#more like minimum effort shitpost

[its-roachii]

Unicorn noodle boy sniffing flowers please?

the goober is snorfin

[guinevereslancelot]

concept of love: 🥰👍❤️✨️😍💖❤️‍🔥🥰🫶💕💘

reality of meeting new people and dating: 😬👎🙃🗑😵‍💫❌️🫣🫠⁉️💩😐🚫

[nekrophoria]

Some more half assed gameplay shit.

Sims 4 Mel is by far the most miserable excuse for a sim I ever had to deal with.

This guy does not want to be happy. Getting him to a point where he's simply "fine" has proven impossible so far. But eh, I like the challenge.

You know you need to re-evaluate your life when Santa invades your home on Christmas Eve and gives you shit.

(I had Mel fight him for presents but he got his ass beat.)

Mood.

I love you Jester.

I made a bootleg Alev as well so bootleg Mel would have some company that isn't feline.

They're kinda, sorta...not really hitting it off.

I don't know what I'm more baffled by... the fact that it took him almost a day to draw this or that he got 85 simoleons for it.

Not gonna lie I'm kinda having fun though.

[mazojo]

I knew when choosing tumblr as my platform I chose the path of exellency

[syn4k]

🌿

unfortunately the only way to solve not wanting to create things is to not create things until you want to create things again.

"but Six!" i hear you protest over the angry yells of all my followers. "that can't be true! i hate that!"

i hate it too. But listen up you self loathing chucklefucks this is IMPORTANT.

if your brain and body is telling you that you are tired and that you need to take a break, fucking listen to them. Do not ignore them and continue making things anyways.

I do not give a fuck about your making one thing per day streak. I do not give a fuck about your follower count or engagement or statistics or whatever the fuck. I do not fucking care how stubborn you are. This rule is set in the laws of the universe itself just like the laws of physics are.

If you do not schedule time for yourself to recharge, your body will automatically do it for you and it WILL NOT ASK POLITELY.

that's what burnout and writer's block IS! you cant make shit if you're too fucking tired and depressed and busy trying to function as a person and don't have any energy left over for creative work! creating things takes ENERGY and EFFORT even the most self loathing low quality shitpost stick figure youve ever doodled on the back of an napkin. That takes effort too. This is your body realizing that you're going past your own limits despite everything and forcibly shutting you down so that you physically fucking cannot anymore for your own health.

Full stop.

If you take the time that you need to rest and regain energy and use it instead to continue doing things that require energy, your body will force you to allocate that time to rest at some point eventually.

So yeah. Sleep in hard over the weekends. Do nothing. Be unproductive. Fuck capitalism and FUCK the Protestant work ethic. I am being so fucking serious right now. This isn't just me repeating what I've heard, this is me sharing things that I've had to learn the hard way over the span of literal fucking years because my dumb ass kept ignoring it too.

You are allowed to, and encouraged to, politely turn down outings with friends and family if you're too tired.

You are allowed to, and encouraged to, take a day off from school or work if you wake up and know in your bones that you are too tired. (Make sure to let your teachers know beforehand. They'll understand. Skipping a day of work is a whole nother can of radioactive horses that I don't want to open right now but others here may have advice. Check the notes.)

You are allowed to, and encouraged to, do nothing.

You are allowed to, and encouraged to, be "lazy" (if you're not enjoying the forced time off, you're not being lazy).

If you can only do the bare minimum to take care of yourself (i.e making low-effort meals, only using the bathroom twice a day, etc) then that's okay too. The more you rest, the more energy you'll slowly build up to do more things like going to the grocery store so that you don't starve and getting those assignments done and taking an extra two minutes to make yourself a glass of something warm in the mornings so that you don't want to die quite as much. Also, when you can, ask your friends for a script and call your doctor about prescribing you depression medication because I love you and this is not normal and you deserve better.

Living life is not supposed to make you want to die, and surviving is not the same as living.

your body has a built in hierarchy of needs and at the top of the list is creating things, which you can only do once you're at a certain level of energy and wellness. if something's wrong, your drive to create will be the first to go.

it's scary, but you'll be okay

be gentle and kind to yourself. imagine that your brain and body is a horse: kicking it when it's down and yelling at it to move won't help. you have to meet it where it's at and feed it and comfort it until it's ready to move on again. you can't write trail songs if you've got no path to roam

this quickly spiraled out of my hands but i am very passionate about this subject and also i love u. good luck.

