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vargaslovinghours · 2 months

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EleVeN!11!!1! (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10½)

Fuzzy Edgar forever. I don’t remember the context now, maybe there wasn’t any to begin with haha, he’s just so cute with slightly longer hair! And upset :)

Some Diaryfic snuggles ♥ Scriabin can be so sweet to him at the worst time ah, I love Edgar’s hard on his arm and Scriabin’s pulling his hair out of his injured eye 💕

While I was very inspired by the Red Flags meme going around (we’ll get there), I was just as inspired by Mixed Messages - this exchange is so silly and them to me. He’s just trying to flirt back, you don’t have to make it harder! That’s just what Scriabin does haha

🥐 🖕 D:’

What else did you expect Scriabin to do with texting capabilities?? I’m still very enamoured with the thought of Scriabin using emojis and Edgar using emoticons - they are sort of different generations!

Here’s the Red Flags! So gd catchy, damn lol. I was specifically inspired by the X is on a date with themself edits, it was so tempting to consider a Ladyverse version as well haha. Edgar’s uncomfortable smiles were so incredibly fun hehe ♪

Y’see because with that many eyes- you get it

Edgar’s little “Or do I??” makes me laugh haha, anything to get out of this situation!

Waiter Jake ❤️💕💖💞💗 Rescue him!

Very inspired by this one specifically, he’s totally innocent! Not offputting at all! ♥

Alright well good luck with that bye. I love Edgar being menaced into continuing this date hehe ♫

Scriabin just keeping on the pressure for this date to keep going! Slight neg in “Couldn’t you have dressed up a little nicer though? ✨” pft

Brief aside with Scriabin!Edgar out drinking with my OC Mint who has very openly had a crush on the Vargases for a while now, thanks Mint

Honestly it was all just an excuse to turn him down and have Scriabin call Edgar his “landlord” haha; I was feeling nostalgic and went back to reread some old YuGiOh fics and had been so long away that I forgot that was a term used in the fandom to refer to the bodies of people the various Yamis would take over hehe ♪ It felt very fitting!

I can call him that but don’t you call him that >:(

Angy Scriabin!Edgar, the usual

Handplates re/reading doodles!! Hghgh!!! The theses of these stories of codependent relationships cut me to my very core I’ll have you know 💕 I managed to avoid falling down the rabbit hole of Handplates!Vargas but I was this close, lemme tell you. The subtle shift in phrasing changes so much ;; I love them dearly

A kind-of leftover WOY style Scriabin, since I made his hair all pointy in my first doodles - the WOY style is quite soft and round! He looks very silly hehe

Another song that is, yes, unironically in my Vargas playlist. This is a Nny song to me and you can pry it from my cold dead correct hands. That beautiful facial hair ♪

More Handplates/Vargas, this time obviously inspired by my holiday request 💕💖💞 I honestly rather like how calm Gaster seems whenever he’s in Edgar’s vicinity, he is a fairly unassuming human haha. Is it because he doesn’t laugh very often? Oh no that’s sad actually haha

I’m not done with Blank Slate Ch. 4 just yet - hopefully soon! - but this lineup stands out to me especially since I made it while rereading Handplates. Specifically after Gaster is pulled out of the Void - Gaster having to face the people he loves who have no memory of him really spoke to me in a Blank Slate way - the scenario of being able to completely start over and have never done anything to hurt your loved ones, at the expense of never having done anything to them, as far as they’re concerned, ah! It hurts so beautifully!! That’s one of the central themes I’m chasing so it was so cool to see in that context! Very inspiring ♥

So remember how in my Sims post, one Vargas family ended up with two Todds? Well what if that but actually

Twin Todd AU, just try and stop me

The saddest little twins y’ever did see ahh 💔 Having to share Shmee because there’s just the one of him! Who has a greater need :’0

I actually went and skimmed the SQUEE! comics to get a better grasp on the Casils, I’d forgotten basically everything haha. It seemed in keeping that if they could barely keep track of the one Todd, they wouldn’t bother even differentiating between two :’) Taking Todd shifts to better share the load

At least they have each other! More helpful than a stuffed bear who eats trauma? On par at least?

