This is today's freebie. It was inspired by a prompt from gs_silva. It also fills the "Ambiguous Situation" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Hazbin Hotel Fest. This poem belongs to the series Schrodinger's Heroes.
Last night was Lambert House for me. There are two items worth celebrating about this:
It's the last time I need to go to St. Mark's. Yes, good on St. Mark's for renting us the space, but the noise, lack of window treatments, and video hassles made the space less than ideal.
Because of the aforementioned awkward video setup, I end up seeing myself in profile. I have to say, I don't hate it and indeed even like it. All credit to the sculptor.
I will, however, be making at least one more visit to the house as part of the database reimplementation project. B the volunteer manager says that the renovated house should have a much better networking setup than we do at St. Mark's, but I'd still like to find out whether I have to do anything clever like locally cached copies of the DB to make it work tolerably. Plus, it'll be the first time I've tried to set up a Javascript-Python-SQLite stack on a Windows laptop, which I'm sure will be educational.
Oh: in other software news, I've been wrestling GIMP on behalf of my )'( theme camp. I loathe GIMP.
Having just finished the rough draft of a Project Hail Mary fic, as is customary, I'm obligated to ask if anyone knows where I can find an icon. I've checked fandom_icons and I'm sure there's another place or two someone else already knows about.
I've got to figure out a title, so thankfully, I'm not in a huge rush.
Title: they've got ears Fandom: no fandom Rating: G Content notes: None apply Summary: icons of mules and their big ears, made from images found on the interwebs
1) Looks like this obsession with identifying people online is spreading to all sorts of places. I've been working with two survey companies for a long time for some extra cash. One of them recently prompted users to verify their accounts, offering better opportunities if they did. The other unexpectedly asked me to set up verification to access my account, which included uploading ID and revealing other information.
This is an account I've had for over 20 years. No matter what age I was when I opened it, I would clearly be of age since, and I have contacted customer service various times in the past due to problems. They know I'm a real person who has almost always accessed them from the same IP. I even had "diamond status", meaning I got extra points with each survey completed for faster rewards, as a result of being such a longtime member.
Apparently that was unimportant. I closed my account and they have not contacted me. Makes me wonder how many other people are doing so as well.
These notes were all made 12-16-24 before my playing fell off. u_u
Spoilers for various things!
Heir to the Dead:
Aww that tiny whispered 'Please' and Manfred's "Hurray!". π And Manfred can do magic now! Ughhh my feels.
I wish we'd gotten some commentary from the companions before he revived Manfred about missing his presence.
"I have regrets about what Lichdom could have been, but none of them would make me exchange them for this."
Both options meant losing or gaining something, regrets are natural but if what you gained overall makes you happy, it's worth it.
A Murder of Crows:
Lol I knew he would say 'Over my dead body'. If I were Caterina I would at least be a little concerned about Spite;; And I don't think it was smart to just lock Illario up. I'm curious what would've happened if Treviso hadn't been blighted, it seemed to suggest something else would've been an option.
To Act as One/When Plans Align:
Okay now I'm ready for this quest.
Sidenote, Manfred won rock-paper-scissors! I wonder why he likes to hang out on top of the balcony?
Oh, there's Rana at the Shadow Dragon's base!
Okay so this is a/the? final quest so I went and finished Regrets of the Dead Wolf and got Mythal's essence, I was going to use a guide choose the right answers but apparently I didn't save before that so I had to fight her. Not too bad. I also had 'A Hidden Hoard', the Solas mural on the wall is so interesting, why is it there??
Lmao at the fish vs coffee Harding/Neve banter. No way I'd be able to choose, I love both of those.
(Codex) On Beetles: *flashbacks to The Mummy*
I went and got all the chests and altars I was missing except one chest, which is somewhere inaccessible. There's literally people standing there blocking it and there's no way around them. π€·
The 'Are you sure?' page says many companions have overcome personal struggles / most allies will support you from a position of strength sooo here goes.
Of course they forced an eclipse.
I went around talking to everyone in the Lighthouse and only two people are talking about it, everything else is commenting on stuff that happened in the past;; And ye gods that purple/pink cast on the area is terrible.
Since when does my Rook speak the qun language...
I wonder what equipment with a star on it means?
Grr it's so frustrating when an Ultimate is wasted because the enemy kept moving while I was casting. :/
When Davrin started getting stabbed why wasn't Assan right there? T_T And what happened to Assan/where did they go?
Lucanis died somehow... None of our allies were there to help because everything happened too fast.
I am very confused about what's happening here with Solas......
Davrin on 2nd team, took Harding and Lucanis with me, chose Bellara over Neve, Neve disapproving - understandable.
A Cage for Gods:
Rook: "Have to get back to the team." ...after I explore first.
It's hard to feel bad about choosing Bellara will all these weird statues of her around. Girl probably would have disapproved like Neve did if I hadn't chosen her. π
How come Davrin's statues were accepting when Bellara's weren't? Is it because I pushed back?
Varric? What the? Are you saying we were hallucinating him this whole time? Or was it all a dream? This is dumb as fuck. No one talked about Varric being dead this whole time?? Why did Solas tell us to apologize to him???
So Minthrathous gets blighted anyway in the end??
Didn't feel like there was enough development for Lucanis.
Chapters:
1/1
Fandom:
Red Valley (Podcast)
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Bryony Halbech/Aubrey Wood
Characters:
Aubrey Wood, Bryony Halbech
Additional Tags:
Ficlet, Physical Disability, Character Study, Parallels, Past Relationship(s)
Summary:
The dead girl think tank heard about @podcastgirlsweek and so we stole the smartphone from our mod (hehe, sorry Liv! π) so that WE could make some fanart of OURSELVES!!!! #selflove
Me and Persephone were artistic directors because some of the other girls weren’t quite as … realistic (@joan you can only have so many muscles) in their picrews.
So here’s a picture of cartoon me! I love it! Almost all other pictures of me just have me lying in a river … dead… so it’s nice to be in charge of how I’m represented :)
Speaking of - did you know the model (Elizabeth Siddall) for one of the most famous paintings of me had to pose in a bathtub full of water and got so cold that she developed hypothermia? And the (male) painter didn’t even notice?
Seems very sadly fitting, in a way that I really don’t like!
πΈπΈπΈ
Anyway, here’s how I see myself. No rivers in sight.
Thanks picrew!
(And thanks for helping me see myself picrew artist - I can’t find your name but if I do I’ll tag you! I appreciate you!)
And thanks @podcastgirlsweek for caring about us parthenoi! And sorry we didn’t follow the prompt today… we will tomorrow I promise!
I got some more Sims podcast girls! Today I’ve got a couple of girlies from The Kingmaker Histories and Killjam XXX
It’s Colette and Faustina! Faustina was obviously a lot of fun to do because the Sims has a bunch of interesting makeup options. Colette is one of those podcharacters where I’m thinking I need to learn Blender to make CC so I can put that Kingmaker diamond in her dome.
BONUS GIRLS!
We’ve got InCo’s Nova!
And Stories From Ylelmore’s Keryth! Keryth gets a gif because the idle animation for spellcaster kids is so adorable and appropriate.