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hey hi hello! my name is pidge, and i occasionally write fanfic. i write lots of genfic and time travel but sometimes i branch out. feel free to send me some asks about my writing or prompt me!
[note: please send asks in my askbox for fun i would love that]
current fandoms i’m in: lifesteal smp (rekrap2, squiddo), bleach, pokémon
i have some fics in the works that i would love to talk about under the read more!
my alt is aimlesslynameless and i'm also on ao3 as pidgeony :)
[also: fair warning before anyone follows me, i may switch fandoms whenever i lose interest, and no guarantees i'll be posting anything frequently! idm if anyone unfollows me because of it o7]
#winter soldier au: cassandra cain as the winter soldier and steph as captain america, follows steph and tim as they retrace cass' footsteps and what happened to her (AU, steph & cass-centric)
#void eater au: Jumper hungers and wants, selfishly and desperately. To keep her morals. To consume. Sometimes, when the rest of the Abyss cheers for the loss of life, she cradles their heart in her hands, feeling it beat with the vestiges of their last terror before biting into it. (AU, jumper-centric)
#momento mori au: A Lifesteal x Double Life AU I'm working on with @/somewhatnerdi :)
feeling the urge to join artfight except i have like maybe three and a half ocs that exist. how do you even create ocs like how are people doing it really
so. minute says apocalypse forever to rek and rek says it back. but Minute Doesn't Hear It. and then minute gets embarrassed because his team is cooing over how cute he is and he thinks rek didn't even say it back and. oh he is So normal about his past teams always.
i was kinda already thinking about how like. monumental it is that he's teamed with jumper again. jumper, who he refused to kill in s6 and begged the empire to leave alone. jumper, who he then went on to become enemies with in s7. s7 was So healing for him that he's by jumper's side again and that all is due in part to team apocalypse and healing his relationship with clown and.
And he thinks rek didn't say it back. and then rek slaughters his teammate, and he's Terrified, and jumper is hunkered under the ground parroting rek's words, and rek is laughing about it all. rek didn't say it back and now he's laughing in jumper's ears, still wearing 4c's blood, Hunting Minute. team apocalypse meant So much to minute and here rek is, hours into the next season, callous and cold and uncaring and. it's so diabolical im gonna vomit
During the second week of Lifesteal, I found several insecurities in the Lifesteal SMP server which let me ping the server requesting information about players' positions. I enabled it for myself, and then immediately told a server owner...
I had a hunch that the commands which leaked player info was a part of a plugin where permission levels could be specified, so I hoped that by telling an admin, the command wouldn't be removed but instead disabled. The next day I logged on and found out I was right- I could no longer run the command. This meant that no other players on the server could ever enable it, and I could never disable it. So if you ever saw me stream on Lifesteal and complain that my chat was broken- that was why! I had to disable it so that no chatters would ask, "hey Squiddo, why is your chat being flooded with other people's coordinates in real time?".
It also told me people's hearts, current health, dimension, etc. But I refined it to just post the coordinates of items dropped.
The client I used saved a .TXT to my computer of every chat message sent during a play session, so I wrote a simple python script to scrape the coordinates of every block dropped on the Lifesteal SMP. Then, I coded it to create a .PGM file using those coordinates-
A .PGM file is an extremely simple type of image. A "1" represents black and a "0" represents white. You can make it more complex, for example, "0" could be white, "9" could be black and "2,3,4,5,6,7" and "8" would all be grey values somewhere inbetween.
Using that knowledge, I created a heat map of the Lifesteal SMP, with each pixel representing a small block radius. The brighter the pixel is, the more items have been dropped there. This made it easy to see where bases were, because tripwire hook generators would constantly be running, which (obviously) dropped tripwire hooks all the time.
Although what I didn't mention is that I also told another admin that I was stuck with this command running and asked them to disable it. I had no idea how long it would be before my cheeky coord leaker would be turned off, and it turned out to be about only a week. After all, I don't want to cheat this season... But this was so cool, I had to investigate it at least a LITTLE bit! Hehe..
The resulting image was a heatmap of one random week on the Lifesteal SMP. Since there's only a very small number of players active- probably less than 10- the heat map is very sparse, and looks a lot like... A constellation.
The Lifesteal Constellation! Click to see all the stars!
At the time, I was calling this exploit notcom because it's very similar to the nocom exploit from 2B2T, except this is not nocom...
My coding is very bad so the map isn't perfect at all. It was easier to find the bases just by pressing CTRL F and searching for 'tripwire hook'. But I still wanted to make something unique using the data I collected!
In the end, I didn't grief, steal, or kill anybody- I just left everybody a delicious cake. The insecurities are now fixed, too.
Thank you for learning about notcom and the Lifesteal constellation! :D
another thing i’m really liking about tricky trio is that they, at least as far as we’ve seen, aren’t really letting things get them down. because a boatload of shit ended up happening to them today, and a lot of it did suck for them!
like, not only did they get jumped with the mace, causing rek to die— twice, actually— but they also lost the base they’d been spending the past day or so working on, grinding resources, villagers, and setting up traps, losing pretty much all the items in it as well. they went from being on the up via snowballing the day prior to being both broke and baseless within just a few minutes, which i don’t think is fun for anybody, really.
with the three of them, though, they just kind of let it roll off of them? it’s not like i was expecting them to angst about it, not a team consisting of rek, luigi, and yungy. but like. they’re not even five minutes out from meeting up, and they’re already with a new plan and in a better mood, exclaiming to each other that this isn’t that bad, actually.
they go start to regear, deciding on mining gold, but then they turn it into fun competition and easy content for their trophy “tricky chest”. they’re running around the badlands, spleefing each other and giggling at the antics being relayed live through their vc and yelling playfully at each other to “get a different cave, dude!” as they scramble to get the most gold between the three of them in their thirty-minute timeframe. and they’re just having fun!
even when epax and flow show up and the trio have to pause the competition, they pay the interruptions their proper share of attention, but then they meet right back up and have just as much fun revealing the winner as they did doing the actual competition. and it’s just fun! they’re just having fun, despite everything that the day had brought.
and of course, rek luigi and yungy end today off together, too, with a today’s events recap that’s starting to become a staple and them logging off at the same time with a bright plan for tomorrow. i hate these three so badly. i can’t wait to see more of them.
feeling the urge to join artfight except i have like maybe three and a half ocs that exist. how do you even create ocs like how are people doing it really
The thing about lifesteal is that everyone that has ever been on it has changed it and when that person left there was a hole in their place that can't be filled ever again
