Stories chat corpse discussion

[vital rover]

Ah! Sure!

[thin cargo]

That woke me up

[elder cloak]

lol

[thin cargo]

right away

[frozen sleet]

i need to speedrun my afterword

[vital rover]

Should be done now

[thin cargo]

How can I do that?

[jolly kestrel]

wait, are we already posting today???

[vital rover]

It's in preferences

[thin cargo]

I just woke up from my pale slumber

[vital rover]

Just gotta check that it's allowed under preferences and then hit update

[marsh pilot]

Preferences, under Privacy section

[elder cloak]

tomorrow

[jolly kestrel]

i thought it would be put out on the 31st?

[elder cloak]

It got too long

[thin cargo]

I did it, then what

[elder cloak]

30k words would be a lot for a one day post

[vital rover]

Then you should be good

[thin cargo]

Like that? 👀

[inland lotus]

Oh wait can i still write my afterwords?

[thin cargo]

Aight, time for me to sleep again

-# Also, @elder cloak, check again in my docs because I edited some words there

[elder cloak]

alright, will do

I need to go now, but I'll add you all later

[outer girder]

oh sure

done

[elder cloak]

added

now everyone just has to accept my co-author invites and we'll be looking cursed

[outer girder]

i do not see it. did you send it to FunkyTrashCan?

[elder cloak]

maybe because I only have it as a draft rn?

[outer girder]

got it now

might've taken a bit

[elder cloak]

cool

we got a couple people on there

hopefully more people will see it later and we can figure it out then

[frozen sleet]

@elder cloak is this showing up before the chapters, after the chapters or in our individual chapters?

[vital rover]

I haven't gotten any notifications, it may have to be posted first

[elder cloak]

The afterword?

[jolly trail]

Wait did you finish?

[elder cloak]

She did

[jolly trail]

Ahhh

(Also I don’t want to be in co author invites in case you forgot)

[jolly trail]

[south forum]

[jolly trail]

I don’t remember how long mine was

[south forum]

mm yummy long ending

i am spooky AND silly

[jolly trail]

Is it posted?

[south forum]

i dont think ill see the ending for a long while

[frozen sleet]

Yeah

[frozen sleet]

Eh. Shouldn't matter, posted my afterword

[elder cloak]

So the plan is to post two chapters a day for the 8 days from tomorrow till the 31st

[elder cloak]

also, anyone who's not gotten the co-author invite (who wished to receive one) do tell me

[marsh pilot]

Don't think I got one 👀

[elder cloak]

fixed

[jolly trail]

!!

I'm looking forward to discussing everyones' chapters ❤️

[frozen sleet]

I am as well

[inland chasm]

Should be good

[elder cloak]

alright, added

the only ones still giving me problems are Anton and Sylveon's accounts

[frozen sleet]

yeah i only just now got home, thanks for reminding me, ill go fix that now

[elder cloak]

this is the list so far

which contains everyone save anton and Sylv

[frozen sleet]

try again

[elder cloak]

I'll give it a minute to see if its just being slow

[frozen sleet]

yeah, i forgot to press update

[elder cloak]

[frozen sleet]

a) have you sent new one?
b)where would I find the invite?

[elder cloak]

i just sent another and its saying the same thing as before

[frozen sleet]

i pressed the wrong thing, i checked this

i need to check this all the way up here

should be updated for real now

[elder cloak]

alright its sent

[frozen sleet]

accepted

[elder cloak]

good work

[frozen sleet]

now back to figuring out ao3's CSS codes

[thin cargo]

Stupid me

@elder cloak , I think I figured it out

[elder cloak]

added :)

[thin cargo]

So, will it notify me? 👀

[elder cloak]

yeah

that's everyone added (when they accept the invites, anyway)

now what time do we all think is good for posting

two posts per day

[blissful abyss]

Will these be posted in the server? I'm interested in reading it, but don't have this "ao3" and don't know what it is

[elder cloak]

yeah they will, as well as links to ao3

Ao3 is just archiveofourown.org

it just hosts fanfic for just about every fandom

and is the largest fanfic site on the internet currently

[candid mountain]

It's probably where most rw fics are

[elder cloak]

if you click on the links in #stories-library★, most of then go to ao3

[blissful abyss]

Does it have, er- weird things?

I wouldn't want to commonly find things that I wouldn't want on my search history

[midnight edge]

theres no algorithm, just whatever is last updated shows up at the top of the fic list

though you can change it

and yes it does have adult fics but you dont have to read them

[blissful abyss]

Is there some sort of preview that might show the parts I don't want to see?

[thin cargo]

I have now accept the co creator thingy

[elder cloak]

I think there's a setting to hide adult fics by default

[thin cargo]

Now let me do another rest

-# the rain is soothing

[blissful abyss]

Sleep is for the bad at writing /j

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

there's the whole tagging system, plus ratings to tell you if its an adult fic

[midnight edge]

there's an content warning that you get before reading an explicit fic but its only at the start of every session

[blissful abyss]

-# almost forgot the /j

[midnight edge]

oh theres also a way to include and exclude what you want and what you don't want respectively

its also easily accessible, just on the right of the ui

[thin cargo]

Speaking of sleep, I cannot sleep again, it's already 6 am

[jolly trail]

Go to filter > ratings > select general or teen

Or, every fic should have a rating. It’s the top left symbol on the fics — G and T should be safe. ao3 is very good about correcting misrated fics, and the community is good about reporting them

Also, everything posted here in library should be safe. At worst, you might see a little blood/violence or stuff that’s tragic

[dry sequoia]

Right. Approving.

[frozen sleet]

What if we did one chapter in the morning, then one in the afternoon

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

chat

it is time

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153060280#workskin

the wall of authors looks exactly as silly as it was supposed to

[candid mountain]

You sent chapter 2 btw

Oh I see, it's a foreword

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Yeah I posted foreword + actual chapter 1

Then I’ll post chapter two later today

[thin cargo]

Consumed the words

[south forum]

woke up and consumed words

[thin cargo]

[outer girder]

should we change this list?

