#I've since achieved all of that and more- I'm so excited to test my new strength in the RNG dungeons of death

[monarchisms]

so for those who missed it, geoff talked a bit more about achievement hunter coming to an end on a f**kface break show on september 18th. some of it was stuff we've already learned from the announcement video/thread from AH themselves, but some additional information was mentioned exclusively on the f**kface stream. with rooster teeth being so great (sarcasm) at relaying info to their audience, i had to rely on a fan recording of the stream from twitter to get more context sooner, since the official recording won't be available until the 22nd at the earliest.

i'll put a full transcript of all the clips of the twitter thread under the cut, but if you want a tl;dr:

geoff's known about AH coming to an end for about 6 months (since march 2023), and that the decision to end it wasn't made lightly

he compares AH ending to when he went to quit red vs blue 15 years ago to co-create AH, somewhere between seasons 5-7, and how he continued to work on rvb until he couldn't anymore

also talks about how everyone at the company at the time (like burnie, gus, matt, and jason) were really supportive towards him, and how that led to AH lasting 15 years

he hopes that michael, trevor, alfredo, and joe get the same support he got from the audience when he made AH, and then eventually f**kface. also reassures the audience that all the content on the AH channel will stay as it is

heavily emphasizes that this decision wasn't made by the higher ups at rt or warner brothers, and wanted to nip that in the bud before the rumor went too far. notes that AH didn't fail, it just ended

talks about how there will be a couple more weeks of new achievement hunter content before they close up shop. some of the content includes the members paying an homage to past series and people at AH. it will eventually culminate into a final video that geoff's in where he gets "fucking verbose" about his feelings in relation to everything

gives a shoutout to matt, jeremy, and ray in regards to their streams on twitch, and finally ends his speech by saying that the audience should respect that the past + current AH members are continuing to do the things they love doing while being entertaining, just in their own unique ways

the full transcript:

Geoff: "The Achievement Hunter brand is coming to a close. We have decided to sunset it and to end it. And I've seen a lot of- for a very good reason- and that announcement came in tandem with another announcement, a very exciting announcement about a new brand called Dogbark. And I've seen a lot of excitement, a lot of appreciation from people, a lot of people supporting Michael and those guys [referring to Trevor, Joe, and Alfredo] going off into doing their own thing.

I've seen a lot of fear and uncertainty. I totally get and understand that; you guys are hearing this for the first time. Um, I've known about this for about six months. You know, this has been in some form of discussion or preparation for a while now. This wasn't a decision that was made lightly, uhh... but I think it's the right decision, and I hope that you'll understand and support that, and here's why:

15 years ago, I went to Burnie and Matt and Gus, and I said 'Hey, I'm losing my mind making Red vs Blue.' It was season 5 or 6, and I- I think it was 6 or 7, actually- and I was just so creatively drained and stifled. And I had such a wonderful time making Red vs Blue, but I had made it until I couldn't make it anymore. And I had this idea, and I was very passionate about this idea of this thing I wanted to try. And Burnie and Gus and Matt were so kind and supportive to give me the creative runway to launch and test Achievement Hunter out at a time when everybody- friends- everybody was telling me 'What are you doing, quitting making Red vs Blue? It's a huge hit! You're like, the #2 guy on it. You're a big part of this! Why would you leave that to do this unproven, untested thing?' And I had to! I had to follow my dream, I had to follow my passion. And like I said, Burnie and Matt and Gus and everybody else, Jason, everybody involved in Rooster Teeth at the time, were so fucking supportive and so wonderful to me in that period that 15 years later, we've had 15 years of Achievement Hunter.

We wouldn't be here on this set right now in front of all this Zimmer stuff, in front of fucking dumb pictures of Gavin and Garbage Pail Kids and Barbie and- fucking new Dallas poster, by the way. Uh, all of this has existed because they allowed me to take a chance and supported me taking that chance. And uh- I would be some kind of fucking hypocrite if I didn't provide the same level of support and genuine enthusiasm to Michael and Alfredo and Joe and Trevor as they embark on the same journey I went on 15 years ago! And this is a very- I don't want to speak for them. They didn't make this decision lightly, I guarantee you, and they will explain it in their own voice over the next few weeks as we say goodbye to Achievement Hunter and say hello to Dogbark. [actual dog barks in the background] We worked on that ahead of time.

Uhh... and so I would only ask that you give them the same level of support that the audience gave me when I tried out Achievement Hunter, this untested, unproven thing, and the same level of support you all gave us when we decided that we're going to make F**kface, an audio-only podcast recorded remotely, which is something that I never in a million years wanted to do or thought was a good idea until we did it, and found out it was simply too good, found out that it worked and it ended up becoming, I think, hopefully the best thing I've participated in. I really ju- I really just want to drive that point home. Joe and Trevor and Michael and Alfredo have spent years and years and years making content that they believe in to support and entertain you. And that's all they want to do with this new production.

Everything comes to an end. It's okay for things to end. I know it's scary and it's sad, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen, and that doesn't mean it's going away. We have 15 years of Achievement Hunter content online that you can still watch and enjoy. Hundreds of thousands of hours of content, hundreds upon hundreds of episodes of Minecraft and GTA that are still there for you to go and watch. I mean, hell, I think Emily and I are a great example of that. We've been watching a show that came out in 1978 called Dallas. It ran from 1978 to 1992, and that was 40 fucking years ago. And yet here we are enjoying it, just as if it came out yesterday. Justice for Sue Ellen, I think we can all agree, justice for Sue Ellen. So I would just say that I hope that you'll be excited about this new journey in their careers and this new opportunity for Rooster Teeth. It's sad to say goodbye to a thing, but it's not disappearing. It's still there. You can still go watch all those videos. You can still go enjoy- enjoy all that content, but you can also support them in what they're doing.

And one other little inaccuracy, or not even inaccuracy, but one thing I want to touch on- and then I'll get to breaking cards and being an idiot- is a thing that kind of bugs me, is that- I'm sure you've heard this phrase or some variation of this phrase before where it's uh, said that a lie can travel halfway across the world, while the truth is still putting its pants on, and-"

Emily: "That's kinda deep! I've never heard that before." Geoff: "You've never heard that before?" Emily: "No!"

Geoff: "Yeah, and I've seen a lot of supposition and people saying things that just aren't true. And I want to stop that right now before they travel halfway across the world. Because there is no truth to the idea that like- anytime we make a change that's controversial or a bit scary or different or new or unexpected, there's this idea that there's uh, some dude in a suit from Warner Brothers or Rooster Teeth standing just off-camera, sternly going, 'Make this decision. Follow this algorithm. We're chasing a demographic.' None of that is true. Rooster Teeth would be very happy if they continued making Achievement Hunter forever, but they weren't happy making Achievement Hunter, and they wanted to try a new thing.

They wanted to do what I did 15 years ago! They wanted to do what Ray did when he left Achievement Hunter, right? They wanted to bet on themselves and make their production. I love the work they put into- to mine, and I did my best to make it ours. But at the end of the day, I left Achievement Hunter five years ago! Uh, it would be really foolhardy and stupid and- and dickhead-ish of me to have a problem with them doing the same thing, uh, but it's also them. This is a decision that they made, that they wanted to make. It didn't come from anybody at Rooster Teeth or Warner Brothers. There was no, I don't know, this marketing department you always hear about that's telling them to make these decisions and- 'Chase the Gen Z crowd and come up- This is the name we've workshopped.' None of that's true! They came up with the name. They came up with the logo, they came up with the design, the color palette, the trailer, the content that's going to be released in a couple of weeks, that's all them! That's what they wanna do.

That is them following the same passion that I followed 15 years ago and the same passion that I followed when I created Let's Play, and the same passion that I that I followed when I created F**kface. And hopefully the same passion, the same passion that I created this with, and hopefully the same passion that I'll create the next and the next and the next thing with, and hopefully the same passion that they get to do, uh, as they continue their career. So all I'm asking for is give the new thing a chance, support it. It's a brave thing to do to walk out of the safety of Achievement Hunter into a new thing.

And also, uh, I've seen a lot of doomers that are saying like 'Ah, I called it ten years ago! I knew it was gonna fail!' It didn't fail. It ended. It was 15 fucking awesome years. And I'm going to stop talking now because I'm just going to get rambly. But I will say: There's a couple of weeks left of Achievement Hunter content coming out where they pay homage, if you will, to a lot of the videos and the shows from the past,, and the people from the past, and they have a lot of sweet things that they're going to do. And it'll culminate at the end with one last video that I am in where I get fucking verbose about my feelings about all of it. So if you want to hear more about my feelings of the 15 years of Achievement Hunter, I ask that you tune in to that last Achievement Hunter video. But I also ask that you tune into every video between now and then, because they're going to be saying goodbye to Achievement Hunter with a lot of love and respect and humor. And uh, I think that's what it deserves. And I hope that we all get to share in that together, and then, and then subscribe to Dogbark and give it a shot. [dog barks again] Thank you.

And uh, remember that all of these people that you've loved that have come and gone are still making content right now. Jack and BK, I think Jack's on vacation, but Jack and BK are over there in Inside Gaming, making content, playing video games 3, 4 hours a day, 3 or 4 days a week, playing Minecraft, playing all those old games that you loved to see us play. And Michael is making Face Jam every week. And Michael and Trevor and Alfredo and Joe are going to be making Dogbark every fucking day. And Gavin and I, we're making F**kface every day. And I'm making ANMA and I'm making So... Alright, and Ky has helped producing it all uh, behind the scenes.

Matt and Jeremy and Ray, they're streaming every fucking day of their lives, I believe. I think Jeremy's on, like, 18 days in a row right now, or something? [referring to Jeremy's uncapped subathon]. So all the people that you loved to support and who uh, entertained you throughout the years, they're still doing the thing that they love. They're just doing it in the way that they wanna do it, in the way that makes sense to them. And I just hope that you will be... respectful of that, and give them an opportunity to entertain you uh, in much the same way they entertained you last year and the year before and 5 years ago and 10 years ago. They just want to get up every day and make the best content they can make, and they're not- they're not making these decisions for any other reason than this is where their creative interests are leading them. And much like you gave me a chance 15 years ago, let's all give them a chance today. [dog barks again] That's it. I'm done. Let's open up some fucking cards."

