#category: release

[crjupdates]

carlyraejepsen: Tonight is the night!! The Loneliest Time rises with the moon at 12am, wherever you are 🌝🌚 Reviews are coming in and I’m feeling a litttttle (a lot?!) overwhelmed so all I can say right now is… thank you for giving my album the warmest possible welcome @/rollingstone @/thecut @/consequence @/theatlantic!! I can’t wait for you to hear it!

[bluastro-yellow]

Kurvitz stresses that Kim doesn't actually have a character sheet hidden in Disco Elysium's code. Imagining that Lieutenant Kitsuragi has only one natural attribute point in Motorics helps the ZA/UM team to understand the depth of his character beyond what's referenced in the game's dialogue. "We just came up with this stuff for coherency," says Kurvitz. "And because we're nerds."

"I like to think Kim has a Thought Cabinet project called Revolutionary Aerostatic Brigades that he's worked on since he was a teenager," Kurvitz says. "This raises the learning caps for his Reaction Speed and Interfacing."

Kim's high Volition skill makes him impervious to prying, Kurvitz says, as the detective can find out on occasions being met with Kim's brick-wall resolve. Kim often chastises these whims of the detective's, but will occasionally play along. The Lieutenant finds his new partner funny, says Kurvitz.

Kim is naturally shit at Motorics and thinks Harry is funny source

[surreal-duck]

tin soldier and a disastrous doll

[miyku]

[theinfinitedivides]

you didn't have to tell me to come twice yk i'm already on my knees as it is

[peachdoxie]

As if Across the Spider-Verse wasn't already impressive enough, it's the longest animated movie from an American studio. Two hours and twenty minutes. No other Hollywood animation from this century breaks two hours.

[chickenmcnuggies]

After sitting on the mostly finished update for a month, version 2.0 of my Mythical Beasts mod for Dwarf Fortress is finally out!

TLDR it adds in:

6 new creatures! Owlbear, Tressym, Basilisk, Stymphalian Bird, Mandrake, and Undead Dragon.

1 new plant, mandrake root. Which can be embarked with, or it's seeds can be gotten from wild mandrake corpses.

6 Giant variants! For Griffon, Bicorn, Chimera, Warg, Fae Dragon, and Stymphalian Bird.

Other smaller changes:

General spite improvements

Warg has a new, 1 tile big sprite to better represent it's size. It's old sprite was repurposed for the giant variant.

Added two new colors wyverns can be, yellow and black. Also added the [CHILD] tag to wyverns, as they were missing it before. They also now have the [MEANDERER] tag to make ones in savage biomes less lethal.

Added a lot of body definitions, basically meaning things like pegasus, griffon, hippogriff, phoenix, and white dragons have their body parts covered in the 'correct' materials.

White dragons, wurms, and leviathans had their breath materials changed into multi emission interactions. Making them deadlier.

Earth Wurm's mandibles are now covered in chitin, and it has a shell of chitin on it's back now.

Gorgon and Qilin's interactions are now proper line of sight ones. Gorgon's glare can now 'miss', 20% of the time.

Gorgon and Ents now have facial feature descriptors.

Ent bodies are now made of layers of custom plant materials, making them tougher, as well as more similar to other living creatures in battle.

[lil-xiao-200bc]

i present to you: my taste in 2D men (a spectrum)

some of them overlap to make a silly little venn diagram

[crjupdates]

Talking To Yourself is out now!

[fantastic-nonsense]

tally of the (core or former core) Batfamily members whose full pre-reboot history is more or less supposedly canon again as of September 2022:

Bruce

Tim

Damian

Kate

Helena

Jean-Paul

Characters whose pre-reboot history is now largely canon again but the extent to which pre-reboot canon actually applies is ambiguous:

Dick

Jason

Stephanie

Selina

Characters whose histories are currently so screwed up we genuinely don't know what's canon and what's not:

Barbara

Cassandra

Talia

[marigoidz]

You know those videos where people do unhinged breakdowns of a movie/show/book/whatever? I think Emma would have a second channel where she posts that kind of thing opposed to her usual vlogs

[paimonial-rage]

A while back, my friend asked me what I thought my writing style was. It's been something that has been sitting on my mind for a while, but I think I finally got to an answer. I'm putting this on here because, one, I like talking about myself, and two, I have a bad memory so if I'm ever asked this question again, I have something to refer to.

Simply put, my writing style, at least for longer fics, can best be described as opening a can of worms and then wrapping them up prettily into a present. My main goal when writing a fic is to introduce tension, then bring it to catharsis. Majority of my fics will have a central core theme. This theme can be a statement, problem, point, etc. By the end of the fic, my goal is to reaffirm the theme, explain it, subvert it, or bring it to closure. However, because I want my fic to be akin to a present, I try to wrap everything up as satisfyingly as I can.

One can say that introducing conflict and resolving it is the form for every story out there, but I specifically want my fics to bring about catharsis. I want the ending to give endorphins. I want it to feel good. I want it to feel right. I want it to be a proper ending. I want it to be the mic drop at the end of a killer slam poetry performance. I'm not saying I'm good at it, but I want the ending of my fics to be a statement that there is absolutely no doubt about what my story is about.

I'll say this again. I'm not necessarily good at it, but the way I try to achieve this is primarily through the manipulation of tension. I do my best to frame everything, from the sequence of the events to the wording of my sentences, to keep an ongoing sense of tension through the fic. You as the audience is tasked to deal with this tension. However, it is through this emotional labor that when the tension is finally resolved, the ending feels better because it was deserved. I want my audience to feel that the work they put in was worth it.

However, this is not so simply done. As before, the ending of a fic needs to be framed properly. There should not be any loose threads or worms wriggling around. So then comes the question of how does one do this? I'll be honest, there are many different ways, and despite this, I still have a difficult time. My favorite way is through parallels. I enjoy making a direct parallel between the ending and the theme or the beginning of the fic. Either way, you should feel goosebumps from the ending you choose. You should be proud of it. That's the only way you know you did it right.

Some examples of things that fall into this writing style is What Destiny Has Brought. The theme is self-worth and self-acceptance. The parallel is first Fischl giving her true name to reader. And ends with reader giving her name back to her. In Follow the Wind (part one/part two), the theme is control and fear of change. The parallel is that you start off forever running after him, but in the end when he finally lets you in, you overtake him. In Slitherer-Outer, the theme is that Zhongli never pays for anything and here's proof! However, the end of the story chucks that whole premise out the window in the rudest way possible.

[hyunubear]

no wAY😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sadgirlautumn]

I can’t believe Morgan Wallen is famous…

[hella1975]

i have a brand ❤️