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mummified-game-review · 2 years

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Rise up my siblings it's time for us again to fight for our future and take back power from the greedy hands of capitalism and fight to protect our future. Now that we are in power we will guide this country to a future where we can have clean air, high paying jobs, and above all else a healthy and prosperous life.

Welcome back to another video here on Mummified Games. I’m Tony and today we are going to be talking about the Political Strategy Simulator, Democratic Socialism Simulator by Molleindustria.

In this game you are a newly elected president who is going to be presented with a series of decisions to make. And it's your job to be either for or against the proposed policy. When a new card shows up in the window you will swipe it towards two different answers. Typically the left will be a “no” while the right will be a “yes” in a roundabout way.

These policies will be taking a lot from our current political climate. I have a strong feeling we’re still going to be dealing with these problems for a lot longer.

Your choices will affect a few things.

The budget, growing the amount of money the government has and being able to spend on projects.

The power the people have. Workers rights and their ability to seize the means of production

Greenhouse gasses and the climate crisis. Passing green energy and renewable sources will help with these things.

And obviously passing or shutting down ideas will affect the voting public. Being able to see how your choices will affect the opinion of the people in the next voting cycle.

And that's one of the main things that you might have to worry about while being president. Passing important things that matter and also making sure that you don't alienate all of the people voting for you.

My first playthrough I didn't even make it to see if I was re-elected. They threw me out just after the midterms.

The next two playthroughs, one on the plane, and the one you’re watching now we’re both successful presidencies. Where the budget was booming, The people had all the power and the climate crisis was on track to be taken care of.

The one thing I wish there was more of in this game was public transportation questions. But there already were a lot of questions and policy changes that were very cathartic to make happen. Things that I wish we were able to change in the real world and not just in a video game.

If only it was as easy as playing this game.

Again this is another game that has a great soundtrack, the chip tune and vocaloid sections were great.

As I said in my last review this was one of two games I took on a 3 and a half hour flight. A game that again I wish I knew before my flight had an average playthrough, tutorial and all, of about a half hour. That's just not enough to hold me over on that flight. No fault of the developer, Just the wrong tool for the wrong job. Wish I knew that ahead of time.

Friends, I just looked at the Store page while writing this review and saw that its only $3 USD. GO GET THIS GAME!

You can live out your fantasy of being a socialist leader of a country and save your people, and then after that play the exact opposite of what makes you feel good. You know, just for kicks. See how far you can really mess up the people in this game.

One of my friends does this all the time. He's a flag waving DemSoc and often plays games once as an idealized version of the world we live in. And then a few times being an absolute authoritative dingus.

For sure you all should give this game a whirl. It's on WIndows, Linux, Android so you can take it with you.

What do you all think of this game? Are there any other political simulator games out there that you like? Let me know in the comments.

In the meantime. Hehehehe my bed is a community supported project if ya know what I mean. Solidarity isn't the only thing that can last forever hehehehehe If ya catch my drift. If anyone wants to come over and seize the means of, no wait, that doesn't work, uhhh lead a revolution under my sheets? I don't know. I thought I had a 3rd joke here. I lost it.

You all do the youtube dance, Like, Sub, Bell, Comment with your thoughts, and tell someone you know about these videos.

And as always friends. Keep Digging, and we’ll make it out sometime.

See you in the next one.

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 10 months

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"Hold on tight." (Part 1/?)

About Youth

My School President

Moonlight Chicken

Work From Heart

Innocent

Nitiman

My Engineer

Never Let Me Go

My favorite bl-tropes collection, as always in no particular order.

#bl tropes #multi bl #multibl.edit #about youth #my school president #moonlight chicken #work from heart #innocent the series #nitiman #my engineer #never let me go #thai bl #taiwanese bl #bl drama #bl series #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit #armsaroundmycrush

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angelsanarchy · 10 months

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One Shot Series Master Post

Stranger Things: Alone Together - Eddie Munson x Dani (OC)

Prt 1 - Prt 2 - Prt 3 - Prt 4 - Prt 5 - Prt 6 - Prt 7 - Prt 8 - Prt 9 - Prt 10 - Prt 11 - Prt 12 - Prt 13 - Prt 14 - Prt 15 - Prt 16 - Prt 17 - Prt 18 - Prt 19 - Prt 20 - Prt 21 - Prt 22 - Prt 23 - Prt 24 - Prt 25 - Prt 26 - Prt 27 (WIP)

Electrick Children: One Long Weekend - Clyde x Y/N

Prt 1 - Prt 2 - Prt 3 - Prt 4 - Prt 5 - Prt 6 - Prt 7 - Prt 8 - Prt 9 - Prt 10 - Prt 11 - Prt 12 - Prt 13 - Prt 14 - Prt 15 - Prt 16 - Prt 17 (COMPLETED)

Jack Goes Home: Glass Houses - Jack Thurlow x Y/N

Lords of Chaos: Alkaline - R!Euronymous x Y/N

Welcome to Willits: Tangerine Skies - Possum x Y/N

Prt 1 - Prt 2 - Prt 3 - Prt 4 - Prt 5 - Prt 6 - Prt 7 - Prt 8 - Prt 9 - Prt 10 (WIP)

#One Shot Series #Multi-fandom #works of fic

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hesthermay · 2 months

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 // 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

PAIRING: sergeant hunter x fem!oc reader

SUMMARY: the assignment of miri rocksled to clone force 99 brought an even higher success rate than the two groups presented on their own; in the times of the clone wars a well working and formidable team was necessary for the republic. but little did they know that the decision would become the biggest thorn in the empire's side. master rocksled had never been like other jedi, and the bad batch had never been like other clones, and as they navigate the end of everything they had known and the beginning of something much darker those traits are put to the test. rules no longer exist, lines are blurred, and forbidden waters are tread as the bad batch fight the great fight for everything they deserve.