[itjazzbicch]

Reborn

Pairing:  Kenshi Takashi x Fem Reader 

Summary: Traumatized from all of the horrific sights the reader had seen while defending their timeline and facing Titan Shang Tsung, the reader decided to part ways with her fellow champions and Lui Kang, falling off the grid, but when she is found by her close friend, Kenshi, he offers her a new path in life, at first shutting her down, but his words sticking with her and giving her the motivation to find herself again...

Warnings: Kenshi Tower ending spoilers, The reader deals with some mental health issues, Jax is in this fic (colored purple) slight swearing (but that's about it!) The song used in this fic is listed below!

Word Count: 1.5k 

When I was chosen to be a champion, I thought that my life would excel and that I'd achieve things that I couldn't imagine, but as time progressed, I was put to the test. I passed and made it out alive, but I left with scars on my skin and in my mind.

We all had our lives to live. My friends stayed in touch with one another, but I isolated myself and practically fell off the face of the earth. It would be best if my former friends didn't know where I was and what I was doing.

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"She's here. I just have this feeling, Briggs."

"Well, I've never met her, so I'll trust your gut on this one-"

Sooner or later, someone was bound to come and find me. Kenshi, being the one to step up, and did not expect to see me in a nightclub, shocked to hear my singing:

"Now it's one more boy and it's one more line

(Holding on for your call)

Taking the pills just to pass the time

(I can never say no)

'Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine

(Holding on for your call)

'Cause I'm gonna be free and I'm gonna be fine

But maybe not tonight”

"She's a performer?" Briggs saw me on stage, dancing in a skimpy dress, the crowd of the club roaring; disbelief was all over Kenshi's face as he shook his head slowly:

"I never even knew that she could sing."

"It's a different kind of danger And the bells are ringing out And I'm calling for my mother As I pull the pillars down It's a different kind of danger And my feet are spinning around Never knew I was a dancer 'Til Delilah showed me how,"

Nothing was stopping me from singing, this being the one thing that made me feel alive, dancing, and finishing off:

"Too fast for freedom Sometimes it all falls down These chains never leave me I keep dragging them around Too fast for freedom Sometimes it all falls down These chains never leave me I keep dragging them around."

Posing then bowing as the crowd clapped and whistled at me, Kenshi was evident in the crowd, wearing sunglasses instead of that red band, but I knew him when I saw him. When my eyes locked on him, I could feel the tension as his attention was locked on me, too.

I didn't know who the guy with him was, but either way, it was time to get out of there.

"Give it up for our Queen, Y/N!" The DJ had to keep exciting the crowd, just my luck, but he wasn't in charge of this place, so I waved to the crowd again before slipping to the back.

Rushing to grab my stuff and my car keys, I knew Kenshi would try and find a way to me. Hoping security would do good at their job, I slipped out the back and heard from the darkness by my car:

"Since when did you sing?"

"Kenshi," I sighed, rolling my eyes and giving up on avoiding him, "I've always sung. Just never told anyone."

"Ah, well, you're good at it," Stepping out of the darkness with that guy, his tone showed his concern for me, "Just didn't expect to find you in a place like this-"

"Who's the guy?" I was standoff-ish with strangers, but I didn't sense any ill intentions from him as he stepped up and introduced himself:

"Jackson Briggs. Takashi and I now work for the OIA. We hoped to speak with you."

Offering his hand to me, I only stared, cocking my eyebrow at Kenshi, "OIA? What the hell is that?"

"The Outerworld Investigation Agency," Kenshi explained, "I'm sure you can puzzle the pieces together-"

"Yeah, and I decline," I spat quickly, my harshness leaving them silent; I rolled my eyes again as Kenshi only turned his head to Briggs, wanting to talk to me alone.

"Y/N," Now that we were alone, Kenshi wasn't going to leave till he got more answers, showing more concern for me, whispering, "We've all been worrying about you. Johnny, Kung Lao, Raiden, even Lord Lui Kang-"

"As you see, I'm fine," I didn't want to have this conversation, trying to shut it down, "It was nice seeing you, but-"

"Y/N-" More stern in his tone, he held me by the shoulders, trying to read me better, "Even I can see that something's wrong and how you changed so drastically. I know we went through a lot, but-"

"No, buts-" I whispered, my emotions starting to rise, "That stuff mentally screwed me, and I don't want to return to that life."

"Have you forgotten that you are a champion?" His words brought tears to my eyes, and I felt as if a fire was burning under me, a mixture of pressure and deep desires, "We're human, and our minds can be fragile, I get that, but you're strong, whether you believe it or not. The realms need you."

"I haven't forgotten," I whispered, giving false hope before crushing the motivation he tried to give me, "I haven't forgotten the pain that being a 'champion' has put me through. The realms don't need me."

The silence between us was eerie. I had him frozen in disbelief, hugging his stiff body and whispering before I walked away:

"I do appreciate the concern, but we all have different fates. I'm sorry if mine doesn't align with yours."

"Wait-" It was becoming difficult not to snap, but I had a soft spot for Kenshi, stopping and looking as he handed me a card, "Just in case you change your mind."

"Sure," I huffed sarcastically, finally escaping the situation, but it stuck with me.

I spent the next few nights wide awake, lost in thought, questioning my entire life. For some reason, Kenshi's words, "Have you forgotten that you are a champion," replayed in my head. Over and over.

Staring at his business card, I relived everything that I went through as a champion, and the one constant circled my mind. I never gave up. I faced death and overcame it, took down a Titan. The mental conflicts had me shaking.

The life I was living now wasn't meant for me; that was a fact that I could accept. Maybe Kenshi was right.

Laying back, holding that card close, for the first time since I parted ways with everyone, I felt some peace, knowing what I needed to do and what was right.

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"Hey, Takashi," It took a few more days to get myself together, but it was worth seeing the expression on Kenshi's face as his partner Jax brought me into his office, "Someone important is here to see you."

It was hard not to laugh at his hung jaw, giggling through my question, "You still want me to work with you, right?"

Kenshi's shocked expression turned into a small, relieved smile, "I'm glad you decided to come."

"We got a lot of work to do," Jax smiled at us, heading out the door and teasing Kenshi, "Make sure she knows how to do things right!"

"That won't be an issue," He chuckled, and when the door closed, I took Kenshi's hand and gave him a tight hug, confusing him for a moment, "The job's not that bad-"

"It's not that. It's just-; Thank you, Kenshi," I whispered. Kenshi realized what I had been feeling, returned my hug, and rubbed my back softly.

"I've been wanting to apologize to you. I knew that all the horrible things we went through were getting to your head, and I didn't do anything-"

Hearing him say that made me want to sob, but I shook it off, holding his head to mine, finally defeating the demons in my mind:

"You don't have to apologize for anything. That was a battle that only I could fight. Don't worry anymore, Kenshi. I finally remembered who I am."

Smiling more, he was happy for me and proud, "You're going to make a great agent, you know."

"From what I heard, you made quite a reputation for yourself here. I'll make sure to be even better," I teased, making us laugh, Kenshi teasing back:

"Did you go visit Johnny before you came here? You're sounding a little too cocky, just like him."

Laughing and shaking my head, I acknowledged, "No, but I need to go visit the guys."

"They'll be over the moon when you do. Just don't let Cage know that you can sing. He'll try to get you into the music business," He smirked, making me laugh, leaning over to his desk and then placing a badge in my hand, "Welcome to the team, Y/N."

Staring at the badge, I felt a true purpose in my life again, clenching it in my fist, being filled with a new kind of pride, my voice alone showing my newfound loyalty to Kenshi and the OIA, "I won't disappoint you and give you my all, Kenshi." 

2023 © itjazzbicch — do not repost or translate my work. Likes, reblogs, and comments are always welcome 

[wyrddogs]

What are your big dreams for Kermit and the new baby?

KERMIT

I've achieved two of my goals with Him so far-- got his UKC Championship and his Hunting Certificate on rats with AWTA (American Working Terrier Association).

I also finished all his health testing, which. sigh. Sigh. XD

Next goals are finish his AKC Field Champion title (six more points!!) and get Hunting Certificates on jackrabbits and cottontails with AWTA. Cottontail season starts soon.

Had to take MACH off the table permanently. It's fine. We'll run in Jumpers for as long as it's fun for him. Excited to try out more USDAA courses and return to AKC.

Also plan to get his NW1 and Novice titles in NACSW and AKC; just need to sign up for trials. Had to take a break from all trials while I got the baby, but now that Zaku is a bit older I can start trialing Him again.

Oh, and earthdog. Interested to see how he does now that he's turned "on".

ZAKU

I like to start with modest goals, so for agility we'll start with a MACH (and whatever the USDAA equivalent is) and go from there. Assuming nothing happens (knock on wood), Zaku will be my first actually competitive dog, so it'll be fun to see where this takes us.

Put a racing Field Champion title on him. Put a UKC Champion title on him. Nosework (AKC and NACSW) stuff. Participate in Iron Paws.

I don't have the time nor money to take up herding, but I'd like to put him on livestock at least once to see how he does.

BOTH DOGS

Once we've got nosework well underway, I do eventually want to put a TDX on both dogs. Unfortunately, tracking, racing, field trial, and hunting seasons all overlap (since the rest of the year we are on fire and can't use the fields), so I have to pick what activity I'm focusing on each winter.

Also, hiking. I want to return to Truckee and take Him and Fluffy on some of my favorite hikes I've done with Bindi.

Thank you for asking!

[taintedsoul-if]

It has been a while since I've posted on Tumblr hasn't It? I am the type of person that doesn't like talking about myself. But I feel as if I owe it to you all to give a bit of crumbs about what is going on as of late.

So for the past couple months I've been "struggling" with unemployment. 🙄 honestly I shouldn't even say struggling. When I left my last job a few months ago I swore to myself that I would never enter the BPO sector ever again. It's too much for me. But I understand, leave your problems/introverted personality at the door and be more professional. They all said but it just wasn't for me. Long story short ever since I made that promise to myself I've been home everyday just doing what I love. (Writing)

Two weeks ago I think.... an extended family member of mine mentioned an opening at her company. (Which is not BPO related! 😌) i just knew I had to jump on that opportunity. Let's be honest here, I am the type that gets anxious when there's no money in my pocket. 😅. And this is a new year... I have much that I want to accomplish.

