#Visual Glitch (trope)

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Should it really take the Inspector a full five minutes to scan the terminals with their optic pocketknife in order to figure out what’s blocking the computers from working?

And another five minutes to fix whatever’s wrong with it in order to get the clear video feed of the last recording?

[poolseason]

headcanon time! Lloyd's powers:

When using Oni abilities, his powers turn purple, of course but I've been obsessed with the idea of him gaining those white face markings that Garm and the other onis have. The marks sort of swirl in from the sides of his face. if i was a better animator i'd have shown you. also would be cool if an inexplicable shadow fell over him and him only (even if he was in the sun), making the marks glow more.

Obviously there are two modes Lloyd's got when tapping into the Oni abilties: powered up and full transformation. i'm obsessssssedddd with exposed bones. Garmadon and Mistaké exposed ribcage is such a cool design element. I think in the power-up mode, the torso markings detail are something that glows over him, while in the transformation his ribcage and spine are just Out. But don't worry, I'm sure they're extra durable.

The green one is funky. You know how Lloyd's powers sort of glitched over him during his fight against Garmadon in s8? It was explained that his element was protecting him in a way. Well in my head, in the non-plastic character world the way it's visualized like the green power is sort of illuminating under his skin? its wrapping itself around his bones and organs and stuff as some sort of protective sheild under his flesh, which in part makes him look a little ghostly or radioactive. Probably a bit painful though.

Oni form. TBH i don't like the gold color but i can sort of accept that look if they give us a good reason. Otherwise I figure that since he was wearing proper armor in Crystallized, his transformation was more contained more. I bet if he was wearing a normal gi he'd tear out of it when he turns into a big hulking monster guy. They really should've tapped into the classic werewolf tropes with this oni transformation haha

I hc onis being really BIG beasts. Lloyd's transformation probably takes him up to like 3 meters tall. That could honestly be a really funny contrast though. I think in human mode he'd be really short, so effectively he doubles in size.

[goomyloid]

why is it that you like noelle so much? i'm a noelle fan myself but i can't figure out why i like her so much. like if someone asked me to explain what makes noelle a complex or well-written character i would not be able to explain it to them. and i'm hoping hearing someone else's thoughts on her might give me some perspective to figure out why i gravitate towards her

Hello.

um i could make a whole video essay complete with background visuals on why i like noelle so much. but i dont have that kinda time so ill give the condensed version

she simultaneously fulfills several of my favorite tropes for [female] characters. she's the nice normal girl that probably has something deeply wrong with her on the inside, but she's become incredibly good at pretending everything's okay. she's also the childhood friend, someone who knows the protagonist on an intimate level that no one can quite replicate. she Also can very much fulfill another trope i like, which is Girl who looks like she's about to freak out and kill herself any second now. i cant wait to watch her become 100x more unstable in the coming chapters

all of those are just tropes/traits that i tend to like the most, so her personality/character alone is enough to make me like her

there's various details that make her really interesting in terms of the game itself. stuff like her being ever so slightly tied to gaster and the Weird disappearance of her sister, how her affinity for game glitches might mean something for the story, her entire extra pages of characterization from the spamton sweepstakes and what THOSE entries might mean for the story... i still think she will only be a character of secondary-importance in the main route but man i do think shes important to the story as a whole in ways that other characters arent.

shes lowkey kinda me. lol. i think a lot of people see themselves in noelle for various reasons. the general kind of Nice Normal i-need-to-get-along-with-everyone passiveness, on top of being the type of girl to present normally and then have a secret "weird side." that bit especially resonated a lot with me and surely with many other highly-masking autistic people i think -- feeling the need to 'convince' everyone you're normal, and then only being able to properly relax around people who really 'know' you. also, her whole thing about being scared by scary video games and movies and stuff only to immerse herself in them enough to eventually be comforted by them is like. So weirdly specific and also literally exactly how i was as a kid which is really funny. its stuff like that that makes her feel Real and relatable

the weird route. ill be so real i dont think id be half as interested in deltarune as a whole as i am now if it werent for the weird route LMAOOOOO. which i think is fair honestly. ofc im horribly interested to see where the main story goes, and i will definitely be invested in it. but the weird route carved a weird route shaped hole into my weird route shaped brain. its too peak. the alternate take on empowering noelle is so interesting, and dont even get me started on the strain it puts on kris's and noelle's relationship, their unique relationship they dont have with anyone else. i just think its exceptionally interesting how we've gotten to see noelle from so many different angles so far, and she's only been important for one chapter.

