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axemetaphor · 4 years ago

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augh i kept forgetting to post this because i kept wantgin to draw mroe for it but i really suck at emulating Animal Crossing Art Style so im just going to go on a rambling explanation about this under the cut but the basic concept is. they deserve a vacation. and whats more relaxing than animal crossing? probably several things but let me have this ok

id had a bunch of ideas for mroe drawings in this style but Clearly, i am not very good at it, and every time i sat down to Try Again it ended up shitty. this is from literally months ago by now lmao

my Basic Concept was just. take the 3 of them and dump them on an animal crossing island, cause while ive been sick ive been playing a lot of new horizons to try and stay stable, and my brain likes to mush together whatever 2-or-more things im invested in together all the time. here’s some bullet points!

-john really loves diving for sea critters and frequently pulls up those bigass lobsters and eels and shit, he’s got an unnatural knack for it. loves to startle the shit out of dave by just whipping an eel out of his pocket. no thats not an innuendo stop that-- -amy loves planting/watering the flowers but shes not like invested in getting All The Different Types (although that Would be neat) she’s just having fun building a large flower patch. it’s slowly overtaking the island. also dave likes to just kinda sit in the flower patch -speaking of dave he kind of doesnt do much, i think he’d like fishing with john and/or amy and maybe hed like digging up fossils but for the most part hes just chillin, as he deserves to be, -amy likes the DIY recipe stuff though and will frequently politely ask dave to go fetch stuff for her. this has led to most of the villagers/islanders/whateverthetermis, the animal citizens, to have their Main exposure to dave be him wandering around with an axe at 3am because amy’s out of hardwood -speaking of the animal citizens, because i just really like them as a concept, i have no solid concept of who-all would be on their island but whoever they are, john is “friends” with All of them (and by that i mean he says theyre all his friends; whether or not they find him obnoxious Varies,) and amy is genuine friends with most of them/has spoken to all of them at least, and dave rarely if ever speaks to them. hes not very social. most of the animals are a little scared of him until they Actually get to talk to him and then they realize hes just an awkward misanthropic bastard -also in case it wasnt clear id think the 3 of them would all be in one little cabin i mean you can upgrade the shit out of those so they could all feasibly have their own spaces. but also i like polyamory and id say they all 3 share a room because fight me they do itd be cute. also of course the decor of their cabin is absolutely bonkers like listen not only does animal crossing have some weird items but nearly any living space john inhabits most likely has some very strange decor in it ! -tbh actually i think john would do Most of the decor stuff cause like based on the way his house is described i think he’d go NUTS for animal crossing’s Theme Decor Shit i dont know i dont actually do a bunch of that but i sure do think he would! amy would help out esp since she likes the DIY stuff, and i think dave is just kind of ..... allowing this nonsense to happen. letting john be free. probably convincing him to not change the theme every day, maybe every week, if only because it’s a bit of a hassle to have everything Constantly Rearranged. -hang on wait i just thought of the 3 of them wandering along the beach and picking up seashells and now im like emotional over it bro pls. lovely. -also i jsut realized if daves the guy who digs up fossils he definitely talks to blathers a lot and thats an extremely funny thing to contemplate. the dude who seems to not really liek talking to people and the chatterbox owl. fantastic. you know dave is probably too awkward to tell blathers he doesnt want to hear all thsoe archaeopteryx facts! (also tbh maybe dave would actually like learning stuff) -also. john catches bugs just to give them to blathers and watch him freak out just a little about it. -john always ends up buying fake art from redd but it’s fine because he just puts it somewhere in or near their cabin. amy however has the uncanny good luck to somehow always find the real artworks! dave doesnt talk to redd, he doesnt really care. -this ones definitely projection because my animal crossing island is a mess (And I Like It That Way Thank U Very Much) but john definitely is the guy who will dump extra furniture at random spots on the island. too much shit in storage? don’t need that Harmonious Chair right now? holding it in ur pockets just because u dont know where else to put it? just dump it on the ground! uncannily, john fuckin Always remembers where he’s put that shit when he happens to need it again. however this does mean sometimes the animal citizens will just ... find a mysterious new chair in their front yard. -i know that terraforming is a new thing in acnh but i havent done it yet because i dont care about the whole 3 stars rating thing like listen im jsut here to run around and fill the museum if i feel like it but mostly pick up pumpkins and hoard bells for no reason and let my island be taken over by wildflowers. if any of the 3 are into that tho its john or amy--john just for the hell of it, amy would actually like try to Make Stuff of it -their front yard (and back yard if their cabin is put somewhere to allow that) is full of unused furniture as well. and also sometimes random dropped fruits or something, if dave is already carrying a ton when he sees something to dig up. -i think im out of shit to say right now but i might reblog to add mroe so. yes. if youve read this far then holy shit youre dedicated or really bored or something but whatever your reason is i hope this was A Fun Read and if it gave you any ideas Please Tell Me my inbox is open im sick and still in quarantine and i crave human interaction from literally anyone who isnt my parents. thank u

