#2020 web design

[miamaimania]

"Enjoy Websurfing" ⌘ Digital real estate, mostly occupied by squatters

[lovelybrandt]

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Source: Gallery Images From Deviantart.

Requested by: @curestardust

[robbincenijn]

Dunderville / Studio / Web / 2020

[lesboy-tommy]

all hidden messages in Tommy's new music video "The Internet's Getting Worse"

"If you find a corner of this world wide web that has any substance at all, then please stick to it. The hundreds of millions of people that now place absolutely no value on their time, their precious time, and spend it watching souless content designed to hold their attention is depressing. This all depressed me. There is so little substance in this mess of a world wide web, so little heart or soul or love. If you find any substance, stick to it."

"They want you to be angry-

Stop being angry."

"When I was a boy, alone, this meant everything to me. I found my people. My place. All along the way I was a part of something that really meant something. That is the only good bit of this. Whatever I did that meant something, that is the only good bit."

"A Tribute To Minecraft.

The Great Potato War.

The Original Ace's Q&A's.

Ludwig's 2020 streams.

SMPLive Talent Show.

This was everything to me."

"Status is irrational & nature is cynical"

"It's attention porn. 

Don't get addicted to it.

It's nothing. 

It means nothing."

"They are more insecure than you. But what the fuck do I know?"

"I can't watch back my old videos because everyone in them wasn't who they said they were. Do you know how sad this makes me feel. Do you know how sad I have felt all year."

"How could anyone possibly find out who they are when you are all immersed in this needless, self indulgent spiral of instant gratification and distraction. This is not good for you."

"the poor 12 year old watching this sad ass video when he subscribed for funny minecraft videos. poor guy lmao."

"I don't think I trust anyone here. I don't think anyone trusts anyone here."

"Yeah, I know it's too much like bo burnham. it won't be in a year though. In a year it will be like Tom Simons. Just let me figure out what that means, OK?"

"I used to feel like I was doing everything wrong. That I just wasn't smart or good like any of my friends. I realise now I was the only one doing the right thing. I just wanted to have fun. What I'd do to get that back, my god. What I'd do. To have things be simple again."

"I just don't want to slip back to who I was. A year ago I needed you. A year ago most of my self esteem and worth came from you. A year ago I wasn't happy unless you were. I don't think I can ever do that again. That was really wrong. How did I possibly end up there?"

[seancurry1]

Remember, Thou Art Barnacle

A serenity prayer for election day.

Originally posted on my website.

The Ann Selzer Iowa poll, regarded as the gold standard in all of political polling, shows Harris is up +3 in a state that Trump won by +8 in 2016 and by +9 in 2020. 

And you are a barnacle. 

The election better markets have Trump up by +19 (as of noon EST, 11/5/24), and bettors don’t care if people are ashamed to admit who they’re voting for—they’re in it for the money and only the money.

And you are a barnacle. 

Mainstream pollsters have admitted to weighting their polls heavily in favor of Trump, to ensure they don’t end up with egg on their face like they did in 2016 and 2020 again. International whales are taking out huge bets in favor of Trump, swinging the markets, and right wing think tanks are flooding the zone with bullshit polls to artificially inflate Trump’s odds in the aggregate. And even if the popular vote is overwhelmingly for Harris, Trump’s team is already laying the narrative groundwork to support a Stop the Steal campaign that, by the time you read this, will likely already have started. 

All of that is true. 

And you are still a barnacle. 

You are not piloting the ship. You are not the captain of the ship. You are not laying out the potential courses the ship could take, you are not deciding which course the ship will take, you are not scouting ahead. 

You aren’t even a paying, ticket-holding passenger on the ship. You are a barnacle on the hull, deep underwater, and unfortunately, there isn’t really anything you can individually do to affect where this ship goes. Sorry! 

This isn’t an invitation to check out, or become apathetic, or (heaven forbid) embrace doomerism. Quite the opposite: this is a reminder of who you actually are in this entire scenario, of the power you do not have, and of the power you definitely do. 

After the 2016 election, some small part of myself was convinced I could change the outcome if I just posted hard enough. If I fought enough of my friends on Facebook, texted angrily, and tweeted from enough protests and rallies, somehow Trump would no longer be President-elect. 

All it did was, literally, give me a rash. I got so angry for so long that my skin started to break out in hives. A doctor friend more-than-half seriously prescribed that I “get the fuck off Facebook” until my skin returned to normal. Trump was still President-elect, the next 8 years happened the way they did, and here we are today. 

You’re going to hear a lot today: polls are tightening! Votes still aren’t in from this critical precinct! If these trends hold, then we can expect to know something by such-and-such a time! The race is as tight as can be! White supremacists are threatening violence to avenge a dead squirrel! 

