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thatswhatsushesaid · 7 days

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while high last night i decided to bully the new facebook AI assistant by asking it to calculate how many words the beatles have ever written across their complete discography. the resulting interaction was so unexpectedly interesting to me that i just really want to share it here.

(full disclosure: while not high, i did try to do a little digging to verify whether meta's AI was trained in the same shitty way that the chatGPT AI was, i.e., through broad scraping of information without any regard for copyright or other intellectual property rights, and was modestly reassured that there are more licensing agreements in place between meta and IP sources. i do wonder just how heavily they're leaning on the 'fair use' provision of copyright law to justify some of what they're doing, but tl;dr it looks like they have learned from chatGPT's high profile mistakes and are trying not to replicate them.)

anyway, here's how it went:

me: can you calculate the total number of words in every beatles song ever written?

meta AI: I can't calculate the total number of words in every Beatles song ever written, but I can tell you that there are 186 songs in total by the Beatles ¹. You can use an online lyrics website, such as Genius, MetroLyrics or AZLyrics, to count the words in each song and calculate the total number of words in every Beatles song ever written. [link to Bing search results included]

me: but i'm tired 😞

meta AI: I understand! Counting the words in every Beatles song would be a massive task. It's estimated that the Beatles have written over 250,000 words in their songs. If you're feeling tired, you can always try breaking the task down into smaller chunks, like counting the words in one album at a time. Alternatively, you could try searching online for a pre-existing count or estimate. Some fans or researchers may have already done the work for you! Get some rest, and maybe tackle the task when you're feeling more energized!

me: what if i say please

meta AI: Please is a magic word!

Alright, I'll try to help you with that. However, please note that it's a complex task, and I might not be able to give you an exact count. But I can try to provide an estimate based on available data and sources.

According to various sources, including lyrics websites and Beatles fan communities, the estimated total word count for all Beatles songs is around 250,000 to 300,000 words.

Here's a rough breakdown:

- John Lennon wrote around 80,000 to 100,000 words

- Paul McCartney wrote around 80,000 to 100,000 words

- George Harrison wrote around 30,000 to 40,000 words

- Ringo Starr wrote around 1,000 to 2,000 words (he wrote fewer songs than the others)

Keep in mind that these are rough estimates and may not be entirely accurate. But I hope this gives you an idea of the total word count for all Beatles songs!

me: wow! thank you so much! [can't believe i thanked the AI here, but whatever, weed had the wheel ok]

meta AI: You're welcome! It was my pleasure to help. I hope you found the estimate helpful. The Beatles have an incredible legacy, and their music has brought joy to so many people around the world. If you have any more questions or need help with anything else, feel free to ask! And remember, "All you need is love..."

anyway, congratulations to me personally for politely bullying an AI to do more work than it initially claimed it was capable of doing. sometimes saying please will actually make the computer do the thing 👍

#ray.txt #meta ai #oops c/p'd one of the quotes twice #fixed it #anyway this is peak weed girl with adhd behaviour and i am fine with it

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d4rkpluto · 1 year

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𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢

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and before we get into this post i really hope that the people here know the basic themes of signs, planets or houses because i'll actually pull my hair out if someone asks me what are the themes of leo or the moon.

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♇ so what are derivative houses? it comes from horary astrology, and it is when you measure a chart from some point of the wheel which is not from the ascendant. using this topic as an example, [future spouse], what if you wanted to learn how your future spouse's siblings are like?

♇ and we know the number/house for siblings in astrology is the number "3", so from the main future spouse house [the seventh house] you count three houses.

♇ so, 7⟶8⟶9. so the sign/or planets in your ninth house would tell you how your future spouse's siblings are like. [before i thought it would be the tenth house, but when you count in horary astrology, number one would also be from where you start!].

♇ another example, your future spouse's friends, the number 11 rules over friends in astrology so you will need to count eleven houses to see.

7⟶8⟶9⟶ 10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2⟶3⟶4⟶5. so the sign/or planets in your fifth house would tell you how your future spouse's friends would be like! now there's some understanding lets get into the post :)

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S PERSONALITY AND APPEARANCE WOULD BE IN THE SEVENTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE FIRST HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [1 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY].

♇ 7.

⟶ if you have mars in your seventh house, this could imply that your future spouse is someone who is likely going to have a built figure, could have a strong stance and could be someone who is passionate about politics or how they appear to the world.

⟶ if you have gemini in your seventh house, this could imply that your future spouse is someone who is comical, communicative and curious. you might find them pretty and they could have really full or curly hair.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S VALUES AND FINANCE WOULD BE IN THE EIGHTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE SECOND HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [2 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS VALUES AND FINANCES].

♇ 7⟶8.

⟶ if you have venus in your eighth house, this could mean that your future spouse is abundant with their money [or in the future] or they could be in a very comfortable place with their money, and they could be someone who values harmony, receiving love and money.

⟶ if you have scorpio in your eighth house, your future spouse could be someone who receives a lot of money from the people around them, from the government or it could be a legacy/will given to them. they could be someone who values intensity, sex and power.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S SIBLINGS AND COMMUNICATION STYLE WOULD BE IN THE NINTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE THIRD HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [3 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS SIBLINGS AND COMMUNICATION].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9.

⟶ if you have lilith in the ninth house, this could imply that your future spouse's siblings could be people who go through a lot of stuff, or they might not get a long with each other, or they could have a troubling opinion about religion/spirituality or they could have questioning morals. or your future spouse could be someone who is straight forward when communicating or could be perceived as a rude person. they might flirt a lot too.

⟶ if you have aries in ninth house, this could show that your future spouse's siblings could be trouble-some but fun people. they're people who are about the adventure and like to lead what they're apart of; this could show that your future spouse could have a type of communication style which has people immediately listen to them, they can sometimes come off as aggressive as well.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S FAMILY WOULD BE IN THE TENTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE FOURTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [4 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS FAMILY].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10.

⟶ if you have uranus in the tenth house, this could imply that your future spouse's family could be really progressive people or they could be really chaotic. they might like to be on the internet a lot or they might like to move around a lot, there could be arguments and fights over wills.

⟶ if you have libra in the tenth house, this could mean that your future spouse's family could be people who are diplomatic, kind and stylish. they might be people who are into creative things and you're likely going to get along with them. on the other hand, they could be people who are flaky and indecisive.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S CHILDREN WOULD BE IN THE ELEVENTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE FIFTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [5 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS CHILDREN].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11.

⟶ if you have the sun in the eleventh house, your future spouse would most likely have children who are wise, talented and glamorous, there could be a sense of them wanting to understand their life path or always want to know what they're supposed to do in their life time.

⟶ if you have sagittarius in the eleventh house, your future spouse is likely going to have children who are big on principles and moralities, they could be really obnoxious but funny, and they might be hyperactive. your future spouse could have [or give you children] who are big on religion or spirituality.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S SKILLS WOULD BE IN THE TWELFTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE SIXTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [6 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS SKILLS].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12.

⟶ if you have moon in the twelfth house, your future spouse could have the skill of being very intuitive, they could be good at swimming and creating projects. they could be skilled in singing, painting or other things.

⟶ if you have taurus in the twelfth house, your future spouse is likely going to have the skill of being creative and they could be good at cooking, they could be someone who is great at fashion, and they can be someone who is good at making music and handling money.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE AND WHAT KIND OF PARTNER'S THEY ATTRACT WOULD BE IN THE FIRST HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE SEVENTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [7 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS PARTNERS].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1.

⟶ if you have pluto in the first house this could mean that your future spouse could attract people who transform their lives a lot, they could also attract people who are self-destructive and powerful. people who could be considered as sexy and hard-working.

⟶ if you have aquarius in the first house this could mean your future spouse could attract lovers who are different races, ethnicities, they could be people who are also attracted to the same sex. they could attract people who are hard to pin down and romantic partners who are very progressive.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S SEX SKILLS WOULD BE IN THE SECOND HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE EIGHTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [8 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS SEX.]

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2.

⟶ if you have jupiter in the second house this could mean that this person can be a big giver when it comes to sex, they could be someone who likes to be given a lot of pleasure as well. they could be someone who likes spending a lot of physical intimacy with their romantic partners, could be interested in oral sex as well.

