A list of characters and links to details i've posted to make it easier for me to keep folks straight
Susan Ayers- Jack's mother, was not killed in '1322 Report: Jack vhs' and has spent the past 12 years trying to find Doey, now in her late 40's [more references]
George Ayers - Jack's dad, still died but as result of a heart attack he had because of '1322 Report: Jack vhs'
Safe Haven named residents:
Medic- Formerly an on site Playtime physician who worked in the upper floors covering workers comp injuries, had no idea what was going on below until after being turned into a Boogie Bot. At 54 one of the oldest 2 toys in safe haven.
Scout- Formerly a teen playcare orphan, about the same age as Matthew and a close friend before and after becoming a boogie bot
Izzy- Formerly a very young playcare orphan, very attached to Scout both before and after becoming a Bobby Bearhug
Joseph- A Hoppy Hopscotch, The boy from the vhs '1322 Report: Void' who was a close friend of Kevin's before and after becoming toys. They liked to wrestle.
Thomas Clarke- A severely damaged Bron and the oldest toy in safe haven at 73. Also known as Bron, Papaw, Gramps, PopPop, etc...
3 and 4- A Catnap (3) and Dogday (4) pair that use their testing schedule designations as their names. both are a bit on the pessimistic side (who could blame them) and are tight lipped about their human pasts with no one having any idea who they were. The pair are almost always seen together and considered inseparable.
New residents:
Maggie- A maggie mako nightmare critter. Susan first encountered them when first approaching the prison and got their help finding a way in. can't talk or write.
Erin- A simon smoke nightmare critter used to give the player a 'moral dillema' when they are after sawyers brain. Can talk.
Maccheroncelli (Elli)- A touille that steals the smoke mask after the maze, cant talk can write.
Referenced:
Ramsey (dogday) from fic Project babysitter belongs to @kingaggressive
Buggy (color-me-buggy), Lucas (kickin chickin), Bella (bobby bearhug), Kip (hoppy hopscotch) all belong to @justabeewithapen
Kudos (kudos kangaroo) belongs to @an-eggs-quest
The rest of safe haven so far - roughly 45 residents currently mentioned
Other:
Uncle Bob- Posthumous character, Susan's uncle who was thought to be a conspiracy theorist but had actually made his fortune working for shady companies and seeing exactly what they can do so he became a paranoid recluse. but also completely believed everything Susan said, helped both directly and financially till he passed and left her everything
Other Au's to ask me about:
Love Him Till The Day That You Die - My main AU in which Susan Ayers, Jack's mom, survived the vhs and returns to finally reunite with her son
Pleasant Playtime- An Au where Playtime is actually trying to help people.
Detective Susan- Asks that turned into an au of the Lhttdtyd au what if Susan's day job had been that she was a detective investigating playtime?
Right Here - in which Susan and George fall instead of Jack
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developers moving all their bug tracking and suggestion management to discord is like if you could only access customer support if you joined a facebook group. we need to start shaming people who use discords as a replacement for an actual proper repository
like discords cant be searched with a search engine. all the info is locked behind a membership gate. if someone's already had the same issue as you and solved it you have no way of knowing because all the troubleshooting was in a random channel 3 months ago. if someone has the same suggestion as you, you cant back them up with your support and spitball ideas. youre actively sabotaging yourself if you use discord for dev utilities.
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PROLOGUE DONE. for more details on whats happening next in this comic go down into the read more
First - Previous - Next
close ups (+ notes) \/
EXTRA NOTES:
sooo prologue is over! im gonna take a break for a bit so i can catch up on the work ive been putting to the wayside. not abandoning this, certainly not, but if i post an update within the next week you should yell at me
from now on the comic is gonna be a mix of bigger arcs like this prologue and more doodles/slice of life bits. just random fun interactions i think of
i do in fact have a timeline semi planned out for the plot of this comic. whenever i lose interest in this (which will likely take a while) ill post the timeline so people know what the story plan was. i always hate when a fan comic or fanfic ends abruptly and i dont know what was gonna happen
big thank you to everyone who's sent me asks, i just figured out how to open asks and so far everyone has been very kind and very cool. i appreciate them all a lot, but i havent responded to anyone because it scares me. just know im really really thankful for all the support and ive read every one of them <3
soooo Teegarden's Star C is a real planet. It's another "planet named after the star but with a letter next to it". The star it orbits (teegarden's star) is a cooler star. which makes it more red. which makes the planet also red. which was a wonderful coincidence because i picked teegarden's star because of it's placement in the path back to Erid from Tau Ceti (based on a kinda shitty map i found of the phm journey, which may be wrong??). WHY exactly the Hail Mary is in this system at all is to be answered in the story
also apology to anyone who hasn't seen phm or iron lung, that last page must be confusing as hell. anyway it'll only get more movie-lore based so good luck to anyone who hasn't seen/read those stories
should i post this on ao3?? i have an account, but i havent posted anything on there ever. an ask mentioned it might be nice to have the comic compiled into one spot like that. but yeah ive never posted anything on there
thank you all again, the support's been amazing and i hope you all enjoy what i have planned <3
California is phasing in a program to give free diapers to new parents over the first few weeks of their baby’s life so on the off chance anyone has a new family member coming in soon and lives in California you might wanna see if your hospital is one of the first ones on the program. I think there’s 25 participating right now and they’re looking to expand it to almost every birthing center in the state in the next few years.
