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ozdicaff · 1 year
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I like you, have a wip of my AU design of sun
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nghtwngs · 1 year
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silly human traditions
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description: you’ve never had a new year’s kiss before. neither has the doctor. you decide to change that tonight.
pairing: tenth doctor x reader (you can probably read it as eleven too!)
genre: fluff, friends to lovers, mutual pining
word count: 1.2k
warnings: alcohol consumption (by the doctor), ten might be ooc bc im literally rewatching eleven’s episodes (im on the second christmas special rn!) and i think ive lost his voice but i hope that’s not the case
a/n: happy new year!! i wrote this up like real fast bc i was thinking about kissing ten and well… yeah
You walk into the TARDIS’s control room with a huge grin plastered on your face. “Doctor, we have to celebrate our first New Year!”
The Doctor looks up from the control console and turns his head to face you. “New Year?” His eyebrows are furrowed, lips curled down into a frown. “There’s no concept of time in the time vortex—how would we celebrate New Year’s?”
“Well, my phone’s calendar doesn’t change.” You pull out your device, opening the calendar app and holding it up for him to see. “It’s currently December 31st. And also we celebrated the holidays this past week.”
He pulls out his glasses out of his suit and puts them on. He squints at your screen anyway. “Well, I guess so. How’d you figure we do that?” He jumps up, running over to you. “What about a planet where everything is made of water? Or we could watch a galaxy of stars fizzle out into nothing but dust!”
“Well, Doctor, I was thinking we could just, I don’t know… spend it on Earth? Watch the ball drop in Time Square or something? Hm, actually maybe not that.”
“You little humans and all your traditions.”
“You love it.”
He mirrors your cheeky grin. “Alright, then! I think I have just the place.” He rushes over to the console, doing his thing. The TARDIS makes her signature wheezing noise, reminding you to hold on tight. “New York! Present year… well, for you anyway. Two hours ‘til midnight. Dress well. We have a party to crash!”
You make a sound of excitement, giving the Doctor a chaste kiss on the cheek. “Amazing.” You run off to the TARDIS’s vast wardrobe to find an appropriate outfit.
After finishing getting ready, you pop back into the control room to find the Doctor fiddling with his tie. He’s dressed in a black suit. A classic. You think it suits him well. (Pun not intended.)
“No bow tie this time?” you ask, walking over to him.
He just shakes his head. “Nah.”
“You clean up nicely,” you say, tightening his tie for him.
He smiles so softly at you that it makes your heart ache with need. “You do too.”
You clear your throat when the intensity of his gaze hits you. “Well, we better get to the party. Don’t wanna miss anything else.” You link your arms, dragging him out of the TARDIS.
Turns out, the party he took you to crash is filled with a bunch of celebrities. No one either of you care for, but celebrities nonetheless. It makes you feel important to be around all these people. Like you’re important enough to be around the Doctor, who you’d say is the most famous of them all. It makes you feel special. Being here. With him, but maybe not with him.
He doesn’t even bother to correct anyone when they mistake you for being an item. You often wonder if there is any deeper meaning behind that. It makes your heart stumble off beat. But that’s silly. A ridiculous, quite pathetic notion.
Silly human things, you suppose.
But it’s okay. He makes you feel special. Anyone the Doctor chooses to be his companion is special.
The very best of humanity, he’d say.
The Doctor has a sip of some random alcoholic drink you were both offered (you declined) and sticks his tongue out in disgust. He immediately places the glass back onto the tray. “That was dreadful. Absolutely dreadful.”
You can’t stop yourself from giggling until he grabs your water and chugs the entire thing. You grumble, “I was about to drink that.” But your words come out much too soft, too fondly for him to believe you’re really upset over it.
He leads you out onto the balcony with his hand on your back. You forget all about your drink.
“Oh my, God!” You double over, holding onto the Doctor’s arm. “They were sentient? How can grass be sentient?” You both continue to wheeze like it’s the funniest thing the two of you ever heard.
“Yeah, they were quite rude honestly. Telepathic. Said my hair looks ridiculous,” he muses. His voice suddenly goes quiet. He leans into you, staring into your eyes like it’d make you any more honest. “Does my hair look ridiculous?”
You run your fingers through his locks, making sure not to mess them up. “Your hair looks great. I always like it.”
“Yeah? You think so?”
You nod in agreement.
Cheers erupt from inside, and you’re worried you missed the countdown. But there’s still another five minutes left.
“Do you have any resolutions for the New Year, Doctor?”
“Resolutions? Why would I need resolutions? Is that some human tradition? Why do you have so many traditions?”
“People just want to have goals, I guess? I never really stuck with mine. And well, it’s really just that and uh… the New Year’s kiss.”
“New Year’s kiss?” He frowns.
“Yeah, they say if you kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s, it’ll strengthen the bond between you? I don’t know. It’s silly. I’ve never had a New Year’s kiss before, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s true or not.”
“Huh.” There’s his thinking face. Nothing good ever comes from his thinking face. Not unless you’re in a life or death situation, and you don’t think you are right now. At least you really hope not. “Do you… Would you like to test that theory out?”
You almost choke. “What?”
“Well, I mean, it’s not like we have to or anything.”
“I didn’t peg you as the superstitious type.”
“I’m not. But no harm in trying it out, right?”
No, there’s a lot of harm in trying it out, you want to say. You think your heart might explode out of your chest. That would be a horrible way to start out the new year. He’d have to find another companion whose heart stays in their chest cavity and away from both of his.
“Yeah, no harm at all.”
Why can’t your mouth just stay shut sometimes?
You hear the countdown start.
Ten.
He holds your chin between his index finger and thumb.
Nine.
His warm eyes look into yours.
Eight.
You’ve never been touched with such gentleness before.
Seven.
His scent is so clean and warm and so him.
Six.
The proximity is completely dizzying.
Five.
You think you can feel your knees buckle.
Four.
How can he look at you as if you’re the only interesting thing in the universe?
Three.
When he’s seen it all.
Two.
A quick glance at your lips.
One.
The Doctor presses his lips against yours. It’s wonderful. He tastes like berries. When in the world did he have berries? Your arms slink around him, pulling him as close as possible. He doesn’t seem to mind. He cups your face with his hands. What a brain melting kiss. The strings of his hearts are knotting with yours. You want to be consumed by this feeling.
It doesn’t register that you have to breathe for a minute, but you think you’d kiss him forever if you could. You have all the time in the world anyway. You wonder how long can Time Lords go without air. Probably much longer than humans, yeah? You, with much reluctance, pull away.
He pecks your lips again. He grins cheekily at you. “A while.”
You scoff. You hate it when he does that. And when he smiles at you like that. Your neck grows hot even though it’s cool outside. “It’s midnight.” You’re still breathless.
“It is.”
“You’re my first New Year’s kiss.”
“You’re mine.”
Maybe it’s true; the bond between you does feel stronger this year. You kiss him again and then some more.
