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Capy ([personal profile] paperghost) wrote2025-08-25 06:54 pm
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whatever

I was going to promise at the end of my last entry that I might post about "fun" things at one point, but my work phone changed my schedule and says I work six 8 hour shifts in a row starting the 28th, and I'm freaking out over that because I can't physically handle working that much. So whatever. Don't expect anything interesting from me at this point. I've already retired from Neocities because I've grown to hate it and doing anything offline is far off with my "randomized by computer" work schedule.
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Capy ([personal profile] paperghost) wrote2025-08-25 06:13 pm
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RIP

All politicians have their failures, bad moves, and detractors, but it's sad how "he's not a bad person, I just don't agree with him" is a normal statement that's considered radical now. I wonder what the history books kids are reading now are saying about this...

DW keeps shitting itself when I embed more videos, so here's Obama's eulogy and Biden's eulogy. Obama was a pretty average / "baseline" president, but I thought it was incredibly mature of McCain to invite his opponents to his funeral. Note how Trump and Ms. Palin weren't there...

I was hoping to have a rewritten review of Game Change back on my site by now, but I'm low energy and hit with post-con depression to want to chip at any HTML. Still, it'd feel wrong to not post about this somewhere.

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Linky ([personal profile] linky) wrote2025-08-25 11:30 am
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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-08-25 10:00 am
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"Summer is over," says me.

Last night I used a random number generator to pick my nail polish color for the week. The color was to be "Nocturnal Wine" by Revlon from the c. 1992 ColorStyle line which I found at a thrift store. (I found some articles about the ColorStyle line which was apparently Revlon's first line of products intended to suit PoC.) It's a very pretty cinnamon/brick color. Please excuse the messy application. I do still struggle with the long, thin older style of brushes and I don't think the old Revlon ones can be replaced. I don't typically wear reds in the summer so I had been waiting to try it until we got closer to fall. But the number generator said it was time!


The temperature got down to the low 50s last night so we slept with the windows open. The high is only supposed to be 69 today!

And then they had all the pumpkin flavors out at Dunkin. So I've got a pumpkin iced coffee with me this morning. 

All this to say, I officially declare it to be fall now!
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Tristan ([personal profile] angelcage) wrote2025-08-25 11:06 pm

Postcards and Post-apocalypse

◇ Skipped going to the garden today for the first time since June. I feel bad, but in my defense my right hand is still a bit injured and I don't want to open up any of my scabs digging in the dirt with a half-healed hand. I'll go next week, though.

◇ Read Erio and the Electric Doll, up to chapter 21, which is as much as is scanslated in English. There's more in French, though! Maybe I should try reading that for practice? Anyway, it's a GL manga, a post-apocalyptic steampunk story that has very nice art. I think the atmosphere is the most notable thing about it— the back-story and all that is pretty cliche robots rose up against the humans so to prevent the robots from doing that, humans stopped using electricity all together. The protagonist girls are an electric doll left over from the war and a girl whose body has been engineered to create electricity, as they travel through cities recovering from the war. I have a weakness for post-apocalyptic travel manga. There's honestly a fair few, and it's nice to see one that feels optimistic rather than pessimistic.

◇ I took down a few friend's addresses to send them post-cards! And I do have the post-cards! I just need to write them all, since I'd like to send them all out at once. Which... means I have some more to do. I've written some, just not all of them yet. It's maybe kind of a silly thing to do since we're all in contact online anyway, but I still want to.

◇ Diet time for real. It's just a few kilos but my dysphoria is acting up real bad, and I hate my clothes feeling tight.

Dyed my hair! Or rather, a friend dyed it. I'm really happy with it. And since it's just the tips, if I get hired at a place that requires natural hair colour, it shouldn't be hard to cut. I'm hoping I won't need to, though.
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Louis Chanina ([personal profile] grayestofghosts) wrote2025-08-23 11:41 pm
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New Toy: Innioasis Y1

I just got the Innioasis Y1. Why? Well, frankly the other DAP had frustrating limitations that I am hoping this one does not have, primarily with respect to audiobooks and podcasts. It kind of seems like the easiest way to get an inexpensive device that can handle audiobooks well (as in, keeping bookmarks) is by having an android base, but having an android base also causes other issues. So it's a tradeoff. I got the Y1 for $50 so right now if it doesn't work out I'm not going to beat myself up too much about it, and also if I hate the original android OS I can choose to install rockbox (though I don't know how good rockbox is for audiobooks... have not done research.

I'm not going to do a full review because I haven't used it much, and have barely uploaded all my music onto it. The Innioasis Y1 is designed to look like an iPod but feels way cheaper than an iPod, because, of course, you are only paying $50 for it. I got the blue (which is a teal color) even though my first choice would have been the teal (which is a blue color), but it still looks nice. Honestly in terms of first impression of builds, I think the Snowsky Echo Mini is probably nicer. I am definitely contemplating getting a screen protector for this thing.