#jdate #john dies at the end #crossover #im not gonna put it in the animal crossing tags but it is mostly animal crossing new horizons stuff #my art #old art at this point though ngfgbn #not sonic #rambles.txt #i seriously went on one in the readmore. i think its pretty great though #p epic that ive found Old Content To Post while im still like. a bit too Fucked Up to make anything new !!

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tfw-no-tennis · 3 years ago

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ani....morphs.....

ok so picking up after the david trilogy, which hit hard as FUCK, we have book 23, which basically was a semi truck that ran over my corpse, jesus christ, they really followed up the david trilogy w/all that....

23 was so so good and also painful. its the culmination of a lot of tobias’s characterization in the series thus far and also we finally get the reveal we’ve been waiting for about elfangor....ooooh man

and there was a lot of painful stuff in this book but the worst imo was tobias wondering if it were possible that somebody wanted him and would take care of him, only to have it all come crashing down in the worst way when it turned out aria was visser three in morph, ouch.

that was so brutal augh. and when he figured it out and just crash landed and kept thinking about how he wanted to die and how he was stupid to think he could have a home...bro get these kids some THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so yeah that book was absolutely brutal but also so good...and it further fleshed out the animorphs working as a near-flawless team, w/the whole setup of tobias meeting w/the lawyer being so airtight and well-planned

also more free hork bajir!! its cool that there's stuff happening w/them offscreen, I like that

I literally had to take a break from reading the books bc the david triology + 23 was like so much, and also bc the olympics were on and all my time got dedicated to watching those, but then I opened 24, not sure what to expect, and BAM it was the helmacrons lmaoooo

I don't even remember the helmacrons but ig a lot of people hate them? lmao so that whole reputation preceded the book and I was like oh wow time for a change in tone

which wasn't wrong but also I liked that book?? I was never bored, even tho the whole thing was patently ridiculous and also had very little bearing on the overarching story

but I think it would be a standout if it were a TV episode w/a good budget - the visuals were amazing even in text, and I can imagine all the cool shrinking/growing/cellular stuff would be WICKED cool visually (ideally 2d animation but an ant man-esque live action adaptation wouldn't be terrible if they had the budget for it)

whatever let me dream. so yeah I didn't hate the helmacron book even tho the helmacrons themselves were...sure something. lmao I think they come back? that should be interesting

next book is the arctic one, we have yet another alien of the week style adventure - I liked this one too, it felt like more plot-y stuff happened since they destroyed the base, and marco’s POV is always fun

I do find it funny/interesting how sometimes when the animorphs do something - like in this book, destroying that base in the arctic - it doesn't really seem to impact the yeerks much/it doesn't get brought up much after that. and then other things like them destroying the ground-based kandrona get mentioned a lot (that example is understandable tho bc that WAS a big deal). its just hilarious to me how blowing up entire building complexes has become so routine that it isn’t even worth mentioning at this point

Also I adore when they meet other random people/kids and are chill w/them, like w/that kid they met in the rain forest earlier on w/the time travel

the descriptions of the brutally cold weather were great. I hate the cold so I was like oof this is a nightmare lmao

also ig that was the first ghostwritten book and I did kinda notice it was slightly different than usual? maybe? I could be imagining it tho

okay but book 26 tho...BOOK 26. bruh

that was SO good and I really didn’t know what to expect - but when we finally revisited Jake’s dream w/crayak I knew it was gonna be good (but I didn’t expect it to be a chess game war epic..!)

basically I loved it. SUCH a good Jake book - I really appreciate his character now as opposed to when I was 10 and often overlooked him (sorry jake).

similarly, when I was a kid and read these I sympathized a lot w/the chee and felt bad for them towards the end of the series when they had to get more involved in the war (genuinely don’t remember what they even do but ik I felt bad)

but now I've basically 180′d and I'm like damn those chee sure are hypocrites huh.

like they could solve So many of the animorphs problems but their stringent adherence to nonviolence leads to them actively getting in the animorphs way sometimes? and obviously pacifism is a complicated topic, but in this case it also intersect w/the whole ‘child soldier’ thing, and as beings who are insanely old and wise, the chee probably shouldn't just leave all the dirty work to a bunch of literal middle schoolers

aaaaanyways. there’s so much I love about this book. the iskoort! they were sure something. and the ‘plot twist’ that they are actually 2 beings, the Isk and the Yoort - and the Yoort are essentially Yeerks - that slapped. the symbiosis of it all!