(The squirrel thing is 100% real, and my god, I really wish I was joking.) 

Remember, through all of it, that you are not the captain of the ship. You are a barnacle on its hull, and there is very little you can personally do to change it at this point. You’ve already done all you can do—or maybe you haven’t, but even then, you’ve already done all you’re going to do. 

And as you stress, and consider how inebriated you’re going to get, and decide on which web pages you’ll be refreshing every thirty seconds, and stress out some more, remember too that Donald Trump hasn’t ever won the popular vote in his entire miserable life. He only won the electoral college, a racist system explicitly designed to empower slaveholders in southern states, one time, and ever since then, he has lost every election he’s declared for. 

More people did vote for the woman candidate the last time one ran for President, and more people have voted for the candidate of color than their opponent every single time a person of color has run for President on a major party ticket. 

And women have already made up a larger share of early voting than men in this, the first general election post-Dobbs, than ever before in American history. (53% women to 44% men.) 

So as you stress and consider your inebriates and say to yourself, “How can it possibly be this close?!” for the umpteenth time today, remember too that Donald Trump is a fascistic, deeply unpopular person (let alone President) backed by an even more deeply weird party, and that almost the entirety of your experience of this election is being filtered through the lens of a national, for-profit media that doesn’t care who wins, so long as you keep watching. 

Remember, you are not the captain of the ship, you are not the helmsman, you are not the map-maker. 

You are a barnacle. 

Vote for Harris, vote Democrat in your local and state races, and trust your other barnacles.

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[aedearly]

hii! i absolutely love your work. i've been getting into trying to make borders myself, and i was wondering if you had any tips on where to find good pngs or do you create everything yourself? i feel like my luck so far hasn't been great but maybe i just don't know how to search for it correctly!

Hello, nonnie! I'm so glad you enjoy my work; thank you for your kind words. ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) And oh my gosh, it's so nice to see a new GFX creator in the making! One of us, one of us, one us. ~ Welcome to the wonderful world of editing, hehe!

I've compiled a list of websites that I use for my graphics, but please do let me know if you need anything else and I'll be happy to assist!

For general assets, as well as inspiration, I generally use these websites: behance (which is pretty much the industry standard when it comes to graphic design in general, they have cool studios or experienced designers that post their works and/or assets), booth (an independent japanese resources hub with many free and paid assets), huanban (an independent chinese resources hub, same proposal as booth), abdz (mostly focused on typography and branding), dribble (more focused on web applications and design) and envato (templates).

Since I'm colourblind, I'm not always confident about how to compose colours together. So whenever I'm in doubt, I use coolors (to get palettes from images and browse through palette ideas) and colorhunt (which gives ideas for palette themes and motifs).

I love typography a whole bunch, but sometimes it's hard to find that one right font for your project. Whenever I need to look for something else, I always run to these websites: google fonts (when I'm on a budget and want to use 100% free fonts, including for commercial use), 1001fonts (to quickly find fonts based on themes, it has a great tag system), dafont (a big classic huge dabatase of custom fonts), befonts (for more industry standard-leaning fonts) and kerismaker (for those magazine looks). When I want to identify a font used on an image and where I can download/purchase it, I use myfonts and font squirrel. They even give you similar options for free, too!

Suppose I'm specifically searching for illustrations/PNGs I can use on my upcoming project. In that case, I'll either go to flat icons (for websites, applications or presentations), vertex (for 3d icons and/or general vectors), graphic burger (for logo making), cleanpng (for I want a tree PNG and do not want to clean it myself, for example), pngtree (same idea as the previous one, you just search for a word and will see all PNGs related to it) and pngall (self explanatory).

Regarding backgrounds, textures, and photography in general, I rely on websites like pixabay, vecteezy, 3d ocean, morguefile, freepik and isorepublic. They have high-quality photos and videos that you can use on your projects. However, if I specifically need mockups or patterns, I turn to unblast, pacage and ava.

Besides those, you can always search for things on Deviantart and Twitter! Though I do not use those much, I think Instagram and Threads also have pages dedicated to sharing resources. Discord can be a nice place to search for graphic design servers, too.

However, if I cannot find specific resources for a commission/project for whatever reason, then I will make them myself. Be it through photography, drawing or anything else I can get my little hands on.

For the more technical/applications side, the programs I use for my graphics and edits are Adobe PhotoShop 2020, Adobe After Effects 2020, Adobe Illustrator 2020, Clip Studio Paint (for when I need to draw or polish something for specific projects/commissions), and HandBrake (for when I need to make screencaps). My drawing tablet is an oldie, Wacom One.

