#Jay learns modding;

[lesenbyan]

Y'ALL I'M JUST FUCKING STUPID

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

hihihi!! i LOVE LOVE LOVE cat genetics. where did you learn all you know about phenotypes?

hmm a lot of places! also, dont think i dont know who you are LMAOO jellyfish haii

my first foray into the world of cat genetics was probably this kitten generator on perchance! I just messed around with it for a while, trying to get my cat as a result, but eventually started actually experimenting with it! it is still incomplete, if anyone visits it, but its a good place to get the very basic foundations down.

i'd also suggest whatcoloristhatcat and felinefractus for their thoughts and cat genetics work! They do good stuff, and I've learned a lot from their thoughts on various cats, cat breeding as a whole, and some fun trivia! Good blogs, highly recommend them both!

Another resource I, and plenty of others, recommend is Sparrow's Garden! I don't really have much else to say on it, it's just a good resource.

I do suggest Messybeast for some basic stuff, but not as a resource for EVERYTHING they do on their site. It's good for basics and corrections, but you should not use this site as your only source. Research more about what they talk about, and don't take everything at face value.

and lastly, this simple overview of it all! the series by little hungry warrior on youtube! it was more of a refresher for me, but the present the information in such a way that stuck. It's a good way to get into the most basic and common cat genetics you'd see in your day-to-day life.

AGAIN, WE (me and Jay) ARE HOBBYISTS! I do not make 100% accurate claims sometimes! I learn from others, and my own research! please correct me when i make a mistake, and that includes information about resources I link! <3

signed, mod robin! hbu, mod jay?

Hi! I’m a lot newer into cat genetics than robin, but my first real foray into cat genetics was a series of images called ‘families for the warrior cats fan who doesn’t want to learn genetics’, about 2 years ago. it was really simplistic and doesn’t go into stuff like silver, smoke and rufousing, so it’s probably not the most helpful thing. (oh hey, i know this person! they help work on a silly Warriors redux i read! its good, check it out if you're a warrior cats fan! -robin)

HOWEVER. the most helpful thing for me (that actually got me interested in genetics) was the clangen mod genemod. It’s super helpful for looking at how genotypes affect phenotypes, and what each phenotype looks like without any influencing factors.

mod robin has pretty much covered everything else i might have linked though; but i’m seconding little hungry warriors youtube series! helpful to learn both the basics and the more complex stuff in a very digestible format !

🫡 - mod jay

[yujeong]

The Score of 4 Minutes - Episode 3

Alright, folks. Before I proceed to lose my mind and write a fucking THESIS about my beautiful baby boy Tonkla and his whole fucking deal this episode, I'll proceed to give you the OST I managed to find, as I did before for episode 1 and episode 2. So, let's go (YouTube links, as per usual): - The Throne Is Mine by Ruiqi Zhao: When Dome wakes up - Flesh and Bone by Jon Björk: When Korn is in the bathroom, checking his phone to see Tonkla's calls + the beginning of the scene with Great, before he calls Korn to ask the time - Walkin' on Dreams by Headlund: When Tyme and Great speak by the basketball court (before the rewind) - Sub Twin by Jay Varton: When Great tells Tyme about seeing 4 minutes into the future - I Found The Answers In You (feat. Mia Niles) by Loving Caliber: When Great tells Tyme to go grab something to eat - The Consequences by Marten Moses: When Tyme and Den are discussing Great's condition - Beneath the Bushes by Raymond Grouse: When Great takes Tyme to the claw machine - Spying on the Neighbours by The Fly Guy Five: When Tyme is teaching Great how to catch the plushies - Are You Having Fun by Alek Bluntz: When Tyme caught the first plushie, then the rest - Rest in His Love by Joyspring: When Tyme and Great almost kissed - By the Lighthouse by Miles Avida: When Nan is getting dressed and steals the key to check the documents - Face On by Wendel Scherer: When she gets caught and chased outside - Where Does It End by Max Anson: When Korn appears and learns about what happened with Nan + when Win gets taken off the case - Roseé du matin by DEX 1200: When Tonkla is breaking stuff in his room and then does drugs - The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 "Summer": I. Allegro non molto: When Win and Tonkla fuck (before Win goes inside Tonkla) - The Four Seasons - Winter - Allegro Non Molto: When Win and Tonkla fuck (after Win goes inside Tonkla) - Eternum Nocturne by Gavin Luke: When Win and Tonkla talk post-sex - Down the Alleyway by Damon Greene: When Win goes to talk to Mod about her message on social media - I Wanna Fall by King Sis: When Great is smoking on the balcony - Obstruction by Bonnie Grace: When Great is making his (murder)board - Thermonuclear by Craft Case: When Korn and Great talk at the bar - Cluster One by Hampus Naeselius: When Tyme fights Korn and later Great

[filmbyjy]

MINESTREAM

SYPNOSIS > Wanting to start a new stream series with his best friends, Jay had a bright idea of playing some simple Minecraft with them. Everything was normal, until he realises there is another person in the call with them. He quickly learns that it was ni-ki’s older sister, (name). Watch how streaming a simple game of Minecraft can dig up some interesting feelings between the main leads.

