#(more complicated but thats the short version)

[wolfeyedwitch]

When it's 3 years after the fact and you realize that you accidentally helped a friend name a character Tim Drake.

*facepalm*

To be fair, it's a nickname? But still. When my friend went "hey what should my character Septimus's last name be?"

I said "Drake," because fantasy setting, and it sounds cool, and why not.

It wasn't until later that we got into the whole "Septimus is kind of a mouthful, what would people actually call him?"

And that's when Tim came up as a nickname.

And I put NONE OF THIS ALL TOGETHER until just recently when reading Batfam fics because that's the rabbit hole my current fandom fixation went down via crossover introductions a la dpxdc.

I think I need to go hide in shame now.

[jasperthejester]

you know what no. im fucking proud of myself

im doing things a year ago —hell, maybe even a couple of months ago— that ive never would have done because id be too scared. im participating in my classes more. im becoming friends with someone in theater thought was cool, im sending them reels and initiating conversations after only a little bit of being anxious about it. i told my best friend i liked them after five fucking years

and yeah, im not doing perfect with it, i still dont answer questions in my math class, i still dont talk to this dude in class even though we sit next to each other, after i sent the message to my friend i was terrified

but i did it. i still did it. even tho i was scared, i even tho i dont know if im doing it good or socializing like a “normal” person and even tho i still stutter over my words and sentences. im still doing. and im proud of myself

[waytootiredstudent]

Okay alright sorry for all the sudden German politics influx but lemme explain what happened so far and why Germans are losing it a bit:

The tldr? Our government is getting a divorce and it's turning messy with elections being called early and now being called even earlier.

The longer version?

Okay so, groundwork first:

in Germany there is a coalition currently in power called the Ampel(traffic lights) bc the colours of the party are red, yellow and green (or not anymore or for much longer??). They're centrist slightly more left leaning than right leaning. (You could argue about that I am aware). There has been infighting for as long as this coalition has been going on. It is also the first three party coalition since y know, the Last Time.

So. Enough groundwork. The yellow party (FDP) has a finance minister (Christiane Lindner) it's this guy

You will see him in memes I am sure. We don't like him. He's an asshole and has blocked every meaningful change that the coalition had been trying to accomplish. He also got his finance plan blocked by our highest court because parts were against our Constitution.

(.... I am oversimplifying hard here it's actually more complicated than that and not fully his fault, but it's also not the focus)

What WAS the fault though of him and the FDP was that they had a strong position of "saving money at all costs" which made bigger and bigger rifts with the two other coalition partners who were more leaftleaning. The war in Ukraine, Infrastructure, climate change - there were many places that needed more money and Lidner was like naaahhhhh for no fucking reason other than "oh we need to save money!!"

Long story short there have been arguing all the fucking time and therefore have started to lose approval. Drastically lose approval. As on for the first time since the Last Time there is a far right party in charge for part of the country that is also being investigated for being Nazis. (Oversimplifying again).

Which is. Worrying. You know. Especially with Trump now being elected. It has us all a little skittish.

The finance minister has also now been fired.

You see. We were all still trying to stomach Trump winning the US election, when Scholz, in the same fucking evening, fired Lindner.

And not in a polite way. Nah. Olaf fucking Scholz our Chancellor, notorious for saying literally nothing, and with a running joke that he regularly stops existing bc that man Does Not Take Stances, a spine of wet cardboard, delivered this yesterday evening:

(English subtitles by me you already got this far watch it I spent too much time on this lol)

And it is insane alright. For his standards and German politic standards thats the equivalent of calling Lindner a egomaniacal bitch that has only his self interest at heart and can not be trusted.

Lindner and his party have been pulverised in all recent elections. Which means that after he was fired, the FDP completely withdrew from the coalition and all minister from the FDP resigned.

....well all but one who apparently stayed in his positions because he's leaving the FDP over this. What sort of shitty backstabbing kindergarten fight is this. (Jokes aside hes the minister of transportation and says he needs to stay in office in important projects. Which. True. Having minister resigning en mass is not good)

Alright cool cool cool cool. Current situation yesterday is the following:

So. Trump is president. Fuck.

Lindner got fired! Yaaay!

Wait my goverment is now also falling apart! Fuck.

Which all lead to new elections being called in Germany.

Mind you, that's not usual ok. I know other countries have systems where they can call an election whenever but that is not a thing that normally happens here. We have a schedule alright. (Insert obligatory "Germans and their plans and structure" joke)

So new elections are called for spring, nearly a year early. Cool cool cool. With a right wing rising in Germany and deeply unpopular current leadership. On the eve of motherfucking trump getting elected.

Habeck, leader of the green party and one of the few policians in germany I think is vaguely liked by ppl (the general attitude in German politics is less "I like this guy" and more "you are the least shitty choice I guess") has appearently also nearly started crying after the news broke. So. Yeah.

Now. Let's make this shitshow complete,alright?

There is this party. CDU. They had been in charge for a very long time in Germany. Centrist, right leaning, with the afd on the rising even more right leaning than before. Their current leader is Friedrich Merz, as unpleasant as human beings can go.

He has now called for the new election to be not in a few months but like. To be called next week.

In the current climate.

So yeah. if you're German mutuals and friends are currently going through their own stages of grief - this is why.

[crazy-hazy-sims]

PLEASE READ THE UPDATE AND THE REPLIES AND THE LAST REBLOG BEFORE I TURNED OFF REBLOGS BEFORE ACCUSING ME OF SPREADING MISSINFORMATION!!!! this post was written before steam realized they had the wrong tags on i agree though pirate EA games <3

As someone who knows alot about piracy please Pirate the sims 1 and 2 because the new rerelease has denuvo tacked onto it and that mf will kill your computers and drain your wifi

let me explain what denuvo is

in short its "anti cheat" code thats only purpose is to complicate the game code so badly that it makes it near impossible for pirates to reverse engineere the game and pirate it, ofc this is not true and Pirates can crack many versions of denuvo it just takes time

so essentially it does nothing but ruin your computer

how?

This extra slop code is integrated into the code of the game so it runs every single time you launch the game and on top of the code slop that games are made of that make your compute heat up and use up ram denuvo code is running ON TOP, using more ram AND internet, forcing offline games to go fully online When the games previously didnt need an internet connection at all.

It has been proven so many times that it cause issues from longer load times to frame rate drops, denuvo's code slows everything down and almost always performance improves by like 50% after denuvo is removed by developers.

There are games that were completely unplayable like they wouldn't even launch because of denuvo, and the company claims this is not their fault and that people should upgrade their computers so this wont happen.. yeah right

Essentially with the reveal that EA didn't fix anything about the sims 1 and 2 and just released them as is but with denuvo attached they literally sold you code to keep you Connected to their servers and force you to not be able to share anything with anyone and forcing the games to preform 50 times worse than their 25 year old selves...

So please dont buy a program that will kill your computers and ruin your games and allow EA to be permanently Connected on your computer thats posing as the sims 1 and 2!!!!

Please please just pirate these 2 games!

Also even though sims 4 is free also Pirate that shit its not worth paying over 1k dollars in dlcs when hslf od them do not work

Update the denuvo tag on steam was a mistake on EAs part it has been confirmed that they dont have it (proof in the REBLOGS) my point still stands though :

PIRATE EA GAMES PEOPLE its literally the better choice for your poor computers

[milksnake-tea]

No cuz you're absolutely correct about the infantilization of Sunday. Just because we got to see a more vulnerable side of him lately it seems like some people are quick to forget this guy was RUTHLESS as head of the Oak Family. Also, are we going to pretend he didn't have to listen to the vilest stories ever as a Bronze Melodia? That is not a pure innocent little lamb, that is an adult who chose a very radical approach to create his ideal paradise based on a very limited experience of the outside of the "cages" of Penacony and is now on a journey to witness a much larger world than the one he'd been confined in before.

