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"I should draw my OC's sprites before I do a dialogue maker where they talk," I said, proceeding to not draw them. Done a lot of brainstorming on their design, though! Here's what the party is doing during Siffrin's Loop call.

Under the cut again because, again, it's a big pile of gifs because I like it that way.

What I should have been doing tonight: Sleeping What I did instead: Using the ISAT dialogue maker to introduce my SI OC when I haven't even thought of anything else related to them.

Under the cut because it's a lot of gifs

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What I should have been doing tonight: Sleeping What I did instead: Using the ISAT dialogue maker to introduce my SI OC when I haven't even thought of anything else related to them.

Under the cut because it's a lot of gifs

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ISAT swear headcanons go... For any culture not just Vaugardian...

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What I should have been doing tonight: Sleeping What I did instead: Using the ISAT dialogue maker to introduce my SI OC when I haven't even thought of anything else related to them.

Under the cut because it's a lot of gifs

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Skyrim Dragonborn: Militant religious fanatic believes she is a psychopomp for immortal souls. Unfortunately, she is right and starts killing gods about it.

Modded Skyrim Completionist Run: Cat Grandma, who just retired from being Cat God-Emperor's Personal Bodyguard, steals every item of even slight importance and puts them in a museum. Sometimes she has to punch a god to death to get her prize, but that's just her normal Tuesday.

Oblivion Hero of Kvatch: Criminal charlatan merchant is offered amnesty in exchange for ensuring the Emperor's bloodline continues. Accidentally amasses so much political power by scheming his way to supplanting every faction's leader, taking over the criminal underworld, and becoming the champion of the entire pantheon, that he gets elected Emperor instead. He hates it. He wants to go home.

Fallout 4 Sole Survivor: Modern Oracle of Delphi helps stop the Great War with his visions then gets clean off drugs to get married. Apocalypse happens anyway. Slowly goes back to being Addictions Georg every time something bad happens because he thinks his visions will help.

Fallout New Vegas Courier 6: Retired Badass Returns For One Last Job After Her Last One Went So Wrong. Two bullets to the brainpan just makes her angrier and more unstoppable. When she sees that nobody is making anything better all the time, decides "Fine. I'll Do It Myself." Unfortunate taste in men.

Fallout 3 Lone Wanderer: Local Claustrophobe Forced Into Cramped Space For The 7th Time Today Finally Snaps.

Final Fantasy 14 Warrior of Light: Healer whose powers don't follow normal rules finally learns where his powers come from, immediately becomes The Punisher. Has a sense of justice so massive it takes a helmet as tall as he is to contain it.

Final Fantasy 14 Story Alt: Local Bard discovers that in the grand play of scheming gods and shattered reincarnations, he is actually some random nobody who has no place here with his dinky small, weak soul. Immediately goes around getting possessed and collecting soul passengers until his soul looks like Zim from that one episode where he steals peoples' intestines. Dresses in an over the top parody of the main antagonists' uniform to mock them.

Pokemon Trainer: Local man wants to settle down, but enjoys large, inhospitable pokemon. Cultivates a wandering garden instead.

Starfinder: A bunch of space nazi zombies kill Oogie Boogie Nightmarebeforechristmas's family and kidnap his dad, so he joins the space anti-space-nazi-zombies force and starts eating people about it.

Pathfinder: Time traveler sends simulacrum copies of themselves back in time to help resolve conflict points.

DnD: Robot is actually a hivemind swarm of magical bugs piloting his body like a mech, on the search for new and exciting other bugs to assimilate.

Also DnD: Local bird can only speak in Youtube Poop, studies ancient ruins to collect new curses to cast on enemies.

DnD But Became Default Character On Anything: Local Orc Too Stupid To Die. Curbstomps the god of destruction so hard he becomes a multiversal constant.

EVERYONE QUICK describe your oc story in the worst way possible

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ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.

AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]

This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.

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Hi,

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

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“Hey, right on time. Must be your lucky day... But then, you don’t need luck, huh? You’ve got Krono.”

I know it’s bad manners to speculate about Hololive members’ past roles, but Ouro Krono sounds a lot like Logan Cunningham in Transistor, doesn’t he?

