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phoenixkratos · 7 months

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I came across the Phoenixdex website while researching for my own fan-region. I'm curious as to how you build the website to display your works, and do you have any recommendations when it comes to website-building?

Hi!

The Phoenixdex website is custom-coded, built on top of the ProcessWire PHP framework. ProcessWire and frameworks like it are great for building full-on database applications, but a project of that scope is usually way beyond what most people are interested in when they just want an easy personal website for showing off their fakemon stuff. I only bothered building all that myself because I work with web design and development as my actual job and it's a hobby I've had for a long time, so it used a skillset I happened to have already.

You can always go the same route if you either have or want to learn the same skills, but if you're not yet familiar with coding for the web, be aware that you'll need to obtain hosting for your site, and to learn about databases and the programming language/frameworks of your choice. (If you are curious about this, let me know and I can share some resources to help you get started/see if it's something you're really interested in!)

The much, much easier route is to sidestep all that and create a wiki-style site for your project. This is what I did before I created the fully-custom site, actually! (Although I still used my own hosting and made a few modifications, because again that is adjacent to my job/hobby and also I am a nerd.) This gives you a website that's nice and searchable but is also much easier to put together pages for than needing to learn full HTML or some kind of templating language and database APIs or whatever. It would basically be making your own custom Bulbapedia.

Most people used to recommend Fandom/Wikia for this, but there are a lot of awkward limitations and obnoxious ads and policies and it's probably best to stay away from all that. It looks like Miraheze ( https://miraheze.org/ ) is the big not-crappy wiki farm these days. I haven't used them myself so I don't have any personal experience to share about Miraheze as a host, but as I understand it they run a pretty straightforward version of MediaWiki (the same software created for Wikipedia and used for sites like Bulbapedia) so there are plenty of guides and resources out there for learning to use and customize it without Fandom's janky corporate nonsense confusing things. It's even possible to lay things out in the same format Bulbapedia uses, if you're interested in that and up for learning a little bit about MediaWiki templates, but that's far from necessary—you can just put your fakemon info, or trainer or move or whatever you're making a page for, onto the page in whatever format's easiest for you.

You can see an example of a fangame wiki made using Miraheze + MediaWiki on Pokémon Flux's wiki here: https://pkmnflux.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page They've opted to use a Bulbapedia-like layout for their content as well.

Sorry for the super basic yet kinda lengthy overview, but there're a lot of weeds you can get into when talking about website creation. I hope it at least helps get you pointed toward something that'll work for you! Let me know if anything was unclear, and best of luck getting your fan region site set up!

#phoenixdex #personal website

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inquisitorius-sin-bin · 1 year

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My favourite fic of yours: RIDE OR DIE. It has THE best worldbuilding I’ve ever seen in a fic, it’s genuinely like reading a canon novel in second person and I love it so much

My favourite chapter: 27 absolutely 27 need i say more

Something I remember vividly: Ya I’m with Angela, you take reader inserts to a whole other level - normally I’ll read them but it’s always hard for me to get invested if it’s just a blank template, Y/N just draws me out of it so quickly. With the way you write them I feel so immersed, each protag has something different about them and ughhh it’s just so fucking good

Sßssssssdsdff thanks! I have very much enjoyed creating my own distinct alien culture and ecosystems, its one of the things I wish Star Wars was braver about. The prequel trilogy had flaws, mostly in that many of the cultural aspects were borrowed without credit to the peoples they came from, but from a world-building perspective the planets and species they created were a fantastic building point. I think it speaks a lot to the creativity of people like Doug Chiang that so many of the cultural and geographical elements of places like Utapau mesh so well together, and it makes an excellent sandbox to unleash my own creative thoughts.

I am soooo proud of Chapter 27. It was a beast to write but worth it, a standout chapter in this work that simultaneously fits with the themes and messaging, but is so jarring in its perspective and time shift. Appropriately a big impact moment. It was definitely a long-term pay off that I'm glad waited until now to put in. Like you have to really understand Talion and Theo's characters for this chapter to hit so hard. We had to be sort of questioning Tsino's place in all of this. We had to seed previous imagery, the handprints in the tent, the necklace, the incident with the dactilsword, for us to really understand WHY those things were so important to his past.

I'm finally recovered enough that I've started back up on Chapter 28 recently but whew, it was something to jump back to the present after ending with THAT.

And again, I'm so overjoyed y'all love my reader characters. They are each their own, and since their physical descriptions are blank canvasses, I use their personalities to shape them. How do they dress? How do they speak and think? How do they react when they've been frustrated or embarrassed?