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hihereami · 1 year
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a dump of what my life has been because i need to document it somewhere
december almost killed me in a stress peak
learned how to make video games
got way too involved in a local reality tv show
made a couple video games
met a girl :)
started doing weird cringy shit thats ultimately harmless but its really embarassing
went on vacation with my parents to the middle of nowhere
the middle of nowhere did me good
came back trying to Be Productive before the semester started
finished concept art for a short film i owed
finished portfolio pieces i wanted to make
turned 23
STUDIED FOR A FINAL AND APPROVED!!!!
worked on how to be less hard on myself with my psych!!!! thats good
went to help someone out of the literal goodness of my heart and ended up having a paranormal experience
brujeria is just another day in argentina but good lord i didnt expect the weird shit that happens in this country to happen to me
healed from the weird shit (i hope)
the goddamn reality doesnt let me go, i dont wanna know anymore
i helped a local fandom and got some solid friends out of it tho!
sent a lot of resumes
met the girl a couple times and its all very mushy :)
got sick with dengue
it was very funny and very tragic because everyone in my life got very scared of how ill i was and i was just like. somewhere else.
truly. put on repellent. that shit is high fever for 6 straight days. i had to go to the emergency room three times.
got really good news
i am now still sending resumes BUT im going to be working on my classes and portfolio and hopefully on the path of Having A Product with both my documentary and a videogame!
i healed from dengue
yesterday i learned about pre-incan pyramids in class :) they're neat :)
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sardonic-sprite · 1 year
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I'm Back!
Wow, so Lent is over now, so my tumblr fast is also over and I'm still a little in shock, lol. I had hoped the past six weeks? I don't know, Time is weird, would be more productive but at least I got SOME stuff written/posted. Anyway, I have one more month of school and then fucking FINALS so expect sporadic updates at idiot-o-clock hours of the night, and maybe yell at me to sleep, eat, study, or drink water whenever i do post 😅
I am up to SO EFFING MANY wips rn on so many different fronts you guys have no freaking idea 😭 so here's a status report for EVERYTHING on or going on sardonic_sprite. (Its gonna be a monster post, y'all, bear with me)
in absolutely no particular order:
Wayne4Ham: We have a LONG way to go with this one, so just be patient and I'll slowly but steadily plug on through. Aaron Burr, Sir, should theoretically take me no longer than end of april
Wayne-Crazy: there's like 4 specific requests on it, plus a few 'series' i started, but after those, say 6-7, i'll probably mark as complete and only re-open if someone offers me an idea
Batman Beginners: i'll tell y'all up front, this one will take me forever. i don't even know what all I intend to cover, but know that i'm halfway done with the DITF arc, and it'll probably come out in the next two months
Just A Kid: this was my shits-and-giggles fic that got like 3000 notes in a weekend lmao. it's something i do intend to continue bc its so fun and i enjoy the concepts in it, but i don't have plans to actively write more of it in the immediate future.
Rev Wayne: just gave y'all Jason's fic, so the next probably won't come until late in summer, extrapolating from my few data points. if anyone has ideas for timmy's intro, let me know, i'd love some inspiration
Celeb Batwaynes: reported separate from wayne-crazy for reasons. i think theres like 12 specific requests plus 2 ideas of my own. i may put out a poll for the next one to write, but not until after school's out, because these fics are HUGE time-eaters for me. speaking of, are non-tumblr-users able to vote on polls?
Welcome to Gotham U: this was again, me doing shit bc why not. will probably add more in the style that i first posted, but i doubt i will write any prose for it. if you would like to give it a try, please reach out, i'd love to see what you write!
One Diamond: every time i touch this i make the cliffhanger worse lmao. i finally do have a direction, but execution is gonna have to wait a while.
The Young, Innocent, and Righteous: this is mostly just for me anyway, but i'm just gonna say that i'm waiting until i finish watching miraculous season 5 before i go any further
AS you wish: i have 5 more requests to do and i am so sorry to everyone waiting you do not deserve this lmao. i promise im trying, i love your ideas, it just takes me a really long time to fill in the rest and then actually write it. the next one on my list is particularly hard to pin down and so it's halting the ones behind it to. if not before, then after finals i will sit and bang my head on the keyboard until something good comes out
Light Isn't Fadin': soooooo many people have asked me about this one oof. SOMEDAY, i swear. right now its a huge, nebulous, hulking monster and im sorry it's just not happening yet.
A christmas carol: wait until december. please
Father's Day: june.
A Little Problem: over the summer, i will watch marvel movies until they once again hijack my brain and fuel this to completion. maybe.
easter eggs: how the fuck did i forget this lmao. i'm doing as much as i can in april, but when the month is done, i'm sorry, we'll all be waiting until next lenten season. hopefully it won't come to that.
aaaaand i THINK that's finally it. there's also a bunch of random paragraphs in word and google docs that may appear, not to mention ideas that kidnap me in dark alleys. but i also have like a good half dozen other wips for other places that im trying to attend to, so please be forgiving if it seems like its taking a while to post something as sprite.
as always, i love questions, comments, concerns, even some complaints, so feel free to interact.
See ya when I see ya!
sprite
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genopaint · 1 year
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I'm having a bit of art block at the moment. So I thought this might be a good time to go back and talk about the 3 games I released this year to give them one little bit of love before the year ends!! As well as some thoughts on where they'll be going next year!
First Up: Released August 10th, BOYZ: WORLD WIDE WEST! (x)
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 This was a "pseudo-multiplayer" quickdraw game. Make your very own BOY, and battle foes in quickdraw matches! The big draw was using codes from other's wanted posters to duel their BOY in your game!
This was the game I actually planned to make at the start of the year. I had the idea in my head for a bit, and I think it came out pretty good! Sadly very few people actually participated in the #BOYZWWW tag to share their wanted poster. But I stand by this concept! I've got ideas for updates to make to this game in 2023. I would really like to add real back buttons to each option so it's easier to enter codes and build a boy. But I think there's also potential to touch up some menus and make them look more original and less like RPGM menus. I wouldn't hold my breath for it coming out any time soon. But yeah... I do already have a small idea for a sequel to this game! It's a bit more ambitious than I can do at the moment, but I'll keep my mind on it. This was my favorite game I made this year! 
Next: Released November 6th, DaRoach! (x)
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A maze running arcade styled game. Play as DaRoach and try to collect gems and treasures! There's a 10 stage arcade ladder with a small story, and an endless mode with various layouts to try and master! 
This game was something I wasn't planning at the start of the year, but randomly I had the idea that I could make a simple arcade game pretty easily. It took a bit to figure out what it should be about and how DaRoach should look, but I think it came out pretty good! This game really needs to get touched up a bit in 2023. Thanks to SumRndmDde's custom menu plugin I can FINALLY add a score present during gameplay. But I also would like to potentially touch up tilesets and gameplay to look and run a little better. I know this sounds silly. But I already have plans for the next 3 DaRoach games. I'm not joking. The whole DaRoach lore is already figured out. 3+4 won't be able to be made soon. But DaRoach 2 isn't entirely out of the question eventually. But I'd still need help to get it done.
Lastly: Released December 13th, FLYTRAP! (x)
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FLYTRAP is a simple Game & Watch styled game where you control Marty the Flytrap and stop flies from biting your stem! It's a simple blocker game, jump in front of the flies before they reach the center!
