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Sunday is for learning the lyrics to a song I wrote on a particularly strange and stormy night back in Eastport in fall, using my Trash Banjo (a perpetually out of tune banjo i found in the trash) as musical aid. I had forgotten about this song until yesterday morning, when I found it in my notes app and realized what a time machine it is, propelling me right back into that Veteran's Hall kitchen. I hope the cat is doing okay. Not sure what will happen with this piece, but for now it's simply sweet and of substance to internalize these three verses.
I’ve seen a lot of people fretting over the recent D&D announcements. Why not take this opportunity to try a new game? There are HUNDREDS of fantastically cool RPGs that don’t suck. Can I suggest my own? The Magical Land of Yeld is fantasy adventure game about children from our world who discover a door to a magical land only to get stuck in the Kingdom of Yeld after their first adventure. They’ll have to challenge the evil Prince Dragul and his 7 Hunters of Yeld in order to gather the keys that will unlock their door home. If they can’t do this by their 13th birthdays they’ll become monsters and will be trapped in the magical land forever. The game focuses on exploration, travel, and friendship, with easy to learn rules presented as comic strips and deep customization. Fights take place on an action board inspired by turn based JRPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics. The game is created by myself and my brother Nick (designer of Classroom Deathmatch and Tulip Academy) and based on my long running webcomic Modest Medusa. We’ve built a world that is LGBTQ inclusive and compelling for all ages. So far we’ve released a dozen expansions for our game, as well as a cool 4 player Starter Set called Mermaid Hunters. We also have a Patreon where we release new content every month. You can buy The Magical Land of Yeld on our own site or DrivethruRPG. Your local shop can order our game directly from our distributor IPR. Just ask them too! - Jake YeldStuff.com YeldPatreon YeldTwitter Yeldtube Yeld Facebook Yeld Store Yeld on DrivethruRPG
You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you
I’m married to Lin Manuel Miranda, so I’m living the good life
he’s wearing his Hamilton costume from act 2 tho…
on second thought, I’m fucked oh no
Either way I’m married to a bat so I’m not complaining
A herd of sheep! That’s not even legal!
Anne Boleyn. Natalie Dormer As Anne Boleyn. I am not at all displeased.
Apollo the dog
I’m fine with that tbh
I’m married to young Robert Smith, and I’m not mad about it.
Married to a train!
Giant car-stompy bird and I are very happy together.
It’s a bit of a long distance relationship between the three of us, but it’s probably better that way. I’m really looking forward to us all getting our schedules lined up again in 2024!
Max and Chloe in more adult versions of their canon outfits with shorter hair. Chloe has a grey and green (agender flag) striped infinity scarf and some chin fluff. For Alephnul. I haven’t played Life is Strange so I hope they look in character!
When I first played Life is Strange, I read Max as potentially non-binary, so it’s neat to see that represented. I didn’t naturally read Chloe as agender, but I very strongly identified with the Max/Chloe relationship, and my spouse is very anti-gender, so it’s surprisingly touching to see an agender Chloe.
Exploring Yeld. Art for The Magical Land of Yeld table top RPG. Available here.
In the clean and simplified world of the laboratory, a droplet’s impact on water is symmetric. From a central point of impact, it sends out a ring of ripples, or even a crown splash, if it has enough momentum. But the real world is rarely so simple.
Here we see how droplets impact when the wind is blowing against them. The drops fall at an angle, creating an oblique cavity. Rings of ripples spread from the impact, but the ligaments of a splash crown form only on the leeward side. As the wind speed increases, so does the violence of the impact, eventually beginning to trap tiny pockets of air beneath the surface. Those miniature bubbles can spray droplets and aerosols into the air when they finally pop. (Image and video credit: A. Wang et al.)
Researchers put a spin on splashing droplets with selective wetting. When a drop impacts on a water-repellent, superhydrophobic surface, it will spread circularly, then pull back together and rebound off the surface. That’s because the surface coating resists actually touching – or being wetted by – the water. But just as there are surface coatings that resist water, there are those that attract it.