[mrawkweird]

With Adult Swim seemingly on top of the world, what with the whole thing of them now being the go to place to premiere new cartoons (mostly because CN is seemingly aiming for an younger audience even younger than the type they had throughout the 2000's) as well as having household names like Rick and Morty, Smiling Friends and Primal I can't help but feel like we've forgotten a fundamental way to make content. The less is more approach.

When Adult Swim started they made content from scratch with whatever shit they could afford and had access to, which included using backgrounds from Hana Barbara shows. Sometimes for necessity and sometimes it was necessity and the style, AKA 12 Oz Mouse.

When I think back to it, there's something really inspiring and comforting about all that. With the ease and availability of artistic tools and programs these days I feel like there's some untold expectation that if you wanna bother putting yourself out there you already have to be some sort of degree of "good". No more making something shitty and getting better each step along the way.

It's also why I resonate so well with anything on the internet that can come close to matching that energy. So far I can only think of two things, Khonjin House

and recently Palu n' Sora. Actually this whole Ask was just a clever way for me to shill this show cause of how damn funny it is. Not to mention the best use of AI assets I've seen.

Seriously I felt like I've been slapped in the face with the realization of how much you can get away with as long as you have tight writing. All of the voice are AI trained, all the characters AI generated and edited with some bare minimum effects but there's still clear effort and planning in as many of those aspects that can be applied. Also apparently you can now voice act yourself and use AI to change it which is crazy

This shit captures that Aqua Teen feeling immaculately with a hint of Always Sunny.

Since there's now way to share clips I'll share some self made captions

I just feel like this type of thing has become way less frequent, even just for shitpost.

It's as they always say that when you're lacking in one aspect such as a budget it's important that you strengthen others and that's definitely what happens with the writing. There's a lot of charm and identity that can still be found in simplicity so long as you know what you're doing. I think that's always going to be part of the magic of early Adult Swim where you could basically equate it to a bunch of college students trying to make it out of the basement and in the end they did. Now they're working with their own studio but that doesn't make them college years any less special or influential. That's something still worth holding on to. Especially for aspiring animators.

[leclercsbf]

was tagged by @charlosgoggles in this “get to know the blogger” type of post, so hey. tagging @sodacrispy, @ocontraire, @nyoomfruits, @c2-eh, and @birdmentality. feel free to do this if you’re down or if you’re procrastinating like i am.

name: jace.

sign: pisces sun. i do know my other placements but only because a lot of my friends do readings. personally i’m more of an oscar than a lando when it comes to my stance on astrology.

time: too early.

favorite band or artist: this is tough. this is very very tough. i honestly have way too many favorites, but i feel like patd is the one that i’ve stuck with the most. i get these spells where i forget to keep tabs on the artists and bands i listen to, but i feel like i’m always sort of in the loop when it comes to patd. that and the gorillaz. fall out boy too. if i’ve been listening to the band since i was a kid, there’s a huge possibility that i’m listening to them even now.

last movie: red white and royal blue. i’m gay, your honor.

last show: i’ve seen all three seasons of the umbrella academy at least five times, but my sister hasn’t even completed a single run so i’ve been watching it with her during meals. we’re currently halfway through the latest season.

when i created this blog: at the beginning of last month. twitter was going to shit with the post limits and all the other elon stuff so my friends and i decided to come back to tumblr. most of them still use twitter and discord more than they use tumblr but willy and i are here shitposting every single day.

other blogs: i have two, but they’ve both been untouched for years.

do i get asks: sometimes. i love getting asks. people can just send me whatever. i’m not even kidding.

followers: more than i deserve. i’m literally just brainrotting here.

average hours of sleep: i want to say four? or five? that’s about as high as it gets. i can function on way less, so sometimes i do function on way less.

instruments: i don’t play any. do i regret doing nothing but read, write, and study as a kid? absolutely.

what am i wearing: this is scandalous. i’m kidding. shorts and a tee. pretty standard for me.

dream job: well. there are a lot of things i’d like to be doing, but if we’re talking minimum effort and maximum profit, maybe streaming. i play enough video games so i might as well get paid for it.

dream trip: greece. i just need to see the parthenon and then i can perish, probably.

favorite song atm: i saw this edit a few days ago and i haven’t been able to get the song out of my mind since then, but other than that... i’d say fall out boy’s cover of we didn’t start the fire.

