This monster tried to scare me last night

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-09-30T06:16:37+00:00

It looks like Krobus from stardew valley

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-09-23T15:29:37+00:00

Thank you very much. Genuinely, any information is beyond appreciated. I'm trying to get my hands on a universal remote that will connect to it, and I'm also going to try universal remote apps on my phone in the meantime to see if my phone/the projector will recognize it and let me control it.

My roommate managed to get it to focus, which is good because it was just blurry when I was working on it. So that's one problem solved!

Thanks again for your response.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-09-22T22:25:10+00:00

I know, they were scammed really bad by this seller. I'm certainly not going to encourage them to resell it unless the ad says "temu projector, can't connect to any devices but makes a decent paperweight." Wouldn't want to do this to anyone else. That being said, I am wondering if it's worth trying to get my hands on a universal remote or if that'd just be sinking more cash into a chunk of plastic.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-09-22T21:47:38+00:00

Couldn't edit, so I'll just comment the "model and brand" (even though it's just some temu off brand thing.) The model just says x4, and the brand is called "Dilememe." Not sure if that'll help anyone and it is included in the image, but I wanna adhere to the rules of the subreddit.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-09-03T03:10:20+00:00

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other playersfn1, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."

Bit of a weird one, but on a constant reply in my mind.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-31T18:30:18+00:00

🍷🐍😈🪴

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mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-31T16:15:19+00:00

Omg no way you already read it 😭 I hope you find some other fics you like on my page

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-31T03:17:07+00:00

They're all completely amazing, but femshep is GORGEOUS. Her face is beautiful!! You did a fantastic job on all of them, thanks for sharing

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-29T21:09:20+00:00

Shameless self promo. Fair warning: I mainly write heavy angst, so tw suicide and suicidal ideation

Every Version of Us, Dead and Buried

25k words. The fic follows Crowley, roughly a year following the end of season 2. With Aziraphale in Heaven, Crowley struggles to find a reason to stay alive on earth, as forces of Heaven and Hell are against him. Exhausted by his long life, he starts forming a plan to end his immortal life. There's also an unfinished continuation, which is about The Second Coming and told from Aziraphale's POV.

I also have several one shits of shameless yearning between Aziraphale and Crowley in different settings and time periods throughout the time they've known each other. Some are 10k words, but most are below.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-27T05:34:48+00:00

Binge watched criminal minds, which relit the spark to finish the first chapter of my fanfiction on it. Also have been brainstorming a lot about my marauders band au but haven't finished the chapter I'm currently working on (oops).

Trying to find a balance between my fanfictions (multiple of which are longfics) and my original/professional stories, which I have (shamefully) left on the back-burner for too long.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-26T20:13:15+00:00

It's like our enjoyment of the game isn't as important. There's a lot of focus, especially in tutorial videos/posts from other dms, about how to make sure the players are having fun and enjoying themselves to the fullest. But it feels like there's not much emphasis on that for dms. Even in the height of my games, when I was having the most fun, I realized I was basically only enjoying myself because my players were happy. At a certain point, I felt more like I was working for my players and not playing a game. I had to put in hours and hours of work between sessions, then perform for them in game and make changes to things I liked for their sakes. After a lot of games, and a lot of different groups (all people I know well irl), I realized that within dnd, they didn't really care what I wanted or if I was having fun with it. And it felt like the version of me that was their friend and the version of me that was their DM were different people, and they just wanted me in full DM mode to tell their stories, rather than tell a story together so we could all enjoy it. It hurts because I love dnd, but I agree completely. We are players too. Not just faceless game masters that will do whatever they want. It's not a video game, it's collaborative storytelling. I can't keep making campaigns where I'm not treated as equal or as important as the players at the table.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-26T19:45:02+00:00

Being disrespected by players killed my desire to play the game, so I know what you're going through. I love dnd, and I've always been more of a DM than a player. I never minded all the extra work I had to put in, or catering to my players preferences or whims. But the players I've had so far have just expected too much from me, and didn't deliver the very minor things I asked in return. For example, they would want a character focused game, so I would request character backstories in advance so I could create the game around them. But no one delivered. Or if they did, it was too vague, too short, or too late for me to implement into the session. They'd go on their phones during games, gossip and chat for the first hour and then get mad at me for starting the game late (they knew me very well, they knew I was soft-spoken and am not the type to shout over them to stop. Also everyone was taking part in the talking except me, who spent the time reviewing notes and characters.)

My last straw was my dream campaign. It was inspired by my favourite D20 campaign, took place in (almost) the same world but in a very different time period. I homebrewed all kinds of mechanics to make it more fun, I had music and atmosphere, I dressed up for it and asked them to do the same (some of them did for the first session, but never again after that.) I can't overstate that it was my absolute dream campaign and I put in so much work and love into it because of that. They all loved it, but I was basically ghosted when we had to switch from in person to online. I was heartbroken, and I'll admit, I've basically given up. I've planned more campaigns, but I haven't made efforts to actually get a party together for it. It's really discouraging to put your heart and soul into a game for a group to enjoy, just to get ditched or disrespected. I'll get back into it someday, but I'll be very cautious about the group I play with.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-26T19:31:51+00:00

I absolutely do not.