[jolly trail]

Yeah definitely

I think any co author can edit if you want to do it btw

That should be the chapter author (T13) only

[outer girder]

i can do that

actually no i can't

they're greyed out for me

[jolly trail]

Oh I though co authors could

Maybe they have to opt out…? That’s clunky

[outer girder]

maybe, or t13 needs to do it

[jolly trail]

@elder cloak this needs a fix when you get a chance!

I guess credit for non-coauthors will need to be done in author’s note

[outer girder]

uyeah

[frozen sleet]

Read it: very nice ||liked Spearmaster's internal monolog, the seriousness of it only makes the chaos and goofiness I know is coming even funnier||

[jolly trail]

Comments are moderated

[outer girder]

probably for the best

[upbeat brook]

All comments will be images of smelvin

[jolly trail]

Same I love how serious the tone is

And then we gonna get silly…

[outer girder]

also i already put my chapter in the drafts

(mostly because there's an accompanying image i had to set up)

i wrote a "poem" in the notes

[upbeat brook]

I like reading the serious tone, and fully well knowing my chapter

[jolly trail]

poem

[outer girder]

do you want to see it early?

[jolly trail]

Sure!

[outer girder]

in dms

[elder cloak]

They’re grayed out for me too

Oh well, I think I’ll do better on the next chapter

[jolly trail]

Weird…

Maybe add an authors note to make it clear who wrote it?

[elder cloak]

My chapter just gonna look a little funky

[jolly trail]

AN at the start should clarify fine

[elder cloak]

Yeah probably

I’ll go do that later when I post chapter two

[jolly trail]

[marsh pilot]

WORDS CONSUMED
So good

||Damn you making me sad about Moon again ||

[elder cloak]

My specialty: making people sad

[south forum]

[candid mountain]

many such cases here /lh

[elder cloak]

A common specialization

Anyway, I’m gonna go upload Funky’s chapter now

oh god how do I add images to ao3?

[candid mountain]

css formatting?

[south forum]

no clue what any of that is

[elder cloak]

can we call on the expertise of somebody who knows how to add images?

[outer girder]

hold n

i already put it into a draft

want me to publish it for you? it should be all set

[elder cloak]

yeah I see it now

sorry lol

[outer girder]

(i upload images to deviantart and use the image option on rich text)

though any image hosting site should work

you're all good

[elder cloak]

yeah just upload your chapter whenever you'd like

[outer girder]

weee

[elder cloak]

(before tomorrow morning's chapter)

[outer girder]

did it now

[elder cloak]

[outer girder]

#stories-library★ message

[elder cloak]

also, I love the little spooky poem at the end

10/10

||Moon really does the ominously aloof vibes fantastically well||

||and the art's fire||

[south forum]

im laughing at myself now because of my chapter

[elder cloak]

I think it works perfectly tbh

[outer girder]

thank you :)

[jolly trail]

perfectly sets the tone. good work

[inland lotus]

||Moon is very menacing ||

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153192331

[jolly trail]

||moon is being very mysterious....||

[elder cloak]

There was a picture that was supposed to go with it too but I couldn’t get it to work

[jolly trail]

Send me the image link and I will do the image tag for you?

[elder cloak]

I’ve got like a file on my computer iirc

[jolly trail]

Ah it needs to be uploaded somewhere, I think Imgur should work

I use my dA stash or aws bucket…

you can use a discord image temporarily but it will stop working after a couple days

[elder cloak]

huh

[jolly trail]

but lets go ahead and do that for now until karessra can upload it somewhere else?

[elder cloak]

weird

[jolly trail]

just post the image here

would be a shame for people not to see the image :c

[elder cloak]

now I just gotta figure out how to download it from gdocs

[jolly trail]

send me the doc?

maybe you can host images from docs never tried

[elder cloak]

that would be very convenient

[jolly trail]

nope 😂

[jolly kestrel]

the monk surv sketch?

i might still have that if im not to late

[jolly trail]

We got it :3

[jolly kestrel]

perfect

[jolly trail]

We used a discord link though, so if you want it to still be there in a couple days you should upload to Imgur or something and send us the link

[jolly kestrel]

lmao, i forgot that i actually drew sth for the chapter

[jolly kestrel]

nah, its fine

[marsh pilot]

I can upload it for y'all, if needed

Already got the link for mine done

[elder cloak]

I mean, you can always post the chapter yourself (when its your turn)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153215203

[jolly trail]

@dry sequoia cute chap

Scared Smelvin

[marsh pilot]

Damn this fic updates so fast, I gotta catch UP /lh

[jolly trail]

How does this writer write so fast??

[dry sequoia]

Now, from this point forward, I have no idea how they handle things.

I await further releases.

[fossil grove]

the combined writing juice of all of stories chat

[jolly trail]

Things get a bit silly by the time I come around

I don’t even remember what chapter number I am

[dry sequoia]

Wonder how you all handle Rosa being in the story.

[jolly trail]

I also didn’t really edit my chapter much so

[dry sequoia]

I threw as many screwdrivers and wedges into the story as I possibly could, save for taking away Smelvin's costume.

[jolly trail]

You can’t take smelvin’s pumpkin

[south forum]

story rule: smelvin keeps pumpkin

[jolly trail]

Smelvin IS pumpkin

[south forum]

tbh if i had like another day or so beyond the 24th, i could have made my chapter longer

[jolly trail]

How you write so much

I want that energy

[dry sequoia]

Frosmoth has that writing juice well.

If even Piotr has this much juice, I can't even begin to imagine how much she has.

[south forum]

unbridled love for my son

precious

also this group project was super silly and fun

[jolly trail]

Yeah it was fun

[dry sequoia]

And very silly.

