#Gonna try restarting my computer too.

[athenaholmesartistsguild]

Just started playing Yakuza 7 and oh my god? I love Ichiban so fucking much??

I haven't finished chapter 1 yet. My game started crashing after Masato realized that the hostess wasn't dating him because she liked him, but because he was giving her money and I guess my computer just couldn't handle that level of second hand embarrassment.

Like. We walked into a hostess club and I was like "Masato. Babe. I hope to god your girlfriend just happens to be a hostess and not that you started dating your hostess."

I kinda wanna get back to the game tho so I wish my computer would stop being embarrassed.

[civetside]

brothers i think my drawing tablet may have just crapped out on me guys GRRR GRR IM SO MAD

here's an MS paint monkey i drew with a mouse to express my dismay

[natjennie]

im about to go joker mode

[oneirataxia-girl]

me, making a gifset bc i finally got over my mental block for the first time in months: time to add my text!!

photopea: *doesn’t let me add text*

me:

photopea: you have to have an account to report the issue, but we’re not acknowledge that you already made an account :D

me: :))))))))))

[0san-ta0]

Late Night Missing You

synopsis ★ whilst arthur is off on a trip you start feeling lonely and resort to some unconventional methods of entertainment

pairing ★ fem!reader x arthur fredrick (arthurtv) author's notes ★ this is my first time writing an actual fic so it might be kinda shitty! feedback and tips are appreciated!! and i hope you enjoy!! <33 (NOT PROOFREAD)

arthur had been in sri lanka with chip and the boys for almost a week. although to you it felt way longer than that. sure, the facetimes, texts and voice notes were great but you couldn't help it as the loneliness had started creeping in by day 3. your usual daily routine had shifted slightly but your mind couldn't keep up, cooking enough for two or sitting on the couch waiting for arthur to walk through the door. your mood had been in the trenches and sitting alone in your apartment wasn't helping. you didn't want to bother your other friends this late at night. so you decided to have an impromptu stream, talking with the random people on your computer and drinking was sure to cheer you up.

you sat in front of your computer, a random video playing on your screen. you dared your chat that they coudn't send in a video to make you laugh, but if you did laugh that you'd take a shot. it had been about an hour of watching the most unhinged and random tiktoks and you were loosing horribly. a video of a young girl running into a wall flashed across the screen, sending you spiralling into a fit of laughter once again. maybe you felt bad about laughing but your sense of humour was wrecked at this point and coupled with the alcohol any odd video had you wheezing and reaching for the bottle of Bailey's infront of you.

"chat I swear I didn't mean too that doesn't count. i'm not taking a shot! at this rate i'll die of alcohol poisoning before midnight."

the comments started flowing in a majority of them about your new found adventurism, the other half was wondering where arthur was that he isn't supervising you. it was strange that he wasn't hovering in the background making sure you stayed hydrated or preparing your shots when he knew you for a fact that you were gonna laugh. your eyes glossed over the arthur comments trying not to let your mood shift too much, choosing to focus on the funnier comments.

"lilia284 thank you for the sub! and guys arthur is out of the country so..." you trailed off as the comments started on another tangent about where arthur was exactly.

"I can't tell you guys that but when it's released I'm sure you'll all be grateful for the lack of spoilers. now back to the videos and please no more children getting hurt I don't need to be clipped half drunk laughing at children. that's not good for my public image." then the topic switched to your most outrageous moments and you felt that you had successfully evaded the arthur topic and got your emotions in check.

restarting the video, it started with a man running and slipping down the stairs. your headphones playing at almost full volume you failed to hear the sound of the front door clicking open. filming had finished early and arthur wanted nothing more than to go home and lay in bed with you. walking into your shared apartment he looked around, searching for any sign of you before putting his suitcase down next to the door.

"y/n?" he called softly walking down the hall, poking his head into your dark bedroom before turning finding the light coming from your office door. he looked at the door and raised his eyebrows, you usually didn't stream this late perhaps you were doing some work.

then your voice came through, "this isn't fair that was a giggle, I don't deserve to drink for that you people just hate me!"

he stood outside the door confusion evident on his face, he took his phone from his pocket opening twitch. low and behold there you were front and center of his following page. he clicked the icon, just in time to see you poor a shot of Bailey's and down it.

another giggle escaped you lips as you placed the glass down on your desk, a smile making it's way to your lips. at this point you were more than buzzed and you could admit that comfortably. you turned to read off your donations and arthur saw his chance. he opened the chat and sent a 5 dollar donation to be read aloud.

'arthurtv $5 so this is what you do when I leave? I thought we got drunk together?'

your back stiffened slightly as you heard his name, you cleared you thought and smiled at the camera. "hi sweetheart!!" you waved at the camera and from outside arthur stood there smiling for a moment.

"I hope you're having fun and I miss you!" you mumbled, a pout making it's way to your face. then another donation came through.

