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ghrgrsfdesfrfg · 1 month ago

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My first story with dialogues, i hope you will all like it.

I apologize in advance if it's bad.

word count: 1902

-Kidnapping, threats of violence on both sides, ending the day on some wholesome ideas like dancing.

-not proof read, probably some grammar mistakes and i appologize for them

-request open but i take a long time to write but don't hesitate to ask for something if you want.

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Mysterious disappearance

It was a normal day for Stitchen, as normal as a day can be in the abandoned factory.

“Highscore !” a voice esclaimed, echoing through the labs of Stitch-a-toy. “Drella, Nurse ! I finally beat my own score ! Come see this !” Stitchen called but no one answered.

Puzzled, he called again but no response. “Drella I know you’re around, come out !”

“Nurse… ? Anyone ?” This time Stitchen was worried, his sidekicks would’ve answered yet something was wrong, he knew it.

He left his small arcade room and checked his journal, hoping to find a possible answer to where they could’ve gone, he flipped through the pages until he landed on this day. “Bingo ! I simply sent them on a scavenging mission, how silly of me. I really need to remember these missions”

Disturbingly he knew there was something more, he sent them on a mission yet no animatronics returned, why did he even send them to begin with ? Drella and Nurse were better protected in the Game Station…

Did someone get them ? Are they safe ? Is it the Prototype who’s behind this ?

“Metal guy, I need your help ! Now !” He screamed into the Bron-phone “Please, answer me !”

Statics for a while, he tried again and again for a few minutes before getting desperate. “Metal guy ! ANSWER ME NOW !”

just as he prepared to shut down the phone, a cold and mechanical voice answered.

“Stitchen, I might value your help in this war but I will not tolerate such an attitude. I hope I have made myself… clear. Now I suppose this is in regard to your animatronics ? I need more time to-”

“No, it’s about… I need your help in locating Drella and the Nurse. I fear something happened to them, I cannot find them and I-”

“Safe Haven, they have been brought there after being captured by the Ballerina approximately two hours and 27 minutes ago. Whatever theirs goals are, I cannot say but I would advise you to bring some security to get them back. I will give you the necessary access code to navigate to the Prison, be aware that Catnap might be in your way”

“Thank you I will-” just as he was about to thank “Metal guy” for his help the phone call abruptly ended “huh… he must be busy but if Haven want war, they will get it…”

The preparations took a few hours, a long time but necessary to activate his animatronics, load his flamethrower and prepare a few more gadgets.

The trip to the prison wasn’t much better, strangely he didn’t catch a glimpse of Catnap, that damned Critter was probably too afraid to face Stitchen and his mighty army

Stitchen forgot a few time why he was down in the prison but then his fury rose again when he remembered why. He would burn Doey and any toy in his path if he had to because Drella and Nurse were worth everything in his eyes.

“Show yourselves !” He screamed as he walked into the Prison.

An old intercom came to life and a garbled response came next, it was the Warden “Stitchen ? Why are you down here ? Is there an issue with-”

“no old friend, my friends were captured, did you see them ? why didn’t you stop them !?” Stitchen was angry, Warden could tell as much since it was very rare for stitchen to truly lose his nerve (or what little remain of them)

“What am I supposed to do ? I have a deal with Safe Haven and-”

“And you let people be kidnapped ?! We are talking about my friends Warden !” Stitchen answered to where he thought the noise was coming from, making it quite comical for any toy seeing this, looking at the fearsome scientist only to see him flailing his arm and shouting to the ceiling.

“Do you know what you ask of me ? I can do so much from my control room and as I said I have a deal with them, I cannot intervene without the [REDACTED]’s approval.” The Warden sighed in his control room.

“I will go regardless and you will not stop me. My animatronics, we march to the Haven !”

“Do not kill anyone Stitchen, we have a fragile peace for now and I do not need another conflict on my hands” The intercom shut down and left Stitchen with his own thoughts, he hated the eerie silence of the Prison.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, Stitchen had troubles finding his way to Safe Heaven but Foxy proved to be a great help, when finally met with the doors of the Haven he issued his challenge.

“Safe Haven ! I have come for my friends ! Hand them over now and for your sakes, I hope they are well and unharmed.”

Stitchen waited for a few minutes as he heard some commotion behind the door, suddenly the door opened and he was face to face with Doey. He pointed his flamethrower at doey, the latter raised his hand to show he meant no harm.

“heya there pal !” Doey joyfully answered him “We have them and they are safe do not worry, but-”

“I have no quarrel with you but I will not hesitate to tell my animatronics here to help me if needed so- Hand them over, now !” Stitchen waved his flamethrower menacingly at doey who didn’t seem fazed by it.

“Look this is a big misunderstanding, one of us thought they were in the Prison on behalf of the Prototype and we locked them in a room. It was the Ballerina’s idea but please Doctor… this is a misunderstanding.” Doey tried explaining to the Doctor but was interrupted by the Ballerina who glared at Stitchen.

“Seriously doey ?! You let him of all people get inside ? After everything he did ?” The Ballerina glared at doey and then pointed an accusatory finger at Stitchen. “You murdered all these kids during the Hour and even after ! All this death thanks to your animatronics or whatever you call these piles of scrap”

Stitchen didn’t seem fazed by the accusations, in fact he seemed eager to talk with a toy he didn’t recognize. “Hello there, well yes my name is Stitchen, who are you ? I do not remember you, are you a recent toy ? Mister Sawyer was finally approved for more experiment ?”

“The guts of this toy !” the Ballerina thought “do you have any idea what you are saying ?! You are mad ! There’s no new toy being made, Sawyer is gone !”

“Huh… really ? I swear I needed to talk to him urgently about something” Stitchen scratched his head before finally remembering. “You’re the one who took my sidekicks away from me ! Give me one reason I shouldn’t burn you to a crisp !”

The Ballerina’s brows flared in anger at this and prepared to charge at Stitchen only to be stopped by doey.

“no, I know you are angry but we do not have to resort to violence. He also brought some friends with him, we can’t use violence. Not in front of all the others toys” Doey placed a comforting hand on her shoulders yet her pride demanded she dealt with Stitchen but she nonetheless obeyed.

Doey was relieved she decided to obey instead of provoking Stitchen even more, he glanced at the so-called “nightmares” animatronic especially Fredbear if he recalled the name right. It was a towering abomination of metal and teeth, if he wasn’t afraid of them he’d be curious as to how they were made.

“Follow me, we put them in the generator room and I assure you that they were well taken care of”

“For your sake, I hope so. I’ll ask them myself and if I discover something happened to them I will make sure to raze this place down, not even King Bert-Zel will save you.”

Trying to ignore the threat and controlling Kevin’s temper, Doey led Stitchen to the generator room and opened the door.

“Stitchen !” two voice exclaimed “thanks goodness you came, we were so scared !”

Stitchen took them in his arm and quickly checked them for injuries, noticing none he carried them in his arm and handed them to Foxy.

“I would never abandon you, no matter who or what tries to harm you, I will always be here for you two.” he turned to doey after reassuring his sidekicks, once again pointing his flamethrower at him.

“Thank you for your cooperation ! I hope I will not have to come back again, am I clear ? I have the firepower to deal with you or any toy for that matter.” Stitchen was both happy and menacing at the same time, doey thought this was quite amazing despite the circumstances he found himself in.

With a serious face doey told Stitchen to leave which he happily did only leaving by saying “I am happy we found a common ground ! Goodbye !”

Focusing on Drella and the Nurse he quiclky asked them if they were fine, only saying they wanted to go back to Stitch-a-toy.

Once there, Drella was the first to break “I was so afraid !” she sobbed into his arm “I thought they weren’t going to let us leave !”

The Nurse was more composed but he knew. She was also afraid and he needed to calm them down, he didn’t want to give it to them now but he asked the [REDACTED] for a gift for both of them, it was time to use it.

Settling them on a table he told them to wait as he reached into a drawer. “I wanted to wait for your birthdays to give it to both of you but you need to cheer up and thankfully I had the perfect gift in mind !” He dramatically bowed and handed them both a big cupcake, theirs favorite flavor if he recalled.

They couldn’t believe theirs eyes, where did he get that ? How ?

“You- it’s so... Thank you !” Drella cried in joy and jumped in stitchen’s arm for a hug closely followed by the Nurse.

“How did you get it ?” Nurse asked in disbelief “I love it, the taste is perfect but… how ?”

“Let’s just say that the great Stitchen had some friends in high places and I asked one of them for this gift, now would you two like a dance-afternoon ? You must have plenty of energy to spend in order to win against poor old me, don’t you ?”

Their smile came back instantly as the mere idea of winning against him and teasing him for days on end afterward was too much to resist.

“Yes !” They both yelled and ran off to the arcade room “let’s go and get ready doc ! We won’t be so merciful like last time !” Nurse teased him about their near-victory.

Stitchen would tear down the entire factory for them, he smiled at their energy.

“You two are worth everything to me” He slowly walked to the arcade room and was already overjoyed at the idea of defending his title of best dancer in the Game Station.