[jolly trail]

I can’t wait to see how the silliness unfolded

[south forum]

i cant wait for the krimas one

[jolly trail]

Krimmas

[south forum]

imagine theyre all in ugly krimas sweaters and garbage gets mistaken for an elf because of his elf ear headband and THATS why they have to go save him from santa's workshop

[inland lotus]

So far everything seems coherent enough, even the tone is semi-consistent

||I feel that's not gonna stay true for much longer tho ||

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153261808

[south forum]

i have awoken

now i must read

[upbeat brook]

I'll probably read them all at once today

[frozen sleet]

Read the chapter ||||

[midnight edge]

is that my chapter

shit

it is

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

Sounds like Rosa basically got tossed out of the equation. Oh well, there goes that plan.

[marsh pilot]

Such is the chaos of a corpse

[jolly trail]

I think this is likely to happen to most OC’s

[jolly trail]

Ya did good!

[marsh pilot]

Fic won't let me kudos it for some reason lmao

[south forum]

i cant kudos it because im an author

[marsh pilot]

[inland lotus]

-# i may have turned into ghostuest to leave a kudos

[south forum]

[upbeat brook]

I left two kudos as well lol

[frozen sleet]

Is kudos fraud a Normal thing in stories?

[outer girder]

i guess? but it isn't like it does much

[jolly trail]

Kudos fraud lmao

I don’t know? I doubt it

I double kudos stories I really like (one account, one guest)

if you’re asking about kudos-ing your own stories… I guess you could do that, but I don’t think ao3 would let you do more than 1 for each device you have. Doesn’t seem worth much (and what does kudos-ing your own work even do for you?)

I kudos’d STTM cause I’m not a co-author

[south forum]

[upbeat brook]

Not really...I've seen some I'd argue have been botted I guess? But honestly I don't know why anyone would go through that effort at all lol. And I can count those incidents on a single hand.

[jolly trail]

Kudos bot is real

But that’s pretty much never the author’s doing

most of the kudos bots are just scrapers that have the side effect of adding kudos

[frozen sleet]

h o w t h e h e l l ?

[jolly trail]

Badly programmed webcrawler finds ao3 and hits all the buttons on every page (most likely)

[jolly trail]

Are we getting a second chapter tonight?

[marsh pilot]

Oh shit that's mine huh

[marsh pilot]

I don't have the proofread version, otherwise I'd post it

[jolly trail]

I’m going to bed soon but im sure I’ll catch it tomorrow

Tree’s probably just busy

[elder cloak]

ahhhhhh sorry guys

been distracted

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153304777

[south forum]

lets goooo

smelvinnnnn

[dry sequoia]

While Rosa isn’t a reoccurring character, The Bao is.

Gneiss.

Actually, Rosa was mentioned.

And then there’s ||Fractals’ Jetfish||—can’t remember the name.

[marsh pilot]

It hasn't been introduced in ACTS yet, and won't be for a long while But ||it's called Lazuli||

WAIT I've now added the picture

@south forum Look at your son

[dry sequoia]

Exclusive ACTS lore drop from Drymm themselves.

[dry sequoia]

I don’t think it’ll ever get brought up again, but I hope it does.

[south forum]

he is SO cute

[thin cargo]

[quartz locust]

Yay, new spooks to the moon chapter

I gotta check it out soon

[jolly trail]

Jetfish fren

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153343192

the Cy chapter

[south forum]

[marsh pilot]

||(lays my eyes on the first few sentences) THE SILLY BEGINS||

[south forum]

i have actually giggled out loud

[jolly trail]

||DENSITY ||

[marsh pilot]

||Glad to see my rotisserie lizard gag doing some mileage ||

[outer girder]

next corpse for christmas should be santa saint

[candid mountain]

what does "corpse" even mean, in this context?

[jolly kestrel]

i always thought it was sth like everyone stitching this corpse together, sth similar to frankenstein, tho i have no clue if thats actually it

[jolly trail]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

[fossil grove]

It originates from the first time it was played by French surrealists in the early 20th century- it resulted in the phrase “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.” Or “The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.”

Banan put wiki link

[candid mountain]

Smort

[south forum]

like this is SO me and i laughed

[fossil grove]

[quartz locust]

Is the entire fic finished?

[candid mountain]

I think it's all done but the chapters are just being released like this

[quartz locust]

:O

Well done y'all!

[jolly trail]

Yeah! everyone got their chapters done really fast

except a couple of us who needed an extra day or two

[upbeat brook]

I needed like four or five

[south forum]

me when i rushed:

if i had until the 25th i might have been able to write 3k more

[outer girder]

do not fret, friends

we all completed our chapters at our own pace

[jolly trail]

We still finished way early

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153374098

this one is probably among my favorite chapters because worlbuilding

[thin cargo]

Cy's? 👀

[elder cloak]

this is Epochs'

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Cy's chapter was the previous one

[thin cargo]

Wait what

I MUST READ

AHWVEKWNWV

[fossil grove]

@inland lotus you ran with this so hard- there's even a freaking ||poem!||

[marsh pilot]

||"DENSITY WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAY" HALP ||

[elder cloak]

||With a ton of refrences too||

[thin cargo]

I have consumed Cy

||I may have abandoned the riddle||

Never thought it was an easy one

[jolly trail]

||“DENSITY WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAY.”|| lmfAO

oh my god the centipede spider lore is lining up so well

[thin cargo]

||Many references were stored there||

[elder cloak]

🔥 chapter @inland lotus

[jolly trail]

||hfish reference spotted ||

and many more

[thin cargo]

Now I'm next

That was rushed work

[jolly trail]

@inland lotus YOU WENT SO HARD ON THIS CHAPTER MAN

it's so good

[elder cloak]

it'll be fine

[jolly trail]

I liked your chapter it was the perfect setup for meee

[thin cargo]

[marsh pilot]

||How is jetfish still alive, I was so expecting it to die at Cy's chapter ||

[upbeat brook]

All things considered it's lining up pretty well so far

It would be a shame if all of this got nuked later

[elder cloak]

sufficiently silly

[thin cargo]

Don't worry about fish

I made sure to handle it with care after reading ACTS

[jolly trail]

we love fish...

