Whatever this is and whatever it becomes

Musings of a mildly troubled man in his twenties.

[legendarypostzombie]

SWTOR: Female Character Body Types

So I was just making my first female character and umm....

Is it me or there is very little difference between them. Like sure tall, buff check. Tiny one check. Average height check. Then where we had the more 'heavier set' on the male side we got... very slightly curvier for the women.

I mean I've played games long enough to not expect anything when it comes to body presentation in games (or media in general) but guys...I mean come on. This was a very conscious decision. I would say more on it but I'm just really really disappointed.

[legendarypostzombie]

Re : Did Al’etic Seph let Vette (his wife) die on Odessen???

Love the question! So there are two answers because there are two universes. One with all my characters (hereby named the Legacy universe) and the other with just the single character (now referred to as the Solo Universes).

Short answer: 

Yes. In both universes she dies. (In some of my other character’s solo universes she does survive)

Long Answer: 

In the Legacy Universe, my Consular (the Alliance Commander), prioritizes the alliance he has with the Mandalorians and Torian’s future support in keeping the Mandalorians from trying to raid the galaxy once the war is over. 

In the solo universe, Valkorion convinces Al’etic that Torian is a more valuable asset in securing the throne. Al’etic really thought he would save them both, after all he had Valkorion’s power on his side.  (Valkorion’s magnificent act of manipulating Al’etic to ensure he kills Vaylin and his rage blinds him from Valkorians very obvious shenanigans).

In any case, Al’etic goes off the deep end.

Hope that answers your question1

[legendarypostzombie]

The 20s to 30s

Pardon me for a rant post about personal issues but...

That thing about being in your 20s and everyone having an opinion on your life, choices, trajectory and how they made better choices or everything will be better if you just do this *insert advice that worked well in their time because things were different then*. 

I am all for advice. But the moment you try to badger me with advice as if it’s the word of God without even listening to my concerns or just blatantly dismissing them, I will pull away. At some point in every conversation there is a point where this line starts,

“Have you thought about X?” Yes Karen. I have. You bring it up every conversation I have the misfortune of sharing with you. I have told you multiple times why I am not prioritizing route X and you have brought zero to the discussion table. And don’t think I’m unaware that you are constantly giving your sage advice on me taking route X to me, my parents and proclaiming it on every street corner in some inane hope that the subliminal message will take. 

“Have you done Y?” No. Karen. I have not. If I had, you would be the first to know. Maybe (albeit not likely) you would stop badgering me. Let’s not even talk about how anxious I feel about both X and Y because you won’t shut up about them. Frankly, your support feels like some poisonous miasma.

Actually, your support feels like judgement and condescension. But, I cannot even call you out on this because to anyone else it is still sage advice and our culture is one where the word of your elders and tradition ranks far higher than any God or benevolent principle. Lastly, X and Y are not terrible ideas. I want to do X and Y, in my own time and way. It may not be quick enough for you but...

This isn’t about you.  

[legendarypostzombie]

Lana Beniko as Darth Occulus

In my SWTOR universe, Lana is awarded the title of Darth Occulus before being offered a seat on the Dark Council (it is said somewhere in SWTOR canon that she refused it before leaving to start the events of KOTET).

As someone who doesn't like titles, she doesn't use it much.

[memeasaurus-promptus]

Please Reblog This If It’s Okay To:

Send questions about yourself

Ask questions to/about your characters

Ask about your headcanons 

Send questions about your works (fanfics, art, music, RPs, etc) 

Ask about popular ships/headcanons

Ask about plot ideas you’ve had but haven’t acted upon yet (snippets of AUs, a scenario you wish to write/draw but haven’t gotten to yet)

Questions about other ships/headcanons that aren’t as popular or are rarepairs

Questions or comments about favorite tropes, headcanons, characters, foods, weather, or anything else you are okay in answering!

[thenatsdorf]

Bird Wars (via Technohawk)

[legendarypostzombie]

SWTOR: I'm back baby

So unemployment and a continuous lock down have meant that I've had time (in-between bouts depression and self-loathing) to get back into the game. Time to start posting again! My characters have been through so much!

[hoennechidna]

[legendarypostzombie]

@gffa @forcearama This is literally you, the Skywalkers and Maul at any given time.

[legendarypostzombie]

Just learnt how to filter tags

Yes I am a dumbass who didn’t know about this feature until recently and woo boy... has my tumblr experience started to improve. My next gripe is with people who tag unrelated things in their post in order to gain more views or reach a wider audience. 