THE END.

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raintemper · 4 months ago

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Hi I'm back with another scuffed oc post. Redesign for Sunlit? More likely than you think. He's so silly,

Sketch page and additional oc info under the break

Tmw u have to convince your not-bf to save your life because your parents want to factory reset you because you're too obsessed with your not-bf

Starless is an early iterator who was not tasked with solving the great problem (at first), he mostly focused on discovering and treating illnesses that came with having a city above the clouds in perfect position to be laser beamed by the sun. Eventually it is also put to work to find the solution, but he does it alongside his previous work.

Sunlit comes along in the group and finds a deep fascination with Starless' research and wants to also do the cool things instead of solving the impossible problem a hundred other iterators are failing to solve. Starless, out of boredom, occasionally sends over some of its studies if asked. Sunlit is a little too engrossed in this and way too emotionally attached to Starless to do his job properly.

Think,,, he will try his best to impress Starless by discovering new viruses and then helping him find the treatments for it, but he is actually creating the new viruses to make it look like he found something. Starless is not very particularly impressed, just because this is what most of its functions focus on does not mean he likes doing it. (Imagine trying to impress an artist by showing them nft?? Lol idkk if that's a fair comparison)

Obviously Starless is almost instantly suspicious of them. No need for him to act on it though because Sunlit stands out so much as an outlier himself. Consistently ignoring his citizens, doesn't care about the problem, accidentally almost caused an epidemic with one of his (supposed to be secret) virus creations. So his creators had plans to completely reset his system. Starless was almost reset as well just by association but was thankfully able to avoid it.

So Sunlit is very sad and scared and asks Starless to please save his life. Starless is not completely unattached to him at this point, but knows whether it helps or not, it'll come to regret either path in the future. (Is Sunlit unhinged enough to figure out a way without its help and then haunt it later on. Perhaps?) Anyways after a little bit of pathetic whimpering from Sunlit(/j), Starless writes him a code to copy and preserve his self in a part of Starless' own system (how fun).

Post mass ascension, Sunlit gets rotted and corrupted and Starless has to deal with it's (what are they) trying to also corrupt it via suspicious links and data transfers.

(silly reminder that these guys are based off existing ocs of mine in which the roles are swapped. It was Starless doing the tormenting but he was much more charismatic about it.)

#rain world #rain world oc #rw oc #iterator oc #rain world iterator #rw iterator #rw #starless pronouns are he/it #sunlit is he/they #raintarts #starless sometimes calls sunlit “sweet” for the other part of his name “sunlit sweet grass”#are you guys getting confused with their aliases yet #starless and sunlit #SunlitSG

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dayshift-confessions · 3 months ago

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Cant quite remember if I've already submitted this one and if I have feel free to just delete this but. I Think People Need To Make The Phone Guys More Mechanical

ESPECIALLYYY Generation 1. Iirc, one of the big reasons Generation 2 was even made was because customers didn't like how mechanical Gen 1 was. Like they were getting complaints about it. Enough to prompt The Factory to go "Ok, something needs to change here, because we are actively losing customers solely because our managers are too robotic"

And yet! I so rarely see people make them like that! Like I get that it isn't super fun or that it might be difficult to get used to but I promise you it's fun once you start to get used to it

Just add little traits! You don't even have to make them "ohhh emotionless robot" because they do still have souls and emotions! But just add little things to them that make them just a little bit off. Make them never use contractions, so instead of saying "It's a really nice day out, isn't it?" they might say "It is a really nice day out, is it not?" Or even make it so they don't think to switch it to be grammatically correct, and say "It is a really nice day out, is not it?" as stupid as it sounds to us, because they understand that you *would* use a contraction there, but they don't actually combine the words.

Or make it so they mix up tones! Their voice tilts up like they're asking a question when they very much aren't, they sound happy when their body language and words say that they aren't, maybe their voice is just completely flat, never deviating, or they always talk at a certain speed.

Movements, too! Make them stay completely, perfectly still if they aren't walking somewhere or doing something. If they are doing something, like writing, the only thing that moves is their hand and occasionally their arm. Maybe when they turn, their head turns before the rest of their body does.

Also just like... don't be scared to make them visibly a bit mechanical. Give those freaks prosthetics or have parts of their limbs held together with metal. Everett was stated to have never had his scars fully heal, maybe that was never fully fixed and still has a chance to appear in later generations. Maybe a scar on a phones arm absolutely refuses to heal, so they replace that ring of the arm with metal to make sure it stays in one piece. Build some machinery into them! I see Phone Guy cord tails are getting more common, which I love, so add some other things! Give them fans to keep themselves cool, or a USB port that lets them hook up to computers and stuff.

Overall just. Let those robots be robots. They can be human while they're at it, particularly Gen 2/3, but especially for Gen 1, make them more robotic.

(And yes, I understand a big thing in the games is "The Phone Guys aren't actually animatronics, they're people with feeings and struggles and blah blah blah" but they're still built to be animatronics! They've still got coding! Pretty much everyone thinks they are animatronics, including the Phone Guys themselves! They can act mechanical!)

#dsaf confessions #confession #dsaf #dayshift confessions #phone guys dsaf #phone guys #mod springfreddy #ough....i am going to be thinking about this for a while now

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faeriemarie · 2 years ago

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introducing my lifa app!!

so if you don't know what the lifa app is... here is my extremely confusing explanation. if you can't understand it, i don't blame you

the basics of my app:

The app is for pc, phone, ipad, and other electronic devices (or on paper in drs without smartphones)

It will automatically appear and it can not be deleted. I know everything there is to know about Lifa and I control the app with absolute ease.

If someone were to go on a device where the Lifa app is on, they wouldn’t be able to see it or tap on it at all. Only I can see it or use it and it is 100% real and 100% effective

The lifa app doesn’t take up ANY storage

Lifa knows exactly what I mean because it is connected to my subconscious mind. It knows what I mean exactly, and all intrusive thoughts are ignored

The lifa app doesn’t need wifi

I can do ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING with Lifa, no restrictions, and nobody ever suspects that I’m using it

Nothing I search or watch on my lifa app is traceable by anyone but me (not even cell or wifi companies)

There are ZERO CONSEQUENCES to using Lifa and what decisions I make. Nothing goes wrong, everything happens how I expect it to, excluding the intrusive thoughts which are always ignored

No one is ever suspicious of the things I manifest and it’s like I’ve always had them (clothes, food, talents, etc. has always been there)

okay now for the features!!

lifa closet

Any item of clothing I choose from the catalog, script, or import a picture of will be sent to my closet, suitcase, or wherever I want

reality shifting

I can set a time and pick a reality to shift to. I will then shift during that exact time

reality check

I can check which reality I am in with the click of a button

scripter

I can script and write anything. Inserted images are HD, and PNG images remain transparent. I can insert infinite images and change the font’s color and style itself (same features as notes/notion/google docs but neater)

desired scenario

I can specifically script to describe my desired scenario. I can set the time and date to when the scenario happens. The scenario is exactly like how I want and even 1 trillion times better

manifestor

I can insert a picture or describe what I want to manifest. I can also manifest people by typing their name and Lifa will automatically recognize who they are. I can set the time and date to when you want that thing to manifest, and it will happen 100%.

skill increaser

Choose any skill I desire to have (I can also insert it by typing “cooking”). I can choose to master any skill and it will show up immediately. I can search any skill and increase on a scale of 1-100% mastery

motherlode (sims reference lol)

I can deliver/spawn money of any currency in my chosen form. (gift cards, bank acc, cash, etc.) I can choose from coins to bills. There is no limit amount of money or times to deliver it. I can deliver it how much and how many times I want. The money is 100% legal and valid, and passes all money detectors. The money has valid and legal coding, as if it had been made in factories. It still remains perfectly legal. I can choose to spawn the money in my purse, bottom of backpack, pockets, amazon, wallet, etc. The money spawns in 5 seconds. I can deliver/spawn as much money as I desire, there is no limit (even 50 million is 100% possible). There is 0% risk of money inflation

lifa credit card

The Lifa credit card has an infinite amount of money and can never go in debt. There is an infinite amount of money in all international currencies. The card is universal and 100% valid and legal. It can be used in any ATM and online store/game (could be recognized as any official credit card like eg. visa or ae). The money has no money or usage limit, and it can be used for anything, anytime. In ATM machines it appears that the card only has 1000€/$, but in the Lifa app it will be ∞ €/$. If the card gets lost, it will automatically disappear. The same happens if the card breaks, and Lifa will spawn a new card with the same exact info. It will come inside a little gift box (that matches the app’s color scheme I desire) wherever I want. The card’s number and code (and other infos) are up to me or the universe but it's always 100% valid. The card lasts forever. There is 0% risk of money inflation

lifa bank account

The bank account feature is connected to the credit card feature. It’s almost like a normal bank acc. I can see all mytransactions. The amount of money never changes because it stays 100% infinite. I can change my money’s currency. I can also take money out of the card in my desired currency. I can customize the card’s design and I can spawn more cards. I can easily create more bank accounts too, they will all have infinite money. There is 0% risk of money inflation

lifa paypal/venmo/cashapp/etc.

