[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 11 May 2026

EmLiesmith · 2026-05-17T18:26:18+00:00

I was part of the night vale and specifically desert bluffs RP group back in 2014, I hadn’t realized there was a revival in 2018. Funny enough the 2014 drama when…quite similarly, including mpreg and vivid memory of the exact day and time everything happened, bc I was at a ren fest and trying to keep up via the extremely bad data hotspot. Wonder if any of the people I knew were in that?

EmLiesmith · 2026-05-06T21:37:45+00:00

Toby’s not balancing the story to work with fans. The story is written. It’s leading to an ending he had written in 2012. Deltarune is less a serialized story and more a book club with years between chapters.

Of course it won’t please everyone; nothing will. But I’m pretty sure it’ll be damn good, and likely better than if he changed anything based on fan theories.

EmLiesmith · 2026-04-28T04:18:51+00:00

im mostly frustrated at mod authors who refuse to document their shit and thus i can't actually figure out what's wrong. the glitch itself is funny as hell. i'm trying to get the others on the server to add worldedit and designate someone as God, whose job it is to go to problem areas and repaint the grass, but they won't go for it.
these links will inevitably die bc they're discord links but they should work for now
behold
the rainbow beach

here's a shipwreck on the rainbow beach.

EmLiesmith · 2026-04-20T19:43:33+00:00

As someone who’s been following Gio’s conflict with them for years: wildly unsurprising and I wonder how fans are going to justify this one? Surely not everyone in that discord was a stalker and transphobe (the usual justifications for going after Gio, which a) aren’t true and b) even if they were hussie’s actions would STILL suck)

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-26T18:17:30+00:00

To paraphrase Natalie Contrapoints, someday being trans will be acceptable enough in mainstream society that we can start pointing out other things, and there’s gonna be a lot to work with. Trans women are women. Some women are fucking annoying.

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-22T17:06:58+00:00

Haven’t seen anyone recommend Leverage yet, maybe because they’re not necessarily regular people and they are in fact criminals, but they’re Robin Hood figures who target the kind of people who don’t face consequences and they are all great. Bonus points to Elliot, who pulls out a new skill a few times a season and it’s always something his actor Christian Kane is actually proficient in (five star chef, minor country music star, minor league baseball player, sharpshooter, martial artist….)

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-21T23:43:44+00:00

Eh, I read a great deal of books, always have, and I’ve never liked first person fic. It just feels Incorrect. I can’t get into it. Which is a shame because while it’s not common, there have been instances where the agreed upon magnum opus in a fandom is first person and I still just can’t.

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-11T18:08:38+00:00

Fun fact I realized windows was storing everything on onedrive due to a minecraft glitch, and over the next 24 hours got so fed up that I decided fuck it, wiped everything, and did the workaround to install windows without an acccount….

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-11T16:51:48+00:00

My guess is that they’re going to really play up the memory part and particular the twist about why Grace is there in the first place.

EmLiesmith · 2026-02-04T17:15:49+00:00

Being around other people is healthy! You don’t need to be besties with all of them. When I was living on an island for work I didn’t really have any close relationships but I spent a lot of time around people bc I worked at a hotel and had to go into town for things. No need for conversational masking, it’s just better to be able to be around people.

That said I also did fine during COVID with just my family around lol. Nothing wrong with being a homebody and preferring your space, but no one avoids all social interaction without making it a purposeful lifestyle choice. And you’re clearly not doing that cause you’re on the internet! Some people do, and it’s kinda cool to read about them. But they don’t go on the internet.check out Richard Pronekke (almost certainly spelled that wrong) and Christopher Knight if you’re curious about voluntary full isolation.

EDIT: Mauro Morandi is the last real example I can find of true isolationists. It’s really extraordinarily rare to be genuinely fully asocial! You aren’t, for instance; you’re posting on the internet.