⟶ if you have virgo in the second house this could mean that your person could be a very precise and giving person when it comes to sex. they might be interested in quickies and be interested in sex that has themes of using other senses.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S MORALS AND BELIEFS WOULD BE IN THE THIRD HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE NINTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [9 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS MORALS AND BELIEFS].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2⟶3.

⟶ if you have saturn in the third house this could imply that your future spouse is quite traditional when it comes to rules and morals. they might have very strong principles and loyalty might mean a lot to them, or they could be someone who lacks beliefs and they might over-step morality.

⟶ if you have cancer in the third house this could show that their morals connect to their emotions & emotional state a lot. they'd be the type to cry because someone betrayed them, they could be considered a decent person and you wont have a problem with sharing your beliefs with them.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S STATUS AND HOW THE PUBLIC VIEWS THEM WOULD BE IN THE FOURTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS IN THE TENTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [10 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS STATUS AND THE PUBLIC].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2⟶3⟶4.

⟶ if you have venus in the fourth house people are likely going to perceive your future spouse as someone who is attractive, they might get along with a lot of people and they could be considered as someone who has a good status. they might dress well, and people usually compliment them, there could be some envy because of this.

⟶ if you have capricorn in the fourth house, people are likely going to respect your future spouse, they're likely going to have a good status and they'll be deemed as someone who is hard-working, resilient and wise. they could be seen as someone who's better than their peers.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S FRIENDS WOULD BE IN THE FIFTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE ELEVENTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [11 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS FRIENDS].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2⟶3⟶4⟶5.

⟶ if you have lilith in the fifth house there could be a good chance you dont get along with your future spouse's friends, or there could be something weird about them. they could be people who break traditions, and some of them might be cheats and liars, they can either be very liberating or misogynistic.

⟶ if you have pisces in the fifth house there could be a chance that your future spouse's friends are emotional, receptive and creative. you'll likely live through them or have expectations for them, or they'll have expectations for you and they might even put you on a pedestal, but they're the type of friends that would immediately turn their back on you if you do something bad.

THE FUTURE SPOUSE'S MENTAL HEALTH AND HIDDEN ENEMIES WOULD BE IN THE SIXTH HOUSE OF YOUR CHART SINCE IT IS THE TWELFTH HOUSE IN THIS TOPIC. [12 IN ASTROLOGY REPRESENTS MENTAL HEALTH AND HIDDEN ENEMIES].

♇ 7⟶8⟶9⟶10⟶11⟶12⟶1⟶2⟶3⟶4⟶5⟶6.

⟶ if you have juno in the sixth house your future spouse could be someone who is open about their mental state, they could be someone who runs to relationships as a way to escape from their sadness, they might not be able to live without romance or them being away from a romantic partner makes them depressed. they could have been in relationships where they thought they were with their potential marriage partner just to get disappointed and betrayed, some women might've betrayed them.

⟶ if you have leo in the sixth house your future spouse could be someone who is too prideful to open up about their mental health, they could be someone who easily has a defeated ego, they could be someone who might've had a father figure be their hidden enemy and their own pride and ego.

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the-judicial-assistants-notebook · 1 year

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You know, I think what really bugs me about the "Dadworth" dynamic applied to Kay and Edgeworth's relationship is that it usually makes Kay out to be this hyperactive, slight problem child (in the 'stealing and pranking' sense rather than the 'moody and abrasive' sense), occasionally with deep-rooted daddy issues like Edgeworth has, when that's... the opposite of her character.

(This post got away from me, so TL;DR: Kay is a quick-witted and independent young woman who has worked very hard to be both emotionally and practically intelligent enough to be seen as a legitimate successor to her father's legacy. Making her out to be the traits mentioned above, so she functions as Edgeworth's daughter rather than his investigative partner and equal, undermines her character and semi-conflates her with Maya [the deep-rooted issues bit]. Also I don't like it wksgskaj)

Kay is very, very sharp.

The thing about Kay is that she's not actually in the series as much as it feels like she is, which makes it easy for her character to be altered to suit the needs of the story (which I think happens in The Forgotten Turnabout, but I won't talk about that here). She turns up in two cases as herself in AAI (as in, teenager Kay whom we're most familiar with) and shares her role with Gumshoe, Ema and Franziska when she does, lessening her appearances even further. Nevertheless, there are still concrete elements to her personality that we're made aware of right from the beginning, and the first major one which I feel gets overlooked in favour of her hyperactive characterisation is this:

In terms of mainline assistants, I'd consider her the sharpest of all (maybe after Trucy? But I don't remember enough of AJ to comment on that). Yes, she's shown to be reckless and impulsive, but, when it comes to actual investigating and reasoning, she is solid. With Nick and Maya, you sometimes get the impression that they're both fumbling along until Phoenix catches on (most of the time with Maya's usually a little accidental help, and he still has to explain things to her near every time [not Maya's fault. Following Phoenix's reasoning is like being on a rollercoaster in a minecart]), but Kay is very rarely like that with Edgeworth. Within minutes of meeting him, she can predict what he's going to say (or 'steal his lines', as the game puts it), and there are several moments after he uses Logic and is about to explain what he's connected where Kay interrupts with the correct conclusion herself:

Edgeworth: A second Blue Badger that shouldn't exist... Clearly, the true identity of the person underneath is...

Kay: Oh, I know! It's one of the kidnappers, right!?

There's even a point where she tells him off for overexplaining things to her:

Kay: Yeesh, I told you I got it! Do you feel the need to explain everything!?

And, near the end of their first case together, he acknowledges that's she's generally quite quick:

Kay: OK, what should I re-create first?

Edgeworth: ...You haven't figured it out yet?

Kay: Heh, maybe I have, and maybe I haven't.

Even if you don't take these points into consideration, the fact that she comes up with a new way to use Little Thief, and knows how to use it at all actually, shows you that she's a really intelligent girl! Continuing on a bit from the point I made earlier about her being brash, Kay may be reckless, but she isn't irresponsible. Whenever she rushes into situations, she doesn't expect other people to come save her; she's quite assured that she can and will get herself out of them on her own, and, if she needs help, she asks for it in advance. She treats Edgeworth less like her guardian and more like her investigative partner:

Kay: I didn't get permission to enter Allebahst... so we're going to go gather whatever info we can over on the Babahlese side, OK!?

Edgeworth: Alright, I'm counting on you two.

Kay: Right, and I'm counting on you and Ms. von Karma to sniff out clues in Allebahst!

...

Edgeworth: A number of pieces connect in a very complicated way in this case... It's almost enough to make one completely mentally exhausted.

Kay: Let's not over-complicate matters, OK, Mr. Edgeworth? We've been so focused, like a laser, on only what seems strange and out of place... it's no wonder nothing's clicked and we haven't unlocked anything yet. But, if we think things through calmly, the answer should come to us!

There's an independence to her proactiveness that kind of forces Edgeworth to meet her on equal grounds, and this too is an element that gets lost when the Dadworth dynamic comes in because it involves making Edgeworth responsible -- or feel responsible -- for her actions and general wellbeing when Kay has never expected nor wanted that. She does things on her own terms, and she walks the path she's chosen by herself:

Edgeworth: Preposterous! On what grounds do you suspect her of such a thing!?

Shih-na: The fact that she calls the Yatagarasu. That in itself is a more elegant proof.

Kay: Ms. Shih-na.

Shih-na: Yes?

Kay: I... have no intention of taking back any of what I've said.

Shih-na: ...?

Kay: I am the Great Thief Yatagarasu. And I refuse to allow some imposter to claim that name as their own! The path of justice that my father pointed me towards... I will walk it the best I can!

