Miss Ragdoll

Ninette Ragdoll / an eclectic mess / Shawol / Otome / Cheritz peach / Butai trainwreck / Sherlocked / Deep into the Hiddleston problem / fanfiction part-time writer / enfj / art by tofuvi.tumblr.com and star-plasma.tumblr.com

[missragdoll]

tumblr going at it again dont you love it

yeah so, go to Settings, tap on your Blog or Blogs, then go to Blog Settings and then go to Visibility and enable this bc Tumblr is selling our info to train AI ((((((((((((:

[nakakabaliw]

Don't Stop Talking About It. Don't Look Away. They're Still Here. They will be Free.

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

The Soul Stone War 3 Demo Updated!

Hey, guys!

THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME!! The public demo has been updated with new content! Learning about Morkai and Straasa’s past who?!?!?!?!

LEMME KNOW WHAT YOU ALL THINK ONCE YOU PLAY IT, AND IF YOU’RE FEELING MURDEROUS, REMEMBER THAT THIS IS A SAFE SPACE AND YOU CAN UNLEASH THE FURY AS NEEDED 🤣

Love yall! Cheers!

https://dashingdon.com/play/morgan-vane/the-soul-stone-war-3/mygame/

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Also, if you can’t wait for more, my Ko-Fi features early access for TSSW 3 as well as Beyond the Mist!

The early access has the end of Chapter 2 for TSSW3, and it maaaaaaaaay feature Manerkol!

And it also maaaaaaaaaay HAVE HIM SAY SOME THINGS THAT WILL MAKE ALL MANNY LOVERS EITHER SQUEAL IN DELIGHT OR FAINT MWAHAHAHA!

You can find the early access content here at the 16€ tier :)

https://ko-fi.com/intimidatingpuffinstudios

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

THE PUBLIC DEMO HAS BEEN UPDATED TODAY! TIME TO GET YOUR MANERKOL FIX, VAMPIRE LOVERS!

The Early Access Build on Ko-Fi has also been updated! The plot is moving along???? Omg 😱😂

You can find the early access content here at the 16€ tier :)

https://ko-fi.com/intimidatingpuffinstudios

Cheers!

P.S: I would love to hear your thoughts and/or any feedback you guys have about the new content!

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

THE PUBLIC DEMO HAS BEEN UPDATED TODAY! 

The Early Access Build on Ko-Fi has also been updated! Who wants some more character development and companion interactions?!

You can find the early access content here at the 16€ tier :)

https://ko-fi.com/intimidatingpuffinstudios

Cheers!

P.S: I would love to hear your thoughts and/or any feedback you guys have about the new content!

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Hey, everyone! The Early Access Build on Ko-Fi has been updated! Time to learn the full story behind Morkai and Straasa’s exile ohohoho! 🤩

You can find the early access content here at the 16€ tier :)

Support Intimidating Puffin Studios on Ko-fi! ❤️

Support Intimidating Puffin Studios On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

Cheers!

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Hey, guys!

Both the early access build and the public demo have been updated! The public demo gets the full backstory for Morkai and Straasa.

And as for the early access…what secrets can the MC sniff out about the mysterious Resistance? And WHAT revelations hit them out of the blue?

Time to find out!

You can find the early access content here at the 16€ tier :)

Cheers!

[v-ahavta]

hey y’all, if you’re looking to do something to support palestinians as the current conflict breaks out, and if you can, please donate to any of the orgs linked here:

Trusted organizations to donate to Palestine - BuildPalestine

We’re overwhelmed with all the messages of solidarity and support we’ve been receiving from friends all over the world. Several of you reach

[yuzu-all-the-way]

|| AERA 2023 behind the scenes

[vickisigh]

all hail the void blobs of this world and shoutout to my cat

[penandinkprincess]

i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away 

there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you. 

[sindri42]

There’s been several times when I’ve watched a thing and been like, they clearly did what they intended to do, and did it well, and I don’t want any part of it. This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art.

