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tardis--dreams · 2 years
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Me: *keeps roughly 800 tabs in 18 windows, 15 different programs to work with, and roughly 900 other applications open at all times*
My laptop: *dies*
Me: how dare you
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steevejr · 1 year
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this depressing shit fuck book makes me miss Margo. she had a depressing shit fuck story but at least she was fucking funny about it and was smart enough to be like “aight imma head out” when she hit rock bottom. wish these characters would just fucking kill themselves if their lives suck so bad.
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twstbrainrot · 2 years
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And they were roommates... (Part two)
If you chose Heartslabyul...
"Why? Why would you choose the dorm with Ace and Deuce in it?" questions Trey, as he hands you a platter of treats meant to welcome you into Heartslabyul. You don't have time to defend yourself before Ace reaches over your shoulder to swipe a pastry off the platter. "Because they're our best friend and they love us," he remarks confidently, mouthful of cherry tart. Deuce lumbers up behind him, breaths labored from the strain of carrying all your boxes up the stairs. You shove a spoonful of egg custard into his mouth on his way past you into the dorm. "I have poor decision making skills and Deuce is free labor whenever I ask."
Was the free labor worth it though? Is it worth coming back to your dorm with armfuls of your belongings to see Ace, shoes on, laying on your mattress with no sheets? Your boxes rifled through, contents spilt on the floor and clearly judged? Ace props himself up on elbow, your diary in hand, and raises a brow. "Who's the annoying heart-faced ginger guy you keep talking about?"
But don't worry, if you didn't get enough of those two on move-in day, there will be plenty of other opportunities! You had a long day and want some piece of quiet in your dorm? Man, so does Ace! You can't wait to get home and eat those snacks you've been saving? Don't worry, Ace and Deuce have already sampled the bag for you to check for poison! You’re trying to have some quiet study time at your desk? Ace and Deuce will slide encouraging little notes under your door <3 (“come hang out with us or we are going to throw rocks through your window you dumb whore -Ace”)
Pretty much your only saving graces in this household are Riddle, Trey, and Cater. And even then, what the fuck. Before moving in Riddle has emailed you a PDF file and printed you off a physical copy of the 700 page House Rules document. He does give you a sweet ass little gift bag though. Cater frequently knocks on your door at 3am asking for help filming Tiktok challenges. On the bright side, he is actually good at them. And Trey…? Yeah trey’s pretty chill actually. He’s 100% willing to come wrangle Adeuce for you if they get to be too much. Plus, the scent of his baked goods he’s making in the house kitchen always waft into your room like the most delightful little wax warmer. This is also key for Adeuce distractions, it’s multi purpose.
If you chose Savannaclaw…
Awww… did you think you were going to escape constant break and enterings by dormmates by moving here? I regret to inform you it’s so much worse in Savannaclaw. It’s like you live in the bad part of town. And everyone sheds like hell. Literal fur tumbleweeds all across campus.
Imagine this; you return home after a long day of doing homework, babysitting Adeuce, and being harassed by every other person who’s obsessed with you at Night Raven College (read: everyone). You unlock the door and turn on your lights, ready to crawl into bed. There’s a lion shaped mass curled up under your blankets. He is actively shedding onto your silk pillowcase. Fuck. No no no,” you cry as you crumple to your knees. Your fate is already sealed. It would be impossible to move him, as he is 200 pounds of muscle and crankiness. Should you even attempt to remove Leona from the premises, you would be maimed. You resign yourself to sleeping on the hard concrete floors for the evening. It is safer this way, you think. Leona finally rises from his slumber early in the morning, stretches, and steps out of your bed. Directly onto your hand. It is unclear whether he didn’t notice or didn’t care, but you know in your heart it is both. As you shed little baby tears, he calmly meanders from the room as if it were natural for him to be there. Your alarm clock goes off. You had 3 more minutes to sleep. You cry a little harder.
You still hold on to hope that moving to Savannaclaw was the right decision, however. Surely a few run-ins with Leona in your bed is better than constant harassment from Adeuce, right? Wrong.
Upon arrival to class, you spy Ruggie wearing Hello Kitty barrettes that look suspiciously like your own. You reach up to touch your own hair and gasp. That little snake. You confront him, but to no avail. “I’ve always owned these,” he shrugs nonchalantly. You resign yourself to locking your doors more consistently, as it is futile to argue with Ruggie. Over the next few days you find Ruggie wearing more items of clothing that resemble your own missing ones. A too small anime t-shirt, your pink sunglasses, your rings, your friendship bracelets. It has gone too far when he shows up wearing your flip flops with his toes hanging off the edges. Upon confronting him this time, he smiles a shit-eating grin. “If you like my new clothes so much, maybe I’d let you buy them off me in exchange for covering a few of my Mostro Lounge shifts…” Cue frustrated screams.
Jack is the best out of the three, as he assigns himself to be your personal body guard. Savannaclaw is a dangerous place for herbivores, after all. He comes to pick you up for class, navigates you through the halls, and generally makes sure no one picks on you. Someone is bound to make the mistake though. “Hey runt, you’re in my hallway,” a carnivore snarls at you one day. Jack steps out from behind you with a menacing glare, completely dwarfing you in his shadow. “This hallway is University property,” he snarls. *punts him*
Jack does however love to visit your dorm for study sessions and leaves behind a copious amount of fur. So pick your battles I guess.
(AN: There will be posts for the other houses, dw)
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nomaxart · 2 months
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Happy Birthday, Conway!
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Happy 1st Birthday to Conway!
Yep! It is the 1 year anniversary of the release of version 0.01 (or whatever the versions were called back then) Let's have a talk, shall we? February 8th is when I uploaded and released it on itch. Why February 8th you may ask? Well, I had only planned January as an experimental month for myself, with the oil painting and the VN test. So I'd release it on february 1st... And then it, naturally, took longer. But I guess it works out so that we don't have the anniversary right on update release days.
The past 
And yeah, what a year it's been! Thank you to all of you first of all for making this possible. Quite simply it wouldn't be possible without the support of all you generous peeps here. As it turns out, developing a game is a fuckton of work, and if I would need to pay the bills through commission work or what have you there would be no way I'd find the time and energy to work on Conway on the side. And I've mentioned it before in a few places, but for a while around May, June-ish it did look really dicey. The first half of the year I was bleeding about 500-700 bucks a month of my savings. The game didn't really pick up and a good amount of my walks were spent contemplating just when I'd have to see a sign before pulling the plug. End of June? Maybe it's worth to stretch it to July? At the lowest point, we were about a month away from pulling the plug on Conway. But right around that time, the trend in people subbing here started to pick up. While it's only in the past month or two that I've reached the point where I'm not actively bleeding money each month, the trend was the bit I needed to see that maybe people are interested after all!
