#bot explaining but you can add 2+2...

[kindaeccentric]

The subject of the painting is Gauguin's 13-year-old native "wife" Teha'amana (called Tehura in his letters), who one night, according to Gauguin, was lying in fear when he arrived home late: "immobile, naked, lying face downward flat on the bed with the eyes inordinately large with fear [...] Might she not with my frightened face take me for one of the demons and specters, one of the Tupapaus, with which the legends of her race people sleepless nights?" Gauguin was suffering from advanced venereal disease when he came to Tahiti, and he passed it onto Teha'amana, who was his first sexual partner on the island.

'The Adoration of the Shepherds With a Donor.' Palma Vecchio. A contemporary of my maker, Marius De Romanus, also a fine painter, albeit one of lesser skill. In fact, the donor in the title was my maker. The canvas painted in my maker's studio. And in this case, the donation was…What is the modern word for it? In kind. This is Amadeo.

He's 20 years here. He was rescued from a brothel when he was 15, named… named Arun then, I think. I cannot be sure. The abuse in the brothel was such that he cannot be sure that's what his… parents named him. Arun. The parents that sent him to work on a merchant boat in Delhi when in actuality they had sold him…into slavery to the ship's captain. All… fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel. My maker's purchase. His renaming me.

His reluctance to share the Dark Gift, knowing what it would do to his beloved Amadeo. I served him with all my heart. Basked in his mercy, his worshipful mercy. Still… Amadeo had a skill. And if a friend wandered into town, I was occasionally… donated.

Meatier in the forearms, but then this was… seven years before I was stricken with illness, before I was turned, and imbued with my powers.

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don't mind me, I'm just thinking aloud about art as a form of colonial violence when artists take part in the sexual exploitation of underage people of color, name changing, orientalism, monstrosity, and blood+sex-transmittable diseases in the context of Armand

[nuttersincorporated]

Tumblr: A Beginners Guide

Hello and welcome to Tumblr!

If you're new here, this post is a little guide meant to help you understand how things work on Tumblr. I’m going to give you some guidelines and explain a little bit about Tumblr culture. Hopefully, this will help you settle in, avoid unnecessary pitfalls and enjoy your time here. I hope you’ll like it here on our hellsite (affectionate).

1. First and most importantly, please change your userpic and put something on your blog.

If you don’t, other users will think you're a bot and you'll be reported/blocked. It’s nothing personal but we are at war with the bot accounts. Most older users will automatically assume that a blank blog= bot.

You don’t need to do much. If you aren’t comfortable rebloging things or making your own posts yet, just change your userpic and add a short description to your blog.

Here’s an example of a description you can use.

‘Hi! I’m new here. I’m still working out how this place works but I promise I’m not a bot so please don’t block me.’

2. Go to your settings, then to your dashboard settings and change things to how you like them. I suggest-

Make Tumber show you posts in chronologically order, rather than pushing ‘best stuff first’

Pick a colour palate that doesn’t give you a headache

Make Tumblr show timestamps on posts and reblogs. While a post is never too old to reblog, you don’t want to accidentally signal boost something as ‘news’ when it's acutely years out of date and no longer relevant.

Choose not to shorten long posts

3. Go to the top of your dashboard, press on the toggle and arrange things how you like them.

I suggest pinning your ‘Following’ first. It means that when you go to your dashboard, the first thing you’ll see are the blogs that you’ve actively chosen to follow.

Some older users will tell you that the ‘For You’ page is useless and should be ignore. This is because for a long time it was either non-existent or terrible so most older users – myself included – just don’t bother with it.

However, nowadays it’s fine so use it if you want. ‘Following’ should still probably be pinned first though because you know what you like better than the algorithm.

4. Please don’t censor your words here. Tumblr doesn’t shadow ban you for saying random words.

Shadow banning does happen but it’s mostly at random or because you were targeted by trolls. If it happens to you, you’ll need to fight to get unshadow banned.

The point is that you won’t get shadow banned for saying ‘death,’ ‘murder’ or ‘rape.’ Don’t do things like saying ‘graped’ instead of ‘raped.’ If you do, you’re just going to piss people off and make it harder for people to avoid triggers.

5. Don’t spam the tags!

You can ramble in the tags all you want and nobody will mind. However, if you tag an unrelated post with a popular tag, you will be reported for spamming. It’s against the Tumblr terms and conditions, it’s annoying and it’s something the porn bots do.

When you are making your own post, the tags you use should be to help other people find your post. When you are rebloging other people’s posts, the tags you use should be so you can find that post again if you want.

The other thing that tags are for – both in your own posts and reblogs – is for adding things that don’t really fit in the post itself but you still wanted to say. You can add paragraphs in your tags and no one will bat an eye but if you tag a post with a trending but unrelated tag, that’s spamming.

6. Please, reblog things. It helps posts spread a lot more than liking them does. Think of your blog as a scrap book where you put stuff you like.

If you aren’t comfortable adding to a post, that’s fine. Just reblog it and share it with others.

7. That said, Tumblr posts are collaborative and we like it when you add to them. It doesn’t have to be much. You don’t have to add something every time you reblog a post but it is a part of the fun to do it sometimes.

If it’s an art or fanfic post comments like; ‘good post op,’ ‘I LOVE THIS!’ or even ‘OUCH my heart!!!’ will make an OP’s day.

If it’s another sort of post; you can add your thoughts or join in on committing to the bit. Try matching the energy the post is already giving.

If you aren’t comfortable commenting directly, you can always put it in the tags.

8. The follow and block buttons are your friend. You decide what you see here. If your dashboard doesn’t spark joy, you can always follow someone new and/or follow an interesting tag. If someone is making your time here unpleasant unfollow and/or block them.

9. Tumblr likes to commit to the bit. Sharks are smooth (they are not) and the 1973 Martin Scorsese movie ‘Goncharov’ is the greatest film ever made (it doesn’t exist).

10. A post is never too old to reblog. We like old posts here.

Every now and again, you will see a post that is over ten years old. The reblogs will probably be full of people expressing delight about seeing the original post again or seeing it for the first time.

11. You don’t want to be Tumblr famous.

There are niche blogs that are dedicated to one thing and are well liked e.g. @the-haiku-bot (the one bot we love), @writing-prompt-s and @cantheykillmacbeth. However, they are either side blogs or blogs run by multiple people.

Your main blog should just be somewhere you like to spend your time. There are no benefits to being Tumblr famous on your main blog.

12. Tumblr spreads news with this meme

13. Tumblr loves dates. Whether it’s the Ides of March (it sure would be a shame if certain world leaders got stabbed), Halloween (which we start celebrating in about July) or just a random day of the week e.g. ‘Out of Touch Thursday’ there is always something happening that you can celebrate.

14. The staff always pulls a silly and harmless prank on Apil Fools Day. Last year we got to boop each other.

15. We like a silly poll

Okay, I think that’s the basics covered. You’ll get the hang of everything else as you go along.

I hope you have fun here and that you manage to avoid Apollo’s dodgeball of prophecy (try not to joke about a specific way things could get worse or you might be hit).

Yours faithfully,

A Tumblr Cockroach

PS If you are a Tumblr oldie, please feel free to reblog this to help out newer users.

[brownhood69]

TFE RANT (also spoilers)

Okay, so for those of you who haven't heard of Transformers Earth Spark, it's basically a show where the cybertronian War is technically over and now cybertronians are trying to get used to the life on earth. But they are completely treated like they are animals. If you want to watch the show yourself then go right ahead it should be on Amazon Prime or on Paramount Plus because this will contain spoilers for the first season and the 2nd season so feel free to skip this.

ANYWAY!

So all of you know the Decepticons right?

👆

These guys?