Her relationship with Edgeworth works as an inverse to that of Nick and Maya's in the way that, where Nick and Maya have deep respect for one another beneath layers upon layers of playful insults and messing about, Kay outwardly respects Edgeworth first (and expects that respect to be returned) and razes him second -- that, too, never to an extent she wouldn't with anyone else or that crosses a certain boundary. Her messing with Edgeworth is shown to be more an attempt to get him to lighten up or not take himself too seriously than an act of (platonic) intimacy as it is with Nick and Maya (which makes sense because Nick and Maya have spent years together, while she's known Edgeworth for all of two weeks) or genuine obliviousness/silliness (although it definitely sometimes is). This is pretty obvious simply from the fact that she always calls him 'Mr Edgeworth', though she's perfectly comfortable calling Gumshoe and Badd, people whom she is more familiar and comfortable with, 'Gummy' and 'Uncle Badd' respectively. Also Kay, in general, is quite polite? Edgeworth calls something she said rude at one point and she gets insulted, and, when you ask for her opinion, she doesn't go 'What?' or 'What is it?', she specifically says, 'Yes?' (this changes in AAI2, which I promise I'm not discussing here) Upon meeting Oldbag, she has this exchange with her, where Kay chooses a more formal mode of address than what is actually offered:

Oldbag: My name is Wendy Oldbag. But you can call me "Wendy", or "Granny", or whatever suits your fancy.

Kay: Nice to meet you, Ms. Oldbag! I'm Kay Faraday.

She's also had moments where she calls Edgeworth out for being 'tactless', and she's shown to feel very strongly about rudeness throughout the whole game. I'm not saying she isn't mischievous or playful, she very much is, but the point is that she's really quite respectful, and this extends to her relationship with him. Her characterisation in Turnabout Ablaze, where she's considerably more excitable/high-strung than in Kidnapped, seems largely due to them chasing down Calisto Yew. Edgeworth even comments on this:

Edgeworth: Kay, you need to look before you leap. You tend to lose your cool when it comes to anything related to that woman.

Generally, though, you can tell that she was obviously raised with an adherence to certain formalities. She's not looking for another parental figure (because she doesn't need one, which I'll go into after this), but, if she was, she'd make that clear.

Kay's a very straightforward person at heart; she doesn't hide any part of herself, even the part that should be hidden (i.e. the Yatagarasu). There are points where she suggests that Edgeworth reminds her of her father, but, in AAI, she specifically mentions that it's both Edgeworth and Gumshoe who remind her of her father and Detective Badd. It's not about her seeing Edgeworth as a father figure; it's about their and her own dedication to the truth. Even in AAI2, where her comments could be read as leaning more towards the former angle, she doesn't get cut up about him not picking up on that or really paying it much emphasis at all, because it doesn't matter. The fact that he reminds her of Byrne is just that: a fact.

Returning to the point about Kay not needing/wanting another parental figure, I think it's pretty self-explanatory, but to put it succinctly: Kay has the guidance she needs without him.

To put it less succinctly, Edgeworth's possibly the worst candidate to go for for emotional support and guidance in the first place, and by the time she meets him again, she's basically processed her father's passing and has a better handle on herself emotionally than Edgeworth does (not a brag; most characters have higher EQ than Edgeworth); what she wants isn't necessarily closure for Byrne's death in the emotional sense but in the I-want-answers-to-this-mystery-that-will-restore-my-family's-honour sense. You could make the argument that Kay becoming the second Yatagarasu and shaping her entire future around continuing her father's work prove that she isn't over his death, but I don't think that's true and more of a result of conflating her with Maya a bit.

With Maya, becoming the Master isn't something she chooses; it's given to her by Misty and Mia. With Kay, it's the opposite. Kay's decision to become the Yatagarasu and pursue the truth is wholly her own, and her approach to that goal reflects that. While Maya uses her cheery, upbeat attitude to conceal a lot of self-doubt and vulnerability (and Franziska does the same with her hostility), Kay does not. Her cheerfulness is precisely who she is; it's not a mask so much as it is a distraction. It keeps people from looking at her too closely and realising exactly how capable she is, and, while I don't think it's fully intentional (again, she believes in living her life in a straightforward and upfront manner), she does imply that it's sort of her (or the Yatagarasu's) MO:

Kay: Well! By the time everyone notices, it's already gone! That's the Yatagarasu way!

Interestingly enough, this unintentional tactic of using humour and cheeriness as a distraction from her abilities makes her a mirror to Calisto Yew, who also uses her seemingly always light-hearted nature as a disguise for what she's actually capable of (Calisto's joviality is her true self, too, or at least as 'true' as she can get). The difference between them is that Calisto delights in ironically mocking the world around her, whereas Kay finds joy in life itself, and she's stronger for it.

The only part where we see Kay attempt to mask her feelings is when she's a child, and even then she admits that she feels better after crying, which, I believe, led to her becoming more open with her emotions later in life (see how her older self has a teary sprite which makes pretty frequent appearances where her younger self does not). In any case, to me, this shows that she has people in her life already who are helping, and have helped, her confront and process her trauma. She's not looking to Edgeworth to help her make sense of her father's death and she definitely isn't looking for a replacement (again, literally dedicated to continuing her father's [and Badd's] legacy). Whenever Edgeworth even gets close to becoming parental with her, she dismisses it, unless she acknowledges that she is in the wrong:

Edgeworth: ...Kay, it's not good for you to stay up late, you know.

Kay: Yes, gramps!

...

Edgeworth: ...I appreciate your sense of justice, however... I would appreciate it if you wouldn't go running into the heart of any more raging fires.

Kay: Nngh... Yes, Mr. Edgeworth... I'll try...

Despite her buoyancy and bright attitude, Kay is quite firm that she be treated as an adult (she doesn't see her cheeriness as a mark of youth; it's joie de vivre, it's who she is, and that's that), and, throughout the game, she gets annoyed when people don't respect that (her arguments with Lang are largely over how he calls Little Thief a toy and her crow-girl). She holds her own and relies on herself while being unafraid of asking for help.

Anyway, this post has gone on for long enough and I think I've addressed the points I wanted to. I should mention that I realise that a lot of how many people portray/interpret their relationship is validated by AAI2 but that's honestly a discussion for a separate post HAHA I feel like, when it comes to AAI, the father/daughter interpretation can maybe be argued with regards to the way Edgeworth treats her? Honestly, though, I think he'd treat any young lady who suddenly becomes part of his team/responsibility in pretty much the same way. And, like, he drops the ball almost every time he's supposed to give "fatherly" advice because he's just not that great with it/children!! It's actually hilarious HSKSDHSK

Either way, yeah! I just think Kay is actually given a lot less credit than she's due when the Dadworth card gets played and I just! Want better for her!!

#kay faraday #miles edgeworth #ace attorney investigations #EMBARRASSINGLY long post. i want to add that this isnt an attack on anyone who likes the dadworth dynamic!!! it's semi-supported by canon #and like. it's literally fandom wskdhdk do what makes you happy. i just feel like kay gets minimised a bit when it happens (including when #it's done in game) and i just want people to realise that she's not actually like that!! she's actually so smart and rly mature???#oh i want to add that i generally like both aai games i just prefer the first one. i know some people go for a sibling dynamic between them #rather than a father daughter one (which makes sense bc... they have 10 years between them hskddhk) but im an advocate for friendship being #just as important and valid as it would be if it did mimic a family relationship even if it didnt so that doesnt do much for me either #i just think she wants to be seen as an equal to him as any of his other partners would be #oh i didnt mention this in the post but i also feel like people mix her with ema a bit in the future versions of her?#like she becomes snarky and a little sarcastic (or suave/flirty in a roundabout manner if it's a ship post) when her whole thing is being #direct. she tells shih na to her face that 'those sunglasses dont do anything for her so she'll steal them next time' she's great #the snarky sarcasm thing is again ema. not maya or her but ema. and franziska #ok i need to shut up now im done thank u <3

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muraenide · 2 months

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This miiiiight be oversharing personal sentiments a little bit but...

Ever since I changed my rules to include an explicit list of what I'm going to write on this blog instead of just a simple, brief statement saying "dark things will be present here" and started actively following people or mutuals of mutuals whose muses or writing I am genuinely interested in/have spiked my interests, I've grown a lot happier about the contents and people I'm seeing on my dash.