[thin cargo]

Fish....

Hfish.....

[jolly trail]

I would never harm fish.

[marsh pilot]

Harm fish, the critically acclaimed fic

[jolly trail]

the classic tale of a fish who was not~ harmed

just like STTM

[marsh pilot]

I await it eagerly

[jolly trail]

Well, I certainly did not harm the fish, of course

You know I wouldn't lie to you

[marsh pilot]

Banan......... I thought we was homies.......... /j

[jolly trail]

we is homies

we's treats the fishes right

[marsh pilot]

Yay :D

[jolly trail]

[marsh pilot]

Treated so well it positively died of joy 😌

[thin cargo]

A joyful and humane death /j

[jolly trail]

Oh geez, expired fish

[dry sequoia]

Good lord, Epochs’ poem.

[frozen sleet]

Every chapter I read, I keep on thinking of this meme

[thin cargo]

Indeed

[dry sequoia]

For me, I await the crack writers.

And then, “Oh dear, it’s all coming apart.”

[jolly trail]

the centipede and spiders things is lining up so well

this has been shockingly coherent...

[elder cloak]

I was amazed myself watching it come together

[jolly trail]

Will it fall apart? I suppose we'll see

[elder cloak]

I didn't even let you guys cheat that much

[elder cloak]

that you will

[jolly trail]

(I cheated a tiny bit)

but only to get a vague idea of what the groups were doing cause I had no ideas

[elder cloak]

(I gave a lot of people some hints about previous chapters, dw)

[jolly trail]

Did you feel like a maestro, orchestrating chaos

[elder cloak]

If said maestro led a fourth-grade recorder class

and didn't care a whole lot about where the song went

rather that everyone had fun

[frozen sleet]

so far the song sounds good to me

[elder cloak]

we're just past the halfway point tho

still plenty left to go

[dry sequoia]

The wrench I threw in with Smelvin isn’t working as per intended, but hey.

As long as people have fun.

[elder cloak]

dont worry, my verbose arti gag got obliterated immediately too

[dry sequoia]

For context, they’re supposed to be in that one room with Popcorn in it.

[inland lotus]

I was a little anxious because reading the previous chapters before mine made me think I could have taken it too seriously
I'm happy you guys like it though!

(And I just realized I misspelled 'horde' )

[dry sequoia]

In short, they’re all the way up at Pebbs!

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

If you take a look at how they move around in the scene, it fits that room in particular.

[thin cargo]

[frozen sleet]

frostmoth. what did you do?

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

So, I don’t know if I didn’t get that out clear enough, but the plan was to distance them so much that it’d take some crack to bring them back.

[elder cloak]

shhhhhhhhh...

[dry sequoia]

You’re not supposed to spoil your parts!

[south forum]

who knows

maybe im a big stinky liar

[elder cloak]

counterintelligence

[south forum]

sew seeds of chaos and mayhem

[dry sequoia]

However, if you were, and you wanted us to believe that, you wouldn’t say a thing.

[south forum]

maybe i like being evil and messing with my fwends

[dry sequoia]

Now, you might just be playing me, but I did remember that you can’t make crackfics at all.

As per your own words.

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

Frosmoth’s segment, therefore, is conclusively not that crack.

[south forum]

who knows?

[elder cloak]

I know

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

And maybe Banan.

[south forum]

we're getting silly here in the smelvin appreciation chat

[elder cloak]

Banan and Funky have the means of accessing the knowledge but I don't think they have

[dry sequoia]

I wanted to discard the halloween costume Smelvin was wearing, but I forgot.

[elder cloak]

the pumpkin lives

[south forum]

the only current soiler: smelvin persists

[dry sequoia]

And somehow, the memory of Big Bao made it through.

Until Epochs.

[jolly trail]

I brought it back

[dry sequoia]

No spoilers.

I’m joking, do whatever you want.

You’re Stories’ Aunt.

[jolly trail]

Kinda like how I hurt the fish

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

or did I???

(I did)

[elder cloak]

[dry sequoia]

Drymm’s about to send you to Crown’s.

[frozen sleet]

did you?

[jolly trail]

did I??

[elder cloak]

(it is possible she may haven't not not not hurtn't the fish (not))

[jolly trail]

Yes, it is possible.

[dry sequoia]

We’ll see in due time.

[jolly trail]

due time is... tomorrow evening

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

Finally, my silly will be unleashed

[dry sequoia]

Though a possibility, we must now carefully consider that it could very well be or not.

[jolly trail]

Or could it?

[south forum]

i didnt get any of the major silly unfortunately

[jolly trail]

You can have mine

[frozen sleet]

i got silly and gave even more silly

[south forum]

left me lots of room for more wording though

[jolly trail]

Even more

I cannot wait to see the silly ball rolling

[south forum]

i guess mine'll be silly in how i had to rush the end

if i didnt write while i had the motivation, i wasnt gonna do a damn thing

[dry sequoia]

Until we verify the media’s authenticity and silliness, it is stuck in a superposition.

-# Pretty sure that this isn’t how superpositions work.

-# But, you know what? This once, fuck science.

[frozen sleet]

it would be in a superpositions if it was silly and not silly at the same time

[marsh pilot]

Schrodinger's silliness

[south forum]

mine maybe

exhibit a

[jolly trail]

Schrodinger’s Smelvin: Is he safe or is he unsafe? We won’t know until the end

[dry sequoia]

If I remember correctly, superpositioning isn’t being both something and not that something, it’s not being that something or not that something.

[frozen sleet]

its the possibility of being either option that is chosen once observed

[dry sequoia]

The thing is, double slit thing or whatever throws a bit of a wrench in that.

Again, only if I remember correctly.

QM is weird.

When electrons are passed through the double slit, if observed, they go one way or the other.