Basically yeah he's pookie and it's cool that people are having fun with it but like, 'trying to change his ways pookie', not 'baby boy never had a single impure thought in his life pookie'. At least that's the way I see it 😅

RIGHTTT LIKE. okay im ngl i don't mind if the mischaracterization is done as a joke because i find it funny and i enjoy the silliness of it all. like i dont mind the overprotective trigger happy version of sunday when dealing with robinhill bc i think its funny !! joy and happiness and whimsy are what makes the fandom and im not a prude lol

BUT. WHEN PEOPLE GENUINELY START BELIEVING THE MISCHARACTERIZATION.... THATS WHEN I HAVE A slight PROBLEM 😭😭😭 like yes. sunday is stumbling around a bit because he hasn't gone outside since he was like 15. he's a little confused and he looks to the astral express for affirmation that he's not fucking things up/making things complicated for them. yes he is still having trouble adjusting to reality.

BUT HES NOT A BABY (unless you call him like babygirl then in that case you are 100% correct) ????? like. sorry thats a whole mid to late 20s grown ass man (even early 30s if you want to reach that far. sorry guys he can't be early 20s to me that's wayyyy too close to my age and thats disturbing). like he was a POLITICIAN. the family is not sunshine and rainbows, and he was one of their faces - like the politics???? the keeping up appearances???? THE WAY THAT HIS FAMILY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT??? like respectfully.... respectfully...... he's not incompetent. he's capable. will he probably faint on a journey because he doesn't go outside and is severely out of shape? yes. but he isn't unaware (in actuality he's too aware. this is the man who was so pessimistic and distrusting of humanity's ability to not fuck up that he nearly ascended to godhood).

obviously there's going to be mischaracterization for laughs or for fun, and i'm completely fine with that - like some of the /j stuff i say about sunday is completely ooc but i say it because it's funny!!! WHIMSY IS JOY AND LOVE IN FANDOM !!! and sometimes i'll even consume slightly ooc sunday fics for like angst (TO AN EXTENT. SOMETIMES IM LIKE CALM DOWN but whatever you do you) or for freakday. like biblically accurate sunday is very dear to my heart. i'm fine with those because i feel like they expand on his character in an interesting way.

but sometimes.... in my heart...... it hurts...... bc sometimes the only characterizations i see are either innocent can't do anything wrong crybaby idk what im doing naive sunday or extreme yandere man that will lock you in a cage, break your legs and treat you like a pet. and i just feel like that's so diluting of his character LIKE THERES A MIDDLE GROUND. but at the same time

NOT ❌ MY 🧍 CIRCUS 🎪 NOT 🙅 MY 🧍 MONKEYS 🐒 🐒 🐒

so at the end of the day if im mildly inconvenienced by mischaracterization of my wife then i just scroll and/or block and move on because life is too short to mald over how other people see a fictional man

[fictionfixations]

black butler emerald witch arc episode 1 thoughts

spoilers for the entirety of the arc, ive read the manga. ill try to keep it a bit more vague but be warned for major spoilers. seriously.

here she is

mastering german except it doesnt even help him 😭to be fair i wouldnt be any better

i like the opening

i find the design choice interesting. it like. reminds me of like paper and like you have depth between them and i dont really know what its called but its still just paper no matter how pretty or elegant or complicated and could be knocked down is the impression i got. like. like kind of a facade. am i pushing this idea too much? like it looks pretty but it doesnt look real.

ngl this story makes me sick 😭 not because of it itself but because of what it means

if you look closely you can actually see the room its in

hello tall-sized tanaka

'you-know-who' 💀 ngl i think i mightve forgotten who but at the same time i have an idea of who it might be. a lot of arcs in black butler for me there are like foreshadowing or things mentioned earlier that i just dont notice until it shows the big reveal so i just dont remember it 😭 so tbh rewatching with this knowledge helps

not them having them actually speak in german (though it is necessary considering its how the scene went with ciel being like ????? what are they saying)

wonder how its gonna go in dubbed versions though

i remember in like book of murder theres a part where they speak a different language right? and then i saw someone listen to the en dub and get so utterly confused because they just burst into another language and nothing is explaining what theyre actually saying 😭

i know its not the greatest to listen to en dub on first watch of something considering captions where are you who are you wtf is your name what is going on what did you say?? but in the end its really just a preference thing. like idk i struggle with telling what people are saying without captions but im sure some people are better at hearing. its just uh i dont really think that'll help when they burst into an entirely different language 💀

ngl the impression is p good

if i turn off captions it still shows the japanese. but then in other dubs i dont think that changes? i mean id hope it would but if it were that simple id think itd be in book of murder

at least sebastian tells ciel at the end so if its just utter confusion on what hes saying then we'll get like a summarized version

I LOVE YOU

"No human can summon one of us unless they are prepared to offer their soul in exchange for their wish. Some of us have been known to appear on a whim, though."

"Are you..."

"Am I what?"

"Never mind."

hm

tbh find it kinda funny everyones just normal sized then theres tanaka

did they have her introduce herself in german and then in japanese (or [any other language for dubbed versions probably])? huh

WOLFRAM actually lmao 'are there no men here?' *man appears*

lmao she tugs his hair

'oi, shorty' 😭 now whose the one who has to be carried between the two of us

okay well thats kind of a low blow 💀

ciels like ????

actually here its more clear than ever its like paper

ARE THOSE HIS PARENTS

... do you think he used to do this with his son 😭

i love them so much. theyre such family.

actually wtf do you call this? like a skirt that lengthens around the back but open in the front except not really a skirt since you wear either pants or shorts since it doesnt entirely cover that part ? or does it count as a skirt even when its kind of more like an add on to the pants?

[bunnidid-reviews]

DID Short Films

Something I really enjoy is watching short films about DID :) it's always intriguing to see what sort of representation can be showed in a few short minutes, and just how much care and attention to detail is put into it.

I don't have the energy to do a full review of each, but here's a lil list of my favorite short DID films, along with some trigger warnings!

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Petals of a Rose

Triggers to watch out for:

a non-explicit incestuous childhood sexual abuse flashback (there's a safe version to watch with this part cut out in the same link!)

a safe and gentle non-explicit sex scene

dissociating and switching during sex

spiraling, hitting self, friction between parts

over-crowded dialogue

Things I love about this short:

We get multiple stellar scenes of what it can feel like to have DID - like being overwhelmed in the grocery store, talking yourself through the steps of it all. I really related to a lot of this

A good representation of how both positive and negative triggers can cause switches

communication between parts!

the implication of there being more parts yet to be found and how that's just kind of an accepted reality? I don't know if thats relatable for anyone else, but it really is for me

A LOVING AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP :DDD a partner who loves and supports and listens even if he doesn't fully understands, but clearly wants to. The amount of relief I felt when the partner STAYED with her after experiencing triggers during sex!!

The reiterations at the end that Now Time Is Safe and also, We Deserve to be Loved, and also, Each and every part is appreciated and loved

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Alter

Triggers to watch out for:

mild friction between parts

time loss + confusion

Things I love about this short:

The actress who portrayed the parts did a really stunning job with expressing complicated emotions surrounding time loss and the acceptance of a new part showing up

portraying a well-established system with functional multiplicity!

the use of color to portray parts is something I always remember about this one! I love that each part represents a color! I love that you can see all those colors throughout the home and in the outfits!! I love the rainbow-striped shirt she wore in the end with all the alters' colors + extra space, as if to signify that they're ready to accept more parts!!! aaaa!!! Such a great aesthetic to this film

I was SO pleased there really isnt anything triggering about this film. It's important to indicate that trauma creates the disorder, but it's SO nice when we get a bit of a break from the Horrors

supportive therapist :D

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Alters and Me

Triggers to watch out for:

Mentions of trauma/abuse (very general + vague)

use of Alcohol to cope

self harm, visible scars

yelling/crying

Things I love about this short:

I like that this one's more like a general overview of the alters and how our main character came to understand and accept her DID

nonhuman alter representation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a doggo)

The alter who struggles with alcoholic coping and self harm has a realistic reformation arc and turns out to be a cherished caretaker!!