I loved the part where they all realize what this means, that this is why Crayak wants the iskoort destoryed - because someday the yeerks might come across them and realize parasitism is not the only way. I love it!

alas I don’t recall the iskoort returning in the story (but also my memory is terrible so who knows?) but still that would be cool

basically I feel like this is the book where Jake Truly comes into his own as a leader, in every sense. he outmaneuvers Crayak, and even the ellimist, who’s yanking them around in his own way

the scene where jake shoves the howler off the cliff and jumps off and morphs and acquires the howler...that was fantastic and tense.

also the murder is definitely becoming more overt. I mean, it has been for a while, but it isn’t really pointed out as much anymore. oof

more on the chee - as Jake points out in this book, and other characters point out in other books - the chee could have saved the pemalites, but instead just stood by while their creators were slaughtered. on the other hand, jake says, what do the chee do AFTER they’ve killed the howlers - where to point them next? when is the end of their violence?

buuuuut also standing by while atrocities occur is pretty damning, as is frequently mentioned in this series - from the very beginning, when marco initially doesn’t want to get involved in the war at all, and the other animorphs basically tell him that turning his back on the war and acting like he doesn’t even know it’s happening would be immoral and cowardly (which imo this reaction helps to push marco in the direction he ends up going, but I digress) - this topic comes up again in 19 when cassie quits the team and rachel is upset bc she sees it as cassie elevating her own feelings above the greater good (as in, as long as cassie feels good about how she acts, it doesn’t matter how much preventable evil the yeerks are committing while she turns away). etc etc. but that’s essentially what’s happening w/the chee - even tho they help w/intel, the lack of any sort of Action on their part means that they’re essentially allowing awful things to happen when they could prevent them. this is rambly but basically...animorphs deals so much in grey areas, and the chee are noticeably black and white in their actions, despite falling, in a meta sense, in an extremely grey area. its such good, thought provoking writing!

anywayssss I keep talking about the chee lmao what else was there. oh YEAH jake and cassie kissed for the first time awww that was super cute

and ofc immediately marco teases them as asks jake if he’s gonna kiss him next, and all I can say is...marco is a bicon

also I love the background worldbuilding w/the iskoort, how they have all these groups and guilds and stuff - its not dwelled on much, which actually works really well to give the world/species a sense of lived-in realness

okay oh man and the reveal at the end that the howlers were just like...children who thought the whole thing was a game...AUGHH man that’s sooo fucked

like, when jake morphs the howler and has rachel ready to knock him down in grizzly morph if he gets out of control due to the howler’s murderous instincts, and he morphs to find that the howler is...playful, like a dolphin morph. SUCH a good fucked up sense of dawning horror there

and the fact that as far as I can tell the chee KNEW this, but wanted revenge anyways, so they let the animorphs assume that the howlers were Evil On Purpose

also I love smaller moments, like jake seeing that ax is ashamed for briefly running away during one battle w/the howlers, and then entrusts him w/an important task bc he knows that ax will see that as redemption - and when everyone thought jake was dead and were so happy when he wasn't (they all love each other so much im gonna cry about these child soldiers augh)

basically that book was so good

man one thing I absolutely love is that the longer the series goes on the more obvious it is that andalites, despite inventing morphing technology, barely use it themselves

like, most of the andalite characters we see barely morph. its kind of a last resort to them, as they’re already plenty dangerous in their regular forms

meanwhile for the animorphs, that’s all they have to fight with. that’s their only weapons against the yeerks, and its so fun to see them use the power in so many varied ways, and so creatively, while the andalites have barely scratched the surface of their own technology

its also interesting to contrast against the yeerks who start out w/absolutely no technology, and the andalites share some but not all of their technology w/them...its too bad that morphing technology was just starting out cause that would’ve been interesting

like imo a lot of the conflict w/the yeerks could’ve been avoided if they could just nothlit into better forms - of course, there’d still be plenty of yeerks who want to go start wars or w/e, just like pretty much any species in the series, but a lot of yeerks would probably be like ‘yeah I'm good’ and just chill out as nothlits

also people online love to talk about how humans are alienfuckers and would definitely have sex w/sentient aliens and whatnot, and while I'm not saying that's untrue, its just funny bc in animorphs the truest alienfuckers are definitely the andalites

as of the hork-bajir chronicles, we now have a second instance of an andalite morphing another species to be in an inter-species alien romance (and eventually have kids)

speaking of, I don’t think I’ve talked abt the hork bajir chronicles yet??? even tho I read it a while ago lmao

