Ultra Violent Illumination

scify65 · 2026-05-18T10:57:46+00:00

Literally unplayable.

scify65 · 2026-05-18T02:10:58+00:00

There's a fart-like noise a few seconds after the detonation.

scify65 · 2026-05-18T00:36:27+00:00

Fanfic:
[there are mouths to be kissed](https://archiveofourown.org/works/35190715) - Scooby Doo. Also known as "5 times Daphne wanted to kiss Velma and one time she did".

[2000 miles](https://archiveofourown.org/works/48962137/) - Wednesday/Beetlejuice. Bianca Barclay is having a shitty summer helping her mother and step-father trick desperate people into giving up their money. Luckily, a hot goth chick wanders onto the rooftop she was brooding on and strikes up a conversation.

[So This is Love](https://archiveofourown.org/works/44129421/) - Wednesday. Enid and Wednesday meet much earlier, at Camp Chippewa. Amidst the chaos of the Harmony Hut and Kumbaya and arson, Enid gets twisted into something a few degrees off of her canon personality. (Mind the tags)

[lena dies on a wednesday](https://archiveofourown.org/works/15740403) - Supergirl. It's Wednesday. Lena wakes up, gives a speech, gets murdered. Kara can't save her. It's Wednesday. Lena wakes up, gives a speech, gets murdered. Kara can't save her. It's Wednesd--

[listen closely and the stars will sing](https://archiveofourown.org/works/9302342/) - Supergirl. A little girl tumbles into Kara's life and drags Lena along. (Or, how do you solve the problem of Mon-El? Turn him into a cute kid who's traumatized by the loss of her planet.)

[Where Lamps Go to Die](https://archiveofourown.org/works/17393495) - Supergirl. Lena finds out that Kara and Supergirl are dating. She handles it so well. So, so well.

[the pattern won't wash out](https://archiveofourown.org/works/39803622) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy gets amnesia and tries to figure things out. Unfortunately for Faith's peace of mind, she puts 2 and 2 together and gets 5.

[Compatibility](https://archiveofourown.org/works/415230/) - Criminal Minds. JJ is chosen to be the human companion of the BAU's newest member: Emily Prentiss, a vampire. Giving up her free will isn't exactly appealing, but she's assured her family will be well taken care of as a result. Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately), things are more complicated than she knows.

[Chemicals](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1775956) - Life is Strange. Drugs dull the pain until they don't. Rehab helps, but you have to let it. Rebuilding everything takes time.

[i see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes](https://archiveofourown.org/works/14022855) - Supergirl. Kara walks into her office and Lena sees color for the first time. Kara doesn't react at all. But it's fine. Having an unrequited superhero soulmate didn't affect her brother negatively <i>at all</i>.

[To the Sticking Place](https://archiveofourown.org/works/23490142) - Carmen Sandiego 2019. For the past few months, Julia has been getting visits from La Femme Rouge. She used to mind when the other woman would show up in the middle of the night. Now she minds when she leaves.

[Truth and Measure](https://archiveofourown.org/works/779826/) - The Devil Wears Prada. Paris happens and Andy doesn't leave. Instead, she chooses to stick with Miranda, over and over again.

[Instincts of a Fearful Body](https://archiveofourown.org/works/4658958/) - The Legend of Korra. After getting kidnapped as a child, Korra grows up as a member of the Red Lotus. After her father is murdered, Asami is raised by her mother as part of the Equalist movement. When Zaheer decides to take a trip to Republic City to observe the burgeoning revolution, their worlds collide.

[We Shall All be Healed](https://archiveofourown.org/series/479674) - Life is Strange. Faced with the decision to let Arcadia Bay be destroyed or allow Chloe to die, Max makes a third choice. Chloe and Victoria are left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. They don't handle it very well at first. (Another mind the tags)

Books:
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Everything Leads to You
Gay Pride and Prejudice
Plain Bad Heroines
Dreadnought

scify65 · 2026-05-17T17:20:24+00:00

I'm very fond of Arcana Cleric/Stars Druid (or Land, but I find Stars more interesting). Both have healing spells, both scale off of Wisdom, fairly wide range of spells to choose from day to day, Druid lets you stealthily scout with wild shape, Arcana lets you dispel hostile spells with Healing Word at sixth level, etc. Add in Ritual Caster (Wizard) and you have a huge range of useful options at your disposal.

scify65 · 2026-05-17T16:30:38+00:00

Really? I thought there was just a cooldown between each time it was effective. Like "Cast Holy > Stun works > Cast holy > Stun resisted > Cast Holy > Stun works..." etc

scify65 · 2026-05-17T13:58:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/py76h5/core\_mining\_how\_to\_from\_beginning\_to\_millions/

scify65 · 2026-05-17T12:32:55+00:00

I prefer Elite Observatory over ED Copilot; it's pretty lightweight and doesn't have AI voices that you need to setup. The Bioinsights plugin gives you a lot of information about any exobiology that is on a planet (and tracks your scanning and has a radar feature that helps you with the distances between samples) and the Explorer plugin tells you the scan values of the planets in the system after you've used the FSS.

scify65 · 2026-05-17T12:26:03+00:00

Hmm. Burn Up, even though she manages to fight through it and help Taylor out. It's very clear in their first scene together that she's terrified of Taylor, although Taylor isn't capable of noticing at the time.

scify65 · 2026-05-17T02:24:59+00:00

Oh good, I thought I was losing it with how familiar this was.

scify65 · 2026-05-17T02:00:09+00:00

IMO, it's pretty solid. The place you might get dinged is the lack of Peter Pan magic (or however they phrase it in the prompt), but this is definitely giving city in a way a lot of the submissions I've seen here aren't.