The present
I've attached the itch stats of the past year. So those of you who would like to have a peek can do so. As you can see, Update 10 was a massive success at least in terms of numbers for the game. Update 9 was already the first one to break the record for downloads that the release day set, but Update 10 got picked up by the algorithms and sat in the most popular furry games for a while. Soooo, yeah, quite chuffed with that spike! We'll see what the long-term effects are, but for now I just enjoy the aesthetic of -BIG SPIKE-. And yeah, the game as a whole is just sitting in a good spot. We've had about 12k downloads in total, around 80k page visits, and a rating of 4.8/5 with 127 ratings (which btw, easy way to help, is to leave a juicy 5* rating on itch. Does wonders for the placement of the game in the different categories on the site, plus it gives me a fuzzy feeling in my tum tum.) It's also been such a joy to see that all characters end up having their share of fans judging by comments and that nobody is left in the dry. Of course, some of them have a bit of an easier time, like Samuel and Julian being the more sociable lot they are, and just the screen time they've had so far. While others like Raj or Arthur are slower burns and even they get some mentions as the favorites of some people, and that just makes me chuffed. Naturally, they're designed to cover different interests and preferences, but I'm always nervous if the characters are good, resonate with people and hope that they can be fun to be around. So any time someone mentions a character it just makes me so goddamn giddy. Some of them will be difficult to handle with grace, and I'm not perfect, so I'm sure for at least one of the main cast what I've planned will fall flat, or I mess it up in some fashion. But fuck it, I'll try. Not everything has been peaches and roses recently though, so I have to admit Updates 10 and 11 have been/are a bit of a struggle. I just messed up planning for my support writers, and it's been more or less just me handling everything for both updates 10 and 11. That's why art has been a bit sparse... Because most of my time is just taken up doing writing duty, and I'm not the fastest writer, unfortunately. Like, at this point, with the game having all the branches and 125k in total word count, the story for the characters and how they've interacted on the two initial days. It makes it a bit more difficult to actually get people on board in a timely manner. I can't just go and say, "Hey, write me a scene where this character and that character are involved, and they do that." Since a new writer knows absolutely zero about all the stuff that's been there before, all the stuff that's planned for the characters and all that jazz. So if one support writer is busy or just has writing block or whatever, it may be, my solution so far has just been going, "Well, shit." :') Not the fault of my writing buddies, of course. They've been absolutely invaluable and I can't offer nearly enough to expect to be the highest priority for them. I'm just happy they want to help out AT ALL for what I can pay them in return. I should have planned contingencies but didn't. Simple as that. So, I've made the decision to bring on another writer in Televassi, and also want to hopefully integrate Robert Baird more again going forward. With more of them willing to help out I will be able to assign things to people as they're available. Which hopefully will avoid me having to do whole updates on my own and take the pressure off of wonderful peeps like Rubric. So yeah, I learned my lesson there, but since it just takes time for people to get familiar with the Conway world and characters, it ended up with me being a bit swamped with EVERYTHING for Updates 10 and 11.
The future
Speaking of what's planned, then? Update 10 closes out day 2, and Update 11 starts after our first time skip. I don't know if you've ever looked at how slow these ships were, but if we ever want to make it to Cape Town, then we'll need those time skips. Not only that, but it also allows for characters to just develop in the meantime, and also their relationship towards the player character. While Characters like Nomax and Julian ended up having some raunchy scenes right away, it wouldn't exactly fit to have others throw themselves at you on day 2. So skipping ahead just keeps things moving, keeps things interesting because we can focus on specific parts more, and just show the development of characters at a more natural pace.
So the next sections are this first post-time skip section that subbed patrons already get a taste of in the WIP update, and then next up on the itinerary will be Morocco. Both sections I'm really stoked about! And I hope you are too. :)
Stretch goals? Patreon did away with them a while back, but we'll just make our own stretch goals, with blackjack and hookers. Just instead of blackjack and hookers, how about we talk Animations?! Hell yeah! I'm no animator, and it's not really a discipline I particularly enjoy either from the times I tried. So, since Patreon is currently about break-even, we can start thinking ahead a little, and I think the first point I want to tackle is some simple animations. Stuff like moving tails, ears, and eyes. Stuff like that.
So how about that, we're currently floating at around 1250 USD a month, and if we're crossing the 1500 USD mark, I'll be holding out my feelers to get these small animations into the game. If you like to contribute to making animations possible, consider supporting the Patreon over here: https://www.patreon.com/Nomax
Possibly animations, an exciting new section of the story, some more v2 character art, some more maritime menagerie characters. Sounds good for a year 2 plan?
I certainly hope so and hope that you all will be along for the ride, as it's been an absolute blast, and I can't thank you enough for making it possible. I just want this thing to be the best it can be for all of you. :)
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thethirdromana · 11 months
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Suggestions for Tumblr's next book club
With Dracula Daily on the horizon again, I've been pondering what other out-of-copyright novels we might like to consider reading very slowly. Here are my ideas! And if any of them already exist, lmk.
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Year of publication: 1854-55 Length: 185,000 words, 52 chapters. So we could have a chapter weekly for a full year. Summary: Margaret Hale is forced to leave the rural south of England and settle in the rough, industrial north. There she clashes with mill-owner John Thornton over his treatment of his workers... Why Tumblr would like it: Enemies to Lovers! Class struggle! Fascinating historical context! Honestly, it's a great read.
Evelina
Author: Fanny Burney Year of publication: 1778 Length: 157,000 words in 84 letters. That's right, it's epistolary, and the letters are almost all sent March to October of the same year, so we could read this one in true Dracula Daily fashion. Summary: Evelina is the sheltered daughter of an aristocrat trying to make her way in the world of late 18th-century society. Why Tumblr would like it: Evelina is a likeable, relatable character. I think it'd be fun to get emails from her.
The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall Year of publication: 1928 Length: 158,000 words in 56 chapters. Summary: The story of Stephen Gordon, a girl who realises at an early age that she's a lesbian, and her attempts to find love in the early 20th century. Why Tumblr would like it: It's one of the most iconic lesbian novels of the 20th century!
The War of the Worlds
Author: HG Wells Year of publication: 1897 Length: 63,000 words in 27 chapters. Summary: Alien invaders land from Mars and fuck up the south of England. Why Tumblr would like it: Alien invaders land from Mars and fuck up the south of England, come on, what's not to like?
The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins Year of publication: 1868 Length: 200,000 words (so a bit of a marathon) in 51 chapters. Summary: A young English woman inherits a large Indian diamond of dubious provenance on her 18th birthday. Then it gets stolen! Why Tumblr would like it: One of the first detective novels, and supposed to be one of the best, it's a page turner with lots of suspense, twists and cliffhanger endings.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author: Agatha Christie Year of publication: 1920 Length: 60,000 words in 13 chapters. Summary: The first murder mystery starring Hercule Poirot. Why Tumblr would like it: Look, you liked Glass Onion, right? And if you like this, Agatha Christie's novels are emerging from copyright at the rate of about two per year.