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Requested by @merfolk-are-the-best-folk after I mentioned it elsewhere, I’m posting my personal splice together of the Final Fantasy 14 Alexander Raid music. Composed by Masayoshi Soken, the splice transitions along leitmotifs and shared passages within songs.

Tracks used include 'Alexander Ambient Theme,' 'Brute Justice's Theme,' 'Exponential Entropy,' 'Locus,' 'Metal,' 'Moebius,' 'Rise,' 'The Twinning,' and 'The Tycoon,' along with some in-game and some royalty free sound effects. Cover image from the wiki and attributed to Square Enix.

Fun fact, the MP3 is 30 megabytes, and trying to compress it down to fit tumblr’s 10 megabyte cap absolutely destroyed the sound quality. So I made it a 220 megabyte WAV file instead and gave it to Soundcloud, and hot damn it worked!

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Having not played nor watched much of anything Mass Effect until I watched @demilypyro play it, when I saw the Geth Pyro, I was inspired.

So here’s the Gethmily Pyro.

(I didn’t want to draw that hammer it’s so complicated so I just pasted it and Rannoch in)

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I just had to get the grumpusona out of my head. Took about an hour, super low effort.

Jodace Naildit is the general contractor that Elizabert Megafig brought along to build the settlement of Snaxburg! He hasn’t slept in days because he’s been busy rebuilding the town after the earthquake that helped scatter the grumpuses before the game’s start. In the Bugsnax tradition of having an all-star cast, he would be voiced by Steve Blum.

Story under the cut because I spent way too long coming up with it instead of sleeping. It’s long. I like to make my OC’s like DLC-esque characters; They fit in or can be removed without changing the main plot very much, but give opportunities to explore unexplained aspects of the game.

Jodace is a staunch union grump, and has much experience building all sorts of structures. He was one of the usual grumps that the union sent Elizabert when she would hold showcases in Grump City, so when she needed someone to help establish a settlement on Snaktooth Island, she made the union an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Everygrump knows that people don’t return from Snaktooth, so Elizabert set up a fund that would transfer five times a contractor’s weekly pay to the union’s trust weekly until either the fund ran out, Jodace finished his contract and returned, or the union received proof positive that Jodace had died. If Jodace returned, he would receive 80% of the trust, and the union would keep the last 20%. If he died, the union would keep the whole thing.

Jodace accepted the job, and has been constructing mini-boats with written reports stashed on them, and sending them off weekly to keep the union updated on his progress. Since the mainland can’t contact Snaktooth at all, he has no way to know if they ever reach shore. He also can’t replenish his stock of nails.

The first thing Jodace built in Snaxburg was the mill that Chandlo and Snorpington stay in, to cut the lumber he would need to build the rest of Snaxburg. When he began running out of nails, and the island had no available metal to make his own, he started having to re-use. He’d glue things together and use nails to hold them until the glue dried, then retrieve the nails afterward.

When the other grumpuses discovered that bugsnax just turn into mush if killed or cooked, and Cromdo started making snakwater by steeping bugsax, Jodace put the two discoveries together and learned that by rendering down bugsnax goo, he could make a somewhat sticky substance that he started to use when his glue ran out.

In the game proper, the player would find him in Sugarpine Woods like Chandlo and Snorpy, near the already chopped trees. He’d agree to come back to Snaxburg easily, but he’d just need some time to bring the trees he’d chopped back to town for lumber. He’d return to town alongside Chandlo and Snorpy when their quests were done.

As the game progresses, he’d help Chandlo repair the bridge to the Sizzlin’ Sands, and Triffany and Wambus to clear the rubble leading to Frosted Peak. At the very end, he’d help Filbo repair your ship. But, unlike Filbo, if you haven’t completed his personal quest, he can succumb to the snax like the rest, giving some urgency to that part of the last section.

His personal quests would be experimenting with Bugsnakification in regards to his building abilities. Paws are fine, but he’s seen other grumpuses hold on to things despite snakified arms lacking fingers.

First he would ask that the player turn one of his hands into a Green Crapple, so that the claw he hopes to get matches his fur. Unfortunately, Crapple only gives him one slice instead of a claw. He’s disappointed, but notes that he has some sort of tactile stickiness in place of a gripping paw. To explore the stickiness, he asks that one hand be turned into a Hunnabee, and the other into a Cinnasnail.