Well, near the end of the last episode of season 1 of Earth Spark they all decided to work together with the Decepticons to take down mandroid, the main antagonist of season 1. There was also two episodes where one of the Decepticons started to have a relationship with the Malto family. Like for example

Nightshade and tarantulas:

And Starscream and hashtag:

See how these two GIFs are completely wholesome? Infact, the first season teaches that even though somebody could be on the opposite side of things that doesn't initially mean that they are a bad guy completely, just misunderstood.

It teaches that everyone can have a second chance if they really try but not everyone can really get that second chance.

And then season 2 comes around,

And BOY was I pissed off about it.

Now I haven't watched season 2 myself but I have watched one episode in it and that's it. remember that I said that the Decepticons finally decided to fight Mandroid thanks to Twitch and that some of the Terrans actually had some decent relationships with some of the Decepticons?

Well season two just completely THROWS ALL OF IT OUT OF THE FUCKING WINDOW!!!

When I watch season 2 I thought it was going to be all cool and hype and I thought everyone was just overreacting over season 2. NOPE! THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO BE UPSET! Because one episode in and I was immediately flashed banged with shock. Robby was explaining after 2 years of like saving cybertronians from Mandroid's destruction the quintus prime Stone (I don't remember what it's called) kind of shattered into like thousands of pieces across the globe. He then says that the Decepticons help them to retrieve them but then they decided to turn on them and get the shards for themselves. EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST SEASON SAID THAT NOT ALL DECEPTICONS ARE BAD!!

Like where did this even come from!? And why make them back into villains when we already saw the shot of them HELPING TWITCH AND HER FAM FROM KILLING ALL CYBERTRONIANS!? Like, what is the point of this!? If you're just going to make them bad guys anyway, why give the Terrans a chance to understand them and sympathize with the 'cons!? You had such a good new take on the Transformers yet you decided to throw away that said good take and just take it back to square one!

WHAT THE HELL HASBRO!?

*SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

And don't get me started with Bumblebee's relationship with Breakdown. You clearly set them up to be best buddies and then you just set that friendship arc on fire and just went on the 'Con vs 'Bot arc again. But the part that pisses me off the most is Starscream's abandon arc. Earthspark *clearly* wanted to make this Starscream as sympathetic as possible and this could have worked well. IF THEY DIDNT MAKE HIM THE MAIN VILLIAN IN SEASON 2!

And I guess prowl appearing in season 3 is kind of nice but it would have been better if he was like the villain instead of Starscream. If they were going to be good Decepticons then there has to be bad Autobots. But hey, Hasbro isnt keen on keeping promises are you Hasbro?

God, you had such a good idea and you just had to ruin it with season 2 and 3. I hope the rumors of Earthspark getting canceled are true thanks to this.

Also, GIVE US A TRUELY, ACTUAL, HEROIC, SYMPATHETIC STARSCREAM FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! **AND DONT FUCK IT UP THIS TIME!!!**

Okay, I think I'm done for now, but I might add a part 2 if I decided to watch the rest of season 2 and season 3.

K bye!

[fanfictionlibrary01]

Fanfics being stolen and uploaded on (audiobook) site "WordStream"

I wish there were no reason for an announcement like this right before Christmas… /sad /angry

What is happening?

Fanfics of people on AO3 (works from other sites could not be confirmed as of now) have been uploaded to the site https://word-stream.com.

What do we know?

The site has no legal notice - we can not see who runs or owns the site, who is behind this, etc.. All fanfics also have a ai-generated "book cover", which adds to the iffy vibes outside the fanfic stealing. Fanfics that were found there all match their originals on AO3 with title and author, mostly by tags, and by writing. The summary is often changed, but the works are definitely stolen. Example: Stolen WordStream Version That work on AO3

We checked more works and can confirm that this is not a single case but affects more works, but this is the only SFW work example we could find atm.

Assumptions after some research and digging we did:

To listen to the audiobook versions, you must create an account on that site, which leads to an info that this site has an app. Through that, the developer and potential person behind this could be someone named "Ofek Weitzman", who in term seems to be associated to a "Speechify Inc." (according to google results: Corporation Wiki Article, Speechify App Site, speechify.com).

Speechify does text to speech via an AI voice generator. It would fit the iffy ai cover vibes.

What we recommend to do:

It stands to assume that locking your works on AO3 is the only way of preventing this. So far, we've not found works that were locked on that site, so locking your works on AO3 can protect the from being (more easily) swiped by any bot etc.. Since the site has no legal notice, looking into ways to report that (it's it's illegal for a site not to have one in Germany for example) is likely an option.

Follow up on this and get the latest updated in the Fanfic Communities Network (FCN) Discord Server!

If you have more information regarding this - e.g. if works from other sites are affected too - please reach out to us in the FCN!!

Edit 1 (1h after initial post):

Apparently, a user called @cliffweitzman claims to own this site and to offer users to send an e-mail so this user can take your works down from the site. They answered in this post by @ekingston with this:

A comment to that from our side: This is no excuse. It should not need to be said and explained that theft of intellectual property is not acceptable. We request @cliffweitzman, if they truly run that site, to immediately take down all works that have been stolen - fanfic or potential others - and that were uploaded without the author's consent, as well as to take full responsibility for their unacceptable behaviour.

Edit 2 (2h after the initial post):

The site is currently showing an error... Let's see.

Edit 3 (14h after initial post):

The site is back up, and seems to have taken down fanfics. After searching for the ones we found having been stolen from AO3, we couldn't find any - but that could be coincidence. According to this reblog, the stolen fanfics could only be hidden from the site and if you don't have an account on WordStream. Things are still very unclear, a statement or acknowledgement of this theft of intellectual property by @cliffweitzman is still pending.

[minzart]

Hi hello I love love LOVE your beggars can't be choosers fic it's so good

I've had this thought in my head that wouldn't articulate about it for a while but the words are words-ing so here it be:

Given that reader in your fic is a part of the armed forces (maybe the more civvie side, contractor rather than full armed forces) that means there's a certain amount of shenanigans and tomfoolery that won't get blinked at. Also things that get shut down ASAP but given what the cons are like I don't think we'll see that.

All this to be said, given what reader's job is for the armed forces but also for the cons, at some point they're gonna have to drink Something Weird AF to stay awake, right? Not like, coffee or red bull. I'm talking like "put red bull or other energy drink into the water portion of the coffee pot and made coffee with it, forbidden potions level beverage, were this a cartoon it's steam would be a skull and crossbones" level of Why Did You Drink That. And the Cons be like "you... SURE that's okay for you???" And the humans AROUND the reader are like "homie you,,,,,, should NOT be drinking that,,,,,, the fuck,,,,," whilst reader is like "oh yeah this is fine 👍" but readers heart is doing the macarena from the sheer volume of caffeine in the system.

That but also I'm picturing reader saying fuck it and making coffee with energon, which is deadly for humans in the source material, and then its a race to dispose of the beverage before the reader can chug it down. Though with this secondary thought, it'd be funny if a bot chugs it instead to keep it away from the reader only to get Way Too Much Caffeine To The Processor and become the squirrel from hoodwinked for a lil bit.

Thanks for the ask! I'm glad you are enjoying the fic :D

Reader be drinking so much caffeine that their blood is pure black from the stuff you are absolutely right XD, explains the chihuahua attitude a lot, a little(regular sized)ball of anxiety♡

I can see Rumble and Frenzy commenting out loud about the tons of coffee you take in your job and now Thundercracker is very concerned. Bet he would be the FIRST to jump at you if you ever THINK of drinking energon mixed with that stuff, Skywarp and the twins are cheering you own tho, they wanna see what happens

Megatron will meet you at some point in the middle of the night in the storage area, you making more 2 bottle of coffee with 5 red bulls and him picking the waste of energon to add shit to his sistem so he can't recharge just yet(gotta keep up with 4 thousands years of rein without him after all) and you both just, nod in agreement to not speak of this to anyone(one night you both can be found at med bay snoring with tons of datapad scatered around bc what better way to keep awake than bitch about idiots to each other)

[cosmique-oddity]

Its theory hour, guys, listen to me carefully

I have a theory about the Bayverse

Or at least what i saw of it, wich is.....roughly the three first movies ?

