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how2fit · 9 days

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Pilates has been around for more than a century, but the exercise method has never been more popular than it is today. In 2023, nearly 12 million Americans reported practicing Pilates, an increase of 15 percent from the year before. Google searches for “Pilates” have tripled over the past five years, with the market expected to double in size by 2030, according to the Pilates Education Institute. Heck, Pilates even got its moment in the pop culture spotlight with a recent skit on SNL. Why are so many of us embracing Pilates? Perhaps because the workout method pioneered by Joseph Pilates in 1926–combining controlled movements and proper breathing techniques with a holistic mind, body, and spirit approach–can be a perfect antidote to our busy, stressed-out modern lives. Not only does Pilates have an array of benefits, it’s low impact and can be done by people of all ages and fitness levels, says Portia Page, CPT, NCPT, a nationally certified Pilates teacher and Balanced Body education curriculum coordinator. “Pilates is something you can do a little of every day with amazing results,” Page says. “It's an exercise designed to elongate and strengthen the body by emphasizing balance, alignment, proper breathing, and core stability and strength. After just a few sessions of Pilates, you'll understand how helpful correct and flowing movement can be to your mind and body.” Pilates can help us in physical ways, such as improving daily posture (hello, those of us hunched over screens all day), strength, and mobility, but also mentally and emotionally by teaching us to use our breath correctly and bolstering self-confidence when we master challenges, Page explains. But to get the most out of your Pilates session, there are certain things you need to be mindful of—whether you’re a beginner or long-time devotee, or prefer mat or reformer classes. Here are six Pilates tips experts follow get the most out of their Pilates workouts—here's how you can, too. TIP If you’re new to Pilates—or if you don’t have the time or energy—it’s not necessary to push yourself through a long session. Even doing 10 to 15 minutes of Pilates per day is fine, especially for beginners, according to Page. “This will allow you time to practice, build up slowly, and ensure that you get good movement every day,” she says. “Practice truly does make perfect–or as close to perfect as you can get for that day.” 1. Focus on your breath Joseph Pilates is quoted as saying, "Above all, learn how to breathe correctly,” and this mantra is a foundation of Pilates. Each exercise in Pilates is performed in sync with inhales and exhales, and breathing properly is essential to staying centered and enhancing each movement, according to Page. “The breath can help to bring you to the session, allowing your mind and body to arrive in the present,” she says. “I always start by finding and following the breath as this allows the body time to figure out ‘where’ you are now. Bringing awareness to breath at the very start can help remind participants to stay with the breath throughout.” Want to make sure you’re in tune with your breath? Jamie Maitland, certified health coach, Pilates and fitness instructor, and founder of boutique fitness studio The Office 954 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, recommends the following: Start by putting your hands around your ribcage to feel it expand as you inhale, then contract as you exhale. Begin with a single count for each inhale and single count for each exhale. Once you feel comfortable, work your way up to three to five counts per inhale and exhale. 2. Ease into your session slowly One common Pilates mistake, according to Page, is rushing into complex exercises instead of working up to them by taking steps to build the skills necessary for more challenging movements. To use a swimming analogy, Pilates is not about diving in headfirst, but dipping your toes in and entering the water slowly. Warming up sufficiently with “small, micro movements help

set the foundation for a strong ‘stance’ in whatever position you're in and with getting your body to move into the more challenging exercises and movements,” Page says. “By doing this, it helps us get to the end result slowly and with ease–building the necessary skills one step at a time versus muscling and forcing your way into a position or exercise.” If you’re unsure how to warm up or if you’re warming up enough, try taking a class at a Pilates studio or on a virtual platform where an instructor can guide you through everything. 3. Practice perfecting your alignment In Pilates, alignment refers to proper positioning of body parts such as your head, spine, feet, and ankles as they relate to each other while you perform an exercise. Alignment is a fundamental element of Pilates that helps ensure balance and proper form, so you get the most out of each exercise, Maitland explains. One of the best ways to maintain proper alignment is to take a class where you can rely on an instructor for verbal cues or to gently reposition you if needed, Maitland says. If in-person classes aren’t available to you, try taking an online class, pausing when needed to position yourself like the instructor or to check your form in a mirror. Maitland also likes placing a towel or band on the floor to make sure the knees, feet, and hands are lined up where they should be during a move. If you find your feet sliding and throwing off your form, you can also try wearing a pair of grippy socks designed for Pilates. To work on your alignment, Page recommends performing this exercise daily in different positions including standing, seated, supine (on your back), on all fours, and lying on your side: Get into position, close your eyes, and breathe. Think about finding balance and keeping your head in line with your ribs, in line with your pelvis, and in line with your feet (if standing). This alignment will feel very different in each of these positions. Use breath and small adjustments until you find what feels right to you (which is the most important thing). “Quality over quantity—stay focused on the precision and integrity of your moves, not your speed, and less is more.” —Jamie Maitland, certified Pilates instructor 4. Keep it slow and controlled If there’s one thing Pilates is not, it’s a race. Each movement is meant to be done with proper form and control, according to Maitland. “Quality over quantity—stay focused on the precision and integrity of your moves, not your speed, and less is more,” she says. How do you know if you’re going too fast? “You won’t feel the exercise as effectively,” Maitland says. “For example, if you’re doing leg lifts—lying on your side or in side plank—and are mindlessly swinging your leg without intention, you just feel bounciness. If you lock in your core, keep the rest of your body quiet, and lift your leg using your glute, you’ll feel it a lot more.” You’ll know you’re going at the right pace if you start to feel the muscle(s) you’re supposed to be working burn within five to 10 seconds. 5. Stay focused Pilates is meant to nurture and strengthen not just your body, but also your mind and spirit—meaning you want to be present, not chatting with your neighbor, glancing at your phone, or thinking about your to-do list. “One of the most common mistakes I see is not being focused,” Maitland says. “When I instruct a class, oftentimes I’ll be able to recognize the clients who are zoned out as opposed to those who are zoned in—a person's form will reflect where their mind is at. Pilates is a very cerebral workout and you need to be there.” Maitland’s favorite hack if you find yourself losing focus: Rub your thumb and pointer finger together like a little violin for a few seconds to bring you back to the room and present moment. 6. Use equipment to take your workout up a notch Anyone who’s done Pilates will tell you that you don’t need to use any equipment to get a great workout. But, if you’re looking for new challenges, adding

Pilates equipment like resistance bands, light weighted balls, or dumbbells can help kick things up a notch. Maitland also is a fan of Pilates rings to add variety and intensity to workouts. One of Maitland’s favorite Pilates ring exercises: Lie on your back with bent knees and your feet flat on the floor. Place a Pilates ring between your inner thighs. Lift your legs so they’re in tabletop position, knees bent at a 90-degree angle. (You can also leave your feet on the floor to make it easier.) Squeeze the ring in with your inner thighs in a slow, controlled manner and return to starting position. Repeat for 15 reps, then 15 pulses (smaller movements, only squeezing in about a quarter of the way). Squeeze your thighs in and hold for a count of 15. Repeat the entire sequence three to four times. More Pilates equipment to try Gaiam Restore Mini Loop Bands 5-Pack ($15, Gaiam.com) Gaiam Grippy Yoga Barre Socks ($10, Amazon.com) Balanced Body Ultra-Fit Circle Pilates Ring ($40, Amazon.com) Balanced Body 3-Pound Weighted Ball ($17, Amazon.com)

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dreamyarcana · 5 years

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the arcana + shit i said when i 15 years old

Asra:

Nadia:

Julian:

Muriel:

Portia:

Lucio:

#the arcana game #the arcana #asra #nadia satrinava #julian devorak #muriel #portia devorak #count lucio #dreamy headcanon #tldr my friend found our old chats that we had together and this is the result lol #i resonate with my 15 year old self still

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valhallanrose · 3 years

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The Red Plague

The art above was created by Nix Hydra, and can be found in the Minor Arcana Art Book (or where I got it - off the fandom wiki page, because who’s going to stop me)

Much of Zelda’s story in the non-apprentice timeline delves into the plague before, during, and in the aftermath of Vesuvia, and I wanted to compile my lore and headcanons for it in one place before I delve into her story fully. I will incorporate as much canon as possible, but given that that isn’t a large amount of info, a lot of this is based off research and personal worldbuilding.

CWs for discussions of disease, death, body horror, I guess spoilers but I’m surprised if it is for anyone considering how the info is everywhere in game in all routes. This is also, again, personal headcanon and I don’t expect it to fall in line with everyone’s thoughts on the plague.

The Timeline

I’m going to go with a comprehensive timeline first, and this part is all based on canon information. I’ll try and provide as many sources as I can as well, but some of this is pulled from multiple books and I might forget exactly where something came from.

As we learn in the Lucio tale, Dawn of the Grub, Lucio strikes up a deal with the wyrm of pestilence (Vlastomil) - his parents’ hearts in exchange for a disease that will allow Lucio to kill them both. The Lucio brought the disease back to the tribe, which weakened his father enough for Lucio to kill him. His mother Morga, however, fights off the disease, referring to it as a ‘summer cold’, and Lucio flees the tribe and joins a traveling mercenary band which allows the plague to spread.

