#vueraun

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I got nothing, my brain feels fried

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Hunhow... but shrimp. idk might clean up better in the future but HAD to get it down before it went into the ether

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I'm TRYING to hold onto the KIM logs until it's the two week mark. but I'm enjoying it so much and logging in JUST to do daily chats with the Hex. But breaking that for a bit that divulges into the Zariman ->

Convo happens with Quincy, when he's calling in both favours

I appreciate the ever loving FUCK how they go into Drifter's mental scape in coming to terms what happened to them/to the Operator which for them is left 'vague' for the Operator's perspective. I've always loved the writing aspects, from between the earlier attempts at the Prime descriptions, the Simaris targets, to even more recent Jade's Grave in Teshin's relay room, it has a lot of FLESH that has to be adjusted to compensate with fitting with larger story elements (like visuals, music score, etc) and appreciate so much they allow room for users to have their own interruptions instead of having 'this specific thing happened in this specific way.'

Just kinda, vibrates through the floor.

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Warren would be the best hugger; big arms, big bearish body, and an even bigger heart. Easy to see why Jacob would trade-in if he felt like he wanted to give another hug but he is so small

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Year 0 Winter - still in copper era (anvil w/ limited tools) and made a nice little hole to settle down into for the winter season c:

Been mostly living off the abundance of berry bushes + rabbit, had to set it to passive hostility as I figured out copper as I settled between two areas wolves and bears spawn. and throughout spring & summer I kept getting jumped hngk

[opens door to go outside and gets beamed by a bowtorn]

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Subposting or whatever, but sideeyeing people trying to insert the operator into the drifter's place for 1999. And unsuprisingly it's people that are weirdly invested in inserting them into their ascribed romantic terms instead of what DE is going for.

Raises mics to peoples faces; why are you not for DE limiting just the drifter into 1999, because you want the operator, who are treated ingame as child and have the same emotional development as one, in around adult characters, potentially into romantic circumstances.

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Sapphic Tenno/Warframe - my beloveds

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Arali's face is fucked up tm (no face blend + no inks) but here have what the no-date New Years cutscene bc I got the lettie bug where I could romance everyone BUT HER and wanted to see what the no-date screen would look like

Kalymos got the sad radar tm

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Year 1 - 80 hours change

Still staggering through juggling the different advancements - survival was the upmost priority (especially with default day length). I ended up changing the day lengths to /time calendarspeedmul 0.2 and it feels so much better! I'm not scrambling to fight, mine, eat, build; so a full game day is about 2 hours - can actually focus on advancements!

So now I've got tin bronze, got a map to the archive, and only recently(!) got chalk(lime) so I can make leather :'D finally

Next default change - months from 9 days to 12 (tossing me from summer to late winter wew)

Some other screenshot progress beneath -

Habitat #1 - cob-hut with wood window guards bc I was getting jumped by everything. From bears to wolves and drifters and bow-torns. Funfact! When I remade the map for the 'first day' above, I spawned in some brush and got jumped by a wolf in 1 second. So I needed a bigger, safer place to hold out... so I started collecting wood and dry grass.

Then there was a bear. And I 'had' to kill it so I would be safe during the night :( Eventually enough Spears were thrown, and I could build the pit TM.

Slowly I'd add a bit more here and there - still learning, catching up from the several days of huddled in cob-hut took its toll.

To my surprise - AN ECLIPSE! I saw that the sun and moon would travel the sky, but was actually surprised it does it! Pleasantly surprised! (even if it does happen more than a handful of times during the winter.)

And boy, was winter coming. So I prepared the best I could.

Turned out, the pit was poorly ventilated. Despite my efforts to stock up on enough food.

After enduring winter in a pit with poor ventilation save for the 3x3 cellar that doubled as a safe have during temporal storms - I had to organize the clutter the pit was becoming. And so as the frost began to pass, I cleared a space to build. With the little copper I still had.

