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[ryugunwoofan]

park moondae’s stats progress

clean stats timeline

assumed achievements: 

attempts (total practice achievements): 1 (ep2), 10 (ep2), 100 (ep2), 1000 (ep53), 5000 (ep103) <- did i make this one up???;

singing: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500; (might be covered by the levels marked by “unsure what achievement”)

dancing: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500;

performance: 1 (ch5), ? (ch103), 100

experiences (airing of episodes?): 1 (ep2), 10 (ep2), 

note: successful performances pop ups alternate between giving a stat point and giving a trait roulette

[ep0] Level: 0

[ep0] Title: None

[ep0] Singing: C

[ep0] Dancing: -

[ep0] Physical Attractiveness: C

[ep0] Charm: -

[ep0] Traits: Infinite Potential

[ch1] Level: 0 → 1

[ep2, ch1] inc +1 point from 1st attempt (karaoke)

[ep2] Singing: C → C+ 

[ep2] Level: 1 → 2

[ch2] inc +1 point from 10 attempts

[ch2] Singing: C+ → B-

[ch2] inc +2 points from singing a lot? singing: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500.

[ch2] natural inc vocal +1

[ch4] Singing: B- → A-

[ch5] Level: 5

[ch5] Dancing: - → D

[ch5] Physical Attractiveness: C → C+ (natural inc phys +1 from visiting a salon)

[ch5] Charm: - → C

[ch5] inc +1 point from Achievement: First Performance (initial screening) (brings it up to lvl 5)

[ch5] Points Remaining: 1

[ch5] Trait: “Sleep is For the Dead” from “A successful performance!”

[ch6] Level: 7

inc +2 points from every hundred attempts gives a reward up to 500. Being able to not sleep let Moondae practice a bunch. dancing: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 (brings it up to lvl 7)

[ch6] Points Remaining: 3

[ch8] Dancing: D → C

[ch10-11] Trait: “Come to Think of It, You’re Right!” from Start of Fame (1,000 viewers)

[ch11] Level: 8

[ch11] inc +1 point from Achievement: The First Broadcast (airing of episode 0) (brings up to lvl 8)

[ch11] Points Remaining: 1

[ch11] Physical Attractiveness: C+ → B-

[ch11] 3 potential points (300, 400, 500) left until singing achievement has reached 500 times. pmd intends to level up that day and get an extra point. 

inc +3 points from practice achievements while practicing for the Oct 31 concert (one is from the 500th dance practice). dancing: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500

[ch16] Level: +1 (500th dance practice) but hadn’t used the point yet. likely one point remaining now.

[ch27] Singing: A- → A (happened before Oct 31 concert)

[ch27] Dancing: C → C+ (happened before Oct 31 concert)

[ch16] trait “Look at Me!” from “A successful performance!” (October 31 stage)

implied in [ch17], when Moondae says his visuals can’t get out of the B-ranks, that Moondae has at most 2 stat-upgrade points, but he likely only has one. 

[ch19] inc +1 point from “start of fame (2)” 10,000 ppl remembered your existence (episode 1’s airing)

[ch19] rare trait from “call of fame” 50,000 ppl remembered your existence. (episode 1’s airing). moondae doesn’t roll yet. 

[ch22] by now, most practice achievements have been filled up to 500 times apparently

[ch24] Physical Attractiveness: B- → B+ (also when moondae dyes his hair blond. there’s a month break before the next filming) (now 0 points remaining)

[ch27] Level: 12

[ch27] inc +1 point from call of fame 100,000 people after the airing of episode 3 (apparently this earns a level up. even tho the rest of the fame series didn’t give one. hahahahahaha)

[ch27] Points Remaining: 1 

[ch27] rolled rare trait from “Call to Fame” 50,000 ppl. Got “Look at Me!” and merged to “I want to be the center!” already accounted for in ch19

[ch27] Charm: C → C+ (“I want to be the center!” trait)

[ch29] Charm: C+ → B- (preparing for the heroes’ anthem concert)

[ch38] trait “Bacchus 500 (B)” from Call of fame! 500,000 people draw hero trait (acquired after heroes’ anthem concert)

[ch53] Level: 12 → 13

[ch53] inc +1 point from 1,000th practice achievement from Moon Rabbit practice. 