Les Misérables
Author: Victor Hugo Year of publication: 1862 Length: 570,000 words in the English translation (ouch) in 365 chapters. Summary: A vast, sweeping story of poverty, justice and revolution in early 19th century France. Why Tumblr would like it: Well, if you thought Moby Dick didn't have enough digressions...
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Year of publication: 1387-1400 Length: 24 stories averaging 700 lines each. Summary: Some pilgrims are heading to Canterbury. They tell one another stories to pass the time. These are their stories. Why Tumblr would like it: I mean, there's a reason we still read these 600 years later. They're a fascinating insight into medieval life, but they're also - for the most part - just good fun.
If you love any of these suggestions and would really like to see it take off, reblog to help make it happen.
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heyitssashag · 3 months
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I got my lab results today and my tumour markers dropped 14 points. (It’s a Christmas miracle! lol) They’ve escalated every month since July so to see a sudden drop was weird. I have no idea why. I could theorize but I’m just going to take it as a win and move along.
Last weekend was the Christmas dinner book club meeting. It was so much fun. I haven’t laughed that hard for a long time. We did a gift exchange. We’re not really supposed to spend money on it - it’s just for fun. It could have been anything. I ended up getting a sweary colouring book off of Amazon for $7. The lady who got my gift is in her mid-70’s and when she read the cover “You are Fucking Beautiful”, everyone started to howl. She just ran with it and read all the other pages. It’s so funny to see our “elders” swear like a trucker. lol. (When my 94-year-old Oma talks about someone being an “asshole” I can’t help but chuckle.)
Anyway, it’s been a busy few weeks and I’m wiped out. I think I’ve been dealing with allergies which doesn’t help my energy. They’ve been coming in waves for the past 6 weeks so I know it’s not a cold.
My aunt and uncle on the mainland came down with Covid so we won’t be going there for New Year’s, now. I’m not sure if I’m going to bother to head out to my Dad’s. That would be a lot of travelling to stay a night. (I’m not really interested in staying longer than that.) Especially during cold/flu season. The ferry is a giant sneeze castle, too and it’ll be packed. So, I may reschedule for later in January when things calm down.
My Gofundme/fundraiser has gone well so far. Because of it, I was able to see the dentist this week and I’ll be going back to get my fancy night guard made in January (it’ll be for the bottom teeth and made thinner). This thing is going to cost around $700. lol. I also will be seeing a new physiotherapist that specializes in TMJ next month. I’ll have to go at least once a week and at $130 a pop, that adds up quick. If those things don’t work, then I’ll have to see the TMJ surgeon. Unfortunately, that runs into the thousands so fingers crossed the first two work. I’m super grateful to everyone’s generosity and support. I’ve had a lot of encouragement over the past few weeks since I’ve started it as well which makes me feel good, too.
Today, I went to comedy class online. I didn’t have any new jokes. I wasn’t good at giving feedback to others, either. It’s hard when you feel like the life’s been sucked out of you. It was nice to show up and see everyone, though. I told them one of my goals is to do more live/in-person shows. I haven’t done one in a long time. I can’t keep waiting to “feel better” because that day will likely never come. I need to find a way to do this. I think a big issue is my sleep. I’ve been having problems falling asleep before 1am. Sometimes it’s as late as 3am. Then I have to be up at 7. Having cancer, I need more than that. So I’ll be working on it.
I can’t believe 2024 is just over a week away. It’s New Year’s resolution time! 😝 I haven’t made a resolution in well over a decade. Do people even do them anymore? Maybe I’ll create a poll below and see. lol. Because of my health, it’s hard to even set goals because things are always changing BUT I’m going to try, anyway. Maybe I’ll post them here (closer to January 1st) to keep myself accountable and maybe write a monthly update on how it’s going. I doubt it’ll work but whatever. I’m trying. 😆
I’ve read a few books this month and watched some movies but I’m too tired to stare at my phone any longer to write reviews so I’ll do that later. I did re-watch Serendipity for like… the 20th year in a row. lol. It’s my favourite rom-com and I rewatch it every Christmas. (Just one of my little guilty pleasures.)
Now, I’m going to drink my tea and read my book as per usual.
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a thing i read years ago that has stayed with me to a maybe weirdly significant degree was in sars of tomato nation's review of the dark knight, where she said something to the effect of, "i know it sounds weird to call heath ledger's performance understated, but that's what it is: he's playing this very extreme character, but he's not doing anything more than exactly what the role calls for." i think she was right about ledger, who did IMO strike a really incredible and rare balance of compelling playing an over the top character without giving an over the top performance, which i think is why his turn in that movie remains one of extremely few comic book movie villains that bring both fun and genuine menace to the proceedings, and i also return every so often to the concept behind her description: that just because the piece needs a lot doesn't mean your goal should be to do a lot. your goal should be to do what's needed, always. (paging, for the millionth time, leo dicaprio in every movie he's made after catch me if you can.) and, obviously, i've been thinking about it again now in the context of the back half missions impossible, not so much in terms of acting (although from ghost protocol on i d think tom cruise finds an understated world-weariness to ethan that is very compelling to watch, and much more "humanizing" than all the random hot ladies getting tortured jj abrams could ever throw into his life), but in the way that they are so maximalist in terms of content and some elements of execution - we are climbing the tallest skyscraper in the world, we are hanging off the side of a plane, we are jumping OUT of a plane, every single thing about the fucking helicopter sequence, and we are doing this all for real because tom cruise is a psychopath who can only derive meaning for his life from trying his hardest to die on camera - but in the delivery of it, they are... again, understated isn't quite the word i'd use, but - closer to that than to a lot of other ways they could go. (closer to that than they are to my also beloved MI2, for example. lol.) these movies exist in order to do insane things, but they show you the insane things happening in a way that feels in the moment like this is the least insane way it could have happened, even though it was obviously constructed to be this insane on purpose, both in the physical set-ups of the stunts and in the escalating jenga towers of setbacks and obstacles that are their plots ("plots"). i think maybe the idea i'm circling around or the phrase i want is something like: they're not trying to sell themselves. they're just doing very awesome things and politely inviting you to watch. i mean, the climax of fallout is like 700 insane high-octane things happening all at once, and i can't tell you how much i fucking love that we don't see the moment ethan finally saves the day: countdown, fade to white, and he spits the thingy out of his mouth. it's the thing, like THE thing, this entire sequence has been most about, the absolute most logical action climax of both this run and the entire movie, and we don't even watch him do that. what a great fucking choice. i don't know why i love that so much, but i do.
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thelooniemoonie · 6 months
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So I just finished reading House of Leaves...
Here are my thoughts. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, but will mention a thing or two.
Oh man, that was one hell of a ride. While I myself am a huge fan of horror, this was the first horror book I have read, and what a great experience it was!
Going into the book I already somewhat knew of the madness that lurks inside (that being the quarter inch, and the impossibly long hallway) and was surprised that the madness started on very early. Being the book is over 700 pages long, I sure as hell didn't expect it to start about 60 pages in.
