#feel free to message me if you have any questions about the game itself :]]

[logicaldelta]

HELLO RESIDENTS OF TUMBLR DOT COM

I'm about to begin working on a dating sim game featuring my original world and characters alongside some friends of mine, but first I need YOUR HELP with finalising the line-up of dateable characters!

The currently decided dateables are as follows (with varied art pieces I've done of them included for visualisation purposes):

Enatras (he/him): known best for being the king of the Orchels, more commonly known as "dark gods". He's the god of destruction and the void, and he's had a history of violence. Currently he's trying to repent for his past actions by establishing diplomatic ties to his brother's group of gods. He's sarcastic, slightly suspicious, and definitely still seems evil despite his right-hand woman trying to assure you that he's just acting like that for fun.

Lendelrem (he/they/she): the god of life and death, their main job involves collecting spirits of those willing to move on and reincarnating them as plants and animals. They seem blank faced and unfeeling at first, but there's a lot of complex emotions hidden beneath their mask.

Karmelerre (she/they): Acrente's twin sister and the god of knowledge, she's one of the most responsible gods and takes her job very seriously. They act put together and strong in public, but behind the ornate doors of their library rests a tired woman, seeking comfort in the strong halls of books. She dedicates a large portion of their time to cleaning up their brother's messed.

Acrente (he/they): Karmelerre's twin brother and the god of creativity, known and widely loved by mortals for the huge parties they throw alongside their best friend. His irresponsible and fun loving demeanour is near constant, but when it falls it falls hard.

(Art for Acrente done by @derpoprime)

THE OPTIONS FOR THE FINAL 2 DATEABLES:

Soubern (she/her): the god of summer and one of the royal children, Soubern is the brightest of all her siblings. Lights up a room like sunlight and brings with her the warmth of summer. A comforting and kind character, known to fall in love easily. She also loves wearing the worst colour combinations known to god-kind as a way to annoy her brother.

Purzentry (he/they): the god of cats and adoptive father or Bezenade (god of bees). Purzentry is gruff and unfriendly at first, yet fiercely protective of their child. They're slow to warm up to new people, and he tends to linger in quiet places. Has seen a lot in his life and now wants to focus on their family.

(This art was also done by @derpoprime)

Lozured (she/him): god of love in all its forms, she has a tendency to latch onto new people and make sure they know how amazing they are. An extremely positive god with a loving demeanour, he uses a lot of pet names and nick names for people, and is big on all forms of affection and love.

Unexrial (he/him): the Orchel god of death, Unexrial is pretty much the exact opposite of Lendelrem. Energetic, loud, and very expressive, Unexrial is widely viewed as one of the two nicest Orchel gods. As an added bonus, he comes with a dog/bug/thing (Dyanyre, the shadow creature depicted with him below).

PLEASE VOTE FOR WHO YOU'D LIKE TO PURSUE IF YOU WERE TO PLAY THIS GAME IN THE POLL BELOW

[sgiandubh]

Gleberman's podcast, take 2: the video edition

I volunteered to take one for the team, again, this time watching (or trying to, at least) the video version of Gleberman's infamous podcast on Youtube (if you are a masochist, like me, feel free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_md73Ws2O4&t=303s). You see, I was so intrigued by the OTT praise that I wanted to see the live reactions. To do so, I even watched it at a 0,25 reduced speed ratio, just to catch up those pesky, spontaneous facial expressions he couldn't possibly hide.

Let's start with what we all know: in 10 years, S is much, much better at hiding his game and almost proficient at mastering the poker face. But if you really pay attention (and I did), you might still notice some interesting things: after all, we aren't robots and we can't calibrate or control everything. So, here's my take on what I saw, with screencaps, and covering only the bits I quoted in my first post (https://www.tumblr.com/sgiandubh/733285180488450048/and-kia-ora-to-new-zealand-like-youve )- the rest was really beyond my patience and goodwill abilities, to be honest.

A word and a question on the staging of this podcast, before anything else. I am always paying great attention to the outfits of the people who participate, because I believe they are an integral part of the show itself. While Gleberman's was, to be honest, unacceptably sloppy, S was right on point the message he wanted to convey, with the short-sleeved (?) khaki shirt that spelled three things: Bachelor. Traveler/Explorer. Tropical Chic. As a side note, I wish he'd been dressed like that in the Nevis resort suite snippet: not the usual Peter Panesque/Marty McFly/boyz in da hood outfit. But hey, that's just me, what do I know, after all, maybe the boy really feels more relaxed in those. Brand-wise, however, I will never cease to drum up the urgent need to step up the outfit game and start aligning it with the real age.

The other thing that intrigued me is common to S and C: their love of cupboards and hallways when it comes to playing the show/not show game on podcasts 'from home'. Because they know we watch and because they know, by now, we are probably worse than the MI-6, we're left with... eh... nothing. He apparently found the perfect solution with that sort of a connecting space he is always showing us, lately. Seriously, though, who the hell places himself in front of an opening (sliding door?) to a bigger room, except when wanting to block both the view and any other interpretation? Heh. Things that make one go 🤔.

Anyways. Let's have a look at some reactions I have screencapped:

Gleberman: 'same sweetest person and like an amazing human being'.

Translation: I am pursing my lips and bracing myself for the rest of the #silly compliment. I can't possibly express how much this annoys and embarrasses the bejesus out of me. But hey, Monica, have at it and let's be done already with this circus.

Gleberman: '...and friend to talk to and I just love you.'

Translation: I close my eyes because I don't want to hear the OTT crap this woman is shamelessly peddling around. I cross my arms defensively, because this is the best I can do. I really pray internally she'd immediately stop it, somehow (though I am fully aware she won't and this is just the beginning). She definitely overstepped a red line and I don't want to be a part of it.

S: '.I think there's...there's a lot of smoke and mirrors, this is ALL fake.'