EIGHT – asscrack

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a/n: the inspiration behind jake’s little world naming…that was the first word that popped into my head. don’t ask why. I’d like to know too.

finally after so long with multiple technical issues on jay’s end, the minecraft series could officially start. he could hear jake and ni-ki just chatting about the free online soccer game they found on steam. his eyes gazed the mute button right beside your username. the other boys had turned on their cameras in discord while you and angel(Yvette) didn’t.

he hasn’t once heard your voice. well, he could barely hear your voice since he shut ni-ki’s stream off earlier due to the boys attempting to catch something. he only heard your giggle once and that was it. nonetheless, in that short moment he thought you sounded adorable. his heart drumming in his chest, wondering how your voice would sound like.

he shook his head and clicked on the stream button. as per usual, he puts on a waiting screen to tell the viewers that ‘hey, we’re going to play soon. please wait.’

he unmutes in the discord, “hey, everything has been set up. I just wanna ask what should the server name be?”

“asscrack.” jake suggests as he looks up from his computer and directly into the camera.

“what?” heeseung speaks up as he was caught off guard by the weird name.

“I don’t know, don’t ask me. I’m shit at giving names to things.” jake shrugs. the other boys deadpanned at him.

“let’s name it…sunoo and the boys.” sunoo suggests.

“as if. just put the default ‘My World’ that’s the easiest. not a single hassle to the world.” jungwon adds.

“Alphas.” sunghoon voices out.

“uhh, have you forgotten there are two girls here?” ni-ki says.

“well, who cares about that. Women can be dominant too.” sunghoon shrugs.

jay sighs, “I’m just going to call it MineStream.”

“lame ass name.” jake says. jay turns on his camera on discord and zooms in the camera to his face. he gave jake a death stare and so jake awkwardly laughs it off.

“okay, you scare me. I’m sorry.” jake pouts.

as for you, the moment jay opened his facecam. your eyes widened, a tiny gasp left your throat. since no one could see/hear your reaction due to you being muted and your camera was turned off, you were basically in shock. that man is most beautiful man you’ve ever seen.

the way his eyebrow raises as the rectangle glasses suited his face. he was just in a simple black shirt and his jet black hair was parted prettily. good lord. you were going to play with him? you were going to play with all these pretty boys?? oh lord.

“okay, the world is loading so wanna do the intro when we all load into the world?” jay asks.

“yeah, we should. we have new guests here and we have to introduce the fans too!” sunghoon says.

“alright, I’ve already loaded in. I sent the world invite into the discord. by the way, there are mods that I added to make the game more interesting.” jay says.

“the only interesting thing we should try to do is do hardcore mode or like a ‘if one person dies, everyone dies’ kinda thing.” sunoo suggests.

“we could do that for another time.”

you had clicked on the link and waited to load into the world. since ni-ki helped to create your account, you could easily go in and of course he was your first friend in the game. you had finally clicked turned on the camera in discord and so everyone could see you. you weren’t exactly streaming but you were recording for a video since ni-ki suggested that putting up videos onto YouTube also generates money. once everything was settled, jungwon claps his hand and starts off with the intro.

“hello everyone, today we are-” ni-ki’s character punches jungwon’s as he was talking. “ni-ki!”

“whoops misclick.” ni-ki says. jungwon rolls his eyes.

“today we are playing minecraft! woo!!”

“the premise of how this started. jay hyung wanted to do a series together that was nostalgic and so we decided to go with minecraft because who doesn’t love minecraft!” sunoo says.

“besides our normal friend group, we have two other people on here! let’s welcome angel and (name)!”

“hello hello.” angel says. her little vtuber character moves and tracks her movement.

“woah, cool character, angel. it’s really pretty.” sunoo says.

“oh, thank you.” angel smiles. everyone’s attention was now on you.

“oh umm, hi. I’m (name). I’m ni-ki’s older sister.” you waved towards the camera. everyone was mesmerised (excluding heeseung and ni-ki), you were beautiful.

“good god.” jake says.

“you have a very sexy voice. would love to hear that all night-” sunghoon gets cut off.

“sunghoon hyung, i will find a way to ban you from this server.” ni-ki warns him.

you giggled and jay’s heart melts. god, he’s a simp but he can’t show that…his facecam was turned on. jay turns to read a couple of his comments. most of them were simping for you. kinda made him jealous, not going to lie. plus, it didn’t help that jay had this overlay thing where whoever talked, it would display the person’s facecam (if turned on) from discord to his livestream.

— “she’s so pretty.”

— “wow, she’s so…no wonder she’s ni-ki’s older sister. the family genes are so strong.”

“let’s just start playing. gather resources everyone.” jay says.

and so everyone does. each of them collected wood, from the trees. you sat there looking clueless and so jay comes up to you in game.

“something wrong?” he asks.

“oh, sorry. this is my first time playing minecraft so I have zero clue how to do things.”

“want me to guide you?”

“sure.”

jay happily guides you on how to play the game, from punching wood to making crafting benches and finally making tools. jay turns to read the comments for a bit,

— “woah, what is this visual couple going on?”

— “yoooo, they would look cute together! like wow.”

jay was satisfied by the comments. he can’t help but look at your facecam, your concentrated face as you mined for stone and attempted to make stone weapons.

“hyung!” jungwon whacks jay’s character. it causes him to turn around.

“did you have to hit me.” jay deadpans.

“whoops, anyways. ni-ki and sunoo found a cave. I don’t remember minecraft caves being fucking huge.”

“there was a huge update I believe 1-2 years ago so yes, huge cave.”