What you don't expect however, is the madness that takes it's toll the longer the book goes on. Multiple storylines, narrators and themes start converging together to the point where everything starts falling into place, to the point it becomes nauseating as exploring the house itself. What I can say however, is that the house is only barely scratching the surface of what is truly going on within these pages.
For context the book is cleverly written as a meta-narrative, as an essay analyzing the film The Navidson Record, a fictional film that does not exist in the real world. What the book strangely does however, is reference actual real life sources when dissecting its premise, to the point where reality and fiction start blurring. The book feels as if it's having a conversation with itself, covering countless of different themes and metaphors that overlap with one another. Given this thing has been analyzed and picked apart for decades since its release, I'm gonna leave it to the experts about the secrets within its pages. (Although I will say this: pay attention. The longer the book goes on the more the different puzzle pieces will start clicking together.)
I was curious as to how a book may scare a reader since I'm unfamiliar with the experience of reading horror, but I will say the longer the book went on the worse it got. If I had to make a comparison, it would be the same feeling I experienced when watching Skinamarink: Dread. A long, droning kind of dread that one experiences when you are alone in your house and all the lights are off and everything is black. And you know no one is coming for you. But you swear you saw something from the corner of your eye. It's the feeling of running up the stairs after turning the lights off and praying something isn't running after you. Dread.
Very quickly things will become nauseating. At first I wasn't scared of the premise of the house: it's a haunted house that defies reality. So? But I found myself not dreading the events that unfolded or the "interesting" formatting of the book, but that the reality of the book itself seemed to be imploding on itself. Spoilers, but the one moment I think where I specifically started spiralling was when Exploration #5 was occurring, and Navidson had to stop and rest with only his matches, he pulls out a book to read and it's....the House of Leaves? The book you're reading right now? But how is that possible? How is Navidson reading the real life book that you're reading, when the fictional events that are pertaining to him are happening right now to him?? What are even the Johnny segments?? (Note: don't read them at work like I did) Why does nobody cited in this book know who the Navidsons are, even though they're quoted directly in reviewing the film?? What the hell is going on???
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I made a joke in an earlier post that Navidson wants to fuck the house. I meant this as a joke. What I soon horrifically realized was that others were correcting me in that it wasn't a joke. Navidson wants to fuck the house. But he also doesn't want to fuck the house. But it is also a secret third thing that's literal to the foundation of this story. (No pun intended.) But oh god it gets so much worse.
At the time of writing this, I just finished the book 1 hour ago. I feel like I just stepped off the worst rollercoaster. And I loved it.
10/10 very spooks
On a less serious note I think the funniest moment in the book was when the Chad's and Daisy's teacher, after noticing their strange behaviour at school due to the effects of the house, reasonably decides to pay their parents a visit to talk about it. What the poor lady doesn't expect however, is that she arrives right after the events of the house unfold and the Navidsons are having the worst week of their life, coming to the screaming and crying family while there is a dead body on the floor.
In essence it can be summed up by this gif, which frankly sums up the vibe of the story overall:
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So yeah it's a good book. I recommend it.
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neurosismancer · 10 months
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So, let me put on my Internet Old Person hat and tell you kids about the the way we committed music piracy in the long long ago of 2001, and the fragility of those music collections in those days.
You might know Napster. You might know Limewire. But there was a music piracy tool in between those. A little remembered program called AudioGalaxy, and it worked a little like Napster and a little like BitTorrent. The exact details of how it worked are immaterial, but one thing it did was when you searched for an artist, the songs were sorted, in essence, by popularity (e.g. how many people had that specific song file shared.)
Now, I can’t understand why this was a thing, but there was a strange phenomenon in the early days of file sharing and music piracy where people would share songs with the wrong artist name or song title. Certain bands and artists got a lot of stuff attributed to them that they never recorded. “Weird” Al Yankovic may be the most infamous victim of this, with nearly every novelty song and song parody released attributed to him regardless of quality or subject matter.
The confluence of these two phenomena are how I discovered one of my favorite bands of all time.
So, in my late teens, I found a new favorite band. A quickly little one-hit wonder known as DEVO. Y’know, the band that dd “Whip It.” They had the funny red hats that looked like flowerpots. Those guys.
Anyway, I had become obsessed with this band to the point of autistic hyperfixation, and I wanted to hear everything they’d ever put out. At that point, they’d released nine studio albums, a couple live albums, and two collections of early demos, and I wanted them all. So I would find myself crawling in the bottom pages of the AudioGalaxy search results looking for those obscure tracks—b-sides, songs on soundtracks and compilations, the occasional bootleg, They’d pop up between songs that were obviously not by DEVO, and much like our poor friend Alfred Yankovic, any sort of vaguely quirky 80s song got assigned to DEVO.
That was how I found it. A song called, simply, “Detachable Penis.”
Now, I had never heard of such as song, but I knew on the face of it, it wasn’t a DEVO song.
But with a title like that, I knew I had to find out just what in the name of fuck a song called “Detachable Penis” sounded like.
It sounded, dear reader, like this:
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(CWs: blurry images of a dildo, the word penis, spoken word poetry)
And I immediately went to Google, because this song somehow tickled an itch in my brain, and I had to go and find out the real band that recorded this song, because how the hell else was I going to get every song I could of theirs I could get my grubby little hands on. The band was called King Missile, and I was hooked.
I’d like to see any music discovery algorithm beat that.
I eventually acquired their entire major discography along with a few EPs and B-Sides. I eventually burned those to a CD, which I could listen to with my MP3 CD Player.
And I realize, upon writing that, for you youth “MP3 CD Player” is a noun phrase that needs explaining. See, while the iPod had been released at that point, and similar devices were also on the market, they were all prohibitively expensive. The economical way to listen to pirated music files was to burn them to CD, but some CD players had software that allows you to burn those song as as _data_. Suddenly, you could have a single CD with 700 megabytes of MP3 files—room for an artist’s entire discography, if not multiple artists.
Since I was download a whole lot of MP3s with my high speed DSL connection, I was taking up an awful lot of space on my hard drive that needed to be offloaded somehow. CD-Rs and an MP3 CD Player were the optimal solution. And it worked…
…until it didn’t.
In the summer of 2002, my parents took me on a vacation to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. It was in the latter city where someone got into our rental car and swiped my MP3 CD player and a binder of CDs—both pressed CDs I’d acquired and CD-Rs of illicitly acquired MP3s, along them a CD-R I’d burned containing the nearly complete King Missile discography.
Songs I had only on that one CD-R.
It took me a decade—ten fucking years—before I’d recovered all the music that was on that disc.
This is the sort of discovery and the sort of loss that kids will never experience again in this day of Spotify and the all-you-can-eat buffet of music on demand we have now.
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gaykarstaagforever · 3 months
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Fine. You want Fat Superman? Here is Fat Superman.
PART 2: FAT SUPERMAN
Spoiler warning: he gets fat from drinking expired champagne on an alien planet.
