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SEEKING VALIDATION FROM THE 3D IS SOOOOO LAST SEASON
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! ladies & gents, boys, gals & non-binary pals, i present to you another post brought by urs truly, @bbrattywise : this post was ib: this reddit story
anywho, intros done, let's cut straight to the chase, i think the reason why most ppl struggle with validating themselves from the imagination is we're scared its "lying to ourselves" & its "being delusional" *red buzzer to both answers because those are FAR from right!!*
1) the imagination is REAL, realer than this reality in a sense that whatever u persist in the imagination will quite litreally materialise into ur 3D (because thats litreally how the law of assumption works. You assume in ur imagination/4D and it materialises into the 3D, ya get me??) So no matter what, ur dominant thoughts/assumptions (a.k.a ur dominant thoughts u persisted in ur imagination whether thats being tiktok famous or having ur dream yacht) have no choice but the manifest into the 3D.
2) u not feeling happiness/any sort of positive emotions when visualising/imagining living in end w/ ur desire ≠ it being fake. Because obviously, u having something = u being quite used to it so ofc u are not gonna feel all giddy everytime u think about it. Thats totally normal!! that is the same principle for experiencing "negative emotions". You experiencing any sort of emotion doesn't change the fact that you ALREADY HAVE ur desires in ur imagination, so chillax buttercup! you are not doing anything 'wrong'.
3)"but how do i imagine having my desires?" pls dont overcomplicate yall, i swear its as easy to do as it is to say. Basically pick what u want & acknowledge it being in ur imagination. For example, whenever i be stressing about the 3D i be like "oh yea, i already have it in the imagination which is my true reality" and go about my day. Its as easy as thinking, think as u already have it (because that is quite litreally the case). As Neville Goddard says "creation is finished" which i love falling back to whenever i am in doubt because once you've imagined ur desire, thats it. Thats all you gotta do.
4) find ways to make ur imagination ur fun place. When i started utilising the imagination, i was like "huh, wdym i can litreally imagine WHATEVER?!!" lemme tell u, the imagination is limitless!! It's like playing sims 4 without the restrictions put in place by the developers. You make DA MF RULESSSSSS!! Wanna visualise owning a pet dragon?? the sky's the limit!! its so fun picking things & living out ur imagination knowing that it materialises into the 3D regardless <3
the law of assumption (though a mundane, universal law) is such a beautiful thing to be aware of so utilise this information. Don't dwell in old circumstance because you're scared of change. Trust me, take this leap of faith and really have fun with the law of assumption. After all, its practically a life cheatcode, might aswell use it, right?
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i’m ngl, i’m a big dnd nerd that was running out of high fantasy content to consume and then i stumbled upon your beloved comic. i just wanted to ask what your favorite worldbuilding decision is for utg and if you could pick dnd classes for any (all) of the characters, what they would be 👀
anyway, i hope you have so much good energy! all the good ideas and epiphanies and magnificent sketches to your heart’s desire ♥️
Oh yay thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy it ☺️
There's two major world things that I'm really happy with and helped a bunch of things click into place I think
One has to do with the magic system, or rather how magic works in that world on a sort of... molecular level? People who've seen me do worldbuilding for a while know I'm cheeky about deriving stuff from physics and loosely drawing parallels here and there, and for the under garden I ended up making it so that a lot of magic runs on wave function interference. Kinda. So the "natural" state of things has its own wave frequencies and magic comes from unnatural frequencies being added into the mix causing shit to go weird
By extension deciding this also made it easier to understand why or how some things can detect magic (they'd pick up on the weird frequencies) AND how it's possible to have magic blocking devices (they emit destructive frequencies that nullify it). Does it fully make sense on a physical level? Not necessarily but I get giddy when I can visualise magic mechanics like this hehe
The other decision was to simplify our lineup of humanoid species from the original DnD esque basis, but in a way that allows us to have basically any humanoid appearance you can think of through a ✨mutation✨ cheatcode. We have two "elf" subspecies (basically the dark elf-like ppl and everyone else, including "dwarf" looking folk, etc) and then a species that technically derives from them (and they're all genetically compatible) that's characterised by having abnormal, often insect-like traits. There's no real limit to their phenotypes since their origin is magical and random in nature, and since they can mix with "normal" elves the degree of bugness varies.
Which means i can have insect people, reptile people, horns or hooves or tails or wings galore without needing to come up with a full background for each of these variants >:)c
ANYHOO sorry I get carried away rambling about these things. Class-wise, I only have claims for some characters who... may be yet to make a full appearance in the comic, and would actually fight:

^ Monk??? Not my first claim but after playing an actual monk the ki system started making a lot of sense

^ Lil' sorcerer u_u probably with a subclass or two but sorcerer would hold up as he grows older

^ I think warlock would work for her well enough. Not a perfect fit but I can see it with some homebrew tweaking

^ Ranger makes sense I feel, she becomes one with the avalanches

^ Barbarian.... barbarian/druid???? Uncharted territory here

^ Warlock but you haven't seen much of it yet.... soon.... (I'm actually so excited for her)

^ This one's easy I just snatched her straight from an old DnD game anyway. That's my rogue artificer babygirl
Anyhoo hope you enjoyed this ramble
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love your writing! how do you think the menagerie of murderers would react if their current crush/victim/hostage refers to them exclusivelly as "Mister [lastname]" even after they know their first name? would some prefer it that way? get off to the power synamic implied? would some insist on being called by their first name? would they not gaf? asking for Tommy Vincent and Brahms specifically but if you can do more i'd love that~
Hello there! I don't take request anymore but my mind instantly knew how each character you mentionned would react, so here a quick answer for you! (I added Bo and Lester)
I hope you'll enjoy <3
Warning: absolutely no proof reading, mentions of murders and violence, mentions of sexual desire, nothing else I think
Thomas Hewitt
Tommy would be confused as hell at first. Why would you call him "Mister Hewitt"? The man has never been called that way in his entire existence.
Of course, he understands you're trying to be polite, and it's better than being insulted... But he has a secret little crush on you (he thinks it's a secret but the whole family can tell) so it hurts him quite a lot that you are not calling him by his name. For him, it is as if you were putting barriers between the two of you. He wants you to be more intimate with him. He needs it actually or he is going to lose his mind.
He definitively asks his Mama (he is too shy to ask you directly) to tell you to stop calling him that, and to start calling him "Thomas" (which makes him feel so hot when you do) or "Tommy" (which makes him melt with pure love for you).
Bo Sinclair
Bo has tied you up on his chair and he is ready to toy with you in the nastiest way possible.
But he stops dead in his track when he hears you call him "Mister Sinclair" as you plead with him to not hurt you. He can't recall the last time he has been called that way and for an instant he doesn't know what to think about it. He asks you to repeat your words, which you instantly do, hopeful you might have found a cheatcode.
As he repeats the words inside his head over and over again, he moves his tongue over his dry lips and starts to understand he actually likes it a lot. It sounds even hotter coming out from your pretty mouth. Ok, you win, he won't hurt you as long as you keep calling him that way. God forbid he is getting hard from such a simple way. Also, he is losing it if you start calling him "Sir" as well.
Vincent Sinclair
Vincent instantly liked you among your little tourist group and this is why you're still alive, currently wandering around in the house. In your point of view, you're some sort of hostage, without really knowing what the brothers want from you.
But Vinny doesn't see it that way. You're his muse.
