#i forgot tumblr chrome is a thing

[brideblessing]

(deep sigh) Time to update my theme and start cultivating posts for my blog on this blogging and posting and theme website

[prince-liest]

Omg, I just wanted to say I ADORE your characterization of Al and Vox! I don't even have the words to express how much I love reading your stuff, especially the Anon responses you post on here. The behind the scenes thoughts are literally my food, lifesource, its so good when people not only write characters IN CHARACTER, but also include stuff about their analysis/understanding of the character too.. I'm literally obsessed with breaking down characters and yk, cracking their chrome domes open to see how they work (which admittedly, I am not the best at <_< but I love reading them). Just wanted to say how much I love your writing. I had maybe 2 questions, please don't feel pressured to answer them :>

What in your mind (in reference to the 66.6 fics) would motivate Alastor to let Val get close to him in the first place? Or was that more you picking these two characters up by the scruff of their necks and plopping them into a hypothetical scenario to explore their character and write some fun intimate thingsTM?

What do you think of the dynamic of Vox and Al vs something like Lucifer and Al? Personally I've noticed that something Alastor craves, behind the mask of his static smiling persona, is attention. He's (at least how I saw it) usually peeved when people don't care about his absence, and seems especially bothered by the King of Hell refusing to really acknowledge him, so he goes out of his way to push Lucifers buttons (like calling himself a father figure to Charlie, IN FRONT OF HER ACTUAL FATHER LOL) whereas with Vox, Vox is literally CONSTANTLY thinking about Alastor. Man literally interrupted his regular TV program to do a segment about how much he totally didn't at ALL care about Alastors dissapearance or the fact that he returned (suree buddy). So Alastor can have more fun with him and annoy him by ignoring and messing with him on purpose.

ty if you do respond to this, sorry if it was hard to understand, sometimes I forget how to put the thoughts in my brain into coherent words!

Ahhhh, thank you very much, anon! I'm especially happy that you're enjoying my commentary on Tumblr, haha - I spent a while on Twitter because that's where all the fandom zines I was in were being hosted, but nothing beats Tumblr for giving me a nigh-unlimited word count and a captive audience for my rambling! >:D <3 I'm back to cocooning myself on the OG hell site.

Thank you for this ask, it really brightened my day! :D

As for your questions:

1. I'm assuming that was a typo and that you mean Vox (but in case you did mean Val: that was just a funny accident of him walking by the room! Alastor wasn't paying enough attention until it was too late), and to that I say:

I think Alastor allows Vox to take a go at him in canon because he finds Vox's obsession with him to be entertaining, but also because Alastor is kind of a narcissist and that same obsession massively feeds his ego, especially in a political climate that otherwise forgot about Alastor. Vox's whole "Who gives a shit about Alastor coming back?! Haha, now let me have a public meltdown and short out power to the whole city about it! Oh, fuck, why is he back, though?? Can we send a spy in to find out??" is exactly the reaction that Alastor wants every time he mentions his mysterious absence and gets brushed off.

At the same time, Alastor doesn't seem to register Vox as a sincere and genuine threat. He's a big enough fish in the Pride Ring pond that his obsession with Alastor is gratifying, but Alastor's self-absorption also doesn't really allow him to treat Vox as a threat tier above "annoying in a funny way, and also television is stupid." (Perhaps this will change in season 2... :eyes: (or perhaps Alastor will get Even Worse) (please god let him get even worse))

So those two things in combination make Vox the perfect candidate for Alastor to experiment with while maintaining his ego and not feeling particularly threatened. Despite Vox's Safeword 101 talk, Alastor would never put stock into that system with Vox unless he was certain that he himself would be able to back up a 'no' with overwhelming force. Him even considering safewords in the Live On Air! series is less for his own sake and more a politesse he offers on Vox's request to warn Vox to slow the fuck down before Alastor tries to put his insides on the outside.

2. And in direct contrast, we have Lucifer...

... Who Alastor obviously actually cares quite a bit about, because he's a whole nother power tier from both Vox and Alastor, and furthermore and possibly even more importantly, a credible threat to Alastor's relationships and standing in the hotel. I think a lot of discussion I see about Alastor prodding Lucifer seems to talk about how quickly he got annoyed about Lucifer's comments, but that misses the fact that he was pissed off before Lucifer even showed up. He got pissy the moment he saw the welcome sign, actually! And I wager that he was narratively absent for the scene where Charlie actually calls Lucifer because he would have done his best to manipulate her out of doing so had be been there.

And given that the two clearly haven't met before (though obviously Alastor knows of Lucifer - and hates that the inverse isn't true, hah), it's not 100% clear exactly why he's immediately so annoyed, but in my personal view of things and barring something like "he's projecting onto Lucifer because his contract is with Lilith," I think that what we know of Alastor's personality points most strongly to "he liked being the hotel's benefactor and sees it as His Project, and doesn't like the idea that Charlie called daddy for something that she thought mysterious, powerful Alastor couldn't handle." He distracts a lot with obviously-goading comments about practically being Charlie's dad in his duet with Lucifer, but underneath that he puts a lot of emphasis on the work he's done for the hotel and the fact that he's been supporting Charlie and the hotel from the start, so why the fuck is this deadbeat asshole suddenly turning up?!