'arthurtv $5 well if you really missed me you'd come outside!'

your eyebrows knit together as you look between the door and her stream then back to the door. your chat started flooding with messages about going to get your man and a lot of comments along those lines. you said a quick goodbye to your stream before shutting down your PC and turning to the door. arthur stood outside waiting for you to open it, a few moments passed before the door was flung open. you stood Infront of him a stupid smile on your face as you flung yourself into his arms.

"arthur I freaking missed you so much!" he laughed softly, running a hand along your back.

"so you chose to get drunk online?" he questioned raising an eyebrow.

"it was a better idea than laying on the floor and crying."

[digisims2]

Sims 2 on Windows 11

Alright, the new computer with Windows 11 is up and running and Sims 2 has been installed. These are the steps I took to get it running and looking pretty:

Installed the game through EA App

I installed "George" so I won't need to start the game up through EA App and let it waste resources and spy on me.

I ran the 4GB patch on the Sims2EP9.exe and TS2BodyShop.exe

I ran Graphics Rules Maker and tweaked things through that enabling it to use my full texture memory etc

I installed the EmptyStandbyList since without it I got pink flashing very quickly

????

Profit.

If this helped somebody else out, you're welcome! :)

(long, pretty messy and image heavy version of this process written as I did it is behind the cut. I mean it, it's very long!)

added my graphics card in the video cards file manually

did the common graphics rules tweaks (these) manually

applied 4gb patch to bodyshop and game exes

tested bodyshop, it started up but has no smooth edges, otherwise textures are good and new projects export and import as supposed. 4GB patch works as supposed. It'll likely require tweaking it through nvidia control panel so leaving that for later.

Started up game, after turning the edge smoothing on it looks this good (no mods thus the boxy shadows):

6. However my log is reporting only 1gb of RAM for the game to use, will have to reapply the 4gb patch and try again. But it's using all 12 gb for texture memory so that's cool, I probably won't need to worry too much about pink flashing but I'm going to stress test it a little.

View distance maximized:

Shaders work:

"I probably won't need to worry too much about pink flashing" I said earlier and then left the lot and:

:'D But looking at task manager I see my standby memory has filled up the remaining RAM already so this is actually working as expected, I just forgot one step.

7. installed the EmptyStandbyList.

8. This is where I closed game, applied the standby memory fix, rechecked my exe and remembered that you weren't supposed to run it in compatibility mode so I turned that off but just in case I also reapplied 4gb patch and restarted the game. Now it's correctly showing me 4GB of RAM to use for the game so that should be handled.

Side note: Mr. Humble spawned, I haven't seen him for years as I have mod to stop him from appearing. Was this sim always so ugly? It looks like his face is melting.

No pink flashing after leaving the lot this time:

But it crashed when I clicked on the sims icon.

New try, game restarted and this time we'll go straight to CAS and... *immediately gets distracted* There are this many bin families by default?

I've used clean templates for years so this was an unpleasant surprise. I don't like them, you're all getting nuked soon once I've made sure the game runs as supposed and can go ahead installing clean templates. So then to the CAS, it loads and I click to create a sim and....

Oh. Okay then. :| Guess I'm missing some tweak still. Let's try graphics rules maker instead, it should also easily fix my resolution etc since I forgot to do that manually.

One restart later, are you fucking kidding me?

but hey, nice crisp textures. Too bad it's so tiny I can't see shit. (I realized this was my error after a moment, I thought graphics rules maker said minimum resolution in the spot I didn't change but it actually says maximum, so I fixed that and all is good) But I'm gonna ignore that now and try loading CAS again, pls work.

.... Hell yeah, at least that finally loaded up as supposed.

She is beauty, she is grace, maxis defaults really ruin her face.

After the final restart with screen size etc fixed I went back and forth to different lots trying to make it flash pink and it never did so I'm going to say this was success.

So to recap:

Installed the game through EA App

I installed "George" so I won't need to start the game up through EA App.

I ran the 4GB patch on the Sims2EP9.exe and TS2BodyShop.exe

I ran Graphics Rules Maker and tweaked things through that enabling it to use my full texture memory etc

I installed the EmptyStandbyList since without it I got pink flashing very quickly

????

Profit.

And seriously, that's all, even if this post ended up this long.

I still need to get smooth edges in bodyshop but that will likely be done with nvidia control panel rather than texture settings. Here's one more random maxis sims image to end this with a pretty picture instead of just huge wall of text.

[queen-of-scissors]

Hey sorry to disturb you but can you write about reader trying to delete genshin because they couldn't download the update but for some reason they couldn't? The self awares are desperately trying to stop that. I wanna see the chaos and angst 😈

HEY GUYS LOOK

🎉MY FİRST ASK!!!🎉

İ feel even happier than a certain bard in wine festival--

İ was gonna send it earlier but i felt lasy to open my computer and draw ;;

Also im sorry if somethings don't make sense i used translator for some parts cus english isn't my main

More under the cut!

Reader deleting genshin

You took a frustrated sigh, another error, you wondered how many you've gotten in the past hour.

For some reason, your favorite games update is taking a bit long, crashing midway or giving an error that causes the download to restart again.

