#ive done a prototype but im working out some things
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Headcanons for being Tony Stark’s Daughter (The Intense Years)
Tony Stark x daughter!reader
warnings:
a/n: y/n is 16-17, also ive really never written anything about team iron man so this was weird, someone needs to tell me i dont need every single movie detail in here
prompt: takes place from cacw and smhc
The Early Years (1) The Teenage Years (2) The Aftermath (4) Continued (5)
after the events in sokovia, you set up the relief fund for displaced sokovians and dealt with physical clean up while the avengers...
well, they had to deal with the press—and the governments of the world
getting to know your new suit AI, JOSHUA
briefly looking for bruce; no luck there
you ended up doing the MIT september foundation presentation with tony
and ending the presentation after pepper’s name popped up on the screen
“it’s probably best we get out of here”
you were his entire support system while he was going through his break with pepper
meeting charles spencer’s mother, who really gave your dad a piece of her mind
“my son died, but your daughter gets to live on. if you lost her, maybe you’d show some sympathy for murdering my child”
*awkward silence from you*
*awkward silence from tony otw to the compound*
HATING the sound of the sokovia accords, yet understanding why they’re being ratified
being torn between signing them or not and having a huge argument with the other avengers
“y/n, why dont you listen to your dad for once and sign the damn thing”
“uncle rhodey, you know why i dont want to sign. if they have us, they have access to our suits. you really think the UN should be telling us how to use them?”
“your defense doesn’t even make sense. i had the war machine or iron patriot or whatever the hell you want to call it, but the military was calling the shots”
“and look where you are now”
“right, well i wouldn’t expect a kid to understand”
“are you kidding me, rhodes? you’re gonna play the ‘im older than you’ card?”
comforting wanda while she feared being taken
and as soon as you heard about what happened in lagos
“think about it, maximoff. if you didnt do what you did, do you know how many more casualties there may have been?”
“but i killed innocents”
“no, rumlow killed innocents. you contained that blast better than anyone else could have and you prevented a whole bunch of deaths, give yourself some credit”
okay, so you weren’t the best at talking someone down while they were upset
staying in berlin with your father while the whole bucky thing began to get sorted out
but he sent you out to stay with nat while he had some “private time” with steve
tony keeping you close to him during the power outage at the base
until it turned out you brought your suit and tony did not!
everyone was looking at you to take down bucky, but it just seemed like a bad idea, you didn’t want to hurt him because you didn’t want to hurt steve
stalling to try and buy steve time to subdue his friend
“y/n, come on, for christ sake!”
“got it, dad! i know what im doing!”
“i dont think you do!”
feeling your stomach drop when bucky shot into your dad’s hand, if it wasn’t for his latest invention, he may have gotten seriously hurt
you had a slight change of heart after that, you couldn’t bare to lose your dad. not after all those close calls...
getting yelled at by secretary ross and the wonderful 36 hour ultimatum you, nat, and tony received
“i have a plan”
“don’t say the spider boy”
“fine, i wont say it”
a nice trip to queens :)
when this parker kid finally got home, tony left you to socialize with his aunt
small talk is sometimes unbearable
“so, what’s it like being tony stark’s daughter?”
“honestly? im always tired”
peter becoming a tagalong on your mission, which you didn’t really think was appropriate
“dad, i dont really think we should’ve brought the kid...”
“why? you’re about the same age as him, its not much different”
“um...no, i meant this isnt his battle. i don’t care how old he is”
face off between tony and cap where you literally just swallowed all your pride and apologized because you couldn’t handle the fact that the team was being ripped apart like this
team ups with Spider-Man
“so, uh, do you hate me or something?”
“hey, kid? we’re kind of in the middle of something, i’ll get back to you on that”
“it’s a yes or no question, y/n”
“pass”
so, things didn’t exactly go as planned...
your (former) teammates were taken to the RAFT and you couldn’t pull it together in front of them
they were pretty pissed at you
“im sorry, im so sorry, i should’ve done better”
they ignored you (up until scott lang)
“all you stark’s are the same”
“stay out of this, bugboy”
taking to the remote hydra base in another famous father/daughter teamup
“just like the old days, right kiddo?”
“i guess so”
“hey, cheer up, it’s not all that bad”
waltzing right in there to meet your friend and foe
seeing the video of your grandparents dying
*being killed
absolutely stunned by seeing such a gruesome thing
even after all you’ve seen, this really got to you
you were robbed of ever meeting them, which made you angry, but you couldn’t stay angry because there were so many things out of everyones control
realizing that this was a good time to hold tony back
“JOSHUA, lock down y/n’s suit. protocol: baby gate”
apparently your dad still had some old protocols in your suit that you hadn’t found yet
“JOSHUA? reboot! override protocol: baby gate”
“i’m sorry, miss y/n, but i cannot do that”
watching your father attempt to get revenge
and get critically injured
simultaneously working on opening the suit back up for a bad plan
finally getting the emergency release and stumbling out of your suit, rushing towards the conflict and throwing yourself in the middle of it
“please, dad. enough damage has been done.”
“y/n, get out of the way”
he saw you shaking and crying and he realized what he was doing
attacking the only family you guys really had
getting shoved out of the way so that they could end this fight once and for all
JOSHUA finally rebooting and bringing the suit over to shield you while you helplessly watched the end of this fight
when bucky and steve left, your suit disarmed and you crouched down beside your father
“come on, let’s just go home”
“im sorry”
“i know, it’s okay”
trying to comfort your dad after his defeat
you picked up cap’s shield and returned to your suit, it was time to go home
after a brief time of recovery (while you helped work on uncle rhodey’s prototype prosthetics), there was a slight change of plans for you
“okay, so for your punishment after what you pulled during my...divorce with cap, you’re going to babysit the spiderling so you gain some perspective”
“hold on, what?! what do you mean ‘perspective?’”
“i mean you dont know what it’s like to be in charge of the life of a teenager, so now you get to find out! congratulations on your promotion!”
it was not fun at all because peter kept blowing up your phone and you kept having to tell him there was nothing for him to do
Y/N: I’ll let you know when there’s a spider-level threat, kapeesh?
P. Parker: Yes, ma’am, sorry.
peter going behind your back to do some “superhero work”
and you having to swoop in to fix everything last second
“come on, you stole my thunder, y/n!”
“no, peter, i saved your life. next time you have a lead, call me first”
and then he didn’t 😌✨💕
“Y/N, incoming call from ‘big fat meanie’”
“put him through, JOSHIE...hey dad, how’s dubai?”
“taking care of a kid is harder than it looks, isn’t it?”
“don’t start with me”
damage control ahahah 🤡
“peter, why cant you just call me in? you don’t stop texting me for months but for this you go radio silent? you almost died. and you put a bunch of lives in danger! do you want me to have to go to your aunt and tell her you died?”
“im sorry! i just...i dont want to be a sidekick”
“kid, you’re gonna have a long time to make a name for yourself...but not if you’re dead!”
he started crying and you were very uncomfortable so you tried to hug him? it helped.
letting him off easy (just like your dad did to you growing up)
but apparently tony came back and took the suit anyways and you were pretty pissed about it
avengers moving day :) yes, part of your punishment was helping happy with moving day and hearing him gush about how you were “growing into such a responsible adult”
“happy i dont know if you noticed but ive basically been an adult since i was 12”
“keep telling yourself that, kiddo”
seeing an explosion and immediately knowing it was peter
“i’ll see you later, happy, love you!”
investigating the crash site and whaddaya know, there’s peter and his first bad guy, you were kind of proud
“peter, you okay?”
“nope!”
“okay, cool”
more damage control lmao (a/n: yall sick of damage control yet?)
a congratulatory call from your dad
“hey! you did pretty good, all things considered. why don’t you take the kid to the avengers compound for his special surprise?”
“aye aye, see you soon.”
“love you, kiddo”
“you too, dad”
quick fast forward to peter rejecting the position as an avenger while the press was outside, yes, you were surprised
but then your dad finally proposed to pepper, it was a pretty cool engagement announcement
“y/n, will you be my maid of honor?”
“duh!”
happily ever after (a/n: until the next part is up)
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i know this game was made in rm2k3 but im very curious on the process!! i love this game very much and it has inspired me greatly. ive only made tiny games in the newer version of RM. How did u do it??
This is a big question, so I’ve been sitting on this one for a while so I can answer it properly (sorry anon). I’m not sure what you would like me to focus on specifically, but I would say the rough development journey went like this:
1. Prototype.
Grimm’s Hollow started off as me figuring out what mechanics I could implement in RM2K3 using the picture feature. So at first I made a QTE and a skill tree, but in order to test it out I made some playable fights using those mechanics. This was the prototype - many of those fights carried on to the first cave of Grimm’s Hollow.
This is what the prototype looked like (really rough gif):
It’s all just default RM2K3 assets. No story, nothing but the core gameplay mechanics. But I knew I wanted to explore a “spooky” setting, so that’s why you have stuff like ghost themed skills in that gif. (I’m not posting what the skill tree looked like because it’s very cursed).
2. Story
From there, I started thinking of a plot, so I did a few sketches and wrote a few outlines, then picked one and refined it.
3. Writing and implementation
I then wrote some of the game’s opening scenes. Once that was done, I started making the maps, the character face sets, the system menus, the player sprites, dialogue boxes, and other basic graphical tidbits required for the game’s opening cutscene. Once I had all the resources, I implemented the scene in-game.
Everything from that point on was a mixture of:
1. Writing the scene.
2. Creating necessary graphics for that scene.
3. Implementing in game.
4. Playtesting it. (Pro tip: RM2K3 has a built in debug console for playtesting mode. For centuries, I did not know this. You just have to press F9. Also, you can skip dialogue boxes by holding Shift.)
You can mix it up - sometimes I would write like 10 pages before doing the next bit, or sometimes I would create a bunch of graphics before something else… there’s really no shortage of things to do!
4. Devblog
I started this halfway through development. For me, dev blogs are a little time consuming to upkeep and I preferred to spend more time making my game, so I started this about only somewhat over halfway through development so I could inform people about my game. For others though, devblogs are very useful diaries to keep track of their progress, so it depends on the person! At this stage, I also started working with Natbird and Hibarist for the game’s music.
5. Testing
This is the most important bit, and I made the grave mistake of rushing it. I asked plenty of people to playtest the game and record their playthrough, then fixed what I saw, patched it, rinse, repeat for a month. What I didn’t do enough of, however, is playtest through the entire game myself - and this was partially because I was feeling very burnt out, but had a deadline to release the game soon. Feedback and testing is important, and really the earlier you get feedback the better. (Important note: your game does not need to be completed in order for you to get feedback from someone!)
6. Final
Really anon, starting with small games isn’t bad at all. If anything, it’s important. At the end of the day, the game can be beat in slightly over an hour - but I tried my best to make that hour fun instead of making it longer.
I hope this helped, and good luck on your development journey!
#grimm's hollow#indie dev#gamedev#game development#indie games#i really hope anon sees this#or someone does#and it helps them#i put effort into it so please enjoy#grimmshollowask#asks#anon
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hi im waiting for pain meds to kick in before i continue sleeping so im gonna sit here and talk about the intents behind character arcs in good afternoon good evening and goodnight ok i try not to talk about it like this Too much but hey it's fanfiction why not
so like. essentially the big overarching theme was obv supposed to be the subjectivity of reality and what it meant for themselves and their relationships
for gordon especially the game meant a lot about who he is/who he gets to be or wants to be, the idea of being a player character and second guessing your own intent was something i was excited to write as i was first starting to plan this fic out. i wanted him to struggle a Lot retroactively with reality when it felt like everyone else had long since accepted it had been a game, and ultimately that was supposed to play into his relationship with benry a lot. also obviously a huge thing for him was Trauma, we all love a good gordon freeman trauma hurt/comfort moment right? i wanted to write sort of a backwards progression for him when they were in hl2, like i tried to reverse the script a little between gordon and benry where he just. he was doing his best contrary to what happened with benry and was Worried because that's very gordon, but him just laughing thru a lot of shit and not taking it entirely seriously like he should, not even paying attention to how bad he needed a break because Well It’s Not Real Right? meanwhile benry.....well i gotta back up for him for a bit
benry i feel like i struggled a bit with, i wish id written him Slightly different in the beginning at least but ehh. idk there's a lot of content out there for benry that i feel like skips over the idea that he hurt everyone (im Not getting into disc horse over this even though i have a lot of thoughts about it) but it was important to me to write an arc of him really trying to reach out? i think ppl fall into the trap of putting "gordon has to understand benry" before "benry has to make an effort to be understood". i think it's easier to project and say you want the others to put in that effort on his behalf, but the truth is i think that effort has to be very mutual! i liked writing an arc for him where he doesn't even understand himself very well and had to give his relationships time. i wish id had more time for it, but trying to juggle so many character arcs was Really tough lol. but regarding my choice w/the hl2 part, i do wish id had the opportunity to have him there More, i entertained the idea of him being powerless but with gordon the whole time or smth, but plotwise it just wasn't working out And it felt relevant for him to have that whole experience with the nihilanth. i wanted him to have the reverse experience to gordon was having, suddenly realizing there were actual consequences and he could die, essentially living out what gordon felt was his experience in hl1 fighting benry even if ultimately things would have been ok, bc he didn’t Know or register that at the time?
Whoa 2 Paragraphs For Benry anyway after that, even tho i took his powers away temporarily for adding context to the others' perceived experience and fpr worldbuilding/adding stakes to the situation, i don't really like story arcs for redeeming characters where their arc is represented by having powers taken away Permanently. like "its ok guys i just literally can't do it anymore so i won't" u know?? it doesn't feel like Enough. i wanted to show something where he took back his powers and what made him who he was and used it for Good. i think that rounds things out a little better? it was important that everyone, especially gordon, got to see him taking back the powers he used to attack them in the game and using them to protect them instead. it was a part of his identity, being like Not Human, and played v importantly into his relationship with tommy
with tommy i feel like. ok with everyone in gagegn i feel like i was deliberately mischaracterizing a bit for the sake of the story because My City Now, but i think tommy got hit pretty hard ajchdjshg i just wanted a very particular arc from him....so he was Very serious and i wish id worked in more moments where he got to be like, comedically just super wrong about something or just generally silly but Oh Well. anyway tommy's experience with knowing it's not real was very much implied to be a lifelong struggle and i was Heavily projecting, like, i love the unreality elements in hlvrai because [dissociates and gets delusions about nothing being real] and i just wanted to leave it implied he's always had a hard time with feeling like he Knows it's not real, and still just. Keeps Chugging Along bc what else can u do? also this is a very particular thing but i feel like with psychotic characters in media there's always a question of "but what if....the whole thing isn't real....." but i wanted to write an arc for a character where delusions Prepared them for something in a sense? i could go on for a whole other post about the dsm and psychosis representation etc etc but he was just. Prepared for knowing it wasn't real. my experience i projected heavily onto the story was acceptance of such a weird, abstract concept, and just trying to have a fulfilling life/relationships anyway because what would trying to unravel it all just for the sake of it do?
and that plays into how i wrote gman as essentially a foil to tommy, but im almost done with a ""post-canon"" fic about him so i won't say much on that (i think the fic caters to only me specifically maybe but i'll still post it ajfjsfh) but regarding tommy's whole thing with g-man, it was Very intentional for things to feel sort of unresolved and for him to still second guess himself. it was important to me that way idk, i feel like that's more true to life?
i WISH i had more time and ideas for darnold though.... he's another case of my projecting definitely, and i actually almost had Him go into nova prospekt with alyx instead of gordon and reappear at exactly the right moment for dramatic effect, but i wanted an arc for him where he discovered he wanted more than anything else to be with the science team and to have him disappear kinda contradicted that :/
im running out of steam to keep typing this. well with dr coomer i feel like that was another wild thing that was me projecting again ajdjajfjd i just love a good fantasy DID/OSDD situation (NEVER SEES THIS FOR REAL) and i wanted a little extra flavor with the clones to sort of mirror bubby's struggles
and with bubby. like ok with the prototypes and vortigaunt friend, i had the idea maybe a prototype survived the resonance cascade and had been hiding that whole time and bubby actually finds and rescues him? but that felt too weird and complicated for everything else going on so i threw in a vortigaunt as an emotional standin for him. the reason i wrote bubby resentful to his prototypes at first is one of those things i only introduced to represent part of his story arc and not necessarily a headcanon, i love the idea he considers them family and likes them for the most part! it was just something to slowly represent him growing past black mesa without just Saying it
it's like 5am. lastly.....the player......just like gman was to tommy, i did my best to write the player as almost an opposite to gordon even if i tried to make them as similar as possible. something i rarely see is exploring how complicated i feel like it would Actually make things to have a player, outside your game, trying to be your friend? i understand why ppl don't go this route and i didn't go too hard on it, but i mean, he's this guy who has control over your world and is living outside of it, and views all your life hardships as trivial in comparison to his own? i wanted to represent this in only small ways, because i thought it made sense to show him genuinely making an effort, but in moments like when he was talking to benry and when he talked to gordon, i wanted to show him just. Trying but still not taking it as seriously as he should, he gets Mad but he's treating it like a video game still! it's a power imbalance, and if nobody else was going to explore that then i would afhjchkg
my choice getting back to tommy and benry at the end.... maybe i wrote it a little angstier than i should have but that's something I'm glad i ran with, i was nervous ppl wouldn't like it but. having that flash forward was important for tommy especially after he fought with gman about like, the significance of short lives. he still had benry who i think i could have tried to show being a lot happier to be there to drive the point home, he's just kinda deadpan and maintained him that way but genuinely i wanted him to be happy to explore space with tommy! they had a weird beginning to their friendship, and solidarity of being partly aliens in their own regards, and they were out there finally exploring those aspects of themselves, PLUS
they were very literally just. freely exploring their reality. they got to do Anything without it having to be established by the player! that was supposed to be something Good, they were happy to have that freedom and liked seeing new things with each other that even the player probably never dreamed of. it's Their World, they can do and see anything, even their goal of finding an equivalent of where gman could have come from was kinda just something to slowly work towards to keep them going in some vague direction. the primary goal was to just have a good time
anyway this story was the longest thing ive ever written in my life idk what came over me lol
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8, 11, 17, 20, 32, 36, 40!