Anyways my first interview was actually Sunday. And I passed that with flying colours. 🤧. The next phase of my interview will be a test which I've been studying for. Studying is basically what I do every single day. I get up at 5 in the morning and I study until 5 in the evening. I am a mediocre person that tends to give up sometimes lol. I wash my face with tears because most times I just feel like I'm wasting my time on something that I'll never be able to achieve. (🙄) This takes me back to highschool days. And I'll just stop there haha. But I am confident that I'll pass this exam with flying colours, get my employee ID badge and work my honest daypay. So that is what I've been doing.

I've neglected my babies but I feel like it will be worth it in the end. The update might be slow but it'll get there. So forgive me!

Though you guys don't have to worry.... I've already said it more than once and I'll say it again, I do plan to finish this IF of mine. I'll get back to writing Friday after I've completed my test. Time away from my IF has given me time to think about the true direction of my story. I might do some big changes to chapter1. Add a bit more dialogue and characters? But I must ask.

I was rolling over backstories for how Ada and the MC met. Let me create a poll cause I've always wanted to create one! *excited* 🤣

😅 and lastly for the ask in my ask box... I'll most certainly answer some of those this weekend. As always I do hope you're all staying safe during this time. Have a pleasant day one and all and I'll be seeing you all this weekend! 😋 later!

[grey-fuckers-unlimited]

I've gone ahead and dug the press release for the new version out of the email i used for the app, pink text is clarifications added by me. i should have gone looking for this B4 i said anything in hindsight. I'm more hopeful about the switch than i was previously even if I'm still not convinced I'll be paying the subscription once my free months run their course.

Dear Android users of Magic Poser,

We are super excited to announce that the new Magic Poser on Android has launched in beta testing!

Beta testing is the final phase of testing before we officially launch this new update in Google Play. As a beta tester, you can try new features before they are officially released and give us feedback. Since launching our hugely popular iOS update last year, our small team has been tirelessly working towards bringing the same premium experience on iOS to Android. Starting from today, Android users can download the beta app and enjoy the same slew of amazing features such as our new male and female models with the best anatomy ever, muscular, fat and skinny body morphs, multiple lights setup and so many more!

This newsletter will walk you through:

🔧 How to download the Android beta app. (edited out bc irrelevant)

✨ Highlights of the new Magic Poser on Android.

🏆 Pricing changes to ensure the long-term success of the product that we provide to you, and rewards for our existing users.

❤️ Migration of your account, files and purchases to the new Magic Poser.

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The best posing app on Android has just become 10x better. Here’s a summary of the most exciting improvements in this new version:

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Comprehensive tutorials center to help you master Magic Poser!

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Pricing changes and rewards

Our goal has always been to help artists achieve greatness from day one of creating Magic Poser. To best achieve this goal, we need a solid business model. After 6 years of testing, numerous user interviews, and the validation of our new pricing on iOS, we discovered that the winning business model is very similar to the model that we started with back in 2016. It is so simple and is best for you and for us: A basic free version plus paid versions with more features.

Introducing the new free and paid versions

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*"Prepackaged" means the models that came already downloaded with the old app

Please refer to our migration guide for more details.

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Master for at least a month and Pro version!

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After extensive testing, research and interviews, we picked the pricing model that is best for you and best for us -

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Free users can still get art studio level anatomy, pose and lighting reference with our new Arnold 3 model.

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We can continue to make a lot more high quality 3D models and store large 3D files with the support of the subscription plan, which will fund ongoing art production and server costs.

Our #1 goal is to make the best drawing reference app to serve the amazing art community. We are always improving our business model to best achieve that goal!

Smoooooth transition

In short, to transition to the new beta app, you don't need to do anything! Just update your app to beta by following the instructions in “How to download the beta app”. We have made every effort to ensure the compatibility of your account and files so that you can lie back and enjoy the new Magic Poser 😃:

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Open any local or Cloud files created in the old version! They just work!

If you have purchased any assets from our previous Store, you will get permanent access to them no matter if you are a Free, Pro or Master user in our new app!

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[hirocimacruiser]

Article on a MiNes tuned S13 Silvia.

the power of reason

New Starting Silvia powered by VX-ROM

A sticker casually pasted on the appearance of the quiet eyes, only that letter of MiNe'S

The performance of this car is secretly conveyed.

It's time to be smart. The need for bodybuilding is gone.

Achieves naturalness like 3ℓNA

There is something remarkable about the high speed of modern information transmission. That "speed" is backed by technology, which is why it has commercial value. I can't help but be surprised when I hear it.

Of course, "new" tuning of a car is different from large-scale tuning such as removing the engine, replacing cams, pistons, exhaust pipes, and turbos. (Although there is also tuning), we will modify the engine management system, which is highly computer-controlled, to maximize the potential of the car.

smart car

Computer-tuned New Silvia

It indicates the future direction.

It can be said that this is the basic concept of tuning called “computer tuning”. In that sense, our stance on tuning is the same as fine tuning, the so-called “balancing,” which involves adjusting the slight weight differences in the moving parts inside the engine to reduce friction loss and assembling them precisely.

I don't think so. So, the preamble has become long, but the creator of this 2L Silvia computer tuned car is this minute

The pioneer of the field, "Mines". The original Silvia K is 205ps, 28.0 kg/m from the SR20DET engine, and the maximum boost pressure is 0.72kg/cm. On the other hand, Mines New Silvia is tuned up to 260ps, 35.0kgm with 0.9kg/cm boost pressure setting. This is accomplished simply by rewriting the "rom" of the computer that controls the engine (although this is a task that requires an enormous amount of energy).

Mine's had already completed SR engine ROM tunes for the Sunny, Pulsar, Primera, Presea, etc., so they were able to tune the new Silvia in such a short period of time. Its height and speed are astonishing.

The test car was equipped with a boost pressure controller, and since the test ride was limited to public roads, the boost pressure was set to about 0.6kg/cm. By the way (I'm embarrassed to show my ignorance), in this kind of tuning, the scramble control (the function to temporarily increase the boost pressure and overcharge) is cut to protect the engine. Say it. In other words, it is running with a lower boost pressure than the original SR20DET.

However, it is. Despite this, the power/torque you feel is far superior to normal. What impressed me most was

Less in the 2000~3000rpm range

Ponce's naturalness. It's almost like it's a 3L NA engine. Nothing makes the driver happier than the direct feeling of the engine reacting to every mm of movement of the right foot. Even in a slow-moving traffic jam, you can feel a sense of unity with the car, so you should know what lies ahead.

The torque feeling as if you were manipulating the engine, and the linear characteristics with respect to the accelerator, this is the target.

From a high gear with low revs, where the load is low, suddenly, I try to open the throttle all the way. Far from not happening, even in a situation like this where even a normal engine would falter for a moment, Mines Silvia quickly recovered and responded.

What flexibility! We didn't just pursue maximum power and torque. Hats off to the precision of the tuning. No, really, Rom tune is amazing, I've renewed my recognition.

Driving on winding roads was an exciting experience. In terms of maneuverability, the balance of the chassis naturally becomes an issue. The test car was set up with Mine's original suspension kit "ESTA" and a strut tower bar.

BS Potenza REN 225/45ZR16 is installed on the front and rear wheels.

In fact, the circuit test was scheduled for the next day, so the setting was a little hard for public road use. On public roads, which are more slippery than on circuits, I thought that lowering the roll rigidity would increase traction and make it easier to control. Most of all, the ride quality is damping-effective and makes you feel tight and supple, so drivers who consider themselves to be hardliners may not be dissatisfied.

The only thing that hindered the feeling of blowing up to the top end without a sense of stalling and the good controllability of direct response to the accelerator was the characteristics of the LSD. Since the car has such a neat finish, it is no longer responsive.

Viscous LSD with a strong delay is insufficient. The control will be more severe, but I feel that an LSD with good response is desired in order to take advantage of the good response of the engine.

By the way, it can be said that ROM Tune has gained popularity as a new tuning method, but there is a risk that an error in writing just one point out of tens of thousands of pieces of data can cause the engine to go bad. It is also true that it is a double-edged sword. However, rather than the ability to analyze the data and the rewrite operation itself, the question is how to make it as a car.

President Niikura, who is the brain of Mine's, says that the ability to set things up will ultimately be tested.

Making full use of the experience, trial and error, and accumulated know-how as a pioneer, the confidence and responsibility for manipulating vast amounts of data is the “guarantee card” attached to Mine’s computers. , appearing in golden black.

A factory that creates the dreams of car lovers, I think that's the kind of place Mine's is.

[comfortlesshurt]

August 2024 Stats Update

Hoarded some more data this month, fellas! I had a few overnight trips, so there were some days I couldn't get data, but it shouldn't be a big deal. This is all for funsies.

Discussion of AO3/FFN stats under the cut if you want to avoid! If it really bothers you, block the #stats update tag.

Main goal: VLD word count greater than Spider-Man. Current progress: 48,364/100,258 (48.24%) Not too worried on this one since I have a LOT drafted that should start posting in 2025.

Time period: July 31st, 2024 to September 2nd, 2024

I missed getting data this weekend, so I went through the 2nd of September.

AO3

I broke 12k kudos near the end of the month, so that's cool to me! I missed it this month, but I'm also gunning for 250k hits.

Published word count delta: +5,287 across one new work and one existing works (basic edits on that one)

Work subscriptions delta: +4

New hits: 3,310

New kudos: 179

Comments delta: +21

Works bookmarks delta: +38

User subscriptions delta: -3 (I suspect the updates every other day for my Augusnippets fic finally scared away some Spider-Man subscribers. Sorry, old friends! Also, technically it's -4 because one of those subscriptions was my own side account to help me confirm I'm running my experiments as expected later.)

FFN

Background info: this month, FFN finally fixed its email alerts, so I was surprised to see not many people leave after getting spam updated on every fic I've posted this year.