I would encourage anyone who considers reading or writing x reader fics to really challenge the pre-existing notion of what that means. See it as a genre with its own unique challenges and rewards. People project themselves onto existing characters or OC's wildly different from themselves all the time, so long as that person is relatable to them somehow. Who hasn't wanted to be a character in the Star Wars Universe? And you don't necessarily want to be you, you want to be someone who fits in, with a role and history and relationships. Part of the tapestry of the world.

I like challenging my characters, thinking about who they are and how they came to meet the Inquisitor, because he's not exactly just out there shaking hands and kissing babies- for you to come across him usually means something has gone terribly wrong. It's my job to tell those stories. Try to find unique scenerios that might put these characters together, and different outcomes that might result from their personalities blending. All while trying to find creative solutions to the ever present name/description problems.

But hey, we don't have a name for the Grand Inquisitor either, so he lends himself to these stories so well!

Thanks so much for the ask!

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greenforsuredotpng · 5 months

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12/11/23 Phenakistiscope

HELLO GREENER! ITS MY BIRTHDAY!

In the last blog, I got to talk about the cool wonder of tactile albums, and I just wanted to create something that somehow come along with amazing artwork and an awesome vinyl package, so why don't I just combine those into one?

Today, I will try to design something called a "phenakistiscope,", and some of you might be asking me, "GREEN, what is a phenakistiscope?" WELL! A phenakistoscope is an early animation device from the 19th century. It consists of a spinning disc with a series of images in a circular pattern. When you spin the disc and look through the slots, the images appear to move, creating an animation effect. It's like creating a motion graphic in some way.

The reason I came across the term phenakistiscope is because one day while scrolling through Twitter, I found out one of my favorite bands, Blossoms, a band originated from UK Stockport, was about to release a new limited vinyl edition of their new album called "Ribbon Around The Bomb" with a vinyl trippy animation on it. It immediately caught my eye, and I have just bought one for myself.

Ribbon Around The Bomb "Zoetrope Vinyl Limited Edition" by The Blossoms, Published by The Blood Records (April, 2022)

I've learned that the edition was referred to as the "ZOETROPE," and while the word itself has a similar meaning to "Phenakistiscope," it's actually just a cylinder-based version of the device. Now that I think about it, I find it strange that the vinyl edition wasn't referred to as a phenakistiscope rather than a zoetrope because it is actually a disc spinning. LMAO

So, without even realizing it while searching about zoetrope, my Pinterest board got flooded with these intriguing zoetrope contraption. What's particularly fascinating is how these 19th-century contraptions have found their way into the world of vinyl albums. It's a bit like a bridge between the visual and auditory realms,

I personally think the spinning animations on these vinyl records give you a taste of what the music's all about. It's like a sneak peek into the sonic journey these albums offer. It's a unique and engaging way to connect with the audience, blending the vintage charm with a modern twist.

In some senses, Zoetrope, do play a huge part in making an optical illusion, By presenting a sequence of still images in quick enough succession, the viewer interprets them as a continuous moving image.

So I thought it should be a task for myself to try to create one. But first, I have to understand how to make it work. So I jump on a friendly YouTube video, which you can watch here. for my better understanding of how to start with these little experiences. To be honest, after years of not touching after effect, I started to struggle a lot in this program. Green in 2019 would be so disappointing to me, but that's not the point. I have a chance to get back in touch with a program that I thought would be where I spend most of my hours. As a motion graphic designer, this experience really let me revive my old skills that I had long forgotten.

I started by making a little template prototype for my future design, for a band I've with in the past called LOVEJOY. I posted the design on my Instagram story and shared it with the band members, and they responded with:

Sincerely, this band gave me anxiety. Half of the time I communicated with them, I wanted to represent the best version of myself.

I have created a playlist of songs that I love and turned them into Zoetrope designs. Since I got the template down, one of the first songs I have put in my playlist is a song called Miko! which the song is about breaking up with someone because they have too much self-complexity. The artist has a cat as cover art. IT WAS SO PLAIN TO THE POINT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT RIGTH AWAY. Anyway, after I get the template down, I sketch down my own design.

I have to say I'm not a big animation girl myself, I have to come up with the movement on the spot. trying to make a cat blink was the hardest ever. I am not the greatest illustration artist "what can I say? Graphic design is my passion -_-" so this is the best I can come up with. It took me around 1 or 2 hours, and then I started coloring down the design. Now color theory is my biggest enemy, even though I have especially learned about it. It's still one of my biggest enemies. TO MAKE A COLOR LOOK GOOD TOGETHER AND NOT UGLY? TT just end me already. If I have gotten pound every time I sighed I would be rich by now! (I lied, I would still have like 2 pounds.)