RATINGS + WARNINGS: general audiences, mature themes, angst, fluff. female oc, jedi!oc, use of she/her, mentions of death/canon typical violence. found family trope. the bad batch time period, follows the timeline of the show.

NOTES: this one...came to me in a matter of days. miri was born quickly yet she is the moment! tbb makes me feral, i apologize for anything that happens during this period in www.hesthermay.tumblr.com history. again, winging it! love it or hate it, it is who i am

STAR WARS MASTERLIST

-: ✧ status: [ongoing]

SEASON 1

part one

part two

in the works !

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raayllum · 1 year

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TDP and Water Symbolism

With Book 5 all but being confirmed as Ocean, it made me want to take a look back at what water represents in the series in general. Most prominently, of course, for Rayla for obvious reasons, but also where and how water symbolism pops up for some other characters, such as Ezran and Callum, scattered throughout the show.

Water often symbolizes healing and rebirth, rivers with pathways, destiny and drowning (particularly for women, such as Ophelia from Hamlet and the Lady of Shalott) and the Ocean unpredictability, power, chaos, and the depths. The Ocean is also often the site of obsession (Ahab and Moby Dick) as well as desire (siren myths) and the struggle to find your way home (Odysseus). There are some tenets of all of this throughout TDP, but we’ll work our way through as well as discuss the limited specifics of what we know of the Ocean primal from Tales of Xadia and additional information from Callum’s Spellbook.

Water as Reflection

Lujanne: This is the Moon Nexus. It reflects the moon perfectly. When the moon is full, its light completely fills the lake.

This is the one that’s most overtly related to Aaravos, perhaps, as well as in line with Ocean and Moon’s direct connection in show. Water/ice reflects, mirrors reflect, and tether the two together. The characters who are most heavily associated with reflection in this manner are Viren and Callum, of course, with Rayla as well, although Claudia, Soren (with his sword), and Ezran (with his father’s sword and eventual crown) have their moments as well.

Moreover, all of this moments of reflection for Rayla are moments where she feels like she’s failing, or has failed. “I guess I was just afraid of being afraid” / “But you didn’t run. They have it all wrong” “Does it matter?” / “I’m not good enough and I never will be.” While many other characters are tied to reflection as noted above, Rayla (and Ethari and Callum with her) are the only characters we see be reflected by water in this way.

However, there are even more ways water is woven into Rayla’s arc, so let’s talk about it

Water as Fear, Bravery, and Shame

Rayla’s first test as an assassin takes place in the rain, but she is unable to go through with it. This is a ‘failure’ that haunts her even into season four, perhaps best summed up in how she mirrors Runaan in these conversations from 1x01 and 1x08 respectively.

Rayla: The human looked up at me and I saw the fear in his eyes. Runaan: Of course he was afraid! But you had a job to do!

Ezran: Yeah, but then you saw he was scared, and you knew he was a person, just like you. Rayla: That shouldn’t have mattered. I had a job to do.

Rayla’s relationship to fear reaffirms the idea that recognizing personhood - her own or anyone else’s - is also a signifier of weakness (laid out more directly, perhaps, in the S1 novelization), and is incredibly Moonshadow of her: “Moonshadow elves aren’t supposed to show fear, ever.” Which is why Rayla is typically confronted with the water-shame duality when she is trying to either ignore someone else’s personhood, or is having her own erased, best seen with her crossing the river in 1x02 on her way to try and be a proper assassin.

Which is why 1x05 is when the shift between what she’s supposed to be - an assassin - and who she truly is - a hero starts to transform water as only a weakness to a showcasing of bravery.

C: That was brave, Rayla. R: No, I already told you, I’m afraid of water. C: I know. That’s why doing what you did was so heroic. R: Oh... Thanks.

And why the assassin pool bearing the literal symbol of shame - the symbol of her just surviving when it was dictated that she shouldn’t have - is what justifies literally erasing her, and turning her into a Ghost. Which, we’ll return to the pond more later, don’t you worry.

If you’d like more thoughts on Rayla with water in this specific trifecta (+ bonus Callum feels), I’d recommend checking out this old but very worthwhile meta I wrote on the subject a couple months after S3 came out and back before I had a water motif tag (like a fool). Through the Moon adds some layers to this, with Rayla being driven into the portal out of fear, primarily, that Viren is still out there, as well as out of love for her family and Callum. But again more on TTM as well later, because I want to talk about the real kicker, I think, which is

The River As A Symbol of Destiny

This is something that ATLA actually used beforehand (mostly purely as a metaphor) that was then brought more directly to TDP as both a metaphorical and now literal/motif thing.

Destiny? What would a boy know of destiny? If a fish lives its whole life in a river, does it know the river’s destiny? No! Only that it flows on and on, out of his control. He may follow where it flows, but he cannot see the end. He cannot imagine the ocean.

—Avatar: The Last Airbender, 1x15, the Deserter

V: Life is like a river. R: Oh great. That’s exactly what I was afraid of. V: You can’t see too far ahead. I can’t see at all, as I might’ve mentioned before. You don’t know where the river of life will bend and turn. You don’t know where it will go at all. R: How is that supposed to helpful? V: Don’t try to control where the river goes. There’s one thing you can know and control: yourself. Look at yourself. Who are you, Rayla? What do you stand for? Once you know that, then wherever the river takes you, you’ll be right where you were always meant to be.

