SynthSized Productions

Chance, They/Them, Creative Force, Disaster Ace This is where I reblog things that inspire me and occasionally write flash fiction replies. Feel free to send me a polite ask, buds. Main Blog: omalleymenagerie.tumblr.com Website: SynthSizedProductions.com Twitter: @SynthSizedStaff

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Moderation Monday March 20th, 2023

Hey hey, guys, gals, and in-between pals!

Sorry to have missed last week. Needed a small break, but I’m back this week, so that’s the important part. Right? Right.

Anyway, work is picking up a bit for me, which is nice, but it means that handy schedule I just made is a bit more difficult to follow. However, we’re going to carry on as planned, just with more solid timeframes. So, without further ado, here is this week’s plan!

Twitch Tuesday

We’re going to be live on Tuesday with some Hotel Renovator! I’ve been playing it off stream and I’m excited to show y’all what I’ve been up to. Like any good simulation player, I started a save, realized I wasn’t playing the game quite right, and restarted that shit. So, y’all will get to see the slightly less buggy and better designed hotel. You’re welcome.

The stream will begin at 1pm EST.

Wildcard Wednesday

Our Discord poll has spoken and I will be doing a drawing stream! This does mean there is no early content for my Patrons and Ko-fi subs, but stay tuned for next week when there will be.

As I do have work on this day, this will be a bit of a shorter stream. I plan to begin around 12pm EST and ending around 2pm EST.

Thorough Thursday

I have work this day and will be unable to put enough time into any game to get anything productive done. This is one of the reasons I’m playing Hotel Renovator on Twitch Tuesday as I am rather close to getting to the 50% achievement mark.

Fiction Friday

To make up for skipping Thorough Thursday’s stream, I will be doing a co-working stream on Twitch where I work on editing chapter 10 and writing chapter 11 in hopes I can get a bit of a jump on my posting schedule. I may also take this opportunity to work on the script for the second episode of The Watkins Report.

Join me on Twitch around 2pm EST and work on your own projects.

Settle Down Saturday

As always, this is my day of rest. Nuff said.

Sunday Funday

We will have officially made it through another week and this week I don’t have work! This means that we will be hanging out in Discord for most of the day. We can play games, watch videos, and just in general have a good time together. Who knows, maybe we’ll even watch a movie!

Well, that’s the plan for the week! Hope you enjoy the show!

~Chance

[synthsizedproductions]

Moderation Monday March 6th, 2023

Hey hey, guys, gals, and in-between pals!

It’s time to start our new schedule! Today is our first Moderation Monday which means we will be discussing the plan for the week.

Today, I have scheduled our next Wildcard Wednesday which was voted on by my Discord followers. They voted for the ninth chapter of Descending Into Power! This means that on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, the chapter will go live in both the Descending Into Power section as well as the Wildcard Wednesday section. If you’d like early access to this and every other Wildcard Wednesday post, you can join my Patreon or Ko-fi.

Tomorrow is our first Twitch Tuesday which means I will be streaming on my Twitch channel. The plan currently is to just chill and play whatever I feel like since I’m still pretty fresh off of my hiatus. The stream will last between 4-6 hours most likely. So, if you’re looking for something to do around 12pm EST that is pretty chill, that’s where you’ll find me.

Wednesday will be our first Wildcard Wednesday, so stay tuned here for the chapter to go up.

This Thorough Thursday I will be playing the game Banished and attempting to collect some of the achievements. Some of these could take quite some time, but my hope is to get at least 1 or 2 completed by the end of stream.

I’m very excited to get going on our first Fiction Friday. My current plan is to work on chapters 10 and 11 of Descending Into Power. Chapter 10 is already written, but needs some editing before it is ready to be seen by others. I may or may not do a co-working stream.

This Saturday and Sunday I have work and won’t be able to participate in Sunday Funday, sadly, so my plan is to spend time with y’all on Friday instead. So, after I’m done editing and writing, we will be chilling in Discord and playing various games.

So, that’s this week’s schedule! Hope y’all enjoy the show!

~Chance

[synthsizedproductions]

Long Overdue Explanation of My Absence

Hey hey, guys, gals, and in between pals! Long time no...type. I'm sorry for my extended absence on here and on the website. I want to do so many things, but I'm also going through a lot. I wanted to sit down today to explain what's been going on and what will be happening from here. I've been going through an extended period of depression which was preceded by a manic spike in which I made some very rash and unsafe decisions financially. My depression and selfish behavior over the last couple of years have driven all 3 of my romantic partners away. This has greatly intensified my depression. It got so bad, I hospitalized myself at the beginning of August. I stayed for 6 days and would have stayed longer if they had allowed me to do so. I'm very not okay emotionally and mentally. Physically, I've been letting the depression get to me. I've felt a gnawing emptiness since the breakups began and I've definitely tried to fill that void with food. I want to go for walks or make a workout routine, but it's often hard to see the point when I'm in this kind of headspace. Getting anything started is difficult. I wanted to give you more videos this year, but my ex was the one doing my editing and now I have to figure everything out on my own. I am working on clip compilations of my Twitch streams, but the going is slow. It's sometimes very hard for me to watch myself stumble through the process. I'd get someone new, but I don't know where to look and I don't have money to pay them. Speaking of money, I'm not certain we'll be able to keep the website after next January. My funds haven't turned out the way expected and I just don't know if we'll make it to about $180 to pay fees and such. I have about $70 right now. I've had to stop subbing on Twitch to ensure we're making any money. I do have a donation goal happening on Twitch to raise $200 to keep the website. I will be adding what I already have to the total and the rest of the year's Patreon dollars will get added as they come in. Let's talk about the website. I want to keep it as it is a good central hub for all of my content. However, I haven't been using it nearly at all this past year. I am working on changing that for the remainder of the year. I am putting together highlight reels for Twitch streams which I will post here before posting it publicly on YouTube. I am going to be doing an overhaul of the site to put things where they properly go and plan where our next content will be. 

