#modtalk

[vocaloid-tunes]

Happy 10 Years of Tunes!

As of today (November 24th, 2023), this blog has been operating for exactly a decade now! Thank you all for your continued support, and to everyone who helped us get to where we are today!

- Mod Sachiko

[vriskanroserezi]

November 26th is Vriskanroserezi Day.

A Day of Chaos, in the best way possible.

[rose-bride-bracket]

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is this gayass elevator going anywhere

[askalby]

I found your blog on accident because I've been getting back into mlp lately and I just wanted you to know that although I wasn't there for your original blog in 2012, Alby's story really resonates with me either way. You've done such an incredible job conveying a very specific kind of grief and that means a lot to me.

This absolutely brightened my day, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me this! This entire blog is more or so a direct reflection of the struggles I'm actively facing in my life, so quite literally what I go through, unfortunately Alby has to go through it as well haha.

I'm so glad you were able to get something out of it too! Much love, Anon~

-Antstafer

[theruinedvampire]

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* It seems that Dalv's set up a mailbox by the Ruins door.

* Anyone can send Dalv a message through the UGPS!

Mod messages under the cut...

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Hello!

Dalv's a cool character. Wanted to write him...but interacting with the public is also fun, so why not combine those two?

This also is more roleplay than ask.. but you can still ask things if you’d like!!

This blog functions under... which timezones??? EST/PST/CST

Using a lot of headcanons in here...

This blog is set post-UTY true pacifist route.

Right now, Dalv is visiting the Ruins and staying there for a bit to tend to his corn farm.

Once I get more familiar with how to answer as Dalv... he'll go back to his house in Snowdin!

Taglist:

#dalv — any dalv post

#ask dalv — any dalv ask

#dalv questions — when dalv asks other blogs questions

#ooc — any out of character shenanigans

#non-canon — noncanon but in character shenanigans

#modtalk — when the mod is talking

[ask-guardian-gallade]

Christmas comic cancelled

I really hate it when I cant be a man of my word. But sadly it's cancelled due to a stupid mistake. So here's what happened. It's abit of a long read so I'll add this just to not take up alot of space.

around a week ago I was trying out a game called Tiny Tina's Wonderlands since I'm a borderlands fan & I forgot this spin off was a thing. So after playing through it I ended up getting corrupter data on my character. I don't know how it happened so I looked it up trying to fix it. I found the solution but I have to delete my character since there was no option for me to restore it for some reason. After heading the advice I was able to enjoy the game again... until it happened again for like 4 times and I have to restore the character data by copy and pasting my data file through the game's files to prevent corruption only to end up starting in the exact same save point with the exact same build. I decided to dig deeper to find the real problem. Turns out the real problem is that I have no more data storage on my C drive. I found it weird because I installed the game on my D drive but it turns out that my onedrive cloud is on my C drive and my game save is in there for some reason.

I tried to move the save from my d drive but sadly it would make a exact same save back c drive. So I decided to delete the stuff from my drive so maybe the corruption can finally end. So I used the clean up option to free some space. then a restart was required due to an app I never use. when it did I finally can enjoy the game again. And then...I notice that all of my drawings from my folder in c drive was deleted along with it...even the wip of the Christmas comic 15 pages wasted.

So yeah I cannot stress this one enough and I really want to make it up somehow. I did have an idea but I'll just tell you as soon progress is made. IDK when it will be done but hopefully before July since I got plans.

[askoinari]

Hey fam 👋

As I’m sure you might’ve noticed by now, my activity here has slowed to an occasional tumbleweed in the empty desert. 😅 I hate to admit it, but my muse for askblogging hasn’t been around for the past few months; which is a little embarrassing considering I was in the middle of rolling some minor plot out on some blogs lmao.

Rest assured, I haven’t abandoned askblogging altogether, I just haven’t been in the mood for it for a while. Needless to say, the brainworms have been throughly occupied by FFXIV and its grip is still quite firm on my throat.

I’ll still poke my head in here every now and then to catch up a little, but when I post an update on any of my blogs you’ll be sure to see it. For now, if you really need to reach me, you can have my Main & FFXIV Twitter:

Main: https://x.com/veiledvulpes?s=21

FFXIV: https://x.com/blorbooflight?s=21

Alternatively, if you have my discord (mutuals only please), you’re always welcome to send a message. Be warned that I’m quite timid and I’m very bad with small talk though. 😅

Until then, take care! 🙌

[dieudeslarmes]

Somedays I wish Paimon came with a Mute button....