I felt like tum.blr rpers have grown incredibly judgemental and incapable of minding their own business. People all around me seem to have shifted their energy onto focusing on offending as few people as possible instead of trying to actually have fun, and the rpc has become a weird circle for activism when it shouldn't have been used as a medium for (false) activism in the first place. Not all of us are here to make a point or to establish a legacy. In fact, most of us are just here to have fun and scratch an itch in the brain or fill in gaps that canon source materials haven't been able to provide. But the idea of this is incomprehensible to some people who are actively ruining the rpc and making everyone fear that they're walking on eggshells while they spiral into a depressing state of existing to not offend anyone instead of existing to have fun.

I've lost count of the number of times people tell me that I'm on a DNI for "writing with pro.ship.pers" or "writing romantic ships with an adult and a minor" (<- said ship is between a 17 y.o. and a 19 y.o.) sometimes it's also ships about fake incest.

(Just as an aside, I've grown so desensitized by being on DNIs that it's no longer something to feel anything about. I'd just go through their rules with a very confused expression if to see what they took issue with. Most of the time I don't even know the mun personally.)

I've gotten more hate directed at me for writing fake in.cest rather than real ones, which is not only baffling but also incredibly ODD bc the fandom "decides" what is good and what is bad, which reeks heavily of manipulation and toxicity in my opinion. Fandoms aren't governed by a single party or a monolithic authority that decides its rules. Fandom rules are made by the community, and in every community, there should be different rules, made to ensure everyone is comfortable and feel inclusive. That is what makes fandoms special and detached from reality. Yes, you're entitled to not want to interact with certain content for reasons no one else is entitled to know unless they have your consent, but you're definitely not entitled to silence/stomp out everyone to cater to your whims or risk getting hate/harassment. Which is why I heavily encourage tagging content as-is instead of denying the nature of said content and praying that no one notices because that is the best way to make it difficult for people with different preferences and tastes to co-exist.

And ever since I changed my rules and actively followed people again, there has been a variety of content on my dash with varying tags. It's honestly very stimulating and uplifting, and if I firmly believe if a mutual were to take offense to anything I write or choose to interact with, it's on them as they clearly did not go through my rules when they followed/followed back. Additionally, I tag all my things.

A few months ago, my dash was exhausting, and boring, everyone (or most of my mutuals) was scared. Now I see posts getting tagged "necrophilia cw". I'm very happy for both my mutuals and their muses for striving for the peaks of how far fiction writing and the imaginative side of the mind can go.

I'd highly recommend anyone who has been in a similar situation to list down your dos and don'ts so your mutuals will know what to take to your tables and what to not. Personally, it felt like my dash had curated itself and it's been very pleasant to be on tum.blr lately even if I still have to vanish for a few more days due to inrl.

I think about my dash very often this week and I love all of you guys for being here and showing me your brainrots/muses! 💗💞💓

#𖦹 ⋆꙳ ⁄ ooc.#rant cw

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Look, I get that as a Star Trek fan, I should be happy. Oooh, look at all the new Trek that's coming!

But there are lines in this story that make me obscenely, indescribably, unrationally outraged.

“We take it very seriously,” says David Stapf, president of CBS Studios. “‘Star Trek’ is one of the most valued, treasured and to-be-nurtured franchises in all of media.”

WELL YOU HAVE A FUNNY WAY OF SHOWING IT!

Paramount's stewardship of Trek post-Roddenberry has always annoyed me but this quote shows how tone-deaf these people are. Through their actions they show that when they mean valued, they mean profitable and what they can get out of it. When they mean treasured, they mean it's to be mined for gold and leveraged for our own ends, not the good of the franchises. And nurtured? How? With money? Yes, I'd say they're pouring more into Star Trek then ever before, but also why does everyone working on Trek feel they need to make clear the franchise is good value for money? Case in point from the story: "That tension isn’t exclusive to the film studio. I lost count of the number of times someone made a point to note, with real pride, how one or the other of the “Star Trek” TV productions is saving money, whether it be “Section 31” repurposing sets from “Discovery” or “Strange New Worlds” redressing the same set to be everything from crew quarters to a sparring gym. No one will get specific about budgets, but Kurtzman says that “Section 31” costs “so much less than you’d ever make a ‘Star Trek’ movie for.”"

Are they nurturing the fan base? How exactly? The article goes into great detail about how well Trek is doing on Paramount+ but fails to mention that Paramount+ itself is not doing well. Why are you hiding Trek away on a platform few people use? Because like Voyager on UPN in the 90s, Trek is THE DRAW. But you can't draw new fans on a platform no one is watching. How many people discovered the old Trek shows because they were/are on platforms people can access easily? You own a legacy TV network? Why isn't at least ONE of the Trek shows predominantly on CBS? Then you can use it as a taste at least to get people to sign up and see the others? Then there's the haphazard way they handle merchandising and licensing for the new products. You have amazing new series. How are you getting them into the hands of young people? Even Prodigy didn't air on Nickelodeon right away. As a result, you have this greying of the franchise issue.

"I ask “The Next Generation” star Jonathan Frakes, who’s acted in or directed more versions of “Star Trek” than any other person alive, how often he meets fans for whom the new “Star Trek” shows are their first. “Of the fans who come to talk to me, I would say very, very few,” he says. “‘Star Trek’ fans, as we know, are very, very, very loyal — and not very young.”" Paramount needs to change tact. Take a page from Disney/Lucasfilm. Sure, they are certainly trying to turn Star Wars into the proverbial dead horse to be beaten, but the Star Wars generational legacy is secure.

They need to stop speaking in platitudes. You say Trek is valued? Then SHOW IT.

Let Trek fly in the mainstream.

Give it a wider net to catch new fans.

Actually show faith in it, rather than using it as an IP for making money. Be more accessible.

Oh and fix your damn licensing on Deep Space Nine and GET ME MORE MERCH TO BUY!

#star trek #Trekkies #Devoted fan #I hate because I care #paramount sucks #Show Trek the love it deserves #Paramount #star trek deep space nine

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131. Torchwood Archives volume 1

Owned: No, library Page count: Unknown/not numbered My summary: Leonardo da Vinci falls through the Rift. Captain Jack battles with a selkie. Andy spends a whole week dying over and over. Gwen bugs an alien drug ring. Ianto sees the ghosts of the future. Just another day for Torchwood. My rating: 2.5/5 My commentary:

I love Torchwood. Yes, it was weird; sure, it's got more misses than hits. But overall, it was strange in some good ways, there were some great episodes and performances, and it was charming enough in its time. (Apart from the last series, but we don't talk about that.) Despite the fact that Torchwood hasn't been on air in years, it's still continuing in the form of Big Finish audio dramas, which have developed quite a little continuity of their own. I don't have the cash to listen to Big Finish, but I remember liking the Torchwood novels when they were a thing, and so when I saw this comic on the shelf, I decided to give it a shot. It's a collection of short stories from the Torchwood universe, and unfortunately I did not care throughout the whole thing. Sorry.

The thing with these ones is that they're just…nothing stories. There's not a lot of character work going on in much of them, and what little there is isn't really anything to write home about. I really took umbrage with the way that Tosh and Owen are sidelined - Gwen, Jack, and Ianto get focus stories, and even PC Andy gets more page-time than Tosh and Owen. Maybe because this was written post-Children of Earth, but surely that's a better reason to give Tosh and Owen a bit of love? It's particularly a bad look that the one non-white member of the main cast just gets absolutely nothing in this collection. The art also annoyed me - different stories have different artists, but a lot of the time I couldn't tell who was who. There's a moment in Ianto's story where Captain John shows up, but they didn't tell you who he was and he just looked like another guy, so it took pages until someone called him by name before I had a handle on what was happening. It's so disappointing, the comics medium could give so many opportunities for a series like Torchwood, but the whole thing was just so…meh.

Next, horror on a Scottish isle, and the legacy of a tattooed oathbreaker.

#Torchwood #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #book blogging #2.5

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20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @subdee, may as well since it's been a while

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

2. What’s your total ao3 word count?

590,973

3. What fandoms do you write for?

FFVII mostly, but none of that spinoff bullshit. I have some stuff for XV in the works despite hating XV and the characters having zero fucking personality because this is just my grieving process I guess??? They're basically all crossovers with VII except one though so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I've also got a couple things for Spy X Family I'm excited for but unfortunately am a bit hamstrung due to certain reveals and lack of reveals so it's on pause.