Speaking of which, my plans going forward are slow but hopefully steady. The site will be getting at least one post a week which could include an original video, my monthly highlight reel, a new chapter, or a drawing! I will be getting everything planned and will be making several announcements on October 1st, 2021 during our first official Fan Friday! This will be a longer stream where we chill, play games, watch clips, and just, in general, have a good time. 

Thank you for being able and willing to be here no matter if you're a patron or just a follower. My hope is to give you some love in the coming months.

I hope you enjoy the show!

~ Chance/Synth

[psikonauti]

Alligator eyes shining in the sunset, Myakka River State Park, Florida

[stars-bean]

Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

[synthsizedproductions]

This movie is golden. I adore that they released multiple endings in theaters. It was done beautifully.

[everthesame]

Thats the weirdest erotic sentence i’ve read all month

[naznomad]

this fucking post singlehandedly ruined my life

[hedwig-dordt]

You don’t really appreciate how fucking great fan fic is when it comes to writing sex untill you stop to recognise how Serious Literary Stars fail at writing sex.

[shredsandpatches]

DO A BARREL ROLL

[jottingprosaist]

#in all my years of reading fic i have never encountered a sentence this terrible #did he just say that his dick smacked EVERY MUSCLE in her body except you know her vagina? #like I'MMA SMACK YOU IN THE CHEEK I'MMA SMACK YOU IN THE SHOULDER I'MMA SMACK YOU IN THE CALF #what is your dick doing?? #how do you think sex works morrissey??

Forget what his dick is doing, what are her breasts doing? How do a pair of fat sacks attached to a ribcage barrel-roll anywhere? Let alone across a man’s mouth and then his wanger immediately after? Sir, why is your mouth so dong-adjacent? Is your weiner detachable, is that it? Do you have your joystick clutched in your hand so that you can score a sweet schlong-to-titty-roll immediately after a kiss and then proceed to beat your banana all over her body in the world’s most failed attempt at erotic massage??? HOW DO YOU THINK SEX WORKS???

[mugsandpugs-deactivated20160917]

… guys

….. Are the sex scenes in My Immortal better than this? “HE PUT HIS THINGY IN MY YOU-KNOW-WHAT AND WE HAD SEX.”

… I mean. Comparatively…

[aphroditeinthetomb]

Like, in My Immortal, it’s at least implied he knows where he’s supposed to put it. It’s very simplistic, Ikea-style sex (insert tab A into slot B) but that’s better than this vague, useless composition of random, nonsensical placement and movement of body parts. So yes, the sex in My Immortal is, in this sense, better.

[peccaviofthesparrow]

@master-of-strings

[teashoesandhair]

OK so I’m sure people are aware of this, but just in case you’re not: there is an annual ‘award’ given every year by the Literary Review for bad sex scenes in fiction. The above entry (sorry) by Morrissey won this illustrious award in 2015 (and yes, he threw a massive tantrum about it, because he’s Morrissey):

The best part of this is that the 2016 nominations were just announced, and OH BOY, there are some absolute crackers this year:

And in case anyone is interested, these are some of the entries that Morrissey beat to the top prize last year:

I agree. We are spoilt by fanfiction. 

[saanphoenix-deactivated20260411]

I don’t know who to laugh at more, the guy having an existential crisis before getting a blowjob or the one going, “Mmm. Papaya. Much more arousing than this nonsense.”

I will never fear about my porn again.

[anthonytheshuhite]

GO BACK TO SONGWRITING MORRISSEY

[arcticlucie]

If I ever write anything this atrocious, please, someone, anyone, smack me upside the head.

[disteal]

Come, sonny boy

[frootloopstruggle-deactivated20]

@sephet everything in this post is gold.

[seeminglyseph]

On days when I look at my writing and worry I have failed… I have not failed as hard as these people. jfc

[gehayi]

If you’re wondering who won for 2020, the answer is nobody.

Bad sex award cancelled as public exposed to ‘too many bad things in 2020′

[sosuperawesome]

Exellero on Instagram

[justintaco]

I really hate those stupids posts that are like:

“What about REAL monster girls??? Not just weird humans?? like real huge MONSTERS?? With giant sharp claws and big sharp teeth?? Where are those???”