“they also found a mob spawner with saddles in the chest and jake hyung stole them to try and get horses.”

jay sighs, “can’t say I’m not surprised.”

“are you and (name) noona flirting?” jungwon suddenly asks. it causes you and jay and to look at each other in game before turning to jungwon.

“no? he’s just teaching me how to play minecraft.”

“yeah, she doesn’t know much about the game so what better way then to teach her?”

“don’t believe it one bit. next thing you know, we will have a couple in a minecraft server who share a house together, sleep together and have cats and dogs together.”

— “oooo, jungwon is onto something.”

“the comments are agreeing with me.” jungwon smirks.

“shut the fuck up, my friend.” jay shoos jungwon away. the younger boy runs off to find sunghoon, who wants currently getting chased by a creeper.

jay sticks by you throughout the whole thing, he gives you tips and even hands you some stuff.

“we are making a community.” heeseung says.

“and why?”

“because with 9 people on this server, all the resources are going to be sucked up. also I am not sharing a house with any of you. especially, (name). she’ll make the house with pink wood.”

“there’s pink wood?” you say.

“there is, you just need to find a cherry blossom biome.” jay explains.

“why are you helping her?” heeseung asks.

“because she doesn’t know how to play and I’m just being a gentleman since you guys aren’t helping her, clearly.”

jake bursts out laughing, “I’m sorry but this is the first time I see you being so gentlemanly to a woman.”

“do you want me to set myself into creative so I can blow up your shit dirt house.” jay threatens.

“go ahead, I feel like renovating it anyways. just let me move my stuff first-”

sunoo quietly hands jay some tnt and a flint and steel. before jake could even grabbing his things from the chest. jay covers his base with the tnt and ignites it. it hisses.

“(name), I suggest you run if you don’t wanna blow up.” jay warns.

“oh.” you quickly dashed out of the way and the explosion was massive. it causes sunghoon to yell.

“I had a pet dog in there…” jake says.

“too bad, mess with me again and I’ll burn your next house.” jay says.

jake definitely learnt his lesson of not teasing jay during this session.

-

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[lurkingteapot]

Free Thai language learning resources

I’ve been learning Thai for the past 20 months. This list is by no means complete or comprehensive, what works for me doesn’t have to work for you, etc etc. That said: I’ve used most of these and found them useful, I thought you might, too. Have fun!

Youtube channels with free video lessons:

There are tons of wonderful teachers on youtube; this is by no means an exhaustive list. The three channels listed here are comprehensive, long-running, and updated regularly; if you have other favourites, please reblog and append!

Comprehensible Thai is a channel that teaches Thai in Thai, from zero, via the comprehensible input method. They have videos from total beginner through upper intermediate/lower advanced levels available.

Learn Thai with Mod – Mod runs a language school that offers good, structured group classes; she and her co-teachers often upload short videos about specific aspects of Thai. The channel has been around for a long time and they cover a lot of topics, including grammar points.

Thai Lessons by New (Learn Thai one Word one Sentence) – lots of good vocabulary and situational phrases

Other channels I like:

Advanced Thai with Kruu Momm -- one of my favourites, Momm’s a star. Not included in the upper list only because this is definitely more of an intermediate-advanced resource.

Thai with Grace -- I knew of Grace via her polyglot channel and travel vlogs before I realised she also teaches Thai. Fun stuff.

Kat talks Thai -- I believe Kat is more active on instagram (@kattalksthai), but these are still really neat.

Perth Nakhun’s Basic Thai playlist

Honourable mentions because they’re interesting and can be nice supplements (yes, the video titles on these channels tend to be clickbaity, the content is useful, though):

Stu Jay Raj: Stu is a polyglot based in Thailand. His channel is a bit of a mixed bag, but he has a very interesting approach to languages and sometimes does foreign accent reduction / accent analysis sessions on his channel (with consent and participation of those whose speech he dissects).

Thai Talk with Paddy: Paddy is an Australian who learned Thai when he was a volunteer in Thailand, he’s kept it up. Fun things about language learning and culture

Listening comprehension

I’m assuming many folks on here who are interested in Thai already watch some Thai shows (yes I’m stereotyping but also this is tumblr), which means you’re spending time listening to Thai.

If you’re not:

Netflix, Youtube, WeTV, and Viki all have several Thai shows with English subtitles available. The Youtube channel of Thai broadcasting giant GMMTV has English subtitles on nearly all of their uploaded series, some series are also subtitled in languages other than English. one31 is another huge channel; they have English subtitles on some series and some series also have subtitles in Thai. There’s tons more – find a rec list and a Thai show that sounds like you’d enjoy it, chances are you’ll be able to watch it for free, legally, on youtube. You can use the youtube controls (or the ones on netflix) to turn the speed down to 75% —this can make it a lot easier to catch what’s being said. 50% gets so draggy that I personally find it almost harder to understand, but ymmv—give it a shot!

https://lingopolo.org/thai/ has real-life recordings for listening practice; sign-up is required but it’s literally just an e-mail-address, user name and password. Using the site is free.

https://www.activethai.com/ has a section dedicated to learning the tones (under “Overview of Thai Tones”) including a self-test for listening that I found very useful.

Learning to read

I will always, always, ALWAYS recommend learning to read the Thai script. All available romanisations for Thai have drawbacks, and besides, you learned to read English with its “though through thorough tough thought”, you can damn well learn to read Thai. I promise it will help you improve your pronunciation (yes, really) and overall understanding of how the language works.

