Reading

[ SECRET POST #6759 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6759 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Home

Entry tags:

updates

Update: Consolidating Chapters for Annotations

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

[ SECRET POST #6758 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6758 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 24 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Wickery Glen

Born Under a Lone Star

( ...when the sun washed the glen in gold....... )

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Utroba Night (Stoneyard)

Entry tags:

Fandom: Why do I like suffering? 🩸

Since I started back into Morrowind recently, my interest has been being dragged into other games from the 2000's, as well.

I was a teenager during the 2000's, and a lot more susceptible to long-term hyper-focus, resulting in intense interests that would span over the course of years. As a result, I missed a few games, or I was simply too young to be playing said games.

So on my Steam library docket is:

- Pathologic (2005)
- Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004)
- Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (1998/2000)
- Deus Ex (2000)

I'm also hoping, after playing Pathologic, that I will have the endurance and willpower to approach Disco Elysium...whose surreal writing has scared me off more than a few times.

I like strangeness and surrealism, but it takes a lot of brain-power to wrap your head around, if you're even successful.

[ SECRET POST #6757 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6757 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[ SECRET POST #6756 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6756 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #968 ]

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #968 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on July 12th.

RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

Current Mood: amused

Entry tags:

Images for the Fics' Title Posts

As the title of this entry says, I've been wanting to put some sort of image in the pinned title posts of my fanfic journals. While I have not yet decided what sort of setting I want for Aeronwen's journal, it was pretty easy to decide what I wanted for Gloria's story. It was just a matter of dressing the characters appropriately. Needless to say, I do not have the No Stretch Child Can Ride Horses mod installed because I need my werewolves to use the werewolf animations.

(No, there is still no hint of a fix coming for that mod, or if a fix is even possible)

( ...on with the images.... )

[ SECRET POST #6755 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6755 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Entry tags:

OCs: Dolysene (A Retrospective)

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

[ SECRET POST #6754 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6754 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 06 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Smooth by Rob Thomas (ft. Santana)

Entry tags:

updates

I swear I'm on it...🙏🏻📖

It's been a bit of a wild week. I'm finally getting some of my ideas down as fiction, and my wife is challenging me to write at least 2 pages a day for a potential novel or serial.

For me? That's a lot of spoons unless I ramp myself up to it. 🥄 But I want it enough to dedicate a couple hours a day to getting that done.

The book annotations/reactions have taken a bit of a backseat as a result, but I do intend to do that as well--I enjoy it, it's the current IV of nuance that keeps my motivation up. I just need to come up with a more efficient method of note-taking, quoting and turning that into commentary. My current project is a library book, so I need to get that thing read before I have to return it.

I have no idea how many times the library will let me renew...

I'll definitely be making some re-assessments this weekend. 📆

[ SECRET POST #6753 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6753 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 13 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Current Mood: cynical
Current Location: Home

Entry tags:

Fandom: The Point of Roleplaying Games

"These games just let you become the head of every guild and faction in the game without consequences, it's SO unrealistic!"

Look, if you want to play out your BORING CLEFT-CHIN HUMAN WARRIOR GIGA-CHAD power fantasy in Skyrim and become the head of every guild and faction on the same character, that's your business...but if you were role-playing a specific character of a specific build with a specific personality, would they realistically put in that much effort?

Probably not!

Why would they? That's a lot of work to put into entities that have NOTHING TO DO with your gameplay style or your character's interests.

Imagination, discernment and reason are key here.

Something I miss from early-to-mid Elder Scrolls games is that they had faction politics. In TES3: Morrowind, if you joined the Mage's Guild, the Dunmer Temple and House Telvanni HATED your guts! There were consequences to your faction choices.

Can we bring back actual consequences, Bethesda? PLEASE? OTHER than Survival Mode? 🙄

[ SECRET POST #6752 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6752 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Entry tags:

Lore (Mäthalun): Setting, Tech and World Aesthetics

The world of Mäthalun is in a completely fictional formerly-human setting in which humans got to a certain technological peak, and then destroyed themselves and their systems in the process.

A lot of that knowledge and tech was buried in a cataclysmic event, and the early Emer did not have access to that knowledge and tech to begin with, so we're looking at a very, very long time where the Emer had to fend for themselves from ground zero, picking through the wreckage of the humans before them.

( Read more... )

Entry tags:

Lore (Mäthalun): Hecerion 2

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

Entry tags:

Lore (Mäthalun): Narthelen 1

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

[ SECRET POST #6751 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6751 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #965.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.