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#2 - Metal Dawn: "Rustbane".
"Excepts from the Travel Diaries of Hammoth Mann" is a series of carefully crafted, voice-acted horror stories, set in a sickly but beautiful world traversed by our protagonists — a half-dwarf noble Hammoth Mann, and his loyal companion.
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Metal Dawn: "Unicorns"
An Excerpt from the Travel Diaries of Hammoth Mann.
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And in this labyrinth, where night is blind…
I found this post sitting in my tumblr dash for almost five years at this point. I decided to publish it because I think it should be out there.
I'll most likely start new blogs for each of my consecutive projects, including Opera Ghost's Love Story, which I'm still planning to make once I have more free time (yes, earlier it was Bachelor's and Master's, now it's a PhD and a teaching job which is a requirement for PhD. I think the fact that six eyars later I still wanna develop OGLS is a pretty good indicator I will do it at some point, once I figure out how).
Stamina Overlook's Comprehensive List of Sources: Persia
In this post, I will be listing all of the sources that I have actively used during the development of my game. This list is comprehensive, but not exhaustive. Additions are welcomed.
iranicaonline.com - This is a magnificent website. Specifically, most frequently I have visited the "Courts and Courtiers" page.
ottoman-uniforms.com - The "1807 till 1885 Qajar era uniforms" page. is where I took the design of the guards' uniforms from.
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar's wikipedia page.
Jeyran, Forough ol-Saltaneh's wikipedia page.
"Qajar pages" - a treasury of a website when it comes to Qajar dynasty. It is there where I have discovered the name of Jayran, Forough ol-Saltaneh, and started my research. Specifically, it all started with Naser al-Din's entry.
"Qajar royal succession: the case of Muzaffar al-din Mirza" - This is a dissertation that describes the royal intrigues and the court rivalry that the prince Muzaffar al-din Mirza had to go through before he could become the Crown Prince, and, subsequenty, the next Shah after his father, Naser al-Din. The chapter that interested me the most was Jayran's chapter, which starts on page 120 (titled "The Third Heir Apparent: Amir Muhammad Qasim Mirza").
Mazandaran Province - wikipedia page.
Behshahr, a city in Mazandaran - wikipedia page. And google for pictures.
Safi Abad Palace in Behshahr. It is where I have decided the very first few scenes of the game will have gone.
Abbas Abad Historical Complex in Behshahr.
"Artisans and Guild life in the later Safavid period" - a gold mine when it comes to who our Daroga actually was and what position he had.
“Golestan Palace 360 View” - 360 view of various corners of the Golestan Palace in Tehran.
Golestan Palace on Google Maps - it’s the new building, but is still priceless inspiration.
A happy Erik
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
The Music of the Night Returns in 2024! My new WebToons Originals series reimagines Susan Kay's cultural juggernaut "Phantom", based on the gothic romance The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
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The Commune in Kay
I finished Susan Kay’s Phantom just a few months ago. I wanted to highlight Kay’s interpretation of Erik’s Commune experience as there is a lot I think she got right. And a lot she didn’t.
I agree with Kay that Erik must have been in Paris at the time of the 1871 Paris Commune as the Palais Garnier was nearly a completed structure by this time. If Erik worked on the foundations, he must have been there from the beginning, in 1861. Kay writes that Erik is already living in the cellar when the Commune began. It made the perfect hideout.
But I disagree with Kay that Erik would have stayed hidden for the entirety of the Commune. I think at the very least he would have come out to watch the fires at the end. I think Erik delights in chaos - which is why he is always creating it. I don’t think he would have cared about the Commune politically, but I think he would have been very much interested in the arson.
Does Erik have a political worldview? For all the references to the Commune and anarchy that Leroux slipped into his character, Erik doesn’t seem to stand for anything other than himself. Or rather, he represents so much as to be a mess of a character. Leroux associates him with the Commune and with anarchic terrorism (the chandelier, the threat to explode the Opera) yet what Erik seems to desire most is to be part of the bourgeoisie. He crashes a fancy dinner party, he decorates his home with care, he yearns to be seen walking in the park with a pretty wife. These are not the desires of an anarchist. He is everything at once and therefore completely mysterious. Kay’s Erik’s singular focus seems to be his own internal angst. It makes sense that Kerik pretty much ignores the Commune. Except for that one Communard he kills in the cellar.