[ch53] Points Remaining: 1

[ch53] trait rejected “Unmoving Heart (B)!” from “Call to Fame” 1,000,000 people.  

[ch66] trait “Snatching ears (A)” from “successful stage” pop up during the live broadcast of Idol Inc.’s last episode. replaced “I Want to Be the Center!” Charm: B- → C+

[ch66] [ep68] natural inc charm +1 Charm: C+ → B- 

[ch66] Points Remaining: 1

[ch76] Dancing: C+ → B- now points remaining is 0

[ch103] level 15

[ch103] inc +1 Talent: B- → B from “great performance” pop-ups

[ch103] inc +3 Points Remaining: 3 (stage achievements: 100+, practice achievements: 5000+) (assume two are from stage and one is from total practice achievements. stage: 1, ?, 100; total practices: 1, 10, 1000, 5000)

[ch103] trait rejected govern those tears (B) (trait likely acquired between the two “great performance!” pop-ups that gave stat points.

[ch108] S: A → A+

[ch108] P: B+ → A- (now points remaining is 1)

[ch134] inc +1 level 16 from The First Concert achievement (now points remaining is 2)

[ch134] natural inc dance +1 D: B- → B

[ch134] trait international student (A) (from draw heroic characteristics from a “successful performance!” pop-up)

[ch134] Points Remaining: 2

[ch147] S: A+ → S- (most likely artificial increase. now points remaining is 1)

[ch170] inc +1 level 17 (unsure what achievement. gained a point, so now points remaining is 2) 

[ch170] natural inc charm +1 C: B → B+ (sometime before)

[ch170] Points Remaining: 2

[ch170] trait [The true taste of fame!] 10,000,000 people remembered your existence! : Draw Legendary Characteristics ☜ Click!

[ch171] international student replaced with Now that I heard it, it's true(A)

[ch171] C: B+ → A- (artificial increase. now points remaining is 1)

[ch200] inc +1 level 18 (unsure what achievement. gained a point, so now points remaining is 2)

[ch200] Points Remaining: 2

[ch200] natural inc dance +1 D: B → B+ (sometime before)

[ch200] C: A- → A+ (now points remaining is 0)

[ch200] 4 traits. has a bunch of successful performance popups from concerts and variety shows. they’re “precious” or “hero” traits. ['Soft and cute (B)' Acquired!] ['Angelic Heart (C)' Acquired!] ['Crocodile's tears (A)' Acquired!] ['Unmoving Heart (B)' Acquired!]. removed “now that i hear it” for “unmoving heart”. 

[ch200] trait removed “unmoving heart” for “a time for yearning” a time for yearning (S). “a time for yearning” acquired from a “draw legendary characteristics” pull, the last draw received after the tour.

[ch228] inc +1 level 19 (unsure what achievement. now points remaining is 1)

[ch228] natural inc singing +1 S: S- → S

[ch228] Points Remaining: 1

[ch228] 2 traits draws. 

[ch228] trait Bacchus 500 (500) → Bacchus 1000 (A) now there is one trait draw remaining

[ch232] draw treasure attribute (check exact wording). it uses the one trait draw remaining. 

[ch233] trait A-grade blank attribute → bacchus 1000 (A) → Nectar (S) now there is 0 draws remaining. 

[ch252] all status abnormalities removed. reward screen wording

[ch253] title: none → a successful person (idol) title screen wording

[ch253] reward is a permanent status window

[ch254] trait missions are my thing from draw legendary attribute gained from the online charity concert

[ch346] level -

[ch346] natural inc appearance +1 P: A- → A (sometime before)

[ch346] natural inc charm +1 C: A+ → S- (sometime before)

[ch346] Points Remaining: 1 (the point from ch228)

[ch348] S: S → S+ (now points remaining is 0)

[ch580] natural inc singing +1 S: S+ → EX

[chiliiiiiiiiiiiiii]

[chiliiiiiiiiiiiiii]

the groom of may and his ghost singer partner

[phosphorus-noodles]

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

[stormagedondarklordofall]

[treewizarded]

a BRILLIANT read, and even more incentive for me to make my own wizards trope-defying and excellent.

[roachpatrol]

God it’s fascinating to look at the timestamp on this one and then realize that Pratchett went on to write his Witches Series and Granny Weatherwax, who’s strong and fierce and brilliant and austere and so achingly, bitterly, intensely good. I think Granny Weatherwax would give Gandalf a hard look and Gandalf would remember he had a very urgent appointment three shires away and stroll off really fast. 

