30+. Professional nerd. D&D trash. Hibernating fic writer.
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Latest Posts by briggsgotdiggs - Page 2
By buying the DLC for A Date with Death, you not only get to support our small studioโฆ
You also get lots of new conversation options throughout the 7 days of your bet!
Anything that leads to a new conversation will have a โญ๏ธ next to it.
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A Date with Death is free to play, or grab the DLC to add new customization options, choices and a brand new ending to the game!
โhumans donโt do anything for freeโ somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else
๐Flying to the Stars ๐
your poor little meow meow fucking bit me
โ ใๅniarssใ ใ ๐ ใ โ โณ sugar apple fairy tale โ republished w/permission โณ โณ follow me on twitter
Made myself a lite version for the oc-tober challenge this year. The 31 prompts is way too much for myself, so I think I try to something more manageable this year. Feel free to use if you also grave for a bit less weighty challenge!
animated jing yuan using a fan to fight bc i know he can
(live action ref used)
there HAS to be a reason for this
myth and legend and rebirth and myth
local girl fights public bathhouse and loses
๐ธearring exchange ๐ธ
whatever klee wants, klee gets
babby
Tags: Slow burn
Word count: 2k
Me:
...I found the โgirl falls into middle earthโ fic I wrote when I was 11
You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?
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I'm dying.
Nonnie, seriously?
No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.
Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.
A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.
Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.
Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/
For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.
Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)
Here's the name discussion
Here's the poll that came out of it
But also notice how many people voted: 562.
That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.
Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.
Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.
You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.
The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.
Almost out of tigers. :( I hope one waves goodbye before they go.
31/12/2022
โAI art isnโt real artโ boring, pedantic, relies on defining the undefinable and an ever changing goalpost of what Real Art is.
โAI art is fueled by massive art theftโ correct, concrete demonstration of the harm itโs doing to actual human beings and not just the nebulous concept of Art Itself.
might flop butโฆ.. rb with ur sign & what kind of drunk you are
Thereโs thisโฆ stunning elven mural in a dark abandoned corner of Dinโan Hanin
Here are some of the animated gifs Santa Monica Studios have been putting out for God of War: Ragnarรถk
Sorry for the quality, tumblr only allows for 10MB gifs & these are quick & dirty rips straight from twitter which were already not great quality to start.
I'm assuming these are made to be used, so go right ahead & save & use however you like
Animator credits I could find:
Kratos making a heartshape & Kratos swearing about Valkyries by Dennis Pena, aka @/Boltfinger on twitter
Wolf paw slap by Grace Pan, one of the animators
Angrboda making faces by Jack Ebensteiner, aka @/AnimJack on twitter
Sweating Atreus by Kim Nguyen, aka @/KimbaWin on twitter
Thor sliding by Roberto Clemente, a senior combat animator
"ao3 should have an algorithm" ao3 should continue only giving me exactly what I ask for which happens because I know how to use the search, sort, and filter functions
