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[xeniashrimp]

She/her (or whatever’s funny)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(I’m bad at finishing things tho lmao)

Ily. Here’s a moray

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The SM-13's Terminal

After asking the question, "what kind of font does the SM-13's terminal UI utilize?" Our friend over at @fontseeker gave us an answer, and with it, an even greater discovery!

It's the bios font from the Acer 710 computer from 1987. You can download it as part of The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack.

Because of course they'd use a real BIOS font! Why would they not? These guys are detail junkies!

Unfortunately for them, so am I.

While I have an entirely different reblog thread about the font, a detail snagged my attention. It's a BIOS font. For the Acer 710.

Indeed, the ACER 710 is truly a computer you can count on. - Acer Technologies Targets Comdex (1987) [ PDF ]

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Some facts I've learned about this computer:

Its original retail price was $995.

It was one of the fastest 8088-based PCs available at the time.

It was part of the very first line of computers released after the company officially rebranded from Multitech Electronics to Acer Technologies Corp. in June 1987.

Acer actually went through the trouble of modifying IBM's standard system font glyphs for its BIOS text display.

It originally shipped with the Acer KB-102A mechanical keyboard. It has Alps SKCM Blue clicky switches.

The system’s dedicated 14-inch dual-frequency monochrome monitor (the MM-14) won the Die gute Industrieform award in Germany.

It was marketed as a "small footprint" system, designed to reclaim huge amounts of desk space compared to the monster IBM computers of the mid-1980s. It was specifically designed to be compact.

Unlike many computers of its day that required separate expansion cards for freakin' everything, the 710 had its graphics (supporting MDA, CGA, and Hercules monochrome) built directly into the motherboard. This computer was a one-stop shop!

Did the C.O.I. snag a 383-year-old motherboard for the SM-13? Not likely. We can truly, finally, place this movie's setting in a Cassette Futurism genre outside of the Iron Lung.

These guys were using operable 1980s technology in the year 2370 AD. What an absolutely insanely niche way to nod at the outside world! We can assume that this is a hunk of junk and not worth missing by their standards, as it was built into a burner sub, so we can then assume that the technology of Iron Lung is a little ahead of this. Possibly 90s to early 2000s if we really want to push it.

Almost like I... predicted this earlier... in a headcanon post...

[xeniashrimp]

Finally doing this and having an absolute blast

[xeniashrimp]

Update: no longer fun. Hard.

[xeniashrimp]

Stuff™ is coming up and it’s gonna be a while before I can make this info into anything useful, so here’s the spreadsheet if anyone’s curious or wants to reference it. Just be warned that the notes have an intended audience of Me and may be incomprehensible lmao. Also the timestamps might off from the official copy since I had it in my editing program to scrub frame-by-frame.

Iron Lung Coordinates

Iron Lung Coordinates

All I’ve really gathered so far is that the POI coordinates I’ve compared are different from the game, but not by much. Like the Light is just a bit off, not on the other side of the map or anything. The map isn’t the same anyway so makes sense. But the “teleports” are very different! I was hoping they’d be similar, but makes sense for the story XD

Besides that, might’ve caught a couple possible errors? Would be funni

[felis-rach]

Doodle of @mykindofcrazy's AMAZING fic A God's Grace because this scene killed me JSKJSKSJ

[deathflare]

iron lung was cool

[xeniashrimp]

Original:

[xeniashrimp]

I have so many important things I need to do that I’ve been procrastinating for over a month but I made these instead

Part 1

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[transformativeworks]

[plaguedocboi]

Aheem heem

[zombiezombie7]

you got so mad that I shattered your worldview with my cock and didn't kill myself like you wanted even after stunting my growth you've resorted to forging screenshots to satisfy your fetish.

[plaguedocboi]

The fish did??

[xeniashrimp]

Finally doing this and having an absolute blast

[xeniashrimp]

Update: no longer fun. Hard.

[xeniashrimp]

Finally doing this and having an absolute blast

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[xeniashrimp]

I feel like this is why bloodymary has so much fan content going for it compared to each of its parent fandoms.

Iron Lung? Low squiggability. VERY cool world, but limited known lore and the premise was pretty tight. There are places to build, but it can be quite an undertaking with the little info we have of canon.

Project Hail Mary? Medium to low squiggabiltity. Lots of BANGER concepts happening, but it had a solid ending and themes that tied up, yk? Also science can be scary.

Of course there’s still a lotta fic to be made for these, but as a writer, the ideas that really eat at me are limited since they told their respective stories so well.

But bloodymary? Ohhh boy, now there’s something else happening. New variables with infinite possibilities. High squiggability.

It’s not because people can’t handle not having something to ship (valid thought tho. As an aromantic, it can be irritating). It’s because it creates a whole new story to be had with The Blorbos

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[ralfmaximus]

do NOT google "omega heat"

[chocomiking]

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

[xeniashrimp]

Yesterday Mark mentioned that there’ll be a “big talking about iron lung live stream” with QnA, so me and a new friend decided to make a community list of questions so we don’t all have to rely on a limited time, fast-paced chat lol. Also it could help Mark go thru them at his own pace, or even prepare ahead of time if he sees it :3

Iron Lung Questions

I’m making a google doc so Mark mayhaps doesn’t have to get all of them at once during the stream lol. Here’s the link to it if you’d like t

I’ve talked about it in the official markiplier discord server, so hopefully this can be helpful with enough traction!!!

[kitsiinabox]

So what kind of critters live in the oceans of the Baleen world? Critters like these!

Tube fish are odd "fish" indeed, having evolved a way to remove up to half their body in an emergency situation or to escape a predator. It's very hard to guess the true age of a tube fish, since many shed their lower halves at at least one point or another. It's a rare gem of a specimen indeed that lives to be long.

They keep most of their organs in the first two segments of their body, with the third and fourth growing back ups as they grow larger.

Tidal Baleens have learned how to raise and farm tube fish, and successfully 'harvest' the lower segments once a year from their costal farms. They make sure the fish are well fed and safe the rest of the year, and as such it's a pretty useful relationship for both.

Unlike on earth, the tri-limb body plan panned out and continued to evolve on the baleen world. Primarily in the ocean.

Spiral Jellies and tripods are all related, where as the spiral fish is related much, much further down the family line. Spiral jellies eat similar to earth jellyfish, where they catch and filter planktons and the like from the water.

Both tripods are detrivores, eating the detritus that falls to the sea floor and mixes into the sand.

[gauntletqueen]

IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY

[gauntletqueen]

GMORNING GIRLIES IT'S YURI DAY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fanlore-wiki]

Happy Yuri Day to all who celebrate!