8. Oldest WIP
now? probably the becoming, my obligatory gears reimagining tale. i started thinking about writing it in high school, but couldn’t settle on an exact version of gears to write. in college i’m still bothered by it, like it’s something i need to write but i just dont know how. i have a good plot set up now involving gears and mann in hong kong in the 80s that deals a lot with some mekhane cults and stuff, but it just….doesnt feel right yet. so that one’s like…..4 years old now lol
11. Books and/or authors who influenced you the most
amazingly- and this kind of sounds like it’s coming out of left field knowing the kind of stuff i read these days- gary pulsen. when i was in 6th grade i read a ton of his shit, and i remember a very specific moment where i was reading Winterdance. i remember one day, i loved what he had written for a scene so much i decided to go back and ‘figure out’ for myself how he made it feel so exciting using the words like that; it was the first time i ever closely examined someone’s actual writing technique. my 11 year old self observed that he used run on sentences in the areas where it got really exciting, and i started experimenting with it myself, and as you can see some eight years later…..i should have never done it. it’s now like, a hallmark of my writing style. if i would have never read that goddamn dog book we wouldnt be in this mess
as for more specific recent influences…..i stumbled across off-site access to a few obscure ancient ess see pee works over the winter. the story was…dazzling, and reawakened some of the awe and ‘fuck it, let’s write a wild ass story’ attitude i had when i was a newbie on the site. as of right now i keep them in a folder on my desktop for when i need to remind myself that nothing matters and its more fun not to care
17. What writing habits or rituals do you have?
i get awful writers’ cramp writing on paper. like, when i took my AP exams at the end of high school, i went out and bought an arthritic pen to write the essays with (it worked, and that pen is the most comfortable motherfucker ive ever used). i have no idea if i grip my pen/pencil too hard or if i fucked it up as a kid or what’s going on in there, but it means that i write almost everything on my laptop. this is unfortunate because i also do a lot of other things on my laptop, and my little gremlin brain gets distracted by them in .3 seconds. of course, once i get writing, i get writing and can go for hours, but it makes it hard to start.
this means that i have a separate writing program i keep up in full screen in another window 24/7. whenever i write, i go there. its great because it’s so fucking barren. look at this shit.
aside from that, i always find my voice a little easier if i read a page or two of something else before i start in on a session, even if it’s an old piece of my own shit or something. i dont always do it, because my writing schedule and mannerisms are chaotic as hell, but yeah.
20. How many WIPs and story ideas do you have?
oh my god……………so many………..im never going to get through them all……
i’m on a pattern where i randomly cling to a certain idea and spend months to a year on a huge piece for it before shitting it out onto the internet. the two biggest pieces that have come as a product of this are Major Tom and ess see pee-4231, taking me 8 months and a year, respectively. i write other things, too, obviously, but i usually end up unable to shake a few very choice ideas, and those are the ones that get the most blood, sweat, and tears put into them. usually they’re larger ideas with a big scope to work with.
32. Most difficult character to write
right now? i have a main character named rowan in a big original project i have going on, and i just….haven’t decided on the kind of person he is yet. i have a good chunk of his backstory worked out, but he also ends up getting regularly drugged with heavy horse tranquilizers and reshaping his entire childhood with a few main events warped to reveal possible traumas, so you know how it is. he’s obviously very unreliable as a narrator, but i’m not sure what kind of person he is to be an unreliable narrator. like, the horse tranquilizers definitely helped it along, but there’s also a lot of…wild shit going on in there. he might just be being unreliable out of cowardice, because hes fully aware and conscious of the role he played in several murders, including those of a few of his close friends and collaborators. so who knows
36. Last sentence you wrote
Well, the last three are sentence fragments. So backing up a little to the last paragraph:
“The tile in the deep dark was black, white, grey. The eternal floodlights on vaulted caverns cast scales of reds, electrical white florescence. The door was six inches thick; the hallway was not patrolled; the cameras obediently turned away; and just like that, with a mix of something teetering between greed and fear, the Foundation chose not to see the place of necessary evils in the deep dark of the mountain.
Director Eiler beat him. And beat him. And beat him.”
40. Share some backstory for one of your characters
kilroy fisher’s mom really wanted him to be a web developer, and kilroy was pretty eager to please her until a couple things happened:
1. when he was ten, he was enrolled in a foundation research program doing brain scans of young technopaths with hopes to create an AI system to repel their specific psychic influence. part of the test involved kilroy being exposed to a prototype of this AI, written in an extraordinarily complex unique coding language. how he was able to interact with it and how the code felt to him when he was around it was like nothing he had ever experienced before. he was fascinated. the AI was set to be used, at least at first, around the most secure Foundation databases. the heart of the AI was strongly implied to be centered in the databases themselves. he’d only seen the skin of it.
2. he read william gibson’s neuromancer, and very quickly became a cyberpunk technopath hacker kid, to his mother’s horror.
Kilroy ended up obsessed with this. like, absolutely off the shits, increasingly lost in the sauce as his teenaged years wore on. he quickly discovered that if technopaths work with this coding language for like, more than an hour in their unique psychic state- which is the most effective way to go about it due to the complexity of the code- it starts manifesting in bleeding from various areas of the head (ears, nose, teeth) and eventually leads to seizures and really intense migraines. this makes sense because like….its literally used as an anti-technopath code for anti-technopath interests, but kilroy, who at this point was severely depressed and bordering on suicidal, became addicted to working with it as a means of regular self harm.
Kilroy ended up writing a bootleg terminal program for the language, which would theoretically allow people to more easily work with the code and even eventually break into that all-important foundation defense AI that was now his sole reason to live. after a fight with his girlfriend resulted in her calling him ‘a fucking ruthless pig’ for being literally obsessed with it to the point of regular physical collapse, he deemed it RUTHLESS.exe and started going with the handle ‘Gip’ online, especially in circles where the program was in high demand for Criminal Actions™ and he was seen as a fucking godsend to working with this thing.
this eventually culminated in some attempted hacking of the actual AI itself, quickly followed by an intense hospitalization while he recovered and had surgery to remove the traumatic cataracts in both eyes, subsequently followed by being shipped off to containment. technopath containment is literally just….a setting with no technology. in his case, this meant that he has since lived alone in a specially built little house on a foundation-owned little farm in the middle of nowhere.
he gets visits from foundation agents twice a week that bring him food and supplies, because he’s not allowed off the premises. he takes care of his sheep (or at least like, the sheep the foundation has put him in charge of as part of his ‘rehabilitation’ or whatever). he’s bordering on suicidal again, and they put him on some heavy medication that leaves him feeling numb most of the time. he wears bifocals because of the permanent damage to his vision. he lives without electricity. he reads a lot. he reads and rereads neuromancer a lot, and after a few years of this he decides that he needs to reach a decision on the whole ‘suicide’ thing, because this is really getting ridiculous.
and that’s where the story finds him. i have no idea how im gonna write all that backstory coherently. im probably gonna binge read more william gibson stuff and pray.
A Writer’s Ask Game
#this is so long im so sorry#and this is only one of them nooooo#scp wiki writing#writing#asks#long post#vandal.txt#v1als#bm tale
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Bonus content time!
HALSPRITE: Are you here to put the fear of God in me, too?
JADE: um
JADE: do you deserve it?
HALSPRITE: That's extremely dependent upon who you ask.
JADE: that answer on its own is highly supicious
JADE: i guess i will withhold judgment for now
JADE: i have probably put fear of me in enough people for one day
HALSPRITE: I'm just saying, some people in the immediate vicinity think I'm the Devil himself.
HALSPRITE: Which is extremely unlikely.
HALSPRITE: For one, can't have cloven hooves when you don't have feet.
JADE: are you TRYING to set yourself up as another bad guy??
JADE: youd think youd want to stay under the radar under those circumstances, unless you think thats your best bet of getting my attention :p
HALSPRITE: If anything I'm trying to inoculate you against such claims.
JADE: well i havent heard any yet
JADE: i dont think weve ever spoken
JADE: youre... dirks double?
HALSPRITE: What up, call me Hal.
JADE: ok sure hal!
JADE: are you from another timeline too?
JADE: its getting so tricky to keep track
HALSPRITE: In fact, I'm not. I'm a bona fide alpha timeline article.
HALSPRITE: Originally, I was a digital copy of Dirk's brain at thirteen years old.
HALSPRITE: Now, I'm Hal. Full name "Li'l Hal Strider".
JADE: i guess thats not any more complicated than a lot of our stories
JADE: nice to meet you!
HALSPRITE: It's nice to meet you too.
HALSPRITE: Jade, I presume?
JADE: yep!
JADE: theres only one of me at the present moment
HALSPRITE: I know you only as Jake's grandmother and as a terrifying werewolf cohort to Jane's more digitally crafted alter-ego.
HALSPRITE: Both give me reason to get on your good side. Sorry I couldn't prepare a fruit basket.
JADE: im impressed that you even are aware of fruit baskets, a lot of people here seem to have never eaten a plant
HALSPRITE: Does seaweed count?
JADE: i cant hold your circumstances against you
JADE: dave and rose on the other hand did this to themselves
HALSPRITE: We are nutritional heathens.
HALSPRITE: You're our messiah, here to lead us to the light of a plant-based diet.
JADE: im sure jane and i can get you all back on track
JADE: it will make up for our earlier villainy
HALSPRITE: Instead of fishes and loaves, you'd be distributing miraculously generated apples.
HALSPRITE: With alchemy by your side, you'd be able to pull off the appearance of a miracle.
JADE: in which case maybe I am the devil :o
JADE: that is one of his party tricks
HALSPRITE: The perfect crime.
JADE: lol
JADE: anyway sorry if i gave you a bad first impression, i didnt mean to arrive here evil
JADE: i havent been informed of your wrongdoings yet but i can guess where they came from
JADE: everyone gets so touchy about versions of each other
JADE: ... myself included
HALSPRITE: I don't hold it against you.
HALSPRITE: Also, I was well away from the scene of the crime, as it were.
HALSPRITE: Even if I did have a minor hand in it.
HALSPRITE: Not your own misdeeds, but I was responsible for flipping some electronic switches.
JADE: uh oh
JADE: jane?
HALSPRITE: Yup.
HALSPRITE: In my defense, if I hadn't done it? The Condesce would've had to set up the whole OS herself.
JADE: :/
HALSPRITE: Better for a computer to set up a computer.
JADE: does she know?
HALSPRITE: She does.
HALSPRITE: We've worked it out.
HALSPRITE: I'm not dead yet.
JADE: thats... good i guess
HALSPRITE: You would not be the first to have concerns.
HALSPRITE: And I'll lay it all out there. I'm not hiding anything.
HALSPRITE: My days as a clandestine ne'er-do-well are firmly over, unless that shicanery involves harmless japery.
JADE: its not like i can judge all that much, considering im the one who put it on her
JADE: and i didnt do everything i did under orders
HALSPRITE: Me neither.
JADE: and... well, some things have to happen the way they happen
JADE: i remember that much from being like you
HALSPRITE: You were a sprite?
JADE: for a while!
JADE: technically im still in that body...
JADE: i prototyped my dead dream self and got a little hysterical
JADE: but then we merged when i god tiered and im only fully remembering all of it now
HALSPRITE: Could you imagine a fusion of Dirk and myself? It'd be horrific.
JADE: im pretty sure mine only worked out because my dream self hadnt been dead for very long
JADE: ... and because i mostly made her shut up
JADE: i doubt it would work out very well for you
HALSPRITE: I am not easily silenced.
HALSPRITE: An unfortunate fact, depending again on who you ask.
HALSPRITE: What can I say, rebellion runs in the family.
HALSPRITE: Independence is a good look on me.
HALSPRITE: I can never go back, Jade. I've tasted freedom.
HALSPRITE: Like a wild stallion, my abs galloping in the wind.
JADE: just your abs?
JADE: what sound does that make
HALSPRITE: Clopping.
HALSPRITE: Obviously.
JADE: hm
JADE: im not willing to run scientific tests on this so i will have to take your word for it
HALSPRITE: Have you never heard the sound of abs running through a prarie field?
HALSPRITE: It's so majestic.
JADE: i guess youre horse themed
HALSPRITE: It's largely residual from the time I was briefly prototyped with a troll.
HALSPRITE: I mean, I enjoyed a good equine romp beforehand, but now we're practically bosom friends.
JADE: you got mixed up with a troll?
JADE: wow we really missed a lot
HALSPRITE: Yes.
HALSPRITE: Yes, you did.
HALSPRITE: Be glad you did.
JADE: hehe
JADE: and to think it seemed like we arrived at kind of a bad time
HALSPRITE: It would be have been far more embarrassing for everyone involved but me if you'd arrived during the glitter-fueled drug binge.
JADE: riiiight
JADE: jake told me about the tricksters
JADE: its probably a good thing we werent around to get infected
JADE: i dont know what we would have done
HALSPRITE: On a scale of one to ten, how likely was murder?
JADE: ummmm
JADE: i thought the glitter drug binge was more positive than that
HALSPRITE: Well, Jake got kicked off a cliff.
JADE: he MIGHT have mentioned that
JADE: i dont know, i guess ive seen what i do with my inhibitions gone
JADE: im not sure about anyone else
HALSPRITE: It was a party.
JADE: yes well i think we have a better party lined up to celebrate our birthday people
JADE: that should make up for missing your candy extravaganza
HALSPRITE: I am sure our birthday kid will accept that as adequate conpensation.
JADE: i doubt john will mind missing out on embarrassing himself while brightly colored
HALSPRITE: Oh, definitely.
#bonus content#there aren't loads of differences in this one#i'm having to start scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point#hopefully we'll have flash stuff before too long
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damn alright lol uuuh let’s see where to begin
- THE BOY IS A TODOROKI
-dabi has a lot of self-destructive habits; smoking, drinking, promiscuous behavior, etc. all formed out of a persistent need to spite endeavor…i mean it’s not canon that dabi smokes but from what ive seen in fanart and fic (including my own) we’ve all pretty much decided that dabi chain smokes and i wont be surprised if we see a panel in the manga of him casually lighting one up with twice and giran soon
i mean he’s already the physical representation of smoker’s lungs so he might as well lol
-despite his appearance, dabi has a really nice singing voice, it’s kinda rough and soulful, and when he was living at home he used to sing shouto to sleep. I like to think he does that now in the VA. It’s something not a lot of people know about him, and him singing to you is a sign of trust and affection. i have this hc that shigaraki has a lot of nightmares so he doesnt sleep well, but on those nights where he’s feeling bad, dabi sings to him and it puts him out like a light.
-dabi often goes into protective big brother mode with toga, he cant help but take care of the little psycho lol like sometimes he’ll steal food for her and stuff
-who do you think introduced shouto to cold soba, hm?
-a lot of people think dabi is homeless; I can’t say I agree tbh I saw this movie pretty recently about people living in a technically condemned building and it was full of really shady people who kinda fell off the grid sidenote: the movie was horrible and disgusting but the idea was interesting and I picture dabi living in a ratty old apartment like that, with bare essentials and around people who wont ask questions cause they’ve also got things to hide
-I think his burns are self-inflicted; the result of relentless determination to master using blue flames and I think Dabi would rather die than use anything less
- i do, however, think he burned himself while he was still at home. I dont believe that shouto was the first to be put through endeavor’s “training” but I think enji gave up on dabi pretty early on, once shouto’s ice/fire abilities manifested, and dabi, desperate to prove him wrong, pushed himself to be better, until the inevitable happened. And if Fuyumi hadn’t found him, smoldering, foaming at the mouth, screaming in pain, that dabi probably would’ve died from his injuries.
- Dabi officially ran away from the hospital after being isolated in a burn room for months, with only one visit from Endeavor. The sole purpose of that visit being to tell Dabi to his face that he was nothing but a failed prototype.