Tl;dr: Charlie missed her insight roll on Alastor's personal investments and he's sooooo offended - and taking it out on Lucifer!

I think one of my favorite things about both Lucifer and Alastor is that they both sooo obviously belong in the Pride Ring, hahaha.

[rainbowrocketquotes]

📱 Cyrus? :)

let's play my favourite game: han is running out of things to put on top of the readmores!

Apps are alphabetized, not color coded. He has 7 folders, each with 4 corresponding letters, ad well as the first one being Numbers & Symbols in addition to A & B. It continues from there. (CDEF , GHIJ , etc.) The folders are in a "T" shape and nobody knows why, not even Cyrus. His only reasoning is "easier for when I'm using my non dominant hand" (and then he refuses to elaborate on which hand is his non dominant hand)

He has 43 chrome tabs open. 28 of them are video game wikis and walkthroughs, one of them is a link to a self help page he never uses, 7 are dnd spell descriptions, 3 are different "people search" websites, and the other 4 are random words/phrases he needed to google and then promptly forgot about closing.

Uses Spotify because he likes listenting to such classic playlists as "i should go to therapy" and "POV: the dark queen has just been crowned and everyone fears her". His personal playlist is called "top ten reasons i should see a therapist ft guzma" (ft guzma because guzma keeps taking his phone and adding music to it without his permission to get him to actually listen to it.

The only games on his phone are the color sorting games, sudoku, and solitaire. Used to play Minecraft Pocket Edition with Guzma during team meetings, then Guzma started raging at him mid meeting and he was so embarrassed that he uninstalled it and now only plays java.

Doesn't read his emails, has the app muted so that the notification bubbles don't show up and stress him out. If you need him, you'll call him. But, if you do call him, you better already be in his phone, or he's not picking up....... Or you could could just text him.

His contact name for almost everyone is "Delete This Contact (emoji)" with an emoji that popped up when he looked up their names in the emoji search tab thing. The only exceptions are Cynthia, who is " " and Guzma, who is "you know who it is you don't need to check the contact name" (both of which fit in my phone's contact menu, so I guarantee you it works)

He only has tumblr for social media. Lysandre tried to get him into Pinterest but he got banned

His phone background is a photo of the Pillars of Creation. He made it that the day he got it and he hasn't changed it since he got the phone. (like 5 years)

[hesitantvampirealien]

some tips for having a relaxing dashboard and avoiding stressful content

this is for people like me who sometimes struggle a little bit with website settings and social media apps and tech related to it. "I already knew all of those" ok then fuck off and let me give tips to people who actually have a life outside of the internet on how to get rid of insufferable pests like you and have a relaxing, healthy and fun time online

I'm gonna show you how to hide posts with a specific type of content using tumblr's default settings and two google chrome/opera extensions you can use. You might be able to find an alternative for these two if one of them isn't available for your preferred browser. Some of them have chrome extension compatibility - like opera gx, which is my preferred browser - so i would recommend searching if your browser is compatible with chrome extensions before you find alternatives

First, you'll go to Settings

then you'll scroll down until you find the Visible content options. It's in portuguese because i'm from brazil but i assume you can still kinda understand a little bit

censored tags and words for privacy. The tags one is to filter out posts with a specific tag and the second is to filter out posts that have a specific word in general.

there's also adult content filter under the visible content settings.

Now for the extensions

I use two different extensions because one of them can hide tumblr ads. These are available for Chrome and Firefox.

Tumblr savior

Tumblr savior (firefox)

XKit

XKit (firefox)

Xkit allows you to hide ads and Tumblr savior allows you to actually hide posts instead of just blurring them like tumblr does by default and consequently reminding you of the content you didn't want to remember in the first place.

Late edit adding something i forgot to add: Tumblr savior allows you to hide content posted or reblogged by a specific user, you can paste their username on the "black list" option and it won't show anything they posted or reblogged anymore, unless their post has a specific content you put on your whitelist, which is content that you do want to see in your dashboard.

Tumblr savior also allows you to hide whole sentences from a post, For example: a sentence like "ai generated". Instead of hiding posts that have either "ai" or "generated", it'll hide posts that have specifically the sequence "ai generated".

i censored my blacklist because there are usernames there lolllll

and another tip i can give you. It's okay to unfollow. It's okay to block. It's okay if there won't be the "mutuals" badge anymore, it doesn't mean you hate them and you're not a bad person for not wanting to see posts from someone that remind you of things you don't feel comfortable remembering or that even trigger traumatic memories back or pre-existing issues. You can unfollow or block, and if they get hurt, it's not your problem. They're the one hurting you.

i hope these can help someone

[servin-up-surveys]

survey #233

When was the last time you did clay work/pottery? Not since high school.

Do you like art, hate it or just not mind it? I love art.