This game was completely spur of the moment. After playing Garden Gaurdian and redrawing old G&W fanart. I realized I could make a GW game pretty easily. And people seemed interested so I sat down and made it quickly over a weekend. I'm still shocked by the love this one got! There's not a whole lot to the game that can be cleaned up in 2023. But I certainly think there's room for improvement with playing on phones. However my main goal is to add additional game modes that make the game harder/slightly different since it's easy to edit. I do have an idea for a sequel to FLYTRAP but it'd be more of the same. Nothing too fancy. I don't know when I'll get around to it but it's one I could even potentially do in RPG Maker. Maybe. We'll see. No promises.
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And that's all the games I made in 2022! Thank you all so much for your support, and thank you for playing anything I put out there! It all means the world to me! As always, these smaller games are leading up to me finishing Once Upon An Adventure, my full scale RPG. I don't know when it'll will be done. I'm at a point where I'm pushing myself to just be happy with what I am making currently, I want this to be the last round of asset making I do. I don't think it'll be done by 2023. But I'm hoping I might be able to show more videos by then. Currently Im working on the maps! I'm on the second to last chapter for dungeons. Then I can do towns, then hidden areas! Once that's done I can build them all in game, then start working on overworld sprites and then when its all put together I can record footage of maps! There's still a LOT of work to do on Once Upon An Adventure, but please look forward to it and please look forward to more updates in 2022!
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I do still plan on doing 1 short game per year. And I have a couple of ideas. I'm thinking of maybe letting people decide which one I should attempt? We'll see. A big goal I have for game making in 2023 is to try and enter some game jams. I've made games in really short times already so I think entering game jams could be a ton of fun. So don't be surprised if you see stuff like that from me. And as always I'm working with @CloudyGamesLLC and @SeafloorGames for various projects. Please check them out!
Once again, thank you all so much for your continued love and support. I hope I can make even cooler things next year! Here's to a great 2023 with many more video games to come!
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floofyfluff · 1 year
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4:18 am summary of me taking a holiday/snow day shift for extra pay. since i have officially finished with my day job as of 1 pm. is that:
cw death and just like. literally every day i desire to kill the concept of god more
i am a moron. how did i forget where i came from in 6 months. it's so cold and its december which means that everyone is dying. 🎶 its the most wonderful time of the year 🎶 the hap-happiest season of all!!!🎶
god does not exist and he does not love you and i wish you would stop giving him credit for work the rest of us are doing. while blaming us for everything else. i GET that you're devastated i DO but hm i guess actually its my fault i didn't see your grandma's atherosclerosis 3 years ago. thanks. yeah its my fault shes dead. i would really love for a medic to show up but unfortunately they're all busy with the people who might be salvageable right now. a doctor??? LMA fucking O that's not going to help. no amount of epi would help here. i'm breaking ribs as a performance rn. my partner has been here for 2 weeks i've never met her before she's visibly developing a panic disorder. she could be more helpful but also it doesn't matter so whatever. i'm just sitting here until med control can call official tod. which they should have called an appropriate crew here to do before we got here. no shockable rhythm here this is exclusively to make you feel better. which i cannot stress enough i would be very willing to do bc i have done worse things for 2 min cycles but you're telling me that it's my fault this happened while im sobbing so honestly. lay off. or die i guess. whichever comes first.
god does not exist he does not love you and if he does exist he in fact thinks its funny that you die while trying to stay warm under your bed when its -8F. he thinks its hilarious. man's got a long record of opening up the earth and swallowing well-meaning families to teach you a lesson about how much life sucks and how you should fear him just in case he can make it suck even more. it's not my fault of your fault that energy costs as much as it does and your mom thought she'd be fine with some extra blankets!!!! she wasn't fine and its not our fault but it sure feels like it doesnt it!!!
god does not exist and does not love you and you are now the third fucking family who has told me that it's my fault your grandpa is dead in 6 hours and i don't care anymore. a medic is gonna show up here in 10 min and give him an i/o and he's still gonna be dead. I am once again hoping that your prayers get him where he wants to go but don't fucking blame me if you think that they don't. take that shit up with god.
god does not exist and he doesn't love you but drunk ass extended family trying to get gma up the stairs and causing So many more problems than they are solving DOES exist. and they are doing 10x more for everyone than thoughts and prayers. i do not want this soda that i now have but thank you. this soda i do not want is also the reason im still alive
wrote this at 4:20 hahah blaze it and its now 5:03 and i have soft cats in my bed so i guess i'll live. also if god existed which for the sake of the world and all that is decent i hope he does not. i'm going to physically fight god
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xythlia · 9 months
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Also, let me just catch up with you rq! I remembered that I completely forgot to congratulate you on your birthday, so happy belated birthday I guess 😭❤️ Uni has been kicking my ass, especially the commute between my home city, the city I study in and the city where I am working on my doctor‘s study/thesis 🥲 Idek if I have ever told you, but last year me and a few other students were sent to the other end of the state to continue our education in another hospital there. All those years before I was living with my parents and just commuted to Uni (which is in the city where I am working on my thesis rn), but that was not possible anymore. Luckily I got an apartment in the student dorms there (which belong to an entirely different uni, but they were kind enough to offer us rooms as well), but it was so fucking bad. Not the apartment itself, mind you, just the rest. My student dorm was basically at the other end of the city, I had no car, and the buses drove 2x per hour and would often not come at all. There is no direct connection between the dorm and the hospital, so you have to take the bus to the inner city and then take another bus there. I had to walk to the hospital more times than I can count, and that‘s a 5km walk, so you can imagine how I arrived to my lectures. I had courses and training the entire day, and would often arrive at like 7pm in the evening, completely exhausted. Add onto that that it was winter (🫠), so the days were short, cold, and the weather was unpredictable, and I had to cook and keep up the apartment + the commute to my home and thesis city. The people there were SO unkind, some didn’t even greet me and would not even wait a few seconds to keep the door open for me, even though they could see I was carrying a big pack of water bottles. I was blogging from the trenches back then 😭 I applied for the other student dorm in the inner city, right next to the bus stop for the bus to the hospital, since all my friends live there, and to combat the loneliness I had experienced during the winter. They approved, and I moved in at the end of March/beginning of April. It’s sooo much better here, the people are kind (we even have a chat group on WhatsApp), the apartment is smaller and has an objectively better atmosphere, and I save so much time now. I also managed to get closer to my friends and actually go out with them/ invite them over for coffee.
On a more positive note, my friend and I managed to get tickets for Hozier in December 🎉 I told my BFF, because we discovered Hozier back in school together and have always promised each other that one day we will go to one of his concerts together, and she and her roommate (who also went to school with us) managed to get tickets as well, sooo we’re making the whole thing into a vacation 🫶🏻 (for clarification: My BFF lives in the same state as I do, just in a different city and often has to commute to Berlin for her studies/work since the program she’s enrolled in is a so-called ‘Duales Studium’, a concept that is, I think, exclusive to Germany. We rarely get to see each other, but we text almost every day.)