[ceruleancynic]

Holy fuck, everybody go read this right now. 

Pratchett is one of the people whose work is not only hilarious, but legitimately brilliant. I learned so much from reading his books. Even this talk is peppered with the kind of thing that makes you snort out loud and get stared at by coworkers: 

No wonder witches were always portrayed as toothless — it was living in a 90,000 calorie house that did it. You’d hear a noise in the night and it’d be the local kids, eating the doorknob.

And he fucking nails the witch/wizard dichotomy. Wizards = wise, powerful, organized, educated; witches = crones who give you warts. The Tiffany Aching series addresses this directly, as do the regular Discworld books focusing on the Lancre witches. Like Roach says, Granny Weatherwax is achingly, bitterly, intensely good, and that’s partly because she’s constantly aware of how easy it would be to be bad. How someone has to do the mucky jobs and help the obnoxious and stupid and never, ever take credit for anything you didn’t do; how the hardest thing is to stay balanced just on the edge between extremes, maintain that equilibrium, do what needs to be done no matter how awful or difficult it may be. Wizards never have to think about this. They just forge straight ahead, eating big dinners and squabbling amongst themselves and taking their power for granted.

[roachpatrol]

Come to think of it, that’s one of the most significant divisions of power in Discworld: the men all gang up into this big elitist mob and loll around indolently, specifically not doing magic. Their magic is so powerful and dangerous that it’s a better use of their time to all keep each other down, all the wizard books basically revolve around ‘Oh no, someone’s doing magic, we’d better stomp them flat and then go home for second breakfast’. They keep the world from turning inside out but not much more than that, and they’re kind of a bunch of assholes about it too. Meanwhile the witches are just grimly slogging along, delivering babies and rousting out vampires and changing compresses, like, they stake out territories and then take care of everyone in it… while everyone still thinks that wizards are respectable and witches are shady. 

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

The line about equal rites killed me, though. The insightful commentary (on the internet no less) here helped buffer that.

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[kyraneko]

It’s the difference between status and value. Who does the necessary work, and who takes the credit. Who the world would actually fall apart without, and who reaps the rewards of being considered important.

There’s gender in it, but shades of poor-and-rich as well.

[singlecrow]

What’s marvellous I think here is that Pratchett’s criticism of Le Guin, on Earthsea, was made in 1985 - and in 1990, she wrote Tehanu, which is a fantastic indictment of the sexism and misogyny of the earlier Earthsea books. Doesn’t meant she saw this, she probably didn’t - her own unease with the earlier Earthsea books was evident in other places - but it’s what Pratchett himself is saying, reality creates fantasy creates reality.

[mific]

Terry being brilliant, and read the comments.

[wiseseamonster]

reverse big bang drawing. see both my partners works here!

Apolocelot had an idea for an aquarium themed ghost story. I came up with a monster that processes living things into pearls + a stamp rally you must complete to escape

[milkbreadtoast]

(gdcg liveblog) Guys... to think I just went from feeling all warm and fuzzy over agent choi & RJK dynamic to sobbing about them in the span of 1 day... needed to talk about this here too im going insane... under the cut... 🥲🥲🥲💔💔💔

was thinking about the "RJK dies in the original TL/was killed by Viper" hc theory i had way back after reading the serial killer arc again (here's where i first liveblogged abt it) and was talking w a follower abt it... and now i feel even more certain that RJK had to have died (possibly killed by viper, but at least before looky mart)... bc now i subscribe to the "agent choi committed suicide after losing RJK" theory...

the theory of choi opening the 4th floor door in looky mart and knowingly walking into his death bc he's suicidal after losing RJK, his only team member left... him losing so many people before this, and now hyeonmu team 1 is only down to 2 people... i think he wouldve stayed alive as long as jaekwanie was there, he would never abandon his junior like that...

but if RJK died... that being the last straw... leading him to make a seemingly reckless decision and seemingly be randomly killed off for shock factor.....

