#THE FUNCTION OF INDIE??

[indianapolis500]

callum ilott | fast friday | indy 500 2024

[lensdeer]

I made this little CSS animation demo (based on this TIC-80 demo) as a quick project. I don't think it's impressive or creative enough to be a proper "demo" like the ones I've been hyperfixating on, but it helped me get used to the workflow a bit.

CSS only! No Javascript is used anywhere in the page~ Which means the path is predefined instead of procedurally generated, sadly :c but I think I achieved a pretty nice effect regardless (I fucking LOVE the way the tail follows the kitty's movement)

Lowkey wish I had a cohost so I could put it there under #css crimes, but alas.

[vampyswift]

[devilsskettle]

i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill

[sundaymorningcigarettes]

i need to start romanticizing work and studying and just my life in general again bc i can’t keep doing this “depression-burnout-who tf am i and where is my will to live?” shit anymore i am soo tired. life can be beautiful and existence doesn’t have to be dreadful. i just have to gaslight myself into believing it.

[scalpelsister]

The Ranch of Rivershine - Pine Forest - 2/?

[mizukidevlog]

Devlog 22

Another good week of game development.

Creating "pause" functionality was much harder than I thought it would be. Gamemaker Studio 2 has a helpful feature in its "Deactivate" functions, but those can only get you so far. That's what I spend most of my time this week working on.

There are two types of "pauses" in this game. The normal pause where you hit a button and bring up a menu. The other is a more temporary pause that the player can use to change which attack they're using. To work on that, I made two separate objects in Gamemaker to apply the different effects that I want. Sadly, they aren't quite finished yet, otherwise I'd love to show it off.

Here's what my menu code looks like if anyone is interested. Huge thanks to a Shaun Spalding tutorial I found online along with some other helpful posts. Just modified it so it would be tied to pressing and releasing a button rather than something that works like a switch.

Something I can show off is the finally-finished player UI. Above the health bar are the number of teleport charges the player has available, and inside the gold orb is the current attack that the player is using. (You'll see everything freeze in the video occasionally. That is me testing the pause functionality).

Looking forward to having pausing finished next week along with some combat polishing. Stay tuned!

[thedcvilherself]

muse: veda. high end escort. pinterest here. plot: veda is a lover girl at heart but a childhood deprived of normalizing physical affection means it's become her love language and she doesn't know how to show she cares in any other way, even if the relationship is (meant to be) platonic. connections: any & all. partner, (step) relative, in law, friend, family friend, employer, co-worker, someone who hired her (could have even been just for an event and not anticipating actually using her other services), someone she just met, etc.

"hey, it's okay. it'll be fifteen minutes before anyone even stops talking long enough to realize that we're gone." her tone is soft, reassuring, the smile on her painted features almost kittenish. it's the first time she feels she's been able to hear her own voice all night, over the people and commotion, a quiet embracing the pair of them leave for the diluted sounds as the event continued beyond the walls without them. "i needed a break myself." a lie — though veda was convinced it was okay when told for someone else's benefit. the girl could have mingled all night, comfortable socializing and being among the crowd, thriving even. they, however, seemed off — something she wanted to fix. her nimble fingers gracing the hem of their pants, dipping just beneath it's hold as her dark orbs cast up to their face. "may i?"

[foxys-fantasy-tales]

Aka and Toshi - OC Kiss Excerpt

Word Count: 2.1k TW: Lost in snow. Minimal blood.

“Toshi!” Aka’s voice echoed through the mountains. Snowblinded and weary, she pushed through the drift up to her knees and clutched the extra scarf Judith had given her. The thick cloth was taken from her neck and wrapped around her hands. They were losing feeling, and she couldn’t have that. If Toshi was found, he was likely injured from that fall. Hours had passed since the unexpected skirmish knocked him off the cliff. The others all had to rest and warm their bodies, but she was more resilient to fatigue and cold than most. Even so, the night was so much worse than daylight had been. Aka cursed under her breath and stretched out her wings. Snow cascaded off them in a thin sheet and ice that had formed underneath crackled and ripped tiny cuts across the surface. Thanks to the same chill plaguing her, the injuries were mostly numb. She shook herself and trudged onward with the wind singing across snow to accompany her. After she’d lost track of time altogether, Aka finally spotted a difference of color on the horizon. Plumes of black were stark against the white shining under the moon and stars, illuminating the path well even through the gusts and thick precipitation. Course charted, she began to move faster, for where there was smoke there must be a fire, and hopefully Toshi would be there. It was hard to imagine anyone other than them would have veered so far off the path above. If the snow died down, then she could fly them out, given the appendages didn’t freeze off. Her heritage may keep her warmer than most internally, but her wings were thin and therefore more susceptible by far. 

Next trek through the snow she would get someone to make a sort of glove for them, if the cost was within means. One she arrived at the source, a narrow cave stretched out before her. With who knew how much dark still behind it, a fire was lit some ways in. Hunched over the fire was a man, or at least seemed so, though only a bit of black hair and a hand waving some paper around were outside the black blanket wrapped around him. The haircolor reignited her hope. 

