no thoughts just bug game

he/they your local bean who has far too many DSMP thoughts though currently I'm lost in Hollownest and Pharloom (and it shows)

[ravenleap-creates]

Introduction

Hi chat. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I guess I'm here now

You can call me Raven, Chaos, or Ravenleap. My pronouns are he/they. I'm also neurodivergent. I write, I do art, I play games, and my favorite weapon is the hurt/comfort stick

My special interest is MCYT, especially DSMP. I have many, many thoughts about the silly block people, so this is likely what most of my posts will center around! I have a lot of DSMP AUs, and they kinda just live rent-free in my head at this point

Just an important note that I do not support any problematic content creators (mainly talking about cc!Wilbur here, I haven't kept up with a lot of the other discourse). I also mentally separate the characters from their content creator counterparts. Please generally assume I'm talking about the characters unless I state otherwise! I don't always mark c! or cc! simply because I generally just think about the characters and not the content creators. I'm chill though, I'm here for yapping and not discourse

c!Dream is my favorite character; he is my blorbo and I want to put him in a jar and shake him. I also project onto him. A LOT. c!Quackity is my second favorite character and I want to punt him off the nearest cliff. This, and the fact that I consistently give Dream redemption arcs in my fanfics, will tell you quite a bit about my view of the DSMP characters, lol

As for my other interests? I like whump (especially when it comes to whacking Dream over the head with a metal chair). I like petsites. I like Marvel. I have my fair share of OCs (and I really need to work on them more). I play Cat Quest, Sky: Children of the Light, and Cult of the Lamb (plus others I won't list, otherwise this list would never end)

I'm not yet sure how much I'll be posting, but I wanted a place to put my various DSMP thoughts in case anyone was interested in hearing me yap :D

oh, and before I forget, here's a link to my ao3

I'll make and add tags to this post as needed (it's highly likely I'll make individual tags for my main AUs... once I figure out how it works)

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[rain3yaltoids]

F2U character sheet templates

A friend of mine was having trouble making reference sheets for her characters, so I made quite a few!

I figure these could be really useful if anyone else was struggling too, so these are all F2U

They could be really useful for Artfight, so keep that in mind :)

[pawborough]

Update to Beta Launch Time and Demo Shutdown

We have reviewed our notes and realized that admins and developers both internally confused timezone awareness. We measured the time to the static GMT time, and incorrectly calculated American Daylight Savings, therefore the previously announced time was incorrect for the given PDT and EDT times.

We have made the decision to keep the GMT time, as the incorrectly calculated and currently announced American times of Open Beta release would leave one of our admins still at work. Therefore, we are pushing the launch forward one hour to 6pm EDT. We do apologize for this confusion, and we should have referenced a national calculator tool. From hereon, we'll utilize official calculator tools, and will not make this mistake again.

Additionally, as part of our final preparations, we will be shutting down the public demo, on Monday, 16th of March. This means you will not be able to create cats come Monday. However, this is necessary step for us to prepare the site for Open Beta. Thank you for understanding!

[ravenleap-creates]

*casually returns from the Abyss to say this*

this song (Shatter Me by Lindsey Stirling) = Second Sentinel

I have more things to say but I don't have the energy to say them right now, so. I'll be back later. Lol

[ravenleap-creates]

so I wrote a Hollow Knight fanfic :3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I may still be in the middle of my first playthrough, but my brain needed to write something for this fandom so it took some random lore snippets and ran away with them. The lore is NOT accurate (I took some creative liberties, in addition to the fact that I just don't know certain things yet) but that's just fine with me lol

It also fills prompts for Whumptober 2025 days 9 and 31, specifically flashbacks and rescued by the enemy

It focuses on Ghost and Hornet; in short, Ghost has a flashback when they get stuck hanging over the edge of a four foot drop and Hornet tries her best to help

Content warnings for panic attacks, flashbacks to a traumatic experience, and implied/mentioned past death

[ravenleap-creates]

well. This certainly just happened

so I was exploring Deepnest, and I found the tram pass. I was very excited, and I rushed to the Deepnest tram station to check out that line. I poked my head into what I'm assuming is Kingdom's Edge (I didn't get the name to pop up, but that name was in one of the journal entries for a creature I found over there). Then I went back to Deepnest and headed over to the tram in the Forgotten Crossroads

I was not expecting to get hit with lore about the Dreamers. I was not expecting to get chucked into a dream and find the Dream Nail. But. Well

I found the Dream Nail!!!

I guess it's time to start collecting Essence now hehe

[redfirefox-55]

more scribbles this time sibling themed

[bubblybloob]

Some doodles and a little silly comic.

I don’t know what the bug equivalent of an angel and its wings would even look like, but Hornet’s new set are rather angelic to me.

[rat-rosemary]

You know I love sky because I've been fucking screaming in my own head and writing an essay about all the things about it that are shit all day long

[rat-rosemary]

No yall will hear me rant actually.

Got very very long. And Im just complaining about dye, not even about the prices (both in game and irl) and how much I hate how ULT items work

The current dye system is absolutely fucking shit and pushes players even further into burnout. You're expected to grind for at least a few days for most dyes, but for even longer for the dyes that are the most used white and black, because for some reason TGC made them the rarest ones. (Specially bad with white for me, since I often want to make lighter colors)

It makes it so playing the game and engaging with its main drawn after you beat Eden for the first time, which is dressing up, feel so much more like a chore, which makes players burn out and avoid playing.