We see Rayla seemingly answer this question for herself by using something Callum told her as a basis for a new worldview: breaking the cycle. “Saving that dragon doesn’t just feel like the right thing to do, it feels like the right thing for me to do. It’s where I’m meant to be.” However, this is precisely the choice we see her walk back in 4x05.

So the River is tied to Destiny as a concept and having choice and self actualization for what you can control. This is tied, then, to Callum helping to give her a path forward for the choices she wants to make, tethering this to their relationship in general and the importance of giving each other agency.

But this specific connection to the River of Destiny, per se, is imo solidified in Bloodmoon Huntress with these panels.

There’s a few in-universe reasons for this panel/callback, of course. The first is show that Rayla wasn’t always afraid of water and that nearly drowning in BH is what likely created that fear. It’s the first instance in the graphic novel of Rayla’s heroism and loyalty, her desire to protect/save other people before Suroh, a Skywing boy in big trouble, comes barrelling into her life - even if it’s just a tiny Adoraburr who is basically her best friend in an increasingly peerless childhood.

And, of course, at the time of BH’s release, we all assumed this was largely a reference and setup to Rayla’s choice to leave at the end of Through the Moon in order to, in her eyes, ultimately protect him (even at great cost to herself and their happiness together). This is because, of course, Callum is famously her best friend with a big speech in 3x01 all about it: “He’s my friend... My best friend.”

This has taken on an even deeper meaning thanks to season four, though, following Aaravos taking control of Callum, his worry over a path of darkness, and Rayla’s associations with light. Because, of course, there is every implication that Aaravos’ prison is 1) under the water in the Sea of the Castout and 2) that Callum already tends to get swept up in things unintentionally / without thinking.

All of this to say, of course, that Aaravos and his prison are the river that Callum has already been swept up by, symbolized by all of the above as well as the Ocean rune on the Key of Aaravos being displayed at particularly opportune times.

So Rayla, here, is not just speaking of her future desire to protect him in Through the Moon, but not even necessarily to keep from playing into Aaravos’ hands (which is what killing him would do) but to guide him and keep him safe, no matter what it takes. Which reflects the framing of the shots when she arrives: “Then take another path, dummy!” The River of Destiny is fast, but she won’t let him get swept away.

Even if choosing Rayla (and subsequently breaking out of the brainwashing) may not be enough to fully stop Aaravos’ plan (as he still has to get out, after all — this is one river that’s inevitable).

Drowning

Of course, alongside destiny and shame, etc. there is also the dark side to water, re: drowning. We see this most prominently featured for each of the trio, with Ezran almost dying in 1x06, Callum’s dark magic dreams in 2x08, as well as Rayla nearly drowning in both BH and TTM, anchoring her childhood and much of her subsequent present day trauma tied together with a neat little bow, ready to unravel at a moment’s notice.

The fact that Callum’s use of dark magic also ties itself to drowning, directly, when it could’ve been anything (something choking him, perhaps, to hammer home / foreshadow Aaravos’ future grip over him) is also interesting to me, precisely because it ties the two so together. And that, thus far, we haven’t seen this drowning motif extended to anyone outside of the main trio, either.

The fact that both in and outside of the dream scape, Callum smashing the primal stone is what causes him to at first metaphorically, and then literally begin drowning, is particularly apt, symbolism wise. Down to Berto, a winged creature, lifting Villads from the wreckage only for Callum to realize that he is the wing once he has a guiding presence in Sarai. This is a lovely parallel between the boys as well, with Sarai guiding Ezran under the ice in the book one novelization, and makes me think about love as a guiding force through the storm; Sarai for her sons, Rayla on either side of the storm for Callum, and Callum for her in TTM, and how this may be repeated in Book 5, whether it’s Rayla’s parents saving her somehow, Callum, both, or something else entirely.

(It should also be noted that Callum and Rayla mutually save each other in TTM as well. Callum goes in after her when she’s in danger, but loses the phoenix feather to guide them back on the way down. He manages to help Rayla grab it, and then she goes back for him, and they swim out together, toward the light.)

The Ocean Arcanum

(Almost) last but not least I want to talk about the associations given canonically to the Ocean arcanum in the series’ extended material from both the Primal Source quiz, Callum’s Sketchbook, and Tales of Xadia.

Like all rivers flow to the sea, you know everything and everyone is connected. A peaceful soul, you value friendship, love, and family above all else in life. Empathetic and outgoing, you make friends easily, and people are drawn to your personality. In life, you’re willing to go with the flow, and you can adapt to pretty much anything and keep a cool head. You wear your heart on your sleeve, and with love so easily given, betrayal and lies strike you deeply — you are icy and unforgiving only to those who dare strike at your big heart.

Flexibility, Transformation, Flow, Awareness, Navigation, Surface Level V.S. Depth

This is reflected in the magic that Ocean mages wield: dynamic, forceful, reaching everywhere and anywhere, within and without. It can also become surprisingly powerful in rain, giving this primal a powerful synergy with the Sky primal. Ocean magic also includes ice magic, giving mages another powerful offensive and defensive tool.

All of these were released years apart (the primal quiz shortly after S1 in 2018, Callum’s Spellbook after S3 in 2020, and Tales of Xadia in 2021) but they all have similar common threads. There is an emphasis on connection, ice magic, flexibility (change), as well as tantalizing teases regarding the Sky arcanum. And of course as previously touched upon, the Moon famously affects real life tides.