If you had to choose would you prefer dull pain for 12 hours or sharp for 2? Dull, I think. This does kinda depend on where the pain is, though.

Do you know the words to the national anthem of your country? It's kinda nailed into you when you had to recite it every day in school, so...

Would you rather be a model, famous scientist, singer, or chef? The scientist.

Would you rather be a pilot, crime scene investigator, or estate agent? ugh

Does making others happy really make you feel happy? Yes.

Have you ever pricked your finger on holly or another "sharp" plant? Probably at some point.

What do you have a lot of faith in [note: can be anything]? What love is capable of.

Do you subconsciously hang out with those with the same star sign as you or as each other, perhaps due to certain personality traits? I don't believe in this shit.

Name five objects that you don’t have but would like right now? A desktop computer, a new camera with more megapixels, a final PVC cage build for Venus that is the appropriate adult length (4x2x2), a backlog of books in my possession so I wouldn't have to keep going to the library when I finish one in the series I'm reading, and working PS4 controllers so I can actually play the console that's in my house lol.

When you have children, would you like twins? I'm not having kids, but even in the situation where I'd want kids, I would very likely abort one. I cannot imagine a world for me where I can handle two kids of the same age at once.

If you were given the choice to choose your child’s gender, would you? Yes, again if I wanted kids, I'd very much favor a girl over a boy. Literally for no reason other than I strongly prefer the girl names I like over the boy names. That's literally it lmfao, such a dumb reason. Well actually no, I forgot, I'm uncomfortable with the circumcision situation. I don't know what I'd do as a parent to a cis boy. I've heard this and that about both ways, and ultimately I think I'd let Girt decide because I have never had a penis and don't think I have a lot of rightful say in what to do in a situation I absolutely cannot relate to, but. I would just very much rather have a cis girl (at birth I should probably add, I couldn't care less if my child came out as trans, other than worrying for their safety of course) and not even have to think about it.

What’s the scariest story/urban legend/creepypasta etc you heard? Ummmmm... I always found the Rake scary. Just waking up and some demon motherfucker staring at you from the foot of your bed. No thanks. Sleep paralysis-sounding stuff REALLY freaks me out, I'm thankful I've never experienced it and hope to high heaven I never do.

Do you miss someone currently? I do, I want to see Girt but I'm sick.

What personality trait does nearly everyone in your family seem to have? I don't know, I don't feel like going through a massive list of ideas to find one everyone matches.

How many tabs do you have open and what are they? At the time I'm answering this specific question, four YouTube tabs and one for Tumblr.

What browser do you prefer to use? I use Chrome, but I wouldn't call it a preference. I know Chrome has traits that are often critiqued. It's just what I'm used to.

What’re five random things on your desk besides any computer-related items? Two plushies, a planner, a sketchbook, and a small basket for things like my flash drive, iPod plug, etc.

What’re the items closest to you that’re red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, gray, brown, black, silver and gold? Red: featured on a blanket draped over the exercise bike seat. Orange: bag of chips I had. Yellow: featured in a plushie Girt got me on his vacation. Green: a plant in here. Blue: a pen. Purple: a pencil I use when I draw. Pink: a basket that's on a small shelf in here, I actually don't know what's in it. White: Girt's work schedule is printed on white paper. Gray: the outline of one of Cookie's beds. Brown: the cover of my sketchbook. Black: my pencil sharpener. Silver: the metal on the legs of my desk chair. Gold: there's gold flecks in the flower frame I use for a super cute picture of Roman.

Out of all the things you listed above, which is your favorite? The plush Girt got me while he was in Minnesota, I appreciated that he thought of me.

Are you excited for anything this month? Ryder's birthday party. The kids' bday parties stress me out to some degree, but it's always a nice change of pace in my days, too.

Is there anything special about today? No.

How’re you physically feeling right now? I have very symptomatic Covid. Guess lmfao.

How’re you emotionally feeling right now? I'm tired, haven't been able to sleep well. Feeling bleh.

Have you ever traveled outside of your home country? No, I wish.

Can you speak, read and/or write in another language besides English? I can read German rather easily (I hesitate on larger words sometimes, German words can get SO long), but I'm not fluent in understanding it all. I just understand how their spelling and pronunciation and stuff works.

What language course did you take in school, if any? I took Latin one semester and hated it. Following that, I took all four available German courses and did super well.

What language would you most like to learn? I want to be truly fluent in German.

What would you like to get a degree in? I don't think I want a degree. I want to pursue art (photography to be exact), and I've, in more recent times, become aware of just how flawed and unnecessary art school CAN be. Some people learn and grow in it, but it's a very overhyped and overly expensive thing for something unessential for success, from what I've heard from artist sources I trust.

What was you dream job when you were a little kid? Paleontologist was my first aspiration. I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs, and I still love them and find them so incredibly awe-inspiring. I desperately want to see a full fossil display one day, I might cry.

What happened to that dream? I don't want a career that requires frequent travel and also toiling in taxing conditions (like extreme heat).

Do you wake up a lot in the middle of the night? Once or twice.