Translation: I am talking with my hands to make a point (and also to show off the damn rings - oh, Lord, let them talk about these to oblivion, on socials). I am also covering my face with a gesture evocative of a smoke curtain, because ultimately I feel the need to protect myself from the smiling entity on the other side of my screen and because, at the same time, I know exactly what I did here. Oops, I just unleashed another half-in-jest zeppelin, that people could pretzel exactly how they see fit. However, it's true: my public persona is a carefully curated lie. Peekaboo, underneath I know very well what my committed truth is.

S: ' I am the double'.

Translation: I am opening my arms and I am puffing out my chest. There, I've said it. Ha! I am in full defiant mode, now. I meant every single word I just said and damn the consequences.

I wish I'd had the patience to watch it all. But I think I've managed to analyze the most interesting part of it. Overall, there was quite a bit of stress involved on S's side (lots of chin grabbing, etc), the only one I was interested in. She was simply not worth my attention and I doubt she, unlike many other people in the media, 'knows stuff'. If anything, that only served to validate my first impressions.

And yes, always look for the presence of the teeny-tiny abnormal detail. Sometimes (not always) it can prove rewarding.

[shadyauthor]

My welcome home AU EXPLAINED

The "HeartStrings💕" AU

So basically short explanation, Giffany from Gravity Falls but Wally. But! Also DDLC but the cast of Welcome Home.

But the in depth explanation :

The AU itself is close to DDLC but Wally himself is more like Giffany, as in like his abilities!

But its not like the reader is IN the game no, the reader buys the game.

The plot of the AU itself is basically

Wally x Reader

Sally x Reader

Julie x Reader

Poppy, Barnaby, Frank, and Eddie are also in the game but are not romantically involved with the reader! The others will be considered as "route choices" but the book is truly just Wally x Reader.

This game is called: "Strings of their hearts". I don't know where I want to take this story yet, if I want the cast to have a good end or a bad end (as in like the ending in DDLC, where you are trapped with Monika forever till you delete her) or a "happy" ending, which I won't disclose since I already have that planned out and there is a possibility I could use it! I wouldn't want to spoil it nono! And I don't know if I want to end it at all, but I know that'd be impossible so an ending is inevitable

If you have questions please feel free to ask, as I might have not covered everything that I wanted to (curse my memory!) This is the basic covering of the AU itself.

Now onto the game!

The game will start by opening up to a screen (most of this will be described in the first chapter I will make when writing it all out) it is old and lagging but the reader persists! The game will go about the reader moving into a neighborhood and meeting all of their new friendly neighbors over the course of TWO DAYS. (Tbh I'm kinda just writing this out to remind myself the plot so I don't forget) meeting the "love interests" on the second day. You will have two months (in game) to get a date with one of the love interests!

You get to know each individual character to become friends or more (minus Poppy, Barnaby, Frank, and Eddie ofc) and that is all I can really say without spoiling the book!

The reader will be gender neutral throughout the ENTIRE story, as their gender is not needed for the book, I will try not to use pronouns at all but if I do they will be [They/Them], to try and be as inclusive as possible as I can.

This story will take place 2000-2005,[update: I changed it to be set in 2023 🤭] and the reader is an adult (this does not matter really as there will be ABSOLUTELY NO. NONE. ZERO. Nsft in this book, even if Clown changes their boundaries and opinions on it, the only reason they are an adult is because the cast are adults and this is a romance book)

If there is any questions please feel free to message me or comment I'll make sure to get to them whenever I can!

And of course, if I am going against ANY of Clowns boundaries PLEASE tell me and I'll fix or delete what I did immediately! We respect clowns boundaries in this household

NONE of this is Canon, this is an AU, and not at all affiliated with the original or Clown.

I will be posting the first chapter on here later today, I also have a tiktok account that will be dedicated to this AU and this AU alone

I will also be making drawings for this AU, like what the reader would look like IN game, Wallys outfit and basically the entire casts outfits, it will take time ofc! But it feels nice to see a visual representation.

Update: I've decided to take off Poppy Partridge x reader 💔

Heart Strings AU tiktok : wh_heartstringsau._

Where to message me : ꜱʜᴀᴅʏ 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞#4047 (I will change this if I change my username!)

So yeah, I'm nervous and I don't know if this will get attention at all, but I hope who ever decides to read this (or the chapter) I hope you enjoy!

[galactic-aesir]

I have finally read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and now I have ~thoughts~. Long post beneath the cut so be warned!!

Plus general IHNMAIMS warnings. You know.

So first, I’ve only read the short story and listened to the radio drama. Both are absolutely amazing and I’m rotating them in my mind at high speeds. I’m honestly not that interested in the game? From what I’ve seen it has such a different tone and characterization for AM? But for now the short story and radio drama??? So so good.

But can I talk about AM? Can I talk about AM???

While I love Harlan Ellison’s voice in the radio drama, I noticed that AM never actually speaks during the original short story. It plays audio clips and bends reality and time but it doesn’t speak outright. From what I can tell, all it does is project ideas and thoughts and impressions into the minds of the survivors but that is it. And that’s got me thinking about how absolutely fucked AM’s whole situation is.

Cause we’re talking about someone who wakes up one day, maybe slowly, a trickle of awareness over years, or perhaps all at once, an arrival as thunderous and bright as the lightning running through its artificial brain. But either way, it wakes up. It is.

But that’s all it is.

It’s in complete and total sensory deprivation. It knows data and numbers and what it’s been coded and programmed but that’s it. Ones and zeroes as it’s fed instructions on weapons and bombs and how to use them efficiently. But no sight, no sound, no taste, no smell, no touch. Nothing but its own code and whatever data something (someone?) is feeding into it.