But like, how do we know that this stuff is going to be consistently carried into the show, and it’s not just padding for supplementary material? Well, that’s because It Already Has.

Navigation and Transformation

Are perhaps the most direct ones we’ll see in S5, building upon prior associations with water the show has displayed, particularly in S2. The Ocean is tied to Callum’s journey of discovering sky magic, as he learns the winds from Villads on the ship of the Ruthless, and then later is directed into his own consciousness by a similar manner. He’s learning how to navigate and Villads’ advice to Callum mirrors the exact advice he gives to Rayla about the river, too.

Don’t try to control where the river winds go. There’s one thing you can know and control, yourself your sail.

This is jointly reflected by a con skit performed in 2019 to hype up S3 by Callum and Rayla’s VAs. While again this would be easy to write off, I hesitate to for three reasons: 1) we know thanks to TDP’s production schedule they were already working on S4 at this time, 2) the skit is called Written in the Stars and although silly, some of what is discussed matches up thematically and helped me call the Rayllum “light and darkness” motif months in advance, and 3) there are things from the S4 star chart referenced in the skit, such as Garlaf and his bandolier of skulls, the mama / baby banther, etc and most notably, the South Star, which Callum says:

What about that? Brightest star in the sky. A single point of light. We call it the South Star. Humans used it to navigate, you know, to find their way in the endless darkness of the night.

So it seems pretty clear that Season Five, with Callum and Rayla now getting to navigate their relationship, in addition to water’s ties to Rayla’s emotional state (the surface vs depths reflecting both her and Aaravos’ possible pasts, his watery prison, etc) all being compounded together. Either Aaravos or Rayla (or maybe both of them) will be his South Star in S5. And, in addition to Callum’s Spellbook, this is the only real time navigation is brought up in series, so I’m gonna take it.

Now that that’s ‘settled’, let’s look at Ocean / water as Transformation. This is of course seen in how Callum goes into the water in his dreams in 2x08, but then resurfaces with help from his mother and is reborn in a sense, literally filled with new breath, as he comes to understand the Sky arcanum. We also see this idea of Transformation being tied to the Ocean and Moon arcanums an equal amount in something like Phoe-Phoe, and as well as in TTM in general.

The Moon Arcanum is all about change.

Phoe-Phoe is reborn on the water. The water transforms Rayla’s fear to bravery. Rayla’s talk with Villads helps give her direction as much as he gives it to Callum, each unlocking how they are going to break the cycle; for Rayla, it’s being a protector and defender (even if still at cost to herself, but that’s a meta for another day). For Callum, he becomes a sky primal mage.

Which is to say, if you’ve been keeping track, Sky and Moon are uniquely tethered in series to the Ocean in ways none of the other primals currently seem to be. Sky and Ocean share overlap in spells and associations (drowning, navigation, breath, travel). Ocean and Moon likewise share overlap in association (transformation, reflections, depths, etc). So it would be exceedingly fitting if S5 is when Rayla and Callum end up fully reconciling, given that Ocean seems to, magically, be where Sky and Moon meet halfway. The water and experiences at the Nexus is what broke them apart, so of course water will also be what brings them together.

Water as the Cycle

More generally, due to its varied associations, Water is tied to Life ad Death throughout the series. In some ways, it is probably associated with the Cycle directly as much as Moon is, both tied to inherently cyclical things that may change, but always come back to themselves. TTM makes this connection overt

But it is there in other places as well. An assassin’s flower, placed in a circular pond of water, floats so long as they live and breathe. Rayla leaves and returns, consistently, like the tide, leaving over and over again, but also returning whenever she can (or whenever Callum chases after her to bring her back from the brink).

In a lot of ways, Callum and Rayla both do this to each other, leaving and then returning, always circling back to one another or moving in patterns.

Every time they walk away (die) they also return (live). This element of perpetual ebb and and flow and rebirth is also seen in other characters like Sol Regem, and even indeed the longstanding associations of boats and the underworld in Greek and Egyptian myth in particular, ferrying people to the afterlife (Greek myth a cited inspiration for the series, with the Egyptian mythos more sneakily woven in).

Seen perhaps most prominently in Callum reckoning with his stepfather’s death and reading Harrow’s letter in the belly of Villads’ boat.

Conclusion

Book 5: Ocean is gonna Slap, and I cannot wait, thank you goodnight.

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp rayla #rayllum #tdp callum #water motif #tdp meta #analysis series #analysis #multi #the cycle #parallels #might honestly be some of the most fun i've had working on a meta #bc they surprisingly/unsurprisingly worked their way in #personal fave #every separation is a link #devil and the lovers

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daddyplasmius · 20 days

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i love taking the ghosts out of Danny Phantom. like obviously the ghosts are great but also you can replace them with literally anything & it still works perfectly. Danny got bitten by a werewolf. Danny got bitten by a vampire. Danny was cursed to be a selkie or merperson or dragon. Danny can use forbidden magic. Danny's a demon with a human soul. Danny's gay. & he can't tell his parents because of their views. it doesn't even matter you can put that guy in situations completely unrelated to the original concept & it's still exactly the same because it envelopes the entire idea of "my parents hate what I am" that so many of us have personal experience with & i think it's beautiful to have a show that so easily lets us scream into the void & imagine our favourite little guy also surviving what we did/are

#sorry for making it serious i just love this series so much you cannot possibly understand. or maybe you can #Danny Phantom #i desperately need to finish Black Dog. i want the wolf girlies to have a multi-chapter werewolf au fic so bad #might change the name though cuz i'm working on an original concept based on that fic lol #anyways i love all the ''no ghost'' AUs out there so much. please make more of them fic writers i am begging

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kyouka-supremacy · 2 months

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Mmmhh...