No I'm not joking.
And while he has to exercise to get thinner, faster, it was always going to wear off and he'd go back to normal.
Those are the stakes of this idiot story.
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You see this? You see Lois being a bitch about it, and all the cruel fat-related puns?
10 and a half pages of that. That's basically it.
This is a joke that isn't funny, that eventually just...stops.
They made this the cover feature.
...A cover feature with a scene that doesn't even happen. Superman just says, "Man. What if I got fat in a phone booth, instead of a space capsule? (He was in a space capsule when he got fat. A FAKE space capsule. Look. It doesn't matter.)
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Yeah. God forbid any actual dramatic story beats come out of this, you fat bastard.
Great. Now I'm doing it.
The only mildly amusing thing he does while fat is use his giant butt to plug a hole in a dam.
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Speaking as a man with a giant butt...you use what you have, you know?
But even that isn't fun, because he has to make some comment about how he can't fly right, because of temporary obesity.
Yes. Because Superman's flying ability before now was totally a matter of real-world aerodynamics and particle physics.
Having him complain that his thighs are generating 10 million kilojoules of heat as they rub together when he walks would have been cruel garbage, but I would have accepted and even laughed at that. But FLYING? He is too fat to fly? Give me a break!
The blimp jokes were right there, you hacks!
Also, look back at that first dam panel. The people on the dam call him a hippo and wonder how he can still be a hero when he's fat.
It is well-established in the comics at this point that Superman can do anything, all the time, and also has super-hearing. Mostly because he tells everyone any time he does anything. And these jackasses have the nerve to stand well-within even NORMAL hearing range, and make fun of a LIVING GOD WITH LASER EYES for suddenly having man-tits?? He should have blown them over the edge, just to make a point.
Granted, this is Superman, and he's a goody-two-shoes. And they also no doubt know that. Plus he himself is currently whining about how he's TOO FAT TO FLY PROPERLY.
I've been mad for three days about this. Let's pause for an ad break.
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Intriguing. I'll have to look up this 'Sesame Street' thing later, see if it went anywhere.
Back to hell.
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Speaking of weird physics, I can't imagine how people on a plane flying at like 700 mph, passing even a fat Superman going at least as fast, can recognize anything, let alone have enough time to accurately guess his real Fat Superman weight.
But they do. Because this story is awful.
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Okay this panel is pretty dense so let's talk about it.
1) He built that scale super-fast out of NOTHING, just to weigh himself. Looks to me like his super-abilities are just fine, even if he can't see his own penis.
2) ...I mean, okay, he is literally two tons. I admit, that's kind of really goddamn heavy. Maybe he should worry about this a little bit.
3) That last sentence is the greatest sentence in any Silver Age comic, ever. "Why ask questions?" Who gives a shit, right? It doesn't matter. None of this matters. Why did you buy this? Fuck you for reading this, kid. Go outside, nerd.
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They didn't call him a blimp, but they DID have him call himself a parade balloon.
And then make him real sad about it.
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...Did the Government pay DC to do a comic bullying fat children, because it was the height of the Cold War and they were afraid the next generation would be too porky to battle the Russians on their home tundra? Was someone on DC's editorial staff mad at his overweight mother-in-law? This is reaching frightening levels of antagonizing people who like donuts.
I've lost the thread, here. There is slightly more stupid story, but I've hit the "pictures of Fat Superman" limit, so this will need to continue in a Part 3.
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romantichomicide95 · 10 months
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HIHI. congrats on 700 bbybee!! This is so exciting!! I'm here for the event!! :3
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this is quite long I'm sorry, but I've been obsessed with this bridge and I wanna see what you can do with it.
Levi Ackerman of course, and SFW please. Thank you! 💕
Levi x Reader - Song Drabbles
Cruel Summer- I'm drunk in the back of the car. And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar. Said, "I'm fine, " but it wasn't true. I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you. And I snuck in through the garden gate. Every night that summer just to seal my fate. And I screamed for whatever it's worth. "I love you, " ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?
CanonAU basically. Lowkey a little angst but apparently I am in the mood for angst today. @chaotic-on-main(tagging you since I dumbly had posted this ask). Also this was so long and not much dialogue buttttt I hope you love it and I love you🥰
Secrets. They’re hard. Especially secrets like this. Keeping something that makes you so happy from everyone you love, it’s painful. The yearning, the desperation, all the pining. It’s huge. You understood the reasoning, his reasoning. Keeping your relationship with Levi a secret from the world, hard but necessary. You weren’t just fighting Titans anymore, you were fighting humans; and those humans had it out for Levi and anything close to him.
He couldn’t leave you, he couldn’t bring himself to do so. Not even if that meant you’d be even safer, he loved you too much. So he hid you away, tucked you in his pocket, wouldn’t let the world in on what you shared. But it’s not easy, no matter how good he was at it, you couldn’t do it…not anymore. You couldn’t stand the way his hand would brush against you during training, how bad you wanted to reach out and kiss him over tea with Hange and the others. You didn’t care about your safety, not if it meant having to hide your love from the world.
“I don’t know if I can do this anymore Levi.” you broke the silence in his office, flipping through some book not paying attention to the tiny blobs of ink across the pages.
“Do what? Read.” he says blankly, not gazing up from the paperwork he was working on so fervently.
“Levi.” you needed his full attention. You could feel a blunt sting in your heart as he looked up at you. His grey eyes narrowing, gaze fixated on the worry that started to wash over your face. You gestured for him to take a seat next to you and he does so with a grunt. If there was anything you knew about your boyfriend, it was that he hated being interrupted during work.
“Okay. Do what?” he asks more attentive now.
“These secrets, hiding our relationship, pretending I don’t love you.”
He sighs, leaning back into the couch. He’s quiet for a moment, his eyes searching your face, gauging your emotions.
“You know why we have to. It’s complicated, but it’s just what needs to be done.” he finally says.
“I know that Levi. But I can’t. I love you, more than anything. It’s hard. I know you want to protect me and you think somehow I’ll have a target on my back. But I don’t care. This secrecy, the sneaking around. I can’t do it anymore.” your body tenses and you feel a sense of dread wash over you. Your scanning his eyes, no matter how well you knew him he was so hard to read. His expression never giving away his true feelings.
“So…Do you want to break up?” not an ounce of any emotion on his face, or in the way he spoke. As always. That was Levi. Your Levi.
“No of course not. Do you love me Levi?.”
“You know that I do.”
“Than fuck all this other shit. I’m not okay with any of this. Not anymore. Sure it was fun sneaking around in the beginning. But now I’m lying to all my friends. I hate it. I’m a big girl, I can keep myself safe and if I can’t, well if I can’t than I know I have you.” your words come out fast, a lump forming in your throat, tears brimming at the corners of your eyes.