User favs delta: +3

User alerts delta: -1

Published word count delta: +4,938 (A bit more words to add TWs to a fic, but still less because I edited an old fic on AO3 and haven't updated it on FFN yet.)

New profile views: 37

New reviews: 1

New story views: 888

C2 delta: 0

Story favs delta: +8

Story alerts delta: +3

Single-Point AO3 Data: September 1st, 2024

Newer Fic Achievements

I'm happy with all of these! I know VLD isn't super popular anymore, so it's surprising to see such good conversion rates on these. All of these are top 10% for hits/day and kudos/day, but I don't think that's significant since they're all posted so recently and the other fics are being dragged down by 2000+ days since publishing.

5 Times Lance Doesn't Matter: still holding a top 10% comment and bookmark conversion rate.

Smiling 'cause you're used to it: top 10% of comment and subs and top 10% of conversion rates for subs, comments, and bookmarks.

Chemicals, chemicals in my brain: top 10% for subs and bookmark conversion.

Nowhere to call home: top 10% of comments, top 10% for subs and comment conversion. Top 10% for number of AO3 tags used. Honorable mention for getting bookmarked multiple times and they're ALL private bookmarks. (This one is a shameful one to enjoy, apparently!)

Top 10% by...

Comments:

5 Times Peter Struggled with Spider Metabolism

Nowhere to call home

5 Times Lance Doesn't Matter

Whump Bingo

We are the reckless

None of the other stats really changed since last month, so I won't add 'em here this time!

Skipping the all-time stats as well because those don't change as much in the span of a month! I'm thinking those are more worth checking out every three months, so we'll check again at the end of October maybe.

Experimental Phase

I wanted to get some base control data before I moved on to this stage, but as of now, I've got about 90 recent days of standard data (posting as I typically would). Now, it's time to design experiments, but I'm going for a single-blind situation, so you won't see exactly what I'm testing until I'm done testing to avoid skewing results!

Overall, not a super exciting month as far as stats! But that's okay because it was a great writing month. Hopefully I'll have something more interesting to report at the next stats update!

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Even more materials science updates:

First (not materials science), i've been far too quiet about the genocide in Gaza. Not that my platform is very big at all or that my shouting with the crowd will make a big difference, but for all that is still human about me, i can't say nothing about the atrocities happening right now. I recommend that anyone who reads this also reads about the genocide presently occurring. I am far from the best source, but i can recommend Al-Jazeera as one of the best official news sources for the goings on in Gaza. There are also countless Gaza residents who are posting their own experiences and lives on practically any social media site if you want a first-hand account of the genocide.

Second (materials science), the 2 weeks or whatever since i last posted, i've done a lot of research with solid-state synthesis and it is working so well. I've achieved so much better results (the particles are so much more diamagnetic that they can be moved around or thrown around through a much thicker plastic sheet (the added thickness helps extra to prove that the effect isn't just from the warping and flexing of the very weak plastic lids i was using to test the material before) and are strongly enough repelled from a magnet that i have a hard time putting them directly on it). The synthesis is far easier as well as i just have to mix all the chemicals in to a bottle 1/3 full with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution, then leave it to sit for like a day, filter off all the sodium rich water, rinse it with water a few more times, then cook it real hot. Just about every run i've done so far has demonstrated far better results than the last which has really lifted up my spirits. The magnesium has helped a lot. Using majority calcium (5Ca, 1Mg), shows improved results over just Ca, using majority magnesium (5Mg, 1Ca), shows even better results, but unfortunately using all magnesium isn't noticeably better than majority magnesium. I tried doping it with a tiny bit of chromium (yay for stealing 5 grains of potassium chromium sulphate from lab) which appeared to help somewhat, then i tried doping with a tiny bit of boric acid which appeared to help even more which was interesting. Unfortunately, due to work and being very sick for the last week, i have only gotten 1-2 trials done with each new formulation and most certainly am not making the batches consistently. I've noticed that some runs dehydrate and turn from blue to dark brown much faster than others, though it's not exactly clear why. It may be due to the calcination process seeing as batches with higher calcium tend to turn far slower and never have i seen it turn more than just a slightly less bright shade of green (calcium carbonate has the highest calcination temperature of anything else in the mix so it would make sense to me). In some of the runs, i terminated the heating process early simply due to time constraints, something i regret doing. The best batches also tend to be the ones that were the darkest, so i have no doubt that the simple act of heating it more/less dramatically changes the results. Given the fact that every single sample i've made with the solid-state/precipitate synthesis has shown far greater stability (i've yet to notice even the slightest decrease in strength from the first batch, made around 2 weeks ago), i may just try heating the lighter samples again to see if it improves their qualities. All in all, i've been very excited to see how this turned out. Given all that we've learned, i'm fairly surprised it worked at all in the liquid stage and i'm betting that the only reason it did was because of some oxygen displacing some of the chlorine, making it (in some tiny amount), into the oxides. I can further say that the material shows no magnetic properties before being heated which as far as i'm concerned is very strong evidence that the material needs the oxides in order to work (or at the very least, carbonates and hydroxides don't let it do whatever the fuck lets it be so diamagnetic). Some runs have been conducted without washing the precipitate first (usually unintentionally), and while they usually do work somewhat, the results are (far) less spectacular, so inclusion of a large quantity of sodium appears to interfere with its working.

Also, i got 500 grams of copper sulphate pentahydrate. That's 2 moles of soluble copper for less than the price of 100 grams of copper chloride (only like 0.75 moles soluble copper). Not that the only consideration is the copper, the sulphate may be significant in that it may react with calcium or otherwise mess with the reactions, but based on some water test strips a friend gave me, it appears most of the sulphate does get taken up by the sodium and does not react with the calcium (fortunately the calcium gets taken up by the carbonate faster, at least while the bicarbonate is in much higher concentrations than the sulphate). Now, it's still unknown how the copper sulphate will react, i still have some of the copper chloride solution and i intend to fully use it up before i switch due to having a shortage of containers to store the dissolved copper.

[redhairedwolfwitch]

Helloooo there my Favourite Fireball,

How have you been? (In game metaphors of course: any XP gained, levels completed, bosses beaten, tools collected, badges earned, new challenges unlocked?)

I for one have made some big steps. I completed a level I've been stuck on for a while by graduating! I had a lot of fun, collected many tools and gained so much XP on the way, but the ending was definitely rough... So no more academic bosses for me (at least for now), but I'm sure glad I earned that glorious master's badge.

Now I feel like I'm just back in the lobby wondering what level to try next. It's nice to get a break in theory but I already miss having a purpose. Maybe I need to find some minigames. Or maybe an huge challenge will pop up and I'll decide to give it a try. We'll see.

Excited to hear about you :)

As always, much love,

-Chaotic Anon

Well hello there, it has been a while hasn't it?

I did have to check my calendar of the last two months because I've been so exhausted for no reason lately and the days are just all blurring together into one big blob.

I completed the mission of 'car theory test' to unlock the 'car practical test' side quest, with the exp slowly gaining through driving lessons each week, recently did hills and bends with my instructor, then i drove up the route again with my mum and took her to the garden centre (i even parked!).

Other than that, I completed my first non-shadowing shift at work a few weeks ago and managed to book in another shift for Monday. The question now is will I end up crying during the 12.25 shift (usually end up crying a little) or full on cry after the shift waiting for my buses home?

Congratulations on completing your current level by graduating and achieving your master's badge! Especially since it was rough tackling all those academic hurdles and bosses, I hope you have a well deserved break as you figure out your next missions and quests to tackle, minigames are fun, I'm trying to get a conversation in motion so I can feel comfortable doing some minigames with some free courses to do with sport psychology and mental health but I found a hurdle in the form of emails going straight to spam so ugh:/

I'm just slowly earning that exp towards my driving test and getting that exp in my job (although it kills me off and my mental health is bad so I'm not taking loads of shifts when they're available and I feel guilty about that). I have levels I want to unlock but I can't until I get my driving license because it expands the exploration map for me... yeah... oh I also wrote another blog post for some volunteering I do, and have been working on another one... so I completed some mini levels there... that's me:)

I'm proud of you, chaotic anon:)

~Lux

[theworldofananxiousteen]

The explanation I owe myself

It's okay to not succeed, and it's okay to not deliver the way you want to. The important part is living, meaning breathing, eating, sleeping. The rest will come when the time is right. (I hope.)

Alright, alright, my friends, gather around and let me tell you a story. It all started when I was a young, young girl (ca 2 months ago) when I decided to become the productive lady I'd always wanted to be by joining a challenge on the app I discovered that very same day (spoiler alert; it was this app and the #100daysofproductivitychallenge).

It worked for a few days, hell, I did more in those few days than I had for the past month and a half (estimates, but very likely). You see, before then, I had been in a flunk. Productive wise, school wise, life wise. Then, suddenly, this thing came before me like a saviour out of thin air, and I thought my crisis was solved - because, obviously, I would be able to stick to this challenge, in complete contrast to every other similar thing I've tried to put my mind to. For a few days, it did. Specifically, five days (I believe, I don't want to check). Then came the first break, I missed a few days - listed things I'd done as productive tasks even though I, in many cases, didn't believe they were. You see, I am a procrastinator. I think of things I need to do, they make me anxious, I do other things or nothing at all in response - an evil cycle I can't get out of. After those few days, I fell straight back into the loop, and I've done barely anything since.

Now, it's almost the end of my Christmas break, and I feel like I'm stuck, quickly suffocating in the piles of school work I need to do before I get back to school. Here's my current list:

Finish my second version of my extended essay first draft

Finish my first AND final draft of my TOK essay

Finish my final draft of my TOK report

Finish reading Juloratoriet for Swedish class

Finish my economics IA3 final draft

Finish my biology IA first draft (this was, literally, due october.)

Finish my Swedish HL essay second draft

Finish my mathematics IA final draft

Finish my CAS updates

Finish my history IA first draft

Prepare my Swedish oral

Learn the entire math course because it's finished and I know nothing - I've failed all but one math test the past two years :)

All this needs to be done on six days and I won't be starting tomorrow, I can feel it. I feel like I'm out of order. I'm not working. My brain. My body. My life. It's all out of order, and nothing is like I want it to be. I know what's needed to succeed, -studying-, but I can't bring myself to do it. Do you have any tips?