Hopefully, this can be a nice starting point for you! Please feel free to reblog and/or like this post if you'd like to save it for whatever purpose. ~ I hope you enjoy this journey ahead, and if you need anything else, let me know! You got this! ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

[dalishious]

A BioWare Guide on How to Murder a Fanbase

I have been a Dragon Age super-fan for almost fourteen years, now. I have played every game, with every DLC. I have read every novel, lore book, and every comic — yes, even the terrible ones that are better off forgotten. I have seen the anime film, the animated series, and the web mini-series. I have enjoyed all of these pieces of the franchise over and over, more times than I can count. So, make no mistake: the negativity you’re about to hear comes from a place of love for this fantasy world, developed by many creative people over the years. I would love nothing more than to see the resurrection of passion in the Dragon Age fandom again. But the unfortunate truth is, that resurrection is only needed because BioWare took the fandom out back and shot it in the first place.

In December 2018, three years after the release of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Trespasser epilogue DLC, BioWare first announced the then-untitled next Dragon Age game with a teaser trailer. At this point, most fans were anticipating this would mean within the next couple years, we would see the game. This assumption was based on the fact that Dragon Age: Inquisition was first announced in 2012, and released in 2014, with an extra year of development added last minute.

There have been dribbles of extra content since then, adding to the franchise. This was enough to keep some fans still breathing and interested. 2020’s Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights was a lovely anthology. 2020’s Dragon Age: Blue Wraith and 2021’s Dark Fortress were wonderful comics tying up the story started in Knight Errant. And 2022’s Dragon Age: Absolution was a well-animated series with an interesting cast of characters and story. But all these still left the fandom with a major question: What was going on with the next game? It was untypical of BioWare to be so secretive, in comparison to how they handled sharing information of the past games in the franchise. The only form of updates fans still have to go on is mostly just concept art and short stories, hinting that something must be in production. But why was the wait so long?

In 2015, the first version of the next Dragon Age began with a clear vision, clear scope of practice, and a reportedly happy developer team. Most gloriously in my book, there was no multi-player… but this did not align with the Electronic Arts typical money-mad schemes. EA’s push for “games as a service” meant they wanted to monetize all their games as much as possible, and therefore, they wanted them to be a live service — as Anthem demonstrated, that meant sacrificing things that are staples of good RPGs, like narrative and character choice. So in 2017, version one of the next Dragon Age was scrapped and replaced. This new version would have, in total or to at least some degree, an online portion of play.

There is one part of Schreier’s article, “The Past and Present of Dragon Age 4,” that really sticks out to me, regarding this:

“One person close to the game told me this week that Morrison’s critical path, or main story, would be designed for single-player and that goal of the multiplayer elements would be to keep people engaged so that they would actually stick with post-launch content.”

The idea of splitting up components of a game into single-player and multi-player is a terrible idea, because it means that there would be a large bulk of content only accessible through online gaming; something many fans, like myself, are repulsed by. Even if I did enjoy it, I spent most of my life growing up with either no internet or shoddy internet incapable of playing online games. I know many rural people who are still in that position, losing more and more of their favourite gaming pastimes because they are locked out of the ability to play them. It is a disservice to hide content behind a wall like this, especially in a world that is so lore-heavy like Dragon Age. The news of multi-player in Dragon Age understandably upset many, and this is when I first noticed a large drop off in excitement over the next game.

However, in 2021, the failure of Anthem (multi-player) and success of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (single-player) led the executives at EA to bend to the wishes of BioWare leadership and allow them to go back to the drawing board yet again on the next Dragon Age. This meant removing all multi-player content!

While I am very happy that there will reportedly be no multi-player in Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, I can’t help but feel bitter and a little disgusted over the ridiculous development time spent on something no one but EA wanted in the first place. If it weren’t for this foolishness, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf would be in our hands right now. Instead, it’s been in development hell for nearly nine years and counting. Nine years is a long time to expect fans to carry a torch for you through radio silence, but it’s no wonder BioWare has shared barely anything about the next game; it’s been in flux for so long, they likely haven’t had anything concrete to show.

BioWare hurt its reputation even more when the news broke that the studio very suddenly laid off 50 people who were working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. This is pretty damning on its own, but BioWare took it a step further. Former developer Jon Renish shared a statement revealing that the studio was only willing to offer laid-off employees two weeks of severance per year of service, and denied health benefits. The denial of health benefits in particular is a pretty wild move for a studio with a reputation for “stress casualties”. The latest news on this is that BioWare has still so far refused to negotiate better severance packages, leading to a lawsuit. The lawsuit originally had 15 former employees, but this dropped due to the fear of not being able to afford to pay their bills. So now, while EA sits on $400 million net income, the laid-off employees are struggling to buy holiday presents for their children. These horrid business practices are not to be ignored when accounting for a lack of faith in a studio. What kind of monsters reward workers who make your games special with vaguely reasoned lay-offs?