İnternet isn't giving much answers to you either. You tried almost everything you could try, to opening more storage space to deleting your game photo file, and at this point, you were growing desperate.

İnside the game, your characters were worried. You certainly took your time, they knew it was profably not too much of an issue and you were just busy. But for those who grow anxious EVERYTİME that you grow late, like Zhongli, Jean and Ninguang, it was a diffrent story...

Why are you late? İs everything alright in your world? Are you abandoning them? Did they do something not to your liking? Were their damage low? Will you log in faster if they do better?

Not knowing what you think or what happens in your world is killing them, they need to see you, HEAR you, so then maybe... Maybe you'll see them as well.

What took you so long? They need you...

When Buer was born, the first thing she could feel is how grass felt on her knees as she sat down, how flowers smelled like a dream and how vibrant everything was! She seemed to know everything, remember everyone and understand everything at that moment. While knowing nothing at the same time! How curious she was at everything she saw and felt!

But at the base of it all, she knew where all of this was created, she knew you.

She could only feel gratefull to you for creating such a wonderfull world, the world where countless travelers and artists fell in love. After all of the feelings she felt about you and your world, how could she say no when the Archons asked her about what they can do to meet you.

She wants to show people how perfect you are!

"Might as well delete it. Maybe that will fix all my problems?"

This was the first thing they heard you say. All of the Archons froze in their places.

Delete? What do you mean? Why would you.. no.. how could you?!

First person to finaly stop the dead silence in the area was the god of freedom, Barbatos.

"Delete it? Are they talking about... No that can't be! They love us! They said so themselves!"

"Barbatos-"

"They won't do it! İ KNOW they won't! They're talking about another world! Or, or..."

"what is.... İs that... Paimon? The travelers friend?" Buer looked at the big canvas (Or perhaps a window to another world). What is the meaning of this?

"Barbatos are you seeing what im seeing..?" Spoke up the god of contracts. Pointing out a big picture with some words on it, and on the picture there was...

God of justice looked around, and saw a triangle looking white thing fly across the artwork that is displayed infront of them.

Their thoughts were cut short by the sudden feeling of emptiness and screams they can feel from their followers.

Buer fell to her knees with a scream, it sting, it hurt to breath, the very feeling of the things she hold near being tore apart broke her heart and her core.

She felt the trees get reduce to nothing, something big and dark swallowed everything,

She saw her people, her first followers, trying to protect their nations with everything they got,

General Mahamatra moving people away from the empty, dark spaces to 'safety', Dancer Nilou helped him with controlling a huge crowd,

Forest ranger Tighnari's situation was worse, he tried to stop the hatred from spreading even from plants,

the academia has just Heard of all of this but the unforgiving wrath of the creator was too fast, Buer felt their followers' bones get crushed with force and skins get stretched in impossible ways. She died with her followers, countless times, but all she could do was watch as you took away the world she fell in love with..

"why are you angry? Why are we the ones that are suffering from it? Do you hate us that much...." Was all of the questions that she wont have the time to get them answered.

The second to grow affected was morax, before reaching out to help his friend he instead fell to the ground, he was... Crying.. he could hear and feel his peoples painfull cries and prayers for him. And yet he couldnt move, couldnt breath, what is this power? İs this what it feels like to suffer from his gods wrath?

He worshiped you the longest, she knew about your presence the longest so... Why?

He saw xiao, trying to keep the void from reaching wangshu Inn, by nearby monsters, weapons, ANYTHİNG to stop it from reaching the öne place he could call home. Some of The things he threw didnt got deleted and stayed in that position, but some were stuck mid air.

He saw liyue, as ninguang tried to stop the void by sacraficing the jade Chamber again, it got deleted and everything was destroyer before even reaching to the ground, including people.

"How could you do such a thing? Were we not enough? Even so, we didnt deserve it, no, They... They didnt deserve it. Please hear our prayers, they dont deserve to die your Grace, not like this... Please not like this"

Beelzebub tried to run away, to her own people, but was stoped by the god of natlan, what is the point? İt is in ruins now, it cannot be saved.

Her knees gave up as the harsh truth hit her, she promised her people a dream, a dream that their nation will reach eternity, live longer than gods and all the nations combined.

She saw yae just sitting near the shrine and enjoying tea, perhaps she didnt knew, but she doubted that she would do anything if she even did.

Kujou sara and sangonomia kokomi joined their powers to make sure the losses were minimum, but before they could even begin the plan...

She lost everything once again, what did morax say about you? How kind and forgiving you are? İf it were the case, why would you take everything from her for the 5th time?

"....i have failed.... Them..."

Before all of the gods got to the ground with a burning feeling accross their chest and their body, the god of justice turned to the painting of you and put her head on the ground,

"Your highness please, please forgive us and our followers for our sins, if the fault is ours we will pay it with our blood, but please... Don't take your anger from us, your followers, please dont destroy the world please PLEASE WE BEG OF YOU-"

"İt is futile...." Buer managed to speak, pain worsening by the second "they... c- cant hear us without.... Without the aid of our own world..."