And i dont know if its an actual plausible theory or something that just fix my vision of the movies but here it is :

What if the Bayverses movies are entirely szen from human eyes ?

Like yeah its not the theory of the century, but it would actually explain a lot of the things transformers fans reproach to the licence.

1. Cybertronians and ESPECIALLY Decepticons are all the same ! Their design is boring and not so shiny and colorful in contrast to the G1 :

Yeah but if its from human eyes, try to think this way : Transformers are shown like humans remember them, when a giant robot from outespace try to kill you and destroy your city you dont look at what colors are in it are you ? The decepticons are very scary in Bayverse and it just make sense if its how humans remember them.

Same goes for their personnalities, Bumblebee and Optimus are ones of the very few Cybertronian to have an actual character design looking like the OG, thats because 1. Optimus is the leader, he is the one who talked the most with humans and is THE one who shared the most sociabilisation with them, same goes for Bumblebee who is a kind bot, that and his name softened some parts of his designs, like the horns that turned into antennas.

And a lot of Decepticons dont talk at all/are not personnificated. And sometimes change randomly their alt mode. Because how would you want human to remember wich giant murdering alien is standing in front of you ???

2. Optimus is extremely violent, far more than in others continuities. In fact....everyone is damn violent !!

Yeah well. Listen. You are a tiny squishy being caught in the middle of an Alien war of things very much bigger than you, of course you will remember the fight a lot more intense than they really were !

Us human were never attacked by a specie largely superior than ours (you know what i mean) and its kinda traumatic lmao.....

3. Some behaviors of bots are largely humanised ! At some point Bumblebee piss on people, Hot Rod (lord have mercy him and his damned french accent) is trying to charm the human ladies and by design, Skyfire seems very old grandpa. And we cant say transformers physically age like us human

Yeah well its no secret that we human are extremely ethnocentrists. We value our specie over the others and tend to anthropomorphise other species. It means we add some of our behaviors and social patterns to other species (like when a child say lions are mean because they kill gazelles).

And actually if you see Bayverse movies through the prism of our own specie view, than a lot of Bayverse make sense !!

And it was certainely not mean this way but listen 1. We cope like we can 2. Some of the ideas of Bayverse, like accents(NOT HOT ROD'S), or Shockwave being a Satellite were very VERY interesting ideas.

However, no amount of denial is enough to explain why Starscream is a Dorito.

[spacemothsota]

okay human trun on Cybertronian?

that interesting if they trun dose they get what they want of design or they get a random one and they stuck with it?

Hi Anon! (Sorry I'm not sure if I understood the question correctly, but I tried… I hope you like it).

Basically, their body, color scheme, design, and frame reflect the personality of the former person. Individual characteristics are also present, as well as diversity, so for the most part, cyberformed people do not need to change their appearance in any way. Unless they want to change the color scheme, add some details (cosmetic changes can be made according to the capabilities and wishes, this does not apply to modifications for work in various fields). They cannot change their frame from a car to an airplane, because it will cause them strange feelings and can lead to something similar to dysphoria (they will probably feel that something is wrong and they will be extremely uncomfortable).

A nice detail for Cybertronian friends (who participated in the cyberformation), may be that the new bot will have some details from their design, the same with the color scheme. In general, this whole theme with their hull in my idea is tightly intertwined with how new sparks from hot spots on Cybertron found their form. The process is somewhat similar, cyberformed people have the status of "forged", their spark in the process itself knows how the hull will look in the end (but unlike new sparks, cyberformed do not need the help of blacksmiths). So no, they do not get a random design, they get the one that reflects their essence as best as possible, and also corresponds to personal skills and specialization.

However, there are exceptions, but not many. Sometimes, if the donor of nanites was a bot of a certain frame type, then the former human can also receive this frame type simply with its own unique and distinctive features. Alexis's situation was very indicative. Since in my AU she is still Starscream's best friend, she essentially received very few nanites from other donors with other frame types, and subsequently she became a "night" type seeker. Almost the same situation befell Chip Chase, there was a collective "battle" between the Lambo brothers (Sideswipe and Sunstreaker), Autobot scientists with a horde of seekers, the seekers' nanites won (Chip is not complaining, he is also a "night" type seeker).

The only thing that owners of this or that frame can complain about is the accompanying programming and predispositions (fears of seekers, the desire to race and all that, and this is due to the fact that it is more difficult for a person to understand what exactly his new processor wants, bots are there to help and explain).

For the rest, to understand what Cyberform AU is: Character List Lore parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Answers to questions: Q&A1, Q&A2, Q&A3

[purpleajisai]

Uchiha Observation n°1: Sasuke’s lineage - headcanons, storyline and hints in canon

This post is part of the worldbuilding process for a fanfic idea that I’ve been maturing over the past year, so I will update this if needed. I have wondered about the relationship between Madara and Sasuke for a long while now, and I knew there has to be a deeper connection than just reincarnations of Indra. The moment that piqued my interest was the point that Hashirama made about Sasuke looking like Izuna, implying that if Madara saw someone so similar to his beloved younger brother he could listen to what Sasuke had to say and perhaps change his mindset in regards to the war.

This cannot be a coincidence. Today, I’m going to share my headcanon regarding Madara and Sasuke’s kinship: Sasuke is Madara’s great nephew, connnected through Izuna. Here is the genealogical tree:

First of all, let’s explain Izuna’s generation. Of course, you can see Madara represented there as an older brother as well as the 4 unnamed younger siblings mentioned in the river flashbacks. The language used by Madara suggest that there were 5 other siblings aside from him, not 5 in total and including him. In the case of Izuna, according to the databooks he died at age 24, which is definitely old enough to be married and have a child.

And perhaps the readers are wondering why I’m not considering Madara to be married as well since he’s not only older than Izuna but also the clan leader. The only reason why I’m not giving him a wife and kids at the time of Izuna’s death is because I want to adhere to canon in this regard (no spoilers about the fic’s plot).

In the storyline I’ve planned, Izuna would die and leave behind a little baby or even a pregnant wife. The exact moment is yet undecided. However, it is through this only son of Izuna from which we can connect him to Sasuke. Once Izuna’s son grows up, having the pressure of being the last surviving heir to the clan, it’s not far-fetched for this man to have more than 2 children to ensure his legacy and prevent the clan from descending into anarchy. The reason why his firstborn son, who would be Izuna’s eldest grandson, is marked as “disgraced” in this chart is because the existence of this generation collides with the 2nd Great Ninja War. A possible reason I may consider to add for his fall into disgrace and shunning by the clan is that he would’ve left some Uchiha comrades to die in order to protect important Konoha intel, therefore gaining the reputation of a traitor and not being suitable for inheriting the clan’s leadership.

With the eldest son banned from the position of clan heir, the younger son would immediately take his place. From the disgraced eldest brother, we get Obito’s ancestry, and from the younger brother we get Mikoto’s generation. For Obito’s case, I theorize a normal Uchiha picked at random wouldn’t be able to handle the toll of Madara’s eyes, whether in EMS or Rinnegan form. Technically speaking, these eyeballs are actually Izuna’s, reinforcing his importance for this lineage. Please consider the importance of genetics in handling kekkei genkai in the Naruto universe. For Mikoto’s case, I added an older brother for her. Why? Because it used to be a custom in the Sengoku period and the subsequent Edo period to follow agnatic (male-only) succession for leadership. The death of Mikoto’s brother would put Fugaku as a leader, given that he’s the husband of a bearer of the lineage of clan leaders.

