littlelav107

[littlelav107]

people talk too much about "slender man" and not enough about "fat girl"

[littlelav107]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[littlelav107]

vro my friend and I are studying for our upcoming chemistry test and the memorization tactics are unreal

all the ones with 1- charges are aro

all 2- charges are dating each other (????)

instead of saying "NOOO" I will now say "nitrate"

we are HAVING FUN

[littlelav107]

sometimes i see things and imagine ideas that make me go "it would be nice to make an alphasyllabary based on that,,, but with my current activities, I wouldn't have the time or energy to continue it into a full conlang, so maybe it isn't worth it"

THIS POST is me reminding myself: hey!! what about the pose and perspective sketches you occasionally draw? what about the expressive faces you draw on the backs of receipts? those allow you to practice different things, right? not every work has to be a full fledged masterpiece, lav! sometimes it would be enough to simply create a sketch for funsies <3

[littlelav107]

It's important to show that you care. Fuck being nonchalant. Text first, send multiple messages in a row. Tell them what they mean to you, be honest about how you feel. Tell your friends that you love them. Love is a gift that can be given away freely, by anyone and to anyone. Show that you care.

[littlelav107]

star is READY to FACE THE WORLD ‼️‼️

lineira with cool hair extensions, a coat, and a heck ton of fighting spirit

[littlelav107]

As a general rule of fantasy and sci-fi naming, the closer to the back half of the alphabet the average letter in their name is, the eviller they are. A name that doesn't contain any consonants north of R is poison frog colouration. If it uses Y as a vowel in a non-terminal position you're basically fucked.

[littlelav107]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[littlelav107]

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[littlelav107]

hey. don't cry. 99 bottles of beer on the wall. okay?

[littlelav107]

i need to inform all of you that in my statistics notes, I write "spiders georg" instead of "outliers"

that means that i have gems like

"interquartile range: IQR = Q3 - Q1, removes the effect of spiders georg" "note that the mean can be spiders-georg'd" "r is unitless, -1 <= r <= 1, and is sensitive to spider-georgs"

[littlelav107]

part 2: what I wrote in hl!green's perspective when developing her character

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written: feb 5, 2024

"Mic test, one two three, hello, I'm Jaidana Luzalys. Dedicated environmentalist and proud artist who posts her art and sells it. That was obvious enough. And to the rest of the world, that's all that there is to me. The rest is unknown.

But I think the unknown is beautiful.

The mystery hidden in what has not yet been seen, the secrets waiting to be heard, the millions of revelations shrouded in darkness, it all is mesmerizing. It's no wonder I keep my true identity hidden.

No, not everything about me is an illusion with the truth hidden in the unknown. My personality is still real, my nature and love for it is still real, I could never dream of changing that, after all, the beauty of discovering the unknown lies in seeing the truth. No, all I've changed is my name and what my true abilities are.

Jaina, they call me, that's who I am to the world. Green is who I am, to those who know who I really am. FIghting with the flow of leaves piercing like daggers, elegance and grace in every attack. They never see me coming and they let their guard down. They never know. They never will. After all, they deserve to appreciate the beauty of what is unseen and unknown.

Signing out, this is G-

Jaidana Luzalys"

i love this character so much

Jaidana Luzalys - aka Green

a rant sesh of HL!Green by lav (and of the world of Hacker Lore in general)

part 1: overview

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SO! these characters are based off of colors. when my brother and i first illustrated them in powerpoint, they were simply colored stickmen. in my current illustrations though, they appear human-like. currently, I imagine them to be able to change their physical appearance at will (with some limitations but i have to think abt that first) but not any of their properties or powers (so for example, hl!red can easily make his hair appear shorter or change his eyes, but he cannot get rid of his sensitivity to ice or his fire generating thing)

now here comes hl!green. she created (and is still keeping up) a whole persona of being human. one, to not be targeted by the same hackers that got orange, and two, to find information that wouldn't be available to her if she was known as a color.

jaidana luzalys is the name she created for herself.

online, she posts her art and sells some of her creations. by all means, she appears like a regular person.

in reality, she thrives in the unknown. she lives in the truth not seen. she fights with leaves to pierce (powers include control over plant and wind).

she acts quite elegantly, not as part of her act, but because of her training to not only flow with the wind but to know how it moves and speak to it, in a way

