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@lord-of-the-noodles

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doffy

I really genuinely like this site and it's original layout and premise. I like custom themes. I like mobile themes. I like how posting works. I like how tag search works. I like sending and receiving asks. I like how you can make your blog whatever the hell you want. I like this fucking platform and for some reason staff is vigorously sawing their limbs off like they have to but they're in the middle of a grocery store and everyone there is going "why the hell are you doing that?" and staff cries "you all want me to"

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ellohcee

The idea of dragons in modern times is so fun because imagine a hot summer day on your vacay and go to use the hotel pool and staff is like "valued guests we regret to inform you that the pool area is out of service at the moment, we apologize for the inconvenience"

And people like "wtf why" looking out their hotel room window and there's this. This dragon just curled up in the pool chilling, literally, cooling itself down

Some of the staff are trying to gently shoo him away and the dragon does a soft little "rrrrrr" like a grumpy cat and a warning puff of smoke and they're like "fuck it i don't get paid nearly enough for this" and no ones using the pool today sorry!

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kawuli

slapping a "use pool at own risk" on that entrance and calling it a day

“credit goes to the artist! :)”

well unfortunately it really fucking didn’t, is the thing

not enough people really know what credit is for, so it bears repeating:

if I see art I like and want to see more of it, Credit is what gets me to the artist so I can see more of it.

If I’m writing a novel and I see an art style that would be perfect for a cover design, credit is what gets me to the artist so I can pay them for a commission.

If I see something I know my partner would love, credit is what takes me to the website of the artist where I can buy a poster that the original artist gets paid for.

If I see Plagiarism, I need to know who to notify to stop stealing my art, and if they don’t who to report.

Most artists (even the ones with thousands of followers) have a hard time making a living off of art. Giving credit means giving a pathway to the source.

Saying you didn’t make it isn’t the point, you need to say who did.

Saying you didn’t

make it isn’t the point, you

need to say who did.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

ok maybe I will make a slightly pretentious uquiz

🔫 take my uquiz and tell me what you got

it's a lot better if you treat it like a short story by the way

it’s a lot better

if you treat it like a short

story by the way

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

thank you!! sorry I didn't see you comment earlier I would love the excuse to talk about my metaphor! Obviously like, spoiler warning first. please take the quiz before you read this if you haven't already etc etc

Basically it's about how people react to systematic injustice/oppression. The events of the storm don't change no matter what you pick, e.g.

The storm slows, just a little. It’s not rest- not quite, but you can walk instead of run and it gives you time to catch your breath. Where do you look?

  • The sky. The sun shines down like a spotlight; you can feel your clothes gradually dry under its warmth.
  • The storm. You begin to see patterns- destruction shifting into fractals before your eyes.
  • The ground. Buildings and people and topsoil have been torn away to abrade what lay beneath. Where you walk is smooth- eroded stone is all that remains.
  • Your hands. They shake with cold. A thin sheen of moisture reflects the light and your skin shimmers like stars.

All these things still happen, but by choosing an option you're picking what the character notices and euphuizing that part of the story. Think narrative "I never said she stole my money" - the events are static but the interpretation and character's understanding of those events change based on your input. It's a fundamental part of uquiz that you can't make branching story paths resulting from your choices (with the exception of the final results, obviously), so I wanted to make a quiz where that was put into consideration and the lack of real agency was part of the story experience and themes rather than something annoying that breaks immersion.

You can read all the choices & endings here

Reading back there's a few things I'd change, a lot of the lines are lovely prose but kind of confuse the message a bit. Anyway yeah! Thanks for asking! I'm very interested in the ways people interact with the things they have no control over so this is all very how-the-cog-views-itself-in-relation-to-the-machine-esque.

It's not a very happy story and there's no real good outcome, Cyclops is the default result and I used a few tricks to make it statistically the most likely ending - it's a warning against the temptation to separate yourself from your fellow minorities in return for temporary acceptance within the system.

@fridaythelilguy this is a really funky quiz

ok maybe I will make a slightly pretentious uquiz

🔫 take my uquiz and tell me what you got

it's a lot better if you treat it like a short story by the way

it’s a lot better

if you treat it like a short

story by the way

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

thank you!! sorry I didn't see you comment earlier I would love the excuse to talk about my metaphor! Obviously like, spoiler warning first. please take the quiz before you read this if you haven't already etc etc

Basically it's about how people react to systematic injustice/oppression. The events of the storm don't change no matter what you pick, e.g.

The storm slows, just a little. It’s not rest- not quite, but you can walk instead of run and it gives you time to catch your breath. Where do you look?

  • The sky. The sun shines down like a spotlight; you can feel your clothes gradually dry under its warmth.
  • The storm. You begin to see patterns- destruction shifting into fractals before your eyes.
  • The ground. Buildings and people and topsoil have been torn away to abrade what lay beneath. Where you walk is smooth- eroded stone is all that remains.
  • Your hands. They shake with cold. A thin sheen of moisture reflects the light and your skin shimmers like stars.

All these things still happen, but by choosing an option you're picking what the character notices and euphuizing that part of the story. Think narrative "I never said she stole my money" - the events are static but the interpretation and character's understanding of those events change based on your input. It's a fundamental part of uquiz that you can't make branching story paths resulting from your choices (with the exception of the final results, obviously), so I wanted to make a quiz where that was put into consideration and the lack of real agency was part of the story experience and themes rather than something annoying that breaks immersion.

You can read all the choices & endings here

Reading back there's a few things I'd change, a lot of the lines are lovely prose but kind of confuse the message a bit. Anyway yeah! Thanks for asking! I'm very interested in the ways people interact with the things they have no control over so this is all very how-the-cog-views-itself-in-relation-to-the-machine-esque.

It's not a very happy story and there's no real good outcome, Cyclops is the default result and I used a few tricks to make it statistically the most likely ending - it's a warning against the temptation to separate yourself from your fellow minorities in return for temporary acceptance within the system.