(*i checked the ch (136) after and it's specifically stated that agent choi only decides to "challenge" the 4th floor after confirming the rescue targets have already died.... so indeed there is no urgency)

all those warm and happy memories... and RJK meeting and then continuing to cross paths with (and fall for) KSE too... all of that was only possible in this timeline... the concept of KSE saving the unnamed RJK and by extension directly, not just coincidentally, saving the named chara agent choi... RJK being that missing piece and gap in the records and KSE being the key... KSE being completely unaware of all of this and an unreliable narrator... TT___TT HYEONMU TEAM 1 AUUUUUUU it's just a theory and idk if it's canon but doesn't it just make too much sense??? like the pieces all fit together.... god

[starsalignedzine]

Page art highlight: @defragmentise

[starsalignedzine]

Time to welcome the talented @defragmentise to our zine!! Nams has been a long time Sefikura fan and their passion shines through their beautiful artwork, we’re so happy to have them on our artist team ~💕💕

[shamingcows]

JCC ❖ Duanmu Yonglie

@jingwei-chimeral-consultancy

❖BASIC INFORMATION.

NAME.  Duanmu Yonglie 端木永烈

AGE. 35

GENDER. Male

HEIGHT. 5'8 / 172cm

WEIGHT. 57kg

RANK. Apprentice

STATS. 

PER | 0

INT | 0

CON | 1

DEX | 2

CHA | 0

LANGUAGE(S). English, Mandarin, Fuzhou dialect, Hokkien

❖PERSONALITY. 

Proud | Reliable | Disciplined | Judgmental | Contrary | Modest

Yonglie’s personality is shaped by his strict upbringing: he walks the path his ancestors have paved for him, the emphasis on the collective, to lead by skill and to return favors when received.

Perfection was a large part of what was expected of him and this manifests in his evaluation of others and more critical evaluation of himself. He maintains the rituals and habits that have been instilled in him even now: writing down an idea after waking, taichi and a walk for breakfast, opening the shop, another walk to observe the ever-changing Tenpei, reading in the evening before sleep. Deviations from this are rare for him. 

He is proud of his skills, but downplays them as they are not of value in his life - they are a means of living but not a reason to keep living. Confident and capable in his craft, never missing an appointment or failing a commission, Yonglie has an affable reputation in his neighborhood. His social skills are at surface level only: he greets others as he should as a fellow shopkeeper and neighbor that causes no trouble. After all, in Tenpei, he’s not the crazy guy who hallucinates things that aren’t there; he’s just another Sighted person, as common in the streets as a minor chimera. 

He values this status quo and prefers the detachment and lack of involvement, which stems from his inability to repay the care and love he was given by his family. He is uncertain that he can reciprocate what he’s given in any kind of relationship, and therefore undeserving of one. As he keeps others at arm’s length, he considers himself as a bystander who avoids entanglement. 

Perceptive he may be towards others, he fails to turn that attention inward. He is fairly unaware of his own proclivity towards being in the hustle and bustle of a crowd and how he yearns for a connection. Any attachment he denies having is often one that he cherishes, tentatively trying to maintain it unconsciously. Telling himself that he doesn’t care about something only agitates him; avoiding the thought is easier. Even while actively convincing himself that he has no obligation, when others show reliance toward him he takes it as his responsibility to respond and meet those expectations. Any criticism or failure is a blow to his pride and shakes his confidence. He places more importance in logic and impartiality over emotions and impulsivity because he would otherwise be unable to control himself.

Self-reflection is something that he does not exercise and he lives day by day and he likes it that way. No long term goals or plans, just muddling along. Now, however, he is forced to take action and make himself vulnerable to others to meet the expectations of someone he cares for.

❖HISTORY. 

Fuzhou

Raised to inherit both management of the family and its craft, Yonglie was strictly managed by his grandfather from a young age. He was given stones to play with as a child, was taught painting and calligraphy the moment his hands could hold a brush, and then was later pushed to learn how to carve stones when he gained the strength for it. This was the life path that was drawn out for him as the eldest grandson of the family.

Life in the compound with his extended family was harmonious only on the surface. His grandfather often joked about how Yonglie inherited his skills and would talk about how he would leave the family business in his hands once he grew old enough to take over. This wasn’t received well by Yonglie’s second uncle, who had been the mainstay of the family craft for decades and had expected to take charge after the patriarch over his older brother, Yonglie’s father.