(Also Ever Crisis and Remake back to back have sucked all the fucking joy out of me in one fell swoop so I'm trying to remember why I even fucking like doing this when FFVII has effectively been erased.)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

1)The Number I.

Go read it. I worked hard on it and it's very dense and heavily character-driven and a genfic focused on plot, and, most importantly, is complete. I'm going to shill this one directly I ain't give a damn:

Predominately involves Cloud, now four years out from Meteorfall, struggling to adjust to civilian life given he's still gene-spliced with an Old God, who begins losing control of his body to a heretofore seemingly unknown entity with inscrutable goals. As it gradually becomes clear that the events of the previous four years aren't as they seem in more ways than one, things start to go off the rails completely as Cloud winds up enmeshed in conflict between multiple parties: an international initiative studying cosmology and the two doctors leading it; the WRO, who has considered him a Jenova-based liability from day one; interpersonal friction with his newfound family stemming from the residual baggage of everything he went through; and reality itself beginning to deteriorate.

It's slice of life, it's cosmic horror, it's a character study, it's about grown men crying and legacies and grief and trauma and intimacy and autonomy and gender as a microcosm for broader truths about the nature of the self, it's got angry tearful fistfights, bottoms that haven't figured out you can take it in turn to service top, Cloud telling everyone his strong and correct opinions about magic and materia and bikes, found family shenanigans, and me talking about garlic for way way way too long. Something for everyone!

I wasn't kidding about any of that by the way, heed the warnings at the top of the chapters because I do NOT pull punches and we get into some heavy shit. Go hard or go home.

Originally it was a 500 word pee joke I was gonna show to two people in response to a terrible LTD argument I saw someone make and was sure I'd "wrap it up quickly". Oops.

2) An Idiot's Guide to Holding Hands. I wrote this in response to, I'm not kidding, the worst most hateful fanfiction I have ever fucking seen in my life. As big of a beef as I have with the Crisis Core fuckers treating the women like shit and being pretty hateful towards them as a whole, they're still at least clearly writing because they genuinely love Crisis Core and the characters in it for reasons that are presently unknown to me. This thing on the other hand was oozing contempt for the cast of VII and Evangelion and the women in particular and I genuinely don't know why someone would put that much fucking effort into making something like this and felt a sudden need to rebut everything it stood for. It's not super great as a fic tbh but y'all seem to like it so at least something came of it.

3) Don't Ask How The Job Interview Went. Harry Potter/VII crossover I shat out in like 6 hours on a whim because a Halloween prompt one year was "witches and wizards" and I hated all the existing crossovers (ugh again with the crisis core). Honestly had an entire multichapter fic as a sequel lined up that I was pretty excited for but as things went on I felt grosser and grosser about even making it. Maybe I'll do something with the outline one day, it was basically finished. Still kills me that this thing is so fucking popular but there you go.

4) What's Dead and Buried. This is literally just Chapter 18 of The Number I (which you should go read!). I wrote it, realised it worked great as a standalone fic and gateway drug, and published it as its own thing. If you're on the fence about TNI, maybe check out this oneshot. Features shitty gremlin child Cloud interacting with Vincent and a lot of grim implications about both their lives that Cloud is too young to really get. Very very black comedy.

5) Adjacent. I don't like this one sorry. It was a commission and while I like the individual headcanons of freaky shit Cloud is inclined to do and was chomping at the bit to use them somewhere I don't like how they wound up getting utilised. Feels like generic fandom fluff to me. I'd delete it but people seem to enjoy it and I don't want to take that from them.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Always and as soon as I possibly can! I'm immensely flattered people actually take the time to comment on stuff and I enjoy getting to talk about the stuff I wrote in a bit more depth.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It's Full of Stars easily. Fucked that dude up beyond repair. Also was considering a sequel for this one too so I could explore some of the stuff fueling what the fuck is going on here, though that might obviously ruin the ambiguity of said ending and what exactly was done to him.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'm a big baby I actually almost always try for happy endings, or at least bittersweet. Probably Tidewaters, nobody even gets pulped in that one.

8. Do you get hate on fic?

Basically no. I've gotten five negative comments in all the years I've been doing this:

Two were people whinging about how I made Aeris Jewish in a fic and how that was reverse racist against Christians (die mad about it lol).

Two were someone that wanted an in-depth essay over my right to use a slur within the context of a character talking about people calling him that slur in a character arc partially about feeling alienated from gender and basically demanded I out myself to "prove" I could use it while missing literally everything about why that word would be used to where they felt the need to send that shit to begin with (gee thanks did you do it did you make the queers feel comfortable). Reading comprehension is so so important you are all going to kill me.

The last one was a long six paragraph rant completely unrelated to the fic in any way because I joked in the author's notes about not liking a video game that they liked(????), followed by an even longer ten paragraph rant about how actually the unrelated game was "95% perfect" (lmaoooo) and how "5% of it being bad isn't a good reason to hate it". The first half of it's on there, I deleted the second comment because my fanfiction comments are not the fucking gamefaqs forums dude. (Also die mad about it lol.) That remains to this day the only comment I've ever deleted from any of my fics and that includes the one that literally just said "penis" and nothing else.

9. Do you write smut?

If you squint lol. TNI has a couple sex scenes in it. They're uh

they're in it.

Boy are they in it.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Hell yeah I do. Also I'm a purist about this term A CROSSOVER IS WHEN YOU CROSS THE TWO THINGS OVER BUT THEY ARE STILL THEIR OWN DISPARATE THINGS. A FUSION IS WHEN THE TWO SETTINGS ARE FUSED. WORDS MEAN THINGS. ALSO A DRABBLE IS 100 WORDS EXACTLY NO MORE NO LESS. I'LL KEEP SITTING ON THIS PORCH SHAKING MY FIST AT THESE CHILDREN UNTIL THEY FUCKING LEARN.

Anyway I'll dump FFVII on everything and nobody can stop me. FFXV. Mass Effect. Spy X Family. Aliens. Ellen Ripley can, should, must, and will fight Jenova with a power loader.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nah I talk a big game but I ignore the Comp too hard to break into the mainstream. I'm small potatoes.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nah and no surprises why. Shit's too wordy.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind of? Fuck I gotta finish that thing.

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

meh. Does Loid/Yor even count? Everyone keeps writing it wrong and we still haven't seen the penny drop but it's sweet in its extremely fucking dysfunctional way (which is the best way GO READ TNI COUGH COUGH).

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably won’t?

Frame-Perfect. Should not have started writing before finishing the damn outline, don't know how to resolve this thing without it being a massive downer any way you slice it. This is why you should never pants VARETH.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue babyyyyyyy. I literally won an award for it once lol. Probably also psychological horror. Those two things combined means there's a lot of stream of consciousness shit in nearly everything I do, and if that's not your jam you probably won't like it.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

It is so, so hard to get a character from a location to another location. It shouldn't be hard. Why is it hard??? I should be allowed to just go And then he went, in exactly that cadence every time and everyone should just deal with it UGH

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Extremely hit or miss and you can almost always tell if the person in question doesn't speak it. Use sparingly because you are playing with fire.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

FFVII. The Number I is technically my first fanfiction ever, actually!

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Either TNI obviously, but also as a whole either Replacements or Tidewaters. Replacements I whipped up on the spot day-of in a few hours on a whim and it basically turned out perfect???? I've never been able to replicate that before or since. Tidewaters is Cloud Yuffie Nanaki shenanigans which I love, and I was shocked and horrified to learn I'm basically the entire tag of that as far as that's concerned (I'm working on rectifying that I promise shhhh).

Everyone I know that writes was already tagged basically uhhhhhhh

@varethinsilico, @denebolaleo-ffwriter, @spectroscopes, @terror-billie, @jenovacomplete, anyone else who wants to take a crack at this pretend I tagged you.

#spitegarbage #tni #asks

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Are we lucky enough to hear about one of those OCs?

