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Okay, "aging userbase" or whatever, but I've had a favourite since I first started using it and that was at like eleven or twelve, so.

Which burner on your stove is your preferred/go-to cooking area?

Back Left

Front Left

Front Right

Back Right

Center

Back Middle

Front Middle

I use a portable/tabletop stove with only one burner

Other (tag 'em up baybee I wanna know!)

Voting ended onApr 25, 2023

#xellafail #tumblr polls #polls #personally I gravitate toward front right #I'll use front left to boil water for pasta and to reheat soup #but front right is king if I'm doing any proper cooking #(including cooking ground beef for meatsauce or whatever)#it's been forever since I've been in a 3-burner meal situation but I THINK my third choice is usually back left #my previous house had a 6-burner stove but the two burners in the middle were linked to each other #and we had a long pancake griddle that fit over them both #so I included both options #I'm interested to see if there are other stove variants I haven't thought of #obviously that'll require this to breach containment but who knows #tumblr likes polls right now so it might! we'll see lol

y'know, Aiglamene's skin-covered eye socket and bowing replacement bone leg are both mentioned in the text, but the specifics of which side each is on never is. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I just can't decide what I like best which is putting a bit of a crimp on a thing I'm working on. So I come to you, Tumblr!

What side is Aiglamene's missing leg and eye on?

Left eye is missing, left leg is bone

Left eye is missing, right leg is bone

Right eye is missing, right leg is bone

Right eye is missing, left leg is bone

Aiglamene is missing body parts???

Voting ended onDec 10, 2023

(also hey, if you want to comment in the tags (or whatever) on what side you think Crux's eyepatch is worn on I'd love to hear that too cause I can't decide on that either, lol)

#the locked tomb #aiglamene #xellafail #this has been presenting issues for like a full month now lmao #gideon the ninth

A couple weeks ago I was listening to the Nona the Ninth audiobook (as you do, for nearly a year straight) and noticed something towards the very end of it where (spoilers for NtN) the events at the end of the book don't end being frantic until Alecto's name is said exactly three times in Nona's hearing. I didn't grow up with many spooky stories or folk tales or whatever, but I DO remember a tumblr post where they were joking about looking into the rear view mirror of a car and chanting "Bloody Mary" three times to summon her behind them as they're going 50 mph or whatever. Something like that, anyway, but my brain made the connection.

Today, @spaceswordblaster reblogged one of those "have you seen this movie" polls about a Bloody Mary movie. That reminded me that I had wanted to go to the wikipedia page and read up on the common way(s) the legend is invoked, because if it actually worked the way that I was vaguely remembering, that would be a neat parallel that I could ramble about sometime!

The wikipedia page itself gave me a lot of related ideas but it also linked to a similar myth from Japan about "Hanako-san." Having only cursory exposure to horror movies and the like, I was like "is that the Ring girl?" and clicked on that link; it was not (I think the Ring girl starts with an S but anyway).

At the top of THAT wikipedia page was a disambiguation section, which included "if you're looking for the manga, see "Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun" and I was like w h a t (until I read the Hanako-san page, at which point is still sounded hilarious but made sense).

So then I went to the Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun page, as you do, and saw it had been adapted into an anime in 2020 and there was a reboot coming out in 2024 (I think?). So I looked THAT up and it's free on Crunchyroll and I was like "okay I'll watch one episode just to see what it's like, then I can go do the things I need to do for the day" and now I'm on episode 7/13 or something like that.

So that's how my day is going, rofl

#xellafail #he does not appear to be very toilet-bound by the way #I imagine he's school-bound more than anything but we haven't gotten to that point yet #anyway Hanako-kun would be one of those anime characters that hits one of my favourite 'oh fuck yeah this is my DUDE' tropes #except the characters are actually drawn in a stylized way that is way more reminiscent of first-year high schoolers #than the adults most high school-based shows do #and I'm old enough now to feel Weird about that #so he does not get added to the 'bishie list'#but I definitely am getting Ideas for the future #which I guess will ALSO have to do on that giant to do list I have pinned rofl

Hello, Locked Tomb fandom. I want to take a minute to remind you about something that I think is very important, and that some folks don’t know! It’s so important to me that I’m breaking my policy of never using the new post editor just so I can give it fancy formatting!

The audiobook and hardcover versions of Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth do not contain the extra bonus content that the paperback and ebooks do!

