#entry 20

[kr4bzy]

Re watching mh (I’m sad again) and I’m on entry 20 and it’s SOOO

“I’ve been supervising!! Because I’m the script supervisor!!!” Jay is so down bad for Alex it’s physically nauseating

[hornets-dream-journal]

had 2 dreams tonight.

in the first one i was very sick and also lived with this meatsuit's piece of shit mother. and like i spent most the time laying down. and i had like. a frankly ridiculous stash of energy drinks, and usually i was too unwell to grab an energy drink from there. and my stash kept slowly diminishing. and whenever i said something about that, the piece of shit mother would just reply with something like "well you have so many of those, even if someone is taking them that's not a problem". and like i also kept getting sicker. and at some point i told the piece of shit that i think i need to see a doctor. and the sack of shit just told me i don't like doctors, so she won't be taking me to one, and i just need to rest.

[entry333]

bro is literally dying in the background also interesting that hes saying its cold in june and in that one entry was it 17 ? when jay and tim and alex were there that alex remarks on jay wearing a jacket and he says its cause hes cold ermmmm interesting interesting

[bitter-shy]

Update about the green-flag guy that I'm going out with:

He is now my suitor. He shook hands with my parents, he gave them gifts (which I did recommend since he needed a bit push on what he was going to give lol)

Though we did have some rough patches a few months after, we are now going better and stronger.

He used to be only following my lead which he explained it was because he didn't want to do any mistake to our relationship. I used to bottle feeling up and not share it to anyone else, which I explained that I grew up doing that and I am comfortable with that setup.

Now he insists to do things for me even when I said I can handle it and even when I told him it's not needed. (P.S I really did needed it or wanted it)

Now, he became my human diary, he knows me so much more now and assures me he'll listen whenver I seem to draw back again.

I hope this goes even better. Because I would make him my boyfriend once I get my majorship in college.

[bakanokiwami]

[2024] TOP 20 PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA

To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such.

The numbers under each rank indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings based on last year's (Nov. 24, 2023) rankings, which can be found here. NEW means it's their first time entering in the top 20. The gray numbers in parenthesis indicate how much fanworks it gained since last year.

The data for this year and last year's rankings were taken while logged in, so lcoked fanworks are included in the count.

A few web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it.

Stella Firma ranks 21st in the rankings this year, dropping 5 places from last year. (Figured they deserve a special mention since The Magnus Protocol is technically under The Magnus Archives).

Still keeping A. Walker, et. al. as is for the f@tt fans.😂❤

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

ETA: Typo at Rank 15! Campaign dropped 1 rank, not 3. Sorry about that!

[shisasan]

Maybe this is how God exists - not as a being, but as the loving force of everything learning, expanding, remembering. Maybe love isn’t about gravity, but about what lingers, what ripples outward, what continues even when we’re gone.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

Some more Thrawn sketches (and Eli recreating the Spiderman meme). I love them so much your honor

[theborzoiarebackintown]

We won the costume contest 😂 theme was music legends, we entitled this “Bach to Basics” because how could we not?

[nevvn]

a little 'thank you' gift for my beloved friend @once-in-a-blood-moon who made this lovely fic ☺️ (go read it here!!! 🫵)

also posting it today because day 19 prompt is 'solomon' 😗

[jojaxcola]

So I, like a lot of people, love your mockumentary series. And this is a stretch and probably won't get done for ages but could I use your mockumentaries to write a fanfic? It won't be long or complex, more of an extension to the scenes you've drawn. I'll give credits, don't worry but yeah.

But if I do, I'd love if you answered a few characterisation questions.

I know the farmer filmed some but is any of it not farmer filmed?

Why is the farmer doing this?

Are there any fanon or hcs you used to create characters that I should use too?

Expect more soon + updates

Thank you so much!! I had this in my inbox for a while and I've been thinking for a while about how to answer, because I'm not sure how much I want to give away at this point in the series hehe 👀 but I hope these answers are helpful

I consider the farmer/producer to be the project lead and to be present for everything that's being filmed. While they take on some of their own filming, they have a small crew to handle things like camera work and sound. During the talking head segments, the farmer is the one prompting them with questions as needed

The farmer is still a Joja employee like in the beginning of the game, but not with the same office desk job. Their team has been tasked with filming a documentary series highlighting the happenings of a JojaMart location, and the farmer was the one to propose the relatively new Pelican Town location due to their grandfather's love of Stardew Valley. So they're still a newcomer to the town, but they don't have the farm. I might stay a bit quiet about the farmer's ultimate motivations for this project, though... :)

