#tdf blog

[daemonsfordays]

It's just a daemon with a colour preference

Kinda surprised how many different animals can be black and tan

[thatdeaffeel]

There's been a rise in "im not deaf but" submissions.

It's a very simple community blog for people who are D/deaf/hoh/APD, it isn't up for debate or a complicated issue.

I respect CODA and PODA (acronyms that folk either love or hate and im not here to debate that either) and make space for them.

Otherwise, please stop filling up my asks.

[daemonsfordays]

When your daemon helps you cheat

[italiancarssince1946]

2016 Ferrari F12 tdf

My tumblr blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935 & www.tumblr.com/swedishcarssince1946

[tsunoderailleur]

important

it’s not for a couple more days, but i want to let everyone know that i will be changing my url, icon, and mobile theme for the duration of the tour de france (29 june - 21 july). i don’t want to catch anybody off guard and get unfollowed by the mutuals!!

i will continue blogging about indy and f1 during this time but expect a higher than average volume of cycling posts.

i will tag everything tour related with #tdf 2024, so block that tag if you must!

ok, that’s all. love you <3

[thejellyfaerie]

What are your headcanon voices for all the skeith husbands? (Skarl, Hagan, Malkus, Gordos, and any others you like)

I'm gonna have to put this under a read more because I prattled on for just a bit longer than I meant to hskdjfh

I love Skarl and Hagan's canon voices from N:TDF. If I had different voices for them in my head before, they don't matter because these ones have permanently overwritten them. We'll likely never get another voice acted piece of Neopets media with Fred Tatasciore and Dwight Schultz voicing the two and it kills me each time I think about it. I'm thankful for the amount of Skarl dialogue and cutscenes we got with him in them, but it's a shame that Hagan got ONE cutscene with dialogue and that was it. I don't know if it's because the team decided that one cutscene that was the first non-news introduction of King Hagan to some Neopets players was all anyone needed*, or if Dwight Schultz was somehow a really expensive guy to get and they were adamant about getting him to be Hagan's VA but it was so costly that they could only get him for a small number of lines. If I ever come across a huge sum of money, I won't say anything, but y'all will know (-cough cough- 5 minute long animated and fully voice acted short of Skarl and Hagan. -cough-) (Fun Fact: I've mentioned it before on this blog but both Fred Tatasciore and Dwight Schultz have voiced Dingodile in the Crash Bandicoot franchise [you could include them both voicing Nemesis Orcs here but they're separate beings and not different instances of the same singular character], and these two have been cast in the same piece of media 44 times! Including but not limited to: Chowder, Invader Zim, Yakuza, MadWorld, and Lego Dimensions.)

I have thought before about "What if something voice acted with well-known VAs were possible again but they couldn't get the TDF cast back?" and while I didn't look into voice actors for every character, I feel like JB Blanc would be a good choice for Skarl (his Kingpin voice from TASM2), both because he could do a voice that isn't exactly like the one Fred Tatasciore did but it's still very close IMO. Especially if you consider they both did Nemesis Olog voices in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. And because it would be amusing to no end for me that King Skarl and Saxton Hale from Team Fortress 2 would share a voice actor.

While still in the realm of N:TDF... going into watching clips a year back, I had known Keith Ferguson voiced Gordos, but at some point, my brain mixed up him with Keith Silverstein, so when I heard Gordos' voice, I was caught pretty off-guard. It's not a bad voice! It's just so far off from what I had in my head by that point that even after listening to his canon voice multiple times, I just can't unstick Keith Silverstein's "MaleCondescending" voice from Skyrim as my headcanon Gordos voice, regardless of if it fits the character or not. ("Do you get to the Money District very often? Oh, what am I saying - of course you don't.")

Malkus Vile: Doug Stone. Listen to him as the Junkyard Man from Pluto or Akio Kawazu from Paranoia Agent (this one is quite a bit longer.) If it were just a lil' bit deeper than these examples, it would be perfect.

Bigsby Shadington: Jacksepticeye. There's just something that when I look at him, I fully expect to hear Seán's voice coming out of that mouth.

Commander Flint: Jon St. John as Axe from DOTA 2.

I'd like to include more like Snargan, but no joke, I've been at this for a few hours because as soon as I get into sifting around voice actors and roles on BTVA and watching clips on Youtube to listen to scenes or even seeking out full episodes of shows to find a character, it's over. I only stopped to get up and make food lmao

(*Small tangent: Does TNT hate Hagan or something? It feels like they made him during the development of TDF for game purposes, introduced him on the site, made a few flash games, and then dropped him. To be fair, quite a lot of site NPCs were made and then immediately forgotten about after they were used for a plot or a flash game, but compared to some of the other land rulers like Princess Amira or King Kelpbeard, Hagan's been pretty neglected on account of not being given much of a speaking role in just about anything post-TDF and any inclusion in a plot comic has been... redrawing him in the background with the same pose and expression multiple times. How many words has he spoken in TVW, anyways?)