“Toshi?” The head lifted and he nearly dropped the paper into the flames before snatching it out of the air. “Aka? What are you doing here? It’s fucking freezing and we’re half down the- Get inside!” Every muscle relaxed and her legs would have given out from under her if he hadn’t made such a reasonable demand. Each step further into the cave yielded more warmth, though it never reached anything like the temperatures she was accustomed to, at least he wouldn’t freeze to death. The smoke was a bit much, which made her see the reason for the fan. The smoke was able to crawl out of the cave’s mouth somewhat, but he’d also tied some ripped fabric from his spare clothes into a mask over his mouth. More of the red and white garment was tight around his leg, though it was far more red than she recalled. 

“You’re hurt.” The words left her mouth involuntarily and on a breath that emptied her chest and left it hollow. It was then her legs chose to give, but her hands reached toward the wound before stopping short. 

Healing wasn’t her talent anymore. No one had relied on her for healing for centuries, so the knowledge waned and became sword skills and footwork to challenge the very person she wanted to help now. Her wings jumped up and the gust made the fire flicker when Toshi knocked on the blood bandage over his calf. “It’s fine. I just couldn’t get back in a snowstorm with it, so I holed up in here. My luck seems to be turning about, doesn’t it?” “I wouldn’t call getting knocked off a mountain path lucky.” “Maybe not, but I’d be a handsome icicle if I hadn’t found this cave. That, and I had those books in my bag, so something to burn. I’ll have to ask everyone’s forgiveness when we get back.” 

His chuckle hardly fit the situation, but it did ease her nerves. It had always done that. Back in those days when they were together, had he meant the laughter if not the love? While she was lost for words and adjusted herself to sit by the flames, Toshi was staring at her slackjaw. 

“What is it?” Aka asked. “Your wings… Did you fly here?” “Have you lost your mind? I managed to glide down in small bursts, but wind and ice such as this would be incredibly dangerous to try to fly in, even if my wings could stand it.” “So you searched for me on foot? All this time?” The smile on his face made her drag her tail into her lap and curl up with it nearer to the heat. The smoke didn’t affect her as badly as it did him, and moving in made him cough and her jerk to one palm on the ground. “Easy, easy. I’m just going to help a little.” “Help what?” She bared her teeth and her tail raised as a crystal spiked weapon. When he touched her she gasped and her hand went to her rapier’s hilt, yet his hand was gentle and smoothed something across her wing. A tingling sensation, long forgotten but familiar, let her relax. No one would put medicinal ointment on someone they planned to attack. 

How many nights now had she watched over him since they left Galavarn? Always in his room. Always awake whilst he rested. She stood guard against with her sword in hand, and yet he would fall asleep each night all too easily.  “There. Should help that heal. Can’t fly out of here when it calms down if you're unable to get in the sky.”

“These cuts hardly would have prevented me from taking off, even with your weight in tow.”

He shrugged and put the canister back in his bag. It looked much lighter than it had that morning when they set off from camp. The front had collapsed inward and nothing but a few pages remained in a single text to his left. As the fire dwindled, he tossed the pages and binding in altogether. Aka wrapped her arms around herself. The fire wouldn’t last the night.

“How long until it burns out?”

“An hour or so,” Toshi answered.

Not much time, especially when she looked out and knew it was much longer than that until sunrise, perhaps longer still for the storm to ease up. Her gaze drifted back to his leg as he opened a bottle of soup. For a second, he motioned as if to hold some out for her, then grimaced and took it back. Aka chuckled under her breath.

“Even if I did require that type of sustenance, I wouldn’t take something that contains my own blood. I’m adept at starving myself by now,” Aka whispered.

“Stop.”

His hair hung in his face down to his chin, at least what wasn’t long and tied up behind him, so she couldn’t see his expression even as she tried to lean for a better vantage point. He was white-knuckling his bottle of soup. That much was clear. It shook in his grip before he tossed a bunch back into his mouth at once. Uneasy silence filled the spaces between the crackles of fire until Aka cleared her throat.

“You could rest. At least as long as the fire holds, rest would be good for you and your injury. I can watch the fire.”

“I’d rather freeze to death awake.”

Her tail slapped the ground. The jolt through the ground made Toshi sit up straighter and scoff.

“What? You think I have a shot? I don’t have the blood you do.”

“Perhaps not, but the very fact you’ve needed to mix blood in with your food says you aren’t back to being fully human. Something from Yani changed you, and I for one am certain the great Varin wouldn’t have let a little snow be his undoing.”

“I’m not that guy anymore. Just Toshi here, that’s all.”

“Even so, have a little faith you’ll make it through. You set up this fire and everything!”

Aka stared at him and realized with a pink blush she’d leaned in closer to argue her point. Toshi remained still and she wondered how cold he would be once the fire died down. Wasn’t moving about a good thing to do? She’d lived in tropical climes so long there wasn’t a lick of advice that came to mind she could be sure of.

None but one. She gulped and moved around to his backside. Toshi twisted to see her, but she jabbed fingers to his jaw to turn him back around.

“Don’t make anything of this. We need you around.”