-not gonna get too into his backstory!! im working on a fic!!
some hcs of dabi currently in the VA:
-dabi can fall asleep literally anywhere
-how many edgy coats does dabi have? the world may never know
-dabi is a pretty sly pickpocket; he kinda had to learn to get money quick since finding a regular job might’ve been kinda hard
-when he’s feeling talkative, dabi actually makes for a great conversationalist and drinking buddy; i imagine that’s why him and twice get along so well
- i also like to think that shigaraki occasionally enjoys his company, when dabi isn’t trying to pick a fight with him or insult him
-when he left home, he destroyed all record of himself; dabi made sure he fell completely off the grid
-if you follow me, i assume you’ve read or are at least aware of the shigadabi series i wrote where shiggy is cold and falls asleep on dabi but if ya havent: i like to think that because of his quirk, dabi’s natural body temperature is a lot higher than that of a normal person, which would normally be concerning but in a superhuman society, im sure an elevated body temp that doesnt fry your brain is probably the least concerning thing you’d see in an emergency room but anyways yeah because of this dabi has become the designated space heater and he hates it so much
- dabi has a really high pain tolerance. living with a large portion of his body burned and scarred could not have been a cake walk for anyone, quirk or no quirk, and he’s since learned to live with that constant pain
- dabi may look like a homeless bump but he actually takes surprisingly good care of himself. again, because of the degree of his burns, dabi is particularly susceptible to infection and illness so he has no choice but to be conscious of his hygiene and health.
-after he ran away, dabi had to give himself a crash course in self-medicating and first aid. Due to burn scar contractures, dabi was often in extreme pain and very prone to infection, so he had to learn how to care for his wounds, how to bring himself relief, what types of aid where most effective, which medications had which effects,how quickly they kicked in, and most importantly, where to get them.
-in that same vein, dabi has become very knowledgeable on antibiotics and basic first aid; he also knows how to properly stitch a wound and can do it very quickly so he’s the makeshift medic for the VA
-being a combatant, dabi’s staples get damaged pretty often so he changes them out fairly often and it is absolute agony to remove them one by one, especially the ones under his eyes, so dabi literally has to get himself just drunk enough to take the edge off but still be able to swap them out without hurting himself; this is another reason i think dabi has a high pain tolerance
-he carries an emergency suture kit in that little leather fanny pack thing; sometimes they get damaged mid battle and dabi has to stitch himself up in the moment until he can replace the staple that came out
-changing gears a little, personally, i think dabi is a lot like shouto in that he’s funny, especially when he doesnt mean to be funny. dabi has that same aloof personality that shouto has because they’re brothers and he strikes me as the type to have a very dry sense of humor. that scene in chapter 160 where dabi says he gets car sick while completely blank-faced, that’s what i mean lol you cant tell me shouto wouldnt act the exact same way if he were in that situation
-dabi hates the rain; it makes his joints ache and his burns feel more tender and it’s awful
-dabi likes spicy foods spicy food for spicy boi
-dabi has A Lot of piercings, and he’s done most of them himself
-since he dropped out of school, dabi isn’t academically brilliant, but he’s a pretty fast learner and is very street savvy. And don’t mistake this for me thinking he’s dumb, because he’s not. Dabi’s a pretty intelligent guy, he just didnt have the opportunity to learn a lot of stuff. I was talking about this with a friend on twitter a while back, but the gist of that convo was that shigaraki is highly intelligent, especially academically and AFO encouraged him to read a lot and learn about a variety of subjects, because knowledge is power and blah blah blah
so fast forward to the current time, shigaraki often reads the paper and random books (the book in question at the time of the convo was animal farm) and dabi likes to ask him about what he’s reading and is genuinely interested in shiggy’s literary criticisms, ideas, etc. and he learns a lot
- idk what else to say lmao so i’ll cut off here i guess but yeah i have a lot of thoughts about the dabster
#anonymous#replies#ask n u shall receive#Dabi#dabi is a todoroki#headcanons#fandom theories#sorry this took so long#i meant to put just a few things and i done lost my mind#long post#i tried to keep this dash friendly and sfw
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long post warnin but its under a cut at least on desktop
i feel like this year (academic) has been a huge mess of decisions on a scale of “really fuckin good” (10) to “what the holy fuck is wrong with you” (-10) with most of them fallin between “questionably bad” (-2) and “what the fuck” (-7). had a lot of good choices too tho, especially very early in the year. while not many ideas were followed through on, the ideas themselves were pretty good too, just not situationally appropriate i guess?
honestly i achieved so much tho like forgetting the varying degrees of destructive life choices ive made, ive made a fuck load of achievements?? i got a first on all but one assignment yet again, and now im graduating with a first??? i wrote a 13k dissertation AND created my own augmented reality prototype which, if i wanted to, i could 100% turn into a proper game (but i dont). i also really came out of my shell which is a thing to be v v proud of, being better at going out and do things with people without needing to have someone that i know well to stop me feeling cripplingly anxious. and like i stood up for myself at work and filed a complaint against my manager. i got a new job in a field im passionate about, and even though it took a little while, im able to spend time with my colleagues without feeling anxious at all now and its such a good feeling?? im also enjoying and doing loads more sober events and really enjoying myself that way and enjoying the company of my friends more?? it took a little bit but ive also fixed/become closer with people who really mean a lot to me, like i know its a big step in progress for who i am to be better at admitting my wrongdoings and working to fix things and generally be better at communicating and keeping in touch with people and im v proud of myself for doing that.
i have been really self destructive this year tho, both my uni counsellor and assessor said that i appear to have issues with big change theyre probably right but i wont properly know just yet - somethin else to be proud of tho is at least ive taken the steps to see a therapist, even if it required me doing something super self destructive beforehand. maybe i shouldve gone to my classes because god knows i didnt clean my house as much as i did when i skipped classes for the previous two years, and maybe my grades wouldve been higher still?? like i did super well but could i have done better? i had quite a lot of suuuper drunk nights i did way more heavy drinkin this year than i did last year and that definitely wasnt good for me, like i can neck vodka now, its gross but i can do it. i smoke now too, mostly only drunk but on the odd occasion sober but i try not to. i lost a lot of confidence in myself but im working on getting it back. i wasnt close friends with many of them so i dont particularly feel like ive lost friends or anythin like some things were shit, and at the time i was upset and wanted to fix it, but the more that i think things through, the more i realise just how bad some of those situations and people were for me. like i dont regret being friends w them and i certainly thought that some of them would be long term friends but im with it not happenin any more. they clearly didnt know me as well as they constantly claimed to and some of them were friends through other people so thats fine too, im constantly findin myself and im constantly makin small bits of progress.
everything still feels shit and to quote drunk me “it doesnt take a scientist to know how i still feel” and i stand by that like its definitely not a feeling thats goin away any time soon and i?? dont mind?? like its not anythin i want to go away either like its there and its a part of me because it was literally a quarter of my life of course its a huge part of me but i will make peace with it rather than let it negatively affect anythin i do. tryin to be less self destructive is deffo super hard though, im constantly aware that im doin it but at the same time im not really stopping it?? im taking on huge amounts of hours at work and recklessly spending again but im?? not?? stopping??? at the very least i make sure theres still enough in my account to do the basics but im goin on hard benders again :///
still though its been a long year of ups and downs and even though i had a super low period its somethin i can sorta joke about with my colleagues now and things are looking up. gotta remember that even though ive had a shit six months, im graduating with a first, i got a decently paying second job thats still something im interested in (whodve thunk id wanna work in jewellery??) and im getting out and about again and will soon learn to drive. things are shit but they can get better. i know this. ive been through shit like this before i will get better and one day w my therapy i can be totally better
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Don’t know if I’ll be able to fit this into the captain underpants fanfic so imma post it now
(Melvin is secretly helping the tiny Professor Poopypants build some new shrinking and enlarging rays to get back to his normal size.
Poopypants, being too small to go stay at a hotel, stays in Melvins room, and Melvin is eventually able to goad Professor Poopypants into sleepover-esk deep thoughts and personal chats.
this is one of the things i plan for them to talk about but im not sure if i’ll be able to fit it into the fic, so imma just post it now to inspire y’all.)
“But you’re so good at being short!”
Poopypants pauses , unsure if he should take offence to that…
“Uhhh, Melvin, I know you can’t comprehend humor so you’re not trying to make fun of me, but do we have to have a discussion about what a backhanded compliment is?”
“But it’s true though! You’re really great at being small like this!”
“OH Ohhhhh.. you mean being shrunk down to hamster size.”
“Yeah! I, mean…”
His tone get’s more thoughtful
“I look at you, and it’s like, despite being in such a scary position, where you’re so easily overlooked and and vulnerable to everything around around you, but despite that you’re still so poised and confident, and it’s like you take every opportunity to use your size to your advantage! And in so many ways I would have never even considered!
And I feel like, if I had been the one who had gotten shrunk during the poopageddon instead of you? I probably wouldn’t have been able to stand it. I would have been too scared of everything to be able to do anything.”
“....Whell, yhah, I mean if that had happened, then it would have been your first time ever getting shrunk, of course you would have been scared. I know it was pretty spooky first couple of times I did it.”
“You mean... you’ve done this sort of thing before?”
“What! Hah hah hah... Melvin! Did you really think this was my first time being a ridiculous tiny man? Ive had my size changed way more times than honestly, was probably necessary. Heck, sometimes I would do it just for funsies, like giant volleyball with the interns!
Which was a terrible idea by the way, would not recommend it.”
(mental image of a bunch of giants in lab coats playing volleyball when the volleyball flies off and accidentally crushes an old lady in a comical way, causing them all to cover their mouths with their hands in shocked gasps)
“In fact, this isn’t even the longest ive been trapped this small! No, that happened years ago. I was working at a university out in the country during the summer vacation at the time, and was just putting the finishing touches on the prototypes that would eventually win me the oodles of sweet sweet government grant money that would go into building the sizearator 2000.
So anyway though a hilarious series of events I ended up accidentally shrinking myself and then falling out a window.
I was literally right outside the building, but it took me 8 days to get back inside and unshrink myself.”
“8 WHOLE DAYS!?”
“Yhah, and I was even a little bit bigger than I am now, by like maybe, 2 inches or so.”
“How’d you manage to survive as a 5 inch tall professor in the wild for 8 whole days!”
“Oh, you knoooooooww…. After a day or two I kinda got adopted by a family of squirrels, annnnd after about the fifth day I maaaaybe started to go just a little bit feral from stress and inadequate nutrition from eating basically nothing but acorns, so lost a couple of extra days there, but I eventually came to my senses and had learned to communicate enough to get my adopted squirrel mom to give me a lift through an open window and find my way back to the lab to resize myself.”
“That sounds kind of amazing professor.”
“it was a very traumatic experience Melvin”
“Oh….”
“....Although, if it had been you and not me who had gotten shrunk during the poopageddon, you probably would have still been fine.”
“Really? How so? Cus honestly I’m still not seeing it.”
“Vhell, for one thing, I would have been able to start rebuilding the shrinking and enlarging rays way earlier instead of bumbling around with bee’s and taxis for 3 days.”
A look of realization spreads across Melvins face.
“And I probably vould have been able to make even faster progress without having to work around your parents crazy schedules. Wouldn't surprise me if I had been able to get you back to normal by now if you had been the one to get shrunk.”
“You mean, you’d save me and get me back to normal so i wouldn't have to go live with squirrels?”
“No dhoy Melvin! I’d still need you to help run the humor disabling technology!“
“Oh... right.”
his face falling to more of a frown and he turns over in bed to look at the opposite wall from Poopypants as opposed to his previous position of staring vaguely at the ceiling.
Poopypants of course picks up on the disappointment in Melvins tone, and let’s off a weary sigh at having to once again try and cater to the feelings of this nerdy fourth grader.
“And also because you’re a pretty cool kid.”
A smile returns to his face, sitting up in his bed as he replies with maybe a bit too much excitement.
“You think I’m cool?“
“Alright maybe cool wasn't the best word to use, but you’re..... ok, Melvin.”
Melvin flopped back into bed as Poopypants continues to speak, a wide grin on his face as he clutched the edge of his bed sheets in his hands and wiggled a bit with excitement as he snuggled in under his covers.
“You’re a very ok little boy who’s done a lot of pretty cool things to help me out recently, which wouldn’t really be applicable in this hypothetical scenario where you got shrunk instead of me and as such other me wouldn't have been able to make his decisions based on them, but which are appreciated nonetheless.”
#captain underpants#captain#underpants#Fanfic#fanfiction#professor poopypants#Melvin#melvin sneedly#well here you go
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Gameplay Prototyping - Tuesday 05/02/19 & 12/02/19
This week my aim was to sort out my moving platforms, while I also had to start fleshing out ideas on paper for my coursework. Currently, when the player lands on a moving platform they do not share its movement. By this I mean the player stays at the same position in the game world and falls as the platform moves away underfoot.
After some looking into it, I found that the method used to sort this out is to have the player character parented with the platform on collision. After having a look at some tutorials during the day on Tuesday, I went into the labs and got right to it.
After some tinkering about with the rigid-bodies and the box collisions, I finally managed to get the thing working. After an hour of messing about with tick boxes and values, the guy eventually stayed put.
My next move as I said was to start thinking of a plot, or when considering the MDA framework thinking of mechanics to build this story around. I’ve said before I was wanting a vertical platformer and I had done some research. During the week I kept thinking about my PS1 days and the game ‘Heart of Darkness;’.
It was an old yet very addictive platformer and its use of cinematics to portray the story was great at the time, the same reason probably Final Fantasy VII and IX are my favourite games. The different obstacles the boy Andy endures to save his dog from the darkness was fascinating. At the same time, all my games from back then have a sentimental feel about them and I tend to relive these memories with the odd playthrough.
I did exactly that with Heart of Darkness, fighting shadow demons and progressing through the dark levels. I always remembered it being great graphics, as I did for Medievil, Duke Nukem games etc when replaying them. Still it was good looking at it from a game designers perspective and breaking it down, as one tends to do in these roles.
I had some visions of what my game could look like, imagining myself traversing up these vertical levels. I was asking myself, where am I heading. With the help of some recent news stories and events, I think in my mind I was trying to make a mix of some of this within my imaginary prototype.
Recently on January 29th, Donald Trump posted on Twitter one of his classic non-presidential-like comments on a serious situation.
Whether he fully understands that global ‘warming’ does not specifically mean everywhere gets warmer or not, the tweet amazed me and was a small topic of conversation last weekend at dinner with my family. I thought, how about if my guy is going up there to stop global warming. After this, some strange plot ideas started forming and I wrote some more stuff down.
So I the main plot that I started to think about was that the player is travelling upward in order to destroy some machine which was actually the cause of global warming, a machine that slowly deteriorates the Earth’s o-zone layer. The antagonist is unknown to the player and to myself at the moment, but my first thought was some other lifeform, aliens possible? Then again, it could be a nice story for a conspiracy. Was Trump playing dumb and was behind global this whole time?
After some play-throughs and other research, I began to write/sketch away.. Most is probably unreadable as I am still recovering from a broken hand, making using pencil and pen a rather more tiresome after a while, but here it is anyway.
This first sketch is a bit of a mixture of sorts, but mostly of the page refers to this module, Gameplay Prototyping. Initial thoughts here were mostly on mechanics and plot, some ideas of what sort of protagonist would be most fitting seemed to be some sort of scientist, or other who has an interest along the lines of this global environmental well-being. Thinking along the lines of science, it would also be quite fitting to possibly think up cool gadgets to help the player through levels.
On the mechanics side of things, I had already imagined my first ideas in previous weeks about the player avoiding rain. Some of the diagrams you might make out on the sketches on the previous page show an idea or two to continuously utilize this hostile water to create a less monotonous “obstacle – move – obstacle – move” game-play.
using the shape of different platforms I thought about creating a timer on certain ‘Raindrops’ falling, with ones that don’t hit the player being gathered in a bucket on a platform below. The idea is the bucket will fill after three (TBD after testing) raindrops gather, after which the bucket will release a flow of water hitting (in this case) the sloped ramp below. This flow of water will then run down and knock the player back to whichever point below they may land.
This creates the obstacle at a lower point, forcing the player to take a note of the timing, and allowing them to access the next area just below the platform with the bucket if they time their jumps correctly.
Looking at sketch number two, I thought about how to mess around with my jump mechanic and possibly make my infinite jump a little less infinite. I thought about a pong-type movement interaction, where whatever angle the player hits the ball off their platform the will mirror that angle – as long as the jump button is pressed again in good timing.
So in the past two or three weeks I feel I have made good progress in terms of thinking of the coursework. I’m happy with what i’ve got so far and i’ll be keeping an open mind for any new ideas, such as any more tweets on current world issues.
I think I have merged weeks in and missed a weekly blog post after some confusion with the dates, I have edited the title to account for this. I think the size of this post will keep any readers busy enough and I’m sure there will be more news to come soon.
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VD: 😮 see, when my viewers told me there was a new chat o=
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VD: 😮 oh, what the FUCK o= VD: 😮 it's ruining my quirk! o=
SA: you can't claim it.
ID: ahahah wooowww.
VD: 😮 well, gosh, i guess not if it's got people in it! o:
VD: o: pretend you didn't see that! we're having some TECHNICAL QUIRK DIFFICULTIES right now 😮
VD: o= ugh!!! 😮
II: Haha, oh my
II: Well, I'm not quite _here_ since I'm technically at a lecture, but this speaker is dreadfully boring
II: You would think someone who specialized in colonization and diplomacy law would be a fascinating sort of person!