This was when his uncle began talking about splitting the family, which was firmly refused by his grandfather. Forced into cohabitation despite growing tensions, this also affected the younger generation. It wasn’t uncommon for Yonglie’s same-age cousin Yongbao to bully and sabotage him with increasing hostility, provoking competition that Yonglie found unnecessary and boring. Yonglie knew for a certainty that he was better than his cousin in the ways their grandfather valued.

But at the age of 17 he started seeing things that weren’t there. Convinced that his eyesight was worsening, he visited an eye doctor with his parents only to be told that there was nothing wrong (perhaps it was just astigmatism.)

But his eyes didn’t seem to be the problem. Assuming that he was hallucinating or seeing something supernatural, neither of which were auspicious signs, he only remarked that his eyes were better and stopped talking about it entirely.

With no one to talk to unless he wanted to be a laughingstock or worse, locked up for putting up a fuss in the streets, his curiosity and (constant) headaches drove him to find an outlet. He was already studying crafting with his grandfather; mentioning that he preferred carving creatures over landscapes gave him free reign to study mythology out in the open, often slipping sketches of the Thing he could see into his painting and studies.

As a way to relieve the stress of the troubles at home, Yonglie turned towards his craft; drawing the Thing at the end of the day whenever he saw it and later began to work on his first large carving. Secure and complacent in the privacy of his home, he slipped. He began talking to himself as he worked, just mindless things, sometimes addressing the Thing. This is how cousin Yongbao caught him.

Yonglie completed his first personal stone carving, a project that was a masterpiece of a 20 year old, depicting the Thing. At that time, driven by jealousy and long-held grudges, cousin Yongbao revealed to the family that Yonglie was possessed by a demon, seeing hallucinations and was obsessed with it, using Yonglie’s years of drawings and carvings of the Thing as proof.

Unprepared to have his secret revealed, Yonglie lied at the critical moment: he was fine, normal. He wasn’t seeing things, Yongbao was just blaming him again. Infuriated and blinded by favoritism, his grandfather punished Yongbao and forbade Yonglie from depicting the Thing again.

At this time, the atmosphere in the family started to shift. His second uncle started talking about splitting the family again. His grandfather refused again, and the situation was only worsening. Yonglie started to see the Thing more often, which began affecting his life and mental state. Rumors began to spread around the community about his mental state, a public embarrassment to his grandfather and a delight to his second uncle’s family.

His mother lobbied to have Yonglie sent to study, which his grandfather rejected again. It wasn’t until his soft-hearted father stood his ground and enrolled Yonglie to Fudan University far away from home that it was set in stone. 

“Yonglie is still young, it would be better for him to go and see the world.” “He’s twenty! That’s not young! I’m not getting younger either!” “You’re still young and so is Yonglie. Please,” it was the first time Yonglie, kneeling with his head down, heard his timid father speak so firmly to his grandfather. “I’m still here. He has time.” “Three years,” his grandfather capitulated. “And Yonglie will come back.”

Shanghai

At 21, Yonglie’s world expanded when he came to Shanghai. Perhaps all this time, it was just psychological. Though reserved with his peers, he threw himself into learning without the pressure or influence of his grandfather, free of sightings. Yonglie concluded that perhaps his hallucinations were just psychological pressure from his environment and was settling into his new life when he encountered another inexplicable Thing.

This is how he met Gu Yuting: dodging into a fruit stand and reaching out to grab something barreling in his way with a man chasing right after it.

“Great eyes, good reflexes, but you might need to train that instinct out of you.” That’s the first thing he hears when he wakes from what seemed like a bender - nevermind that he’s never had one before. It was about as baffling as being told that he had great eyes. “We can work on that if you want.”

After that, Yonglie started to follow Gu Yuting Daoshi around for over a year, trying to pick up information about chimeras and trying to have a crash course in esoteric arts. Chimeras and the Sight were things that Yonglie had ignored in the past - too far away and too mystical to care about but something that only made sense now that Yonglie learned that they were real. He was convinced that there was one haunting his family and has been for years. Despite the difficulty, he at least wanted to learn the method on how to identify and seal one. Tenpei was too far away and he had no leads to contact or convince a Seer to come as far as Fuzhou.

Once he learned enough to, in his mind, passably make an attempt at sealing, he returned home but was accompanied by Gu Daoshi, who had grown fond of him and was curious enough to follow along. The Duanmu patriarch, while glad to have Yonglie back before the three years were up, was apprehensive to have a Daoist priest as a guest and with good reason: Gu Daoshi confirmed that there was a chimera in the house.

