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Hooray, the link post works! Everyone, please say hello to Chapter 5 of "The Van Dort Vacancy," AKA The One Where They Actually Do The Heist! Featuring guards being drugged, the group having to navigate a hallway full of traps, a shocking display of Nell Van Dort's excess in the vault, and Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue III being his usual "lovable" self. Plus more "Oxventure Presents: Blades In The Dark" references than you can shake a stick at. :p Enjoy!
Hey, while I was doing my little BABS comment spam, it occurred to me to ask -- have you seen the Backrooms movie? It sounds like your jam, and apparently it's good from what I've heard.
Apologies for the slight delay, was on vacation with family in Las Vegas.
Anyways, yes indeed I have! Its an adaptation/part of the Backrooms youtube series by Kane Pixels (who directed and contributed greatly to th film), and its a very compelling psychological kind of horror movie (though there are monsters in it, but any more talk on that would be spoilers). Overall, I really enjoyed it, both as a Backrooms movie and as a horror movie.
Main criticism I've seen (aside from people just not really understanding what was going on) is how the writing seems to unintentionally fall into some bad horror stereotypes, especially ones relating to Black men (violent, aggressive, etc). Sort of a "we did not think this one through enough" situation as far as I'm aware. Which is really unfortunate since it does sour the film quite a bit once you pick up on it.
No worries -- I hope you enjoyed Vegas! :) And yeah, I saw that it was directed by the same guy who made that YouTube series (there's a lot about him being the youngest director ever of a A24 film), so that's cool. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I saw the advertising for it and was like "yeah, that'll be Satirical's jam."
...that being said, having read up on the movie and its plot because I was curious -- yeah, those criticisms have a point, don't they? *sigh* Damn baked-in racism...
Cracked out the markers and did a little traditional sketching.
Headcanon: Canny Tim loves being outside, Dan does not.
I usually save free game recs for big roundup posts, but I'm making a special exception for Print Gallery of an Artist:
A Brief Exploration Of Recursive Spaces
Unless you are prone to motion sickness, play this one immediately.
who’s been here since 2011-2014?
Hey Newt -- how about the word "write" for the WIP word game? :p
Ahh hello, dear, thank you! You've hit upon an odd blind spot here, I could not find ANYTHING, no instance of this word in any of my vaguely-active WIP docs. But if I expand the search out to 'writing' you get a bit of daffiness from the very silly Miranda AU I started as a gift for @dear-monday xD
“Oh, I’m sure you put the work in. Always so embarrassed to be associated with me.” “If I was embarrassed I can assure you that the reasons numbered far beyond—” he bit his tongue. “Psychiatrist present.” They turned as one to look at the psychiatrist in question—and found, to their mutual horror, that he was writing something down. Edwin blanched. “Oh, bugger.” Doctor Kashira glanced up at them and smiled pleasantly. “Oh! Nothing to worry about.” “What is he writing down?” Asa demanded in a sharp hiss. “We haven’t said a word! Oh, this absolutely will not do—I shall not have this man thinking that we have issues.”
send me a word, if it's in my WIP doc I'll post the snippet ^_^
Huh! I would have thought there was one "write" somewhere in the mix...but I quite enjoy the "writing" snippet, especially "and found, to their mutual horror, that he was writing something down." XD
ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic
Check him out he’s so cool
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It's June 9th, which means it's time to wish a happy birthday to the final member of my OT3, Victor Van Dort! And as tradition demands, we have another photo of my plushies celebrating, with Victor Plush enjoying some chocolate-and-peanut-butter squares with Smileon the Smiler Bear and Alice Dolly. All while Dougie the dragon looks on, Us the intellect devourer cuddles everyone from behind, and Doc from BTTF hangs out on the side there. XD What can I say, I think it's cute. Happy birthday Victor!
Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
i just discovered this gorgeous progress flag design by FlailingSpade and was inspired to build upon it
the colorblind and photosensitive friendly color scheme comes from the star of david progress flag by dykeboytism
both of these flags will be placed under the read more just in case either link ends up not working
id like to think of this as the sunrise progress flag : >
pixeled it :3
THEY PUT SEX MAGIC BACK IN THE FLAG (and a secret third thing??)!!!!
secret third thing is killing me thank you lmao 💀
i forgot that not everyone is aware that before he passed, gilbert baker added a lavender stripe to the top of his flag that represents diversity
Hey, everyone -- I am pleased to announce that, after much trial and error and fiddling around with things, the Polyheart OT3 house is now officially done inside AND out! :D Yes, as hinted at in previous posts, I decided that, after all the work I put into the interior of the house, I didn't want to leave the lot around it blank -- my OT3 deserves better than that. So I proceeded to give them a heart-shaped pool; a barbecue area to go with the heart-shaped pool; a heart-shaped mini-greenhouse to match the heart-shaped pool on the other side of the house; and a picnic area to match the barbecue area. Because I like symmetry and I figured, if I already had a heart-shaped house... XD I also made a couple of last-minute tweaks to the interior (separate from the Pride SDX drop updates I showcased last month), because I am never truly satisfied with anything. :p Let me take you through all the changes in a little more detail:
Interior: As stated above, I made four little tweaks to the interior of the house while finishing off the build:
->I added a coffee table to the living room! Because the longer I looked at it, the more I was like "it needs a coffee table -- if only because I think the couch is a little too close to the TV." :p The coffee table is the one from Paranormal Stuff to match the couch and armchair (in the purple swatch with the flowers painted on top because pretty), while the plant atop it is the base game "Feng Shui Planter." Because I felt it needed a plant, and that was like the ONLY one that looked good atop it without taking up too much space. Trust me, I went through a LOT of options. *shakehead* Decorating in Sims 4 is hard sometimes, let me tell you.
->I swapped out the "Panels of Perfection" multi-canvas painting of the winding river over the dining table in the kitchen for a giant picture of some chocolate chip pancakes and bacon from Dine Out – while I really liked that river picture, I thought the breakfast scene was just more fun, and went well with the "fried egg" rug under the dining table. *shrug* I'll find a place for that river painting in another build!
->I adjusted the placement of the big fancy "cherry blossom branch" triptych picture in the right-hand hall, outside Victor’s room, so it lined up a bit better with the other set of three pictures nearby (it just looked kinda weird otherwise), and added a Werewolves "Moonwood Mill Print" picture in the "butterfly print, silver frame" swatch on the bit of diagonal wall next to the grandfather clock (I’ve been wanting to put something on there for AGES, and a butterfly picture felt very appropriate given it’s right outside Victor’s personal space).
->And I moved the knitted pride flag decoration I added to the left-hand hall in the "Pride SDX" update so it was next to the bedroom door, rather than across from it, then adjusted that picture of the lady with the wacky blue hair on a yellow background so it was more properly centered on the opposite wall. Because I though the pride flag made more sense next to the door, and the painting just looked better centered -- though I don't know why it looks so flat in that picture! Like, seriously, it didn't look that 2D the last time I took a picture of it from a Sim's-eye view! Weird...
I may not be playing Sims 4 anymore, but I still love this build, so let's bring it back around for the beginning of Pride. :)
AU Thursday: Mega Gender/Sexuality Headcanon Post
Because it’s Pride Month, and because I just did a post on all the various ships I have featuring Victor, Alice, and their friends/potential partners. Time to bring everyone up to date on my various headcanons regarding their genders and sexualities! To make things a little easier on myself, I’m using the names that they would have in the Running Headlong Into The Bullshit mega-poly ship (that is, the Modern AU one where the first nine people here are all in one big relationship tangle together), but you can assume that these headcanons also apply to other versions of them from other verses (e.g., the headcanon for Christopher White also applies to Sir Christopher Lloyd in “Secundus”).
Here we go:
Victor Van Dort: Cis male, Biromantic Bisexual (leans toward women partners)
Victor used to be my token straight person, but then I started realizing that I could picture him easily being in a relationship with the right sort of man (or nonbinary person, see below), and things evolved from there. He does still tend to lean toward women partners, and that preference is why he identifies more as “bi” than “pan,” but he is attracted to multiple genders!