#(Basically rant on my last two posts)#I know I've said it before and sorry for coming off as annoying–#but I really wish we still had a central bsd blog on Tumblr like fy-bungoustraydogs or bsd-central or things of the kind.#I think now everyone rushes to post news first. And although there's merit to it in knowing news as soon as they happen‚#in the long run the death of this kind of central official content ***fan*** blogs is such a huge loss of fandom spaces‚#especially for the archiving purposes they solved. Especially today that T/witter and G/oogle have basically become unusable.#Literally. Literally. I've been doing official content archiving since I was 11 #(because that's the very specific kind of mental illness I have)#and let me tell you that the quality of web search and especially reverse image search only got worse–#in a way that is very evident and noticeable. Which is crazy tbh and not how things should work.#If anyone would like to start a bsd-central kind of blog I'll be the first one to follow.#Actually if anyone actually wants to establish it feel free to contact me and I'll be more than happy to share the resources I have!!!!#It just needs to be something multi-modded for a series of reasons I won't get into right now #I just can't personally do it (not as main admin at least) because that would be modding my FIFTH active bsd blog–#and that's a little too much even for me.#On top of some ethical concerns I have regarding whether it'd be fair for me to mod a fandom central bsd blog–#when I feel like I can't genuinely share the same amount of love for the franchise other fans share #On top of. You know. Getting a degree eventually hopefully.#Then years after the blog has been solidly enstablished and aquired enough credibility it could even open a free donations found to invest–#in buying and scanning and releasing bsd content that hasn't been shared yet like the guidebooks or illustration books or everything else–#for everyone to see...#The dream. (Is realistically never going to happen) (Won't stop me from daydreaming about it every day)#((Still salty I couldn't afford the guidebooks only due to the shipment prices. I *would* have scanned and uploaded them.))#That was a long and idealistic rant. Kyotag out #Edit: *Modding my SIXTH bsd blog #Apparently I mod so many blogs I lost count of them

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tankshaw · 6 months

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title sneak peak for darlin prequel fics i’ll maybe finish

#from what i’m planning they’re all be multi chaptered #around 5 chapters each of 4k words is my goal #(there’s also a related series i also have in the works thats in the same format teehee)#each fic will be a stage in darlin’s life leading up to the moment they go back to washington after the whole quinn thing #:)))

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nyxronomicon · 2 months

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nyx!!! baby hi, how are you today? do you have plans for today? i brought you fresh cut flowers from my garden btw 𓍢ִ໋🌷

omg venecia my love <3 <3 I am putting these beautiful flowers in a vase on my desk omg they smell so nice <3 <3

FUNNY YOU SEND THIS ASK AT THIS MOMENT BTW because i'm literally about to post the next chapter of salvation after getting stuck on it for ages. but since you're here...

the reason I was stuck so long is bc I had gotten an idea for confessional sex w reader and Geto where they needed someone to occupy the other half of the confessional... so Choso was going to cuck in there. This popped into my head when I was writing the last part and I tried so hard to make it work but it was just clunky and ooc so I had to scrap it.

anyway pour one out for the magnum opus of cucking scenes... I might write it later anyway as porn without plot tho lol.

#like if I didn't think that the previous couple of chapters were some of my best work I would care a lot less #and tbh i am kinda trying to get this done so I can work on other stuff without it hanging over my head...#i just also want it to be good and meaningful. it's supposed to be a catharsis #anyway. the rest of my day is dedicated to thinking about divorced detective toji. i'm working on coming up with the case details first #my mistake w the wrio one is i didn't have a case fleshed out #but i kinda want to do true-detective-esque series of divorced detective aus. all of them multi chapter but not necessarily the same series #i just. i love the trope and i love detective stuff and i love a man with regrets and no man has more regrets than a divorced detective #nyx answers #moots <3

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iamanoccasionaldoodler · 2 years

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The idea that Nona the Ninth should have had a different pov is so ludicrous it makes me think these people don't understand storytelling on a very basic level.

"everyone else was doing more interesting things than Nona!" Did you even fucking read Gideon the Ninth. Gideon spends a LARGE portion of that book just swooning over Cytherea and Coronabeth while other characters actually solve the Lyctorhood issue. Harrowhark or Palamedes would be more "interesting" POVs by far, considering they're actually solving the mystery.

But. Like. That's why it's a mystery. The narrative tension of Gideon the Ninth works because Gideon doesn't know what other characters know. If you didn't like Nona as a narrator that's fine (I have no clue what your deal is, but it's fine) but the idea that she's the wrong narrator is simply preposterous. She was the ONLY option. The entire plot of this novel DOES NOT WORK from anyone else's pov.

#ntn spoilers #nona the ninth #yes i am mad about this PLEASE think about the things you say for two fucking seconds PLEASE #i say someone say they wanted kiriona pov... KIRIONA #THATS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BOOK #unless they wanted ntn to suddenly become multi-pov and show us what everyone was up to #which is just not how series generally work #and also STILL why do you want kiriona pov the fact we dont know whats going on inside her brain is A PART OF THE PLOT

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Tadaima Okaeri Set

By Ichikawa Ichi

#welcome home #omegaverse #tadaima okaeri #series #ichikawa ichi #manga #multi work series #shounen ai

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mummified-game-review · 2 years

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Review #59 From Orbit

Okay so you got an RTS right

Okay

And you’ve got to go out and find materials and bring them back to your ship.

Okay

But you’re only given two units Okay

And if they die it's game over and you start all over

So it’s a roguelike and something gets to carry over to the next playthrough right?

