I See No Lie

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Woo, it’s so nice to get a piece of artwork completed! Here’s a look at the bookmark I’ll have with me this con season. If you manage to make it to Topatocon and MICExpo, be sure to grab one!

steven is so smart

Steven: It’s music Peridot: What’s music Steven: Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do Steven: Now you add words [to each sound]. Peridot: So it’s a pattern Peridot: That’s simple. Steven: It’s singing.  Peridot: What’s singing? Steven: [The pattern I just taught you.] Steven: Now [the next part of the pattern is] you sing mi fa mi mi fa mi ti la Peridot, not sure why, but in perfect pitch:  peace and war on the planet earth Steven: Now you try [taking the pattern and putting your own words to the sounds]. Peridot: How? [What other words go with the pattern?] Steven: Whatever you’re thinking! [The words that go with the sound should form a complete idea when put together in a sentence.]

Once she made the connection he eagerly latched on because he realized that was how to communicate with her– by using words and terms she understood to translate how he understands it.

Still in a webcomic fanart mood. Please read Paranatural.

A cute draw for Marinette and Tikki :3 I love them. 

I wanted to see how she’d look with colored-in pupils.

(plus original for comparison)

Warriors of the Fury Road

Well some things that come to mind are:

Ametrine

Peridot’s reactions to her old home kingdom (and her backstory??)

Peridot and Almond finding out they like the same show

Puffington’s

Disaster Masters

what are their naaaaames

the eventual return of G͜͜ĺ̴i̷̴̛̛t̵̢c҉͡h͜͏̷̛m̨͞͏́á̧ś͘͢͡t̶͞e̵͏͡ŗ̵͞͠

yeah!!!

#im looking forward to the crystal kingdom just for all the su connections lmao

so funny thing actually

In the bonus material of book 1, written way before SU even aired, there’s a section on the kingdoms of Dreamside. It says the Crystal Kingdom is divided into two: a scorching hot side ruled by King Ruby, and an icy side ruled by Queen Sapphire.

have you seen this series of tweets alluding to future cucumber quest stuff? (just go down a couple pages or ctrl-f “interlude”)

I had actually seen them a while back, but i’d forgotten. its pretty exciting! Which upcoming event are you most hyped for friend?

I like to call this one: “I have several serious projects to work on, but I’d rather colour a sketch of my princess”

rambling about minesweeper

My favorite thing is when you’re near the end of the game, and there’s an area left, but no way to advance from the edge without guessing – then you figure out the minimum number that must be along the edge and look at the number of unflagged mines left: how many mines does that leave unaccounted for? Could be few enough that it’s safer to click in the depths of the uncovered area than along the edge. Maybe you’ll click right in a big empty space, and the edge will practically be all that’s left. Maybe you’ll uncover a smaller pocket, and work your way outward from there. Maybe you only uncover a few tiles, but those tiles give you the information you need to make a breakthrough nearby. Or maybe! some more complex deduction is called for, with overlapping areas of “there’s gotta be [X] many mines here”. I love it!!!

But as much as I love working with those scenarios, I hardly ever run into them, because 1) getting that far on expert level in the first place requires quite a bit of time, and persisting through some inevitable failed games, 2) it could easily turn out that you progress through the rest of the board smoothly and without any hiccups. Which, I mean, is fine if your goal is just to finish the game, but I’ve finished the game tons of times by now. I don’t get any sense of accomplishment from that anymore. It’s the journey that I enjoy, hence *gestures to first paragraph* all that.

“But wait, if these scenarios are in the endgame, why not play on the levels with smaller boards? Then you’d get to the end faster.” Well, expert level doesn’t just have a bigger board. It also has a higher mine density. And that higher density is critical for these scenarios forming in the first place. If the density is too low, then you’ll just sail smoothly to the end. Now, some Minesweeper games allow you to make custom boards, where you specify the size and the number of mines. But I haven’t found one of those that I really liked. Largely because I’ve gotten used to cardgames.io’s interface, though there was one with controls that just flat out sucked. No chording/expansion clicks??? What is this, the stone age??? But yeah, other boards just seem uncomfortably small now.