[3liza]

it is explicitly a child marketing genre. the reason it has slowly crept up in explicit content/maturity (some of it) is because FNAF came out in 2014 and everyone who grew up with it is now a teenager or older. also no offense to OP but there does seem to be a weird blank spot in the minds of many, many tumblr users where "childhood compulsion to seek out traumatic media having to do with children" got skipped over during their own childhoods, and they express confusion at children really, really wanting to seek out and look at and scare themselves with stuff that is incredibly disturbing to adults, sometimes moreso than to children. but thats extremely normal and common in the general population because even kids who arent being abused and traumatized conventionally in the majority of the population who has access to stuff like mascot horror is still experiencing alienated, rights-free childhood under capitalism and is continually seeking to externalize that anxiety in the context of play in order to process and master it. FNAF is literally a multitasking anxiety simulator about a sub-minimum wage job and so are most of the others, in a sense the predatory nature of the genre in terms of marketing commodities to children is spelled out by the genre itself being about what are essentially children's toys literally stalking and killing/devouring the player. its a way for children to externalize their sense of being stalked by uncanny and deceptive constructs designed to lure them, even if they arent aware that's what's triggering their interest

banban specifically was explicitly a shitpost that got accidentally popular and the creators walked back the parody in order to cash in. people will argue with you about this but they are wrong. the first game is undeniably "this is a low effort pastiche of the genre" and anyone who has doubts about that is probably very young or willing to take the word of grifters who immediately saw that kids didnt get the joke and could badger a parent into buying them a $30 opila bird plush (at target). poppy playtime isnt a shitpost, but did just put the merch link directly in their start menu UI.

scott cawthon has inadvertently contributed massively to this by almost never telling fan game creators to knock it off, and also by often incorporating fan works into his canon or hiring them or endorsing them in various ways, which i think he doesn't do cynically, but has been sort of short sighted because the parasocial situation it has created is real bad

there are also a massive number of pedophiles operating more or less openly in the fandom/genre, which is where a lot of the money and expertise is coming from. there are a lot of extremely popular youtubers who get millions of hits making Party Time Chica Bikini Twerking GETS GROUNDED!!! pt 6, marking it "For Kids", and waiting for the ipad kids to watch preroll ads. the slightly older tweens then joining the creator's discord to get groomed is just a side hustle

mascot horror is frustrating because i dont know who its for. the material is adult enough to have explicit gore be prominent, but the puzzles are for baby children. they'll dangle the idea of child murder having possibly maybe i dunno happened over you as if that's scary. it wants none of the responsibility of telling a meaningful story or getting actually dark. it's the worst of both worlds of horror aimed at adults and children, cause you still have to give a shit about the children playing it!

[midzilla]

its the third year of 2020 and you can’t convince me otherwise

As usual, I like to do my own year end reviews.

Unlike 2021, 2022 hasn’t been a great art year. A lot of things pressed in on me over the year, from deep depressions to transition stress, that combined with my hyper fixations fading leaving doing art something low on my mental priorities. I want to but rarely feel the drive to.

Will 2023 be better, who knows. Below the cut, one piece per month that I’m fond of.

January - what good is a one footed witcher be to anyone I really like the composition on this - tho the credit I take is minimum cause its based off of a in-game screenshot. Still, I hit a lot of aspects from a fic I really like and that’s just cool

February - I imagine it goes like this To be frank, this was too much effort for a shitpost. I keep falling into that trap.

March - field Around March, I started to have basic art issues that I’m still struggling with. A lot of problems with basic construction, a low well of ideas. I like this piece cause it hits my own interests but it probably wasn’t exciting for anyone else

April - what class would a witcher be in dragon age I’m sure I’ve said this before but I will find any excuse to draw armor. I love drawing armor. It’s not easy and it comes out looking wrong a lot but its a fun thing to do. This was just an excuse to draw armor a lot but also play with some designs I really like. I did change a few aspects so that more elements crossed over between each type

May - relax I really like the whole relax series, it feels like the last time I did things really unplanned and it worked out. I started with a pose with each and just filled out details. It was... relaxing.

June - different sky I fell back into Star Trek around June. Not much to say about this one tho.

July - the crone Here in the summer months you can really start to feel things crumbling around me. While I have pieces I like, art was getting harder and harder. I was stressed a lot.I like this small series I did of OCs no one cares about

August - palette challenge I hate colouring, that’s another thing you might have heard. The palette challenge was one I always avoided cause I thought I couldn’t do it. I did, and I like all the results, but I did also create (I used one colour as shading with a layer effect)

September - the image of a witcher This was a redraw that I’ve wanted to do since the original and I’m still not happy about how the idea came out. Oh well

October - nothing I had surgery this month. I got better but I’m still suffering from the bad habits I built while recovering.

November - smartest in the room, bored to death This was a random doodle that I fell in love with and think I did unusually good at colouring.