[sharpest-sword-alive]

//this is how i feel when i draw boombox or hyperlaser

[phantomarts]

I was wondering, but can our OCs interfere in the fight before Smiles ends up killing the Shipomancers?

Asker/anon interference is kinda a case by case basis, sometimes if its funny or inspires something fun it can change things a bit but general they arnt going to end up interfering with main planned story sequences.

[vocaloid-tunes]

Hey everyone, I just want to make an announcement that at this time Mod Funka is stepping down from being a moderator. She has contributed a large amount to this blog for many many years now, she might be the moderator we’ve had the longest in this blogs history, and we will miss her. 

- Mod Sachiko

[vriskanroserezi]

Vriskanroserezi Day

I'll add some more details.

What is it? A day to share your thoughts, art, fanfics, playlists, edits about the ship of Kanaya x Rose x Terezi x Vriska.

No NSFW please. Partial nudity and some hint hint, wink wink is fine, but this blog is SFW.

It can be literally anything. You want to show off Kanaya x Rose redrom and Terezi x Vriska redrom while also showing off Vriska x Rose blackrom and Terezi x Kanaya palerom? Have at it. Want to show off Kanaya x Rose x Terezi x Vriska all in redrom with each other? Awesome. Queerplatonic shipping? Great.

[rose-bride-bracket]

tutu fans, you know I love each and every one of you, but why did you put mytho in under 5 separate names

[findingstony]

Help Wanted

Do you enjoy working on a (quite wonderful) team? Do you like helping others find the fics they’ve loved and lost? Do you love finding new fics to read?

If so, maybe working with FindingStony and/or FindingStuckony is for you! If you’re interested in being a mod for either (or both!), fill out the form here!

A few notes:

You must be 18+. A lot of fics contain explicit content and we need mods who are of legal age to access that content.

You must be willing to put up with a certain amount of crazy from your fellow mods.

You should be familiar with Stony and/or Stuckony fics.

Previous modding experience a plus!

We use Discord to communicate amongst ourselves. 

Otherwise, we’re pretty open!

Just in case you’re on mobile or the hyperlink doesn’t work, the form is here: https://forms.gle/hY1LcLYEUk2Pm5nF8

[theruinedvampire]

hey pookie.. have you met a human named clover yet? or did you move in the Ruins recently? (asking cause I'm curious when this blog takes place)

//Hello! Mod here!

I may have… forgot about the timeline when I first set up this blog. I was coming up with a name when my friend said “theruinedvampire” and I thought about setting up in the Ruins.

Thankfully, I have given it more thought now.

This blog is set post-UTY true pacifist route.

Right now, Dalv is visiting the Ruins and staying there for a bit to tend to his corn farm.

//Once I get more familiar with how to answer as Dalv… he’ll go back to his house in Snowdin!

[chaosbound-official]

Update

(Note: this is a long and kinda overshare-y post about getting demotivated. Tldr is I still love this project and am leaving the blog as is in case I want to return to it, but it may be another hiatus for the foreseeable future. Feel free to skim, but it's not under a readmore because it feels too important to hide any longer.)

I hate to say it, but I'm thinking about shelving the pollsim - and this blog project - possibly indefinitely. It's hard to say this, because I still adore Chaosbound with all my heart, and I wanted to see this blog through. We got so close to a few milestones I wanted to meet - like seeing the remainder of the cast, the reveal of a sister blog... I was hoping I could push through to those at least, have a chance to work with some of the cast I don't spend as much time with, help everyone get to see some of the plans I have in the works for the gang.

The problem here is, the operative word became "push" somewhere along the way.

I love Chaosbound. I still love its cast and the work I've put into it and the story I still want to tell. But after burning out in art college, art got harder for me to do. Chaosbound, and this blog specifically, became one of the few things I could put my all into - and if you take a skim through any character's tag, looking at the sprites I made, you can probably tell that.