I also happened to catch this screenshot of the Todds gossiping about their shadow-dad, though I’m not sure who had seen him :0 By now I have found an adoption memory-loss prevention mod - thank goodness :D - but it wasn’t installed at the time! :0 Blue Todd is the Todd who’d already been the Vargases’ kid, Red Todd is newly-adopted Todd :)

Greetings in order! One of the Todds came by to scout out this strange new person

It’s a name to go by, if nothing else

Reporting back from the field, he has served his big narrative influence hehe ♥

Uh, yeah, about that- While I don’t doubt you were seeing double at times, uhm-

Surprise! Double the sons!

Only so much space in this apartment! They’re probably used to sharing a space to sleep weh, the implications of this AU are sad! I have no one to blame but myself haha

I have never been able to give up this twisted love I have for Edgar getting flustered about incredibly silly things and Scriabin chiding him with just his name haha ♥ Real twins do not delegitimize whatever the hell you two are to each other 💕

Who me? An affinity for how names shape identity and what it means to be a whole separate person? In love with this story in particular? You must be mistaken. But really, what would their name(s) be? I also love the subtle differences even just here - one Todd speaks up for the other! Dynamics ✨

1994, 2004, basically the same year innit. Scriabin is so much more on the up-and-up about the latest technology than Edgar, that old man

In which the offscreen is me lol, I was so blown away by how much more advanced the Sims 2 was from the Sims 1 ♥ Scriabin doesn’t need a box with a program in it, he has the absolute funnest toy in the world already!

And isn’t that the most important part ♪

Scriabin immediately makes himself and hooks up with every Sim he can, Edgar uncomfortable and totally not watching a~ny of the animations hehe ♪ Honestly though, the thought of Scriabin being genuinely excited to virtually get it on with any-and-every delights me haha

Look. Look, okay, look- If I could choose what to be inspired by, I would but sometimes

Obviously Scriabin would be a long Furby lol, this exchange can be summarized to “Scriabin no D:” “Scriabin yes >:D”

He’s complaining that Edgar ignoring him sleeping is boring haha

I did briefly lose my mind over how the Furbish word for “I/me/my/mine” is all the same - linguistically it makes sense, self-possessive, but in this, in their context ♥

Based on that one Wojak format - looks into the camera like “Yes. I am in your head. Insanity tracks” pfft

And it’s @jaspravex with the steel chair!! I hadn’t drawn any of them in like a month and then all of a sudden- I was 1000% not expecting to be hit with such a huge wave of inspiration but gosh and dang did this line of thought light me up. The implication! The jealousy! Wow that’s a lot all at once I wasn’t expecting ♥ Somehow these two never ended up on my shipping chart, dynamics I swear haha ✨

There’s September through February for the fourth go ‘round! Wild when I put it like that :0 Like clockwork, these lads ♪

#💟#Doodles #Art #Sketchdump #Edgar #Scriabin #Jake #Todd #Shmee #Nny #There's a few errant things in here as well - The Sims 2 - Handplates #......Furbies #Look it's fine don't worry about it lol #Oh this one was so nice to edit <3 I've made it once <3 <3 When was the last time I could say that about one of these ♥#And you know what that means right? Other than the fact that I've gotten a bit better at making these without breaking them lol #It means my art production is finally actually properly for realsies slowing down! Not as many to compile over a three month period!#That last one really did surprise me that inspiration hit me upside the head after quite literally a month of nothing #Even my scratch pages hadn't taken precedent for a bit! And yeah this technically still isn't all of what I've made in the meanwhile lol #Once I finish Ch. 4 of Blank Slate there might be another :) Or I might let it go for another chapter or so ♪#Either way! Only took - when did I first go on hiatus lol #July of '22 so a year and a half-ish lol #To finally start to taper off - this is tapering off this is my airtight example of tapering off lol #Handplates and the Sims 2 were my big driving forces this time around hehe <3 Who knows what will catch my attention towards them next!#Lots of Todd AUs around here when I look huh :0 He is best boy he deserves the attention ♪#As always I'll be back in April as well for my personal Vargasversary and to be a sap hehe ♥#Never empty of thoughts or love! Just progressively quieter - for now ♪

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syrups-edit-corner · 3 years

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Welcome to my edit blog!