Overall this one's pretty short, but very down to earth and realistic without being too triggering. I liked it a lot!

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I'm sure there are others that are good too, but that's my list for now! I tried to choose ones that didn't lean too far into horror trope editing or twists so they're safe for anyone to watch :) I might add to this sometime in the future if I see more

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy! Feel free to let me know your thoughts or share some of your favorites with me, you know I'm always curious to hear about this stuff

[wazzappp]

Ok @moosemonstrous here we fuckin go.

OK SO. I apologize if it comes off more Evangellion than Pacific Rim but I thought that making The Charger more slender would help to differentiate it and allow for a focus on agility (also helps it to look more skeletal and unsettling).

The Charger is built in layers. An outer layer that constitutes the armor, a thinner covering, metal scaffolding, secondary thin covering, and then finally the essential wiring that makes the 'nervous system' of the Jaeger. Most of the damage (corruption scars, nicks, paint chipping) is just cosmetic, and the structural nature of the Jaeger is intact.

HOWEVER. The same can not be said of the reactor core. At some point (maybe during Eli's death?) corruption made its way behind the main fans of the outer engine and into the main reactor that powers the Jaeger. In theory this should lead to a catastrophic failure, but in this instance Im thinking there was a chemical reaction that essentially stabilized the corrosive nature of the Corruption (were gonna circle back to that).

For the most part my version of Robbies suit is fairly standard. I added an orange tint to his helmet screen for flavor because hey. Why not.

The spine of the suit is probably newly integrated to allow for an updated interface, I imagine theres at least a little development in the technology between the time Eli dies and Robbie comes into play. That would make the suit a weird mishmash of past and new technology which could be VERY fun.

Also I LOVED the white accents @cicada-candy added for their design but I didn't want to steal ideas so I just added it in my own places. Your art fucks severely bro I just wanted to make sure and let you know that <3

TIME FOR MY FAVORITE PART: SPECULATION ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND ITS THEORETICAL GENETIC EFFECTS IN DOSES ON A SUBJECT!!!!!! (AKA self indulgence part 2 electric boogaloo)

I believe you mentioned the Corruption being a Neurotoxin which would be Very fun and VERY cool but I also have a suggestion. Mainly because you also referenced an increase in Robbies strength, as well as another person who got fuckin deaded shortly after.

A rapid growth in muscle density to allow for this strength would be very interesting, but why would the Corruption cause that? Simple answer; it isn't. At least not intentionally. Whats actually happening is a kind of nerve damage that changes the brains regulation of muscular exertion. Our brains really only let us use a certain percentage of our real strength, because if we just let loose and used it all we would cause significant physical damage to ourselves. Like. ripping your own tendons free from their anchors. you could break your own bones. you would die SO fast bro.

Now it is POSSIBLE to access this strength in situations of extreme stress and thats how you get people lifting cars off of loved ones, but this does still cause damage. It also gets more complicated when you consider Fast Twitch muscle reactions but for the sake of simplicity: You Would Die.

So a release of cortisol and other stress hormones, combined with a lessened ability to control strength. This means they would be USING that strength A LOT against ANYONE AND EVERYONE. But maintaining this sort of metabolism is not reasonable. Someone suffering from Corruption would likely also suffer from Hypoglycemia fatally. So extremely strong, extremely scared, and extremely short lived is the kind of deal we would be talking about here.

SO. Having said ALL OF THAT. WHAT IS ROBBIES DEAL. Well heres my proposal: The Corruption is a virus that causes neurodegenerative disease.

If Robbie was exposed to very small amounts of it as a child, it's possible it was inactive or defective, which would have allowed for an immunization point. Its also highly possible that this is a virus that can not survive (well i say survive very lightly. theres significant debate as to wether viruses are actually alive at all but I digress) outside its usual area AKA Inside a demon. He could have been exposed through contaminated water, direct contact, maybe even breathing burned version through the air. Either way, he came into contact with a weakened version of the virus and it helps him later on.

As he comes into DIRECT contact with Corruption via plugging into The Charger this is when we would start to see some more interesting effects. This Corruption would still be different though because of the aforementioned stabilizing chemical reaction in the reactor. Also, because I think Eli's DNA would be integrated into it. This provides Robbie with genetic compatibility for the virus to jump off of. Remember, viruses don't want to kill a host, they just want to reproduce as much as possible (which does end up killing a host but still). And a fun fact about viruses is that we never actually get rid of them, we just get rid of the symptoms. Once you have it its in you forever.

SO. 1. Immune response from Robbies body begins to cause the nervous damage that would allow for his rapid increase in strength. 2.Immune system recognizes the genetic material is familiar (Eli doing something good even inadvertently I guess). 3. Immune system neutralizes the virus and incorporates it into Robbies genetic coding. All good right? Happy ending? WRONG.

BECAUSE WHEN THERE ARE COPYING ERRORS IN YOUR DNA (SOMETIMES FROM VIRUSES) WHAT DO WE CALL IT?? DING DING DING 10 POINTS TO THE MUTUAL THAT SAID ✨MUTATION✨

This virus still carries genetic material from demons, this would also be getting integrated into Robbies DNA. Places like his spine which would have the most regular contact with the Corruption would probably take the brunt of these changes. It's possible that the nerve damage never truly goes away and he continuously tears and then rebuilds those muscles, resulting in overall increased strength thats technically?? stabilized?? Also I could totally see his body going 'oh shit were finally growing with decent access to fuel? BET' and just. Reactivates the growth plates in his bones ('Look! I've fixed his runt of the litter insecurity!' 'YOU FUCKED UP A PERFECTLY GOOD PILOT IS WHAT YOU DID. LOOK AT HIM. HES GOT ANXIETY ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS HUMANITY').

Oh yeah its also worth noting that this would be like. Pretty painful. We're talking constant soreness, cramps, deep aches that just won't go away. General suffering <3

Of course tapetum lucidum OF COURSE TEEF obviously as if I could go without it. You can get funky with mutations because hey. fucky wucky demon genome integration whoop whoop. Also could be interesting to see damaged areas on the Charger manifest on Robbie as damaged tissue. His skin says 'AH. Damage' and copies itself as scar tissue instead of the usual.

Oh god Ive been writing for a solid hour and a half I was supposed to be asleep a while ago ok. Moose I love this au and its making me unwell thank you for sharing with the class I hope you will consider my virus proposal for body horror purposes.