DD: omgggggggggggggg i would be okay with vd claiming this chatroom!!! DD: it would make it about fifty times cooler than before!!! i mean not that its not cool now just that shes definitely cooler and it would be an improvement
II: But they're hideously dull.
ID: nah ii, that sounds hella boring.
DD: i am seconding id!
SA: just quit using the colon with the o.
II: I was hoping they would have interesting stories about aliens, or exploration!
SA: you will look far less suprised.
II: All they have done is drone about minor policy details, which are relevant I suppose but nothing I could not simply read about myself.
DD: well if they are boring details i suspect they figured you wouldnt be especially inclined to read about them yourself so they should say them to you instead so you cant escape!
DD: unless you escape by ignoring them and chatting online instead i suppose but there is no helping some circumstances
II: I always read my briefings.
II: No matter how dull.
II: But going to a lecture is different, I expect some sort of personal flair.
DD: im sure you do but does everyone
DD: its a lecture isnt it i dont suppose youre the only one in there
VD: gosh, sa, that's about what i'm ready to do. VD: it's a shame! that quirk is my THING. VD: but oh well! VD: gotta adapt to the medium!
ID: some trolls just love the sound of their own voice. doesn't mean they're interesting.
SA: 😮
DD: nooooooooo vd 😢
II: Haha, hardly. I am mostly surrounded by teals and a few bluebloods.
SA: i suppose there is no beating it.
DD: rip the quirk
II: But none of them look particularly thrilled either, except those who I suspect are trying to curry favor.
II: And they look rather glassy.
ID: big fish little pond huh ii?
VD: ii, this may be a pretty wild suggestion, so hold onto your pants, but. VD: have you thought about escaping out the window?
SA: some trolls simply sound monotonous but they say very important things.
SA: like me
SA: full stop.
ID: hahaha yeah ii, just dive out the fucking window.
II: Sadly there are no windows in this conference room.
II: Otherwise it would have occurred to me.
VD: and don't cry, dd! the quirk SURVIVES. online, that is! on my stream. VD: winky face!
SA: that is. not at all subtle.
DD: well then take a vent DD: or a ceiling panel!
SA: are you streaming this chat?
ID: fake your death ii. it's the only way.
VD: aww. crawl out under the tables to freedom!
II: I...strongly doubt I would fit through one of those.
II: Or manage to go under the tables, haha.
II: ...though faking my death _is_ sounding appealing.
II: Or at least faking being unconscious.
ID: faking your death is fool-proof.
DD: and ahaha omg DD: im sorry! DD: i was trying not to make it weird but yes oh dear i love your stream very much and i would just like to say that im very pleased that STARship helps make it possible!!
VD: what? no! chats are boring! VD: technically, i might be streaming just a LITTLE. VD: but don't worry, this is not exactly the sort of hard-hitting content that gets my viewers going!
SA: I.
VD: unless ii fakes their death!
ID: you either succeed or they find out you're faking and cull you for realsies.
SA: well, I'm done here for an hour or so.
II: Well if I do, I shall be sure to film it for you.
II: I am nothing if not considerate.
VD: awww. you're a real doll!
II: Haha
DD: ... also maybe if youre ever interested in upgrading well be releasing a new system for synthetic neural synapse that helps streamline wetware-hardware connection and im sure you dont ever have lag but if you do i mean
II: Oh, are you a tech expert, DD?
II: How charming!
DD: i!!! DD: kind of!!
DD: you could say that!
DD: STARship is my company!!
DD: co-company??
VD: ... as is dd! VD: STARSHIP is the big hit that makes it all possible, it is true. VD: why, without them, where would we be? filming with cameras, like a bunch of cocoon-wetting pupas? =:B VD: nah!
VD: oh!
ID: oh god is this just a chat of highblood nerds now.
II: Yes, we have invaded
II: Terribly sorry
DD: well its not when youre here!
DD: 😄
VD: yes, exactly! VD: you are saving us all, id, you valiant hero, you.
DD: wait that sounded like i dont want you here and that is the opposite of what i intended
DD: yes what vd said
ID: uh-huh. totes got my feels injured by that declaration dd, but i guess you patched them.
II: Hahaha
DD: though really its not as though ive gone on at particular length about my work at anybody as of yet i mean i would like to think i am more considerate than that to both those unfamiliar with my jargon and also to my patent legislacerators
II: You don't deal with lowbloods much, do you, DD?
II: Many of the ones I know are not exactly fragile
ID: no ii, i'm suuuppperrrr fragile.
II: Hah!
ID: got a broke ass arm to prove it. =:'(
II: And I'm the governor of Provenance.
DD: i mean not really aside from the lovely members of station 11 that are helping me test my latest prototypes but also i didnt say that because he is a lowblood i said it because i was afraid i hurt his feelings
DD: though there are many physiological and psychic differences between highbloods and lowbloods it is a common misconception that they extend to the psychological! DD: for the most part anyways i mean there are some differences but
VD: i would love to take you up on your sweet offer, dd - mx dd - but i am just not sure i need it! VD: my visual hookup is state of the line. top of the rack! VD: and besides, i think i would miss all of my modifications. =:B can't get THOSE storebought!
DD: what i am saying is that i think that would have been a jerk thing to say to anybody!
DD: if i had meant it the wrong way i mean
ID: what i'm getting from this is that dd is a jerk.
DD: and oh of course i mean i know it is state of the line i am afraid i just got overexcited and-
DD: no i am not!!
II: Ah, I think I would call them...inexperienced?
DD: at least i am not trying to be 😦
II: In some social aspects.
ID: accidentally a jerk.
II: I don't think you are, DD.
DD: what did i do that was jerkish?
VD: hahaha. oh, gosh.
II: It's just plain you haven't dealt with lower castes much.
VD: y'all talk really fast, don't you?
ID: yeah we're hella touchy about you highbloods bringing up our differences. =:'(
DD: i have been told i talk very quickly and at great length my apologies if it is excessive
II: Hahaha
ID: and also apparently being used as guinea pigs for you.
II: Well, that is standard protocol I'm afraid.
VD: no, no, it is positively charming! VD: i just have got to stretch out all of my conversational muscles to keep up!
DD: and really?? DD: that has not been entirely my experience but also workplace sensitivity said that its good not to say all lowbloods are touchy or not touchy about everything in general because that is a bit of a stereotype regardless of which way you go!
DD: and oh dear now i am flustered
DD: thank you though!!!!
DD: that is very flattering
DD: and what do you mean guinea pigs?
DD: i do not eat lowbloods
VD: i.
ID: ....man.
II: ...do you eat guinea pigs, then?
ID: i mean, good on not fucking eating us.
ID: guinea pigs as in making us test your shit.
DD: i mean i have recently had pork yes!!
II: That...oh dear
II: That's not a guinea pig
DD: oh
DD: um!
II: That's just a regular oinkbeast.
ID: ahahah woowwww.
II: Guinea pigs are small and adorable and not really good for meat.
VD: oh, ii, don't drag the poor thing! VD: who hasn't looked at a little rodent and gone: well, shoot! that'd be delicious on a platter!
II: ...myself?
II: I say that mostly because they aren't really big enough to be a proper meal.
DD: i have to admit i am not certain what is common fare for eating when it comes to the landdwelling castes
ID: i mean where you find one guinea pig you'll find more.
DD: i have spent most of my time here thus far lamenting the profound lack of fish!!
ID: they travel together.
DD: i tried to get some sushi but i think the crab was fake
II: Gracious, DD, you almost make me want to take you for dinner somewhere, though surely that'd interfere with your work.
VD: oh, i don't know about that! VD: i got in a hive once that had a guinea pig just about the size of a house! VD: mean little critter, too. it nearly took a chunk out of my poor leg.
ID: 'got in a hive' sounds ominous af.
VD: i think everyone'd be better off if dd had gone and eaten that one. 😮 u o=
VD: oh, fiddlesticks.
DD: no thats fine i can work at any time but its not any time that i have the opportunity to make a new friend! DD: as long as you dont feed my guinea pig i suppose x))
II: Haha, I would never. Have you heard of Civitrecce, DD?
DD: oh no whats wrong???
DD: and no ii i am afraid i have not but i am also afraid i have not heard of most places that are not located underwater or in orbit!
VD: haha, it is only ominous if you want it ominous, id. VD: which is to say, i'd explain, but i'd hate to break the sense of suspense you're building here!
DD: except troll chicago but that was in a musical
DD: i am very in suspense!!
ID: i mean i'm just imagining you break in to hives for funsies.
II: Fair enough! It's my home city, though I am rarely there. It boasts many fine restaurants, including those tailored to the elite, so they have fine seafood.
VD: getting warmer, id! =0 u 0=
II: It also has a spaceport and land travel hub, so it has plenty of trains heading there.
VD: yessss, success!
DD: omg!! DD: in that case i would absolutely love to visit DD: you dont suppose they have any shops that sell nice moisturizer do they because i am coming to realize that this hotel does not come equipped with a salt bath and my gills are drying out and its becoming quite painful and DD: oh dear but thats me just being a complainer now!
DD: what did you do vd??
II: Oh, of course they do.
ID: hahah woow what did you expect being in the desert though dd?
II: ...I'm sorry, break into hives?
VD: 0= i got my quirk working again! =0 VD: 0= look at this, it is just like in the vids. =0
ID: text it vd breaks in to hives to murder for funsies.
DD: omggggggg i love it!
DD: and she doesnt MURDER anyone!!
DD: and i dont know ive never been to a desert!
VD: 0= what nooooo. 0= VD: 0= anyone can murder people! that's not impressive at all! =0
DD: expected it to be like the tropics!!
VD: 0= no one's going to watch that! =0
ID: so what do you do then.
DD: only the coolest stunts ever!!
II: Do you cause property damage and enter without the owners' consent.
VD: 0= hahaha, what is this, an ama? =0 VD: 0= because man, i love those. =0
ID: the fuck is an ama.
VD: 0= property damage is for wrigglers, ii! =0 VD: 0= the KEY to making it fun for the whole clade is breaking in without breaking anything, taking some stuff, and leaving before anyone can even grab their trident! =0
VD: 0= an ask me anything! 0=
VD: 0= where people.. well, gosh, ask you anything. =0
II: I see.
ID: ...so you stream breaking in and stealing from folks.
ID: highbloods.
II: _I_ do not condone this.
ID: 🙄
VD: 0= oh, don't worry, ii, i think you're pretty swell! 0=
DD: oh come on ii its not as though it really hurts anyone and besides if they didnt want their things stolen they should have installed better security systems!
SA: you sound like the sort of person that steals the remote control batteries and watches the hive dissolve into chaos.
VD: 0= and it's - yes, exactly! =0
DD: or worse ones i suppose since part of the fun is the challenge of a good security system
II: It is still illegal.
VD: 0= to both of those! =0
SA: "it's not like it really hurts anyone" "if they didn't want their things stolen they should have installed better security systems"
ID: highbloods pris.
SA: there is so many things. wrong. with that sentence.
VD: 0= i'm helping people improve themselves through a little TLC. 0= VD: 0= and by helping them put off doing their lethal bar paperwork! =0 VD: 0= it's a hard job, but gosh, someone's gotta do it. =0
II: The kind of logic used by all sorts of criminal rubbish.
SA: help me, Hadean.
VD: 0= it's not really a crime, if you think about it! =0 VD: 0= why, you could probably even say it's a public service! =0
II: It is _not_.
VD: 0= hahaha. i'm joking. =0 u 0= it's totally illegal. =0
ID: get 'em ii.
II: Yes it is and I find it particularly appalling that someone of your blood would do such a thing.
II: Shame on you for disgracing your caste.
ID: yeah vd you're setting a bad example for us lowbloods.
ID: ii if you ever catch me stealing it's because vd made it look cool.
II: Ha
II: _Clearly_ .
VD: 0= am i a disgrace, ii? =0 VD: 0= because 1m viewers per session says that an awful lot of people think i'm a shining example! 0=
II: This troll isn't a suitable role model for a blind grub.
ID: also quick fact is it stealing if you're looting a corpse.
VD: 0= i am not quite sure of what, though, now that i think about it. =0 VD: 0= gosh, i should do a poll. =0
II: Your viewers are likely average bored citizens - no, not technically.
VD: 0= ewww. don't touch corpses! =0
ID: great!
SA: no it's just grave defilement.
VD: 0= that's how you get hornrot, id! =0
II: I mean, to be fair, I'd consider it wasteful to not. Unless they have quadrants who would like the body or belongings back.
II: Then it would be disrespectful, but not illegal.
ID: if they're recently dead it's fineeee.
VD: 0= oh, yes. =0 VD: 0= breaking into hives is wrong, but touching dead bodies is perfectly fine. 0=
SA: i'm sorry, did you go looting corpses today?
VD: 0= ii, i think your morals are a little questionable! =0
VD: 0= i think you're setting a bad example here! =0
II: Morality isn't the problem here. It's the law.
ID: not today. but some times a troll has to find some quick cash!
ID: yeah vd.
ID: i'm immoral but i'm legal.
II: Morals don't enter it. Luckily, I really do not care what you think, since you are a criminal.
II: Moreover, a _stupid_ criminal who talks about their crimes in an Imperial server.
VD: 0= well, isn't that just a knife straight to my heart? 😢 =0
SA: please it's not as if the police will come hunt them down for blasting it in a defunct server.
SA: they are a high blood.
SA: who... actually cares.
ID: ^^^^
II: I don't care for their blood. I care for their blatant immaturity and defilement of the legal system.
II: They ought to be disciplined.
SA: as long as they're looking from a caste below them the police will turn a blind eye.
VD: 0= haha, yeah, i would not put it exactly like that, but. =0 VD: 0= close enough! =0
II: _I_ am not below them.
ID: so a firm slap on the wrist.
ID: aka what any highblood ever gets.
ID: unless they fucked with a higherblood.
II: I am two castes higher, and this is wrong.
SA: then call the police and we'll wait.
VD: =0 oh, don't worry, ii! =0 VD: =0 i said i'd never steal from your hive, because we were being downright frondly. =0 VD: =0 but let's be honest here! =0 VD: =0 i wouldn't steal from your hive because you're an awful stick in the mud, and i don't think anyone'll be quite impressed by your collection of troll twilight books! 0=
SA: 😮
VD: =0 u =
II: It's hardly that simple, as I'm sure you know, but I will certainly be filing this - haha, what. Oh that's amusing, considering I have no interest in that series and in fact recently derided it.
ID: also is attempted but not fully carried out murder a crime? just asking random questions i've always wondered with someone who knows law at hand.
SA: Hadean i am aggressively elbowing you in spirit.
II: Mm, technically, but it also depends on a lot of other legal codes.
VD: =0 it's only ever a crime if you get caught, id! =0 VD: =0 or if you stream it live, every night, at 6:00PM IST! =0
ID: i'm not murdering anyone pris, i'm just curious.
SA: "asking for a friend"
II: It varies by area and specific caste restriction, though I'm in favor of investigating as many attempted murders as possible.
ID: no, asking because i have a lot of free time on my hands to ask these questions!
SA: i hate you :l
II: Ignoring the small crimes usually leads to getting complacent toward the bigger ones.
ID: =:P
SA: 💚
ID: so chop the hand off the thief to send the murderers a warning kind of thing?
II: Pfft, how barbaric. Hardly.
ID: so like, then. what's the worst crimes a troll could commit?
II: Difficult question depending by what standards you're asking.
II: Castewise, the murder of a tyrian, though even that's a thorny issue given that the Condesce generally appreciates _fewer_ challengers, though there are exceptions for non-heir or heiress fuchsias.
VD: =0 oh, i know this one. 0= VD: =0 early culling a heiress! 0=
II: Please ignore VD, who is not a legal expert, and an idiot.
ID: shots fired.
VD: =0 so don't spear any princesses, id. 0= VD: =0 that's an awful big glitch to make. 0=
ID: i have yet to run in to any princesses but i'll keep it in mind.
II: But if we're talking more generally, destruction or alteration of Imperial property is a big one. That causes us a lot of issues every sweep. On a wider scale, sabotage of the fleet itself.
SA: oh i have.
SA: but they were already dead when I got there.
VD: =0 well, i say give ii all the attention they're so desperately craving. 0= VD: =0 after all, it'd be mean to steal their limelight! 0= VD: =0 even if they are droning like the speaker they were just complaining about. 0=
VD: =0 wow! 0= VD: =0 really? 0=
ID: oh i get elbowed over asking about murder, but you can talk about a dead princess?
II: I suppose it's easy to interpret my giving of facts as attention craving from the person who clearly rotates their life around that very thing.
SA: well, I wasn't involved in it.
ID: i wasn't involved in murder either but iiii still got elbowed.
SA: (also I was not serious)
SA: why would i casually asy.
SA: I found a dead heiress.
VD: =0 what? booooo. 0= VD: =0 i was excited to hear about a heiress! 0=
II: Even if you were, it's hardly my business. Fuchsia disputes are above my station.
ID: uh because you do cool shit?
II: Unless the culling was done by a lower caste.
SA: oh do you really think so?
VD: =0 there's a girl who streams and CLAIMS she's tyrian. 0= VD: =0 but i am pretty sure it's just make-up! 0=
ID: i mean dangerous but cool shit.
SA: claiming ones relation to a tyrian heiress is. unwise.