These are the results. I'm so happy with how it turned out because the aftereffect gave me a bunch of headaches. and the LAG WAS HORRIBLE. I remembered now why I wanted to quit using aftereffects. but I'm going to start using it more now. Now I got only one design down for now. I want to design five of these things, so I will come back with an update on the next blog. That will be all for today, and as always, thanks for coming to my Ted talk!

GREEN OUT!

Edited: 13/11/2023

I have made another design for a song I am currently obsessed with called Fool by Choi Junhyuk. The song was so happy and sad at the same time that I couldn't stop listening to it at all.

I assume that the singer is holding a flower called marigold, but I do not have the skill to draw that, so I did a little twist and made it a tulip instead.

These are the sketches that I have come up with. I later colored them in.

The progress for the other four designs is very similar, so I'm just going to plop them here.

#greenforsureblog #Spotify

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matthew5016512 · 2 years

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Week 5: Sketching & Hand-Rendering

The sketching exercises really highlighted to me just how out of practice I was at drawing and I found it frustrating how poor some of the results where, which made me tense up more, which did nothing to help my drawing, and so it spiralled from there...

Ultimately I had to step away for a while to relax a bit before I could get ok results. I think I have an awful long way to go before I will be happy with my sketching - I have always forgone hand-drawing and instead created concepts in CAD or models in real life which is just not feasable when you need to ideate rapidly or (in this case) crank out concepts and ideas to see what works and what doesnt.

I had a lot of difficulty settling on my emotion, which really didn't help when it came to my bottle ideas. I wound up more creating different shapes to see what I liked and workign backwwards somewhat to justify them. I guess this is ok given ho early in the process it is, but I clearly need to drill down on the emotion more and find forms which more clearly connect to it - hopefully the mood board for studio will help with this.

Creating the template layer really helped so that I didn't have to go back later and erase all the lines - I can also re-use it to create more concepts (which I belive I certainly will need to do, likely several times over for Studio) so the effort that went into creating it is effectively less the more thumbnails I end up making.

One thing the template layer highlighted for me was just how difficult it is to draw symmetrical shapes without reference points - regardless of if the lines are rectilinnear or curvilinear it is crucial to draw in super-light reference lines to help maintain symmetry - it's just far beyond my current skill level to be able to draw symmetrical shapes at this point, but that didn't stop me trying!

Shading was more difficult than I had expected as well, though thankfully I had an eraser handy so it was ok to smudge beyond the lines and then go back in and clean them up. I had varying degrees of success with the shading, and I really need to get my markers back so I can try them instead and see if it is easier to do it with colour.

With regards to the shading; I found it difficult to visualise how the light would fall across some of the bottles (particularly as they are 2D and I'm making up the relative angles and depth of features as I'm going). Bottles with with more organic or complex geometries presented the greatest challenge. I wound up using a torch and a varity of household objects (including such objects as a vase, a zuchinni, and cardboard) to explore how light played across their surfaces and tried to replicate that in my drawings (to varying degrees of success).

Key learnings:

Sketching exercises are something I need to do a lot more of if I want to improve my abilities and ensure I can convincingly communicate my ideas to an audience.

Using reference points is key to getting good symmetrical results - if they don't exist, add them in!

Understanding how light falls across objects is sometimes very difficult to visualise - using simple objects and a torch can help in getting closer to how it should look.

line-drawings in perspective can be difficult both to draw and to interpret if they have complex geometries. Shading can help massively to make these perspective drawings much easier to comprehend as a collection of surfaces instead of vectors connected by lines.

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the-geeky-fangirl · 3 years

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gabs-templates-and-memes · 2 years

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Fictional Character Interactive Number

I got this template from @/NotEvenJupiter on Twitter last November 2021. I'm not sure if @/NotEvenJupiter on Tumblr is her or just her namesake.

With link credits done, if you're her and want me to take this down, just let me know!

Now that that's out of the way, me time.

Since it will take forever for me to have enough moots and followers to be able to do this, I'm just gonna answer it regardless~

Top of my head:

1. A fictional character I relate to is Daniel Yoon from the webtoon, Age Matters. I'm neither tekk bro nor rich kid, but I do relate to his social awkwardness, the will to do whatever I want, and lack of enthusiasm over nepotism. I'm probably physically weaker than Dylan Chen, too. I might be useful as a human shield, but I'm not sure I can fight back :'D

2. I honestly don't think I can answer this because I have a hard time picking an aesthetic lol.

3. A fictional character from my childhood? Inuyasha, I guess? Or Kikyo lying down with eyes closed. I think it was that episode where she was about to...resurrect? Possess Kagome? IDK why that scene's so vivid in my memory.