What genre of books do you like to read? My all-time favorite is animal fantasy. Most books in this genre are for juveniles, but I don't care. I DO wish there were more adult-relevent series of this type, though... It's one of the things that encourages me to make a book out of the RP I take part it, but I just know I would not be dedicated enough to write a series, especially when I've already WRITTEN the scenes once, you know? Sure, I could just not rewrite a lot, but I'd be a shitty author to not reread and improve where I can, and that just doesn't interest me.

Do you prefer physical books or a Kindle, Nook or other e-reader? PHYSICAL BOOKS. I refuse to get a Kindle or anything similar, I NEED that escape from technology, my life is already consumed by it.

What types of magazines do you read? I don't read magazines.

Do you like video games based off of movies? I did as a kid.

Ever suffer from amnesia? Only when I woke up from a concussion. Initially I had almost no idea of anything and it REALLY distressed me, but still today I don't actually remember the moment I hit the floor.

What instrument do you prefer to play when playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero? I only ever play guitar.

Have you ever picked out a song to listen to on a jukebox? Possibly? Idr.

Have you ever eaten 3 meals from 3 different fast food places in one day? God no.

Favorite way to eat a potato? (i.e. french fries, mashed potatoes…) French fries.

Have you ever wished you could experience being the other gender? No, not really.

Have you ever cried in a movie theater? Yes. I specifically remember crying to Marley & Me, but I'm certain there's more, I cry easily.

When’s the last time you went out of state? It's been years.

Are the files in your computer well organized or all over the place? Well-organized.

Is there wallpaper on your bedroom walls? No.

What do you put on your hamburger? American cheese, ketchup, mustard, and pickles if available. I enjoy mayo, too, but I don't really seek it out.

Have you ever been described as shy? Is it true? Yes, I am excruciatingly shy.

When was the last time you saw rain? A few days back, we got some of Hurricane Debby.

What is one way someone could completely put you off on a first date? Say something racist or anti-LGBTQ+, act arrogantly, if we're out to dinner I'm fucking outie if you're rude to the waiters and stuff, be aggressive with me.

What about a way someone could make you like them more on a first date? Listen to me/just be attentive of me, be polite to those around you, make me laugh, don't be judgmental of my mental health stuff.

What was your first thought this morning? I was annoyed, Mom accidentally pointed her phone flashlight in my eyes at like 6AM and I couldn't fall back asleep after that.

Do or did you like school? School stressed me out, more than anything. It was too much pressure for me, especially college.

Have you ever sang in public? Yes, I was in the elementary school chorus and my childhood church choir. I also remember one church event where I was basically forced to sing a song I had to write with another girl. I was upset, I didn't want to sing with just ONE person doing it with me.

What do you like to listen to before you go to bed? I don't listen to things before bed specifically.

The videos that always make me laugh are… Vine-type videos. The quick, unexpected, stupid shit lmao

A trend I really love is… I've seen these videos going around of black men frolicking in fields and it is SO PURE and healthy masculinity as they laugh and have fun???????????????

My feelings about coconut flavor are… I hate coconut.

I think a good source of therapy is… Journaling.

Something helpful to lose weight is… Don't drink soda. If only I'd take that advice. Sure, I cut down IMMENSELY, but if I stopped entirely...

[shin-to-buri]

9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

holly @cactusramune tagged me, entirely out of the blue. startling

Favorite Color: honestly i plain dont have one. i gravitate to pink and purple but the one thing that always gets me is black+white palettes

Currently Reading: no

Last Series: partial rewatch of digimon ghost game, which i fully forgot about

Sweet, Savory or Spicy? torn between sweet and savory, but i fully cannot make it through a day without having something sweet

Currently Working On: drawing in general, hopefully getting into classes so i can study for college entrance exams. heres an unfinished chrome

I tag: theres barely anyone on tumblr that wasnt also tagged by holly and is still active so im tagging my mom :) @dgcakes

[lehhoh7822]

watch it now

honestly, tom cardy can stay at the top of my pinned. he deserves it

hi! i'm lehho. i'm australian and super duper cool.

if you're in the.... the circle that USED to be full time dsmp tntduo, I'm probably a mutual, mutual in law, or a mutual couple times removed, so catch me around!

my pronouns are they/them. <- i would get new pronouns but it seems like a lot of effort

im an adult lol

in terms of tumblr:

a lot of my tumblr usuage actually happens on my phone and not even on the app. on tumblr dot com on chrome. on my phone. so there isn't a lot of tagging going on

more so, another important thing is that I generally don't trigger tag things. i can try, especially if you're a mutual, but it's just generally not something I'm in the habit of doing anymore. if you're following and I continue to not trigger tag things after you've asked, best practise is to probably leave. (sorry!)