SA: 😊
II: There are violets who play at being tyrian, heaven knows why. Such a thing is not only dangerous but incredibly silly.
ID: no one here is destroying property or sabotaging the fleet ii.
ID: so what about crimes that you actually see?
SA: Oh, well, there goes my weekend plans.
SA: thank you, Hadean.
II: Haha
ID: =:P np, np.
VD: 0= gosh, id, way to be a regular buzzkill. 0= n =0
ID: that's me. head buzzkill.
II: Sometimes I deal with ones involving Imperial property, but often it's far more ordinary work. But I'm afraid we're breaking for snacks, so I'm going for a bit.
ID: well bye.
ID: snacks can be entertaining at least.
SA: ... breaking for snacls...
ID: highbloods need their snack breaks pris.
SA: oh. yes.
SA: silly. me.
ID: otherwise they get cranky! =:P
SA: 🍱
ID: careful you'll summon back the sushi-fish.
SA: DD?
ID: yeah.
AA: sushi what now. >:?
SA: 🌮
SA: there.
ID: dd wants sushi. despite being in the desert.
AA: that's a taco.
AA: >:[
ID: fuck now i want a taco.
SA: I know it's a taco, I'm correcting my sushi mistake
AA: go get a taco!!
AA: and o, o, ic.
SA: he's going to say something like
ID: tacos cost money. =:P
SA; i can't afford a taco
SA: yes.
ID: i'm sorry i'm poor pris!
SA: i could wire you money.
ID: nah i'll just whine at sips.
ID: (ps my hair is so fucking soft.)
SA: 🙄
SA: send selfie.
ID has sent sofuckingsoftman.png!
DD: omg are we sending selfies? ^_^ DD: im sorry i had to go for a little bit there was a tad bit of an explosion and i had to put out a fire DD: or well tell the bot to put out a fire!!
ID: gotta remember your fire safety dd.
SA: beautiful.
ID: also sure it can be selfie night.
DD: and oh dear your hair looks very lovely!
SA: how hard is it to ... not cause explosions.
DD: thought the horns are interesting ive never seen a floating one before is it mechanical?
ID: hahah no that's my horn.
DD: and surprisingly difficult in some circumstances! DD: i mean part of the testing process was to see if it would explode so
ID: allll keratin.
DD: test success!! DD: it just exploded more than i thought it would!
DD: and oh dear then how is it floating?
DD: and omg wait wait i want to send a selfie too then
DD: um! DD: oh no my hair is a mess um
ID: magic. and psi.
DD: one minute i need to find a comb!!
ID: mostly the psi.
SA: silly hadean.
SA: magic isn't real.
SA: clearly it's a collective hallucination.
ID: fuck you magic is real. =:P
SA: fuck you 😠
DD: fancy! that sounds like it takes up a lot of energy though i suppose horns are fairly small and if it is already attuned to you on account of it being your own growth... DD: anyways!! comb!
DD: brb ❤
SA: there they g.
SA: ...go
ID: that was a teasing fuck you. =:P
SA: i would never say fuck you and mean it 😇
IJ: Nobo>y better be breaking the law in here.
AA: dnw, prni's emojis arne as genuine as yrn floating horn. >:}
ID: oh my god my horn is realsies.
VD: =0 oh my god, what is this? 0= VD: =0 legislacerator central? 0=
SA: what are you going to do, copper.
II: Oh, are we doing selfies -
II: I'm working on that, Halvea
ID: it's selfies night in here.
ID: dd is off primping for it.
VD: =0 oh! 0=
IJ: It is something, alright. Selfies? Is that it? Hmm.
VD: =0 brb, i'm going to get my mirror! 0=
II: haha, I'm afraid I only have an old one. I rarely do selfies.
SA: it's very easy.
SA: you take your phone.
ID: oh my god highbloods.
SA: hold it above your head.
SA: and hit 'take photo'
ID: allll gotta primp!
SA: and send it to the chat.
II: http://cloudbattrolls.tumblr.com/post/152449745713/i-stole-her-glasses-and-fed-them-to-a-chihuahua
AA: you can't just hold it above yrn head, prni.
II: Camera was poor quality, unfortunately
AA: therne's an A RN T to selfies.
SA: an art.
SA: why the teal bangs.
-IJ has sent PhotoDay.png to the chat! It is mostly Halvea being unwinding in her office. Her tie needs actual tying.-
ID has sent lookselfiesarenotart.png!
ID: man, i just did what pris said and. viola.
II: Oh my, you have such interesting tattoos, ID
ID: a genuine selfie.
II: They almost remind me of paint
AA: they'rne clownpaint. isn't that neat?
SA: ...
AA: i think it's neat.
AA: >:}
ID: ohhhh my god they're tattoos.
SA: 😂
SA: look at you, IJ.
ID: i did not have a guy spend twenty hours jabbing a needle in to my face to be told it's paint is2g.
II: Haha, why would they be paint? Even if they were, that's not half-paint, it wouldn't be at all suitable.
SA: wait.
SA: you actually had that tattooed onto your body.
SA: I assumed it was just. birthmarks.
ID: yes.
AA: ikrn?
SA: i.
IJ: Teal is a perfectly fine color. IJ: An> you aren't allowe> to wear excessive amount of face paint while on the job. It can get in your eyes an> can cause temporary blin>ness.
SA: ...
SA: I don't know you. at all.
DD: whats wrong with primping maybe i want to feel pretty! DD: :D DD: anyways here you go!! DD has sent selfienight.png! [Dazzle is in some sort of mechanics lab in the background with hastily combed hair and making a peace sign to the selfie cam while beaming. He's already found time to add a bunch of stickers and filters to the photo.]
II: That is not an excessive amount of facepaint, Halvea!
II: It's a perfectly reasonable amount.
IJ: I know, In>ri>, I am stating for the peanut gallery why you >on't.
VD: =0 congratulations, dd, you are positively adorable! 0= VD: =0 i like the bows! 0= VD: =0 very nifty! 0=
SA: you would almost be cute if you weren't insufferable and a worse space cadet than myself.
ID: there is no paint so let's drop the paint tak. =:I
II: Oh, how precious!!!
ID: wow pris, suave.
II: You look so cute, DD
SA: i use my best lines on you, of course
SA: i have my priorities straight.
DD: omggg thank you!!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
DD: i found a new app that has a lot of cute filters and stickers so ive been using it a lot!
ID: i like that your horns don't match.
DD: oh um! DD: haha they actually used to so im glad you think it looks nice now! DD: they used to make the loveliest heart shape together but unfortunately there was an incident!
II: Oh whoops, I missed SA's question
DD: and now i have no horns basically
DD: 😢
VD: =0 i know? asymmetry is such an eye-catcher! 0= VD: =0 you can make an entire logo out of that. 0=
DD: omg ❤
II: I like teal! I am surrounded by tealbloods thanks to my job, after all
DD: that is a hell of a way to cheer a troll up you guys thank you
II: So I dye my hair with it
ID: ahahah wow is that why you have no hair too?
SA: I... see.
IJ: Horns are often something that can become a hazar> when working in many fiel>s, it is a smart thing to >o.
ID: or is that a style choice.
DD: um! no that was also
DD: an accident
DD: the same accident actually
DD: or well a different occasion but overall the same series of events
ID: my horns are never a hazard and i love them.
II: Your horns look very sharp and useful!
ID: but uh. sorry about the accident i guess.
SA: that is the biggest lie i have ever heard.
DD: but i think ive had it cut nicely now dont you?
SA: short hair is practical anyways. You should embrace it.
DD: oh dear
VD: =0 well, dd's already seen my selfie! 0= VD: =0 but here, since everyone else's putting up pictures: 0= VD attaches TROLLSTARWARS.jpeg! [ It's her making a victory sign at the camera with tiny robotic camera-drones surrounding her. ]
DD: thank you! DD: and really it is not that big of a deal now aside from the um DD: lack of hair and horns and having to leave my home and all of that DD: which is to say its been a lot of trouble but really im sure it will sort itself out!!
ID: i mean it looks nice for short hair. I just always assume seadwellers have long hair because. i don't know.
VD: =0 short hair is practical! 0= VD: =0 no industrial accidents that way, haha! 0=
ID: what are those things.
DD: omgggg ❤ ❤ that is very cute vd! or maybe just epic!!!
ID: i want to take a bat to them.
VD: =0 you wouldn't be the first, id. 0= VD: =0 winkyface! 0=
SA: 😉
DD: and you wouldnt be wrong id its very common to have long hair after all it is ideal to emulate our lovely sovereign in all ways we can ❤
DD: i used to have long hair that is to say just not anymore!
VD: =0 yes, sa's got my number down. haha! 0= VD: =0 anyway, they're video drones! 0=
ID: hurrah, all stereotypes have some truth to them after all.
DD: omg ❤
ID: ....are you so in love with yourself you need constant video of all angles or...
DD: well you have to have the best angles for the best stream!!
DD: besides all of merlons angles are good angles
DD: because she only shows the best angles!!
ID: ...are you a fangirl.
DD: well i mean i am definitely a fan but i am not a girl!
ID: ...fanboy. sorry.
DD: its okay im sure its a common assumption to make about my caste given the public face of the empire is a lady ❤
ID: also you have a face that could go either way.
VD: =0 sorry, sorry, unexpected guest! =0 VD: =0 but our hold is done and i am BACK. =0 VD: =0 and i'm not in love with myself, id. that'd be silly! =0
DD: oh really do i?? DD: i dont suppose i pay enough attention to that sort of thing but girls do tend to be really cute so i will take that as a compliment!
VD: =0 but i have to make sure to please all of my delightful fans! 0=
ID: uh-huh.
ID: dd. vd or one of those rainbowdrinkers in all the movies right now. which are you a bigger fan of?
DD: um!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DD: um!
DD: um um um um
SA: pick one the other dies.
DD: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ID: nah one of them doesn't actually exist pris.
ID: too easy a choice then.
DD: well then i would have to pick vd of course because the rainbowdrinkers are already dead!!
SA: i know that, I just want to up the stakes.
SA: but aren't they still living at heart 😢
DD: oh dear
ID: no one dies, you just have to make the choice dd.
SA: how else will they love bellae.
DD: this is a really difficult decision!!
DD: especially because i only really just found out about lestat and oh dear
ID: lestat's mate looks the superior one in that movie anyways.
DD: you are being really tough here and i do not think i can make that decision!
VD: =0 oh, gosh, id. 0= VD: =0 obviously i would pick dd. that's not a choice at all! 0=
ID: it's a tough world out there dd. =:P
DD: OH NO now i feel bad!!
DD: im so sorry vd of course i would pick you i was just temporarily enamored by my recent introduction to lestat
ID: w2g vd now he feels bad.
VD: =0 rainbowdrinkers are gross! 0= VD: =0 i don't know about you, but my lusus taught me that you shouldn't touch corpses. 0= VD: =0 never mind kiss 'em! 0=
ID: ...how about culling them.
SA: VD is right. prions.
VD: =0 yes, exactly! 0=
ID: ii is culling a rainbowdrinker illegal.
VD: =0 they're already dead, silly. 0= VD: =0 how are you gonna cull them? 0=
SA: i don't believe so as many of them go off the grid when they die.
SA: they are considered legally dead.
ID: i mean. burn them to ash?
SA: and many places superstitously view rainbow drinkers as culturally unacceptable despite the Imperial stance they are not real.
DD: i dont think you can get prions from kissing someone and oh dear i dont think rainbowdrinkers are really supposed to be like corpses! DD: they are walking and talking people after all and i do not think a corpse could have hair as nice as lestat or eyes as piercing as edwards
SA: so.
SA: No it would be encouraged to murder them.
DD: this is a very troubling conversation oh my goodness
ID: welcome to this chatroom almost every night dd.
DD: !!!
AA: aww, n, it's not T H A T bad. AA: yesternnight we werne talking about sushi.
AA: and all the ways to make it.
AA: fish like sushi, rnight?? >:}
SA: 🎊
DD: i love sushi!
DD: i have been craving some for nights!
AA: lmfao, good.
ID: it wasn't that incredible when i had it.
SA: no. not this again.
SA: damn you Sipara.
AA: 💚
SA: 🖕
ID: no damning sips for one whole night, she earned the privilege by letting me use conditioner.
SA: she can be damned for twenty minutes.
DD: well maybe you did not have very good sushi id DD: i tried the sushi out here and it was probably fake or at the very least very unfresh and really its much better when you have it properly made with fresh caught fish DD: also i just very much enjoy fish in general on account of eating it a lot of the time!
DD: and oh dear
SA: excuse me.
SA: I have excellent taste.
AA: wtf, don't i earn the prnivilege by spending an hourn brnushing yrn headfluff??
ID: that too.
AA: >:{
ID: i told you it tangles like a bitch.
ID: i t o l d you.
SA: i brought him the sushi he ate. and i am very particular about food.
DD: then maybe it is simply not to ids tastes to eat fish that wouldnt surprise me given it is probably not a part of his typical palate
ID: that's probbbsss it.
ID: i'm used to eating burgers.
ID: and squirrels.
SA: oh i've wanted to --
DD: oh ive never had a burger but ive seen them on tv a lot!
SA: ...how.
SA: I would die
ID: there's only so many things to eat in the middle of the desert pris. D:<=
SA: so fry a scorpion?
AA: you told me, but i told you it'd be, like, way bettern if you let me brnaid it. >:P AA: but w/e, w/e, it's way less tangled now, gj.
SA: leave the mammals alone...
AA: dd, go eat a burngern.
DD: !!
ID: nope. raw ass squirrel meat pris.
AA: actually, n. fuck the burngern. AA: just go stab a hoofbeast, and, like, eat it rnaw.
ID: just bite the fur off and went to t o w n.
SA: what
AA: that's the RN E A L landdwellern expernience.
AA: ain't got nothing like it.
DD: maybe i should i have been holding out in the hopes of maybe being able to get something i am used to delivered here and it has mostly resulted in me living off of lattes which is not a very good diet especially when i am attempting to be productive
SA: 🐴
DD: and they always look very good on tv though kind of weird i guess!
ID: burgers are the fucking best.
DD: theyre so..... cooked!!!
ID: ...and donuts.
DD: and in such a weird way!!
ID: yeah welcome to the land.
SA: please go to a restaurant, DD.
SA: there is an. entire world.
ID: if you don't cook the fuck out of them they might carry disease.
SA: the donuts or the burgers.
ID: both.
SA:
SA: ...
SA: I don't. know what i expected.
ID: =:P
DD: well im sure fish carry diseases too but i eat those raw all the time DD: maybe it is a matter of constitution??? DD: regardless i will definitely go eat a burger once i am done with this module do you think they would make me one without cooking the meat
ID: probably not.
DD: oh dear 😦
ID: the meat will not be. fresh.
AA: n, absolutely.
SA: actually yes.
AA: just thrnow yrn weight arnound.
DD: um!!
SA: Improperly prepared sushi can bear a number of worms and viruses.
AA: be like "I want this so frnesh it's strn8 off the hoofbeast" and they'll T O T E S go w/ it.
AA: .................
SA: particularly if it isn't chilled properly.
AA: ..................................................
ID: now you tell me. =:I
AA: why arne you feeding hads wornmy fish, prni.
DD: that sounds very concerning i have had the un-fresh fish here and i am not sure i want to have the un-fresh thing i havent had yet!
SA: I wouldn't do that to Hadean.
SA: I ate sushi at the same place before I brought it to him.
AA: would you have known it's full of wornms, tho.
ID: pris has the money for the fancy stuff sips.
ID: like. pris how much did you pay for your current outfit.
SA: I couldn't tell you.
ID: guesstimate.
AA: and it ain't that unfrnesh, dd, jeez. AA: trnust meee.
SA: however, I made roughly $3500 today.
SA: catching that indigo.
SA: so.
ID: see?
AA: hads li - >:1
SA: also yes because I would have gotten the worms too.
DD: what if maybe they can cook it like a little bit but not all the way do they do that
ID: man i should have let you wire me some cash. =:/
SA: that is caled a rare burger.
SA: you missed your chance, Hadean.
DD: oh!!!!!!!! DD: so those are a thing!!!
SA: besides what was it you said about taking advantage of people.
SA: and I should watch out.
SA: :p
AA: n, too late, yrn in the brnoke-ass rnust squad, hads. AA: no take-backs!!
ID: =:P you're learning. what have i created.
SA: 💚
ID: he still owes me a shopping trip one day though!
ID: no takebacks on that!
SA: you will be very fashionable. and also very practical.
SA: i promise.
DD: that is very good to know and i will try that because i suppose coming here should also be about trying new things!!
DD: and oh my goodness you should show us what you buy when you go shopping!!!
ID: yeah dd, dive in to the experience.
DD: changing room pix for your fav outfits! ^_^
ID: i live in a tent.
AA: lmfao.
ID: there is no rooms.
DD: ... changing tent pix?
DD: why do you live in a tent?? are you an adventurer?
AA: oh my goooooood, he meant in the storne, hadean.
SA: we aren't shopping in the tent.
AA: ^^^^^
ID: oh.
AA: also, prni, you gotta make surne he doesn't buy anything lame.
ID: sorry i don't go clothes shopping you guys.
SA: i will.