Finally, we get to Itachi and Sasuke. Neither one nor another were “normal” Uchiha: both unlocked the mangekyo sharingan and handled the toll of the Susano’o, among other remarkable feats. If Sasuke is connected to Madara through Izuna’s descendants, it would imply the existence of a direct line of ancestry that starts with Indra himself. The headcanons regarding the internal structure of the Uchiha clan will be discussed in a future post. The direct family line from Izuna to Sasuke can therefore explain why both looked so similar (recessive genetics) and why Madara felt nostalgic or touched at the sight of someone who resembled his beloved little brother so much.

Thanks for reading thus far, and if you have any questions plkease use the blog’s ask box.

[yoruqueenofnightsims]

Tutorial: Converting all types of CAS CC to work with color sliders (+ how to disable it)

This enables CAS CC to work with Color Sliders for Hair, Clothes, & Accessories by thepancake1 and @mizoreyukii.

Since S4 Studio only let's you batch convert hairs and update makeup for compatibility, I present to you: TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0 by CmarNYC.

Keep in mind that enabling CAS CC for color sliders will increase the file sizes of your .package files!

Sliders will also always affect all the texture, i.e. you can't exclude accessories like buttons or zippers, so some textures might not work well.

Also check out this tutorial: Fixing slider compatible CAS CC with broken textures

💜 Requirements:

Color Slider mod

TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0

CAS CC you want to enable

Featured CC by @trillyke @daylifesims @jius-sims @magic-bot

💜How to enable CC for color sliders

1. Download the required program, mod and CC you want. This is my outfit before sliders:

2. Open up Alpha Converter

3. For enabling sliders, you can only use the folder option and not single files: Select your input folder which contains the .packages you want to enable. Then select your output folder where you want to save the new files. "Include subfolders" is handy if your CC goes into more folders inside your input folder. It will reproduce the same file structure.

4. I would recommend enabling "Don't change package names" so you can just replace your input files directly, otherwise it adds "_Fixed" at the end of the filename. I will also leave "Don't copy unchanged packages" checked.

5. Next we will select "Convert RLE2 to LRLE" to enable color sliders. I will explain the others later. It then enables "Convert only textures linked from CASPs" which is good, e.g. it will only target actual CAS CC textures then and no Build & Buy for example. Leave "Convert all diffuse textures linked from CASP" checked if you want to convert all types of CAS CC.

6. These are my finished settings:

7. Press "Go". It will then take a while depending on file amount and swatches, as it will have to go through textures one by one.

8. Check your finished files. The file size should be bigger, in this case it went up by 30 MB for only 5 files.

This is how the outfit looks after applying sliders to all pieces:

💜 How to disable CAS CC for color sliders

This time select "Convert LRLE to RLE2". You can leave "Convert only textures linked from CASPs".

2. Press "Go" and let it do it's thing.

3. As you can see, the file size went down again (middle), but it is not the same size as from the original file (right).

You will no longer be able to use sliders on the CAS CC piece, except transparency, which always works.

💜 Fixing slider compatible CAS CC with broken textures

If some of your CAS CC displays huge areas of missing, pixelated textures there is an issue with compression.

I don't know how and why this happens, but check out * this tutorial * on how to fix it.

@thefoxburyinstitute @maxismatchccworld @emilyccfinds @sssvitlanz

[in1-nutshell]

Hello, how are you?

Can I get a TFA request?

A gender neutral bot Buddy who is Bumblebee's twin sibling and who ends up dating Prowl later on?

Bumblebee and his twin look exactly the same, same body-type, same paint job, they even have the same alt mode.

However, you can tell who is who by watching how they act, Bumblebee is loud and outgoing while Buddy is quiet and introverted around anyone who isn't Bumblebee or Bulkhead.

"Buddy" is not their original designation, their designation used to be "2.0", they changed it to Buddy because Sari called them that one time and they ended up loving it so much that they urged the rest of the team to start calling them that.

Also, when Buddy Bumblebee and Bulkhead met prowl, Buddy slowly approached him kinda like-

.

Buddy: Hey.

Prowl: …

Buddy: Are you… okay?

Prowl: Do you mind?

Buddy: Oh! You are alive!

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Buddy thinks that Prowl is very cool and has a tiny crush on him.

Prowl didn't mind Buddy that much in the beginning, he just saw them as the calmer twin.

However, the more he got to know them, the more he wanted get closer to them.

Yeah, Prowl also has a tiny crush on Buddy.

I think this become too long so I'm gonna cut the request here.

I will the send you the second part soon!

I can just see Buddy explaining to people and bots on the daily that they aren't Bumblebee. They are exhausted.

Hope you enjoy!

Bot Buddy who's Bumblebee's twin

SFW, Platonic, Familial, Hinted romance, Cybertronian reader

TFA

It was hard having a twin like Bumblebee.

It’s not that they didn’t love him, they loved him to bits.

It’s the problems that always seemed to follow him around.

Being from the same protoform mold, same horn, and even the same paintjob; mix ups were bound to happen.

The best way to figure out which twin was which was to listen to them.

Their twin was loud, extroverted, and much more sociable.

They on the other hand were much quieter, calmer, and less of a chatter box.

Thankfully their twin took responsibility for most of his mistakes.

Most of his mistakes.

How their twin managed to rope them into coming to the Autobot bootcamp was beyond them.

They knew they weren’t going to end up in the Elite Guard or even in the bootcamps.

They didn’t even want to be in the Elite Guard, that was their twins’ dream, not theirs.

But being too loyal twin they were, they followed.

They ended up getting recruited to being one of the maintenance bots for the bootcamps.

It wasn’t the ideal job or position, but at least they would be a bit closer to their twin. The job mainly required them to clean around and occasionally fix ships that would head out for space bridge repairs. If they were lucky enough, they would head out to space with the repair crew in case something went wrong.

Their twin didn’t like being away from him, but he managed to convince himself that this could be a good thing.

He was going to make top marks, letting him have some more freedom to roam around and then have more time to spend with them.

Full proof.

His twin slapped him upside down his helm when they heard his logic.

Everything was going great for him until he met Bulkhead and got his name.

It’s not like he didn’t like him, it was just that he didn’t want to associate himself with the guy so he wouldn’t look bad.

Sentinel was already bad enough; he didn’t want to add to the list.

He did end up meeting his twin a couple of times for cleaning duty though.

That’s where they got to meet Bulkhead.

Bumblebee’s twin waves nervously as the larger green mech waves enthusiastically.

“Woah! Bumblebee look it’s another you!”--Bulkhead

“That’s not another me Bulkhead! That’s my twin!”--Bumblebee

“Bumblebee?”

Bumblebee flinched a bit but quickly covers it up with a chuckle.

“Yeah, that’s my new name now. Hey, weren’t you going to get named today?”--Bumblebee

His twin nods a bit.

“Oh, cool what’s your name?”--Bumblebee

“…2.0”—2.0

“What?”--Bumblebee

“That’s my new name now. 2.0”—2.0

“Oh… but it could be worse right?”--Bumblebee

2.0 huffs a bit.

“I guess it can.”—2.0

Bulkhead reaches their servo and shakes it.

“Well nice to meet you then 2.0! I hope we can be best friends like me and Bumblebee!”--Bulkhead

2.0 smiles at him and shakes back.

“I hope that we can be friends too—”—2.0

“2.0! I thought you were going to clean my office! Or do I have to name you Maintenance bot!”--Sentinel

2.0 flinches at the loud noise.

“Was that…”--Bulkhead

“Sentinel Prime? Yep…”—2.0

“He named you? But I thought your boss was supposed to do that.”--Bumblebee

“He was but after a little ‘discussion with Sentinel Prime… he got the rights to name me…”—2.0

Bumblebee’s servos clenched.