I don’t have a particular reason why Morga would have survived the plague. Her sprites in the game never show any sign of the plague that are generally acknowledged - no red sclera, no veins, no signs of weakness, so on and so forth. The best theory I can posit is that Morga either genuinely had a summer cold, or that the plague only took hold in Lutz rather than them both. Either way, unsatisfying, but we’re going to call Morga the exception and not the rule.

Because Lucio did not fulfill his end of the bargain with Vlastomil, the plague continued to spread, following Lucio as he traveled the continent. This is also the point where the beetles appear - more on them later.

The implication in the game is that the disease reached other countries and areas, but the next canon mention of the Red Plague’s spread occurs in Portia’s route, book X - Wheel of Fortune. A map is discussed where dates, places, and sightings of the plague are noted by Julian in his study of the plague - the Painted Fields, Blue Mountain Ridge, and Annyala Gate are all names that arise.

Nasmira recognizes the name of Annyala Gate and points out that Nazali was at that battle, in which a band of mercenaries was sighted - and their leader needed an arm amputated, which is confirmed to be Lucio. Nadia states that Lucio came to Vesuvia not long after that battle, and the next time the Plague was seen was in Vesuvia.

It is never seen again outside Vesuvia, and this brings us to the three years before the game, where Lucio’s ‘death’ heralds the end of the plague, and it is never seen actively again in the Arcana world.

The headcanons I have are to help establish a solid timeline. Dawn of the Grub tells us the deal is made on Lucio’s 18th birthday, and I personally believe that Lucio’s death occurred on his 40th birthday, giving us about 22 years of time for us to work with for the spread of the plague.

Some more headcanons mixed with canon:

Lucio is newly titled Count in the tale Travel at Night. Based on personal age headcanons, this tale probably occurs at minimum 17 to 18 years pre-canon, putting Asra at (at most) 10/11, Muriel at 14/15, and Lucio at a startling 22/23. It could occur later, as art style can influence perspective on age, but Muriel and Asra really don’t feel like they could be much older than that.

During his mercenary days (sometime between the ages of 18 and 22/23) Lucio was contracted by the former Count of Vesuvia, Count Spada. This battle occurs at Annyala, mentioned above, and is the battle where Lucio

At a certain point, Lucio was contracted by the Count of Vesuvia at the time, Count Spada, for a battle where he "made a name for himself." Story implications indicate that this was the battle during which he lost his left arm. It was amputated by Julian to prevent his death from blood loss. After he won the battle for Count Spada, he became friends with the Count and privy to secrets about Vesuvia and the Palace. Spada would eventually name Lucio his heir, and upon his death, Lucio earned rulership of Vesuvia.

The plague eventually appears and ravages Vesuvia’s population

Plague patients are sent to the Lazaret away from the city and cremated, then scattered on the beach.

Lucio contracts the plague and defies the average lifespan of those who contracted it by lasting a few months rather than 3-10 days.

Lucio dies on his birthday, not of the plague but as a result of the ritual he was attempting to gain a new body.

I tried to map most of that out here, and wow, what a sad little diagram. Nix Hydra, y’all are cowards for not going hard on this. I, however, am not, and I am about to go more apeshit than I already have.

The Spread

Cracking my knuckles on the history degree, baby, I’m borrowing some real life inspiration from across multiple time periods to tie all this together.

I personally think the whole “Oh, the plague arrives wherever Lucio goes and disappears when he leaves” thing is a copout, and we’re drop kicking that out a window.

I do believe, as canon states, that the plague follows Lucio. It spreads obviously to regions he visits, but I don’t think it just disappears when he leaves. I really, really want to believe someone would have been smart enough to see the connection if the plague suddenly appeared and was later yoinked out of existence as soon as Lucio left town every single time it cropped up somewhere way sooner than it was noticed in canon.

I don’t think the plague was as isolated as the game implies, and when it was in Vesuvia, it was probably also elsewhere. The epicenter was Lucio, of course, so Vesuvia faced the worst of it, but I think there would have been pockets with much smaller numbers in other parts of the world.

Earlier I mentioned a few locations cited in Portia’s route as to where the plague had been before Vesuvia - the Painted Fields, Blue Mountain Ridge, and Annyala Gate. I think once these areas were hit with the plague, it would have continued to spread even after Lucio left. Across multiple routes, it’s made clear that the only ‘cure’ to the plague is Lucio’s death, which is why Julian had intended to kill Lucio after making his deal with the Hanged Man. The lack of Lucio’s presence would have kept the plague from continuing to escalate, but in these regions, it probably would have spread when the region’s people attempted to relocate, or ceased when the population died out.

Annyala Gate, or the Great Gate, is a location I can dive a little deeper into. It’s the last location the plague was sighted before Vesuvia, and because it ties into my OC Zelda’s storyline, I have many a thought.

Lucio is in Annyala sometime between year 1 and year 4/5, though I believe it’s on the later end of that spectrum, so let’s say year 4 to clearly predate his title as heir to Vesuvia. For reference, here is a map of the Great Gate as provided by the art book:

Jeebus. Terrible photo quality. Ah, well, on we go.

The Great Gate is situated between the Sea of Persephia (left) and the Salty Sea (right), and as the map currently stands, is the only point on land that gives access to the southern part of the world map. In this area in particular, I feel like a number of factors would have kept the plague alive long after Lucio left.

Narrowest point on the world map for transport of goods between ports and seas, which would be a more efficient route than traveling around the continent to reach the same point

As previously stated, this is the only known access point to the south, and travelers heading through this area could possibly be carriers of the plague or catch the plague from the area

The only way for the plague to stop would be with the death of Lucio, so once it was inflicted upon this area, it continued to spread and infect the population in adjoining areas

The game repeatedly has emphasized the proximity of the Red Beetles (known harbingers of the plague) to water, such as the Nopali village in Asra’s route and the red stains attributed to them in Julian’s route, and we receive further confirmation in Portia’s route that the water supplies are contaminated during the period of the disease

Fun bit of trivia from Nadia’s route - in the Strength book, Nadia mentions that she remembers the beetles, and that once they had been used as part of a pigment used to dye fabric crimson, which was all the rage in Vesuvia. Should this trend have continued, people wearing fabrics dyed with this beetle pigment most likely would become infected, and thus, the cycle continued.

I will also point out here that pigments have been used in makeup across history, and I’m sure applying some beetle-laden makeup would have really fucked some people up. Eyeshadows, blushes, lipsticks...contact with any of these areas, particularly the eyes and mouth, indicate a possibility of infection.

This does, however, leave a fifteen year (ish) period where the plague would have been active in this region until Lucio’s death. Historically, diseases can last such broad swathes of time. For the sake of displaying precedent, I will point out some examples here:

The Black Death, lasting 1346-1353

The third cholera pandemic, lasting 1846-1860

The third plague pandemic, a major bubonic plague like the Black Death, lasting 1855-1960

The HIV/AIDS pandemic, which has been ongoing since 1981 in the US

However, some of the most devastating plagues have lasted only a few years, which I will touch on later when I discuss Vesuvia’s case of the plague. All of the diseases listed above are additionally categorized with death tolls over a million people.

(On a side note, if you would like to contribute to programs searching for a cure for HIV/AIDS, I will suggest donating to organizations like amfAR, the Black AIDS Institute, or the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, all of which are linked accordingly and deserve your support if you are capable of making a contribution)

Remaining question: if the last place the plague was seen was in Annyala, more than fifteen years before it was seen in Vesuvia, what the fuck happened during that time beforehand?

Vesuvia - Before the Plague

Here’s the thing. The timeline given by the devs is a fucking mess. So, what I’m going to propose here is almost entirely theory, and I ask that you keep that in mind.

Lucio ascends to the title of Count by the time he’s about 22 or 23. Spada dies, presumably, and there’s no noticeable mention of his death via plague or the establishment of the court.

For some fascinating lore on how the government in Vesuvia works, I’m going to point you to this post by @sunrisenfool, who has one of the biggest brains and is gracious enough to allow me to reference their work a little for this one.

I don’t think the court as we know it existed when Lucio became Count. I agree with sunrisenfool here that Valdemar has been the Palace’s cockroach for a while - which was actually also confirmed in the Star book of Portia’s route, in which we see Count Prospero (founder of Vesuvia) summon Valdemar and ask for their aid in creating a city that will never die. The remaining courtiers would be gradually established as time continued on, all demons who struck bargains with the Devil in one form or another placed into positions of power alongside Lucio. We also cannot forget Valerius, who made his own deal with the Devil, and played his own role in this scenario.

We know that Lucio was also a pawn, later on, in the Devil’s agenda to bridge the gap between the main world and the Arcane realms. The ritual discussed in Portia’s Star book is described as a vessel to do just that -

“...every 777 years, the physical and magical world will collide...the laws of magic will no longer be immutable, and the world will bend to our will...So long as the Countship and canals remain whole, so shall the power to reshape the world. You need only await the conjunction. Perform the ritual and lead the city to glory heretofore unknown. I, Count Prospero, first of my line, declare the founding of Vesuvia. The city eternal. My legacy.” - Count Prospero

It’s confirmed after this scene that the ritual, using the canals as a conduit, opened a ‘door’ so to speak to the Arcane realms. It’s also said there is a three year window to perform this ritual, and that at the time of game canon, we are at the end of that three year window.

So. Borderline conspiracy time.