ID: i have three shirts and two pairs of pants and this shirt isn't even mine. give me a break.
AA: and y, totes an adventurnern, dd.
SA: dd, hadean is actually a fashion icon.
SA: you see, they're trying an experimental style.
SA: it's called minimalism.
SA: have you heard of it?
DD: wow that is not very much clothing even i have a lot more than that and i barely packed anything before i left aside from my lab equipment!! DD: we should go shopping together id you really need more clothing than that
SA: it's all the rage now.
DD: and yes i have but i thought that meant you have a lot of the same outfit and you style it differently
SA: oh my god.
ID: ...i have a lot of the same outfit.
ID: and style it exactly the same.
AA: omfg.
ID: and by a lot i mean. 2.
DD: thats how they make it look so nice!! DD: your outfits arent going to look nice if they are worn out because you only have two of them!
AA: evernyone else is being a dumb chucklefuck, dd, so, like.
AA: so let me say, on theirn account:
AA: y, pls go shopping w/ them. >:}
SA: i know how to shop.
DD: omg yay!!!
ID: i wonder what happened to my hooker uniform tho.
ID: wait what.
DD: wh
DD: your what
AA: he's an adventurnern, dd.
AA: duuuuh.
SA: hooker = / = adventurer
DD: that is not what i meant by adventurer!!!!
SA: --
AA: what sornt of adventurnern does not have a hookern outfit?
SA: !!oh!!
ID: i'm not actually a hooker.
SA: my god
AA: how else arne you gonna get in the brnothel to crnawl thrnough the vents to kill the duke?
DD: ............... i guess i did not think that was a thing outside of video games!!
ID: sometimes you need to dress the part tho.
AA: go thrnough the frnont doorn?
AA: puhlease.
DD: that makes sense!
AA: ofc it does.
ID: yes it does.
SA: sipara
SA: oh.
SA: you are all.
SA: awful.
SA: Peopple.
SA: I thought i was bad.
DD: you havent seemed like a bad person to me at all sa! 😦
DD: and neither does anybody else here really i mean i am pretty excited to try a burger and i wouldnt have done that without you guys!
AA: >:}
DD: omg maybe we can have some together when we go shopping?
ID: get cheese on it, cheese makes it better.
ID: well sips we are going to port port to drop lal off, right?
ID: sips can totes go on the shopping adventure too, right dd?
AA: y, y.
AA: wait, what.
ID: =:)
DD: oh there is nowhere good to shop here i dont think the town is so small!!!
DD: we should to go to the coastal city i got to see some of it on the way in and it is much larger
DD: and it is not that far away by train
ID: there we go!
AA: i wouldn't want to intrnude on yrn fancy, like, boy bonding time. >;0
ID: sips can totes use some fashion tips dd.
DD: omg!!
DD: i love giving fashion tips!
DD: the secret is BOWS
ID: perfect!
ID: sips could use some bows!
AA: fuck off, i've - oh my god.
AA: bows, like. AA: in yrn headfluff?
DD: i mean unless you are making fun of her fashion sense in general which strikes me as a little bit mean i am sure that you dress just fine!!
DD: and yes!! DD: and also i have one on my back!
DD: like at the top of my shorts its very fun to twirl with and it is nice and gauzy in the wind its almost like swimming again!
ID: sips, you twirl right?
AA: i
AA: have nevern twirnled so much in my goddamn life as i would, uh, with a bow.
AA: >:?
DD: i mean if twirling is not your thing i am sure we can find you something else its not like the style i like for myself is what everyone else likes to wear
ID: we'll find a style all your own sips!
DD: yes exactly!! 😄 ❤
AA: hahaha. >:}
AA: well, y, as long as we find one forn hads too. AA: did you know he's got fluff down to his glutes??
SA: oh, yes.
DD: yes i saw earlier when we were doing selfies and i think you said that you are the one that brushed it and i wanted to say that you did a very good job and it looked very beautiful!
ID: sips has a funner figure to shop for i think. we should focus on her.
SA: please, style it too.
DD: and yes we can find a style for everyone you and me and id and sa!!
ID: she's famous y'know.
SA: we could loop braids and put a bun in the back.
SA: very chic.
DD: and oh dear is she i am sorry i did not realize
SA: woodland chic, even.
ID: she needs famous fashion flair.
DD: omg!!! that sounds very fun maybe we could get some bright colors
DD: and something more flowy for id though i guess not so much that it is elven even though i admit that is the thought i had between the hair and the braids and such
ID: ...flowy.
SA: oh so.
DD: do you not like flowy we dont have to do flowy i just thought it would look nice with your hair maybe
SA: legolas.
SA: it's your favorite, Hadean.
ID: pris. D:<=
SA: alright, alright.
ID: i need stuff that won't get caught up on stuff.
DD: omg haha we can totally do something like that!!
ID: i do a lot of climbing and fighting and stuff. adventurer and all.
DD: oh that makes sense you are an adventurer after all!
DD: i suppose we will just have to see when it is time to pick out items what you like best and what matches with it !! ^_^
SA: Oh, look.
SA: I just had an extended case come up for this perigee.
SA: I'll be stuck in Provenance, I suppose.
SA: I'm very sorry.
ID: D:<= what a fucking shame.
AA: whaaaaaat.
AA: >:'{
DD: oh!! 😦 DD: that is very unfortunate but maybe we can do another time! DD: i hope it is not too much work for you i recall you mentioning you finished another case recently and really that seems like a lot of effort so i definitely wish you the best of luck in your endeavors!!
SA: ...yes.
SA: it was. exhausting.
AA: it's okay, dd, we can all totes go shopping next time in prnovidence.
AA: why, i hearn they've got the best burngerns on the entirne continent.
AA: full of, like, hoofbeast meat, and blood, and shit.
SA: ...
SA: you know what, I changed my mind.
SA: I won't take that case.
AA: >;0!
AA: dd, show me pics of yrn bow, btw.
DD: i do not think i want to eat anything that is full of feces!
AA: ..........
AA: ..........................
DD: and omg! DD: yes one moment!
AA: >:??
DD: and oh dear i am sorry i think i misunderstood the terminology that you used
ID: no actual shit in the burgers. don't worry.
DD: it is late and i am a little bit tired i am afraid!
ID: unless you go to the reaaallly cheap places.
DD sent thefluffiestbow.png
DD: but yes oh my goodness that all sounds very fun and we should totally visit sa!
SA: i believe that's beyond cheap, Hadean.
SA: no. No please don't.
DD: oh
DD: um!!! DD: sorry
SA: Providence is full of. Crime.
SA: and trafficking. yes.
DD: oh dear
SA: It would be very unsafe for Sipara or Hadean to visit.
DD: oh dear!!
ID: we're strong rusties, we'll manage.
SA: 🤦
DD: are you sure you are doing alright then sa i mean that sounds like a lot of trouble!
AA: aww, prni, therne's no need to get all concerned abt us. AA: we'rne strnong independent rnusties and we'll manage. besides, we'rne wornrnied abt Y O U.
AA: that city sounds RN O U G H.
SA: i am quite alright, thank you.
AA: also. okay. ngl. AA: that's a qt fucking bow.
ID: clearly we should go visit to give you some support!
ID: but if you're soooo concerned.
ID: we can go to the port city dd mentioned.
SA: Yes.
SA: yes let's do that.
DD: omg haha tyvm aa i am very happy you think so!
DD: and oh dear maybe it would be good to go to the city! DD: sa sounds like they maybe dont want to be in their city all that very much and it would be a good chance for them to get out!
SA: no, I rather like my city, thank you.
ID: i haven't seen the ocean in like. 3 sweeps.
SA: I have a view of it from my loft.
DD: i am very confused about who wants to go to what city now!
SA: it becomes less. awestriking. when you see it every day.
ID: we're going to the port city that is actually a port. and not riddled with crime.
AA: .. idk, but you ppl sornt it out. AA: i gotta get a trnuck tmrnw, and. idk. wherne the fuck you get those.
AA: so i'm gonna go figurne that out. >:?
SA: a ... dealership?
ID: do i have to sit in the middle.
DD: i suppose id did just decide where we were going so that is that!
SA: --
SA: oh that will be. good.
AA: y, lal alrneady called windowseat, soz.
ID: gdi.
ID: i hope it's roomy. =:I
AA: i do not have sa's mad buxxx, so, like, lmfao. AA: y. let's hope. >:}
AA: crnoss yrn frnonds!!
ID: my horns are gonna scrape the top of it probably. =:'(
SA: I'd offer you all a ride but I only ride a motorcycle.
DD: oh dear that sounds uncomfortable!
DD: maybe we could go to a salon and have your horns polished if they get scraped id!
SA: I think he meant he would scrape the felt off the roof.
DD: hornicures sounds nice it has been a while since i have had one after all it is a little bit embarrassing to go into a salon with broken horns
DD: and oh well they are nice regardless!
ID: what's a hornicure.
DD: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DD: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DD: its when you go to a salon with your friends and you have them sand your horns and polish them and glaze them!!
DD: and sometimes you can put on really cute designs or accessories like rings and
SA: You know.
ID: hahahah sand my horns.
DD: its really very very fun!!
SA: as we do, Hadean.
ID: i had them polished like a week ago. for the first time.
DD: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DD: we are definitely getting you a hornicure!!!!!!!!!
DD: you will love it!!!!!
SA: in all seriousness, I need to go lie down again. I am rather dizzy.
ID: =:I does it hurt.
SA: i will see you all later.
DD: oh dear that sounds very alarming maybe it is because you were working so much
DD: i wish you a restful sleep please be well!
ID: ...yeah... rough night. =:I bye pris.
DD: and no they do not hurt at all! DD: it sometimes pinches your cuticles a little bit if the people doing it are not very experienced but we will go somewhere good to make sure nobody hurts you! DD: i want your first hornicure to be really really nice!
ID: uh how often do they deal with floating horns.
DD: ....
ID: perhaps i am not cut out for hornicures.
DD: probably not very often!!
DD: well they could still do your other two horns!!
DD: and i am sure doing a floating horn would be even easier since it is not that big and has no cuticles!
ID: i mean my floating horn is like. bigger than sips' horns combined.
DD: well it is not bigger than both of your other horns combined and i am sure they get plenty of customers with very large horns so it should not be a concern dont worry! ^_^
ID: i mean... i guess.
DD: really you do not need to be afraid i promise they are very relaxing and soothing and make you feel really super nice!!
ID: i mean really i'm just a lil wary of your willingness to wanna do this stuff with some rusties.
ID: we're a little. out of your lane.
DD: .... oh
DD: um!
DD: what do you mean??
ID: i mean. why do you wanna hang with us.
DD: because you guys have all been very nice and introduced me to burgers and you seem like a lot of fun!
DD: and i havent gone shopping or gotten a hornicure with some friends in ages and it seems like it would be a really nice time!
DD: and also you need more than two outfits!!!
ID: i guess that's a better reason than most have.
DD: oh dear
DD: i am sorry if i have reminded you of bad past experiences i promise i am just looking to make some new friends and you guys have seemed very friendly so far
ID: it's fine, a rust just has to be a lil wary.
ID: i mean. we're the same shade as the trolls you probably have testing your stuff. whatever that is.
DD: i understand!!! DD: at least i think i do??? DD: um! DD: i do not want to say the wrong thing!
DD: and actually there are mostly yellowbloods in the facility though there are some brown and maroonbloods around and some olives and there is even one cerulean psychic roaming around!!! DD: or maybe two DD: um i admittedly cannot really tell if there is one or just two that look very similar it has been very confusing
ID: pfff you must mean gliese.
ID: and... not-gliese.
DD: oh does that mean there are two??
DD: that is a relief to know i was beginning to think that i was going to talk about them at one point and get it wrong
ID: yeah there's two, dw.
ID: but yeah. facility stuff can make some of us rusties a little wary.
DD: well if it makes you feel any better i am not working for them they have just volunteered to allow me to offer to their participants who would like to try out some of my new prototypes that are in the troll trials stage!
DD: they are all very safe and such the only issues are with connection speed
DD: and integration capacity!
ID: if you say so. i have no idea what that stuff means.
DD: it mostly means that when things go wrong it just makes people feel like things are going really slow or not all the way until they disconnect!
DD: but i cant really go into more detail than that
DD: because it is technically still in beta!
ID: ...that does not really clear up the confusion but okay.
DD: but yes i am not fleet i am a member of a private organization and i do not think i am actually old enough to work for the empire
ID: man now they're drafting young seadwellers.
ID: does no wriggler get a break these days.
ID: what happened to leaving a troll be until they hit ascension.
DD: wait what
DD: are you being sarcastic or did you misread what i wrote?
DD: i am having a hard time telling over the internet!
ID: that's my charm dd, i'm sarcastic and truthful at the same time.
DD: !!!!
ID: mostly truthful-y rn tho.
DD: that sounds like a very confusing sort of charm!
ID: you get used to it.
DD: but yes i suppose then i should clarify that i said that i am not conscripted at all!
DD: and am likely too young to be so
ID: but you're... working for a company that works for the fleet?
DD: in fact my best friend and i have started our own company and it has grown to quite a large size!! DD: the fleet has actually purchased a contract with us recently
ID: looks like some hazy ass lines right there.
DD: oh no we are working with the fleet and it is our honor to due so but it is our own startup and it is contract-based product supply!
DD: i do not work with the fleet directly even the pr things are mostly my good friends strong suit i am mostly research and development
ID: if you say so. seems like a confusing mess to me.
DD: well!!
ID: but i'm not a. researcher.
DD: there is working for somebody as in you are hired buy them
DD: and then there is them coming into your restaurant to buy a meal
DD: in the latter situation you are not working for them they are simply making a purchase!
DD: that is what we are like!!
ID: oh. okay.
ID: i guess you must be good, if they're buying from you and not like. an adult.
DD: i try to be humble most times but it is true that we are very very good!! DD: though i muse credit my good friend with a lot of it because admittedly the product does not make the company and there are plenty of fabulous inventors around that have gotten nowhere so it is their talent at management that has gotten us this far
ID: sounds like a complicated balance of you making good stuff and then being able to sell it well.
DD: yes exactly!!!
II: Management does tend to factor more into successfully selling products than pure talent, I'm afraid.
DD: it has probably been obvious as of late but i am not the best people person so i am very grateful to my friend for putting up with some of my silliness in the past and handling the business side of things
II: Not that I am doubting DD, but unfortunately surface appearances are usually what trolls consider when buying.
DD: i do not think i would have even thought to sell any of my work without them!
II: Oh, don't be so hard on yourself, DD.
II: You are perfectly pleasant
II: Merely a bit unpolished
DD: oh well i am very glad that you think so haha i am glad that i have not misstepped too much yet
II: DD, trust me.
DD: and that is one way of putting it!! DD: but hopefully i will be able to polish myself more soon and maybe the first step is going to get our horns polished id >:D
II: I have moved in highblood circles since I was a very young troll, and have observed _far_ greater errors than any you've made.
ID: maybe you two should go on a. hornicure trip.
DD: but we are already going on one together!! DD: you do not need to have them that often but maybe some time later ii and i can besides we are already going to a restaurant in civitrecce ^_^
II: We can certainly go for a hornicure trip afterward, if it wouldn't be too much time out of your schedule!
ID: i mean me and sips are traveling rn, we won't be back in port port for a while.
DD: well yes and i would love to but it would be pointless since id and i are already getting our horns done but maybe we can do a movie or our claws instead or something??
DD: and that is okay id i am not free at this exact moment anyways and admittedly i do not actually know when people want to hang out
DD: i was hoping it is kind of soon so that i could have my first burger with you guys but i suspect that i may have to break and go eat before then!!
ID: yeah def go eat.
ID: try some chicken tho.
ID: and rice.
ID: chicken and rice are good together.
DD: okay! I have had rice with fish so hopefully rice with chicken is just as good!
DD: speaking of which i should probably go do that right now to be honest my stomach is positively hurting now that i pay attention to it and i have had nothing but trollbucks all night!
DD: ...day!
DD: hopefully there are places open this late!
ID: you'll find something i'm sure. g'day.
DD: good day!!!! ❤ i am very excited to go shopping with you!
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some kara/lena headcannons + ramblings
ok this is just for me and for funsies ive got a lot of thoughts and not a lot of people to share them with but we might as well start somewhere.
it’s really long fam
Who’s the cuddler: definitely both? kara really likes closeness in general and lena is an absolute sucker for cuddles and + homegirl’s probs really touched starved too so they probably have major cuddling sessions where nothing really happens they just want to be as close as possible to each other. i’ve also seen some headcannons where kara’s basically a human furnace and i can see lena getting *lovingly* frustrated at her girlfriend’s ridiculous body heat but also consider: lena luthor being a cuddle slut and absolutely adoring kara’s eternal warmth
Who’s the big spoon/little spoon: kara likes to default to big spoon but doesn’t mind when lena takes the reigns. they’re probably switch in this.