This one's a little against the premise, but I've got a pretty neat Legacy: Life Among The Ruins campaign going, tentatively named "Ragnarok Circlejerk", and I'll tell you the tale of my gal, a funky little critter named Yai-Isa-Nim.

I think she counts as a blorbo from my brain.

She's a nasty eldritch abomination called a Neth. The setting's post-apocalyptic and society ended as a result of an eldritch convergence humanity has interpreted as "Ragnarok", or simply the Fall. A horrible, branched entity-- the Wyrdtree breached into Earth, carrying with it a chaotic energy called Wyrd, which turned Earth into a nightmarish wasteland. Neth are mutated humans capable of thriving in the shattered landscape.

Their phenotype sorta looks like they've been hybridized with a reptile and some kind of eldritch insect-- resinous scales, prehensile tails, shining pink eyes with slit pupils, slime-dripping claws and digitgrade legs. They communicate with each other in clicks and trills.

Oh! They also purr.

Neth resemble no known animal, but instead are a kind of fully-realized genetic optimization project, a gestalt of numerous adaptations and runaway mutations. They can trace their origin to a genetic program run out of a Neo-Soviet gulag ,created in a prescient attempt to devise a labor force that would survive the coming Fall.

Horrifically, they succeeded: the Neth were left alone amid the chaos, and are now thriving: breeding teeming hives and lurking in the dark places beyond humanity's dwindling firelight.

Neth live underground in eusocial societies lead by a Tyrant-- Tyrants command the drudges, control the incubators and produce pheromones that give them some enhanced sway over other Neth. It's not quite mind control, more an animal magnetism that has to be accompanied with savvy rulership. Neth will rebel against an incompetent Tyrant, as we'll see with Yai.

Tyrants war with each other, and atrocity is a way of life-- cannibalism, slavery, and zero-sum wars of extermination are everyday occurrences. That said, the cruelty's not inborn but learned: the Neth are simply iterating on the brutal life their ancestors lived in the gulag.

While Neth have all the equipment to make babies the old fashioned way, they almost exclusively reproduce via incubation pods which turn humans into Neth, and dead matter into symbiotic "drudges", adorable little bipedal isopod-lookin fuckers, which I describe as "meat pikmin". Drudges work alongside the Neth as drones, sorta filling the slot of work animals.

For this reason, they make a habit of capturing humans (living or dead) to replenish their numbers, making them rightfully feared as enemies of civilization.

They're no drones, though: Neth all have their own personalities, and enjoy expressing their individuality and interior lives. They compulsively create art like humans do, and are particularly handy with their resin, and your average Neth is seen replete with charms, jewelry, and sculpted chitin, either homemade or sourced from skilled artisans, who're prized amongst the hive.

All that said, we can now understand our girl Yai:

Yai's a rebel tyrant, leading the newborn "Nim Hive". She staged an insurrection with her peers, and scored some royal jelly-- a genekit that promotes a garden-variety Neth to a Tyrant. Thus enhanced, she gathered her followers and drudges and bolted to found a new home.

Yai is, by Neth standards, a bleeding-heart. She likes humans, and rejects the policies of forced capture and enslavement that are common among her peers. Still, she is a Neth, and sees humans as squishy, weak, and unaccustomed to the wasteland. They're stubborn, using dated tech they plunder from the ruins, encase themselves in unreliable suits, and repeat the mistakes of the past in an attempt to cling to a way of life that has already failed.

To Yai, the logical thing would be to convert as many people as she can into Neth so they can prosper and survive in this new, strange world, but most humans aren't into it. This is where the other Tyrants would start capturing, reeducating, and converting any hominid they can catch, but since Yai's a softie, she's instead attempting to slowly forge bonds with humanity, understand their ways of living, and use Neth power to protect them.

In-game, the Neth are just one family at the table: Her bridge to connect with humanity is another player's family: a gang of kids who play a "game" that has some arcane connection to the beasts of Ragnarok, something the Isa Hive interprets as proof that humanity can adapt mentally, and adopt new techniques to exist within the wasteland, while the kids think the Neth are kinda cute and helpful. What kid doesn't want a monster pal?

These two factions exist alongside a company of the defunct Red Army, some raiders worshipping a lycanthropic mutant goddess-- a fork of the same mutagenic force that created the Neth, and the Concern, a secretive society of transnational black-ops who foretold the Fall, but were unable to stop it-- think XCOM crossed with the SCP organization. They also had a hand in making the Neth.

The factions are getting along pretty well right now-- trying to stop some bandits who fucked up a rite that called an eldritch entity, Kvasir, to bless them with sorcery. His "intoxicating blood" is presently polluting the fuck out of the homeland. Stay tuned to see how they handle that.

#my writing #Ragnarok Circlejerk #Thanks friendo~!

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fictionobsession · 6 months

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Reginald's Message

Summary: Reginald has a message.

Word Count: 635

Warnings: None

A/N: @warcraft3rat requested a backstory for my gifted creature, Reginald. I hope this lives up to his legacy.

“Ah! There you are! Finally! I've been looking for you for ages, you know. How long? Well, I really couldn't say. I've been across, let's see... a desert? It was really hot, I had to get this hat, my face kept getting sooooo hot. The hat helps though. See this? The brim just... covers me right up! No more sun problems!

And then there were some mountains. Let me tell you, those mountains took forever, I mean, look at these legs, do these look like climbing legs to you? I had to stop and rest a lot, but I got to see some really cool plants. The flowers were even taller than me, if you can believe it!

Anyway, after the mountains, I had to get on this boat. I was on the boat for a really, really long time. But honestly? That part was easy as stealing boots from a baby! Don't look at me like that, it's a saying, you know. You know! 'easy as stealing boots from a baby'! It's a very common saying, I don't know why you have that look on your face.

Moving on, judgmental expressions aside. After the boat docked, there was this huge flat land, that was the last place I was, before this. Much better than mountains, if you ask me, easier on the knees. There were a lot of cities between there and here.

People in cities aren't too kind to creatures like me. It's not that they're malicious, per say, but, well, they just don't notice you when you're so small. But, I found a really nice person who I followed around for a bit! I don't think she noticed, but I learned a lot about how you humans live.

And I got these nice boots, see, they're just so comfy! And my favorite color, of course. The boots definitely made the rest of the journey easier. I would've survived it regardless. It is literally what I'm made for, after all.

Hm? Oh, of course, I was created specifically for this purpose! A nice person made me, and my only purpose is to bring you a message!

Oh! Oh. Right. My purpose is to bring you a message, of course. I should get to the actual message, huh? You don't really want to hear about everything I went through to get here. No, no. No one actually needs to know what you're doing, Reginald, just give the message and be done with it.

Let me just... dig around in here, I know I stuck it in my hat somewhere. Hold on, I promise I've got the message.

It's just, I tucked it in right here... let me see, I have two papers here, I wonder which one it is. Let's get this unfolded, and.... ah, right, of course.

Ahem.

Your message is as follows:

'You are wonderful. You are talented. You are brave. You are an incredible individual who deserves every adventure the world has to offer. You are so very loved.'

...oh my, oops, very sorry, that was my affirmation message to myself. Well, I had someone else write it of course, holding writing implements is quite difficult, you know.

Let's see, your message must be the other one then. I'll just, uh, I'll just read that now. When it's done, could you call this number? Yeah, the one right there on my hat. I had to write it in permanent marker. Yeah, just call them, and let them know you got the message, okay?

Why can't I? Well, I won't really exist after this, you know, so I can't speak. Existing on this plane is a bit of a prerequisite for passing on a message.

Here's your message. Are you ready? Okay. Alright. I can do this.

Your message is:

'Get bent.'”

#I don't even know how to tag this #I guess he's an oc now?#oc fic #you're welcome. or something.

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binarystargames · 10 months

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Machinations of Court and Frame pre-production notes: Noble Houses and their Agents

I don't have an actual cover for this one yet so for now you get a screencap from the SRD title. This one's still at pretty high level. But I did some of that high level work and I wanna talk about it!