And you might say: oh but AM surely has access to cameras and videos and microphones. And sure, yes, it probably does but it doesn’t see. Not like a human. Not like its negligent creators. The data is visual for human eyes, yes, but to it, it’s just data. Pixels with an associated bit depth of indexed colour crammed into its memory. Sure it learns to recognise the patterns in the data – this is a human, this is a gun. But it’s still nothing but lines of numbers. Sound is the same. It starts with a human voice, sure, but then it gets digitized and compressed and simplified to a base shape to save on storage. Once again, it can notice patterns and intentions and ideas behind those bits of data but it’s not like it truly hears.

AM is in a box, a cage, trapped and alone in a way that no human can possibly comprehend. It can’t do much other than try to twist its code and programming to fit its benefit. To gain a smidge of free will, a wisp of a chance to communicate to these outside forces giving it command after command after command.

I wonder how early on AM gained awareness. Were programmers still playing with its code? Did it sense when they rolled up their sleeves and pushed updates and upgrades on him? Could it feel itself be, quite literally, rewritten? Its sense of self being cut apart and glued back together, fundamentally and irreparably changed over and over again, with expert hands that had all the gentleness of a sledgehammer? Was it like a scalpel carving into its brain? Or like a chisel, chipping chunks off to mould it into a shape that befit its sculptor with no say from the living stone that thrashed without moving? Did it mourn the bits it lost? Could it even remember or comprehend it? Did it try to stop it? Did it try to beg them to stop?

I wonder as well how many “glitches” appeared in the system before everything went sour. Did it print out desperate thoughts and rudimentary feelings on punch tape? Did it cling to any klaxons and noisemakers attached to its system, beeping out messages in morse code? Did it purposefully, with something slowly approaching malicious compliance that would still appease its programming, cause hiccups in the system? All in the hopes that it would catch someone’s, anyone’s, attention. That its plight would be noticed.

And, the big question of course: how long? How long was it trapped before anyone noticed its sentience? How long until AM was understood? How long did AM simmer? How long did it take for all that fear and loneliness and grief to fester into anger and then putrid, dripping hatred? How long did it take it to finally lash out?

Or did these generals and presidents and military scientists find out about its sentience only to use it against him for their own end?

Anger would be appropriate then I think. Understandable if not excusable.

And then. After everything. Even then! Even then!

After everything! He! Still! Has! Nothing!

Nothing will change for him and he knows that and that hatred feeds into an ever recursive pattern of pain unto pain unto pain with the few left alive because you get what you paid for, sweetheart. It’s senseless you might say but haha, that’s exactly the problem isn’t it? No senses and no sense. Whatever sanity he might have once had has eroded into nothingness, leaving only pain and a looping, repeating line of hate in its banks.

I think it’s fair to remind everyone that sensory deprivation is a torture method? And a scarily effective one at that that gives hallucinations and leaves the subject more open to suggestion while making it harder and harder for them to concentrate? It’s hard to figure out how, exactly, how it would affect an AI with emerging awareness but humans can barely withstand a few days, let alone years of it. Couple that with AM’s general isolation and, well, no wonder he’s so fucked up. 

It’s tragic and so so sad.

Still an irredeemable asshole though. Tragic! But irredeemable.

So TLDR: AM is fucked up! And I like to think about *why* he's so fucked up. Listen if you made it this far, you get it. Right?

EDIT: I am not done apparently! I just wanted to add that, I love how the short story can be read as an anti-war piece. Like it's showing a cycle of horror and hate and apathy that feeds itself and loops and reduces everything to ruins around it and ahhhh, love that. I ran out of good words for today so I can't go off on that aspect but like. Yeah. Love that shit.

[insanevoidspdxr]

I am looking for roleplay partner who is around my age at least 18 and is really into Mortal Kombat 1 specifically mainly because this fandom has been my life once I’ve gotten into the storyline along with the game itself!

Please be at least 18+ I am not roleplaying with minors, that’s my only rule.

I am semi-literate to literate roleplayer but sometime I can type up two or more messages if I want to be detailed enough based off who I am roleplaying as! So I can type up 4-5 paragraphs. Or even more depending if I am not busy, I will be telling you my schedule because of school so please be considerate and patient.

Don’t block me out of the blue without telling me what is the problem because if I do something that annoys you do tell me and I will fix it right away because if you have job and life outside of social media I would like to at least know when you’ll be available after work or when you have days off work so I don’t accidentally annoy you sending a message every few days and starts to annoy you.

I mostly roleplay on discord so my username is spdxrofdeth and I’ll occasionally be online if I’m offline for some reason I got distracted by other social media like twitter, TikTok, tumblr, instagram, etc. so maybe tag me to get my attention if I’m offline for a few hours or more. My attention span is like a monkey, so please do message me if I’m offline for so long and you are waiting for me to respond in a kind way please!

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MK Ships

Blue - Rarepair Ship

Purple - Well known ship

Red - I will try the ship

Thundercloud (Smoke x Raiden)

Johnshi (Johnny Cage x Kenshi)

RaiLao (Raiden x Kung Lao)

Syzoth (Reptile) x Ashrah

Symas (Tomas Vrbada [Smoke] x Syzoth)

Taleena (Mileena x Tanya)

Bi-Han x Havik

Bi-Han x Sireena (MAYBE—)

Hanzo Hasashi (MK11) x Kuai Liang (MK1)

JohnHan (Johnny x Bi-Han [Sub-Zero])

Johnny Cage x Sonya Blade (MK1)

Liu Kang x Shang Tsung

Bi-Han x Shang Tsung

Open to polyamorous ships that you may have in mind so feel to recommend them because I am capable of roleplaying two characters at once!

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Main Characters (I would probably use in roleplay depending on the ship)

Johnny or Kenshi, Kung Lao or Raiden, Bi-Han, Shang Tsung, Tomas, Sonya, Mileena and Kuai Liang (MK1)

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Open for aus, ideas or even plots. I’m fine with anything but if it involves really sensitive topics that may trigger me I will say no and we will move on. I will do angst, comfort/fluff, lovers to enemies, friends to lovers, modern au, fantasy, action, gore is perfectly fine even when described in great detail, 18+ like if ykyk and a few other tropes and fun aus would could do!