"They're praying to us.. to THEM! We have t-to do something!!" Barbatos screamed, he was always there for his nation when they realy need it, he won't let it be the first time he wasn't!

He can feel the Tevat strugling to breath as all plantlife and elements are being corrupted.

He looked up from where he is, at your painting, you helped his people once, made them live another day, he was eternaly gratefull to you for it.

But why? Why are you taking back what you once gave without even thinking? İs this all a game to you? Do they even matter to you?

He listened to his followers last thoughts, they too were asking the same.

"All of them gave up their freedom for you, for you to explore this world to your hearts content. What made you so cruel to them?" Jean asked while trying to protect the last citizen of Mondstadt, despite her invisible limbs she kept on fighting nothingness, even if that meant angering you further.

They screamed untill their throaths bled, trying to get your attention in anyway possible, but you weren't paying them any mind. You were busy looking at another painting.

Untill they.. stoped.

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As the deletion bar almost filled up, all of their pain seemed to vanish. Asking themselves;

Why... Why were they here?

They wanted to protect someone? Some... People? But how?

As far as they can remember, its always been them alone.

They were sad and angry but why? They cant even remember anymore.

As the last archon stood there to look at you, they could only say nonsense that theyre not even sure what it means;

"i hate you, creator"

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Quick scetch of the currently known archons being traumatised BC of us ;; (i always delete my game and re install BC of the update oop-)

Mfs trying to confort you about it but was too stuned to speak

[okthatsgreat]

ok Idk if ur like hiding spoilers so don’t answer any of this if u can’t but if u CAN please please tell me why the dating sim girls hate & ur omnipotence so much they want you dead!!!!! is it the same reason they hated the first one or different? is there a reason tamsin wants you to stay on script, knowing she’s not interested and likely doesn’t like the dating sim format she’s stuck in? id kill to play this lee

ID KILL TO MAKE THISSSSSSSSS GOD I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS!!!!!! SO MANY IDEAS THAT ARE FAR TOO AMBITIOUS

BUT i can say this a lottt of it revolves around the medium of video games/dating simulators in general. if that makes sense. like the typical dating simulator is over the course of a few weeks(??) or something, which you AS THE PLAYER are able to pop in and out of as well as restart and redo to your hearts desire. if you want a different ending then you can simply restart the week and get a different ending!! if you want to date a different girl or see all of her reactions to everything you say to her then you can do that!! that’s definitely what the LAST guy did. but the thing that at some point these four girls became AWARE he was doing that. they are the only four people in this soulless world that are AWARE that they are stuck in an endless, one month cycle that all bends to one guys whim. they had no control whatsoever about what happened because they were not created to drive the narrative forward. and protag 1 was a very bored player with a lot of free time

so at one point the npcs finally actually for real talk to each other outside of their “pre-set” dialogue. the first protag has been repeating ellies route for a while now and the others were initially resentful of her just because they for real do Nothing when their route isn’t being played. but then one day ellie goes This Sucks. and the other girls go This Sucks. and the plan is formed to confront protag 1, and whether they MEANT to murder him or not they ended up killing him, at drowsy creek which is where ellie’s ‘final date’ is. and they don’t have that long to feel terrible or anything, because the timeloop STOPS. like they actually DID IT. which is why so many of them look different when YOU show up— they were actually able to explore the world and grow as people!!!!

but then here YOU are!! the second protagonist! you have the same ability as the first guy, and suddenly all four of them are stuck in the EXACT same cycle. which is why your decisions are really important here— IMMEDIATELY a lot of them are thinking about killing you, because that clearly worked for the last guy. pushing wayyy too hard about the murder is gonna make them even MORE hostile, especially tamsin who is quite defensive (hence why she’s telling you to BACK OFF BUDDY). a lot of the endings of this game are them taking you out lmao, only for you to come righhtttt back. if you go through the game just trying to do a normal romance route, it’s likely you’re gonna get killed!! ESPECIALLY if you do ellie’s bc she’s so over it lmfao

in my dream beautiful universe where i am able to make this game, the “true ending” of the game involves the four characters waving you goodbye before the game gets uninstalled from your computer entirely. bc that is truly the only way of ending the cycle. they have to be removed from the context of a video game and the protagonist simply can’t exist

[cant-get-enough-btr-forever]

Big Time Games: "Recycle Rush."

In my last post, I said I would give y'all a play-by-play of Big Time Rush online games. So, that's exactly what I'm doing.

Unfortunately, I can't upload more than 30 images per post. So, I'm only including Recycle Rush in this one. Don't worry—"Stage Rush" will come next.

Enjoy!

The rules are simple: Hit the spacebar to drop the trash on the boy below you (he catches it). The trash eventually gets dropped into a dumpster.

Also, lol—cows give you bonus points. "Green Time Rush" approves.

This is how my very first game went:

Side note: Notice how the Palmwoods only has two floors. The levels literally stack up as the game goes on. Interesting.

