Today’s gameplay progress:
I handed in last week’s copy of Wondrous Tails, and while I wasn’t able to make any lines of seals, it did at least give me enough experience to get to level 88 as a dancer, which is quite exciting! I’m trying to push it to 90 early so I can finally equip my nice rinascita glamour in the game itself, instead of just through Glamourer.
On the note of handing things in, I also donated what I could to the Doman Enclave for this week, so that’s all done once again. I actually don’t know how much I have left to do for that - today’s donations finished the watchtower and started the garden, but I don’t know whether the garden is the last part or not.
I made a bit of a start on this week’s Wondrous Tails while I was waiting for the washing to be done, but I really need to do more raid roulettes, since a) they’re my best sources of second chance points and b) two of the things I can complete for seals are the World of Darkness and the Tower at Paradigm’s Breach. I think there were four things on there that I was able to do unsynced by myself, but that was it.
After that, and after my internet came back, I descended back into glamour hell in order to try and come up with some expansion-specific outfits for Clio. They’re mostly just first passes, and the angle of the screenshots is weird because I had turned the camera sideways in /gpose and was then trying to work from that view, but.. this is what those outfits look like!
I’m toying with the idea of Clio picking up new classes for each expansion, and so far, the potential path for that would be that she’s a marauder at the start, then a gunbreaker for most of A Realm Reborn, machinist for Heavensward, samurai (or paladin?) for Stormblood, dark knight for Shadowbringers, and then back to focusing on gunbreaker for Endwalker. ..All of this is very able to change, though. I also cannot guarantee that I will actually play through the game as whatever classes Clio canonically is whenever I’m playing as her, but the concept is still there story-wise.
That’s everything, I think!
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New from ROOM SERVICE clip from semi channel is a solo song by 趙廣絜 KJ from the band Blueburn. Acoustic folk w/ English lyrics on screen. =D
KJ Links: 趙廣絜 KJ YouTube, 趙廣絜 KJ StreetVoice
Let’s hear something from Blueburn, it’s a song from their 2021 self-titled single (lyrics and full credits at YT):
魯莉庭 Li-Ting Lu ‘阿魯’ (mihumisang IG)-Bass, Clio Chien-Han Lai-Drums, 蘇群淵 Chun-Yuan Su-Gtr, 張志丞 Chih-Cheng Chang-Gtr, 趙廣絜 KJ-Voc/Gtr/Keys
By the way, Don’t Smoke is also on that same single.
Blueburn Links: Spotify, StreetVoice, YouTube, Instagram, Bandcamp
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Greek Gods 101: A Masterlist
This is a masterlist of the “Greek Gods 101” series. This series aims to provide basic information and worship ideas for both major and minor deities. This masterlist also involves heroes, deified mortals, spirits, and other figures of Greek mythology.
Aceso
Acheron
Acratos
Aedos
Aegle
Aeolus
Aether
Aglaea
Akhlys
Ampelus
Amphitrite
Ananke
Anemoi
Angelia
Anteros
Antheia
Aphrodite
Apollon
Aporia
Ares
Arete
Ariadne
Aristaeus
Artemis
Asklepios
Asteria
Astraeus
Astrape
Athena
Atlas
Bia
Britomartis
Calliope
Carpi
Cassandra
Ceraon
Cerberus
Ceto
Chaos
Charon
Chione
Chiron
Chloris
Chrysos
Circe
Clio
Clymene
Comus
Cratus
Cronos
Daphne
Deimus
Deipneus
Demeter
Dicaeosyne
Dike
Dionysus
Dysnomia
Ececheria
Eileithyia
Eirene
Ekho
Electryone
Eleos
Elpis
Endymion
Enyo
Eos
Epiales
Epione
Epiphron
Erato
Erebus
Eris
Eros
Ersa
Eucleia
Eudaemonia
Eunomia
Eupheme
Euphrosyne
Euporia
Eupraxia
Eurybia
Eurydice
Eusebia
Euterpe
Euthenia
Eutychia
Fates
Furies
Gaea
Ganymedes
Gelus
Hades
Harmonia
Harpocrates
Hebe
Hecate
Hedone
Hedylogus
Helius
Hemera
Hephaestus
Hera
Heracles
Hermaphroditus
Hermes
Hestia
Hesychia
Himeros
Homonoia
Horae (Seasons)
Horae (Time)
Hormes
Hybris
Hydros
Hygeia
Hymenaeus
Hypnus
Iaso
Iris
Lelantus
Lethe
Leto
Macaria
Matton
Medusa
Melinoe
Melpomene
Methe
Mnemosyne
Morpheus
Nemesis
Nike
Nyx
Oizys
Orpheus
Orthannes
Ossa
Ourania
Ouranos
Ourea
Paeon
Paidia
Palaemon
Pallas
Pan
Panacea
Pandaisia
Pandora
Pannychis
Panopia
Paregoros
Pasithea
Pegasus
Peitho
Penia
Penthus
Persephone
Perses
Perseus
Phales
Phanes
Phaunus
Pheme
Philophrosyne
Philotes
Phobus
Phoebe
Phorcys
Phthonus
Phusis
Pistis
Plutus
Poena
Polemus
Polymnia
Pompe
Pontus
Ponus
Porus
Poseidon
Pothus
Priapus
Prometheus
Pronoea
Prophesis
Psamathe
Pseudologoi
Psyche
Ptocheia
Rhea
Selene
Silenos
Sophrosyne
Soter
Soteria
Styx
Tartarus
Telesphorus
Terpsichore
Tethys
Thalassa
Thalia
Thalia
Thallo
Thanatus
Thaumas
Thea
Themis
Theseus
Thesis
Thrasus
Thyone
Tithonus
Triptolemus
Triton
Tritopatores
Tyche
Tychon
Urania
Uranus
Zelus
Zeus
What is a “Universal Offering/Devotional Act?”