December - see you in the ether Bankrupt for ideas, I went back to a sketch done in March. Unfortunately, that is the best expression of my mental state when it comes to art these days. Piece came out nice tho, considering I’m no good at painting.

[not-oscar-wilde]

tag some people

was tagged by: @salvador-daley

relationship status: single

favourite colour: black 

favourite food: I do not know if this fully counts but if I could get all of my sustenance from different types of tea I would. regular tea. fancy flavoured tea. iced tea. rooibos tea. green tea. fruit tea. bubble tea. it all sparks so much joy.

song stuck in your head: not technically a SONG but this tiktok song has been in my head so much. why is it so catchy and so clever and also so fuckin real. 

last thing you googled: “refill disposable pepper grinder” bc my life is very clearly exciting and I needed advice on getting the lid off that bastard without breaking it

time: 18:59

dream trip: I’m small and poor and only got my adult passport this year so the list is LONG but I think number one is I really wanna go to italy. I’d also love to go to canada (I went as a literal child bc my auntie lives over there but I wanna go as an adult). amsterdam also looks super fun for a trip with friends.

last book you read: the last one I finished was transmuted by eve harms and it slapped very hard. if you like campy fun but also genuinely creepy horror novellas this is good. 

last book you enjoyed reading: to avoid the repeated answer I’m gonna say the one I’m currently reading, which is you’ve lost a lot of blood by eric larocca. I am not at all very far into it but am enjoying it so far. 

last book you hated reading: sexual dissidence by jonathan dollimore, which I had to read for my degree and it is so dense and boring. I am sorry sir, I know you’re a big name in queer academics but fuck right off. fistfight me in the b&m parking lot. 

favourite food to cook/bake: I hate cooking so much but have perfected a minimum effort and cost maximum taste creamy pasta sauce. it’s carbonara-ish but cheaper and less of a faff, and also contains my most beloved spring onions (which I will put in most things I make).

favourite craft to do in your free time: I want to do more crafts bc it sparks joy but I have not had time in so long... I think I most enjoy making badges tho! I have one of the badge press machine things and eventually I want to do proper designs and sell them. for now I mostly just make shitposts and gift them to my friends.

most niche dislike: probably celine dion. can’t watch titanic bc she pisses me off that much and a single bar of my heart will go on has me irritated, even before she starts singing. 

opinion on circuses: I have very little experience of them so neutral I guess?? that said, clowns are weird and the circus setting in asoue was the scariest one to me as a child.

do you have a sense of direction in life?: lmao absolutely not

if you fancy doing this I’ll tag @softforklave @squishitude @kawaiic0mmunism @crisecardiac @i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky but no pressure!!

[churb]

You know, I have a theory as to why your expertly crafted, well thought out prompt gets no bites but your shitpost idea you smashed out half asleep at 2am gets connects.

If it takes you less time to write it, it takes a potential connector less time to interact with it.

"lol daddy kink" as a prompt takes far less effort for a connector to read and process and understand before they connect, and if you're just casually browsing the directory it's far more straight to the punch and easier for you to get on board with the idea and connect.

"hey let's do warring royals with a ton of world building and lore I've already written up" takes way more brainpower. A connector has to read everything you've written, process it, interact with it, all before they can make the decision about if they're even interested. Even if the prompt isn't necessarily longer, it's at the very least denser.

Essentially, you've raised the barrier of entry to your prompt, even without meaning to. Everyone already knows the joking stereotype that cherp users can't read, a lot of people don't really want to think that much about every prompt in the directory before even deciding if they want to connect, whether it be b/c they just want porn, they're tired from work and winding down, it's 3am and words barely even make sense right now, etc. They skim over this intricately crafted prompt idea, either dont get it or decide from bare minimum interaction they're not interested, and move on. Plus there's the issue of getting more and more niche the more detailed you try to make your prompt.

But "lol daddy kink"? That's all u really need to understand to get the whole prompt.

I'm not saying this is some hard and fast rule—I know I'm definitely someone who gravitates towards longer, more detailed prompts—but I do think intuitively if you think about it, it makes sense that your "low effort" prompt gets more connects because it takes a lower amount of effort for a connector to get on board with it.

Yea, simple is pretty easy to respond to. Like. I know I write long-ass prompts full of pointless worldbuilding and shit. But lord half the time I couldn't reply to my own shit.

Sometimes people just see a simple concept and go 'Ah yes, something my brain can handle.'