Let's try this again!

Carlos drops it on James...

...James drops it in the dumpster...

And, uh, yeah. That's it. That's the whole game.

Level 2: I noticed that these yellow exclamation points pop up over their heads. They let you know when the boys are about to turn around. Good to know! I just wish someone had told me...

Suddenly, a wild Kendall appears.

To accommodate this new arrival, the Palmwoods morphs into a 3-story building. See what I mean?

Kendall valiantly carries out his duty.

Level 3: There is now a 2-liter bottle magically floating in the hallway.

So this is how you get bonus points—you need to drop the trash on the bottle and the guy simultaneously. It isn't always a bottle; sometimes it's a banana peel or a soda can. Clearly, you need a bit of timing (and patience) for this.

But since I'm an expert, I pulled it off. On the second try.

Ah, Logan. 'Bout time you showed up.

Side note: The elevators' positions don't make sense. Why are they so far apart from each other?

Crap. I dropped trash all over the lobby. Bitters is not gonna like this.

Logan's exclamation point works well here—it's like he's saying, "What the—dude, seriously?! I'm over here!"

Anyhoo, I was able to restart Level 3…

…only to fail once more.

This is not good for my ego.

'Tis but a scratch. I brushed myself off and labored on.

Level 4:

Listen, I really wanted to know what would happen if I dropped the trash on the Cow.

Don't make the mistakes that I made, friends. You must always ensure that the boy is under the trash, too.

Still, it was hilarious to watch the Cow plummet whilst enveloped in a trash bag.

I corrected my actions, and was rewarded with the sight of Logan carrying the whole frickin' frackin' Cow on his back.

Ahem. Anyway.

Does this mean that they're going to recycle a...a cow??

Whew. The Cow jumped out. By the way, in this level, the dumpster moves from side to side. Is the Palmwoods haunted again, or...?

Level 5: The guys are now speed-walking. Thanks, boys. Make my job harder for me.

Also, here's something bizarre: Carlos starts out on the top floor, while James is directly below him.

Moments later, Carlos is several floors below, and James is in the lobby.

Well, they ain't called Big Time RUSH for nothing!

Level 7 (Level 6 is identical to Level 5): Okay, everything is going about the sa—

Wait.

Oh, dear God.

There are two Jameses.

Who recycles more garbage than YOU?

I love this game, guys.

From here onwards, the difficulty doesn't change much. So, I simply got my score to 10,000 before stopping. Which took a lot longer than I'm willing to admit.

Final Thoughts: This is quite fun. More fun than I thought it would be, which is always nice. I give it an 8/10.

If anyone wants to give it a whirl, here it is. Be sure to use a computer, and not a mobile device.

Happy playing! 😁

[bludraws094]

in case any of the indigo park devs have tumblr and happen to see this:

your game is fucking bugged please fix it :3 it crashed when i died in the little arcade machine bit in mollies segment due to lag (i do not blame the game for the lag, i had the graphics settings a bit too high for my pc to handle well)

that on its own isnt too big of an issue, i can just reopen the game

right?

WRONG i tried to and it was like "error! game already running!" so i tried to stop it through steam but steam would not stop it so i ended up having to restart my computer to force it to close bcus i forgot task manager was a thing and am only now remembering it as im typing this

also you do realize that you dont need to hold a flashlight like youre gonna deck someone right. why is the player character holding that flashlight so violently. its kinda inconvenient when im trying to see

games good so far though

[blueshykitsune-blog]

So uh...

How do I phrase this without it seeming like a bad thing????

I dunno but here:

Game.

(I mentioned before that I'd share this like months ago but here I am sharing it today.)

This is basically the connection to what is going on with @shy-the-fox right now. (The corruption thinky going on right now.)

Basically it was an idea I had a while for a game but I decided that heck I have a class I can make this game in. (Was in a gaming development class and we were made to make a pixel game.)

I was gonna add in a bunch of other mechanics but decided against it, also we only had a limited amount of time to make this game before we had to turn it in. I made sure to add in a lot of stuff and I was heavily praised and not even just by my teacher but also my fellow classmates (Who were like all male and mostly the first two levels of high school so they were like 14 to maybe 16... I was the only 17-18 year old there... I was both the only basically adult and female <ahem no one talk about my gender or I slam some fingers.>)

Anyways I still have the models I made for animations I had to cut out the game and well I can very easily share them here once I go on my computer so yeah.

I do gotta say I loved making the game and actually looked up some other games and their codes to even make mine. So it's similar to other games of course.

You know the first thing in that class that we did was make a dice game and we all found out it can be a lot harder to make original games than one may think... then again that was when like no one wanted to talk to each other and well yeah.

Oh I also put the music together for my game and basically everything in it is well... made by me in one way or another.

Uh so it's a bit hard to understand the story of the game as I tried my best and mostly sat there fixing my game as I made a few crashes and there's one in the very beginning of the game that I literally cannot fix but it just freezes the game so you have to restart it.

