#admin: buffer

[forthedancingandthethriving]

SMG3: I am very handsome. Sometimes I look in the mirror and think to myself "I have committed horrible acts".

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Vitality: What state would you live in?

Lag: Constant anxiety.

Buffer: Denial

CPU: Perfection

Crash: Florida.

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Cluster, seeing the Toxic Old Man Yaoi: it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none of my business it's none--

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Crash: Hey, do you have 2,500 credits?

CPU: What do you need 2,500 credits for?

Crash: An escape room?

CPU: What escape room is that expensive?

Crash: The Containment Zone.

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Kidnapper: We have Mario.

Luigi: Please, put him on the phone.

Kidnapper: Go ahead, you're on speaker.

Luigi: Again, bro?

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Lil Coding: I can't ever show my face to my dads ever again.

Cody: It can't be that bad.

LC: No, it was.

Cody: How?

LC: Papa asked me why I was sneaking out to see you, and I said, "Who's sneaking out?"

LC: He's not even mad that I was lying, just disappointed that I was so bad at it.

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Juliano: The "new year, new me" agenda is going pretty well.

Forum: Have you made any progress?

Juliano: Of course I have. Just one week in and I'm already a lot worse than I was last year.

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The Abyss: You call them heinous actions. I call them lore. We are not the same.

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Black Doom, watching Juliano & the Abyss after the NWO takeover: Jeez, talk about down bad.

Phobos: ..

Phobos: I am not even going to comment on the irony of that.

[sainz100]

Max & Daniel throwback to 2018 | Futsal in São Paulo | x

[slavhew]

Hello!

If you're not too busy, would you mind listing some of the things you think count as death flags for Mr. Spender?

There's the obvious fact that he's the "old" mentor to group of young protagonists, but what else do you think would count?

OHH BOY ok so I'd think I'm a crackpot for this but since we're talking about Zack "Foreshadowing" Morrison. I have some thoughts

No harm in leading with the (chronologically) first thing that jumped out at me:

This one IMMEDIATELY made me antsy whenever I came back to it after my initial read, and considering Zack has referred to it on twitter in the past as one of their favorite jokes it's definitely not been forgotten about.

Second, the sheer amounts of near-misses, jokey or not, of Spender narrowly avoiding specifically lightning

Again, not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice, latter two of which had real gravitas rather than an one-off joke.

And third, Spender himself. He's repeatedly shown himself to be kind of a self sacrificing idiot, as well as prideful to a fault. Granted, it's both him and Mina trying to take on all the responsibility of saving Mayview and its inhabitants from their fate.. But Spender is exactly that right measure of doesn't-value-himself-enough (chest footprint aftercare or lack thereof), having an obscene amount of power (enables his loner act + pride) and poor judgement that has the capacity to put him at great risk. And it has!

Spender has not only shown low enough self-esteem to view himself as the de-facto scapegoat for the safety of the town, but also prideful enough to make very bad calls that end up in people, often himself, hurt (COUGH FORGE INCIDENT COUGH)

This is all conjecture, but it's definitely enough to make me worried about him :') Even if all this doesn't mean he'll necessarily die he's definitely getting (even more) seriously injured at some point. I love the guy but he's so far doing a horrible job of convincing me he wants to live bad enough to circumvent at least that

[liciatalks]

John-117 is fourteen (14), three (3) weeks after the body augmentations.

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I think about this scene a lot. It's sad and pisses you off all at the same time for a multitude of reasons.

This is the first time John is by his self. He's not with the other Spartans, he's not reporting to anyone. He's just going to the gym to do a little bit of exercising, experiencing his augmentations without comparing it to another Spartan.

He thinks everything moving slow, the weights are to light and runs experiments with the gravity because he thinks maybe the rooms calibration is off.

He literally does not know his own strength right now.

Then you have the ODST soldiers.

Probably the first military personnel outside of the Spartan program that John has interacted with. This is backed up by his hesitation to defend himself because not knowing their rank.

These ODST soldiers are assholes but none of them deserve what about to happen.

In walks the Sergeant, assuming he's the ODST sergeant.

John given the orders to step into the fighting ring, by someone he knows is higher ranked then him, he follows orders.

Given the context, he thinks this has to be some kind of mission.

(Of course he does he's 14 and a military kid)

John, not knowing his new strength, severely injuries the ODST soldiers and kills one (maybe two), might have been more deaths but Mendez stops it.

Either he walked in after John, or after the ODST and was just sitting back and observing.

Given John would have noticed Mendez, I'm thinking it's the latter.

Mendez has already called medics, and the Intel officers were informed about the ODST and their sergeant, all before the match was called.

Mendez was aware of what was about to happen.

Mendez wanted to see how his Spartan was with the new augmentations in a combat situation.

John and these soldiers were all used as an experiment.

And I think in a way, John knows.

[leclercskiesahead]

Not people stretching so hard “omg he was holding his phone therefore he must have posted the birthday story from the red carpet” 🙄 do people not bring their phones everywhere. Not to mention the event started a good three hours after that story was posted.

[ebitenpura]

Am I Understimulated Or Depressed: a novel

And Would Buying the New Mario Fix Me: the sequel

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Hi all, Mod Rae here with a very quick clarification. Admin is working on a more comprehensive FAQ and update to the pinned post, but:

A lot of folks have been disgruntled about there being a lot of songs from the same series in quick succession, and it can be frustrating, especially if you aren't aware of the timeline of posts being submitted. (There are a lot of new or casual followers, after all!)

