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Blue October - Oh My My [Official Lyric Video]

THIS SONG FUCKING SLAPS AND IT JUST CAME OUT

SO HYPE FOR THE NEW ALBUM, THIS SONG HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD SINCE I LISTENED TO IT AND I’VE LISTENED TO IT LIKE SEVEN TIMES NOW

OMMMGGGGG

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Rambling Speed Run Notes From Latest Attempt, written part stream-of-consciousness and part summary of notes

GLITCHLESS MARRIAGE% - ELLIOT - STARDEW VALLEY

There's a reason that nobody's done this run yet. 

For some reason, all the favorite things are too hard to acquire, and the time running back and forth to the beach to give items that aren't his favorite aren't really worth the time put into it.

[KEEP READING TO READ THE ACTUAL RAMBLING, TANGENTIAL THINKING, STRATEGY PROCESSING, AND IN-TEXT CURSING TO SOOTHE MY ACHING SOUL]

So, the easiest thing to get him are Pomegranates. However, it's a 6,000 dollar tree, and there's a chance of that a lighting strike could destroy the tree. Or maybe it doesn't destroy it, but we haven't gotten that far yet.

As far as everything else goes, how do I optimally cut wood for the house and the bridge, route in an additional 15, 200 for the house upgrade, bouquet, and mermaid's pendant?

So we take up SPRING 1 -- Here, we clear the land ASAP, plant the 15 parsnips, spend the 500 gold on 6 CALIFLOWER AND 2 PARSNIPS. Then, we clear the land some more for additional Mixed Seeds and put them down, possibly getting a chance of more Califlower or more potatoes as it goes. Run around until no energy.

SPRING 2 --FUCK UP BECAUSE I ACTUALLY DIDN’T BUY MY OTHER SEEDS UNTIL TODAY, WHEN I HAD THE 500 GOLD ON DAY 1 INSTEAD, THUS LOSING TIME RIGHT OFF RIP. Water shit. Fish all day until no energy. Ship. Sleep.

SPRING 3 - From fishing and random gathering, should have roughly enough for 10+ Potatoes and however many Parsnips to fill the gap. This run was 13 Potatoes and 1 Parsnip. Plant, and fish until no energy. Ship. Sleep.

SPRING 4 - Fish money bought 17 Potatoes and 1 Parsnip. Harvest the 'Snips from Day 1. Ship. Fish. I forgot to ship the fish.

SPRING 5 - Not sure what happened this day, ended up missing a day of productivity. I think it was a water, ship, sleep day.  

SPRING 6 - Fish money bought 22 Parsnips. Fish??

SPRING 7 - ACTUALLY DID THE 22 PARSNIPS ON THIS DAY. NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED. I RECORDED INCORRECTLY OR DIDN'T MAKE ENOUGH NOTES AS IT WAS GOING ON. OPPS.

Things started getting a bit wonky. At this point, I was straggling, trying to save up for strawberries. Did some more fishing, not sure which days I picked or if it was completely until energy was empty.

Fishing seems to be important supplementary income, and probably wouldn't be able to manage without it, as long as it takes.

And then there's also the debate on whether the Mixed Seeds give enough profit for how much work they take to actually acquire. All my attempts feature me trying to go for the Mixed Seed start up plan, and I end up with enough money to really go for it.

We ended up with 53 STRAWBERRIES ON THE DAY OF THE EGG FESTIVAL. 5,300 in Gold. The next day the Califlowers were ready from Day 2 because I missed planting them on Day 1 like a fuck, and ended up having spare cash regardless.

After Strawberries are planted, it's water and sleep.

Hit ~8,000 gold and it's time to buy that Pomegranate tree and get it planted early so it's guaranteed to grow and if there's problems I have enough time to ensure that nothing gets in its way.

Water and sleep until the end of spring, harvest and ship.

SUMMER OF YEAR 1 -  WE in it. Bought 45 Blueberries. Water and sleep. Water and sleep.

And then I got tired in real life and distracted by real life things and sleep in real life, and reset the timer.