I'm not amazing with figuring out when a post on the dash should be left entirely alone and not reblogged. so if i reblog your post and you're like "👁️👁️ yikes" please tell me and it will be gone as soon as i see the message

also i often dont reblog like. reblog bait. so if you watch me reblog a whole bunch of stuff and then not reblog like.... reblog if you dont want to kill gay people or reblog if youre not a pedophile its because i dont want to. dont take it as like secret agent evidence that i am the worst perosn in the world

oh also because i do not remmeber who i have followed if you softblock me it will likely be very ineffective because i will just go woah cool blog and follow u back because i just genuinely didnt remember that i already tried. so i promise u that im not trying to stalk u or make u uncomfortable ive just assumed that tumblr glitched/i forgot to follow u/accidentally unfollowed

also I don’t reliably get notifications for asks/dms so if I don’t touch something, try again and I’ll probably see it. So sorry if this happens to you

i have a couple of sideblogs which are relatively irrelevant (if you find my rp blog ill give you a cookie or something), I do have an ao3 (lol) however its mostly legally blonde fanfic and the rest is.... trash. and I also have a twitch where I will only stream sara is missing for the 26th time. come watch I guess!!

alright thats kinda it! bye guys

[alex-rambles]

You were locked in your basement?? Btw, if you do move, perhaps hide your phone in like your clothes or pocket as you’re wearing them. Trust me, it’s easy and they won’t suspect to look through the clothes you’re wearing and if you have to change clothes or whatever, just hide your phone again in the current clothes you’re wearing or even inside of your shoe. If you have a binder, it’s perfect to hide your phone inside of there.

This is a very long post that I made to explain my situation + it's a vent

Nonono not locked. I just meant my parents made me be down there with them. Yeah no when I said "trapped in my basement" I just meant with my family cuz the tornado sirens were going off don't worry. It was just kinda annoying.

I appreciate the help, but my secret device is actually a tablet they got me a year ago, and FORGOT PARENTAL CONTROLS, because my stepdad was setting it up and he is not familiar with the type of tablet it is. They thought they threw it away (I had two of em. One was much more monitored because it was from when I was little. They are just these Amazon Fire Tablets, and they thought they threw both of em away, because when they were cleaning out the closet they couldn't find it, and just assumed they threw it away earlier. I got lucky).

Lucky for me, it was actually in my room. The one my stepdad set up. The unmonitored one where I can browse the internet as I please and check out whatever website I want. The only thing was that I couldn't download any apps I didn't already have, as my mom would get a notification because of how the Amazon App Store worked.

I can probably put it in a backpack, but the wifi would have to change and they'd probably notice the tablet on the plan or whatever, and the tablet doesn't use cellular data.

My actual PHONE is monitored. It's an android with this silly google family link thing on it, and my parents (technically my stepdad, he's the one in control) can easily go into the app on THEIR phones, and check my screen time, and every app I have on it (and I can't even download an app without my stepdads permission. If I try to get an apk from the internet and install it, the thing blocks it), as well as what websites I've gone too recently.

HOWEVER, on the subject of checking websites, they can only see what websites I browse on google chrome. My phone came with another Samsung Internet browser, and on THAT, I can open an incognito tab (dubbed Secret Mode). But I have to be sparing with that because my parents will notice I was using Samsung Internet a lot if I use it too much, and then whoops, that'll get monitored too.

So basically, if we move, I lose what is basically my only lifeline, the only reason I'm politically aware, and the only resources I have as a trans person (my parents have offered groups, but I'm too socially awkward. I absolutely prefer face-to-face communication, yes, but with people I know, thanks. If I don't know you, let's just chat through Tumblr or QuoteV, yeah?). That's a problem.

But it's fine, we live in an expensive area because we got lucky when we moved in two years ago. And they said they will only move if we can stay in the same school district. So, fingers crossed, everything is too expensive. Lots of houses going up for sale around here, but they're all too expensive or not the conditions my parents want or need.

TLDR I already have a monitored phone, my secret device is a tablet, my parents never allowed me on social media because 'it's not safe' and they think I can't take care of myself, and if we move I lose the social media because of needing to switch wifi, which is big bad because it has been supporting me and keeping me entertained

[wasdplz]

I posted 733 times in 2022

That's 199 more posts than 2021!

19 posts created (3%)

714 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@livingthedragonlife

@anais-ninja-bitch

@bethanyactually

@pavlovean

@sovengardeswag

I tagged 517 of my posts in 2022

Only 29% of my posts had no tags

#sw trash blog - 41 posts

#star wars - 41 posts

#mass effect - 32 posts

#dragon age - 23 posts

#vidya games - 13 posts

#leverage - 13 posts

#lotr - 11 posts

#😂 - 11 posts

#reference - 9 posts

#stranger things - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#every time i’m forced to use chrome bc of work or whatever and i’m assaulted by ads and other weirdness from various sites i get so mad

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Just saw some post where op said “do not add tags when reblogging” like ???? Are u new here

5 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#4

So this has been a Fun couple of months.

A little over a month ago, half the people at work got laid off. Including me. We recently lost our biggest client so the unspoken threat of layoffs was in the air but tbh i thought i was safe. I was one of only 2 ppl left on a very specialized team and i had been there years longer. Surprise! 😡

Then getting my severance was a mini nightmare. Finally got it and it was like half of what i was told, bc it got torn to shreds by taxes before i even got it.