Learn-to-Read-Thai resources that seem comprehensive and like they should do everything in one:

Anki decks “Read Thai PHASE 1 - The Consonants“, “Read Thai PHASE 2 - Thai Vowels“, “Read Thai PHASE 3 - Consonant Classes” and “Read Thai PHASE 4 - Tone Rules” by Khruu Gaan (ครูกานต์). Anki is probably the most powerful spaced repetition software I have ever used. It’s free on all desktops and android. These decks have sound.

Memrise course “Read Thai: A Complete Guide to Reading Thai“

Other resources I used (In hindsight, I feel like I should’ve picked one resource to learn to read from and stuck with it; I think I was rushing and made things more complicated than need be for myself with my hodgepodge mix-and-match approach. But hey, I can read now.)

https://www.activethai.com/ – the site I started with. Teaches the consonants separated by class and with sound. The only reason this is no longer my top recommendation is that I ended up using this alongside a resource that helped me memorise what the words used to represent the letters actually mean because the site itself didn’t tell me, and I wanted that easy way to have 44 vocabulary words ready as soon as you’re done learning your consonants, and it gives you access to neat mnemonics such as ไก่จิกเด็กตาย(เฎ็กฏาย)บนปากโอ่ง.

The chart on Wikipedia’s English article on the Thai Script

the reference section of Thai-Language.com

In order to better learn to read Thai written in different fonts (modern and handwriting fonts can be tough at first), the Thai Script typographical styles overview on Thai-language.com was a huge help, as was throwing simple phrases things into gdocs and messing around to see how different fonts made them look. This chart from sanukmaak.com also helped.

Speaking and pronunciation

The hardest one for any new language for most folks. For me personally, finding someone who speaks the language and is willing to correct me was an absolute necessity, but I know that’s not always an option. If you’re going it on your own, make sure you check out the resources above for learning to hear the tones and those sounds and sound clusters not present in your own language correctly first.

Things to try on your own:

shadowing: Whenever someone on a show utters a sentence you think might be useful, or provide a useful pattern, or something just sounds cool, rewind and try to speak along as they say it, trying to make it sound as close to their pronunciation as you can.

try to record yourself and listen back -- yes, it’s cringe af but it will HELP.

memorising short sentences and phrases: tying back to the section above, there's a ton of youtube videos that is "phrases to use in [situation]" that are great for targeted learning if you're up for it

self talk (cautiously! don't want to cement bad pronunciation habits)

if you’re linguistically inclined: looking up descriptions on how to make a sound correctly sometimes helps, as does watching videos of folks who’ve successfully learned the language.

once you’ve learned to read: find sentences to read somewhere (twitter, a textbook, whatever) and read them into your phone’s dictation engine. See if the software understands you correctly. Adjust as needed until it does.

Websites and apps to find language partners or (paid) tutors

Like any other app where you ‘meet people’, please exercise caution on these.

italki (mainly for finding tutors and teachers, but you can find language partners on the forums)

Preply (web/app) (for finding tutors/teachers)

hellotalk (app only, iOS/android) for finding language partners -- free to use basic features like messaging, voice rooms, etc; has annoying ads

tandem (app only, iOS/android) for finding language partners -- free to use basic features, has ads

any other app or website that’ll let you meet people, like local facebook groups (yes really), instagram, etc

(note: Neither hellotalk nor tandem allow users to sign up without selecting a binary gender. it sucks. I’ve seen people who managed to circumvent this on Hellotalk by signing up via apple ID (? I think), but it’s hearsay and I have not managed to do so myself.)

Books (a book) that are (is) worth spending money on imo

Higbie & Thinsan: Thai Reference Grammar. The Structure of Spoken Thai. Orchid Press: Bangkok, 2002. Yes, it’s ancient in textbook terms. It’s not perfect, but it’s still the best reference grammar for Thai I’ve come across so far, and I use it frequently.

Random bits and bobs

Stu Jay Raj has two videos in particular that I, as a phonetics-and-phonology-loving person, loved and found extremely useful and wished I’d watched before I started to try and learn the script: Thai Vowels for Dummies in 5 Min v2 - A System Impossible to Forget and Thai Bites Extended Edition - Transliterating Thai using IPA. I realise these may be overwhelming and less helpful for people with no prior phonetics or phonology training, but they helped me so much it’d feel amiss not to include them.

Resources I recommend AGAINST using when starting out

drops/hello words -- seems like their Thai courses have been created using machine translation that wasn’t sufficiently proofread. They will assign you nouns in places of the corresponding verb or false cognates, and that’s within the first 10 or so lessons. Might be useful once the level where a learner can tell “ah, yeah, that’s … not right” has been reached? idk.

transcription as generated by google translate: BURN IT WITH FIRE. it’s a transliteration, i.e. 1-to-1 representation of 1 Thai letter = 1 Latin letter (extended), it’s not phonemic, it’s not going to help ANYONE (and those who can make sense of it presumably already read Thai and would be better off with just Thai script). Just. Stop.

Google translate as a dictionary: still shitty but not AS bad as the transcription function. Still, for the love of all that you hold dear, please, save yourself the pain and confusion and just use thai2english or thai-language.com instead.

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And that’s that from me, friends. Yeeting this into the void before I second-guess myself more. Please append additional resources!