2.0 quickly holds his servo.

“Please don’t do anything dumb for me? Please?”-2.0

He looks angry but eventually lets it go.

For his twin’s sake.

After that talk, 2.0 wouldn’t see Bumblebee again for the rest of the month due to their schedules being more demanding on cleaning and repairs.

Soon enough 2.0 was going to be sent out on their very first field repair with their new team.

Imagine their surprise when they saw Bumblebee and Bulkhead’s names on the roster.

“Bumblebee! Bulkhead!”—2.0

Both bots turn around to see 2.0 come towards them.

Bulkhead happily waves at them.

Bumblebee shrinks a bit seeing some fore behind though soft optics.

Optimus and Ratchet look at the two smaller yellow bots.

“…What?”--Optimus

2.0 looks at the newer bots and quickly goes over to them.

“Hello there. I’m 2.0 and I’ll be your maintainer and ships repair bot.”—2.0

Ratchet looks at them and Bumblebee.

“Definitely a lot quieter than the other one.”--Ratchet

“Hey!”--Bumblebee

The older pair quickly found the difference between the twins, much to their relief.

They didn’t know if they could handle two Bumblebee’s.

The day they met Prowl was memorable.

It was 2.0 and Bee who got the cyberninja’s attention and had convinced him to come with them.

2.0 found themselves gravitating more to Prowl than anyone else on the ship.

Not that they didn’t like their team.

2.0 already hung out a lot with their twin and Bulkhead whether on duty or not, much to some of the team’s dismay.

But didn’t mean that they would join the two in their shenanigans.

2.0 looking at their twin and Bulkhead with arm’s crossed.

Prowl is right next to them mirroring the same stance.

Both of them had somehow gotten intangled in Bulkhead’s wreckingball wires.

“…”—2.0 and Prowl

“I know this may look bad—”--Bumblebee

“Understatement of the year.”--Prowl

“—But wouldn’t you like to hear how we got into this and get us out?”--Bumblebee

2.0 raising an optic.

Bumblebee doing his best puppy dog eyes.

“That won’t work on me Bumblebee. Try again.”2.0

“Please 2.0?”—Bulkhead

2.0 looks at Prowl and sighs tiredly.

“…Fine. But I’m doing this for Bulkhead.”—2.0

2.0 starts getting their tools out to fix this mess.

“Wait why just him? I’m your twin!”--Bumblebee

“Yeah you are, but I also know that he got literally roped into this mess because of you. Prowl, mind holding this wire for me?”—2.0

Prowl sighs but holds the wire as 2.0 starts loosening the pair.

“I hate you.”--Bumblebee

“Love you too Bee.”—2.0

2.0 got along well with Optimus.

Being the default leader of the group, 2.0 did have to report to him a lot of the time.

They often saw the poor bot looking stress and they made it their mission to help him with that invisible weight on his chassis.

“Hey Prime.”—2.0

Optimus looking up from his history videos.

“2.0. Is there something wrong?”--Optimus

2.0 just takes a seat next to him.

“Nope, well not yet at least, you seemed a little lonely and looked like you could use a friend.”—2.0

“I’m perfectly fine 2.0.”--Optimus

2.0 raises their optic at him.

“No one is ‘perfectly fine’. But I do get it if you don’t want to talk about it. I just want to be there for my friends, even if its as small as a conversation.”—2.0

“We aren’t having a conversation.”--Optimus

“We are talking back and forth. This is a conversation, checkmate Prime.”—2.0

Optimus sighs a bit, but a little smile does peak out.

“You’re usually hanging out with Prowl by this time, something show up?”—Optimus

2.0 shrugs a bit.

“He thought I was Bumblebee and kicked me out. I’m just waiting till he realizes his mistake.”—2.0

“Really?”--Optimus

“Give him a few minutes, that’s how long it usually takes him to realize.”—2.0

Ratchet and 2.0 had grown a special type of bond.

It had formed while looking through the ships wires making sure that everything was running smoothly.

Some things were some hidden stories that popped up, but never explored more in depth.

2.0 under one of the panels as Ratchet was in charge of handing them the tools.

“These circuit breakers need some replacing soon. These are as old as the war.”—2.0

Ratchet huffs a bit.

“It’s not that old.”--Ratchet

Buddy raises their optic at this comment but ignores it.

“Pass me the wrench, I need to bust some of these—”—2.0

“You will be doing now such thing to him!”--Ratchet

“…”—2.0 and Ratchet

2.0 rolls out from the panel and gives him a sad smile.

“This isn’t your first time on this ship, isn’t it?”—2.0

Ratchet huffs but doesn’t answer.

“If it makes you feel any better, I just the wrench to hold a screen in place while I run some diagnostics. Nothing major, just want to make sure the ship doesn’t stop on us while we’re outside the ports.”—2.0

“…Fine, but be careful with him.”--Ratchet

2.0 smiles and gives him a thumbs up before going back into the panel.

Ratchet smiles when they go back into the panel.

Prowl comes into the room.

“Ratchet have you seen 2.0?”--Prowl

2.0 pops out of the panels.

“Hi Prowl! What can I do for ya?”—2.0

“I wanted to say I’m sorry for kicking you out of my room.”--Prowl

Ratchet raising an optic to the both of them.

2.0 takes time to clarify.

“He thought I was Bumblebee and kicked me out.”—2.0

Ratchet nods.

“The kid can get annoying.”--Ratchet

“Yeah, and I forgive you Prowl. It’s a common mistake.”—2.0

Prowl was different from the rest.

He was one of the quieter and calmer souls on the ship.

Prowl did find 2.0 annoying at first.

Mainly because he thought that Bumblebee had come over to mess around.

It took a while for him to finally tell apart which twin was which from a glance.

Their personalities were like night and day, but physically that was the challenge.

2.0 and Bumblebee standing side by side in front of Prowl.

“What are they doing?”--Optimus

“The kid is trying to see if Prowl can figure out which twin is which after being blindfolded.”--Ratchet

“Good luck with that. Unless one of them talks, there’s no telling—”--Bulkhead

Prowl points at 2.0

“2.0.”--Prowl

“How?!”--Bulkhead

“Lucky guess, next time we’ll get you!”--Bumblebee

Timeskip to after Starscream’s attack and Optimus reviving again

To everyone’s surprise, Sari was the first person to tell the twins apart after the first mistake.

Of course, no one had ever got it the first time, but second time was a first.

“So, your name is 2.0?”--Sari

“Yep. I’m Bumblebee’s twin.”—2.0

“2.0 doesn’t suit you.”--Sari

2.0’s shoulder sag a bit.

“Yeah, but that’s the name they gave me.”—2.0

“But what if we gave you a new name?”--Sari

“A new name?”—2.0

“Yeah!”--Bumblebee

Bumblebee throws an enthusiastic arm around his twin’s shoulder.

“That sounds great! What do you think?”--Bumblebee

“Let’s give it a shot.”—2.0

“Oh how about—“--Bumblebee

“Buddy!”--Sari

All the bots look at Sari.

“What? They are super friendly, and they look like they would be nicknamed Buddy. So why not Buddy.”--Sari

“That has to be the—”--Bumblebee

2.0 carefully holds Sari up smiling.

“—The greatest thing ever! Everyone! My new name is now Buddy!”--Buddy

“But—”--Bumblebee

“Buddy! I like the sound of it.”--Buddy

The team was fine with the change in the end.

Sure, there were a few hiccups here and there but the name 2.0 soon left everyone’s minds when they thought about them.

Sari was also thinking about giving Buddy a new paint job in the future.