By now, ALL OF THIS took 2 hours or so before I hit the reset on the livesplitter. Ew.

BUT - once the Blueberries start harvesting, we're watering, harvesting, sleeping, and shipping.

Summer is spent being a blueberry and then FALL WILL HAPPEN.

-x-

I hadn't actually played out Fall yet, but I assume it's going to be the loop of this -- COULD ALSO ROUTE IN COFFEE  AT THE END OF SUMMER BECAUSE WE HAVE EXTRA MONEY, BUT IT DEPENDS ON IF ITS GOOD - WE HAVE ABOUT EXTRA 12,000 IF THINGS WENT RIGHT:

UPGRADE HOUSE PURCHASE WOOD INSTEAD OF CHOPPING???

SAVE FOR PENDENT

SPEND EXCESS ON COFFEE

OTHERWISE THE GAMEPLAY LOOP IS:

WAKE UP COLLECT POMS CUT WOOD UNTIL ELLIOT WAKES UP WALK TO THE FUCKING BEACH GIVE ELLIOT HIS STUPID FUCKING POM WALK BACK TO THE BEACH Repeat twice a week Sleep all the other days of the week

Collect Poms all Fall. Pray. Take Fruit Cave as a back up and pray for RNG. Check the Cart for random chance of other things he likes. PRAY.

PRAY THAT WE DON'T END UP TAKING IT INTO FALL 2.

But here's the thing??? There's no way to get another Pom tree planted and grown in the first year without sacrificing Blueberry game or other gains. Fishing only does so much.

So FALL is Poms, gifting, running around. Winter is continued gifting, sleeping. Spring is continued gifting, sleeping. Pray that we've made enough progress to buy pendent in Spring 2. If not, gift and sleep. Gift and sleep. Also protect Pom tree in case of stupidity. Possibly plant a second one as a back-up, if things haven't progressed far enough by Summer 2.

MY ESTIMATE: SUMMER 2, the second or third time it fucking rains

Meaning: We ended up putting in another 4 hour run or so, and it took about the same amount of effort doing shit.

HOWEVER, I missed some days, and had sub-optimal movement. Cutting wood is not as fast as just buying it. We'll get it done. I'm gonna finish this save file at least and then develop further from there.

I have confidence that I can get this overall run down to 3 hours with optimal movement and solid strategy.

WHAT I NEED TO FIND OUT:

> Does the chance of Cauliflowers in the Mixed Seeds outweigh the time loss? Probably not worth the time loss.

> How much fishing? Am I doing too much or not enough? Probably fishing enough, it just takes forever. Every day until energy is low, until Strawberry Time. 

> Do I really need 45 Blueberries for Summer? Probably. That extra 12, 000 might become something else, either back-up gifts or coffee, but it would depend on how the run is going.

> Elliot's Schedule in Fall primarily, Winter, and then Spring to hopefully finish it up since it doesn't happen in Year 1

> Flower Dance might matter if we're behind on Affection Values on the deadline.

> Is the Fishing Farm the way to go? Yes, because you have the water nearby for watering without a fucking walk, and you have the water nearby for fishing because that's our seed income in the first fucking month of crazy bullshit.

> WHEN IS ELLIOT'S FUCKING BIRTHDAY HOLY FUCK DON'T FUCKING MISS IT YOU FICKIT (It's Fall 5th, by the way)

-x-

So it still fucking takes 5+ hours to do this Glitchless. Fuck.

FALL 1 was successful. Having a Gifting schedule of Fridays and Sundays allowed for me to check the cart and accidentally end up gifting him on his birthday because I forgot what fucking day it was again.

FALL 1 -- went perfectly. Took my wood that I cut down throughout the playthrough, went to Robin’s. 457, into 7. Bought 300. 307. Made my way to the beach, fixed bridge. Now 7 wood because I am a fuck up. Gifted Elliot his first Pom, went to Saloon at 12. Bought 27 Coffee. Drank Coffee and ran home. Day went perfect.

THINGS I’VE DISCOVERED: 

Outright buying wood is probably faster, but not cutting wood means a lot of standing around for nothing.

