#bryanna rambles

[soleiliana]

Y'know, I was happy when they remastered the Mass Effect trilogy but I secretly hoped they'd remaster Dragon Age: Origins too but...

I DO NOT want to see a broodmother in 1080p 4K HD thank you very much.

[pushing500]

The Grand Eureka Colony Tour!

It's here at last! The Grand Finale Colony tour! Woo! I'm very proud of this colony, I hope you like it too.

For a sample, let's begin with a shot of the whole of Eureka:

Ta-dah! Isn't it gorgeous? It's a very big colony, so once again I'm going to put the rest of it under the cut so it won't clog up people's dashboards with my screenshots and rambling.

Starting on the left, we've got our first animal pens. The large pen is home to a variety of animals, listed as follows:

Laser, Dominator, Tryst, Clementine, Quintin, Nikita, Safari, Excalibur and Ragdoll the alpacas

Devotion and Mozart the neutrolopes (like boomalopes but for neutroamine, from the 'ReGrowth: Core' mod)

Verona the Cyrenian hind (from the 'Alpha Mythology' mod)

Samson the teratogenic originator (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod)

Teacup, Hayley, Portia, Nadine, Aiko, Fraiser, Salty, Chaplin and Smarmer the horses

Also sleeping in the large pen's barn but not confined by the fences is:

Calvin, Honcho, Whoopie, Zombie, and Paprika the nightling cubs (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod)

Kiki the murkling (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod)

Bryanna and Marauder the red pandas (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded' mod)

Tommy Brock the badger, one of only two animals in the colony who does not have a randomized name (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded' mod)

Elegance the baby razorjack (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod)

The small pen is where we keep our ducks. They are named Olivia, Pepe, Shrimp, Dynamo, Zack, Tipsy, Augusta, and Adele. They're very useful for eggs, and we cycle through the duck population every few quadrums so we have fresh meat to make kibble (don't tell the ducks that, though).

Speaking of meat, next to the pens are our abattoir/kibble-making freezer, our nutrient paste dispenser, and the prison. Prisoners (and suspected-mime Eva) are put on a strict nutrient-paste-only diet, so the proximity helps.

You can also see three of our twelve chemfuel-powered generators and a teeny-tiny secret patch of smokeleaf that we're growing to keep hippie-drug-cultist Gracie happy. Below that are some decorative chemfuel barrels and our sewage treatment plant.

Next there's the hot tub room with its adjoining facilities, famous for its romantic pink lighting and for being the place where Wookshys proposed to Albina back when I didn't like him.

Also pictured is the children's bedroom, with high-tech illuminated beds, dresser, and end tables so they don't need to worry about being scared of the dark.

Moving on, we have the classroom that has seen so many of my colonists pass on their knowledge to the children in a variety of sweet and amusing interactions. Next to the classroom is the obligatory schoolyard vegetable patch, which provides most of the vegetarian component for the kibble made in the abattoir next to it.

Don't mind Jesse and his square, by the way. I was already drafting this post before a lovely anonymous ask helped me fix the Curse of Jesse's Box (I love you, anon)

Here is the ship we have worked so painstakingly to construct, pictured alongside the tomb for cuterpillar Bernie, a patch of opuntia (prickly-pear) cacti from when Albina was testing one of her psycasts, and the thrumbo barn where Pharaoh, Brandi, Big Dipper, Caramel, Bellboy, Ray, Belladonna, Dollie, Apollo, and Dallas sleep at night.

The Ancient Danger has been transformed into a delightful hybrid space, as it is one part laboratory for mechanitor Fafo to muck about in, one part rec room with a billiards table, a dartboard, and even a television set, and one part drug operation because it is where we grow our psychoid plants ready for when Hussar Henry is old enough to need them (along with some mint and uranium root for funsies).

There are also six more chemfuel generators, an infinite chemreactor, and the legendary monument that Fafo carved depicting her then-fiance now-husband Kaz, which is used as a meditation for all colonists with the artistic focus type.