The paperback releases of the books are the first editions to contain any bonus content and while the ebook edition is typically updated even if you purchased it prior to the paperback release, physical books can't be updated like that and the audiobook is recorded well before the hardcover's release and is therefore also not updated (though it'd be fabulous if Moira Quirk were to record them some day, I don't think it's likely unless there's a short story omnibus at some point that gets its own audiobook release).

As a result, hardcover readers and audiobook listeners have some additional content that they might not have realized existed that can sate them somewhat while we wait for Alecto (and Nona's paperback release, which may also come with bonus content). The drawback is that anyone who has ingested the series through those formats (as I have) may not even be aware that there's more story and information that they're missing out on!

So hey! If you didn't know, now you do.

#xellafail #the locked tomb #tlt #locked tomb #and if you already knew that and were being a jerk to people anyway #well.#yes I'm sort of vagueblogging but like #I do also genuinely think it's important info to learn or remember #especially if you're participating in the fandom #or posting in the tags

Do you ever think about your OC's accents? I know folks often do voice claims for their characters, but if your stuff was being adapted into a format with audio, how would they all sound in relation to each other and in your native language? Would everybody just have the "normal" regional accent for your area (whether that be locally or country-wide), would certain characters be exceptions? How deep down the rabbit hole do you go, and is this a dark, dangerous door for me to have opened? :P

#xellafail #I've been thinking about it a lot for some reason #and while I can't say I have any specific accents chosen for any of my characters #I do know Karra and Sevvie and James would all sound different than the rest of the cast #because they're not from the area it takes place in #(or in James' case the time period it takes place in lol)#Xella-or-whatever-Xella's-replacement-ends-up-being would probably have a 'fake' accent that blends in and a 'real' accent that doesn't #I'm tempted to say that Alex would be given whatever accent seems to be the most 'swoon-worthy' in the states at any given time #so like australian or soft texan or something like that #(what are people swooning over these days idrk)#Sevvie's the only one that has a sort of 'grounded' accent #but even that's kind of up in the air #because I vacillate daily between her being some flavour of British #(because when R made the character she was leaning heavily on BTVS' Spike for it)#and californian #(because her language patterns are heavily californian and also that's where we were at the time)#which is a weird ping ponging in my head but there you go lol #almost all the Hellfyres would have the local accent #Kanos might be SLIGHTLY different due to James' influence but not significantly so #don't even talk to me about my D&D characters tho bc I have absolutely no idea lmao #I think I've been thinking about it because of the new-ish Castlevania series #where everyone's british except for the aztec vampire #even the french folks #also I guess the russian lady #and possibly more characters I haven't run into bc I'm having a real hard time getting through it #but like everyone's from the same place even though they're not!#and it's driving me crazy for some reason #(I think I listened to the og castlevania series in french maybe that'd help here)

Instead of drawing something for it this year, I was preparing to make a montage of all my attempts' boxes set to Yakety Sax, the way I decided to start doing that for Arfus at Hallow's End. Arfus dropped the very first time I hit Start Recording on OBS, but it was looking pretty bleak that I'd get that lucky again.

The world continues to laugh at plans. Day four, the first run of the day.

180 attempts this year. 5,043 recorded attempts since 2014, an unknown number prior to 2014, fourteen years of not only running as many times as I could during the two week period of the event but also largely structuring my account around being ready to run as many times as I could during the two week period.

It's the end of an era. I don't ever have to do this dungeon again if I don't want to. I am free.

I am free.

#xellafail #world of warcraft #love is in the air #you can see by that video just how long it took me to register what had happened lmao #I do actually still have to do it on my hunter+mage til I get 270 love tokens for the new mount+toy #but everyone else can stop if I want to #actually if I do dailies on my hunter tomorrow she'll have enough #the mage might have to do an extra day though

Hrmmm… my Nona ebook purchase updated the cover image to the paperback version (with the pink stripe on the right), but the contents are still the hardcover (or at least doesn’t contain the bonus content). I guess I’ll try again next week :(

#xellafail #the locked tomb #sorry main tag but maybe you know something I don’t here?

I’ve been listening to the Gideon the Ninth audiobook (and the sequel books, obv) basically nonstop since Nona came out, and for significant periods of time before that. Yet it wasn’t until today that I heard and noticed this little gem:

Which is probably a good jumping off point for pobody’s nerfect, but is really making me think about a sixth house role swap and just how pathetic a cavalier Palamedes would be, rofl