He’s silent again for a moment. Processing your words. He’s going over everything in his mind, how he can’t bear the thought of losing you. Not because of his dumb rules, and not because some asshole tries to use you against him. He didn’t want to change things, not if it meant you could get hurt. But he also couldn’t face the world without you anymore. He thought you were the only good thing in his fucked up life, the only good thing he ever really had, and he couldn’t let you go.
“Okay.” he says, after what felt to you like eternity, almost a whisper.
“Okay?” you ask, peering over your tear-filled eyelashes. He wipes your tears with his thumb, lingering along your cheek and you lean into his touch. The gesture melts away the doubts and fears that had been swirling inside your head, even if only for a moment.
“Okay. If you want to risk it than I can’t stop you. No more secrets.” Your tears vanish and you smile big - a smile that never fails to capture his heart. He's elated at the sight of your smile, the way it lights up your eyes and brings out the dimples on your cheeks. He hates seeing you cry, hates when he's the one who causes it. Your smile was his favorite thing about you, even if he didn't know how to smile back. As he looks into your eyes, he feels a sense of warmth and connection that he has never felt with anyone else. It's a feeling that he wants to hold on to. With one gentle touch of his hand on yours, he silently promises to do better, be better, hoping that your smile will always be shining brightly like it is right now.
You lean forward and kiss him, throwing your arms around his neck. Melting into the way his lips fit so perfectly with yours, how warm and soft every movement of your lips together felt. “Thank you Levi," you whisper in his ear afterwards, feeling the weight of gratitude in your heart. You rest your forehead on his and close your eyes, a sense of happiness and contentment wash over you. “Thank you for always understanding me, or trying to.”
"Your welcome. I really do love you ya know? I just want you to be safe. I can’t lose you," he says, grey eyes gazing into your own. His words are sincere. Levi cares for you deeply, and it's evident in the way he speaks and looks at you. He’s not always great at showing his emotions, or being outwardly affectionate, but you know. You feel the love that he holds for you, and it fills your heart with happiness and warmth and a sense of pride. You are grateful he’s in your life, and you know that he will do anything to keep you safe and happy. As you lean in to kiss him again you can feel his strong arms wrap around you, enveloping you in a sense of security and shelter. The feeling in his arms is something you could never forget, it’s a feeling that binds you together. Through thick and thin, through everything.
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I don't go here but thoughts on Izzy Hands
Okay, first off, it is very funny that you sent me this ask in particular because when I added the tags saying I might end up writing an essay for the right prompt, “Izzy Hands” is one of the prompts I was thinking of. But I think I can do this, I think I can be (kind of) succinct by focusing on the points where I disagree with general fandom. (At time of posting, I'm sitting around like 1000 words so like. Lol. LISTEN this could've been 700 pages long, this is still RELATIVELY short)
I’m going to go ahead and assume you’ve picked up enough through osmosis to recognize the main characters because I have not shut up for multiple months, and neither has a good chunk of this site lol.  So here we go!
I think a lot of the OFMD fandom disagrees on what Izzy’s primary character motivation is -- A lot of people tend to think it’s internalized homophobia and/or toxic masculinity. At this point in my viewing, I personally think it’s neither. I never really thought it was internalized homophobia, and while I still think he has *some* traits that could be tied to toxic masculinity (more on that later), I think he demonstrates a lot less of it than I initially assumed.
So what is Izzy’s main motivation? In my personal opinion, it’s a combination of jealousy and fear. The jealousy, I think, is pretty obvious -- Ed gives affection to Stede that he used to give Izzy, and Izzy obviously wants that back. I talk a bit more about the mutual toxicity of the Ed/Izzy relationship in this post, but I won’t dig into it too much here.
I think a lot of what people view as internalized homophobia also fits into this jealousy category. Izzy is obviously an asshole in a lot of ways that could be read as homophobic -- the “oh daddy” scene where he mocks Lucius and Pete after walking in on them having sex, as well as all the times when he disparagingly refers to Stede as Ed’s “boyfriend.”
And yeah, those moments are dick moves, but I don’t really read them as internalized homophobia -- Rather, I think his anger at Lucius and Pete is because they have an actual relationship, whereas he just has to pine after Ed, who doesn’t see it (see, we’ve spiraled back to jealousy!). And all the “boyfriend” scenes, well… quite frankly that feels more like an angry comment that Stede is Ed’s boyfriend. Not that Ed has one. (I think Izzy would be angry and jealous over pretty much any partner Ed had that wasn’t him, but like… Stede???? He cannot stand Stede). So yeah, I don’t think Izzy is homophobic! I think he’s jealous.
The fear, though, is a bit different. This is the piece of the puzzle that I think people usually wrap up as toxic masculinity, and I see why (I did on first watch!). But I genuinely don’t think that’s what it is. Izzy *is* violent, and he’s very much an asshole -- He puts an awful lot of energy into trying to get people to do what he wants them to do! He’s not good at it, but he certainly pushes far past the point where he should -- He’s the sort of person who tries to get the response he wants through brute force and constant nagging.
So sure, this behavior is bad. But when trying to tie it into toxic masculinity, the question is really, why does Izzy act like this? Toxic masculinity usually corresponds to acting masculine in the way that society expects you to, even if it’s harmful, and honestly? I don’t think Izzy gives a fuck about societal norms. There are plenty of times when he could’ve called out members of the crew for being “weak,” but he never really does.
What I think Izzy does care about is staying alive. And as for how this relates back to Stede -- well, Izzy (and the crew) doing what Stede asks and being less competent is a great way to get killed in the normal pirate world (i.e., the world outside of Stede’s influence). So I don’t think this aspect of Izzy’s character is toxic masculinity -- I think it’s survival instinct.  And that survival instinct is built on his inability to adapt to the situation rather than anything to do with masculinity itself.
Personally, I have a lot more sympathy for Izzy since my first watch -- When you evaluate his actions within the environment before Stede arrived (i.e., the grittier pirate world), the genre swap is absolutely a good chunk of his problem. In Black Sails, he’d be doing *great.* The issue is that the world he was in prior to the show is no longer the world that he’s in, and he can’t adapt to it!
ANYWAY, that’s an overview of my opinions on Izzy. I could also go more into the wealth disparity here (Stede bought the world to play pirate and that was never an option for Izzy), as well as why Steddyhands (Stede/Ed/Izzy) is my current ship of choice for Izzy, but both of those are entirely different posts and this response is already ridiculously long, so I’m ending this here unless people ask lol
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In today’s case, not specifically bjd related, but I’m also sick of bjd accounts doing this too.
Today an artist I follow posted that they want people to unfollow them because if you’re not constantly liking or commenting, you basically don’t deserve to see their content. The account I was following was their “old” account which no longer shows any of the stuff they sell, it s just for promo, because they have a new account that is private for only the people who are willing to devote “real” time and attention to them which makes you “worthy” of having the chance to buy some of their art. They said following but not engaging basically hurts their reach because of the algorithm, so you’re not allowed to follow their new account if you follow more that a couple hundred other accounts because you won’t see them or have the time to “properly engage” therefore you’re dead weight.