her design lowkey rocks? like call her little white dress boring or whatever but man does it open the door for so many cute and wonderful design interpretations. and also her palette shift into cooler colors but in Opposite Directions (brown fur becomes more reddish + yellow hair becomes more greenish) looks freaking awesome. i think ive seen an incredibly wide range of noelle designs more than literally any other character in the game

i dont want to spend too wildly long on this bc ive already taken multiple days to type this out so ill stop here lol. if i think of anything else i just HAVE to include ill reblog with it or something, but these are really the main points that come to mind first

[wildflowercryptid]

okay, i just finished watching it and it was very good. which just makes how quickly it's gotten a reputation for having an off-putting fanbase all the sadder. still, i hope we get more episodes bc i wanna see ragatha and pomni make up and become friends.

i'm finally biting the bullet and watching the amazing digital circus pilot.

[arcanefandomweek]

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[zerosconsort]

Zero's Fic Binding - don't it beat a slow dance to death

don't it beat a slow dance to death by solitarydreaming

Fandom: Raven Cycle [by Maggie Siefvater]

Ship: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish

Start Date: 12/23/2024

End Date: 02/18/2025

Pages: 230

Okay, so, this fic? This book is like the show Russian doll. Or Happy Death Day. The best kind of groundhogs day time loop fic, where the death resets the day over and over again. And after each loop, Adam and Ronan slowly start to…glitch. And slide. And fall out of time itself.

This fic is, perhaps, my favorite version of this trope. I grabbed on to that hiccupping, time-stutter idea and pressed it into a digital form - a glitching, fizzy, warping version of a stuttering iPod.

The typeset for this bind progressively

gets more

and more

glitched.

The headers, the fonts, the page breaks, the addition of texture and visual noise into the pages - ramps up through the typeset. I love it. I think it's fucking crazy and I love it so much.

This is the first time I tired to print a cover. It….went. It happened. It looks pretty ok, but this is not how I'm going to ever print out a cover image ever again. I do like this laminate, so I'll probably use that again with a different type of paper. But I can check off the 'try a new cover material' off my Resolution list for this year.

And, like - it's pretty crisp. The image looks pretty good, the color is nice - it's fucking weird and I love it. The spine being simple and so widely different is also a fucking vibe. I'm fucking grooving on this theme dudes, I don't know what else to day.

I used a multi-colored thread for the headband, so it is also changing and random in color.

Another first.........…..I fucking put the text block in upside-down.

My first time screwing up a book like this, so I'm giving myself a pass, but also…this kind of works for this book? You have to read it backwards to get to the front cover. It fits, and I'm only a little mad about it?

This fic is worth the read, even if you're not in this fandom. If you are in this fandom and you haven't read this fic yet? Ya - your welcome.

[gooselycharm]

hi there! i'd just like to say that your kris and noelle "something else" comic has been driving me insane /pos and i'd love to hear more of your thoughts on those two!! their relationship is one of my favorite things in deltarune and your comic just got everything about them so right 🙏

thank you for reading "something else"! oh man, [more of] my thoughts on kris+noelle.... i sure got some of those.

this was one of the first tweets i made after finishing chapter 2 nearly... freaking 2 years ago. and basically i've just been saying that over and over again in different ways because i'm still not tired of the concept yet and probably wont ever be LOL. i'm obsessed with how badly the narrative wants to force them into an easily categorizable dynamic, especially the romantic one in snowgrave. the literal THORN RING, the more possessive dialogue options, spamton calling noelle a side chick LOL... it all creates this unnerving visual novel bad end atmosphere that feels manufactured by someone who's only ever learned about romance through secondhand sources. they're two queer teens trying to navigate their changing relationship with the only role models they know being their parents' own failed heterosexual marriages. they're so divorced² (divorced children of divorce).