[fipindustries]

small horrors story

today was gonna be a perfect day.

i had managed to scrounge up ten minutes out of my busy schedule of youtube sidebar recomendations to actually sit down with actual phisical pen and paper to write down an actual to do list for the next day. and it was a thing of beauty. perfectly ennumerated, formatted and lettered tasks in cascading rows or responsaility, sub tasks indented. every second of the day accounted for, i had even gone as far as making specific stops to get hidrated. the minimum reccomended of water per day was about four liters, i was almost sure i had read that somewhere, and so, four liters were distributed in small cups of water all trhough the day. it was going to be slick, efficient and seamless, a perfect orquestra. I had even managed to time my sleep so that i would get precisely eight hours. this was going to be the turn of a new leaf, once i had managed to get one day through of being a functioning adult then the next day was going to be easier, and so the next one and the next after that, until my life finally got back on track. To further signal that this was meant to be, the gods were mercyful and for once i managed to go to sleep fifteen meniutes after laying in bed and closing my eyes. the legends were true after all.

i woke up five minutes before the alam went off. i had to say there, in darkness, my eyes staring at the clock in my phone, completly still until the ding came in. i shut it off immediatly and got out of bed. i crossed that out of the list. things were going well so far. i went to the bathroom to get out of the way the morning pee and drank the first out of sixteen glasses of water. i crossed that off my list. my computer was turned off and i had disconnected my phone from the wi fi network just to make sure there wouldnt be any temptations. for a second i stood in the middle of my room reading what was next and weighing if i had the will to do it or if i could turn my computer first and connect online. i managed to push through and, through titanic effort, i made my bed. crossing that off felt glorious. i turned on my computer and while i warmed up i went to get me a cup of tea of the kitchen. the tasks were flowing out of the paper like water, graphite lines, beautiful graphine lines indicating incremental small weighs that i was allowing my self to get off my shoulders.

with the tea done i sat down by my computer, i had scheduled myself the work for the day with two little breaks for entertainment, the first one just catching up with my feed of shitpost and the second a small 20 minute video to watch before groceries and cooking my self lunch. i got to it, by god i got to it, life was good. i was happy.

i had made an insane amount of progress by the time the second break came. i saved my progress, closed off the windows, closed the tabs. there was only one more video to watch and groceries afterwards. just twenty minutes of mindless fun. i stretched and clicked play.

at the five minute mark the video freezed. i wasited all of three seconds before checking that the progress bar hadnt completly loaded up. i checked my internet connection. the wi fi was weak. no matter, i could just wait a few extra minutes for it to load all the way and then watch the rest of it. the grey line advanced painfully slow. i opened other tabs to keep myself distracted while the video loaded but those were excruciatingly slow as well and they only made the video go slower. my internet was failing.

i stood up to check the router, it was working well but the beeping lights told me that the signal coming from the provider was weak. that stung, but i decided to trust it was just a minor hiccup and it would fix itself soon enough. i loaded up with patience and managed to open a clicker game in another tab to kill the time while i waited for things to sort themselves out. ocassionally i would go back to the video and manage to squeeze five or ten extra seconds out of it before it freezed again.

eventually it got too unbearable. i stood up again and rebooted the router. it didnt fix the problem. finally i realized what i had to do. i was going to have to call the internet provider. i paced for about twenty minutes around my house, ocassionally snacking on some cookies in the kitchen. well, maybe i could swipe the floors before, i had left a bunch of crumbs all over the place wile snacking. finally when i finished doing that i stood there wondering what to do, i looked at the list again. i decided i might as well take another glass of water, two out of sixteen glases were done, i crossed it off the list but it was out of sequence so that bothered me a lot more than it helped.

finally i went to my contact list in my phone and tried to call the provider but when i did so i realized my phone had no credit on it, i was going to have to go out and charge it up. this got me pacing for another thirty minutes. after which i paced another fifteen looking for my keys.

i managed to go out eventually, all the way up to the corner store and charge up my phone with some more minutes to talk, made it all the way back and called the internet provider. they told me that they were doing some network manteinance and that it should be fixed in an hour. by this point i was biting my nails something fierce. i had already gone through the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger and the ring finger in my left hand. and by the time the hour passed with me sitting in my room staring with unfocused eyes into a wall i had gone through the rest of my fingers and gone all the way back to the first thumb again, which was by now bleeding a little.

finally the internet came back in full and i was able to watch the video, problem was by that point i was completly out of it, i didnt enjoy it at all and had to ocassionally pause and watch something else just to keep my interest going. by the time those original twenty minutes had passed it was 2 pm and i hadnt even eaten lunch yet.

