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I will write yandere versions of characters if asked!

I will write NSFW/suggestive imagines, but I am asexual and I do struggle a bit with that kind of subject matter. Don’t be surprised if it takes a while…

That said, if you are a minor, please DO NOT request or read any of my NSFW writing. I recommend filtering (or blacklisting with Tumblr Savior) the NSFW tag.

I will absolutely NOT write about pregnancy in any context. I’ll write about raising a kid, but pregnancy/birth is a trigger for me. Please be considerate.

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Chat, I need to come clean. I... haven't played Deltarune since chapter 2. And I don't know what's going on anymore. Am I missing out on fun times with Lancer? I'll start playing again if there are more Lancer moments. I fear he's kinda my Reason for playing. I also don't really understand why everyone desired Tenna carnally but I don't know anything about him, so. And I'm aroace but ya know. I can't go on without my Son Boy. You must understand.

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No chat I'll just talk about TADC finale all day shit chat you have to be so interested in the shit I have to say about TADC finale fuck dude I just watched it earlier this month fuck evil orbsman chat he fucked over evil big tops is Gangle juice works did the soundtrack this guy who voiced La Buble I don't like dying I can't think of who the fuck voiced Kaufmo All I can think is the guy who voiced La Buble who the fuck voiced Kaufmo

ARIN HANSON

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The best creepypastas I can recommend are the duxbury chronicles (a series of cool, distinct, and connected stories), Ubloo (sleep demon or something), and Joondalup (the thing that only walks backwards)

🫡 I'll look into those, although I'm kind of looking more for the goofy stuff that could benefit from a makeover. The only exception will be sonic.exe, since plenty of people have beaten me to the punch on that one, what with Lord X and Rewrite and all of the other interpretations of that particular story. I'm not really sure there's anything unique I could bring to the table there.

I will accept suggestions for good reads, too, though. 🙂

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I was never really a creepypasta enthusiast back in the heyday of creepypastas, aside from becoming aware of the Slenderman urban legend through Slender: The Eight Pages, but I have recently kind of gotten into them, and I especially really like people reworking them into more effective horror stories rather than just "and then hyper-realistic blood, eyes, screaming, and a doll appeared out of thin air behind me, and I'm somehow writing this from beyond the grave, and I was Roger."

Anyway, it got me imagining a Jeff the Killer rewrite that's more grounded in reality, and I kind of like the angle of him still being an edgy, disillusioned teen in a small town who evolves into a probably still edgy and kind of pretentious killer, but maybe with the twist that he's really into Jack the Ripper. Like, when I was in middle school I had a weird fascination with the 1920s and mafia stuff from that time period, so I'm picturing something like that, but obviously it goes much farther than just an interest in crime during a very specific decade. I feel like there are a lot of ways to make Jeff feel more human, and part of what I found sort of disappointing about the creepypasta was it just seemed to want to check off boxes on a checklist, like "there has to be a moment where he puts together his iconic outfit," but it doesn't feel like the author was confident enough to really put their own spin on things, like they were afraid to deviate too much from the inspiration.

Would you be interested if I were to attempt writing a re-imagining of the Jeff the Killer creepypasta?

I'd read it.

I wouldn't read it.

I might read it.

I'll only read it if you also include some artwork to go along with it.

You should rewrite some other creepypasta instead. (Tell me in the replies?)

Button for Ash.

Voting ended onJul 4

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I tried to explain Cameo to my dad and he thought it was an AI voice theft thing like elevenlabs 😭

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So, TADC finale!

I was a bit worried, since I was seeing that a few people online were disappointed by it, but I think it tied up most of its loose ends pretty well. It didn't exceed my expectations, but it met them just fine.

I kind of wish Jax hadn't abstracted. I feel like this sort of robbed her of an opportunity to truly be herself and potentially be forgiven by the others. She didn't really reconcile with anyone but Pomni. We gain a better understanding of what drove her to be the way she was, but she never got the opportunity to make amends or even be herself around the others without shame. This isn't necessarily a bad thing in terms of storytelling, since this kind of thing happens in real-life, too, but I'm sad she didn't really get the happy ending everyone else got.

I also feel like everyone's reactions to her abstracting were muted in a way that made sense for Gangle, and maybe Zooble, but not anyone else. I know there wasn't really anything they could do, but they didn't seem to care as much as I feel like they should have.