HBC was great...I honestly haven’t really run into an animorphs book I’ve actually disliked at this point, I’m sure it’ll come w/all the ghostwriting and whatnot, but I’ve liked at least some aspects of every book

anyways HBC was great, and it’s funny bc I remember that I read this book as a kid, and yet rereading it now I didn’t remember a single bit of it lmaooo

I really liked the framing device of the free hork bajir telling this story to tobias. I also liked how we know from the beginning that this story wont have a happy ending - we know all the hork bajir end up enslaved by the yeerks, but it’s still somehow hopeful at the end? I think this is largely due to the framing device tbh.

also I love toby, and I love that the First free hork bajir named their kid after tobias ;_;

and oooh mannn I LOVED the different POVs from this book. all the characters were so interesting! aldrea was fascinating - I really like the increasingly negative view of the andalites that the readers are getting, all while maintaining the sense that they aren’t like, actively evil, just that they have their issues - like aldrea’s arrogance, and the general andalite arrogance which lead to the loss of the hork bajir. also, who knew andalites had their own brand of sexism? Ls

I did like getting a female andalite tho, that was cool. and dak was really cool, he was such a good, compassionate character who was able to maintain his morals in an interesting way throughout the story

and VISSER THREE...or should I say esplin 9466, because he’s not visser 3 yet...getting his ‘origin story’ was excellent - I really like how we’re learning about visser 3 backwards - we start off the series w/him as the main villain, and he’s campy and menacing, and then we see him in the andalite chronicles as a power-hungry sub-visser trying to climb the ranks and eventually getting alloran as a host, and then back even further here, w/the start of his focus on the andalites and the beginning of his ambition. its been very cool and interesting to see

plus, the beginning of the yeerks as we know them! seerow! alloran! it’s a party and nobody is having a good time, except for some of the yeerks.

I like how it’s pretty obvious that the andalites are well-meaning with their interactions w/the yeerks, but go about it the wrong way - they give them enough technology that the yeerks realize there’s a whole world out there to experience, and then they blockade the yeerks on their planet and tell them they can’t leave. nnnnot the best approach imo

again, as I said above, I’m interested in how things could’ve gone if the andalites had given the yeerks morphing technology early on - could a lot of the conflict have been avoided, or would it have been worse? the yeerks seem pretty evil in this book, immediately jumping to enslave anyone they can. otoh we hear from esplin that not all yeerks like having host bodies, and find it overwhelming, preferring to swim around in the yeerk pool as a slug - I assume as host bodies became more available this type of thinking was probably stamped out in yeerk society or w/e, but there are a lot of interesting what-ifs in the situation

I loved the scene where esplin first experiences having a host, and immediately knows he can’t go back. there are a bunch of great sensory descriptions, and it’s a nice scene to pinpoint as a foundational moment for the visser three in the current story, who spent a lot of time and energy getting what he sees as the best possible host body, an andalite

I find it interesting how much visser three clearly respects the andalites, even while constantly deriding them. and you can see the origins of that here as he immediately focuses in on the andalites, working to become an expert on them in order to make himself useful enough to move thru the ranks

another thing I like is how esplin seems a lot more crafty and ambitious than the visser three from modern times - I would guess that reaching his goal (andalite host body) and being given all that power was detrimental, playing on his weaknesses instead of his strengths. basically, I don’t think it’s ooc or anything, I can see how HBC-esplin became animorphs-esplin, especially w/TAC in between

as for seerow...poor dude. you really do have to feel for him, because you get the sense he really did just want to be kind to the yeerks, but it was borne from a place of pity, and he (and the other andalites) consistently held too much power over the yeerks for the species relations to ever be truly equal and functional