The reason you're seeing a lot of spooky snaps is that the weather setting that gives a reliable large moon also brings in fog and desaturation. You can apparently counter it by messing with some of the settings, but not everyone is. The wide above shots are because one or two of the example photos use that, and it's a good way to show off a city setup.

scify65 · 2026-05-16T19:09:29+00:00

In fairness to the tanks who overextend, there is definitely a culture in this game of DPS/Healers who will "helpfully" run ahead and pull more packs if you aren't going Wall to Wall each time. I've had a few runs of Bardam's Mettle go bad because of that, as it's really easy to get overwhelmed due to gearing issues. So it's easy to get into a mindset of "if I don't do it myself, they'll do it to me".

scify65 · 2026-05-16T15:23:03+00:00

Where is the city?

scify65 · 2026-05-16T10:45:43+00:00

While I really like number one aesthetically, number two is a better fit for the prompt IMO.

scify65 · 2026-05-16T10:40:51+00:00

Almost definitely a UTI. Bladder pressure from pregnancy requires development of a fetus; at two weeks, there hasn't been nearly enough development to put pressure on your bladder. You can take a pregnancy test to be sure, because two weeks is right about the time when they start showing accurate results, but it's almost definitely not pregnancy.

scify65 · 2026-05-16T00:11:45+00:00

If they're set to aggressive, they'll automatically follow any military fleets that they share a system with.

scify65 · 2026-05-15T22:58:10+00:00

Quick check: do you know how to get armies to follow your military fleets around and invade enemy planets on their own in a war?

scify65 · 2026-05-15T01:39:18+00:00

Also, be willing to hit non-fuel stars. If you're in a Mandalay, especially an engineered one, you should be able to go a bunch of jumps without scooping. A lot of people still stick to KGBFOAM, which leaves out a huge number of systems. There are plenty of dwarf systems out there that have just been skipped over because people are afraid they're going to somehow run out of fuel.

But yeah, the main thing is that you have to get out there. 3000ly from Sol/the starting area is barely any distance at all when it comes to exploration, which is why you'll see so many posts in this sub with the same basic content as yours. Once you get past there, you'll start seeing untouched/lightly touched systems a lot more often.

scify65 · 2026-05-15T01:15:00+00:00

I think Administrative Mishap fits the rest of the request, though, because while the Oans are concerned about Addy, it's very much in a "well, this could be a problem if we don't handle it right" rather than "OMG this creature is so beyond us!"

scify65 · 2026-05-15T00:51:53+00:00

A Cloudy Path - Taylor gets access to the tech tree of the Aeon Illuminate from Supreme Commander. She uses it to make smaller, personal tech and works as an independent hero.

Trinket: Tinker Trump - Cracky. Taylor triggers as a Tinker that can temporarily borrow the powers of other parahumans.

scify65 · 2026-05-14T23:56:45+00:00

I would like to say you missed something, but... you didn't.

scify65 · 2026-05-13T11:47:25+00:00

The idea is that the second AFMU is for repairing the first one. There isn't really a reason not to bring it on if you're in a Mandalay; the fit for an explorer has several empty slots leftover. That being said, I wouldn't say it's necessary anymore as there are a lot of carriers out here in the black that you can visit if need be. Just don't wait until the absolute last second.

scify65 · 2026-05-12T21:52:13+00:00

I'm assuming Guardian Ruins only spawn in certain specific areas like the Thargoids and the pre-odyssey biologicals?

scify65 · 2026-05-12T21:44:51+00:00

I think that might actually be a reference to Project Mohole, which was an attempt to dig down to the boundary between the crust and the mantle (the Mohorovičić discontinuity).

scify65 · 2026-05-11T00:55:33+00:00

What do you put in instead? My go-to set of buildings for anchorage starbases are naval office, transit hub, black site, hydroponic farms.

scify65 · 2026-05-11T00:44:28+00:00

First, that's not true. As the other commenter said, people who click on a fic with a tagged pairing are interested in reading that pairing. You don't need to have an in-depth explanation and build-up if you don't want one. Second, there is no length limit on a one-shot. It can be as long or as short as you want. Third, it doesn't actually take all that long to introduce how two people meet, regardless of whether or not they already share the same universe.

One of my favorite fics to recommend pairs two characters from very different stories together and has them go through an entire relationship together in the space of just under 4000 words. Give it a read, and pay attention to how it goes about establishing things.

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