I currently just want to finish the exam season so I can have my two weeks of peace in Bosnia in August 🤘🏻
I think those were all the big updates on my life 😄 I should make more of my own posts so I can keep people updated in real time, just like you do 😵‍💫 I am so sorry for the way your bf’s mom treated you, that was so disrespectful and uncalled for. I also feel sorry for your bf for having to apologize for her actions. People who have no filter and no shame are the absolute worst 🫠. I hope her words didn’t hurt you too much, and that I am proud of you for getting to a weight where you are happy and content with yourself ❤️
omg anesa <333 ty for the belated hbd but im sorry schools been kicking u around that commute sounds so bad oml especially w rude ppl to deal with on top of it. its really good tho u were able to transfer somewhere way better and reconnect with ur friends! & OMG U GOT HOZIER TICKETS?? a lil concert vacation sounds so fun i hope u guys have an awesome time!!! ^⁠_⁠^
ahskahdsk my bfs mom is absolutely certifiable so it doesn't bother me too bad (and tysm for being proud too of my happy weight! being in recovery has been the best choice i ever made for myself) i felt so bad for my bf & his dad too it was like damn spending basically ur whole lives dealing with someone else's crazy behavior & constantly apologizing for it just sucks so much. But that's probably why he became a therapist lmao
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perrieedwards · 1 year
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it’s me, hi!
i’m glad you like what you’re studying! i saw that you guys recreated a christmas mv, that sounds so fun! which did you do? regarding the studio and connections…maybe one day you’ll get to work with joe alwyn lol
yayyy grinch besties!!! some people think love actually is cheesy and unrealistic…but isn’t every christmas romance movie?? do you have the hallmark movie channel there or is that an american thing? my best friend could probably make me a roast. please forgive me if this is totally inaccurate…i’m horrible with geography…even in america…shoot even in my home state…but she lived in scotland for awhile, would that be a similar type christmas roast? thanksgiving here is v turkey oriented, and then christmas depends on culture. my family (is not italian lmao) but we always have some sort of lasagna or baked ziti situation, and my husband is cuban so we have pork and rice and beans and yuca etc etc. i’m actually horrible at watching tv shows, so i get you, but those are top notch shows. i haven’t finished wednesday yet. the way the mobile app spaces things drives me insane so that’s why this is one paragraph lol. tonight’s question: have you ever seen taylor live?
hi!! we did stay another day with all the bad effects and dramatic boyband hand movements included lmaoo. and i found out i got a distinction (like the equivalent of an A+ kind of?) on both my written and practical work from my last module so i am so happy, plus now no more classes til january 🥹 i would love to work with joe alwyn omg, or blake lively oh my goddd
we have a channel called movies24 that plays hallmark movies constantly, but at christmas it used to be rebranded to christmas24 and they just played constant christmas movies and i LOVED it. i dont know if they still rebrand but i know they play constant christmas movies in december
so in the uk we have roast dinners (literally identical to christmas dinners but christmas ones typically are a bit fancier lmao) and to my knowledge scotland definitely has them but similar to how people in texas may have a different thanksgiving dinner to someone in washington (is that a good comparison i have no idea), theres slightly different interpretations and foods! like my family for example would have a christmas cake instead of christmas pudding, or theres this cake with a ring in the middle of it (like a literal jewellery ring) that i cant remember the name of, but people used to have no idea what i was talking about! i feel like that was the longest way of me saying yes she can, but she might have a different concept of one !! also that dinner sounds so nice omg
to answer your question, omg im so sorry i talk so much, i havent seen taylor live! the last concert i went to before the one on monday was in like 2016ish to see 5sos and before that i had only been to one other and that was one direction !! im really hoping to see her for the eras tour though :)
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choerrypuffs · 2 years
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oh yayayay you're free!!!! go have some fun queen you deserve it <3
nct 2021 is on 14th of December LETS GOO im glad to be yoru only nct source its truly an honor
AYO BUT UNIVERSE (lets play ball) HAS MARK JENO JAEMIN HYUCK SHOTARO YANGYANG BUT </33 WHERE IS RENJUN IF WE HAD RENJUN THEN WE WOULDVE HAD THE WHOLE 00 LINE </3
anw how are you?? i just finished exams so im free too now :) i had sooo many missing assignments because of my procrastination but i managed to pull off and even though i shouldnt be happy i am LMAO
pls stop this procrastination </3
okay miss lana i know you like old bands which is great but may i present xrdinary heroes :0 they are a new band from jyp and their debut song is so dope!!!!! pls check them out if youre interested i swear you will not regret it
hope you have the greatest free time ever you deserve it bby !!!
- ccsa anon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so universe (lets play ball) came out
i love it
idk what about it but i jsut love it LMAOOO
a penny for your thoughts?
my other firends say they dont like universe that much but idk why im so blown away by it?! like is it just me or is it a whole bop?regardless of what others say, i think its great and everyone has their own opinion :)
yes i’m finally free !! i’m taking a semester off before going back to grad school bc i mentally and physically cannot handle going back to uni rn <3
WTF IF SM IS GONNA DEBUT ALL THESE UNITS THEY NEED TO DO A 00 LINE UNIT PLS I’M BEGGING !!!!!! honestly maybe it’s for the better that renjun isn’t in universe bc half of the members barely had any lines 💀 it was basically mark x haechan x doyoung trio featuring the other members as backup dancers 🤧 center jaemin though !!! also cat and i were just discussing how the lyrics don’t make sense?? what does us being their universe have to do with playing ball 😭😭😭 ngl i’m gonna have to agree with your friend here bc it was so forgettable imo and the concept is really weak 😔 also did the mv remind you of the ridin mv a little?? idk why i got such ridin vibes
yay!! i’m so happy your exams are over too !! we’re finally free 😩 no you definitely should be happy for pull through omfg that’s awesome !! that last minute panic and fear of failing really lights a fire under your feet 🥴
JDFSLKALS LMFAOOOOO ARE YOU CALLING ME OLD 😭😭😭😭 you’re right though i am too old for these new groups 💔 also i had absolutely NO idea jyp debuted a new band ??? but i really like their song !!!! is the title a reference to the movie happy death day 👀 i was expecting day6 sad breakup vibes but this is such a cool concept! reminds me a lil of block b (speaking of old groups lmao)  
have a wonderful day as well, lovely! thank you for always keeping my inbox alive 🤩
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18: Do you feel like your work gets enough recognition? What kind of feedback do you like to receive?
in terms of notes, yea for the most part. i don't think hard abt notes bc im aware that im blessed wrt them; its rare in general that one of my one-shots will stall before hitting at least 300 and that's p good! id estimate that my average among my full fics is probably abt 600 or 700 which is really good. i feel like when a fic flops im fully expecting it & when one blows up its a pleasant surprise.
ANY feedback AT ALL is great tbh, not to sound bitchy lmfao. but i rlly love getting asks about my fics in general 🥺 i rlly do put a ton of thought into them, with writing style and motifs and plot, so its nice to have a convo with readers abt what they liked most or if they noticed little things ive put in.