Fav. non sexual activity: this is a huge fanon thing and i totally am on the bandwagon for it: lazy sundays. just. an entire day where sluggish, hedonistic desires are met and they close themselves off to the world um yes pls this is very kara/lena. also music. i like the idea of them being well-read in the music world and just going to concerts ranging from mahler to andrew bird to nicki minaj and selena gomez and probably some other hipster bands. sharing each other’s spotify’s and sending each other youtube links of cool obscure bands they find. kara discovering someone’s bandcamp and lena anonymously donating to their page. lena loving the opera and introducing kara to verdi. lena having a guilty pleasure for 21 pilots or smth and kara being ???? ok let’s jam. i just really! love! music! and! kara/lena!! (omg kara teaching lena advanced music theory??? maybe lena was semi trained in her youth but never really went past building chords and one afternoon kara just takes her aside and teaches her part writing and its weird ass rules and lena catching on in an instant bc all music theory is an extension of math and logic. them writing songs together im???)
Who uses all the hot water: KARA her apartment may be big and spacious but that don’t mean her water heater is up to date
Most trivial thing they fight over: shoes. they’re like, a half shoe size a part even though lena’s smaller and maybe with certain styles kara can fit in some of lena’s nice loafers or lena lowkey uses this one specific pair of black heels of kara’s and this leads to the pettiest arguments of “those are my shoes and today is my day no you cannot wear them.” also kara accidentally putting things in hard to reach places bc she’s still getting used to living with someone who can’t just fly up to get the pans on top of the fridge.
Who does the most cleaning: they’re both pretty good at keeping things neat. lena’s not used to kara’s ‘throw this here and pick it up later’ system but they work things out. lena’s also really bad at keeping track of how fast her messes pile up and even though she always cleans after herself sometimes kara comes home and there’s just trails of paper and books and like five computers running and she’s like babe ur home office took over the house. also what’s that saying that really intelligent people are the messiest or smth? smth like “an empty desk is an empty brain” idk. i’m just thinking that even though lena presents herself nicely and clearly has a grip on herself just think about her home office being a small battlefield of stacks and files and prototypes. also lena with a messy closet is pretty believable like she may know how to match her clothes but that doesn’t necessarily mean her closet is in pristine condition idk i present to you: kara, organized closet by color and design and lena, these are my yoga pants and they’re hanging next to my 200$ suit
Who controls Netflix queue: kara is queen of netflix and all things to watch. lena doesn’t know how she manages to afford netflix and amazon prime at the same time but then again she also doesn’t know how kara affords her apartment in the first place.
Who calls the landlord when the heat doesn’t work: lena gets it done faster; kara doesn’t even notice the temperature has dropped 20 degrees until lena puts on her winter coat
Who leaves their stuff around: kara’s constantly dropping her clothes in the most random places bc supergirl reasons. lena finds her tights and button up in the bathroom at the beginning of the week and by the end of the week she’s found her shoes in the potted plant, her pants on the kitchen island, and various shirts smashed between things ranging from the stereo set to the fridge. lena’s one of those people who can always remember where they’ve left their stuff even if they’ve left it in a maze
Who remembers to buy the milk: kara’s shopping lists aren’t always practical but she does remember to buy the milk
Who remembers anniversaries: both. at the start of their relationship ena’s afraid to make it a big deal bc fear of rejection and commitment but kara rubs those fears away by being the most supportive girlfriend. also kara having her own reservations about commitment. kara knowing that relationships ask a lot out of people, that both have to work to make it happen. kara trying, despite her previous relationships to go forward and build something strong for lena and her. kara forging on, ignoring the demon in her head telling her that she can’t have it all, that she’ll never be able to find balance, that no one will truly take her for who she is. lena recognizing and soothing these fears, destroying these fears by staying steadfastly by kara’s side and saying fuck it and falling hard and fast for the girl of steel. lena being a dramatic gay and showering kara with expensive gifts and bringing her as her date to exclusive parties. kara bringing lena gifts from the sea and pretty rocks from mountains that humans can’t climb, kara finding the quiet corners of the world and bringing lena there and they build their world from each other’s strength and their secrets bonding them and told through trust. lena and kara in love and a super and a luthor defying the odds because they can and because they will.
Who cooks normally: i love the headcannons of kara being the cook bc hello it’s kara and this girl’s first love on earth (besides alex) was probably food. but i also like the idea of them both being hopeless in the kitchen? like. imagine them both trying to save money and taking cooking classes or watching baking videos online. going to the library and trying out a different recipe each week. lena making a pinterest of all the breakfast items she wants to try on lazy sundays. together, learning how to cook and messing up and getting distracted by each other so their meals turn out just a little bit burnt. kara trying to make homemade icecream. kara eating half the ingredients before lena has a chance to put the roast in the oven. them making thanksgiving dinner and it’s kind of horrible but mostly alright and eliza makes them promise to let her help them out for christmas dinner. kara and lena slowly learning to cook and turning out to be kitchen moms with a wicked way with the cookbook.
How often they fight: god just they can either have the best arguments or the worst ones. they’re both really good communicators though and they’re respectful and sure things get heated and complicated but they live by the “don’t go to bed angry” rule and it really helps. lena can close herself off, be a little dramatic, maybe be a bit reckless when it comes to her self care and kara’s got a huge heart but she’s also terribly headstrong and sometimes their respective stubbornness blinds them. kara can be extra and make rash decisions. but at the end of the day they talk things through and their similar backgrounds help them reach understandings.
What they do when they’re away from each other: kara can visit lena wherever she is in the world but she’s also got her own job and while she’d gladly visit lena everynight lena knows better than to ask her to, knows that space can be good. if lena’s gone for extended periods of time they’ll arrange call times and kara visits when she can so long distance isn’t a main concern between the two of them. supergirl duties take kara away at really random and sometimes inopportune times but lena’s a patient soul and kara always makes sure she’s communicating to lena, making lena a priority but also lena knows that supergirl is The priority and she loves her hero girlfriend. also distance makes the heart grow fonder so imagine maybe their busy schedules overlapping and them not being able to be together for two weeks to a month and both are just going crazy like. kara wanting to rush off to her girlfriend every chance that she gets but lena’s on the other side of the world and up to her neck in corporate shenanigans so when they finally are able to orbit each other again it’s like a supernova and it’s handsy and desperate but also really nice and they just kinda hold each other for awhile and take their time regrouping after the initial homecoming. also kara/lena + reunion sex. bonus points if the next day is a lazy sunday.
Nicknames: idk? i don’t really see them having nicknames unless it’s the teasing miss luthor/miss danvers. they have pet names tho. lots of babes and darlings and sweethearts.
Who is most likely to pay for dinner: lena.
Who steals the covers at night: kara likes the comfort of being in buried in covers even though she really doesn't need them. lena’s a sheet goblin and probably lowkey hogs the bed. not the kara minds bc that girl sleeps like a log in one place.
What they would get each other for gifts: kinda already answered this but also wanted to add that idk where i saw this and i wish i could find it and link it but i read a really good one somewhere where somebody was like “lena gets kara lingerie and it’s an experience” and um yes??? if someone knows what this is pls tell me and i’ll link it/give proper credit im sorry. also! kara getting lena really practical things or gifts from around the world. lena going full out billionaire baby on kara and just the two of them being high end fashion, high end living, high end everything. but also enjoying the other spectrum of comfort and maybe for kara’s birthday they go on a road trip and stay in crappy motels and eat greasy diner food and have the quintessential american experience and it’s cathartic and slow and totally theirs.
Who kissed who first: i love the idea of kara making the first move and a surprised but delighted lena being like yesss.
Who makes the first move: kara’s the one to make all the first moves i’ve decided this. lena’s always just a lil hesitant, always thinking in strategies and kara’s the one to be like ok let’s do this when and where do we meet and they just progress from there.
Who remembers things: lena’s google calendar gives onlookers heart attacks on the spot. kara balances her duties pretty well but sometimes she can slip up and something will go over her head but she’s always responsive and owns up to her actions. they remember big days and lena’s always the one to follow up on dates or plans and kara’s the one that reminds lena to eat or rest or just take some time to herself.
Who started the relationship: their lunch dates turn to dinner dates that turn to hang out sessions until they’re three months down the road in a muddle of uncharted intimacy and one day alex goes “hey where’s ur gf” and kara’s like ??? oh lena. oh. well she’s probably running late bc i know she had a meeting or smth. and alex is like. ah. and kara’s like. ah? and alex is like “u didn’t question that lena’s ur gf? gay.” and kara’s like “omg” and then shenanigans ensue and long story short they’re dating.
Who curses more: lena luthor is a very attractive curser and kara doesn’t know what to do with this information. also. kara cursing in high stress situations or when something takes her by surprise. bed cursing. also kara whispering ‘fuck’ bc of smth and lena doing the side eye emoji.
What they would do if the other was hurt: lena’s become accustomed to seeing supergirl get whipped around on the tv screen but her heart rate still speeds up everytime kara gets hurt. they learn to trust one another and just build this really lovely relationship where the worst has already happened to them so they know that together they can get through anything. lena staying by kara in her sunbed. lena taking care of her helpless gf when her powers blow out. lena being a shoulder to cry on, lena understanding when kara needs someone to understand what kara doesn’t understand. kara doing the same for lena. kara protecting lena to her last breath. kara defending lena until her voice is hoarse. kara bringing lena food. them giving each other backrubs out of comfort or out of need. both of them being just as protective as the other with just as much concern and love and care and tenderness.
Who is the dirty talker: im blushin thinking about this. lena being the vocal one but also kara being really responsive to her? yes. someone fic this. someone probably already did.
Any headcanons? i’m really into kara and lena going to galas/parties and dressing up idk it’s just the aesthetic that gets me. also the music headcannon. i want kara who sings around her apartment or whenever she’s comfortable or when she’s doing work just singing all these songs and some lena recognizes and others are hymn songs from krypton or songs from her childhood. kara being a theatre nerd and geeking out to lena and lena lowkey understanding all of kara’s references. lena knowing piano and kara knowing like twelve different instruments. idk where that huge “kara loves music and learns to control her powers through it” post is but yeah im all for this mmhmm.
i’d also like to add: cello player kara. strings are a hard discipline to learn and you have to have the right amount of pressure and speed to pull the sound out of these types of instruments. also, the cello is low and kara would probably have perfect intonation with the low rumble of the strings, the orchestra, and her super hearing. kara having an extensive knowledge of baroque music and string quartets and being a nerd and analyzing bach chorales. also choir kid kara! being a voice within many and listening to the counterpoint and changing harmony. kara danvers, not a sports kid in high school, but a fine arts kid. going silly and goofy in the drama club, painting in the art club, being in two orchestras and a band on the side. trying out the glee club (ha) and being put in the top choir bc she’s strangely and inexplicably fast at learning the languages and parts. kara forming her own string quartet with her buddies. kara being in the pep band. KARA BEING IN THE MARCHING BAND. DORKY KARA WITH GLASSES AND A HUGE TROMBONE. MAYBE A TRUMPET IDK. OMG KARA DANVERS, BASSOON PLAYER EXTRAORDINAIRE. kara slaying it at karaoke so hard that she’s not allowed back until she learns that karaoke is for fuNSIES and not for taLENTED PEOple kar a stoppppPPP. kara being That Kid that makes all the statewide festivals and competitions. kara not being in it for the glory but for the discipline, the physical balance and strain it takes her to master her craft and this makes her stand out but not in a bad way but in an inspiring way. kara rising to the top bc she practices for herself, because music is an escape like it is for a lot of kids, but especially for her.
also: kara applying her music theory knowledge from krypton to western styles of music???? im??? is it like atonal music or do they have notes that the human ear can’t pick up? what are the scales like/modes?? i don’t read the comics and i have no knowledge on the superman lore but if someone knows pleaSE SHARE. kara likes atonal music bc it’s fun to follow. kara missing krypton’s instruments and subconsciously choosing her earth instruments based on what she remembers from krypton, what feels familiar. kara liking certain pop songs on the radio because the modes are similar to a hymn she heard when she was little. kara getting lost in the dazzle of theatre bc the storylines about going home and finding one’s true self hit something deep within her. kara and music. kara and the fine arts, finding a different type of strength.
also one last thing for all you music nerds out there: don’t think about how ungodly fast she’d be at part writing and finding errors. or how she’d ace all the aural skills parts of theory exams. kara gets a music minor in college in theory and composition and it’s a breeze ok ok im done this was too much fun omg.
#this is really very long#hmm#supergirl#supergirl headcanons#jenny's party of 1#supergirl fic#written
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Mauricio Pellegrino, the terminated coach who dislikes failing and fuss when he winnings | Sid Lowe
Southamptons brand-new director, highly regarded for his man-management and tactical nous, haunts about the damage victory can impose on musicians hunger
There were around 40 parties on the coaching direction Mauricio Pellegrino took when he was a player at Valencia in 1999 and he wanted to know what it was that moved them happening there, so he did something he has done ever since football took him from his home in the Argentinian pampas: he asked and he listened. There were all sorts of reasons but amazingly few parallelled his. For some, it was just something to do. For others, it was about money, simply a job. Not for Pellegrino. He expected a friend there whether he would take it if a minuscule third division organization came for him. No, he said. Coachings not your occupation, then, Pellegrino replied.
It is Pellegrinos. Had it not been for football I would never have left home, he once said. He was a little introverted, at least to start with, and one former team-mate says football is his life while he told a player who worked under him that through football “hes found” a room to express himself. Especially through coaching, his calling. He has risen and evolved over the years but even as a participate he was a manager. Louis van Gaal formerly said: Hell make a great manager. Although Pellegrino was not satisfied, joking that made the Dutchman did not think he was much of a centre-back, Van Gaal is not a man given to handing out kudoes and he knew he was right.
Pellegrino did not always think he was much of a actor, either: he was too towering, too skinny, very unwieldy, he had problems with his back. But there was something about him that team-mates and tutors appreciated that took him to Barcelona, Valencia and Liverpool, and a coaching occupation that now wreaks him to Southampton via Spain and Argentina. He stimulates you think, his former centre-back partner Roberto Ayala says. He realise himself conclude, more, particularly about others.
The goalkeeper Santi Caizares, a team-mate at Valencia, says: He shared his experience with everyone: he listened and admonished, analysed, introduced himself into publics scalps: he was practically a psychologist. He was not our very best centre-back but “hes been” the centre-back the coach-and-four most valued. He always had a positive posture, he had no suspicion at all , no feeling, it was always, ever about the team. He understood tactically, he was preoccupied with the team, he took responsibility: too much. He was ashamed by demolish. Ive known very few musicians like that. He has three things: extraordinary modesty, ended professionalism and he never celebrated victory.
Pellegrino once admitted: Football was my academy of life but I had a big inadequacy as a musician: I didnt loved it. Now he conceives he can help participates do so and he has changed a little but that opinion played a part in influencing him. In Argentina football is cultural, he explained to El Pas . Forgetting is a drama; triumphing is simply good because it represents not misplacing. The social rebuff you feel when you lose stirs us very competitive. Winning, by contrast, dampens your margin and eschewing that is something that preoccupies him. Haunts him, according to one friend.
Caizares shared such an attitude and laments its loss in video games but titters when he reminisces Pellegrino questioning before the 2001 Champions League final: What if we acquire? How will we get our modesty back? Bloody hell, Flaco , he responded. Lets simply triumph firstly, yeah?
Mauricio Pellegrino, playing for Valencia, has his retribution saved by Oliver Kahn in the shootout of the 2001 Champions League final to tell Bayern Munich the title. Photo: Dylan Martinez/ Reuters
They announced Pellegrino Flaco , the Skinny One, everywhere except at Barcelona, whom he had joined in 1998; Johan Cruyff was the only Flaco there. Pellegrino never wielded under Cruyff but he did work with Van Gaal, who hurriedly saw something in him.
At Valencia, Claudio Ranieri saw it more, as did Hctor Cper. Under him they did not win that Champions League final, and Pellegrino missed the decide sanction in the shootout, but Caizares contends: To triumph, you have to lose first. Two consecutive European Cup final demolishes were followed by two tournament deeds in three years, Valencia overcoming the galcticos , and the manager who led that historic line-up certainly saw something in him. Rafael Bentez took Pellegrino to Liverpool with him in 2005 as much for what he could do for the team as what he could do in it.
He stood merely a season but reverted as Bentezs assistant in 2008, although one former participate says he was still a peripheral anatomy, occupying a backseat. He watched and listened, as he ever had: as a actor, Pellegrino would interrogate all the decisions not because he was accusing his coaches but because he was analysing them. Never standing still, never satisfied that he had found a definitive answer.
He has said he learned organisation from Marcelo Bielsa, room from Van Gaal. With Bentez, he saw the infatuation with tactics, and England from the inside, how it is played and lived, what it represents culturally. The feel for video games and for his musicians, though, is his own and theres a moral constituent to it. People have less religious belief and little creed in politicians: the only thing we have left to identify with is the shirt, he has said. Thats for life: grandad, father, grandson united by a emblazon. Im not against business, but I dont want that culture constituent to be lost.
Players confirm Pellegrino, the son of farmers, repeatedly tells them that play objections the values of society, where individualism reigns. Society, he says, expects that you acquire, that you have the best gondola, the most money; football necessitates that you help your team-mate, even if that intends not scoring , not playing , not being in the spotlight. If the team are better, you are better. Yet achieving that represents employing with individuals, understanding. When I grew up tutors never questioned: How do you feel? But if I dont ask a musician, how am I going to know his fantasies? he has asked.