It is 100% legal anywhere. It is exactly like the real paypal, but my Lifa bank account/card is registered. I can use it in all purchases that require paypal. I can login on the real paypal website with the Lifa paypal acc. When I first use the app I get to create a Lifa paypal account. The balance shows 1000€ / $ / £ but the money amount is infinite. There is 0% risk of money inflation

food delivery

If I insert a picture of a food item or search the catalog, Lifa will recognize. When I confirm, it will be sent to my ideal location. (i can pick the location). The food will be 100% fresh and new

boredom cure

Instantly provides me with inspiration to do something that is productive and beneficial to my overall well-being

create-a-person

I can design a person’s hair, body, face, etc., script their personality and choose their traits. It is set up like scripting and has different templates I can use. I can change skin tone, skin type, undertone, hair color, hair texture, eye color, etc. I can insert any pictures and they’ll be exactly how I want. When I insert a script of the person’s personality and behaviour, Lifa will recognize it. I can also script traits and the person’s backstory. I have to fill in each’s birth info (name, age, birthday, sign, blood type, etc) to my desire. I can also choose the relationship between the people when I’m done creating them. Then I confirm and once I shift to my dr it will all be exactly like how I wanted and even 1 trillion times better. If I’m feeling lazy, I can select to let the universe fill in the gaps, and the universe will fill them like I wanted and even better

lifa messenger

I can text with anyone in the universe that I want. It feels completely real and all conversations are remembered. It’s like having online bestie because the people I text always get along with me, always respond, and actually care about me. We can also call and video chat. I am not actually communicating with someone from my reality and instead with the universe since everyone is part of the universe. It works exactly how I want it to

natal chart

I can select which life/reality’s natal chart I want to see. Lifa offers a personalized detailed description of my chart and personality. The chart is 100% accurate. I can also select to look at anyone’s natal chart. Lifa will show a list of everyone I know. It is divided in 5 categories (friends, family, acquaintances, classmates/coworkers, celebrities). The natal chart can also show compatibility

grade changer

Automatically makes me have good grades and changed all my past grades to A. My wrong test answers morph into correct test answers

ask-me-anything

I can ask anything and get the complete and 100% right answer. The questions can vary from asking where my lost tennis shoes are to what’s the answer to number 4 on my math homework. There is no limit to what can be asked and the answer given is always exactly what I need

feature adder

I can visualize and script more features and add them to Lifa with the feature adder. Lifa will add these features in 1 second and they will be 100% effective. Lifa also knows exactly what I mean, even if I script something wrong, so there are no surprises

lifaflix

A streaming site where I can watch shows that only exist in my dr (most of the time used for fame drs so i can see all the great acting projects i have been a part of). I can also watch my drs like tv shows.

lifatube

A video site set up like YouTube where I can watch anything from my dr. Things like fan edits, compilations of dr moments, my dr tiktoks, youtube videos made by my dr self and more. I can also watch memories/anything that happens from either a 3rd person point of view or 1st person

lifa socials

My lifa app has social media accounts from all my different realities that i can flip through, post from, dm with people from those realities, and go live (i can post anything i want on these social media sites and i’m immune to anything bad happening like leaking nudes, screenshots, hacking, or any other cybercrimes/bad things). My wr self even has their own account

#reality shifting #shiftblr #shifting #subliminals #desired reality #manifesting #manifestation #reality shift #shifting realities #shifting community #my scripts ♫#shifter #shift #shifters #scripting #shifting script #desired life #lifa app

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river-taxbird · 6 months ago

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The Four Horsemen of the Digital Apocalypse

Blockchain. Artificial Intelligence. Internet of Things. Big Data.

Do these terms sound familiar? You have probably been hearing some or all of them non stop for years. "They are the future. You don't want to be left behind, do you?"

While these topics, particularly crypto and AI, have been the subject of tech hype bubbles and inescapable on social media, there is actually something deeper and weirder going on if you scratch below the surface.

I am getting ready to apply for my PhD in financial technology, and in the academic business studies literature (Which is barely a science, but sometimes in academia you need to wade into the trash can.) any discussion of digital transformation or the process by which companies adopt IT seem to have a very specific idea about the future of technology, and it's always the same list, that list being, blockchain, AI, IoT, and Big Data. Sometimes the list changes with additions and substitutions, like the metaverse, advanced robotics, or gene editing, but there is this pervasive idea that the future of technology is fixed, and the list includes tech that goes from questionable to outright fraudulent, so where is this pervasive idea in the academic literature that has been bleeding into the wider culture coming from? What the hell is going on?

The answer is, it all comes from one guy. That guy is Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum. Now there are a lot of conspiracies about the WEF and I don't really care about them, but the basic facts are it is a think tank that lobbies for sustainable capitalist agendas, and they famously hold a meeting every year where billionaires get together and talk about how bad they feel that they are destroying the planet and promise to do better. I am not here to pass judgement on the WEF. I don't buy into any of the conspiracies, there are plenty of real reasons to criticize them, and I am not going into that.

Basically, Schwab wrote a book titled the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In his model, the first three so-called industrial revolutions are:

1. The industrial revolution we all know about. Factories and mass production basically didn't exist before this. Using steam and water power allowed the transition from hand production to mass production, and accelerated the shift towards capitalism.

2. Electrification, allowing for light and machines for more efficient production lines. Phones for instant long distance communication. It allowed for much faster transfer of information and speed of production in factories.

3. Computing. The Space Age. Computing was introduced for industrial applications in the 50s, meaning previously problems that needed a specific machine engineered to solve them could now be solved in software by writing code, and certain problems would have been too big to solve without computing. Legend has it, Turing convinced the UK government to fund the building of the first computer by promising it could run chemical simulations to improve plastic production. Later, the introduction of home computing and the internet drastically affecting people's lives and their ability to access information.

That's fine, I will give him that. To me, they all represent changes in the means of production and the flow of information, but the Fourth Industrial revolution, Schwab argues, is how the technology of the 21st century is going to revolutionize business and capitalism, the way the first three did before. The technology in question being AI, Blockchain, IoT, and Big Data analytics. Buzzword, Buzzword, Buzzword.

The kicker though? Schwab based the Fourth Industrial revolution on a series of meetings he had, and did not construct it with any academic rigor or evidence. The meetings were with "numerous conversations I have had with business, government and civil society leaders, as well as technology pioneers and young people." (P.10 of the book) Despite apparently having two phds so presumably being capable of research, it seems like he just had a bunch of meetings where the techbros of the mid 2010s fed him a bunch of buzzwords, and got overly excited and wrote a book about it. And now, a generation of academics and researchers have uncritically taken that book as read, filled the business studies academic literature with the idea that these technologies are inevitably the future, and now that is permeating into the wider business ecosystem.

There are plenty of criticisms out there about the fourth industrial revolution as an idea, but I will just give the simplest one that I thought immediately as soon as I heard about the idea. How are any of the technologies listed in the fourth industrial revolution categorically different from computing? Are they actually changing the means of production and flow of information to a comparable degree to the previous revolutions, to such an extent as to be considered a new revolution entirely? The previous so called industrial revolutions were all huge paradigm shifts, and I do not see how a few new weird, questionable, and unreliable applications of computing count as a new paradigm shift.

What benefits will these new technologies actually bring? Who will they benefit? Do the researchers know? Does Schwab know? Does anyone know? I certainly don't, and despite reading a bunch of papers that are treating it as the inevitable future, I have not seen them offering any explanation.

There are plenty of other criticisms, and I found a nice summary from ICT Works here, it is a revolutionary view of history, an elite view of history, is based in great man theory, and most importantly, the fourth industrial revolution is a self fulfilling prophecy. One rich asshole wrote a book about some tech he got excited about, and now a generation are trying to build the world around it. The future is not fixed, we do not need to accept these technologies, and I have to believe a better technological world is possible instead of this capitalist infinite growth tech economy as big tech reckons with its midlife crisis, and how to make the internet sustainable as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook, the most monopolistic and despotic tech companies in the world, are running out of new innovations and new markets to monopolize. The reason the big five are jumping on the fourth industrial revolution buzzwords as hard as they are is because they have run out of real, tangible innovations, and therefore run out of potential to grow.

#ai #artificial intelligence #blockchain #cryptocurrency #fourth industrial revolution #tech #technology #enshittification #anti ai #ai bullshit #world economic forum

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djevelbl · 6 months ago

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I sat for a second staring into my phone and pondering the blorbos bc of a shitpost and huh. Branzy really IS very much 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) by Will Wood coded isn't he??? like, most if not ALL of the song is SO him that it's INSANE. this only happened once before to me and the previous guy can't be my blorbo anymore bc of.... reasons, so I'm happy to have another silly little guy replace him in being SO coded after one of my favorite Deranged Songs /vpos

Ramble up ahead btw, read at your own risk

you KNOW the ramble is getting serious when I do the weird Tumblr Post Partition Thing AND went from writing it on the phone to WRITING IT ON THE PC (any lengthy post I write EXCLUSIVELY on the pc bc it's more fun and comfy for me lol)

The only line I can't in good faith say I relate 100% back to Branzy is LITERALY the second one, which is a bummer lmao — "Screaming at the top of my lungs in the confession booth" but like. I'm throwing it out there for any other, more veteran Branzy fans to go rabid over as I have and maybe even also discover how it could be Branzy-ified bc I truly believe the WHOLE SONG can be Branzy-ified lol

SO ANYWAYS. MORE SONG LYRICS !!!!!

