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shiny latias ✨

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All-Out Attack!

Another Persona 5 themed Chrobin family art commission I got from @ArayaEjiri on Twitter

This so gorgeous, I love it!😍

(this is a follow up to am older commission I did a year ago, you can find that one here!)

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hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

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Hey guys! Check out this block of pure sodium that I got!

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I keep feeling that if I want to write fanfic I have to make it about something, a narrative with a plot that moves, but most times all I want to do is write moments, vignettes, maybe a collection of those depending on a timeline I guess, but yeah.

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yes my favorite type of fanfiction consists of characters getting tenderly cared for and comforted after a lifetime of being forced to suffer alone in silence, no this doesn't say anything about me

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yes my favorite type of fanfiction consists of characters getting tenderly cared for and comforted after a lifetime of being forced to suffer alone in silence, no this doesn't say anything about me

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yes my favorite type of fanfiction consists of characters getting tenderly cared for and comforted after a lifetime of being forced to suffer alone in silence, no this doesn't say anything about me

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Notes from translation: the ‘edict’ in “Palestar Edict” explicitly comes from the historical term for imperial edict, or more literally, ‘sacred edict’ (聖敕). It’s the highest of commands anyway, but this helps top it off as probably the Tsaritsa’s doing.

‘Palestar’ is interesting. The term 蒼星 has been translated as “Azure Star” during Mona’s GAA2 quest (very topical, but possibly mistranslated), and mentioned in the description of Polar Star, which translates it as “the white, glimmering stars” (more literally: the palestar with the colour of white phosphorous).

This also echoes Pale Flame (蒼白之火), which explicitly names the flame as pale white (as without context, 倉 can also mean dark green, or refer to the sky).

But why these pale star(s)*? Surely, as Mona’s GAA2 tells us, these stars represent an ordering of fate that the Fatui want to overthrow?

*as Chinese doesn’t always indicate plurals clearly, it is possible that this is Pale Star, singular.

On the topic of Polar Star circa Childe, the translated name of the weapon is “Winter Pole’s White Star”, and the effect Ashen Nightstar might be rendered as “the White Night’s Polar Star”; the description also mentions “march towards the polestar of the white night”. Now, White Night, apart from being the title of a Dostoevsky novel, is also a phenomenon that occurs within the Arctic (and Antarctic) Circle during the summer where the sun does not set, causing a ‘polar day’ or ‘midnight sun’. Now, both these titles emphasise that the polar nature of this star— relating to the poles of the world, especially of the white night, which only occurs in polar circles.

Considering all this, is it not possible that this ‘polestar’ (possibly the same as the Palestar) is actually the sun? Recall that the sun is also a star, and during a white night, the brightest ‘star’ would most definitely be the sun which hasn’t set. I have also been reliably informed by people knowledgeable in Slavic traditions and customs that the sun is a far more common symbol in mythology and tradition than the moon(s), and considering only one of these celestial entities is considered a star, it would make sense for the Fatui to venerate the pale white sun that glows during the night— not the stars that control fate by decree of the heavens. This would place them in direct opposition with the moon-worshippers of Nod-Krai, and explain the underlying tension in this event description of the Fatui Harbingers’ sudden deployment to that area.

New moon.

NEW MOON. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

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Welcome to the Ranger Gathering, coming August 2025!

Despite how quiet this account has been this year, the Gathering is still being held! We invite you to take a look at the prompts below.

How it works:

The Ranger Gathering will run for the entire the month of August, 2025. Each day has a prompt that participants can use to inspire works about Ranger's Apprentice, The Early Years, The Royal Ranger, or Brotherband.

Check out last year’s stuff here!

If you want to participate, tag your post with #ranger gathering 2025 so we can all find it!

A few notes on the Gathering:

You do NOT have to do all the prompts, or even most of the prompts to participate in the Gathering! The most important thing is to have fun and avoid burnout. Pick whichever prompts inspire your creativity, and ignore the rest.

The Gathering is meant to show off all forms of creativity! This means art, music, writing, memes, textpost, moodboards, playlists, or whatever else you can come up with. Don't feel like you can't participate if you're not an artist or author.

This blog is going to showcase a few posts from the tag every day of the Gathering, so make sure you support the creators with reblogs and comments.

Good luck, and see you all at the Gathering!

Text Prompts:

1. Adoption

2. Whisper

3. Trickster

4. Runes

5. Cavern

6. Masked

7. Throne

8. River

9. Forge

10. Famous

11. Dance

12. Hunter

13. Fading

14. Bloom

15. Trade

16. Anguish

17. Satisfied

18. Armor

19. Feast

20. Duel

21. Melody

22. Unlock

23. Dream

24. Tool

25. Chain

26. Portrait

27. Gift

28. Release

29. Oath

30. Generations

31. Roots

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

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"#author is chronically ill" "#author is disabled" "#author is trans" "#trans character written by trans author"

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Genshin zine art dump

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I find it so fascinating that aether and Lumine are so interchangeable when it comes down to it. Like they already had different personalities before hand. They had different likes and dislikes and fighting styles.

but no matter what, the one that stays awake will come to the same conclusion whether it's Aether or Lumine.

And that makes sense. They've rarely if ever have been apart. So effectively they've been the same experiences for a ridiculous amount of time.

And I feel like both of them are counting on that to a certain degree.

Abyss twin is counting on their twin experiencing the same journey they did and literally coming to the same conclusion (the truth of this world).

While the traveler was banking on the abyss twin looking for them as they were.

And it's like... No!!!!! They had very different experiences since landing in teyvat. AT traveled a destroyed teyvat with an equal who wasn't as close to them. Traveler traveled a mostly restored teyvat with a companion they have to protect

They're noticably different now! I'm not sure they're going to come to that conclusion!

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one person's "ugghh this trope is so overdone" is another person's "oooooohohohohohohohoho"

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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent power fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of whump, and/or hooking up with various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization that I personally don't like (I have neither the time nor the desire to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.