Yonglie tried to convince the family that there was a chimera, that it was all real and he saw it in Shanghai and at home, but was rebuked for falling for scams of charlatans. Eager to prove that chimera were real even though they couldn’t be seen, Yonglie attempts to seal it rashly while unprepared. The first attempt at sealing was a failure. To his family, his actions were the mad ravings of a lunatic. 

The outburst of resentment from the second family finally came to a head with accusations of favoritism and how unfit Yonglie’s father was to lead the family and how Yonglie was not of sound mind. Yonglie’s grandfather did not refute it, told Yonglie about his disappointment and locked Yonglie up to reflect on the shame he brought to the family. 

It’s his parents who snuck him out to meet Gu Daoshi and urged them to leave. Gu Daoshi gave Yonglie food for thought, to which Yonglie determined to return to get rid of the chimera as one last attempt of service to the family. This time, with a calmer mind and Gu Daoshi’s guidance, the sealing is successful. Yonglie left Fuzhou afterward, knowing that he wouldn't be welcomed back.

Tenpei

After returning to Shanghai, Gu Daoshi advised him to go to Tenpei, the center of chimera and Seer activity and learn more about them. Following that advice, Yonglie moves to Tenpei with curiosity and trepidation.

He didn’t expect to settle down and live there for over a decade. He works as a craftsman in a small shop of his own with some small reputation for his name and skill, and studies Daoist texts in his free time - even if they don’t make much difference to him. Becoming a professional Seer under a master (if any would take him on as a student) on top of making a living was off the table. He was content with his life, even if he did go out of his way to observe sealings.

Living a laid-back if lonely life until he was 31, he meets a child named Alvin in a minor chimera-related incident that he was able to resolve under the table. Alvin became attached to him after that experience, often coming by Yonglie’s store to wait until evening when he had to go home.

While Alvin became more dependent on him, Yonglie also grew fond of him. But when he learned that Alvin’s parents were abusive and that it was escalating, he began to look into child services and found that there was little that can be done over “family matters.”

His inability to help only made him helplessly aware that he was an adult that Alvin couldn't rely on. Their relationship, while still close, became awkward.

When the situation devolved further and Alvin grew older and more disappointed, a chimera started manifesting around them. Yonglie wants it sealed but is torn between resolving it himself and hiring a proper Seer agency to step in. It was his relationship with Alvin and it was his to address, but knows he is barely even an esoteric practitioner and without systemic Seer training.

But putting it off was not possible; both of them could see the problem but neither of them can address it. Desperate to find a way out of this deadlock, Yonglie remembered a Seer consultancy that opened a few years back, an oddball establishment that was open for recruitment with staff that might be amenable to step in.

❖ RP INFO

MUN NAME. Nams / Chuna 

PRONOUNS. she/they 

TIMEZONE. GMT+8

*PHRASE. MULLBERRY

[devilcat3d]

there's just not enough time in the day for video games. even when I want to play them and dont have anything else going on I still don't end up playing them. this is because there's actually only four hours in the day and nobody is talking about this

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[bedupolker]

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

[hornestoothgap]

T. Kingfisher - What Stalks the Deep

[shamansantics]

LOL

[ironbean23]

giving it a shot before i lose my mind, please help me find a fic this winteriron (?*) fic that has both tony and bucky be sent to another dimension or in spaxe during an avengers fight.. and either it was an apocalypse or revolution but they made it back safely.

i tag (?*) bc i definitely remember them getting together but i already checked all completed works in ao3 but i just can't find it in the pairing tag however :'D

[kirinkirinki]

Could you give a breakdown on KW book's new announcement about fan merch please? And what happened that led to them making this announcement, bc I keep seeing talks abt hotels and I have no idea what's happening.. I need context

Hi,

For those who don't know, this is about KWBOOKS' third and final guideline about secondary creations (=fan creations).

The new guideline adds to the previous guidelines that 3D merch (examples given are dolls, doll clothes, figures, light sticks, badges, rings, weapons) can only be made personally, and will no longer be allowed to be sold at all. This applies to GDCG and DoD.

Why did they make such a specific guideline? I'll start from the beginning.