I specifically came to this whole thing bc of the fourth line in the song, "The devil made me do it, but I also kinda wanted to" bc YES??? THAT'S SOOO BRANZY CODED?????? like the amount of fucked up shit /aff he's done in his videos is INSANE I mean he DID make a video where the WHOLE. PREMISE was breaking 100 irl laws in the Afterhours SMP lmaooo also I'm kinda tempted to break out the fuckin LYRIC MEANINGS for this as well — hmmmm...

fuck it, we live only once and life is too fucking short/shitty to have hangups over going insane about our little guys

So yea, fourth line is all about temptation, choices and a careless sentiment as one takes full responsibility for their actions — the Devil might've offered you riches, love, security in exchage for someone's head, but ultimately you're the one who takes that step forwards to answer the siren's call; Will Wood sings here about temptation and how, at the end of the day, you're the one acting upon that temptation, how that's a thing only you can be responsible for, and how he himself doesn't care much for the guilt the word "sin" carries with it; "we'll live the way we want, and we don't care if it's considered 'sin.'" — MarsAndTheGreatExpanse on the lyric explanation in Genius (yes, Imma be quoting some of these people. yes, I'm taking it THAT seriously). All of this is very much like Branzy to do: the most recent example I think would be the Candyland mod video, where he has SUCH BEEF with gingerbread men that it's just pathetic /aff at this point lmao — he goes around killing them and hating on them SO. HARD it's really funny. Of course, there's a difference between Will Wood singing this and Branzy fucking, idk, wanting Jimmy the Gingerbread Guy's guts spilled all over the Candyland floor in an overexaggerated candygore that would belong to none other than uhhhh fucking. idk danganronpa??? but like, suspend your disbelief and be down to clown with the insanity here for a minute, thanks <3

There's also his 100 IRL Crimes In Minecraft video, where he sold Kaboodle's soul WITHOUT HESITATION the moment he was prompted for it lmfaoo (he also did racketeering, extorsion, murder, created a fucking GANG WITH REDDOONS??? spread difamation [that really fucking wasn't. no matter what the cult leader uhhh wither skulls guy was saying], was distributing illegal substances I'm pretty sure, impersonated a cop, idk what else I might rewatch that video actually). There's also his 100 Hearts Factory, where he UNIRONICALLY made a fucking child labor joke with the villagers, and was busting up unions in there at some other point as well. There's whatever in hell he has with Clown bc if Branzy is UNETHICAL AS ALL HELL /silly on his own then with Clown they're both HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, NO GOOD AT ALL /silly and I love that for them actually.

"My grip on my secrets slipping while I'm speaking in tongues" really just reminds me of Branzy's bloodlust and how everyone seems to fucking forget it's there???? even if it reminds me of it in like, a roundabout way

"Take it with a pillar of salt, H.A.L.T, it's not my fault" is all about how his words are non-literal, how he shouldn't be taken as such, and how he's the way he is from birth and he can't really change it — Branzy doesn't try to hide who he is and how he feels about things (it's his greatest asset) and he also doesn't let anyone tell him how to be (unless you're a murderous clown but like, his simping is a WHOLE different can of worms; I'm not a couple's therapist lol, I'm not paid for this shit), he just kinda is; the only reason he isn't an active threat is because he doesn't care for PVP enough to become better at it. The onlu hangup I've got with this line is the H.A.L.T thing — it's apparently a form of mindfulness recommended to people who have a hard time taking care of themselves, and it stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (might have to look into it for myself,,,,, anyways)

"I'm cut from a different kind of meat" is Will saying he's different, in a completely separate category to everyone else, and paired with the next few lines the implication becomes very obvious: you can't understand me, and you're not meant to. Branzy is so hard to put down into words sometimes because he's genuinely many things all at once: he's impulsive but plans are important to him, he's cunning but SO damn stupid, so harmless yet one of the most dangerous people I've ever seen /vpos /aff, he's kooky and charming and fun yet knows how to be intimidating if he so wishes to be, yet he's also SO pathetic wet cat man coded that it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to be scared of him,,,,,,,, GOD "I'm cut from a different kind of meat" you are, Branzycraft, you really are,,,,,

"More than you can chew, hard to swallow me" this is all about being more than people can take, more than people can understand, more and more and more and more. And honeslty he is: he's hard to put into words because his personality pulls him in all different directions and shapes, he's bigger than he lets on, more all-encompassing and somehow formless in how difficult he can be to pin down and describe — I like to think, if Branzy were ever to sing this (a demon boy can only dream sometimes,,,,,,,,), I imagine he would sound SO cheeky and teasing, kinda smug yet chill. I also love the combo of bit off more than you can chew and hard to swallow pills sounding like that

"Forget bored stiff, I got rigor mortis, call it morbid curiosity" there's something about the line, how it's written and sung that gives me a sense of flippancy that goes really well with Branzy's insane yet really chill attitude. Also the whole "death and blood and gore, LifeSteal's essence and the birthmarks It imprints into It's players" thing of LifeSteal is just. PERFECT for the line idk idc I won't take any criticisms on this point <333

"How can I commit to reality, when my third eye's open and I like what I see?" using the third eye imagery here makes the line be about how Will Wood's imagination is so interesting that nothing real can compete, and thus he just. doesn't commit to any of it — Branzy goes by whatever he fancies that very moment, almost like he lives his own fantasy as he goes about life and honestly, I kinda wish I was him ngl

"Baby, I might be crazy but I didn't lose it, no I set it free" this one's mostly self-explanatory bc like, ALL LifeStealers ARE insane to some degree — you kinda NEED to be to survive in there; if you're not ALREADY, then the culture itself WILL claim your sanity. It's only a matter of time — so OFC this line fits Branzy, especially because he is SO carefree over how he is, who he is, careless of how that affects others and simply going about life like the deranged forest creature he was born to be

"I can't ignore what's under dance floorboards, the rhythm of my heart a dead-as-disco beat" in the explanation in Genius, people say this line might be a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's (yes, this went there. get used to it) "The Telltale Heart", where a murderer stores his victim under his house's floorboards and goes mad, imagining the corpse's heartbeat gives him away — honestly this kinda reminds me of The Patches Incident in a jester walks into an amusement park by hattrem on ao3 (GO READ IT. IT'S GOOD. IT'S GREAT EVEN. GO READ IT !!!!!!) — the contributors say Will Wood might've used the metaphor to suggest he's mover or inspired by his own madness or guilt, a sentiment I'm sure Branzy shares in how he briefly hesitates before going full throttle with whatever fucked up shit he's decided is funniest this time around

"But I still move my feet" here, Will is painting us the following picture: even through the guilt or pain he might feel about something, he keeps on going and keeps on dancing "move my feet"; Branzy never fully stops, he never gives up — he might change course, redirect, take a step back to think and plan, but he never stops. He jumps through the hoops and does all the dances, and he never stops.

"To slip out of this groove, I'm free" here Will Wood is succinctly summarising the point of the song: it's fine to be a little bit (or more like a LOT) crazy, to slip out of constraints and be truly oneself, regardless of how that looks like and Branzy fucking follows this like a mantra lol

I'm gonna lightly skim over the next two lines — "Now to row, row, row my boat over the falls" and "And maybe wake up from but a dream, yeah" — bc it's just a reference to the Row, Row, Row Your Boat nursery rhyme, with a more cynical spin; something something the cheerful initial demeanor ripped appart at the hands of that bloodlustful beast living in his veins and caressing his psyche, in one swift swoop and almost instantaneously, just to disappear once again into his bloodstream and be flushed out.

Also I'm gonna talk about the whole chorus right now, and not mention it again unless it's relevant to any other lines I might be discussing:

"I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I didn't lose it, babe

There wasn't much to find

I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I'm only passing through"

The way the lines are sung, so happy-go-lucky and carefree, so flippantly and cheerfully, it all reminds me so much of Branzy's persona — so cheery and showman as everything seems to fall apart around him, and it's a coin toss whether that's to his benefit or to his detriment; he doesn't let past alliances, teamups or enemies to deter him from what he wants and what he craves — he desires someone's demise? even if through elaborate traps, he'll get it. He's only here to have fun, to come and go as he pleases.