Routing in Coffee was easy, but is it worth taking the extra time to do it?

Running back and forth to the beach is almost as bad as waiting for the fucker to come out.

We got to 3 hearts pretty soon, and it meant we could go to his house at 10 AM. STILL TAKES A WHILE FOR HIM TO OPEN UP THOUGH WHEN YOU’RE WAITING ON HIM.

One Pom tree produces enough gifts in one month that we don’t need any back-up gifts. Going to the Cart just means an extra load screen/shop pause and it usually doesn’t have it, but the very first time we checked it we actually got a Tom Kha Soup, which is another one of Elliot’s Favorites. Ended up never giving it to him anyways.

So, Cart doesn’t matter. Fruit Cave doesn’t seem to matter either, but it’s good for an early fruit if we need it, but we usually won’t. It is additional income instead of fishing, at least there’s that.

Need to figure out how to Death Warp for speed sake. Killing myself with Energy might do it, but the Mobile version has limitations. Sooo, fishing myself to death probably?? If we can Warp, we don’t need to route in Coffee. Subsitute Fishing for Hoeing or Axing instead on PC.

WINTER 1 was Gifting, running back and forth, sleeping. Went exactly as planned, but it was not fast because of waiting on him til 10 and still having to walk back. The walk to the Beach doesn’t matter because you still have to wait on him to open the door, but getting home faster is where the major time losses are.

WHAT IS THE FASTEST ROUTE HOME? DOES IT REALLY NOT MATTER? IS THE DEATH WARP ACTUALLY FASTER THAN WALKING BACK? Probably, even if you’re waiting on animations.

SPRING 2 -- Accidentally lost a Heart due to me reverting a save because I wasted time, but we had 8 hearts and gave him the Bouquet by this point. Just more gifting and running, but we’ll probably need to route in Deaths because of money from revival. Will have him by Flower Festival most likely, but probably not before first rain. Might have him before the beginning of Summer 2.

-x-

Married by Spring 19, pendent bought on second day it rained. Warping seems faster and is a good use of time/energy while waiting on Elliot, but the actual warping might be faster on PC because the tool limitations on the Beach don’t matter in PC version. Fishing pole is good enough on mobile, but doesn’t finish you off and you have to switch to Hoe, which has its own problems.

But, all in all, run finished in roughly 5 and a half hours, which is faster than my first timed attempt at 6:27.11 using the Lobster method. 

RESULTS: Poms are faster and no RNG involved. Hard money grind to buy tree before Fall 1. Fall is when the romance happens. Spring 2 is the wrap-up. PROBABLY NOT GONNA EVER GET A SUB 5 HOURS.

There’s an absolute reason why nobody does this run AND I HAVE TASTED IT AND NOW I ACCEPT THE TRUE CHALLENGE OF GRINDING THIS OUT AND POSTING A TIME EVENTUALLY.

This run is a fucking meme. 

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Hey guys! I survived a hurricane and I’m back!

No. really. I really did survive a hurricane - Hurricane Michael. Yeah, it was brutal but I made it out. I have internet again! Power and water are nice too. I’m back!

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ANYBODY?

Just that I’m back, and won’t rely on the queue to provide you with reblogs anymore. I’ll be behind the controls again. Yee-haw. To anyone reading this, thank you for your time. 

See ya next post!

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>I was wrong. It was not as simple as I thought.

Zarya from Overwatch!

I was really inspired by a panel in the new Zarya comic and just had to do something with it! I struggled with her mouth, and then fucked up the inking in the final stages I had to retouch before I colored it digitally. I actually only fixed the one major mistake and left all my other inking mistakes in, since this was for Inktober 2017.

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Here, have a pastel goth waifu. 

OR

“I got new markers today and had to do art with them to validate spending that kind of money on them”

Mechanical pencil, Copics, Crayola water colors (found some old shit), Faber-Castell inking.

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What a year, 2017! What a year! The first year I made a concentrated effort to draw something every day, every month!  The first year I fully attempted Inktober and finished all days! 