“What are you- oh.” Toshi went even more rigid as she wrapped her legs, arms, and wings around him to try and retain the heat. Ointment dried by the flames and made the whole cave smell not only of smoke, but medicine too. Joy. Aka tried to focus on that and the flicker of the flames as both went quiet.

At first, Aka thought it was just a mutual agreement to not talk about holding her sort-of ex like this, yet after a few minutes soft snores rattled under her left wing. She jerked, but he didn’t budge a bit from his slumber. He was wounded. He’d also fought so hard up on the mountain. The least she could do was let him rest. She’d play lookout again. Only this time she was on his side again. Her tail skirted the cave floor back and forth before wrapping over his legs, careful of her spines.

After the fire died, the temperature plummeted fast. The good news was that the wind didn’t carry this deep, so at least they were dry. Every breath was counted in the otherwise silent place. If they stopped, she’d have a whole other problem on her hands. Her wing moved up enough for her to peek at his resting face. Nightmares plagued him many nights she stood guard, but for hours he hadn’t made a peep or tossed about at all. Her wings were a warm and heavy blanket. The notion made her smile until she caught herself.

Even so, Toshi had been nothing but good to her since he returned. Perhaps grating at times during their bickering, but he always did his best as part of the group. He was really intending on paying them all back for saving his neck, wasn’t he? Especially the one whose blade had once rested against it time and time again.

Aka’s wings fluttered beyond her control. It’d been ages since she felt it, so long in fact, she was startled and woke him up with her sharp gasp that echoed. His eyes only opened halfway before he grinned lopsided up at her.

“Hey there. You’re pretty every morning, huh? Guess it’s easy if you don’t ever sleep.”

“I’m only-”

His hand found hers on her knee and lay over it. From the side, his face was so much more sleek. The one she recalled hours and hours at close quarters had been different. Less sleek, more gaunt. She’d admired the scar and his stories, the aged look and wisdom he offered. Adjusting to a pre-deal version he half-healed into was difficult. He was both someone who hurt her beyond anything else, and someone who could smile at her hand with sleep still blocking his vision.

“Thank you. Looks like the sun’s been up a while now. Storm looks to be dying a little. Just a bit longer,” Toshi said.

Was that an observation or a plea?

She was half-answered as he took her hand in his. Her tail raised to high alert and pointed the ending spear-point at him, but he didn’t flinch. She didn’t strike. Toshi smiled after a short stalemate and slid his grip down to only hold her fingers. Before she could tell what he was doing, a kiss was planted on the back of her hand, swift and sure. Toshi smirked at her blabbering and words failing her.

“Was hoping I’d see that version of Aka again. Take it as thanks, or an IOU if you want more later.”

Aka’s tail swatted over his good leg and he yelped.

“You can pay us back the usual way when you’re healed. Let’s get moving.”

[ebonyforged]

𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓸 𝓭𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮.

           Independent urban fantasy Demonic Weapon original character | previously affiliated with established media but recently made independent | private & selective | extremely crossover friendly | modern and historical verses available | minors DNI

                                         carrd ★ meme tag ★ nav

Exploring themes of: rejecting one's upbringing, maintaining rebellion in the face of co-dependence, embracing humanity as a creature of the Underworld, plotting the downfall of your abuser && more

Written by Noony, 24+, she/her, Dutch. Graphic by @riddlethat. Artwork by me.                                                    Medium activity.

                                                       𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓷.

[bloodrancold]

𝐈   𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐍'𝐓   𝐈𝐍   𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄   𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇   𝐇𝐈𝐌   .   i   know   everyone   thought   i   was.   but   i   wasn't.   i   loved   him,   of   course.   It   was   impossible   not   to   love   felix.   and   that   was   part   of   the   problem.   everyone   loved   him.   everyone   wanted   to   be   around   him.   it   exhausted   him.   people   just   wouldn't   leave   him   alone.   especially   the   girls,   christ   ,   the   girls   !   it   was   embarrassing,   really,   how   everyone   fawned   over   him.   i   think   honestly   that   was   why   he   liked   me   so   much.   i   protected   him.   i   was   honest   with   him.   i   understood   him.   i   LOVED   him.   i   loved   him.   i   loved   him,   but   was   i   in   love   with   him   ?

𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭   𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫   𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤   𝐨𝐟   𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧   ,   𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝   𝐛𝐲   𝐣𝐨   .

[im-still-a-robot]

I should not make a neocities for my dnd character i should not make a neocities for my dnd character

[lowercasecolour]

just played re:curse

caroline has taken over my brain for the next few hours or days or weeks or

[trollamulet]

hello! i'm looking for rp partners! i write in short to multi-para/novella lengths! i know my fandom's rpc is very quiet - but i have multiple AUs (and i'm always looking to create more!) to open him up to other fandoms. please like / reblog this post if you'd be interested in writing with me.

[shyroism]

I'M ALIVE! Last night I was defeated by my new audio setup and too busy to do anything. But I should be good for tonight! I'm going to design a mascot for myself, so that I can rig it in Live2D! Come see!

[sweetaswithscottymac]

sweetaswithscottymac > tourmalet

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