[legendarypostzombie]

My favourite thing about tumblr

Is the fact that everything I like is kept in it's own separate tag. If I'm feeling down or my feed ain't interesting or I dont want to wade through someone's million other interests or bump into antis dive bombing a tag. In my likes I am guaranteed to find stuff I'll enjoy. And sometimes, I'll check to see if the comment threads in them have updated and some new hilarious content has been added cause some posts circulate over and over

[dilapidatedhearts-blog]

“When Jesus said “Love your enemies,” maybe He even meant those parts of ourselves with which we’re not yet at peace.”

— Gabriel HaMalakh (via hanaflorence)

[mwagneto]

Y'all: ugh I wish fandom content creators would post more 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Also y'all when someone posts fanart/fanfic/edits/etc:

[hpnextgenastrology-deactivated2]

look im not popular in any way when it comes to my content creating and i absolutely understand that more attention makes you feel good about the content you’re putting out but I think that one, depending on other people for your own drive to create content isn’t really okay. also there’s always going to be more likes then reblogs like I don’t know, I don’t think this is something worth complaining about.

[kyojuuros]

The main issue here is that it didn’t used to be this way. At all. And I’m certain a lot of the people who are making a huge issue out of the like to reblog ratio are people who are been here for a while (like myself) and remember the days when reblogs dominated the hell out of likes. 

Up until around 2016 or so, the like to reblog ratio was the total opposite of how it is now. And it applied on posts with fewer notes and posts with a large amount of notes:

You get my point. But over the last few years it has flipped completely:

And, of course, see OP’s screenshot.

It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the posts with more reblogs have an astoundingly higher amount of notes because of increased exposure. Reblogging allows more people to see the content, that’s more people to either continue reblogging or at least give a like. For artists in particular who would benefit from the exposure in terms of commissions and patreon and all of that, this is a huge deal. It can make all the difference. 

Tumblr as a blogging platform was created with the intent to post and share content. It’s not meant to be a consume-only form of social media like Instagram. For fandom blogs in particular, it always boggles me that people don’t share content that they like. Tumblr was appealing for fandom in the first place because of the ability to plaster your blog with amazing things that other people made - this used to be unheard of. For me, it’s like saving something precious so you can always come back to it again. It’s giving the people who follow me something awesome to look at too. Creating and sharing content is the heart of fandom.

People rely primarily on their dash for content. Most people avoid going into tags/searches because of wanky fandom drama. So reblogs are crucial for exposure! Likes are a nice gesture, but they do nothing to help share and promote content. That’s why content creators are frustrated or moving to other platforms, or why they stop making content altogether. Tumblr has its issues, but it’s still one of the best places for exposure due to its reblog function and overall post formatting. It’s discouraging seeing content creators on Tumblr as a concept die off. This site is nothing without them.

We can enjoy making things as much as possible but when we share it and no one cares enough to show it to others, it does make us wonder why we bothered in the first place. And this isn’t a new complaint from content creators. But it has worsened over time as the likes started dominating the reblogs. 

It’s not that we don’t appreciate likes at all, notes are notes. But reblogs equal more notes, which equals more exposure, which equals happy content creators, which equals more content for fandom to consume. It’s a wholly positive chain of events that circles back around. Your reblog could be a deciding factor on whether that content creator chooses to keep contributing or to give up entirely.

Reblogs mean the world to us. They can really brighten our day a whole lot.

[deepspacepirate]

yeah, it’s absolutely a result of cringe culture. the whole atmosphere on tumblr has changed radically. with cancel culture, the constant policing of fandom content, calling everything ‘problematic’, harassing creators for doing literally anything, and unmitigated sense of entitlement to other people’s work, it’s literally impossible to like anything without someone crawling up your ass about it. creators are afraid to create, and consumers are afraid to share.

