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@starwrighter
My ask box is open :D
I’m somewhat active in the dpxdc fandom so if anyone wants to ask me a questions about my fics or send in a prompt they’d like to fill, I’m here!
My goal is to write at least 10k words by the end of april so I’l be keeping score with this post!
Current word count: 0 :(
Forgot to update
Current word count: 1748
Word count for June so far: 20872 (most for a rottmnt fic I made)
Ya girl's on fire this month!
I've really been enjoying your subnautica au fic I've reread it probably 3 times now, finally sat down after collecting all the descriptions on your Tumblr and in the fic for Damian so I could attempt drawing him. I'll probably draw more of them when I have time to sit down again. Hope you enjoy!
Holy crap that’s so cool! Sorry it took so long to answer this ask.
I’ve started writing my next chapter after the announcement of subnautica 2 and the break I took from it but it’s taking sooooo long ;.;
Have you checked anything out about Subnautica 2 now that stuffs finally coming out about it? Or are you waiting until the game is more complete to look at anything about it?
I’m waiting for the game to be a bit more complete before I check things out + am trying to avoid spoilers and such.
Prompt idea where Danny goes back in time and meets Wonder Woman. It could be on Themyscira during the infini-map situation but I’m personally partial to him meeting Diana during the World Wars.
The basics of it is that for whatever reason, one of the speedsters, a random time traveler, a ghost, or because Clockwork needs Danny to learn something there, he sends him into the past and he quickly ends up meeting Wonder Woman and helping her. He decides to stay with her until he’s finished whatever mission Clockwork’s sent him on and she ends up all but adopting him.
She’s teaching him all her sword tricks and how to fight without relying on his powers as much. The end up getting closer and closer and quickly get to the point where Danny starts subconsciously seeing her as a mother figure. To the point where he accidentally calls her mom, to his eternal mortification. Diana takes this all in stride though, secretly happy that her little warrior called her mom.
Things happen and eventually Danny has to go back to his own time period and his actual life. It’s a very tearful goodbye but it ends with Diana giving Danny a golden wreath crown as a moment of her and her mentally promising to find her little warrior again. She’s fairly certain now that he’s going to be born some time in the future. She doesn’t have much to go off of but gods damn it is she going to try!
Cut to some years later and Diana has become one of the founding members of the Justice League. She still has not found her son but she doesn’t say anything to the other members because she honestly can’t be sure if he’s even been born yet. This all is thrown out the window though when one of the JL members bring up reports of this ghost boy in this little town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. She sees a picture of it an yep, that’s her little boy! He’s even wearing the wreath so that mean he’s met her! She can go see him without risk to the timeline!
She practically sprints all the way to Amity only to find that he’s not here? None of the townsfolk know anything but when she starts instead looking for his human persona she isn’t able to find anything. It’s only when she investigates his parents that she hears, holy shit he’s whimpering in the basement!? She bursts in, ready to defend her baby but the scene she come in on is worse than anything she can imagine. There, on an operating table, is her baby boy. Opened like a gods damned high school science class frog! She can see his organs and knows some of them have been removed.
She does her best to sew him back together and hopes to the gods that his healing will be enough to get him to the Watchtower, all the while he’s crying and calling her mom and saying it hurts, when his parents come back into the lab, guns blazing, ready to fight whatever ghost dared to take their specimen. They were not, however, ready for a very angry and protective mama Wonder Woman who’s fully ready to kill at this point.
I just realized in my Fic Mayhem—TW for dismemberment & SPOILERS to those who haven’t read chap 5 but like.
Leo is more scared of Draxum being mad than his finger being cut off. Leo is terrified by all means. But pretty much all of his thoughts are about keeping his poker face and not making Draxum mad. About not showing fear or else. Thats the majority of his thoughts when he’s about to have his finger cut off. Like bro. If my classmates heard they were going to have their hair shaved off they might cry. Leo is about to have his finger cut off and all he’s thinking is: I can’t let Draxum see I’m scared or he’ll get mad. Like that’s sad.
He also gets triggered by the Healing Pod and immediately thinks “I’m going to die.” cuz thats just what he associates with it. Then he’s forced to go in it again.
I realize I was unintentionally intentionally writing but somehow it took me rereading my work to realize Leo was more freaked out about his captor being mad than his own body being mutalated.
@starwrighter @sweetnsourlemon12 (tagging cuz I want u guys to see dis)
P.S I’ve got like 1/5 of the next chap done :D. It’s mostly set-up for what’s coming up next but trust, you’ll love it.
Bruh, I need to reread this fic asap the angst community is thriving rn.
Hey! @starwrighter I reuploaded this because I hadn't added the tags in the first one. I will be doing that for the rest of the later :3
I hate being sick :(
My breathing sounds like a lawnmower failing to start
We don’t talk enough about the fact that Robert could have been a millionaire if he hadn’t poured it all into the mech, so imagine an au where he didn’t become Mecha Man, either because a physical injury forced him to retire or because he figured he could do more heroics at a societal level. No one would be able to guess he was wealthy by looking at him, he dresses really down-to-earth and has a small apartment and doesn’t waste money on flashy tech or flexing, every dime goes towards housing programs and schools and food banks and rescue operations and infrastructure for the city, he wants to tackle crime where it takes root; at a societal level. Though he’s got a weakness for technological innovation and will occasionally indulge himself in inventing new things and sponsoring promising young innovators.
Which is what leads him to become the sponsor for a little experiment called the Phoenix Program.
