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my power move kicked in again because I forget sometimes that as an asian american that grew up in the 90s, we change our names so that people can pronounce them and not be pains about it x___x

so makoto is now nate sorry my sweet prince

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I KNOW you're probably not supposed to share WIP text when writing a novel but idek if this thing will ever make it to the query stage, let alone any scenes making it to the first draft. I'm not sure what I'm doing with it other than ripping it out of my noggin so I understand what's happening for the game and comic

And I'm probably going to delete this or edit the post to redact lmao

Everyone except Theo got a name change because that's my power move baby. They were all placeholders, especially with Reia's being a clunky heavy-handed 90s reference. I did a bunch of research to figure out the most popular 70/80s baby names per character background and figured it out from there. It takes place in 96 so

Reia -> Mai

Haru -> Makoto

Lera -> Sonya

Also we're at 42k and counting hell yeah

Aaand I've been writing spicy scenes. I DID NOT MEAN TO with these two but I CANNOT stop shipping Makoto and Sonya and I was telling my partner if everything goes as expected then where's the tension in the story? The first circle of Hell they step into after getting acquainted with Limbo is Lust so we're speed running this romance

I MAY wind up removing all of the romance between them because Makoto is at least demi or gray-sexual and I'm not sure I want them to be together bc I really like Theo and Sonya as a couple in love and Theo def cannot handle there being anything between those two.

I would lose so much of the written novel. That's ok, honestly maybe I just need to get this out of my system, I already pulled out like 3 pages of spice and replaced it with what's nearly the opposite outcome. lmao

anyway perhaps I will draw this scene but it'll be a while before it actually pops up. This is literally page 70 in the novel draft

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M EDITING IT NOW because I did not include the whole reason I wrote the line

another edit: I should say that initially a lot of the story was a romance before I started putting the site together, and it was more grounded. No Hell, very little spooky. Makoto (Haru) always had a fascination with Sonya (Lera) and Theo was a very jealous ex. The two kept dancing around the idea, yada yada.

But then Theo became more complex and the kindness and vulnerability that grew from that made them seem like a really nice couple that I wanted to protect ultimately

BAM, REMOVED!

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"And now she's being sucked in by the spiral that appeared on her body."

- Uzumaki (2024) | Episode 1

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Pred and Prey + The Ram by CoypuCoyote

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Broken Doll Face by awiltedsoul

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In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'

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“Gashadokuro”

Day 6 - Bones

Do you hear that rattle?

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Art by Boris Groh

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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I have been writing up a storm, and I have a love/hate relationship with those moments when you ship the wrong characters in your OCs because you vowed not to let them be together

like I built hard roadblocks in with the character's actual personalities and their beings so I wouldn't do this. AND YET. It COULD work.

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Where. Where. Where. Where.

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How your email finds me 🚬💀

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Forgive Me Father, 2023, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

First post !

Socials and Commissions

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★ 【嘯】 「 The Doll 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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my one brain cell is so overexerted I kept singing "I'm a dragon, animorph and shapeshift, firebend and break shit" and laughing to myself about how ashnikko is such a nerd for that

it's. breathing. it is fire breathing