Look. I’m a small business owner and a lot of my business is reliant on people being able to see and interact with my social media. I work hard on it and I’ll be honest that I don’t have a massive insta following because I don’t have free cash to pay for ads like others do. I’m sure though that I have a ton of “unworthy” followers, but why in the sweet fuck would I tell them to stop following me? Maybe it hurts my reach idk, but like I want people to enjoy my content. Maybe they can’t buy something right now, but they might want to later and if I tell them to fuck off because they’re not working hard enough for MY business, then they’re sure as hell not going to buy from me or engage with me.
Needless to say I unfollowed the artist. I have a lot of anxiety which makes me an “unworthy” follower most of the time. It’s hard to interact with people when I don’t have to and most of the time I’m using social media it’s just to look at dolls and memes and shit, so I’m not consciously thinking “must like, must comment” because I shouldn’t have to earn the right to look at a public page. I wouldn’t ever follow a private account anyway - too much work, but I mean I’m definitely not following or buying now.
I’m starting to see this as a trend in a lot of account especially if they’re massive accounts and honestly I get that instagrams algorithm is a nightmare, but I’m unfollowing left and right now because of all this. I can’t enjoy someone’s content if I’ve basically been told to fuck off for not enjoying someone’s content hard enough. I’m grateful for every like or comment or whatever I get so I genuinely can’t grasp the greed of having several thousand followers and a successful business and basically just telling your followers to fuck off like this.
~Anonymous
Mod: I've noticed big accounts I follow (on my normie lurker account, I don't have a BJD one) are getting 1/3 of the likes they used to on some posts, like 700 when they used to get 2k on a selfie, or 60k instead of 150k, it's insta's algorithm which literally hides posts from users. Anyone blaming their followers is getting it wrong and driving the people who actually see their posts away, ironically.
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AO3 tos anon here, thank you for all the explanation.
I actually sometimes wonder myself what’s my stakes in following a lot of spntwitter drama 🙈 I think in this particular case, I just wanted to know the truth. I understand you don’t have concrete proof but as I said I take your word because I know you from outside of the twitter echo chamber and trust you. I also wanted to figure out if AO3 is basically deleting fics just like that but your explanation makes sense as to why they’re doing it.
The fact that reporting trolls should chill, though, I fully agree with.
GAH, THE TUMBEASTS ATE MY FIRST ANSWER. I'm still gonna end up being long winded about this though cuz it gets me pretty heated. I try not to talk about it, but then someone asks me about it and oh lord here I go lol
I honestly don't care if there's a ringleader or just a well organized group. I just wish that the Reporting Trolls would consider printed fics the same as classic 'zines and get the fuck over it. Reporting printed fics can bring down the attention of the IP holders too, so they're not the Fandom Heroes they think they're being.
And when it comes down to it, I don't think they're really trying to protect fandom. If that was the case, there wouldn't be fanfics publicly posted on Lulu that have been sitting their for several years. They're targeting specific creators who have gone out of their way to keep the links hidden or private. So I think there's a kernel of truth to the idea that they're doing this out of jealousy. If it's That One Author that seems to be the ringleader, she may be upset that other people are getting more attention than she does. If it's her fans, they may be upset that their favorite author isn't getting as much attention as they think she deserves. It's even possible that they're not aware of what they're really doing, so they fall back on "BUt pRoFIT".
This whole thing about "but Lulu makes money!" will forever drive me nuts. Lulu would make the same amount of money selling paper and ink on a book that's just 700 pages of the word "Orange" typed on repeat as they would selling paper and ink on a book that's 700 pages of my story. The paper and ink is only worth paying for because of me, and I'm not making any money from the work I'm doing.
Look I can prove that, at least :D
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Hell, I'm losing money on it. I pay fanartists to create covers for me. I'm bad at formatting the PDF, so I pay people to format it properly for me. I've spent hundreds of dollars to make these prints look nice and semi-professional. I give away copies for free to the artists and the people who help me with the formatting, and some of these are over $20 because of how thick they are.
Everyone is getting something out of this EXCEPT for me!
*huffs and puffs in irritation*
The AO3 stuff is, unfortunately, squidgy. Over the years I've heard of other things getting reported on AO3 where authors have complained that they weren't given enough opportunity to clean up whatever the violation was, or the AO3 staff wouldn't/couldn't tell them where the violation was hiding. If something is reported, it's going to come down to a judgement call from an AO3 employee. As someone who has had to make judgement calls on things that are grey areas, I can tell you it's tough. And sometimes it's best to err on the side of caution, which is usually not in the customer's favor. Without knowing exactly what was behind the AO3 staff's decision to delete, I can't say whether their decision is fair or not. It is scary though, because it's hard to tell whether an offhand comment will get you in trouble or not, and it puts us all on edge when we hear about something getting deleted.
Anyway, sorry I went on a vent session again. I'm glad you got some answers that at least made you feel better ;D
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lareinadelplata · 1 year
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Uhhh ni Los chequee pero 13 24 5 y 11
kdjgglkdfjg gracias miu ♥
5. What genre did you read the most of?
Mmmh it's likely that it was nonfiction but other than that probably fantasy, I'd say!
13. What were your least favorite books of the year?
Cadáver exquisito by Bazterrica which I've already talked about, La Argentina de los Caciques by Martínez Sarasola, which is a nonfiction "essay" that made me genuinely angry (piece of shit was just copypasting primary sources. I can just go look them up. This isn't a book), and Tierra, Leyes, Historia by Congost, which I had to read for college and was the most boring thing on earth and also completly unsuccessful in explaining what the fuck the process of creation of private property as we know it was in early modern Spain.
24. Did you DNF anything? Why?
I don't DNF books cause im a pussy 🥺 what if this book i hated for 700 pages gets good in the 100 pages that remain.... the closes ive gotten was with La coscienza di Zeno by Svevo which I can't stand but have been reading for the past... three years?
I already answered 11 ♪
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moon-ursidae · 1 year
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it’s time for session #2!