[south forum]

science rules (bill nye gif with his head going by)

[dry sequoia]

But, if not observed, probability wave.

Because the cat can’t be alive or dead at the same time, it is neither. This “new state” is superposition.

-# Take what I say with a massive grain of salt.

-# I’m stupid and misremember everything all the time.

[dry sequoia]

Think about the liar’s sentence.

This sentence is false.

[frozen sleet]

thats.... a paradox

[south forum]

that episode of samurai jack

[dry sequoia]

Actually, yes, but I’m trying to explain it with this as an analogy.

If it is true, then it is false. If it is false, then it is true.

The solution is that it is neither.

A new “third state” of being.

Neither true nor false.

[south forum]

he asked these two brothers which one was the better brother- one told the truth and one lied

i forget the rest of the interaction tho

[frozen sleet]

i dont think thats a superposition

[south forum]

they might have exploded or smth

[dry sequoia]

Hold on.

If you do the double slit experiment, does it go through one hole or the other?

Well, slit, really.

When we do this with electrons and try to close one slit, pattern is as expected.

Close the other, same.

Close both, no pattern.

Open both, wave interference.

But observe it? Bang, expected pattern.

Actually, does this prove any point aside from “electrons can be both waves and particles, but can be in only one whenever observed”?

No, yeah, my brain isn’t working.

[frozen sleet]

now thats a superposition, a object that can have 2 possible outcomes and one is picked when observed

[dry sequoia]

But, it isn’t both.

Actually, is it “both”?

I don’t know, really.

[frozen sleet]

its simplified to we just say its both at the same time because we dont know what it is, its like saying a object could be everywhere in your house because you dont know where it is

[dry sequoia]

The idea behind the argument that it isn’t “both” is that it is a different state.

That it just is.

It isn’t either, it isn’t both, it’s neither.

I really don’t know, though. Fucks with the brain.

[frozen sleet]

yeah QM is really hard to understand

[dry sequoia]

We then get into the philosophy of words and meanings and shit, but that’s going way too deep.

As long as you get the meaning I’m trying to convey, that’s a success.

I still stand by the idea that it’s an entirely new state.

But if I find out new things that say it isn’t, I’ll see.

Also, the thing I’m about to send next is from Wikipedia, which isn’t the most reliable source of information, but this is cool as fuck.

“Recent research indicates that chlorophyll within plants appears to exploit the feature of quantum superposition to achieve greater efficiency in transporting energy, allowing pigment proteins to be spaced further apart than would otherwise be possible.”

[south forum]

smelvin is learning alot from this science class

[dry sequoia]

Look at those eyes, and tell me. Just tell me that they have thoughts behind them.

Spoilers—head empty, no thoughts.

[thin cargo]

Mine is next, I'm gonna brace myself

-# also, gonna wording in CB7

[thin cargo]

I got a ping

I felt a disturbance in the force

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153413161

[jolly trail]

[thin cargo]

It is time

[quartz locust]

When all chapters are released I think it should be pinned in the library perhaps.

Since this is really cool

[elder cloak]

I’ll staple the fat google doc with everyone’s stuff on it to the last chapter

[quartz locust]

Oh nice, it's the anton chapter

[jolly trail]

Anton silliness begins

[dry sequoia]

Bigger wrench, right off the bat.

I have my regrets in not claiming Smelvin to the Void.

[candid mountain]

I really gotta start reading this one day

[jolly trail]

Do it my chapter is tonight

(If you want to)

[thin cargo]

Banan is next

Can't wait for fish and Smelvin's lil adventure

Fish...

Hfish

[dry sequoia]

HFiSH.

Indeed.

[thin cargo]

I must read more

[candid mountain]

The reason HFISH has been delayed /j /lh

[jolly trail]

gesundheit

[inland lotus]

||how did smelvin get that egg||
||Bandit had nailed both dynamic entrance and exit I see ||

[thin cargo]

||The universe provides ||

||I wasn't jokin about killing him off ||

I did make an art for them but forgor to do the digital version

[elder cloak]

[thin cargo]

Gonna take sleep now, it is now 2335 hours here now

Gonna rest

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153441811

@jolly trail thy time is nigh

[thin cargo]

This is the time I wake up at the right time for the next chap

I have thine consumed the chapter, @jolly trail

||The true god of Pumpkins and Halloween, Smelvin||

[south forum]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-gif-10341555270454130792

[thin cargo]

||Praise Smelvin||

[south forum]

smelvin and dumpter- the gods of story chat

[thin cargo]

Then I must draw

[dry sequoia]

Praise be!

[thin cargo]

Praise be

[elder cloak]

[jolly trail]

Today is BLEGH but ||at least I made Smelvin a god||

[thin cargo]

You motivated me to do ort

[jolly trail]

Ort!

[elder cloak]

The Lisan Al-Smelvin rises

[thin cargo]

[inland lotus]

[inland lotus]

And you said you couldn't write crack I had to suppress a grin throughout that first part because i was in public transit

||smelvin, the liberator.||
||How could the spider-centipede storyline still hold up lmao ||

[thin cargo]

||The Monk Arc||

Finished improvement, doing digital

[elder cloak]

Banan: “I can’t write crack”
writes the funniest part so far

It’s sorcery really

[jolly trail]

This isn’t crack it’s very serious

[dry sequoia]

You’re not Banan, you’re Potat.

[jolly trail]

[elder cloak]

Change the name Potat

You’ve been promoted to crack-writer

[jolly trail]

But I only write sophisticated fiction

[elder cloak]

👉

Banished to the crack country with Cy

[jolly trail]

Cy would appreciate my serious fiction.

[thin cargo]

I find it bit of crackish yet serious

[south forum]

it is silly and we like silly here

[frozen sleet]

You know, everyone who has put in their OCs so far has had them helping out Smelvin, not hanging out with the main group

[south forum]

we love smelvin that much

[frozen sleet]

Then the OC gets dropped within a couple of chapters, I'm gonna count at the end who's OC lasted the longest

[dry sequoia]

Big Bao and Rosa lasted three chapters.