This is the pool room, which comes with an arcade machine, longwave radio, and roulette table. Next to it are the last three chemfuel generators.

Underneath, there are two barrack rooms. The one on the left is home to Gracie, Emerald, Grump, Hot Minute, and Sam the razorjack. The barracks on the right is currently only home to Jesse and Kelorul, along with Beau the razorjack. There's also a bathroom close by for easy access.

The devil sheep pen is home to many adorable little red devilstrand-producing sheep from the 'Alpha Animals' mod. Sixteen of them to be exact! Their names are Blossom, Petit, Persephone, Tank, Clarence, Crockett, Stellar, Dudette, Violator (my favourite), Honed, Soldier, Heather, Seargent, Fabian, Adonis, and Cassandra. Ingrid the red panda also sleeps in the devil sheep pen for some reason.

To the right you can see a neat little dining area with some sculptures and an industrial radio for recreation, and below that is the temple used by followers of Wendy, Laurie, and Jesse's ideology. There's also a horseshoes pin, for anybody who feels like some low-tech recreation.

Then there are the boomalope pens, made out of granite instead of wood to avoid any potential fire mishaps. They contain the main providers of the chemfuel we use to power our twelve chemfuel generators. The top pen contains our two male boomalopes, Hunter and Dude, and the bottom pen has the three females, Margarita, Missile, and Liability.

I am of the opinion that "Missile" and "Liability" are the best randomly generated names a boomalope could ever have.

Here is our Wedding Chapel/music room, a lovely little space that the couples of Eureka like to frequent in order to enjoy some musical romance with one another (demonstrated here by Kaz playing the drums for his lovely wife).

Outside we also have a little barbecue and dining area for those few colonists who aren't vegetarian, and in the top left corner, you can see the band node that Fafo is tuned to so that she can hopefully get more mechs in the future!

This is Eureka's clothing closet (and where we keep the caravan bedrolls too). That long rectangle building in the bottom left is a "monument" we built for the Empire, which is now a fireproof chemfuel storeroom, and also where we brew chemshine to sell to traders (and to satiate Eva's chemical interest trait).

Fafo made both of those monuments, but only one of them (the pyramid) is of legendary quality. The other is only excellent quality, and depicts "a politician playing blackjack with a thousand hooligans".

Some of the planting zones are here, too, including our blueberry field and apiary, one of our chickpea patches, some rice, some cotton, and some sugarcane.

Some more planting zones (rice, chickpeas, potatoes, onions, more rice and chickpeas, even more chickpeas, gold fern, allspice, plasteel bulbs), along with our only wind turbine and the first solar panel we ever built.

The bedroom at the top right is Albina and Wookshys' room, they share it with Rogan the rottweiler (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded' mod). The bedroom below that is Kaz and Fafo's room, which they share with Kaz's bonded razorjack Roxy (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod). The bedroom in the middle is where Hazrov and Candlelight sleep, along with Reaper the razorjack and Anatoly the Tasmanian devil (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded - Endangered' mod).

Four more bedrooms here:

Top left is Wendy and Tamarind's room, shared with Stabber the razorjack (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod)

Top right is Kawoo and Andrei's room, shared with Frisbee the pulmonoscorpius (from the 'Megafauna' mod). Outside their bedroom are also three cheese presses, where we... ~drumroll please~... make cheese!!

Bottom left is Vu and Laurie's room

Bottom right is Baz and Zonovo's room, which they share with Jellybean the razorjack.

Moving on, we can see the temple of The Wavian Path (Wookshys' sub-cult), with the tomb we built for Wendy and Pearl underneath it. Pearl is still buried there, alongside Fafo's nephew Pinovo because Wendy was resurrected.

Across from the tomb is the landing pad for shuttles and such, along with our ground-penetrating scanner and long-range mineral scanner. In the top left corner, you can also see our main workshops, which contain our smelter, smithy, machining table, fabrication bench, and animal bionics tables. The room with the fabrication bench is also where Buccanneer the drebbbd (from the 'Ebbbs' mod) sleeps.