The latest news on the Dragon Age: Dreadwolf front from BioWare came early this month, December 2023, with a trailer… announcing a trailer that will come next summer… that will announce the release of the game. Supposedly. Maybe. We’ll see. But by this time, BioWare is something of a laughing stock of their own fandom. Reactions to the video released with a pretty map graphic and a few rendered locations were, from what I personally observed, mostly sardonic in nature. People have commented on the vapourware nature of the game, and like all vapourware, that leads to disintegrating trust.

Despite all this, people like Mary Kirby, (one of the veteran Dragon Age writers who was a victim of the layoffs,) said, “it’s bittersweet that Dreadwolf is my last DA game, but I still hope you all love it as much as I do,” encouraging fans to still support the game when it eventually is released. But after every misstep BioWare has taken, that’s a tough sell now. Fans are finicky, RPG fans more so than others, one could argue. We have our favourites, and many of us stick to those favourites for life over our appreciation for the artistry — but that relationship between studio and fan should go both ways. EA and BioWare has betrayed that relationship, and it will take a hell of a lot to build it back up again, now.

[This piece is also available on Medium!]

[stilljuststardust]

PLEASE YAP ABOUT YOUR DRS I LOVE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT, I LOVE LEARNING NEW THINGS BOUT YOU

I've tried to have DR accounts but speaking into the void makes me feel so weird and it's harder to yap that way.

I'm usually very private about my Drs so I'll share stuff people IRL don't know/can't be traced back to me. I don't know if I've even told my friends about this DR yet.

Anyways. Breaking news ig:

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My Shifter DR

Sorry yet again if this is how you find out I don't live inside of a black and white surrealist photograph

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This is a 2020 shiftok DR.

Playlist

This is basically my buffer reality. A quiet life where I can take a break from more intense realities while also being able to express myself fully. I hate the separation I feel from non shifters and this reality doesn't have that disconnect.

Its basically a better CR but where shifters can live authentically. A version of the web with shifter centric Google, Pinterest, TikTok, youtube, though obviously they aren't named the same as it's the shifter version of each thing.

The community in that reality has all of the late night sleepover energy of old shiftok with none of the misinformation or desperation. Just a real community coming together and gossiping.

There is a version of the internet only available to reality shifters. A secret society far far away from the prying eyes of anti shifters, where you can post without the worry that if anything too cringe will land you in a middle grade YouTubers shitty think piece. Even if the general public had access they wouldn't care because this reality is built for my inner weird kid.

Cringe culture is dead in this reality. Anyone I tell about shifting will be accepting even if they themselves are not a shifter and I will never again pause awkwardly as I decide if it's lying to say I have a boyfriend if that boyfriend is a fictional character. Basically, people mind their fucking business when it comes to shifters instead of shitting themselves everytime they hear about it.

My favorite thing I scripted is being able to download and upload media from your DRs and post it instead of trying to cobble together recreations. There is an application called scriptr that's basically the Holy Grail. Its a mash up of Notion, Pinterest, and the Sims. You can design your bedroom and a real photo of it will pop into existence, create an avatar of your desired self, search for a specific reality or time period and find exclusively accurate results, prompts, etc.

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My life there

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I did script myself younger, but not to the age I was in 2020. Before a bunch of people get mad at me, the age change is incredibly small. I'm only aging back one year, because 18 was traumatic and I didn't get to experience it at all. I think you'll live if I'm the age I was six months ago guys.

It's not an exciting reality and it's not supposed to be, it's a quiet life where I can escape from my twelve other less quiet lives. Yes I also have a waiting room for that but that reality isn't a home, my WR is a silly little place where I watch edits of myself.

I've scripted the reality as this really healing place for me. That feeling you had picking flowers on the side of the field instead of participating with everyone else, how holidays felt when you still believed in magic, how you were before they banned fun and whimsy.

I grew up feeling like there was something wrong with me and all I ever really wanted was to feel like I wasn't weird, so this reality says fuck that shit I'm just gonna be weird.

I've mentioned before that I put subliminals on a playlist as a shortcut for scripting so take a look at the ones I saved for DRs energy: here

This reality is all sitting in silk robes as I live stream with my friends talking about our DRs, long walks in the meadow by my house, buying luxury perfumes, and cooking with my mom. Its all the whimsy and nostalgia and the weird kid tendencies this reality tends to discourage after a certain age. My life there is Wattpad, silly edits, and storytimes.