At first you don't know you are alive thanks to him; you even feel like he seems to avoid you as much as possible. Actually he is just watching you from far away. When he finally gathers the courage to be around you, he is so surprised to hear you call him "Mister Sinclair". He definitively enjoys the politeness of it. It also reminds him that he isn't his "mama's boy" anymore. He is a man. It makes him want to take care of you like a "man" would take care of you. But after a little while, he really needs you to call him by his name or even better by a nickname to show him you like him (even just a little).
Lester Sinclair
Lester is very happy you aren't calling him a "freak" or insulting him, despite the current situation (all your friends are dead and you're alive because Lester pleaded with his big brothers).
He is even astonished you are still so polite to him, like the first time you met on the dusty road of Louisiana. He isn't used of people being polite to him, and he is a little bit worried you are actually just scared of him. He really doesn't want that.
In addition, he HATES with burning passion you calling him "Mister Sinclair". Mister Sinclair was his father and fuck he hated that man and all the awful things he did to him and his brothers. So no, please, call him Lester, call him Les, call him anything you want, but not Mister. Even "Freak" would hurt less in fact. He doesn't really like "Sir" either because he doesn't feel like that. He is just "Lester".
Brahms Heelshire
For Brahms, it is normal and even expected that you call him "Mister" and that you are all polite and nice around him.
Your are his new nanny, you are stuck with him now and you better respect the rules and respect him.
But he can't deny that the way you pronounce those words instantly does things to him. If you are gently greeting him in the morning, he is promising himself he's going to be a good boy to you today. If you are scolding him because there is mud eveywhere in the living room, he gets sad and helps you clean up instantly. If you say this in between kisses, he is absolutely going feral for you.
"Mister Heelshire" used to be a way to show him some respect, now it is some sort of spell that wraps him up all around your little finger.
#slasher x you#slasher x s/o#slasher x reader#thomas hewitt x s/o#thomas hewitt x reader#thomas hewitt x you#thomas hewitt headcanons#slasher headcanons#bo sinclair x you#bo sinclair x s/o#bo sinclair x reader#bo sinclair headcanons#vincent sinclair x s/o#vincent sinclair x you#vincent sinclair x reader#vincent sinclair headcanons#lester sinclair x s/o#lester sinclair x reader#lester sinclair x you#lester sinclair headcanons#brahms heelsire x reader#brahms heelshire x you#brahms heelshire x s/o#brahms heelshire headcanons
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Manifestation POWERFUL SUBLIMINAL METHOD (I tried it and it works) by @bibismovingcastle get anything you desire overnight; what is SATS? how do i use it? — a quick guide. by @tellafairy I finally get it by @jealousmartini just easy like that by @adilynnyuri stop trying to get your desires, they're not coming by @salemlunaa Why are Shifting and Manifesting the same thing? by @shiftars Why you can never fail in manifestation……and why you think you have. by @listleven
A little something about your Subconscious mind by @autffiy °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・ “The Goddess ” formula.. Getting everything you want 101 🪽 by @bunnysdollette
۶ৎ "THE NOTEBOOK" TYPE OF LOVE TO SCRIPT OR MANIFEST ˙⋆.˚ by @premiumbitch
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i know why you still wake up in your "cr" by @sandorsubs
how many times you shift a day by @sandorsubs
How to persist in your desired mindset *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚ by @chestershifts
🌑 How to enter the void state ? by @shiftars
ᥫ᭡ THERE’S NO TURNING BACK FROM LAW… by @salemlunaa
"Should I affirm for every single thing/people which/whom I want in my reality or should I use umbrella affirmations??? Will it be effective?? What if that one small situation/person I wanted won't come/happen like how I wanted??? " by @adilynnyuri
THE CHEATCODE TO ALWAYS INDUCING HYPNAGOGIA: by @starsreality
stop waiting for a shift. you're literally wasting time... by @b4ddprincess
How to shift realities from someone who regularly does by @pinkktraveler
Success stories I love by @angelide
☀︎it’s not transactional ☀︎ by @salemlunaa
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Hi Linda, hope you're well!
Love your comics, both Punderworld and Blood Stain.
From one webcomic artist to another, how do you make your backgrounds? What are your techniques? I would like to make better ones (sometimes I use 3D, but painting a natural one always bugs me)
Cheers from Brasil!
hello! Thank you so much!
The way I do nature is I made myself a lot of foliage brushes over the years which help me block out environments in an easy way, but what's most important is the lighting in all of those scenes. You can have the best brushes in the world but if the lighting is off the environment will not look real. So I always advise to study/observe from real life when going for a walk to learn how colors/light/shadows behave outside during certain part of the day/weather.
Also observing plants and grass and understanding how ground is a variation of different things like pebbles, earth, flowers, dead leaves and grass can help with making your nature look more interesting.




Another thing that's useful is to observe the sky and how time of day impacts the illumination. bright days cast blue shadows, while dusk and sunsets make a lot of distant things silhouetted and simplified.




My basic cheatcode for the sky is to have the gradient from darker color towards the brighter. For stormy weather it will be inverted. (clouds that gather lower will look darker and heavier in the bottom) For ground I like to have a grass field and then on top I add some rocks for variety, some tiny white flowers, some yellow dandelions (all of them are the same oval brush XD) some dry grass poking out, a couple of accents of bushes with branches. and then depending on the time of day I will use hard light layer to drop shadows down, and add some highlights.
Always works!
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this was a rough 20 min sketch just for demonstration purposes.
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tiefling tail headcanons wheeee
i dont think that tail behavior easily maps onto like. dog or cat etiquette cuz they both have very specific social structures and body language communication that humans just dont! so i dont think tiefling tails would wag, or swish catstyle, but do their own secret third thing. lets go specifics yayyy
there are two main points of articulation, at the base of the tail where it joins into the pelvis+spine area where the bulk of the muscle is, and then at the very tip. the tail is rarely allowed to touch the ground and the tail tips neutral position is to be angled slightly up to prevent this. contradicting the very popular "base of the tail is an erogenous zone" headcanon, i think the densest nerve cluster is at the tails tip to allow for obstacle avoidance and adjust tail position accordingly. the tail base is just too densely muscular to produce a whole lot of sensation, but the tail tip is used similar to a sight cane, so even light touches can be felt. how pleasurable this could be varies and im sure for a lot of autistic tieflings it can very quickly spiral into sensory overwhelm, but generally its just like any other limb imo
the default standing position for a tail is still with the tip angled up to prevent touching the ground, something like a J shape where the curve is about an inch or two above the ground. when walking, it doesnt stay in place but instead steadily swishes back and forth in a rhythm that matches walking pace, typically in big wide arcs, not swishing particularly hard or fast so being thwapped by one mid stride doesnt really hurt. its like walking with your own personal metronome.
when running or sprinting the tail stops swishing and instead holds position creating a kind of line of action, working as a counterbalance for stability and creating a smooth curve with the spine for aerodynamics. between the tail and the horns, tieflings tend to run leaning forward, which pulls the tail up off the ground and allow it to straighten out of the J curve.
