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@compressedrage

a connoisseur of found family and platonic dynamics. ask me about my stick figure aus.

Hello Everybody

I'm updating this intro post again because it's been a while, let's go–

Hello, I'm compressedrage, Rage for short! I'm an adult, and my pronouns are she/her (but vibes-wise I'm just a little guy).

This blog is a mixing pot of a bunch of my interests, old and new. The big ones that I will talk about here are:

  • Animator vs Animation, Animation vs Minecraft, and all the stick figure stuff made by Alan Becker.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Hermitcraft. I'm watching Grian, Mumbo, Scar, and Tango this season. I'm also a big fan of the Life Series.
  • TMNT, mostly 2012 and ROTTMNT.
  • Transformers.
  • Minecraft args. I'm using this as a blanket term for a specific genre of Youtube series. A few examples would be the Collinlock continuity by Oneshef, or Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist by Wifies.
  • Project Hail Mary. Both the movie and the book.

Other ones that I post about a little less are:

  • Star Wars.
  • FNAF.
  • Marble Hornets.
  • Red vs Blue.
  • Avatar The Last Airbender.

(still love them just as much, I just don't post about them as much)

(I go through phases)

Anyway! That's me! I like talking about things, feel free to send me asks or whatever. I don't bite, I promise :]

excuse me but this young man just materialized in my back yard and i don’t know what to do

a freakin pparently this YOUNG MAN ! is named .… STEVE . and he lives next door. i guess he just found his way under the fence since he is so . tiny and small.

i just want everyone still reblogging this post to know that i was drunk when i wrote the second caption and i was quite Literally sobbing over this tiny little dog whose name is Steve

I'm a big fan of Mumbo "honorary-EGG-member-and-also-firefighter-who-doesn't-know-that-the-other-firefighters-are-plotting-EGG's-downfall" Jumbo

You know it would be so funny if Pearl or Impulse came to the Bad Egg and Mumbo was just chilling behind the bar.

Coming back to this post because the firefighters were discovered robbing the bank, and almost directly after that Mumbo was recruited by Scar to build the bank's vault door.

wait okay. Security Logbook Mike Afton who is aware that there are ghost kids interacting with the book as well, and THAT'S the main reason why he's drawing all these goofy little things--it's not just that he's naturally lighthearted, it's that he's trying to entertain these little kids and treat them like their age. he's trying to cheer them up with little jokes like "for the glory of pizza" &c.

things I wish I’d known when I started writing fic on ao3

  • use & for friendships, colleagues, familial relationships and use / for romantic or sexual relationships (or encounters)
  • not everyone reads fic. Lots of people use screen readers, and screen readers can’t see what’s on images. use descriptive text to help them out.
  • lots of people download fic to read on other devices, not all downloads capture images too.
  • there’s a big difference between No Archive Warnings Apply (NAWA) and Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (CNTW). NAWA means that there’s nothing in the fic that needs to be warned for using the official Archive Warning system. CNTW means there might be something that requires a warning and the author is either avoiding giving out spoilers or they are unsure how to interpret their plot point with respect to the official Warnings. (in both cases, additional tags are where it’s at - you can explain yourself there) 
  • the reason why the number of bookmarks in the fic is different from the number of bookmarks on your stats page is because your stats page number includes bookmarks that are hidden
  • there’s a preference setting where you can receive emails with your own comments/replies.
  • there’s a site skin that hides stats so you don’t have to see them
  • writing in rich text format makes my life easier
  • knowing html allows me to do fun things in the comments section like comment/reply with reaction gifs
  • knowing html also allows me to do interesting formatting in my fics that I can’t do with rich text alone
  • those little blue bubbles with the question marks in them will answer my questions a lot of the time - and also teach me something new
  • the FAQ is linked under the word About in the header
  • if you write your fic in the draft window, you might end up losing it so make sure you copy the text before you hit Post, just in case
  • they aren’t kidding when they say drafts are deleted after 30 days

Here’s some additions.

  • The Anonymous collection will allow you to post anything you want and retain ownership over it.
  • Your identifying information will not be anywhere within the fic to any other reader. Though you will see it from your end when looking at it as a logged in user.
  • When you reply to a comment, it will anonymize you, so feel free to respond to your commenters!
  • You can take your fic off Anonymous at any time
  • When you are signed into AO3, you can easily access your Anonymous fics by looking at the “Works In Collections” tab on your page. Nobody else will see these Anonymous works on this page.
  • Works can be added to the Anonymous collection at any time
  • Just because a fic is Anonymous does not mean it is Abandoned or Orphaned.

Speaking of Orphaned fics:

  • If you have posted a story and for whatever reason you no longer want it on your account or associated with you, you can Orphan the fic.
  • Orphaning fics will remove all of your control and ownership of the story.
  • Orphaning fics is not a reversible process. Once a fic has been Orphaned it cannot be taken back. You cannot delete it. You can’t check stats and it does not show up on your Works page anymore.
  • Orphaning and the Anonymous collection are great options for when you no longer want a fic associated with you, but you don’t want to delete it either.

8 page comic about a mech and a mechanic and grief

hello precious followers. i made a comic about grief, or how i feel when i process grief at least. i put a robot in it. please read it.

if you wanna catch future comic pages i make as soon as i make em, heres a link to mmmmmy patreon! huge giant massive thank you to my patreon supporters you guys rule

Just so we’re clear about AO3 ratings

Mature = mature topics and depictions

Explicit = porn

Stop labeling your porn as “mature.” It goes under “explicit.”

Yes this!!! Mature ratings can include depictions of violence, strong language, use of drugs and alcohol, and sexual content and/or references to sexual content that does not go into great detail, but not fade to black, either.

If you are writing very detailed smut, then that earns the explicit rating!

I loooove ominously giggling when I'm getting my friends into smth new. They ask me a spoilery question and I get to do this

needing to take a shower: worst feeling in the world getting into the shower: hardest task in the world being in the shower: 🚿🧼🛁🧴🫧 getting out of the shower: second hardest task in the world being out of the shower: (soft hair) (soft skin) (cozy towel) (clean clothes) why is getting into the shower always so hard. i should remember this feeling (most beautiful feeling in the world) next time i need to take a shower

Milking the 20 ton squid disaster for all it’s worth. The comments and tags have been so entertaining. It makes me want to put out a 3 hour YouTube documentary titled cryptically titled 30,000 Pounds of Bananas where I do a deep dive into major and obscure food transformation disasters, their cultural and environmental impact and the flaws and dangers inherit in our supply chain.