Above, researchers have coated a surface so that it’s mostly superhydrophobic, but it also has narrow pinwheel-like arms that are hydrophilic. As the drop impacts, it spreads across the surface and then retracts. But where the hydrophilic arms are, the drop lingers. This creates the four lobes we see on the droplet, and the asymmetric retraction gives the drop angular momentum. As it leaves the surface, the spin continues. In some configurations, the researchers could make the drop spin at more than 7300 rpm. (Image and research credit: H. Li et al; via Science; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)
Xiyue Wang
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Today I wanted to mention a rally going on even as I post at the UW Jackson School of International Relations. This is to contact representatives and otherwise raise awareness of the drastically underreported case of Xiyue Wang, an American student, husband, and father who has now been held hostage in Iran for more than two years. I hope you’ll be able to help and maybe even participate evenif you are too far away or too busy at work or class to attend.
Here is the story.
Xiyue Wang was studying the 19th century Qajar dynasty as part of his graduate research for Princeton. He was following research plans approved by Iranian authorities. Then the work was retroactively declared to be espionage and he was arrested and detained. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has concluded that this was without legal basis. Then there was barely a mention of it in the U.S. news for… years.
If you would think about contacting your representative to ask them to prioritize this humanitarian case and issue a public statement or social media post drawing attention to his plight and calling for his release… that would be kind? And kindness is our work in this life.
I would also take it as a personal favor if any of you who are or have been thinking of becoming members of grassroots political groups, or have any media contacts whatsoever, would bring it up with them too for discussion and action.
Thank you.
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So there were a couple of posts asking what would people like the direct sequel to Life is Stange to look like? (I know we aren’t getting one but I thought it was a good question anyway)
I thought about it and, for me anyway, I would say something like GeneralIrritation’s The Girls Who Broke the World Series. While it’s a little bit of an Au, Max chooses to take the bullet in the bathroom instead of Chloe but doesn’t die, it’s everything I would want in a sequel. There’s a time skip and things are a bit darker but it offers an actual explanation for the time powers that makes complete sense and manages to make me like characters that LiS wanted me to like but didn’t give me a reason too. I mean it made Nathen actually redeemable in my eyes???
what are your guys post-cannon recs ??
@destiny-smasher‘s All Wounds for sure!! It explores both endings, in a way. Lots of hardship, dealing with their trauma and forging forward with their lives. But there’s a meaning to it all, a good ending.
Can’t say much else without spoiling. Just trust me on this one.
All Wounds is a great one ! Just don’t do what I did and try to read it in one sitting because you will lose
I’ve got a sequel mapped out for three chapters including how to have both endings be canon (though by necessity the playthrough for Chapter Six (following immediately after Chapter Five where LiS ended) would be shorter so both endings could in theory be played). I’m not sure if to leave out the planned fourth chapter or not but the final chapter (nine or ten) would be involving playing as Rachel herself.
The story would obviously involve time travel and expand upon things hinted upon in cut scenes and elements touched briefly upon. One thing I also considered was how to incorporate gameplay where you play as Chloe with Max having time travel abilities - essentially if you have Chloe make a “bad end” choice she would try to intervene.
It’ll never come about though. To be honest, I’m not nearly good enough a writer to pull off such a game concept, and I’ve no resources or backing. But it’s a fun mental exercise.
All Wounds will make a great sequel game (once the game form of it is finished), as would @vengesim’s All the Scars You Cannot See. I think my favorite suggestion of a Chloe and Max sequel game idea would be a game in which we play as Rachel, with Max as the deuteragonist manipulating time to ensure that we make it through alive. I’m not really sure how that would work structurally. Your idea of only having the last chapter of the sequel be played as Rachel (I imagine playing Rachel as she lives through the past conditions that Max and Chloe have constructed over the previous chapters) seems like a good solution. @oripoke’s I’ve got you under my skin also makes a good sequel, although it feels like an AU at the start.