Outside the workshops are our weapons shelves.

I'm glad I eventually decided to like Wookshys, look how content he is hanging out here on his little fishing bridge. He's close by a lovely picnic table, some bathrooms, an obelisk, and some plantations of almond trees and water chestnuts. He's having a grand time. This site is so pretty, it's one of my favourite places in the whole colony.

There's also a bathing zone on the other side of the bridge, but I... Uh... I wouldn't swim there for a while. The recent raids might have polluted the water a bit.

Here's our natural meditation area, home to our beloved Anima tree, three Gauranlen trees, and a little jade nature shrine.

Connie is connected to one of the Gauranlen trees, and she has two berrymaker dryads named Herbert and Mortimer. They're very sweet, and I love them both.

Jesse is connected to another Gauranlen tree and currently has a medicinemaker dryad named Wiseguy. A big help to the colony and an all-around cute little guy.

The last Gauranlen tree is connected to colony leader Albina, and she has a funky little acidic spitter dryad from the 'Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Dryads' mod. His name is Rolland, and I adore him. He's so snakey and fun. I should try to draw him someday.

Here's our freezer, our kibble shelves with Colonist-Gracie's secret smokeleaf-joint-rolling crafting spot hidden between them, one of the bathrooms, the water pumping/treatment facilities for said bathroom, and our single mortar with the shelf that has shells for it.

This is the majestic temple for The Path of Animism, the one true ideology for The Animist Alliance. We don't do a whole lot in here, but it's nice to look at. Below the temple is the storeroom for things that don't have to be in the freezer, which is mostly wood and silver at the moment.

We also have the crematorium and some of our fruit trees (four lemon trees, two avocado trees, a blood orange tree, and an apple tree). In the weird divet in the wall of the crematorium is an animal sleeping spot for our geriatric salamander Orion, from the 'Alpha Mythology' mod.

Here we have the obelisk marking our crash-landing site, next to our patch of peas and our outdoor dining area. In the top left corner is Debby and Eva's bedroom, which they share with Polly and Limbo the nightlings (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod).

Beneath that room is the room Brennan used to share with Debby, but now sleeps in alone since the divorce. There are sleeping spots in there for Cinnamon and Moonstruck, Brennan's steel and rock constructs, but I don't think they actually sleep, so the spots aren't used. Behind her room is the stonecutting bench.

In the middle, above the pea patch, is Barghest's room. He's ascetic and doesn't care for fancy things, so it's just him, his bed, and a sleeping spot for Flicker the razorjack (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod). Sleeping along the outside of Barghest's room are:

Hood, Elias, and Huck the red pandas (from 'Vanilla Animals Expanded')

Sinbad the thrumebbb (from the 'Ebbbs' mod)

Witch the cave bear (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded - Caves' mod)

Echo the short-faced bear (from the 'Megafauna' mod)

Asset the ankylosaurus (from the 'Biomes! Prehistoric' mod)

And then on the right side, we've got the kitchen/dining room, alongside the art and tailoring benches.

Eureka has a very well-equipped hospital, with plenty of high-tech medical facilities and a sterile drugs lab which has been put to use making lots of medicine to tend injuries and go-juice for when Henry is old enough to be dependant on it.

The research lab is where Brennan spends most of her time, and often one of the kids will hang out in there with her, radiotalking to get their learning desire up.

You'll never be short a bathroom in Eureka, there are plenty to choose from, and most of them are quite nice (in my humble opinion). There's also a lovely hot spring surrounded by manicured lawn, should you choose to relax that way. It is situated quite close to our rock/bone pile, but I can't be bothered rearranging it, so it remains an eyesore, I'm afraid.

There are also some transport pods that are used for the occasional trip out-of-colony or to dispose of toxic wastepacks until we finish researching the wastepack atomizer.