One level up from the ground around it, a single layer of wall, another of wattle fence. It would be just enough to endure.

Once all moved above ground - I could deconstruct the 'bear pit' and turn it into the storage area! But first - stockpiles

When I safely could - and the wasn't drifters around.

And then gathering more copper from a rich vein -

and it killed a pair of bow-torns from the fall down -

and spent long enough to start going raving mad. But! I got enough copper to last a while as I gather other necessary material! Another temporal storm came and went, and I was doing pretty well. Fighting off the morning drifters and getting a bit cocky.

Let in too many at once and almost died :( But I got like three temporal gears in storage so once my current respawn gets exhausted it's another getting slapped down on the floor.

And now since months have been lengthened to 12 days - it is winter once again.

Chicken and hogs are now wrangled, and the garden far better than lake-side plots. Hides are being soaked, storage room is coming together, and the front steps are coming together.

Once the storage+living area are done, going to touch up the current living area to suit the vibe instead of just a chunky block to hide away in. It's had it's use, and will need to make way for better things.

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Chin hands. I'm vibrating at such a high frequency I'm not visibly moving.

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Past - Present - Future

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Finally worked out how I wanted Void fiend - turned - Drifter to look like, wild that I came up with them almost *six years ago*. Babyboy that started as a Wally stand-in void manifestation as a manifestation of rage and spite and jealously, but now has actual RESPONSIBILITIES

Oro eyes typically, but changes when engaging w the void (Kur)

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Jade Shadows related thoughts tm

For context; fandom active since 2016, with various hc & fics

I record all my first runs in case I miss anything or need to refamiliarize myself, but in brief I like it for what it is. Would've liked a more direct content warning than just 'motherhood' which can include a VARIETY of things.

But especially as someone critical on DE's tendency with smaller stories (and hoping between mediums of story telling), I went in with no expectations besides it being Stalker related. That whatever happens doesn't conflict with personal hcs, they can split off etc, and did not share an expectation that it'd be lgbt+ rep JUST off the expectation of it being released during pride month. Feels unhealthy to go into it expecting a certain outcome from a big company's story telling, especially on the premise of release timing. Just icing on the cake if it is :)

Historically DE has issue with smaller scale stories; they have high ambitions and not a lot of restrictions where they put their resources. From the Simaris Scans, the Prime logs, the various scanning stories, EVEN NIGHTWAVE, which has only to date had three story sets. There's a lot of crumbs of their ideas that don't work or aren't able to work on in a constant rhythm. So not just tooting my horn that "DE is trying their best with what they got", they fumble constantly, and their limits just happen to only be "what resources (money, time, and people) do we have".

I still remember them wanting to do Railjack and TNW all in ONE PACKAGE, in ONE UPDATE, before the pandemic kicked them in the ass.

Again before tangent of historic context; I liked Jade Shadows for what it was, a brief three mission jaunt around as the Stalker. Whom for all intensive purpose of the story is not shown to be very caring of others, and in context at the point out for the tenno for the slaughter. Jade gives context for why Stalker is like that TM; Stalker is selfish, self-serving, unwilling to ask for help, and the only person that spoke up was the Old War Relic that fed his daughter to the Orokin and did nothing to stop his son from succumbing to the same fate by the same man.

Hunhow and Stalker both have issues and it kinda feeds off one another, and Jade didn't deserve the double-wammy. Its a dark story brought of the world ruined by the Orokin and their colonizing empire that ripped up ever resource they could before setting the Sentients out whom they built to be rued of their reproduction if they traveled back through the void. Body autonomy and societal abuses has been a constant theme throughout warframe, and that means sometimes its uncomfortable! That's good! Fiction is a tool to analyze the uncomfortable spaces in a safe manner, and allow the viewer to step away if they need to.