Circling back to the lovely sunrisenfool’s work, I’m going to pull a particular excerpt here:

...the Consul of Vesuvia is the second most important/powerful political figure in Vesuvia, directly after the Count/ess. Aside of the political and civic duties I have already explained, the Consul acts as a “protector” of Vesuvia, albeit not in a paternalistic politically-conservative way (which is how paternalistic policies would be understood in our world). Instead, the Consul is meant to rule the City if the Count is absent or incapacitated, therefore being the subsidiary depositary of the secret of the foundation of Vesuvia, and the importance of it’s Canals.

Lucio makes it pretty clear he doesn’t know much of anything about the ritual during Portia’s Star book, but he was told about it by Spada before his death as it was a secret kept close to the court. That gave him something of leverage, even if he wasn’t aware of it,

My thought as to why the plague did not spread in Vesuvia sooner is that Lucio had knowledge of this ritual, however minimal, and the Devil needed him alive to eventually use the ritual for himself. So, as Vlastomil (the wyrm of pestilence who granted this curse) was established in Vesuvia as Praetor, the plague was kept at bay for the time being while the city came under the full control of the Devil’s demons.

I cannot imagine the only person who knows about the ritual is the Count, because that feels like a woefully flawed plan, so I do believe the Consul would have also been privy to such a secret in case the Count was in a position they could not share it due to absence or incapacitation. Basically, a rehash of sunrisenfool’s point, but I digress.

As the window drew nearer for the completion of the ritual and it became clearer that Lucio knew next to nothing about the ritual and how it worked, the Devil decided to take a different approach. The plague was unleashed once again by Vlastomil, with the goal that Lucio become infected and eventually die, and that Valerius take over the Countship. Lucio no longer was useful to the Devil, and should he be removed from power, someone like Valerius - who knew the purpose of the ritual, who was under the Devil’s bargain by this point - would be an ideal candidate to finish the task at hand. Leverage, it works wonders.

I don’t think the ritual performed to gain a new body could have been mere chance. I think Lucio knew more than he let on about the canals and the magic in Vesuvia from Spada. Yes, I know the first three were written before Portia, but come on, the timing is insane. He’s no magician, and performing something that complex and magically charged right at the beginning of the three year window when the ritual is supposed to be performed feels far from coincidental. Fight me.

But, on to what happens in Vesuvia once the plague is free to spread again.

Vesuvia - During the Plague

The first sighting of the plague is in year 20, and I personally believe the plague lasted about two years or 24 months. The period is divided into three ‘waves’ - the first six months, the year leading up to Lucio’s death, and the six months following Lucio’s death.

The First Wave

The first wave begins when the first known case of the Red Plague is confirmed, and in this period, the spread is rather slow.

Here is the introduction of the Lazaret, which I do believe is a building that existed before the plague - this is personal thoughts, but the odds of this being the first major disease Vesuvia experienced feel pretty slim, and I do think this was a previously established quarantine that was renovated/expanded for the Red Plague outbreak. In an effort to get ahead of the disease, the space was designated a quarantine, largely staffed by volunteers when the palace seemed to not acknowledge the growing situation. It would slowly begin to increase until the plague boomed at the six month mark, heralding the beginning of the second wave.

The Second Wave

This is the ‘bad period’ of the plague. I say that loosely, because it’s all bad, but I digress.

I headcanon that the apprentice dies in the beginning of the second wave, when spread of the red plague rapidly begins to increase and the call goes out for researchers to search for a cure. We know how that story goes, so moving on to the details of this wave.

There were two groups at this point in the plague - those assigned to research, working out of Valdemar’s dungeon/lab/carnival of horrors studying the plague, and those assigned to the Lazaret, caring for the sick and dying and maintaining the facility.

I’m going to focus more on the Lazaret for this, as the research aspect is pretty well covered throughout Julian’s route and conversations with him in other routes, and this post is already getting long.

The Lazaret was home to the dying, where they would be cared for in their final days and eventually cremated. My thought is that the remains of the patients were carefully catalogued in the beginning, returned to families willing to claim them, and those left unclaimed were scattered on the beach at the Lazaret. Later on, as more and more people died, less remains were claimed, leading to the black beaches that still mark the shores of the Lazaret in canon. Often the staff here were a mix of healers, doctors, apothecaries, anyone willing to try anything to ease the pain of such a disease.

The staff at the Lazaret began wearing layered masks - the plague mask with its herb-stuffed beak, another facial covering beneath for an added layer of protection, and a head covering that sealed the gaps between the mask and the face. They were also required to wear gloves, tight-fitted sleeves tucked inside, and their pants tucked into their boots to reduce the risk of infection through contact. Their days would start in locker rooms on one end of the facility, removed from the patients, and suit up for the day while leaving belongings in the lockers. The end of the shift consisted of showers and disposal of garments to be sterilized, they’d return home in the clothes they came in, and by the time they returned a new uniform would be waiting for them.

Lucio caught the plague during this period, most likely halfway through. He lasted several months, but the exact length is unknown, aside from he ‘lasted longer than most victims of the plague’ who died between 3-10 days.

I don’t think the averages are entirely accurate. There were most likely some who were asymptomatic until the plague was in very late stages, or those who presented symptoms very early on and survived for long stretches of time. All would die bearing the red sclera, veins, and other symptoms depicted above. Basically, this disease is claimed to be unpredictable, and I think that would also stretch to the duration at which each patient had it. Those who were physically frail likely would have died sooner than those who had been in oprtimal health before the plague, making the times vary rather drastically. I’d suggest perhaps a month at the longest, a few days at the shortest.

Policy wise - during this period, the ports would have closed, and Vesuvia would have shut down. Nobody in, nobody out, not without rigorous inspection and quarantine before exiting to the city to avoid further spread. Often the only people allowed into the city were doctors from other regions affected by the plague called to help research, but during this year, I would estimate Vesuvia lost easily 30% of its population to the Red Plague.

The Third Wave

This wave is the period that occurs after Lucio’s death at the Masquerade, three years pregame. I’ll touch a tiny bit more more on this in the next section, but this is where we see the gradual end of the spread of the plague, and the last cases shown in Vesuvia. It’s the end of the plague period, and I give this about six months for the official ‘all clear’ to have been given by those tracking case counts.

The Lazaret is eventually decommissioned and now sits abandoned, a shadow on the horizon to remind those who survived what had been lost. The city mourned, the gates slowly opened, and gradually, we reach the point of comparative normalcy we see in the game set three years later.

Vesuvia - The Aftermath

Lucio’s death would, ultimately, mean the end of the plague. Rather than immediately disappearing and all those suffering from it be cured, however, I would be inclined to say that the spread came to a halt.

The last wave of the plague, in the six months after Lucio’s death, would have been a decrease in new cases until there were no new ones being reported, and the last of the patients who had been infected finally passed.

The final duties of the doctors at the Lazaret, after all remains are cremated, would have been the incineration of all materials that could not be sterilized. Linens, spare uniforms, unclaimed personal affects, so on and so forth until the time came to return home. I do not remember the exact location, but I am fairly confident of a mention of the MC remembering barrels burning doctor’s uniforms and masks in the days after the end of the plague. It was, for a lack of better words, a purge - an attempt to erase the last physical memories of what the city had endured.

Events like this are traumatic for all involved. They are painful wounds, and for the rate of death I imagine occurred in Vesuvia, the odds that someone lost no one are slim. There was likely a long period of mourning, and as noted in the present of the game, rarely is the plague spoken of outside of the context of the investigation in the primary routes.

Many of those medical staff members who survived were those assigned to research at the Palace. The proximity of the staff to the ill at the Lazaret quarantine likely would have made the rate of infection far higher for the caretakers, meaning that often the staff would end up caring for colleagues in their final days.

Even three years removed, the time of the plague is a raw wound for those in Vesuvia - but I do think the period is fascinating and I love exploring the different facets of it in my own world building. And, well, shameless self promo, but I am eager to write it myself when I get into Zelda’s backstory.

If you made it this far, thank you. Go drink some water or something, idk, wellbeing checkpoint bc what a long ass post

#red plague #worldbuilding #long post #the arcana #the arcana game

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the-iron-orchid · 2 years

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The whole reason i do a Renderpalooza periodically (besides handing out free dopamine) is because making myself do renders in a rapid-fire fashion is basically an XP grind. I can’t just sit here and agonize over details for 3-5 days per render, I have to keep going!

I always end up finding ways to improve my models, as well as making some new discoveries about draping, lighting and/or shaders. This round has resulted in a much better hair shader for Portia (I learned a lot making Alexander’s flamin’ red hair), more improvements to Jinana’s custom hair shader, and innumerable small tweaks to the models - I have to use them to be able to improve them!

Anyway, we’re at 12 renders down (technically 15 because some had extra angles), with 5 left to go! :D

#renderpalooza hijinks #the life of a 3D artist

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choleraciemna · 4 years

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So about the relics. Will numbering all those questions may be help somehow?..

1. Will Zenith get broken again because of what Rime's done?

How can a relic get broken? In Sage's ch 1 we were told it's probably all about a physical part of it only. But breaking one still seems to be an outstandingly rare event. So. Does it break when you use it some WRONG way?

(First I thought it may happen when you kill using a relic. But it kinda makes no sense if one has a physical form of a lethal weapon...)

I guess Zenith had been broken when Sage had to kill Lucan. Will it get broken again now being used to attack Sage?