the middle of the tail isnt particularly articulate but CAN bend slightly but doing so is slightly uncomfortable, like purposefully bending a finger back. not painful but it just snaps back into place once you let go, but you CAN try and hold it by focusing on it
tiefling tails dont communicate a LOT of emotion and arent nearly as emotive as cat tails, but they ARE a bit of a cheatcode for Insight Checks if you know what to look for. the base will curve the tail upwards if the tiefling is particularly excited about something (angry, excited, aroused) which makes a kind of angled S curve out of the usual J. something particularly shocking (positive OR negative), might cause a sharp swish to the side, and both these reactions are relatively uncontrollable. similarly an agitated tiefling might have their tail start up their typical walking swish despite standing in place
if a tiefling is fidgety, their tail tip might be particularly twitchy overall, but a tieflings tail tip will be more active in general if a tiefling is interested/fixated on something or otherwise excitable.
generally the more energy an emotion tends to build up, the more likely it is to be expressed/channeled through tail body language, with the tail itself being a big muscular weight difficult to move quickly that articulates big slow noticeable motions at the base, and small fast subtler movements at the tip
#bg3 headcanons#bg3#tiefling#dirgeposting#dirge specifically has some other unique body language with his tail because of how his joints in that area work a lil differently#but even he doesnt really ''wag'' his tail despite his other wolf coding traits. he CAN thwap the shit out of you with it tho
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How to Write Intelligent Characters (Like Wei Wuxian!)
Wei Wuxian has a really bad memory, but he is also smart enough to realize this and then use it to insult people as a joke—WITH plausible deniability to shield him from any potential consequences.
This interplay between extreme intelligence, comical brain farts, and layered social interaction is what makes MDZS so fun to read because it creates a real complexity to both him and his environment. There are multiple layers going on in this scene, with in-jokes and social factions and miscommunications, as there is in reality. And it’s a tangible demonstration of his intelligence, that he’s able to think of this deception in the first place and so casually.
But also it make the story less monotonous by having this complexity. 3 layers.
There the first layer.
“Extremely intelligent character” Like gadget inventor characters or nerdy hackers. Their hyper intelligence is useful for plot reasons, and highly competent characters are likable. And this is not bad for a side character.
It can go too far, however, such as in the case with BBC Sherlock, when the author makes the character so hyper intelligent he becomes an unbelievable god character and wraps back around to being dislikable again. Like the author’s personal pet character who can do no wrong with the excuse of his intelligence allowing him to do anything, leading to extreme annoyance whenever he’s on screen, which is all the time bc he the main character (is that just me?) lol
Then there’s the second layer to break up the monotony of intelligence.
Wei Wuxian has shit memory. Like laughably shit memory. Much like how video games create perks that also give you cons in specific ways to make your decision to use it more satisfyingly personal, like choosing to wear shitty armor that looks pretty because you value style over function, Wei Wuxian’s extreme intelligence is often undercut by scenes of extreme brain farts.
Whether it be an almost painful level of obliviousness or an extreme failed memory check, Wei Wuxian gains a flaw that not only makes him human and therefore relatable, but also unique in the pantheon of genius characters out there because he’s a genius in THIS SPECIFIC NICHE (trademarked).
This nuance/uniqueness/realness, thus, will allow his character to say more about the real world than mr god intelligence BBC Sherlock.
For the most obvious one, he’s a persuasive essay on why intelligence is not predicated on good memory, which maps well onto his larger character trait of being a intelligent slacker in school (of which the number one complaint is that it is immaterial to actual learning and only really tests memory).
What does BBC Sherlock say, beyond the idea that a god has no need for human rules? That IS a message, but a hypothetical one, as most people will never get to that level of comical intelligence for it to be relevant. Well, I guess assholes (who are less smart than they think) use characters like him as excuses to be dicks, so there's that, but I think that's proof of how legitimately unrealistic he is. He's the power fantasy of teen boys and maladjusted adults, like Rick Rick and Morty.
The third layer is him remembering that he has shit memory and using it to his advantage.
THIS is the part that gets to me THE MOST about his character and arguably the part where MXTX proved (to me) that she’s a better writer than BBC Sherlock writing staff, especially when it come to OP or intelligent characters.
There’s an ELEVATION that happens on this third layer. This is where your character goes from a smart character to a smart person to an ABSOLUTE GOAT. This is the hype that the BBC Sherlock crew wanted when doing a smart god character but absolutely failed to nail deadass, Jesus-style.
Cheatcodes to Writing Intelligence
For one, it’s putting her money where her mouth is. BBC Sherlock creates hyper intelligence by bending the plot to Sherlock's will, like one of those Twitter fake "oracle" accounts that make predictions and then retroactively delete the wrong ones to make them look psychic.
It's not true prediction, and neither is Sherlock solving a mystery unsolvable to the audience because the writer can cheat and handwave his logic — THE VERY THING BEING SHOWCASED — by just showing Sherlock being right all the time about random things we couldn't know ourselves.
(And in Sherlock, this is mostly downplayed because the mystery is less important than the character drama (send prayers for Johnlock), but it goes from a subversion to a Game Of Thrones subversion (derogatory) when the show starts failing at the character drama too, making his stupid caricature of intelligence insulting instead of an interesting exploration of a hypothetical god trying to grow up human, Jesus-style.)
Wei Wuxian also has this hand-wave-y aspect to his intelligence. We're told and shown he's a genius inventor through the cheat code of the world's magic system. Magic without rules is famously hard to write well because any story's conflict can be solved with "well a wizard came and saved the day through GOD-like abilities" if the author is too lazy to write a satisfying conclusion.
Wei Wuxian is the inventor of Necromancy, and while yes this is sort of explained through a scene where he's arguing against the establishment to his cultivation teacher, the logic of it is very simple. "What if we reversed energy? (simplification of what he actually said)," the reality of his genius invention of necromancy is just that it's the author saying "well Wei Wuxian did it through his GOD-LIKE intelligence."
What we really get out of this is that his COUNTERCULTURAL HERESY (Galileo-Style) is revolutionary. Not so much his logic being revolutionary when the concept is THIS simple (haha reverse evil suppressing wards to get an evil attracting ward go brrr). But the story handwaves this away with just making other characters utter trash at necromancy, cheating at making him seem like a genius in comparison (simplified for scope, there's more to this).
IF that were all there was to him, he'd only be a 2 layer AT MOST. Instead, we have this third layer, where he directly reacts to information the reader has received in witty ways. (This also makes him self reacting, which is what makes us human)
The Structure of Setting Up Intelligence
Part of what makes mysteries so satisfying is that the reader is rewarded for paying attention/engagement. If they notice a clue that becomes a part of the detective's explanation later on, it's like a puzzle falling into place, where you feel like a special big boy for noticing. And if the detective manages to solve it where you didn't despite having all these clues, YOU become the dumb shitty necromancer jobber who makes Wei Wuxian look good in comparison. Metaphorically.
Similarly, we have all the clues. Wei Wuxian is smart and resourceful. Wei Wuxian forgets a lot of things. Wei Wuxian gets told he's forgotten a lot of things. What's the next logical step? Wei Wuxian smartly uses his forgetfulness as a resource!
2. At the beginning of the book, he accidentally snubs a side character by responding "I don't even know who you are" (simplified for scope's sake). At the time, he genuinely is fumbling here, messing up his social standing because of an actual brain fart, but in a way that's hilarious and better-than-you, so we think nothing of it... until he learns from this mistake right in front of our eyes!
Because later on, he REPEATS this line to the SAME character to legitimately snub them when they were making accusations of him personally attacking them. Not only is this an infuriating snub done on purpose this time, but it's a lie—Wei Wuxian remembered this asshole after the many many dumb dramas with them.