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THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR BOTH OF THE LAST OF US GAMES UNDER THE CUT!!!!
these notes are so scattered if you read them without context and i am SO SORRY lmao. i’m typing them so fast trying to keep up with my brain that’s going 700 mph and the game. ANYWAY, we’re getting a very late start tonight bc i was helping my friend learn guitar for a few hours haha
total play time: about 2 hrs and 40 min (there’s not much story progression here just exploring seattle!)
okay so we last left off with ellie and dina in the woods on horseback post joel’s house. i have not gotten farther than the woods bc i was super ultra mega tired. so let us continue!
okay sooooo this section is called the gate cool cool cool
this is fucking gorgeouuusssssss
omg dina listing off all the people that joel crossed
i’m sure there’s more before that bro
oh my god the LIGHTINGGGGG in the woods so so good
we’re so close to seattle i’m scared
so much happens here man
map acquired✅
CARD BABYYYYYY
jesus christ i L O V E the aesthetic of nature reclaiming land and man made structures. it’s sooooooo pretty
oh shit QZ!
i’m looking through ur journal ellie hope you don’t mind haha
dina seems to be sick? well. i know why but ellie doesn’t yet so shhhhhh
it’s so sad to me that every drawing of joel so far that ellie’s done, she hasn’t been able to draw his eyes. that was the last thing she saw of him while he was alive. like she wants to get them just right but everytime she draws it that means she has to look him in the eye again. and maybe she’s feeling too guilty to do that rn. ugh idk i know neil always does shit like that but maybe i’m reading too much into it haha. ANYWAY that is one of the most heartbreaking parts about her journal dude. UUUUGGHHHHH 😭
“i really love her.” 😭😭😭😭 ELLIE TELL HER PLEASE
we just got a letter, wonder who it’s from🕺🏻
kieran?? kieran duffy??????
haha wrong game
also lemme just say, i fucking love dina
she’s so sweet and empathetic, but will cut the fuck out of a bitch when needed
I HAVE TO PARKOUR?? UP HIGH?? IN THE LAST OF US?? OVER A GATE??
this is some nathan drake shit bro where’s nolan north
FUUUUUCK I THOUGHT SHE WAS GONNA FALL BRO OH MY GOD
hoooooollllyyyyyy fuuuuuuck this is a big city jesus christ
LMAO her wobble before she fell down to the platform below
this game is so gorgeous. holy fuckin shit i’m gonna say that a lot huh?
THE SOUND DESIGN??? WHEN GOING DOWN THE LOOKOUT TOWER AT THE GATE OF THE QZ??? WHEN SHE FALLS AND IT ECHOES?? THAT SHIT WAS CRAZYYYY
guys i’m gonna be honest. i’m team brick.
i LOVE being able to break windows this is so fun
oh god i have a horrible memory plz don’t make me memorize these gate codes
side note: i love ellie’s hair here. i’m gonna have to try a lil half up half down situation
i saw someone on twitter point out that it looks a lot like tess’s hair🥺
“well, we believe in you” shimmer and dina? or baby and dina? hmmm things to consider
totally unrelated, but i can’t not hear ashley johnson going “babyyyyyyyyy” with an s.o. since the mighty nein reunion lmao
ellie seeing dina and going “babyyyyyyyy” like yasha LMAO
ANYWAY
fuck i hope i can pull out that page of codes dude
THANK GOD
oh shit another hotel
i’m traumatized after the last on dude you can’t make me go back
H O L Y. S H I T.
THIS IS SO OPEN I’M GONNA SPEND SOOOOOOOO MUCH TIME HERE
FUCK DUDE
this is fucking crazy
there’s so much small shit everywhere oh my fucking G O D
omg joel was definitely reading that space book for ellie she just talked about an early moon mission at this tank
DINA’S JOKE “she’s sounding a bit hoarse” they’re literally made for each other
OH MY GOD I JUST FOUND THE DR. UCKMANN CARD NO FUCKING SHOT
damn is this his way of addressing the crunch work hours at naughty dog?
“once a well respected researcher… questionable experiments in the realm of pushing human limits saw him ostracized from the scientific community… Laurent Foucault of SPARK Laboratories found his work dubious…”
the music is hauntingly beautiful in this area oh my god
OH MY GOD THE SCANNERS THAT DETECT THE VIRUS FROM THE BOSTON QZ IN THE FIRST GAME
i miss the first game LMAO even though i JUST finished that
THERE’S A FUCKING PEARL JAM POSTER IN THE MUSIC SHOP😭
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IF I EVER WERE TO LOSE YOU, I’D SURELY LOSE MYSELF😭
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i feel like this is supposed to be hank williams which would be fucking sick bc “alone and forsaken” and all that jazz haha
“guitars starting at $49.99” BRO SINCE WHEN I FUCKING WIIISH DUDE😭
as a drummer, i can confirm dina is a fucking natural
“i love you?” A H H H H H
ANUTHA CARD WOOO
Das Wort is my favorite card so far. he just like me fr
WAIT THIS IS THE TAKE ON ME SCENE
i will cry
SHE’S PLAYING FUTURE DAYS😭😭😭😭
BARRE CHORDS??? ellie i could literally never wtf
the chords are all accurate too holy fuck naughty dog
ashley has such a nice voice oh my god
i’m gonna fucking cry bc they put this in the hbo trailer
AAAAHHHHHHH😭😭
this is why i fucking love music dude. it transcends everything and always will. it’s the one thing that connects everyone. and it’s connecting people in this game too and i UGGHHH i love music holy fuck
the way dina looks at her🥹
and also knowing that joel was the one that showed her all of these songs and artists bc ellie wasn’t even alive to hear take on me and future days, and literally everything else. GOOOOODDDDDDDD😭😭
“you should have kissed me then.” “i wanted to.”
god i love dina and ellie they sound like an old married couple already
first dawn of the wolf poster i’ve seen!!! WOOOOO
i’m gonna come back to the nutrition distribution center bc i feel like that shit is gonna be bad news bears
“wasn’t joel all about coffee?” as he should. i’d be all about coffee too if i didn’t have it for years
ANUTHA CAAAARD
i really like the Big Blue card too
THAT FUCKING INFECTED IN THE BATHROOM SCARED THE FUCKING SHIT OUT OF ME MY SOUL LEFT MY BODY OH MY GOD
so many fucking side quests oml what do you mean “barko’s”
oh my god there are so many fucking alleyways to go down
THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO I AM SO BUSY FINDING SECRETS AND STUFFS
BARKO’S LOCATED
it’s too dark in here i don’t like it
“they think we’re sheep! BARE YOUR FANGS.” what in the fuckin trump train “sHeEpLe” is goin on in here
i feel like i’m gonna get fucking jumped by infected again in here
THIGH HOLSTER ACQUIRED
omg plz “we can get a little creature to take care of” AND THEN THEY HAVE A FARM AT THE END😭😭😭
STUN BOMB ACQUIRED
i have already spent 2 hours in this fucking QZ holy shit
i just wanna explore rn i don’t wanna progress story atm
i am secret hunting
ANUTHA CARD BABYYY WEST GATE 2
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it doesn’t even look like i’ve done that much😭
i also have a bad feeling about this bank
oh fuck this shit. it goes underground
they are ALWAYS underground bro
dina this is not cool, this is scary
i don’t fucking trust this shit
HOW DID I FUCKING KNOW
infected or whateva🙄
SHOTGUN ACQUIRED
FUCK this bank dude i’m GONE
dina said she’d get a farmhouse with the money😭😭
okay i think i’m gonna stop here bc it is literally 5am and i am sleepy haha. no story! but got some goodies and secrets out of the way! i will continue maybe tomorrow? not sure bc i am quite busy but we’ll see!
having a really good time so far and i love watching ellie and dina’s dynamic! still lots of buildings and secrets to loot! i’m excited >:)
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