2. Is Zenith still Sage's relic after Sage tried to throw it away?

What having a relic means indeed? It's kinda obvious one never just owns a relic like a simple thing. We were told several times relics choose owners and take places within them in some magical way. And there were a few references this connection may be broken both by the relic and the owner. Sage said Zenith rejected him back in Tulsi's shop. Now he tried to reject his relic himself. Did it work?

3. Can your relic kill you at all?..

Is there a possibility relics can't hurt their owners in this realm with it's magic rules?.. Or can't kill at least...

(Yeah, it's only the 5th chapter of 15, I know. And it can't end like this. (Hi, Portia!..) And it was not the result of any choises we could do, it just had to happen anyways. And some of his scars also look like the wounds were horribly bad. Like Sage had survived lethal or semilethal injuries several times allready. Tulsi said he seemed to be dying last time she saw him. She seemed to be serious. Cats got nibe lives. It just can't be. I know. It just hurts. Just want him to be safe. Hate seeing him in pain.)

4. What's with our relic, the Astrolabe?

It all started with Anisa asking Sage as our Starsworn instructor to show us how to summon one's relic. May be it's time for MC to learn it somehow by themselves. Actually I'm not even sure it's necessary for healing. In Felix's route it worked some intuitional way without showing the Astrolabe up. But that was certainly not that bad kind of an injury.

I hope we'll be able to heal Sage. And I suppose it must be connected with our relic and magic abilities. And probably not in the most obvious and awayted way...

#fictif #last legacy #fictif sage #last legacy sage #sage lesath #sage fictif #sage last legacy #last legacy zenith #zenith last legacy #last legacy relics #relics last legacy #last legacy fan theories #fictif fan theories #starsworn last legacy #last legacy starsworn #portia devorak #save portia #the arcana game #missing sage lesath

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nazali-md · 4 years

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Get to know my apprentice!

1. Name? Surname? Goes by Scilla. Surname not needed.

2. Any family? Only faint memories

3. Any familiar? A smartass fly named Myiagros

4. Love Interest? Every single one. How does that work timeline-wise? You're asking the wrong person, I don't even know how my day is supposed to work timeline-wise.

5. Best strength in magic? Her biggest strength would be using magic in creative, unconventional ways. Naturally talented in wind magic. Coming from a family of travelling story-tellers, blessed with a literally enchanting voice. Well versed in hiding her presence, altering her appearance, passing through unnoticed and being forgotten quickly.

6. Favourite colour? Royal blue, gold, and wine red

7. Favourite number? 4

8. Sexuality? Pan & Polyamorous

9. Weird hobby? Occasionally raising the dead.

10. Favourite season? Summer

11. Favourite weather? Warm but windy. Also night storms.

12. Favourite place in Vesuvia? The Fields

13. How does their laughter sound? Her honest laugh can only described as silent shaking. If you hear her laugh at you, she wants you to hear.

14. How do they look when they cry? 2 types: the Hollywood perfect fake crying, silent tears streaming down her cheekbones, artfully smudged facial paint; and the red eyes, voice breaking, lots of yelling, frustration crying

15. What do they like to wear? Lots of colour, lots of layers, patterns resembling the night sky. Fond of cloaks, capes, headscarves, veils and flashy facial paint. Anything that helps her hide her facial features. She has little regard to fashion though, and mostly just wears whatever was on the top of the clean pile. It has some... interesting results.

16. What are their fears? Closed spaces, losing magic. Her biggest fear is that people important to her would abandon her after seeing her true shelf.

17. What do they like to do Friday night? Clear weather? It's astronomy time. Otherwise she loves to go out dancing, and has no problem finding company. However if she's in the middle of some interesting magic stuff, well good luck, she's not going anywhere until it's finished.

18. Do they use makeup? Makeup, magic, magic reinforced makeup, it's all fair game. Mostly for fun. Illegal stuff, sometimes. All the flashy face paint. Lucio's crying in the corner.

19. Favourite food? Shrimps!

20. Favourite drink? Coffee

21. Zodiac sign? Aquarius

22. Day of birth? Classified information

23. Favourite play? Richard III

24. Favourite music? Her taste of music is somewhere right next to her fashion sense

25. Favourite song? Tinariwen - Nánnufláy

26. What are their aesthetics? The endless night sky, copper wind chimes, sand shifting, the piper of Hamelin, cornflowers in wheat fields, the call of the road, tall buildings with gargoyles, untameable hair, mountain peaks and open fields, scarf gone with the wind, dancing barefoot, the milky way

27. What is their style? Eclectic

28. What is their height? Taller than Asra, shorter than Nadia

29. Any mental health issues? Fear of abandonment, slight anxiety

30. Any health issues in general? Not quite an issue, but very sensitive to cold

31. Favourite book? The Decameron

32. Favourite book genre? Folktales, short stories, anecdotes. Also a lot of non-fiction.

33. Favourite time of the day? Night

34. If they weren’t a magician, who would they be? Hard question. Being a magician is a large part of her sense of self. She's already a successful shop owner and spy on the side, so probably one of those. She also made a decent healer.

35. Do they believe in ghosts? It kinda comes with her job.

36. Do they believe in demons? Same as above.

37. Do they like sports? Depends. She's pretty fit, but sports involving a lot of rules aren't her thing.

38. Favourite dessert? Chocolate. And those fancy pastries with a million layers.

39. What is their biggest motivation to solve Lucio’s killer mystery? Curiosity and boredom.

40. What do they think of Lucio so far? (I'll answer these as how Scilla thinks of the LI's at the early stages of their routes) Very entertaining company, but oh boy, so dumb. It's endearing though. They both have secrets they're hesitant to share with each other, and neither of them is happy about the snow.

41. What do they think of Nadia so far? Ooh, challenge. Nadia not only pikes her interest, she really awakens Scilla's need to prove herself. She desperately wants to gain her respect and favour.

42. What do they think of Asra so far? There's no life without Asra. He's already the centre of her world, but oh my god they were roommates. They love each other very dearly, but they can get under each other's skin in a second. Lots of frustration to work through.

43. What do they think of Julian so far? She's having a ball, this man is chaos, and she thrives in chaos. He's one of the few who can keep up with her, both in incoherent trains of thoughts and semi-parkouring around the city.

44. What do they think of Portia so far? It was love at first sight, slow motion, cheesy music, everything. She tries to hide just how far she's fallen, because it's really stupid, she's not that easy to win over, but she's failing miserably. Scilla is prepared to do anything to save her from harm.

45. What do they think of Muriel so far? They got off the wrong foot, and he's really trying her patience, as Scilla is not used to people disliking her. They have a long way to go, and I have a long fic to write :(

46. Do they like animals? She grew up poor, so the concept of keeping animals as friends is weird to her. If Scilla sees an animal her mind automatically sorts it to edible/non edible, could be used for farm work/practically useless. This is one of her many conflicts with Muriel. Of course this changes with time and she'd never eat Faust or Pepi, but Camio's on thin fucking ice.

47. Are they allergic to anything? Humourless people

48. Do they have any talents (except magic)? Dancing and astronomy. Also has a knack for smooth social interactions.

49. Do they get drunken easily? Hates to lose control over her actions, so she doesn't really drink.

50. What is their personality type? no idea

51. What is their worst negative quality? Desire to control people, greed, mistrust, dishonesty, a tendency to start unnecessary arguments, impulsiveness, pettiness.

52. What is their best positive quality? Creativity, attentiveness, sense of humour, willingness to help, friendliness, politeness, problem solving attitude.

53. What is their position to fall asleep? CUDDLE. If only a pillow, then a pillow.

54. The most uncomfortable moment they ever experienced? Getting caught lying by Asra. She used magic to vanish on the spot.

55. Their happiest memory? Waking up surrounded by those she loves, and realising it's not Asra's turn to make breakfast.

56. Do they blush? It doesn't really show on her skin.

57. Are they clumsy? Quite the opposite.

58. Do they like jokes? Hell yeah.

59. How do they flirt? You've got to be careful with an enchanting voice, so it's mostly nonverbal, the right dress does all the talking for her. Casual touches, eyes lingering a bit too long. Letting the strap of the dress slide off her shoulders, or her shirt ride up a bit. In a relationship, she's ready to throw in some whispered dirty talk and not so casual touching.

60. Favourite fruit? Grapes, blueberries and sour cherry.

Why, yes! I do have too much time on my hands due social distancing :)

The questions are originally from @gemarcana I think, picture made with picrew

#fan apprentice #the arcana #the arcana apprentice #the arcana oc #the arcana mc #the arcana game #apprentice scilla #60 questions #get to know my oc

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ollifree · 4 years

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Apprentice April Week 5

Thank you @starblazerm31 for organizing this event!!

and for dropping an ask into my inbox and being patient as i waited until mid may to get these done

1. Who is your character’s patron Arcana?

We’re all about theming here so I gave Skylar The Fool as his patron.

2. Take us on a tour of your Magical Gateway. (Use pics if you have them!)

🎵 I haven’t designed his gate. I should probably design his gate. 🎵

3. Does your character rely on The Cards?

No. Skylar doesn’t have a deck as he isn’t into the fortune / future aspect of magic. He knows what the (major) arcana represent, but considers it a ‘two sides of the same coin’ aspect rather than an upright / reverse one. If he needs guidance he goes to visit The Fool in the magical realms.