I spend hours lounging on my canopy bed as I script diabolical shit, and then when I finally go outside and touch grass I lose myself in the wonderful woods behind my house.

If you are reading this I really suggest you have a reality where you can be yourself. Be whatever weird annoying person you've tried to get rid of, because you were only doing what made you happy.

It's just me, my cat, and my 16 hour screentime against the world.

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[eretzyisrael]

The Hamas Al Qassam Brigades Telegram channel has a post copied from another channel called "One Heart Team" where they claim to be raising money for a soup kitchen in Gaza.

The entre charity is a scam to raise money for Hamas.

There are no names associated with the organization. It asks for money in a non-traceable way, through PayPal, Click (Jordan), Vodaphone Cash (Egypt) or cryptocurrencies. 

It has a Facebook page, also with no details but with a number obviously staged photos from as far back as 2020.

It also has an Instagram page with some more professional videos and showing people wearing jerseys with their logo, a new logo they only switched to last year.

Their current logo was ripped off from another, legitimate, charity called Our Heart Speaks.

This all proves it is a sham charity, but how do we know it is a front for Hamas terror fundraising?

Because it has a website that was never completed. It has a structure but most links don't go anywhere, the only links that work are the ones asking for donations. 

But on the bottom of their main page they have a section for videos. And the web designers needed vieos to put in as placeholders to prove that the platform worked. So the video they chose was a Hamas Al Qassam Brigades military music video!

The lyrics include:

Victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory after victory, after victory, after victory. Sword of Jerusalem, O my nation, made against breaking, kneaded with might and dignity, embroidered with pride. The occupier tasted humiliation from it, tasted oppression. Sword of Jerusalem, in the sky is your place, like the eagle. Sword of Jerusalem, drawn against the creed of disbelief. It said to Qassam, we will protect Al-Aqsa. We loved Hamas, a childhood love. We loved Hamas from school days. We loved Hamas from the first whistle.

Not exactly the type of video you'd expect from a soup kitchen.

Hamas is known to use charities as fronts for fundraising; here is a perfect example. 

[sapphicselkie]

today is my birthday and tommyinnit has dropped a depressing banger

and i decided to transcribe the very quick, hard to read text boxes that occur between 2:50 - 3:13

#1: If you find a corner of this world wide web that has any substance at all, then please stick to it. The hundreds of millions of people that now place absolutely no value on their time, their precious time, and spend it watching soulless content designed to hold their attention is depressing. This all depressed me. There is so little substance in this mess of a world wide web. So little heart or soul or love. If you find any substance, stick to it.

#2: [something about being angry -- the text is too hard to make out]

#3: A Tribute To Minecraft, The Great Potato War, TheOriginalAce's Q&A's, Ludwig's 2020 streams, SMPLive Talent Show. This was everything to me.

#4: Status is irrational and nature is cyclical. It's attention porn. Don't get addicted to it. It's nothing. It means nothing. They are more insecure than you. But what the fuck do I know.

#5: When I was a boy, alone, this meant everything to me. I found my people. My place. All along the way I was a part of something that really meant something. This is the only good bit of this. Whatever I did that meant something, that is the only good bit.

#6: I can't watch back my old videos because everyone in them wasn't who they said they were. Do you know how bad this makes me feel. Do you know how sad I have felt all year.

#7: How could anyone possibly find out who they are when you are all immersed in this needless, self-indulgent spiral of instant gratification and distraction. This is not good for you.

#8: [upside down text] the poor 12 year old watching this sad ass video when he subscribed for funny minecraft videos. poor guy lmao I don't think I trust anyone here I don't think anyone trusts anyone here.

#9: yeah i know it's too much like bo burnham. It won't be in a year though. In a year it will be like Tom Simons. Just let me figure out what that means, ok?

#10: I used to feel like I was just doing everything wrong. That I just wasn't smart or good like any of my friends. I realise now I was the only one doing the right thing. I just wanted to have fun. What I'd do to get that back, my god. What I'd do. To have things be simple again.

#11: I just don't want to slip back into who I was. A year ago I needed you. A year ago most of my self esteem and worth and love came from you. A year ago I wasn't happy unless you were. I don't think I can ever do that again. That really was wrong. How did I possibly end up there?

[webdiggerxxx]

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[roxannepolice]

I got some real discourse for ya, which sort of goes back to my "how old is Belinda?" question.

So, The Story and the Engine happens in 2019, right? And it is in 2019 that the Doctor tells the story of saving that elderly woman, right? Then, ok, ok, maybe, just maybe Belinda actually is more in mid than early 30s, we've already established her body didn't change much since puberty hit, or she was straight after the degree in that moment. In which case, let's acknowledge that Belinda was an active nurse during the worst years of covid. RIP.