what was worse, when i went out to get [internet] it didnt occur to me that i could also go out to get [groceries]. and going out again was completly out of the qeustion, i had pent my alloted energy to do that.... but then i wouldnt be able to cross the grocery task out of the list. i was starting to feel a weird buzzing in my head, my thumb was stinging and bleeding and my belly was roaring. i decided to drink abother glass of water, three out of sixteen.

i decided to cheat, i had gone out to the corner store after all, i crossed what i culd out of the list and managed to drag myself to the kitchen to cook some plain rice, i tried to give it some flavour by overcompensating with salt and the result was inedible. it was 4 pm, i was starving. and yet, famished and all, it still took me about thrity more minutes to call for delivery. a pizza was going to have to be, which hadnt been at all in my budget for the day.

i ate it straight from the box while trying to comfort myself watching some other mindless videos, work was completly out of the question for the rest of the day. before i realized i was back on the clicker game because i had left the tab opened when i first played it, the pizza box laid abandoned by my feet. it was getting dark outside.

i thought for an idle second to cross eating out of my list but i had no idea where i had left it and i just didnt feel like getting up from my chair, i kept on clicking, outside was dark already. i got a call but i didnt answer. i was thirsty but i didnt noticed it. somehow it was 3 am again, my eyes hurt.

i turned off the computer and shuffled back to bed.

it took me two more hours to go to sleep.

i couldnt even turn off the alarm.

tomorrow was gonna be another day.

[fuckepilepsy]

I don’t remember if I brought this up before, but one thing that I had considered instead of a giveaway for EpileptiCon was to offer to throw a bunch of money at the creatives in the epilepsy community, in the form of commissions for epilepsy-centric creative work. 

I’ve always appreciated the hell out of stories, comics, poems, and the like when they come along. But I don’t expect people to have any interest in pouring their energy and time into a topic as painful as epilepsy. It’s true that in past years, I’ve offered the giveaway as an incentive, but the rules of the giveaway have always been that any old epilepsy shitpost is just as likely to win as a piece of art that took hours to create. So I’ve never asked for anything more than minimum effort.

That’s why I thought, “hey, why not just pay people directly for some cool shit?” That might have been a good option for this year, considering my inability to run the show as usual. Instead, I’m stepping back altogether. Many blessings of the Epilepsy Fairy upon @the-twitchy-life‘s head for running the show this year.

That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to participate. I might have a thing or two up my sleeve. Maybe I’ll dig through my archives and find some old favorites to repost. Who knows.

I hope lots of people participate. It's always been a good time.

[theonceoverthinker]

113. I hope you all know how much writing tonight’s Fair Game HC really MEMES to me!

I had this funny idea come into my mind the other day as I was talking with @whipped4qrow, and because I kind of needed a writing detox day of sorts, I decided to make tonight’s HC about that!

Qrow and Clover are both pretty tech savy. Both are handy with their scrolls, Clover’s got his earpiece going for him, both range from decent to excellent with their minimum known abilities with power tools given their weapons, and they just have common knowledge about basic electrical work.

I’m not gonna argue against any of that, and most fans won’t either.

But I do think that they share one mutual downfall.

Neither of them really get memes and shitposts. 

They’ll walk into a room where the kids (And Tai, as he tries to be cool) are all laughing about a frog puppet drinking tea and be so confused. Suddenly, they feel ten years older a piece and as if they speak a completely different language. 

Now, a couple of the more obvious ones they get -- Remant’s equivalents of Rick Rolling, Grumpy Cat, and the John Mulaney No/Yes memes are ones they can grasp. Qrow might even be able to get a few more than that.

But the really odd ones -- the breadsticks, the girl happily looking at the fire, the anime guy and the butterfly, the screaming woman and the cat? Completely lost on them. It’s like explaining to your great-great-grandpa how to check his email. It’s not that they can’t get it, but it takes way too much time and effort to explain it, and neither the kids in their lives nor they have the patience to really deal with the confusion that stands in their way beyond a small cursory explanation.

Tai teases both of them over this, but stops when Ruby or Yang points out that he spent an hour researching the meme in question before he joined them all, and then lost all of his cool points by calling the meme “groovy.”

I can see Qrow and Clover grumbling when they get home about how they’re absolutely up with the times and cool. Clover mutters about how he knows what’s going on in the world while Qrow scoffs and says he could figure out what those memes meant if he actually cared, which he doesn’t.

He does.

They both do.