1st guideline

So back when GDCG first came out in Oct 2024, immediately it was obvious it would be a hit. It was by the author of the mega-hit DoD and the first 50 episodes that were released on the first day had already grabbed a ton of people.

Then, on twt, somebody started advertising for their Braun dolls.

I didn't see this first hand, but as far as I know, it quickly became apparent that this person was ready to make and sell a lot of Braun doll merch to fans, only days after the novel's launch. This made a lot of people frown, and it was widely suspected to be a for-profit business that was using a popular ip without permission rather than a fan making merch at small scale. Another issue was that the Braun doll was such an obvious merch item that the publisher itself would surely sell, so was it right for there to be 'fan-made' merch that could basically be confused for the official?

The Braun doll was eventually canceled due to the heavy backlash.

Soon afterwards, KWBOOKS announced their first guideline regarding fanwork.

In their first guideline, they forbid some things, including :

fanwork that may be misunderstood to be KWBOOKS's official product

for-profit sales of fan merch

reproducing (scan/tracing etc) official text, illustration or other visual content, or creating/distributing official text etc with no creativity added.

They also specified (in the twt) that

if fanmerch is made by a business, this would be considered ip infringement, no matter the scale

regarding mass production, both individuals & businesses must sign a contract with them before production.

After this guideline, fans basically unanimously agreed to not sell Good Friend dolls, even at a small scale, and only distributed patterns & sold DIYs.

2nd guideline

The second guideline came in May 2025.

X에서 KW STORE👾 님 : "KW북스 작품을 향해 보내주시는 많은 관심과 애정에 진심으로 감사드립니다. KW북스에서는 원칙적으로 KW북스가 제작, 유통하고 있는 모든 IP에 대한 무단 상업적 이용을 금지하고 있습니다. 다만, 독자분들이 콘텐츠를 즐기는 방법 중 하나로 존중하여, 비상업적인 영역에 대해서는 그간 별도로 https://t.co/rGPm3CXDaq" / X

The second guideline was mostly about not making merch that may be misunderstood to be official merch.

To be brief, the issue was that

there seemed to be for-profit large scale manufactures

people had (again) started making merch that could be misunderstood to be official merch

I personally was seeing a lot of merch that were like, for example, USBs with 'Disaster Management Bureau' simply printed on it. (No additional fan illustration or anything...) I feel that that's an example of using official text with no creativity added / making merch that may be misunderstood to be official merch.

Around this time KWBOOKS was also privately contacting several dollmakers and asking them to stop selling their GDCG dolls, bc it may be confused with official merch that was coming. We know this bc one of the contacted dollmakers posted the convo.

(personal thoughts : people were wondering about the doll designs potentially being similar to the dolls that KWBOOKS asked to be stopped. In retrospect I think it may have been just that they were 5cm dolls of the same characters. Based on their interview, I suspect KWBOOKS took care to make the official doll designs not similar to any of the preexisting fan doll designs.)

As we all know, official 5cm dolls were then sold, as were official Good Friend dolls. But then...

3rd guideline

The third guideline was announced Nov 2025.

X에서 KW STORE👾 님 : "KW북스 2차 창작 통합 가이드라인 최종 안내 안녕하세요, KW북스입니다. 먼저, 자사 작품을 향해 보내주시는 애정에 깊이 감사드립니다. 그간 KW북스는 반복적인 안내가 독자분들께 피로감을 드릴 것을 우려하여, 가이드라인 위배 행위에 대해 선별적인 권고 조치를 진행해 왔습니다. 하지만 당사의 https://t.co/a3u4gzGP3O" / X

According to the twt, KWBOOKS had been seeing a lot of cases that were going against the guideline. So as to not cause fatigue for the readers, instead of making additional announcements, they had been privately contacting the offending parties. However, some people just turned their accounts private and kept producing the problematic merch.

Due to the repeated incidents, they made a final guideline.

From after Nov 30th, 2025, all '3d merch' related to DoD and GDCG will be banned from being sold. (making for your personal use and/or distributing a small amount for free is okay.) This includes

character based 3d merch (ex. dolls, doll clothes, figures, light sticks)

related, clothing and other items (ex. badges, rings, weapons)

Why are people talking about some hotel?

This is bc people are discussing what might have been the final straw for KWBOOKS.

Recently there was a rather pricey fan event announced, themed after the Flower Golden Resort, where the staff would be cosplayers. It was to be sold with a one-night check-in to the hotel.