Interestingly, these sticky snax don’t change the grip strength of his hands! Still disappointing. As a last ditch effort, he wants to see if a layered snak would give him the grip he wants, and asks for a hand to be turned into a Sandopede. Even that, you find out, does not give Jodace what he wants. The ‘layers’ are just differently colored folds, and the snakified hand is solid all the way through.

Despondent, Jodace says that since he’s stuck with the weird sticky paws, which he doesn’t trust as much as his old gripping paws to hold his hammer, he needs to get some safety equipment. He wants to turn his feet and head into the hardest snax you can find. His quest is finished when you turn his feet and head into Cocomites.

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Scholars don't have the monopoly on faerie companions anymore!

While I only put the whole ensemble together after finishing Shadowbringers, most of the glams are available with Heavensward, so that's when Hishino (still going by Jack at the time) put the outfit together. Basically as soon as I got the Hallowed Ramie Doublet, I knew that was what I wanted to design his forever look around. For most of the time I just glammed his boots into the Ironworks boots and the gloves some generic dress gloves (I think they were Aurum gloves) and a generic monocle. I'll talk about those monocles later because I have headcanons to offload. I used the <Deck Holder> title until I got <Shepherd to the Stars> and started using that instead.

Now, to complement to Hallowed Ramie Doublet (dyed grape) I've got the White Griffon pants and gloves from PvP (dyed grape and nophica green respectively), Owleige boots also from PvP (dyed ochu green), the Scion Adventurer's Monocle (Ul brown), and Star Spinel Earrings of Healing. And, of course, the Canopus Lux Anima weapon (also dyed Ul brown) with complementary Anima minion. Though in regular play I use Toy Alexander because I just really love Alexander, Anima was more appropriate for this particular portrait.

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The portrait of Hishino’s default outfit is up early on patreon!

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Since the picture of Hishino’s forever glam is taking so long because the FFXIV devs went ham with gilding and details on post-ARR gear, I put the WIP on Patreon because dangit I want to post something!

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Again - for people who missed the last one - I put together my character’s backstory to justify why a person whose people were Japanese had a Western name because I didn’t know that’s where the Au’ra Raen were from when I made the character.

(Quick recap, he was born in Sui-no-Sato and hitched a ride to Gridania following some Aetherial voices. The Gridanians couldn’t pronounce his name so they gave him a new one. Then when he went adventuring no one else could pronounce his Gridanian name except for Urianger, so he simplified it. He has never seen the night sky.)

A Realm Reborn basically went as it always does, though the Quarrymill section was a lot faster because Jack could heal the injured Ala Mhigans there despite the Elementals’ decree without suffering Woodwrath (which was a hint that his magic did not come from the Elementals). So the Conjurer’s Guild sent him to the Padjals to learn White Magic.

After Jack had broken his horns at 14 to stow away on a ship heading West, the unmanaged horns grew back and inwards to the point that he could not raise his head to look up without stabbing himself in the neck. That, combined with most of ARR taking place during the day or on cloudy/smoky nights, meant that Jack still never saw the night sky. His horns did eventually break in the assault against the Ultima Weapon, and so Cid built orthodontic headgear into the Augmented Ironworks Optics he gave to Jack to help his horns grow outward instead of in.

Then, of course, came the march of misery that was the ARR patch quests and finally Jack saw the night sky and the stars when he passed through the gates of Ishgard to start Heavensward. He realized he’d been hearing the song of the stars for his entire life and followed them to Jannequinard so that he could become an Astrologian and harness the true form of his magic.

Next is going to be the final outfits I landed on as his forever fashion. But, uh, the clothes get super complicated after ARR so those are an entire other project. I will say, along with Astrologian, Jack adopts the Dark Knight after that whole string of betrayals, and then after Shadowbringers he learns to cherish what home he still has, so goes back to Sui-no-Sato to learn the way of the Samurai and reclaim the name he was born with (I used the post-ARR fantasia that I never used and a name change to update his in-game character model to match).

(Also, again, the background is by TRANOID on Steam because I just could not find the character select background on google.)

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I feel like I need to say this, as I've seen some concerning fandom purity bullshit crossing my dash.

This blog is unapologetically pro AO3.

I support them and all they do, may they continue to do it for decades to come.