AUGH I have so many thoughts about alien space politics. omg. I need to talk about the actual story lmao

so yeah I also feel for aldrea, she had a rough time, watching her entire family die and being thrown into a hopeless war

and then the andalite council or w/e not listening to her bc she's a girl AND seerow’s daughter...oof

also, I really really liked the running theme of the andalites - specifically aldrea - looking down on the hork bajir as ‘simple’ and constantly underestimating them, especially dak

and I like how this is portrayed as a bad attitude for aldrea to have, and she still remains and interesting and sympathetic character even while having obvious flaws. it’s about being 3-dimensional baby!

and oh man I love that dak realizes that aldrea looks down on him, and his entire species, but he can see that that’s how the andalites are, and it all connects back to the beginning of the story w/the yeerks, bc the andalites looked down on the yeerks and treated them with pity and kept them pinned under their proverbial thumb ‘for their own good’ and look how that turned out

but dak is wise and kind enough to not hate aldrea for this, even acknowledging when she’s using him, but not pushing her away because he recognizes good in her too - and she ends up changing, partially because of his faith in her

and I feel like it can all be compared to that scenario of like - a hypothetical creature that lives in a 2D world suddenly being thrust into a 3D world, and comprehending what its seeing, and understanding that there’s so much more out there outside of the flat lines of its world - and then its dropped back into 2D-land with the knowledge of all the stuff its missing out on, and no way to get back to it or explain it to anybody else

I loooove that ‘trope’ or w/e you wanna call it, and it’s done beautifully here w/the yeerks - whos the say they wouldn't have been fine in their pool swimming around; as esplin said, a lot of the yeerks were terrified of having a host, it was only from the andalites’ perspective that their lives were sad and pitiful, and the andalites showed them what the world could be like, and then said ‘no, you can’t travel the stars like we do, you have to stay here on your planet and do what we say.’

and then again, w/the hork bajir - dak talks about how, even though he drinks up the knowledge that aldrea gives him, in the end it might have been better to just have lived peacefully, not knowing what was in the sky or the Deep - as aldrea says: “It was too late for Dak: he knew that the stars were not flowers.”

plus the hork bajir having to go from a completely peaceful species who don’t even understand the concept of violence, to a bunch of soldiers fighting a war...oof

basically everyone in this story uses the hork bajir. the yeerks use them as hosts, the andalites use their planet as a convenient place to dump seerow and then take their sweet time coming to help, and the arn created them as means to stabilize the planet, but block them off from their society and refuse to help when the yeerks come

like, the arn modifying themselves to be un-infestable by the yeerks and then being enslaved for physical labor instead? oof guys. if they had teamed up w/the hork bajir resistance things might have gone better, but probably not

more on aldrea - throughout the story I was always thinking ‘how am I supposed to see her? as a good person, or as a bad person?’

as a POV character, especially a ‘good guy’ andalite, you just start off automatically thinking of her as a good person, but as the story goes on, she starts getting lost in revenge and begins using dak and the hork bajir, and you’re left wondering if this is a story about her slide into darkness, and then towards the end of the story her character development culminates in her making the decision to stay w/the hork bajir, and the be with dak, and that’s about when I went ‘ohhh right this is animorphs so every character is pretty much gonna be grey’

I feel like that moral grey-ness was on full display w/aldrea, and I really enjoyed that. I love so much when characters who are good do bad things, for good or bad reasons, especially in media like animorphs that’s aimed at kids. it’s so compelling.

oof, and the ending when aldrea convinces dak to mobilize the hork bajir and teach them violence...and dak asks her if she’s ever killed another andalite, and she’s horrified, and says of course she hasn’t, and he says that that’s what she’s asking him, and all the hork bajir, to do - to kill their own people, even if they are being controlled by the yeerks. biiiig oof. I love that dak can keep up w/aldrea and her andalite supremacy attitude - it seems that the non-andalite characters who get along best w/the andalites are the ones who wont take their bs

what else happened....oh my god how could I forget about alloran, and his quantum virus. oooof. I like how we find out about alloran in parallel to visser three, in the same backwards way - in animorphs he’s the tragic host of visser three, in TAC he’s the disgraced but still semi-respected war-prince who becomes the first ever andalite controller, and here he’s the guy who decides to commit some war crimes because, hey, we haven’t tried that yet

but yeah that was fucked up, I love it. I’ve said it before I think but I like that alloran isn’t some perfect martyr tragically taken by the yeerks - it’s a lot more compelling that he’s a very flawed person who was taken as a controller partially due to his own bloodthirstiness.