3. But it's a useful lie because it demonstrates a truth—WEI WUXIAN DIDN'T ATTACK THEM. Wei Wuxian would have motive to attack them hypothetically (read: dumb dramas), but the reality is that he doesn't care about them enough to do so, for all intents and purposes making them "forgotten" to Wei Wuxian. Best of all, people believed him because HE'S DONE THIS EXACT THING BEFORE. The plot is repeating, but nothing feels the same. LAYERS absolutely destroying MONOTONY.
3. On top of that, it's a reaction to himself. He's demonstrating both metacognition and self-awareness, here, which is something actively studied in psychology as a phenomenon humans have that other animals might not, a la Dunning Kruger and the mirror test, respectively. What's more human than cringing at your un-self-awareness and learning from it?
And the best part is that we were on every step of this journey. It feels like such an obvious move to make now, like duh you can use your forgetfulness as a form of weaponized incompetence—guys do it all the time (derogatory). Wei Wuxian even does this in a cute way with his sister when he does Sajiao/aegyo at her to get her attention (affectionate).
4. But it truly hits different seeing him do it in such a specifically crafted story, structured like a mystery or a joke where the logic or punchline is him pretending to have bad memory, and I personally would never have thought of doing this on the spot like he did. This is some post-argument hindsight shower thought shit. Genius power fantasy done well.
Shit like this is STORYTELLING and STORY CRAFTING. The repetition of the scene to make his second snub more potent. THIS IS THE POWER OF SET UP AND PAYOFF. A unique usage of the adage of how a character's greatest strength is their greatest weakness, like someone's determination making them bull-headed and stubborn. Except in reverse, necromancy style, where a fatal flaw (his memory) becomes a great strength (plausible deniability). A simple example of how characterization is about specific traits in unique ways to SHOW us his personality better than the author just telling you he's smart ever could, like in BBC Sherlock. THE POWER OF SHOWING NOT TELLING. The interplay of the contradictions within his intelligence as a way to show that he's "real" and not a god. THE POWER OF DEPTH.
All this while he is quite literally the god of his story (Jesus-style).
That's right! Time for pointing out the idolization and mythologizing of Galileo!
Now I don't know if this is true because fact checking in Chinese fandoms is a nightmare when 1. your chinese is barely fluent and 2. most chinese socmed platforms require a chinese phone number to sign up. 3. these two facts leads to a lot of fandom telephone. But I remember someone quoting MXTX on the idea that Wei Wuxian and his love interest are supposed to be the moral paragons of this story (despite the way Wei Wuxian has been demonized *haha get it? demonic cultivation. his ghost cultivation got called demonic cultivation in the most on the nose misnomer in history*). This is probably not a true quote, but it's emblematic of how it feels to be reading this story.
For one, Wei Wuxian is quite literally the moral paragon. He's one of like 3 people actively against a genocide (other than its victims). A genocide that characters within the positions of power go along with for what boils down to personal convenience's sake (ALL EYES ON RAFAH). He's one of the few characters to truly master resentment AKA ENVY (aka WEI "No Envies" WUXIAN) in a story where basically all the bad stuff happens due to envy (funnily enough the actual evil villain of the story is probably the only opp who wasn't actually jealous of him, despite arguably being the one who not only was the most envious of the whole series and the one whose envy would make sense, being narrative foils with Wei Wuxian and all). You'd never see Wei Wuxian wishing evil upon someone out of jealousy (he quite literally sacrifices himself to save his "unrequited" "crush's" "crush").
For two, this world is set in ancient times, where killing was still wrong but also simultaneously seen as honorable, like with Odysseus killing his wife's suitors in revenge being seen as honorable, DESPITE him hating it when the cyclops killed HIS crew in revenge for sheep lol. Wei Wuxian has slaughtered many people, but often in circumstances that soften the immorality of it, like the insanity defense or self defense or "this is war in ancient china" or stopping a genocide. And he acknowledges that these wrongs were still wrongs and does good in the world/changes as a person to atone.
For three, he's god damned OP. In a magic system where enlightenment is directly tied to magical ability, Wei Wuxian is one of the most powerful magic users in their world. Top of his generation, beat out only by his love interest, kinda. Morality is tied to cultivation, which is why it's called the "righteous" sects.
But it gets better, because those sects are not actually righteous. The vast majority are hypocrites or worse, and their work mostly involves killing things for "mundane" people, who treat them like nobility for doing so (depth in contradiction). The implication is sorta kinda that Wei Wuxian so powerful BECAUSE Wei Wuxian is one of the few to actually be righteous and not just self-righteous.
Thus, him being the inventor, the only non-noble, and only user of ghost path cultivation, the reverse of cultivation, thus serves to highlight his moral integrity in comparison, even when being called a heretic (depth in contradiction).
(And while people argue that his cultivation ITSELF is evil, causing the souls of the dead to be unable to reincarnate, I'd argue that that reading is a misread that gets distracted by thinking "demonic" and "ghost" cultivation are the same thanks to his title as the grandmaster of DEMONIC cultivation, when they're not the same (again, misnomer). In reality, he's the only successful user of the ghost path, which is about EMPATHY (Wei Wuxian's most signature magical ability after his flute playing skills) for the dead, playing into their resentment to help them pass, like he said in the very scene where he defies the establishment of his school and initially defines his path. The shitty jobber demonic cultivators are going evil and shit because it's actually pretty hard to put yourself in people's worst desires and hurts (wwx still went insane lol), much less if you yourself are controlled by resentment like Xue Yang or Su She was, who both technically "empathize" in that they're about as resentful as ACTUAL ghosts LMAO.)
Anyways, all this to say that the entire story is structured around hiding the fact that Wei Wuxian is the bestest guy ever embroiled in a huge mystery, who gets slandered and killed by his opps for standing up against powerful oppressors before coming back to life and clearing his name... (jesus-style). A lot of the book is him morality mogging or witty mogging randos, many of whom are cartoonishly evil or rude. Dare I say it? Yes. Like BBC Sherlock.
BOOM. Gallileo becomes the myth.
BBC SHERLOCK 🤝WEI WUXIAN
Whew, I finally brought it back around to my original point.
THIS is why Wei Wuxian is everything BBC Sherlock writers wished they were doing. Because in spite of all their similarities (seriously? both of them have a death period where their lover (rip johnlock) is mourning them before coming back to life??) BBC Sherlock's nowadays gets mercilessly mocked for being a Mary Sue and his fanfic community is dead, meanwhile Wei Wuxian is so beloved by his readers that MDZS fanfic literally has had such a huge impact it got Ao3 banned in China and then added a maximum to tags on Ao3 PERIOD. King shit.
And despite what this post seems, it's not a disparagement of BBC Sherlock as a character. I loved him, I loved the idea of exploring this demigod. Superwho-manly intelligent, but in ways that make it hard for him to function in the human world (until John). His struggles with ostracism, "weird" interests, sensory issues, etc. are alarmingly human and a great allegory for neurodivergence (while not being one of those cringe "autism savant" tropes bc he isn't literally autistic). Sherlock fic popped off for a reason, it's just that the writing of the show didn't do the legwork work that MDZS did to support his character as a god, instead it mostly did shit like "oh it's okay I'm a pretentious asshole because I'm a genius and always magically right, even when I'm wrong, because I'm god." Like if Rick Rick and Morty wasn't self-aware... T_T
That's why this post is me compiling the ways Wei Wuxian's character was crafted to be intelligent. It's not bad to have power fantasy OP characters, but it's hard to do them as well as him. It's not just the clever deceptions or witty usage of words with multiple meanings or the self-awareness and learning, or giving the intelligence flaws to make it more believable. Sherlock had all these and more.