If hot springs aren't to your taste, you could always relax in the saunas! They're found right beside the bedroom that Irwin and Connie share with Bartholomew the ripper hound (from the 'Alpha Animals' mod) and Energizer the angora rabbit (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded - Royal Animals' mod), who is the only animal aside from Tommy Brock the badger to not have a randomized name.

Next to Irwin and Connie's room is a small table and two more animal sleeping spots, one for Chianti the boombat (from the 'Vanilla Animals Expanded' mod) and Bernardo the dimorphodon (from the 'Biomes! Prehistoric' mod).

Eureka has plenty of guest rooms for hosting friends and family from other factions, mostly our allies from The Android Alliance. We don't charge for staying here, as the bounties of The Animist Alliance should be free of charge for everyone to enjoy!

In the top right, you can also see most of the water treatment facilities attached to the prison bathrooms and the hot tub room.

Finally, we have some more solar panels and our cocoa tree plantation, surrounded by coral coconut trees grown by another of Albina's psycasts gone awry.

And that concludes the endgame colony tour! I hope you like Eureka as much as I do. It's been a lot of fun playing with the City Builders meme, as I usually go for the "massive superstructure" instead of "quaint village", so it was a nice change of pace. I also think the end result is a very homey feeling community, so that's nice.

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[ignisol]

Okay, so apparently Disney owns Hulu now. And the TOG TV show is going to be on Hulu (i think? how long has it been since we’ve heard anything on that...) so you know what that means.

Aelin is a Disney Princess now, I don’t make the rules people I just say the facts.

[nutterfox]

Art Submission Masterpost for:

Toothed Morality (Send Me Flowers) by rightsidethru

“The world is a dark place, moje kochanie; it is one filled with monsters, always ready to gobble you whole. Be wary of the promises they give: seal every vow with blood and bone and Name. A True Name, one that will bind them to their word.”

“But how will I know that they’re telling the truth, Matka? Couldn’t they lie…?”

“You’ll know, mały płomień.”

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It was a pleasure to work with the wonderful @rightsidethru at this year’s @steterreversebang! Thank you Bryanna for managing to get through my super long ramblings, I love you. :D 

Also I would like to thank the mods for the hosting too, it was perfect!

[ofmanyworldsarchived]

On Monday my blog turns two months and I was lucky enough to surpass 250 followers this weekend, so I decided to do something special to celebrate it. I’ve decided to combine a bias list & giveaway since I skipped doing anything for 100 & 200 followers on this blog!

B I A S L I S T (aka my squad)

@chasingxprongs; my cheerleader, my goatwife (yes this joke is never dying), my queen of england. thank you for everything. you’re friendship is irreplaceable and i love you very much. i know you wanted me to make this entire post about you (likely to make up for killing James ff so my muse could shag his sister), but that just wouldn’t be fair, now would it? So instead I will remind everyone that I very well could have dedicated an entire post speaking to the wonderful person you are, the amazing and supportive friend you’ve been to me and the grossly talented writer you are despite your slow dinosaur-ness.

@inthequiver; B, I can say with confidence that you are one of the kindest people on this site. from the first day i mustered up the courage to speak to you, you have been gracious, honest, kind, and sweet. you are such a good listener, always understanding and beyond that a phenomenal, understanding roleplay partner. anyone lucky enough to call you a friend and a writing partner is a very lucky person because you’ll be both for life and i’m so grateful for that. I made this blog for the SOLE purpose of roleplaying with you and I’m so glad i’ve gotten to do so much of that with you & can’t wait to do that more and more. i truly adore you!

@mctherfvckers; jana may seem like a ‘new’ addition to my squad, but she ain’t. she’s my girl, my peralta, my personal hillbilly ( i mean she says y’all). i’m so glad we’ve reconnected and we’ve hit it off so well because you are the light of my life, we are two oldies living the old fart, salty life and where would i be without? thank you for putting up with my ramblings, my servings of salt and my paranoia (which is great) and for always being such a positive spirit. And thank you for amazing ships, plots and writing which are always so much fun to write with you and flail, and laugh about!