TFW you replay LiS and get hit with the feels all over again. And connect the dots like you didn't before. Like Chloe saying that Max made her smile and laugh more than she has in YEARS, but Rachel has "only" been missing for 6 months. Also Chloe saying that Rachel was a lot like Max and lists some of their similiar qualities. Implying that (subconsciously) Chloe gravitated towards Rachel in the beginning because she reminded her of Max And I'm left with LiS feels I don't know what to do with.
True, Chloe was happier in one week she spent with Max than the years she spent with Rachel… which says a lot considering Chloe loved Rachel so much.
‘Chloe saying that Rachel was a lot like Max and lists some of their similiar qualities‘
-> Even the game implies Rachel is like Max, giving them the same spirit animal (doe)! They had similarities that were so startling that before the finale, some fans were speculating that “Max is Rachel Amber” (there is a video on youtube about that). So yeah Chloe falling for Rachel ain’t a coincidence.
Ever think that maybe the reason Chloe said Max was a lot like Rachel was because Rachel was haunting Max? Seriously. Max doesn’t look like Rachel (and was a couple cup sizes smaller than Rachel) despite otherwise being the same size. Max is into taking photographs while Rachel enjoyed being photographed. Max was shy and withdrawn and Rachel was outgoing and was known by a lot of people. Rachel was “too cool for the Vortex Club” while Max was unnoticed by it (or in the William Lives timeline running it). And Max kept seeing the Doe that Dontnod basically confirmed was Rachel.
If Max has a spirit animal, it’s probably the butterfly. We have a girl who undergoes a metamorphosis over five days, awakens as a young woman, and moves away from the past (or crawls back into her cocoon and sacrifices change for the sake of everyone around her except Chloe).
Personally, I think it’s because Chloe loved Max in a similar way to how she loved Rachel. That isn’t really about any of the obvious features of either of them, what they looked like, how they connected to most people, what their personality was like at a broad level (shy vs. outgoing). It’s about how Chloe connected to them and how they made her feel. I’ve had a similar feeling about people I loved, where someone I was falling in love with reminded me intensely of someone else I loved, even though they really had very very little in common (and have never been particularly comfortable with each other, nearly 30 years on). But yeah, I definitely agree that Max was being haunted by Rachel.
(I also never trusted Chloe saying that she’d been happier with Max in the last week than she had been since her dad died as actually being accurate reporting of her last five years of emotional history or a judgement on how it felt to be with Rachel. Instead, I read it as being her current emotional state and an emotional argument. It’s not that she was never this happy with Rachel, it’s that in the moment she feels like nothing has been this intense and significant since her dad died.)
(On the other hand, I love Riley Hawke’s “Fragile Reality”’s chorus:
“She makes me feel like someday we’ll wake up and be happy/ but with you, I forgot that I’m not.“
but neither of those feelings is actually being happy.)
pearl deserves to hate pink
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can someone recommend me a good life is strange+lis bts fixfic ? one w/ amberpricefield if possible.. ive been browsing ao3 and ffnet during my commute but the wifi is crap agh
Here’s a couple:
Kaukasos - https://archiveofourown.org/works/13620687/chapters/31273242
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Defy Fate - https://archiveofourown.org/works/13419036/chapters/30749430
Here’s some more:
The Right Way this Time: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12583440/chapters/28660644
All the Scars You Cannot See: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10883931
A New Beginning: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13928526
Bloom: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8539240
All of these are novel length, Bloom and The Right Way This Time are amberpricefield (although otherwise very different). Bloom and All the Scars are both pre-BTS.
I’m not sure of the exact boundaries of fixit fic, but I think I’d count all of these as fixit fics of one sort or another.
We’ve been lamenting for decades that fic was longer in the good old days. I suspected this was mostly rose-colored glasses, and fic has always had the same ratio of lengths, except, perhaps, in zines that had minimum length requirements.
I thought I’d see which trend shows up on AO3. This is using the advanced search for total number of works updated in a given period. Because posting rates have gone up so much over time, I also looked at what percentage of works from a given year were each length.