I love Caine, and I'm glad he wasn't banished forever, but I'm kind of pissed that all it took for him to come to his senses was just to do a little brain surgery on himself and that was that. Like, he angsts in the void for a while before that moment, and presumably that lasts a while for him, but it's only a few moments from the perspective of the audience, so to me it just felt like he went to time-out for five minutes, popped a pimple, and then all was forgiven. And yeah, he's an AI, so it could feasibly work that way, but I sort of felt like he could have done more to redeem himself. "Sorry I tortured you, but I found your Instagram pages and now I feel bad," just wouldn't cut it for me.

Also, when we learn that Jax may or may not have killed her mom, and it cuts to the silhouette of the mom on the floor with Jax's big cartoon glove hand, it really took every ounce of strength in me not to laugh out loud in the theater. The same thing nearly happened a second time when it was Pomni instead of Jax's mom. It's just funny to me, I don't know. Jax's goofy Minnie Mouse glove is a deadly weapon. I understand this is probably to illustrate the internalized misogyny and how Jax has this tendency to lash out at other women because of her insecurity about her own gender, but the imagery just made me giggle. Sorry.

Aside from those things, I enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to, though. I think it might be that the series up until now was setting up a lot of these moments, but the finale itself only had an hour to knock down those dominoes it had set up for itself. So it had to kind of rapid-fire through everything, and not all of it got the attention I was hoping for. If TADC had been just a little longer, and some of these moments resolved before the finale, I think I'd be happier with it.

I mean, what about the whole thing with Gangle being hit by a truck? What about Scratch's tumor? Was that the purpose of the AI C&A were developing? I mean, yes, obviously, but there seemed to be so much mystery surrounding C&A, like it was seemingly abandoned and I was imagining that everyone in the circus had died either prior to having their mind files uploaded, or during the process of having their mind files uploaded and it just. Did not go in that direction at all. So now I'm left questioning if that was ever the implication, or if I just read way too much into it. I mean, clearly everyone is alive outside the circus, but that just leaves the whole thing with Gangle totally up in the air. Was she hit by a truck but lived? Probably, but I feel like that never got explored in depth, even though there were several moments that played it up like it would be much more significant than it ultimately ended up being.

So, yeah. I liked it, but I didn't love it.

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I took my dad with me to see TADC's finale in theaters, and prior to this he's only seen like three minutes of the pilot, so here's his spoiler free review:

"Jax is a dickhead."

[When I asked if he had a favorite character.] "I liked the froggy."

"It was really emo."

I'll also say it was really fun to be in a theater so full of people who all reacted so enthusiastically to everything. We were all gasping, crying, laughing, and just going wild.

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Chat, I did not escape the TADC episode 9 spoilers 😭

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You know, I'm curious now. When someone in TADC abstracts, is the big red X that appears over the portrait on their door something that happens automatically? Does Caine do it? Do the non-abstracted circus members do it? Speaking of their rooms, I'm guessing those are made in generally the same way as their avatars, but I noticed that Kaufmo's room still existed after abstracting. Do you think the interiors of the rooms are deleted or something once the inhabitants abstract? If that's the case, it must only happen when Caine becomes aware of the abstraction, because obviously it didn't happen right away with Kaufmo, and Caine has said before that he prefers not to leave things running without any purpose (understandably, as I'm sure it's a strain on his hardware). But then, keeping the doors around if they lead nowhere is a bit silly, too. Unless maybe it's something he does for sentimental reasons.

Anyway, I'm definitely overthinking things. I refuse to go look at the episode 9 leak, btw, I'm gonna be a good noodle and wait for the official release.

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I personally really need there to be a term in the fandom lexicon that describes the thing some authors occasionally do where they don't have a solid, concrete backstory laid out when they publish their first work, but when they unexpectedly gain a fandom, they start pulling lore nuggets out of thin air and retroactively changing things, until they've gone through so many iterations of the story and rehashed all of the major plot moments so many times that their story is a tangled spaghetti mess and they may as well have never even bothered in the first place. And I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to go into a project with some ideas only half-finished, sometimes winging it can be really fun and engaging for the audience, but I've seen it happen enough times now where I feel like it needs a name if it doesn't already have one. If there's not a name yet, I guess it's up to me to think of one, but I can't really think of anything creative. The best I've got is "plot ouroboros."

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I've been enjoying Tomodachi Life LTD but I made a nonbinary green alien person just for funsies and somehow the mii I made of myself is now married to them. I'm not complaining I just didn't expect it to happen. The island is already level 107.

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Rly having a "two nickels" moment with ASMRtists who I liked that ended up in controversy for being terrible people while I wasn't looking.