4. Has your character come in contact with any other Arcana? (other than the Devil) Tell us about it.

The Fool, obviously, as well as The Magician briefly in his younger years. Scout if you count other inhabitants of the magical realms. Death, probably, the way the magical realms section of the story is shaping out.

5. Any brushes with demons? (besides the Courtiers)

Nay.

6. What is their favorite magically-enhanced thing? (Music, Food, Clothes, etc.)

Clothing. “I like this therefore I am going to create a viable duplicate.” You wouldn’t download a scarf.

7. In your character’s story, how did they acquire the Stove Salamander?

In his travels before coming to Vesuvia. There’s a traveling fair / market anyone worth their spit in the sciences go to when they announce they’ll be around. Magic is a science in this universe, and as such magicians flock there as well. Skylar got Stove Salamander from one of the vendors.

8. How did your character meet Asra? Describe the meeting.

After Lucio died, and events transpired that made Skylar go “okay fine maybe there is a ghost.” Asra got recommended to him as the best magician in the city in dealing with ethereal realms, and Skylar dropped by Asra’s shop to get him to come to the palace for a couple consultations.

9. Give us some headcanons of your character with other Arcana characters. Did your character meet them before they died? Were they close?

He’s known Julian the longest. They met in their early twenties and kept bumping into each other across the continent. Julian got Skylar to come with him on a trip to Vesuvia where he introduced Skylar to Lucio. Skylar knew of Portia, but it was some time after she’d started work at the palace that he realized she was Pasha. Before the start of the story proper he helped Muriel get away from the coliseum.

10. Describe your character’s Masquerade outfit. Use pics if you like!

I should also design a Masquerade outfit.

11. What did your character do right after they defeated the Devil? Did they pass out? Did they just keep partying? Did they run off for some privacy with their LI?

You know how sometimes major life-altering events happen? Or sometimes things your partner did in the past come to light? And you have to have several conversations with both them and yourself about where to go from there? Imagine all that happening at once and also your partner is Lucio.

12. What happened the day after the Masquerade? Did they just keep partying?

In my defense, the Masquerade did not take place in my canon.

13. What did Nadia reward your character with after the events of that night? (She did promise payment, after all)

Okay so the premise of my story is that it’s based off a line in my one (published) Arcana fic where Lucio wishes he’d met Skylar instead of Nadia and turns out I’m self-indulgent enough to write that so now here we are with no Nadia in the story because Lucio wasn’t about to go drunk proposing to someone else when Skylar was like two rooms away.

14. How did they folks in the neighborhood react to your character’s deeds after the Masquerade? Did they keep giving you those odd looks? Did they give you a hero’s welcome? Did nothing change at all?

There was no major change. Most the core cast were present during the finale, and none of them are the type to go around spreading what happened. For Skylar’s sake, more than Lucio’s.

15. What were some life-altering events that happened that following year? Marriage? Babies? Renovations to the shop?

The result of that conversation in 11 was Lucio and Skylar leaving Vesuvia, to the betterment of everyone/thing involved. They probably settle down eventually somewhere. Maybe. For a long-ass time the longest they ever stay in one place is one or two years.

#arcana #skylar #apprenticeapril #oc thing #catch me trying to be as vague as possible while still answering the questions #rey you're the only one who reliably reads these #and i'm respecting your wish for minimal spoilers #also i'm really fucking tired

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xathia-89 · 5 years

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Commissions Open

Hi Everyone!

I’m feeling like I’m adding to ‘another bites the dust’ in terms of writers dropping to their knees and needing financial assistance.

My backstory (I don’t want sympathy, I just want you all to understand why I hate that I am doing this) is that 9th May 2018, I stood up from my office chair and I was in agonising pain. I could barely walk, stand or sit, and my job became nearly impossible to do, but I needed the money to continue since they didn’t pay me sick. There was general concern over the pain location and the issues since I was starting to lose the sensation down my legs and feet quickly. Then my life unfortunately completely changed on the 13th June 2018, I ended up admitted to a hospital the following morning and I have ended up resigning from my job because of the pressures I was facing in both my medical treatment and my boss refusing to accept that I wasn’t going to just return to work. As a result, me and my husband are literally scraping by and just being able to afford our bills. I am in a much better place than others, and I will admit that. But it doesn’t cover the additional costs such as all my travelling to and from a major hospital 20 miles away and the car repairs. I’ve gone from a well-paying job to just being able to manage to pay the bills.

I am open to offers but this is my baseline charge:

£3 - 500 words £5 - 1000 words £10 - 2000 words (I will send the first 500 words as a preview to ensure that you are happy with the way things are going) £15 - 3000 words (I will send the first 500 words as a preview to ensure that you are happy with the way things are going) ~ anything more than this I will write on a sliding scale and the first 750 words will be sent to ensure that you are happy.

I am willing to write for the following fandoms: - Ikémen Sengoku: Nobunaga, Masamune, Hideyoshi, Mitsunari, Mitsuhide, Kenshin, Shingen, Sasuke - Ikémen Revolution: Loki, Oliver, Seth, Jonah - Love, Lies & a Heist: Ryan, Noel, Luca, Ewan, Logan - Marvel Universe: Black Widow, Ironman, Spiderman, Captain America, Winter Soldier, Falcon, War Machine, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Doctor Strange, Pepper Potts, Antman, Wasp, Black Panther - Harry Potter Universe: Most characters - please enquire - Mystic Messenger: Jumin Han, Zen, Yoosung, Seven, Jaehee -Midnight Cinderella: Giles, Sid, Byron, Nico, Leo, Albert, Alyn -Arcana: Nadia, Julian, Portia, Asra

I will require you to be as detailed as possible in your request as possible. I will do AUs, NSFW, angst and fluff. I am willing to add in original characters to things providing that you give me enough of a character to work into my story. I am willing to ship characters with each other and I will do crossovers.

Basically, if you have an idea, I will do my best to fulfil your request, but I also reserve the right to refuse to write something I am not comfortable with. I require payment up front instead of on completion. Please feel free to message me with any questions, but also be aware that anything nasty will be posted on my blog complete with a free mocking from myself and others are likely.

I will take payment by Paypal for this, or Ko-Fi.

I love you guys. Thank you for listening.

#commisions open #commisionwork #commissions #please share #please support me

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lesbianarcana · 5 years

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could you just... like... answer all of those questions at once? I can't pick one but I wanna know all the things

Oh God okay

[[MORE]]

1. When did you start playing?

Oh a long time ago...over a year ago I’d say? The main 3 were only up to uhhhh the Hermit book I think. I remember I stopped playing after that gross fetishy Asra CG came out.

2. What got you into the game?

The beautiful art and the tarot theme. This was before I knew what I know fdjhksd

3. Who was your first route?

Julian!

4. Who is your favourite route?

Honestly Muriel is shaping up to be my favourite so far. Before that, I loved Asra’s route.

5. Who is your least favourite?

So far, Portia’s. Don’t get me wrong - it’s nothing to do with Portia herself. It just feels a little stagnant and flat.

(I bet you expected me to say Lucio, didn’t you? Well, you’re wrong).

6. Who do you play in Heart Hunter?

Chibi Chandra!

7. Who is your favourite to chase in Heart Hunter?

Portia or Muriel!

8. Who of the not playable LIs do you wish you could romance?

The baker. Selasi route when?

9. Opinion on Asra?

Asra is often mischaracterised imo and held to an unfair standard that a lot of the other characters aren’t. I’ve seen many of these arguments and I’m tired.

Asra is not jealous, possessive, creepy, manipulative or shady. Not once does he act possessive towards the MC in any of the routes including his own (a possible exception could be made for the Reversed Ending, but what do you expect? That’s after the MC literally enables that behaviour).

Being sad or cautioning the MC against Julian is not being jealous or possessive. The way he talks about Julian it’s pretty obvious he felt more for the man than he realises, even if he doesn’t understand that himself.

Asra keeps secrets from the MC because canonically trying to remember too much too fast harms the MC. This has been established. In his route, he literally tells you that he hates keeping secrets from you. He takes you into his own personal gateway - an expression of trust and a willingness to open up to you. Does he do these things in the other routes? No, but that’s because you’re not spending that time with him.

I also see people angsting about how sad Asra is going to be when you tell him about Lucio in his route. Lucio harmed his parents and has been cruel to Asra so like idk what you expect. The MC doesn’t know this of course, but you do!

I think we also forget that Asra took a considerable amount of time and effort to rehabilitate the MC, care for them and reteach them basic tasks as well as magic.

Is Asra a perfect person? Of course not. He’s probably overly cautious, he can be a little distant and he reacts badly when in a crisis (see the deal he made with the Devil). He’s not always brave and not always strong, but why should we expect him to be? He’s a human being and he’s bound to have faults, but he has a generous nature and is remarkably well-adjusted considering the trauma of his childhood (don’t tell me that suddenly losing your parents is not traumatic).

10. Opinion on Julian?

I once said that Julian is likely hypersexual and I still maintain that. (For those of you who don’t know, being hypersexual is like..a tendency to engage in compulsive or self-harming sexual behaviour, sometimes as a result of trauma). I think Julian craves affection and associates sexual interest or sexual contact with his worth as a person. I don’t think he does it deliberately or to be manipulative, but because he has a definite self-esteem problem. I honestly see him as bipolar like me.