Namely, the polls going up recently are songs submitted in late July verging into the start of August, which is before a lot of the currently active submission guidelines were put in place. A number of these songs were, in fact, submitted as a single chunk and Admin has had to try and space them out whilst going roughly chronologically (and our current posting rate means that if you put twenty songs between two Splatoon songs, a reasonable buffer by any other metrics, that's actually only four days between them).

Basically, this isn't an issue of people in the present continuously submitting songs from the same series, it's that several months ago, people submitted like 10 songs from their favourite game to the blog when the blog had <100 posts.

[ccccallsigns-au]

dear callsigns audience,

I am now officially taking my brief hiatus. At minimum, this station will be dormant for a month. I need sleep and rest! [<- will be doing no such thing] I also need time to build up my buffer and create new work for this project. I've consumed everything in my coffers right now.

Thank you all for participating in puzzle week! I can assure you that whatever comes next will not be nearly as extravagant. This was exhausting. I have literally no plans at this present moment, so. Expect... something !

yours truly, your very tired and eternally grateful callsigns admin

[heeseungsbabygworl]

BLACKMAIL — Lee Heeseung (Teaser)

pairing: student!heeseung x femstudent!reader

genre: high school!au, enemies-ish to ???, slice of life, humor with tension

warnings: light blackmail, bullying accusations, mild language, gossip, school angst, sleep-deprivation

📝: hello! this is my first fanfiction here. im a bit anxious because its my first time sharing my stories online... so feel free to share your feedback and reblog if you look forward to it.༉‧₊˚.♡₊˚.༄

release date: ???

Cleaning duty was supposed to be boring.

Sweep a little. Pretend to clean more. Text your friends. Maybe sneak in an energy drink and call it a day.

You definitely weren’t expecting to walk in and find Lee Heeseung already there—standing by the window with the blinds half-drawn like a broody webtoon male lead.

He didn’t look up when you came in. Didn’t say hi. Just… existed. Quietly.

Creepily.

He handed you a broom like he was passing on a cursed artifact. No words, just judgment.

You accepted it and stared at him, squinting suspiciously. “You—what’s your name again?”

He glanced your way. “Heeseung.”

You blinked. “That’s your first name?”

“Yeah.”

“…Okay, cool. Love that for you.”

You sighed and started sweeping near the back desks, doing the bare minimum so you could go home and binge-edit your webcomic updates. Or sleep. Whichever came first.

Except… you got bored. Fast.

So you sat under a desk, pulled out your phone, and opened the Sweet Vengeance dashboard. Just to check comments. Just a quick peek.

You tapped a spam comment—delete.

You tapped another—blocked.

And then, just as you were scrolling through user messages, a shadow loomed over your screen.

You froze.

Heeseung was standing right in front of you, looking down with the expression of someone watching a car crash they predicted 5 seconds earlier.

You nearly chucked your phone across the room.

“W-What are you doing?!” you snapped, flustered.

“Cleaning,” he said flatly.

“I—what—I was just—” You glanced at your screen, still open to the admin panel. You flipped it over, face-down, like it could erase the memory.

But he’d already seen.

“You’re Sweet Vengeance’s author, right?”

You stared at him. Brain buffering.

“…What?”

He tilted his head slightly. “It’s not a hard question.”

“I—no—I’m just a fan—"

“You were deleting comments.”

“ANYONE can delete comments—!”

He raised an eyebrow.

“…Okay, no, that’s a lie, but you can’t prove anything.”

“I saw the dashboard,” he said calmly. “You tapped the moderation tools. Triple-clicked a flagged user. That only shows up for account owners.”

You blinked. “Are you a hacker?”

“No,” he said, way too casually. “Just observant.”

You gawked at him. “This is invasion of privacy!”

“You were in the open.”

“I was under a desk!”

He shrugged.

“You’re not going to tell anyone… are you?” you asked slowly, stomach sinking.

“No.”

“…Seriously?”

“If you do what I ask.”

Your mouth fell open. “Excuse me?”

“I won’t tell anyone,” Heeseung repeated, cool and calm as ever, “if you do a few things for me.”

“You’re blackmailing me?!”

“I’m offering you a mutually beneficial agreement.”

[forthedancingandthethriving]

(TW: Blood, vomit)

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Buffer stands in front of the doors leading to the space of the infamous code chemist. The dark magenta doors had chains over them, strung tight with a lock over them.

The Admin approaches and gently touches the lock. Closing her eyes, she digs back through fuzzy memory banks and remembers the code.

She flicks the small latches, and the lock falls to the ground and disintegrates. The chains fall and swing, and they, too, vanish. The doors creak as they slowly swing inwards, and Buffer steels herself.

She walks in, and the doors slam behind her. A familiar layer of pink mist covers the foyer of the castle-like space. Grandiose and imposing, with the ceiling arching into a dome. Various symbols and patterns were etched into the walls, a language only those well versed could know.

This was Pink's domain of the space that she and her group owned. It was far more empty than she remembered.

Buffer drags her fingers over the pillars as she walks, the pink mist gently swirling around her ankles. Her hair bounces with each step, similar to the Admin she helped all those years ago.

Years she couldn't remember all too well, but it wasn't like it mattered. She needed to get that formula.

“I know you're here, Pink,” Buffer calls out as she pulls away from the pillar. She comes to stand in between two staircases that lead up to the second floor. “And I know that you know I'm here and why I'm here.”

She starts to ascend the staircase, holding out her hand. “Why? Why would you do this?” She frowns, clenching her hands as she looks up at the ceiling. “So many Programs are sick because of what you released! So many of my friends are sick! What compelled you to do this?"