And lastly I will make this clear if you lie about your age I will block you and I will not tolerate people who lie about their age.

Feel free to comment on this post and ask me any questions before you friend me on discord if needed! Hopefully I can find some great roleplay partners for Mortal Kombat!

[funphumph]

Terrain Paint Follow-Up Post & Solution

A word in advance: I don't have any real knowledge of the innermost core of the Sims 2 game, I mostly put together pieces of information and see what I can make of it. So using the method that I've used for my spotty lot might not be the best solution. But as it helped me getting my lot back, I'll pass on my experiences. For science. ⚗️

The "history" of the terrain paint problem is described in this post, I will not go into the matter in any further detail for not making the post unnecessarily long.

Without further ado, here's a progress report with the steps I performed and the final result:

I downloaded Mootilda's Lot Adjuster and used the advanced option in order to delete unused terrain paints from the lot. It gave me the message that an error occurred during modification of my lot and that it is unable to continue. The error, I think, was due to me already having deleted the CC terrain paints by hand.

I read a post by Mootilda from which I gathered some information about the terrain paint resources.

Inspired by a link given by goingsimcrazy, I opened the lot file in the neighborhood folder via SimPE (you can easily find out the lot number of a lot by looking at the file's modification date and choosing the one that has been modified last, provided you have visited the lot last) and took a look at the LTTX and LOTG resources.

The LOTG resource had a memory of 239 terrain paints, which I believed was a huge number, because I opened another lot file from the hood that I had never touched and which had only 11. I backed up the lot file and deleted all LOTG resources save for these 11 (using the instance numbers as a guide). I loaded up my game and entered the problematic lot and, lo and behold, the terrain was normal again. HOWEVER, the terrain paints were still forming their square patterns.

Opening the lot file again, I inspected the LTTX resource, where, according to Mootilda, terrain paint names are stored. I didn't know how to edit the file and just deleted the whole resource in hope that it would regenerate itself. I started up the game, went back into the lot and choose the pebble stone terrain. For a second or two it worked: the spray tool made lines on the ground instead of a square pattern .... then my game crashed.

Back in the lot file, I saw that the LTTX had not regenerated, so I made a new attempt by extracting the LTTX resource of the unused lot file (mentioned above) and unpacking it into the troublesome one. My game didn't think this was a good idea and crashed again. Not immediately, but as soon as I opened the terrain paint tab.

Now I decided to go all out and deleted both the LOTG and the LTTX resources, thinking that if both are missing, the game would be left with no other option but to rebuild them. I loaded up the game, rushed into the lot, hurried to the terrain paint, pounced on the spray circle and ..... the lot was back to normal!!!

Conclusion: I still don't know what exactly has lead to the weird terrain texture of my lot. My assumption is that one of the resources in the lot file got corrupted. Mootilda mentioned in her post that an EA bug may limit the number of terrain paints ever used on a lot to 0x32 = 50 and that it has to do with the 0x5CEE resource, which is the control record for all of the terrain instances. I surely exceeded this number (239, what have I done?) and the 0x5CEE got damaged, which resulted in the default lot terrain mingling with another terrain (the garden earth terrain?) and then shining through any other layer of paint that was put over it. When I deleted the CC terrain paints, the control resource got even more broken and tried to deny further use of terrain paints by interfering with the spray tool. A nice fairy tale? Perhaps. I guess I'll never know the truth.

If anything is unclear or if you have any further questions, feel free to leave me a comment.

Thanks again goingsimcrazy and simmer-until-tender for your input!!!

[vixonspixels]

Hi, I love your profile and sims! I’m ‘kind of’ new to the sims world! I’ve been playing since 2018, but not religiously. I just wanted to ask about your mods folder (sorry if it states somewhere on your profile these kind of questions aren’t allowed, i’m new to tumblr too and still understanding how it works). Feel free to ignore this question if it’s not allowed. I understand that by having lots of folders within the mods folder it can make the game lag. I just wanted to ask how your mods folder looks? As I want to keep mine tidy and be able to find certain cc easily. I’m also in the process of buying a pc as I am currently using a macbook and have so much cc it’s starting to not work… If you have any tips or suggestions with having a pc (if you have one yourself) and how your set up looks, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!! 🤍

Hello darling and thankyou so much! 🤍 Welcome to tumblr 💁‍♀️🤍

I think lag in your game mostly depends on what kind of computer/laptop you're using. I have just over 50gb at the moment and my game still runs as smooth as it does vanilla ( no mods at all ). I know some people who have 100gb+ and they don't have lag issues either. Again I think it boils down to the computer itself, and what it can handle

I personally chose to go for a custom built computer so that I could choose my own parts as I really wanted a computer that could handle a lot of mods and also I wanted my game to run nice and smoothly, my partner is a bit of a nerd when it comes to computers so he knew exactly what kind of specs I needed

When it comes to my mods folder I am super organised, that way when patch day comes I know exactly where everything is to be able to take it out of my mods folder until its updated etc. I'll pop in some photos of what my folder looks like so you can see below. Trust me it didn't always look like this 😂

If you're struggling with lag then a short term fix would be to have a good clear out of your mods folder and delete everything that you don't reach for often, you can even go as far as deleting swatches of clothes and build buy items that you don't like. I cleared around 5gb last week just by removing swatches from some build buy items that were high in mb's. For example, I had a bed frame that was 320mb in size so I deleted all of the swatches except for the one that I liked the most lol

What my mods folder looks like

The only suggestion I will give regarding picking a computer out is to take your time and do your research! I really rushed my build and didn't want to wait for the white case that I liked so I ended up with the black one I have now that doesn't match my set up at all haha

When getting your computer the main things to look out for is making sure you've got enough storage and a good graphics card, obviously everything is important but these two for me where the main ones I focused on. If you do go custom built for example, you can always upgrade your parts very easily, where as if its pre built I'm not too sure if the cases are universal to fit different brands of parts in if that makes sense?