20: Which fic have you put the most work into? Which fic have you put the least work into?
of the fics that I've published, My Lady is easily the one I worked on hardest. i poured my heart and soul into it last year and it remains, imo, my best one yet. that said, as 2021 comes to a close, the fics that i intend to put out up until the new year r gonna be on a whole different level. obviously Soup for the Soul is gonna be my first multi-part series, and that naturally requires more work. Great Celestial Hieroglyphs is a bit of a passion project; it completely snuck up on me and i absolutely can't wait for people to read it. if you thought my lady was poetic and incredibly written then Hieroglyphs is gonna blow you away.
finally though, Shining Armor. ohhhhh boy Shining Armor—or, as my discord friends have known it for going on two years (yes, two years), Bodyguard Bakugo. now at the end of this year (on December 28th to be precise) i will be hitting my two year anniversary for this blog. Shining Armor has been around even longer than that 😳 i came up with the concept in November of 2019 and I've been working on it ever since. so yeah, that's probably the fic I've put the most work into. like, hands-down. once it starts posting, there'll be consistent weekly chapters for like half a year because i wanted to finish it before i started posting. i really hope to start on the anniversary of this blog!
ask me abt my fics!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: NOT A HELLO, BUT NOT A GOODBYE EITHER
omg hi ... im like . ashamed to come back after saying brief hiatus in october and then disappearing off the face of the earth til FEBRUARY but under the cut i will be explaining myself and the following, if youre interested (and a tl;dr at the very bottom if you don’t wanna scroll thru this obnoxiously long post):
the reason(s) i was gone for so long
what i was doing during that time (its just a personal account yall can scroll past this idrc)
the status of those um . halloween requests
the future of this account
i. so . Hiatus .
i know. i know . i probably mentioned it when i made the announcement post, but my mental health likes to go on one of those rides. yknow the ones where you go like up rlly fast then down maybe and then up then DOWN .... its like that. i needed a break and every time i wanted to come back or thought about it, something would happen and i would get stuck in my own head.
a big reason for getting stuck in my head was (and i hate to admit this ... i hate to admit that i have Insecurities On The Internet) my feelings of inadequacy regarding my writing. i love to plot fics, i love concepts and characters and making little headcanons but i dont ... know if i love writing rn. and i thought for the longest time that like . whatever ill just push thru it its fine ill be fine but it kinda wasnt lmao you can kinda see it in my halloween reqs and what become of them when i get to that but i began to feel like nothing i had put out or would put out would hold up prose wise (and normally i dont feel like this im much more “idc its my life im living it” but thats not a rant for tumblr LMAO). i still feel like that -- like im better as a reader than a writer. but . You Know :-)
tl;dr: mental state go brrrrr
ii. anywhere here’s wonderwall
when i left, i was in a steadily decreasing mental and emotional state, made worse by a situation at work that really was a case of petty jealousy on my end and rlly isnt very consequential now despite how much pain and resentment it gave me when it Was a problem so i wont get into it. the tl;dr of november and december was me using work as an crutch and distraction -- i know my job, i do it well, it helped me not think about my responsibilities and obligations and inadequacies. of course, as the holiday season grew busier n busier i was scheduled so often that i moved 88 or so miles (according to my apple watch, which i ONLY wear at work since im never anywhere else outside my house) and fell into a cycle of showering n sleeping at my house before going back the next day. (theres definitely something to be said abt capitalism and “grind culture” here but once again its not the time or place snsjkdfds)
at the turn of the new year, i happened to remember a birthday card i hadnt filed away for safekeeping from a friend of mine that id been horribly out of touch with til that point. i started crying because i realized how out of touch id been in general up until that point. the month of january was great for me: i was focused, happy, and in a much better place than i had been before. the end of it brought me down focus wise and im hoping that enough time away from my distractions will refocus me bc i ... need it LMAO and though ive burned out from that level of productivity and gotten distracted again im ... trying to stay positive which i think is the most i can do 😁👍🏼
media wise, i got real into stardew valley (but burned out bc i played it extensively as a way to wind down after work), the pokemon platinum romhack renegade platinum (still havent finished it bc of school n i played it w the intent to see if i could nuzlocke it ... bitch its so hard but its so fun bc of it), briefly assassins creed: odyssey (im one of those ppl who completes an entire region before i move to the next so you can tell i burned out of that one + wouldnt have the time to properly devote to it even if i didnt), got back into genshin impact after pulling for xiao (after not touching it for like . months), and danganronpa. yes . danganronpa 😐 i Know. i stopped playing it after the second trial of the first game bc i was so hurt by the outcome and picked it up in late january only to get sucked in (thank god i had the foresight to buy the second and third games during the steam winter sale). rn im at the start of chapter 4 if anyone wants to come in my asks and um . talk to me abt danganronpa
tl;dr: I’m Into Danganronpa Now
iii. you realize halloween was three months ago right
i mentioned this in the first section, but i love to plot things. every request is plotted or at least has a solid foundation. i had fun detailing what concept i wanted to go with considering what i was given, and there were some bangers i might touch up in the future. but heres whats going to happen to the requests themselves:
there are two finished requests. one will be posted tomorrow and the other will be touched up (just bc i finished it doesnt mean its good 🧍‍♂️) and scheduled for next saturday. as for the ones i never got around to ...
i will not be finishing those requests. i hate to be That Person, but i feel like we all expected this 🧍‍♂️ what i will do is post all of my notes for each request in batches -- requests that have an @ to go with them will be mentioned in the post proper, but anon asks will be pictured. (there are some asks that came from blogs who are now deactivated but i wrote down all the prompts and remember most of those askers so ill cross that bridge when i get there) there will most likely be an excerpt or two simply bc i think i mightve written a few plot points or interactions in the form of bullet points. i rlly am sorry about doing this but i remember looking at my notion doc with all the prompts and feeling ... like i wasnt measuring up n it wasnt just to myself or to some intangible concept of “other” id constructed but it was instead to those who requested n actually WANTED to see and hear and read my writing and i ...... im gonna admit thats another big reason i avoided this site.
regardless, youll definitely get what i have (and likely more than just my bullet points and illegible handwriting).
tl;dr: im sorry. what i have in terms of plot, concept, and interaction for every request will be posted, but i cant say ill ever complete them and mean it.
iv. so what now?
well i mean . im not entirely sure how sold i am on haikyuu in the content creation department (as a creator n to a lesser extent, as a consumer). as mentioned previously, its no longer my primary focus. it doesnt mean im not into haikyuu anymore; i have a lot of love for those boys but i cant rlly say im even caught up w recent fandom activity and also havent even finished s4 pt2 LMAO thats on my to do list
and despite all that, i still want to share my plots n concepts and snippets and maybe even fics. it wont happen anytime soon. it might not even happen. but i mean . its better than me saying i wont write ever again shjdkfs but either way ill probably use this blog as a personal blog w the occasional ask game for dialogue prompts (those are always so fun i love making up aus to fit like . the most mundane prompts)
as for my works (past and any potential future), ive opened an ao3 acc here n ill be editing n possibly expanding on my old works to post there. tumblr, to me, is The x reader hub, but i figure more x reader fics on ao3 is never a bad thing.
ill be deleting/posting drafted posts to the queue since they were all meant to be queued anyway as well as (sorry again 🧍‍♂️) deleting or answering asks in the inbox. (moots if you get a notif from me saying i rbed your post from months ago ... mind your business) im very hard to get ahold of and its ... a problem. expect an overhaul of the nav n shit to reflect my new direction n also because i feel like i cant tell if my passion for carrd is shared by the majority HSDKLFS maybe its better to read my info in a normal post ykwim .......
and of course . if youve read all this n decided im no longer worth the follow, i sure as hell cant stop you. thank you for wanting to, at some point, hear what i have to say -- it means more than you think.
tl;dr: writing will be edited and reposted to ao3, this blog will be a personal blog with a hint of writing (sometimes)
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the tl;dr to end all tl;drs:
im back! i wont be as active as i used to due to a lessened interest in haikyuu in general, but i have an ao3 acc now where all my past work will be edited, possibly expanded, and reposted. any future work will also find itself there. my halloween requests will be posted in batches as incomplete concepts, plots, and snippets of scenes; i wont be promising to finish any of them.
there are still fic concepts im attached to and want to finish, but i cant promise any more writing on my end. this blog will be a personal blog with maybe writing, not a writing blog with my personal thoughts all over it.
regardless if you stick around or not, its been crazy sexy cool (equal emphasis) being on haikyuu tumblr even tho i wasnt around for long ... even tho its not my main focus anymore, im still excited to see what the future might hold 🤝
love, ari 💌
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daisyimhalfcrazy · 5 years
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Term 1 Project:Computing with impossibility
A group project by: Ioannis Gkigkelos, Abi Price, Katarina Popovic.