Silence is her answer.

She reaches the top of the stairs and looks around. It was eerily quiet. She couldn't even hear Pink's Moderators.

Buffer takes a few more steps before she hears footsteps behind her. She whips around, eyes wide, to spot-

“Green,” she speaks, voice soft. Green was Pink's lover and a fellow Admin. Somehow, he was capable of conjuring the things Pink would need to make her substances.

Green stares at her, his body lax. He approaches, his footsteps louder than her own.

“G-Green?” Buffer stutters, backing away.

In a few short moments, Green was directly in front of her, towering over the young Admin. She flinches, looking up at his unreadable expression. His face is blank. Different from the past.

At least, she thinks so. Memories regarding him tend to be fuzzier than most, third only to her memories to Pink, which was second to her.. memories of her time here in general.

He reaches out a hand, and Buffer flinches. Is he going to hit me? What is he-?

Green's hand gently grabs a moderate strand of her hair, slowly running his fingers through it before stopping at the ends. The ends were a soft pink. (A pink Buffer never really remembers changing them to.) His brows were furrowed now, eyes narrow. He almost seems to be.. studying her.

He moves his hand away, letting her hair drop back into place. He mutters something under his breath. She only catches the “... you” part, though.

“Green?” Buffer blinks, utterly confused.

The Admin merely turns on his heel and walks off, heading towards the darkness that consumed the opposite end of the hall.

“Wait, Green!” Buffer calls, rushing after him. Despite the distance between them not being that large, Buffer couldn't catch him. Green was just barely out of reach, and soon, he walked into the darkness.

The younger Admin stops just at the edge, staring, confused. She couldn't even hear his footsteps anymore. Her logical processors were telling her none of this made sense and that she should just turn around, head to the laboratory, and grab the cure that she knew was there.

And yet, her curiosity nags her on. She wants to know what happened. What happened to Pink and her Moderators? Why was Green acting like this?

She inhales deeply and heads into the darkness. She feels on edge, but that's to be expected. There was something deeply wrong here. Green, as quiet as he could be, always answered her whenever she had questions, even if they were short or bullshit answers.

Steeling her nerves, she walks deeper and deeper into the darkness. It clings to the walls like moss-

Moss? Why did she make that comparison? Why would she-

Splash!

She flinches, stiffening. She slowly looks down, lifting her foot. She feels sick to her stomach to see blood mixed with moss swirling at her feet.

For a moment, her processor considered it to be Green's blood before it hit her. This was orange blood. Her heart drops.

Did.. did Orange get hurt? She thinks, slowly setting her foot back down and cringing at the small splash it makes. Why is there even moss here? I remember Pink hating that stuff..

She continues onward, her shoes splashing in the orange blood. She shudders at the noise, and a feeling of dread pools deep inside of her. This blood wasn't fresh at all, and yet it hadn't congealed or dried.

Her eyes flick to the bits and pieces of moss floating in the blood. Could it have something to do with that?

Buffer stops in front of a door. Looking down toward the bottom, she winces. “That's where the blood must be coming from,” she whispers, seeing the blood at a greater quantity there.

Reaching out, she grabs the door knob and twists it, swinging the door inward. “What is Green doing, heading into a place like this?” She murmurs, walking inside.

She jumps as the door slams shut behind her. She looks down and pales.

There was no blood. But an abundance of moss, that was all shades of green. Specks of orange littered the moss that coated the floor. (She couldn't help but notice how the specks of blood were the same shade as her own, and not Orange's. Orange's blood was a tad darker.)

Swallowing thickly with a now trembling body, Buffer continues forward, heading deeper into the room. A room she remembers well. While it was devoid of life, she saw the familiar work benches, large test tubes, and vials scattered about.

She walks over to one work desk and glances upward.

There was the balcony where Pink would watch Buffer work whenever the Admin had a test.

Looking back down, Buffer falters, seeing several text boxes. If she remembered right, Pink never took notes. The Admin merely committed everything to memory. Buffer was the one who took notes due to her poor memory. (But it was odd since she never needed to take notes in the Adminspace.)

She grabs one text box and reads.

Log #3

Another failure! I've failed again! This damned moss, where did it even come from?! Green can't figure it out either! We're all stumped!

It took her from me.. her smile.. her laugh.. the only one who truly knew and understood what we did here.. I can't lose her. I need to know what this moss did to her.

Buffer quickly clambers onto the table, staring at the moss on the floor. Though her eyes soon narrow, seeing how the moss was nowhere near the tables.

Odd.

She swipes through the textbox, seeing a second page.

Log #7

We got somewhere today. Red went to a world - Minecraft, I believed it was called. Yellow went with her, and they discovered… Fledging spores, so to speak. Apparently, the code they held nearly matched the code of moss that appeared here!

They won't be able to bring any here, but.. I couldn't care less. I'm going there myself. I'll fix her. Make her better. She'll wake up.

A swipe to the third page.

Log #10

Failures, failures, failures. I don't care what they say, I don't care that I'm being stubborn. They back off once I say it's so we don't have an infection of some sort spread. But I need to know, I need to figure this out. I will go insane if I don't.

This is nothing compared to what I have mastered.

This was definitely Pink’s writing. The Admin was always a bit intense whenever she had to write.

She set one down and picked up another.

Log #17

Red, such a hypocrite. Telling me to put down my work - as if she isn't working as much! No, no. I can't get upset. We're all hurting. None of my tests have yielded results.

But soon they will. I know they will.