Well, mentions lasted three chapters.

[dry sequoia]

Actually, OCs aside from Smelvin.

You’d need to somehow shelve Smelvin for way too long for any other OC to have a chance at winning.

And I don’t think we can count centipedes.

[frozen sleet]

Yeah I'm only counting characters that show up outside of this fic

[jolly trail]

Gotta be jetfish

It’s not in ACTS yet but I’m pretty sure it’s from that :p

[marsh pilot]

Blubgrblug

It will appear someday

[south forum]

fish chaper

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153494131

@frozen sleet thy ao3 debut is now

[frozen sleet]

Lol, let's go!

[jolly trail]

||BOB||

[frozen sleet]

||yeah I made good use of those orange lizards you gave me||

[jolly trail]

||Welp, monk’s genius plan of making Smelvin a god didn’t last too long ||

Good chap

[frozen sleet]

Why thank you!

[jolly trail]

Maximum silly

[marsh pilot]

||Bob, Clare, Jacob ||

[frozen sleet]

||I wonder how long they'll last, current trends say they'll probably be eaten next chapter but who knows||

[upbeat brook]

||Lore accurate lizard names||

[marsh pilot]

||My jetfish fuckin died, banan wasn't kidding ||

[frozen sleet]

||I apologize, I thought it was a random jet fish just nearby||

[upbeat brook]

||me who knows ||

[marsh pilot]

It's had a good run, no big deal

[jolly trail]

||rip jetfish, you were beloved ||

[frozen sleet]

||||

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153521008

[midnight edge]

should i stream myself reading sttm when this is all done

[frozen sleet]

yes, wait until a poker night and have all of us watch your reaction

[quartz locust]

I haven't mentioned it, but both you and angstmachine did great with the first two chapters.

[outer girder]

Awww thx :)

[jolly trail]

@inland chasm great job on your chapter ||we love dropping scugs down holes||

Happy to see more of your writing

[quartz locust]

||On amany's chapter now, Moonie is being very >:3 right now ||
I liked it.

[dry sequoia]

||This means that you are on my chapter.||

[quartz locust]

||Yup, is that your oc?||

||A master chef ||

[thin cargo]

Hm, gonna read to avoid soilers

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153560722

[elder cloak]

thanks

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

@upbeat brook thy chapter is 🔥

[upbeat brook]

[jolly trail]

We went full crack lmao ||the scugs are gaming now. At least everyone got a tasty meal||

[frozen sleet]

||I was not expecting Popeye's||

[languid sand]

[thin cargo]

||The Spiders and the Centis didn't stick to their religious beliefs and decided to hate on Smelvin by stealing their credit card||

[frozen sleet]

||loved the chapter||

[languid sand]

I’ve decided not to read spoilers anymore

[frozen sleet]

LOL

[thin cargo]

[languid sand]

||I opened like two and it was about Popeyes and gaming scugs||

[frozen sleet]

Now you have a random spoiler that you don't know what the context for

[languid sand]

[thin cargo]

Indeed

[frozen sleet]

||is there just a whole civilization inside of moon's superstructure?||

[jolly trail]

Maybe you should spoil this for others

[languid sand]

sorry

[jolly trail]

||The spiders, centipedes and lizards are civilized enough t to have Popeyes at least||

[jolly trail]

No worries!

[upbeat brook]

||originally was gonna add a scene where a spider in a cowboy hat was going to duel smelvin for a chicken leg||

[thin cargo]

||Here I thought they would be fanatics about the Golden Scug||

[frozen sleet]

||why didn't you add that?! It would've been so funny||

[upbeat brook]

It was gonna he ridiculously long if I put everything I wanted lol

[frozen sleet]

A few thousand words of funny doesn't hurt

[upbeat brook]

It's already 3k xD

[thin cargo]

Brain mushrd

[upbeat brook]

I could have made it as long as frostmoth easily lol

[thin cargo]

Doesnt flele dgodo

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

So after Spooks to the Moon, is it gonna be Sain't Special?

[south forum]

the quest to save Garbage from santa's workshop

[thin cargo]

Dumpter? 👀

Looks like it's the job for her

[upbeat brook]

||what fast food restaurant am I supposed to use for Santa's workshop||

[south forum]

Garbage- the pup i had for like 5 minutes as saint and the one cy wrote about

[thin cargo]

||Krispy Kreme?||

[thin cargo]

Ah, I remembered

You can't take Garbage to Rubicon

[south forum]

||kfc like how people in japan preorder their christmas buckets months in advance||

[thin cargo]

Meanwhile started Christmas at September

[upbeat brook]

||That's even better than Southern Maid (Southern donut chain)||

Honestly I chose ||Popeyes|| because orange lol

[south forum]

mm chicken

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

i might have coupons that arent expired yet

||smelvin stole his dad's card ||

[thin cargo]

||And the centipedes and the spiders who were supposed to be fanatics ||

[upbeat brook]

||I'll be honest I was so focused on the bottomless pit I forgot about the fanatic spiders and centipedes||

[thin cargo]

||-# ||

[upbeat brook]

||Nobody mentioned Gourmand coming back ||

[thin cargo]

||-# ||

Time for me to visit my pale slumber

[jolly trail]

@south forum '

[upbeat brook]

Adorable!!

