Hey for your Internet Humans stuff... Stoat is an alternative to discord that started getting popular after the Age Verification stuff started happening. Stoat is missing a few features, which makes sense cuz its so new. Streaming games (and screenshare in general) while in a voice chat and the ability to ping roles are what come to mind because my friends and I use those features a lot on discord...
Very small dev team but I'm in the server the devs are in and it sounds like they're working very diligently to catch up feature-wise
I was wondering what they'd look like in your universe? And what their relationship would be to Discord? (If I helps, I heard of Stoat both on here and on Reddit, haha.)
No pressure, just curious!
Okay So... here's where I gotta disappoint people with clarification on the Internet Humans design meta. I apologize in advance.
Apps without browser access are not applicable for Internet Human designs.
Call it my small rebellion against the curse that is phone apps, but I'm not gonna make designs for 'app only' stuff. Internet Humans isn't apps, it's websites. Websites & servers you can view (IRL) with an internet browser. They can have apps on the app store, but if they're not viewable through a web browser on a laptop or phone, they don't qualify.
This unfortunately means that Stoat is not eligible for a humanoid design! Though I hold no ill will towards the dev team (good on them for making something!). If they ever allow browser access, I'll gladly make a design! Until then, they cannot join the Internet Humans crew.
I'm just gonna vent/rant about apps real quick cause it's a Problem that people don't know the difference. Apps are software downloaded onto your device. They can absolutely contain malware and spyware. And if you're on a phone, you have very limited options for controlling your privacy.
Also! App only sucks! For people without phones!
If Tumblr was 'app only' I wouldn't be able to post this (or anything) cause my phone screen is shards of glass right now! Phones are incredibly fragile and break all the time. If your whole house uses your phone as a remote, then it breaks. you're just screwed!
I also watched "Replacing your phone is easy when it feels punk" by struthless and... yeah, having everything be an app encourages you to spend more time on your phone. And, as his video explains, it can have depressive effects. It causes you to become complacent with the horrors of the world.
Which I! Don't! Want!
Download apps being the norm is a way to make you accept you can't do anything about it. You can't modify the files, or the terms and conditions, or anything! They are teaching you to be helpless, literally.
But that's wrong, you can have an effect.
There are people out there who want you blind and stupid, so make an effort to educate yourself. Use the web browser version of things if you can. Make it fun. Be punk. Be emo. Make a damn website with HTML (It's not that hard tbh)
Do something out of the ordinary. Make an effort to go to a protest. Get involved with local politics, non profits, or even just the library! It has more of an effect than you think. Get creative!
And these things are not gonna be easy. It's easier to just scroll YouTube shorts for hours on end than it is to delete/disable the youtube app. But you don't need the app, you can find them with a web browser.
"But it's so much more difficult that way!" I hear from a piss on the poor reader
Yeah. Didja forget the part where I said it wasn't going to be easy? The easy path is full of potholes! Don't become complacent with them cause then they'll never be fixed!
Hello please tell me all you have about Feathers and Teeth emduo
hehe
ok time for an info dump
techno was captured when he was a young teen and brought to the black market facility which is housed in the nether. Phil was found in the overworld but brought to the facility too when he was in his mid teens.
By the time they get away, Techno is 17 and Phil is 23.
More details (with a warning for injury)
Techno has a rare hoglin mutation that allows him to regrow his tusks at a rapid rate. They grow to about 6 inches (including the root) in about a month before they slow to a cm a month unless removed. When the people in the facility removed the tusks, they left the open root canals for the new tusks to fill so they wouldn't need to use any supplies to heal what would be broken quickly.
Because of all the growth and removing of his tusks, Techno's jaw pretty much always hurt. They did numb him a little when they removed them, but it wasn't nearly enough. When he was younger, he would lash out until they learned he would cooperate if they threatened to hurt any of the other specimens they kept there. (which they did anyways but he was a kid and thought they wouldn't lie)
Phil meanwhile was a young elytrian soaring free in the mountains when he was captured. For a while the unnartural heat of the nether was enough to keep him sedated while the people at the facility would remove and sell his fethers one at a time. As word of his beautiful feathers spread around the black market, there was more demand and thus more pain. Inevitably, someone offered big cash for a whole wing.
They were very careful when cutting his wing off of his back as to not "damage the merchandise", but the sedations wore off too fast and Phil let out a shrill scream which awoke a primal rage in Techno. He broke out of his room and trashed the facility on his way to the operation room where Phil was, the scream guiding him. The people had just finished removing Phil's right wing when Techno broke into the room and killed everyone.
Techno only came back to his senses when he heard Phil's soft whimpers of pain from where he was curled in the corner of the room. Techno found some healing potions and managed to get Phil to drink one which stopped the bleeding. Techno resolved to get Phil out of there before returning to rescue the other hybrids and creatures that were trapped.
They travel through the nether for a bit before coming across a group of explorers. Techno is warry of them at first but his concern for Phil outweighed his hostility. Thankfully the adventurers were friendly and helped the two of them clean up and patch up Phil's back. The adventurers gave them supplies and directed them back to their portal to the overworld.
Techno and Phil travel for a while in the overworld, never staying in one place for too long out of fear of being captured again. Word reaches them that the adventurers discovered the black market dealers' base and reported it. Techno was relieved to know the other hybrids he knew were there were in better places now.
Techno and Phil spent the next years healing, traveling, and training together and became very close friends. Phil had to get used to only having one wing, so his balance was a bit off for a bit, but he got used it it. The two of them traveled south for a while before they came to a mountain with an old mine in it. There they met Pete.
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Yes I just now decided that this ties into the Antarctic Empire plot, cause why not
Hope you enjoyed my info dump, feel free to ask more questions if you have any! (about this au or any of my others -see pinned post for the tags-)
Hi Frank! What's the strangest conversation you've overheard?
This isn't one conversation I overheard, but when I was about 17 I was in a car somewhere and, for some reason, listening to Welcome to Nightvale, and I was scared afterward
That may sound like a weird response but I think it reflects just how disturbing the show is. It's kind of bizarre and crappy, but also kind of poetic and beautiful in its own way? I have no idea how I felt about it at the time but it just keeps growing on me
"Picturing Wilbur and Phil searching for food or investigating something and Wilbur keeps going "here hold this. what do you make of this?" and handing things to Phil. Y'know the way you pass things to your cat for it to sniff and announce and opinion on"
What if Wilbur puts a backpack on Phil to help carry extra supplies. The first time, Phil just unceremoniously falls to the ground because the bag messed up his balance and he lays there like a distressed turtle.
AWWWW NOO HAHA
It works! He can't carry anything too heavy but Wilbur probably trusts him with their food supply