I think the way the fandom treats him as this dumbass uwu subby boy is kind of annoying. A lot of people I feel erase his bisexuality either by just ignoring it or by making homophobic jokes where the punchline is ‘ha ha he likes dick like you do!!!!’ like no shit, he’s BISEXUAL. But he’s also hard-working, brave, clever, pleasant and good-natured, and once he starts to really come into his own, he’s cheerful and optimistic. He has so many more good qualities than just ‘submissive and kinky’.

11. Opinion on Lucio?

This may surprise y’all but I actually don’t hate Lucio that much. I love to hate him as a villain.

I think he, like all of us, is a product of his environment. He grew up in a clan with a strong martial culture; his clan were warlike and frequently made war on his neighbours. We’re all influenced by our upbringing and I don’t think he’s an exception. I draw the line at saying he ‘just didn’t know right from wrong’ though. He’s not a baby.

But the differences between Lucio and the other LIs like Portia, Asra, Muriel etc is that Lucio’s life and his fate and the hardships he’s faced are almost entirely due to his own choices. It was he who decided on the eve of his eighteenth birthday to kill his parents. He sought out Vlagnagog with the intention of making a deal. He chose to continue to make deals. He knew he carried the plague and he chose to carry it across the continent including into Vesuvia, causing the deaths of thousands. He murdered and blackmailed his way across the continent. He wouldn’t have even needed to bargain for a new body if he hadn’t caught the plague that he brought into Vesuvia himself after making a deal etc.

Do I think he is a sort of cackling, villainous cliche or unrepentantly evil? No. I think he’s a person who has made deliberate choices that he is facing the consequences for and IMO it’s important that he face those consequences. I do think his main issue is entitlement and a profound lack of self-esteem (I don’t think he really believes any of the stuff he actually says about himself or other people; even Lucio’s not delusional).

I mean that’s about as generous and objective a take on Lucio as I can give you. I’ve made my feelings clear on him, but I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t actually understand him as a character, hopefully the above will prove I do haha.

12. Opinion on Muriel?

Out of all the LIs I think I relate most strongly to Muriel because of a few reasons: trauma, touch-starved, lonely and wants to connect but afraid of getting hurt (physically or emotionally).

Now that I’ve gotten personal, I really hate the way Muriel is treated by the fandom. He’s either called bland or boring, or he’s treated like he’s an animal, called feral and animalistic. He’s none of those things.

Muriel has a big complex about being alone. He was literally given away by his parents and left in Vesuvia on his own, to fend for himself on the streets. Being abandoned by his parents and not knowing why, not remembering is traumatic enough, but because of his size he’s often characterised as aggressive and strong when he’s always been gentle. Later in his life, Muriel was forced to fight and kill people against his will. I don’t think a lot of people get just how traumatic that is; not only being forced into doing Lucio’s bidding, but being forced to violently take someone’s life. I don’t blame him for leaving to live at his hut and resist connecting to anyone. It’s common for traumatized people to withdraw and isolate themselves, because the thought of getting hurt again is more frightening than being alone. But everyone needs human contact, and I think Muriel struggles a lot between wanting connection and contact (physical or emotional), between not wanting to get hurt again, to not feeling like he’s worth the effort. That struggle is something very close to my heart and that’s why I’m attached to him.

13. Opinion on Nadia?

Nadia has the biggest youngest sister complex and it’s almost amusing because I, too, have the same complex (even though I’m actually the older sibling!). Nadia, like me, feels like she’s always been compared unfavourably to her older sisters, and has felt like she has to work harder to prove she’s their equal.

It’s probably because she’s a Cancer like me. We have dual natures sometimes; the caretaker and the ringleader, who feel like we have to take it all on ourselves to get the job properly done, but who have moments where our self-doubt takes over.

I do find some aspects of Nadia’s route to be sort of odd, where it’s mentioned that the people of Vesuvia find her to be a tyrant. There’s literally no evidence to suggest that, so the only reasoning I can find next is she’s a woc. But race doesn’t matter in Vesuvia apparently so...what else could be the reason? Not to mention she’s been asleep for the past three years, so the people haven’t even seen the Countess in that time.

I feel like we didn’t really get to understand a lot about Nadia even from her route-why did she fall asleep? What on Earth did she see in Lucio? Why did she let him do all those bad things in Vesuvia before he died? (My initial thought was Cancers can be sloth-like and passive, so that could be why).

14. Opinion on Portia?

Of all the LIs I feel like it’s Portia I know the least about despite having probably the most appearances. Sure, she’s quirky and fun and cheerful, and that’s cute, but...what does she want? What does she fear? How does she feel about her brother being on trial?

I’m hoping we get to expand more of her personality in her route. I know her patron Arcana is the Star, so her route will likely be about learning to have faith in other people, but who knows.

15. What is your favourite Arcana card?

Justice. The Empress is a close runner-up.

16. Have you bought any of the official merch?

No, I refuse to give a single cent to Nix Hydra. (I really want those Tarot cards though hhh)

17. What is your favourite CG?

The one where Asra is sitting in the gondola. Squishy cheeks :3c

18. How many Arcana themed blogs do you have?

Three! This one, then I run an Ask Muriel blog at @ask-muriel-inanna and an Ask Asra blog at @ask-asra-and-faust

19. Do you draw any Arcana art? What is your favourite image you have drawn?

The cover I just did for my Arcana comic! I cant link but it's in #arcana comic and #my art

20. Self insert or apprentice insert?

Both are valid, but I have an apprentice OC.

21. Do you have an apprentice?

Yes I do! Their name is Daya

22. If there is one thing that could be made with the Arcana theme on it, what would it be and why?

Idk what this means I big dumb

23. What is your favourite ship?

Outside of the LI x MC ships I really do like Asriel and Portia/Nadia (but only if Portia isn’t her servant anymore).

24. What is your least favourite ship?

Muriel x Lucio, Asra x Lucio or Julian x Lucio. None of them would even consider ever touching Lucio with a ten foot pole and y’all know this.

25. On your first play through, what direction was your ending for the LIs?

Upright babey!!!!!

#the arcana game #anonymous #asks

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baegarrick · 5 years

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Pros/Cons of My Time At Portia on Switch

So I’ve seen a lot of posts that say that MTAP is not worth buying on the Nintendo Switch, which I feel is a pretty harsh assessment considering how great I consider the game. So I’m gonna list a few pros and cons of MTAP of the Switch version (I have not played any other console version or the PC ver, but I have watched someone else play several versions of the PC)

NO SPOILERS.

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Pros:

•Portable- none of the other releases are 100% playable anywhere

•Controller controls (I personally don’t like playing PC games with a keyboard, I prefer a game controller to smash stuff with)

•Physical copy (also available on the PS4 I believe but if you don’t have one of those) available soon if you collect them

•Available on the Switch (your only option if you don’t have a PC, PS4, or xbox, but DO have a Switch)

•It’s a really great game— it’s a post apocalyptic mix of Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley/original Harvest Moon games with a focus on crafting and mining

•(Gameplay, for any release) Romance is more comprehensive than any other romance/farm sim I’ve played (and I’ve played a lot of Harvest Moon type games)

•A lot of customization, and a lack of repetition. (House upgrades, ability to move all items on the lot, lots of outfits and hair colors, and when it works— changing furniture colors). Tons of items (like 15 metal storage containers full of unique items) needed for crafting means you always have to go out and fight monsters or visit dungeons or go mining to get ores or animal loot or relic pieces you have to put back together.

Cons:

•it consistently crashes if you do certain things (putting the small fish tank in your inventory after placing, harvesting giant crops) which CAN be avoided because of the consistency but is annoying considering the loading times

•Loading Times— not the worst, but booting up the game can take about five minutes, and leaving the house can take about a minute

•Lacks polish— if you’ve played BOTW you might be expecting a really spotless open world game, but this game doesn’t have that same polish, occasionally things dissapear (I’ve seen some myself, others have reported monsters falling through the floor), you see through walls, you get stuck if you’re being attacked and trying to preform an action at the same time

•Certain things don’t currently work (changing the colors of items [worked the first three times I did it, but after that it hasn’t worked], putting fish into the small fish tank, giant crops)

•Sometimes NPCs (including animals) briefly go invisible (Namely Carol, my cows, and the Western? gate) or options are available when the item is no longer there (kicking trees that have been cut down)

•(Possibly gameplay?) Occasionally when you’re being hit you can’t preform any actions (such as moving or swinging your sword), but since I haven’t played other versions I don’t know if this is intentional or not.

Results: worth it, in my book.

I don’t feel like the cons make the game completely unplayable (unlike one of the Adventure Time switch games, which I’ve seen crash between loading screens and take five minutes per loading screen), and since so many people love farming sims and games like Animal Crossing, I feel like the game should appeal to a lot of people who are willing to be a little quirky with gameplay right now until the problems get patched out. Since the game saves automatically every night, at most you lose a single day if the game crashes.

There are a ton of missions, romacible characters, and crafting and mining options, a huge open world that you improve throughout the story, multiple pets to adopt, a TON of mini games (literally probably 20 off the top of my head, from swinging to darts to horseback riding and inspecting items) that keep you occupied for a couple hundred hours, as well as three save files so you can run different workshops different ways. It’s also fairly fresh, as a lot of people have said, since it focuses on crafting with farming in the periferies.