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The terror of ‘no error’
We are ever more fascinated by our machines. And by numbers.  And by the possibility for the numbers to simulate reality. Ultimately, by our ability to predict and put everything in order, a process in which computers are essential. “Our information age utopia is an error-free world of efficiency, accuracy, and predictability.” (Nunes, 2011, 4)In Error, Glitch Noise and Jam in New Media Cultures, editor Mark Nunes states in the intro, we are basically borrowing this expectation of perfect order or the absence of the mistake. Unfortunately, what hides behind this obsession of order is actually the objective of total control, loss of privacy, basic freedoms to decide along with human rights in which ‘Big data meets Big brother’ systems are possible at the social level as high as the state you happen to be a citizen of.
“Singularitarians believe that the world is “knowable” and computationally simulatable and that computers will be able to process the messiness of the real world just like they have every other problem that everyone said couldn’t be solved by computers.” (Ito, 2018)
The problem with this seemingly hopeful idea is that it is profit and progress driven, or as Ito formulates it, it is “the natural evolution of the worship of exponential growth applied to modern computation and science.”(Ito, 2018) In such an environment an unpredictable change, an ‘accident’ or an (unaccounted for) error becomes an enemy.
As Newton’s III law declare – For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One part of the world is largely fascinated by the order, but the other part is not. For the artistic community, the disturbance is one of the golden opportunities to open the other doors. It is almost as if the more control one tries to have, the more that particular system is interesting to be mined by the artistic community. The great example of the ‘unacceptable’ in the established state of things was the urinal Duchamp displayed in 1917, kind of marking the death of ‘art as it should be’ once again, a few years after 1913 when his Nude Descending a Staircase stirred the Art scene in New York.
Not only the ready-made was born and the concept of the non-retinal art, but it opened a whole new field of artistic practice and research. Similar happened to the perfect Cartesian coordinate system. Fed by small deviations, in the works of Georg Nees, we watch it produce interesting graphics outcomes with many variations (depending on the type of ‘anomaly’ introduced). Disturbing the expected (or – purposeful) order is the birth of a possible new order. And the error is detrimental to opening new possibilities for machine creativity. This is the field that caught our curious eye- what happens when the system is dancing on that thin line between the possible and impossible, between stability and instability in the program that finds a way to execute code it previously accepted as possible.
The Beauty in Numerical Instability
The artifact we have produced during our research is based on the variation of the code for the spiral example from Mastering OpenFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified (2013, 50-55) where a line is drawn between the previous and the current position of a point. Current position rotates at an angle “a” and “a” is incremented by a variable “b” which is also incremented by a variable change, and those values are initially doubles (the numbers with many decimals). However, the instability is introduced by changing the type of variables from doubles to floats. In the images below, you will see the stable variant on the left side, and on the right side, the unstable one. In the image no1, notice the regular spiral form on the left side and many diverse shapes on the right side (circles, octagons, rectangles…) and connections.   Experimenting with the rate of change of b (bchange1, bchange2) we realized that decimal numbers except 0.5 produced another kind of instability (image no2). Now the stable spiral shapes would rotate around the center of the canvas producing a new pattern. So we set out to play with doubles and floats only on the bchange1, bchange2 variables (image no3).
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As time progressed this rotation of the two spirals would get out of control and produce another chaotic pattern as in the left picture below while on the right picture the pattern would stay the same. The end result is somehow surprising since our stable example this time produces more instability than our unstable one. (image no4)
According to the deterministic chaos theory, the minimal interventions in the initial variables in a system produce a very complex result. And this is exactly what we have observed in this process.
Is this error or possibility?
Playing with instability in the code allowed us to see more than we could have expected, giving way to possibilities that we perhaps wouldn’t have thought of executing before. Also, it drew us away from intention and towards discovery instead.
“We have also seen several times that creative behavior from a program was reported when something went wrong – a misconception by the programmer, a syntax error that fortuitously produced a viable program, etc. …The crux of this view is that their behavior surprises their creator, and there does seem to be some link between surprising behavior and creativity. “(Partridge and Rowe, 1994, 151)
Rather than seeing it as a ‘mistake’, an error in the system comes with the field of possibility that following Deleuze’s philosophy of the virtual as conditions from which the experience emerges, Tim Barker describes as a potential:
“The error is potential in a sense that it is not pre-formed or pre-programmed by the artist. It can only be described as potential, which is inherent in the machine… It is only by allowing the capacity for potential errors, by moving away from the territory of the preconceived aesthetics of errorless machines, that we may provide the opportunity to think the unthought, to allow digital technologies to become-other.” (Nunes, 2011, 52)
Just as during the Cage’s 4’33’’ (1952) composition and in Rauschenberg’s White Painting (1951), the empty, void or the ‘unexpected’ is to be filled by the audience’s intervention, the system is expected to fill the instability potential with an outcome it executes out of the human eye or intervention.
Control – Surrender Axis
We can also look at this process from the perspective of the role of the artist, where Brian Eno (Edge, 2011) talks about creation process moving away from that of an architect knowing exactly what the final product will look like to approaching it as a gardener. After initially setting up the system, we let go of part of the control, relying on the dynamics of the system to finish the work. The actual computer is given part of the creation of the artwork. Surrender, in Eno’s words, is what we go to galleries and church for – to be taken away. This, as an artistic practice, means incorporating this field of ‘impossibility’ that opens new dimensions for research and creation. In our example, after planting our ‘seeds’ we had no access to the process. Once the ‘build ’was done, the outcomes were surprising and much different from the ‘stable’ example. What is truly impressive is there was nothing a program ‘looked at’ or was being previously fed with. It got the simple code and all of a sudden we were in the area of computer agreeing to something it is ‘almost impossible’ to do. So we basically surrendered our intentions to the machine and waited for the outcome. And the system delivered an array of aesthetical outputs.
Conclusion
Given the meaning of the word ‘to err’: ‘to wander’ off the beaten path, the machine actually has shown a significant amount of flexibility, basically adjusting the impossible to become possible and displayed. Going back to the modern social objective of the perfect predictable order (without the threshold of flexibility the perfect order simply crashes) we can conclude that the research into the (im)possibility has a larger field of implications then purely aesthetic and software ones. Due to the negative nature in which the ‘error’ is assumed to be in the computer system as well as in our cultural and political framework, highlighting the instability, ‘mistake’, process of surrender and the computational system’s sensitivity seems to be a bright torch to lit as a contribution to keeping things real in the current AI and Singularity one-truth overhype.