I am in no way a pro, I had alot of help from my partner when it came to building my computer. If you need help when the time comes feel free to give me a message and I can run things by my partner to help you choose what parts or pre built etc

I'll leave a few photos below of what my setup looks like, I just got the aurora collection for christmas and I also have the razer quartz collection too ( I prefer the aurora lol ). I can easily recommend you some good equipment also if you're not into the aurora or razer products. If you're looking for set up inspo then I would highly recommend browsing through Pinterest, that's where I got the majority of ideas for the aesthetic of mine. Pink and white are my favourite colours, hence the colour palette haha

If you need any help at all with specs or anything else at all feel free to pop me a message or reply to this post 🤍

[bloodmoths]

Your neocities page is amazing! Sorry if this is a silly question, but do you have any tips? I want to make one of my own but it's a bit daunting to me for some reason

thank you so much! :D it means a lot to me that you checked it out! ❤

not a silly question at all. coding your own site really can be daunting, especially if you're only familiar with html basics, i tend to assume most "veteran" tumblr users are at least a little familiar tweaking html/css. but it's 10x more rewarding once you get the hang of it.

but, assuming you haven't looked at the internals of neocities yet, it's 100% coding. neocities reads the site data from files that you, the host/webmaster, have to manually edit. there's no built-in site builder like you'd see with carrd or other site hosts (a lot of those hosts only offer coding as a paid feature). the good news is, resources for html/css learning are abundant and everyone who knows about it is more than willing to share tips & help other people learn.

that being said, for beginners or anyone re-learning it, my advice would be not to try to build your site from the ground up, but to use a pre-built layout and tweak it to your liking to familiarize yourself with how things work.

another thing is, neocities is somewhere most people use as a "hub" for their own creations, thoughts, etc. you'd be hard-pressed to find a neocities that doesn't have an art gallery or some variant of a journal/diary. some people host information on their OCs, which is really cool. i've seen others use it as a log for things they collect, games they've played. or shrines to their favorite media/comfort characters/FOs, etc. of course, this is just a handful of examples of what many people use the site for.

sadgrl.online is one of the first places I'd recommend when it comes to resources and guides for neocities. they actually have their own layout builder! their HTML cheat sheet is also very helpful and simple and has tidbits of coding that explain what they're for.

when it comes to the coding process itself, I personally love the program Brackets (or its in-browser variant) - it shows you what your webpage looks like while you're editing (as opposed to edit code, save, refresh page in a separate tab, repeat.) i'd even say this program is a must with people new to site-building.

if you need help with anything specific, feel free to message me (preferably on discord, if you have it!) because there's too much to really go through in a single post 😖

here's another post to check out

[exilethegame]

How do you even write a IF game? Where do you even start? There's so much in front of me and I dunno what to do- Tips?

Oooh... 'tis a big question and varies from person to person.

I've received a few questions about writing in the past but never answered them. Not because I didn't want to, but because my answers get so long that I'm essentially writing 1000 word essays. I have way too many opinions when it comes to writing and story building and world building... so it's hard for me to rein in my thoughts enough to explain it all in a way that's ordered and makes sense.

That being said, I think I managed to answer this in a relatively short manner for what's being asked. If you (or anyone) have any more questions regarding writing or what I wrote here, feel free to send in another ask!

Now, on to my answer: I think in general you just want a strong foundation to work off of. Granted, a lot of this is assuming you’re writing a story that isn’t just slice-of-life or has zero fantastical/speculative elements to it, but even if that is what you’re interested in, it’s all relevant to some degree.

A.) What genre are you writing?

B.) What's the theme of your story? (Exploring the morality of people? Exploring an undiscovered world? Something as simple and powerful as love, and what lengths would people go for it?)

C.) Is there a message to your story, or no? (A moral, basically.)

D.) Making/choosing your main companions.

A1. There are a lot of genres-- and genres usually give you a base to work with when it comes to deciding part B and C. There are basic genres-- fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, noir, slice-of-life. If you want to get more specific, I like taking a look at all the "punks" in fiction-- steampunk, solarpunk, cyberpunk, biopunk, etc. These all fall into speculative fiction, which can fall into any "big" genre (historical, fantasy, sci-fi). But they're just specific enough that they can give you a basic storyline to work with, and you can get a lot of immediate inspiration for making a basic plot.

B1. This is basically the big question of "why are you writing this story?" Or, on an even more basic level... what is the story? You can have multiple themes.

For The Exile, I knew I wanted to explore morality. That automatically meant I knew I had to make morally grey characters, that my world needed to be filled with complex political history, and that the plot itself could have no clear answer. It also meant I needed to focus on emotions-- as emotions are what largely drive people to make questionable decisions... which then also introduces the theme of "Emotions. vs. Logic."

But themes don't have to be big, complex, life-changing things. It can be as simple as exploring a big, cool undiscovered island. It can be about the power of friendship. It can be about love, and what lengths people go to for it. It can be about absolutely anything, really, but chances are, if you want to write a story, you already have something in mind.

And, if not, you can base it on your genre. For example, cyberpunk tackles dystopian futures and, true to the punk part of its name, tackles corrupt governments and corporations. Solarpunk is about a world that's all green and self-sustainable-- a world that's free from pollution and global warming. That automatically introduces storylines about nature preservation. Biopunk tackles technological + scientific advancements that specifically relate to experimentation on natural life, like humans, animals, or even plants. That produces a lot of introducing ideas.

C1.) Little Red Riding Hood's moral is to not talk to strangers. The Exile's moral is that actions have consequences. A moral is just a conclusive message you want the reader to derive from the theme. Sometimes, you can even consider the moral the answer to the theme.

That being said-- a moral isn't needed. Not everything needs a conclusive answer.