The sound quality is ok -- on first impression I am not sure if it is slightly worse than the echo mini or I just haven't found the right volume (I think the Echo Mini can get way louder). One thing it does have is the ability to create themes. The Y1 is advertised as being "for kids," I guess because it doesn't have any web functionality so you can control what your child is listening to, so most of the default themes are kinda goofy looking. So the first thing I did was download a bunch of themes and am currently using a Windows 95 theme I found on Reddit.

I'm going to give it at least a week to see how it compares to the echo mini, or if I want to try running rockbox on it.
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-08-23 10:48 pm
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Pokémon: Get!

Got my assignments for [community profile] pokepodproject!

I'm writing about Xatu and Sneasel. Xatu's got a pretty cool design in general, and I've been a fan of Sneasel pretty much since I first laid eyes on it. Reading their 'dex entries and lore on Bulbapedia got me a plunny for Sneasel already, but I'm still working on finding one for Xatu.

If you haven't checked out the fics/podfic from last year, I recommend it! It was a long listen (about ten and a half hours total), but I loved almost every fic, and keep meaning to go back and comment on all of them.
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Tristan ([personal profile] angelcage) wrote2025-08-24 10:44 pm

TTRPG CHARACTER 8: Theatri Glacialis


BASIC INFO

NAME:Theatri Glacialis
GAME: Daggerheart
COMMUNITY: Frostborne
ANCESTRY: Fungril
CLASS: Rogue
SUBCLASS: Syndicate
GENDER: Male

STATS

AGILITY: 0
STRENGTH: -1
FINESSE: +2
INSTINCT: +1
PRESENCE: +1
KNOWLEDGE: 0
HOPE: 2/6

ACTIVE WEAPONS:

MAIN: Dagger
SECONDARY: Grappler

CLOTHES ARE:

Boyar-esque.
EYES LIKE:

Winter.

BODY THAT'S:

Hidden.

THE COLOUR OF:

Ashes.

ATTITUDE LIKE:

A mad social scientist.

THEATRI GLACIALIS
UNRELIABLE DOCUMENTARIAN, KNOWS A GUY, WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOU


BACKGROUND
Fungril, as a people, have a unique trait: their mycelial arrays grant them a sort of chemical communication. It is well-known that this allows them to communicate with and understand other fungril, in silent conversation. Less advertised, however, is their death connection which allows them to extract one memory from the corpse related to a specific emotion or sensation of your choice. Theatri used this less than favourably viewed ability to extract and graft memories from the dead— an act which he was eventually caught for and for which he was exiled from his home community.

Set adrift from his homeland, he is now a great many more people's problem, because he certainly isn't taking his exile to reflect upon his actions. He likes people, after all. He is very interested in them! People are interesting. And it is, for him, preferable to be useful than to be right. He is very easily talked into acts that he might not have otherwise committed because he wants to see the outcome of other people's successes and plans. He is here to help! Unfortunately. This leaves him with a lot of connections, allies, and people who have some trepidation upon seeing him but nonetheless will not immediately turn him out.

ABILITIES
Deft Deceiver: Spend a Hope to gain advantage on a roll to deceive or trick someone into believing a lie you tell them.

Uncanny Disguise: When you have a few minutes to prepare, you can mark a Stress to don the facade of any humanoid you can picture clearly in your mind. While disguised, you have advantage on Presence Rolls to avoid scrutiny.

Place a number of tokens equal to your Spellcast trait on this card. When you take an action while disguised, spend a token from this card. After the action that spends the last token is resolved, the disguise drops.

Rogue's Dodge: Spend 3 Hope to gain a +2 bonus to your Evasion until the next time an attack succeeds against you. Otherwise, this bonus lasts until your next rest.

Cloaked: Any time you would be Hidden , you are instead Cloaked. In addition to the benefits of the Hidden condition, while Cloaked you remain unseen if you are stationary when an adversary moves to where they would normally see you. After you make an attack or end a move within line of sight of an adversary, you are no longer Cloaked.

Sneak Attack: When you succeed on an attack while Cloaked or while an ally is within Melee range of your target, add a number of d6s equal to your tier to your damage roll .

Level 1 → Tier 1

Well-connected: When you arrive in a prominent town or environment, you know somebody who calls this place home. Give them a name, note how you think they could be useful, and choose one fact from the following list:
❄They owe me a favor, but they’ll be hard to find.
❄They’re going to ask for something in exchange.
❄They’re always in a great deal of trouble.
❄We used to be together. It’s a long story.
❄We didn’t part on great terms.
Fungril Network:Make an Instinct Roll (12) to use your mycelial array to speak with others of your ancestry. On a success, you can communicate across any distance.