i also like that for being so tragically doomed coded they can be funny! both in a dark humor way and also like, genuinely funny, like the stories of them as kids with kris covering themselves in ketchup and hiding under noelle's bed lmao. i mean there's even something funny about the romantic trappings of the snowgrave route, like trying to put wedding cake embellishments on a crime scene... you know, funny like kids trying on their parents clothes but they're too big and for some reason they're also crying and covered in blood? um.

i'm also SOOOO interested to see how snowgrave will continue in chapter 3! i really liked the hopeful note chapter 2 ended on (well. i took it as hopeful anyway). there's that bit where noelle is talking to herself and she says something like "recently kris has been acting so strange and no one else has noticed... i have to figure out why" and then kris jumpscares her LOL but i think i took that one line and really ran with it. noelle really is the one who knows kris best and despite how scared she is, she's still determined to help them... i like the little subversion of victim/hero going on, the implication that kris might be the one who needs rescuing.

the additional story/lore that came with the spamton sweepstakes made me CRAAAZYYYYY like my GOD... it's cute that noelle likes glitches/creepypasta when kris is kinda a walking creepypasta <3 also, god, noelle falling asleep listening to kris playing piano in the other room... there's so much like. wistfulness and nostalgia and this like... distant/detached intimacy packed into how noelle narrates that scene. it's kind of funny how much there is to dig into when like on a surface level they're just fairly regular childhood friends who grew apart LMAO they're extremely deep to me okay...

on another note i guess i do ship them? i like their dynamic whether it's platonic or romantic (the best is a weird mix of both 👍). it just can't be boring LOL like... this is one ship where trying to apply cookie cutter tropes to them really falls flat and the game is ahead of you on that anyway. in terms of romantically shipping them, i honestly don't think they're doomed to repeat patterns forever... i think they could actually be good for each other! but that's not really the aspect of their relationship that interests me akldjf;alk;sdg maybe i will make 60 page comic of kriselle going to couples counseling some other time

ANYWAY i'm going to cut myself off here, because i really could go on forever lol. i'll give you some links for further reading though

hellspawnmotel's deltarune art

lula pillowbug99's deltarune art

this art by raspbearis which features prominently in my internal kriselle bible

my own unfinished kriselle playlist

my own essay on gender & allegory in deltarune if for some reason u are not tired of hearing me talk yet

okay bye now & thanks again for reading my comic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2oul2ilver]

I woke up this morning and had a realization - of more well-known pokepastas, I feel like there's trends of themes specific trainers (or maybe games?) get cast/fall into, vs ones they don't as much.

So for example, a couple of the Trainer Gold-centric stories lead to lots of body horror and gore - lost silver, snow on mt. Silver. By proximity champion red follows suit, but only in fitting of the themes. Trainer Silver seems to follow this as well (eg Tarnished Gold) with Gold likewise mirroring the given tropes.

Meanwhile, stories focused on Red (or a variation of) aren't as prone to mutilating the protagonist. Glitchy Red is Arguably a type of mutilation, but it's abstract and semi-temporary. Strangled Red, same concept, aside from maybe Glitching there's not much in way of gore. Creepy Black, same thing, there's Death (inevitably) but minimal gore. Glitchlett semi-breaks the trend but the gore never touches a trainer afaik. I haven't seen much of False Red's romhack but given the vibes it wouldn't surprise me if it's more of the same. Buried Alive Model does break the trend on this aspect at least.

Leaf, while rarely getting any stories, Also has a pattern - in Abandon Lonliness and Fallen Leaf alike, she essentially gets "shelved" partway through her stories, it feels like (Fallen is a very self-aware commentary on the General habit of this treatment)

And mind you these are all like. Half-awake thoughts, not necessarily meant to be some great commentary or critique, and I'm sure if I dug around more I'd see examples that easily counteract this pattern. But it just adds a sense of overall patterns and almost a characterization to the trainers based on these examples- Red usually being an On Top, in-charge figure, more likely to turn On you or the others than to be mutilated; Leaf being overlooked, forgotten, there's Tragedy happening to her, and even other tropes like death or mutilation can occur, but a part of her theming is her tragic self gets overlooked/unseen by npcs around her overall; Gold and Silver are the most prone to visceral, gory fates of one sort or another, never an easy death, always something to really leave lasting images for the viewer.