4. What is my favorite TV show? There's the K-Drama, My Mister (나의 아저씨), but I can't pick a character to single out. But I did like (spoiler warning) how IU did sign language when her character's deaf grandmother died. IU's character Lee Ji Ahn can speak and hear, so the reason she signed is because that's how she communicated with the grandma all this time, and it doesn't matter that she can speak, she's still using the language they communicated with. It was a really raw scene for me. I feel like the more dramas you watch, the more you get desensitized to sorrowful scenes. Like if a character cries out to their recently deceased loved one, there's this part of my mind that just goes, "they can't hear you" and you just wait for the wailing scene to be over. IU's acting (IDK if it was her idea or the director's) took away that desensitization and made it raw again. It found this emotional loophole where, if we're so used to characters calling out to their loved one, speaking, wailing, verbalizing in words, well, here we have a character signing. We're not desensitized enough to the idea of "they can't see you". Yes, the grandma can't see Ji Ahn, and it hurts me that she can't see Ji Ahn and Ji Ahn can't be seen.

5. My favorite video game if you discount OELVNs like the pretentious over competitive snobs like some of you are...is currently Harvest Town. A character I really like is Sherry Allen, even though she didn't really stand out to me at first. I just love her motivations, understand her goals, and am fascinated by her means to materialize them. Sure, she loves money, but unlike her mother, it's to make herself and her younger brother happy. Although she's basically born rich, she works for herself. And even though she probably would've turned out super shady had she more power (it's canon that she takes pictures of girls to sell them to boys), I don't think she's someone who will antagonize or abuse someone just to be mean (even if the photo thing is creepy and enabling) and if I were to wrote my own version of the Harvest Town's future, she'd actually protect the town as a sort of information broker. It may not be because she's a saint, but because she knows how information can impact people, she'll set ego aside and keep secrets of the town that could be taken advantage of secret. I mean, much of the main quests involved her. She's very capable, and very professional. I think it's cute that her dialogue says, "Umm, what are you doing?" when you give her gifts, too.

6. My favorite movie is probably Spirited Away, which is funny because I first encountered it bored flipping channels and went, "oh, look, an anime" on HBO. I didn't even want to finish it at first. When I came across it, it was already at the part where Sen was at the spider grandpa's place. IDK why, but I didn't like that part too much at the time, so I flipped channels some more and only came back to it because I couldn't find anything else to watch. Then I re-watched it several times and have never forgotten about it. Memorable characters...well apart from having a crush on Haku (who doesn't lol), I was really drawn to Yubaba, Yubaba's bird, Zeniba, Boh, and the 3 heads. I just felt like I've known them lol or met them in a long ancient dream. The part where lung dragon Haku lashed out and Sen had to give him that weird bitter tasting ball also struck me, as did those paper things moving on their own, and just the bathhouse itself with multiple floors, an ornamented office for its hostess, and a special room for the germ-fearing Boh.

7. A fictional character I'd marry... maybe Derek Suarez from Our Life? He's reliable, friendly to everyone and not just to his crush, he's really cute, and he nearly confessed to the MC when he left for the summer, doing it in the most sensitive and yet self-confident way possible. I've only interacted with him up to stage 2(?), but I cannot see any downsides in the future stages with him.

8. A fictional character I shamelessly simp for: Quest from Blooming Panic. Do I even need an explanation?? Everyone there is adorable, but Quest is just... *explodes*

9. A fictional character I'm ashamed to be simping for but simp for anyway: Quest, as well. It's not him I'm ashamed of; I just feel as if people will judge people who do simp for him.

10. At the top of my head is Garret from Christmas Otome. Kinda fukking hurt (spoiler warning) he pulled an ironic protector move near the end, but I have a soft spot for 2D considerate yet unintentionally intimidating characters. (Just realized he has that common with Quest. Oh no.)

11. I think it might be fun to cosplay as Sherry Allen. Costume-wise, it's just a preppy girl dress-up, nothing too fantastic, but it'd be fun to act out her character if I just knew how to go about it. Daniel Yoon is also an option. I'd just have to be myself lol. And if I want to be on the more fantastical side, I guess I could go as Ash (Reaver version) from The Pretender's Guild or as Dietrich from Candied Carols.

12. Sherry. Sherry is underappreciated.

13. A fictional character that makes me laugh? I'm not sure. I'm not good at remembering funny instances.

14. A fictional character I must protect at all costs? Stone from Harvest Town and Derek Suarez from Our Life (neither of them need protecting though) and Cove Holden. To a certain extent, Shiloh, as well, but I have a feeling we'll grow apart.

15. What does "start a piece of media" mean? If it means starting fan art, I make those for several characters. If it means checking out something just for that character, I guess it's Cove again or Garret again.