But both are too stubborn to admit it, and so they go on in this stubborn state of ignorance, one that has its falsehoods revealed when they actually do get a meme and can’t quite contain how proud they are to do so.

Ruby and Yang just smirk as they watch Qrow and Clover gang up on Tai while they show their meme process.

The men in the family are total dorks...but at least they’re their dorks.

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Alien Anatomy

I’ve kinda been thinking about alien anatomy and here’s some vague conclusions I can come up with.

Insect: so there’s the idea of insect type aliens and if they’re anything like earth insects then their size would be limited by the amount of oxygen (or whatever they breathe) is around. So larger bug aliens could only exist with high breathable concentrations so their planets atmosphere must be a minimum of 30% of their preferred breathing gas. Also, exoskeletons can only be thick to a certain extent before they can’t breathe so larger sized insect aliens would have a thin (compared to smaller insects) exoskeleton; but that doesn’t mean that they can’t have the biological equivalent of steel making up their exoskeleton, they’d still need support if they’re on the larger size, flight could also get a little tricky if they’re on the larger size (basically they might have to go into different methods of it but idk, I’m not a professor on insect flight)

Reptile: so like insects their size would also be limited, but not by air/atmosphere composition but by temperature. The closer to the equator (on earth) the hotter the temperature, and, if you haven’t noticed, the bigger the reptile species. Only the largest reptiles live in the hottest places, you don’t exactly see a saltwater crocodile in Norway. To put it simply, it’s because of their heat regulation; they’re ectothermic. If they live/ evolved on a world with similar temperatures to ours then largest they could be would be a large monitor lizard. And don’t ask “what about dinosaurs? They were lizards”; taxonomically yes but their living descendants (birds) are exothermic, suggesting some sort of transition along the evolutionary line.

Mammalian: size can obviously stay the same maybe bigger/smaller than what we know (for mammals it’s mostly gravity and pregnancy limiting our size) whether they evolved on a planet with more/less gravitational pull. Mammal variations such as marsupials might get around the pregnancy issue since their young are born around the size of a jellybean and monotremes just lay eggs (btw the pregnancy issue is basically that the bigger the mammal the longer the pregnancy and the longer the pregnancy the more time you’re vulnerable to predators) though if you’re a pack hunter, pregnancy might be less of an issue since you are the predator and those in your pack could bring you food so that you wouldn’t be in any danger by hunting (the prey could choose to attack as a form of defense).

Birds: now you can bring in your dinosaur anatomy since they’re technically one in the same (though velociraptors were likely not unnaturally intelligent). This isn’t a rule based off of fact but if you base the bird/dinosaur design off of Jurassic park dinos then you’re out (THE THERAPODS (carnivorous bipeds: velociraptor etc) SHOULD’VE HAD FEATHERS! T. rex might’ve been the exception as they could’ve been big enough to regulate their temperature without insulation but I digress) they would also be able to get around mammals size issues as they don’t have to worry about since they typically lay eggs and have a lighter structure meaning larger size (have you ever held a bird? They’re strangely light, as if they’re constantly inhaling helium instead of oxygen)

Fish: all I know of their physiological limits is that it’s a little similar to the insects limits as oxygen concentrations (or any gas really) is almost always in higher concentrations in the atmosphere than it is diffused in the oceans. As long as they have some sort of propulsion and streamlining to a degree there would be less rules with this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Amphibians: they would have to be heavily reliant on the liquid they evolved from and their skin would be weak to infection (at least ones they haven’t evolved against) they might be able to metamorphose like bugs through their life too.

Mollusks: for those who don’t know mollusks include things like octopuses (yes its octopuses not octopi) and snails. Due to the lack of set bones you could have as many appendages as you please, ones around the mouth are likely as it would help with eating. Early in their evolution basically all mollusks had shells so it wouldn’t be unheard of for your alien to have one too though they could also have lost them (like squid or octopuses) or chosen to adapt them into a bone like structure (like cuttlefish) though that would prevent their awesome ability to squeeze into anywhere. Their skin could also be used to communicate or camouflage as they’re notoriously good at changing their colour and even shape to fit their surroundings.

Plant based life: by this I basically mean a moving plant. If they regularly photosynthesise then their need lots of leaves or their equivalent, they’d likely have a bark like exoskeleton to keep them from flopping about as they move, if they don’t, they’d likely stay small; like bowtruckles from fantastic beasts. If active then they would get rid of rooting into the ground as a method of nutrient extraction for something else, they could have a mouthpiece to transfer water directly to a xylem and have some sort of digestive system equivalent for minerals etc.