Several original characters introduced themselves to me! Several stories and projects all came to me, clamoring for attention! I learned how to use a dip pen and discovered a digital coloring process that works for me! I started several courses online and immediately applied it to my work! I created several animations and will continue to do so well into 20XX! And I will do all of this again and more!

Sooo~~ Here’s to another year of making stuff happen! More art, more characters, more stories! More lines, more process, more progress! 

WELCOME, 2018!

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JUST HAPPENED

BOYFRIEND: *steps on my bra on the ground* OW FUCK THAT HURT

MY RESPONSE: You could say it was a...booby trap.

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tehsoupie's CONVENTION TO-DO LIST PART 1

PRE-BELLECON:

CLEAN HOUSE: Do the dishes so there's no moldy stinky scum growing on the plates when I get back; wash all the dirty laundry so there's no sweaty ball/sweaty bra stink lingering in the house; take out all the garbage.

WASH PILLOWS AND BLANKETS: These normally would be included in the "wash laundry" bit, but I consider it separate because I take my own pillows and blanket to the convention and I don't want my roommates smelling my B.O. that I don't normally have.

PACK SUITCASE WITH CLEAN CLOTHES: Take those good-smelling clean clothes and arrange them in your chosen vacation bag. It's a 3-day event, so pack 5-days worth of clothes -- 3 convention outfits, plus a spare for emergency/accidents, and one to wear on the ride back home post-con. Don't forget your toiletries and a rudimentary medic kit. (Medic kit has medicine you might need for headaches, allergies, sleeplessness, stomach aches, plus band-aids, ointment for small cuts and scrapes, and tooth ache stuff.) Try to cram everything in one bag, if you can, and use my rule: BRING ONLY WHAT YOU YOURSELF CAN CARRY, WITH NOBODY'S ASSISTANCE.  This makes it easier on whoever has to pack the car as well. Swimsuit and your own towel if you plan on swimming, plus a plastic bag to put them in so your other stuff doesn't get wet. PJ's if you're the kind of person who doesn't sleep in your jeans every night. Other things needed could be: batteries, cellphone charger, pen/paper for contact info of awesome people you just met; any cosplay things you plan on wearing, extra needle and thread to go in your medic kit for emergency cosplay repairs, bobby pins, a special bag for things to do and entertain you (books, DS, PSP, journal, Nook, porn, whatever).

TAKE CARE OF OTHER ARRANGEMENTS: For me, that means telling the managers to use my vacation time; paying the water bill early because it's due while I'm away; pet care arrangements for my bird; burning road trip music on a few CDs; making sure all the lights are off, appliances unplugged, AC turned up to 80, water heater turned off before we leave; writing down hotel and convention info in case my phone kills itself; making sure all money that is due is where it needs to be; possibly go to the bank for a deposit or withdrawal; gas station visit for drinks, snacks, and a full tank before disembarking; packing the car the night before we leave.

DISEMBARK: Get in the car and drive, or on the plane, or however you're getting there.

CHECK IN TO THE HOTEL: Confirm reservations, pay the balance, get the keys, and find the room. Unload suitcases. Get settled.

FOOD RUN: Visit nearby Publix or Winn-Dixie and get food for the room stay, as a group with your roomies.

EARLY REGISTRATION: Some cons let you pick up your passes early the night before the con. Do so, if you're able to.

CHILL OUT: Once you've got the food sorted, suitcases lumped into whatever corner you choose, sleeping arrangements configured, and you're all settled in, it's time to relax. Go the pool downstairs, have a cocktail at the bar, meet up with friends attending the con as well, take a shower, nap, whatever. The first day of the con is tomorrow.

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The only time I'll ever be jealous of Kristen Stewart is when she kissed Ryan Reynolds in Adventureland.

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I don't have walls constructed around my heart, so it's easy for people to get in there, push my buttons, and set the fortress to self-destruct...

me being dumb in a chat

We were talking about boys and feelings, and I decided to be all dramatic. Cue jokes about me secretly being a super villain and that my IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS is very much penetrable.