But. But if that happened in the 2020s. Which seems likelier. Does that mean the Doctor told of events that haven't happened yet at the moment of being told? Turned events into Perceived and Recorded History before they unfolded?Next to a world wide web designed specifically to record stories?

IS THAT GOING TO AFFECT REALITY? HAS HE CREATED A PARADOX? IS THE REALITY WAR ALL ABOUT A FIXED POINT IN TIME BECOMING FIXED BEFORE IT HAPPENED? HAS THAT OLD LADY BECOME UNDIEABLE LIKE JACK BECAUSE NOW WHENEVER HER HEALTH FAILS THAT MOMENT IS BOUND TO HAPPEN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN?????

[stereopticons]

On This Day in Schitt's Creek: February 25

2019

An Unwelcome Intrusion (And the Love that Followed) [david/patrick, M, 4,435] by stargatewars

Someone from Patrick's past comes into his life and is anything but welcome.Leaving Patrick hurt, he must attempt to pick up the pieces, but he isn't alone.David, and some unexpected visitors show Patrick just what love and support can do for a person.

Life After Cabaret [david/patrick, E, 1,405] by call_me_tina_b

Patrick continues to dress up after he plays the Emcee in Cabaret.

2020

April Showers [david/patrick, T, 3,157] by metalshootingstar

An ex of David's comes to town, however this particular ex is different from the ones that have come before.

Endless Days of Winter [david/patrick, NR, 13,455] by anonymous

Short little ficlets and drabbles for the February prompts from Rosebudd Writes.

it's hard for me, my baby [ted/alexis, G, 1,114] by @hullomoon

After breaking up with Ted, Alexis is trying her best.

Kapa o Pango, or What Happened to the Coffee Table? [david/patrick, E, 2,591] by anonymous

David introduces Patrick to rugby, kind of, and things happen. A missing scene for the Wingman.

there's peace in my soul [david/patrick, T, 2,337] by SmallTownRoseBudd

Set right after 6x07, Patrick wakes up in the middle of the night at the motel and his mind wanders over the day.

To Come Out the Other Side [gen, T, 4,558, CW: MCD] by @unfolded73

David mourning the loss of his husband. That's it, that's the fic.

2021

After the Barbecue [david/patrick, T, 2,755] by @rmd-writes

My truth is that I’m damaged goods and this has really messed things up for me. Patrick can’t stop hearing the pain in David’s voice and seeing the hurt on his face when he’d said those words to him. He hates that he was the cause of that pain, when he’d sworn to himself that he wouldn’t become one of David’s sad stories, one of his reasons for keeping his walls so high. Or, what Patrick did, after the barbecue.

Cyprus [patrick/rachel, T, 300] by Rosey_Peach

Five Stars [ray/oc, G, 1,923] by @landofsonlali

Ray visits a coffee shop in Elm Valley to expand his clientele base and ends up meeting someone new.

Forever and Always [david/patrick, G, 288] by petrichor_apothecary

David and Patrick share a dance after the wedding.

I'll Light the Fire [david/patrick, E, 4,183] by @norskheks

Prompt: Patrick thought their sex life was pretty great, once he got his own apartment and they had the privacy they needed, but it turns out being able to call each other "husband" and being 20 minutes away from the nearest neighbor has benefits he and David couldn't have imagined. A selective summary of Patrick and David's first two weeks in their cottage. For 7x12: The Spark.

Is Your Sex Life Alight? [david/patrick, E, 9,852] by @pine67

Alexis sends David a copy of So You Wanna Talk About Boys with a sticky tab placed on a page that displays an intricate web of questions designed to quiz the reader on the state of their sex life. Except, it arrives at the house before David is back from his business trip with Stevie. If she didn’t want the quiz to land in the wrong husband’s hands, she really should have tried harder.

Onwards and Upwards [david/patrick, T, 875] by @mostlyinthemorning

The thing is, that even after dating Patrick for 645 days, David still doesn’t know how relationships work. A coda to Rock On.

perfect cup of coffee [stevie/twyla, T, 842] by @samwhambam

Twyla learns that Stevie is very good at making coffee.

Sounds of Pleasure [david/patrick, E, 2,349] by @grapehyasynth

Patrick visits his favorite audio erotica website and hears a familiar voice

Sowing Discord [david/patrick, T, 4,089] by chronologicalimplosion

A group of hyper-religious, homophobic protesters on campus ruins David's post-lunch good mood and he sends a half-joking message to the LGBTQ+ Discord server about staging a counterprotest. Constant lurker Patrick comes running.