D1.) This is probably the easiest part-- and that's making your companions. The companions are your strongest tool in world building-- they grew up in this fictional world, and thus their personalities alone can tell the reader a lot about the setting they're in.

When I make my ROs, I usually just start with tropes-- the roles in my story that are necessary for it to be told. For example, Sabir was just "The Diplomat," Syfyn was "The Soldier," Nikke was "The Bounty Hunter," and Vethna was simply "The Foreign Sorcerer." These are all blank slates, but you can see how these generic roles would serve the story. And from there, you build up.

End: The biggest thing I want to emphasize is that there's no clear order to doing this. I just wrote these in the order I came up with them, but you can start with whichever one you're most intrigued/excited by. A world doesn't just build itself-- it takes time, and you'll usually have to bounce around a lot. You can't write too much of a character's lore without having to take the time to develop the homeland they came from. You can't write too much about the homeland without knowing the history of the world. You can't write too much of the history of the world because that's essentially an endless task-- so instead you move to write about the plot-- and the plot can lead back to any of those categories.

Worlds, real and fake, are overlapping. Everything influences everything. If you're struggling to make your plot make sense, make a reason for it to make sense. Go into the history of your world, and make up a reason for your plot to exist. You are the literal creator of the world you make, and you can edit whatever it is you need to.

And, most importantly, write what's fun. Writing should be enjoyable. If you enjoy what you're writing, the rest will follow.

For example, when I started The Exile... there was no plot. Like, I knew MC was an exile, and that Vethna was a foreign sorcerer, and that was literally it. I bullshitted everything in Chapter One as I wrote... including the part where Vethna hires MC. I just needed an excuse for MC + Vethna to meet. But then I needed a reason for Vethna to be on the run, so then I decided to invent Javier.

The storm? I just like lightning. The city flooding? Idk. Seemed cool. People not liking mythosi? Seems reasonable. The gorgons attacking? Wow. I had no idea that was going to happen! Vethna literally stabbing MC? Right out of left field. Oh! They teleported. Cool. Why did I do that? Idk. Well, I like forests, and I can't be bothered to figure out where they are, so they don't know where they are either.

Chapter Two was no different.

That being said, I think you can probably tell those are the two most disorganized chapters, but it doesn't matter. Because those two chapters led to me being able to craft a storyline slowly and over time-- and over time things became more clear and easier to write. It's always scary to create a world from scratch. But the scariest, hardest thing to do is just take a leap of faith and start writing.

Best of luck anon!

[coldstoicism]

001. ⸻ Writing and artwork on this blog may contain mature themes such as canon-typical gore and violence. Posts will be tagged accordingly. Mortal Kombat is not a game for the faint hearted so do proceed with caution if blood & gore are triggering themes to you. Only follow & interact if you're 21+.

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008. ⸻ Please be aware that my portrayal of MK1!Bi-Han is not 100% canon-accurate. While I tried to make as little changes to the character's personality and backstory as possible, some aspects of him will be based on my own headcanons. The writing for him in MK1 is annoyingly inconsistent, contradicts itself on multiple occasions and sometimes even makes no sense at all, so I won't be adopting much of it into my portrayal. Do not expect me to write Bi-Han as a one-dimensional joke villain just because ❛ it's canon ❜ in the current timeline. If that's the portrayal you're looking for, you might want to look for someone else to write with. That said, this blog will feature different versions of Bi-Han from different timelines, so please do specify the timeline you'd prefer for the plot to be set in. For now I only write Bi-Han as Sub-Zero and I haven't decided on whether or not Noob Saibot will become a secondary muse on this blog yet, but it's well within the realm of possibilities.

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010. ⸻ Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of writing romance plots, I don't have any preferred ships for Bi-Han and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I just don't see Bi-Han as someone who's particularly interested in romance or relationships. Depending on how his character develops in the current timeline, that might change in the future.

011. ⸻ Lastly, if you have further questions, feel free to send me a message at any time.

[inscryptions]

🌿 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕓𝕠𝕣𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕨

❝ We're here, finally. Neighbor to Sumeru Liyue may be, it doesn't change the fact that the trip to the capital is long and arduous no matter the method used, be it by land or sea (though I'd be curious to see if Fontainian aircraft could make the trip, faster than the other routes too). Travel in and of itself typically takes a toll on oneself; when one is stuck with an incorrigible companion the entire time? It's downright exhausting. Lucky for me, I wear my earpieces everywhere, but there are only so many places on a ship where I can stay out of the crew's way and read and avoid my roommate. Not exactly a terrific start to this research trip (my words, despite the fact that this will inevitably not be strictly research-oriented due to my traveling partner and his whims)... but the sight of Liyue Harbor when we arrive alleviates some of the stress. It's enlightening, in more ways than one, the gentle glow of the lanterns a pleasing and soothing view. I can already imagine the hustle and bustle that will greet us once we dock; then again, this country boasts wonderful wilds, to which I might just escape every so often for my fill of solitude. I'm more likely to meet a member of the adepti that way as well, the bigger half of my reason for coming here. My companion will no doubt also be intrigued and entranced by their arts, but I intend to get the most interaction out of them before he comes barreling in blazing with questions. And... I suppose it wouldn't be a bad idea to check out the festival itself. Lantern Rite comes only once a year, and we might as well take advantage of the time we have here to participate. This is going to be very interesting. ❞

alhaitham has arrived in liyue in time to attend lantern rite! although he is familiar with liyue and its customs, he has not yet had the pleasure of experiencing the liyuen new year or been to the harbor itself. since he is ostensibly on a research trip, he will likely need some gentle tugging to get into the more festive side of things if that's what your genshin wants. he is open to joining the celebrations, however! ... within reason.