"If you knew what I knew, if you saw what I see" this one goes hand in hand with the next one, so!: "You'd look through illusions, hallucinations, and lucid dream" there it isss! simply put, people wouldn't be able to take it all in if they saw what the character sees — Branzy must've seen a lot of fucked up shit during his three or so season run in LifeSteal, and considering Tubbo is going insane over the shit LifeStealers keep pulling in The Realm SMP (YOU WERE IN THEIR HOME AT SOME POINT?? YOU WENT INTO THE TIGER ENCLOSURE GIRLIEPOP. WDYM YOU'RE FUCKING SURPRISED THAT PANGI KILLED ALL BEES IN A 1K RADIUS FROM SPAWN???? THAT CLOWN HAD ALREADY PRESTIEGED ENCHANTING ONCE AND WAS ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN???????? WHAT) I think these lines are appropriate not even just for Branzy, but LITERALLY any LifeStealer at that lmao

I'll be honest, I've got NOTHING for "And I know that meaning can be such a pretty thing to keep" and "But I got facts and I'm not afraid to use 'em, take the good with the bad, take off the back you make a new front" so uhhhhhh I'll.... improv something? uh. um. shit uh so uhhhhhhhh something something Branzy takes everything in stride, and manages to turn it into an advantage (like acquiring the scariest player in LS as his work husband)??????? yeahhhh that works

"Some days I'm glad that I am a madman and I'd rather be that than" and "An amicable animal, mild-mannered cannibal" are about preferring one's own brand of insanity over the gentle brutality of mainstream society — Branzy kills, like everyone in LifeSteal, and in that they're all a community, yet Branzy still prefers his contraptions and elaborate plans, the honey-sweets to his personal venus flytraps and brand of death over the constant betrayal and active manipulation, the orbital cannons, the battles to the brink, the ambushing of weaker players

"But I'm more level-headed and clever than ever and I'm getting better one forever at a time" is about embracing one's madness, and being better for it — Branzy, amongs other things, is a truly terrifying /vpos character whenever he desires to be because he embraces all the twisted, dark, immoral facets to his person without a second thought, and with this he's stronger than others could ever dream of being

"And if sick is defined by what's different, well then pull the plug out and let me die" I don't think LS!Branzy has ever had a problem with dying, even there's always something pushing him to seek survival — it hurts, you're one heart closer to a permanent death, but I don't think that has always perturbed him enough to lash out and become so desperate that he'd be willing to throw caution to the wind; in this, Clown and Branzy are equals, similar to each other, going onto the main stage and performing the same steps.

"Vice-versa, vice versus virtue" here Will Wood is comparing good and bad behaviors to each other, and while there's something of a truth to what the contributor said on Genius about the usage of vice-versa specifically ("The literal meaning of 'Vice Verse' is 'with the main items in the preceding statement the other way around.' In short terms, it means 'the other way around' Following the theme of the song, Will is saying he is the polar opposite of soiety, or he is 'the other way around' in society" — AceTheBowlOfCereal23) I still think there's more to that — paired with the rest of the line, it feels to me that it all speaks of interchangeably using "good" and "bad" as adjectives for Wood's behavior, in such a way that makes both words become almost meaningless; for there will always be someone out there who disapproves of who you are, regardless of what you're doing. Branzy has a similar outlook, of considering whichever thing is happening right now as "good" or "bad" purely based on his own perception, how it might be beneficial or not, instead of using a more socially accepted definition for each and every event he comes across — especially in LifeSteal he does this, where everyone is constantly terrified of Clown and wary of him, yet Branzy only sees good things in the guy

"Well who I am I choose through all the things I do" our actions define us, somehow, in some way, and Branzy picks and chooses which ones he allows himself to be called by: he constatly says he's incapable of killing, he's harmless! Have you seen him holding a sword? Yeah, killing him is like kicking a baby in Wallmart! yet he'd managed to collect AT LEAST 100 hearts for his Big Top Tent event that closed out on Season 5, simply because people like him.

"And if it rhymes it's true, but I hate poetry" for some reason I can see him saying this even if he 100% does not mean it and is only saying it for the bit — not all of these line connections need to be that deep tbh

"Now with my moral compass pointing south, going down" Branzy has a fucked up moral compass ever since LifeSteal, next line

"With no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no respect for reality" so uh. idfk dude. this line exists — connect it back to Branzy or don't, I don't think I can

"A tourist passing through" and "Well that was fun, goodbye" are the lines Will Wood added onto the chorus to create the outro, and they just kinda remind me that Branzy is no longer in LifeSteal, but is still so influential and important to the people who keep playing the server season after season,,,,,,,,,,

Whoa, infinitely long yap session be upon ye! this was fun! I don't wanna do it again anytime soon! (might do it with PrinceZam and the three different Idol by YOASOBI English versions I'm mildly obssessed over [the official one, Trickle's and Will Stetson's]) so uh. I hope y'all enjoyed this? Question mark? Anyways!

#my uncle came by to visit and i've been here for like. an hour MINIMUM in my room writing this shit lmaoooooo #there's uh. nothing else to add!#if any branzy fan veterans come across this i'd like their opinion on this whole.... insanity!#also their own thoughts on the lines i skimmed over/ENTIRELY skipped bc i didnt know wtf to do with them lol #anyway #demon at the character analysis lab™#branzycraft #lifesteal smp #lssmp #character analysis #2econd 2ight 2eer #will wood

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themoonweaversden · 10 months ago

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Messeges that were found so far: PLATINUM PAZ (spoilers)

This is just to collect all the codes that you can type in in thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com and their effects only (please click images for better quality)

Masterpost with all messeges / codes

Transcript:

"Pacifica stormed into her palatial bedroom and slammed the door so hard her chandeliers shook. (There were at least 3 chandeliers in Pacifica’s room, including a teensy chandelier over her nightlight.) She buried her head in a velvet pillow and screamed for an inhumanly long time, then flopped over and stewed at the painted cherubs on her ceiling. It wasn’t FAIR. After everything she did for her parents- get up at 5 for fencing lessons, beauty pageants, fox-hunting, butler-hunting, cleaning up the black feathers after dads weird “grown up masquerade parties”- THIS is how they repay her? HER! PACIFICA ELISA NORTHWEST?!

It had been a rough summer for Pacifica- first she came alarmingly close to losing a Party Crown, then her golf skills were called into question, and now her parents grounded her for literally saving the entire family from a Category 10 ghost and shut off the spigot on her caviar tap for rest of the year. What was she supposed to eat now? Dog Food? She angrily opened her mini-fridge and pulled out an UpperCrustables™ brand snack pack and angrily spread the caviar on the tiny baguette. “Ugh, why does it come with this dumb little stick? The caviar always gets stuck in the CORNERS!”

She looked at a napkin where Dipper had written the shack’s phone number in case killing the ghost might have created a “double ghost.” Ha! As if she would put HIS number in HER phone.

Everything in her life used to make so much more sense before those PINES twins came along and screwed everything up. That stupid Mabel and her baffling, undeserved confidence. That know-it-all sweat stain Dipper who’s giant head was always butting against hers. Something about Dipper’s words had knocked over a domino in her mind that started a chain reaction that was causing her whole identity to come crashing down. He told her she had potential to change into…a better person? How do you become a better person when you’re already the best person? It didn’t make sense!

Thinking about it exhausted her, and soon, her eyelids began to droop.

Soon she was...

she was...

Zzzz...

In Pacifica’s dream, she was freshening up at a party washing her hands when she noticed something... red swirling in the drain.

In horror, she discovered her hands were covered in blood, and no matter how hard she scrubbed them, they wouldn’t come clean. On the mirror, words slowly started two write themselves on their own, as if by an invisible hand…

BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

“NO, NO, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!”

An overpowering sense of guilt swelled inside as she fled to the ballroom for help, where she spotted her friends gossiping by a tapestry. She tried to flip them around, but when she grabbed their shoulders, they fell over, flat, They were... cardboard? She turned to her parents, and they fell over flat too. The entire party was filled with flat, 2D people, everyone was fake. Blood began to fill the ballroom, pouring from the clock, from the paintings, from the ceiling. Why was this happening?! She raced through her manor in a blind panic, when she discovered she was no longer in the mansion, but outside in Gravity Falls. When she looked down, she realized she was now 100 feet tall, and every step she made was wrecking the town. She knocked over the mudflap factory, polluting the river. She knocked over the orphanage, sending coughing soot-covered children out into the cold.

She kept apologizing, but she was too big, too public, every step hurting more and more people. Everyone could see that the town’s problems were her fault. She was a monster. She always had been. She always would be.

Pacifica started sobbing and suddenly, she was a little girl again, hiding behind the vine-covered tombstones in the graveyard behind the Manor after another one of her parents fights. The graves of her ancestors loomed above her like gargoyles, great Northwests in history. What would they say if they could see her like this?

One of the statues slowly turned to face Pacifica. It was Nathaniel Northwest.

“Get a hold of yourself. You’re a Northwest, people can’t know you leak shame-water.”

“You’re right,” Pacifica apologized, and hastily took out her compact to clean her smeared makeup. She cursed as she saw how dishevelled she was.

The statue watched her like a cat hungrily watching a mouse.

“You have a lot of anger, don’t you.”

“Anyone whose not angry is an idiot. There’s so much to be mad about.”

“Yes. Anger is good. Anger is useful. Who are you angry at, Pacifica?”