16. Damon Reznor, but I'd probably perish pretty soon as a result lmfao~ Oh, I know. Jeremy Marion King. It felt very freeing knowing my choice in that critical scene wouldn't affect other aspects of the gameplay bwahahaha~

17. Comfort characters: Derek again and Mitra from Nusantara: Legend of the Winged Ones. There is something about the open, reliable types and the atmospheres they create even without anything happening. (Even if I did like Reksa the most haha.) Liz/Elizabeth is also oddly comforting even if she can be such a sarcastic sass.

18. Damon again. Or Ace from DUFE. Nice going for drinks with the bad boys more respectful than some people.

19. Please let it be Quest asjfhkdhfkdshh. Or Derek. Never be Sherry, Liz, Mitra, or Ace. Elizabeth might be nearly as good as Derek, though.

20. Too hard; won't answer.

#blank template #interactive templates #pick a number template

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projectema · 4 years

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Canada 🇨🇦 Student Permit Pathway Journey

I started thinking about migrating to Canada way back 2016. Back then, I'm not aware of any other pathways aside from being employed (Express Entry). I was still single then and I never really was serious about it because 1) one must have a big amount of money to pursue it and I don't have that and 2) I think that it will be difficult for me to be employed because of my work experience (it's either you're an engineer, nurse, or caregiver then you'll get a higher chance of being employed hence higher chance of getting PR).

At the latter part of 2019 and at the beginning of 2020, I started to gather my courage and learn about the different pathways. I even went to immigration agencies in Makati to better understand them.

Fast forward to now, we're currently just at the beginning of everything. This blog will be updated from time to time to see the progress of our journey. I might not write a detailed one though.

Sep. 24-Oct. 17, 2020

As mentioned, the problem with our Canadian dream was MONEY. Fortunately, my tito Nestor and tita Ana were willing to support us in our endeavor. Which leads us to the 1st step and that was to pay the immigration agent 50% of 2,500CAD. This was a very hard decision for me to make because paying an immigration agent does not guarantee that I'll be granted a student permit. It will all depend on the strategy and the supporting documents that I'll submit. After paying, the agent asked me to sign a retainer agreement and to submit the following:

Resumé

Passport

Birth certificate

College diploma (my diploma was in Filipino so I still had to request for my english diploma - it costs P100 for 2pcs plus P200 for the shipping fee from LB to Sta. Rosa. I had to wait for several days before receiving it)

College Transcript of Records

After submitting all these, I still had to take an english exam as required by my chosen college (Langara College). Without the pandemic, I had to take IELTS Academic for this one. However, it's like a blessing in disguise because Langara temporarily allowed Duolingo Online English Exam as an alternative. It's way more cheaper and easier than IELTS Academic. IELTS Academic will cost around P11,000 while Duolingo is only $49 or P2,500.

The minimum required overall score is 110. I was so nervous while waiting for the result of my exam because there were questions that I weren't able to answer well. I got an overall score of 135, thank God! 😊

After submitting the result of my exam to Langara and also sending a copy of my exam result to my immigration agent, I have to pay the admission application fee of 155CAD (once again, thank you tito and tita) and sign a consent form stating that I am allowing my immigration agent and the educ. agent to handle my application and registration.

Right now, I'm still waiting for the response from the school and it will take 2-4 weeks to hear from them. After the school confirms a slot for me, I can then pay for the tuition for the 1st sem only.

Oct. 22, 2020

Ate Lala sent me a checklist so that I'll know the other documents needed while waiting for the response from Langara. She also sent me a receipt that showed that the application was already sent. While waiting, we can start doing the following:

Study plan - among all the other documents, this is the most crucial one. A guide questionnaire was given.

Bank statement/certificate of financial support from my tito/tita

Letter of support from tito/tita - ate lala provided a template for this one

Letter of parents property - affidavit form

Nov. 25, 2020

After more than a month of worrying, I finally received my LOO (Letter of Offer) from Langara College! 😭🥳 Now, I just have to ask my sponsors (Tito Nestor and Tita Ana) to pay for the tuition (1st half of the year only) including the non-refundable deposit fee amounting to 1,500 CAD. After paying, the school will send me my LOA (Letter of Application).

Dec. 2, 2020

There are many options on how to pay for the International Deposit fee (6,000 CAD) . There's the good old credit card, Flywire, and Western Union. All of which are connected directly to Langara College. There was quite a delay in payment because my sponsors had their Thanksgiving. Of course the "hiya" in me kicked in (as always). But, I have to ask them to pay for it ASAP because we were given just 10 business days to pay for it. At first, I told them that it's easier if we use Flywire. However, the exchange rate is too high. I can't wait for it to go down you know. So I insisted to ask my tita to just give me my uncle's credit card details (hihi). I just have to wait for the actual receipt and forward a copy to my consultant so that the educ. agent can already process for the LOA.

