#digging through the rocks!

[xxnotinmylobbyxx]

Venture Forth!

[talesfromthecrypts]

TJ MIKELOGAN’s HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT

DAY 11: Obscure Horror Some of my favorites under 10k watched on Letterbox

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

hgcz appreciation is so real, needed, deserved, HUGE HUGE BIG HUGE appreciation for them and for the project... so much talent effort and time. ive only gotten the littlest snippets and hints via nepotism and GUYS. AS A FANDOM. we have no idea what we are in for

@hotguycomiczine !!!

[its-that-kattt]

My current hyper fixation is this shit show from the Syfy channel ToT (more under cut)

(some spoilers ahead btw)

Watching Lexx is like going to a amusement park for, what thay advertise as, "the most violent roller coaster in the world". And yeah it's great in the first half, got the whole death coaster spiral with maximum velocity and everything, but then it zooms out to a flat track with a couple bumps in it for like 10 miles and your done.

I reeeally like the first season, it tells a great story and ties everything up into a nice little bow with enough wiggle room to continue the story by the end... and by season 2 everything that was good about the first season was not only thrown out the window, but shitted on and fed to rabid dogs that hate gay people

As someone who really likes old media I've had to be prepared for very out of date vocabulary and morals to just be thrown around occasionally and usually the overall story is good enough for me to wave it off as 'old media being old media' , unfortunately for Lexx it's combined lackluster writing (especially in later episodes) and overt homophobia / sexism makes it really hard to watch and enjoy , it's gone from a fun watch that needs a little inebriation to fully enjoy to hair pullingly frustrating

They introduce so many interesting concepts and characters that, 9 times outta 10, are literally blown up never to be seen again! And buddy I neeed side characters to get unhealthily attached to !! How am I supposed to be invested in this story if I can't look forward to possibly seeing Bimnie #3 in the next episode or a recurring minor villain that's more of a nuisance than a threat 😭😭😭

It sucks because idk if I'll ever watch it all, but sometimes you gotta choose happiness and peace of mind instead of having bragging rights of watching a "classic" all the way through

Anyway this show got me upset enough to want to rewrite the whole thing so enjoy some of my 790 redesigns and keep a eye out for updates cus this will probably be my next big project (at least until I find something else to obsess over lol)

(For those not in the know, 790 is usually just a head, which is funny for the first couple episodes, but if I have to deal with a comic relief character for more then a couple episodes they better start pulling their fucking weight with more than just "funny" quips [he is not funny]. So he gets the return to Oz treatment now)

[wolpertinger-prince]

Limp wrist

[thormanick]

Wait

Wait

If the sky is fake who’s to say that Celestia isn’t fake

Like yep sure it’s 3D modelled whatever bUT WHAT IF IT’S STILL FAKE. LIKE I’M SURE SOMEONE OUT THERE IN TEYVAT WOULD BE ABLE TO CONJURE A FAKE ONE UP NO PROBLEM

WHAT IF THE TRUE CELESTIA IS OUTSIDE AND RUINED-

(incoherent and long yapping in the tags bc I want to sleep and my head hurts)

[alumthedragon]

Hmmmm. Thinking about snappers but with more splayed-out legs like a tortoise

[higherhell]

Sorry I have still kind of not been active btw, the situation in my household kind of resumed being rough for a bit but it is maybe leveling out again now. Hopefully. Still doing my best to keep myself safe and all.

[trans-yllz]

(approximately) categorizing (almost) everything in my room

[lorillee]

[stellewriites]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. (If you feel like it, no pressure.) Spread the self-love ❤️

i love this,, thanks jd!! but it’s taken me FARRRR too long to actually answer it :/

in no particular order i give you my five fave fics ive written 🤠 god this was tricky i’ve written more than i’d realised,,,

1. choices made in anger - starting off with my fave cod fic that i’ve done so far and my first go at x reader fic

2. can i steal a kiss or two? - not my first toe-dip into dubcon/noncon and like the 100th time ive done a/b/o lmao BUT according to the comments it’s my most controversial 🥴 but one im proud of all the same. was my first long fic in a while so it felt like a real achievement for a few reasons to me

3. the way your makeup stains my pillowcase - my fave wlw ive written (by a short margin but it just beat out ill be so sweet you’ll be dizzy from it bc of my headcanon of eliza dushku as eddie)

4. tossed around by fate - written in a fever dream after watching justified thrice over,, i actually got mistaken for being from kentucky bc i quoted so many details (thank u autism) which made me smile, only thing i’d change is meshing the alt pov sequel into the main fic for better flow

5. playing for keeps - i don’t write for witcher anymore but god i remember this being so fun while i was working on it and i still love the idea of it (fuck yeah, jumanji!)

[chirpychipslive]

so like did rick actually beat that guy up or was that made up at some point in the 90s and people just keep saying it

[moe-broey]

Genuinely what the FUCK are you on about 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[nick--knack]

What's your favorite music album(s)?

oh my god. alright. i have so many in mind that i really like. so.

