#the starting early debate

[artfightdramaconfessions]

because starting early killed my grandma ok

grandma got run over by an early attack

[llondonfog]

In your Living Weapon AU, if we went with the AU of an AU where Silver’s family was cursed when he was an infant… is there any possibility he could age as a Fae, now that he’s cursed as a living weapon? Is there any possibility that he’s still young, still just a child when Lilia first meets him? Can you imagine how much more protective Lilia might be when the human form of his sword is so so small in his arms?

first off i just want to say thank you again for all the verse lore interest!!! <33 i've had a fun time taking these questions back to my au partner and thinking these scenarios through, you guys have given us some new fodder to agonize over haha

for context; in the verse as is, silver's age is frozen at seventeen, and he simply exists until the magestone containing his soul is shattered.

additionally, the fae, lilia included, see the living weapons as nothing more than objects, a means to an end. silver, his family, and all those humans that they ruled over were cursed by the fae queen hundreds of years ago as punishment for their kingdom's avarice, and the fae do not treat them with any sort of dignity or respect. the curse forces the humans to obey their handler without question, and it is "trained" into every weapon that they do not speak nor act without explicit direction from their handler. they are not even allowed to shift into their human form without permission.

that context given, if lilia were to meet a young, even baby aged, silver, he'd absolutely be repulsed and keep the boy in weapon form until he "grew" up lmao the entire senate is snickering seeing gen vanrouge smoldering at the war council when they know that they've given him such a useless, tiny weapon so perfectly suited for his lack of pedigree and short stature. lilia's really not so great a guy in this verse to start out with haha he's very much the epitome of his ch7 flashback self who has absolutely no interest in engaging in any pests children thank you very much!! as much as we'd love him to be protective initially, that possessive and parental nature definitely grows with time as he begrudgingly starts to bond and care for the young man cursed to be his sword.

at the same time, there's that added layer of emotional turmoil with silver since he can recall his own past prior to being cursed. not to mention the distress of becoming emotionally connected to the very fae meant to wield him as a weapon and then dealing with those complicated feelings of parental attachment to lilia, all the while believing that the fae would never see him as anything other than a lowly weapon :')

[the-next-miss-american-trash]

Every now and then I like to read how people are getting ready for Artfight, and a hot topic is that people start drawing early every year, and it only increases. Here's the real reason Artfight discourages starting early, and why they're not enforcing it.

Artfight is a simple Art game. You versus another person draw art for each other. That's the art trading part. Those art pieces then have point values. That's the game part. Things after that point, make the game complex: how to determine the value of art, how to keep score, how to make things fair, etc.

The game part of Artfight includes a time restraint. There's only one (1) month to get as many points possible for your team. To make things fair, it is recommended to only start drawing during that month. Let's look at an improbable example as to why:

Team A make up a majority of people who start only after Day 1 begins. It takes them a few hours, up to a few days depending on the intricacies of their piece, to make an attack and have it scored. Boom! One day in and they start racking up 100 points that day!

Team B makes up a majority of people who all started early. They spend weeks making the nicest art possible because they don't feel any pressure. When Day 1 rolls around, they all immediately upload their art and BAM! Instant 100 points! They now have an immense lead as they get started drawing for other people, who are now behind in points.

To make the game fair, it's recommended to not draw early. So why isn't it a rule?! Well, quite obviously, no one can prove you started early or not 😋. Plus, it would be incredibly insensitive to accuse someone that there's no way they drew a full body fully shaded scene in so little time, when quite a lot of artists are just that fast. Plus the excitement of drawing can contribute to speed, yadda yadda yadda. And it would look even worse to have admins policing a bunch of artists, because then it makes the whole event too serious and unfun, and we lose the spirit of art trading as things get major competitive. And quite honestly, if we start policing each other, no one likes a party pooper. No one will draw for you.

I'm not an early starter, and honestly I won't ever be. I am also a competitive player. I'm quick enough of an artist, with some practice, to be able to draw something worth a good chunk of points. My art motivation is contained within the month, so personally I ruin the consistency for myself if I start sketching ideas beforehand. I do however save and follow a bunch of people beforehand so I can get into the excitement of drawing and don't feel lost on who to attack first. Other people starting early gets me a little sad, but I won't go out of my way to stop people when most have genuine reasons too, like overwhelming fatigue and such. No two artists are alike. And if someone were to accuse me of being an early starter, and start going into a tirade that it's not "morally right" and "you're ruining the game", you're getting blocked because who has time for people that annoying. Art how you want, and game how you want, but don't go forcing your ideas onto others.

[yuukimiyas]

GOOD MORNIE WORLD!!! startin my day off v early & v strong bc!!! EEEP!!!! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*｡ i just got the first sketch back for my bleach tattoo!!! it looks SO SO GOOD SO FAR!! he started so quick like bunnies too!! ໒꒰ྀི∩˃ ᵕ ˂∩꒱ྀི১ i can’t wait to see it in color!!!