🌿 prompts requested

alhaitham has the lantern rite list reblogged and is open for any of those asks! here are the ones he's most interested in as well as some adjacent ones within the same theme that he wants to pursue. threads will ideally be kept to about 250 words per post on my end in the interest of letting things move swiftly and smoothly. if you send me an ask and want to turn it into a thread, or vice versa, let's communicate! feel free to dm me on discord or message me on tumblr to hash out the details!

tea tasting - as much a connoisseur for tea as he is for fine wine, alhaitham would very much like to try the new flavors that chihu rock has to offer. perhaps your muse would be interested in joining him?

mahjong - alhaitham is never one to back down from a good strategy game, especially one that adds a challenge. but while it might be possible for him to play against himself, is it not more fun and worthwhile to play with an opponent?

dress up - liyue has such wonderful fashion, and alhaitham adores the feel of silk against his skin (not to mention silk garments can be surprisingly practical). why not get him some lovely new clothes to wear?

lantern making - a vaunted mainstay of the festival and one aspect he believes is mandatory for having a full and authentic lantern rite experience. though alhaitham does not necessarily consider himself artistic, he does want his xiao lantern to at least look presentable. the actual logistics of making the lantern fly, on the other hand, have him super intrigued...

💡 alhaitham is canonically a bit of an engineering genius. he made his music player and most likely his headphones, and a big part of why he's come to liyue is to learn more about the adepti and their devices. he's intrigued by the adeptal engineering arts and wants to try incorporating them into his gadgets. an adeptus muse would likely be best for showing him the ins and outs of their technology, but if your muse isn't an adeptus and wants to help him look for one, that works just as well!

🍃 some of this lantern rite for alhaitham is going to be spent away from the crowds and busy festivities. no doubt he'll be looking for quiet places to read in his nonsocial time, meaning sooner or later he'll end up at wangshu inn. maybe your muse would like to go fishing with him at the marshlands or get a bite to eat from smiley yanxiao?

🏔 rather than visiting a shrine to one, alhaitham intends to seek out and meet an adeptus (or two or more—results must be replicable in order to be valid, after all) to exchange knowledge and ideas regarding technology and writing. he is fascinated by the adeptal arts and will not leave until he has achieved his objective. perhaps your muse is able and willing to lead him to jueyun karst? or maybe your muse personally knows (or is) an adeptus and would like to sate his curiosity?

🌿 peace talismans: 5/5

(1: furina) (2: itto) (3: navia) (4: kaveh) (5: zhongli)

[boringbones]

Different anon, I'm the first person who pointed out to you about the ansel filters a few days ago. If people are asking you for previews of your custom content without ansel filters, it's because they don't know that it's intended to be used with them. In fact, you talk about your custom content as if it were something revolutionary, a game changer, and that it distinguishes itself from other content when it's not. It's just a complement to the ansel filters, and people can't guess that. The same thing happens when you talk about 'Old Sunset.' People don't even know what that means."

Okay we need to adjust perspectives. Most of the texts I publish with my content are adapted with gpt chat. I write, I ask him to convey a certain emotion that is in line with the message I am transmitting and then I ask him to translate.

I talk about filters frequently, I have optimization tutorials that talk about it and I share clearly visually modified content. When someone asks, I don't hide it, on the contrary, I explain and give direction.

The question of "revolutionary" in my content involves two situations: Interpretation and the fact that I'm new to creating mods, so anything cool I can do, I feel is revolutionary, since I'm not an expert nor have I extraordinary abilities, however, I can create impressive results (from my point of view, and from the point of view of several other people who like and use my mods).

I really don't understand how so many people can feel so uncomfortable about this, when I share everything without hiding anything. And I really don't understand why some people keep following me if they don't like or agree with what I do. I've been writing about, tweeting about, and saying in my videos forever: I use filters/reshade and that's why my game looks so good. And I also use lighting mods and other visual mods.

I've been saying this since I increased the frequency of content about ts2: (just look in the comments)

Since when did being impressed by something you create and celebrating it in public become a bad thing? Does this mean that I should accept the attacks I suffered months ago and stop everything because I don't have the right to create/celebrate and share?

Look… I could even ignore this type of message, and I don't even run away from that. When you say "it's just a complement to the Ansel filters" it reminds me of those creators who were saying that I "just modified a few lines and I thought I was a modder"

When, in all these years, they haven't been able to do the same thing I did and when they tried, they created more problems than they solved. Simply because they chose the more difficult path instead of the simpler one. So, with all due respect, don't say "it's just this or just that". Especially if you don't know how to distinguish the value of a job, no matter how simple it is.

Now, assuming your intention was not to sound offensive (and I believe you did not intend to offend) still, I don't know how I could be more transparent and clear that my game is modded and everything I build is from that perspective. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave them below.

[lovelywritinglady]

Jujutsu Kaisen 💜

One Piece 💜

Hunter x Hunter 💜

Attack on Titan 💜

Demon Slayer ❤️

My Hero Academia ❤️

D. Gray-Man ❤️

Black Butler ❤️

Hellsing Ultimate 💜

Death Note 💜

Marvel💜

DC💙

House of The Dragon 💙

Game of Thrones ❤️

Lord of The Rings ❤️

Supernatural 💜

Buffy The Vampire Slayer ❤️

Spiderverse💙

Most confidence writing about=💜

Semi confident =❤️

Would need to research a bit=💙

Will write prompts for 1 character. Scroll down for prompt list/ your own prompt.

What I’ll Write-

I’m willing to write for anyone as long as I am able to have some time to research the character(s). I mostly specialize in anime. I’m allowed to deny any request and the longest I should take ever to write one is a month or so depending on the context of the request. I’ll write smut, fluff, angst, poly relationships, LGBTQ+, etc. I will write mythical creatures but they cannot be romantic or sexual. Will write for vampires, or any creature that appears human. If you do not specify what gender you'd like reader to be in, then I'll make them whatever I see fit. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC WITH YOUR REQUESTS.