(And no, the dye trade shop does not help. Those trades are horrible and completely unbalanced if you ask me)

It should take, at max, like 4 butterflies per jar or dye. Its okay if people have too much dye or if getting it is too easy, it just means people get more chances to experience and try different color combinations and want to play the game more

Also, I would like to argue that most items that claim that can be dyed cant actually be dyed at all. So many capes and pants can only be dyed in tiny details or on their tips, making it so that you can't actually change them to match a different outfit, only add a little ✨️flair✨️, which most players wont do because they dont want to waste the dye they worked hard for.

Its kinda understandable on the base capes, because yeah it would make buying other capes kinda meaningless if you can just change them to any color, but even they're undersides aren't properly dyeable. They're only dyed at the tips that makes it so if you dye them any strong or dark colors (or it you dyed the white cape) it crashes horribly with the lighter(/dark blue) area.

Even worse are the other capes who either can only be dyed on their smallest details or just on their tips again, so you're choises on how to dye them are basically just white or black for flare. If I cant dye this blue cape so I can use it with a red outfit then I can't actually dye this at all.

Even with items who's main color shouldn't be changed, like the blue bird ULT cape. Sure, it makes sense that I can't change the colors of the feathers, but can I make this light cape match a dark outfit? Can I make the outside of it all black?

And its even worst with pants and masks

Honestly a good way to think of how dyes should be applied is if this cape/pants can be dyed to the point that I can use it on an outfit who's main color would clash against it's original color, and could I dye this item to match a dark/light outfit when its originally too light/dark.

Small details and golden lines and linings should be the last thing that can be dyed, since those will ofter go well with most other items in sky without clashing

And if an item has two colors then you should be able to dye both sides or else it actually cant be dyed at all. If one of those colors will always be around to clash against my outfit or whatever color I wanted to dye it then this item can't actually be dyed.

On that note, the colors are inconsistent across items. Im not sure how bad it is on every color, but I love pink and its never guaranteed I will actually be able to dye it to the same shade. Red-white maked pink, and then makes salmon, and then makes light orange. Purple-white makes lavender, and then pink, and then blue-ish grey. It always luck whether you'll be able to dye all the items on your outfit to the same color. Please for the love of God, make pink its own color that you can get on its own, both for pink and for purple enjoyers.

Anyway. TGC should stop pushing so many "days of-" events and focus on fixing their goddam game. God, if they actually focused on fixing shit then I wouldn't even mind if then made it so we only had 3 seasons during the year so they had more time to work on these issues.

[ravenleap-creates]

gotta love how my brain has a tendency to intensely hyperfocus on only one character at a time. Like, I get that it's easier for my neurodivergent brain to fully devote its attention to one character when in a hyperfixation mode, since having multiple characters in the mix means overall I devote less thought to each of them. But it feels so random sometimes. I'll learn one thing about this character and suddenly bam they're the only thing on my mind for a certain period of time

like what do you mean I'm currently locked in on Silksong's Phantom. What do you mean I wanna spam reblogs of Phantom art. What do you mean I have their theme song on loop. What do you mean I'm picking them up and holding them gently and fiercely demanding that the narrative treats them better, I haven't even played Silksong yet where did this come from whAT DO YOU MEAN-

[ravenleap-creates]

Hollow Knight first playthrough update for anyone who may be interested

Good news: I found my first Pale Ore and can upgrade my nail again!

Bad news: I am. Stuck down in the Ancient Basin. And I am struggling to climb back out

I guess I shouldn't have sat at the bench down here, but oh well. Not much I can do about it other than git gud and CLIMB, because I can't do anything else until I get out of here lol

sighs It's a long way to the top... this is gonna be fun

[ravenleap-creates]

I'm glad that watching Silksong streams made me want to try Hollow Knight again, because now I'm 30 hours into my first playthrough and I'm actually making progress. Also my Hollow Knight hyperfixation is currently on levels that only my DSMP special interest has achieved. Also Hornet is c!Dream levels of blorbo and that is saying something

Anyways. I'm not playing Silksong until I finish Hollow Knight, but I'm still picking up Hornet and Sherma and the Second Sentinel and Seth and holding them gently and running away with them, and you can't stop me

[kay-kaylen]

The idea that Silksong took place because Hornet got kidnapped is so funny to me because now all I can think about is an AU with Ghost and the Hollow Knight, armed with the fury of siblings protecting their sister and the Void itself, breaking into this kingdom screeching: "WHERE IS OUR SISTER?!?!" And scaring the ever loving shit out of every being in sight.

[justcallme-ange]

Hello it is I, back at it again with another comic! Thank you all for the support on Pinning Butterflies ^^ @lookinghalfacorpse’s Doomsday Trio Ages continues to give me emotions. Specially this last line. So I have some more angst (and fluff)- also known as reasons Techno has illegally adopted another wanted criminal. Phil has adoption papers in his bag for such occasions you can’t tell me otherwise.

Shoutout to my brother who did the editing for this comic. He suffered me talking about my faves, and learned lore just to tell me when/if they were OOC. XD

Oh, to those of you who recommended I read “In the Wild All Lessons Last” congrats you are now the reason why I am dehydrated. 

[simplepotatofarmer]

nothing is worse than trying to make friends with someone only to have it not work or go no where and now you just look at them longingly like. we could've had so much fun playing toys.......

[simplepotatofarmer]

everyone in the notes....... we could have so much fun playing toys....

[letsgetthispartycancelledright]

Pro tip: drawing pokemon will trick you into thinking you actually want to render.