Turns out, both of those hypotheses were wrong:
Fic on AO3 has been getting longer.
“Was there an age of fandom novels in the pre-internet days? It doesn’t seem like the technology could even have supported it, unless people were doing serial novels in the zines. I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I don’t.“
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Are you imagining something like a punk zine? Or are you thinking of “novels” as 500 pages?
Old media fandom zines are often a lot bigger and longer than the little chapbooks you see in feminist bookstores or music zines. “Novel zines” were one popular category. (This term means the zine is just that one story, not an anthology.) They might not be the length of a sff doorstop, but plenty of them are in the 50-100k words range.
Here’s an example of one I have.
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Perestroika
My copy is 202 pages, 8.5x11″, around 12pt font. Some novel zines are in a smaller format and are more novella than novel-length. I have a bunch of anthology zines that are around the same size as Perestroika, so they don’t contain any really long fic, but they have at least one longer piece (20-30k words, say). Thick, 8.5x11″ zines are common.
Zine technology evolved over time. I only got interested in the 2010s, and I mostly collect Miami Vice zines, so my collection is primarily used zines from the mid-90s. At that point, they used comb bindings. Those aren’t terribly pleasant if you have a high page count, but they can easily do 200 pages, and sometimes more.
Here’s an overview of the various bindings that were popular over time. Several of these can be used on very large zines:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Binding
Neat! Thanks. I think my only experience with zines was stuff that friends had ordered through factsheet five (so punk zines and random weird stuff) and self-published comics, none of which ran anywhere near 100 pages (that I can remember), and many of which used folded 8.5x11″ sheets, so much smaller than novel sized.
thoughts about pink diamond now that we saw part of her mural? like some people are saying that her legs are too thin to be rose.
1) the Diamond Moon Base’s murals are stylized…
Pink Diamond’s legs do not necessarily look like that (note similarity in style between the depictions of Pink Diamond’s legs and Blue Diamond’s legs):
2) Blue Diamond’s height is not necessarily indicative of the other Diamonds’ statures. while we’ve yet to meet White Diamond(’s physical form), Yellow Diamond, or Pink Diamond in-show, the shot we got of Yellow Diamond during the extended theme…
…gives us an imperfect indication of her height. while she seems only slightly taller than Jasper at first glance, note that–whereas Jasper’s, Lapis’s, and Peridot’s limbs are at least partially showing–Yellow Diamond is depicted in such a way that only her waist is showing. depending on how long her legs are, she could be much taller than quartz soldier Jasper…and, by extension, Rose, who’s Jasper’s height and consistent with the standard height for the known quartz models. (it’s also important to remember that the crewniverse does not have set heights for the characters, only height relationships.)
3) “Steven’s Birthday” established that Gems cannot maintain a “stretched” physical form (i.e. bigger, taller, or larger) than the form in which they first emerged from their Kindergarten holes. however, this rule does not necessarily apply to Gems maintaining “smaller” forms than their “default” form. for all we know, a Gem can shapeshift comfortably into smaller forms.
4) while Pink Diamond’s symbol was present on the Sky Arena and Diamond Moon Base, sites that were built as part of Homeworld’s plan for the Earth colony/predated the Crystal Gem Rebellion…
…the pink symbol is missing from both “modern” Gem tech, like Peridot’s hand-ship…
…and the Sleeping Pyramid temple-labyrinth from “Serious Steven”:
this temple, by the way, has a mural that depicts scenes from the Crystal Gem Rebellion. here we see Rose and her allies confronting a Diamond in battle:
it also just so happens that the temple is located on the Strawberry Fields, which–according to Pearl and Garnet in “Rose’s Scabbard”–served as a battlefield during the Gem Wars for Earth where the Crystal Gems made their stand against Homeworld. this temple was not shown among the Moon Base’s original plans for the Earth Colony, implying that–although it was built thousands of years ago–it was not planned for in advance. additionally–as I’ve argued–this temple, which is almost certainly of Homeworld construction, houses a Gem that may be White Diamond:
again, the Pink Diamond symbol was already missing from White Diamond’s alleged temple.