I think there's easy ways to explain some of these trends - for example, people may feel that the RBY games just don't lend themselves well to gory visuals as easily as GSC. and then again, Fallen Leaf is a very self-aware critique on this sort of treatment, so it makes sense to enforce that particular trope. But it's an interesting thing to chew on....

All in all... it makes me want to toy with roleswap aus lolll

[thecoolerliauditore]

hello this is liauditore welcome to my

TOP 10 WORST SCOTT SMAHOR SKINS

rated with no bias whatsoever I am objective all the time. SUPER serious take this 100% seriously I am sooo serious

10. Tiger Scott (Fantasy SMP)

this is not scott. 👎

9. Shirtless Scott (ESMP 2)

He does not deserve to have pixel nipples. Also this came right after limlife ended so what? Were you too self conscious to go swimming with the other boys? Get a grip.

Positive points to this for not giving him abs though I don't think I could take another one.

8. Secret Life Yellow Skin (Secret Life SMP)

Honestly a toss-up between this and the red skin but I think this is the worse offender. This poor beautiful green skin tainted by the world's ugliest shade of clashing yellow. Someone pissed in his hair. Someone pissed on his shoes.

7. Pirate Scott (Pirates SMP)

Shout out to Scott for seeing the perfect role for himself to play in this world (nepo baby in a setting, pirates, built around themes of classism) and not thinking about the implications of that whatsoever. God this shit was so ass.

Anyway this thing is barely Scott. It doesn't offend me as much as whatever they mutated Martyn into for the sake of this instagram filter esque Aesthetique they were going for but they plucked out his eyelashes and I don't like thinking about that. He looks so angry now and I would be too.

6. Chromia Scott (ESMP2)

I like how Scott's ESMP1 character was like eight pages of fantasy tropes, prince of a kingdom, evil brother, champion of a deity, tragic destiny and forbidden love or whatever and Scott's ESMP2 character was "he likes colours and he likes to play with llamas"

5. Witchcraft Backstory Scott (Witchcraft SMP)

I don't think this guy actually exists I think he's a lie WC Scott tells himself at night oh back when I was young and innocent and blah blah blah

This thing is soulless I think he kills small animals to feel something

Also this is in no ways meant as a serious art critique or anything critique list but I must mention for this skin specifically the shading on his hair and skin does not match the simple (and rlly beautiful imo) texturing on his clothes which ends up making it look like he has some sort of skin disease.

4. Sailor Jupiter Scott (MCC)

Magically becomes a three pixel wide arm instead of a four pixel wide. No one in the world cares except me but it bothers me. He starved himself for this cosplay and I don't agree with encouraging that behaviour.

Anyway Neptune is right there why the fuck are you Jupiter. Even Mercury I could understand or Uranus. Why the fuck are you Jupiter.

3. This New Life Skin that never showed up in his videos (New Life SMP)

Oh New Life what a sad sad end to an SMP. Your run was like the SMP equivalent of the life of one of those abused hamsters. Even sadder was Scott's last three or four episodes where he desperately clung onto the series like trying to put the hamster on life support only for the hospital to say "that's a fucking hamster we're not doing that"

The last few episodes of Scott's NLSMP episodes were just "wow! I am [insert origin here] now!" and he makes a decent looking build that never shows up on camera again themed to whatever he is and then assassin sausage shows up and goes "it's sausaging time" and sausages all over the place and repeat. I really wonder who he commissioned for these skins because it seemed like he got them made on pretty short notice -- and some of these skins are bangers too (cursed doll scott ily)

and then there's whatever the fuck this one is. Girl you look like a genshin impact. I included a back view of this one because genuinely what the fuck is he. What the fuck am I looking at. When he showed up in Owen's videos with this skin he was inchling sized too so it was even harder to tell if what you were looking at was Scott Smajor or a visual glitch.