[zai-doodles]

Hi, I really love your art and you are just so talented and I really really try to be patient but please pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty. Please tell me the Lore with Levy and her pen. I can’t wait any longer. I’m just so curious and so excitedto know how you wrote her magic the Lore you have for her but if you don’t want to that’s OK anyway I hope you have a nice day. Bye ❤️ 

lol sorry for ignoring this i fr couldn't figure out how I wanted to word this and it requires some context for my world building which idk if anyone cares abt but whatever I'm gonna pop off

summary of the magic system is that there r 3 types of magic, innate, holder and patron, they r all v self explanitory

script magic is innate, it is also the overall category for any magic that deals with the actually written symbols of magic (curse and rune magic r both branches of script magic basically)

And for context in my rewrite I have it so fairies r the ones who gift humans with magic to begin with and eventually people started being born with like pointy ears and higher affinity for magic and thats how the pixie race was made

its a pretty common form of magic

ok onto levy specific

my idea for levy is that shes half pixie half hybrid (basically this world's version of furry there's lore for it but that's all u need to know for now)

ANYWAY

All this to say that levy is a very skilled wizard with a love for books and reading and by the time canon starts she's basically the best script mage around, mainly bc she experiments with offensive script magic where as before the magic type was usually reliant on someone else with a more offensive type

This is because script mages need to actually write out the runes and symbols with some kind of Wand, which takes a sec to set up and even then its hard to hurt someone with a word if they have time to move, this also differentiates it from curse magic, which is entirely oral and is overall less refined (most of the time but ill talk abt that if I talk abt freed lol)

Like it's much easier to use a curse than to do script bc script is containing a spell within the lettering rather than like, attacking the person's magic core kinda???

Idk how to explain it but it makes sense in my brain

So buffs and support r the most common for script mages but levy is my Mary sue and I love her

So basically because she's mastered so many languages she's basically invented her own form of magic language for her spells, not unheard of in this world since it's also like a form of short hand that can usually tell u who wrote those runes

However this is usually only based on one or two languages since mixing different styles of like, characters? Can take more time and cause the spell to take even longer to cast

I'm explaining this terribly and making it seem so complicated

But its literally just levy teaches herself her own little language to writer her spells in that's basically magical cursive so it prioritizes speed above all else, that means it's sometimes kind of destructive and not as precise but she's working on it

Eventually tho, when they find tenrou island and have a huge lore dump abt Mavis (who is a fairy), levy is able to get her hands on fae language and magic runes and begins incorporating them into her spells and it's the final things she was looking for to make her spells more stable

The pen was something her and droy collab on basically, due to how unstable script magic can be she needed something able to handle the full brunt of her magic to essentially be her arcane focus

The pen is made from a tree droy grew himself, slowly feeding it magic, somehow dont ask me idk, so it could eventually handle levys power

The idea was from an offahnded comment levy made in an attempt to show droy the potential of his magic since in my lil hc he feels like the least useful member of the 3 (which is dumb and he isnt) and levy hit him and was like no u dumbass magic plants r dope and rattles off weird theories on how it could be used in different ways

hope this was at all comprehensive!

[3liza]

treating riot control agents after being exposed during protests: its complicated

i intend to make a larger post that acts as a "review" of everything i've read in the literature about riot control agents generally, but the news isn't great. the super short version is doctors have been trying to sound the alarm for years about riot control agents of all kinds being far more dangerous than advertised, and the extreme diversity of the agents chemically means there is no one good treatment for all of them, other than basic general decontamination. this is contributing significantly to the confusion and misinformation that gets spread about treating riot control agent exposure amongst civilians

i will come back to this post and create a big reblog chain with whatever i find. the short version is "its complicated, unfortunately". please do me a favor and do not reblog this with additions like "well i heard vinegar on a handkerchief worked so everyone should do that" because thats exactly the sort of misinformation* i'm trying to avoid here

* this could work for some exposures but is not good general medical advice that is broadly applicable to all situations, therefore could be unhelpful or dangerous when applied out of specific contexts

[absurdly-overpowered-astronaut]

The first of (hopefully) many OC ramblings

part two

Oc posting? On this blog? More likely than you think! >:)

These guys are Kat (the one on the left) and Tory (one on the right) I made them for my writing class last week and to boil the story down to an elevator pitch ‘one day Kat discovers that not only are ghosts real but there is a secret organisation (well calling them an organisation is abit generous theres like 20 people with no funding) hunting them and on top of that that his best friend is now a ghost and hence dead! So to stop his friend’s ghost from getting hunted and to combat his inferiority complex he and Tory decide to join this organisation and now have to juggle life , death , ghosts hunting and stopping said ghost hunters from working out one of them is secretly a ghost oh and on top of that Kat‘s best friend is still somehow still alive?! Now there are two of them. One who is alive and one who is dead.’ this ended up longer than I thought it would…oh well I guess it’s just a really long elevator ride.

Talking about them more as characters

Kat struggles alot with as aforementioned inferiority. He’s never really been able to understand socialising so as a result to participate in conversations he learned to put himself down / put himself in uncomfortable situations and that self depreciating humour was the only way he could socialise consistently. It was easier to just assume he was always wrong then it was to try and understand the complexity’s of the social dynamics at play or to stand up for himself , It was easier to not try at any then to try really hard and get picked apart by his family for not being the best at said thing , it was easier to take the blame for things he didn’t do because no one would believe him anyway.

This is where Cory comes in (Cory is alive version of the character and Tory is dead version of the character I don’t want to get to much into Cory because I’m writing this as a way to recover from exam week stress and I’ve worked out that if I ration out oc lore posting then I can cover all the exam days but anyway I’m getting off track) Cory is someone Kat has very complicated VERY gay feelings over. On the one hand Cory is like a life raft to Kat he’s his only friend , he stands up for him , he acts as almost a social translator of sorts , he gives Kat a space to be start to unlearn bad coping mechanisms.

But Kat also feels a tangled mess of guilt and jealousy. Cory is smart , he doesn’t struggle with understanding things and seemingly has a good home life (all of which are some what untrue but once again I’ll hold off on the Cory info dumping) he feels like Cory is just wasting his time on him like he should and will be abandoned by Cory and its just a matter of time but also that he wants to be like Cory. Less in a apparitional way but more in a “the oracle told me to beware the ides and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t wished for an untimely death or demise what motivates me is it hatred is it love? Whats wrong that I too wish to be great and my mother wished she’d had a son” way , he doesn’t want to be like Cory so much as he wants to be the idealised version of Cory in his head. By demonising himself and idolising Cory he ends up in a cycle of hurting both himself and his best friend and Cory accidentally feeds into this also with his own toxic mentality “if I show him any part of myself thats not presentable he’ll leave me” and the boys are so wrapped up in their own perceptions of eachother they can’t recognise how the other person is hurt and how they are hurting themselves and its a whole thing or in other words.

Conversely Tory is a seemingly very different person to Cory despite being the same person. Cory is very charismatic and presents outwardly as self sufficient but Tory for lack of a more fitting descriptor is a sad wet cat in human form. A pathetic little mew mew if you will. (Also the reason he is call Tory is because its short for Cory two and sounds like とり)

Tory and Kat have a very different dynamic than Cory and Kat having pretty much flipped dynamics. Where as in Cory and Kat’s relationship Cory had the power now Kat has the power. He gets to be the one who knows things , he gets to be the protector , he gets to keep secrets for the greater good and he gets the social power. He enjoys getting to have power and agency.

I’m struggling to be coherent so I’m going to put this in terms of Krapman’s triangle.

Kat and Cory is victim saviour Kat sees Cory as his saviour Cory see’s himself as Kats saviour and Kat see’s himself as a victim with no agency and Cory see’s Kat as a victim with no agency that needs protection.

Kat and Tory is saviour victim Tory sees Kat as his saviour Kat see’s himself as Tory’s saviour and Tory see’s himself as a victim with no agency and Kat sees Tory as a victim with no agency that needs protection.

(I’ve been listening to alot of Crane Wives recently and they are very inspired by many a Crane Wives song)

Now I should probably explain the goose in the room. That is Goose! She is part of the ghost hunting agency and is able to sense supernatural forces. Tory because of his ghost powers he and by extension his team become high ranking members of the organisation and Goose is assigned to the team under the guise of being part of the promotion but is actually there to prove the leader’s suspicions of Tory actually being a ghost.