[daemonsfordays]

Really really cute idea for people with a small daemon!

Bobby pin with a needle felted rat by byMagic

[starbiology]

Hi. First, let me say that I really like you blog!! Your art is lovely.

I wanted ask what do you think will be the Darkest Faerie's role in the incoming plot? I remember her from the Altador Plot but I did that waaay back and can't remember seeing her much outside of that statue and the cool avatar. How does she tie in with what's happening now?

I ask because I see you mention her a lot, but I feel like I am missing many parts of this, both from you theories and Neo lore (that I can find on my own btw im not asking you to retell me). I haven't been in Neo these past few months but I might go back to weekly or daily visiting the site when the plot starts.

Thank you! 🖤🦇

thank you :D!!

One of the main reasons we know shes coming back for this plot was actually this past halloween event in which her and other villains are talked about being in a void.

A lot of the speculation is that the characters seem to be hiding in/lost/trapped in this void. The advent calendar was the first time we got to see what the void is and Kass' sword was in it too. The dialogue isnt on the site but its on SunnyNeo

Also this is still so funny to me 'Welcome to the Cosmic Horrors of the VOID. Enjoy, and happy holidays!'

Other important events that are gearing up for the plot was the 2023 festival of neggs, the faerie festival and its comic

And back on topic to The Darkest Faerie!

Looking at her story, for awhile I thought the only option that wouldnt be turning her to stone (TNT if you can hear me dont turn her to stone again) would be to kill her. It wouldnt even be a bad choice to kill her, shes a major villain across multiple plots. Id actually still argue it would be a fair end to her story.

But theres two points that make killing her off hard

The last time she was seen, she realized the ring she made to create wraiths was actually draining her life and she cant remove it. Pitting your good characters against a weakened villain is just narratively a very bad idea. It makes the hero seem weaker than they are and nearly no matter what the villain did, it comes across as cruel

The Altador council, despite having all the right to be angry at her or happy about her defeat, are So Damn Upset. The day of her betrayal is literally a day of somber remembrance

the entirety of this advent calendar clip just,,altador bro,,,you okay?

and of course the plot book

The council is stuck in a story of 'Used to be 12 heroes, now its only 11' its written on almost all inscriptions about them. It would be nice to see the council come back together again by TDF teaming up with them, even if it starts as part of a scheme of her's (which I wouldnt be surprised it does) until she finally overcomes her obsession with power.

It would make for a happy end to the council's story, otherwise theyre just going to be stuck in this state of mourning their friend

[coast-hound]

Welcome to our blog 🌩️☀️

Run by lee, a fenian and a faggot, and his dæmon, fiachra: a wolfdog. We're a cú and a mac tíre, two canids at a computer.

This is our dæmonism and nonhuman sideblog ★

I'm Irish, autistic, trans, and a gaeilgeoir, who is tentatively exploring therianthropy as a coastal/grey wolf and a bear. We have a great interest in music, and I sing and play the drums in a band with my friends. I also GM.

Fiachra is happiest and most comfortable in his wolf-dog form, but she will shift on a whim and occasionally takes spotted skunk or brown hare forms, though he mostly likes native Irish forms and coast or bog creatures that remind us of home <3

If any other dæmians and dæmons are interested, you can find us on the TDF discord forum under lee-loves-sharks, or here on Tumblr on my main: @leelovessharks (I mostly just reblog Doctor Who and Dimension 20 posts)

Woof

[otrtbs]

Hi! I’m a fan of your works but am not super present on tumblr so wouldnt know if you’ve answered something like this already- i was wondering if you are planning on writing anything else to publish on ao3? I just saw your secret history AU post and i was starstruck .. hope that you are well 💕

hello!! thank you so much!! <3

currently, i have a little bartylus gone girl fic that i'm updating on occasion (life gets awfully hectic for me these days) you can find here!!

but otherwise, my next big project is the dinner fic (Now with an Official Name: Sugar Hiccups) (which is in the works but not published to ao3. you can find bits of where i talked about it under the tags 'tdf' and 'the dinner fic' on my blog which i'll tag below!!

[if u like the more art/art history side of things i do have a short little something planned for november-ish which is just strongly jegulus focused]

[daemonsfordays]

This is one of Thom of Em's forms!