Maybe something Prowl might like…

[hellaversepolls]

Tournament Poll: Most Popular Hellaverse Fansong (2025)

EDIT: Tournament's still going, as decided by popular vote, but I'm going to be taking the advice of people that commented on that poll and say that we will not be adding any more new songs for this tournament (20 Sections is enough).

So this poll's probably gonna take a while given all the entries I have gathered, the qualifications I used to pick out the entries is listed here.

If there's any duplicate entries, please let me know and I'll replace the match they're attached to (I found like...over 200 songs, and I've done my best to remove any duplicates, but I'm merely an individual and therefore prone to error).

Also, this is an important ground rule for this tournament:

Don't bother/harass the original creators of any of these songs over the results of this tournament

This tournament's mainly a "smash or pass" for fansongs where people can find new songs to add to their playlists, it ain't that serious.

Now, obviously I trust all of my...*checks* 500 followers? when the fuck did you get here- I trust all of my 500 followers and know they would never bother/harass artists over something as silly as a poll tournament...

...however, I also recognize the Hellaverse fandom gets into drama on the daily, and if I end up being the source of it I'm not gonna be happy about it, so I'm covering my bases here.

Plus I just think it'd be kinda funny if a bunch of songs got a sudden spike in views for no explainable reason.

Help I Can't Choose: Pick whichever song you'd rather be listening to on loop for an hour in a hot car.

Voting rules and match lists under read more.

VOTING RULES:

Feel free to spread as much propaganda for your choice as you like if that’s your thing, as long as you remember the following:

- Please Don’t Threaten/Promise to Compromise the Safety of Yourself or Others (Example: “If [x] doesn’t win I will shoot myself”, “If you don’t vote for [y] I’m going to doxx you”, etc.). I cannot imagine anyone actually getting heated enough to do this, but if you’re thinking about it, please don’t :)

- Please try to avoid being racist/transphobic/etc in your propaganda (and like in general, but here is a good start).

- Please try to avoid writing anything extremely graphic (read: “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” levels of shit).

I’d appreciate it if we could avoid bot-spamming in the votes.

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ROUND 1

Experimenting with Section Names in this first round for comedy reasons

Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, Section 6

Section 7, Section 8, Section 9, Section 10, Section 11, Section 12

Section 13, Section 14, Section 15, Section 16, Section 17, Section 18,

Section 19, Section 20

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ROUND 2

Sections 1 & 2, Sections 3 & 4, Sections 5 & 6, Sections 7 & 8, Sections 9 & 10, Sections 11 & 12, Sections 13 & 14, Sections 15 & 16, Sections 17 & 18, Sections 19 & 20

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ROUND 3

Sections 1 & 2, Sections 3 & 4, Sections 5 & 6, Sections 7 & 8, Sections 9 & 10

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ROUND 4

Sections 1 & 2, Sections 3-5

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ROUND 5

Sections 1 & 2

[ii-meeple-confessions]

WAIT. wait no not just I wonder which of the meeplers would be the best at chess.

IMAGINE. they have full-on tournaments. the more competitive ones study openings prior. someone else has to move the pieces for mepad but that's okay. 3gs is there. 4s is there.

and yk what, let's add ALL the meeplers to this tournament. 1. 2. 3 and 3g, 5 and 5s and 5c, 6 and 6+, 7 and 7+, X. the meeple extended family, if you will.

I wonder what all their playstyles would be. how many of them would think to use an already-existing chess engine before they were told that's cheating. which ones wouldn't care if it's cheating and are therefore on my enemies list /hj

here's my hcs:

4s would play very aggressively and prefer when he castles the opposite way that his opponent does* (<- totally not projecting the castling thing)

3gs would probably be very wary and reluctant to play because there are A Lot of objects there and most of them were made by cobs

X doesn't know how to play chess and someone has to explain the rules to it

Toilet is there, because he's an honorary meepler. although he'd probably be out the first round 😔

various of the 'newer' meeplers would be arguing for like 20 minutes on who's the best and would have to be reminded that hey. you can Prove It.

*fun fact that's called Opposite Side Castling, which spells out OSC

Ouh… the meep chess tournament… I mentioned thinking mepad would be good at chess in my previous response but. I did kinda forget he doesn’t have hands to move the pieces with 💔💔💔 it’s okay though like you mentioned the other meeps are there they can help

(Also anon… I don’t know where else to include this but I regret to inform you that mephone2 and mephone3 don’t exist…. It goes from mephone1 to mephone3g to mephone3gs 💔💔💔)

I think many of the newer meeples would probably think to just use a preexisting chess bot of some kind… specifically the newer ones from like 6 and onward… they’re just told to “play chess” and are like “well okay. I’ll just use the easiest solution and go for the pre-existing algorhythm rather than trying myself.” Something something cobs making the mephones for efficiency at that point (even though he’s clearly not that good at it) rather than for personality and stripping them of their personality 💔💔💔 and I don’t know who wouldn’t care if it was cheating or not… maybe 6 and 6+ because iirc from what little we saw of them they were all like “bleh!!! I’m the newest mephone!! You can’t get through me!!”. They are definitely getting disqualified for cheating.

Ouh… 4s playing aggresisvely is very very real. and. opposite side castling… osc…. object show community…. I see what you did there…

Also yeah I can definitely see current-day 3gs being very reluctant to play. My answer to your first ask was specifically about pre-closet 3gs (back before and during the shimmer mission and such) but I can imagine that now that he’s out of the closet he’d definitely be more wary of playing it… perhaps it brings back a bad memory or two.

I have nothing to say on X learning how to play chess I just think the concept is funny. Family bonding! Teaching the dubiously sentient robot designed to kill people that your abusive corn father made how to play chess… in full honesty though I love when people give X redemption please let that dubiously sentient murder robot learn to feel joyous whimsy and have fun…

Yeah toilet is definitely getting out very early 💔💔💔 the only scenario that I can imagine he wins in is mepad giving him the win because mepad is a very kind man and he cares about toilet…. And also him winning by default over 6 and 6+ because theyre CHEATERS!!!!

Also the newer meeplers arguing over who’s the better chess player is so silly to me but also very very true… I can invision that happening… in my head it’s specifically the fives and the sixes because to me theyre the ones with the big “i’m the latest and greatest mephone!!” egos

[mamawasatesttube]

okay I'm going off of the assumption that you know about superman's army of personal robots that reside in the fortress of solitude that look identical to him that only show up in Some superman stories nowadays which is valid imo because it's very obviously something from a very campy but earnest era of comics that just kinda becomes creepy and uncanny in any other era

anyways. I think I might have cracked the code to make it slightly less creepy, or at least explainable outside of "he wanted an army of robots that look like him"

so the fortress in some stories has a zoo, right? full of all kinds of alien wildlife

*well* when he FIRST builds this zoo, it's fine because there's only 1 or 2 animals and he doesn't need to be around them ALL the time

but then the zoo starts growing. and he realizes, oh no, some of these animals need more constant attention and supervision than I can give them, being both a journalist and Superman

so, he builds robots to take care of them using the advanced Kryptonian technology he has. but Oh No! turns out of some these alien animals, being as skittish as they are, don't trust anything except for him, and are Not willing to be feed or groomed or cleaned after by a weird metal thing

well, the logical conclusion to *that* is to make the robots taking after them look like him. and have his voice, and even smell like him, for the animals that have a better sense of smell

this is a very straightforward and logical thought process that makes sense as he's making it, but then absolutely sounds insane to anyone he tries to explain it to. namely, Lois, the first time he takes her to the Fortress. either for an interview before she knows about his identity, or maybe just sharing more of his life after she finds out, take your pick

imagining Lois's face as she looks on to an Army of robotic superman as Clark just stands to the side looking sheepish, trying his best to explain, "well you see... I really don't know where to start with this, I'm sorry." this gives me much joy to think about

anyways if you have any comic recommendations with references to superman's zoo or anything with Lore stuff about his fortress I'd love to read them! it's stormy where I'm at right now and I'm think I'm going to pirate some superboy comics to get even more cozy