Jan. 22, 2021

I know. I skipped a lot of updates last December because of the holidays. Fast forward to 2021, I lodged my application last Jan. 16. After lodging, I got a biometrics request. We are currently busy at work that I didn't avail for any WFH sched because we are pressed for time (I wasn't surprised. Lagi na lang ganito 🙄). But because having my biometrics is important, I, instead, took a leave. But it's like a WFH as well because I had to attend to an online meeting in the afternoon. It's kind of unfair actually. 🙄 I think I'll be having another leave once I get a medical request. Or I might as well schedule myself for my medical even if there's no medical request yet. I'll still check my budget.

February 3, 2021

At last I received my medical request! However, the earliest schedule is on the last week of February. We're still too busy at work so I decided to schedule my medical on March 5. For preparation, I ate well and exercised for the last weeks. Let's see how it goes.

March 5, 2021

Last time I went to Makati was for my biometrics. I took the 7am schedule and I didn't anticipate the traffic jam at SLEX and that it was a Friday. I barely made it to my appointment. Thank goodness, after several petty fights with my husband (because we're really not Makati peeps so we easily get lost), I just came on time. This time for my medical, I decided to take the 6am P2P bus going to Makati. Oh, I opted to go to IOM Makati instead of St. Luke's because it's a lot cheaper. Aside from finding the right building, we still have to find a reasonable pay parking space. Yup. I just mentioned reasonable because pay parking rates in Makati is NOT cheap. Kung wala lang COVID-19, malamang nagcommute na lang kami all throughout. Going to Makati will always start an argument between Kim and I because of the directions and parking issues. I hate it actually. We seldom see each other and when in Makati we always argue about these things. Thankfully we found this pay parking spot which is not full and is somewhat reasonable (I'm not really sure, we didn't have any other choice). It was too early then so we ate our packed breakfast (to minimize expense) and watched Cobra Kai on Netflix.

We started to walk to the Trafalgar building at 8.30am. My appointment is at 9.05am. I brisked-walk my way going there. When we got there, we still have to wait for several minutes then the guard let us in. They do not allow companions so Kim had to go down and spend his waiting time at Starbucks just right across the building.

Before entering, the security guard will check your appointment then he will endorse you to their health declaration area. Once okay, you will have to fill-in an application first and then they will get a photo of you for your emedical form. These are the procedures I underwent:

Chest X-ray

Height, weight, blood pressure, eye exam, medical history

Blood chem

Urinalysis

Physical exam

The medical exam was relatively fast. It only took my 2.5hrs to finish all the tests. IOM Makati is very organized. The receptionist told me to wait for 10 business days for IOM to complete all the medical tests.

I’ve also read from this group/forum that I am in that if within 3-5 business days there aren’t any calls/email from IOM then it means that there’s no issues with my medical and that they have already forwarded this to IRCC.

March 15-24, 2021

I followed up my consultant on March 15 whether my medical results were already reflected in the dashboard. Unfortunately, there’s none. At this point, I’m still okay. My patience is still holding on. Come March 19, which is already counted as the 10th business day from my medical, I followed up again my consultant if my results were already reflected in the dashboard. Still, there’s none. This is when I decided to call and email IOM to check if they already submitted the results to IRCC. Don��t ever try to call their office. It’s just a waste of your energy and time. Try emailing them instead but you’d still have to wait for 24-48hrs for their reply. I emailed them on March 21 and got their reply on March 23.

It said there that they already submitted my completed medical result on March 13. Due to my neglect (actually, it’s not neglect really. I just waited for the 10 business days because I don’t want to insist myself early on when they already told me to wait for 10 business days), if I had known that they can already submit this early, I should’ve followed up that early as well.

I forwarded IOM’s email to me and the completed medical result to my consultant on March 24 and on March 25 she was able to submit the webform. It will take again 7-10 business days before my results will be reflected on the webform. Patience is still there.

Today is April 5 and it’s the 7th business day from the submission of webform of my consultant. I’ll wait for the 10th business day, which is on April 8 (or 9 for them).

April 6, 2021

IRCC already replied and said that they had a technical issue that’s why they haven’t forwarded my medical result to the Canadian VO in Manila. My consultant had to re-send the files (e-medical sheet) via webform.

April 9, 2021

IRCC replied and confirmed that they had already forwarded the e-medical sheet to the Canadian VO in Manila.