[littlelav107]

i love this character so much

Jaidana Luzalys - aka Green

a rant sesh of HL!Green by lav (and of the world of Hacker Lore in general)

part 1: overview

-=-

SO! these characters are based off of colors. when my brother and i first illustrated them in powerpoint, they were simply colored stickmen. in my current illustrations though, they appear human-like. currently, I imagine them to be able to change their physical appearance at will (with some limitations but i have to think abt that first) but not any of their properties or powers (so for example, hl!red can easily make his hair appear shorter or change his eyes, but he cannot get rid of his sensitivity to ice or his fire generating thing)

now here comes hl!green. she created (and is still keeping up) a whole persona of being human. one, to not be targeted by the same hackers that got orange, and two, to find information that wouldn't be available to her if she was known as a color.

jaidana luzalys is the name she created for herself.

online, she posts her art and sells some of her creations. by all means, she appears like a regular person.

in reality, she thrives in the unknown. she lives in the truth not seen. she fights with leaves to pierce (powers include control over plant and wind).

she acts quite elegantly, not as part of her act, but because of her training to not only flow with the wind but to know how it moves and speak to it, in a way

[littlelav107]

fyi my vsc personif's gender is "wave challenge" and it is a mecha dinosaur. the terraria version uses the female base tho

as for final flight, it's not even clear what species of creature it is (a strange type of dragon that moreso resembles a harpy) and its gender is straightflying/consistency

cgr has a voice that makes people assume she's transfem, but his birth sex is actually beyond mortal comprehension; not humanly intersex or anything of the sort. not describable as an anomaly either. it is from another dimension entirely

fried legg is he/him (for now) and queer

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a sequel to this story - in which I actually asked for help (this is a happy one)

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SO! Buwan ng Wika, aka National Language Month! ik i make quite a deal abt it, but our school actually has an event for it and this year we will decorate our whole hallway fiesta-themed as a batch! essentially a celebration of Filipino barangay culture

now, I'm one of the heads of our design committee, and the rest of the committee voted to have a jeepney-themed photobooth and capiz windows for all classrooms along our hallway. ofc I was like "sure!" and listed the materials we would need

the two main materials for those ideas mentioned above were 1.) 1/2 illustration board and 2.) 2 balikbayan boxes, so we (design committee heads) added those to our online form for all members of what materials they can bring, hoping that someone would be able to bring any of the two mentioned above

spoiler alert: no one answered that they could bring those two materials (which i really understand)

now, this was yesterday before the class suspensions and event delays due to storms and stuff, so I was to some degree worrying bc those were the two biggest parts of our design!

in desperation, I opened our student-only section group chat (here, we have one set of classmates for every year in all subjects we call our section, idk how it works in other places) and explained that we really needed these specific materials, that they would be paid back if they bought said materials, and that it was genuinely the only thing I worried abt with regards to design

CN29 (NC from previous story), BLESS HIS HEART, WAS LIKE "what's needed" so I outlined what materials we needed and he volunteered to buy them????

like thank you so much???? and ofc I was TRYING to be nonchalant and cool about it in the student group chat but behind the screen I was nearly in happy tears like "thank heavens, thank you, thank you so much-"

so yeah! the culmination in which I asked for help and got an answer!

(extra rambling: at some point it started raining in that area and idk what time the raining started but now I'm thinking,,, did he have to make sure the boxes he bought wouldn't get rained on? bc that's so cute while also so heartwarming, I promise we'll do our very very best for the designs)

we would've bought paint

a lighthearted anecdote about asking for help

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our small group, maybe around four, were painting backdrop elements for a play, which was our class' grand project for the quarter.

we were using these small acrylic tubes to paint whole panels. eventually, our group decided to recruit some of our classmates to help with painting because in our words "we don't care if you're bad at painting, that's better than nothing!"

they came over to help and realized we were working with an abysmal amount of paint. when they asked why, I said it was all we had.

and one of them, let's call him NC (for nonchalant) said "you should have told us, we would've bought paint"

this was lighthearted and I knew it wasn't said with anger! still, it struck me because in my mind I was like "oh- you would have helped. you would have bought all the paint we needed if we told you."

things have....happened, and I don't know what NC thinks of me. I don't even think he knew I led that group of backdrop makers. still, it hits me because *I always could have asked for help.*

regardless of whatever history happened between us. in that instant, all that mattered was that we needed materials and he sure as hell was willing to get those materials and more.

what does this teach? dunno, maybe to plan backdrops better. but more than that, the fact that there are others willing to help if you just inform them. that there are others who would have done what they could of they knew.

that if you tell them, they would buy paint.