It's the combination of it all, usually in the order of "telling" they're intelligent through abstract things like other characters saying he's really good at detectivework and them magically solving cases, then complicating that intelligence through some kind of flaw, then "showing" him overcoming that complication using concrete examples of intelligence, such as self-awareness, witty double entendres/callbacks, contradictorily using weakness or appearing weak for specific gains, and reframing the given 'clues' in a new light with the help of red herrings. This is like a steelman persuasive essay format, but with proving that someone is smart. Thesis, counter, rebuttal with quantitative evidence. There's like a mini arc build up to a mini climax/climactic moment that makes it satisfying.
The set up and payoffs are key here, as a lot of these just require a bit of legwork before the payoff, such as Wei Wuxian repeating the same line he used as a mistake into one he does on purpose or find a scenario where forgetfulness is actually helpful in deceptions or whatever the chosen scenario is. Much easier to begin with the end in mind in and then retroactively write the beginning to match, instead of creating an impossible mystery, after all. 😭😭 Best part is that I didn’t even compare the mystery writing of MDZS to Sherlock’s ass mysteries, I did it purely on the strength of how its intelligence is utilized for character drama, just as Moffat and his defenders would have wanted.
#metas#mdzs#mxtx#mo dao zu shi#wei wuxian#bbc sherlock#sherlock#steven moffat#writing#writeblr#hbomberguy#yeah this is mostly me writing a love letter to hbomb’s Sherlock video#analysis#danmei#tropes#storytelling#xtian hegemony#rick and morty#self awareness
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How do you watch Dreamzzz and come to the conclusion Logan isn't insecure. Genuine question because I feel it's a central point to his character a lot
Why would his worst fear be his friends laughing at him and telling him he's not enough if he DIDN'T have insecurity issues??
A character is allowed to be Egotistical for no reason but LOGAN IS NOT ONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS
The whole Lunia hourglass thing WOULDNT have happened if Logan wasn't insecure. NK tells him that he's going to help him be a better team mate and Logan takes the offer. He would NOT have done this IF HE WAS CONFIDENT HE WAS A GOOD TEAM MEMBER
This isn't even getting into Mission Implausible
Hold on i am gonna be so insufferable about this
I think logan genuinely thinks he's better than everyone else and he wants people to know he's better than them
Wanting to prove you are better than someone isn't always about insecurity in logans case i think it's his big ego
I'm going to highlight episodes 5 and 7 cause i wanna use them as examples
Starting in episode 5 this is logan's first fuck up that the nightmare king is apparently gonna use to manipulate him later
However and this is me quoting the episode here go watch the episode if you wanna fact check me
Mateo: someone just had to turn it into a race
Logan: hey don't blame me! All i had to work with was lunia's dumb broken hourglass
Mateo: tell me you had the hourglass
Logan: that's not my fault you were the ones cheating at the race
Both lines show that logan doesn't think any of this is his fault he doesn't feel any guilt about it cause he does not view it as his fault (he does take accountability at the end of the episode but it will be shown later that he still thinks it's not his fault)
Also this is the first episode where the other kids first use their hourglasses to beat logan which I'd argue isn't building up any kind of inferiority complex in him but i think it's building up resentment (i think this is the right word?) For the others "cheating" in his own words
Now onto episode 7 i wanna highlight Lance's conversation with Logan cause i think it highlights how the nightmare king's way of getting to logan isn't by preying on his insecurities but targeting his ego
Lance: those were some sick moves bro! Logan was it?
Logan: uh yeah? That's me?
Lance: you are killing it! I'm over here like trying to study your game bro
Clear example of him showering him with complements to feed his ego
Lance: ugh that green dude has a totally unfair advantage
Logan: right?
Logan: hey! I'm no cheater
Lance: fight fire with fire bro
Logan: yeah they cheated so....
He is now supporting Logan's resentment of the others cheating that i talked about
Notice how he doesn't convince logan by telling him the hack will help him with his "weakness" or whatever he specifically told him to fight fire with fire and this is where we get to his fuck up
Now onto the big one the instance people point to to prove Logan is on fact insecure and that's his other conversation with lance
Lance: dude i used that cheatcode before and it was fine! It's probably the system that's jacked up
Lance: or you did it wrong that stuff happens
Lance: wouldn't be the first time you got your friends in hot water
Logan: what's that supposed to mean?
Lance: pillows peak and the hourglass
this time the nightmare king is trying a different approach he's trying to make Logan feel insecure about his mistakes
Logan: man how was i supposed to know that broken piece of junk was gonna be so important
However his new tactic isn't working cause Logan doesn't think it was his fault he does not care stay unbothered king
Lance: Logan you get that thing fixed you stop being the guy who screws everything up
Lance: you'd be kind of a hero
No this might sound like the inferiority complex is winning but based on what he says on the next episode I'd argue the part that got to him wasn't "you stop being the guy who screws everything up" but "you'd be kind of a hero"
Logan: let's get this bad boy fixed and show the team who the real clutch player is
Logan: now how do we get this thing repaired so i can be a ✨️hero✨️ like you said
Notice who the part he cares about is being a hero? Being the clutch player? He couldn't care less about his fuck up cause all he cares about is getting the W and showing the others he's better than them
I don't think there's an undertone of insecurity i think he's just a diva w a big ego
But the sick beats episode? He likes attention you don't need to be insecure to like attention n you don't need to be insecure to be sad when you don't get attention he says he's wants everyone to like his music he doesn't look at the camera n go what if ppl don't like my art 🥺👉👈 like mateo does he's just tiktoker
What about his dream trial? He's mildly annoyed at worse he's still sassing the fake dreamchasers n he also immediately wins he gets in goes ok i see what you're trying to do unfortunately NUUH!!!!! (Also lowkey i think his trial is about realising he doesn't need to be the centre of attention not overcoming his inferiority complex or whatever)
Also i really don't think he's insecure about the others being able to dreamcraft while he can't he thinks they're cheating n he's totally still better than them cause he's soooo cool
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Logan: jokes on you bro! I don't have an imagination
Logan speaking so casually about having no imagination shows he couldn't care less about it we love to see an unbothered king
It's so funny how ppl say logan is the jealous one one mateo has a scene where he looks at the camera n starts venting on main about how logan is better at him in everything
Like my guy lego isn't subtle they don't do show not tell if he did think he's inferior to the others he would turn to the camera n say it
Als a little point my bestie brought up logan is a foil to mateo (foil parallel?? I know words......) logan is good at sport mateo is bad at sport logan has no imagination mateo is very imaginative logan is over confident mateo is insecure
He is straight up acting egotistical all canon material say he's over confident n everyone still goes hmmm he's clearly insecure like I'm all for emo headcanons but that's what it is a headcanon
Also being insecure isn't a central part of his character being a silly little guy is the central part of his character he's the comic relief guy
Thanks for listening sorry you had to read my opinions you literally asked for it

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Can we ask about your attractions and experiences as a mostly aroace loveless system?
Individual headmate's feeling?
Thoughts on love culture as a whole?