Buffer slowly sits down on the table, swiping to the next page. “Hm..”

Log #24

I finally got something - it's less of a moss and more of a fungus. Green has been a tremendous help figuring this all out. Despite how many times I tell him, I know that he's blaming himself. None of us could have known she would.. deactivate. None of us knew she would bleed out.

None of us knew that she was mixing things she shouldn't be.

Who was Pink talking about? Did this happen sometime after Buffer left? It had to, considering that she couldn't find any memories relating to something even remotely like this.

Log #29

I managed to preserve a sample of her code. There was still code just a bit lingering. I grabbed it as soon as I saw it and put it into one of the test chambers.

I don't care how many times it takes. I'll fix her. Bring her back. She's not dead. That code still holds life. I'm sure of it.

Flicking through more of the pages, she frowns deeply as reads. It was more of the same. Pink declaring that she'd bring someone back, more notes about failures, and other sorts of things.

One apparent thing, though, was that Pink’s sanity and mental health had taken a hit by whatever had happened. Someone had deactivated a while after Buffer left, and Pink was trying to bring them back.

She left itches her shoulder, feeling a tingle there before grabbing the third text box.

Log #50

I can't forget the state of her when we first saw her that day. We were gone for just a few hours, and the lab was overrun by this damn fungus. And she was just. sitting there. Slumped over the table.

Her left arm was completely taken over by whatever the hell this thing is. So was her face. Her right ankle and left upper thigh.

We don't know how it got there. Got to her. All we know is that it's a fledging in only the Minecraft universe.

I'll eradicate it if I have to.

Buffer slowly clenches her hand. She rolls her right shoulder and tucks her left ankle under her right thigh.

This isn't about you. She tries to reason, to stop her worried thoughts. You would remember this.

Log #55

A breakthrough. A breakthrough. I got a breakthrough. Her code is still there, and I can remake it. She was never dead. Death never took her from me.

You'll be back. I'll bring you back.

Buffer's thumb trembles over the final word being covered. Slowly, she moves it.

I promise.

She exhales softly.

Log #60

I love Yellow. I care for them, and I cherish them, but if they don't get off my back about this.. who cares if this goes against all moral codes! I want her back! My Moderator, my apprentice, my heir - my DAUGHTER! I want her back! She's the perfection of what I do, the pinnacle of my teachings!

GIVE HER BACK!

Buffer, shakily, sets down that text box. “No more reading for a minute,” she mutters to herself. She felt shaky and sick, knowing that if she read more, she'd waste more time. She hops off the table, cringing at the soft squelch that comes from one of her feet landing in the moss.

She steps away and hurries over to another one of the tables, keen eyes spotting a box.

A box that had not been there before.

Throat feeling dry, she moves forward and clicks open the box.

Inside were the vials. Vials she knew contained the cure, because it was a cure she made as a test. It was how she knew. How she knew that Pink was behind this.

Buffer stares and stares and stares. She could take these and leave. She could take these and go back to the Adminspace, and try to forget what she saw today. She could ignore Green and Pink's behavior.

She could ignore it all and go home.

But she wouldn't. Because-

“Curiosity killed the cat,” Pink spoke, placing a hand on Buffer's head, “but satisfaction brought it back.”

Shaking her head, Buffer pulls herself from the memory and brings up a log box. From memory, she put down how to use and make more of the cure, something she knew Vitality and Kelsie would do just fine at replicating.

Opening a small portal command, she puts the box and log box through. Once she pulls her hands back out, it closes, and she's left in the darkness of the room.

Someone was watching her.

Her head snaps up to look at the balcony once more.

..

No one was there.

Buffer shudders. She glances around for any sign of vibrant pink, but finds none. She clenches a shaking hand over her chest, before her curiosity makes her look back at the text boxes. She makes her way over, hops back on, and shuffles through them.

Her eyes skim over the texts before something catches her attention. It was a number for.. something. Unlike the logs, it was something else that was numbered.

She lifts the text box and pales.

Clone.

It was a text box labeled ‘Attempts’. Swallowing down her fear, she opens it up.

59 entries. About clones.

The text box falls to the ground with a clatter when she sees the name. She feels bile rush up her through and she rushes as quickly as she can to a corner and retches.

“Ah, you're here!” The airy voice of Pink fills the room, and Buffer jolts. Wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, she stumbles away and looks toward the balcony.

Pink stands there, hands clasped behind her back as Green stands behind her, looming over her shoulder.

“I've missed you dearly, Buffer.” Pink closes her eyes as she smiles. “I almost thought you were intentionally not visiting me!”

“That- That can't be true,” Buffer stammers, pointing to the text box. “Pink, tell me it isn't true - I'm begging you, tell me that isn't true!”

“What do you- Ooh.” Pink pauses before giggling. “Dear, it's as true as the sky is blue.”

Buffer felt like her whole world was crashing down.

Pink continues to smile down at her, and Green manages to, somehow, continue looking down at Buffer.

“You're a clone, Buffer. The best one yet, I must add.” The older Admin smiles. Buffer's knees buckle under her, nearly giving out.

Buffer can hardly think. Whatever Pink is saying doesn't register. Her hands grasp at the air as a portal opens behind her. And she runs through it, stumbling out to her office on the other side. She collapses onto the floor, body and voice shuddering with each breath.

She hears a gentle, “I'll see you soon,” before the portal behind her closes.

(happy birthday @local-angst-dispenser <3)

[vivid-bad-brainrot]

Fav vbs ship?