This one's a bit tricky since I'm not totally sure how to narrow it down hehe. One thing I'll say here is that I altered Sam's work schedule to have him appear in the store more often (since in the game he's only there like six hours a week). I'll also say a little bit about how I like to characterize the main players in the series:

Sam is someone whose cheeriness is partly genuine, but also partly because he needs to be the guy who keeps everyone positive in tough times. It's important to him to make sure everyone feels included and not forgotten. Sam isn't dumb—he's actually very creative and resourceful—but he does tend to rush his thinking and follow bizarre trains of logic. He doesn't like to slow himself down, and when he dwells too much on his thoughts he tends to reach uncomfortable conclusions.

Shane has an extremely low opinion of himself, but keeps himself going at work to provide for Jas and to not be a burden to Marnie. He's easily annoyed and has a tendency to push people away, but he's not completely shut off. He'll accept gifts and other gestures of kindness but doesn't totally understand why he's getting them, or why he even deserves them. He needs significant and repetitive convincing to believe any friendship with him is genuine. Shane believes that life is harsh, and he tends to fixate on difficult truths. Sam's optimism frustrates him, and he sees Sam as a naive little boy who will be eaten alive by the cruelty of reality.

I don't like depicting Morris as cartoonishly evil. I think it's more fun to make him "corporate evil", where his villainy comes from a "socially-acceptable" disregard for the little guy. He'll go on about how the JojaMart personnel are one big family, but he can't even call his employees by their names. He thinks he's above his staff, and he's satisfied by the idea of getting to look down on someone; he views higher-ups as having earned their power, and that looking down on others is just part of that package. Morris loves to project the image of human connection, not because he genuinely believes in it, but because that's what appeals to customers. And he'll do everything he can to convince Pelican Town that Joja is the answer to all of their problems.

I also like to pepper little personal headcanons into the different entries (I like to think Sam is left-handed, so I wrote his notes on his right wrist in no. 5) but I think listing them here would bloat this post :o

Please feel free to ask anything else about the series (or individual scenes), this was really fun to write up! And I can't wait to see what you come up with!! :D

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Follow ups to this post (I might make a separate FAQs post if needed):

What has become of the community center? (@happycomputertimetravel): It's still dilapidated. I consider the jojamart series to have the town in the same state as it is at the start of the game (so Kent is still overseas, the bus is still broken, etc.) unless depicted otherwise

[fictionadventurer]

I think I underestimated how cool it is that Little House books are a "woman remembers her childhood" children's classic by an author from a working-class and rural background. Most working-class books of the genre have urban settings, and most rural girlhood classics come from a family that's in a fairly stable community--maybe not rich, but comfortable enough that they don't have to worry about whether they'll make it through a winter.

Laura Ingalls grew up dirt poor in a family that knew how to grow or build or hunt or make everything that they needed, because they had to. Yet when she grew up, she got into a position where she could publish about it. Which is pretty astounding, because people in her situation are usually too busy doing the farmwork to write about it--they don't have connections to the publishing industry. Yet she did, so we get to hear from someone who knows that farm and small-town setting intimately, and not because she grew up and and ran off to the city as soon as she could escape, but because she still lives it and loves it and advocates for it.

She knows the details of that life and loves it. Like, she genuinely cares about raising the chickens, not as a housewife's hobby, but as an important source of meat, eggs and money for the family. It's grounded, earthy, sensible, but also romantic, because she while she's doing farm work or house work she's noticing the little moments of beauty or thinking about the big issues of life. But it took a long series of coincidences to get this ordinary farm wife into a position of wanting to write, being able to write, and having a national audience for her writing, so I just want to appreciate how amazing it is that it happened.

[entry333]

ohhhh okay so jay IS script superviser so thats like canon fact okay okay i see you . also we dont know whos filming and neither did jay since he said that on his twitter . interesting

[slightlyartist]

Big day for Hypno!Fiddlesteve enjoyers, I'm cooking up a way to share some of his lore that doesn't involve drawing 91530 comics and sketches ;)

Stay tuned!