Feel free to ignore if you folks don't feel comfy talking about is!
oohh this ones fun ! (and games)
interestingly - despite the vast majority of us being loveless - we do quite have a range of differences in our experiences and feelings regarding it ? :0c
continued below the cut - as this got quite lengthy ! o7
aslo's definitely the one who feels the most positively embracing and confident of their lovelessness. (more of aslo's thoughts regarding this can be seen in the poems they wrote here and here !)
they enjoy the company of trusted others without the need to have a certain 'pull' or emotion, as does ace who feels a bit similarly.
as for others- including myself ? to be honest - it can still feel quite.. isolating... admittedly.
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(cw: discussion of and references to aphobia)
and i can't lie - there's definitely a handful of us who do retain the lingering belief.. that those out there who experience love will eventually move on from us.
move on towards a romantic and/or other kind of relationship formed around a type of love in the future -
because we- i'm not able to show "care" in the same way those who feel love do. so im not as important.... yknow ?
and that's something i know. something i accept.
when you're surrounded, swarmed, by a culture that glorifies and places the feeling of love on a pedestal - it really forces you to see just how.. well. just how much you aren't that. how you don't feel, don't experience this feeling that most seemingly possess.
love.
and with the lack of awareness for lovelessness as a whole.. and even anattractional spectrum identities outside of aromantic or asexual..? (aplatonic, afamilial, asensual, etc..)
it can paint something worded with genuine positive intent.. sting.
"you are still deserving of love despite everything."
"there will always be someone out there who will love you."
"being kind shows just how full of love you are."
(end cw)
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i can't "love".
i don't want "love".
it feels pressuring - invasive. like im expected to feel something i had never felt - nor want to.
im content.. just like this ?
i think its like... cool to just... want to be kind ? without needing to love? i think its cool to just.. be casually content and want the best for others.
i like being able to feel a sense of trust towards others without feeling a 'pull' or 'yearning' towards them.
and to be honest ? the majority of us being loveless actually kinda makes it easier to decipher the bleed over feelings of those who do feel any kind of attraction in this system more noticeable - and easier to identify. (like a cheatcode.. hehehe.)
regardless... in general - i do believe being more knowledgeable and aware about both loveless and aspec experiences as a whole can most certainly help one in deconstructing amatonormativity and its expectations.
even to those who are not loveless or aspec - being rid of the expectations set by amatonormativity can help one make decisions and choices of their own on how they wish to tackle their own feelings - how they wish to define their own relationships freely without needing to follow a set obligation.
how they wish to shape what their definition of love is, or lack of.
and i think thats real neat - yeah ?
oh and.. before i forget to mention. i think.. knowing that there's others out there who are also loveless. who also don't feel love.. thinking about this helps make everything feel just less isolating.
less alone.
seen.
anywho - i accidentally popped off oops. sorry for hogging the post.
i hope this answer is satisfying.. we're always welcome to discuss further about any aspect of our lovelessness and/or aspec identities :)
(reminder: those who do not experience love or any forms of attraction are just as important as those who do!!!! be yourself! be you freely!!)
#⚫☁ post#literallyeverythinglol#(oops this was sent a month ago - apologies for the late response !!! ty for the ask <2)#(many thoughts requires many more typing and word processing spoons o7)#loveless tag#gonna add attractions and stuff from our system in a reblog later cause that'll prob also be a bit wordy o7
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Never change ~ EMA x you fluff.
The happy laughter and the playful bickering that filled the room mixed with the sounds of the videogame they were playing should be something you're used to. It was a sound that you heard every friday night since many years and you couldn't imagine what it would be like to be sitting alone on nights like these.
However, tonight - something unfamiliar seemed to butally squeeze your heart as you walked up the stairs to deliver the snacks and get more drinks. Seeing the three of them sitting on your bed, shouting at the tv, pushing shoulders, you felt like choking up, the burn behind your eyes, quickly blurred your sight.
Confused at the suddeness of it all, you stopped in your tracks and looked at the trio from the door.
Armin was trying to dodge Eren's attacks of him trying to steal his consoler while Mikasa looked at her friends, laughter rolling from her tongue.
''You're using cheatcodes, I just know it!'' Eren practically whined at this, trying to snatch the joystick away but you could see the wide grin plastered on his face as he practically climped ontop of his best friend. Armin shrieked at that, falling over and landing on his back against the soft sheets you put on last night.
''How would I do that in this game? That's impossible, Eren.'' Armin chuckled, hitting Eren on the head with the consoler he tried to take away. Mikasa however, grabbed the one Eren put down next to him before he crawled over to his best friend.
''I dont know. You are Armin. I know that you know you're stuff.'' Eren flicked his forehead before he sat up, looking back to the screen. then to Mikasa, seeing her totally concentrated trying to keep the car on track, the tip of her tongue sticking out.
Armin this time, finally handed Eren the consoler and sat next to his friend, watching the other two race. Adding sound effects whenever he felt like was needed. The shout of joy and the way Eren threw his hands in the air when he won, was always endearing to you and you could see the smile on Mikasa's face aswell. Not bothered at all that she didnt manage to win this game, and you could guess she was also just happy she could be here with her favourite souls.
Seeing this all happen, made you want to cry out of sheer happiness. Seeing your closest friends just having a good time together ,nd you swallowed the lump that formed in your throat, entering the room atlast.
They all looked up, Eren's eyes lit up at the sight of snacks , standing up to help you put them on the table that was standing between the bed and tv. ''I was just about to see what took you so long.''Eren said, popping in some salty snacks into his mouth before he turned to you. ''Thinking you slipped on some crackers or something.'' He added after swallowing however once he saw your red, swollen eyes, telling him that you actually did cry, alarmed him immediately and his smile dropped, grabbing onto your shoulders while asking what was wrong.
This naturally caught the attention of the other two, hearing the worried tone in Eren's voice aswell, they quickly looked up and you couldnt help but to let the tears escape once again, letting them roll over your cheeks. Shaking your hand while managing to choke out you were really okay, you did pull Eren into a hug though and called out to Armin and Mikasa too. ''Come here, I want to hug you all.''
Melting into your embrace after the surprise of suddenly seeing the tears and being pulled into your embrace, you could feel his body melting in your arms and wrapped his own around you aswell.
Not long after that, Mikasa and Armin too just wrapped themselves in the sponaneous group hug but they didn't mind at all, although they too were worried about the sudden display of sadness you showed, or so they thought.
Pulling away, you managed to choke out how happy you were to just have them by your side, how grateful you were to see them exactly like this. Seemingly free of worry and just simply living as it is.
You did not care if it made sense, you just knew you felt it. Somehow the three of them, seeing them together with no worries written in their eyes, was something your heart longed to see.
''O-ofcourse.'' Eren stuttered, feeling his own heart squeeze at the feeling of love you poured out, just like that. ''I wouldn't have it any other way.'' he continued, laying his arm over your shoulders and pulled Mikasa to his side as Armin too grabbed onto your hand, aswell as Mikasa's.
''Please, never change, right?'' Armin squeezed your hand, quoting the words you managed to say a lot to them.
''Right.''
''You know we'll stay. "Mikasa added, pinching Eren's arms to stop him from messing up your hair more, you didn't really mind he did and just messed up his hair at the same time.
"Just happy you are happy." you softly muttered before clearly adding how you would drag them back by their ears if they ever decided to be dicks.