Kay didn’t seem to do as much research on the Commune chapters as she did for some of the other sections of her novel. Although, at the time she wrote her story research was much harder; she didn’t have the luxury of the internet and Google translate. But it’s clear she didn’t find this topic interesting or important to her story. See the above excerpt. The Commune didn’t surrender. It was defeated, massacred. Many many people died. I can’t imagine that anyone was over the horror of it in a mere month. The city itself had suffered physical trauma that would take years to rebuild. But Kay moves her story forward quickly. Erik has a soprano to meet.
Me? Drawing characters with dynamic poses and an elaborate background? More likely than you might expect!
Metal Down is a 1920-esque, noire steampunk campaign i am playing with some friends of mine and i'm loving it. So i deci to make a poster for it.
Hello hehe I am the Dungeon Mistress for this and I am laughing very evilly each time when I'm preparing for the sessions 😈
This art is absolutely wonderful 😊I marvel at it each time I see it! 🥺💖 You're so talented, dear friend, I swear to god
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If you had to recommend some fics to an E/C fan new to the fandom, what would they be? Asking for a friend (but like, literally). :)
For beginners, this list is post-canon, multi chapter completed fics. I have a lot of other favorites that are AUs, or short stories, or in-progress, but I think these are a good place to start.
The big ones I think every phan should read:
Fraternite by Gondolier Something sinister is stalking Christine, and only one man can save her. As they uncover deadly secrets taken to the grave, they find that the greatest mystery of all is the human heart. A tale of intrigue, love, and redemption. (Mostly ALW-based, my personal all-time fave)
Mingled Tears by bwayphantomrose Leroux-based. Christine realizes what it's really like to be Erik's wife. Slowly, she learns that in order to unlock his heart, she must first unlock hers. Her perspective as his living bride.
Unsung by Wheel of Fish Christine Daaé has spent eight months imagining what she might say to the Opera Ghost if she ever saw him again. Now he is here in her flat, quite by accident, and the fact of the matter is she can no longer speak. (Yes Fish, it Really is That Good)
Voliee by Veronique Claire Down Once More: the extended, modern-day, jet set remix. Gunshot wounds, fast cars, first class flights, FBI in pursuit - but it's the quiet moments, the conversations, that leave Christine shaken. Hurtling towards her inevitable decision. (ALW-based, Modern AU, but it's so good I HAD to include it.)
I really really want to include more, but I'm trying to keep this list short and sweet for beginners.
Krita has a free plugin that provides the same functionality as Adobe Photoshop's Firefly AI.
The new tool has plenty of use cases and is a great example of generative AI being a helpful tool for designers and artists, not their replacement. I'm using it to fill in textures in sketches, adjust photos, generate palettes. No strings attached, no subscription needed. Just 10+ GB of Stable Diffusion data on your hard drive, for free, forever.
Download it from here. Don't pay unneeded, unethically priced subscriptions to a company who says "buying isn't owning" and then squeezes the last penny out of you for tools that you can get elsewhere for free.
Doodle i made at work because i was super bored
i call upon the fans of A Darker Shade of Magic
From left to right:
Alucard Emery , Rhy Maresh, Holland, Delilah "Lila" Bard, Kell
are you ever like damn why is literally everyone else scared of openly communicating and being direct and truthful and honest
i'm kind of bored of subliminal messaging or vaguing or being anything but truthful and blunt and forthright. every miscommunication that has ever befallen me is a result of jumping to conclusions or not giving the benefit of the doubt or just not being open to hearing the other side. i am so bored. i just want communication. i want straightforwardness. i want here is why i'm bothered. here are the facts. here's what i think. now tell me your side. let's talk about this. let's start a dialogue. there's no reason for either of us to be guessing. languages were meticulously crafted over the years for a reason. so let's use them! let's talk! let's communicate!
btw you can be straightforward AND kind. i'm not sure why people seem to think it's one way or the other. either way a lot of people need to not only internalize this mentality but practice it bc i feel like so many people are willing to BURN BRIDGES ??? rather than just communicate and be honest. and some people don't communicate and end up fostering resentment and bitterness and dislike for the other person that cause them to snap out of nowhere and the other person is like ?? bc guess what. it was NEVER commuicated
“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain
Certified Library Post
the spooky mystery skeleton with his spooky mystery machines is still living rent-free in my heart after all these years <3