Welcome! I’m mod Kokichi! And I’m the only mod on this blog! So I’ll be handling all the requests for now, let’s hope I don’t get overwhelmed like last time

You Might know me from my previous edit blog, Proship-Kokichi-Edits, well that blogs in the void now, sooo thanks tumblr. But my new profic blog can be found over at @catboy-syrup, and any writing requests can be sent to @syrups-fanfic-cafe, I’m Also Mod Stare over at @spookyscaryships. My icons for questions are made by @/proshipping-edits and Myself

But anyways, please read under the cut before requesting!

About Mod Kokichi

Just call me Kokichi or Ko

I am adult, freshly turned one Nov. 9th

Any pronouns (except she/her), ??? Gender is a fuck rn so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Profiction, anti’s harassment. I don’t care if your proship or anything like that, if you harass someone, you are an asshole and I will block you on sight.

Severely neurodivergent, system of 100+.

I Like to do edits and stuff for fun, this is simply a hobby that I do in my spare time when I want to.

Kokichi is my main comfort character, which is why I went with him as my muse

I will do things not on the whitelist, but whitelist is basically priority/special interests. Meaning you are 100% allowed to request things that are not on the whitelist!

Please don’t put uwu in your asks unless it’s a pun of a characters name, it makes me uncomfy

And please, if you are gonna request multiple ships at once, put them in separate ask. I’m fine with you requesting multiple things in one ask if it’s for one ship, but if you wanna request separate ships, put them in different asks. It helps me keep track of what requests I have and haven’t done.

Any NSFW requests will be tagged with “Minors dni” cause I don’t want people whining at me in my inbox

Claimed Anons

Crossover Ships Anon

Fandom Anon

Fox Anon

Honeybee Anon

Phone Anon

Run Away Anon

Terastal Phenom Anon

🍓 Anon

🦊 Anon

💙 Anon

💀🎀 Anon

🍭 Anon

What I do

Mood boards/aesthetics

Wallpapers/lockscreens (please give specific dimensions)

Pfp’s/icons (dimensions optional) (sets of 3)

Reaction icons (dimensions optional) (sets of 6)

Matching icons (Dimensions optional) (9 icons, 3 for each character, and then 3 including both characters)

Playlists (usually 12 songs, will make a YouTube playlist unless specified otherwise)

Kin assignments and romance matchups (please specify fandom) (each assignment/matchup comes with one icon edit)

Sprite edits

DNI Banners

Will also do pride themed requests (including mogai/xenogenders!)

Pride flag color picks (Basically you request a flag and a character and i’ll edit the flag to have colors picked from that character)

Putting this hear sense people won’t stop asking the same question: I WILL LITERALLY DO ANY REQUEST SO LONG AS IT DOESN’T VIOLATE THE BLACKLIST, YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK ME “do you do requests for [blank]” I WILL LITERALLY JUST SAY THE SAME EXCATE THING EVERY SINGLE TIME. If I don’t want to do a request, I will let you know then, but for now, if it’s not on the blacklist, just assume I’ll do it. Only exception is if you’re not sure something fits the blacklist or not.

What I Won’t do

Stimboards (idk how tbh, though I want to try them out sometimes)

Drawings/doodles (stressed me out a bit last time)

Headcanons/imagines (go see my other blog for those)

Whitelist (includes fandoms, characters, etc) (aka what requests I’ll prioritize/get excited for)

Obey Me! Shall we date?

Cookie run

Danganronpa (all games + udg)

Sonic Series

New grounds/old flash games (Mainly Pico’s school)

Madness Combat

Fnaf + Fangames

Friday night Funkin (+Mod characters)

Sr Pelo’s spooky month

Creepypasta

Any sort of object show (especially bfdi/bfb, II, or object terror)

Huniepop

Boyfriend to Death

Welcome Home

Kokichi Ouma from DRV3

Nagito Komeada from sDR2

Woody from BFDI/BFB

Four from BFB

Cherries from II

Yin-Yang from II

Trowel from Object Terror

Au’s (soulmate, apocalypse, and experiment aus are my faves)

Yanderecore

Emocore

Lolita

Gore/gorey themes

Any dark or problematic themes

Age gap ships

Crossover ships in general

Any ships found on this list!