GOD. SLDKFJLDKS okay ive been sitting on this for... a day? 2 days? now and my brain has refused to come Unfried from being sick so im SO sorry i have nothing to add but this is absolutely hilarious. youre so right. this is 1000% the best explanation for the superman bots theyre just supposed to be animal caretakers

[alanaartdream]

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After reading the Danny Phantom a glitch in time I was in the mood to try to sketch Danny with his Friends Tucker and Sam

And then being as yeah Sam and Tucker did get to join Danny in the nicktoons unite game (heck you can play as Sam in the 2nd game witch is the island game as well as in the toy bots one that came after that ) so they did meet Timmy Turner so had to draw that in

And then had to draw my Fairy Timmy with the nicktoons talking with Sam being as he has met them in the games

Now for years I’ve seen maybe 1-2 artists keep the nicktoons unite fandom alive but most of the time the focus was only on the 1st game not on the other 3 in the series so didn’t see and Sam or Tucker getting added into the lineup (witch is a crying shame because Sam was quite awesome in the games; you could even play as her in at least 2 of the games (not sure about the globs of doom one where they took Timmy Turner out and had invader zim & dib as well as some villains join the team in that one; but then Timmy could and would’ve wished them out of trouble like he does for Jimmy Timmy power hour episodes so the game development team must of not wanting to deal with that tricky story plot )

Like now they’re adding in Jenny XJ9 from my teenage robot life and El Tigre tiger boy but forget to add in Sam and Tucker???

Heck Sammy squirrel; Patrick Sat and Squidward were apart of the Nicktoons unite team up for a lot of the games (also didn’t help that nicktoons started to focus more on SpongeBob Square pants more by the last of the games)

Think you could play as Sammy squirrel in the games too

But then maybe their version of nicktoons unite games aus they like to make Danny have darker life or less supportive friends/ family so maybe that’s why they don’t add them but are adding in Jenny Xj9 and tiger boy before adding in any of Danny’s friends and SpongeBob’s friends or they didn’t know the others games?

Enithr way the games have a order to them apparently (I didn’t know what the order was until some YouTube/ google searches later)

So probably just lack of information as to why it’s this way (( I mean I don’t wanna stop people having their own takes on things I love when people are creative and do their own things))

Just seems odd to not add the other characters that made it into the team or how tragic they make Danny’s life seem in their aus when honestly Danny got a very good supporting network of friends/ family & allies who helps him deal with ghosts and being half ghost (in fact he’s a bit of a adorable dork not really something I’d say is depressing gloomy or something tragic in their life)

Making me think they mixed Timmy turner’s tragic life story with Danny’s being as Danny’s the ghost boy with ghost powers they want to make him tragic when really Timmy’s one with only Wanda Cosmo poof/peri and Fairy world to help him deal with his crazy dumb neglectful parents who forget to feed him and leave him with a abusing awful babysitter; don’t really care to teach him anything and don’t care he’s dealing with awful bullies and a crazy teacher who just wants to fail him all the time to get at his fairies AND he’s only 10 years old and has to deal with all of that without any support whatsoever (if he didn’t have fairies/wanda Cosmo & poof) he’d be a dead ghost child Danny & his friends might’ve had to deal with honestly

Heck because they both been created by butch jerkman the creator once said he was planning on making them cousins (like distant cousins) at one point but gave up on the idea witch probably explains why they do look a little alike

So like Danny has a lot to deal with with the ghost and his own school bullies but his family & friends love and support him

Heck like Jimmy Danny with help of his friend Tucker & Sam after all the ghosts they’re dealing with and how emotion is a driving force for ghosts in his world would pick up Timmy only acts snarky/ sassy to protect himself and is honestly a pretty good kid his life back in his world is pretty bad any nicktoons character who’s life might be a little like Timmy’s is maybe Dib’s from invader Zim but the movie changed how Dib’s father is like (if you’d seen the invader Zim’s cartoon show boy dib has some pretty dark moments and thankfully the show doesn’t gloss over those dark moments like fairly odd parents original show use to like to do )

I mean probably overthinking things here it’s just my opinion after looking into things more and enjoying the shows and stuff

Because lately where I use to love how those artist been keeping nicktoons unite fandom going for such a long time; it’s as I go back and enjoy Danny phantom/ fairly odd parents and the nicktoons unite games that it feels like the characterising of these characters feels a bit off now

It’s still good just something is missing or don’t match up

[coc0amocha]

Player Satoru ★ "you should consider yourself lucky."

!College au!

!1,378 words – 5min 1sec reading time! (I put it through a word counter 😃👍🏽)

!player Satoru!

!Genderneutral reader!

I am no writer, this was just for fun and based off a bot I made on JanitorAi 😭

Satoru is known as the player on your college campus, but when it comes to you, he can't bring himself to break your heart

Satoru is very well known on your college campus as a total player, he has a new partner almost every week then basically just throws them away like a candy wrapper, and he's allegedly cheated on a few of them too but as of right now, that's just a rumor he hasn't confirmed nor denied yet.

On top of being a player, he's also an entitled rich kid, and he often buys his way to getting what he wants. And if he doesn't – well, he throws a tantrum So, if he has all these unpleasant qualities.. why would people still date him?! I mean, they have to know they're gonna still get played, right? Maybe they think they can 'fix him' but.. that's stupid. He's too far gone to be "fixed".

And yet, day after day, week after week, there's always someone else, someone new in his arms or fawning over him. and if it's not that then it's one of the people he dumped begging for him to take them back.

You thought all of it was stupid, that all these people dating him had to be desperate losers because why would anyone in their right mind go and date someone they know is gonna play them and the relationship will only last about a week or less? You usually just kept your distance from Satoru and anyone else he was acquainted with.

Well that was until you not only broke your mental rule of keeping distance from those Satoru was acquainted with – but also the rule of keeping distance from Satoru himself

You don't know how it happened. One second you went from thinking everyone who kept dating Satoru after knowing they'd get played was stupid to being the stupid one. He charmed you, somehow, someway. 

And it was like even though you wanted to protest for some reason you couldn't and ended up agreeing to date him. The worst part? You actually kind of like him. You don't know how or why you just..do. and you cursed yourself out internally every time you were out with him because you knew – or thought, he would dump you in only a few days.

But weeks passed and...he didn't. Usually, he dumps his partners after a week but.. not you. 2 weeks.. then 3.. then 4... now it's been a month and you two are still together. You thought it was all some sick joke.. until you two were in his dorm watching a movie and he had said to you..

"Why are you so.. attractive? And pleasant to be around? You're making my job hard, y'know." he whispered, wrapping an arm around you and pulling you closer to his body "you should consider yourself lucky." he said softly in your ear. but you weren't quite sure what he meant. Did he mean you were lucky for not getting played? Or maybe for getting him to care? Maybe even for not getting used as just some sex toy by him. or all of the above – who knows. But what you do know, is that you have him wrapped around your finger now.

"Oh, really?" You replied, still staring at the TV screen, your curiosity piqued but not enough to tear your eyes away from the movie. Your fingers drummed lightly against the arm of the couch subconsciously. "And why's that?" You asked, your voice steady, not giving away any hint of the slight skepticism that was beginning to form in the back of your mind.

Satoru breathes out a laugh at the question, squeezing you a little tighter against him, his lips brushing against your ear as he leans down to murmur in it, "Because, sweets, you're special."

He states simply as if that should explain everything. He pulls back slightly, looking down at you with his vibrant blue eyes, a smirk playing on his lips. "You're not like the others." 