“Everything was better before the PINES came to town...”

“You know, I might be able to help with that... there’s something I want. The Mystery Shack is going to be getting some new merchandise very soon. A small snow globe, nothing anyone would miss. If you could shoplift it for me, I could guarantee things would change. You’d never deal with the Pines again...”

Pacifica closed her compact. Would that fix everything?

“It would be so easy... all you have to do to get your old life back is shake...my...hand”

The statue extended its stony hand. Thunder rumbled in the distance.

[IMAGE]

Slowly she reached out to shake- then abruptly stopped. Something was off.

“My old life... wasn’t really mine, was it? All I ever did was follow my mom and dad. Maybe... it would be better to...make a new one.”

The STATUE BELLOWED with RAGE.

“MAKE? HA! YOU INHERIT. YOUR FAMILY LEGACY IS ALL YOU’RE WORTH. YOU MAKE NOTHING. YOU CAN’T EVEN MAKE FRIENDS.”

This had always been true... in the past.

His hand extended toward her. Looming. Trembling. She remembered a time when a hand extended toward her, offering a free snack in the back seat of a car.

“MAKE THE DEAL YOU LITTLE FAKE BLONDE IMPENDING PATERNITY TEST”

Pacifica’s face relaxed. She knew it was cliché, but she knew she had to do it. She slowly extended her hand. Just as the giant lichen-covered hand was about to close around hers like a cage of stone fingers, she swung her arm up and behind her head.

“Sike.”

“WHAT?!”

“Too slow!”

“YOU WORM!!!! YOU WORTHLESS WASTE OF STOLEN INCOME!!!! YOU’LL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE YOU’RE PENNILESS, WORKING AT THE DINER, YOU’LL HAVE NOTHING, YOU-”

The statue shook with rage, sending cracks from its hand all the way up to its shrieking head. It crumbled apart in front of her, screaming in pain.

GONG!

Pacifica awoke with a start, panting. The clock in the hallway had struck 3 AM. She was covered in sweat. What had she been dreaming about? She couldn’t remember. She didn’t want to remember.

She wasn’t quite sure why, but she removed a tapestry that she’d always had on her wall. Something her family had no doubt looted ages ago- of a glowing triangle over the mountains. She rolled it up and put it in the closet and locked the padlock. Maybe she should hold onto Dipper’s number just in case. She entered it into her phone and felt an odd sense of calm suddenly wash over her. It was quiet once again in Northwest Manor.

Pacifica slept better than she had in years.

VWDB DZDB IURP KHU FLSKHU. VKH KDV WKH SURWHFWLRQ RI WKH OXPEHUIRONV VSLULWV."

The last line is in caesar -3

Code deciphered: STAY AWAY FROM HER CIPHER. SHE HAS THE PROTECTION OF THE LUMBERFOLKS SPIRITS.

#bill cipher #book of bill #gravity falls

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thisisnotawebsitedotcom-com · 10 months ago

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Computer Code: PLATINUM PAZ

A story of a nightmare of Pacifica will be shown.

The text says:

Pacifica stormed into her palatial bedroom and slammed the door so hard her chandeliers shook. (There were at least 3 chandeliers in Pacifica’s room, including a teensy chandelier over her nightlight.) She buried her head in a velvet pillow and screamed for an inhumanly long time, then flopped over and stewed at the painted cherubs on her ceiling. It wasn’t FAIR. After everything she did for her parents- get up at 5 for fencing lessons, beauty pageants, fox-hunting, butler-hunting, cleaning up the black feathers after dads weird “grown up masquerade parties”- THIS is how they repay her? HER! PACIFICA ELISA NORTHWEST?!

It had been a rough summer for Pacifica- first she came alarmingly close to losing a Party Crown, then her golf skills were called into question, and now her parents grounded her for literally saving the entire family from a Category 10 ghost and shut off the spigot on her caviar tap for rest of the year. What was she supposed to eat now? Dog Food? She angrily opened her mini-fridge and pulled out an UpperCrustablesTM brand snack pack and angrily spread the caviar on the tiny baguette. “Ugh, why does it come with this dumb little stick? The caviar always gets stuck in the CORNERS!”

She looked at a napkin where Dipper had written the shack’s phone number in case killing the ghost might have created a “double ghost.” Ha! As if she would put HIS number in HER phone.

Thinking about it exhausted her, and soon, her eyelids began to droop.

Soon she was...

Zzzz...

In Pacifica’s dream, she was freshening up at a party washing her hands when she noticed something... red swirling in the drain.

BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

“NO, NO, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!”

One of the statues slowly turned to face Pacifica. It was Nathaniel Northwest.

“Get a hold of yourself. You’re a Northwest, people can’t know you leak shame-water.”

“You’re right,” Pacifica apologized, and hastily took out her compact to clean her smeared makeup. She cursed as she saw how dishevelled she was.

The statue watched her like a cat hungrily watching a mouse.

“You have a lot of anger, don’t you.”

“Anyone whose not angry is an idiot. There’s so much to be mad about.”

“Yes. Anger is good. Anger is useful. Who are you angry at, Pacifica?”

“Everything was better before the PINES came to town...”

Pacifica closed her compact. Would that fix everything?

“It would be so easy... all you have to do to get your old life back is shake...my...hand”

The statue extended its stony hand. Thunder rumbled in the distance.

Slowly she reached out to shake- then abruptly stopped. Something was off.

“My old life... wasn’t really mine, was it? All I ever did was follow my mom and dad. Maybe... it would be better to...make a new one.”

The STATUE BELLOWED with RAGE.

“MAKE? HA! YOU INHERIT. YOUR FAMILY LEGACY IS ALL YOU’RE WORTH. YOU MAKE NOTHING. YOU CAN’T EVEN MAKE FRIENDS.”

This had always been true... in the past.

His hand extended toward her. Looming. Trembling. She remembered a time when a hand extended toward her, offering a free snack in the back seat of a car.

“MAKE THE DEAL YOU LITTLE FAKE BLONDE IMPENDING PATERNITY TEST”

“Sike.”

“WHAT?!”

“Too slow!”

“YOU WORM!!!! YOU WORTHLESS WASTE OF STOLEN INCOME!!!! YOU’LL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. I SEE A FUTURE WHERE YOU’RE PENNILESS, WORKING AT THE DINER, YOU’LL HAVE NOTHING, YOU-”

The statue shook with rage, sending cracks from its hand all the way up to its shrieking head. It crumbled apart in front of her, screaming in pain.

GONG!

Pacifica awoke with a start, panting. The clock in the hallway had struck 3 AM. She was covered in sweat. What had she been dreaming about? She couldn’t remember. She didn’t want to remember.

Pacifica slept better than she had in years.

There is a hidden cipher below all the text:

VWDB DZDB IURP KHU FLSKHU. VKH KDV WKH SURWHFWLRQ RI WKH OXPEHUIRONV VSLULWV.

#thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com #bill cipher #book of bill #gravity falls #the book of bill #gravity falls pacifica #pacifica northwest

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6okuto-moved · 1 year ago

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. well. im having a genuinely miserable time

my brain is completely blanking on my. phone unlock pin. and now im nervous to turn it off because what if it makes me do my pin instead of fingerprint . oh girl

#Rant. ///////#i tried using the samsung smartfind thing...but it ended up just locking me out completely #with no way to get the code because.? that means needing my phone...#so i had to factory reset...#and im fine with redoing my layouts and stuff...#but my photo of my transfer code for nightbringer apparently wasnt backed up...#and i cant request to recover my data a second time.. (did it for og om already).....#.... ;; whatever man...#im lucky thats like my worst loss here but. ...... i may be the stupidest person on earth i fear.#my birthday track record has been quite bad for years now but this one was relatively ok if just mundane #and then i do this....yeah. of course i would. like. of course i would. whatever. oh man #also the app i used for my photo widgets isnt available anymore. why.#sitting on the floor hungry and listening to crywank. now this is girlhood. this is how you start your 20s #whatever. goodnight everyone. hope you all have a good day today. maybe ill write something to cope #somebody fawking womp womp me exiting #crazy thing is i still havent remembered my pin. i thought i did. i was still wrong. girl

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sergeantnarwhalwrites · 26 days ago

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Robots & Gardens Stuff

It's been so damn long since I've actually sit to write. And I now will have a weird sort of system for robots & gardens. Not writing wise but organizing wise. So have me trying to warm up a little bit lol and reacquainting myself with this story.

Tag list: @outpost51 @nanashi23 @winterandwords @jezifster2 @aether-wasteland-s @dumbthunder @manathen @the-void-writes @livums @vacantgodling (Let me know if you want to be added or removed from the taglist!)

There the gaggle stood. Baffled—absolute understatement.

"Were those always—" Digits started.

Hollis interjected, "Fully autonomous? No."