Was it done well? No, it has room for improvement, it could've involved Jade more as an active role instead of just relegated to Stalker's manpain, but its done better than other media who sole purpose from the get-go is some dude's mainpain. Relegated to the end was that Jade and Sorren were both seemingly glad for it, but there was a hesitancy alike to Dagath's situation. It wasn't socially -allowed-, and may or may not be in relation to why they were both transformed to warframes. And may be what was referred to before of Stalker being a 'low guardian'. We may not, or may never, know his mental state at the time, but the weight of the Orokin empire still hung over him as the system changed.

I wish there was more of Jade than just having her laying there as a story piece honestly :( More of her relation to Sorren, why she still stayed with him, more than just as a vessel for the story, you know, give more oofm to the ending of her becoming one of the jade light and a techno-organic baby left in her wake. Her relation to Stalker after the war where she had to save his ass from a default Excalibur. But we didn't and I'm sad. :(

AS FOR the labor section; preempting with how operator got wrapped up in the situation by Stalker coming in and demanding help by the end of his scythe; the circumstances forced to comply just like how the Orokin would do before with others. Stalker is just the same as the 'golden lords', replicating the same cycle of abuse that society saw as normal.

Did I like the thought of teenage character being subjected to the outcome of the events of: society defying pregnancy -> body transformed to a low guardian as punishment -> (potential implications of depending on an abusive system for support, akin to military service to access health care and financial support where if you did not engage you aren't allowed to access) -> Death of the terrible system of oppressive and colonial Orokin empire -> Unwilling to change for the changing society, and unwilling to engage with other victims of the same exact system -> Prolonged inaccessibility to the necessary care to survive a difficult pregnancy until the very last moment?

No; I would've preferred the Drifter if it had to be engaged with, at least in the touchy aspect of child/teenager + pregnancy/labor. It at LEAST has the detachment that they're not actively going through it, it doesn't come with the specific body-autonomy horror of carrying another life to term - which is something I would've preferred more.

BUT CONSIDERING, how within USAmerica legislators have been stripping that same body autonomy from afab people, allowing far worse to happen than just "press button to go into labor" its good to have such difficult topics handled! Because shaming it, disallowing conversations around it, or even shaming the 'thought' around even the briefest of acknowledgement, is no better than the pro/anti fandom bullshit that are two extremes of tolerance or intolerance.

As a story beat it stripped both the player and the operator of body autonomy for that ONE moment; an operator that had put a brief trust in helping the Stalker, to help a warframe with an affliction they had no idea of going in.

And, said as personally, as uncomfortable as it may be, it also speaks into the moment of an adult coercion of a child or teenager. He walks in and asks for help with a scythe aimed at the person they ask for help, it's not a plea, its a demand, to which the details are never discussed. Especially under a guise of 'don't want to say no' isn't easy to get across in a quick way within dialogue, so they leave it to interruption. And so has to go along with it, no matter what happens, and it just end with an astral projection event of the results of such a predicament.

It's a dense cluster of subject matter that is hard to get across, and if it resonates or not, tasteful or not, its handled in a delicate way that other media would just fuck up with majorly.

I'm not touching the fandom built expectation that i'd be yoai. That's on ya'll getting riled up after witw and wanting token instead of what warframe has already been doing. LGBT+ as people instead of tallies.

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Finally got around to redesigning an old concept sona! They once had legs and a more pedestrian body - but didn't feel like them anymore so they have more of lumbering form which fits more with saguaros

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Paces in circles

Gets my ass stunlocked throughout bc of how well DE put it together in the terms of pace and direction. From the 'Pick A Side' scene to the end I was absolutely locked in; only hiccup I had was the survival variant that took me one mission failure to get a hang of asdf

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Brain hard-swerves into manual saving settings so I can play around with designs some more (and swap to Paeva without having to fund my anchor account) by making entire templates by hand.

--face and attire template files below--

Read more -> attires

Recommend Warframe Color Picker.app for screenshot -> template to save color locations. I use y=n x=l since forever.

Files are Clip Studio Pro .clip files; editable text fields, transparency locks, etc already set up Dropbox: [face] [attire]