I like to imagine if this become anything it would be a really cool set up and pay off of having Goose the join the party really early on and the audience is all like “okay cool animal companion” but then during the BIG REVEAL that the ghost hunters knew the whole time that Tory was a ghost because of Goose and was just waiting to act on this information and just having Kat be absolutely crushed that he tryed so hard to protect Tory and he felt useful and like a smart boy and it turns out that it didn’t even matter and all because of a singular silly goose.

Goose being a goose was inspired by a video I saw the other day taking about how geese were becoming used as guard animals in prisons instead of dog because geese can not be bribed and thought it was fitting. I also just like geese.

This is the concept art I drew of the boys! They didn’t change to much from their initial concept designs surprisingly.

Now I get to talk about the magic system of the world! I’m unreasonably proud of it :) Okay so I really like the prison uniform designs in milgram and I kept seeing pictures of these cool beats and such which made me want to craft a world where the characters wore this kind of belt/cottage core stuff and so I came up with the idea of ghosts being repelled by natural materials!

Leather , whool , chawk , lead , sticks ect ect and it just opened up so many fun possibilities. I haven’t fully worked out how ghost would react to the materials I know touching them to ghosts feels like burning and they are repelled/negatively effected by them I just haven’t figured out to what extent. Here some visuals concepts I drew of possibilities. It was actually really fun to make the smoke effect it was just a scribble that I erased holes into and then blended.

I don’t want to say to much because this once again ties into Cory stuff so I’ll go more in more depth in the future but essentially ghosts attacking people used to be a really big problem in the past so clothes where designed with this in mind but after ghost all mysteriously vanished clothes started to be made of non-natural materials and no longer had ghost protection in mind so the ghost hunters wear older clothing styles because those provide the most protection (and makes them visually distinct from other characters :) IT IS SO FUN TO THINK OF DIFFERENT OUTFIT COMBINATIONS FOR CHARACTERS!

There are a couple different things ghosts can do personal to the ghost but the most can do possession , levitate objects/people and switch things.

Kat uses knifes and fights in close range so the ghost could easily make contact with him and possess him so he wears a wool sweater , gold necklace and leather bag all these are around the area that gets touched to get possessed to avoid this but getting levitated isn’t really issue like it would be for other characters because he can just throw his knifes so he doesn’t have any ghost protection on his shoes/legs.

Even though the bag provides a perch for Goose and is good protection it could get trouble some in close combat so it has clips so that it can be dropped easily.

All the characters have atleast two outfits. One is for when they are ghost fighting in public and don’t want to look suspicious and other is for when they are alone and can afford to be as protected as possible.

The buttons are made of ghost resistant materials and are to prevent ghosts from attempting suffocation. Kat can’t actually uses his knives when undercover so he uses his bag as a weapon but when its just the ghost hunters he’s allowed to go stabbing (only ghosts ofc)

And then Tory doesn’t have anything because he is a ghost and it would hurt him :( (this is actually the reason why Cory has little wooden do ups on his jacket and Tory doesn’t. Its because the wood as a natural material would hurt Tory so he has to get them changed)

it was/is so fun to think of different ways of using the ghost weakness for character design purposes and fight scenes where cards are effect by different techniques to different degrees and ahh so fun! I never thought I’d love thinking about this kind of stuff so much.

Here is some art of them from when I actually started to finalise their designs.

I had alot of fun designing hair for these two especially. It was an interesting challenge in stylisation. I tried to give them similar but different shapes.

Thank you so much for reading about my sillys!!!! In honestly it means the absolute world to me that you read the whole thing :)

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give me your favorite manga or anime of all time. NOW. like, the ones who changed you as a person. if you are okay with questions like that!

Charlotte!!!! More anime/manga asks yipeeee I'll give you the three I can think of rn! For this one, Gintama is definitely my all-time fave but the others are in no specific order at all

Gintama - This one started off as a comedy at first and it really took its time endearing me to all these quirky and funny characters, while also showing glimpses of the layers beneath them. Then comes the "serious" arcs, that's when I start screaming and crying when I get to know more beneath those layers. The comedy is definitely still the highlight in this series for me, whenever I feel down I would pick a random Gintama episode and just watch it. Tbh, even if it has 300+ episodes, I can confidently say that I probably already rewatched it at least three times by now. But another highlight for me here is the mangaka's godtier ability to shift the tone between say comedy and serious/heartwarming moments, the transitions feel really smooth and it doesn't feel forced or out of place. I mentioned this in Jojo's ask, but this series really helped/supported me through my most depressed teenage years and it's probably not an overstatement to say that its one of the reasons I'm still alive rn. One of the quotes there that I can still vividly remember is "It's always darkest right before dawn". On the more goofy side, even to this day, I still have that one monkey's long ass name memorized lmao (the tagalog version specifically) Even if I change interests and fandoms, it will always be #1. The writing style, the characters and the comedy in Gintama are all such a huge inspiration, as well as a standard, for me. If you're familiar with Gintama, you can see lots of pieces of it in the way I want to portray and execute my own stories.

Pandora Hearts - THIS ONE CERTAINLY CHANGED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY AS WELL. ITS ALSO VERY MUCH A MASTERPIECE. But my brain treats it the opposite of Gintama, in the way that after I finished reading the manga - I never reread it again. That's just how much the story destroyed me so thoroughly. I'm so afraid to re-experience it lmaooo I cried a lot of times for the characters there and the plot twists are nothing short of insane. I really love how complex the characters, their relationships with e/o and their lore are in this story. This series really fuels the angst + extremely complicated story lover in me. It's also a huge inspiration for my stories 🤭🤭🤭 If you're not familiar with this one, I recommend searching this one anime ost it has called "Lacie" (to avoid spoilers, don't go for the sideshow ones dkdhdj). I'm so attached to that ost, it has been a source of both comfort and sadness in one package. One of these days, I'll get enough courage for a reread...

IDOLiSH7 - I discovered this idol series when I was in college! (specifically experienced it first in the mobile game form) I thought its gonna be the usual happy lighthearted idol story that I'll move on from after a few weeks BUT NO! BRAIN CHEMISTRY CHANGED!! I didn't expect them to go so much deeper than that and I didn't expect to love & be attached to all the main characters, it's insane. Some of the characters' problems like Mitsuki's even hits so close to home, it really made me go *pause and starts walking around the house*. And thats just part 1 of the story, and then it's gets even worse (in the best way possible) in further parts. It doesn't help that the anime for it was done with a lot of love and care in it, elevating and improving the source material even further (adding/emphasizing symbolisms, more foreshadowing, etc). I just know that the main people involved in the creation/production of its anime were also as much of a fan as I am 🥺💖✨ (THE SONGS ARE BANGERS TOO!!!)

That's all for now, let me know if you want me to list more hehehe I rambled a lot for each of these three, but tbh, I still don't think it's enough to express hm these series meant to me dkdbmssbsn

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Had some ideas for how a got-brought-back-mostly Matthew(yea thats just what Miracle Matter is called now I dont make the rules /j) would be. Consider this part of the same hypothetical verse I write DMS in. Maybe even similar circumstances of someone going “hm I wonder how little can be left of someone’s soul/mind before you can’t bring them back anymore”, with all the same issues that entails. Gonna have it under a cut since this post got longer than planned. By a lot…

Firstly, “short” version of my headcanons for Miracle Matter are that it was one of the most powerful Matters, being made intentionally by Zero as an attempt to basically recreate the copy ability. In that regard it was like Gooey, just with the capacity to retain whatever “ability” it gained indefinitely, and in fact in some ways it could almost be seen as a more “refined” version of what Gooey was intended to be. Key word almost. While it was closer to what Zero was looking for, it was also the least stable Matter they ever ended up creating by far. An erratic, constantly shifting entity that was just as hard to predict as it was to defeat. Endless turmoil and indecisiveness; a die that kept rolling but never actually landed on a number. Easily mistaken for having no will at all.