Edited to fix a couple of typos and errors on 2023-06-15

[cinamun]

Impromptu update & a common mistake!

So yesterday's update was supposed to be a revelation of who Eva's mom was, but instead, it turned into the Jayce show with a little bit of Jackson sprinkled in.

This is a common mistake for a writer. If you want your audience to focus on something in particular, you can't distract them with something equally (or more) upsetting. This happened earlier in the story with Juan and I lost some readers, failed to acknowledge the mistake and think about that sometimes but we learn as we grow!

I didn't really execute Jay's arrival back home very well and in turn, it took away from a pivotal moment in the arc. I can absolutely admit to that. I want other writers to know that it is okay when this happens, just go with it, play along even if what you intended to do went in another direction, its still a very good thing!

Having said all that, I finally got my computer to cooperate and updated my mods and my game so I don't care that its after business hours, I have an update coming in an hour lol.

Happy Monday friends!

[aplpaca]

my like actually genuine tips if you wanna get better at identifying birds is to download the Merlin app and visit r/whatsthisbird on reddit and just scroll around every once in a while

Merlin can give species ID suggestions from photos, descriptions, and sounds, and also bc you can just scroll through little info cards for birds by region. And both of those are really neat and helpful. 10/10 would recommend. (Also it's free)

And then r/whatsthisbird is a subreddit where people can post bird photos (and sometimes drawings and descriptions) they want identified, and then the members will comment what species it is. The sub is well moderated by actual ornithologists, so pretty much everything gets ID-ed correctly (and even without the mods comments, the majority are correctly identified pretty quickly, including for birds outside North America and Europe).

But I've found it really helpful to just scroll around in it, bc you end up picking up on various birds' appearances pretty quickly, and also getting a sense of ID from less-than-perfect photos of birds, and also seeing photos of various life stages and dimorphisms (ex: male vs female cowbirds, fledglings vs adult cowbirds, etc), which can be helpful irl where u might not get the best look at something or when most of the results that come up on google are all males in a dimorphic species. Plus the askers on the sub are of a wide range of expertise levels, so you get a good mix of exposure to poeople asking about common backyard birds like sparrows and blue jays to less commonly seen ones like various herons and raptors to people asking for an ID in which the two possible species look pretty much exactly the same minus the placement of like,,, one color bar or something like that.

But ye. Merlin and r/whatsthisbird for casual bird ID learning

[that-one-ya-pagan-book]

"The Gatsby"

Legal Name Unknown | Main Antagonist Of The Book | Name Inspired By The Great Gatsby | Leader of the Cult | Nearly A God

[Credits Unknown; Found Via "Biker Aesthetic Trickshot" Bing Search]

Name: The Gatsby

"The Gatsby" - Taken from The Great Gatsby, a book in which he takes much of himself & inspiration of his character from.

Parentage: ___

Pronouns: He/Him In The Mafia Sense

Age: Unknown

↳ Look at the state of this world! Look at our Politicians! Look at everyone around us! Do you not see the evil that lives within us now? How tainted we are? We must reset! We must restart!

Ethnicity: ___

Backstory:

___

Powers: Charisma, Ichor, Leadership, & A Large + Loyal Following

Weapons: Concealed Daggers

Characters That Inspired My Creation Of Him: Jay Gatsby, Wolfsheim, Magneto, Serial Killers

Likes: ___

Dislikes: Flowers; Being Disrupted

Enemies: Doesn't Have Any

Fun Facts:

Within the book & that timeline, "The Gatsby" is very close to godhood. He is a close legacy of the Gods (though the mod hasn't decided which yet) and so he has the ichor (see Ichor to learn more) and can convert those prayers, love, and adoration into energy that fuels him, much like a god would. And he's effective enough to get enough support even in such short time he's started to come above ground with his movements that it's quickly Ascending him.

Has a daughter... how do we feel about that chat /lh

Focuses a lot on the state of politics & the world to push his agenda. What agenda? Good question, writer [hey! Don't look at me...]

The main thing that's wrong with him in the story is that he's going to be using the Greek Gods as a way & excuse to be doing bad things + push his agenda, which is a huge no no.

[evevoli]

original story concept: flight feathers (working title)

aka me shoving my new OCs in everyone's faces for a few minutes. low and behold, my gang of losers:

from left to right: Phoenix, Selene, Helios, and Killian

so a wayward beam of divine insanity lightning struck me about four months ago in the form of the first genuinely coherent original story idea i've had in... basically forever and i am finally crawling out of my mad ornithologist lab to talk about it, if only so i have something to point to when i start tagging random innocuous text posts with the names of characters no one's ever heard of. this project is perhaps the most self-indulgent Autism Fueled venture i have ever gone on and it is so fun actually

the basic gist of the story is that local Teenage Bird Hater Selene accidentally gets isekai'd to a Greco-Roman/baroque-inspired city on a floating archipelago hidden in the clouds, inhabited by bird-worshipping winged people. there she befriends a strange one-winged fortune teller named Phoenix, who takes her in while she looks for a way back down to earth.

as a certified Bird Disliker(tm) for reasons she will absolutely not disclose, the idea of being trapped in this city with its strange bird-entrenched culture has got to be Selene's personal hell. but she's already made a few good friends and is learning a lot, so hey... if you ignore the castle surrounded by doves looming off in the distance, and the general poor sentiment surrounding corvids, maybe it's not such a bad place to be after all.