You’re thinking of bestiality. You want to fuck a T-Rex.

[justintaco]

[viewtifulmarkovich]

If it passes the Harkness Test, I’m down.

[viewtifulmarkovich]

For the uninformed:

[randomitemdrop]

This isn’t an item or even a game mechanic but I think y’all know you need the Harkness Test at some point or another in most campaigns

[wumblr]

here’s my issue with the harkness test

[roach-works]

look im not saying i would fuck him but i am saying that scooby-do has four close friends as an adult (this is HARD), he’s emotive and empathetic, he has a good relationship with his family, he admits when he’s wrong and he’s always open to negotiation, and he is arguably employed as a very successful home investigator.

i am saying you could do worse.

[autumngracy]

Again, not promoting beastiality or anything, but. technically, according to canon, Scooby Doo is descended in part from an ancient race of formless, interdimensional beings, so like. he’s not exactly just a regular dog that happens to be able to talk

[adventurelandia]

Noir Princesses by Ástor Alexander

[khneltea]

That’s hot. That’s fire. I’m meltinggg

[grungegoths]

Everybody pause your discussions about white men in androgynous clothing for a second and look at Ranveer Singh, a brown bollywood actor absolutely SMASHING it in these outfits for Vogue India 

Hes wearing a whole dress with BANGLES if yall cant tell

Things he did?That 

Just look

Amazing

[holyunholy]

glowing hot metal is such a touchable shade of orange

[thyrell]

im a welder and this let me tell you this does not go away if youre around a lot of hot metal its actually worse

[agendermetalbender]

im a foundry metallurgist working with thousands of pounds of metal sometimes and yeah it’s real bad

[you-are-another-me]

[tempestpaige]

this is why demanding flawless representation from every piece of media, and trying to police who writes what based on identity is a huge fucking mess

source

[autumngracy]

Wh—what do they think the B stands for???

[writing-and-nutmeg]

I’m still out here searching for my honor 😩

[awesomeavocadolove]

Oh God should I put this as my new pinned post?!

[systlin]

This post came out of the well to shame me specifically

[chrishemsworht]

Eddie Brock in Venom 

[buyakasha]

so many critics said he over-acted. that this movie didn’t deserve tom hardy’s level of acting. but in reality, maybe if more bad movies had people like tom going balls to the wall, they wouldn’t be bad movies

[poolboydivision]

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i didn’t watch venom for a GOOD movie i watched venom for a FUN movie, and it absolutely delivered on that.

[piecesofbird]

i think it’s fine he was the only one who went ham, eddie brock didn’t know shit and he didn’t ask for this. everyone else didn’t know about the aliens and didn’t interact with them, or interacted with them on purpose after already being made aware. he just got a surprise alien

[prof-grace-aspen]

It’s the same reason Jaskier works so well: Joey Batey specifically said he acted like he was in a comedy while everyone else was in a period drama.

[antique-scarecrow]

this is such a hot take, i want more examples

[aqueerkettleofish]

Raoul Julia had a lot of fun as M. Bison in the Street Fighter movie. When it was over he was genuinely surprised to learn that it was not, in fact, intended to be a comedy. (“Then why did they cast ME?”) Michael Caine told the director of Muppet Christmas Carol that he wasn’t going to acknowledge the muppetness, and as far as he was concerned he was in a Royal Shakespeare Theatre Production. The director said “Yes, that’s why we cast you.”

[mechanical-scarecrow]

In Peter Pan, Hook says this line:

“No little children love me.”

And Maria Tartar made this footnote on it in The Annotated Peter Pan :

“Pauline Chase, the American actress who played Peter Pan from 1906 to 1913 in New York, recounted children’s reactions to this line: “Stern voices in front have been heard calling out in reply, ‘Serves you right!’ but all are not so hard-hearted. I remember two mites being brought round, behind the scenes because they had something they wanted to say to Captain Hook, but awe fell upon them when he shook their hands (with his hook), and they could only stare at him, and say not a word. When he had gone, however, they looked very woeful, and kept repeating ‘We wanted to tell him, we wanted to tell him,’ and they explained to me that what they wanted to tell him was that they loved him.’”

I thought this was really cute.♡

[synthsizedproductions]

Captain Hook is definitely one of those villains that feel like they have a deeper reasoning for their motivations that at first presented.

I may be biased, though. I asked my grandfather to pretend he was Captain Hook and we played pirates for many years. My small child reasoning was...interesting, to say the least, but that's a different story.

[prokopetz]

As funny as the joke is, “Toxic” by Britney Spears probably would not be regarded centuries hence in the same way that classical music is regarded today. Any future society that would be recognisable to us will probably retain the distinction between popular music and high-falutin’ concert hall fare, and would understand that “Toxic” much more closely resembles the former than it does the latter.

On the other hand, it’s totally plausible that finer distinctions would be lost over time. In particular, the line between pop music and folk music tends to blur very quickly, so it’s conceivable that future societies might understand “Toxic” as an early 21st Century folk song.

Basically, I want you to picture the present sea shanty revival, except instead of “The Wellerman” it’s Britney Spears’ “Toxic”.