Anyway, I was thinking I may give the productivity challenge another try, continuing from where I left off, to see if it may help to give me something to work towards. So, here goes nothing.

Day 15/100

Today I did nothing of actual value, but I did get some things done;

Played basketball with some friends for a few hours that I can use for CAS (this is to be read as an achievement, because I left my house almost out of free will)

Finished reading It's kind of a funny story by Ned Vizzini (I rate it like a 4.5 out of 5 stars but it ended up being 5 out of 5 on goodreads since they don't do half's)

Started reading Dear Nobody by Billie Doherty - so far, no thoughts whatsoever about it

Watched a few episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race (speaking of which, my stepmum gifted my mum and I with tickets to RuPaul's drag race the world tour the upcoming October (!) and I'm very excited about it)

Alright, by for now. Hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow. Possibly, I'll be back in a month or two (maybe more).

PS. can you tell I'm currently using my tumblr as a thought dumpster simply because I know no one on here in real life? I'm telling you - it's the trick to success.

PSS. Here's a song (that I've forgotten completely) by a band I used to like (probably still do but I did forget of their existence), simply because it's called the new year, and new years eve was a few days ago. Happy holidays.

[md3artjournal]

4:32 AM 12/11/2022

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Yesterday, I was still thinking about videogames since The Game Awards 2022 was so recently. And I think I was thinking about all these new Witcher announcements from CD Project Red and how they premiered a trailer for that new DLC for Cyberpunk 2077. I went from a thought tangent thought about poor CD Projeckt Red, to my own business. CD Projekt Red had such a good reputation because of their work on The Witcher videogames. And then that reputation was all lost, because Cyberpunk 2077 crashed and burned. But I heard about it recently getting better. They patched and patched and patched that thing. Maybe they've achieved the No Man's Sky type of redemption. When I hear about No Man's Sky now, people gush about how good it is now, despite all the disappointments at launch. And now, the YouTube algorithm is once again autoplaying Jenny Nicholson's Evermore video essay. And I"m rewatching it. Again. This video essay is also about a project that floundered and disappointed people, made mistakes, and got people angry. So I began to think, that maybe despite all the mistakes and possible bad reputation that my small art business has gotten, maybe I too could possibly still make a living off of art, if I just fix my mistakes, while going forward, and don't give up.

I really hope so. Because with my lack of basic human socialization skills and common sense, I'm just not cut out for even the "easiest" of "regular" jobs. My last office job, I was crying every Friday, and it didn't even deal with external customers. I don't think I can do any other job besides "small business artist working alone".

Lately, I've been thinking about how maybe my artist alley studio might have a worse reputation than I was aware of. While I was still working artist alley tables at AX, before the pandemic, I had heard maybe 2 people pass by my table and whisper about my polymer clay charms breaking too easily. I thought they were outliers, but what if word has spread so much farther than I'm aware of and maybe people are avoiding my brand like the plague? They were putting my polymer clay charms on their keys, expecting simple crafting polymer clay to stand up against thick jagged metal. I think I heard a person say they put one of my large hanging polymer clay sculptures on their bag, instead of hanging it as wall art, like I expected. I was astounded that people were expecting polymer clay to have the same durability as industrial plastics. Even if big chain stores considered such plastics to be cheap trinkets, it's still a whole other category whose expectations shouldn't be applied to polymer clay. And my sister, who had always been helping encourage my business, assured me that no one would pay so much for my sculptures, only to treat them as roughly as industrial plastic trinkets. I had been selling my polymer clay charms mostly as jewelry. But I after a couple years, I started offering them on smaller charm straps. I had been testing my polymer clay charms as a phone charm for a while, and it stood up against all my phone handling. So I thought my polymer clay charms were suitable for some moderately rough handling. But still, I didn't expect them to be put on keys! I thought people would hang them on pinboard collections. Or at the very least, put only the small charms on their phones or bags. I didn't expect them to treat polymer clay so roughly, especially after spending so much on it. And now, there were people passing by my table, gossiping about my terrible product quality. All my excitement about product concepts, all my designing, all my painful physical labor in restocking, etc. all for naught because my materials weren't durable enough. And maybe there were many more than those 2 I heard in person. Maybe my entire business venture is doomed online. Maybe I have a blacklisted reputation, and I don't know about it.

But I realize now, I was wrong. People expect the same durability as cheap, industrial plastic trinkets. People will put charms on keys. People will take short charm straps and put them on keys. Apparently, my material testing wasn't accurate to how rough people would actually be. And maybe if I had done more research, I would have learned that people don't recommend Sculpey III for durability, BEFORE I had bought sooooooooooo much of it already. x~x;;;; Still, I was bolstered by my own phone charm test. I was encouraged by my sister. But maybe I should stop expecting people to be so careful. All my durability testing after making sculptures turned out to be nothing against what real people would do. Maybe if I had more experience with real people, I would have had a better concept of what to expect the to be like. And I can't keep "sunk cost fallacy"'ing myself into continuing to use Sculpey III, just because I already spent so much money on it. I can't keep having confidence in it, just because it was durable enough for my personal use testing, when my real life customers are expecting more. I can't just blame them for "using my products incorrectly". The next time I sell sculptures, they're going to be made of something strong like resin.

So even though I love sculpting, so much more than illustration, I think I may have to abandon it for my art business. ;_; I'm getting too physically tired for the labor anyway. And no one wants to pay for the actual amount of hours I put into my sculptures. When I underpriced my 8-to-11-hour-labor sculptures at $40-$66, everyone was fine with buying them. But when I started pricing them closer to what I actually should be compensated, no one wanted to pay even $70. (Except for the Sora Wayfinders. But those ended up so labor intensive, that I dread the physical pain I'd have to put into making more, to the point where I just can't get myself to make them anymore.) And then on top of all that, turns out my materials will just never be durable enough. I've lost all confidence and motivation in the art I love. I've lost all drive to make or even design it anymore too. Maybe I'll be able to transition into more durable resin sculptures someday. But until then, polymer clay sculpting will just be for me (DIY figurine accessories) and my family's Christmas gifts.

I've always been envious of illustrators in artist alley anyway. At every event, if they want to restock, they can just send some files to a printer, and get products to stock their tables, 20+ at a time. I've seen illustrator artists go from one big con, to another con they didn't expect, ON SHORT NOTICE, and still have stock! Because restocking is so much easier for them. That's something I've barely been able to do as a crafter. When you don't outsource to anyone, restocking is a multi-month struggle. Each item is starting from scratch all over again. Like, imagine those illustrator artists spending 40 hours to draw one illustration, having to do that for each and every copy of a product they sold. That's what crafters have to do. Getting sold out of one product at one con, means that it may not have more than one item restocked and ready for the next con, even a week later. I have always been so jealous of illustrators just ordering their acrylic charms, stickers, prints, standees, etc. They don't have to push through the physical pain---hunched over desks while sculpting, ruining my neck and back, rolling out stubborn clay like I was working out my arms with a gym exercise machine---of making each and every individual item, ALL OVER AGAIN. So I've always wanted to be able to just restock so easily, just like drawing fanartists. So switching to illustration-based art for my small business---even though I've always preferred the feel and satisfaction of 3D crafting more---may be be a welcome change.

The problem being that I can't draw well. But I've been working on it. I've found that practicing everyday works for me, despite all the YouTube videos saying that daily drawing is unnecessary and maybe even detrimental. It works for me. When I don't draw everyday, I feel this paralysis in my hands and my mind, and it's so difficult for me to start drawing, even the simplest things. And I've finally found a chibi style that comes naturally to me. I've ALWAYS wanted to draw cute chibi! ;u;!!! I'm doing daily drawing challenges every month. And I think I'm getting faster and finding a style that might work for me. And I just got my first touchscreen laptop a year ago, so I can learn digital drawing. And though I haven't had a working stylus for a few months(?), I'm finally starting to learn vector illustration, like the cute/kawaii art style I love from Instagram artists. I'm making breakthroughs. Like realizing that maybe the monochrome, silhouette, minimal faced figures I had been drawing for witch OCs, might be good for fanart too. I'm figuring out that colored ink lines might work better for my illustrations, and that even my purely linework, monochrome, spiral or hatchmark filled drawings are well received too. I feel so close to getting the hang of illustration, so that it's good enough to sell in artist alley or online. Maybe I can finally outsource to printers and make my living as an artist. I have hope now.

As long as I can get past my bad reputation. But I think I just have to be like CD Projekt Red and No Man's Sky. If I can just move forward and do better, maybe I can fix this. Maybe I can still do this. My sister said once, that she doesn't want to see me give up being an artist because of one bad experience with a customer. And I really considered giving up art over it, especially because I was at fault. My art broke, my art wasn't durable enough, I promised to replace it, I felt too much physical dread to make it all over again to actually make a replacement, and when I tried contacting the customer again, they didn't want to deal with my products anymore. I failed. I'm a failure. But maybe even a failure can still keep trying. This isn't "do or do not". My life is all about just TRYING. And trying again.

Though I don't know how much longer I can try. I'm going to be honest here: I've been living off my parents. My mom said that unmarried "good Asian girls live at home", and I was fine with that. I'm antisocial and can't have friends, so I don't have the peer pressure of being "ashamed of myself" for living with my parents. I have a lot of social anxiety, so I don't have many mental/emotional secure places besides my parents. I'm certain the only reason I was able to pay off my student loans and my car so quickly, was because I don't pay for rent or groceries, because of my parents. And I wish America didn't have this culture of "kick the kids out at 18", because I hear too many horror stories of people running themselves ragged, trying to pay for rent, and student loans, and groceries, and their car, all without help. I wish more parents helped their kids for their whole lives, the way mine do. …But that also means that I'm really worried about what to do when that support disappears. My dad has not been vaccinated against COVID, even once. He has this history of strong reactions to vaccines, that have gotten him almost killed before. And he's talking almost like an anti-vaxxer now. And this is on top of him being in 2 high risk groups for COVID: elderly, and chronic illness (diabetes). It took me a while to finally accept that I can't stop him from living his life as risky as he wants, and my past attempts to talk to him about this were disasterous. My social anxiety can't stand up to be a child trying to lecture your Asian parents. My sister has encouraged me to accept that he's just going to die. I mean, even without the pandemic, it was going to happen anyway. But I can't just be only sad about that prospect, because I also don't know if I can financially support myself alone without him. I don't know if I can afford to keep trying to make a living as an artist.