Donnie pushed himself against the door. Sweat beading on his forehead, threatening to run into their eyes. His mechanical enhancements had made him more resistant to cold. At least in comparison to the average citizen in this smog covered city. But had made handling the heat so much harder. They panted harshly, trying to soothe their heated skin with the cool steel of the door. Both artificial and natural bits of him were displeased by the

They all had found themselves locked within the recesses of the newly built factory. Run by two men the three of them were sure nobody fucking liked. It didn't matter how much the two businessmen tried to appeal to the public. Even the wealthy fucks hated their guts.

Donnie looked between them, "Possible to operate from afar?" They mouthed eyes darting between the two.

They had expected Hollis to answer, mildly shocked when she looked to Digits instead. Scrunching their brows in distate as sweat stung their eyes.

"They got the money to pay someone to do it. Doubt they would though." Digits responded with a shrug, "Plus it's usually pretty easy to copy paste code and machines once the first few are functioning."

#snippet #writeblr #robots&gardens #random little quick write #lol realized I made a minor fuck up and didn't finish a sentence whoops XD

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haruka-vii · 6 months ago

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A help request (December 2024 update)

I'd like to start by thanking everyone who responded to the request for help I made in November regarding the problems mentioned in the post published at the time.

I was surprised by some generous donations on Ko-Fi that made all the difference in solving the most pressing problems and boosting funds. I managed to repair my Switch Lite, which has come back to life thanks to your help!

As soon as the previous Ko-Fi goal was reached, I opened a new one that seeks to raise funds to repair the dishwasher that needs a part replacement to work properly again and at the same time to return funds to my mother, who is unemployed like me, that she has lent me over the year for urgent expenses that have been external to the replacement of the cell phone and the bed. At the time of writing this post, the Ko-Fi target is at 8% and can be consulted and shared.

At the same time as I published the request for help, I made several photos of collectors' items, almost all Rayman related, available for sale in order to help me raise the funds needed to solve various problems. Although I've sold a minority, many other items are still available for purchase and so I decided to delete the descriptions and photos of items that had already been sold, and now also include from Pokémon and other generic items.

Alternatively to donations and item purchases, I have two art commission slots available until the end of this year.

Essentially due to the car replacement that had to be done as an unpredictable big expense, 2025 is going to be a difficult year for me and therefore I have come to the hard decision to shrink down part of my private collections as a way to obtain necessary funds and make the incoming year a little more manageable.

I don’t like to ask help but it’s been a rough timeline for me. Thank you for reading in advance, any help is greatly appreciated while I don’t manage to find a job. 🙏

Please note the following details:

Products that are shown alongside with other product or more in the same photograph square means that those items are only sold as a pack/batch and not separately. I can clarify which ones by DM if you aren’t sure through the photographs.

I ship to most countries in the world, and always with tracking code so we’re both able to know its whereabouts. I won’t accept other types of shipping due to safety reasons.

The shipping address and other sensitive information will be exclusively used to ship the parcel.

Prices will be always discussed by DM, as well shipping costs as these vary depending on the destination country and parcel weight.

PayPal only for payments. While I prefer EUR currency I can also accept GBP and USD.

I’m conscious of how a good portion of the list contains particularly rare and valuable collectibles.

Some items prices are negotiable, especially if someone is interested in acquiring at least 3 different items or more that combined make up a significant total.

All items work 100%, including the Playstation accessories.

The Rayman memory card will be formatted if it gets a new onwer.

MS-DOS era games require emulation techniques to work on modern computers and there are community projects like Rayman Control Panel that help with that.

All games are complete in the box and between very good condition to like new.

The Rayman memory card is in good overall state.

The Elite Trainer boxes don't have boosters or codes

I reserve the right to not accept a sale for reasons not mentioned here.

List of items available in the photos:

Rayman Gold [PC/MS-DOS] (Rare, Original Big Boxed United Kingdom Edition)

Rayman For Ever [PC/MS-DOS] (Rare, Original Big Boxed France Edition, it even includes a Ubisoft catalogue with unique Rayman drawings)

Rayman M [PC/Windows] (United Kingdom Edition, still factory sealed!)

Rayman Rush [Sony PlayStation] + DualShock Controller [Sony PlayStation]

Rayman 2: The Great Escape [PC/Windows] (Very rare, Original Big Boxed United States of America Edition; I only saw maybe not more than 2 copies like this for sale online in over 15 years)

Rayman 100 Niveaux Inédits [PC/Windows] (Rare, Original Big Boxed France Edition)

Rayman Designer [PC/Windows] (Rare, Original Big Boxed France Edition)

Rayman 1 [PC/Windows] (Rare, Original Big Boxed European Edition)

Rayman Gold [PC/Windows] (Rare, Original Big Boxed France Edition)

Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc [PC/Windows] (The manual is translated in Portuguese but the games are in multilanguage)

Rayman Raving Rabbids [PC/Windows] (Original United Kingdom Edition)

Rayman Raving Rabbids Activity Centre [PC/Windows] (Original United Kingdom Edition)

Rayman 2: The Great Escape [Sony Playstation] (Original France and Germany Edition)

Rayman 2: The Great Escape Sony Playstation Memory Card (Guillemot brand, uncommon item)

Ash’s Atlas Book (Like new, published by DK in English language)

Mewtwo T-Shirt (Like new, never worn.)

Pokémon shoulderbag (In overall very good condition. It glows in the dark!)

Pokémon wallet (In overall good condition.)

Pokémon Re-Ment Wooloo Letter holder (New, complete in box. Only opened to check the inside content)

Pokémon Trading Card Game Elite Trainer Box [Pokémon GO] (Like new, no boosters and no codes!)

Pokémon Trading Card Game Elite Trainer Box [Fusion Strike] (Like new, no boosters and no codes!)

10 Collector’s Edition books of Pokémon Adventures (Like new!)

Pokémon Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded Book (Like new!)

Retro-bit Origin8 Black and Red Wireless Controller (Like new, complete in box. It’s compatible with PC, Nintendo Switch and original NES systems)

Trust GXT 590 Bosi Gamepad (Very good condition, with its original pamphlets, dongle and charging cable. It’s compatible with PC and Android systems).

SPORE: Galactic Edition [PC/Windows] (Like new, complete in box)

SPORE Creature Creator [PC/Windows] (Overall good condition, complete in box)

SPORE Creature Creator DEMO [PC/Windows) (Rare item, like new, Portuguese cover print)

SPORE: Creepy and Cute Extras Kit [PC/Windows) (Like new, complete in box, Portuguese cover print)

SPORE: Galactic Edition [PC/Windows] (Like new, complete in box, Portuguese cover print)

Other alternative ways to help me that don’t involve buying my items:

Ko-Fi donations (https://ko-fi.com/haruka_vii)

Currently opened with the goal I’ve referred earlier of collecting enough funds to get a replacement part needed for the dishwasher in order to be back to working order and to return funds to my mother that .

Art commissions

I can open a limited number of slots and draw single or groups of characters in a single digital or traditional drawing. Details can be discussed through DM!

Reblogging and sharing

If you know anyone who could be potentially interested in getting anything please share them, it’s also a help!

I don’t like to ask help but it’s been a rough timeline for me. Thank you for reading in advance, any help is greatly appreciated while I don’t manage to find a job. 🙏

#ko-fi #ko-fi goal #ko-fi support #informative post #artist help #rayman #retrogaming #pokémon #anipoke #gaming #nes #nintendo switch #pokémon adventures #pokéspe #spore

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trollprincess · 1 year ago

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It says a lot about how my mental health is right now that I was going to bring clonazepam with me to work and I didn’t want to risk doing anything stupid. (Honestly, I’ve taken my daily limit already. I shouldn’t take more at all.)

I’m just … some days I’m tempted to start a GoFundMe to afford to quit my full-time weekend job and just let my burnout crumble away for a month or two. But this is where my health insurance is, so I can’t do that.

I end up pushing myself to finish podcast episodes for all the wrong reasons, when I just want to be able to focus on doing it for the reasons I started in the first place. Yesterday I killed time at work telling a coworker about different fires because he wondered if you die quickly if you burn to death. I think I mentioned a good eight different disasters over the course of an hour because I hit on the Happy Land Fire, the Station, Bradford City Stadium (and by extension Hillsborough and Heysel), the Cocoanut Grove, and probably would have done the Triangle Shirtwaist factory and the Beverly Hills Supper Club if I didn’t already tell him about those.

Uvalde was hard to research, write, and record on an emotional level, and I’m maybe in a little bit of denial about how hard it hit. I don’t know. You hear a kid tell a 911 operator they know how to handle these situations because their dad taught them what to do *in a school shooting* and it gets stuck in your head.

I’ve got therapy on Monday, and next weekend I have mostly off from my weekend job. (I didn’t have enough vacation time to take all of Sunday off, but I’ll only be there eight hours on what’s usually a twelve-hour shift.) I could use the break. But I can’t afford the break. I would love to sit out in the sun in one of my new swimsuits and cross-stitch, and instead I’ve got to knock out podcast episodes to keep up with my bills.

So yeah, not in a good place mentally at ALL. The money situation is not helping. I’m pissed at myself for hitting the damn pothole because now here’s me having spent my entire paycheck on tires for a car I’d trade in a heartbeat if this area had dependable public transportation.