Alice Liddell: Cis female, Demipanromantic Greyasexual
Otherwise known as “the complicated one.” XD This is largely because I’d already established her as willing to have sex with Victor to the point of having biological children by the time I found the “Ace Alice” headcanons and decided I rather liked them (also, noticed a lot of what they said about asexuality fit me…) Having played around with her character a bit more over the course of my stories, both public and not, I have come to the conclusions that a) she doesn’t really have any gender preferences, but she does need a strong emotional bond with someone to start seeing them as a romantic interest; b) she is generally uninterested in sex (if neutral toward its existence, despite her traumas) but has a few specific circumstances that can get her motor, if not running full speed, at least puttering. (These circumstances are invariably very specifically kinky because I know what I like when it comes to those sort of stories. There is a reason that I would call any specifically NSFW writing handle “Alice Dommes Victor” or similar!)
Victoria Everglot: Cis female, Biromantic Bisexual
By contrast, Victoria’s easy – she’s basically a “perfect” bisexual, with a roughly equal attraction toward her own and other genders. There might be a tiny lean toward men as partners, but I suspect that shows up more in Victorian-era Victorias than modern ones.
Emily Cartwell-Merrimack: Cis female, Biromantic Lesbian
I don’t recall exactly when I decided it would be interesting for Emily to be romantically but not sexually attracted to men, but it must have been around the time I discovered that romantic attraction and sexual attraction didn’t NECESSARILY have to match. But yeah, as it turns out, I picture Emily as someone who is happy to be romantic with multiple genders, but is exclusively attracted to her own when it comes to sex. Victorian-era Emilys either don’t realize they don’t have a “proper” attraction to men or figure everything will work out once they get married to their One True Male Love; more modern ones come to grips with their sexuality earlier and happily embrace their “three-quarters lesbian” nature. :p
Christopher White: Cis male, Biromantic Bisexual
Another fairly simple one – the Christophers were initially conceived of as straight, like Victor, but I embraced the bi when I updated the character for the Cuddlepile poly pairing. Like Victoria, they have roughly equal attraction to a variety of genders, with maybe a slight lean toward women.
Richard Hatter: Agender (amab) with “xe/xim” pronouns; Panromantic Asexual (no gender preference, no interest in sex)
Another one where things got interesting – learning about different sexualities also involved learning about different gender identities, and I was already familiar with neo-pronouns through earlier RP on LiveJournal, so I figured I could make one of the original Cuddlepile have a different gender identity than “cis.” Richard felt like a good choice, as I can’t see even Hatter in the games having an especially strong connection to the concept of being male. So yeah, Richard is like “Gender? Nah” – though obviously only the modern versions use the “xe/xim” pronouns – the Victorian-era “Richard Dodgson” from “Secundus” just goes with “he/him” because that’s what he’s used to by this point (and because I wrote that version, again, before learning about all this). I think I had xim as just bi all the way before, but panromantic feels more right to me the more I think about it – and I’ve also NEVER been able to imagine xim having sex (I’m not sure some of the more robotic ones even have the capability anymore), so yeah – asexual it is!
Preston Garvey: Cis male, Biromantic Bisexual
Back to fairly simple for good old Preston – he’s a romanceable companion in FO4, and you can flirt with him no matter your character’s gender, so – basically he’s CANONICALLY bi! Doesn’t get easier than that!
Piper Wright: Cis female, Biromantic Bisexual (leans toward women partners)
Piper is slightly more complicated – like Preston, she’s a romanceable companion in FO4 regardless of player gender, so canonically bi. But she ALSO has a reasonably well-known moment where she accidentally flirts with Magnolia and gets flustered if you take her to The Third Rail and then talk to Magnolia after her set. I’ve decided this is good enough for me to push her toward generally favoring women partners, though she likes guys too if they hit the right buttons (which my Sole Survivor Victor does – as does Preston!).
Smiler Alton: Nonbinary (amab) with “they/them” pronouns; Panromantic Pansexual
This one proved to be easy after I devoured as much information on The Smiler roller coaster as I could on tumblr – the moment I discovered the coaster and its theming shares the colors of the nonbinary flag, I knew my Smiler had to be nonbinary too. And given The Smiler’s thing is spreading joy and happiness to all, pan felt like the right label for their romantic and sexual attractions – why would someone like that have a gender preference? (Which is very much reflected in my Sim Smiler Always and their Wonderful Whims attractions. XD) Smiler loves who they love, and they’re very happy that way.