My art business has been so dismal. I don't put enough effort into it. I'm so afraid to try new things. I'm afraid to try commissions or even opening an online shop. It's been 10 years and I still don't have an online shop! I don't have enough confidence in myself. I don't have confidence in my art. I already have so much failure in my art reputation among customers, that maybe I've been blacklisted already. I haven't succeeded in making a regular income with art, even after 10 years. What makes me think I can make a living off of it?

I've always been dealing with my own suicidal ideation and aversion to thinking about the future or even acting like I have one. Everything reminds me how I'm just not cut out for this whole "being alive" thing. That's why sometimes I think about going back to an office job. …But then I remember how that exasperated my suicidal ideation, even though I had everything everyone said I needed to be happy: excess money, a healthcare plan,… And yet, I still found myself self-destructive (with money and physical self-harm) and thinking of dying, for seemingly no reason. That's why I decided that art needed to be my career. If this office job stuff left me too tired to do things after work and after my commute, to do things that made life feel worth living, then the only solution is to make my job the activities that make my life feel worthwhile. I HAVE to make art my job. I don't' want to return to that self-destructive path again. I remember thinking back then that if the only thing I get out of that job is money, then I had no choice but to try to get my self fulfillment through money. Hey, consumerism seemed to be what everyone else was using for self fulfillment anyway. But I just ended up financially self destructive. I wasn't even happy with the things I bought. I was buying $40-$90 plushies for series/characters I didn't even care much for. I was buying $50 jackets just beause my sister told me to buy it as a joke. And I wasn't happier with any of it. I need to make art. Even if I'm bad at it. And I need to make it my career, because I don't have the any other time or energy for it. And trying to squeeze it alongside an unfulfilling job for financial reasons was mentally putting me in mortal danger. I haven't got much choice:

I have to keep trying and moving forward with my art business. Even if I'm bad at it. Even if I've been too afraid to make much progress for 10 years already. Even if my reputation is shot. I'll rebrand. I'll keep trying. Because even if I financially die from this attempt, how is it any different than if I become financially sustained but suicidal anyway? I have never been happier than this past 10 years of my life. No more school meant no more regular suicide attempts twice a year (then twice a month during college). No more office job meant no more waking up and wishing I never had, trying to think of a reason life is worth living and getting up for, but lying in bed for 3 hours and coming up empty, only to trudge to work, cry every Friday, get bullied for the first time in my life, by supposed "mature adults", and end up emotionally unfulfilled and (financially and mentally) self destructive. Art as my job is the only path for me besides death.

[starshiningsirius]

Lone fae (Yandere Malleus x reader)

To my favorite lonley dragon fae happy birthday!

Malleus had been told about a fae living in a town of humans for quite some time now. At first he had become angry seeing as he was King and someone would dare ally themselves with the enemy. He'd punish them himself. As if any traitor could stand against him and live was a mistake that'd cost them their lives. He told his advisor and guardian Lilia that'd he'd be back after dealing with said traitor.

Only to get to said town and notice a woman with pointy ears, beauty beyond belief, picking berries within the forest that surrounded the town. At first he kept his composure watching for a moment maybe a bit longer considering she acknowledged his presence.

"Ah, hello sir."

She didn't know who he was? That was surprising literally everyone whose anyone knew the Fae King and would tremble at the mention of his name. Yet this naive little fae knew nothing about who she spoke to. How cute.

'A fae in the village? How strange do they not know about our hatred towards humans?'

"Hello." He had his arms crossed and came out into the open.

She noticed the ears and instantly became curious.

"Our ears are similar." She murmured it under her breath, but Malleus still heard it. She noticed his horns too and realized that she must have been a bit different since she lacked them.

'So she hasn't met her own kind before?'

That was how their first encounter went. They chatted for a little while exchanging names as Malleus wanted to test if she knew him by that but got no reaction. Malleus watched her go back all the way to her house in secret of course. From high up in the air. As soon as he saw where she lived he went back home.

'This so called "traitor" would require a bit more inquiry.'

* * *

He decided to find out himself, her background by asking a different question to gain some information.

"Y/n do you have a family?"

"Hm? I have a little brother named Aiden at home but that's about it."

"What about your parents?"

"I can't recall when I was kid all I remember was waking up in an alley with Aiden crying in my arms. There was a- .... lot of blood about the place my dress that was once white had been stained. Anything before that isn't anything I probably want to remember considering that scene alone." She trembled for a second before continuing to pick herbs and berries from bushes. Malleus sided eyed her reaction feeling slight guilt towards it.

"I see, my apologies for bringing up troublesome memories." Malleus wasn't hard of hearing considering how she paused as if she didn't want to recall the gory scene. Yet still she smiled without much effort it was small but it did make him feel some what relieved.

"It's fine your the only person I've told. No one else talks to me in town and I'm not ready to tell Aiden yet with his innocence, I'd rather not taint. He's all I've got and I don't want to lose him."

* * *

He understood quite a bit now pertaining to their situation. He had to admit though, he had become fond of the female fae. Someone so innocent and docile couldn't be a traitor. Lilia saw that the situation was taking longer than expected and decided to accompany Malleus this go around.

He wanted to see for himself if Malleus was being fooled, though he doubted it. Not only that but for the sake of his own boredom in the castle and to satiate his own curiosity.

"Y/n this here, is a comrade of mine." Malleus stood next to his comrade, a short cheerful looking child with bright magenta stripes of hair under the black side. Two pointy ears stood on the side of his head too.

She was happy to say the least to know two new similar people to her at the very least. Today happened to be the day Malleus was going to meet Aiden. She didn't mind Lilia tagging along of course.

"Lilia Vanrouge, Ms. a pleasure." He looked rather young in her opinion but his voice signaled to not be fooled by his appearance. She shook hands with the male who brought a pleasant atmosphere with him.

* * *

"So your Malleus huh? My sister speaks very fondly of you sir. She's been talking about you for centuries!" The little boy exaggerated making Malleus's eyes widen and at first he felt an overwhelming amount of happiness with how he had made a good impression.

Both him and Lilia chuckled to themselves as the girl who had been in the same room blushed furiously from embarrassment. Taking her brother by the arm she glared at him.

"Aiden you know that isn't true, you asked where I had been and I answered." She strained her voice to try and put emphasis on her truth only to receive laughter from the boy.

Lilia came up to him patting his head with a smile.

"Fondly and centuries such large words for a child so young." Lilia had felt a slight connection to the energetic youngster. He thought it'd be fun to get to know him better.

"Sis is teaching me to read and write words from the dictionary! I'm very ingenious!" He was smug about the new words he was learning with a proud smile causing Lilia to laugh.

Malleus had a smile on his face small and affectionate but a few other thoughts came up to his mind upon thinking about the boys words. He looked toward his sister who was now in the kitchen making dinner.

"Aren't there schools about here he could go to?" His concern for the child was showing.

"There are but with his ears, I'd rather not take chances until his hair grows out, not to mention his abilities are still uncontrolled, and we're kinda barely keeping this house, so school isn't much of an option at the moment." She looked down chopping vegetables but was still focused. Until her brother spoke again.

"Look I can do magic!" He was so enthusiastic, but the dread look on his sister's face said it all.

"No! Don't you dare we can't hope to fix the ceiling!" She yelled but Lilia stopped her seeing as she yelled she covered her mouth in realization.

"Worry not my dear, let me see this young lad do magic. I'll make sure he doesn't damage anything." He was calm and collected which was shocked her but she let him do as he wished.

Aiden whose excitement had been on the rise at the thought of showing someone else raised his hand and emitted a large slew of green flames rising fast. Of course it actually shocked both Lilia and Malleus to see the color itself and how big the flames he conjured were.

Lilia had regained his composure for a split second and created some wind to dispell the flames before they could reach the ceiling and burn a hole. Malleus and Lilia looked at each other knowingly for a moment before Lilia showed a smile toward the young boy with his fangs gleaming in the light.

"I see the problem your letting out all of your mana at once young one, still your mind and channel the flow to ignite a single flame." He advised carefully with hand on Aiden's shoulder.

Malleus felt as if he was watching a younger version of himself seeing his guardian teach another. The young fae had followed Lilia's teachings to a tee and a small green flame became lit in front of him.

"Sister! Sister! Did you see I got it! I did it!" He was jumping up for joy at his achievement.

"Yes I see thank you Lilia. You thank him too Aiden." She was happy to say the least, it was as if good fortune was brought with them to have met these two.

"Thank you Lilia!"

"Your welcome dear child you can learn with me anytime. You have a lot of potential that shouldn't be wasted." That made his eyes light up in pure unadulterated excitement.

"Sister did you hear that!"

"I did." She was just relieved someone could teach him besides all her past failed attempts.

"So does that mean you can use magic too then?" Malleus had wandered closer to her without her knowledge it made her flinch. Seeing the anticipation of her answer in his eyes, she answered him.

"Yes though mine's is a bit more controlled. I can conjure wind and green flames. As well as levitate a multitude of things toward me at once but that's about it. I haven't had too much time to practice." She waved her hand with a slight glow and brought a couple of ingredients in cupboards down on to the counter letting them shut on their own again.

Holding put her hand she conjured a small green flame that wouldn't cause any damage over the palm of her hand.

"Seems like your well taught." Lilia mentioned.

"That's only because before we got this house we lived in the forest and magic made things a bit easier, but otherwise while we live here we don't have a use for it. Aiden still wants to learn but my teaching can only go so far as I don't know much on the subject." She looked somewhat frustrated at her own uselessness. Malleus could tell she wasn't lying about what she could do that's for sure.

* * *

After dinner both fae left the home walking out but saying goodbye to the siblings. At first they walked away from the house, but soon to prevent from being seen by any late night walkers they teleported to the castle.