I would say polysquad but that's too easy so I guess if I had to rank vbs ships itd look like this ^^

And I'll give explanations cause I feel like yapping

🥇Touan!!! ☕️🎧

TOUAN. My love for this pairing goes so deep I am the sole admin for @timelytouan over or Twitter. I'm. A little insane. Bro their dynamic is everything to me its not even funny. I think they have a really wholesome relationship /p and /r and i think its really sweet for an to be such a big proponent of touya getting new experiences and especially watching their relationship grow as the game progresses and seeing the two of them develop an understandingof eachother!!! I've written about 40k words of touan fanfic in total....my little eebies AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON TOUAN PARALLELS. I could do a separate post yammering about that since An and Touya truly are two sides of the same coin

• "we're teammates, so when you're happy, i wanna be happy with you. And when you're sad i wanna console you,or maybe even cry with you!"

• "hehe, you really have changed a lot, touya. Before, i could never tell what you were thinking at all!"

"if we're saying that, isn't it more impressive that you've learnt to understand me?"

🥈Anhane🎧🐹

Anhane is so.....anhane....*wipes tear* I finished writing a 15k words long anhane fic last night so my passion for these two is very strong. I think Anhane is a ship that is prone to misconception especially in the way some people characterize An—how some people just see her as Kohane obsessed and water down her character just to that (the way i see it is that Kohane is a BUFFER to everything that makes An who she is!!! Again. Another rant for another time) While Anhane's dynamic isn't the first of its kind, it really goes deep!! The mutual importance to eachother is so precious to me.... Kohane who was given the chance to grow into her best self and An who gets to gets to share her love of music and Vivid Street. With An's crippling abandonment issues ESPECIALLY regarding kohane, anhane is a ship that is SO fun to play around with wherein it gives you the best fluff and angst....anhane so good

🥉. Akikoha 🥞🐹

Akikoha is one of those ships where I will randomly get hit by the most severe brainrot of my life for a few days and then be fine but have to live under constant threat of gettjng killed by akikoha cuteness... akikoha is just so cute man!!! Disecting them down to a deeper level, I really love how they complement eachother in their world views and how they approach things!! They both admire eachother so much!!! With Akito and Kohane, they seem really different from wachother but all they want to do is prove themselves!!! I also love to see akito hyping kohane up!!! Good stuff!!!

• "Look, there's always gonna be haters. Don't let it get to you. If it bothers you so much what people say about us, shut them up with an awesome performance. Like that other time. Keep your chin high and show them how awesome you are. Anyway, An's really late. Let's go inside. Besides, this way our sensitive member won't have to listen to some guys badmouthing us while they wait for the gig"

"Um... Was Akito being considerate towards me just now?" (LMAOOO 😭😭😭😭)

4. Akian 🥞🎧

Whether you like them romantically or not can we just talk about how banger their dynamic is???? Their constant bickering makes them so fun!! An and Akito have known eachother since middle school and probably met some time after RAD WEEKEND when Akito would sing on the street and catch wind of An. I think this plays in to not only their deep friendship but also their rivalry!! The two of them indirectly helped eachother through their loneliness 🥺🥺 An found comfort in Akitos voice simply being there!! Then we obviously have akitos deep understanding of an (although generally he's just very perceptive of the people around him!! Don't forget!!!) We see in sis bfby and kiuan where akito is able to see RIGHT THROUGH an and call her out on her shit! That familiarity means so much to the both of them and I think their dynamic is SO sweet what the hell man!!! Guys akian is so peak EVERY VBS PAIRING IS SO PEAK

5. Toukoha ☕️🐹

EVERYTIME SOMEONE CALLS TOUKOHA BORING AN ANGEL LOSES ITS WINGS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 NO ONE GETS THEM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 NO ONE DESERVES TOUKOHA 😭😭😭😭 anyways toukoha get shoved aside alot as the quiet ones of vbs when. Guys. Thes mfs are YAPPERS. Touya and Kohane's autism sync up like Bluetooth. If you want to be enlightened on toukoha I EMPLORE you to go read take the best shot....do it for them.... I wish they had more in game content there's not even alot of them in card stories which is sad because that's usually where u can find the most content for vbs pairings outside of ahn/akty 💔💔💔 I think their dynamic in vbs main story is really interesting....... if you think toukoha is lame YOU are lame 🫵🫵🫵

5. Akitoya

Guys I LOVE akitoya very much they are SOULMATES but I put them down here because I think about them the least (i am biased towards women. Off topic but shoutout to girltouya) and don't trust myself to write an analysis of them 😭😭😭 but I really do love them they are very cute

I know people (at least from my experience in vbs communities) get really defensive over ships so remember that I ADORE all of these ships and brainrot all of them

[yeonmuse]

ᥫ᭡ f!reader x Park Sunghoon ── 𝒢enre. Uni au. fluff, non idol enha. feats. ot7 [reqs are closed] ᝰ.ᐟ 𝓁ibrary ⛸️

⍣ ೋ AUTHORS NOTES . This is part of admins Enhypen University Special Event. This series also has slight connections to every series in said event so occasionally characters from the other members chapters may appear in this series as well.

˗ˏˋSUMMARY ´ˎ˗ Park Sunghoon doesn’t usually like getting close to new people, but when a little shows up to his place of work in need of skating lessons he finds himself getting oddly close to his older sister. He finds himself developing some uncontainable feelings while having to teach not only her little sister to skate, but her as well.

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the zamwhati?