...until it turns out the King himself might have it out for her, much to the dismay of his son and loyal knight, Prince Helios and Captain Killian.

there is. A Lot more to it than that lol—and at least like 8 more characters i haven't gotten to drawing yet—but there's your elevator pitch. to explain the world a bit more, everyone has bird wings to fly with, their own Bird Familiars(tm), and rides around on pegasi and different species of griffin. the world consists of little islands connected by bridges, with the city developed vertically, and sort of resembles a fusion between the Aether mod in Minecraft and Zephyr Heights in MLP G5.

and now the most important thing, the Closeups

some notes:

Selene is transfem :), Helios is transmasc only because i tried giving him curled ram horns and got so frustrated trying to draw them i just gave up and gave him the ewe ones instead

Selene is a Wolf Kid and really vibes with the lyrics to Angel of Darkness on a personal level

Helios's wings are weak and undersized so he can't take off or fly for very long on his own

i like to consider Helios my personal challenge to design the most unapologetically cringe and archetypal character ever. i am going to make a character that is so sad little loser prince. kicks him

Phoenix is a childhood nickname, Killian is just a shortened form of Achilles. Phoenix absolutely hates his birth name. Killian is ambivalent towards his

Phoenix lost his left wing in an accident that changed the trajectory of his life forever teehee :3c

the little blue jay is named Celeste, the crow is Peanut, and the tawny owl is Athena :)

and that is all i shall reveal in this post >:) this idea has been rotting my brain from the inside out for months now so don't hesitate to shoot me an ask if you're wondering about anything :]

[help-an-alter]

We’re looking for a revamp for a fictive/fragment with an iffy at best source, plus just some general stuff for them to have an identity. Main themes are like British names, especially old British names, masc leaning stuff, and like fancy stuff. Think Bridgerton (though that isn’t his source, thats the vibes) :3 - 📖📌(hope this isn’t already taken lol)

Also we’ll be probably be back pretty soon as we’re finally documenting a bunch of fragments we have lol :3

Hi Anon! I am so sorry for the wait on this, we hope these can help you guys out!

- Mod Hawks & Mod Celestia

Names: William, James, Jay, Alec, Alexander, Thomas, Charles, Eugene, Alfred, Clement, Melvin, Vernon, Melvin, Maurice, Neville, Winston, Marshall, Clark(e), Benedict, Kenneth, Aurelius, Sidney/Sydney, Fredrick, Vincent, Magnus, Graham, Clarence, Cedric, Oswald, Virgil, Alfie, George, Ernest, Edward, Addison, Everett, Oscar, Oliver, Sebastian, Mason, Frank(ie), Chester, Elliot

Pronouns: Cae/Caer/Caerself, Eo/Eon/Eonself, Clo/Clock/Clockself, Era/Eras/Eraself, Co/Coins/Coinself, Ve/Ver/Verself, Li/Lir/Lirself, Qi/Qim/Qimself, Sal/Sals/Salself, De/Dex/Dexself, Oe/Oer/Oerself, Oe/Oem/Oemself

Comfort: Architecture Design (Like studying it?? if that makes sense), Tea and a book/movie, Learning calligraphy, Watching British TV, Dressing in an old British style or an academia style

[lesenbyan]

man, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but there is a way to make tutorial videos correctly and these aren't it. and the written tuts are shit too.

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

goodreads

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city’s glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future—and his life as a man—and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her wealthy fiancé, Tom—and Nick is shocked to find that his cousin now goes by Daisy Fay, has erased all signs of her Latina heritage, and now passes seamlessly as white. Nick’s neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious young man named Jay Gatsby, whose castle-like mansion is the stage for parties so extravagant that they both dazzle and terrify Nick. At one of these parties, Nick learns that the spectacle is all for the benefit of impressing a girl from Jay’s past—Daisy. And he learns something else: Jay is also transgender. As Nick is pulled deeper into the glittery culture of decadence, he spends more time with Jay, aiming to help his new friend reconnect with his lost love. But Nick's feelings grow more complicated when he finds himself falling hard for Jay's openness, idealism, and unfounded faith in the American Dream.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet and I probably won't since I rarely enjoy retellings. But I do like Anna-Marie McLemore's other work, so it might happen if I'm ever out of other books to read.

[hamartiannn]

It's Between Us | Batfamily Quotes - 1

Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian sitting and reading in the Library. Jason: -Who asked Damian to check out the instruments about an hour ago- Hey kid, you did what I said, right? Damian: Yes, I did, Todd. Jason: Ok, thanks, chum. Dick and Tim stared at them. Dick: -in his overprotective-big-bro mod- Alright... What's going on? Jason: -only to make him mad- None of your business, Grayson. Dick: If it's you two, yes, it's also my business. Damian: -also only to make him mad- No, it's none of your business. -pointing himself and Jason- It's between us. Jason: -with a smirk- Yep... -also pointing himself and Damian- It's between us. Bruce enters the room. Tim: -who still stares at them- Bruce your sons, Dami and Jay, are up to something! Don't say I didn't warn ya... Bruce: I heard it Timmy... Jason, and Damian, may I learn what's going on between you two? Jason: Ha ha, got no chance, old man. Damian: -silently- Obviously... Bruce: Jason Peter Todd... Damian Wayne Al-Ghul... Don't push your luck. Jason: Ohh, and what if I push? What are you gonna do, huh? Bruce: ... Bruce: You are grounded, Jason... For one week. Damian: BABA! He is literally 30! And I am 18! Bruce: And I couldn't care less! So better speak, NOW! Damian: GOSH! Jason: -after rubbing his face with his hands- Just another reason why I am living out of the Manor. And Dami... You better do the same. Get the hell out of this place. Damian: I am counting days, Todd... Bruce: Ohh, really young man? Whit which/whose money, may I ask? Damian: Yes, and with my OWN money. I am an Al-Ghul as you can remember, father. I don't need your money. Tim: Damn... He is sooooo done... Even Alfred can't save him. -makes the Sign of the Cross- Amen. Bruce: Fine then, I'm not gonna hold you. I mean just like you said, it's YOUR money, it's AL-GHULS money. Who I am to you, right? Damian: Father! Jason: And The Drama Queen award of this week goes to Bruce Wayne! Perfect!