Then abt a week ago i found out a close online friend died. I hadn’t known him v long, probably only a couple years tops, but we played overwatch together several times a week and i chatted w him in discord every day. So it hit me harder than i expected.

A little light at the end of the tunnel, though: i applied to a job last week and just found out yesterday that i got it. But yeah. Rough 2 months.

8 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

#3

SUBNAUTICA - Full Soundtrack OST - Music by Simon Chylinski

11 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

#2

Oh m y god

48 notes - Posted July 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

For @mishikaiya for the@masseffectholidaycheer secret santa :) Leon Shepard i tried to do garrus too but i forgot how incredibly bad i am at drawing turians i'm sorry omgggg

65 notes - Posted January 15, 2022

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[sylvestreries]

Fourth day. The pain in my backbone lessens enough for me to be able to move again, albeit still cautiously.

I automatically look for something to do, to feel useful or some shit. I can't go out and play with my juggling sticks because I still have a little bit of lucidity and know I have to take it easy, but I. Am. Bored. As. Fuck.

I read all morning the book about felt sense and trauma, and acknowledge my body, write a little in my notebook about crying in front of heartfelt media that speaks about sensitive subjects of mine, and never fail to make me cry, soothing the need I resisted for obsolete reasons. All the while being attacked by the kitten, who is the cutest michi gatito the goddess ever gave birth to. I nonetheless find myself restless.

"I guess I can write and do computer stuff then !" said I, enthused by yesterday's surprise inspiration.

I launch my big ol' computer, in the idea of doing something precise, and just like old times find myself way later erring between websites and self-indulgent softwares, forgetting all about why I'd come, gladly procrastinating the task of doing some writing on mechanical keyboard to get the habit back (by using said keybord for many things, including playing the jumping dino from Chrome). And when I got bored of the dino (after topping my last High Score by a thousand), and I didn't have internet anymore, I just... got scrolling tumblr on my phone.

These are the traps of that old machine. I open it, the stimulations assault my senses and I quickly derail. I'm good at doing nothing productive.

And surprise ! that was tha ACTUAL goal of today, get more rest so that I don't hurt myself again right after getting a little bit better.

And bonus, I did the important stuff right away, and crossed some to-do lists as well, I just forgot about them. Too focused on felling guilty for not writing.

ah, brains. So easy to trick sometimes. That's the benefit of indulging in slow life too, that and the habit of taking care of that aching human existence getting the hang of it.

Being a vessel of flesh and bones is exhausting, and other humans are exhausting. Except my housemate, she gets it and cooked pasta and brought some to my room, and did not judge me for not doing anything but stare at that gigantic screen with tired eyes and no purpose. And the other housemates who are away on adventures right now.

UGH. BOREDOM IS A CLEVER WAY OF GETTING MYSELF TO REST BUT WHY DOES IT FEELS LIKE UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[orfisheus]

I've done a bad thing (downloaded chrome (Microsoft Edge stopped letting tumblr be a functional web page)

Anyway, I forgot I had a Chrome edition of Grammarly downloaded, and now it's yelling at me for improper puncuation.

[kyokosasagawa]

new june 2023 pinned post!

Hello yall! I'm Lari and I'm a genderqueer grey-aroace lesbian. My pronouns are she/her and he/him, and im comfortable with all terminology (dude, bro, sweetie, blah blah blah). I'm in my mid-twenties and very happily single for life.

My current favorite fandom is Katekyo Hitman Reborn. My most beloved character is Fran, though I usually draw Mammon and Chrome. Sue me, I like the color purple.

My favorite tropes and AUs are

Genderbenders

Magical People (specifically inspired by magical girl series)

Demon/Angels

Magical Beings (sometimes crossovered with demon/angel AUs)

Fairytale AUs

Fantasy in general

I also like reading books and taking notes from them. My favorite genres are Fantasy - Swords & Sorcery, Nonfiction Self-Help, and Nonfiction Art Topics.

Currently, my favourite book series is anything by Rick Riordan (slowly catching up!!) but I'm always open to suggestions regarding books. Please do not recommend HP, I've long moved on from that.

Content Warning!: I'm a pro-fiction/pro-ship tumblr. This means that although I may have my squicks when it comes to fiction, and although there may be things I avoid in fiction, I do not go out of my way to harass anyone who likes those things. I also do not dislike anyone just for liking something I'm squicked out by.

Regarding Tags: I make a vague attempt at tagging things. I'm often bad at it. I have ADHD and I'm forgetful. If there's anything you particularly need tagged, please let me know and I'll try to remember.

Regarding Image IDs: I'm trying to utilize image IDs in my art posts. If there's ever a drawing I post and it doesn't have an ID, I probably forgot. If this happens, either feel free to make up your own ID, or just send me a friendly reminder to write one up. If you have any tips for ids, please feel free to let me know too.

"#my art tag" is where you can find my art, like, 40% of the time? Honestly I keep forgetting to tag it.

[woniepolyglot]

✨ monthly recap ✨

I'm totally replicating this idea from Lindie Botes because I need to have some place to hold me accountable to my studying.