Another day, another skate lesson, her sister and her had gotten there a little earlier than usual – June wanting to get in some extra skate time before all the other kids crowded the place. Sunghoon was surprised to see her there this early, and it made him partially nervous knowing he’d have to find some way to entertain her until the other kids got there. Meanwhile her eyes scanned the rink, subconsciously searching for a certain someone that she had gotten accustomed to seeing when she went there. Sunghoon who had been staring at her that entire time shoots his head down towards the counter and wiped it down to seem like he had been busying himself, completely missing the smile that crept onto the girls face when she finally spotted him.

“Um I think the counters are clean enough.’’ Alexa comments from behind him, a concerned look on her face as she watches him aggressively wipe down the skate exchange counter.

Sunghoon completely ignored her observation and kept wiping until he heard the clatter of her bracelets against the counter and then the sound of his name spilled past her lips, looking busy wasn’t getting him as far as he thought it would. Alexa glances back and forth between the two making an o shape with her lips before disappearing into the back where her and Sunwoo quietly listened in.

“Um i think whatever dirt or bacteria was on that counter you’ve killed it.’’ she comments, a comedic snort following her comment that forced sunghoon to hold back a smile.

“You never know you have to make sure sometimes.’’ he responds throwing the towel over his shoulder and scratching the nape of his neck awkwardly.

“Sorry if we’re here too early, june wanted to try and get some laps in on her own before all of the other kids joined I hope that's okay.’’

“Yeah yeah it’s fine. Cool.’’ his response brings an end to the conversation and an awkward silence falls over the two of them. Alexa who’d been listening to everything with Sunwoo rolls her eyes and curses under her breath ‘oh for fucks sake’ dragging Sunwoo out with her she makes her way over to the counter.

“Hoon we’ll take it from here, you two can go and watch junie, just in case she needs any help or critiques.’’

“Uh im on bre-’’ Alexa quickly kicks Sunwoo behind the counter to prevent him from talking any further.

As sunghoon finally threw the towel onto the counter and walked to the other side,his coworkers watched in silence as the two of them walk off towards the rink.

The two took a seat in the benches and as always yn is the first to start off the conversation. That was one thing he appreciated about her since meeting her, he didn’t have to struggle finding things to say because she always had a topic at hand. She happily started each conversation and never complained of him being dry or boring, she just went with the flow of things.

“How was your shift when we left yesterday.’’

“Mm well, Alexa almost flooded the place with the mop hose and Sunwoo almost ran me over with the Zamboni, but other than that it was great.’’

“The zamwhati?’’ She responds, a quite stupid look of confusion on her face that makes Sunghoon snicker.

“A zamboni? Its like a buffer for the ice, cleans it and smooths it out. You know like the little cars they drive on the ice in movies.’’

“Oh the ice tractors.’’

“Ice tractors?’’ sunghoons brow rises out of amusement at her description of the vehicle.

“Um that’s literally what it looks like?’’ Sunghoon throws his hands up in resignation before looking over at june.

“She’s gettin better with each day she spends here, not sure she’ll even need my lessons anymore after today.’’

“I think she’d rather die than stop taking lessons with you, you’re her favorite teacher and that’s including the ones that you know, actually teach.’’

“Ouch. just ripped that bandaid off.’’

“You know what I meant, she adores you. Every time I drop her off or pick her up for the lessons she’s talking about everything that she’s learned from you.” the both of them found themselves watching over the girl that was now skating circles around the rink.

“She’s a fast learner, learns faster than any of my other students and it’s not that easy to learn the things she has so fast.’’

“Are you a skater? I mean i assume you are since you work here and you’re teaching the children and all?’’

“Mm not really, it’s just something that puts money in my pocket until my full term at UA is finally up.’’ yn gives him a skeptical look, she’s seen many times the way he gets when he’s on the ice. The way his eyes sparkled when he studied the kids' progress, or the smile that curled onto his lips when he himself was on the ice. She didn’t realize when she had become so observant of the things that he’d done but observing little details about people she came across in her life was always a trait of her. It was obvious that that was something he wasn’t wanting to tell her, but she knew she had no right to pry.

“What about you? You ever skate?’’ Sunghoon blinks, obviously confused as his question sends her into a fit of laughter.

“Oh wait, you were serious? Yeah no absolutely not sorry.’’

“Am i missing something here, i'm confused as to why you found that comical?’’

“I thought you were seriously joking. Yeah no I came across this video on twitter once, two figure skaters in competition and let’s just say one of them lost their head.’’Now it was Sunghoons turn to laugh at her.

“Okay either you’re seriously sick and twisted or- no actually you’re sick and twisted there's no other explanation as to why you would laugh at that.’’

“I’m laughing because you’re absolutely ridiculous, it’s not like you have to learn any spins or leaps, just skating.’’

“Yeah it’s going to be a no from me.’’ Sunghoon simply laughs it off before returning his attention back to June. The two hadn’t had much more time to talk but they’d gotten quite closer compared to the earlier encounters before Sunghoon was pulled away to teach.

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Pleaseeeee tell me how to get rich parents to pay me $100 an hour to proofread their kids' essays. I beg of you. I have an English degree and four years of copyediting experience at school publications but that doesn't seem to mean jack to any employer. 😭

I did it through a top tier tutoring company in the bay area, it's extremely difficult to build up a client base / reputation without starting at a registered company. once you're there then you have the leverage to say "I'm at X company which charges $100/hr, but if you hire me private I'll give you a discount" - I wasn't ever making the full amount since that was split with admin but it did give me the legitimacy and a dollar value of what my time is worth to get private clients if I wanted. I liked having other people handle all the marketing/tech though and being the buffer between bad parents (happens inevitably) because a lot of those families I don't think I would have worked for without that insurance of the company having my back.

