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So apparently I had started working on OC info pages on my website, completely forgetting that I was also working on OC info pages on Tumblr beforehand.

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if i say "i imagine" or "i think" in regards to my ocs its because. i dont knowwwwww theyre living their own lives im just filming them at occasional moments and calling it a day

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Bad idea: Plush nondescript cube.

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If time travel was possible, way more people would have stabbed Caesar.

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to be fair to anon I have no fucking clue who my blog's target audience is meant to be other than myself theoretically scrolling through it in future

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Hive mind drone wearing a shirt that says "Not labeled for individual sale".

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I don't particularly care how many servings per container you're advertising, as long as I can easily divide the container into that many equal portions.

How the heck am I supposed to divide a rectangular lasagna into 11 equal portions?

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I wanna make things...

But to do that I actually have to make things...

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I was reading about tarot cards for some reason (I forget why, I think it had something to do with making card games in Godot and using tarot cards for aesthetic), and I learned that there are only two functional differences between standard playing cards and RWS tarot's minor arcana.

Each suit has one additional face card

It's more difficult to separate cards into two colors

With this in mind, you could theoretically use tarot cards to play games like Poker or Blackjack with only minor adjustments to the rules (or omitting one of the court cards for each suit).

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Bad Idea: Elder god giving forbidden knowledge to a human, but the "forbidden knowledge" is stuff we figured out years ago, like the existence of subatomic particles.

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Y'know what, I'm adding Godot Engine to the chart just for fun.

For full clarification, I am not adding a theoretical program made in Godot, I am adding the engine itself (more specifically, the editor).

More details under the keep reading button.

No, this does not mean I'm going to use Godot to keep track of my OCs, Notion is still a better option for that.

That said, I might try using Godot to make my own app for keeping track of my OCs so that I can do some things that Notion doesn't let me do, I'll list some below.

Separate properties into categories (Notebook.ai, Fantasia Archive, and Godot Engine can all do that)

Enable/disable certain properties based on the values given to other properties (dick size is the only one I can think of right now)

Change the visuals of the app

(I also didn't originally save the chart in a way that can be edited, so I had to remake it, that's why some colors or proportions may be different.)

As you may have guessed from my previous rambling posts, I have too many OCs and I need program to help me keep track of all of them.

This is also a rambling post, you know the drill.

To start with, I need a program that's more heavily-structured than Notepad and File Explorer.

I was sort of familiar with a website called Notebook.ai, which allows you to keep track of worldbuilding information by assigning Properties to each type of Thing in your world.

Properties are basically like fields you can fill out on a form, Things are things like characters, races, items, skills, or locations.

Each property has a name (which does not differ between characters), and a value (which does differ between characters).

For example, each character is a certain height, so every character would have a "height" property.

One character could be 5' 09", another could be 6' 01", a third character could be 3' 00".

(Those aren't actual heights of my OCs, they're just random numbers I picked.)

Skills wouldn't benefit from a height property, so they would not have one (but may have other properties like "mana cost" or "activation method", neither of which would benefit characters).

Properties can also take Things as values, I'll be calling these "Relation-Type Properties".

Relation-Type Properties can be used for keeping track of what race a character belongs to, what location they came from, or what other characters they're friends with.

Now into the actual point of this post.

The main problem I have with Notebook.ai is that Relation-Type Properties are not bi-directional.

Basically that means if I set Character A to be friends with Character B, Character B will not automatically be friends with Character A.

So I tried looking for other programs like Notebook.ai, I've collected the information I gathered in this chart.

(The terms I'm using are a little inconsistant, what I call "Things" in this post are called "documents" in the chart.)

As you can probably tell from the chart, the program I've settled on is Notion.

Notion does have a downside that's not listed on the chart, it has an AI assistant that can't be disabled without either paying for premium or emailing support.

Of course, this wouldn't be one of my rambling posts if I didn't reveal information about my OCs, so here's Sapphire's page from my Notion database, mostly so I can talk about how I'm formatting character pages in general.

The "Full Name" and "Name in Japanese" properties will accept any text (there's also no error checking to make sure the Name in Japanese is actually in Japanese).

Full Name is useful if the character has a middle name (not the case with Sapphire) or can be left blank to indicate that I still need to figure out the character's family name (also not the case with Sapphire).

Name in Japanese is honestly more useful for characters like Natsu where I need to keep track of what Kanji the name uses.

Sex is a "choose" property, meaning it has a small list of possible values (which I can add to at any time) and I can pick one (at the moment, the possible values are "Male", "Female", "Hermaphrodite", and "Variable", I'll add more when necessary).

Height (cm) is a number property, it only accepts numbers and nothing else.

Race, World of Origin, and World of Residence are relation properties, meaning they accept other documents as values and also act as links to whatever document is listed.

Obviously, Race will accept any race in my database, World of Origin and World of Residence will accept any world in my database.

The reason World of Origin and World of Residence are seperate is because some characters (not Sapphire) aren't currently living in the same world they were born in.

Special Abilities and Friends are also relation properties, but they can accept multiple values at once (Special Abilities accepts abilities, Friends accepts characters).

The most interesting properties (from a formatting perspective) are Height (in) and Common Abilities.

Height (in) is a formula property, and will be set automatically based on the values of other properties (in this case, just Height (cm) is used).

Common Abilities is a lookup property, meaning it will automatically look up information from the value of a relation property (in this case, it just displays all abilities that are common among members of the character's race).

Lookup properties can also be used for indirect family relations.

Look up the children of each of Character A's siblings and display all unique values and you get Character A's niblings (gender neutral term for nieces/nephews).

Likewise, you can look up the siblings of each of Character A's parents to get Character A's piblings (apparently that's a gender neutral term for aunts/uncles).

There are some characters that should be listed as friends of Sapphire, but I can't add them to Sapphire's friends list because they aren't in my database yet.

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I posted this over on Bluesky yesterday and it got a few likes, so I guess I should also post it here.

Here's a picture of my (currently unfinished) Minecraft base.

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I have a personal website now, hosted by Neocities.

There's almost nothing there at the moment, but it can be found at vailimia.neocities.org, and contains links to other websites that I have accounts on.

It's also linked in my about page.

In other news, I have a Bluesky account vailimia.bsky.social, which I'm still getting set up at the time of writing this.

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They're multiplying.

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I was thinking about whether gardevoirs having boobs in fanart is something I like or not, and decided to make this chart.

This also goes along with my opinion regarding gender differences in fantasy races (like goblins or half-beasts), but that's probably better off in its own post.

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Bad Idea: A brothel that hands out lube in those small ketchup packets you find at fast-food restaurants.