A lot of local and state governments in the US are willing to do good things believe it or not. California and other states like Florida, Oklahoma, and Vermont also have universal free preschool and New York City and the state of New Mexico are in the process of implementing universal free childcare.
This is why I keep telling people to pay attention to their local and state politics. The US is a federation. The federal government has a lot of power but it doesn’t rule us directly. A ton of stuff is fully determined at the local and state level.
If you care about issues like providing services to new parents or better urban design and transportation or affordable housing or providing homes for the unhoused or quality of education especially you should get involved in local and state politics.
Haha watch me make a comic when I only intended to do a small illustration 🤙
Poppy's relationship with Ollie is very complicated. He abused her and others for many years - something that's certainly hard to simply brush off like no big deal. I really don't know if it's even possible to accept your abuser after all of that?? However, Ollie is also the one who provided Poppy with much needed comfort after experiments, he supported her, likely was her only friend before THOJ... That's why she's conflicted. She struggles to come to terms with the fact that the sweet boy, who comforted her over the phone, and the monster, who committed genocide, are the same entity. Moreover, that very entity is her BROTHER that she didn't know she had.
So basically they don't get along at all at first. They barely even talk. Ollie is very clingy and Poppy just straight up doesn't want to see him. It gets worse when he begins to get comfortable with using his own voice. He tries to communicate with Poppy in this voice, Ollie's voice, which only triggers her more. And oh boy is he shy about embracing his true identity. With all of that "Ollie is gone", you can imagine how hard it is for him to abandon the facade of a harsh tyrant and start being Ollie again. Naturally, he trusts Poppy the most, so he's more willing to let the mask slip around her. I totally see how Poppy occasionally snaps at him, calling him Prototype, which hurts. A lot. If even she can't accept Ollie, how could anybody else? And to her, he's a trigger and a constant reminder of everything terrible that happened at Playtime Co.
Both of them are extremely traumatized and messed up. They both have a lot of trauma processing to do. But I think if Ollie gives her the time and space she needs to heal, they might mend their relationship. Until then? Therapy my dudes.
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“Eridians dislike earth because they abandoned Grace.” *Incorrect Buzzer Sound* ya missed the point of the story buddy! It’s not about someone being ‘bad’ it’s about the incredible power of love and that love being worth dying for!
Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying “We know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and he’s safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.”
Give me humans sitting on Earth slowly coming to the conclusion that when we look up not only are we not alone, someone out there is alive because of one of us. That no matter what we think of ourselves a whole species thinks highly of us because we helped save the galaxy. Give me humans who figure out how to send a probe to Erid filled to the brim with messages for Grace and footage of a monument being raised that reads his name, his crews names, and then “in memory of the 22 Eridians who lost their lives on the journey to save the stars.”
#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )
I've recently learned that escaping enshitification is actually really easy. When I was younger I would use FOSS (free and open source software) because I usually couldn't afford anything else. Back then the paid options were usually significantly better than the unpaid options so when I finally got money I started using the paid stuff and completely forgot that Foss existed.
If you don't know why Foss is awesome its not just that its free. Open source software has a huge set of advantages. Most software is proprietary meaning that its code cannot be viewed by other people. Open source softwares code can be viewed by everyone and people can contribute their own code to make it better. Open source is often more secure than proprietary because more people have more eyes on it and more people have contributed to it's security. Its also easy to know how much privacy you have with every software because you can read the code. No more "trust me bro I'm not harvesting and selling your data" you know if they are collecting and selling because the code is publicly available.