The story however is about well Shy (the fox if it wasn't clear.) Shy is battling this corruption that took their friends (was gonna add a picnic at the beginning but didn't have time and I plan to try making the game even better or a second one maybe... I dunno right now.). The corruption can also look identical to their friends too. However there's always some off, or well the color of the corruption is always there. I used purple to showcase the corruption as I had a limited pallette to work with. Also why it may look a bit weird too.

Basically I made like 4 Endings I think?

3 secret ones (one is hard to get and the other is an instant game over no matter what. The third one is technically like a happy ending that is a bit cute, at least to me.)

The the forth is just playing the game as intended which there is a max point count too and there's a small error I made were if you skip the coins and a few other things you actually can still see them in one of the secret endings.

It's fairly easy to beat (on computer. It sucks really badly on phone but I have beaten all endings on phone so it is possible.)

I may put how to get specific endings or secrets later as almost if not all deaths have an actual message with it and is a fail to the level.

So yeah that's my game. Also I was gonna try doing a character select thing but I couldn't with the website used to make the game however if I make a second one I will add ghat back in and might even add in the fighting too. Also make it a much longer game.

[sieglinde-freud]

For the character break down thing: naesala perhaps?

hi anon!! full transparency i have never FINISHED the tellius games… i have started them but last time my computer died five thousand deaths in the middle of a run (not like. BECAUSE of the game. the computer was just bad…) so i havent found the motivation to restart and replay yet so im going based purey off of vibes and things ive had spoiled for me (which. is honestly kind of a lot) soo. just so we all know!!

How I feel about this character

i know hes kind of a dick but i really dont care he looks fucking awesome. hot guy with RAVEN WINGS are you kidding… hes so cool. i literally dont care if hes a cunt hes already a fav. i do know hes only playable on like. the last chapter of POR which. sucks. because you have to make a choice between him and some other guys and im just gonna assume hes not the best pick but i. HES SO COOL… he really speaks to the twelve year old girl in me who wanted to be maleficent really bad. sorry.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

i know him and leanne are prettyyy canon and i think thats cute :) dont really have many thoughts outside of that but im open

Unpopular Opinion about this character

ive seen some people hate on his nose and to that i say Die. hes gorgeous are u kiddinggg me. though i dont like his base heroes art. its missing something… not sure what but it is. his pirate alt though…. now thats good…

Things I wish would happen to them

well seeing as im not too sure what happens to him in game i guess i can just throw out something. i know he beefs with reyson a bit which is probably kinda awky if hes trying to get with his sister. i hope they say something about that. i hope they beef even harder over that. i know reyson punches oliver but maybe he could get a second strike in

[faejilly]

So hey. I distracted myself from my suffering last week via new OC!BB for @seraphinitegames' Wayhaven games now that Book 3 is out. (Have I actually even made it thru book 1 with them yet? No, because I keep restarting and making more picrews as I tweak them in my head, instead.) Meet Ellington Ruskin, they/them.

When they were young & curious & annoyed that adults seemed to think they were adorable, (and that Ellie was an acceptable nickname, which it was not) they went by their full name, Ellington. (That did absolutely nothing to counter the adorable? It did successfully dissuade any lingering attempts at Ella or Ellie tho 🥰)

[carrotkake's / nyurei's / Wervty's Murmur]

They were Much Too Tired™️ (and living off cigarettes & hair dye) when they over-did college-type-nonsense and it was too hard to hold onto all those dumb syllables and dropped it down to just Ell:

[hunbloom's / Bright's Picrew Hell / djarn's]

(Ellington has a ridiculous collection of grandmother-reading-glasses/blue-light-blockers as they are slightly farsighted and also spend way too much time on assorted computer screens.)

They can be very appealing, not so much because they've figured out "charming" (tho they're better with people than any version of @angstmongertina's poor Lia) but because if they're interested they're completely focused, on the book, the technology, the news... or the person who has caught their eye. (Though they might very well just make you feel like they're daring you to try and keep being interesting?)

[Wervty's Chime / Black Centered Picrew / KZ's dolls]

They are Very Smart & kinda too intense for small-town-life & maybe a little intimidating. Just a little!

(ok probably more than a little?)

[toon me! / lulljevic's / baydews']

Ell is not quite sure why that means everyone wants them to be in charge of things, but competency apparently cannot be denied? Ugh.

If they're gonna be forced into this job, they're going to do it well (and look good while doing it).

[sushicore! / Astrolavas' / ♡ poicon maker ♡]

[vulcanistic-tendencies]

Okay so let me just see if I understand what happened in S1E4 The Naked Time because frankly I feel extremely unhinged right now and I need to recalibrate my sense of reality.

They find a bunch of dead frozen scientists on a planet that's about to be destroyed by unclear natural causes. Only two of the six bodies are shown; one is very clearly a mannequin. Leonard Nimoy is wearing a repurposed shower curtain for the entirety of these initial scenes. That's not relevant to the plot, but it's important to me on a deep personal level.