[fossil grove]

holy smelving actually to cute

[south forum]

he so cute

[marsh pilot]

FISHE

[quartz locust]

Read blor's chapter

||Wow, monk really did just do the tasty server challenge ||

Read drymm's chapter as well:
||I love how Smelvin tries to put anything into their mouth, so cool ||

[frozen sleet]

||I think smelvin gains intelligence every chapter||

[quartz locust]

Finished cy's part:
||Yasss, monk is back and is ready to kick some spider ass ||

[vital rover]

smelviiiin!!!

this is just the cutest

[south forum]

bro lookin dapper in him pumpkin suit

[quartz locust]

Alright, done with epoch's

||The lore
Very nice||

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153592456

[thin cargo]

[inland lotus]

||The plotline is so chaotic now I wonder how this is gonna end||

[thin cargo]

||Same ||

[quartz locust]

Read Anton's chapter:
||Smelvin, the ultimate life form. /jojo ref
I love the whole centipede/spider war||

And banan's:
||GOD SMELVIN
This chapter was really funny, monk has full control ||

[south forum]

just you wait until the ending

i wrote a big ol chapter

[quartz locust]

This will be the first time reading something from you, other than some short snippets you've posted here

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153639580

[thin cargo]

Another chapter for our Smelvin

[south forum]

[quartz locust]

Nice work, cup!
||Pumpkin farmer lizards
Bob for the win||

[frozen sleet]

||I'm glad everyone likes that part||

[quartz locust]

Vex did good as well:
||This chapter was quite funny, saint was being quite wholesome ||

||Rivulet is such a goober||

Vaitle's chapter:
||Nooo, the limited edition pebbles card collection
Ruffles only has the best ideas, the others are just too stupid to realize it.
Did they enter the backrooms?||

Appleeatinggoat's piece:
||Wow, the mega torture hell room sounds like a lot of fun! Average inv LF experience /silly ||

[frozen sleet]

||nah there's just a whole Civilization in moon's superstructure||

[quartz locust]

Based

Finished eight hundred bead's chapter

||The creature in the ball pit...||
||Gives me serious sea drake from drought vibes ||(drought mod and chapter spoilers)

You did good

And now I'm caught up. Only 2 more chapters left!

[elder cloak]

One more chapter (plus the afterword)

[quartz locust]

Ping me please when you're done, if it isn't too much

[elder cloak]

It’ll probably come out at like 7ish today

I’ll ping you

[quartz locust]

7ish what time zone?

[elder cloak]

EST

[upbeat brook]

||It was meant to be an ever shifting labyrinth lol, all paths lead to Popeyes xD||

[vital rover]

lmao ty

[elder cloak]

It was very good

Perfect setup for Frosmoth

[south forum]

[vital rover]

I absolutely cannot wait to read the end

[elder cloak]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59989459/chapters/153677026

It is time

@south forum

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/145T-ucCDwv7E-a3QtgDkYzezJbwcdNOsdpVIvQ_EzHg/edit?gid=0#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wKAVcLlOYyAAJ5xpE-CrUZwWRu69sHpsA7763yn2ODg/edit?tab=t.0

[thin cargo]

Gonna read soon after grinding coconuts for suman

-# gonna pic for food chat in misc

[south forum]

[inland lotus]

||The ending well, thats the most logical conclusion I guess ||

That was one big amusing wild ride

[midnight edge]

when shall i stream the spooky moon i wonder

[south forum]

i wroted a lot

but i rushed a lot

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

if only i had 2 more days

[thin cargo]

I have consumed all

I am now been ascended

@south forum || I like the ending||

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

||the ending is diabolical||

[south forum]

[outer girder]

weoooo

[south forum]

hope i had some kind of silly vibe

[jolly trail]

Wahhhh finally complete!!

I will read the rest in the morning…. Good work everyone

[marsh pilot]

||POOR SMELVIN.... Frosmoth how could you wound him so ||

[thin cargo]

||It's just how it do ||

[quartz locust]

Woa, new chapter!

Fic is complete

I've pinned the last chapter in #stories-library★

[thin cargo]

I finished reading

[candid mountain]

Oooo, that's a rare sight to see

[frozen sleet]

This post all of all posts, needs a bump

Also, now that the fic is done posting, now would be a more appropriate time to talk about the Thanksgiving thing we talked about

[south forum]

i want prompt

[dry sequoia]

Not yet.

[south forum]

gimme prompt

an excuse to write about my slups

[thin cargo]

Sain't Special

Oh wait, thanksgiving?

[dry sequoia]

Saint.

[thin cargo]

disappears

[dry sequoia]

It’s very american. Disgusting, I know. /j

[thin cargo]

I'm sorry if I cannot relate the thanksgiving thing

[south forum]

we eat turkey and stuffing and decorate with fall aesthetic shit

[thin cargo]

I am merely a Christmas guy

[south forum]

all you need to know is family gets together and eats a big ass turkey with whatever sides you feel like and say thanks for what yer thankful for

[jolly trail]

I don’t think it has to be thanksgiving themed

Maybe a fall theme instead?

Though there are countries where it’s spring

[elder cloak]

Could be, but we sort of missed peak fall

[dry sequoia]

Reminds me of a certain mod for a certain game called Autumn Break. I like the idea.

[dry sequoia]

“I am thankful that I am not dead.”

[south forum]

hunter at the table:

[dry sequoia]

“Not that I’m living, no.”

“I’m not dead.”

[south forum]

smelvin beatboxing about how badass his dad is

[dry sequoia]

Arti: “Is it bad that I want to silence the kid? Dumpter is on the edge of crying, and I have a feeling this is a snide remark at me.”

[south forum]

everyone is silly here

[thin cargo]

Putting the silly in everyone

[south forum]

everyone eating roasted lizard

[marsh pilot]

Like Rivulet's costume

[south forum]

instead of this it can be slime mold

[thin cargo]

What's that

[south forum]

cranberry

[thin cargo]

Ah, the cranberry

In a can? 👀

In a can

[south forum]

it only spawns in stores closer to novembers

[thin cargo]

Cranberry in a can

replaces the rot with cranberry

Five Pebbles started a cranberry business during in the end of October and the start of November

[south forum]

i usually eat ham instead of turkey hehe

[thin cargo]

Ham

[south forum]

id baste it with a mixture of brown sugar and apple juice

sometimes id cover it with bacon first

[thin cargo]

On ham? 👀

[south forum]

reuniting the pig

[quartz locust]

Do I smell a new collab?