[jaymesyourplaything]

Unsure why Dump is insisting I didn't tell him Blurry is a character. Jay didn't know we blocked each other. Once Jay found out, she stopped responding to Dump as Jim too. Crazy concept, that. Respect.

Granted, I was extremely high and struggling to apologize for mistaking Dump for a rp blog. I would never purposefully harass a real person.

i'm only posting this because no one has ever asked if we had DID before. not until we told john about our dissociative disorder, though at the time we weren't diagnosed yet. we said we because there's just two of us modding the account, but also we said "we" when referring to us and the character, too. since this all happened dump has shown they don't have a great grasp on what DID is, so excuse their constant confusion on the subject.

other general confusion should be excused too because i had a stroke trying to read that too. but also yeah, i didn't realize at first, though some people are okay talking to me if they don't want to talk to kin. i get sad because i don't know what YOU DID SOMETIMES but it's not like i'm much better than you. there are people that don't like me but like kin too. then there's people that want nothing to do with either, and uh, i mean that's fine too.

i would like to point out that not wanting to be friends with someone because they're in a system is usually fine, if someone in the system is problematic or has dome something. (reminder that from their perspective i messaged them to slur them and then "act ignorant". of course they don't like me lol ) i love and appreciate my friends who is apparently 1 person in multiple coats (even though i'm the one who introduced them lol ) and love that they want to support and defend me, but i do find it beneficial to ignore people. it's lovely to want to educate them, but remember it's not your job. john was never interested in learning about DID and it's best to let him throw his tantrum over there, and if dump wants to learn they can too. i just don't think they are lol best to leave them to it ig but thank you ily.

and thank you (to general people kin is not supportive of me ever LOL ) for well wishes after john "doxed" me, i'm not sure why he did that still, because it doesn't add to the conversation. kin and i don't really talk about it on our mains nor would we really have to when i made a mod account to talk about it on. i don't keep them hidden because i have something to hide, i just didn't mention them because they were irrelevant? just like john saying kin and jay are the same person, i think he's just deflecting. ignore it lol thanks

[chevvy-yates]

MY CHARACTERS — THEN AND NOW

hopping onto the hype train and doing this too since this is a rather chill thing to do than having to think intensely about lore. But since I'm always so bad at deciding just for two pics, I'm going to make it three — but Vijay gets the ps4 bonus since his origin is from console. So lets start this!

VIJAY STEYR

Vijay got the privilege to be my first V and he exists since end of 2020 but I didn't take any pics until 2021 of him. Back then I loved taking pics on my ps4 but I hated it so so so so much you weren't able to turn it into 90° — it was a pain for me to tae portait pics. Bc of the crisis back then I somehow stopped playing games (+ consuming social media for nearly 2 years) so, PS4 Vijay never made it trough the game. I started with him dark blonde but changed him to be a ginger when I picked him up again in June 2022 and found my way back to fandom so I wanted to post my boy.

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He got warmly accepted even though he was just a smudgy PS4 cinnamon roll, but I was frustrated he couldn't have clothes I wanted him to have (fishnet shirt, my beloved), so I bought myself a gaming laptop real quick and recreated him exactly as he was on PS4 but added a few things as soon as I knew how to use mods and amm (took me about two weeks bc I learn fast) that disturbed me (red nose), so I gave him better skin and all the clothes he should have. Now he's got a new hairstyle too but aside of that didn't change.

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RYDER VON SCHARFENBERG

My most precious boy had the privilege to get built with pc version already, otherwise he would have looked totally different. Like V, Ryder didn't change much afterwards. You only spot details I exchanged and these are minor. He got another skin tone, his nails are now pointy and he's got sharp teeth, thats it. When I create a character I'm not gonna change them afterwards. If they are not perfect right from the start, I won't create them. And visually Ryder was a perfect creation right from the start — he embodies my favorite style — but I'm honest, I had mixed feelings about him at first. The way he looked at me through the screen told me that he's a difficult one. Didn't know if I'd like him and if he's only to stay a side character or not, just the ex-boyfriend. But it took a journey I never thought I was able to produce for him. And somewhere along the process I fell in endless love with him — not even a full year has passed since his creation.