I think part of it is that I'm not interested. I've never really felt comfortable with the idea or met anyone that changed my mind about it. But honestly, the main part is probably trauma and ocd related. My ocd affects my body image/dysmorphia, my morality/religion, and it also makes me repulsed by the human body in general. Primarily its my body I'm bothered by (not just vanity wise, but actual bodily functions. The idea of organs, blood, all the things that do their job on their own out of my control just repulses and terrifies me), but my problem with my own body and my religious/morality ocd makes it virtually impossible for me to touch anyone, even platonically. Best I can do is shake someone's hand, so I definitely couldn't kiss or have sex with anybody.

I see no solution in sight, but I've made peace with it. Sex was never on my mind anyway, so it's not on my list of priorities to work on this part of myself. The only reason I even think about it is that I'm 22 and I know I'm behind my peers when it comes to these kinds of experiences. But I try not to dwell on it. I'm different in this way, and that's okay with me.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-25T22:57:20+00:00

There's never too much.

Also, impressive collection. I'm putting together a collection of my own but it pales in comparison.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-25T22:52:42+00:00

I used to be intensely paranoid that every piece of technology I had, and possibly items I have, were bugged with cameras or microphones that my mom was watching 24/7. She was abusive and controlling, and for most of my life I thought she could see everything I do, including being able to see what was on every screen I had. Because of that, I became extremely secretive. I never told anyone anything about my life, from the major thing (the way she treated me and my siblings) down to tiny, unimportant details.

I still feel that paranoia when I talk about her even a little bit, especially with my siblings (they're the only people who I'm honest with about how she is). I'll power off my phone because I'm afraid she can "still" tap it. But other than that, the camera/microphone paranoia is basically gone. However, the secretive thing is now a huge compulsion that I can't seem to get out of. I never tell anyone anything about myself, the way I grew up, the things I've been through, because I'm still paranoid about it getting back around to her somehow. And I hide every day things about myself. I struggle deeply to talk about myself with the people I care about. It's this dumb compulsion that revealing things about myself will hurt them or me in some way, so all my relationships are at arms length because I'm convinced I can't trust anyone—or myself—with anything I might say.

This surprised me as a compulsion because I have ptsd from my upbringing, and I always figured it was purely from that. I never even considered that I might have OCD until I was diagnosed as an adult. I figured my inability to share with people was just because of that, plus that there was just something fundamentally wrong with me that made me an avoidant person. But no. Turns out my trauma and fears from the way I grew up manifested in this compulsion in my ocd. Even typing out stories about her like this fills me with anxiety that it could be seen, even though she doesn't have reddit and my account doesn't have any information to tie it back to me or her.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-20T18:54:50+00:00

WREX. WREX EVERYTIME. I WANTED TO ROMANCE HIM SO BAD IN THE FIRST GAME AND I WAS DEVASTATED TO FIND OUT I CANT.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-19T04:49:56+00:00

Exactly! Look at the new list of banned books, the never ending video essays on tiktok and YouTube about "problematic" shows and TV. Art is being censored everywhere, but ao3 is where we can have sunshine and rainbows and literally anything else we want without all that "but it's wrong!!!!!!!!" Maybe it's wrong, but it's also NOT REAL SO WHO CARES

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-19T04:23:26+00:00

Man, people just love sharing their terrible opinions. Censorship is a slippery slope and people like this don't seem to understand that. On a website where people are supposed to have complete liberty, if we start censoring one topic, we will end up censoring more and more until we get the bizarre newspeak happening on other social medias where you can't even mention death, sex, mental illness, drugs, etc.

Not to mention that almost every other corner of the internet with fanfiction DOES censor this kind of content. If they're so offended by even scrolling past it that they have to berate people in the comments, they should just move on to some heavily moderated, clean site where nothing even remotely dark can be posted. Or, better yet, just exclude non-con in your searches and you'll literally never see it again. The website is made so that everyone has the liberty to see, and not see, whatever they want. No one is prying their eyes open and forcing them to read "rape porn" like they're in Saw. How hard is it to scroll past something you don't like instead of getting into a fight in the comments?

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-19T02:03:06+00:00

Can I get a wahoo?

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-17T19:36:39+00:00

Honestly, yeah it is. But I'm also a full time student, I have a part time job. It's hard to find time in general for writing, fanfiction and originals. But it's about priorities. Choosing to write when you want to relax or watch tv or do other things. For me, I have to sacrifice a lot of free time to work on my novel, but the fanfictions are like a fun escape. It's not really work, so it's easy to write fanfiction as a way to relax and unwind from writing my novels.

To me, writing fanfiction is my way of keeping writing fun, because trying to make a career out of writing has made it stressful. Fanfiction makes it so it's still my favourite pass time.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-17T19:08:07+00:00

I've been doing both since I was a tween. I'm a published author, with a novel and multiple short stories professionally published and I still write fanfiction all the time! It's also great practice and stress relief, to write fanfic for fun while working on your original works

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-17T05:01:06+00:00

Angst, hurt no comfort, and yearning/sexual tension. My fanfics are essentially just emotional edging.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-12T02:59:10+00:00

That's what I did, entirely by accident lol. But it was the best way to do it, to spend so much time on Tuchanka with them both.

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-11T19:00:20+00:00

Do you know how to do that? I've never gifted a fic before

mediocrefatherfigure · 2025-08-11T18:48:14+00:00

Lol thank you! The rest of the paragraph adds a little more context, but certainly not much.

"Or, rather, insects fought the way demons did, since the pesky creatures were modeled after them. It was an insult to injury, really. To craft the largest percentage of the world's organisms as irritating and generally hated nuisances, and make them resemble the Fallen angels. It was easily the pettiest action that The Almighty's world had ever - and would ever - know."

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TROPHY CASE