@queenbrys; my spoiled brat of a princess. honestly i’ve always thought of you as like a little sister, i want to protect you and also make fun of you all of the time. but you are my world baby girl, you are SO precious to me, and i don’t know what i’d do without you? like i genuinely mean this even though we’re rarely ‘nice’ to each other, but i love you so much bry even though in my head you name is BRI as in brian and not BREE as in bryanna. :P thanks for putting up with me for the last year (it’s getting close to a year now wtf), and for writing with me and listening to and kicking my ass when i need it. 

@russkiyuragan; my saltmate. storm. my beeb, thanks for everything, all the chat, all the understanding all the ways you’ve helped me learn, i really value your friendship and i hope you know how special you are to me. xo.

 T H E D R E A M T E A M (aka the loves of my life)

all of these lovelies SHOULD be on your followlist because they are the most wonderful, talented people you will ever come across. i personally recommend each & every one of them to you and know you won’t regret getting to know them. thank you guys for sticking with me for this long. 

@siiriusblxck, @warbleralways, @twitchexrs, @glitzncharms, @vaillance, @multifariousxmuses, @magnusbanedfromperu, @goldtouched, @undeniablyawerewolf, @claryy, @theoriginalbadasspuckerman, @sevansandco, @sexylcvers, @stormland, @warfated, @believeinxtheimpossible, @pianokeysandbowties, @notmcknickers, @theindieflash, @forrkeeps

G I V E A W A Y

To show my appreciation to all my lovely followers, I’ve decided to do a small little giveaway to whoever wants to participate! All you have to do is REBLOG this post + you MUST be following me! You may reblog as many times as you want and each reblog will be an entry into the giveaway! I will pick winners using a random generator. Giveaway will end on March 25, 2017.

FIRST PRIZE: Set of 250 customized icons + customized promo graphic for the face claim/blog of your choice.

SECOND PRIZE:   Set of 100 customized icons + customized promo graphic for the face claim/blog of your choice.

THIRD PRIZE: Choice of set of 25 customized icons for the face claim/muse of your choice OR a customize promo graphic for the blog of your choice.

icon examples; (x) (x) (x) (x)

promo graphic examples; (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) 

Happy Reblogging & Thanks for Following!

[soleiliana]

Okay, so like, do Spectres pay their taxes? Or is it like... Tax exception?

[soleiliana]

Y'know what? Joker deserved his own loyalty mission tbh

[soleiliana]

Listen... I know we all harp on Garrus for saying that there is no one he respects more than Shepard after they come on to him like that but listen...

Is there really anything else he could've said that would've been sexier?

[soleiliana]

Playing Rune Factory 5 after waiting nigh a decade for this game and I DID NOT think I would fall for the furry beast man and yet, here we are.

Was entirely expecting to become interested in the succubus tho, and I was right.

[soleiliana]

Do y’all think Shakarios celebrate valentines day? Garrus and Thane just going WTF at this human lovers day and wondering what to do meanwhile Shep might not even celebrate and is oblivious to their plight.

[soleiliana]

So in shakarian fic Garrus is always 👀 about how much shorter any Shepard is than him but humans can be 7'0 too, sometimes.

So a custom Shepard that is 7'0 like a Turian whose very existence confuses the hell out of the alien crewmates cause "what??? I thought humans were small???" was the general consensus

[soleiliana]

Garrus Vakarian,

The light of my life

The sugar in my coffee

The butter on my corn

[soleiliana]

Looking up Andromeda lore and not being interested in the romance options except I am interested in SAM...

BIOWARE I want to explore the emotionally intimate intricacies of sharing a body with the AI installed in my brain and what it means to truly be sapient and alive with them

[soleiliana]

I reject Bioware's reality and substitute my own.

[soleiliana]

Mass Effect has a lot of running gags but I think my favorite has got to be Turians in ME1 being low-key obsessed with human phrases

[soleiliana]

Woke up and today is the 9th of June...

Am now 23.

Time marches on.