April 30, 2021

After how many weeks of waiting for my medical result to reflect in the dashboard, finally it came out as MEDICAL PASSED on April 27, 2021. Manifesting and praying to have an APPROVED decision in the coming days or weeks.

May 10, 2021

No words. 🥺 THANK YOU, LORD ☝️

May 12-20, 2021

PASSPORT REQUEST TIMELINE

●May 12 - Sent passport through LBC

●May 13, 14 - Received by VFS and transferred to Canada Embassy

●May 18 - Under Process

●May 18 - Received Correspondence Letter and counterfoil status sa GCKey. — Canada Embassy sent back the docs sa VFS

●May 19 - Received an update na sinend na ng Canada Embassy to VFS yung envelope with stamed passport. After few minutes received another update na sinend back na sakin yung passport. I contacted VFS after that to ask for the LBC tracking

●May 20 - Received my passport

#canadastudentvisa

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The Armourer and the Living Weapon, Chapter 2: the emptied chamber

As before, CW: this story is going to get pretty fucked up. Archive tag: violence. Also note: I categorically do not write non-con/rape or underage. [AO3 link]

And then, one day, she was gone.

Emily howled like a banshee when she heard. A perfectly ordinary mission, a perfectly ordinary encounter with a decidedly, almost determinedly predictable opponent, and - gone? Just like that? No. Refusal, in purest, distilled form.

She spent an evening raging on the training grounds, injuring half a dozen opponents, all but killing one in her fury.

She spent a night barely sleeping, barely thinking, being apart so different now, so much worse because suspicions or not, she had no true idea where her lover might possibly be.

She spent a morning raging at Akande, demanding the right to follow, to retrieve, and was, again, refused.

She spent an evening demanding the same from the greater council, and was yet again, refused. "Impossible!" she shrieked, bursting out into the hallway. "I will not have it! I won't!"

Quietly, at the back of the table, one member of the council smiled, as the armourer stormed back to her workshop, ordering everyone out, and grabbed her rifle, enough standard rounds to kill an army, all the experimental rounds she'd made, every single one of them, and the chain grapple she'd made for herself, knowing that her unenhanced body would be wracked with pain, injured every time she used it.

She did not care, not at all. If they won't try to retrieve her - I will. And I'll make them stop me.

She made it further, far further, than she should've, then she could've rationally expected.

She made it past the therapist, and her security escort, roused to talk her down.

She made it past the security cordon, roused quickly to sedate and jail her.

She made it past the soldier ring, who weren't expecting anyone like her - certainly, not coming from the inside.

And, shoulder aching, exhaustion creeping up her spine, she made it 20 metres outside the base entirely - just short of her waiting flyer - when her neck suddenly stung, and her vision turned grey, and her skin turned numb, and her arms turned leaden, and the ground came up to meet her, fast, too fast, far too quickly for her even to say hello, before the world snapped hard to black.

-----

[Oasis]

She floated, freely, in the haze, slowly becoming aware of that, slowly becoming aware of her own existence. So calm. So still. So bright. So quiet. So unlike herself, and yet, so familiar, so like herself, so right.

Is this death? she thought. No... that can't be it. Death is... death is... peace, but not questions... and that was a question...

She didn't move. She didn't feel any urge to move, either. But if she listened, listened with her body, and not her ears, she could feel, she could feel motion, she could feel... what? She could feel her blood flowing. She could feel her heart slowly beating, she could feel everything in the little world that was her own.

What? What is... that?

A whisper. The faintest of whispers, a voice she knew, but not the one she wanted, a voice familiar, but not the one she loved, but... a voice. And words - "Ah, my lovely, do you feel it? Starting to rebuild in there, are we? Good."

She could feel so much, and yet, some things, she could not feel at all. With a beautiful clarity, she felt every strand of muscle, every shaft of bone, every length of tendon, every fibre of carbon and metal, every drop of blood, and oh, blood, there is so much of it, but so little past that, nothing outside...

Outside. There is a boundary? Yes. Of course. Skin. She has skin. Of course, she has skin, and she can feel it. So obvious, and yet, somehow, now, so novel, as though she'd never truly realised it before, not even before before, and she knew there was a before, even if she couldn't quite say what it must have been.

"There was so much," said the voice, "that we had to burn down, with Lacroix. So much to suppress, so much to rebuild, to form into your image - and ours." Fingertips, suddenly, along one arm, like electricity, like fire, and she felt as if she screamed, but didn't scream, and didn't even want to, but should have, all from the intensity of the touch.

"All that, when we already had *you*. We even knew it - well, I knew it - that's why you were the perfect template. You were already so completely, utterly prepared. And yet, we wasted so many months making a muted copy... but, well, you know that, or you will, again, in a few minutes. After all, you were there." A small laugh, and the touch vanished.