They don't know it yet, but the scientists died because of some kind of Space Madness that spreads through water. Lieutenant Joe removes his safety glove to scratch his nose, earning him the title of Court Jester Of The Week, but does not contract the disease from touching any of the ice coating the area - instead he contracts it from a stray drop of blood that remains unfrozen for some reason. After sticking that blood drop directly up his nose for safekeeping, he and Spock return to the ship.

Joe has a minor existential crisis in sickbay, then he goes to get some lunch, where he has a major existential crisis and tries to stab himself with a butter knife. Sulu and Lt. Riley try to subdue him, but he gets stabbed anyway. Joe dies; Sulu and Riley are now infected. McCoy demonstrates an appalling lack of concern for basic masking procedures when performing open air surgery.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise absolutely positively has to maintain an orbit around the dying planet as it decays - a very delicate process that requires everyone to be running at full capacity. So naturally, Sulu fucks off to threaten blank-faced crewmen in the corridors with a sword, and Riley infects Christine before barricading himself in engineering and turning all the engines off so he can be better heard as he tells women at large that they're prettier without makeup.

Christine makes a heartfelt love confession to Spock (presumably earning herself some kind of write up for sexual harassment later what with all the hand-to-hand action) and he becomes infected as well. He sobs mathematically about it in a conference room.

Scotty and Kirk break into engineering and subdue Riley, but it's too late to restart the engines and the ship is gonna go down unless they calculate something something and implode the engines. But it's only a theory, Jim!!! It would take a million computers to calculate!!!

McCoy finds a cure to the Evil Water. The one that's got the Space Madness in it. The one that's like. Just water, but weird about it. But it's okay, because he has the cure now. The cure to water. But just the evil kind.

Kirk finds Spock crying about feeling love (mood) and becomes infected, but seemingly also fully cures Spock of the disease by letting himself get backhanded over a table.

(Side note: I am going to be keeping a running tally of how many times physical violence against Kirk ends up curing Spock of his emotional turmoil, because I know it's not just the once.)

Kirk has a minor meltdown about the Enterprise not being a flesh lady that he can take for walks on the beach, then decides he doesn't have time for that and goes back to the bridge, where McCoy He-Mans the fuck out of his shirt for no god damn reason just to give him a hypo for the Space Madness. Spock goes to help Scotty with the implosion calculations, and fuck me sideways they pull it off and everything's fine except for Joe who's still dead.

BUT!!! The implosion sends the Enterprise BACK IN TIME........BY THREE DAYS.

CONGRATULATIONS ON DISCOVERING THE SECRET TO TIME TRAVEL IN THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF THE EPISODE???????

Kirk and Spock comment mildly about trying out fucking time travel again later. Someday. When they're feeling more up to it. The end!

Do I have all of that right? Is that what just went down? I think I need to lie down.

[morroodle]

Morrotober Overview

October is over and morrotober is done! I actually made it all the way through without missing a single day (I swapped 2 days because I have a terrible concept of time but that dosent count). I'm so proud of myself. I've tried an October drawing challenge year after year but I always gave up and burned out after the first week so this is a huge accomplishment.

I'm not quite sure what made this year different but there are a few things I think might have helped:

Morro is my blorbo and ninjago is my hyperfixation. I'm already obsessed and thinking about it daily so this wasnt too different

I gave myself flexibility. Even though I ended up doing one for every day I never was going to force myself to do so, I had the freedom to skip a day if I didn't want to do it.

Flexibility pt. 2: I didn't make a full drawing every day. I allowed myself to put in as much or as little effort as I wanted which removed some of the pressure and worked better with my schedule

Now for some fun stuff! A recap of the art I made this month and my thoughts on some of the peices.

My favorite peice: day 29 - au/the movie

This was so much fun and I'm so happy with how it turned out. I couldn't decide on one au to draw since I have so many and keep making them so I just did a bunch! (Copy paste my best friend) I've had a bunch of ideas for designs bounching around for a while and getting to draw a handful of them with less effort than a full drawing which is great for my mental health. Honestly I liked making this and the results so much that I'm probably gonna do more of these with more designs.

Least favorite: day 1 - torment/chains

A dissapointing start to the challenge but luckily things only went uphill from here. The reason i dont like it is because this is one of those instances where the idea I have in my head is above my skill level. Additionally this is one of the ones that took the longest which is extra dissapointing considering I don't even like the result. I am proud of the hands though!

Most effort: day 14 - crew

I am NOT used to doing more than like 2 characters in one drawing and this was a challenge. Figuring out a pose for all of them was hard and I had to get creative with Wrayth cause he came last. I originally wanted to put a ghost dragon behind them too but that was just more effort and time than I had. Funny story about this one actually! I completed the base sketch for 3/5 of the characters but then my computer got fucky and I had to restart it. I saved the drawing but when I tried to open it I got the dreaded clip studio Unsupported File Format and had to restart ;-; I spent like half an hour trying to restore but had to give up in the end and restart.

Least effort: day 23 - memories

Little guy. Tiny dude. Took like 5 minutes and I love it. I didn't realize just how small I made him until I got a reblog saying they couldn't find him.

