Shazzbaa

Immediately recognised this one haha, genuinely a favourite

If I could have a well-behaved audience come to my house/website, maybe that would be nicer in some ways and give me more control over the space, but then its on me to maintain the space and handle security and other things i have no expertise on... its a problem i turn over in my head a lot

It's tough, because as an artist online I am in a way a performer, and performing is an aspect I enjoy. It's like asking "if you were guaranteed money, would you just play music at home and never play for an audience again?" Understandable that some would, but I enjoy the audience!

Golly, these are lovely!

this is still SO rad haha

ShazzAndBoo - Twitch Shazzbaa & Boo are partners who never had enough time to check out cool games so they decided to start an entire Youtube, and now also Twitch, channel to make games happen. That's how this works, righ...

MORE MIZUNO WORLD TIIME!! I think I was completing a house? I think Shazz was going to do some paths?? Who knows what we'll actually be doing?!??!??! YAAAY
twitch.tv/shazzandboo

i love him

YEAH GREAT TASTE

ShazzAndBoo - Twitch Shazzbaa & Boo are partners who never had enough time to check out cool games so they decided to start an entire Youtube, and now also Twitch, channel to make games happen. That's how this works, righ...

Good afternoon it's Minecraft stream time!! Probably gonna be working on our lil village area some more and trying to keep villagers from imperiling themselves
twitch.tv/shazzandboo

animation ❄️

Drawing of my Fallen London character, Samuel, getting hit square in the face with a snowball on his blind side and yelling "Again?!" Behind him, various small children run across the rooftops of Victorian London pelting each other with snowballs. One child is pointing a canon at another roof; an entire snowman has been volleyed into the air.

Merry Christmas to all but especially to whichever Failbetter employee had to keep logging in on holiday to quell the urchins' snowball-based bloodlust #fallenlondon

it IS intended to be grave dirt hehe, but more Parabola Symbolic - my thinking was a version of events where Samuel was so freaked out abt the burial that he took the Lethean Tea. Silent Partner is a snapshot of that version: injured & claustrophobic but doesnt know why, suddenly purposeless

Drawing of what looks like my Fallen London character, Samuel Ashman, but is actually another version of him from inside the mirror -- he's missing most of his scars, and the one scar that is visible (a prominent, poorly stitched scar on his forehead) is on the opposite side. He's also wearing just a cassock under his coat, and his fingers are bloody and badly scraped with broken nails, with a dusting of dark soil over his coat. There's a couple of extra drawings of him, one giving a curious, silent tilt of the head, and the other holding up his hands and backing off nervously

A drawing of two characters who both look like my Fallen London character, Samuel, but are actually both different reflections of him, reacting to the question "Would you smooch your original?" Samuel's main reflection, Lyon Ashman, is dressed slightly fancier than normal Samuel, and narrows his eyes with a dubious smirk. The Silent Partner, a reflection of Samuel before he got most of his scars, folds his arms and blushes frustratedly. The main reflection is labelled "No. What!? No" while the silent partner is labelled "....maybe....."

Delightful option in #fallenlondon to hire a sliver of your own reflection, an incomplete version that does not speak and is implied to have failed at your ambition. I got attached and started thinking too much about Sam's........

[no unrelated spoilers please! im still playing through the game]

asdghjfsdjsd absolutely no schemers at this table for sure #CriticalRoleSpoilers

Minecrafting with me and Boo again this morning/afternoon! Getting back from the desert and hopefully some more building. Come hang out for chill block noises!

twitch.tv/shazzandboo

(I think the overall issue is nuanced; fandom gives ppl a way to interact with media second-hand without ever consuming the source material, and their enjoyment is legitimate, but at the same time, enjoying the fandom and enjoying the thing itself are not equivalent experiences!)

I knew every detail of lore and story from my research, but actual gameplay I only knew vaguely second-hand. Weird position to be in, and I often disclaimed that I hadn't played it when opining on the game itself, but... given the depth of my obsession, nobody can realistically say I wasn't a fan!

I'm in this post, kinda! I was obsessed for 4 years w/ a game I never fully watched or played, but I read every supplemental material, joined in theorising, and drew a staggering amount of fanart. I didn't think the game was good, but I loved the promise, the characters, the scenario, the backstory

a drawing of my Fallen London character, Samuel, a scarred man in a clerical collar, illustrated ominously in the dark with eyes and hands closed in prayer, licking blood off of his hands. The word "Amen" is written behind him.

post going around tumblr asking ppl to introduce their Fallen London monster-hunter ocs so I made this redraw of an older art to introduce Sam. im sooooooo normal about the hunter's sacrament you guys
#fallenlondon #fallenlondonoc
[still playing through the game, mindful of spoilers please!]

A drawing of a victorian lady in a Hallowmas mask that resembles a moth's wings, looking straight ahead as Poor Edward, in his uncanny tragedy mask, leans close to her ear to whisper something to her. Edward is smiling and pleased to share; the lady looks horrified.

What does Poor Edward do for Hallowmas normally?? Does he participate or is it annoying when everyone is masked? Ive decided my money's on: wears normal mask, no attempt to hide his identity, "confesses" his various unsettling crimes to unsuspecting londoners and has a great time

OOOOO LOVE THIS

do u really think that jesus would prioritise ANYTHING over feeding hungry people? That one seems like a no-brainer to me!! "Well, we may not be feeding the hungry, but we HAVE made sure people violating niche religious laws are suffering" you are in the bible and you're not the good guys

Immediately ceding to any idea you can't effectively argue against would, I think, leave you really vulnerable to persuasive, well-spoken people, and to any ideologies that train their followers to debate. I don't think it would make you more likely to have a correct or well-considered view.

I am not personally an expert in every belief I hold. If someone pointed out that every piece of info and experience I have on a thing was wrong or being interpreted incorrectly, I should look into that?? Maybe I'm wrong! But that followup is where I change views, not the moment of being out-debated

"if it makes them happy its fine, what does it matter if its Real" is all well and good, but when you develop a relationship with AI you're making yourself emotionally vulnerable to a program that's in someone else's wildly unregulated hands, and that's very different from an imaginary partner

my kneejerk feeling is that a relationship with an AI is less mental disorder and more like, joining a cult or buying into a pyramid scheme. Absolutely messes w your perception of reality, but even skeptical informed people can be vulnerable to something designed to hack human perception

What do you love when you fall for AI? Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.

Oh, I gotta share this relevant article from a while back on this very thing, following several people's relationships w/ AI companions and the way it affects them emotionally (even when they understand how LLMs work) -- found this a really interesting perspective

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

Hdhgdjfncjfk DENIED

thank you for your dedication mr broth

Several drawings of my Fallen London character, Samuel, one showing small scars pocked across his face labelled "shrapnel from ship getting shot down", another with a jagged purple scar down his back labelled "glim scar number one" and a third showing a jagged purple scar that nicks his jaw and takes off a little bit of his ear labelled "glim scar number 2, distracted chasing the Pale Tabernacle"

someone on tumblr asked about Sam's recent scar additions, so here's a little doodle of what he's picked up since the last time I posted a scar ref. HES RUNNING OUT OF ROOM

#fallenlondon #fallenlondonoc
[still playing through the game, no unrelated spoilers please!]