Lizzie Liddell: Cis female, Demibiromantic demibisexual (sex-repulsed after trauma)
Lizzie, by contrast, proved to be difficult simply because – well. The big character beat of her life in the Alice games is what Bumby did to her. Looking at how I wrote her in “In The Land Of The Dead” and “The Technicolor Phase” and thinking about the kind of person I picture her as, I have decided that, like her sister, she’s capable of being attracted to multiple genders, but she needs to form a strong bond with the person first. However, her experience with Bumby left her heavily sex-repulsed, so she’s unlikely to actually want to have sex with anyone. (Not that she can in the stories I’ve written for her so far, but yeah.)
Jeremy Samuel “Bonejangles” Thatcher: Cis male, Hetero-romantic Heterosexual
…I have decided we do need a token straight and BJ strikes me as such. XD He likes the ladies and that’s that. (Well, so far he likes Lizzie and that’s that, but I implied an at least sexual history with other women in “In The Land Of The Dead.”)
Bringing this post back around because:
A) It’s Pride and thus appropriate to remind you all of my gender and sexuality headcanons for my Valicer trio and all their friends/potential partners/potential metamours
B) I was originally going to reblog it back onto my RP blog again as something to stick in my queue during a quiet period…and then spotted the following tags on the original reblog:
#((the definitive list!#well mostly definitive#I’d do an update with Doc and Marty if I was feeling less period-y#but the short version is I think Doc’s some version of gray-ace#because he wasn’t really interested in romance or sex until Clara#and Marty’s either het or bi#I will figure it out in full later))
And – well, it is later, and I’m not periody at the moment, so let’s indeed figure this out for Doc and Marty – and let’s throw Clara and Jennifer in there for good measure, since they appear in the AUs where the BTTF characters appear more often than not these days:
Doc Brown: Cis male, Demiheteroromantic heterosexual
My “some version of gray-ace” has evolved into Doc being mostly straight, but needing an emotional bond of some kind to experience romantic attraction. Hence why women are the “other great mystery of the universe” to him. XD Now, you may say that doesn’t really sync up well with him falling in love at first sight with Clara, but I argue that there’s no better way to speedrun an emotional bond than saving someone’s life! XD And you can’t say that they didn’t find they had a lot in common VERY fast in the third movie. So yeah, Doc’s on the demi side of things.
Marty McFly: Cis male, Biromantic Bisexual (strong lean toward women partners)
I wasn’t sure if Marty was going to be bisexual or straight for a while – in the end, though I decided it would be interesting if he had at least some attraction toward guys, such as the occasional crush on a famous actor or musician. Not that he ever really acts on it, because a) he grew up in the 80s, not exactly a kind decade for queer people and b) he is of the monogamous persuasion and fell in with Jennifer pretty quick. Though perhaps he’s a little more open about it when he’s older – maybe Junior is bi too, and Marty comes out in solidarity?
Clara Clayton: Cis female, Demiheteroromantic Demiheterosexual
I decided pretty quickly that Clara was probably the same stripe as Doc, but decided to make her demi for both romance and sex based on what I remembered of her backstory in the “Clara’s Story” comic. It just seemed right that she’d need an emotional connection to be attracted to a guy, and she really wasn’t getting that with the suitors she had back in New Jersey! And again, I know, the “love at first sight” thing, but again, Doc saved her life – that’s an instant connection right there!
Jennifer Parker: Cis female, Heteroromantic, Heterosexual
And here we have another straight person to keep Bonejangles company. XD She just strikes me as straight! Though I’m also sure she’s a proud ally, supporting all of her family and friends in their identities. Especially her beloved husband and kids (because of course I also subscribe to the “trans Marlene” headcanon).
Okay, THAT will do it. Happy Pride, all!
Today we wish a happy anniversary to The Smiler coaster over in Alton Towers, and a happy birthday to my own Smiler Alton OC! As per tradition, we have our plushy celebration photo featuring Smileon the Smiler teddy bear getting some peanut-butter-and-chocolate-chip cookies, with Alice Dolly and Victor Plush on either side of them, along with Dougie the Dragon and Us the Intellect Devourer in the background (the latter sporting my homemade Smiler cap in honor of the occasion). Oh, and and a few of my other plushies off to the side -- hi Doc from BTTF! XD Happy birthday Smiler!