References
Nunes, M. editor, (2011)  Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures. New York London: Continuum Books.
Ito, J. (2018), Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto (Designing our Complex Future with Machines). [online] Available from https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction [Accessed December 2018].
Partridge, D. and Rowe, J. (1994) Computers and Creativity. Oxford, England: Intellect.
Perevalov, D. (2013) Mastering OpenFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified. Packt Publishing.
Edge (2011) Composers as Gardeners. [online] Available from https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-composers-as-gardeners [Accessed November 14th, 2018].
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elvesofnoldor · 7 years
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thequintessentialqueer replied to your post: Also no one is talking to me about star wars and...
star wars ruined my life and brought me more hope than I know what to do with
Ikr, but seriously, all i care about is the sequel trio aka my space babies, the Resistance/Alliance (bc of rogue one and that one blogger i followed who makes shit tons of headcanons abt resistance pilots), and maybe some jedi lores and exploration on the concept of the fore but these are not part of my primary interest anymore lol (i might pay attention to these stuff more later on but...)
All my hope in (the future of) sw series lies in the promise of space gays and MORE anti space fascists content. If Star Wars epi 8 comes out in December and Lucasfilm does not deliver the gayness (//cough// Poe Is Gay //cough//) or lets Rey develop SOME sort of relationship with a girl or screws up Finn’s characterization in some shape and form, im gonna abort this space ship so fast like, i’d probably be out of the door before the credits finishes rolling in theatre lmao 
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Weekly Announcements for Week of 10/13-10/19
Dear SBSC families,
Practice Schedule RHS Practice Groups Group 1: Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:15
G1 Elite: Monday 5:30-7:30 Group 2: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 5:30-7:30, and Friday 5:00-6:30
Group 3 PM: Monday, Tuesday, 4:15-6:30 PM, Thursday 4:00-6:15 PM, & Friday 4:00-5:30 PM
Group 3 AM: Monday, Tuesday, 5:30-7:00 AM, and Wednesday 6:30-8:30 AM
NPHS Practice Groups (all times for NP our CST)
Group 1 Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-7:15
Group 2 & 3 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 5:30-7:30
Practice Notes:   NP families please make sure to use the main doors when entering the building at NPHS.   A reminder to all Group 2 swimmers attending Friday's practice to bring dry-land clothes and running shoes.
There will be no practice at New Prairie on Thursday. Due to the fall break the school administration is choosing to use the time with no students in the building to finish some electrical work.
There is no evening practice on Wednesday at Riley this week.  Colorado Timing will be on site Wednesday and Thursday to work on the our system.  They will need to open up the deck plates and need to make sure they remain dry while doing the repairs.  But, we will offer a longer Group 3 practice in the morning for those that are able to attend.  There will not be morning practice on Thursday or Friday due to SBCSC fall break.
Thursday and Friday Group 3 practices at Riley will start 15 minutes earlier.  We are doing this to free up some pool space for Group 2 and still be able to accommodate those swimmers who need to travel to Riley.
Go Swim TV/CollegeSwimming.com/Deck Pass/OnDeck
Go Swim TV-the club purchased a membership from this site for our swimmers. The goal is to put up a video every day or so for swimmers to help with their technique.  To sign-up they'll need an email address.  Use this link:
https://www.goswim.tv/groups/south-bend-swim-club
College Swimming-A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a college coach who was interested in one of our swimmers.  He was asking for information about this athlete because they had not yet filled out their profile on the CollegeSwimming.com website.  I was really unaware of this service they offered.  The basic profile is free and could possibly be the first introduction your swimmer has to a college coach.  If your athlete has even the slightest interest in swimming beyond high school take advantage of this free service.  Any age swimmer can start a profile.   There will be limited recruiting features available until they are a sophomore.  I have uploaded all of our meet results from the previous two years and will continue to do so as we compete in the future.  I hope we can use this site to leverage more opportunities for SBSC athletes to continue their swimming careers beyond their time with us.
Deck Pass app-USA Swimming offers an app for it's members.  Hopefully you received an email invitation this morning.  Here is what USA Swimming highlights about the app.
Earning digital patches by achieving a best time or a qualifying standard
Setting goals and utilizing visualization tools to follow their progress
Track their best times and meet participation
Lastly, swimmers can connect to their friends and follow along with each other's accomplishments, providing a fun, supportive environment.
When we change to our new website next month you will also be able to access the Deck Pass from our website.  Currently it is just a mobile app available with iOS operating systems.  
Here is a link that explains the app in more detail
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OnDeck app-this is an app is a must for all of our families.  An invitation was sent to all families this morning as well.  This app ties directly to our website and is very user friendly.  You can declare for meets, volunteer for jobs, check your account status, and anything else you can do from the website.
Concord Dual Meet
Thanks again to our parents who volunteered their time and helped time at the meet yesterday. If I did not get a chance to thank you personally, I do apologize. I sincerely appreciate all that our volunteers do for the club.  We did have some great swims yesterday. We had one new team record set and another one tied. Mitchel Schott set the team record in the 15 and over 100 IM (54.69) and Sammy Sierra tied the team record in the 50 breast (29.02) set by Lance Fozo back in 2013   We also had 13 other swims make it into our all time top ten:
Sammy Sierra 15&O 50 back-2nd
Mason Young 15&O 50 fly-T2ndLauren Meyer 15&O 50 breast-3rd
Evie Sierra 15&O 100 IM-3rdMitchell Schott 15&O 100 free-3rd
Gabe Groves 15&O 50 breast-4thMitchell Schott 15&O 50 free-5thEvie Sierra 15&O 50 free-7thTanner Tomczak 8&U 25 back-8th
Ike Ruszkowski 13-14 50 breast-9th
Ashton Maurer 13-14 100 IM-9th
Cade Davis 8&U 100 IM-10th
Ike Ruszkowski 13-14 50 back- 10th
Great job SBSC!!
Swim-A-Thon at Riley High School October 19th
As of this morning we are just under 47% of our way towards our goal with less then one week to go.  Only 40 swimmers have received donations so far.  We currently have 124 swimmers active in our program.  This is the only fundraising we do for the entire year and it is imperative for our operating budget.  I realize every activity your child participates in does fundraising. I am also aware you can only ask the grandparents so many times.  But it very easy to set up your swimmer's account, send out to your email and put a link on your Facebook page.
This year will be using the funds for our Swim-A-Thon to not only keep your costs low but to purchase some updated dry-land equipment, power racks for the pool deck, and continuing coach education.  We also are looking into hiring a full-time lifeguard and hope to use the funds raised for this as well.
If every swimmer raised as little as $90 we surpass our goal. Any swimmer that doubles that amount and raises at least $180 will receive an embroidered team suit.  We have 7 swimmers who have already achieved that goal!
We will be need volunteers to help count laps for our swimmers. This may be the last time you get to volunteer this fall.  Don't miss out on your chance to help your club!  There will be coffee and bagels for everyone who helps!!