[maryellencarter]

YouTube Downloads through VLC: Step by Step

[EDIT: I've been receiving reports for some time now that this method no longer works. I suspect something about the switch to YouTube Music as a separate app, and/or YouTube's ongoing attempts to force Chrome use, broke the compatibility with the Github version of youtube.luac -- I haven't managed to look into whether there's an updated working version out there yet. Sorry!]

So this guide to easily downloading off YouTube is super helpful, but there's enough important information hidden in the reblogs that (with the permission of OP @queriesntheories ) I'm doing a more step-by-step version.

Please note: these downloads will be in YouTube quality. My test video download is coming through at 360p, even though the video I'm starting from is set to 720p. They're legible, but they won't look great on a TV. For high visual quality, you'll want to seek out other methods.

This guide is written for Windows 10, since that's what I can test on. It's been tested on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge (which is a Chromium browser, so the method should work in other Chromium browsers too). So far, I haven't tracked down a way to use this download method on mobile.

BASIC KNOWLEDGE:

I'll try to make this pretty beginner-friendly, but I am going to assume that you know how to right-click, double-click, navigate right-click menus, click-and-drag, use keyboard shortcuts that are given to you (for example, how to use Ctrl+A), and get the URL for any YouTube video you want to download.

You'll also need to download and install one or more programs off the internet using .exe files, if you don't have these programs already. Please make sure you know how to use your firewall and antivirus to keep your computer safe, and google any names you don't recognize before allowing permission for each file. You can also hover your mouse over each link in this post to make sure it goes where I'm saying it will go.

YOU WILL NEED:

A computer where you have admin permissions. This is usually a computer you own or have the main login on. Sadly, a shared computer like the ones at universities and libraries will not work for this.

Enough space on your computer to install the programs listed below, if you don't have them already, and some space to save your downloaded files to. The files are pretty small because of the low video quality.

A simple text editing program. Notepad is the one that usually comes with Windows. If it lets you change fonts, it's too fancy. A notepad designed specifically to edit program code without messing it up is Notepad++, which you can download here.

A web browser. I use Firefox, which you can get here. Chrome or other Chrome-based browsers should also work. I haven't tested in Safari.

An Internet connection fast enough to load YouTube. A little buffering is fine. The downloads will happen much faster than streaming the entire video, unless your internet is very slow.

VLC Media Player, which you can get here. It's a free player for music and videos, available on Windows, Android, and iOS, and it can play almost any format of video or audio file that exists. We'll be using it for one of the central steps in this process.

If you want just the audio from a YouTube video, you'll need to download the video and then use a different program to copy the audio into its own file. At the end of this post, I'll have instructions for that, using a free sound editor called Audacity.

SETUP TO DOWNLOAD:

The first time you do this, you'll need to set VLC up so it can do what you want. This is where we need Notepad and admin permissions. You shouldn't need to repeat this process unless you're reinstalling VLC.

If VLC is open, close it.

In your computer's file system (File Explorer on Windows), go to C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist

If you're not familiar with File Explorer, you'll start by clicking where the left side shows (C:). Then in the big main window, you'll double-click each folder that you see in the file path, in order - so in this case, when you're in C: you need to look for Program Files. (There will be two of them. You want the one without the x86 at the end.) Then inside Program Files you're looking for VideoLAN, and so forth through the whole path.

Once you're inside the "playlist" folder, you'll see a lot of files ending in .luac - they're in alphabetical order. The one you want to edit is youtube.luac which is probably at the bottom.

You can't edit youtube.luac while it's in this folder. Click and drag it out of the playlist folder to somewhere else you can find it - your desktop, for instance. Your computer will ask for admin permission to move the file. Click the "Continue" button with the blue and yellow shield.

Now that the file is moved, double-click on it. The Microsoft Store will want you to search for a program to open the .luac file type with. Don't go to the Microsoft Store, just click on the blue "More apps" below that option, and you'll get a list that should include your notepad program. Click on it and click OK.

The file that opens up will be absolutely full of gibberish-looking code. That's fine. Use Ctrl+A to select everything inside the file, then Backspace or Delete to delete it. Don't close the file yet.

In your web browser, go to https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua

Click in the part of the Github page that has a bunch of mostly blue code in it. Use Ctrl+A to select all of that code, Ctrl+C to copy it, then come back into your empty youtube.luac file and use Ctrl+P to paste the whole chunk of code into the file.

Save the youtube.luac file (Ctrl+S or File > Save in the upper left corner of the notepad program), then close the notepad program.

Drag youtube.luac back into the folder it came from. The computer will ask for admin permission again. Give it permission.

Now you can close Github and Notepad. You're ready to start downloading!

HOW TO DOWNLOAD:

First, get your YouTube link. It should look something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123DEF45 If it's longer, you can delete any extra stuff after that first set of letters and numbers, but you don't have to.

Now open VLC. Go to Media > Open Network Stream and paste your YouTube link into the box that comes up. Click Play. Wait until the video starts to play, then you can pause it if you want so it's not distracting you during the next part.

(If nothing happens, you probably forgot to put youtube.luac back. coughs)

In VLC, go to Tools > Codec Information. At the bottom of the pop-up box you'll see a long string of gibberish in a box labeled Location. Click in the Location box. It won't look like it clicked properly, but when you press Ctrl+A, it should select all. Use Ctrl+C to copy it.