Speaking of the SRD, this is the third Total//Effect game I initially proposed/outlined/etc on the Total//Effect SRD. My general (self)-pitch was:

Mecha, But Politics

This Time, This One's About The People, Not The Mechs TM

(But it's also about feudalism and how internecine struggles between people in power completely do not care about the average person)

Political maneuvering and such. Heavy Faction emphasis in the form of noble Houses. Think Battletech or Game of Thrones or Dune.

Heavy emphasis on Relationships/Bonds/etc. They're big in Valiant Horizon but they're supposed to be even bigger here.

No "traditional" group tactical TTRPG combat. But there are mecha duels, because that's very important to me.

So first off, I think to give this the proper "space" (haha) to breathe, this one also needs to be a space game. This lets me be pretty vague on certain points without it being weird, especially I'm purposely relaxing "hard"-ness because the specifics aren't the point - everyone has FTL shit and can travel easy, planets are just habitable or terraformable and have atmospheres, it's fine. Get those good Dune/Battletech vibes going more so than like, Front Mission.

Given that, I think the proper order of operations is: Factions/Allegiances contain Houses which contain Planets. Factions/Allegiances are something that I think mostly gets hashed out in play but I'll focus on Houses/Planets.

Planets

The main resource I'm tracking is the number of planets they control, which is the only "resource" I'm tracking as such. More planets, more power in general: certain things can add "virtual" planets to this tally, like prominent (extra-population/resource/etc, counts as two) or independent (counts as half at most, is split X ways between any House with a trade agreement with them) planets. What do more planets get you? Each House gets X actions per Faction Turn: reinforce X planet, infiltrate Y planet, do some digging on Z, etc. I'm thinking the big benefit is that they get 2/3/4/5 actions if they have 1/3/6/10 planets: meaning a handful of lower Houses can overwhelm a higher one if they're isolated.

Houses

So off the bat, my first inclination was to do some kind of complicated 4X resource thing with Houses. But I realized very quickly that I didn't want that. The thing is that the interplay between Houses is not so much a game in and of itself as it is a backdrop to the personal action between agents of said Houses. Your points of view aren't the machine, they're also cogs in it, even if they are very important cogs. So what do we do for Houses?

To define a House, we start by defining the House's Distinction. This is kind of like a character class or playbook for the House. The ones I have down are Legacy (they're very old and storied), Money (they have a lot of it), Connections (they're got to where they are through intel and favor arbitrage), and Industry (they have control of some major supply of something, like food or ore). This is basically why they matter.

When you define this, the player making the House (this is a full-group effort, ideally, with each player making probably 2) is asked 3 Distinction-based questions to define something in particular about how the House got to where they are, who they're allied with, and who they're unfriendly with. Distinction also defines holdings, i.e. how many planets they start with, but it's based on a roll and each kind has various downsides: Money-Houses have High Die (average 5ish) but many are independent, while Connections-Houses have Low Die (average 2ish) but their capital is always Prominent. Because this isn't really a game about winning or losing, I'm perfectly fine with Houses starting on the front or back foot. For example, I rolled up 1 House of each kind to test this, and the Legacy and Money houses started with 4 each while the other two rolled very poorly ended up with 1 each. That instantly creates an asymmetric dynamic: maybe those first two are the major two powers, with the other two splitting one way or another (or combining forces to act as one...for now, anyway). That's workable!

The chosen Distinction also defines the Frames the House picks as its "core three" types (light, medium, heavy). I've defined 3 "lines" of mechs by name/manufacturer: the first is intended for old-money, focuses on melee capabilities, and labels theirs like TYPE-WEAPON; the second has more of a PMC vibe and labels theirs like 0X-ABC where ABC is a "character class" like KGT = Knight, RGR = Ranger, etc; and the third is full manufacturing and labels them XMYAZ (for instance MM10A4, like how the US military labels things as M16A4/etc). Legacy Houses have to pick 2/3 from the first (they're the oldest one, prior contracts, etc), Money houses have to pick 2/3 from the second (they have a expensive-but-practical vibe), Industry has to pick 2/3 from the last (more of an emphasis on no-frills craftsmanship), and Connections have to pick 1 of each.

Distinction does another thing with Relationships too but I'll get to it when writing about...

Agents

So the focus of the game is characters who are Agents. This is a very broad term that more or less comes down to "representative of a House, sponsored by them to get The Overwhelmingly Good Shit from their Frame manufacturer, sent to problem areas to fix or create problems or as liasons/representatives". Each player makes two and play shifts around various sides of a conflict on a per-session basis - when Agents clash, it could be with an NPC, or depending on what House moves have been taken, it could be another PC Agent! (And since direct conflicts are 1v1, you can just have this play out as PvP, unless both duelists were made by the same player.)

I'm taking a similar approach re: playbook/broad "class"-like distinctions to Agents. Specifically, I'm envisioning 6 kinds of Agents on a sliding scale of privilege/status/position from Heir/Scion at the high end (literally in line to be House leadership, or could be if enough people die) to Officer/Mercenary at the low end (not even nobles, just professionals who are good at mech fighting). The more important you are, the more Status you have: Status means that other characters with more/less relate to you differently. (One big one, for example, is that is no big deal for someone of higher Status to actually kill someone of lower in a battlefield duel, but someone of lower status is expected to find a way to disable rather than kill whatever inbred heir in their sight who has a death wish.) It does mean you've got more of a target on your back, however, and less ability to pivot around: I'm thinking a meta-currency equal to X - Status (probably 4 - Status, with Status being 1-3).

Playbooks/whatever I end up calling them also define a few things. I'm envisioning a passive ability relating to Relationships (like counting them as doubled for the purposes of Influence or unlocks), as well as starting packages: starting Relationships with the House and with people, and starting Moves picked from a big list split between Court Intrigues and Frame Maneuvers (like the Mercenary is Maneuvers-only at first, but it gets 4 instead of 3 Moves and can gain more of an appreciation for intrigue over time - think someone like Bronn from Game of Thrones).

Finally, back to Distinctions to talk about Relationships. When characters gain Relationships, they can take those out with other people (which gives advantages to influence them in particular) or with Houses. In addition to making it easier to influence them and various set benefits like extra Frame access or Tells on all that House's Frames or that person's Maneuvers, When they take a Bond (which is 1 of 6 points you can put into a Relationship, crystallized by a specific thing), they gain a token, which they can spend anytime to answer questions about a House: the questions in particular are defined by that Distinction/Playbook, and there's one good-connotated/one bad-connotated. For example, Legacy has a) What hidden secret in their past could propel this House to greatness? b) What dark event in their history or lineage is this House trying to hide? (Keep in mind these aren't just for good bonds, these can be for enemies too - a character can create a Relationship with a House they've sworn to bring to ruin, for example, and cash them in to create some horrid rift they can exploit, or a friendly Relationship can turn sour after a betrayal and lead to awful things being revealed on both sides.)

Hell Yeah

This game's gonna be cool as shit whenever I make it for real, folks. I mean I say this about literally every significant-sized game I make but this one's definitely also my baby.

#ttrpg #ttrpg design #machinations of court and frame #mocaf #could use lesscaf tbqh #total//effect

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lostcauses-noregrets · 8 months

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Lost! I have a rec for you. It’s a WIP called Listo by drowsycricket. It’s circus eruri and I am lowkey obsessed. I hope it is a welcome find if you haven’t come across it already.

also, I read Wild Type and it ruined me (in a good way!!) thank you for helping me take the plunge. I think I saw something somewhere about it possibly resuming. Have you heard anything recently through the ether?

Thank you @bodylikeawave! Listo by drowsycricket has been on my list for a while now, I'm looking forward to reading it. I've had a circus AU languishing in my drafts folder for years now. I doubt it will every see the light of day, so I'm delighted that someone else has written one! Fwiw, this is my quintessential Eruri circus AU song.

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I'm so glad you took the plunge and read Wild-Type by @merkase, it really is a one in a million fic. I've lost count of the number of times I've read it and it's never less than devastating. Sadly I haven't heard anything from the author for a couple of years now. They said in their last tumblr post that they were reviewing Wild-Type and intended to finish it but that was two years ago. Where ever they are now, and whatever they're doing, I wish them well. They left the fandom with an amazing legacy.

