#application function

[animatedjen]

Hello! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love all your Jedi photo mode pictures! It's been really cool to learn from you and your process. I had started to play around with the photo mode and I was mildly interested, but I understand it so much better after visiting your blog. I've tried to apply what I've learned and I think my photos have turned out SO much better, and I'm having so much more fun with it! Thanks for sharing all your beautiful pictures and tips!

I'm glad you're having more fun with photomode!! And glad to hear my tips have been helpful :) Earlier this week someone on Twitter said "I just wish Jedi Survivor had more longevity" and sure, we aren't adding any DLC or live service stuff to the base game. But I think virtual photography really extends the gameplay and allows you to capture your own experience as Cal Kestis. It's something unique to the Jedi series that other Star Wars shows/movies can't offer.

There's definitely a learning curve, and it helped me a lot to see other people's photos when I was first starting. Turns out most IRL lighting techniques actually work in this digital space (kudos to the Respawn developers!) and that's made a huge difference in my own work. Feel free to ask any specific questions and I'll try to explain best I can!

[ohwatson]

finally employed which means i will have money to go fix my laptop and therefore FINALLY WRITE SOME FIC MY GOD 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[veradune]

So I guess my mom just had to call an ambulance for my dad.

[homestuckreplay]

Pagecount: Over 900

(page 886-902)

With 17 pages, 11/22/2009 is the longest Homestuck update by number of pages to date. It contains not one but TWO huge story developments: the ominous planet and the Peregrine Mendicant.

Ominous Planet

Just as WV told us, the ominous planet is bright purple and lies ‘beyond an impenetrable veil of darkness’ (p.704/886).

Dad is here!! I think a lot of the sudden character transitions in Homestuck actually make sense – we went from John thinking about going into his dad’s room, over to Dad himself. He barely appeared in Act 2, getting kidnapped by the imps at the start and breaking out of his trick handcuffs at the end, and now he easily bests them. Clowning is a physically demanding pursuit so Dad must be well in shape beneath the business clothes, because he launches one imp right through the wall.

We also meet an imp security guard (?) who’s wearing similar but more intricate harlequin gear.

They’re watching Dad fight the imps and somehow also watching John battle the ogres, through a pair of windows similar in design to ‘one of [Jade’s] GRANDPA'S more mysterious inventions’ (p.790), the freestanding window on Jade’s gadget table. There is apparently no end to the number of people watching John.

He looks kind of familiar. On page 833, we’re introduced to the full Midnight Crew as the sky switches from blue to bright purple. And comparing these face shapes and designs side by side, these two characters feel like they could have something to do with each other. They’re both really angry, as Spades Slick’s answer to everything is violence, and this new guy refers to the other imps, John and Dad, or both as ‘graveyard stuffers’ (p.891). It’s the only text we get in relation to the character. The narrator apparently has nothing to add and no witty comment on that thought of theirs. There’s then a quick cut where seeing the next page title ‘You are now…’ suggests that we’re about to become this guy, but we instead suddenly become-

Peregrine Mendicant

THE MAIL HAS ARRIVED. Mail, packages and deliveries are a recurring motif – there have been several important colorful packages, several envelopes containing discs, and now there is a letter to Dr. David Brinner, ATTN: SERIOUS BUSINESS. Serious Business is of course the messaging client that Dad uses to keep in touch with his troupe, and we just returned to Dad in the story, so is this finally the moment that wellPressedAttire or officeurchin1280 take their starring role in the narrative? It’s definitely a person in John’s neighborhood but not Dad himself, as we’ve seen the insides of the Egbert mailbox.

PM’s mail based tirade (p.894-896) is of course reminiscent of WV’s mayoral calling (p.686) and PM’s adoption of the hat is just like WV making their sash. So there’s something to say about these chess pieces arriving at these Skaian bunkers and immediately adopting an institution of society as critically important. Both PM and WV’s monologues read as very idealistic, imagining these overly simplistic societies that function like textbook diagrams, as though they know about these things from books similar to WV’s Human Etiquette tome and have never been part of an actual human society. Comparing the two, WV’s monologue feels more peaceful, as it’s focused on everyone getting along, mutual respect, civility and a kind leader. PM talks of soldiers, a crusade, defenders and hope among the ashes; it’s far more violent and adventurous, and feels more grounded in harsh realities even while it maybe overestimates the mail’s capability.