I wouldn’t pass up this game if you only have a Switch to play it on, there are a million things in the game that are worth it if you go into the game with the mindset that the game ISN’T perfect and might not ever be. Knowing that there are problems and accepting them right now makes the game a lot more playable than if you expect it to be as perfect as 1st party 3D games. Also knowing that the game was in Alpha/Beta for a couple of years and the developers worked really hard on improving it, I’ll bet that in the upcoming months they’ll be releasing patches to address all of these issues. So if it sounds like these cons would bother you too much to play it, you may want to wait a little while.

If there are any more pros (possibly specific to switch) or cons y’all know of let me know and I’ll add them.

#my time at portia #mtap #nintendo switch

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Fellowship 15

The party is here in United Ebbanflow Bay and take some downtime to gain their resources and prepare for the upcoming fight against Arturia. The Bay is, as a reminder, where the Elven Summit is going to take place, where they will speak about various things, most importantly being the Water Crystal. The party arrive and we begin with Theo, the heir, guiding Dahlia and Armistice to the mayor’s office to introduce themselves.

The party see the mayor’s assistant and secretary, Luna Noctaine more than happy to aid the fellowship, giving them passes to the premier resort hotel, in which the elven summit will take place, the Ocean’s Million. The hotel has a big waterslide that goes into the ocean and a smaller waterslide that goes into a pool. Theo explains that they are here to enlist more aid for the fellowship as well as aid with the safety of the summit, taking care not to mention explicitly that they suspect that the water crystal is Arturia’s next target. Luna correctly intuits that they want to speak with the mayor, Jaimé Etriganos who is wearing a business suit as you would expect of a mayor, only in a pattern similar to a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. His office had been playing loud music which is now blaring during the rest of this conversation.

Jaimé explains to the fellowship that Mia Sicorro, Illios Motrime’s former personal bodyguard, is in charge of the security for the summit, and that they should speak to her and promises to give her contact information in the hotel. He then says that the important groups going to the summit are Killa Motrime, current leader of the second elf society, Dian Voitua, the elven queen, various other elven leaders such as himself, some drow diplomats, a halfling buisnesswoman, and some orcs who seemed to have arrived for the summit but Jaimé is not certain. Dian sent word that she would be late, set to arrive just before the summit, and Illios should have arrived but hasn’t. Jaimé is a bit upset because he wanted to party with the other elven leaders, and gives the fellowship the schedule of all of the parties that they can actually go to (as there are some that are underwater).

Armistice sets up a meeting with Killa, taking Theo along to see her and her bodyguard Jackie Sicorro. Armistice of course introduces herself with her full name, along with her new titles, followed by introducing Theo and their titles. Killia is somewhat surprised by the great import of the members of the fellowship, is very impressed, and introduces herself as the acting leader of the Collected New Lands Above and Below. Armistice explains that she isn’t here in that level of capacity and that while equals isn’t quite the correct word, this isn’t really about their titles and such. Armistice explains that she just wants to catch up on elven culture, explaining that it had been some time since she’s really been immersed in it. Killia somewhat correctly assumes that Armistice wants to know about the results of the schism, and she prefers to not speak about the details of the schism itself, which Armistice understands. Killia explains that the Collected elves devoted themselves further to sports and boat craftsmanship than the other elf society, as well as the other shared customs involving their water buffalo and swimming and fishing.

Armistice then asks about the water crystal, to which Killia says that it is safe, part of the summit involves showing them to each other as a show of good faith, though Armistice notices that there is more to this. When she follows up on this, Killia says its the sort of secret that’s better left, secret, to the point that she hasn’t told Illios about it. Theo follows up on this, asking about Illios and his role in that elven society. Killia explains that while he isn’t the leader of the elves, he likes to contribute to elven society and is super focused on boat developments, he was planning on revealing a new one even.

Vapor’s downtime involves her inviting Armistice on a date at the beach. The orc went back up to the hotel after already going out to get her and have both of them come down to the beach. Vapor is wearing the largest wetsuit she could find, which is still too small, and thus isn’t zipped up all the way while Armistice is wearing an elaborate swimsuit with a skirt and her dragon feets out. Vapor goes around the beach to get sea life and show it to her girlfriend. Armistice and Vapor talk a bit about their feelings on dates, with Armistice glad that Vapor took the initiative because dragons take things extremely slow, with a lot of second guessing, and asking for help from other people, of which, in the fellowship, there aren’t really a lot of romantics.

Vapor says that she could have asked her, which leads Armistice to go into a spiel about dragon courtship, commenting on how relationships can last lifetimes, something Vapor says isn’t really a problem here. Vapor says they should talk and thinks that they should go to a beachside restaurant for an early dinner, so the two elect to go back to the hotel room. Armistice asks if Vapor wants a ride and then the entire party can’t deal with the double entendre that follows so it is safe to assume that whenever Armistice and Vapor aren’t on screen they’re Having Fun Alone.

Dahlia invites the fellowship for drinks at the hotel bar, a rainforest style cafe with an underwater segment for the water elves. Dahlia was made aware of the secrets and basics of the fellowship, namely the whole Arturia as the Overlord situation, and she wants to try to get good relations with her co-workers. She talks about how she’s just a normal doctor, she moves around a lot, nothing extremely exciting. Aisa has a zombie, Vapor has a pitcher of long island iced tea, Armistice has some rum drink, Theo is unsure about what to drink and is told about a “Traditional” drink for elves that involves a toe. It’s horrifying but they have it. Aisa orders it, but Theo can’t drink it just yet, wanting to keep a bit sober just in case. Vapor basically overshares, explaining everything about her vocation and life except for the accident, which is convenient, because Dahlia met Vapor in one of her previous skins. Vapor also makes sure to mention Mordred and that entire situation.

Armistice is next to speak, and she deflects by asking Dahlia about herself, to which she shares the story of how she got the nickname Portia, she had a pig mug, and it broke, so people bought her a lot of replacements, leading to her having a collection of ceramics essentially. She continues to insist that she’s not nearly as exciting as anyone else here, just a skilled doctor who does community work, though she does want to help in ways that aren’t limited to healing. Asia asks invasive questions, if Dahlia’s cut limbs off, whether it was with anaesthesia or not, and it is at this point that Dahlia pretends to be drunk and says that she has some classified missions, implying that she is some sort of secret agent in addition to being a doctor. Vapor jokes about classified operations and Dahlia winks, but says she’s never been far from Vestshalia before. Aisa asks for Dahlia’s killcount, Dahlia claims to have done zero murders, she’s a doctor after all.

Theo decides not to have the toe drink and talks about their upbringing, how they were a simple diplomat for the drow, but elected to join the fellowship as it was more important. They ask if Dahlia has second thoughts, but she doesn’t, and is committed to helping the fellowship succeed. Aisa follows up, saying that she’s here to save the world and will do anything to ensure that it is safe. Dahlia then drinks the toe drink after Armistice stops Vapor from trying to. It isn’t the worst thing that Dahlia’s drunk.

Aisa’s downtime activity is trying to do some reconnaissance, which involves looking in all of the places someone can hide, so that she is prepared for when Arturia arrives. This, by chance, catches the eye of Mia Sicorro, the head of security, who questions Aisa. When Aisa rejects her authority, refuses to answer questions, says that whatever is coming is something that Mia can not deal with, and ultimately threatens Mia, she is zapped asleep by Mia’s non-lethal sleep baton.

Dahlia answers the hotel phone to hear Mia tell her about Aisa being, essentially, held by her, in her office, to which she gives the phone to Theo, who initially assumes that the dwarves are the trouble of which she speaks. It is however, Aisa, and so Theo leaves a note for Armistice and Vapor while they and Dahlia go to the office where Mia, let’s be honest, just lives at this point. The security chief apologises, explains that given Illios’s unknown absence, she has been put on edge, and that all she wants is to be told when people are going to decide to start sneaking around the area in which the summit that is maybe the most important cultural event for all the elves is happening. Aisa wakes up and says that this won’t happen again, and as the group leaves Theo says that Mia is probably aware of what she’s doing, if the stories about Illios are to be believed. Aisa scoffs, but accepts it for now and Dahlia makes a note of Mia’s perceptive personality.

It was late at this point, so our final scene is one of Dian and Artuira speaking with each other inside of a crystaline cove, now the day of the summit. Who knows what secrets Dian hides, how Arturia plans to get the water crystal, and what the future holds for the fellowship.... We’ll find out in two weeks maybe?

#followship 2020

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The Web We Want: Jeremy Bailey and New Media Art

December 11, 2018

Professors Cara Tierney & Julia Martin

ART 3116A

Thesis and Annotated Bibliography

Portia Lavallée

Links That May Help Contextualize This Essay:

http://jeremybailey.net/

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-bailey-0327052

https://www.youtube.com/user/jeremybailey06

Jeremy Bailey has a critical approach to art production, to engage with the elitist mainstream art world he strategically uses humour as a tool to parody, satirize and subvert their conventions and traditions. One of Bailey’s main tropes is the shameless self-promotion of his art practice and himself over the internet. Calling himself “Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey,” allows him to create a humorous narrative about the effects the often impersonal nature of the internet has had on social culture. Although Bailey’s practice is, ironically, largely internet-based performance through video, he also performs and shows his work in galleries all over the world. A major part of Bailey’s performance involves coding reactionary programs that allow the computer to become part of his work.1

With his technology-centred approach toward interactivity, Bailey has adopted a method of making contemporary art that successfully questions the institutional framework of the traditional gallery and museum space. Bailey did this by: 1) creating interactive technology which not only utilized but influenced popular internet culture and social media and 2) by acting as an art-activist who challenges the ‘cannon’ of art and strives for inclusivity within the art world. Bailey’s practice, after its initial experimental stage has been strategically played, if not planned. With the help of his alter-ego based on his real, and less “famous”, self Bailey carefully executes every aspect of his performance.