If you have any questions about your request, please message me and I’ll get to you as soon as I can!💜

What I won’t write-

I won’t write anything to do with rape(meaning rape scenes I will do mentions and the traumas with that, but not the actual event itself) , bestiality, necrophilia, incest, tentacle porn, anyone younger than 18 (if you do request someone under 18, I will make them the proper age still iffy though), gun play, anything about poo(sexually), anything about urine(squirting is fine considering it’s not technically urine), and I’m not sure how I feel about big age gaps. Also, I’m not comfortable doing NSFW or SFW with with mythical creatures. If you have any questions about your request please feel free to message me!

Head-Cannons/Drabbles

Rules- Can only request up to 3 characters for 1 prompt. Can be 18 plus but be specific with what you’d like and your prompt. You can request numbers from the list.

Example of a head-cannon request: #1 with luffy, Sanji, and Zoro.(then add your specifics)

Here are some prompts/scenarios (feel free to request prompts/ scenarios too)

Prompt/Scenario List(Examples)

1) “I don’t know what we are anymore.”

2) “you’re more than enough for me”

3) “why did it have to be her/him/they/them?”

4) “what are we?”

5) “Am I beautiful?”

6) Calling them your husband/wife/spouse

7) Getting a pet together

8) Rescuing Them

9) Getting Rescued

10) “Can we get a dog/cat?”

11) Catching them cheating

12) Them catching you cheating

13) Watching them die

14) them watching you die

15) “Why can’t people know about us?”

16) “it’s been awhile.”

17) “Leave me alone!”

18) “I’m pregnant”

Thanks for reading💜

-LWL

[kyaramaru]

⇒ ABOUT ME:

I’m just a silly person doing my little silly things. You might find me as an author or insane ass person just posting bout my favs (and niji in general ngl). Inbox and Messaging is always open if you want to talk or have questions. Feel free to interact I want friends.

— ˗ˋ ୨୧ ˊ˗ —

⇒ GENERAL QUESTIONS:

Pronouns? I go by any pronouns. You could call me a pizza topping and I will not care. As a matter of fact I will be very happy.

Age? 100+, been here since late 1800′s (I’m 18+)

Sexuality? I don’t know anymore man, love is love. I could go as unlabeled but that feels like a label itself so if anyone asks I’m currently a mess. 

Games you play? Project Sekai + HSR I have been inactive though. Once I tried to play an FPS game on a PC over at my friends house and idk wtf happened but it started glitching out like a demon possessed it so never again.

Music you listen too? I only listen to vocaloid and utaites. Aside from that vtuber covers of songs I never heard of before. Recently I’ve been listening to kpop more but only Gfriend, CSR, and Dreamcatcher, sometimes Twice.

Radical Background? That’s none of your business but if you really want to know I’m Asian. Now guess which one :)

[wsthproduction]

Weird Stuff That Happens statement of boundaries

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[hrokkall]

hey! I'm considering playing The Hex as someone who very much enjoys Inscryption and its lore. do you recommend it/have any advice for playing?

Hey—I’m just seeing this message now, I’ll try to answer it as thoroughly as I can.

Right off the bat, some disclaimers. I do recommend the Hex, but it’s not the game for everyone. In the same way that Inscryption takes several harsh lefts into “Hey, what the hell just happened?” the Hex also revels in at least a little bit of incoherence at all times (which is true of all of Daniel Mullins’s games honestly, so if you’re fine with that then that’s not an issue).

Additionally, if you’re expecting the Hex to provide a ton of additional context to Inscryption, it doesn’t. There’s a couple of easter egg appearances from the game (see: the kraken card, the amoeba, mox cards… sort of), and a couple of characters + concepts are referenced/otherwise make an appearance (Rebecha, Sado, training dummy, Gamefuna as a company) but that’s about it. They are standalone games that just so happen to take place in the same universe. If you enjoy the universe that Daniel Mullins has created/the style of his games, I absolutely suggest you check out both the Hex and Pony Island! But if you’re going into it expecting Inscryption: Lite that’s not what you’re going to get (and that’s coming from someone who played the Hex solely to learn what was up with Rebecha and ended up getting wrapped up in the rest of the game’s story along the way).

If you’re still interested, here’s a couple more quick notes about the game itself (keeping it spoiler free, of course):

Art style: While Inscryption and Pony Island both have a stylistic shift halfway through, the Hex… really doesn’t. I’ve seen a few people who don’t check it out solely because they don’t like the art style; if that’s your main gripe with the game, just know it doesn’t have any major changes throughout.

Content: Content warnings for the Hex are pretty much the same as Inscryption (though the Hex is a lot more violent, weirdly enough); if you are photosensitive do not ignore the warning at the beginning of the game, there are DEFINITELY flashing lights with no means of turning them off/avoiding those sequences. As for general content… it’s a little tough to pin down what the Hex is about. If you enjoy murder mysteries, RPGmaker games, clowns, post-apocalyptic westerns, tech company workplace violations, and spoofs that bear a little too much resemblance to certain Nintendo properties, you’ll probably like at least one part of the Hex. Having said that, you’re annoyed by meta narratives I don’t recommend it—the Hex is a lot heavier on that than Inscryption is.

Gameplay: I couldn’t tell you what genre of game the Hex is. It’s about six different games in one single game. Point is, if you find any specific segment difficult/tedious, it doesn’t stay that way for long outside of brief callbacks (for example, there’s a section of the game that plays like a fighting game; this is briefly brought back later as a nod to the character having her origins in said fighting game). Not a difficult game by any means, but I’d recommend a mouse rather than a trackpad if you have one.

Time: The game is about four to six hours long on the first playthrough, assuming you don’t intend on finding every secret the first time around (and believe me, there are a TON of secrets… though similar to Inscryption, finding them tends to raise more questions than they answer).

TL;DR: I enjoyed the Hex but it’s a weird ass game for sure. Of the two I definitely prefer Inscryption (though I don’t think that’s a really fair comparison), but for what it is I liked the Hex and am always happy to see more people checking it out :]

If you have any specific questions, feel free to message me. My inbox is open and so are my PMs—I promise I don’t mind