[treatsformeeko]

ohhh my god i fell over and spilled. ohhhh no i fellover and i dropped this smoothie recipe i wrote when i was 6. i hope nobody interested in recent studies on indigenous led anthropology and nonwestern thinking looks at my delicious smoothie recipe that is unrelated to indigenous archaeology and the concept of other-than-human persons introduced in this post/the greater da lore .... perhaps this smoothie recipe may even help you understand why the writers' centrism is particularly insidious despite creating a world that is explicitly parallel to (some) real-life Indigenous North American conceptions of the World..... oohggggggfff how could i be so foolish.... my smootheie. anyway if you are uninterested in my yummy delicious smoothie mayhaps you will enjoy the following excerpts (apologies in advance for smoothie related jargon and more thoughts under the cut):

it is genuinely very interesting to me how the da writers managed to create a world that is empathetic to traditionally Indigenous conceptions of People and Things and yet do their best to lead players away from sympathizing with the indigenous plight in favor of their centrist (read: anti-Indigenous) agenda. it was often expressed to me that the Northern American anthropology of the past was in many ways a failure because of the eurocentric ideals of its practitioners. NOT because an outsider could never hope to understand their 'mythical ways,' but because the very basis of Indigenous and Settler Thought were at odds with one another in some very fundamental ways. where the Enlightened European mind saw People, Places, and Things, many indigenous american tribes do not draw such a hard line between Personhood and Thing. and yet despite its academic roots tracing back to the 1960s, the field of Indigenous Archaeology is still rather young and underrepresented in anthropology as a whole because it is counterproductive to the interests of those who settled on the land who would much rather forget the atrocities that preceded their presence on the continent and the harm it did, not only to People, but to Land/Things.

but the world of Thedas is explicitly alive! even in instances where the writers were clearly unable to see the World as having agency without anthropomorphizing them, the choice to do so lends further to the conclusion that the world is alive and deserving of agency. the trees, the mountains, even the forest itself blurs the line between person and thing as sentient beings borne out of the land. And the Fade has a tangible, material impact on the waking world. Whereas real-life anthropologists must argue the validity of factoring in dreams and the mystical imagination into their work, Veilguard discusses at length (without much opportunity for player input) the Personhood of a spirit. the Ancient Elves were Spirits-Made-People. Manfred and Spite show that they are capable of growth and learning (although I have problems with how they are both written as not-quite-yet-deserving of personhood). The Veil is actively failing (and has been for the entire series) and it is hurting people on both sides. It would be in the best interest of the World as a being with agency to do away with it.

BUT. because this might lead to real-life parallels with land back and reparative justice for Indigenous people, the writers do a quick heel-turn and explain that sundering the Veil will lead to a massive loss of life in the waking world. which is frankly an irresponsibly written parallel to the real world and leaning more far right than the writers wish to appear. when the status quo is inherently beneficial to some and harmful to others based on their race, gender, what have you - yes. it is indeed harmful to uphold the status quo. it is necessary in this case to look critically at why the writers made this the case. the world exploding if you lean away from centrism is not a real life example that they have drawn from. sympathy for solas's cause is destructive because of the writers' bias, not because there is no other conceivable way in which this story could end. if you were to come away from this game still knowing very little about the real-world parallels it draws upon, you would be dangerously close to perpetuating the harmful practices that are actively deteriorating Indigenous peoples' connection to their own history. in the real world, it is not enough for Indigenous people to simply throw away all ties to their culture and assimilate themselves into the western world. they will still be targeted by predatory government practices or by hate groups regardless of how "well" they adhere to a system that was designed to exclude them.

it's hard to say what i wish the writers would have done with Veilguard because the roots for this final narrative failing have been in place since the beginning. but if the game were truly meant to be a roleplaying experience, rather than a cautionary tale, they would have let you choose options that the writers themselves may not have agreed with, wrt choosing to tear down the Veil. if anything i hope that a lot of these recent retrospectives on the series inspires you to do more to engage with and seek out Indigenous voices in whatever you do. i promise your life will not be lessened by diversity of thought, and that it will instead help you understand what you really think and why you think that way. now go forth. and do anthropology on video game characters

[aeliem]

for @formelydailynowweeklykillersans's dtiys

this popped into my head the second i saw your post i meant to do this earlier but what can i say, procrastination is a bitch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(i had so much trouble with the light trail lemme tell ya)

i forgot to record the timelapse :( here are some process pngs as compensation

[foryoupeko]

My Kuzupeko daughter interacting with @the-only-teruteru-fan and @detective-dick-gumshoes-pot-room SDR2 fankids

Harumi is actually a naturally gifted prodigy with the sword. But Peko never taught her the dangerous techniques, so Harumi has to work harder to surpass her mother. Unless it’s specified, you can assume Harumi can smoke any of her siblings in a sword fight. Her personality is very Ranma Satome.