March 30, 2024 - Forest Raven or Tasmanian Raven (Corvus tasmanicus) Found in parts of eastern and southeastern Australia, including Tasmania and nearby islands, these ravens live in a variety of habitats, particularly woodlands and pastures. Foraging in pairs, family groups, and larger flocks, they eat invertebrates, small birds and mammals, eggs, carrion, lizards, seeds, fruit, and other plant foods, including nectar, usually foraging on the ground or in low vegetation, sometimes in shallow water. They may dip their food in water before eating it and cache food for later. They build large bowl-shaped nests from sticks, bark, leaves, feathers, grass, wool, fur, seaweed, and sometimes horse manure in trees, on rock ledges, or on or near the ground. Females incubate clutches of three to six eggs and both parents feed the chicks.

[itsjunetime]

I made some improvements to my little terminal pdf viewer, tdf (find it here!), and made it significantly faster. Specifically, I've made it much faster at rendering entire documents in the background (though the time that it takes to show the first page is only slightly improved, if at all; that still could probably take some work, though I'm not quite certain what would be the best move there). Peep the attached image for exactly how much faster (render_first_page is a benchmark that checks how much time it took to render the very first page, and render_full is how much time it takes to render the entire document. these are being compared against the performance before my recent changes).

It's been pretty interesting to work on this - specifically, I'm using c libraries (poppler & cairo, specifically) to render the PDFs, but that means that a lot of easy-to-use rust parallelism features aren't available to me, so I've had to read a bunch of c source code and try out different models of parallelism to get something that works reliably there while also improving performance noticeably and remaining safe (though I did have to use a bit of unsafe code to get there).

There have also been small improvements in other areas, such as preventing ratatui_image from doing image resizing, switching to flume for channels, disabling anti-aliasing in cairo's rendering, and a few more things.

If anyone would be interested in a full blog post on this, let me know! I think it would be interesting to write, but might not be very worth-it if nobody cares to read it lol.

[daemonsfordays]

Myself, personally, as Em? Two. Thom and Ani.

But as a whole System, there are (I think) 11

~Em

Back with another demographics poll!

[domistique]

hiiii! <3

you said you were bored and im in desperate need of some music to listen to so…..do you have any song recs by chance? whatever you like is fine, im open to anything 🫶🏻

(love your blog btw! ❤️‍🩹your posts about Charles always make me giggle 😭)

OMG hii!!!!

thank you!!! im so glad you like my posts about charlie that is so nice 💕💕💕 i will never cease to make silly little comments!!!

i absolutely have somg recs omg.... where to start....

ok first.

this is the most charles song of all time and im serious. ever since i made the connection i've wanted to share it because it's actually unbelievable how closely it aligns with him and his personality and his career. sun of maranello!!!!! the song itself is a favourite of mine for the beautiful rhythm guitar work and how it builds so well and just how loving it is. everything about it. man.

if you don't know the band Crowded House they are very worth checking out! it's a new zealand/australian band that was mainly prolific in the 80s and 90s, and their catalogue is very very good...... other songs i'd rec from them: four seasons in one day, fall at your feet, private universe.

hippo campus...... man. they've been around for a while as that indie band that everyone has Heard but people don't really know, but they truly deserve to be even bigger. this song is QUEER and BITTER and full of yearning, but still upbeat and danceable!!

hear me out. goes absolutely thermonuclear if you make it lesbian. trust

the following are some songs i listen to walking home and make edits in my head.....

her by megan thee stallion. visions of a cunty edit in which "ion even wear an outfit Twice" plays as tadej and jonas tdf titles flash onto the screen......

212 by azaelia banks. im sorry it just goes so hard. nothing compares for hype purposes

Mona Lisa by dominic fike. save me song about cunty fem siren charles leclerc......

FVN! by LVL1. cat kitty cat cat kitty cat cat, cat kitty cat kitty cat........ another edit in my head of cycling big six slaying.... jonas does it for his girls.......

IT GIRL by aliyah's interlude. TOTALLY a tadej song. how you mad at him cause he's cunt bitch..... how you mad at him cause he run shit....... trendsetter!!!

[sportsallover]

Although, I did wonder what cookies led tumblr to know that they should show me a TdF ad, and then I remembered all the posts I have been making and tagging since I created this blog. That one’s on me, I guess. 🙈😅

[spaceelfsorcerer]

✩ I’m still working on figuring my blog out--and who knows how long that will take--but I appreciate you being here!

✩ My main fandom right now (and the focus here) is BG3. I also love Star Ocean (TLH + TDF), The Sims (4), and a whole lot of books, so you might see those now and again too.

✩ I’m not the best at reaching out, but I am absolutely open to chatting and being friends! I’m always looking for more fandom friends. :)