I graduated university more than a year ago and since then my foreign languages have been going 📉📉📉

this month

I studied a grand total of 19 hours and 58 minutes this month... I'm a disgrace💀

some wins on april:

💌 decided to start a twitter (@/wonie_polyglot if you wanna follow me there) dedicated to my language learning, which was a huuuuge step for me. This tumblr thing came afterwards bc I like to write ✨long posts✨.

💌 finally found some materials for French that I feel comfortable with c:

🦉current duolingo streak : 12 days (had to restart it bc I'm dumb and forgot about it🙃)

✨ français ✨

I was feeling pretty down with it at the beginning of the month. I tried to use the book I bought for university, but the app and website were pretty shitty, so I had no real access to the audio files or the answer key.

Then I found the glorious Progressif du Français series. I started with Orthographe Progressif du Français et Grammaire Progressif du Français, both in niveau débutant, just to start getting back on track.

I also got Short Stories in French for Beginners. I haven't started it yet, but it looks pretty promising!

I'll also try to get into some series on Netflix for some immersion sessions!

✨deutsch✨

Similar to French, I wanted to use up the books I bought for school, but with these I actually was able to get the audio files, answer keys, and some extra worksheets!

I'm using Bild für Bild Deutsch Sprachkurs (very useful if you're self-learning, grammar points come in English) and studio d, and so far so gut!

I also started watching Dark on Netflix. My plan is to watch it like three times. First with English subtitles or (if I can get to a pc) with a chrome extension that allowes me to have dual subtitles. Then with only German subtitles, and one final time without any subtitles.

✨한국어✨

I have a lot of resources for Korean (mostly Talk to Me in Korean, but also some from Yonsei, Ehwa, etc). I think I'm trying to overcompensate because Korean is the only language where I haven't had any formal learning done before.

Right now I'm on the Level 1 TTMIK Textbooks, along with Korean Grammar in Use and 비타민 한국어. Plus Real-Life Korean Conversations for Beginners, Easy Korean Readings for Beginners, My First 500 Korean Words (all three form TTMIK), and the Soo&Carrots' 100 Day Korean Vocab Challenge (not doing it daily just here and there).

I also have one of the Yonsei Reading workbooks that I'm looking to integrate into my "routine".

next month

I'm nervous because May is a very holiday heavy month in my country, and my family likes going out on road trips and such, which means I'm most likely not gonna stick to the schedule I'd like to...

goals for may:

Create an on-the-go routine so I can still study whilst traveling.

Solidify my resources lists for German and French.

Come up with some sort of "cycle" so I always have something to do next (I tend to procrastinate by "planning" my study sessions).

Complete one "unit" of my Korean study each week (one lesson from the TTMIK Textbook and Workbook, one reading from the Easy Readings book, one dialogue from the Real-Life Convos book, and one day of the Korean Vocab book).

[magpierrecanarie]

Took me a while but I finally figured out how to do the "Click Here to Read More" thing! Now, there will be less barging of spaces on here B)

TL;DR: I talk a bit about Venus's (this character's) character, some fun facts about the piece and my thoughts about it now.

↓↓ Click here if you'd like to know more! ↓↓

Sorry for not posting yesterday, I was busy doing some tests and just kinda forgot that I've ran out of queued posts. As an addition, sorry for being a bit spammy with all the text on my posts and whatnot. I thought that Tumblr's the one who usually did the "Read More" stuff and I was quite confused when it didn't do it for me (thought that it was because I didn't reach the length required). Anywho, I've curb that issue so it should look neater now on my page!

No "Old Notes" for this piece sadly! It was drawn in class so most of the notes were spoken (and I don't remember what I said), I think the approximate time when I finished this was around, maybe, July of 2022? Maybe even earlier than that.

Anyways, since I'm already here, I might as well critique and kinda describe what I was doing at the time.

The character here is Venus Scarlette (an original character of mine). She's a magicless character born in a magical world, who's only having a pretty lavish and well-off life because of this non-magical thing we all know as:

Nepotism

Renowned but absolutely not reserved, she's someone who's known for her "hot-headedness". Everyone assumes she's just lashing out because she's rich and has nothing better to do, when in reality, she just wanted to help. She always fails though since she 1) has no real agency over anything, even including shows she's invited to star in; 2) the rumours are partially correct that she has a "short temper" and that she "doesn't quite think before acting."

Back to the topic at hand, I'd like to divulge a little more regarding Venus's backstory and the other character present in this picture (I can't say who though but you might see him once I find some of my other artworks) though, I think it might thread on "spoilers" territory. I'd like to make their story an actual series in the future so I'm going to withhold some information, but I'll talk more and more about them in future posts though so this isn't everything!

Fun fact #1: I sometimes draw a little "demo" drawing right by the side of the actual drawing. Usually I crop it out, but since the demo for this piece was a bit too close to remove it completely without staining, I just left it in as is:

A bit blurry but you can kinda see it.