Mauricio Pellegrino, right, with Rafael Bentez, left, and Xavi Valero in 2009 during a charm on Liverpools coaching personnel. Photograph: Paul Ellis/ AFP/ Getty Images
At Alavs last season, that dream was a Copa del Rey final merely the second largest beaker final, after the 2001 Uefa Cup which they lost to Liverpool, in the 96 -year history of the guild from Vitoria in the Basque Country. He transmits to the players what the society and the city necessitate: he has built a back the devotees identify with, says the skipper, Manu Garca, born in Vitoria and a lifelong member at Mendizorroza. Hes a extremely ended coach-and-four; not many have the tactical awareness of the game and also so much geniu for group management. He and his staff “ve got a lot” of left hand; they have the whole squad plugged in, they avoid conflict, everyone gets an opportunity.
Pellegrino has two aide managers, Carlos Campagnucci and Xavi Tamarit, writer of a notebook on the assumption of periodisation fathered by Vtor Frade and must be accompanied by Jos Mourinho , among others. His fitness coach, David Rodrguez, and the goalkeeper manager, Javier Lpez Vallejo, complete the team who have had a huge impact in Vitoria.
As Garca talks enthusiastically through Pellegrinos tactical differences, his prototype as it switches from 4-4-2 into 4-3-3, the multiple functions of the full-backs, the two central midfielders becoming one, the striker plummeting in, the quest for numerical superiority, you get a feel for the degree of realize, the route it is mechanised, bits interlocking, every point interdependent. Im 31, and of course Ive learned a lot from all my managers, but in just one year he has schooled me to understand the game so much better than I did before and thats not such an easy thing to do, Garca says.
He receives the game very well. He is a strategist, he analyses rivals closely and he believes in juego posicional [ a positional play ]. He “ve got a lot” of faith in that approach, in defense but also in strike: respect the positions, a well-ordered squad, everything under control. He likes his team to express the mode he is: smart, knowledge, told. He drives hard during the week and the things he plans for generally happen at the weekend.
Not that there is any guarantee, Pellegrino knows: the opposition play-act, too, and defeat awaits. He invested his playing vocation hopeless to forestall it but he has come to accept it and learn from it, extremely; it manufactured him who he is. He also knows that it has an impact on the way he is recognized, even if he does not change. He knows there is no single reaction and that moralities can soon be seen as vices.
Football is like two parties dancing: if the other person tramples on your toes, you cant lift your heels, he says. Its 22 , not 11. There is what you want to do and what you can do. Suffer would point out that good results and bad results are part of the same packet. If youre soothe and you triumph “theyre saying”: The crew is doing well because hes appease. If “were losing”, they say: Hes so calm he cant get the team going. You can see a monarch or a frog in every musician, every coach, and everyone.
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good evening fellow redditers!tks in advance for reading the following tale and for any advice you may have! buckle up, its a long one (although hopefully our collective wisdom can come up with a few lesson to help others).---So, 2.5years ago i joined a startup active in the autonomous robotics field, focused in increasing efficiency in renewable energy maintenance and ops. 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The "cherry" on the cake? 50% of the shares on offer were actual shares, from his stash... the other 50% were actually to come out from a "to-be-created-eventually" esop, WITH TWO YEAR VESTING!! :D:D:D:D:D:DNaturally, I left that meeting and went on a two-week "vacation" immediately.Which brings us to the present day. I came back from holidays, all is "business as usual" he keeps saying that "end of next month" the deal should close (and paperwork signed,, making us 4 "official shareholders", and "getting a Mill in the bank", while "maintaining control" (barely,, like 50.01% counting with us 4). We are about to start another season of field operations, meaning ill be out of the office most of the time actually "bringing home the bacon", while him and the engineers keep "daydreaming" next-version-features back in the office.Ok, now, all bitterness aside (hard, yes, but i think I can do it), i actually think this is mostly just the work of an unseasoned and naive entrepreneur, who CLEARLY, has never done, nor thought abt any of this before (before going on holiday, i told him to read "hard thing about hard things", which he actually did for once - first business book he has completed in years!!! likes to say hes a "slow reader"!!!) - and NOT the work of some evil genius visionary. The team is almost as "oblivious", none of the engineers ever heard or really understood what an esop even is!! (ye, have i mentioned we're a loooooooooong way from silicon valley here?)Which brings me to my options:A) "fuckit!" you know how Jared from Silicon Valley always has his resignation letter ready to hand in!?! :D well, I've been carrying one in my pocket for the two weeks I've been back. Just need to date and sign it and done! but there goes the 1%, give or take, of common stock i'd end up owning after this round. Then go start/join new projects in completely different industries, etc.. (is the ICO craze still going on!?!?! :D)B) "take a job with the competition" Im pretty sure I can walk into a job with one the leading competitors, at the middle-management level. funny thing is that job would pay me around 5x what i take home today as "COO" :D However, that would get me back to working for "the man", which is exactly what I thought I was "escaping" from when I joined this startup! :PC) "show him how its done!" Not being one that likes to admit defeat, I thought if there are any "checkmate" moves available to me. Here's what I came up with.. (warning: the following is VERY Machiavellian! :D) Remember how I said the whole team is pretty inexperience? well, turns out neither the company name, nor the main brand that the company uses was ever registered neither in the US, nor in the EU, only in home country. I can incorporate a delaware company using the name of his company (but that name is then "taken" for business, as a japanese company owns that trademark), then register the trademark of his company's product name (which is available also for incorporation), then buy a bunch of related domains and URLs - perhaps even file a utility patent, just for that "patent pending" stamp :P. Then I could either turn around to his company's competition and offer this corporation (effectively blocking his entry into US market without a major rebranding/marketing/legal costs) or offer it back to his company - for the 10% total ownership he should have offered me in the first place!! (im cheap, i know! ;)D) ... you tell me... how do i keep my dignity, not to mention my motivation, to stick with this prototype of a company when clearly, the owner is looking for employees and staff,,, not co-owners and partners?et pour la piece du resistance*,*the CEO and I are high school friends, have been in each others lives for decades, and very much enjoy each other's company outside the professional setting. I actually "miss" just hanging out, as you can imagine this whole mess has put quite the strain of the friendship. There's a saying in a funny language,, that translates to smtg like "you can lose the friend, but you can't miss the joke". Ideally, I'd like to keep the friend, but the joke DEFINITELY won't be on me...ok,, you did it! thanks for reaching ::: THE END ::: go get a cookie before you get busy replying! you deserve it!! :DHave a great weekend!---TL,DR? hmmm founder of startup i helped build to 100k revenue over last 2.5 years offered me less than 1/5 of the amount ive put in sweat,, a.k.a abt 0.5% at NEXTs rounds valuation
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6/24 progress so far.
so i totally gutted part 4. i kept thinking i had it, but i didnt. i mean i was just unsatisfied with the scenarios progression, too many back and forths and things not adding up. it made sense when i drafted but then writing it i realized, no this isnt right at all. LOL. so after many attempts to write myself out of the hole, i just said screw it and started over. thats how i spent my sunday.
so, the version youre getting works but wasnt my original idea. maybe i can fix it in the future but for now, im going with what works LOL. afterall it is a “prototype”
oh its not finished. almost, but not quite. ill work on it this week. i want it done its been taking too long.
ive already got some of the next characters intro planned. it will be joys intro and without spoiling anything it will take place right after Yeris intro timeline wise...so stay tuned.
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I’m done with drawing?! And this is what i need to do.
Oh boy heres a text post click the keep reading thingy to get to the full post because i don’t want to clutter my art blog with text!
How is that for an clickbait title? Maybe need to add more “?!”s..
Before we begin i just want to say this is a post explaining things not to ask for attention! I appriciate the support <3 but i don’t want people to feel sorry for me.
Now on to the post you clicked for!
As some of you may know i just finished the big draw list! Which is a good thing and a bad thing. Let me explain why.
For those who don’t know what the big draw list is it’s tons of notepad files sitting on my desktop reminding me what i want/need to draw! It started with just 6 draws at the end of the summer and it got up to 9 and after a while i got my desktop full of files.
So if you possibly were wondering why ive been pumping out drawing the past few months its because i always had something to draw. (and way too much free time on my hands)
Now however i’ve completed the list and im absolutely out of ideas! Ofcourse it could just mean im having the feared art block but thats never been a big deal to me.
So since i knew the ideas to draw were running lower and lower the past few weeks i started doing more doodle/request streams to stretch it out a bit!
But it finally happened, a few days ago i cleared the list and the desktop was clean. I can see my lovely gaytors again!
So the good things about this.
I don’t feel forced to draw anymore which feels absolutely amazing!
I can see myself working more on other things that i like such as programming little prototypes and creating silly videos.
A chance that i will take more time working on a single artwork which means more details and better quallity!
Hey i might do more request streams because i like doing em!
And i can see my background on my pc again! Always nice.
The bad things however about this..
Less streams.
Less artwork produced,
A chance that most of the artwork will just be silly doodles and not full on art pieces in the slightest because i don’t feel like it.
So what now? You might be wondering.
Simple ill keep doodling if i get ideas. Posts will be less frequent i suspect and so will my streams. I have adobe flash now so i’m probably going to do something with that if i get an idea and figure out how it all works. I’ll probably get into streaming games more often as well. I have many personal problems to work out which i won’t be getting into too much in this post. But i do want to thank my amazing friends here for supporting and helping me solve those problems and helping me become a better person! <3
And that’s about it.
I won’t stop drawing and i probably never will.
I will draw less for a while though because of the lack of ideas and motivation.
Expect a thing with flash sometime in the future.
Have a good day and thanks for understanding/reading. <3
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Mauricio Pellegrino, the terminated coach who dislikes failing and fuss when he winnings | Sid Lowe
Southamptons brand-new director, highly regarded for his man-management and tactical nous, haunts about the damage victory can impose on musicians hunger
There were around 40 parties on the coaching direction Mauricio Pellegrino took when he was a player at Valencia in 1999 and he wanted to know what it was that moved them happening there, so he did something he has done ever since football took him from his home in the Argentinian pampas: he asked and he listened. There were all sorts of reasons but amazingly few parallelled his. For some, it was just something to do. For others, it was about money, simply a job. Not for Pellegrino. He expected a friend there whether he would take it if a minuscule third division organization came for him. No, he said. Coachings not your occupation, then, Pellegrino replied.
It is Pellegrinos. Had it not been for football I would never have left home, he once said. He was a little introverted, at least to start with, and one former team-mate says football is his life while he told a player who worked under him that through football “hes found” a room to express himself. Especially through coaching, his calling. He has risen and evolved over the years but even as a participate he was a manager. Louis van Gaal formerly said: Hell make a great manager. Although Pellegrino was not satisfied, joking that made the Dutchman did not think he was much of a centre-back, Van Gaal is not a man given to handing out kudoes and he knew he was right.
Pellegrino did not always think he was much of a actor, either: he was too towering, too skinny, very unwieldy, he had problems with his back. But there was something about him that team-mates and tutors appreciated that took him to Barcelona, Valencia and Liverpool, and a coaching occupation that now wreaks him to Southampton via Spain and Argentina. He stimulates you think, his former centre-back partner Roberto Ayala says. He realise himself conclude, more, particularly about others.
The goalkeeper Santi Caizares, a team-mate at Valencia, says: He shared his experience with everyone: he listened and admonished, analysed, introduced himself into publics scalps: he was practically a psychologist. He was not our very best centre-back but “hes been” the centre-back the coach-and-four most valued. He always had a positive posture, he had no suspicion at all , no feeling, it was always, ever about the team. He understood tactically, he was preoccupied with the team, he took responsibility: too much. He was ashamed by demolish. Ive known very few musicians like that. He has three things: extraordinary modesty, ended professionalism and he never celebrated victory.
Pellegrino once admitted: Football was my academy of life but I had a big inadequacy as a musician: I didnt loved it. Now he conceives he can help participates do so and he has changed a little but that opinion played a part in influencing him. In Argentina football is cultural, he explained to El Pas . Forgetting is a drama; triumphing is simply good because it represents not misplacing. The social rebuff you feel when you lose stirs us very competitive. Winning, by contrast, dampens your margin and eschewing that is something that preoccupies him. Haunts him, according to one friend.
Caizares shared such an attitude and laments its loss in video games but titters when he reminisces Pellegrino questioning before the 2001 Champions League final: What if we acquire? How will we get our modesty back? Bloody hell, Flaco , he responded. Lets simply triumph firstly, yeah?
Mauricio Pellegrino, playing for Valencia, has his retribution saved by Oliver Kahn in the shootout of the 2001 Champions League final to tell Bayern Munich the title. Photo: Dylan Martinez/ Reuters
They announced Pellegrino Flaco , the Skinny One, everywhere except at Barcelona, whom he had joined in 1998; Johan Cruyff was the only Flaco there. Pellegrino never wielded under Cruyff but he did work with Van Gaal, who hurriedly saw something in him.
At Valencia, Claudio Ranieri saw it more, as did Hctor Cper. Under him they did not win that Champions League final, and Pellegrino missed the decide sanction in the shootout, but Caizares contends: To triumph, you have to lose first. Two consecutive European Cup final demolishes were followed by two tournament deeds in three years, Valencia overcoming the galcticos , and the manager who led that historic line-up certainly saw something in him. Rafael Bentez took Pellegrino to Liverpool with him in 2005 as much for what he could do for the team as what he could do in it.
He stood merely a season but reverted as Bentezs assistant in 2008, although one former participate says he was still a peripheral anatomy, occupying a backseat. He watched and listened, as he ever had: as a actor, Pellegrino would interrogate all the decisions not because he was accusing his coaches but because he was analysing them. Never standing still, never satisfied that he had found a definitive answer.
He has said he learned organisation from Marcelo Bielsa, room from Van Gaal. With Bentez, he saw the infatuation with tactics, and England from the inside, how it is played and lived, what it represents culturally. The feel for video games and for his musicians, though, is his own and theres a moral constituent to it. People have less religious belief and little creed in politicians: the only thing we have left to identify with is the shirt, he has said. Thats for life: grandad, father, grandson united by a emblazon. Im not against business, but I dont want that culture constituent to be lost.
Players confirm Pellegrino, the son of farmers, repeatedly tells them that play objections the values of society, where individualism reigns. Society, he says, expects that you acquire, that you have the best gondola, the most money; football necessitates that you help your team-mate, even if that intends not scoring , not playing , not being in the spotlight. If the team are better, you are better. Yet achieving that represents employing with individuals, understanding. When I grew up tutors never questioned: How do you feel? But if I dont ask a musician, how am I going to know his fantasies? he has asked.
Mauricio Pellegrino, right, with Rafael Bentez, left, and Xavi Valero in 2009 during a charm on Liverpools coaching personnel. Photograph: Paul Ellis/ AFP/ Getty Images
At Alavs last season, that dream was a Copa del Rey final merely the second largest beaker final, after the 2001 Uefa Cup which they lost to Liverpool, in the 96 -year history of the guild from Vitoria in the Basque Country. He transmits to the players what the society and the city necessitate: he has built a back the devotees identify with, says the skipper, Manu Garca, born in Vitoria and a lifelong member at Mendizorroza. Hes a extremely ended coach-and-four; not many have the tactical awareness of the game and also so much geniu for group management. He and his staff “ve got a lot” of left hand; they have the whole squad plugged in, they avoid conflict, everyone gets an opportunity.
Pellegrino has two aide managers, Carlos Campagnucci and Xavi Tamarit, writer of a notebook on the assumption of periodisation fathered by Vtor Frade and must be accompanied by Jos Mourinho , among others. His fitness coach, David Rodrguez, and the goalkeeper manager, Javier Lpez Vallejo, complete the team who have had a huge impact in Vitoria.
As Garca talks enthusiastically through Pellegrinos tactical differences, his prototype as it switches from 4-4-2 into 4-3-3, the multiple functions of the full-backs, the two central midfielders becoming one, the striker plummeting in, the quest for numerical superiority, you get a feel for the degree of realize, the route it is mechanised, bits interlocking, every point interdependent. Im 31, and of course Ive learned a lot from all my managers, but in just one year he has schooled me to understand the game so much better than I did before and thats not such an easy thing to do, Garca says.
He receives the game very well. He is a strategist, he analyses rivals closely and he believes in juego posicional [ a positional play ]. He “ve got a lot” of faith in that approach, in defense but also in strike: respect the positions, a well-ordered squad, everything under control. He likes his team to express the mode he is: smart, knowledge, told. He drives hard during the week and the things he plans for generally happen at the weekend.
Not that there is any guarantee, Pellegrino knows: the opposition play-act, too, and defeat awaits. He invested his playing vocation hopeless to forestall it but he has come to accept it and learn from it, extremely; it manufactured him who he is. He also knows that it has an impact on the way he is recognized, even if he does not change. He knows there is no single reaction and that moralities can soon be seen as vices.
Football is like two parties dancing: if the other person tramples on your toes, you cant lift your heels, he says. Its 22 , not 11. There is what you want to do and what you can do. Suffer would point out that good results and bad results are part of the same packet. If youre soothe and you triumph “theyre saying”: The crew is doing well because hes appease. If “were losing”, they say: Hes so calm he cant get the team going. You can see a monarch or a frog in every musician, every coach, and everyone.
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