[mechsbrackets]

Learned how to draw the toy soldier today so I am finally prepared to help you with TS propaganda!!!! What the fuck is even going on!!! It goes by it/its pronouns, it has a suit and drawn on mustache, it's voice is Jessica Fucking Law who is BEAUTIFUL (have you fuckign HEARD actaea and lyssa when she's singing lower. ETHERAL) and THEN just the fact that it doesn't even exist. It is everything and nothing at the same time. I genuinely want its gender so bad now you are incredibly correct and smart all the time forever <3

YES!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! TOY SOLDIER PROPAGANDA!!!!!!! YES IT IS INCREDIBLY GENDER ISN'T IT!!!!!

[creative-hanyou-girl]

Guess What I Got!

I love working at a bookstore 📚❤

[quatregats]

Current Situation would actually probably be solved if I stopped looking to Projects for all my satisfaction in life

[suashii]

hi lovies :3 sua is hoping this sunday has been treating everyone kindly bc you all deserve it ♡ also! i talked to your favs and they wanted me to relay a little message: they love you so so much! better be taking care of yourselves or i’ll tattle and then you’ll have to deal with an overbearing lover hehe~

[princip1914]

Gavrilo is that you???

[lesbiancarat]

wasn’t pristin 4th gen tho?

nope. generation is determined by debut date. pristin debuted in 2017, and the earliest 4th gen groups started debuting in 2018 (or 2019 depending on who you ask, apparently some ppl see 2018 as a transition year which like, eh). so they were a late 3rd gen group, but a third gen group nonetheless. (other 2017 iirc debuts include weki meki, kard, the rose, wanna one, dreamcatcher, golden child for context. all considered 3rd gen groups. the only 2017 debut i can think of that's considered 4th gen is the boyz, but they debuted right at the end of the year, and i feel like they're the group I've seen the most debate about what gen they're in since they're kind of on the cusp anyway so)

[artfightdramaconfessions]

my favourite part of the early starter debate and knowing art fighters is watching all the early starters be secretive as hell abt what they're doing around their friends not knowing their friends are early starters too. it's great, this is the closest i'll probably ever get to real life Among Us. i think one of my friends vented in medbay and i'm gonna keep my damn mouth shut about it too

LMAO

[queen-scribbles]

Lmao, Geek Bro switched at the last minute from the Barbarian he'd been planning for BG3 to a Druid. Took him an hour in CC. xD

[catinfroghat]

The severance video edit that exists in my head is so beautiful

[stainlesssteellocust]

Kind of a shame Stross didn’t like tumblr it was nice to have a popular English genre fiction author around who moved to Scotland and writes about a magical world existing behind modern society who, uh,

actually put some gay people in his books instead of retconning them in later and has his characters state that trans people are real and should be respected

[paleangels13]

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[thatone-highlighter]

I think Finn and pb being friends over reincarnations is really sweet tbh, (or I guess specifically Finn’s reincarnations) and I think it just adds on to them becoming more friends than anything else over the series ? Like at the start finn sees pb as a crush/boss more but over time He does see her as a very good friend !! Also like u said !! I think part of this is also seeing Finn n jake n stuff call pb Bonnie more ? It’s nice I really just like Finn and pb’s friendship, like how in the finale pb kisses Finn on the cheek platonically and like !! It isint weird or anything !! Idk if I am explaining my feelings well but idk you get what I mean most of the time.

I actually didnt know that Finn’s other incarnations were also friends with PB but ur right that is really cute and sweet

The way their dynamic changes over the series is really nice. I like where theyre at now i really liked that episode where they were at that party and then just. Left and chilled and hung out together it was nice. And then also the seeing eyes oke where Finn just sees her as like, his friend and she was just in casual clothes, makes it seem like he sees her a lot more as his equal now.

I think also as much as finn has taken PB off that pedestal he had her on to start with i think Bonnie also sees Finn as her equal a lot more now, i think she respects him a lot more now and the way theyve changed in treating eachother has made it easier for the other to change as well. This is getting hard to explain but u get it i think

I get what u mean, if that sorta thing had happened at the start of the series (i think it does) it would have been like a Whole Thing but at this point where they’re at with eachother its just. Not.

The overall swap with so many character from calling them their titles to using their actual names is something that is so special to me. Like you have Simon and Bonnie as the obvious ones but its also a lot more explicit in, i cant remember what the ep is called but when Flame Princess tells Bonnie her name is Pheobe and its like a Thing where she wont tell her what her name is until after shes proven she can be trusted and its like a trust and closeness thing. Finn also started calling her Pheobe but i don’t know where he got it from he just Did that but its nice too

Anyways yeah Finn and PB’s friendship is so nice and im glad they’re friends now over whatever idolisation knight thing was going on at the start of the series