Feel free to request or suggest deities! This list will be done in order but you can ask for me to complete one that’s further down the list.
This list is subject to change. There are probably repeat deities (deities who go by multiple names, parts of groups like the Horae or Charities who are mostly grouped together, etc.) on this list. Some deities are not on here. Some names are spelt wrong or different.
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Which cars are most bisexual?
Ever get the chilling feeling that you made a grave mistake long ago and you are about to reap what you sowed?
In short, I hit some of my friends up to ask for help.
In random alphabetical order:
@jettacar suggested the fourth gen Nissan Quest:
"It's like, no one really bought these. They aren't particularly common. But also, there's no one type of person that buys a car like this. Rationality would have you believe only families are buying this, because it's a giant minivan - but i can't immediately think of another car with a wider variety of types of people that own them right now (excluding cars that just sell incredibly well)"
Unfortunately, that made the conversation derail into minivan talk.
Up next, @rabidragon suggested the Fiat Multipla, due to its peculiar seating arrangement of two rows of three seats:
"3 seats in the front for you and your man and your woman".
Indeed, the peculiar thing about the Multipla is its row of three full-sized seats in front (many old cars had a front bench with some having three lap belts, but the Three Individual Front Seats club is as exclusive as it is devoid of prestige) and the many peculiarities that it caused, like off-center pretty much everything (mirror included) because the driver is further to the side than usual and where most of the centered things go there's now a passenger who would like to be.
But the even more peculiar thing about the Multipla is how spectacularly ugly it is. It's one of the few cars I've ever actually seen that manages to be full-on ugly not just outside but inside. Click on any list of ugliest cars in the world and if it doesn't contain the Multipla I can promise you that list was created by a machine that has since been physically shot.
And if you're thinking "Well, it's not bad enough to warrant that hyperbole" - you are looking at the second generation. This is the pretty one. I put the first one and its interior at the end of the post under a read more because I genuinely did not want to be responsible for you seeing it.
I noted that Honda's FR-V managed the same seating layout with downright smart looks inside and out...
...and unfortunately that made the conversation derail into engine swap regulation loopholes.
Finally, @chevyventure suggested multiple. In (roughly) his words:
First generation Mazda 3
"It's a hatchback, good for many different uses - and Mazda is a little silly, charming and off the beaten path (if you were getting a Japanese hatchback you'd probably get a Toyota or a Honda) with a cute lil' smile like a Miata"
1988 Volvo 240 Wagon
"Volvos are frequent hand me downs from family like all the cool childhood trauma the LGBTQs get"
[Editor's Note: bro.]
Renault Clio
"It's peak hotness while also being cute in its own way, not necessarily preferring a masculine or feminine audience. I've never seen an ad for a Clio before, but if my assumptions about the car market are correct my guess is the normal one is kinda marketed towards women"
[Editor's note: So, I wanted to check that, so I just looked up "Renault Clio ad". These were the first two ads I found.
So yeah. I feel it qualifies.]
Unfortunately, talking about the Clio made the conversation derail into TWR's involvement in- oh wait, you're not gonna know about that Clio variant, are you.
So, many racing series can only be entered with racecars based on some production car - which is great for manufacturers, because they get to advertise their brand and one of their models simultaneously! But since there are rules on how much of the base car can be changed and how much of it must be retained, the stricter they are the more what you want as a base for your racecar is something high performance. So when you want to go racing with a dinky little thing like, say, first car to ever use plastic bumpers and only car to ever be called Renault Le Car in America Renault 5...
...what you are going to want to do is what, among many others, Toyota did with the Yaris GR and Lancia did with the Delta: the homologation special. Basically, you make a special version of the car with the characteristics you'd want in racing, sell enough to clear the rules's bar for "production car" (or at least, convince the officials you've done that), and go racing with that.
So Renault did that to the 5 and hit up one Marcello Gandini to redesign it around the changes. You know, Marcello Gandini, guy most famous for designing mid-engined Ferrari-slayers:
Which makes sense, because the Renault 5 Turbo was a mid-engined Ferrari slayer. It was faster than the top-of-the-line Ferrari both in acceleration and in cornering speed. This thing.