Part of that was because it wasn’t exactly… finished? I imagine it would have been forming before/during the events of KDL3 but had its development disrupted by Zero, y’know. Dying. When Zero reincarnated, Miracle Matter was rushed to completion because 02 needed SOMETHING strong that could put up a fight in the wake of the failure of DMS and their own death at the nubs of Kirby(and also Gooey). They needed something that could match that kind of power without also carrying the traits that made Gooey “defective”. While they did get what they sought in that regard, it wasn’t created to know how to best harness its strengths, and in lacking things that would give it more individuality, it lacked what had made DMS powerful: intrinsic motivation. DMS, more than anything, wanted connection and approval, as well as revenge after their first visit to Popstar ended in their death.

Miracle Matter never really wanted anything, though, so while it followed orders, it wasn’t exactly good at anything particularly complicated. It couldn’t operate on its own because it was inexperienced and unreliable, couldn’t lead a group because it was indecisive and lacked direction, and wouldn’t have meshed well as part of a group because, though it was undeniably strong, the need to compensate for its shortcomings would have outweighed its strengths. Never mind how it took the two eyes problem and multiplied it by ten; its body shape and inability to blink means it couldn’t ever just be looking at one thing. 02 didn’t end up with a powerful new warrior, they kind of just inadvertently discovered a new way to contribute more suffering to the world. The most miraculous thing about it was that it was alive and functional at all in spite of everything, and for 02’s purposes it was ultimately too little too late, given how quickly their plans to control Ripple Star were found out by the exact same person who killed them before.

It was almost more like its own distinct fucked up thing than a Matter, seemingly unable to really think for itself but having the sapience to somewhat acknowledge the hivemind. Its connection was limited but constant, although it nonetheless was ignored for the most part because the information it contributed wasn’t useful. Trying to read its thoughts would be like tuning in to a radio station that gives you instant sensory overload, or like a stream that’s streaming itself with a bit of delay so everything is getting repeated over and over all the time. It, on the other hand, received information from the others just fine, and was directly influenced by that information on a fundamental level, even if not in the usual peer pressure or mob mentality sense. This was hard to tell because even its kin could hardly understand it most of the time; it occasionally had bouts of lucidity, but that just meant its garbled thoughts had through lines where you could maybe infer what was meant.

In short, it was powerful and obedient to Zero, but too much of a wildcard to actually be relied on, unlike DMS.

On that note, if DMS was defined by their loneliness and jealousy, Miracle Matter practically embodied panic and confusion. It stared wide-eyed at the world, always taking in more information than it could actually process, barely able to act on anything it did understand before its focus was taken or clouded by something else— it spent most of its time in that weird “room” because of this. Said room was like a sort of mini Hyper Zone, but compared to the outside world it was about as close to comfortable as it could get. I wouldn’t say it was afraid or anxious, but it was certainly upset during most of its moments of actual lucidity, as one would be in its circumstances. It could hardly distinguish between what it was seeing and what was being projected to it by the hivemind, which certainly didn’t help, nor did the fact that it was constantly overstimulated by its inherently shifting nature. It did not control the way it was changed when it learned, and its attempts to form any sense of self were stifled because its self kept becoming different things.

That also ties in to the fact that all of its forms are the result of subconscious attempts to understand things that it witnessed and vicariously felt through the hivemind, but could not actually experience firsthand. Things other Matters out in the world came across and dealt with, took particular note of, or even utilized themselves through hosts. This is why it has forms as broad as natural elements like magma, ice, electricity, and stone, or as specific yet general as the concept of explosives, blades, needles; those were the primary things it was getting information about that it could draw from. Maybe if it had more time it would have gained more forms, but it’s a slow process to unknowingly will into existence a new physical form based solely on others’ lived experiences.

To be clear, Miracle Matter was one of the younger Matters, having been created at some point shortly after Gooey, in the wake of them turning out to be not at all what Zero wanted. It was powerful but inexperienced, unfamiliar with the world, and up until its death hadn’t even really done much of anything. It lacked the ability to possess others entirely and was too preoccupied with being and feeling fucked up to ever have any malicious intentions of its own. This isn’t to say it wasn’t a threat in its own right— it didn’t end up where it was by chance, and couldn’t have been reasoned with given that the one clear guiding force in its life was Zero/02. Mostly this is just to say that as far as special Matters go, it probably had the least overall impact before getting taken out. Had it been given more time to sort itself out, or even just to form into something more stable, it would have been a much more threatening entity to have to face; ultimately Kirby and co instead ended up fighting the equivalent of aimless lashing out by someone immensely disoriented who had been told to guard something and left to their own devices. Extremely high potential that never came to fruition because the circumstances just didn’t allow it.

Usually, revivals can’t bring back all of someone unless they had basically died right then, or died under specific and unique circumstances; people lose parts of themselves in death. The soul never decays, but it starts to get worn down and lose some of its distinct features. For lack of a better description, they become simplified— some of the complexity that made a person who they were before is gone. The longer someone has been in some form of afterlife, the more likely they are to come back wrong, or at least different in any number of ways. It’s why DMS went from being jealous over others’ friendships to the point of obsession and aggression, to being the quiet, curious, and awkward individual they are now. Fundamentally, though they are the exact same entity, they are not the same person anymore. Miracle Matter would be no different.

With that said, I think against all odds, if brought back, it would actually be better off than before it died in a lot of ways. For it, being Itself But Less means no longer being effectively stuck in a loop of constant overstimulation via its own faceted consciousness. It’s unable to recall its past existence as anything more than a hazy sense of ‘I have been alive before’, but it’s not like it had really lived much of a life of its own anyways. In exchange for loss of memories about itself that didn’t mean much, it’s now more than capable of comprehending and responding to the world around it in the present. It finally has the chance to stop and calm down and reflect on itself. It doesn’t have hundreds of other sources of information flooding its mind at all times, nor someone else making all its choices for it. It’s able to really live as an individual for the first time.

With that said, it would still be very unpredictable and fickle, just with actual thoughts of its own behind its actions and reactions. It no longer responds to foreign experiences by lashing out(usually) because it’s not assuming that anyone else it sees is an enemy it’s expected to deal with. It also doesn’t always know how to respond to things and may end up doing something unexpected. It doesn’t have to be actively hyper aware of its surroundings because it isn’t expecting or waiting for anyone or anything. It’s also curious enough that any kind of change immediately attracts its attention regardless. Its eyes actually focus on things(as much as they’re able to, anyways…) instead of staring blankly in all directions all the time, because it actually makes a difference now that it operates solely based on its own perspectives and not those of the hivemind. Being stared at by, usually, around 10 eyes also tends to freak people out, which creates negative emotion, which just makes it fixate on them more(it IS still a Dark Matter and that’s like blood in the water to them), which can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings…

It still struggles with actually doing anything most of the time— its issues now lead to choice paralysis rather than the purely random decisions it made in the past. Not that a sapient icosahedron covered in eyes really has much it needs to do, at least. It had no idea how to spend its time; there were so many possibilities, yet it had nothing to go on and no established sense of self, let alone logic. A dice landing on a number means nothing if the number doesn’t correspond to anything. So, it went the route of just trying to learn and orient itself in the world, being changed by it in the process, just like it had been changed by the observations and experiences of the hivemind before. It’s not good or evil, but quite literally chaotic neutral; just as likely to forgive as it is to hold a grudge, not altruistic but not malicious, mostly acting in its own interest but having no strict idea of what its interests are. More than anything it kind of just ignores others unless something specific about someone intrigues it. Sometimes it even stops rotating erratically to focus, though while in thought it moves just like it always had, pausing when it comes to any sort of conclusion, has a revelation, or gets distracted.