CON Skypoint Transit Invitational November 8th-10th
The entry has been sent.  You can check your swimmers entries by logging on to our website or by using your OnDeck app.  I will post the pertinent times in the coming weeks.
Elkhart Invitational November November 23rd & 24th
The meet information was posted this week.  The deadline is now this Thursday October 17th. High School girls wanting to compete in this meet will need an IHSAA waiver initiated by their high school coach and athletic director.  High school boys wanting to swim will not need a wavier.
Spirit Wear
We are making progress. We have a concept for the logo and we are now just making some minor adjustments.  Updates will follow as we get closer.
New USA Swimming Guidelines-MAAPP
USA Swimming issued a directive with regards to electronic communication and social media contact between coaches and athletes.  Most of what is being implemented is common sense and falls in line with our club's policies.  One new requirement we will need to adhere to is how your minor child communicates with me.  For several years I have asked swimmers in Group 2 and Group 3 to text/email me if they would be missing practice.  Moving forward, swimmers will be instructed to include a parent on all communication with me.
If you are the parent of a Group 2 or Group 3 swimmer, and have never sent me a text before, please text me so I have your contact info in my phone.  This way if I need to contact your swimmer about missing practice I can be sure to include you.  My cell phone number is 574-276-6057.
I encourage all parents and swimmers to read the full policy.  We are required to keep this policy on our website, here is the link.  
Fall and Winter Meet Schedule/Dates of Meet/Location/Deadline to commit
Below is our fall/winter meet schedule. The first date listed is the day(s) of the meet and second date is the deadline to commit. Swimmers wanting to compete will need to commit to those meets.  The deadlines are based on deadlines that were set last year (or best guess for new meets). They may change once the meet hosts posts the meet information.  When committing to multiple day meets please if the option to select the days you want is not available, please leave a message in the available notes section of the specific days you would like to attend. Meets marked with an * are meets that require swimmers to meet certain time standards.  All pool locations can be found on our website under the "Pools" tab
Intra Squad Meet-Results not available.
NCISC Fall Sprint Meet--Our Results
Dual Vs. CON--Our Results
CON Great Lakes Meet/November 8th-10th/Elkhart Aquatic Center/entry sent
ELK Invitational/November 23rd & 24th/Elkhart Aquatic Center/This Thursday October 17th
Maple City Classic/December 7th and 8th/Laporte High School/November 3rd
DUNE Rumble in the Region/December 14th/Chesterton High School/November 10th
IA TW Invite/January 3rd-5th/Rolfs Aquatic Center, Notre Dame/November 10th
CON IMXtreme Challenge/January 24th-26th/Concord High School/December 8th
NCISC Winter Championships/February 15th/Riley High School/February 9th
CON Last Chance/February 28th-March 1st/Concord High School/January 26th
*IN Divisonals/March 6th-8th/Lake Central High School/February 16th
*IN Age Senior State/March 13th-15th/IUPUI/March 1st
*IN Age Group State.March 20th-22nd/IUPUI/March 1st
*Speedo Sectionals/March 26th-29th/Elkhart Aquatic Center/March 1st
As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
-- John VanDriessche Head Coach South Bend Swim Club South Bend Riley High School (574)276-6057 www.southbendswimclub.com
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tonguetyped · 5 years
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i say i write a lot, i am lying partially.
i am asking questions for the sake of argument and end up wanting to defend the point so hard sometimes it comes off of as if I actually believe what I’m saying
i don’t have much patience to keep wasting time, and it takes some time to figure out if the rest is going to be a waste or not.  it’s been 6 ish months since julia and im still not sure how i would look back or try and describe all the things with xochitl, but yeah.  why do i try and find a relationship so badly.  sometimes i wonder if i should listen to all the people that have suggested polyamory might be a good fit for me.  i argue i have strong family values and just don’t think i would be happy in poly relationships.  maybe the best things don’t need a definition and that’s maybe okay.  i think i’m trying to be better at letting things happen and not get caught up in the moment.  although i think it is sad how i may never love again like the spend one night spend every night possible for the next two and a half years type love.  i hope that brings with it something more sustainable and deeper.  i have loves in my life, i have a lot of love to give.  i want someone that i can share every detail but have days of separation as well.  i need to learn better discipline, i need to quell the impulsivity.  sometimes it feels like i’ve made great progress and the next like it’s only getting worse.  i feel there are spikes in the heartbeat monitor timeline of my life if the line became a full circle and the spikes looked like urchin spines along otherwise soft thread.  
it feels solid and it makes me shaky. 
the shake constitutes a blur. in my defense I think December has been exceptionally speedy.  the job i had is keeping me on as a consultant for the research project with MIT, the Charlesgate project, and potentially adding me as a consultant to a project with Lynn.  The VP of the installation company I’m working with by myself also asked to add me onto other projects they have going.  The rap music video freelancing stuff has also been coming quicker, working with better talent connected to way more interesting people.  As I’m going back and finishing the last semester before i get my undergraduate architecture degree.  
my emotions are on the fritz and it feels like there is a desperation to the loneliness that i’m trying to cling onto any surface that i can.  i’m being more intentional about when i choose to fuck and i think it is a good choice ; i think i’ve had enough of meaningless sex.  she told me she wanted to fuck because she knows i’m a type of person that can fuck without attachment.  if i love with no attachments and fuck without attachment what are the things i attach to?  am i just ceaselessly careening through this life without a hold onto anything?
i had a culture shock induced existential crisis going from driving plateless cars to mansions in albany to working at a hypercorporate (i need to stop putting hyper as a prefix) office at a highway side headquarters in burlington mass and in a fit of heidegger induced panic at the concept of the being to which we refer being to and how other things in the world can be in a state of being nonhuman and inanimate.  i feel like sometimes i live in other ages ones that may never come of antarctica as a nonviolent refuge for the world burning above, one of computational landscapes and integrated living environments that facilitate ecosystemic growth and fertility of sustainable infrastructures available to all.  but if we refer to being as dwelling and dwelling in reference to a combination of nature and culture, what happens when artificially intelligent systems are applied to the forces that shape these both, what does it constitute to inhabit a world where virtual, mixed, and augmented realities permeate and obscure an objective ‘real’, if there is any argument to be made that it still exists today?
please pay for my thesis, let me dream while i’m awake until i sleep.  my vices knock me out and hand out the smelling salts throughout their cyclical abuse.  i smoke because it feels like it lets me breathe.  i’d want fresh air but the fumes get me feeling a type of way.  good sex and good weed but no sleep is going to be the death of me.  but i’m working on it, and I say so without genuinely believing it’s a problem.  these things i partake in haven’t inhibited other things in my life, at least from what i can tell.  i understand they tint the lenses, but so far i don’t feel, especially after confiding in friends, that there are objective long term net negatives.  yellow flags, nothing bad yet.  but it also depends ultimately how i feel about these things.  so far, not strongly enough to want to make any hardcore changes.  something again about the discipline to.  need to use fewer adages.  i analyze the things in my life and feel happy that there is success to be found in any part, nevermind multiple parts.  there is not the good without the bad and I’m happy to feel like I am still capable of development and change as an individual.  I am excited to watch the things in my life continue to develop  
but the past stays persistent, timing is always everything, why so?
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