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Does anyone by any chance have like a reference or a guide that could help me come up with some convincing names of angels? I don't feel like just slapping "-iel" or "-ael" onto the end of some randomly selected handful of letters, because I highly doubt that would make anything with real meaning behind it. The idea of potentially having to learn both some Rabbinical and some modern Hebrew from absolute zero with no prior knowledge at all is intimidating to say the least. Not that it isn't a worthwhile pursuit, of course, but it's definitely a daunting prospect as a complete beginner. I'm also pretty sure it'd be total nonsense to mash "-iel" or "-ael" onto a modern Hebrew word.

In addition to the names like Gabriel, Michael, Zotiel, Selaphiel, and so on, I've also noticed the "-on" pattern in names like in Metatron, Sandalphon and Zephon. There's so much. :')

I'm beyond out of my depth here, chat. Please throw me a bone if you've got anything that might help. All I was able to find through Google was a 2009 forum thread that didn't really have much of substance, and a bunch of name generators that do the very thing I'm trying to avoid doing.

If you're interested in what I'm up to, I have a couple ideas in mind. One of them is that I'm considering doing something of my own take on the AI travesty that is Angel Engine. The other idea is just me needing a name for an angelic OC.

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Does anyone by any chance have like a reference or a guide that could help me come up with some convincing names of angels? I don't feel like just slapping "-iel" or "-ael" onto the end of some randomly selected handful of letters, because I highly doubt that would make anything with real meaning behind it. The idea of potentially having to learn both some Rabbinical and some modern Hebrew from absolute zero with no prior knowledge at all is intimidating to say the least. Not that it isn't a worthwhile pursuit, of course, but it's definitely a daunting prospect as a complete beginner. I'm also pretty sure it'd be total nonsense to mash "-iel" or "-ael" onto a modern Hebrew word.

In addition to the names like Gabriel, Michael, Zotiel, Selaphiel, and so on, I've also noticed the "-on" pattern in names like in Metatron, Sandalphon and Zephon. There's so much. :')

I'm beyond out of my depth here, chat. Please throw me a bone if you've got anything that might help. All I was able to find through Google was a 2009 forum thread that didn't really have much of substance, and a bunch of name generators that do the very thing I'm trying to avoid doing.

If you're interested in what I'm up to, I have a couple ideas in mind. One of them is that I'm considering doing something of my own take on the AI travesty that is Angel Engine. The other idea is just me needing a name for an angelic OC.

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Explanations of stuff under the cut:

The only one who isn't an NPC is Mac. It's probably obvious, but Lucky is based on Sayori's plush cow in her bedroom, Hello Kitty, and a Sylvanian Families/Calico Critters figure, and Nibbles is based on Littlest Pet Shop cats (there was one specifically I referenced that had the same swooped bang, which I incorporated into Nibbles' design since Natsuki also has that). Less obviously, Desiree is based on some little glow-in-the-dark resin ghosts I got last year, and Ame is based loosely on the Kyoto area of LSD: Dream Emulator. I felt like Ame/Monika being a kitsune was fitting because of the legends about them shape-shifting into human ladies to marry people or repay kindness, and how that kind of is reflected in Monika's being a game character who desperately wants to be human and feels like the player saved her life by showing her the real world. I thought about naming her Tenkiame, but that felt too on the nose.

Lucky, Desiree, and Nibbles are all named after words that are in their respective poetry preference lists (lucky, desire, nibble), and Mac is just the first name I thought of when I was like "how could I make MC into a name?"

If I had any sort of idea of what I was doing, I would have made a 3D model of Ame that's low-poly like in LSD: Dream Emulator, but alas. I also think there's sort of an implication that the Digital Circus is low-poly like that from an outsider's perspective, but not when you've entered it. Although, I like to imagine Ame as being a less polished NPC compared to the others.

As I was trying to design Ame, I was first trying to make her like a techno kitsune with an IBM computer monitor for a head, and I was going to make her basically the equivalent of Caine, but I was really struggling with that stylistically. I think it could have worked, but I decided to just make her an NPC instead.

(And if you're curious about the slight grainy texture of the images, that's just web glaze/AI image disturbance. Basically, it makes my art harder to train AI image generators on.)

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Who would be most at home in the digital circus?

Monika

Kinito

They'd be equally suited to the circus.

They'd both abstract after the same amount of time.

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Additionally, do you think either Monika or Kinito would have the technical capabilities to overpower Caine and take over the circus? Monika probably has the advantage there, having been coded into existence much later than Caine and Kinito, but maybe that'd actually work against her for hardware reasons.