And it gets distracted a lot. Having twenty unblinking eyes all over your body makes it kinda hard to just not see things. And when it sees things, especially new things, it wants to know what they are, or why they are a certain way, or how they connect to other stuff. It spent most of its existence in a borderline featureless void because anything else was too much for it to deal with, but now it’s in a state where it can often NOT be instantly overwhelmed by stuff and things. It has finally discovered what it’s like to want something and what it wants is to Look. Its whole purpose was already more or less to observe, internalize, and recreate— it’s just able to do it on its own now, without an assigned end goal of spreading darkness and suffering. This does mean that in any given situation its ass is NOT listening because there is always some manner of Thing in the Environment and it has to Percieve. On the plus side getting its attention is easy, just move around a lot or(more likely to end badly) flash a light at it.

Oddly enough, it actually doesn’t like interacting with other Matters. Despite having none of its memories, it still experiences an odd sense of familiarity toward them in a not so pleasant way. It didn’t ever really have the same social connection the others had to one another because the nature of its existence prevented that— it was like their communication was mostly one way, with them on the receiving end of everything. Constantly. As a result, the others didn’t feel like family so much as a bunch of sources of information worming their way into its already constantly fluctuating mind and worsening its already disorganized perception of reality. They were something in it that wasn’t it, and were the primary reason it was always being bombarded with information it couldn’t understand or do anything with. Gooey is an exception because Gooey is very talented they have more of a kinship. And Gooey has a distinct presence it had never felt in its mind, anyways. They probably wouldn’t even recognize them as a sibling unless told a few times.

In terms of socializing with others who aren’t related to Dark Matter, it’s someone that you could try and establish contact with, though it wouldn’t have much interest…/and it would be very curious to interact with someone else after so long!/granted it would probably shy away from any kind of meaningful connection./assuming it did not try to reach out to others first…/which would not be too difficult to manage with a little care./however it would likely respond with aggression./but you’d need to be ready for anything!/… All of this is to say there’s no telling how it would react in any unfamiliar social situation; it might behave in an actually pretty hinged and reasonable manner relative to its state and life experience, or it might ignore you entirely, or it might become aggressive, or do something else nobody predicted. It’s almost like trying to talk to it is. It’s like. Talking to it is like you’re rolling a

It isn’t able to speak out loud or make any noises that aren’t just gurgles, instead communicating via projecting its thoughts into others’ heads, provided that they made eye contact with it. It’s still hard to understand and definitely A Lot, but there’s less going on compared to before its death. Talking to it is like having 3 or 4 identical voices in your head speaking out of sync, all saying slightly different things; in the past it would’ve been closer to 11 or more sometimes saying unrelated things. Its vocabulary is a bit larger than one might expect, too, so it can actually engage in conversation. However, if you use a word it doesn’t know it will fixate on that until it gets clarification. It tends to be extremely blunt, doesn’t really understand most emotion-based words(happy, surprised, dejected, etc), and both struggles to understand tone and is hard to understand the tone of. Unfortunately, while one might try to take things slow to make misunderstandings less likely, it gets frustrated when others don’t give it information as quickly as possible. It has at least gotten better about that, for example someone having to stop to breathe is tolerable, but it’s still adjusting to what “normal” actually is.

As for other things that changed, it manifests some of its elements/abilities differently, and even developed a couple more as it was exposed to more information. It’s at its most docile in its base form, given that it is best suited to watching over fighting. Since being revived it HAS figured out how to use aspects of its other forms without entirely transforming, however. For example it can make a spike from its needle form jut out of where one of its eyes normally is, or open one of its facets and spew fire or release beams of electricity from within. If need be it has discovered a whopping one way to attack with just its base form, that being using its own blood. This would kinda just look like it’s crying profusely, and rightfully so— it will burn itself in the process. Being resistant to elemental attacks seems to have left it vulnerable to Dark Matter-based abilities that the spawn of Zero would normally be immune to…

The spark form is pretty much completely unchanged other than maybe being a little faster at firing the beams; it doesn’t use this form much at all outside of fighting, which it also doesn’t do often. Now that it is actually interacting with the world, it has started to make use of some of its other abilities in more practical ways. Ice’s main body is unchanged, but the surrounding pieces look more like ice crystals than just cubes; it doesn’t use this form either, but may unthinkingly switch to it when in especially cold conditions. Fire is similar to what it was, though the main body is actually more like molten glass now, and it has more control of where it actually erupts, plus a little more reach. This is the first form it actually started using for the utility, as giving off your own light makes traveling at night easier— it usually just hides during the day because the sun is a deadly laser(blinds whichever set of eyes is on top). Sure, the spark form is brighter and doesn’t start fires, but it moves so much more slowly.

The stone form now has more rocks, and they have more variety size and shape-wise. The main body also has some crystals sticking out that look oddly familiar, based on something it feels like it remembers… Whenever it just wants to be left alone, this is the form it takes. Reject social interaction, become mineral. The needle form is also much like it was, but doesn’t extend the needles out in a predictable pattern anymore, as it actively tries to aim at whoever its dealing with or just becomes a ball of spikes, though it relies on sound to know where to aim because eyes and sharp objects don’t mix. If stone doesn’t work to make others leave it be, it will simply become an unapproachable eldritch urchin. It also forms two types of spikes, ones that are longer, thinner, and faster to protrude like skewers, and the type it used before with tips that break off into whatever they get lodged in.

The bomb form is more or less visually unchanged, aside from losing the bubbles— it just directly generates unidentified subdividing explosives around itself that blow up at random intervals. If being a big rock or a ball of spikes aren’t working to maintain personal space, it will use this form to make others fuck off or else. It tends to use it the least because the random detonations are also random for it, and loud sounds are a bad time. How it hears anything when it is effectively just a living bomb that can do mitosis is a mystery, but it does. There’s also just not that many practical applications for bombs that apply to it. It doesn’t have any aspirations to become a demolition expert.

The cutter form changed most dramatically, now looking more like a round saw with exaggerated teeth and no “tail”; it also moves much faster than before and tends to stay close to the ground, even rolling along it like a sort of wheel of ow. This is its preferred form for pursuit. After all, there is a very much non-zero chance it will actually try to chase you down if you upset it(or freak out and run away and make it more curious about you in doing so), so like. Don’t. But if you do, move smoothly and quietly— it’s completely blind and relies on sound or vibrations to know where you are. You can also just step out of the way and stay still and it might go past you, but you better be ready to haul as when it switches to a form that can actually see(if you aren’t moving it will know because no sound) because pulling a trick like this is effective and also very likely to piss it off.

As for what’s completely new, the bubbles that used to be part of the bomb form now manifest as part of an entirely new water form that will either resembles bubbles or floating spheres of water; this makes it entirely harmless or a drowning hazard depending on the situation and its mood. It sometimes uses the bubbles to try and pick things up to carry them elsewhere, but it isn’t very good at it, really only able to move lighter objects any sort of distance. It can’t move very fast but also can’t really be prevented from moving. Also, normal water won’t actually mix with its water, so if it gets rained on or something it’ll kinda just slide off because it’s slightly denser. Before any of you freaks from my inbox say anything: the water is poisonous and strongly drawn towards wherever its main body is. You can’t drink Matthew. Michael wouldn’t like it if you stuck a straw in it or something and would probably try to drown you.