The elements of this skin are well made, the colours work well and it's consistently textured there's just too much going on it hurts me. Do you really need a boob and a belly window. Do your fucking. Ankles need cutouts. Why are you pink.

2. Tea Party Scott (ESMP2)

I have nothing to say he's just really ugly.

Scott

I hate this thing so much. Look at his cute little cartoony stylized shading. His blue jeans. You look like an early 2000s disney channel reject. You look like the gay rival in a 2010s childrens anime made to sell toys. You look like you're cosplaying as your own 'sona. You look like you use buzzwords like lolita fashion and _____ kei with no knowledge of what those words actually mean. You look like a self insert OC. You look like you have blue hair and pronouns.

This skin actually represents so much of him so well. He's so put together, his outfit is harmonious, he obviously thought about how to style himself. Everything is purposeful, even the shoes. He has a coherent colour palette. This is someone who dresses to communicate a message about himself. Look at me aren't I so cute and approachable and handsome and unintimidating and a little quirky. Look at me I'm so fun and I know what I'm doing. teehee. tiktok,.

0. Liauditore Scott

worst animal on earth.

[quiettime3]

Home Safety Hotline

As a self-confessed horror wimp, Home Safety Hotline appeals greatly to my desire to be one step removed from all the monsters in a spooky game. You are in control of a fresh employee at the titular Home Safety Hotline, where it’s your job to review incoming calls and send out handy information packets to affected customers. These hazards start out as common household pests (moles, cockroaches and the like) but as the days roll on, stranger things begin to occur on your watch. It’s a delightful twist on the observational horror formula, relying on witness testimonies to identify what’s going on.

As usual with the scarier games I review, I roped a housemate into helping me face my fears and started the campaign with a second pair of eyes on hand. The game is set during 1996, and it shows in the incredibly charming PC menus you’ll need to navigate to begin. Controls are relatively simple, and are almost always on screen when you want them, though they can be hidden with the press of a button too. Unfortunately, this doesn’t hide the boxes behind them, leaving some odd spacing on the UI, but it’s a forgivable offence.

The first day introduces your supervisor, Carol, and allows ample time to adjust to the mechanics and settle in to the atmosphere. The supernatural elements bubble to the surface starting on day 2 - odd emails on your computer set the tone before the day even begins, warning you to leave before it’s too late. Play through this day, and the next email tells you that now you know too much. For an optional interaction, these emails add a great deal to the story, and I’d definitely recommend taking your time and messing around with all aspects of the desktop to avoid missing out.

Things get stranger and stranger as the days go on. By the third day, Wednesday, your computer system is experiencing glitches that prevent you from looking back at entries while callers are on the line, encouraging you to memorise the logs you’re given. It’s a great way to keep up the tension, as is the sudden loudness of the incoming call tone. Everything feels purposefully designed to keep you slightly on edge, which is amazing considering you’re never directly faced with any dangers. The voice acting is a little over the top, especially for certain callers, but principal characters do a great job and even the wackier performances add to the unique charm for me.

Without spoiling anything, I can tell you that the game ends on Sunday, testing your knowledge of all the calls you’ve solved so far and all the beasties that have yet to appear. One downside of Home Safety Hotline is extremely limited replayability, as every day plays out the same each time. It’s nice that the ending pulls in some of the lesser used hazards, but a sort of randomised mode for after the story would be perfect, although for an indie title with limited voice acting, I understand this might be hard to implement. As is, once you’ve finished the game, it’s hard to see many reasons to go back, except to figure out the correct response to anything you got wrong before.

Still, for the time you’ll spend with it, Home Safety Hotline is a satisfyingly made observational horror title that definitely appeals to me and my fellow scaredy-cats more than it would to fans of jumpscares or visual gore. The framing allows me to satisfy my natural curiosity for the macabre without relying on peaking adrenaline with sudden movements, and the art book you unlock after the game proved to me that the developers clearly had a blast putting it all together, which I always love to see. Turn off the lights and play this one all in one sitting for the best effect, and watch out for pesky prank calls.