The Last Warm Day of September [david/patrick, E, 2,396] by @frizzlenox

Things get heated when David decides to go tanning and catches Patrick doing some yard work at the cottage. They take full advantage of their lack of neighbors to put on a show for each other in the privacy of their backyard and on their front deck.

the paths that your eyes wander down [alexis/twyla, G, 568] by singsongsung

Written for the prompt: "Twyla and Alexis reunite in NYC." Alexis finds Twyla at a tiny corner table.

they stare when you walk in the room (yeah, we're lookin' at heaven) [alexis/twyla, M, 9,281] by @turningtimeinthetardis

Alexis knows she’s naturally competitive. Like, hello, she literally had to earn her parents’ love starting at age six and her eye for fashion hadn’t come in yet, so she was screwed compared to David. And she’s gambled for her freedom more times than she can count—is it even a weekend if you don’t bribe the Monaco police with express delivery shipments of fine Ghirardelli truffles and Roederer Cristal Rose champagne? So she’s not exactly surprised to find herself gravitating toward Twyla when more and more hopeful suitors approach her as the night goes on. Plus, Twy’s her guest. The horde of guys hitting on her? They’re so not invited back to her place. It’s then that she realizes. She doesn’t just wanna take Twyla Sands home. Like all the boys surrounding them, she wants to take Twyla Sands home.

Third Annual Schitt's Creek Singles Week [david/patrick, T, 2,653] by @lastchancecafe13

Patrick had watched Ray go on plenty of first dates over the years. He approached them with the same enthusiasm he gave a new business venture. Patrick can remember sitting next to Ray on the floral couch in his early days with David. The three of them enjoying Rom-Coms and ice cream. Ray and David had ranked the grand gesture scenes each time. Patrick recognized the unnamed longing and been happy to fill the role for David. He’d never stopped to think that his boss/landlord turned friend was still looking for someone to do the same. ----- Love is in the air at the Third Annual Schitt's Creek Singles Week-will Ray finally be lucky in love?

This Stupid, Wonderful, Boring, Amazing Job [alexis/twyla, G, 1,129] by @lilythesilly

“I once had my own reality tv show, ‘ A Little Bit Alexis’; maybe you’ve seen it? I was also a plant on three seasons of ' The Bachelor Australia .' So I’m, like, super familiar with how confessionals work. Anyway, I came to Dunder Mifflin because I needed a quick temp job since our super shady business manager ran off with all of my family’s money, and it turns out I can literally sell anything to anyone. Even paper.” A cute lil 'The Office' AU.

2022

[Podfic] Sweater Weather [david/patrick, G, podfic] by @roguebebe and @sunlightsymphony

Sometimes, David's sweater buying goes a bit too far. Podfic of Sweater Weather by thetomkatwholived.

home sweet home [david/patrick, G, 1,268] by @rosedavid

A glimpse of Patrick and David moving into the cottage.

I turn around and you're always there [david/patrick, T, 2,233] by @rmd-writes

It’s been three nights since Patrick left and one more night until he comes home. David knows he’s away for a good reason – poor Clint broke his arm scoring a goal for a touchdown in the annual Brewer Baseball Bash or something so Patrick went home for a few days to help his parents out. Apparently David has to be a responsible adult and stay home to run their store because abandoning it – even for Marcy’s cooking – when they have a new vendor signing on is a terrible idea. The thing is though, David isn’t used to being alone anymore. Between losing all of their money and sharing a tiny room with Alexis for years and then working and living with the love of his life, he’s rarely alone for more than a few hours.

The Taste of Strawberries on Your Lips [david/patrick, G, 1,875] by @a-noble-dragon

This was the first cake Marcy had ever made for Clint, and she still remembered sharing overcooked slices and kissing strawberries, cream and sugar from each other's lips. Flushing at the thought, Marcy remembered it was also the first time that she realised she loved him, when Clint had picked up a burnt slice with mischief in his eyes, then proceeded to chase her around her mother's kitchen with it. My goodness! It had been a good job that her mother had been out at the market that day. Marcy cradled the card against her chest, sighing at the memory. This cake, was the perfect cake for David. And if Marcy just so happened to buy extra ingredients when she and Clint went shopping later, well, you never knew when you might fancy whipping up a cake for you and your husband to share. Strawberry flavoured kisses were not to be sneezed at.