The sheer scale of the event, as well as them basically recreating Flower Golden Resort, caused many people to question whether it wasn't going way too far and infringing on the GDCG IP rather than being a small scale fan event. Even if they weren't doing this at a profit, the hotel would be seeing revenue of tens of millions of won based on the GDCG IP, all without the publisher or the author even being notified, so was that okay?

After a heavy backlash including input from other fandoms, the event was eventually canceled, on the same day that KWBOOKS put up the announcement. So that's why some people suspect the hotel was the last straw.

(Personally I think the hotel was unrelated to the announcement, bc surely KWBOOKS took some time to make their decision. I've been seeing several fanmade merch that worried me, such as :

griptok(popsocket) that looked exactly like the official griptok merch, only with the cross being red like in the official illustration

Bureau themed jacket that was basically a jacket with the words 'Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau' written on the back, as well as their official logo.

Both of the fanmerch were canceled after backlash, but I think any one of them may have been the last straw. There were probably a lot more that I didn't see. So who knows.)

I was going to make fanmerch, am I doomed?

To be clear, only the '3d' fanmerch specified above are banned.

This means that flat stuff like doujins, stickers, photo cards etc are all fine.

The common consensus is that stuff like acrylics and corottos are fine as well, since they're a) original illustrations, unlikely to be misunderstood to be official, and b) they're such popular items that KWBOOKS not mentioning them at all must be a statement in and of itself.

As for the explicitly forbidden stuff such as dolls, rings, weapons etc, you can still make them for yourself, or distribute them (small scale) for free. You just can't sell them. Some dollmakers have been distributing their doll designs so that people can make their own.

Phew that was long. Hope this helps.

[lizhly-writes]

what if i throw kim iwol into gsgw, said i

If you had a choice between a job with an overbearing manager that loaded you with many duties that weren’t part your official job description, or a job with excellent benefits and work-life balance but seemed somewhat shady, which would you pick?

No, really. I’m genuinely asking.

As for myself, I made my decision last week. At some point, I got drunk with my coworkers and contemplated my manager’s insistence that there was no way that somebody of my caliber – someone with an excellent university degree, but no other merits -- could get another job. Was that really the case? If it was true, there was no helping it, but surely it wouldn’t hurt to try applying.

Just once. Only the one time, and then I would wave the white flag of surrender and go back to doing whatever Manager Nam wanted. Just as usual.

Amazingly enough, I got the first job I applied to.

It was at a reputable pharmaceutical company, for a marketing role I thought that hours of editing idol photos had inadvertently made me qualified for. To be honest, I didn’t care much for the role description, but again, the work-life balance and benefits seemed excellent.

The interview was suspiciously easy. In fact, the interview was suspicious in general. Aside from the assessments of my competence, which I expected, my interviewer also wanted to ask me fun questions to break the ice and put me at ease. Did I like horror movies? Was I scared of ghosts? Was I familiar with supernatural phenomena? How would I handle a situation that involved the possible deaths of myself and my colleagues?

I probably should have been more suspicious at that point, but again, I was distracted by the offer of free housing in a prime area and restricted stock units.

It was after I signed the NDA that it turned out these questions were relevant. Daydream Inc was certainly a pharmaceutical company, but it was one that ran off of collected energy from ghost stories.

I knew exactly what this situation was called.

“It’s a scam.”

Immediately, I felt like my world was ending. Of course it was a scam, getting a new job so easily. But it was unforgivable to give me a glimpse of hope of getting out of the hell that was Hanpyeong Industry, and then laugh at me for being a naive pushover.

Of course, my newly-low spirits were addressed. I was taken to observe the assessment of the Field Exploration Team, at which point I instantly became a believer.

As I watched the brightly laughing young man in the lecture hall, reveling in his newfound youth, I had a thought.

“...Manager Han.”

My interviewer smiled at me. “Yes?”

“The Marketing Team is also eligible to receive that Wish Ticket, right?”

“Yes, I should have explained that more clearly. It’s a benefit of our top employees – we believe that every employee should have incentive to work hard! Any employee is eligible to receive it, and get any wish they want granted! Whether it’s rejuvenation, or reviving the dead, or finding love – the Wish Ticket will handle it for you!”

...Reviving the dead, huh?