Pros:

• The 90s-inspired aesthetics are delightful

• All the optional content from the desktop is well worth watching and reading

• Perfect for cowards like me who can’t deal with more action-focused horror tropes

Cons:

• Low level of replayability

• A few calls feel unfairly vague, which can frustrate you and break the carefully crafted atmosphere

[perfectlovevn]

(i'm so sorry, i'm not sure if you accept reviews or not so feel free to ignore this)

Helloo!! I'm brazilian and i'm still learning english so forgive me for any grammar mistakes. I've gotten all endings (i guess- please let me know if i missed anything!) so here's my review of Perfect Love! ♥

I loved this game sooo much! I never played an visual novel with a mean main character and it was just amazing. The trope of ''us'' being the actual villains is very interesting and it made the game super unique! It's also pretty obvious the amount of effort and hard work that's in the game, I was impressed by the quality of it all.

The music and sound effects are pretty good, I loved it all! The artstyle is very pleasing to look at and the black/white/grey contrast with Milo's blue/red eyes are such a nice touch too. I also loved the amount of easter eggs (you couldn't imagine the face I made when I named myself 'Ren') and secret endings/scenes.

Fortunately, when I first played, I knew nothing about the game nor about Milo (which I believe made the experience better since everything turned out to be surprising) and the endings were really good. Through the gameplay, I've encontered one grammar mistake (which I forgot to screenshot it, sorry) and one sprite glitch but nothing that made me annoyed.

After finishing the 8 main endings, I decided it was time to look a little bit on the official Tumblr's page of the VN and that's when I decided to test out all of the easter eggs and that's when I discovered the secret scenes.

So, to summary it all: absolutely 10/10! I can't remember the last time I had so much fun playing a game and being so invested in unlocking all of it's content! I was flabbergasted when I lost all of my endings heh

Please let me know if I missed anything- I'd be more than happy to clear the game entirely.

Hello there! I love reviews. On my other blog I always write recommendations/reviews for other vns, so I'm always open to seeing what people like and dislike about the game. I hope you don't mind that I'm just gonna mash these two asks into one ask.

Thank you! I also think that a lot of vns don't always focus on being the bad guy in the story and those that do I usually enjoy quite a lot! I'm glad you like the quality of it, it was a lot of fighting renpy and it's UI because I have a one sided rivalry with the base renpy UI. I tried to make it look good though I think I maybe should have attempted to redraw some of the sprites for Milo (for like the third time).

For the art style itself, I actually did it in black and white because it was originally for the 2023 yanjam and I wanted to make a style that wouldn't be extremely tiring for me, and I really like lineart so I made everything in black and white (and also because I'm lazy, I say as I animate half of my assets). The red and blue really make it pop at the end since it's one of the few time color is used in the game. I love when people put easter eggs in their game and I know of a lot of yandere vns so I wanted to put in a ton! I'll probably put in even more in the update when I get all of the extra stories done because putting easter eggs like that is very fun.

Having no knowledge of a game is always a good way to be surprised about the premise and I think it definitely was something good in your case too! For the grammer/ sprite errors if you do ever play or remember what they were, please let me know. I'll try to fix it in the next update if possible.

It's always so nice seeing that people like my game though! I tried my hardest to make it a worthwhile experience and considering it's (technically) my first game, it really makes me happy to see that people really like it! Hopefully it doesn't have too much of the first game amatureness that tends to come (nothing wrong with it, but I hopefully have showcased I kind of know what I'm doing, I say, sweating profusely) .

Yup! That is all of the scenes in the game so far. At least that you can access. If you look inside of the code, I actually have two scenes that I put in there. One of them is pretty much a test scene featuring the character from the next game I'm making, and the other is a special scene where you go to Milo's apartment. You can't access those in the main game, but you can play them if you edit the code a bit.

Basically (for those who don't know), all you have to do is put "jump" and then the name of the label afterwards (so for instance if the label is "rabbit" you would put "jump rabbit") after label start in the code. The two scenes that are not accessable in the game are the last two scenes in the script.rpy file just to make it easier for you. (I put a note that says like "#I'm very dedicated to my craft I say as I disect Milo and then beat him with a stick" because I'm sorry Milo, you deserve better)

But yes, thank you for taking your time and writing your long review! I love it so much.