[queenclaudiabrown]

“This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art” is a wonderful line, I love it, I feel it in my soul

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

too good a take to be left in the tags

[obstinaterixatrix]

Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: “It’s beautiful but I don’t like it.” And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it meant to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?

- Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write

[seraphinitegames]

The Wayhaven Chronicles - Update 25/August/2023

(So sorry I forgot to post this last week) So this week I did a bit more fleshing out to the scenes I wanted to go back to before the next step.

One particular scene was good fun! I got to build out an…interesting conversation between a certain character and the villain (I’m calling them full villain now rather than antagonist because, well, they are pretty darn bad, hehe!). The moment gives the player a deeper insight into how the villain thinks—or likes to portray that they think!—and about why it is they’re doing what they’re doing.

It’s really fun getting to explore how these things happening are viewed by different characters!

Some of the other scenes I looked at again are some quite big moments in the romances too. Some things really can push forwards with those, and the scenes are ones I’ve been thinking of for a very, very long time! So I want to make sure they still work with all the new ideas I’ve been adding into the plan—so far they have so that’s a major happy relief!

Next week, I’ll be moving onto the next step and printing out the plan to begin breaking it down into more detail.

My hopes are having the plan so super detailed means that writing will go smoother, and I can get it done a lot quicker. I can already see that the way I’m setting out the chapters and the individual scenes is going to be WAY better to organize in my head as well as on paper!

But the next stage is also where I’ll be thinking of how to add in the storyline I’d been umming and ahhing about that I now really want to do…

A villain romance! :D

This isn’t 100% for sure yet, and it won’t take away from the main romances (which are always my priority) at all as it will only be available in the ‘Friend’ route where the MC isn’t romancing anyone.

It also will be a villain romance. And this baddy is bad. Like, pretty much non-redeemable kind of bad. So obviously…that’ll be personal preference as to whether it’s right for you, hehe!

The only reason I’ve been contemplating it is because this villain only pops up for Book Four, so I don’t have to worry about extra branches and variations for future books, which means it won’t be adding too much workload.

Plus they are just…yeah, I really like them even though they’re awful, lol! And the way they go about interacting with the MC already opens up the easy possibility of a romance.

So some exciting things this week, and I’m really eager to get onto the next stage to put me another step closer to starting writing! :D Hope you all have the most fantastic weekend! It's a bank holiday here on Monday in the UK, so I'll talk to you all again next week!

[ataleofcrowns]

New Chapter Released!

Hello again! Hope your summer has gone well ☀️

With the public release of this new chapter, the romances are starting to intersect and interact with the main plot:

Unique paths for each love interest, encompassing a completely different plot event that the Crown will have to deal with

D and X's routes heavily involve the Imperial Court, where the Crown's previous choices on court positions will be first illustrated in the story

Meanwhile, R and A have unique events happening regarding some concerning magic that has left R in trouble, and an investigation that has lead A astray

Each route will force the Crown to make an important decision that will be remembered by their love interest. If you pick a bad choice here, even if you get a good romance later on, your love interest will remember it...

An additional note on this chapter: due to its sheer size and variability, I didn't have a chance to send it to my beta readers on time, so you may find more errors/bugs in it than what you're used to from me. Please report them in this Google Form or in the Discord server if possible!

Thank you for all your patience and support, I hope you enjoy the new chapter ✨

For those that are unfamiliar with the game

A Tale of Crowns is a high fantasy romance story, told in the form of a text-based interactive novel with choice mechanics. The setting is inspired by Kurdish culture as well as other historical settings in the Middle East such as Ancient Persia, but it also draws heavily from other cultures and countries in the region.

Your character is native to Arsur, a vast empire overseen by a single ruler known as the Crown. Unlike traditional monarchies, however, the title is not inherited through blood. Whenever the Crown dies, their famed golden eyes pass on to the one chosen by the Spirits of this world to be the new Crown. In this story, your MC takes on that role.