He adds, trailing his fingers down your arm, leaving goosebumps in their wake. He leans in again, his voice dropping to a low whisper, "And I like that." He pauses, his gaze flicking to your lips before returning to your eyes, a slight smirk still playing on his lips. "You're cute, you're smart, you're funny... and you're mine." He says, his voice firm and sure on the last part. He leans in, his lips brushing against yours in a soft, teasing kiss.

"And I'm not letting you go anytime soon." He murmurs against your lips before pulling back, a playful grin on his face. "So, you better get used to it, sweets." You let out a soft, delicate giggle, your cheeks flushed from the warmth of the unexpected compliment and the soft brushes of his lips against your skin.

You couldn't help but scoff, your mind still skeptical as you playfully rolled your eyes at him. "You're not serious..." You murmured, your voice laced with disbelief, trying to mask the excitement stirring in your chest. The cogs inside your head were turning, contemplating whether or not he was just saying these things to you, like he did with everyone else. But the sincerity in his touch and the genuine look in his eyes made you question this assumption.

For the first time, you entertained the thought that maybe you weren't just another notch on his bedpost. It puts a bright smile on your face.

Satoru lets out a chuckle at your scoff and roll of your eyes, a smile still lingering on his lips. "Dead serious, sweets. I've never wanted to keep anyone around like I do you." He assures you, his fingers tracing lazy circles on your upper arm.

"It's like... with the others, it was easy to forget about them or push them to the side. But with you, despite all my efforts, I can't do that." He admits, his expression softening. "You're my first, Sweets. My first that I wanted to keep. So, yeah. I'm not letting you go." He reiterates, leaning in a bit closer, his arm tightening around you.

"And before you ask, no. It's not just because you're pretty or because we're having fun. I genuinely like being around you. The good, the bad, the ugly... I just... I like you." He pauses, his gaze traveling to your lips before meeting your gaze once more. "And that's why it's hard for me to play my usual game, sweets. Because I actually... care." He finishes softly as if admitting that was a difficult thing to say.

His hand lifts, his thumb brushing against your cheek softly before gently cupping the side of your face. "You're special, Sweets. And I'm not going to let you go."

You threw your head back and let out a light laugh, sparking a teasing grin on your lips. "Pfft- Well then.. I love you too, loser" Casually, you reached over, gently cupping his face, your fingers sliding against his jawline. Your eyes met his, the warmth in them mirroring the warmth in your chest. With a soft, feather-like touch, you pressed your lips against his in a tender kiss, silently conveying your affection.

Satoru lets out an easy laugh, his eyes crinkling at the corners, amused by your playful response. He leans in, meeting your kiss with a softness that belied the burning intensity beneath. His hand wrapped around yours, his thumb rubbing against the back of your hand.

As the two of your lips parted, you whispered, "But you're mine, and that makes you the winner, right?"

Satoru smirked at your words, giving you a mischievous wink. "That's true, I suppose. Since I'm yours, I'm the winner." He let out a soft, satisfied hum, shifting slightly so you were nestled more comfortably against him. He leaned in, his lips brushing against your ear as he whispered, "And you're stuck with me now, sweets. It's a win-win, wouldn't you say?"

His finger trailed down your arm, leaving goosebumps in its wake, as he looked back to the TV screen. He settled back against the couch, draping an arm over the back of it to rest his head on. With a sigh of contentment, you two continued to watch the movie, enjoying each other's company

❥・・ ┈┈┈┈┈‪༚༅༚˳ . ୨୧ . ˳༚༅༚┈┈┈┈ ・・❥

[daz4i]

possibly controversial opinion under the cut

lemme preface this by saying that i think genAI sucks and is stealing in everything but name and i don't think shit like gpt should exist

with that out of the way. it feels to me like the discussions around ai generated fics fall flat bc the people making the arguments against them don't seem to realize why people "write" them in the first place

like. most ppl who generate fics do it for their personal entertainment. if they post it i noticed it's more of a "might as well" thing. but generally it doesn't seem to be for easy clout (especially since. if they disclose that it's ai they're only gonna get hate. but they still do reveal it so i think it's more of a case of not realizing what's wrong with it)

i see the whole "if it's worth reading then it's worth writing" thing or calling them too lazy to write their own fics and this absolutely misses the point imo

like. as others have said in the past. when you're an artist it's basically second nature for you. it seems like an obvious thing that anyone can do. needless to say, the same is ofc true about writing as well

but that's not the case for other ppl - most people, in fact. many think that they're not good writers or straight up don't know how to even approach writing a story (especially a fanfic where you gotta adhere to predetermined characterization). and i think commonly, in fandom spaces, these are the ones who make ai fics (from what i've seen at least. i could be wrong and atp it did turn into a clout thing. idk)

and it's easy to say "make an effort" but 1 some ppl just don't have time or energy 2 for some ppl no matter how hard they try it'll likely not work for a variety of reasons 3 sometimes you just don't like your writing. and you don't have money to commission a fic of your idea

this isn't me defending them. as i said i think generative ai is theft. my point is, you can't actually open a discussion about it with the ppl who do it who might genuinely not understand what's wrong with it, when you don't understand WHY they do it in the first place. you won't convince them to drop gpt and open a word document by calling them lazy or saying their ideas are pointless if they don't bother putting effort into them

[as a side note that imo is relevant to this topic, i think most ppl who use character ai to roleplay with are just shy ngl. especially when they wanna rp as themselves rather than a canon character which not only makes it harder if not impossible to find a partner, it also adds a layer of vulnerability that they understandably might not want to share with a stranger or even a friend (setting aside how these bots probably collect whatever information you give them bc idk if these ppl are even aware of that). all that in addition to it generally being hard to find a partner, often someone in your age groups, who also wants to play the same scenarios as you. like unless you're super lucky you likely won't find a replacement for character ai that isn't just roleplaying with yourself]

i think the main ways to combat this mentality are

1. encourage commissioning writers (like. i myself did not know it's a thing until i was relatively old. this is absolutely not as common as commissioning art, especially for people who aren't actively involved in writer's communities, which these people clearly aren't. so raise awareness or turn them to your writer friends who take commissions)

2. explain the harm of generative ai without attacking the character of those who use it. most people, when insulted, don't exactly become excited to listen to what else you have to say (this is true abt so many things tbh. but especially when it comes to fandom stuff where community is the whole point). some might even double down out of spite. a lot of these people are young, too, and i don't think being bullied by online strangers would help combat this behavior beyond making them so afraid to ever make a mistake again that they'll leave fandom altogether

3. if someone's showing willingness - saying they use ai bc they genuinely don't know how to approach writing - just give them tips and references for how to start, if you want. if there is any seasoned writer reading this who has a lot of guides and references on hand, maybe it's worth putting them all together in a masterpost aimed directly at ai writers who might genuinely want to try to write themselves but don't know how

like any online discussion (and. many irl issues. but i don't wanna make this post too heavy), sympathy and trying to get where the other side is coming from would yield way better results than using ppl's mistakes as a way to be smug about your moral high ground (sorry if that sounds combative, i genuinely don't know how to phrase this more nicely 😭 bc this is what most of these posts seem like to me. many of them even openly admitting so)

[i may sound touchy bc, like, while i would never use genAI to write fics for me, i genuinely understand where these ppl are coming from. i hate my writing and if i ever actually manage to finish a story i never read it myself except maybe years later when i'm able to forget that i was the one who wrote it. the prospect of being able to just generate my ideas into an already written story for me to read sounds very enticing, but it's not currently an option (even if i wanted to commission someone to write an idea for me, it'd probably cost a fortune since most of them are long as fuck, or just require too much of my own tweaking in order for it to fit what i have in mind to the point it almost seems pointless to involve another person in the process), at least not in an ethical way that doesn't take away from actual writers. but. yeah. if i come off as sensitive in this post, that's why lol]