[thin cargo]

Yes

[south forum]

hopefully

also the war between sweet potato pie and pumpkin pie

i like both

[marsh pilot]

Pumpkin pie gang rise up
I've never tasted sweet potato pie...

[south forum]

its hit or miss but very good when made from scratch

i refuse to make crust though so i just buy a frozen crust

channel our inner gourmands for november writing corpse

[quartz locust]

I like sweet potatoes. Sweet potato chips
Sweet potato crisps are good as well. Baked sweet potato

[marsh pilot]

Crust is hard to make, yeah

[south forum]

i was traumatized by making pretzel dough for an entire class period in high school

i dont wanna make dough that needs kneading

[thin cargo]

Sweet potatoes

[south forum]

sweet potato fries so yummy

[marsh pilot]

I should make some

[south forum]

yommy and easy to make

[candid mountain]

Well it can be cranked up to 1 week

[thin cargo]

You know, I was reading the afterword and I just realized it's a song in the start of the chapter

[frozen sleet]

Yup

[thin cargo]

Nice

[kindred blade]

spooky!

[south forum]

when next prompt

(I am silly)

[thin cargo]

Kirmas
🪅

Can't find anything related to chirmaas

[elder cloak]

I dunno, we need to collectively decide if we want to do a thanksgiving one

[frozen sleet]

Uhhh

It won't let me poll here

Thanksgiving?
aye
nay, go straight to christmas

There, hope that works

[thin cargo]

Hm

I am a Christmas guy 🎄

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

Sorry, my fellow sleep police

I am not familiar with Thanksgiving too well

[inland lotus]

same here I'm not sure what exactly it is about

[south forum]

we eat til stuffed and say thank you for shit we thankful for

[vital rover]

It doesn't have to be themed if people want to do another collective

What if we were capped at 150 words, and each person involved had two slots spaced apart from the other

It could be pretty quick and simple, like a game of telephone

[jolly trail]

I don’t think we should do thanksgiving

It’s too American

I vote for fall/autumn themes or something random

[jolly trail]

I like this actually

no theme, wordcount limit. Just a small low stakes game

[candid mountain]

Or that idea with everyone writing to the same prompt and guessing what was whose maybe

[jolly trail]

That works too but then we need to figure out a prompt

Maybe instead we could guess who wrote the previous chapter?

Might be pretty hard with only like 200 words or something

Order could be drawn randomly

[south forum]

i am incapable of small chapter (unless it is woaf)

too many word in my brain

[candid mountain]

it is => it's

[candid mountain]

That could work as well, I suppose reading multiple stories with the same prompt could get stale

[jolly trail]

I feel like it would be less of a chapter and more like a small chunk of a oneshot?

[south forum]

get bonked

[jolly trail]

Just something small to do for fun

[south forum]

me like make big word

[thin cargo]

Just few words?

[thin cargo]

Same

[south forum]

staring at spooky moon final chapter

[jolly trail]

Just an idea :3

[thin cargo]

[thin cargo]

No chirsmas?

[south forum]

naur

no krimas

[thin cargo]

No chirsmas

[kindred blade]

oh yeah I still need to finish the halloween one

[elder cloak]

We could still do Christmas guys --- we didn't start halloween until the 25th of Spetember iirc

[south forum]

we do krimas NOW

WEEWOO

[thin cargo]

Chirsmas?!

[south forum]

🎅

[thin cargo]

🎄

[frozen sleet]

We need to figure out what way we're gonna do it

Same as last time, or something new?

[thin cargo]

How about it's the continuation of Spooks to the Moon since Smelvin woke up from his nightmare? 👀

What about reaching chirsmas?

[south forum]

garbage did not come home from his christmas shopping so saint is worried about her baby

[thin cargo]

Searching for garbage

[south forum]

smelvin went to meet him at the mall, garbage didnt come, so he went to saint to tell her. they gather the scug gang and follow his tracks to santa's workshop (santa thought he was a lost elf because of an elf costume he was wearing- thats why he's gone).

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Sainta (not santa) goes to deliver presents to all the little scups but finds that Garbage isn’t in his bed

[thin cargo]

[dry sequoia]

Someone’s going to Rubicon tonight.

[elder cloak]

Rubicon is the North Pole, where Santa (not Sainta) lives

Epic battle ensues

[south forum]

i like that better

even sillier

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

perfect

excellent

[thin cargo]

So the plot maybe involved Garbage snuck into Sainta's sled (raindeers that magically flies) and Sainta was confused, they decided to fly back to Rubicon without knowing Garbage was in their sled

(just an opinion)

[south forum]

[dry sequoia]

How Garbage got near Rubicon.

[south forum]

-# garbage lore

[frozen sleet]

No, they just get REALLLY long legs

[thin cargo]

Well that's scary if you see some really, really thin and long legs walking around

[south forum]

nightmare fuel

[midnight edge]

this is late but

all the little scups?

even ocs?

[thin cargo]

Scraps

[midnight edge]

and river

[south forum]

garbage, dumpter, saxophone, smelvin

[jolly trail]

Last time I know a couple people skipped out because they weren't feeling the halloween/holiday theming (too out of place for RW)

do we need to do a holiday theme?

could just do an in-universe prompt

[thin cargo]

I don't have a scup

[thin cargo]

What are you proposing, K (potassium)?

[jolly trail]

well, if we wanted to keep the crimmas spirit we could go for a winter type of theme, instead 🤔

[thin cargo]

Sainta

(As a person who lives in a tropical climate, I haven't experienced snow, I only do festivities and celebration)

[south forum]

[kindred blade]

mrow mrow mrow I think I saw spoiler for spooks to the moon in here I wasn't done reading that
mew mew mew

[frozen sleet]

Where did you see it, we will find and destroy soiler /lh

[jolly trail]

imagine sand but it's very icy cold and nothing at all like sand