(sidenote: The Interior. end of sidenote)
Well, twenty years on, some legend at Renault thought "You know what? We were onto something with that. Let's do that again but HARDER."
Presumably, into the headquarters of Tom Walkinshaw Racing, a racing team that developed for Aston Martin, F1 teams, and made Jaguar's Fastest Production Car Ever record holder, and of course a fuckton of the most exciting racecars around, showed up uninvited that Renault madman saying "Y'all wanna work on something REAL prestigious?" before chucking them the keys to a second generation Clio and walking off with a "Don't thank me".
The result was the Clio V6, most notable for HAVING A FUCKING V6 WHERE THE BACKSEATS WERE.
This car is genuinely incredible. Like, you see it and you go "Ooh ahh, the Clio V6!" and you look inside to see, you know, the huge V6 compartment thing and you see the interior and you realize this thing cost good sportscar money and when you got in it was a fucking Clio.
Mental stuff- wait shit this post was about bisexual cars wasn't it? How did the conversation derail like this? I swear this never happens.
Well, I guess it's time for my pick.
Personally, chatting with Mr. Venture about hatchbacks, I realized that I cannot think of a more "girls car" than a Fiat 500 Cabriolet (which actually is called 500C) and cannot think of a more "boys car" than a Fiat 500 Abarth (which actually is called Abarth 500)...
...so how about the Fiat 500 Cabriolet Abarth?
It actually isn't called that but I think you could piece that together.
As though a spoiler on a canvas roof wasn't weird enough, it contains the third brake light, probably making this the only car out there in which it can change position during use. Although I assure you, you're not gonna be thinking about that when driving it. Thing's a RIOT.
But honestly, that wasn't what I started off wanting to answer.
So, last but most definitely not least, I candidate my first, gut-reaction answer: the NA Mazda Miata.
See, to me bisexuality (and pansexuality, but awareness of the nuances between them is so low they may as well be picked over flag preference) is someone appreciating all the beauty in the world, seeing no point in gatekeeping themselves out of half of it. And is that not what a spider is about? Is it not about saying "this world we're in is so full of beauty, who would rather blind themselves to half of it?".
And look at the damn thing. It's bursting with exactly the kind of joie de vivre one would associate with such sentiment. It oozes enthusiastic curiosity. OwO what's this?: The Car.
Also, just look at this picture.
It can drift. IT CAN WINK. IT CAN WINK MID-DRIFT.
I mean, what more than this degree of flirtatious playfulness can you possibly need to be convinced?
Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!
...
...are they gone? I think they're gone.
The Multipla pictures are down here. Go on then if you're gonna, you sick fuck.
If you have dealt with traumatic tumor-related experiences and seeing that dashboard caused you genuine discomfort, well, do not say I didn't warn you.
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The next poll tournament I will be running is the Characters With Fans Tournament.
...Um, fans as in hand fans, I should probably clarify.
I have submitted two characters myself (they'll be at the top of the submissions list)
Submit a character with a fan, along with where they come from and (if you want) propaganda. You can do this through ask or submit a post.
Currently submissions will be closing once the already running poll tournament ends (the 7th of May I think it would be). This could be changed and there will be an update if it does, but for now that's how it is.
@tournament-announcer
Submissions in bold have propaganda, submissions not in bold do not have propaganda. Whether they do or do not have some already, you are still free to submit some.
SUBMISSIONS:
Princess Hildegard: Sofia the First
Nie Huaisang: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu: Scum Villain's Self Saving System
Shi Qingxuan: Tian Guan Ci Fu
Xue Zhengyong: The Husky and his White Cat Shizun
Wen Kexing: Word of Honour
Haruaki Kurama: Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds
Kalluto Zoldyck: Hunter X Hunter
Kyoshi: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Douma: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Shiver Hohojiro: Splatoon
Sharon Rainsworth: Pandora Hearts
Sheryl Rainsworth: Pandora Hearts
Rufus Barma: Pandora Hearts
Suki: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Kagura: Inuyasha
Eva Ushiromiya: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Mulan: Mulan
Temari Nara: Naruto
Tenten: Naruto
Yukimi noh Daiomoru: Protector of the Small Quartet
Tingyun: Honkai Star Rail
Mayura: Miraculous Ladybug
Yukimaro: 9 R.I.P.
Mei Mei: Kung Fu Panda
Yumi Ishiyama: Code Lyoko
Kamisato Ayaka: Genshin Impact
Lady Windermere: Lady Windermere’s Fan
Yuzu Hiiragi: Yugioh
Shen Lanzhou: Qiang Jin Jiu
Lady Bow: Paper Mario
Swire the Elegant Wit: Arknights
Qing Ming: Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Maria Posada: The Book of Life
Princess Amber: Sofia the First
Princess Clio: Sofia the First
Ageha: Reine Des Fleurs
Madame Enge: Reine Des Fleurs
Yi Bang-won: My Country: The New Age
Yukiko Amagi: Persona
Sasara Nurude: Hypnosis Mic
Argos: Miraculous Ladybug
Robot With Fans For Hands: Futurama
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