[molinaesque]

I think it’s also a combination of a lot of things:

- as above states ‘cringe culture’ and ‘cancel culture’ DEFINITELY plays into this and makes people super conscious about what they can reblog fully (without some twat who shames them or for them to lose followers)

- the whole ‘like’ habit is very much adapted from various other social media (a lot of people on tumblr I’ve noticed are super young and are used to this function i.e. facebook, twitter, instagram, etc)

- there are certainly way more people who aren’t creators and only come on to tumblr to either browse like those other sites and give likes and (sadly) either can’t be bothered to or have no incentive to reblog a post (again I’ve noticed this is a recent thing due to people coming into tumblr later and not recognizing the reblog function’s importance (or they honestly just don’t care)

- the search/tag function was never perfect but now it’s even more BROKEN

- the recent policing/flagging of posts earlier this year (ALSO BROKEN) that is dissuading people even more from reblogging/posting things

- and BECAUSE of the recent policing people are dissuaded and so many people have moved to other platforms

- some people are super into keeping to the aesthetics on their blogs (I have a habit of doing this)

Also I’ve noticed most of the people who stay on here have either been a really long time user of tumblr/are content creators who have accumulated and built a solid following/content creators who, popular or otherwise, rely on this platform for exposure and get work/have a lot of mutuals still on here/are willing to adapt to the constant bizarre changes made throughout the years on this hellsite (and the most recent changes are the ones that causes even the most grizzled of tumblr users to move on to other sites or at least to not solely rely on it so imagine those of which who don’t feel like they should even bother because they have no stakes in doing so)/all of the above.

Some people question the importance of the reblog over the like, and have this odd mentality of ‘ohh don’t just do it for the notes, JUST do it for the love’ which is honestly just baffling and screams of ‘hey thanks for making something I’m really into YOU SHOULD DO MORE FOR FREE’ or someone offering you a job and saying ‘oh don’t do it for money do it for EXPOSURE’. To these people let me tell you something:

Reblogs are free. And if you want to talk about EXPOSURE, reblogging a post can do WONDERS. Take it from someone who has gone through the various experiences of going to sleep after hours of work, posts it mostly for fun and for the fandom to enjoy, and then waking up to see that someone in the industry who has influence and power has noticed you. Even better? They’ve decided to hire you for work or to ask if they could spread your work around to people they know!

Reblogs help. Reblogs are important. Reblogs CHANGE lives.

[greencrusader13]

How to Provide Good Feedback

We’re always striving to improve our writing, and as writers we’re often looking to help our fellow craftsmen improve too. Here are some tips to help you provide better feedback and critique!

Be specific. Point out particular lines or moments that you think are informative to your critique. Don’t just say “I liked it” or “I thought it was good.”

Be honest, but polite. Your goal is not to tear someone down or make them feel bad, but to help them improve. That being said, if you only share what you found positive about their writing then you may be depriving them of an invaluable chance to get better.

Keep in mind the target audience. A work you read might not be intended for you, and the writer doesn’t have to change their work to specifically appeal to you. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it doesn’t work within the type of story the author is trying to tell.

Ask the author what they want you to check for. Looking over other people’s stories can feel a little daunting sometimes, and narrowing down the focus can be helpful for both you and the author.

Parse the feedback on what is most helpful for the writer. You don’t want to overwhelm them with too many comments either. 

Have fun with it! Develop a good rapport with the author to make it more of a conversation. I know as a writer I love talking about my writing, and most other writers feel the same. Who knows, you might even make a new friend from it.

Feel free to add to this list with reblogs if there’s anything you think of!

[legendarypostzombie]

SWTOR: Newest update

Is it me or can you flirt with more people now , like Darth Arkous and Kareena in the Shadow of Revan Flashpoints?

[enjolrastic]

To new/discouraged writers:

You don’t have to have 100+ notes on everything you write to have quality writing. Keep writing.

You don’t need to have reviews praising the ground you walk on–you don’t even need readers at all. Keep writing.

You don’t need to come up with the most unheard-of plot lines and most accepted head canons to have quality writing. Keep writing.

And most importantly, you don’t have to have quality writing right now and that’s okay. Keep writing.

We all start somewhere. It takes a lot of courage to post something for complete strangers to read, but keep writing. Keep posting. Keep asking for feedback. Look for people to help you grow. And many years later, you might roll your eyes and feel secondhand embarrassment over your past self’s word choices and character development. But I really hope that when that happens, you then go and pick up a pen or open up a blank document and you keep writing, knowing how far you’ve come and how far you can go.

[legendarypostzombie]

SWTOR Star Forge Players!

Anyone need a healer. I'm looking to learn how to play as a healer on my jedi consular.

Or if you're just looking go through some flashpoints with someone, hmu. I would really like to do some of the more collaborative stuff but somehow I always end up with the more impatient people.