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

How the temporal projector managed to skip over the most-important moment from Emerald’s mum’s appearance

remains unexplained, but was basically done to prevent viewers from seeing who she was.

[druidx]

Oh hey, an ask thing. Can you answer 3, 8, 11, 13, 18, 24, and 25? Also an extra question: what's your favorite thing about the Starbound and Elder Scrolls universes? Oh and what's a favorite lore tidbit from both universes?

Hiya 'Mous, and Happy New Year to you!

From these questions

3. Do you anticipate writing for a new fandom this year? Which one?

No, I don't think so. Unless I find another open world/ sandbox game to get attached to... I find it quite difficult to write for properties where the story is already all laid out and there's no 'gaps' to exploit.

8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?

I don't know about 'not brave enough' - more like 'never gotten around to it', so perhaps this is the year. In The Ruby Falls, the Modern AU of TES: Oblivion, the Hero of Kvatch gets a massive slash on her back which scars and she hates. The fic would revolve around her going to some shindig, only the high-backed dress she planned has somehow been swapped for a low-back dress. There's panic, there's tears, there's a fix and all is well and the shindig continues, possibly with her acceptance of the scar.

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year?

I keep thinking it would be funny to isekai one OC into a different universe I already write for, ie Mio (fish alien) from Starbound into the TES universe.

I'd also like to try a proper songfic.

13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic? 

I need to get back to recording my podfics. I might also offer/ ask to podfic some others' works.

Sadly I'm not really good at visual arts - the most I can manage are moodboards. I have been tempted to do a stick-figure outline for a comic script I wrote, but I need to finish it first 😅

18. Do you typically post multi-chapters as you write, or finish it all and then start posting? Would you like to change your posting method? 

I have tried posting multi-chapters as I go, and discovered that's a bad flow for me - I often want to go back and edit previous chapters, but I feel that's unfair to anyone who's already read it. So now I prefer making sure I'm happy with a work as a whole and then posting in one go. (Although, for The Ruby Falls, it's been suggested that I post on a schedule once the whole thing has been finished - apparently that's reader-preferred for works over 150k?)

24. By the end of this year, you want your fandom to think of you as “that author who _______.”

"always has such dazzling description - it's almost like you're there!"

25. If you answered questions from this list last year, find your answers and compare your goals to your results. How’d you do?

Sadly I didn't do this game last year, but I did review my 2023 goals in My Year of Writing Review. I managed 2/6...

Bonus 1: what's your favorite thing about the Starbound and Elder Scrolls universes?

In TES, it's the scenery. All the (modernish) TES games are just so, so pretty 😊 My housemate likes to call Oblivion 'horse-riding simulator', because I do have a habit of just trotting around, exploring.

In Starbound, it's actually a game mechanic that I like best. If you build a house and put a deed down, it'll spawn in a tenant. If you build lots of houses, the tenants interact with each other, making little emotes. I just think it's really cute 😄 (and fun to write about).

Bonus 2: what's a favorite lore tidbit from both universes?

In TES, it's that the world is effectively one big lucid dream.

In Starbound, it's that the Glitch (robot people) were created as a simulation and were intended to progress through various stages of industrialization, but the creator left? died? and the Glitch got stuck in a pseudo-medieval state and have never progressed beyond that.

Thanks for the questions! I hope you enjoyed the answers 🧡

[blueengland]

The Amazing Digital Circus - Thoughts

Yeah I watched TADC. It was alright.

Gangle is fun.

Kinger is fun.

Ragatha is nice.

The others I don't like as much.

Honestly Glitch's biggest problem is writing. Murder Drones is stunning visually, but it's writing? Overindulgence in tropes, not much substance, can hardly remember anything from the episodes.