Blacklist (most of these are solely cause they’re triggers)

707, V, Rika, or Rika’s cult from Mystic messanger

Any of Yoosungs bad endings

Parasites

Paranoia themes

Guys named Alex

Spiders

Brain injuries or anything related

Heavy religious themes

Any themes that could be considered generally unsanitary

Radiodust (Alastor x Angel Dust)

Whitrol/Wharol (Carol x Whitty)

Romantic Selfships involving Garcello (Fnf Smoke ‘Em Out Struggle mod), Tabi (Fnf vs Ex Mod), Agoti (fnf Vs Agoti mod), or Tankman/Captain (Fnf/Tankmen series) (they’re too much of comfort characters for me, platonic/familial selfships and romantic canon x canon is still ok though)

Romantic Sarv x Ruv, Mint Choco Cookie x Cocoa Cookie, or Whipped Cream Cookie x Dark Choco Cookie (platonic ships of these pairings is 100% a-ok!)

Any romantic ships involving Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5), or Raspberry Mousse Cookie (Cookie run). (Platonic is ok!)

AloeCy/Aloe Cookie x Cyborg Cookie (Cookie run)

RPF or any content of irl people (just a personal discomfort)

Live action characters played by minors (specifically live action tv shows and movies) (Minors played by adults are ok, animated minors voiced by minors are on thin ice but I'll allow it)

Anything made by J.K. Rowling

Do not Interact

Anti’s/fanpol/you harass people in general

Support/participate in cringe culture

Anti-furry

P-doph-le/MAP/NOMAP or support any of them for any reason

Support harassment or cancel culture

Support irl inc-st/abuse for any reason.

you are an ‘irl yandere’ who participates in harmful/toxic behavior. I believe being an irl yandere is fine, but never do anything thats actually harmful to yourself or other people.

That’s about it! Welcome to my blog, and feel free to request anything that’s not on the blacklist! Also very sorry if I deny your request, I sometimes forget to put certain things on the blacklist, so that’s my fault mostly kdhdjjfjdjfk

#pro ship #proshipping #anti anti #pro ship safe #pro ship blog #mod Kokichi #request blog #edit blog #tw yandere mention #tw yandere

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entergamingxp · 4 years

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multiplayer Halo’s playground genius • Eurogamer.net

Up Close is a new, occasional and informal series here on Eurogamer, looking at the smaller points in games in greater amounts of depth. Covering anything from a single mechanic to a reoccurring theme, in praise or criticism, the aim is simply to look a little closer at the things that deserve our attention. Here’s the previous entry: The supreme realism of Lonely Mountains: Downhill and A Short Hike.

Multiplayer Halo, at its best, reminds me of being a kid in a playground. I think a lot of games would hope for that – playgrounds are often seen as big open spaces, sandboxes, where you can hop off the rails of the story for a bit and doodle about the wider world. But I’m thinking a bit more literally here. Multiplayer Halo is like being in an actual playground, because the best Halo maps follow the same rules on which the best playgrounds are built.

I was reminded of this by Dawn of War 3, of all things, which is a game that strips away the innate flexibility of traditional RTS maps in place of three lanes with specific objectives. In doing so – despite, I maintain, still being quite fun in its own right – it killed the thing that made that genre great. Real-time strategy is about breadth as much as depth, space for invention and flexibility. Wide maps and huge suites of tools for you to use in hyper-specific ways. It’s a massive shame, but it’s not a problem unique to the RTS, as much as some might think. Which brings me back to Halo. Just as I was thinking about the shift from more open RTS maps to the more conceptually closed, I caught this incredible bit of (now months-old) footage from someone playing a the Master Chief Collection:

The Best Halo Reach Clip I’ve ever gotten. pic.twitter.com/QxnQm2rwHM

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Magic. That’s on Halo Reach’s Pinnacle, which is a banger in its own right and also serves as a decent illustration of what I’m on about. Pinnacle is a castle. Out of a pile of indistinguishable forge-world panels rises a tower, with views across the walls and keeps of the map and a choke point of a ramp leading up to its peak. It’s king of the hill, but baked into the landscape, instead of the explicit rules. The onrushing hoards are picked off, near and far and scurrying about in the tunnels below, up the stairs to the final chamber, the last man standing fending them off with whatever he has to hand. It’s a basic map, uninspiring to look at, all metal blue-grey and generic rocky green, and, on the surface, kind of unexciting to even think about. But it’s a classic, because out of its simple shapes your mind builds a kingdom.