But somewhere around the ghost event, I got really demoralized. The ghost event was an event meant to encourage a lot of interaction and engagement, something for blog followers to also try to puzzle out alongside the trolls. And maybe this is partially on me for how I presented things, I don't know.

But by this point almost all of my engagement, outside of likes and whatnot, was from the same few people - all of them my friends no less. People in the server I had for the blog at the time. And this is not meant to devalue their input in any way at all. I'm still very appreciative because without them, I probably would have abandoned the event altogether, and may have struggled to come back at all.

But I knew there were others following too. Others interacting, and at points earlier on I'd gotten some wonderful anon messages that I still have saved in my inbox.

But for whatever reason, everyone had gone silent. Watching quietly, waiting to see how things would play out. I was practically relying on prompting friends to send in responses just to move things along, and eventually was forced to give up and have the ghost reveal himself. I was like a puppeteer performing in the spotlight of an otherwise pitch black theater, wondering if I even had an audience to speak of.

I hated working through the ghost event. It was meant to be an exciting part I was building up to, from the start of the blog's inception I had the whole thing planned out. But between being burnt out irl and the passive reception I just. Didn't want anything more than to get it over with.

I went on hiatus. And Tumblr collectively got steadily worse about its responsiveness and support to artists.

When I came back, I thought I was ready. I'd missed Chaosbound and was picking up drawing again, incrementally. Pollsim was meant to be padding for my slow work process, so I could chip away at sprites and event art for my next big reveal. But of course, I signed up for too much. I got too ambitious with the idea, but then also found I was much shakier than I thought.

The votes to decide which troll we'd find were a good amount, though I highly suspect at least a few were just passerby who like to click buttons. But once we actually got things underway, Makkea's first choice poll saw a steep drop in participation. I felt the stress from the ghost event grip me once more. But, I reminded myself, things were just getting started. Maybe people who aren't interested in Makkea aren't voting, and will jump back in later. Maybe I'm not boosting the event enough. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

But I also saw something else happen to me. Now I'm reluctant to pick up my tablet pen. And when I do, I'm always agitated. Angry. Asking myself why I'm even bothering, not just for this blog but at all. Each time I pick up my tablet, I'm suddenly reminded of all the times my art - and these blog events - flopped.

I never thought I'd become the type of artist who relied on the external validation online to do art. For a long time, I wasn't. But art college did something to my relationship with art, and I think creating an art project that intrinsically relied on that external validation was the final nail in the coffin.

I don't want that to happen to me. I don't want to give up art, or to only associate it with stress and rejection and being ignored. And I don't want to associate that with my audience here, either. That's not fair to everyone who's been here, past and present.

A part of me still feels bad for even writing this. For even thinking of posting it, behind a cut or not. I've felt bad for as pushy as I've gotten, about how people need to engage here more often. But keeping this locked up I think only serves to keep the lid firmly on the boiling pot, and I'm tired of it all threatening to explode.

So in short, I'm sorry that this is how things ended up. To those who have been supporting me, quietly, loudly and all the ways inbetween, I'm sorry I couldn't find that as 'enough' - but your support does mean everything to me regardless, and remains why I am still open to the idea of coming back.

The fate of Chaosbound is up in the air. I was hoping the ask blogs I started would be a sort of warm-up to eventually publishing a fan webcomic - a low-pressure venue for character exploration and a way to garner a little audience interest so that, once the webcomic dropped, I knew someone outside my social circle somewhere would be there to see it off on its first day.

I still pick away at Chaosbound, and I still have some assets for the blog that are as yet unposted. A close friend and I have some ideas for pollsim to lead to a potential game, second of its kind for this story in fact. I'd still like to see its realization, and to get the fantroll's stories out into the world, someday. But I have other projects I've been picking at too, so I may just have to give up on regular progress here in exchange for energy to post anything at all.

So, I may randomly post pollsims. I may answer one-off asks I get in the inbox. I may go silent for a year or more inbetween posts. But for now, I really need my art to be for me, and that means I can't hold myself to any external expectations, perceived or otherwise.

If you read this, thank you for doing so. Thank you for your patience, and understanding, and support. Despite how ungrateful I sound, it really has meant the world to me. I look forward to seeing you all where I can, and I hope anything I do come back with does not disappoint.

Sincerely, Mod Caspian