Well my all-time favourite has gotta be none other than Viribus Unitus by Dragony. I fucking love this album so much, the premise is so ridiculous but also fun and goofy and it feels like it was written specifically for me. The album tells a story about WW1 and Austria-Hungary's participation in it while putting a massive spin on history that includes dark magic, a zombie apocalypse, and more. I'm not good at explaining things but if you want, you can read the entire synopsis here and I guess there are a couple songs that I tend to skip while listening to it but nontheless it is a very good album. cough cough Love You To Death is the best song cough cough. Oh, and since we're talking about Dragony, Masters of the Multiverse is also worth checking out. That album is also full of bangers.

There is also Into The Enchanted Chamber by Timeless Miracle. Its the only album that the band released before disappearing, and every power metal fan eventually discovers it either as a blessing or a curse i'm sure, but goddamn its so good. I really love the sorta dark and gothic theme that the entire album has with its songs - again it's another album thats right up my alley. Good shit.

The last power metal albums I really like is The Monumental Mass: a Cinematic Metal Event by Powerwolf. If you listen to it in order, the songs are set up so the ending of one song blends into the other and I just really love it when albums do that. Also the slightly more intense and... well... cinematic sounding covers of their songs sound nice - Dancing With The dead in particular sticks out to me especially with the loud drums in the latter half. I often listen to this while i'm playing minecraft alone.

If you like folk rock, Herzblut by dArtagnan is absolutely full of bangers. Ruf der Freiheit, Mosqueteros, and The Riddle are my personal favourites, I couldn't stop listening to them on repeat the moment it came out. I also still find it a little crazy that they did some collabs with Visions of Atlantis, like I did not expect them to do a song together, this is like the music equivalent of some crazy cartoon crossover for me. Speaking of, Pirates II - Armada by Visions of Atlantis has SOOO many good songs aswell, this band in particular just keeps getting better with every release. Hellfire is peak.

For more history stuff, Foreign Skies by the Dreadnoughts is an album about WW1. Black Letters and Back Home in Bristol always get me a little emotional, and there's an EP that goes with this album called Foreign Sides (B-Sides) that you don't want to miss. Additionally, I've already mentioned it before but Pack Up Your Troubles - Wartime Favourites by The Billy Watson Band & Singers has a bunch of good history songs and its one of few albums where theres not one song that I skip.

As for classical music, my go-to for when I want some nice calming background music is this nifty little album simply called Viennese Violin by Michael Snyman and the Brooklyn Theatre Salon Ensemble. Alot of the songs in it are pretty short compared to the regular pieces that I listen to, and they all sound very nice so I guess thats another no-skip album on my list. This one is a bit of a random one but Komzák, Kmoch, Fučík: Old Czech Marches and Dances by Czech Philiharmonic also has a nice collection of songs, all of them sound very regal and/or energetic. We got some songs by our boy Fučíc in here. You know, the guy who wrote the circus theme. If regular old classical is too boring then you can listen to the album Wiener Blut by Céline Roscheck which are essentially violin dubstep remixes of a bunch of Strauss songs. I fucking love Strauss, he's probably my favourite classical music composer, so I really lost my shit when I first listened to her remix of Tritsch Trastch Polka and Radetzky March.

If you want something darker and cabaret-ish, Red Hot & Holy by Sarah and the Safe word and Counterfeit Arcade by Shayfer James are good to check out. I don't really know what else to say, just go listen go them.

As for lately, i've been listening to did an oopsie by Uamee alot. It's his latest release and I dunno man, he kinda cooked with this one - ESPECIALLY Dirst Ej Cake. I've also been listening to Rokotsu by syundou lately, it wasn't recently released or anything but that one is also great.

ANYWAYS im cutting the rant short here otherwise i'll be up all night talking about music. As much as I would love to, I have to work tomorrow so I can't.

[thebreakfastgenie]

I am constantly learning about some other day job Billy Joel had in his youth and I have no idea when he had the time to do all this. He must have had some of these jobs for like two weeks.

[noita-digging]

Black Hole/White Hole

Max Durability: 14 (can dig through all solids)

Radius: 12 pixels (cannot be increased by any modifiers or perks)

Tunnel Length: ~175 pixels

Mana Cost: 180

Soft Material Efficiency: 2.8 pixels squared per mana (maximum area removed divided by pi and divided by mana cost)

Danger: player-safe

Uses: 3 (not affected by the unlimited spells perk)

Examples:

I thought it would be neat to have a side-by-side comparison to justify why I am putting both of these in the same post. (In the above gifs I'm avoiding the first trigger region for the bridge boss so that it won't spawn.) The black hole pulls, the white hole pushes, but they otherwise have identical digging stats. The limited uses, high mana cost, and short range make it kinda niche in the early-game, but with greek spells (to make it unlimited) and various things to increase the projectile speed, they are safe and effective for late-game digging.