sweet nothings

It's a moral imperative that we write more sex scenes which are

okay. coming from the desi armand fan: if your reaction to season 2 and 3 is to woobify him, if it's to choose that he was in the right, it it's to colour every interaction with the others as the sex worker he once was. if it's to take louis' sexual dominace as a genuine reflection of armand's character. i want you to know, in your heart, that an indian (me) considering every piece of info we have about this character, i comepletely consider all of the reads that disagree w those statements to be racist. i WILL consider you a racist. armand is a liar, manipulator, cheater, emotional abuser, mental abuser, murderer, monster, abuser in every possible definition. as a huge HUGE fan of armand, who is literally a delhiite bengali like arun seemingly was btw, he's an utterly irredeemable monster, just like lestat and louis and daniel, if you give two seconds of thought to who they are.

Warming up a new database server….

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

Do you know that in hit game Final Fantasy 15 (2016) one of your party members is this cute lil' nerd and one of his Things is he's a photgrapher, so he's always taking pictures, there a whole system coded in to just randomly take in-engine screen captures of your party as they go about their day-to-day. And whenever you save you get to go over ten of those pictures and choose if you want to save any to your personal in-game album. This is obviously a feature designed for word of mouth fan promotion, because from your in-game album there's a ton of options for sharing your photos or downloading them to personal storage. Which is fun, games are allowed to do that, but. Ya know. Maybe not worth the effort of making a whole system to automatically do that.

Also the snapshot system was designed by one guy, who is also Prompto's Biggest Stan. He's delightful. And iirc one of the base faces you get to use to make your character in Comrades is his face scan.