"And all you have to do is bring her back to us," the voice cooed. "Bring her back to me. Something you begged us to let you do. Then we can take all the things we've learned, making you, and give them to her, too, just like we've given them to you. And then you will both be together, and all - all will be forgiven."

I get to bring her back, she thought, and smiled, at least, inside. I have... I have a task. I have a mission. How... wonderful...

"Ah, almost there," said the voice. "Are you ready to be standing?" She realised the voice was louder now, and had been growing so, the entire time. She'd focused on it, so intently, so completely, and yet missed that most obvious point.

Moira, she knew, feeling herself take a long, slow breath. Moira O'Deorain. I know her. She found herself knowing many more things, many more things she'd already known, as if lights were turning on, one at a time, inside herself, her ability to conceptualise expanding, growing. The doctor. The one who...

"Ah, your first breath entirely on your own. How does it feel for you to be alive again, I wonder? It's been twelve weeks, you know - or, well, you know now."

Balance, she thought, feeling being poised, ready, in an effortlessly familiar way, and gravity, the pull of gravity, aware of it, at last. I'm not floating, I'm... standing.

"Are you ready to see?"

She was. She opened her eyes, spotted a running, ducking human target, and reflexively, without thinking, without needing to think, sighted that target with the metal and carbon extension of herself she held in her arms, and shot it down. She felt the bullets fly, so pure, so fast, so quick; blood spilled from the shattered skull as the body which had supported it slumped to the ground, heart still beating, at least, for a moment, spurting blood, and she admired the splatter, from her stance, not needing to move, watching the blood pool, so bright, so red, and felt it, through every cell of her body, through sinew and bone, through nerve and steel, through heart and soul, and it took what was left of her breath completely away.

"Beautiful," said the voice, by her side. "Superb."

She licked her cool, lavender lips, with a cool, violet tongue, shivered with pleasure, and turned to the good doctor beside her, appraising her anew through brilliantly silver eyes. "Delicious."

"Do you know your name?" asked the Talon doctor, the one who had given her everything she ever wanted, for a price she did not yet know. "Tell me who you are."

"Oilliphéist," she said, without thinking, just knowing, having never said or heard the word before, yet she knew, it was a great, ravening beast - as was she. "I am Oilliphéist."

"Perfect."

-----

[London]

Widowmaker lay next to a sleeping Tracer, gazing at the foolish girl's head, amused by the insanity of that hair despite the swirl of thoughts keeping her awake. This entire plan is falling apart, she thought.

What else could go wrong? she asked herself. It'd seemed so simple, at the time. So obvious. Pretend to fall in love with the irritating teleporter. Arrange a "defection," and get away from the abusive mess that is Talon. They'd finally accept Emily's petitions to upgrade, and send her out to bring her back. She'd help Emily break the conditioning, as she learned so well now how to do, and then Emily would have everything she ever wanted, they'd be together, and Widowmaker would be free. They could freelance. They could buy an island with a condominium on it. It would be wonderful.

Instead - nothing. Emily hurt, badly, trying some sort of mad run to retrieve her without upgrades, after being refused yet again. No concerted recall effort - just an "acquire if encountered" order, according to Sombra. And worst of all - worst of all - discovering she'd actually fallen for the hyperactive little idiot across from her in bed.

Disaster. Complete disaster.

Ah, well, she thought, at least it makes the acting easier. She smirked at herself. Acting is trivial if you don't actually have to act.

She rolled over, facing away from her new lover, and checked her dead-drop boxes again. Nothing... then, she blinked, and there was something, something new, appearing as she watched.

Hey, Chica, it's your best friend -

I'll keep this short. The official story? It was bogus. Most of the club haven't figured that out yet, but turns out Doc Two-Tone's been working on her out of town, and from what I hear, looks like she got your present after all.

But watch out, she's not a backup copy, she's a version two. Keep your eyes open. I don't know what new features have been bundled in, and you know what Two-Tone is like when she really gets going. She might not know either.

Good luck.

She'd signed it, "your favourite chupacabra" - one of Sombra's many running jokes the spider didn't understand.

"Mmmm?" she heard, from the woman next to her. Damn, she thought. The light from the screen woke her up.

The Overwatch agent rolled over and nuzzled the back of her neck. "G'morning, love. Whatcha lookin' at?"

The spider took a long, deep breath. I think... it is time to come clean.

#gingerspider #widowtracer #tracemaker #moira o'deorain #moira overwatch #talon!emily #overwatch #overwatch au #also on ao3 #tracer #widowmaker #cw: violence #pretty fucked up #gonna get more fucked up

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