#asks #eruri #fic rec #circus au #snk #wild-type

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Day 11: Jordan Junction to Evitts Creek

Distance Covered: 76.72 miles

Total Time (including rests): 9:38 (7:51am-5:29pm)

Time spent riding: 6:34

Average Speed: 11.7 mph

Apples Eaten: 3 (jazz - 7.5/10, jazz - 6.5/10, jazz - 7/10)

Today's ride was a mix of good and bad. The riding itself went pretty well, staying on the C&O trail for almost the entire time. The C&O trail is a gravel path, so that's annoying, but it's still better than hilly paved roads. On the other hand, I did get a flat near the end of my ride, which kinda sucked, and even worse, I had to walk my bike for about 2.5 miles on a hilly hiking path because part of the C&O was closed off, and this was the only feasible detour. That detour is a large reason why my total time is 3 hours longer than my time spent riding.

There were almost no other bicyclists or joggers/hikers on the path today, so that was more relaxing. I spent a lot of the ride not thinking about anything and just enjoying the scenery. I am really tired out today, and am glad that tomorrow's ride is only ~68 miles. I did yoga, but I'm still going to do some more stretching, cause my legs are really hurting.

Notes on the Ride:

Counting sheep - I've started to count sheep as a way to fall asleep more quickly at campsites because I'd rather not just be laying in bed doing nothing for too long

More deer - I mentioned on previous days seeing deer once or twice crossing the path. Today, I lost count how many times there were deer right in front of me

Lots of wildlife - in addition to deer, I saw turtles, herons, ducks, frogs, cardinals, and even what looked like a wild cat. There're also a lot of bugs, but they're not the kind of wildlife I want to see.

Faulty pumps - I used my water filter multiple times today at pumps along the ride. However, some of the pumps didn't seem to want to work. I'd give them 20 or so pushes, and still no water would come out. Luckily, there's a pump every 3-5 miles on average, so when that happened I could just continue on to the next pump.

Bug in Mouth - I almost swallowed a fly that flew into my mouth as I was riding. Luckily, it got stuck on the outside of my teeth, and I was able to remove it.

Design Notes

Time loop

Possible Character roles (each player gets one, it influences what actions they can perform and what items they start with): captain, scientist, medical officer, engineer, security officer, navigator

Map: the map is a 3x5 grid of squares. The center square is the sleeping area, where all players start. Each room can have a player cap, which is the maximum number of people that can be in that room. The sleeping area has no player cap, but most rooms have a player cap. Here are some possible other rooms and possible player caps:

Cockpit - 2

Storage - 3

Escape Hatch - 1

Defense Controls - 1

Main Power Source - 3

Supplementary Power - 2

Emergency Power - 1

Food Hall - 4

Communications Room - 2/3

Meeting Room - no limit

Medical Bay - 3

Research room - 2

Brig - 2/3

Arms Supply - 2

Time events are what truly make this a legacy game, as they are the main part of the game which changes things from loop to loop. They are likely going to be necessary, despite the risks, in order to finally escape the time loop.

How serious do I want the game to be? If more comical, I can include more references, both to sci-fi in general and time travel specifically. For example: "time bandits" - a time event that steals an item; "it's bigger on the inside" - an event that removes the player cap for a room.

However, a more serious version would likely entice players who want to play the game more seriously, and take maximum advantage of things. In other words, I think it would be easier to apply a comical theme, but a more serious theme would better showcase what type of game it is.

Grid Delver

I also have a quick overview of the existing tiles in Grid Delver. Each tile is written out like this:

Tile Name - properties of tile; what level they first appear at; how common they are when they first appear; how much more common they become as you advance floors; whether they would be able to have points/gold on them in the new version; restrictions on how they might appead on the guaranteed path from start to finish

Tiles:

Floor - basic tile; level 0; high weight at start; low weight increase; can have points, can be on main path

Wall - block tile; level 0; high weight at first; grows slowly; no points; can't be on main path

Pit - deathtrap tile; level 0; medium weight at first; grows slowly; no points; can't be on main path

Mud - when you step on it, your next movement is skipped; level 1; medium weight at first; grows slowly; can have points; can be on main path

Ice - slide to the next tile after it when you step on it; level 2; low weight at first; increases quickly; can have points; can be on main path, but not on corners

Breaking Tile - a basic floor tile, but once you step on it, it turns into a pit on the next action; level 3; medium weight at first; medium growth; can have points; can be on main path

Jump - when you step on this tile, your next movement jumps forward, skipping a tile; level 4; low weight at first; slow growth; can have points; can be on the main path; but only if the next tile is not a corner

Quicksand - when stepped on, your next input must be "SPACE", if not, you die; level 5; low weight at first; fast growth; can have points; can be on main path

That's all for design notes. I know they might make a little less sense than usual, I just wanted to write down whatever was on my mind. I also didn't actually have much time to think about stuff, being too busy paying attention to scenery and then getting really tired.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, as I start the Great Allegheny Passage trail, which is much more of a dedicated bike path than the C&O trail. I've looked up a few bike shops so I should be able to replenish my supplies (mainly bike tube patches), and will probably also try to find a time to go grocery shopping, as I'm running low on bread, apples, and peanut butter.

Til next time!

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Wolvden - Non-Royal Line Rules Brainstorming and Breeding Rules Simplification

Since I completely restructured my pack as of this generation, there's a lot I need to figure out how I'm going to handle. Since I merged the "non-canon" stat/project breeders into the main pack, it's a bit of a mess.

In addition, my current breeding pair-making rules were so convoluted I started making an excel spreadsheet just to figure out who was compatible with who, and that's just not fun.

Trigger warning - I talk about inbreeding a lot. It's a game and I don't have any aversion to it in this context.

Non-Royal Line Rules

What I already had written was minimum number of non-royal wolves was 1/4 the number of royal line wolves. Here's the thing: they'll be breeding right alongside the royal lines. I'm not going to get the chance to bring new lines in at this rate, and while yes I do want to inbreed a bit to increase stat totals faster, I also want new blood as well.

So I've changed it to the minimum number of non-royal lines being that number. Lines mean that if they interbreed, they won't be inbreeding (at least as far as my pack's concerned once Enclave pups come into the mix. Where they come from is no business of mine).

Which right now is the big conglomerate that was the "non-canon" pack counting as 1, with NBWs counting as the others.

If I want to bring new blood into the pack faster, it is in my best interest to reduce the number of distinct lines by breeding them together once a non-royal line opportunity shows up. Once they've had their first pups, the official total of distinct lines goes down by one, allowing a new one to be brought into the pack.

While I do have a maximum safe capacity for the pack as a whole, this is a maximum safe capacity, not a maximum total capacity (that is still the slots I have unlocked). New blood must come in if the minimum non-royal lines is not filled.

What Counts as Royal?

Previously, I would chase out full siblings of the leader's mate to make room for new blood and avoid inbreeding too hard.

But now I do have a lot of Runner's (Dale's (RIP) mother) pups around both parts of the pack. What is their status? There are Royal wolves that are nieces, nephews, and cousins of these non-royal wolves.

And the answer is: they're non-royal wolves and are not exempt to anything. In fact, they're pretty high-stat so they're likely to continue forward. Maybe. I don't know. They're not the current non-canon line breeding pair and I don't know when another one will become available. Everything is in such flux right now.

But I'm not going to chase them (outside of RNG chasings) or avoid using them.

Pair Bonding Changes?

So currently, I have it so each wolf is generated at birth to be interested in one of two things (alongside gender preference).

For non-royal wolves, it's royal vs. non-royal wolves.

For royal wolves, it's legacy non-royal wolves vs. NBWs.

Sounds fairly straightforward but it's super annoying to keep track of.

So I'm simplifying it:

Royal wolves will choose a non-royal wolf of the appropriate gender as a pair bond partner. I, being a biased person, will likely choose a high-stat and/or pretty wolf as part of the important pair bonds.

Non-royal pair bonds will be between wolves that are not siblings, parent/child, or other such direct relationships.

Bonus Pic

Moonglow in his new outfit. I'm probably going to have him be Sasha's new mate.

#wolvden

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mikehostilolawfirmmacon · 7 months

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