Which is not to criticize the mail or PM’s speech, because I think they’re both great. I agree that mail is very important, highly underappreciated, and I think it’s beautiful to explore an empty wasteland and to think ‘if there are any people left here, I need to make sure they can communicate with each other’.

Looking stylish in their new hat, PM loads their terminal and tries to greet Jade the same way WV commanded John. Jade is already covered by a lot of green static, but it appears to be snowing where she is, with flakes and drifts behind her. Which is weird in itself, because Jade is close enough to the equator that a quick search suggests it wouldn’t snow in her area no matter the time of year, especially not with the geothermal power near her house. But it gets weirder, because when John resisted a command he just felt frustrated and got a headache as he tried to ignore a weird voice in his head. When Jade resists a command, she apparently blows up the command station with lightning that she transmits through time and space. Yet another way that Jade is weirder and more powerful than the other characters.

> PM: Sacrifice yourself to save the mail.

[minnnoru]

i'm here to apply for the codependent bond

Wdym I thought we were already halfway there. My first question would’ve been if you have experience ignoring red flags and calling it love but I already know you do. Congratulations. You’re already too important to me 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻

[remitro]

cniki in a notes app on my ipad… Awesome

[spaciebabie]

discord after sending me a notification that someone dmed me 10 hours after the fact

[whirling-ghost]

actually 10pm to midnight are perfect hours for working on a job application and sending urgent emails

[nexus-nebulae]

kind of want to start a sideblog where we give system advice (specifically on how to gain functions/dispel disordered symptoms) but we have no clue what to call it

[lapeaudelamemoire]

Trying to get everything in order to apply for yet another visa as my current one expires in less than 2 weeks, and I haven't been able to apply for a new one before now on account of my educational institute being a clusterfuck and not being able to give me my course completion any earlier than last week.

The "I want to die" in my head is fucking loud and non-stop.

Went for yet another fucking English proficiency test today as required for the g-ddamned visa despite having spoken English as my first language since literally being a toddler. What a colossal money scam.

Then I've just spent the last hour and some looking at insurance that I need, again for said visa.

I am not really catching a fucking break.

Sure, we went away for a week for a supposed break, which it kind of was - for my birthday, no less - except I was also still trying to wrangle my course completion certificate from said *bleeping* institute pretty much the entire time, and also still trying to sort what I need for this visa.

We come back and it is immediately straight back on no breaks no brakes. I had to arrange this fucking English test on the last day we were still away so that it'd be in time.

Back at work tomorrow and then we're off again on the weekend to partner's parents' place up in another state because it's fucking Easter; and I will still be trying to finish sorting this visa meanwhile before the start of the week after. This will likely involve having to ring my parents because the damned thing wants even my parents' travel history from the past 10 years in addition to mine.

My brain is low-key on a low, roasting burning fire.

And yeah, seeing the news about how migrants are being treated in the 'US' as well as the bullshit rhetoric spouted by the abysmally awful political ads being run here on billboards everywhere at the moment because it's elections here soon too is getting to me, seeing as yeah it still really gets me.

I'm so fucking tired.

[t4tstarvingdog]

just had a look at spectrum outfitters :3 the forest green light binder is so pretty <3

HELL YEAH i got the nude one as my main one, but i got one size larger in like the ocean? colour? it’s this blue purple sorta colour <3 for exercising or if i start having trouble at work w breathing or pain

[bunabi]

it took forever but I finally arranged my files into something resembling an orderly accessible categorized format 😭

[brbgensokyo]

really wish fabult was officially supported (and had a real bestiary but coming soon) so i didnt have to rely on a third party tool but a guy who doesn't pay his hosting bills

[coffeedrgn87]

[aworsening]

bro what

[queenburd]

I’ve been watching a lot of Taskmaster clips. I…. I don’t know how to explain the last image without just giving you a link that tumblr…. Will not let me include on mobile!