Anyway, I’m going to add the QR codes for my donation links because I really, really, really need help right now, and because my mental health is just getting worse, and because working until I break down is supposed to be how you get ahead and all it’s doing is burying me.

So if you can help out, even if it’s just a little, I’d appreciate it. If you can share, I’d also appreciate it. If you’re a literary agent who wants to get a disaster podcaster a book deal … where have you been?! I’ve been looking for you FOREVER. Jeez.

I shall also add a photo of my dog sleeping in his favorite chair. Because look how fucking cute that piglet is.

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For some reason I cannot answer your ask but I LOVE YOUR CONCEPTS SO MUCH YESSSS !! Little dog syndrome Raphael is so canon to me . Bitches who get up after getting a truck thrown at them by sheer adrenaline and force of will my beloveds <333 . Stoic and goofy Leonardo is also probably my favorite thing ! That’s my son who wants to act so cool <3 Also Mikey’s luck cycle-well I guess it’s not really a cycle, but his luck thing- is really fun to think about . Has it affected his brothers or their missions before ?

Also what about Splinter’s code switching ? Why does he act that way and does it hurt or help the brothers to have such a clear dichotomy between cloth and wire mother ? (Or nuanced answer, does it do both in different ways ?)

Also Irish Japanese April is so so real . I love that for herrr .

Donatello being insecure so he makes a robot that could be him for the team .. AUGH . (I think that robot should get up to some gender fuckery typa thing if it ever gets redeemed or goes on their own arc)

(Can you copy or screenshot it and send it to me? I wrote a lot that I don’t wanna write again lmao.)

Ehehehe. Raph always gets up. Raph always fights back. So imagine the time when he doesn’t >:}

Leo is trying so hard to be Splinter but he WILL let his brothers do Thing That Will Hurt Them because it’s funny.

Mikey’s luck actually gets tamed when he’s around people, especially people he knows. When he’s on his own then you gotta worry because there’s probably about to be a giant eagle throwing trucks around. Or he’s gonna win a chocolate factory. On missions, yes. Absolutely he’s done weird or improbable things like just so happening to find the exact door they needed in a 7 story building, or saying just the right phrase to trigger an ancient daemon to come to life and attack them. It’s a real fortunately unfortunately game.

Here’s the thing, Splinter is a really good dad. He’s also a very skilled assassin. He does not know how to be both. So, he tries to give his children love and comfort and advice but is also determined that they be able to take care of themselves. When the Foot Clan comes into play he makes sure they can do whatever necessary to drive back their family enemy. This culminated into a strict teacher who wanted them to be ruthless and a gentle wise father who wanted them to know peace.

This split was very upsetting to the turtles at first, except for Leo who learned to adopt and adapt to the modes. Different situations require different reactions. He explains this to his brothers best he could growing up and now, while they’ve all learned to snap to when he’s in Sensei mode, it’s still frustrating especially to Donnie. Especially when he wants or expects one thing but gets the other.

Bonnie actually isn’t a robot! It’s more of an exoskeleton that can posses a person. That way if he gets incapacitated Bonnie can use his body to still help his brothers, and if Donnie gets separated Bonnie can attach to a bad guy or even an ally (only with permission, BD has a consent filter) and still help them out. Honestly very creepy but Donnie refuses to accept that.

I plan the episode where Bonnie gets “evil” to be like a horror movie.

Bonnie does do a gender fuckery arc! She/Her synth baby!

#tmnt Apex #tmnt #tmnt oc

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wolfliving · 5 months ago

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Pebble the wearable back from a long death

I started working on Pebble in 2008 to create the product of my dreams. Smartwatches didn’t exist, so I set out to build one. I’m extraordinarily happy I was able to help bring Pebble to life, alongside the core team and community. The company behind it failed but millions of Pebbles in the world kept going, many of them still to this day.

I wear my Pebble every day. It's been great (and I'm astounded it’s lasted 10 years!), but the time has come for new hardware.

You’d imagine that smartwatches have evolved considerably since 2012. I've tried every single smart watch out there, but none do it for me. No one makes a smartwatch with the core set of features I want:

Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)

Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)

Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features I use regularly (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)

Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)

Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)

Over the years, we’ve thought about making a new smartwatch. Manufacturing hardware for a product like Pebble is infinitely easier now than 10 years ago. There are plenty of capable factories and Bluetooth chips are cheaper, more powerful and energy efficient.

The challenge has always been, at its heart, software. It’s the beautifully designed, fun, quirky operating system (OS) that makes Pebble a Pebble.

Today’s big news - Google has open sourced PebbleOS!

PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Reproducing that for new hardware would take a long time.

Instead, we took a more direct route - I asked friends at Google (which bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble’s IP) if they could open source PebbleOS. They said yes! Over the last year, a team inside Google (including some amazing ex-Pebblers turned Googlers) has been working on this. And today is the day - the source code for PebbleOS is now available at github.com/google/pebble (see their blog post).

Thank you, Google and Rebble! I can't stress how thankful I am to Rebble and Google, in general and to a few Googlers specifically, for putting in tremendous effort over the last year to make this happen. You've helped keep the dream alive by making it possible for anyone to use, fork and improve PebbleOS. The Rebble team has also done a ton of work over the years to continue supporting Pebble software, appstore and community. Thank you!

In addition to PebbleOS, we’ve been supporting development of Cobble, an open source Pebble-compatible app for iOS (soon) and Android (works great today, it’s my daily driver).

We’re bringing Pebble back!

I had really, really, really hoped that someone else would come along and build a Pebble replacement. But no one has. So… a small team and I are diving back into the world of hardware to bring Pebble back!

This time round, we’re keeping things simple. Lessons were learned last time! I’m building a small, narrowly focused company to make these watches. I don’t envision raising money from investors, or hiring a big team. The emphasis is on sustainability. I want to keep making cool gadgets and keep Pebble going long into the future.

The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well 😉 It runs open source PebbleOS, and it’s compatible with all Pebble apps and watchfaces. If you had a Pebble and loved it…this is the smartwatch for you.

More info to come soon! Follow the fun with @ericmigi and @pebble.

Are you like me?

Do you have a hole in your heart (and on your wrist) that hasn't been filled by any other smartwatch?

Eric Migicovsky

Pebble Founder

FAQ

When can I buy one?

As soon as we nail down the product specifications and get a firm idea of the production timeline, we'll share it with everyone on the list and invite people to order.

Will it be exactly like Pebble?

Yes. In almost every way.

Aren’t you the guy who screwed this up last time?

Yes, the one and only. I think I’ve learned some valuable lessons.

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am-i-interrupting · 1 year ago

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After Alastor; Before Vox | One Author; Two Show Hosts

I wanna talk about reader’s life between Alastor’s death & meeting Vox to better explain some behavior so. . . Here we are.

They actually have living family after Alastor dies. None on Alastor’s side but their mother’s.

However, their mother became estranged from her family when she got pregnant with them (it was premarital) and thus no one wants to take them, Alastor being revealed as a serial killer only makes things worse.

They start out in foster care while they do these interviews about Alastor and while the case is being handled so they’ll be readily available.

Then they get dropped by that family and given to a different foster family.

This family ended up being very racist and being the lovely “oh, look at us, we saved this poor colored child.”

They were dropped as soon as it was no longer giving the family the attention they wanted.

They ended up going to four different orphanages. Leaving each for similar reasons.

Having been given such a strong moral code from Alastor, they had a tendency to start fights, especially with any boys that may be in the orphanage as men tend to break their code more.

People got bruised, cut, and broken.

The most killing they did was during this time.

They would spend most of their free time in the parts of town with call girls.

This was the place they were most comfortable in because it’s a place that stayed the same from place to place.

Alastor also frequented these places looking for victims. They were looking for community.

When they left the system (they left by running away at 17), they were on the street as they looked for a job.

Their first job was in a tobacco factory.

They managed to get enough money to barely scrape the payments for a very shitty, run down apartment.

A couple months later one of the call girls they knew mentioned how a friend was looking for an additional roommate as one had just left.

This is where they met Inez (still need a sinner name if anyone has any suggestions), only to find out they work in the same factory.

That is where they bonded.

All of this was happening while they were writing their book about life with Alastor.

They temporarily moved out due to this.

They went to a place with more publishing opportunities only to be denied time after time.

This is when they started straightening their hair, adopting the radio show voice Alastor taught them when they were little (wanting to imitate daddy), and keeping up with modern trends.

All of this done to start conversation more easily and be more widely accepted by the racist ideals of the time.

They ended up moving back into the housing with Inez, her being the only one in the house from the original group.

It would take several more years of trying before getting a publishing deal.

In that time they were able to get a waitressing job.

I feel like occasionally, they would do street walking.

Not often enough that they were known to be a call girl but if they were running low on money enough to not be able to pay their share of rent, they would do it.

Then around the age of 22 they managed to get a publisher to sign and the rest is history.

If anyone has any questions or wants me to elaborate on anything further, let me know and I will try to get back to you.

#one author two show hosts #vox x reader #hazbin vox x reader

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