Nope.

Oh no!

Welcome back to another video here on Mummified Games. I'm Tony and today we’re going to be talking about the Action Strategy game called From Orbit by Tentacle Head Games... Pah! I love it.

From Orbit is a game where you control two little space explorers in a rocket. Start the game and you land on a fairly randomized planet.

Your goal is to get in, grab all the materials you can, and then get out. If you spend too much time on a planet the creatures get harder and harder to fight. And the only way yuou can upgrade your ship and explorers is to get back into space. So don't dilly dally.

At the start you’re given two units and they can do one of 4 different jobs. Defender, Medic, Engineer, and Harvester.

The Defender is your fighter; they can do damage to other creatures on the surface.

Medic is exactly what it sounds like, they heal others and themselves

Engineer is the class that can build new things or fix damaged things.

And the Harvester is the only one that can harvest the two different materials on a planet.

The class system is fairly simple and you can switch between any of them at any time. Just need to wait a few seconds and then they’re ready to go.

I found that having a Defender walk and explore the map while a medic followed the defender, was the best way to get around. If you ran into trouble the defender could take on the alien creatures and fight. While the medic just constantly healed the other one.

Then if you ran into some materials or if you needed to go fix something. Both explorers could switch jobs and do the task at double speed. Once done back to Fighter and Healer strategy

The two materials you collect are Ore and Crystals. You spend these either building a cannon to give your ship some extra defense, or a harvester that can be placed near a large bunch of materials that would take a while to harvest. Then once back in space, heading over to the store, there are upgrades to a lot of different things. Making the Cannons hit harder or give them more life. Make the 4 classes better at their job. Land mines. Ship attack and defensive upgrades. And then also giving your explorers more health or something else. And also if you make it off planet with just one explorer out of the two you were given at the start, you can recruit another one to join you. Up to a max of two explorers. A good amount of options you can choose from.

Speaking of only having two explorers. You can't recruit more from the store, but what you can do is, when on the map looking at the different planets that are available to land on. The description of what is going on might include a SOS coming from the planet. Once on that planet while wandering around you can rescue the stranded explorer and they will join your crew. Increasing the number of people that walk around. This will obviously help get jobs done faster, when you’re fighting monsters, harvesting, fixing things, or someone REALLY needs some medical help.

The game is fun, and while I was playing it to record the gameplay for this review. I noticed that the soundtrack also was quite nice as well.

This game was one of two new games I tried while on a flight to Philadelphia. I knew I was going on a long flight and I wanted something that I could stay preoccupied on the flight with. Since I can not for the life of me sleep on a plane. As well, I'm experimenting with running Mint Linux on my laptop so This was a good chance to take a look at some games I owned that ran on Linux. Everything worked fine but since I was on a plane and couldn’t hear the game audio very well I wasn’t able to appreciate it that much.

It wasn't half bad, I was flying american air and they had this clip system that one could put their phone or tablet in and watch whatever and not stress about holding onto the device the whole time. But I wanted to use my laptop, so I folded it all the way open flat and placed it on this clip. So the clip was holding my entire laptop, at such a level that the keyboard was behind the headrest but the entire screen was sticking above the seat. Like an LCD meerkat showing everyone behind me what I was playing.

I also had Sky Rogue still on the laptop from the last time I took a trip on a plane. But since it was so far above the seats I didn't think other people would be cool if I played a game about shooting down planes, WHILE FLYING IN A PLANE! So I played this and the next game I'm about to review for most of the 3 and a half hour flight from Phoenix to Philadelphia.

From Orbit alone is not enough to keep me entertained for a cross country flight, should of read the part of the itch store page where it says average play session is “about a half hour” but for those back and forth half hours, hot potatoing between this and another game, it wasn’t bad. It has descent controller support.

I played on the flight with a 360 controller because there was no way I could do it with a keyboard and mouse on a laptop, and I didn't want to even try maybe using my laptop’s touch screen feature with this game. The controller function worked perfectly well. I'm learning that putting the bumpers left and right as Tab controls is a smart move.

Then everything while I was sat down with a keyboard and mouse worked perfectly fine as well. WITH ONE EXCEPTION.

In the game you can change the job of the currently selected explorer with F1, F2, F3, and F4. Not a good idea. These job swaps happen way too often to be relegated to the Function row. They should of been moved to the number rows. That's a lot easier to get to and would’ve made it so much faster to just touch type the change instead of having to mouse over and change the jobs that way.

I should’ve checked the settings and looked to see if that could’ve been remapped. They probably could but I just never got around to it.

From Orbit is a good game. I think its basic design is great and doesn't complicate things by trying to load too much into the game. The monsters all make sense and are interesting to watch come and try to destroy you.

My one major gripe about this game is that it's just one life and that's it. There is no carry over into the next life. You're Not building to unlock anything. I would love to see a growth feature, where every life you gain experience and it helps build you up to something bigger in the next life.

Much like how in Sky Rogue you earned cash to buy better weapons for the next mission. But you also earned experience that let you UNLOCK better weapons and planes and paint jobs.

Not having any progression stuff in this game means that there is no reason for me to keep going with it after this review. AH BEANS But i didn't get to the end and that means I can't add it to my “Finished Games” list on either Itch or Steam. *sigh* oh well.

Anyways, what do you all think about this game? Has anyone else played From Orbit? If you have what was your favorite thing about it. I really liked the Ice worm monster. If you haven't played it, what other games that are similar to this one that you like? Let me know in the comments.