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THYJS DE WIT

Okay listen, I did take pics of him right after I created him but I was not satisfied with the 'scars' on his face, the lip make up and he also had dark grey hair and the vanilla hair (I use for Jay now) at first but it was too dark, so I changed it immediately afterwards. I know some people seeing this first on the left now might scream "ooooh but he looked badass!" — I get that, but this look was drifting off way too much into the direction where Ryder is (and like I said - my fav style) but I wanted a soldier with albinism and not a second guy who would be falsely misinterpreted as another cyber goth guy like it happened with Ryder. So I gave him the silver hair and style and changed the lips to pale rosé, took another shot saw the scars needed to be different as well and now Thyjs looks like he is now. It's funny what only hair and lip color can make for a difference. I doubt I'll ever change something on him either except for a different hairstyle maybe. I thought about trying out the new KS Atlas body on him though but if the tummy cyberware doesn't work with it this will not change.

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JAYSEN STEYR

had the luck I was already fluent in everything vp after warming up, so there's not a single change to see except I started using raytracing shortly after I created him. He's basically a copy of Vijay and got everything I'd have wanted Vijay to be in the first place, but went a different way I didn't wanna change. I did not create Jay because of that, though, Jay came to be because of story plotting. he won't change either, except his tattoos one day (not the glowing things).

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so the result of this for me personally when I look at the quality changes is I just had to warm up with using windows things (as I'm an apple user due to my job), get fond of amm, poses, using light and push the ray tracing button to get to the level I'm now. that why my quality got so good so fast. Just needed to get into virtual photography is all. Maybe I got better at sth but I do not notice it and I honestly do not care, I just do what I like still not holding much of myself and my art. Its a hobby that keeps me busy.

But I'm also glad my oc's didn't change much, only right after their creation I changed something bc pics showed me it was not what I pictured. And the rest is only minor cosmetic changes. So I think I always go in with a preceise concept, a plan I have made before I start the cc. I remember I scanned entire nexus mods 2 days before creating Ryder, picking out everything I could imagine, even his wardrobe, then built an imagine in my head and only started once my imagination was ready.

[skyfire-the-pokemon-biologist]

SPOILERS FOR POKEMON SCARLET/VIOLET DLC, BOTH PARTS

A couple things before I go into character, whenever I do // before text that means I am out of character and just adding onto something. Most of the posts I make will be based on stuff that happens in my pokemon scarlet playthrough. I might have different lore or biology headcanons that otther pokemon biology blogs have so don't be rude if something doesn't match up.

Reminder that I am a minor and aro/ace, please don't send flirting asks to me. I will not answer asks I am uncomfortable with. Please don't be upset about that. Now onto the pokeblogging!

Pelliper mail/malice and such is on.

Magic anons are ON

Musharna mail/malice is on.

My main blog is @skyfire530 just so you know

I'm also the mod of @wolves-and-magic-swords and @shadowfire-the-void-entity

Hi there I'm Skyfire I'm 26 and use they/them(feel free to use he/him or it/its. Just no she/her) pronouns, I'm an aro/ace lesbian. I'm a pokemon biologist working in the crater in Paldea. Chosen of Giratina(no cool powers unfortunately). So here's what I look like now, and hopefully I'll stay like this.

Now onto my team!

Shadowfire the Garchomp: they're a rather large garchomp, I found them as a gible and raised them up as my first pokemon. They're like my partner in crime and they're the ace of my team. They are the mom friend of my main team, taking care of all my pokemon when it gets tough.

Snakeroot the Tyranitar: She's a tank, and acts like one too. She doesn't let anything get in her way and she hits hard. She also likes to bite, I learned not to playfight with her when she was a larvitar. Oh yeah I also had her since her first evolution.

Lightning the Electross; He's a glutton who I found on an island off the coast of Paldea. He's one of the newer members of my team and loves floating around. He has no thoughts behind those eyes and just likes to chill around my neck when traveling.

Ruby the Volcarona: they are one speedy pokemon, and always enjoys flying up high and seeing things from above. I found them in the desert as a larvesta. they can be a bit shy around others but is really energetic around people/pokemon they knows.

Iceberg the Baxcalibar: She's a tired gal who just would rather sleep. She doesn't particularly care much about fighting and can be rather stubborn at times. She doesn't have the best accuracy for most things but I still love her the same as the rest of my pokemon.

Slasher the ceruledge: She's a beast of a fighter, and can tank a lot of hits. She takes no bullshit from anyone. She's quite stubborn and has a hard time figuring out where her limit is when fighting and her having bitter blade doesn't help with that. She's A newer member of my team and the newest on my main team. Whenever she is on my blog her text will be red.

That's it for now I'll update this soon with some other pokemon I have!

Here's my main battling team, probably gonna do a rework soon

And here's the rest of my pokemon as of right now, this is a mix of battlers and non battlers.

I'm here as well. Skyfire has allowed me access to this 'blog'. I'm Pearl, I use he/they pronouns. I'm accompanying Skyfire on their endeavors as a companion and learning about the world. So please tell me about thy interests!

Hello there young ones. I am Arceus, or Arc as Skyfire likes to call me. I had met Skyfire when they had called upon me with the Azure Flute. I chose to join them because they needed someone and I am rather out of tune with today's world. I am not fully almighty sinnoh, merely a small fragment.

I'm Pecha!

...and i am Jay

I'm a mew and he's a mewtwo hybrid!

...

Jay is rather introverted. But I'm not! Please talk to me whenever!

I'm also currently housing a few fallers since I accidentally messed some time-space things up. So maybe one day Meta Knight, Kirby or Morpho will appear on the blog.