The three of them laughed loudly at that, Eren throwing his head back as he does so with Armin rolling his eyes and Mikasa grabbing onto her ears instinctively.
"Got it. Loud and clear." Eren saluted you, placing a quick peck ontop of your head. Armin turned around, smoothing down his hair, you also messed up for him and jumped back on bed, motioning for Eren to take some snacks. "We know you will." Armin didn't forget how you literally pulled Eren's ear whenever he was too stubborn to listen.
Bringing the snacks with him, Eren sat down next to Armin as they picked up the consoles once again, Mikasa stayed close to you, insisting she helped with the drinks.
Yeah, this was life. Simply as it should be.
#This is how I cope#They're all happy#Yup!#It's the truth!#Eren x reader#Armin x reader#Mikasa x reader#eren jaeger#armin arlert#mikasa ackerman#Eren imagines#Armin imagines#Mikasa imagines#aot fluff#snk fluff#Eren fluff#Armin fluff#Mikasa fluff
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8, 13, and 18 for the writing asks <333
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
this is from How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck), and i also used part of this for the fic description because it seemed good at getting the vibe and point of the story across, but i like this whole section! it's funny, it's in character, and i love when i manage to write myself into a position where i can do a few bare lines of a conversation with no description or dialogue tags like at the end here, and it still fits and makes sense. (also. this is not technically a dialogue thing, but "Roy crosses his arms harder, and then uncrosses them, holding them stiffly at his sides to project friendliness" still manages to make me laugh, which is pretty magical, because my own writing usually loses that ability pretty quickly purely because i know all the jokes. i just have such a vivid image for this in my head.)
Once he has Roy where he wants him, Jamie doesn’t copy Roy’s folded arms pose again, like he did last time. He just demands, “Look, if we’re both going to pursue Keeley, we need to be totally honest with each other.”
“Alright,” Roy says, because that makes a lot of sense. It sounds very healthy, too. Like something that would make Keeley proud, and would also make her life a little easier, because they’re sorting their own shit out now. He’s all for all of those things.
“Brutally honest,” Jamie says, as if he’s still trying to get the point across. “No more secrets.”
Roy stares at him. “Yes. I know what words mean.”
“Okay,” Jamie says, and then he says, “I talked to Keeley about maybe being bisexual because that night we fought over her I wasn’t just jealous about her.”
Roy sort of wishes he could go back in time, maybe five or ten seconds, and say with his full lungs, fuck no, let’s lie our arses off. Instead, in this reality where mankind has invented Roombas but no time machines yet, he says, “Uh.”
Jamie shifts, and now he does cross his arms, loosely. “Don’t worry. I’m not gonna try something, or anything.”
Roy crosses his arms harder, and then uncrosses them, holding them stiffly at his sides to project friendliness. “I’m not worried. Fuck that.”
“I’m just being nice.”
“Yeah, well, don’t.”
“Fine, I’ll stop.”
“Good.”
“Wanker,” Jamie says, frightfully affectionately.
Not frightful because Roy secretly does think Jamie’s gonna try something, or anything, but just because it makes him realise he feels the same way. Fucking friendship.
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13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
i already gave show don't tell a shout out, so, hmm. i think a cheatcode i use often and that's nearly always stupidly effective at making a short piece of writing feel like it has some sort of point and is wrapped up neatly is to reread the start (and middle) and figure out a way to refer back to, well, literally anything. could be a bit of dialogue, a specific feeling, an action, a metaphor. if possible give it a little twist this second time, or show how something about it has changed, but if that's tough, literally just calling back to it can still work wonders. this may seem sort of obvious and most people probably do it automatically often enough, but it can be worth considering very intentionally, especially if it's hard to find an ending/last lines to a fic. this can also make a piece of writing appear way more calculated than it ever was while writing, which is fun, because you get to stumble your way into seeming clever.
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18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?
generally my fic is so short that the easiest way for me to keep track of everything is to just reread it in its entirety when needed, so not really! which is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because there's definitely a cycle going that looks something like i write short fic because i don't need to do fic bookkeeping > i don't learn fic bookkeeping because i write short fic > i write short fic because etc.
#thank you!!#*#ask#ask game#though it also needs to be said. another reason i write short fic is because it would take me YEARS to get anything posted ever#if i tried to always write multichapters. it's by no means just the organizational aspect
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Okay real fucking beef time
Turning off calling for pickup in all of Firgrove is so fucking petty and it's honestly more of a peeve than the wolves existing
First and foremost, it's inconvenient because you're limiting a Really big part of most people's daily play because... I assume they don't want us to cheat if we get chased?? But like. let us? It's an inconvenience either way because I fucking promise most people haven't switched homestables just for this event so most of us Will still be thrown halfway across the map. And even then if ur just Passing Through and need to go to ur homestable suddenly you can't because of a Hypothetical? Like it's just such a petty asshole thing to do no matter what and it's kind of ridiculous because it's not the cheatcode it seems like SSE thinks it is.
Unironically if they only let us call for pickup but don't change the wolves at all I think I'd have ten less things to complain about
#Idonno it's just really dumb#Signed someone who lives in Goldenhills#Back to my hater arc lmfao#Okay no but I love 90% of Camp Western this thing is So well made#But this part is Petty and Dumb#Hmmm maybe this wasn't intentional so maybe it's fine#The wolves during the race is Mad annoying tho so that beef still stands
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i wont lie, terraria shimmer teeters very close to too much quality of life for me. to the point if it had any more perma buffs id probably call it a bit of powercreep but also like. with terraria, i really dont care what the devs do because i trust in them a Lot and. the game is a smorgasbord anyways yknow? funny thing is, shimmer is probably one of my fav things to introduce people to in terraria, because its so cool. and it feels like... hidden cheat codes, almost. like. theres some merit i think to having really obscure and impossible to figure out mechanics, because. yes. it makes the game a "wiki game" sometimes but then i get to feel really cool showing my friends all the special transmutations that exist, like the peddlers satchel. its like. yeah okay why is qol for traveling merchant selling more locked behind that? its kinda weird. but. its cool cus i get to feel cool and clever doing it. again terraria shows its mastery of making u feel cool for being able to do something or being able to know something or maybe thats just me loving my fixation on terraria and knowing everything about games that i play
oh right i said i think shimmers close to too much qol yea i think sometimes theres like. ways it reduces grind where its like i dont mind the grind in terraria ive been over this. and so. do i really want them to reduce the grind? but for one, theres the "it feels like a cheatcode, not just some recipe" as well as like its a way to keep low droprates for things like say, the adhesive bandage. to keep it from dropping a crapton. so .. .you can shimmer a bezoar for it yet still it makes people grind for Something for it and... reward their unluckiness for being so lucky they happen to get more bezoars than they need like, theres still the grind of killing an enemy involved. same for the magma stone to lava charm conversion. that just means you get to pick "im gonna farm hell bats instead of chests around the area"
which like. is . an option. and options for doing things are good! its just if one option is blatantly easier than another one, that it gets to be. weird I also appreciate fishing in terraria as being an alternative for many things! yes it can be grindy, but also. tbh? fishing can be pretty darn easy, if you just do some angler quests and use some potions. ive fished for rare stuff i dont have before. and sometimes it sucks, but ... its usually not that bad. its fair as a last resort for getting stuff that you can otherwise get i suppose this turned into a ramble about just, the methods of getting stuff in terraria in general but anyways, point is i like shimmer, but it was so close to being something i couldve very much hated. and in terms of the permabuffs, they're very very negligible, if you told me they were just placebo and did nothing id believe you. which is good. they shouldnt be that much and... for stuff like swapping class emblems? now thats just fantastic. not every single piece of loot should be able to be swapped out for another piece of loot! i think grinding bosses is good sometimes! but for the WALL of FLESH of all things, and for something as important as a class damage accessory? entirely fair all in all i really appreciate the time relogic puts into thinking about stuff
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Sunoo Possession
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Everyone in the family, decided to stay over at Jay house. As he as the stuff everyone wants. Niki didn’t like the fact he had to stay over. Due to last time he went and visit them, he was scared to death (please see SunSun Terror for reference) and ever since then he refuse to come.