Death Connection:While touching a corpse that died recently, you can mark a Stress to extract one memory from the corpse related to a specific emotion or sensation of your choice.

Long Winter:You know how to make resources last. Once per long rest, when you choose to Repair All Armor, you can also repair an ally’s armor up to half their Base Armor Score.
Experience
❄Repair
❄Better to be useful than right

EDITORIAL
For once, a character not just made up for the sake of feeling like I'm doing something with all the corebooks I have! Theatri was made specifically for the sake of an up-coming Daggerheart one-shot with friends that I'm looking forward to. This means his background is a bit more minimal since we haven't hammered out connections between the group yet and I don't want to come in with something very specific only to learn it won't work with what everyone else is doing.

I'm very much looking forward to the one-shot though— I'm a bit of a notorious DnD hater amongst my friends. I'm not against fantasy, but DnD is just so like. Bland whilst also being kitchen sink and not really having the best mechanics. It's also a very combat forward system.

Daggerheart, from what I've seen so far, seems like with the dual hope/fear die mechanic takes more inspiration from powered by the apocalypse type systems to make failures feel like they're more worthwhile from a player perspective. I also like the different ancestries and abilities offered, and it seems to be off to a strong start so far! I hope trying it goes well +_+!

Theatri was also a character that was designed partially from a series of sketches I did-- I mentioned in our discord the ancestries I was looking at, Fungril was on the list and the one the DM thought would be cool to see, so I did a series of fungril designs. The one the other players liked best was one with a big fluffy mushroom cap on-top which reminded me of the Russian boyar hats, and the rest of his character basically came from that. I admit part of it is also wanting to see if I can do the accent any justice— enough of my IRL friends are from there so I have heard it plenty. And if I do it horribly— well, the other players are American, and it's a one-shot. They will only have to put up with it just the once!

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Capy ([personal profile] paperghost) wrote2025-08-23 06:40 pm
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Migrating to Nearly Free Speech

🖥️ Migrating to Nearly Free Speech

I'm too tired and uninspired to bother updating my site, but.... Just in case the worst scenario happens...
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Capy ([personal profile] paperghost) wrote2025-08-22 10:04 pm
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NC

1. I am drunk right now because I was gonna go out to a lesbian bar this evening, but then some at home schedule stuff got in the way lol. So I am coping by drinking at home. If this is incoherent, that's why.

2. Soooo there's whispers over on Bsky (etc.) that Neocities might follow suit on the NSFW bans. This was disclosed via an email from Kyle Drake, and Neocities in general is kind of... unmoderated unless it's something REALLY bad or something that exploits the site's spaghetti code. NSFW will only get banned from Neocities IF the US laws allow it, but.... I was thinking that maybe, the silver lining of the social media bullshit is that people will go make their own sites again with no rules besides "don't post CP or anything else illegal". But if this happens, I will go postal. I will cry. I've been willing to grit my teeth and agree to disagree with Kyle Drake's AI shilling but he cannot sell out so easily when the baseline rules of "anything legal in the US" works and NSFW websites are shadowbanned / not searchable. I'm already worried Bsky is going that way when I really like it, but if the worst happens I really might bite the bullet and look into buying a domain and a paid host. I'm just not ready :( (<- draft I wrote last night when I was sober lol)

I know there's Nekoweb, since the servers are in Germany and they (probably) won't be affected by US laws. But it's run by zoomers and customer support is done over Discord, that's insane. I don't even mind Discord but emails are right there. I know where I'd buy a domain, and what paid host I would use (NFS), but ugh. I've been taking a prolonged hiatus from my site because I don't enjoy it anymore, and the community is just refurbished Tumblr/Discord. I should probably look into push updates and a SSG. If I move to a better paid host, I'm sure that .php or .cgi has better ways of hosting an art gallery than the hard-to-organize OC bullshit I have and Javascript. But I'm just not ready for all of it, but the way things are is too much for me. Again, I'm drunk so if this is "unfiltered but incoherent" I'm sorry. I'm a wagie, not a techie. I'm trying to touch grass and try to be in sane online communities. But man. It's hard.

2025 is 2005 if I was an adult during it. What the fuck.
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key / okowwy ([personal profile] euhgh) wrote2025-08-22 02:18 pm
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When You're too Lazy to Login

I got logged out of Dreamwidth and it made me too lazy to want to login and write a post I wanted to make earlier. It's funny to be pointlessly lazy like that... the tiny extra bit of friction of having to log back in has stopped me more than once from posting or interacting with people in a timely manner. Besides that, I got mentioned in a weird post on Tumblr where someone was making polls comparing people's art?? I... I can't be the only one who finds this incredibly rude. I don't want to see the poll answers. I.........how DARE you??? I don't draw to be in a competition with other artists!! I didn't sign up for this!!!!! I'm just going to ignore it instead of draw attention to it. It really annoyed me at the time though.

