famous relatives, and is generally not a hugely academically inclined person, so i might just have to gloss over explaining that (maybe he took some supplemental classes and took out a LOT of loans or whatever) but i imagine music theory being a subject of interest for him because of the technical and semi-scientific nature of it as a very trivia-minded (and ‘possibly autistic’. coughs) person who likes the factual nature of natural history. i can see him having work published in the yale-founded journal of music theory, and maybe focusing especially on music theory’s application in the fields of anthropology and cognitive sciences because of the aforementioned natural history interest. i see him and pete having drifted apart a little over the years (maybe they fucked for a while - potentially starting ‘05 - and had a messy ‘friendship breakup’ around 2009?) running into each other at an arts conference in like 2011/2012, ending up both working at the same place in around 2015, and finally getting together as a result of that connection, no unsubstantial degree of nudging from friends, and years of mutual tension.

there’s for sure a huge extent to which you’ll have to ignore how fundamentally the whole academia thing is probably not something they’d do, but i’m begging you guys to let me know if anything seems too egregiously out of character i’ve never written fic before i’m playing with my touys here 👍