Surprisingly the kids, were peaceful until Sunoo went upstairs to finish of his video. As he enter the room he dramatically gasp. It looked like his room got a ransacked and what worse his camera is broken plus his designer hat. He immediately knew who it was.
Is it Niki who did it out of spite of Sunoo? Or could it be somone else…?
Back At Enhypen Family Chat
Today 18:00
Sunoo☀️: SUNGHOON! YOU OWE ME A NEW CAMERA AND A NEW LATEST EDITION OF THAT CHANEL HAT
Sunghoon❄️: I don’t owe you anything! Why would I touch you stuff where I can easily black- I mean convince Appa to buy them for me
Sunoo☀️: I DON’T CARE! IT GOT TO BE ONE YOU HERE! ALL US ARE HERE!!
Sunoo☀️: I BET IT WAS NIKI. HE LOVES TO SEE ME MISERABLE!!
Niki🕺: I love annoying you but it’s not me dude. I couldn’t even afford it if I broke them!
Niki🕺: I bet it was Jake. Using I am innocent tactics like he did with that PS5 situation (see SunSun terror)
Sunghoon❄️: Bro, it seems like you broke it. You were practically staring it at. Don’t blame us!!
Niki🕺: Was guarding me necessary..? And whoever put creepy music whenever I sleep. Reaaaal mature there
Sunghoon❄️: It wasn’t creepy music, I was putting on classical music. It helps keep me calm
Niki🕺: IT DIDN’T KEEP ME CALM! I keep on hearing wailing
Sunghoon❄️: This is opera Niki. Instead of being a baby about it, how about you listen to it?
Sunoo☀️: Ohhh opera, I thought it was Sunghoon crying in his room again
Niki🕺: Why would he cry?
Sunghoon❄️: ZIP IT SUNOO! I don’t shed tears so Jake stealing stuff?
Jake🐶: NAW YOU MR ICE GUY ARE NOT PUSHING IT ON ME!
Jake🐶: I was with Niki and Sunoo you were there. You headlock Niki claiming he was cheating after you lost 5 times
Sunoo☀️: NIKI SO DID! I SAW HIM USING THE CHEATCODE TO WIN!!
Sunoo☀️: It can’t be the Uncles + Appa. They are busy hanging out down in the cellar again. Since us three are together MEANS SUNGHOON YOU DID IT
Jungwon🐈⬛: Sunoo, can you please stomping! You are ruining my zen time!
Sunoo☀️: UNCLE! ITS AN EMERGENCY! I need film today or else I will lose the contest
Jay💰: Sunoo did you misplace it?
Sunghoon❄️: Appa? This is Sunoo babies he will never misplace them. He has a room for his cameras!
Heesung🦌: Sunoo maybe you should calm down. Look for it somewhere else maybe…
Sunghoon❄️: ALSO EXCUSE ME! Didn’t you hear what I said. I have ALL the stuff I need. You probably misplaced it
Sunoo☀️: OH WAIT I CAN CHECK MY CCTV IN MY ROOM
Niki🕺: You have CCTV in your room…?
Sunoo☀️: How else, to prevent someone from robbing me duh
Heesung🦌: Sunoo..? How about you show me you fashion closet?
Sunoo☀️: OMG OF COURSE I WILL. I check later…
The Next Day
Jay💰: HEESUNG HYUNG! You get your antelope here right now!!
Sunoo☀️: Thanks to Uncle Heesung! I lost a chance to win that exclusive trip to Milan Fabsion show!!
Heesung🦌: H-hey hear me out. I have a reason to do it
Jake🐶: I am not involved in this whatsoever!!
Heesung🦌: Son? How could you abandon your Appa like that?
Jake🐶: You gonna use the excuse, that I wanted it. To make yourself look good!
Jake🐶: You the one who came into Sunoo room, to take bunch of selfies on his camera whilst trying on his clothes
Heesung🦌: I did no such thing!
Sunoo☀️: LIAR! You so did! I saw you trying to export it but dropped it when you heard Appa calling for you. I saw you everything on my camera!
Heesung🦌: FINE! Yes I did it! Sunoo is not the one who loves fashion. I wanted to enter the contest! So your Appa can stop mocking me of my crocs!
Jay💰: Buddy…you don’t stand a chance when wearing crocs
Sunoo☀️: I don’t know how to act…normally I will trash someone stuff but it’s Uncle Heesung…
Jungwon🐈⬛: You guys…why act so shock. It’s Heesung thing, he likes to go into people rooms and using their stuff
Sunoo☀️: Appa do something! He stole my stuff
Heesung🦌: Sunoo, I didn’t steal your hat…I only broke the camera. Which I wired you the money already for a new one. Hope that is enough!
Sunoo☀️: Oh my! That a lot forget about the hat! I’m gonna buy millions of hats!
Few hours later…
Sunghoon❄️: Sunoo, I have returned your hat…remember you lent it to me yesterday morning
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Background music: The cheatcode to a perfectly paced video (Editing tips with Ari)
So I've been video editing for about 10 years now (though 2 of those were on windows movie maker :P), and it occurred to me that one tool has emerged as the most POWERFUL in my entire editors tool set.
That tool, is BACKGROUND MUSIC.
Here's something you should try:
Next time you're subjected to a reality TV show, pay attention to the way background music is used. You might pick up on the way that background music is almost constantly being cycled, with multiple tracks starting and ending sometimes even in the same minute. This is a major part in what professional editors call "making a moment".
A music track establishes the tone of a particular moment. For example: an intense song plays as Gordan Ramsey chews out some dingus for making lukewarm soup. The track begins as the dingus is approached by Mr. Ramsey, and then once Gordan has spoken his last "FUCK OFF" to the dingus, we hear the music fade out (along with probably a few instances of waterphone.wav).
The intense music track set the tone and punctuated the encounter with Ramsey, and its ending signals to the viewer that the encounter we just witnessed is now over, and thus: A moment was made. We can now rest easy as the next track begins and mingles with the myriad other moments present in the episode.
So, back to YOUR video.
When you're editing, you might be tempted to just plop in any old lofi track in the background, and just let it roll throughout the entire videos run time.
I implore you to NOT do that.
A video with one droning music track as the sole filler of dead air will feel like it is 1 MILLION YEARS LONG.
Clever and precise use of background music takes a long piece of video content, and slices it into dozens of memorable bite sized moments, which makes for great...
PACING
Background music is the CHEAT CODE to excellent PACING.
So from now on when editing your video, think long and hard about what emotion you would like to be conveyed at any particular moment. Fancy yourself John Williams, or Danny Elfman, and use music to elevate each and every moment from dull nothingness to ELEGANT BEAUTY.
Thank you, and goodnight 🙏
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