Meta Runner was better than Murder Drones because of it's characters being bombastic, high energy, funny, and it felt like they all had thought put into them and even though I haven't watched anything from it in a while I can still remember the characters and their deals. High-energy amnesiac, high-energy game protaganist, broody edgy asshole, funny cool dude, evil capitalist dickhead. I can still remember their voices. The writing isn't amazing, but it's got great characters that are actually funny.

I don't remember Uzi's voice past a general broody edgy asshole ( teen girl version).

The Amazing Digital Circus shares this problem. It's writing is bland. It didn't give enough time for all it's characters to shine, just Cain, Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax. Zooble got absolutely fucked in the pilot. Gangle spoke like twice. More emphasis was put on establishing the mystery than establishing the characters, which in a pilot? Not good, not good at all.

Animation? Great. Designs? Amazing. Voice acting? Stellar.

That's the bells and whistles though. Stuff to make it pretty. If all you care about is a mildly funny show, some mild existentialism and bright colours then yeah this is what you should watch, but it's not that good objectively speaking.

Glitch needs to improve it's writing if it wants to make better products.

I like TADC but objectively? It's not very good.

[idomyworkigohome]

Vaporwave is an aesthetic that includes electronic music, visual art style, and memes that emerged in the early 2010s. It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, elevator, R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s and 1990s. The surrounding subculture is sometimes associated with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and pop culture, and tends to be characterized by a nostalgic or surrealist engagement with the popular entertainment, technology and advertising of previous decades. Visually, it incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, anime, 3D-rendered objects, and cyberpunk tropes in its cover artwork and music videos.

[arcanefandomweek]

Arcane Year Two week event Rules and Guidelines

Rules

Fanworks created for this event should be focused on Arcane character(s). While LoL characters and OCs are welcome, they should not steal the spotlight. Canon characters should be the focus, even in a work set in season 2 with new characters joining the cast.

All types of fanworks, including fic, art, moodboards, podfic, playlists, meta, cosplay, embroidery, and more, are welcome for this event.

NSFW or potentially triggering content, even if canon-typical, must be properly tagged with any applicable content warnings. For the comfort of the mods, please only submit NSFW works if you are 18+.

This event is also open to all ships and all levels of rating. However we expect works to be fully tagged in order to be reblogged. This is a strict rule, as people can't be expected to effectively manage what they see and read if they are not given the tools to effectively block tags.

Racist, queerphobic, ableist, misogynistic, or otherwise hateful or bigoted behavior or fanworks will not be tolerated. Your work may include aspects of bigotry and oppression so long as they are properly tagged. For example: A fic that features a character facing ableism is allowed with content warnings; a work that includes ableist tropes as part of the narrative or erases a canon disability is not.

Any form of disrespectful or threatening behaviour towards fellow participants will see the offending account blocked and their works unshared.

If you are submitting visual work, please consider writing an image description!

Guidelines

This is a week format event. It will run for 1 week, from the 7th of November to the 13th. Late entries are accepted. Early entries are not and are discouraged. Please wait for the start of the week to share your works. We will not be browsing the tag prior to the 7th.

How do you participate?

By making any type of fanwork using any of the prompts provided. The orthodox way of playing with this type of event is to restrict yourself to a prompt provided on the day. Posting a fic on day 1 written to a day 1 prompt, an art on day 2 with a day 2 prompt, etc.

This event provides 2 sets of prompts with two different themes (pre-canon and canon timeline, and a post canon speculative timeline). While you can stick to one set of prompt, you are very welcome to mix and match. Extremely bold participants may want to do both and post 2 weeks worth of works. That's fine too! So is doing a single work for a single prompt.

Ultimately, the goal is to have a week during which the Arcane fandom gets the spotlight and new works are created and shared. the goal is to be inspired and have fun. The prompts are there to inspire If you see a prompt in the post-canon theme that appeals to you for a pre-canon story, go crazy!

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AO3

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If your post includes NSFW or triggering content, a rating or trigger warnings must be included in the body of the post, as per the rules. Any NSFW or triggering material itself must be under a read more/post break.

If your post is longer than a few paragraphs, please place the rest of the text under a read more and/or include a link to AO3.

Mods

The sole mod for this event is the blog runner, @bluedaddysgirl (they/them), both on here and twitter.

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