It’s also not even the best example in Halo, which is, of course, the incomparable Blood Gulch (and its reincarnations, Coagulation and Hemorrhage). Two bases, one mostly symmetrical canyon to contain them, and some toys to play with that help break it up. Crucially, though, the map isn’t perfectly symmetrical. You get the same toys to play with – the same weapons, vehicles, teleporters and the like – which keeps things even and fair, but the map is not identical from whichever way you face it. It’s fair, but it’s not balanced – on purpose. It’s got little things to play with, little bumps and shortcuts and half-features. Tunnels down either side, undulating, sight-breaking hills in the middle, but just twisted a little, gently wrung, to the point they’re not perfectly in line.

Hang ‘Em High. A stunner because its shape practically begs you try doing what capture the flag is all about: being a hero. Slink around the side tunnels or go full berzerker into the crossfire across that raised, central bridge to yoink a point for the team and see what I mean. A film analogy: the map gives you a story structure – an action movie plot – and you and your imagination get to act it out.

No playground that I remember was ever perfectly symmetrical and flat. There’s always something, somewhere, that you’d use to spring you off into imagination. My school’s one was mostly even but had a little extra bit in one corner, for instance: a little square poking out like a flag from a pole, about the size of a small classroom. That section had two benches in it, cemented into the ground, with a just-about-person-sized gap in between. And so that section, as opposed to the goal painted on the wall, or the hopscotch bit on the ground, or even the flashy “adventure playground” that got built later on, was our favourite. The benches and their little gap in between became a breached wall. They became the bottleneck to defend against some onrushing hoards. Or the mountaintops for king of the hill. Or the safe ground, with the gravel around them lava. The area itself was 90 percent flat, but it was just the little sprinkling of structure, barely a hint of it, that gave us something to use and make our own. It’s simplicity, the broadness of its geometry, burning every inch of its gravel and mortar into long-term memory.

Someone actually thought about doing this on purpose. Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese designer who originally specialised in nice tables and sculptures, turned his hand to sculpting playgrounds in later life, with the goal of inspiring children to be more “imaginative” adults. That was probably a bit ambitious but the result was a series of remarkable sculptures that, weirdly enough, remind me again of Halo. They’re cyclical, and recursive, as if following the natural flow of them would lead you back to where you started. As if you actually want to follow their flow, crashing around and over it like water. But they’re still fundamentally, crucially, uncomplex. And again: there’s no structured, intentional “play area”, or a specific goal for what people should be doing with a particular space. These places are writable. Just a series of nudges and inspirations – literal jumping-off points, for body and mind.

Noguchi’s ‘Play Mountain’, which became the foundation for his philosophy of ‘non-directive play’ – the idea that kids don’t need specific rules or instructions to have fun. I try to look at this as a 10-year-old and see King of the Hill, a racetrack, a frontline hoard mode trench, a sniper tower, the ripples of an earthquake, a castle’s steps. Image credit: The Isamu Noguchi Foundation (noguchi.org).

I’m pretty sure those two benches in my playground weren’t put there out of reverence for Noguchi, but I still like to think of Blood Gulch’s two opposing bases as being similar to them in kind. And the little touches of texture in that map, those side tunnels and those sight-breaking hills, just more delicate brushes with purposeful imbalance. Every bit of a good Halo map, right down to the placement of a sniper rifle or where exactly you’re dropped by the teleporter, feels like just the faintest nudge. Follow the tunnels down the side of Blood Gulch, or weave through the strange, abstract obelisks of Hang ‘Em High, and hopefully you’ll see what I mean. Blank canvases, yes, but with just a line or two, here or there, for you to spin off from and make your own. There are plenty of other games that do this – classic shooters especially, like Quake and Unreal Tournament – and many genres too, like the best examples of the RTS. In fact, the simplicity necessitated of older generations almost implies this kind of design right off the bat. But classic Halo’s multiplayer seems to stand above. It feels singularly pure, even in its modern forge worlds like Pinnacle, and above all it feels like being back at school, with its Play Mountains and its palaces of imagination, because it respects you enough to strip it all back and let you find your own fun.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/06/multiplayer-halos-playground-genius-%e2%80%a2-eurogamer-net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=multiplayer-halos-playground-genius-%25e2%2580%25a2-eurogamer-net

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