Well, besides that, I've been getting a lot more kind random messages these days since I started being more social again, which is nice. I'd like to focus on that and write some kind of Today In Video Games post to talk about some of the latest games news I've been interested in besides Sonic.......but also Sonic. I've also been thinking of some older artists that influenced me a lot that deleted their galleries and I want to write about that. Much to do. Too much, even. I hate that being social requires... being social. It's as overwhelming as it is stimulating.

Oh, I've also never posted my art here before despite saying I willl, but I don't know if the first art of mine I want on this journal to be Espio getting fisted by Vector. A friend of mine mentioned it to me offhand and I just HAAAAAAAD to make it real. It looks as ridiculous as I thought it would. I don't know if I'm gonna color it or leave it a sketch, LMAOOOOOo... it'll be on Inkbunny eventually either way. Oh. Inkbunny is the only site that feels like it has a lot of Sonic artists outside of Twitter?? Weird. Oh, but I'm really rambling off all stream-of-consciousness like now and that'll never end. Back to werk.
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-08-21 11:56 pm
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Random PIDW Monster

IDK if I'll ever put it in a fic or anything, but the words "Eight-Legged Spider Hawk" spontaneously generated themselves in my brain as I was preparing for my evening ablutions.

My first reaction to this thought was that Peerless Cucumber absolutely roasted Airplane in the comments when this monster made its debut, because he thought that "Eight-Legged" and "Spider" were redundant. Airplane retaliated by introducing Six-Legged and Ten-Legged Spider Hawks in the next chapter, including important distinctions between the species.

I don't know about the six- or ten-legged varieties, but here's the lore I came up with for the eight-legged ones:

Appears very much like a very large spider with hawk's wings, it is often mistaken for one in flight or while hunting. Its movement on the ground, however, is unmistakable. These creatures line their nests with a particular type of silk that makes exquisite bondage rope.

The ten- and six-legged varieties probably have somewhat different venom or are more prized for their feathers or something.
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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-08-21 04:13 pm
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Green nails and knitting

I'm in a very green mood right now. :)

Knitting is a beanie in Knitted Wit Sock Yarn I got from Peoria. Nails are a c.2012 China Glaze "Rare & Radiant".

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Liz ([personal profile] yarnandglue) wrote2025-08-21 01:14 pm
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Fiddling with things

If an item comes into my possession, I will absolutely remix/update/tinker with it in order to make it more useful. Nothing is too precious or too cheap for this treatment. Things are for using!

One recent example is this cubic zirconia necklace I got from Body Art Forms (which is where I get most of my jewelry. I have...11 piercings. I had to pause to count haha.) I had been on the hunt for a very simple pendant necklace for a while. I have some beaded necklaces, both vintage and me-made, but no pendants that would work for every day wear.


I really like the necklace but the bale was wayyy too big. Almost as big as the pendent itself! And it kept flipping upside down and sticking out funny. I've been on the hunt for a replacement and ended up getting this stainless steel one from Michaels. Much better!

Also, a lot of the nail polishes are I are from around 2010. While they are generally in excellent condition, their brushes are often that long skinny older style that are a huge pain in the butt to work with. Especially because I really like metallic polishes which are enough of a pain to work with as is. I got some paddle style replacement brushes from KBShimmer since they fit with China Glaze and Sinful Colors. I got my info on what brushes fit what bottles from this chart on Reddit. My only quibble with the chart is that the KBShimmer brushes did not fit into any of my Revlon polishes, even with the KBShimmer caps. :/
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key / okowwy ([personal profile] euhgh) wrote2025-08-20 07:08 pm

No News Is Good News

Feeling like I got nothing to write here because I'm been spending my time being publicly feral on my Espio sideblog again. Especially with all the CrossWorlds news being dropped from gamescon!!!!! Oh, and a new Bubsy game lmao. Sonic fans still eternally doomposting no matter what the news is. Whatever. Nothing of note other than it's getting harder to stick to my morals and not buy CrossWorlds at launch because it's 70+ fucking dollars.

I'm feeling weirdly motivated to try to improve my art again. I really want to get better and more consistent and not cringe at literally everything I make and feel embarrassed I actually showed it to people and want to hide under a rock and--

Anyway, I need to kiss Espio desperately.random unhinged nsfw fantasy text )

I never really understood what people meant by a comfort character, but I guess I do now. Life really feels so much brighter when you spend a portion of your time gushing over a fictional magenta chameleon.