Bailey’s elaborate performance and practice is based on the New Media art movement within which he has placed himself. Artists began working with technology in their homes as early as the 1940s and ‘50s; many of these experimented with military technology and their goal was to create “exciting new forms of artistic expression.”2 By the 1960s this form of experimentation became more institutional and artists began working with “computing technology” in American and European universities.3 By the 1990s the movement had grown in great significance and dialogue inevitably occurred between those within the traditional art-academic and gallery space, collectively they named the movement “new media art”.4

Bailey’s decision to identify as a New Media artist is best understood in the context of his artistic practice. Bailey started working over the internet around 2003 when he began to post video clips of interactive software he was working on, in the early stages of its creation, over YouTube. By working with the software over social media Bailey provided a level of accessibility to his work that few other formally trained artists had done in the past. Although many artists had begun to show their work on the internet, the gallery was still thought of as the primary place to experience art. In contrast, Bailey’s work was largely designed to be experienced over the media of the internet and his performative involvement essential. Showing his work to an online audience allowed him to remove the elitism of the gallery experience and question the idea that the museum and gallery space is the only legitimate space to host art; however Bailey’s way of working has not been without backlash.

Julian Stallabrass gives reasons for this backlash in his satirical essay Can Art History Digest Net Art. He talks about how art history is separate from other forms of history in “that it describes not merely an institutional category, or even a particular kind of human activity, but that it also carries with it a judgement about quality.”5 Stallabrass also explains that one of the main critiques of internet art, is that its accessibility makes it a lesser form of art than that which is found in the museum and gallery space; this is the same thing, that in my opinion, frees internet art from arbitrary institutional judgements about what constitutes art.6

These judgments are largely why Bailey, being the well educated artist that he is, strategically participates in the movement through the character of his alter-ego. Bailey’s alter-ego allows him to seriously challenge the state of the traditional art world yet do so in a palatable enough manner that he has been accepted into circles that may have otherwise shunned him. Bailey’s MFA with a specialization in Art Video from Syracuse University and a history of residencies all over the world allow him to operate from an art historical perspective. Kholief identify’s Bailey with a small group of internet artists whose use their alter-egos to create a critical narrative online, often using parody to question the ‘cannon’ of art.7 Kholeif notes the effectiveness of this strategy when he states that “mockumentary and mock-narrative practices have long been used as postmodern methods of critiquing culture, as comedic tools to subvert hegemonic discourses, and as props to interrogate artist practices”.8 I think that what makes Bailey’s work so interesting is that it does all three. With his work Bailey carefully questions the power of the internet and its potential to provide artistic freedom and enslave the masses. Bailey is also critical of the elitist power structures that divide high and low art and questions their legitimacy.

While working over the internet Bailey has in many ways fed the culture he has relentlessly critiqued. The creation of his interactive software has not been without consequences. Many writes have assumed that Bailey “works over snapchat” while in reality he contributed to the apps technological innovation albeit against his will. Snapchat lenses are in actuality the result of Bailey’s technological genius. Bailey’s reactionary programs were “developed while at the Shargorod residency in Ukraine” in 2009.9 In 2010, he released a video that he had been working on using an antiquated version of the program that now makes up a large part of his practice, while Snapchat was not even in existence until September 2011. Additionally, Snapchat “lenses” were not released until September 15, 2015.10 It is interesting to note that he in fact has not co-opted existing programs but has been in many ways been a cultural creator.

Bailey’s work The Web I Want, released in 2015, may be a stab at Snapchat’s appropriation of his software. Software which is rumoured Snapchat tried to purchase to no avail. Bailey’s clear refusal and the subsequent intellectual property theft which resulted appear to be subversively addressed in the hilarious narrative of his YouTube video. Bailey begins The Web I Want with ever-so-subtle-sarcasm “so excited to be here...to present new, new ideas to you really” he quips. “When I thought about the internet we want I thought, well what do I want? What do I need, I really need more people to pay attention to me I decided. I looked around, everyone is on their devices...the internet is very successful, I’m very happy for you internet great job! But now what about me?” Bailey asks.11 Then Bailey jokingly comments about how he decided what consumers of the internet need is a screen on their bodies, poking fun at Snapchat’s decision to appropriate his work in order to make cheap entertainment for the masses.12 The fact that his comments are subversive protects Bailey’s ‘freedom of speech’ which is realizes is to a point a fallacy.

Bailey is fond of using satire and parody as weapons which allow him to act as an art-activist and push for a more inclusive art-world. “‘In my world of media art, there's a bit of a boys club going on’” Bailey says attributing this to “‘male ego”’.13 Seeking to disrupt elitist tendencies by showing just how absurd they can be Bailey often creates art that mocks the lack of inclusion in the art world. Bailey’s Penis Paint interactive program is one way he has subversively addressed the exclusive nature of the art world.

In Bailey performative work he asks women to perform on stage while fitted with a large strap-on, soon they find that the thrusting motions of their hips translate to “brushstrokes” on a large screen in front of them.14 The work shows that it is ridiculous that the act of attaching penises to women somehow gives them the right to participate creativity.15 Yet, historically masculinity has been a large reason for the exclusivity of the art world and the lack of female representation in it. Bailey wished to challenge this with his work. Because of the humorous nature of the work it allows those who operate in the art world to consider Bailey’s point without the conflict that a serious political discussion might create. Thus in this way Bailey’s use of satire and parody are safer tools for discussion. However, does Bailey play it too safe now that he has been accepted into the space of which he is critical?

Early in Bailey’s practice his brand of art-activism was almost entirely performed over the media of the internet. However, eventually throughout the course of his career, Bailey, like many artists who historically pushed against the institutional framework of their time, quickly moved from being an outsider to an insider. This leads one to question if the many opportunities which have been presented to Bailey have changed his modus operandi, especially since his work began appearing in galleries all over the world. Yet, it is important to consider that if money, acceptance, or fame were going to influence how Bailey operated as an artist, he would have accepted ‘corporate funding’ though Snapchat rather than worry about his authenticity as an artist. Instead, though Bailey has grown in maturity as an artist, his method of working has essentially stayed the same.

For Bailey it is essential that his ideology is as much as part of his work as it first was. Although his art has evolved and the internet with it, Bailey still questions the institutional framework he operates within by challenging the perceived superiority of the gallery and museum space. In addition, he questions the elitism of the art world by looking honestly at who is included or excluded from that world and why. In Nail Art Museum Bailey uses his hands and nails as the gallery space to display plinths with art historical works.16 He asks himself and thus his audience how art has changed after the internet and subtly pushes them to consider how the internet can be a gallery space in its own right.17 However, for those that desire to hold on to this elitism the internet is far too accessible a space; perhaps, because the internet effectively renders the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art invisible and gives those who may not otherwise be a part of the elitist facade a chance to participate.

Endnotes:

1. Kristin Trethewey, “Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey Finds Facts Funnier Than Fiction,” Creators, February 17, 2012, Accessed October 13, 2018, https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/qkz7bm/famous-new-media-artist-jeremy-bailey-finds-facts-funnier-than-fiction.

2. James J. Hodge and Jacob Gaboury. "New Media Art,” Oxford Bibliographys, April 28, 2017. Accessed October 13, 2018, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0110.xml

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid. Yet the conversation space was not traditional as many of these conversations took place over Nettime.org and Rhizome.org see Ibid. for more information.

5. Julian Stallabrass,“Can Art History Digest Net Art?” In Netpioneers 1.0 — Contextualizing Early Net Based Art, edited by Dieter Daniels and Gunther Reisinger, 170. Sternberg Press. 2010.

6. Ibid.,172-175.

7. Omar Kholeif, “The New Self,” In Goodbye World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age, 122, Sternberg Press, 2018.

8. Ibid., 124.

9. “Public Sculpture,” Performed by Jeremy Bailey, YouTube, February 28, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtYNFqspew. There are also other works that predate this that show even earlier attempts at making the technology work. See YouTube.

10. Alex Heath,“I tried Snapchat's trippy new selfie filters and found some other big changes, ” Business Insider, September 15, 2015, https://www.businessinsider.com/snapchats-new-selfie-filters-2015-9. & Jesse Wojdylo, “When Did Snapchat Lenses (Face Filters) Come Out?” Wojdylo Social Media, December 25, 2016, http://wojdylosocialmedia.com/snapchat-lenses-face-filters-release/.

11. “The Web I Want,” Performed by Jeremy Bailey, YouTube, June 7, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJKUzeIvLE. See YouTube.

12. Ibid.

13. “2015 UCLA Game Art Festival: hands-on at The Hammer,” UWIRE Text, (2015): 1. GALE InfoTrac.,Accessed November 5, 2018, http://go.galegroup.com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/ps/i.do?&id=GALEA434956980&v=2.1&u=otta 77973&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. “Nail Art Museum.” Performed by Jeremey Bailey. YouTube. June 19, 2014. Accessed October 13, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/user/jeremybailey06.

17. Ibid.

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