Planet: I need to put this in because it sorta affects all creatures. If they evolved on a planet with less gravity then they could potentially become space faring sooner as they wouldn’t have as much of a problem reaching escape velocity. There’s also more potential for flight and bigger “mammals” on these planets. Their orbiting star can affect them too; if they’re around a red dwarf then they’d have more time to develop but their planet could be tidally locked meaning there could be limited habitability on their planet, either too hot on one side and too cold on the other but there’s a small line between the two where liquids could exist and life could evolve, it would also bring in the fun concept of them being like “WOAH, NIGHT AND DAY? WHAT IS THIS?!” Since all the time it would look like twilight/dawn on their planet. If they’re orbiting a supergiant star then they’d have to evolve quickly since supergiant stars don’t live that long before going supernova; this could suggest that they’d have super short lifespans, a year (for us) might be super old to them and they could think were immortal since we live so long (even by our standards) their planet would also have to be much further away to be in the habitable zone so their star may be dimmer from their perspective and, as a result might not evolve eyes. Life on a planet orbiting a supergiant star could also survive with less of a magnetic field (they’d still need one though, but life could still exist with a weak one) so life on their planet could have less geographic activity, therefore less volcanoes and less earthquakes. Other mainstream stars like our own might not differ much when it comes to development and lifespans, it just matters how long they’ve been there/ how long through the stars life it is.

Blood: the colour of an animals blood depends on its needs. Since all animals we know of use oxygen I’m basing the colour on what we know of oxygen breathing life. Hemocyanin (blue blood) would be better used in cold climates so if your creature evolved on an icy planet it’s blood would likely be blue. It gets its blue colour from copper instead of iron. Remember, evolution works as survival of the good enough so if the planet was extremely cold in life’s early emergence then they’ll likely gain this colour and stick with it regardless of whether their planet is cold later in its life. Haemoglobin (red blood) is overall more efficient so if the planet isn’t that cold then red would be more likely to occur. Hemerythin (violet blood) is a simpler structure compared to the first two; going along with the rule of ‘survival of the good enough’ a lot of creatures could possibly have violet blood due to its simplicity. Biliverdin (green blood) is a pigment, it doesn’t carry oxygen and occurs when haemoglobin breaks down but makes animal more resistant to disease meaning that it would be more likely to occur if they evolved in a disease infested environment, likely as a result of lack of predators since disease would replace them in culling their population.

Limbs and organs: limbs such as arms and legs have no real set boundaries though it’s a good idea to make sure that they keep the same amount of limbs or less of them based on the creature they and other creatures on their planet have evolved from (e.g. we have four limbs in total because the first terrestrial vertebrates had four, animals like snakes etc have lost theirs over time but none have gained any limbs because you’d need to have severe evolutionary stress to specifically gain limbs or die: otherwise it’s too much effort for extra limbs). Organs you can go crazy with, you can have as many eyes as you want and in insect like aliens you could even forgo the need of a heart (or heart equivalent) due to their different respiratory system (you could get rid of lungs then too :P) you can have as many sensory organs as you want though you should take into account their planetary surroundings to make sure each organ is necessary (e.g. little to no constant light could mean no eyes/eyes that detect different wavelengths than us)

This has been an unnaturally long 1:30 am shitpost but I felt like I had to say something. Thanks for reading, laters.

[erilex]

After dragging my feet around game making for what feels like nearly a decade, starting and dropping projects like the quintessential rpg maker user, I'm finally working on a thing that I will finish even if it kills me. This is it! This is a game about living the ultimate nerd power fantasy: Being a JRPG final boss (let's gloss over the part were we get our asses kicked by the heroes for now). I originally started working on it hoping to submit it to RPGmakerweb's 2017 IGMC edition, but during the one month development window I focused on the wrong things and as a result I was only able to deliver a very pretty but barely functional demo. While I'm increasing the scope of the original one-month project considerably, it will still aim to be a relatively short game, one that I can hopefully finish before the year is over (I'm terrible with deadlines, so expect me to fail utterly at this). I'm planning to introduce more variety to the environments and flesh out the story, among other things. Last but not least: I will try to update the blog at least once a week with new information about the development of the game. If I run out of material, I will just shitpost something that is still at least tangentially related to the game. I'm trying to kick my habit of disappearing from the internet to the curb. Please look forward to the finished game!

Also, here’s a link to rpgmaker.net’s gamepage, from where I copied this blog post almost verbatim. Yeah, I promised I would update at least once a week, but never did I say I wouldn’t put the absolute minimum amount of effort into it!