It also has a cloud-like form that makes use of wind and vortices, sometimes making it look more like a small twister. One of its eyes is retained in this form, so it can also look a lot like a small bootleg Kracko at times. Kracko would probably hate this but the two have never encountered one another. In battle this form doesn’t really do much on its own, instead relying on objects in the environment, which it’ll pick up and gradually form a debris cloud with. Not a huge issue when you’re dealing with dust and leaves and twigs, much more significant issue when it’s gravel and sticks and rocks, or maybe a sword pulled loose from a scabbard, broken glass left on the ground, rogue 2x4 wooden plank... It can also use this form to fling things(or anyone it doesn’t like at the time) pretty far away, though distance varies considerably. Much like the water, the cloud is toxic. Don’t huff Martin. You won’t get high you will get died.

Lastly, its newest form looks vaguely like some kind of large… Spider-adjacent thing, perhaps, like their relative Mariel? Maybe more of a beetle? Let’s go with bug. D20 is bugs. This is the most incongruous of its abilities in that it actually resembles a living thing. It doesn’t often use this form, but tends to remain in it for a while when it does, as when it wants to change locations during the day it can do so quickly by taking flight in this form. It has conspicuous eyespots on its head, back, and elytra, but the actual eye it has in this form is actually on its ventral side, in the center of the “thorax”— conveniently protected from the sun, hence why this is a good way to get around during the day. It’s got eight legs and can run pretty quickly on the ground, as well as a set of strong, sharp mandibles that can easily cut through wood and maybe even rock. No mouth, though. Why it decided it wanted the powers of terrestrial arthropods is unclear. Maybe it just thought they were neat.

That’s all I really have figured out for now. If you made it to the bottom of this post, you’re so awesome, take this crab.

And also this because Discord spoiled the crab

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💮⚘~°ROBUX ART COMMISSIONS°~⚘💮

I ALSO DO POOR GORE!! ITS 5 ROBUX!! AND IT MAY TAKE A WHILE TO DO THE COMMISSIONS BUT THATS JUST THE EFFECTS OF WAITING ON AN ARTIST-

-THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE ART!!-

•THE ART STYLE MAY NOT BE THE SAME EVERY TIME I MAKE IT!! IT MAY CHANGE!!

•THE PRICES IS HIGHER ON SOME BECAUSE IT TAKES LONG TO DRAW IT OR ITS MORE COMPLICATED TO DRAW!!

•SHORT ANIMATION(S) COST WILL DEPEND ON HOW LONG THE ANIMATION IS OR HOW HARD THE ART IS TO ANIMATE!!

•I CAN'T DRAW HANDS FOR SH-

-OTHER STUFF-

•THE COMMISSION PRICE IS EITHER ROBUX (BECAUSE I'M NOT REALLY READY TO DO THE MONEY VERSION YET!!) AND CUSTUME OC(S) (INCASE PEOPLE DONT HAVE ENOUGH OR ANY ROBUX AT ALL!!)

•NO NSFW, HOMOPHOBIC, TRANSAPHOBIC, RACISM ART!! (ETC)

•AS I SAID I DO SHIPS!! JUSY DON'T GIVE ME AN INAPPROPRIATE POSE FOR THE SHIP!!!

•I DO FURRIES BUT JUST KNOW THEY'LL LOOK REALLY BAD!!!

•NO INAPPROPRIATE GORE!! EXP - N@K3 BODY!, PR!V@T3 PARTS BEING SHOWEN!! ETC!!

💮⚘~°CUSTUME OC(S)°~⚘💮

Discord Sticker(s) - FREE!!

Just Head - One small custume oc

Helf Body - One custume oc

Full Body - Two custume ocs

Sketch(s) - One custume oc

Line Art - Ig one custume oc?

Colored LineArt - Two Custume's

Lineless Art - Three Custume ocs

Short Animation - Depends

Background(s) - FREE

Ship(s) - Ummm One custume??

Gore - One or Two custume ocs

[lightleckrereins]

Not sure if you’ve discussed this, but what actually is used for Cleves’ breakaway costume? Snaps? Velcro? Magnets (my best guess)?

Also I thought I remember somebody mentioning the actress had a separate, non-breakaway costume for post-Get Down, but I feel that may have been just a rumor. Any insight you could provide would be incredibly interesting! Thanks!

The reveal uses a combination of magnets, zippers that separate when pulled apart and really smart construction. I will eventually make a breakdown on how the costume works but those are the basics.

As for the second costume those are real. Mostly for practical reasons. During the show, after the reveal the jacket and shorts are thrown to the wings one on each side of the stage. After that Cleves goes offstage at the start of AYWD and comes back in for the first chorus. That leaves the wardrobe team a very short timeframe to retrieve both halves of the costume, take one to the opposite side of the stage, reassemble it, make sure it will stay in one piece and prepare a very fast and slightly complicated quick change; mostly in the dark. Thats not accounting for the potential of closures being damaged in the reveal or the costume not falling deep enough in the wings that they can retrieve it without being seen by the audience.

Wardrobe workers can literally do magic in a very short timeframe. But there are too many potential complications for this to be reliable so making a second costume is the safer option. Wardrobe just needs to preset the second costume in advance and do the quick change. This also has the advantage of giving them a costume with no visible tear spots (and more decoration in the case of US costumes) for promotional material and public performances.

As I said promotional images always have the non reveal costume, but a lot of backstage photos are from before the show so its easy to compare both versions. Reveal has a small gap on the sides of the shorts and the back of the jacket and no chains in US costumes.

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

OK HEY soooo sort of an update under the cut regarding sharing / other tangentially related selfship stuff !!

feel free to not read , i put it under the cut cuz its long/not super important but yea ;3

so idrk how to word this but basically since iv started hangin out on tumblr my views on selfshipping have changed a lot!!! i honestly was not expecting everyone on here to be so lovely and accepting and im so happy to be in a community i feel so comfortable in :'3

but!!! basically: with the nature of me not being open abt f/o on here things have gotten lowk really complicated LMFSJDFJHSF long story short i ended up having to sb a moot today bc i didn't realize we shared a main </3 i feel really bad abt letting that slip thru the cracks, but i just honestly did not know until i saw smth they reblogged today; and i wanted 2 respect their "dni if we share" !

however at the same time as this my views have also changed on sharing !! one week on selfship tumblr and im much more relaxed about it,,, crazy. tbh youre ALL canon and real to me even if we share cuz different versions n multiverse theory n all that. ;p SO

i realized that im comfortable interacting w/ people that i share w if it's not one of their mains, and if they state that theyre comfortable sharing on their profile bc ofc i wanna respect their boundaries!! so from now on i think thats prolly gonna be how i go about things bc it honestly just doesnt trigger me anymore yippee yahoo.

i know tht might be worrisome tho for some who dont wanna view content potentially centered around a character they *also* are dating so if that concerns you, feel free to reach out to me and ask me if we share, ill tell u!!!

or u can just block my #. 🔮 tag entirely bc that covers anything posted w The Blorbo in mind. i will never explicitly post a character tho so dont worry about being triggered either way! (yeah im prob never publicly revealing sorry)

sorry this is so long and probably WAY deeper than it actually is but im so new here and idrk the ettiquette so i just wanna make sure i dont unintentionally hurt anyone! tbh i never expected anyone to see or interact w this blog in the first place (my policy at first was . "i dont feel comfortable naming my f/o but if we share i wont interact w u!!" not accounting for the fact that ppl could interact w ME first... LMAO i just didnt expect everyone to be so nice and welcoming 😭) and im so grateful to have virtually met all u guys and ur lovely f/os ;3

anyway x o x o SORRY THAT IS SO FUCKING LONG oh my god anyways. back to ur regularly scheduled programming