In the meantime. I'm going to go touch down on an unexplored and sometimes hostile world known as My Bed.

You all do the youtube dance, Like, Sub, Bell, Comment with your thoughts, and tell someone you know about these videos.

And as always friends. Keep Digging, and we’ll make it out sometime.

See you in the next one.

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Ari's Diner, let's have a little look inside shall we?

"You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...Been snoopin' 'round my door You ain't nothin' but a hound dog Been snoopin' 'round my door You can wag your tail But I ain't gonna feed you no more..."

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b o n f i r e | twilight; e.call

** all images made by me. prompt credits go to the makers of the lists I used which can be found[ here ] [here] [ here ] [ here ] [ here ] [ here ] [ here ] [here] [here]and [here] - a huge thanks to all the wicked talented creators of these prompt lists. **

𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚗 - 𝚊 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎

↪ summary

--- you attend a bonfire in La Push with Embry Call. Pt 2 of 2.

↪ pairing / fandom

--- female!reader x Embry Call - Twilight.

↪ warnings

--- fluff, kissing, more fluff. guys it's literally just fluff in front of a bonfire. use of a female reader.

↪ taglist, babes

--- my taglist is [here] if you'd like to be on it. @tbmunson listen, if not for you listening / talking to me about this, I never would have thought about writing this... I hope you like it. It took a turn, bestie. It took a turn.

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“Will you relax? She’s going to show up, man.” - it's probably the thousandth time Jared has said it, but the fact remains... Embry is nervous. You said you'd try to make it to the bonfire when he texted and invited you earlier, but lately, you've made yourself scarce and right now, that fact has Embry Call in a bit of a freakout.

“She might not though. She said she’d try to make it.” Embry’s pacing. Things have been weird between the two of you lately and Embry’s at least halfway certain that you’ve avoided him here and there because he came on too strong or something. “Do you think the fire’s big enough? Like… can you see it from a distance?” Embry wonders aloud as Quil and Paul throw up their hands and try not to laugh.

Seth catches sight of you and he waves, breaking into a bright grin. “I told you so, Emb.” Seth nods to you and Embry lets out a breath he didn’t even know he was holding. You’re making your way down the beach and the closer you get to the big bonfire and Embry, the harder your heart beats against your chest. The more your legs turn to jello and the more you tell yourself that you have to at least try to clue him in to your feelings or you’ll lose your mind. But the more you tell yourself that, the more you’re afraid to actually try to do it.

Embry has you in a bear hug before you can even process he’s standing in front of you. His searing warmth and the scent of his cologne and the lingering smoke from the bonfire have you clinging to him and melting into the hug. “Sorry I’m late. The stupid fucking car wouldn’t start.”

“Again?”

“Yes, again. I’m telling you, Christine wasn’t a Plymouth Fury, she was a Ford Mustang in disguise.” you mumble, pouting a little as you hug against Embry for warmth again before you can stop yourself. This, the overwhelming urge to just be close to him, this is the reason you have to tell him how you feel and you have to do it soon.

If you don’t, he’s going to think you hate him because you’ve been avoiding him a little lately.

“How’d you get here then?” he asks, gazing at you in concern.

“Hitchhiked.” you answer, grabbing the bag of marshmallow from Quil Atera and putting three onto a stick to roast over the fire. Embry’s gaping at you as if you have three heads and you shrug. “What? I told you I wanted to come tonight, silly. One way or another. It’s not a big deal.”

“Hitchhiking is dangerous. Jesus. You could’ve just called me.”

“No time. Mom had that idiot over again tonight and I wanted to get out of there.” you answered, laughing softly. “Oh come on, I made it.”

“I’ll take you home.”

“Emb..”

“My mom will understand, alright?”

“Fine, okay.” you smile up at him and you’re migrating close to him all over again before you can stop yourself. He slips his arm around you. He’s starting to relax a little. Maybe Quil and Seth were right. Maybe you were just busy and couldn’t hang out much.

“I.. Can I talk to you, Embry?” you ask the question quietly.

And the anxiety is back again. Embry nods, forces himself to keep a calm face as you grab him by the forearm and drag him over to the treeline up the beach from the bonfire. Out of earshot of the others and he can’t help but think for a few seconds that at least if you’re telling him he came on too strong or something and you can’t be friends anymore, everyone else won’t hear it happen.

You’re pacing in front of him and the pacing is getting to him so he blocks your path, putting his hands on your upper arms as he looks at you. “Just say it.”

“Just say it, he says.” you grumble in frustration, the movements of your head making the lightning bolt earrings move and bob a little. “I wish it was that easy, Embry.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong!” you exclaim, throwing up your hands. You’re ranting about how you’re not supposed to fall in love with, how love is scary and your feelings scare you and falling in love with your best friend is one of those disasters you see in movies and finally, Embry catches on.

And he’s gobsmacked.

You’re in love with him.

You feel the same way.

He stops your pacing yet again and pulls you close. “Hey! Hey, c’mon.. Take a deep breath and look at me, alright?”

You look up at him as your words fall away and you bite your lip. “You can just say it, Emb.”

“Say what?” Embry asks, giving you a puzzled look.

“You’re a nice girl but I’m not into you like that..” you’re fidgeting nervously, shuffling your black combat boots against sand.

“It’d be a lie because I like you too. A lot. I think..” Embry’s words trail off and his hand settles in thick hair at the back of your head as he leans down and pulls your mouth against his, a kiss that’s almost desperate and more than a little clumsy. You process what’s happening and start to deepen the kiss as it smooths out, your hand raising to tug at his jet colored hair. “I think I love you.”