"A pair of fae with royal blood is rare. I do wonder how the both of them ended up in that human village though." Lilia started off by saying.

Green flames were the insignia to regal blood for fae even Malleus knew that fact. Known to be the most powerful of all faes. Yet two were living in a human town right within the heart of the enemy and neither knew.

"Yes but from what I've been able to tell whoever had taken care of them is probably dead. Slaughtered by humans most likely. She said she wasn't able to remember anything before that. I'm assuming her and her brother come from some line thought to have been killed when the war against the humans started." Malleus recalled all he learned about her over the past few weeks he came to know her.

"Such a shame those two don't even know their own kind. Living their life in solitude as outcasts when they could be a lot more free if they lived here." Lilia did actually feel pity for the pair of souls having grown an attachment toward the younger sibling as he had taught Malleus when he was young as well. Those days were reminiscent for him. Aiden just happened to be similar to young Malleus in that regard.

"Malleus, if any humans discover royal fae over in that village they'll be killed. It's only a matter of when." He stated that matter of factly considering he was a general during the aforementioned war and many fae had been chased out of human villages. The ones left had been unfortunate to be victims that were sacrificed.

"I know, I won't let them lay a finger on either of them. Get Silver and Sebek have the staff prepare two rooms in the castle for our guests." Malleus walked away from Lilia without a second thought after saying what he wanted done.

"I was hoping you'd say that. Seems you've gotten attached to her in a different way. Ah, I'm so glad to see you chasing after someone, it feels like ages since you've been small so long ago. I'll have little Aiden to teach all the stuff I once taught you. What a joyous occasion to think someone will finally sit on the throne next to you." Lilia smiled feeling eager and chipper at the future ahead.

He went to go get the two knights that would always await orders from their master. Skipping down the halls all the while humming an unknown tune.

* * *

Something has been different with Malleus as of today. He was fiddling with his fingers a bit more often than usual. He didn't want to meet her gaze at the time either.

"Malleus is there something wrong?" Worry laced in her tone for the man sitting next to her.

"Yes." He replied rather swiftly but ended it there.

"Would you like to tell me what about?" She at least wanted to try and comfort him however she could.

That's what made her different than most fae, most feared him, she didn't of course she and that oblivious little head of hers didn't. Before she could even grasp how much power she could have held it was taken from her.

Malleus had turned his head and looked her directly in the eye.

"You."

"Me?" She was surprised and confused about what he meant by that, lowering her head for a second to think.

Of course it didn't last long, as Malleus directed her chin to gaze at him instead of the forest soil.

"Y/n, my alluring little darling, would you do me the honor of staying with me?"

He said with a gentle smile. The proximity and his words had her face red within seconds. She still had to give him a reply and sadly she didn't want to upset him but she didn't have much of a choice.

"I'm sorry Malleus I can't. This place is all I've ever known. Going somewhere else with all that could happen, ... It's not that I don't like you but my own fears are holding me back." She was trying to come up with the right words so he'd hopefully understand.

It stung, it truly did. The rejection wasn't something he hypothesized but it was still an option. It was fine though, all would be well. That sheltered mindset of hers would just have to broken a bit. She'd come to rely on him, she'd have no other choice afterall.

She hadn't experienced much of human cruelty, he'd just have to show her how cruel they could really be and then she would have to seek his aid.

* * *

Everyone in town today had been on edge it seemed. She left Aiden at home sound asleep, while she went out to go and buy veggies and meat she couldn't get in the forest. As she walked toward a thrifter many people side eyed her. She was the only person to walk with a hood on. In fact many people generations before this one too when asked had seen her.

As she got up to the vegetable thrifter the man in front of her had scowled. She saw this but just thought he was having a bad day. That's when someone came behind her and pulled her hood down abruptly.

"A fae! A fae in the village!"

"She's the one who cursed the crops! If we kill her the curse will end!"

"Someone grab her!"

Before she knew it she ran, someone did lay a hand on her but she pushed them away with wind magic. It wasn't on purpose, but fear overtook her person and magic required self control.

She wanted to run back to her house but with how fast the mob was chasing she couldn't put Aiden at risk like that. Maybe just maybe if she went back to the forest, he'd be there. He could help her, or Lilia either would do.

* * *

She didn't see him. Maybe her words struck a cord. She should have agreed. A stupid decision on her own part, he could've probably taken them somewhere where people like her were accepted. Where magic was used and no worries to be had.

She just narrowly dodged an arrow fired at her. It seemed the mob had caught up. Turning her attention back toward their screeches, what could she do?

In a last ditch effort attempt she called his name.

"Malleus!" The crowd closing in on her arrows knocked and aimed. So this was it huh?

Suddenly something slithers around her body, her waist to be more precise and holds her in a vice grip.

A tail? Of long reach with a purple scales of a dark pigment.

Before it pulled her into the darkness of the forest behind her. Until she felt a chest that placed her gently to the ground freeing her from the grip the of the tail that had once gripped her tightly.

She saw a light emitted from where she had once been, green flames took its place in her stead.

"I do hope you'll accept my offer to stay with me now, my love." Malleus's voice brought her out of her stupor, a frown seeing her in such fear. He didn't want to go so far but he would rather have liked her to willingly agree to living with him as his Queen. She wouldn't have any worries should she live her life on the throne worshipped by everyone.

"Wait! Wait! Please let me bring Aiden I can't leave my brother behind!" She had gripped his clothing turning around desperate tears spilling.

Speaking of said boy who popped his head from behind the fae that stood in front of her, smiled and ran to hug his sister.

"Y/n! Malleus let me up on his shoulders he was so tall! Wait why are you crying?" Her brother's happiness went away for a moment at the tears he saw from his older sibling.

She was shocked, since when had he been here. He was asleep before, she was sure. It didn't make any sense.

"Aiden how, ... why are you here?"

"Lilia offered to teach me more magic! He said it was dangerous to teach me inside the house so we came out here." For a second she thought it was a dream. A bad dream turned good.

"Were you worried? Sorry, I'll tell you next time I promise." Aiden hugged her after finishing his sentence trying comfort his sister from her state of fear. It worked a little having her shoulders relax.

Malleus had stroked her head to sooth her worries as well. A small smile graced his lips at the scene before him.

"Worry not my dear, I'll accept all parts of you. Of course I'd never forget your dear brother. Will you accept my proposal now?" He was awaiting an answer, the same look in his eyes akin to when he asked if she could use magic.

"Yes I do, it was my mistake for denying your offer in the first place. I'm sorry Malleus."

He was happy that the situation had caused her to regret her answer. Of course he didn't outwardly show it. But he was internally pleased. His new queen and energetic little brother would make a wonderful addition to the Draconian line.

As they disappeared instantly to where their new home would be, Malleus left behind some what one would call fireflies by the looks of it. They were just traces of his magic to other faes. It was a calling for someone else though.

The town the two faes once called home was being destroyed as soon as they left. Screams upon screams could be heard one after another. Flames of red and orange to destroy and have no one alive to recall the prescene of two royal clan faes.

All done by three, one wise fae, and two knights that served to do everything their master asked of them. It would all be gone while Malleus would help them settle into their new lives, the one they deserved from the beginning, if humans hadn't taken it from them.

Masterlist

[sombrewoodlandfairy]

🦔🐧

Guess what I did last week? I bought socks with HEDGEHOGS ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS on them AND socks of PENGUINS SKIING. HOW AMAZING IS THAT!!!     

Anyway, well that's the last time I tell anyone anything about animal anons plans, otherwise they will be spoiled and ruined by my friends! Oh well, it's all in good fun (and also forced me to keep my commitment of posting tonight despite being depressed that Jurgen got sent home...#gbbospoilers)!

Well as many people have predicted correctly, I passed the Bar! Hallelujah! I was sworn in as an attorney this week so I am officially an esq! I also am scheduled to received my dolly booster shot next week and earlier this month I started a new (not 80 hours a week) job! So I have had a fabulous month and have many things to be thankful for including my epic sock purchase! Which is perfect timing for the holiday ahead! So I wanna know what you are thankful for this year? I know it's been a tough year for so many so it can be as small or as large as you can think!

I'm so excited to learn more about everyone's year and what you're thankful for! Remember to tag animal anon (if you so desire) because I love scrolling through all your amazing responses! And since it was requested of course I LOVE atwtmvtv and the short film! My favorite vault song is IBYTAM because I love LOVE LOVE CS (please everyone go watch his performance with Jhud from the CMAs, it is mind-blowing)!

And remember, animal anon thinks you are all beautiful talented gorgeous people who are all killing it at life! ❤

OMG HI ANIMAL ANON!!!!!! god i really love waking up to asks from you, always makes my morning instantly better!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

congratulations on passing the bar !!!!!! that's such a huge achievement and i'm so happy for you!!!!!! i've heard that the pass rate of the bar exams are kinda low so kudos to you anon!!! (also i'm almost done with the first trimester of my law course, so that's exciting, but irrelevant??? LOL) also the socks sound ADORABLE, wish i could get pictures!!

this year has been sooooo long omg, it genuinely feels like an extension of 2020, but i will say, i'm not the same person i was all those months ago. i'm really grateful for the swiftie community here on tumblr, it really feels like home everytime i open this app!!! i'm also really grateful for the fact that i passed my driving test on the first try!! nothing really big has happened to me this year, but i'm grateful for all the little achievements i've had this year; graduating secondary school, getting into uni, stuff like that.

and i guess i'm also grateful for the fact that i'm still here, you know? that all my friends and family are relatively healthy, and haven't caught covid. lockdown has been really taxing on my mental health, so i'm grateful for the various means of escapism i have at my disposal.

anyway, long story short, it's been a long, long year and i can't wait to see what 2022 brings us all!!! and as always, it's SUCH a pleasure to here from you, animal anon, here's a tiny whale from me to you: 🐳 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[anjalis-ennui]

gooood morning/evening/night or where ever you are! heard your celebrating 50 followers good job lovely! hope im not too late for the festival 👐😊 i found you from mintigiyuu and your event sounds adorable! /g

🍄 i had a hard time picking either the song list or the matchup cause both sound so damn cute, is it alright if i request a matchup please lovely?