In your web browser, paste the entire string of gibberish and hit Enter. Your same YouTube video should come up, but without any of the YouTube interface around it. This is where the video actually lives on YouTube's servers. YouTube really, really doesn't like to show this address to humans, which is why we needed VLC to be like "hi I'm just a little video player" and get it for us.

Because, if you're looking at the place where the video actually lives, you can just right-click-download it, and YouTube can't stop you.

Right-click on your video. Choose "Save Video As". Choose where to save it to - I use my computer's built-in Music or Videos folders.

Give it a name other than "videoplayback" so you can tell it apart from your other downloads.

The "Save As Type" dropdown under the Name field will probably default to MP4. This is a good versatile video format that most video players can read. If you need a different format, you can convert the download later. (That's a whole other post topic.)

Click Save, and your video will start downloading! It may take a few minutes to fully download, depending on your video length and internet speed. Once the download finishes, congratulations! You have successfully downloaded a YouTube video!

If you'd like to convert your video into a (usually smaller) audio file, so you can put it on a music player, it's time to install and set up Audacity.

INSTALLING AUDACITY (first time setup for audio file conversion):

You can get Audacity here. If you're following along on Windows 10, choose the "64-bit installer (recommended)". Run the installer, but don't open Audacity at the end, or if it does open, close it again.

On that same Audacity download page, scroll down past the installers to the "Additional resources". You'll see a box with a "Link to FFmpeg library". This is where you'll get the add-on program that will let Audacity open your downloaded YouTube video, so you can tell it to make an audio-only file. The link will take you to this page on the Audacity support wiki, which will always have the most up-to-date information on how to install the file you need here.

From that wiki page, follow the link to the actual FFmpeg library. If you're not using an adblocker, be careful not to click on any of the ads showing you download buttons. The link you want is bold blue text under "FFmpeg Installer for Audacity 3.2 and later", and looks something like this: "FFmpeg_5.0.0_for_Audacity_on_Windows_x86.exe". Download and install it. Without this, Audacity won't be able to open MP4 files downloaded from YouTube.

CONVERTING TO AUDIO:

Make sure you know where to find your downloaded MP4 video file. This file won't go away when you "convert" it - you'll just be copying the audio into a different file.

Open up Audacity.

Go to File > Open and choose your video file.

You'll get one of those soundwave file displays you see in recording booths and so forth. Audacity is a good solid choice if you want to teach yourself to edit soundwave files, but that's not what we're here for right now.

Go to File > Export Audio. The File Name will populate to match the video's filename, but you can edit it if you want.

Click the Browse button next to the Folder box, and choose where to save your new audio file to. I use my computer's Music folder.

You can click on the Format dropdown and choose an audio file type. If you're not sure which one you want, MP3 is the most common and versatile.

If you'd like your music player to know the artist, album, and so forth for your audio track, you can edit that later in File Manager, or you can put the information in with the Edit Metadata button here. You can leave any of the slots blank, for instance if you don't have a track number because it's a YouTube video.

Once everything is set up, click Export, and your new audio file will be created. Go forth and listen!

[multidimensionbb]

WIP Purge Timeline

August 15: Interest Check Closes

August 22: Signups OPEN

September 3: Signups CLOSE

September 4-10: Discord Joining Period

September 4-23: Idea Finalization/Submission

September 23-27: Team Signups

September 27-October 3: Mods Assign Teams (may take longer depending on participant numbers)

October 4: Team Release Day

October 28-31: Check In 1

November 27-30: Check In 2

December 27-30: Check In 3

January 28-31: Check In 4 (FINAL)

February 1-15: Posting Sign Ups/Admin Buffer

February 17-March 3: Posting Period!

Informal check-ins will happen weekly where people who are stuck are encouraged to come and discuss with the mods or with other participants (we are calling this Therapy Thursdays in the mod gc right now because I think it's funny)! They are not in any way required :)

[jazzical1914]

So, the teams are obviously really unbalanced, but I think it's actually deliberate. As much as I love the idea of red team being cursed, I don't think they are. Dapper's message made it pretty clear that he thought it was vitally important that Bad fight for victory over anything. If we take this as the eggs knowing something of what's going on, that points pretty strongly to blue team being the cursed team and this being Dapper's way of warning them.

The very existence of a cursed team means that, in the background, the admins will have done a large amount of work to make it as likely as possible that the cursed team isn't going to lose on day 1, since that would make for an extremely poor event, if the worst happened on the very first day.

As such, they've made 2 fairly balanced teams, blue and green, and then there's red, with pretty much all of the people who never log on, the role players, the builders. The only one who could be considered a try-hard is Philza and he is a survivalist to the core, not someone who is likely to start directing a team on pvping and actively going after others.

And so, red team becomes the buffer team, a literal red herring, intended to lose on day 1 and prove by that that they aren't the cursed team. This tells everyone that, as long as they keep losing, it doesn't matter who is the cursed team between blue and green since it doesn't matter. In a normal competition/story like this, the story would then change depending on how much red are willing to trust the decisions that get made re. what eggs get saved etc. to the other teams and on how far blue/green are willing to go to make sure red stay down.

Of course, all of red team are insane, so if they stick with what their current plans are, it will derail the entire thing, since a team that is either building a village to roleplay in, or becoming feral cryptids (depending on whether they go with Phil or Jaiden's idea) is very obviously not a threat, so it will become blue vs. green, with red just existing and making the 'cursed team' thing a complete non-issue'

Assuming all of this is correct, red team IS cursed, but by the admins, not by the island 🤣😅