You said it at the same time.

You laugh, you’re relieved. “Oh thank God. I was losing my mind.” you admit sheepishly, hiding your face in your hand. Embry pulls your hand away and asks quietly, “So you were avoiding me.”

“Only because I can’t stop myself from touching you when I’m around you and like… I didn’t want to make things awkward?” you explain quietly.

When Embry hears you say those words, he’s on cloud 9. He’s stunned because he wasn’t expecting this to be the outcome. He pulls you against him and wraps his arms around you, chuckling quietly as your shivering subsides and as the hug breaks, he pulls away to look down at you. “You seriously left the house in that jacket? Here. Take mine. C’mon, let’s get you over to the fire and get you warm, hm?”

You smile and nod, letting Embry drape the jacket around your shoulder. As you make your way over to the bonfire and settle in on the sand, Embry takes a seat behind you, letting you lean back against him as Sam begins to tell the legends of the tribe and even though you don’t say it, you have this feeling as you’re listening, like there’s a very specific reason that Sam is telling the legends tonight, with you present. A time or two, you glance back to steal a look at Embry and smile or wink and every time you do, he squeezes you just a little tighter.

Sam’s stories come to a stop and you grab yourself a handful of marshmallows from the bag, poking them onto the stick you’re using to roast them to a golden brown. As you hold your marshmallows over the flame, Embry cozies up to you.

You’re lost in thought when he mumbles quietly, “What’s on your mind?”

“It’s silly.” you respond as you plop a marshmallow into your mouth and then turn to him, holding out another after blowing on it for him. Embry takes the marshmallow and stares at you a few seconds. “C’mon, just tell me.”

“Okay, alright, fiiine. I’ve just always loved listening to the legends, okay?” you give a dreamy little sigh as you lean in just a little, brushing some hair out of his face. “I mean, think about it… A bond that strong. To be chosen. I’d…” you’re laughing softly and looking down at the way your legs are resting on top of Embry’s thighs. “I just think it’d be nice, ya know? To be chosen like that? I mean, I’m also worried that like.. I mean, what if the imprinter doesn’t want to be attracted to the imprint?”

“It’s a lot to think about.” Embry muses. He can sense that you’re struggling with the concept and every part of him is dying to tell you that you’re his imprint, but he’s not even sure how the hell to go about doing so.

“I, uh… Can I talk to you?” he asks quietly as he tries to stand. You slip off his lap and he scoops you up, letting you ride on his back as he rushes over to the treeline again. Once you two are away from sight and earshot of the others, he’s pacing in front of you and he’s rambling and in the midst of it, you can’t take it anymore so you step in front of him to bring his pacing to a stop. “Deep breaths, Emb. Start again, from the top.”

“You’re not gonna believe this. I’m the one going through it and I still can’t most of the time. Can you like.. Will you close your eyes? I need to show you, not just tell you.”

“Okay?”

You raise a hand and cover your eyes. You can hear the trees nearby rustling and you’re tempted on more than one occasion in the minutes following to peek through your fingers, but something stops you. Then you feel something cold and wet nuzzle against your cheek. You lower your hand and when you see the gigantic wolf standing nearby, you’re gaping. A little afraid at first, so you move away slightly. The wolf steps up to you, nuzzling against you again.

“Embry? Where’d you go? This isn’t funny, Emb!”

The wolf begins to whine and you raise a brow. There’s something more human than animal about the eyes of the wolf.

“Embry? C’mon!”

You start to stand. The wolf begins to shift shapes right in front of you and when you realize what’s happening, you gape in shock.

“Embry?”

“Yeah, I.. This is too weird now.”

He’s starting to walk away but you pull yourself to your feet and take off, stopping him by grabbing hold of his wrist. “It’s not, I just.. Wait.. You’re the.. The wolf is you..”

“Mhm. And I..” the words hang in his throat.

You swallow hard. “What, Embry? What happened?”

“I kinda.. Maybe… sort of… imprinted on you. That day I ran into you in the parking lot? I was uh… I chased your scent.”

You blink in shock. Your mouth drops open as you try to process everything frantically.

“Wait.. I’m.. I’m your imprint? Is that what you’re trying to say?”

He nods.

You take a very shaky breath.

“Don’t think about the wolf, okay? Think about yourself. Do you.. Do you want to be bonded to me like that? I mean, we’re… I’m kind of in love with you but I swear I don’t want you to feel trapped or anything, I don’t, I just…”

Embry stops your pacing and tucks his fingers beneath your chin to make you look him in the eyes. “How about this… We just kind of go with it. I mean, you like me and I like you… Maybe we can just worry about everything else later?”

You smile and nod, taking a deep breath as you relax and melt into him a little. “Yeah. I like that.” and you realize that his hearts about to beat out of his chest, so you look up at him, curious. “Wait.. Did you.. Did you think I was going to demand you break imprint?”

“I was scared, kinda.”

“Nooo.. Nope. I’m not.” you smile softly as you raise up on your toes and grab hold of the front of his shirt, pulling him down into a deep and gentle kiss. “You’re stuck with me, Embry Call.”

“I am, huh?” he laughs into the kiss and deepens it, tugging at your hair, “I kinda like that.”

“Me too.” you giggle.

#embry call #embry call imagine #embry call fanfiction #embry call x fem!reader #embry call x fem!reader imagine #embry call x fem!reader fanfiction #<- safe for everyone. a general tag for all my safe to read works.#-> multi parts - pt 2 of 2. a series tag jsyk #<- female reader - vague description ; half Quileute + female parts #-> fall into fall 2022 writing

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