In the last two months I have been switching almost completely to Foss. I was worried at first because when I stopped using Foss over 10 years ago the average Foss software was genuinely worse than the paid proprietary alternative. Thankfully things have really come full circle. 90℅ of the software I have tried in the last 2 months works better than the proprietary alternative and is 100℅ less obnoxious.
So here is a list of every Foss software I have tried and recommend. There is way more than this available. This list is just what I have used and like personally. Anyone can feel free to add and we can turn it into a master list. Please just take these as a place to start and do your own research to see if these softwares will work for your use case before you fully ditch your proprietary software.
Operating systems
Graphene os: android alt. Security and privacy focused. The most secure and private smartphone currently available.
Linux mint: easy to use linux, 100℅ better than windows.
Pop!: The Linux distro you should use if you have nividia hardware and want to play games using said hardware. Very intuitive and easy to use.
Kubuntu: Ubuntu Linux with KDE desktop. This is the linux distro one I am currently using and I don't have any plans to jump ship again. Better than windows and better than Mac. The companion app for your phone makes life soooo easy. Its pretty and easy to customize to a ridiculously granular level. No fucking notes.
Kindle jailbreak- ko reader: use jailbreak to free your kindle from the tyranny of the bezos. It will download ko reader which is a Foss OS that has every fucking feature you always wished kindle had and let's you read whatever the fuck you want, and have whatever the screensaver you want (no more ads!). Soooo fuck amazon and use this. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.
Linux FOSS: (some available on windows and android as well)
Calibre: Foss desktop eBook library. Packed with features. You will want to use this with koreader to make managing your kindle easy.
Manuscript: skrivner alt. Does absolutely everything I need.
Bitwarden: password manager (use a keepass fork if you want self hosted)
Next cloud: private google drive and cloud alternative that you can self host if you want but it's not required. App available
Proton VPN: to the best of my knowledge it is the only Foss no log VPN you can get. You can pay for higher speeds. App available
Quad9dns: free encrypted DNS provider. App available.
News software:
Use any Foss RSS reader and for the love of god stop getting news from social media. Take control of your feed!
Apps (I only know for android)
Fdroid: great app store to find Foss android apps and download them.
Antennapod: you can get all of your podcasts fetched to one feature rich app via RSS feed. No need to rely on spotify or music steaming services.
Openreads: it's good reads but private and 100℅ stored locally. No amazon, no social media aspect, it just tracks your reading, you can import your good reads but if you want to import from storygraph you have to make a good reads burner account, import to good reads, then import to openreads. The menus Navigation on this one is a bit cumbersome but honestly good reads app is worse.
Newpipe: YouTube frontend that let's you have YouTube subscriptions, watch YouTube in the background, and blocks all ads, without logging in to YouTube. You will want to use this one with a VPN set to Canada (or any other country) so YouTube doesn't keep blocking it in order to force you to sign in. But even with that extra step its worth it for the privacy and the lack of ads.
Proton mail: one of 2 more private gmail alts. But you should note that email cannot be 100℅ anonymous or private.
I think that's it. There are still a lot software varieties I am slowly finding.
I know people get mad at the name, and I understand why, but straight-up I've been using GIMP for 15 years and it's a good solid art program made under the GNU program. It's worth a look.
Blender is an amazing FOSS suite for 3D modeling and animation, as well as digital sculpting and motion tracking. Pros use it. It’s a staple in game development. It’s what the Academy Award winning film “Flow” was made on. It’s not the bland name alternative to an industry standard; it is an industry standard.
Krita is a fantastic FOSS application for digital painting. Everyone I’ve ever talked to who uses it has loved it to death.
OBS is the absolute go-to choice for screen recording and live streaming. You can use it to record your entire desktop or a specific window, capture audio from multiple sources, and even add overlays, webcam feeds, or transitions to your videos.
VLC Media Player is the best media player, hands down. It’s lightweight, it’s reliable, it supports virtually every audio and video format known to man, and it has built in media conversion and even basic editing. I truly can’t imagine why anyone would use a media player that isn’t this one. It’s just the best there is, easily, no contest.
Audacity is a fantastic multi-track audio editor and recorder. It’s free and it’s good, and podcasters love it for a reason.
And believe it or not, Thunderbird is a really good email client now. I’m not even joking. If you used it back in the day and hated it, please give it another chance, because the glow up is unreal.
Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents
Apple App Store Age Verification
These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.
Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.
If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.
Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.
Hey, if you're in the USA, that Stop KOSA link helps you send a letter/email to your rep in like, 5 minutes. You can change the auto generated letter (I did, a little, to make it more personal) but you can just hit Send as is.
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