There are four different love interests to choose from, whose genders will be customized to suit the preferences of your Crown. You can find more info about them on the blog page!

Also note that this current version of the game is safe for those 16 years and older.

Like the premise so far? Play it and give it a try! The entire game is free!

If you enjoyed the game, please reblog! Share it with your friends! Recognition and reader interaction is just about the only thing I get in return for creating it ❤️

[missragdoll]

[ataleofcrowns]

Don't wanna write an ex love interest? Go off, not sure why you have to imply other authors are lazy for it. I get having that energy for clearly entitled asks, but a fan wanting to see a trope they like? God forbid you not make them feel stupid for asking

Tumblr dot com users don't invent things I never said challenge, failed yet again.

I never said writing an ex is inherently bad. I said in my personal experience as a writer who critically reads the works of other writers, more often than not, the trope is used as a shortcut to invent drama for no other reason than to manufacture cheap conflict. That is quite literally what the anon was asking for, for me to invent more drama by introducing an otherwise pointless ex lover.

If you enjoy that trope, good for you. There's plenty of media I consume that I can also recognize is lacking in quality. Your personal enjoyment of a trope doesn't suddenly make it not bad writing. It IS bad writing, and it IS lazy, period.

This isn't even touching on the way it can glorify unhealthy views of how adult relationships are supposed to work, in the way I've often seen it been used. I'm sorry to tell you this, but being upset that your partner dated other people in the past is irrational at best and toxic at worst. A story that uses this subplot as an "omg don't you LOVE how possessive and stalkerish your love interest is for your MC" is poorly written smut.

If you as a writer utilize the trope in such a way where it has actual depth and purpose in a story, or you as a reader have enjoyed this trope in a way where it was written well, then there's no reason for you to get personally offended when that post clearly wasn't talking about you.

Then again, a hit dog will holler 🤷‍♀️

[missragdoll]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[vickisigh]

hey! wanna hang out? :-) ☆⋆｡𖦹°‧★

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[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

TSSW 3 content update coming soon ;)

[forevershiningshinee]

[Official] SHINee - ‘HARD’ Teaser Image #2 230616 (10P)

SHINee

Onew

Key

Minho

Taemin

Credit: SHINee

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

Today is Nakba day, please take the time to educate yourself - 

The Nakba, meaning catastrophe in arabic, is the event marking the mass murder and expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 during Israel’s creation as a deliberate and systemic act to create Jewish Majority state. 

By the numbers: between 750,000 and one million Palestinians were expelled and made refugees in 1948 by Zionist militias, more than 530 Palestinian villages and towns were destroyed or repopulated by settlers, over 15,000 dead Palestinians, and 70 massacres committed against Palestinians, and approximately 4,244,776 acres of stolen land - when Palestinians say this state is built on our graves - we mean it in the most literal sense. 

On top of all of this, there are over 7 million Palestinian refugees today, which includes Nakba survivors, their descendants, and Palestinians who were expelled in events after the Nakba - who are denied their legal right of return (which is internationally recognized).

It is critical to understand the Nakba if you want to support Palestine, and how Palestinians, 74 years later, cannot reclaim their stolen land, homes, and belongings.  And not only that, but to many, the Nakba never ended. Palestinians are still having their homes stolen or demolished, still in refugee camps, still having to deal with settlers encroaching on their land and committing acts of violence against them, Palestinians are still being murdered and left under brutal settler military occupation. 

If you want to read and learn more about Palestinians from Palestinian voices please check out Decolonize Palestine. Al Jazeera has a database here on destroyed Palestinian villages as well you can look at. 

And I will leave my friend’s post here about more ways to amplify Palestinian voices. From river to sea, Palestine will be free, we will return. 

[sakhafa]

no one ever talks about the 6th love language (being annoying)