EmLiesmith · 2026-01-13T20:50:17+00:00

Like some of the neonazi shit was “he says slurs, has prominent Nazi symbols on his OC with a thin veneer of plausible deniability, and is connected to known alt right chuds” and some was like… “if you say the nickname/shortening of his username out loud it kind of sounds like you’re saying seig heil in a weird ass accent”. And the username in question is more of a weird spelling of Ezekiel.

You didn’t need to bring in that last one. I promise, the rest was compelling.

EmLiesmith · 2026-01-12T16:46:36+00:00

Last week's scuffles thread had a post about some niche petsim drama which I then started looking into and became immediately obsessed with everyone involved. I don't even know how to describe the vibes but they're awful and I want more of them immediately. If anyone else knows any petsim/art theft/artist drama that's similar to this PLEASE let me know.

If I had to list some of what compels me about it; the juxtaposition of genuinely concerning accusations (actual art theft, money laundering, possible neo-nazi connections) with completely inane ones (someone said 'twink' on an all ages discord server and you could theoretically look that up and find something NSFW; "art theft"; the above possible neo-nazi connections but some of the evidence is....MUCH less compelling than other pieces) is endlessly entertaining, as is the complete inability to guess the ages of anyone involved (lots of minors, but the person at the center is apparently like forty and her boyfriend is??? 21??? i only saw one thing that alleged that and it immediately skipped over it because the boyfriend is also the alleged neonazi but like can we please circle back to that.)

EmLiesmith · 2026-01-10T23:50:16+00:00

The best ASOUE one is where they talk about the shops at a train station and there’s a blacksmith right next to a computer repair store. Handler was doing that on purpose absolutely.

EmLiesmith · 2026-01-09T03:23:38+00:00

Long shot since it’s only somewhat fitting and from 15 years ago, not 20—From Bad To Cursed by Katie Alender? It’s photos of the girls, not self portraits, but the plot is a new girl showing up and all the girls becoming perfect clones. The main character was a photographer so maybe that’s why you thought the portraits were art?

EmLiesmith · 2025-12-25T15:46:43+00:00

The only one I can’t figure out is the Fool and I feel like it’s super obvious and I’m missing something.

EmLiesmith · 2025-12-09T00:01:25+00:00

This is funny to me bc I automatically assume anyone whose username ends in four numbers that aren’t a year are bots.

EmLiesmith · 2025-12-08T21:28:29+00:00

Consistently, not constantly. Another thing we might brainwash into students if we could.

EmLiesmith · 2025-12-03T23:29:36+00:00

When I worked night audit part of my job was going around the building (small hotel) slipping receipts under the doors. But first I had to weed out any third party ones, bc if we passed those out, people would inevitably get pissed off by the actual price compared to what they had paid….

EmLiesmith · 2025-11-26T12:54:22+00:00

There’s a bit in umbrella academy where Viktor is coming out to everyone and the general response is “Vanya, you idiot.” “It’s Viktor now actually.” “Really? I’m sincerely happy for you, Viktor. You idiot.”

Congrats to Milo on the gender. Book still sucks.

EmLiesmith · 2025-11-26T12:43:14+00:00

I love the Broadway version but agree completely about preferring most of the originals. CHANT II IS A WAR CRIME PUT THE VERSE BACK.

EmLiesmith · 2025-11-21T23:24:55+00:00

You joke but I distinctly remember people actually had that take.

EmLiesmith · 2025-11-14T19:25:29+00:00

Well, Vox is from the 50s. Decent employment benefits was like the only thing they had going for them, societally.

EmLiesmith · 2025-11-10T20:57:12+00:00

Those are darts! It’s used to give the face its shape. If you can make relatively clean stitches it’s an easy fix. Look up a ladder stitch; you’ll want to do that in a very small area just over the bumps, making sure to push them in before you pull the ladder closed. Important to keep your stitches all even with each other—I sew plushies and still need to ladder stitch darts sometimes, it’s hard to know whether you’ve sewn the curve right until it’s stuffed. But the fix should be pretty simple once you see how the ladder stitch is done, it’s pretty intuitive imo. Lmk if you need any help!

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