Blazer only reaches out because Chase insists Robert will be a perfect patron, that he’s not like the other high-and-mighty overly sensitive rich asshats, that he’ll understand the program the same way they do. And he’s right. Robert’s all for it, he loves the idea, he’s happy to help, and Blazer is so excited. Although when Robert ask if he can meet the team he’ll be funding, she panics because she absolutely cannot risk them scaring Robert off with their… colorful personalities, so Robert doesn’t get to meet them for a while. Until Invisigal spills the beans about their new patron to the team and Sonar goes full fanboy because his obsession with Robert Robertson is bigger even than his love for Vanderstenk, which earns him much mockery because “Tell me you’re not actually creaming your pants over a guy named Robert Robertson 😂”
Don’t really have much of a plot in mind, just Robert starting off as their wealthy distant patron until he eventually gets pulled into the fold, maybe fanboy Sonar super wanted to meet him or maybe a team member rescued him from danger once or twice and they got to chat, and soon enough they’re inviting him to bars and karaoke and taco runs and coming to the realization that “Huh, we thought he’d be another uppity rich asshole but he’s actually super chill and funny and honestly kinda weird, but we like weird”. The first time they get into a bar fight they think they’re gonna have to protect their squishy little wallet (“Friend! I meant friend, stop yelling at me guys!”) but then Robert straight up bites a guy’s fingers off and rips out an implant with his bare hands and now the team is impressed and horny and wondering where Mister Twink learned to fight like that.
Robert in their minds going from “This dumbass rich guy we can financially exploit until he realizes we’re hopeless” to “Damn, this guy actually believes in us, this is weird and new” to “If anything ever happened to our beloved Robert we would burn all of LA to the fucking ground and let the city be his funeral pyre”. The team in Robert’s mind going from “Villains in need of reform, to be helped from a distance” to “Pricks who happily abuse my financial aid but they’re improving and they’re entertaining so I’ll let it slide” to “The next person who insults my group of assholes is getting audited, smeared, and having their hard drive contents leaked to the press”
When I think of Sonar in this post, I think of Chase (reluctantly) dispatching the guy to Robert as a bodyguard or something (despite Robert vehemently protesting needing one but Chase will be damned if he still didn’t sent one, he doesn’t care that Robert can protect himself) for a press conference or something.
Robert as a millionaire would be the type to invest in all those programs to help those in need and practically spend a lot of money just to not only not make a dent in his account but also get it back tend folds when it came to investments and stuff.
And Sonar is all for this mission, he’s practically begging to take it up and he’ll even skip out on a Vanderstenk meeting just for this! Please Chase! Dude! Let him have this meeting! He must meet Robertson!!
And so Chase sends him and now Sonar’s as nervous (if not more) as he is when he met Vanderstenk and he’s like ‘oh shit what should I talk about?’
Robert isn’t all too happy to get a bodyguard but he’s not gonna treat Sonar in any mean way. He’s calm and collected, makes small talk with Sonar who, at some point, blurts out about going to Harvard (because that’s something to be proud of and people are usually impressed by this) and Robert’s all like ‘oh, cool I didn’t go to college’
And Sonar’s just like ‘fuck, of course he didn’t.’ And now he’s sulking cause he doesn’t look cool even though Robert didn’t think too much of it.
There's so many horror games about having to try to weed out and deal with inhuman imposters, but I want one where the script is flipped. You are something inhuman, you are an imposter, and if you want to survive you have to blend into a world that is trying to hunt you down and destroy you. You aren't human, but you must masquerade as one and infiltrate their world, or you will die.
I actually think we need to start inverting more Horror premises/tropes.
Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."
I feel like there's a lot of Horror tropes built off of the fear of the other, when in reality it's actually often the other who is in danger. Maybe we could start recognising that more.
Interesting how the first half of the post has picked up popularity while the second part, which perhaps clarifies the idea of the original post, hasn't.
It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.
Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.
But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."
This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.
Overall, it's just interesting to see who gets it and who doesn't.
Not really a horror game, but I liked A Gnormal Journey, a game in which you are trying to infiltrate the gnorm's nest, which requires you to follow a strict path and any deviation will get you caught. If you get caught, the gnorms you were following will all kill you without mercy.
It's short but it's quite hard
Ao3 is down NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
MY REACTION EXACTLY
AND IT JUST CAME BACK UP THEN IT WENT DOWN AGAIN
Girl I Didn't even get to read at all today ive missed every single second it's been up T.T
Ao3 is down NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Most ghosts refer to Clockwork only in hushed whispers—not prayers, because you don’t pray to an unmeddling god, but respectfully nonetheless because he is always Watching
Meanwhile Danny, every once in a while, glances over his shoulder into the camera and goes “Do you see this shit??”
Danny, every time some bombastic shit happens:
simple asks to help bolster ask culture again
What's your blog title from?
What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?
what are you looking forward to right now?
if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?
What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)
What's your hair routine like? Anything special?
what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?
favorite month of the year and why?
favorite time of day and why?
do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?
what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?
dishes or laundry?
what's something you learned recently?
if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?
What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?
what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?
do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?
Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?
Write, type, or speak?
what do you wish someone would ask you?
doing this cause I'm bored and I miss y'all even tho I don't have the time/motivation to write rn :3
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
Games
A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.
The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.
The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike
Tools
Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
Non-Games
Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
Reblogging the update too
Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.
Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)
I selected “other.”
Text box popped up. Please elaborate!
Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment
Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.
Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”
Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.
I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.
If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.
When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.
Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email