Fun fact #2: The "tattoos" on her skin (they're also kinda blurry since dumbass used a regular mechanical pencil to line it) are actually scars from a "magic allergy reaction". It's a temporary name for now but the gist of it is that she was afflicted by magic that was not her own, causing them to form all over her skin. I might decide to change the placement of them in the future though.

On the other note, I actually dislike how skinny she is here. She's supposed to be a bit more meatier than this, with a y'know, normal human weight? But I suppose reading too much Shoujo manhwa makes you develop impossible beauty standards too.

Anyways, the "Read More" section has caused me to be quite chatty today, huh? I'll try to avoid typing as much next time since it's actually causing my Chrome to chug LOL, see you soon! B)

[thetrueshan-blog]

Cyberpunk 2077 Urban-explore blog #1

Hello there Choom! I’ve been exploring around in Cyberpunk 2077 recently, since I enjoy the world design and wanted to share some of the stuff I found. First off, I can be pretty critical of this game, but I do understand that others enjoy it. I do too! I just was very disappointed in the state of release of the game back in December of 2020. From the tons of bugs and technical issues to the massive amount of cut content. I do hope this game can improve and become something better.

Also apologies for the long post. I really don’t know how tumblr works, but I’m trying it out anyway. Also mild spoilers down below. Nothing major.

For exploring I don’t use cheats or console commands. For most of my exploring using the double jump cyber implant is enough to allow me to explore for my heart’s content. It’s honestly the only reason I keep playing the game. There’s just so much to explore!

Anyways, onto exploring. The first thing I did, was play some Roach Race. The new minigame where you can actually play an arcade game. In this game you play as Roach, the horse of Geralt from The Witcher series, running and avoiding obstacles. If you’ve ever played the dinosaur “no connection” google chrome game, then you’ve pretty much played this. Though interesting to note is that the game has a leader board, and after I played a game I got a message stating that if I got into the top 5, there would be awards. Which was pretty exciting. It doesn’t seem very hard, but after playing a bit I got 6th place, and called it for today. I’ll play again some other time.

After that I started to roam. I even found this Private Investigators office. I wonder if there’s any meaning behind the sign? I couldn’t tell.

After that I started to to climb. And oh boy did I found something great. Usually the rails in night city are blocked by huge amounts of collisions that actively push you away from them. I guess they really don’t players to roam on top of the empty rail ways? So I guess they forgot one cause:

If you can’t tell I am a lot closer to the rails than what should be allowed. So much so that I was able to actively get on the rails past the collisions and walk on top of it.

Something interesting to note is that these set of rails are special because they lie on top of a road. I don’t know why they are. It’s even marked on my mini-map as such with the green line being the road. But don’t worry I bet you’re curious what’s at the end of the rail right? Well fear not because I found it.

As you can see the end of this railway is nothing more than a slab of pure concrete. Guess the trams have the ability to go through solid material. And as you can see from the screenshot I got a special message for going too far. Ah yes the famous “Turn back. Nothing out there for you... just yet” message that appears when entering parts of the map the devs don’t want you to. Always something good to see to make sure I’m on the right track.

Though fun fact: the trams do work as moving objects and you can be hit by one. Which is so odd, since you’d have to go out of your way to get hit by one, like me. But sadly no, there is no way to ride these. I guess the fast travel system is meant to be using them? But I always wanted to be able to ride inside of them. Anyways.

I don’t think these rails are up to code... surprised they haven’t caused a derailment yet.

Now then, if that was one end of the track, where does the other end go? Well good question. It goes to a station presumably to be loaded with cargo. You can see a very rare look into the station here. It really is nothing more than just rails switching sides.

Sadly however, I can’t get any closer. There’s a gigantic collision box on all sides of this station. No matter what angle I tried this was the end of the rails journey. Sad :(. Though I did certainly try.

So I went exploring else where. Something I find a ton of is areas where you can tell assets were placed together. Such as the roofs of this building overlapping with one another.

Or how this barbed-wire is embedded in the roof behind the motel for BugBear’s quest.

I also don’t think that this placement of ventilation would get much air flow. No would that latter be much of use, seeing that it’s inside the ventilation machine.

But now for the final part of my exploration. I found something that eerily resembles some actual urban-ex stuff. I found an empty tunnel that used to lead from a parking garaged to a hotel. But the hotel is now run-down, except for that night club you can find during one side-quest. Here is the tunnel:

The otherside:

Both ends just end to walls. But the stairs lead down to the garage:

There’s no need for this tunnel or the garage to exist. But this is really cool to see. You can tell this hotel was once functioning, but has long fell to disrepair and negligent. This is some seriously cool environmental story telling that I think a lot of people would miss out on. Hence why I wanted to make this post.

But shortly after this my computer blue screened.

So I guess that’s all from cyberpunk today. Yeah, fixed game with no technical issues huh? I swear the latest 1.6.1 is just very unstable. I had less issues with 1.6 before this new update.

So anyways, I want to make more posts like this in the future but I don’t know how often I’ll do them. They’re mostly for me to reflect back on previous stuff I found. But until next time, have a good one!

[mortenharkt]