🍄 I'm a libra, but i've been told im way to introverted to be a libra. My mbti is INFJ-T, i had to check because i keep forgetting ._. I love harry potter! A proud slytherin right here

🍄 Currently im into kny, i do prefer the adult characters but they all are fine! Am a pan so i really don't mind any gender you pair me up with, go nuts love!

🍄 I love pastels and soft colours, coral and bittersweet pinks are my favourite.

🍄 My social battery is terrible. Currently me and my friends have this system of if we ever talk or hangout in person, they'll just not see my for the next three days cause i need to recharge. They way i recharge differs from time to time, it's usually spending time binge reading fanfic or my favourite books, or drawing or maybe testing out a new recipe for baking.

🍄 I'm a sucker for physical affection, some could say i'm touch starved and i wouldn't argue with it. If you decide to befriend me I'm latching on to you, with you consent of course. Unless you'd let a tiny human cling to you then i won't do it.

🍄 Talking is a no go, if you won't start a convo then i won't say anything. However if i see that you'd be nice to talk to then i'll take over and talk nonstop, it gets annoying because i stutter a lot when i get excited ://

🍄 Loud noises hurt me, so it's to a rare sight for my friends if they see me huddling under their arm during a thunder storm or a loud movie

🍄 I forget things, and that includes eating. Which is ironic cause i love cooking. So if no ones asks if i have eaten yet then i would simply forget. Lunch? What's that?

That was much too long i'm so sorry. Congrats again on reaching 50! Don't be afraid to celebrate the little achievements! Cause that's still your hard work and they should also be appreciated /g /pos

aww hello darling!! you made it just in time!! the event is closed now, since i have many, MANY requests to fulfill, but be on the lookout for more soon~

{EVENT CLOSED}

credits to @vernilon for the amazing edit!!

kimetsu no yaiba ;;

your matchup is...mitsuri kanroji!!

you and mitsuri are two darlings of a kind. this relationship is one of trust, safety, and respect. mitsuri adores your talkative nature (once you've been reached out to) and she respects your boundaries and need to recharge. similarly, you admire her strength and personality, and respect her insecurities and need to pass as "normal". this love is like a bee kissing a soft flower petal, and the dewy sweetness of honeysuckle nectar.

© jades-tea-shop 2021. please do not modify, edit, copy or reproduce any of the works published.

[overseer2020]

Hero Work 4

The first side story I'd like to show is this idea that would have to be put in another set entirely if I ever use it. In the vein of Platinum Angel and other creatures that present obstacles for the opponent and must be destroyed before victory can be achieved, I dreamt up Rubberbanding Angel.

I don't have fateful hour in my design for Heroes & Villains. I suppose at the end of the (major) story, I could see a case being made for including fateful hour. Heck, Ethra only has the one Angelic Caretaker, so I guess it wouldn't be unfeasible to see her eventually beaten down, exhausted and at her most desperate. Maybe this is a Heroes & Villains card after all!

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When I was coming up with the "Avengers Alliance" cycle of keywords (Blaster, Infiltrator, Tactician, Scrapper and Bruiser), I didn't stop there. After all there were a few common keywords left over.

On an unrelated note (because this keyword doesn't necessarily belong on this card), in addition to working on Part 2, I'm also revising Part 1 so it dovetails well with the rest of the block. While I have so far only hinted at there being a contingent of self-actualized, unofficially authorized crimefighters (aka private detectives and vigilantes), I don't think I hit that nail hard enough, so I intend to introduce the concept of The Man of Mystery.

I suppose you could say that a Man of Mystery should probably be wearing a mask. But maybe this person doesn't need one or hasn't thought of it yet. This isn't final art anyway.

As for the new keyword, I considered a bunch of keywords to go with double strike. Flanking, provoke, skulk, poisonous, wither, ward 2, bushido 2, and "{This} can’t be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less" (daunt) were all contenders for at least a moment. Flanking was closest to what I wanted. Provoke was almost the final keyword, but I backed away from using the actual keyword as I wanted the opponent to choose how to block. Also, gaining provoke after the attack trigger window is counter-productive.

Including Frenzy in the design file is actually a distinct possibility since I'm already bringing Absorb in (they debuted at the same time in Future Sight). Both abilities (as well as Provoke) play into the combative nature of the block. Introducing a new keyword in Crimeworld, however, at this stage would have largely negative effects on the balance of cards that have already been designed, requiring an extensive rethink on the entire set.

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While Men of Mystery don't need their own "lord", I had this name pop into my head, it made me chuckle, so I mocked up a card for it and tossed on another "Alliance"-style keyword. The name is an intentional mash-up of actual pulp heroes in the vein of some of the other creatures I've designed. The keyword almost had Absorb in the mix (but once you have indestructible as an option, what's the point?) Despite neither element being designed for the other, they work surprisingly well together.

At the last moment (literal moments ago as I type), I added the p/t bonus and Vigilance -- because the preeminent Vigilante should probably have Vigilance. I almost put in unblockable, but protection from creatures is a bit more useful in a world full of creatures with activated abilities.

For those who may not know, The Spirit, The Spider and The Shadow were all "mystery men" pulp heroes.

The image comes from the surprising number of eldritch horror-affiliated images I came across when looking for pictures of 1940s-type detectives. I suddenly really like this image. (And this card; I might just have to use it somewhere.) I considered using the following image for one of the above cards, but as that's a real cover for The Spider, I didn't think it was wise nor creative to use it for my original characters.

I love the way he's swinging into action while hanging from his own noose. I don't think that imagery would fly in a Wizard of the Coast product, though. The gun is also a Magic: the Gathering no-no. I left the text box blank because I couldn't think of anything interesting and this was about the art anyway. At the last moment, I gave it a name like it was the first issue of the comic/magazine. (Saga?)

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The final Alliance keyword bucks the trend by triggering when an opponent attacks you. As such, I mocked up a defender to show it off.

Suddenly gaining reach implies jumping up to stop incoming creatures and I had to give it some power because blockers with first strike are a pain to deal with.

Also, for symmetry, here's where Absorb slots in. I didn't put Absorb or Frenzy into the first five because I didn't want to force those keywords to only be useable on Ethra. It also feels wrong to "introduce" a new keyword and then incorporate that keyword inside the functionality of another new keyword. Perhaps the ancillary products or "Return to Ethra" will make use of these keywords.

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Wow! I didn't think I would have enough to say about these idle thought cards. Now I'm excited about testing them out in real games. (I really need a playtest group. I've seen some societies online, but I never quite got the hang of having virtual friends.)

Next Time: ????

[mrjuicyjude]

Journey of my life

Tap in the morning to you my fellow tumblr's

for this blog, i will talk about my journey of life in thailand from the start to where i am right now.

many of my friends, people even teachers tend to ask how did i grow up here in this country, well first of all, people always think that i'm half because of my thai communication skills, But actually i'm not, i'm pure filipino born in the philippines and use to live in the philippines

(story time, don't you sleep! reading my story,lol just kidding)

I was born in a small city named zamboanga in the south of the philippines, growing up as a kid there was quite hard because, we weren't really that rich, we were kinda in the poor side, we were living in a big wooden house that my father and my uncles build, this house contained 13 lives living inside of it, 6 of my uncles, my father, my grandma and grandpa and four siblings inluding me as the youngest, my mother was already working abroad since i was little and after 7 years in the philippines me and my father moved to my mother's workplace which was thailand, at the 1st day of july 2010, we finally arrived here in thailand and i was so excited and nervous at the sametime, the first day we were living in the hotel to plan our way going to my mother's workplace which was in nakhorn sri thammarat, thungsong

(Here are some of my pictures during the first day in the hotel in thailand)

we went straight to nakhorn by riding a train and started my first day of school in tantiwatra school near tesco lotus, you might think that i was happy there but the truth is its the oppisite side, you know why? Being the only Foreign child there was difficult, i can't find friends to talk with only some other foreign teachers that i usually hang out with, as the black sheep in the school i tend to get picked up by bullies and just try to survive every single day by avoiding all of their actions, after a while i coudn't stand all of the negativity that is happening to me so i talked to my parents and i moved to a catholic school named darunsuksa,i was quite happy being in a catholic school because im catholic and i was expecting to live a better life in this school, the first month of school was quite ok because no one really knew me back then and i could speak some thai basic sentences,i was an altair boy in the church near the school so everymorning i come to church and pray.

after a few months i was getting targeted by bullies again and that made me so depressed and frustrated so tried to convined myself to be a new person, so all the problems that i faced was pushing me to learn more thai to prove that i'm not a sand bag that you can punch me everytime you want, 2 years after all the hard work that i've done i realized that i can speak read and write thai and it made me so happy that i got respected by the teachers who tought me thai and many other people, i started gaining trust to other kids forming a connection between new friends and friends that onced bullied me. After spending three years in darunsuksa i realized that i wanted to study in a standard school and one of them was thungsong school, it was so hard for me to past the test because of my knowledge in thai but what i did was exceeded my limits and studied more for my future and guessed what i past the test and got the top three highest score in the paper i was so shcoked and happy in the same time!! and i officialy studied in thungsong school in Eng gift program (here are some pics after i past the test)

For my life in M1-M3 nothing really much happened because i already knew how to start a conversation and make new friends, but one thing i wanted to share was after i found out that i can speak 2 languages i started competing with other kids in other schools i competed a lot of competitions such as singning,impromptu speech,spelling bee,story telling and many more, my name was quite known back then because of my awards and my nationality,3 years in thungsong school made me happy i got lots and lots of precious memories during there, and after that i graduated and it was time to move on to another school.

i moved into satreethungsong school with 4 more friends that had the same goal as me and they were tonnam,arm,lin and kin, right now i'm in the last year of my senoir level and i had many precious memories here in this school i just wanted to say thank you the past me that studied so hard and achieved something that i would never imagine. Now, for those who have problems in life i would like to say that try not to fear it but face it and make it as one of your responsibility that you need to do, those who give up with problems are losers but those who stand up and fight the problems are winners

thank you for reading this blog and see you in the next blog peace