Most popular: day 5 - rope

Would have liked for some of my other drawings to get some of the attention this one got but honestly I'm not suprised it got so popular. It's a masterpiece.

Least popular: day 12 - underwater/submarine

Guess people don't want morro to be destinkified

Extra: day 6 - skeleton

This dude literally showed up on google?? I made that???? The funny part is the link dosent even lead to my blog or tumblr

Additional notes: wait what am I supposed to do now?? I think I forgot how to have free time?? For an entire month it's just been school eat sleep and morrotober but now it's over I don't know what to do with myself. A

Did I enjoy this? Yes. Will I do it again next year? Who fucking knows. Anyway back to my normal bs

[curator-on-ao3]

I’m the anon that requested the Saffi and Elnor fic and you more than delivered, thank you! If I may request another, this prompt: “ why are you talking like we’ll never see each other again? ” for Rios and Raffi would be amazing!

You are very, very kind, anon, thank you! 💕 I hope you like this one as well and I, um, apologize in advance for canon-consistency. 😔

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For those who prefer to read here:

For the Record

It’s a Starfleet regulation — and Cris is getting used to those again — probably written by some overzealous holo-programmer.

Not that Cris would know anything about overzealous holos.

No. La Sirena is safe with Seven. He doesn’t need to worry about that.

And he needs to do this. Set a captainly example and all.

So Cris makes his way to one of the Stargazer’s holodecks, keys in his access code, enters as the doors part, and doesn’t bother changing the holo-grid to anything else.

“Computer, begin recording.”

May as well start off by the book.

“Hello, my friends. You are here now watching this image of me because I have died.”

Too stilted. Too formal.

“Computer delete recording and restart.”

Cris paces the deck.

“Look, everyone. If I’ve lived my life the way I want to, then you’re asking questions right now. Things like: ‘How could you be dead when we all thought you were gonna live forever?’ and ‘Why are you talking like we’ll never see each other again?’ and ‘Okay, if you’re really dead and we won’t meet again in heaven with all its wonders, then what do you have to lose by telling us the truth about your mermaid tattoo?’ And the answers are: ‘I will and there’s been a mistake,’ ‘I’m required to make this recording,’ and —”

The holodeck doors open: Raffi, her ability to guess his access codes a constant in an ever-shifting galaxy, the cut of her new uniform as perfectly right and perfectly wrong as Cris’ own.

And why the hell does Starfleet keep changing the commbadge design?

She looks around. “Regulation-required holo last will and testament?”

His groan isn’t out loud, but Raffi hears it all the same.

“C’mon,” she tilts her head toward the door, “I’ll buy you a drink instead.”

Cris does let Raffi see his eyes roll. “The replicators are free. And I have to do this before the ship leaves spacedock and gets underway. I’m the —”

“The captain. I know, I know. And I know you have a soft spot in your cold heart for holos — especially ones that look like you. But if you don’t want to do this,” she motions at the hologrid, “then don’t. Don’t try to be Vandermeer, always following orders, or Picard, so full of Starfleet that there isn’t room for much else. Skip the holo-will. Smoke cigars on the bridge. Regale your crew with stories of your piloting adventures. Do this your way.”

So he does, and later Raffi’s chest is heavy with grief — she shouldn’t have let him stay behind — when her door chimes and a Starfleet courier hands her a storage container labeled “Raff.”

Her hands shake as she pries open the lid.

Inside is Chris’ record player with a record already … is “loaded” the right word? … on the turntable.

Raffi’s arms hug her body.

Damn, she could use a glass of wine right now.

But she taps the control the way she saw Cris do a hundred times and the record begins to spin. The arm of the player lifts, then settles. There’s a hiss, then Cris’ voice.

“Hey, Raffi. You were right. Doing things my way is the best way. It’s only been a few weeks since the Stargazer left spacedock and this crew is already becoming my family. I think … I think ‘family’ is more flexible than I thought it was. A family can be made, you know? Well, I guess I knew that. But I know it in a different way now — leader of the family, the papá who bends the rules to connect with people … and himself, I guess. Anyway, this is my regulation-required last will and testament — done my way. And, Raffi, I bequeath to you the ability to find family in people you may not share blood with, but love fiercely. I bequeath to you the great advice you gave me: to be yourself, even when expectations are to be some other way. And I bequeath to you my appreciation, mí hermana, for helping me get comfortable in my own skin again, even with these damned new uniforms. However I go, whenever I go, I’ll think of you and smile, Raff, grateful that you’re forever and always my best girl. Until we meet again.”

The recording ends, the arm lifting, then nesting on its holder as the record stops.

And Raffi’s chest is still heavy with grief. That isn’t going to change, not for a long time.

But there’s a lightness there, too. For, as much as she disagrees with Cris’ choice, doesn’t understand it, wishes she had pushed him to reconsider … he did do things his way.

———

Send me an ask with character(s) and a prompt and I’ll do my best to write you a little something … in my own way.

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