2023

[Podfic] Improv Piecing [david/patrick, T, podfic] by @trueillusion82

To him, it’s like fabric. He’s not sure that makes sense, but that’s how it feels. It doesn’t come to him as one big, normal thing. It comes to him as scraps of fabric. Adelina compliments him on his report card, and that’s a scrap. Mom brushes his hair off of his forehead, and that’s a scrap. Dad buys him a tie so they’ll match at the Christmas party this year, a scrap. Alexis hides behind him when the paparazzi get too close on the street, scrap.Problem is: he doesn’t know what to do with them. Affection is tricky. And David was never taught how to sew. ---- An audio recording of nameless_bliss's fic, "Improv Piecing"

[podfic] see me shining through [david/patrick, G, podfic] by @thesleepyskipper

"You’ll make it beautiful." [a podfic of see me shining through by whetherwoman]

Growing Pains [david/patrick, E, 2,341] by @sspaz1000

David and Patrick decide they want to have a garden in the backyard. It doesn't go according to plan. Will Patrick win against whatever is eating the garden?

Rebuilding Bridges [david/patrick, E, 42,788, CW: rape/non-con] by swift_wind

He’s not going to let Patrick define his worth. He’s going to keep his distance, physically and emotionally, until he’s ready. And even then. Even then, it’s likely that nothing will happen. —- After the events of ‘Meet Me in the Club’ and ‘A Failed First Date’, David and Patrick negotiate their damaged relationship.

Stats:

No fanworks for 2017, 2018, or 2024 2019: 2 fics/5,840 words 2020: 6 fics/27,212 words 2021: 15 fics/43,483 words 2022: 4 fanworks (3 fics, 1 podfic)/5,376 words 2023: 4 fanworks (2 fics, 2 podfics)/45,129 words Total: 31 fanworks (28 fics, 3 podfics)/127,040 words

[robbincenijn]

Dunderville / Motion Studio / 2020

[cloth-fabric]

runway sources

heres where i find my runway photos, i don't want to gatekeep, feel free to comment and add sources if you like

the impression, used with 12ft paywall bypass

fashion network, not sure why but i use the .jp version

fashionsnap, great for japanese runways

firstview, runways go back to the 90s however they are low quality images, between ab 2012-2020 images have an annoying watermark

livingly (DEAD) this was my favourite source however it is dead and all their photos are basically gone from the web as far as i can tell

getty, good for getting images quickly, crop the watermark haha....

xiaohongshu, you must have an account to use, i find most of my shanghai fashion week pics here

kendam, used rarely

madame figaro, used rarely

fashion press, good for japanese designers

showstudio, good for graduate collections although further research will be needed to find individual designers within these shows otherwise standard content

i'll update the list if i find more sources, sometimes i find things other places but these are my go to sites

love from gumy

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

sooo nick neopia's poll ended a bit ago and he lost so allow me to yell a bunch of anti-propaganda about this guy to everyone who doesn't play neopets (mostly copied from this earlier post). this is the third time i'm posting a big infodump about him, i feel like a blorbo evangelist or something.

SO BASICALLY there’s this one neopets characters. the thing that makes him unique is that he exists outside of canon sort of, in the form of april fools pranks. he’s sort of become the neopets’ april fools mascot since he’s appeared in 3 pranks so far (2003, 2020, and 2023).

nick makes his debut as a kid in april fool’s 2003, where he serves as the tour guide for the new, revamped, totally radical NEOPETZ!!

the image speaks for itself i guess. unlike in later pranks, nick is sort of just a one-off joke here, but instead of being forgotten he became a small joke within the fandom. you might find a few neopian times (neopets’ online newspaper written by users) articles mentioning how the author (jokingly) despises him.

then 2020 rolls around, and nick finally makes an actual reappearance in april fools 2020! he’s now older and apparently knows more about web design. it seems like Neopetz might’ve been his idea, because he wants to redesign the site again, only this time he wants it to be more modern and exciting. which his idea of is apparently backwards text, randomized links, and the elusive “13D.” check out his press release (ft. comic sans and showcard gothic).

during this prank, the site would spin around, go upside down, etc. as nick redesigned it behind the scenes. could find any videos of it though </3

and finally, april fools 2023 (my favorite part!). nick has gotten pretty salty over his amazing ideas getting rejected by TNT, so he spent 3 years turning into a crazy conspiracy theorist, his main goal being to uncover whatever horrible secrets TNT has been hiding. so he launched a little “website” called the sceptic tank! you can still view it here but during april fools day, his ads would cover the site:

featuring a delightful always sunny reference ^_^

clicking on the sticky notes will present you with a different theory. you can read them all written out and look at his ads here.

he also guest starred on episode 3 of neopets’ podcast at the time, nosy neopians. click here to listen to him scream at two TNT members.

to sum it up he’s a crazy insufferable bastard man who thinks he’s a genius and i need him desperately despite that. he could have been a horrible sexyman if we tried hard enough. thx for reading yaayyy <3

Fascinating. And now I will know what you mean when you tag the wildest posts with "nick neopia"