tl;dr: why is Pink Diamond’s symbol missing from not only modern Gem architecture, but Homeworld Gem architecture constructed circa the Gem Wars for Earth, seemingly built specifically to protect one of the Gem Matriarchs of the Great Diamond Authority after her physical form was destroyed; a temple that is located on the very same battlefield where Rose, Garnet, Pearl, and their allies made their stand against Homeworld…?
maybe Rose and Pearl destroyed Pink Diamond; maybe she did something to piss her counterparts off. either way, these date estimates line up too neatly to be coincidence, imo.
5) related: why was the Pink Diamond statue on the Sky Arena–the site of the first battles of the Gem Wars for Earth–defaced/destroyed while the other Diamond statues were preserved? it’s like Homeworld had a vendetta against her, or something.
6) based on the Moon Base murals, we can infer that the Diamonds’ gem placements go like this: White (forehead), Blue & Yellow (chest). these positions match their individual symbols on both their pre-Rebellion and post-Rebellion symbols:
if we’re to follow the pattern on these emblems, then Pink Diamond’s gem placement would be below her chest–possibly on her navel.
7) why hide Pink Diamond’s mural/withhold her appearance from us when her counterparts’ forms have been revealed? why spoonfeed us details about her through imagery–the “old” Diamond crest including Pink on the Sky Arena and Moon Base vs. the “new” Diamond crest with Pink missing–so that her existence (like White Diamond’s) has never been explicitly mentioned by the characters? dramatically, this conserves tension. maybe because Pink Diamond was someone we already know; maybe because Pink Diamond is not someone we already know but the crew, knowing that many of us would believe that we’ve figured out who Pink Diamond is, made this choice to throw us off their scent.
[EDIT: forgot a few.]
8) in “Space Race,” Pearl wears a flightsuit with a pink diamond on it. this seems mirror the style in which Peridot’s, Jasper’s, and Lapis’s outfits feature yellow and blue diamonds to denote their affiliation with Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond:
plus, when Rose and Pearl form Rainbow Quartz in “We Need to Talk,” the lower half of the star on Rose’s dress is shaped like a diamond:
it stands to reason that Pearl, as Rose’s first Crystal Gem ally and intimate confidante, would know more about her than most–perhaps to the point that her knowledge still manifests here, when they fuse.
9) the technology in Rose’s armory…
…resembles the technology seen in the Kindergarten control room and the Diamond Moon Base:
the latter of which, by the way, Steven–bearer of Rose Quartz’s gem–activates.
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…look. I have reservations about Rose Diamond theory, mostly because it’s…questionable that an army of Gems deemed defective or outcasts by the Homeworld would be led by an “ex-Diamond”–one of the leaders of Homeworld; one of the Gems with power over an empire that deems its Gems defective in the first place–who changed her name (and possibly her physical form) to pass as a lower model soldier-class Gem, or quartz, after she visited Earth and had a revelation…as though the suffering the Great Diamond Authority inflicted on Gems, their own kind, was not enough to rouse her.
there may be any number of unrevealed Homeworld shenanigans that would explain that: maybe Pink Diamond was considered defective by the other Diamonds; maybe Pink Diamond was a title that Rose Quartz was given or expected to prove she was worthy of; maybe Rose Quartz was a soldier-class Gem in Pink Diamond’s service who struck her down, took (likely White Diamond’s) Pearl with her when she escaped, and ran off to start a rebellion. it’s way too early to tell either way, and it’s way too early to make judgments about how the crewniverse will or will not handle “Pink Diamond,” whoever she was.
the evidence is still there, make what you will of it.
I’d just like to give credit to dragoplateau for their theorizing on a certain theory we were all so certain was disproven…
I’d like to say I never gave up hope, but I totally gave up hope. So much so that I completely failed to notice the obvious explanation for why Steven started dreaming Pink Diamond’s memories.