but yeah, the part where aldrea morphs alloran and ‘sneaks’ into that room was great. aldrea’s dedication to disposing of the virus is a great indicator of her character development - it really feels like the straw that broke the camels back w/re: to the andalites not being what she thought they were, w/their tardiness coming to help the hork bajir planet and the way her father was treated being the precursors to this realization. it all culminates nicely in aldrea saying ‘fuck this actually’ and nothlit-ing into a hork bajir.

and it’s really tragic but realistic that even though aldrea and dak end up seeing eye to eye at the end and getting together, the virus ends up being released anyways (and fails in its objective to stop the yeerks from using the hork bajir - the whole thing was p much a lose-lose situation oof), and aldrea and dak still die fighting a hopeless war

but then we have the free hork bajir on earth, including toby, who, like tobias, has andalite ancestry, but no DNA to show for it - I like that they have that connection as well as tobias being her namesake

so yeah I enjoyed that one and its many-layered themes

WOW this got long uuuuuhhh ok I think i’ll leave this one off here. at the time I’m actually finishing the writing and editing, I’m on book 35 lol so I have some backlogging to do. never fear, I have a lot to say....

#lj reads animorphs #animorphs

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cloudchaserandflitterexplain · 6 years ago

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Cloudchaser and Flitter Spoil: Friends Forever

It’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a spoiler! Well, except it’s not me, I guess, but everything else! I can’t wait to spoil it!

Well, what are you waiting for? Show us!

But wait, if I spoil my card first, then it won’t be the awesome final reveal out of our spoilers. And it’s definitely exciting enough to be the last card we spoil.

That’s fine, I don’t mind going first.

But if I go second, then I have to wait longer to talk about the card…

You haven’t heard a word I’ve said yet, have you?

Augh, what do I do? Going first would be amazing, but going second would be awesome! Which is better? Flitter, help me!

Yeah, okay, I’m just going to talk about my card now.

Hey everypony! Check out these adorable fillies!

Maybe there’s some way to do both. I could spoil half of my card first…

We were so cute back then! Aww, I love seeing pictures of us when we were younger! Don’t you, Cloudchaser?

Yeah! That’s it! I’ll do half and then you could do your card, and then I—

Cloudchaser!

Ow!

What was that for?

There’s a perfectly good spoiler of the two of us right in front of your muzzle and you’ve just been ignoring me.

I wasn’t ignoring you, I was—

...You started talking about your spoiler without me?

Sigh.

Look, Cici, I know you’re excited, but you need to calm down a little, okay? We’ve got a job to do.

Besides, I think you’ll like this card. It’s super awesome!

...Hey, that second ability is like the ability of my first card.

Just noticing now, huh? And the other half is Forest Owl from Premiere too.

I’m not an owl, but I guess it fits better than my first card’s ability, hehe.

That’s a pretty cool callback! Only it’s immediate now, so even better! There’s a lot of cool tricks you can do with that!

You can confront one problem with us, then rush out a Hasty Friend to the other problem. Or just single confront and then exhaust us so the opponent can’t start a single problem faceoff without our permission. Or maybe throw out a hasty friend on the opponent’s turn!

Actually, being immediate works really well with Hasty friends, huh. That’s pretty neat.

I like that we help out wherever we are.

At problems, we help everypony else by giving them more power thanks to me cheering everypony on.

And at home, we can exhaust to help ponies in hand get to problems by reducing their cost thanks to your eagerness to get things done quickly! We’re a fantastic team!

We are, aren’t we?

And that flavour text just fits us perfectly! Oh, this card is just perfect, Cici!

I wish they’d stop printing us as foals, though…

Awww, but we’re so cute!

Hehe, or is that the problem? You just don’t like having your cool independant mare image ruined by your adorable foalhood years.

That’s not it at all!

...much.

SIlly Cici!

Anyway, that’s enough on my card. What do you have to show us all today, Cici?

Okay, so I’ll admit your card was pretty great. That’s definitely one of the best cards in the set we could have spoiled since it has us on it.

One of? Psh, it’s definitely the single best!

Wanna bet?

Absolutely!

Well you’re gonna lose. Check this out

Ohmygosh, Cici! They gave you a Mane to spoi!

Sure did. In fact I—

Oof.

I’m so happy for you! You always wanted to spoil a Mane!

Eh, it’s no big deal.

Oh don’t lie, you big silly! I saw that grin on your face. You haven’t smiled that much since you got accepted into the Wonderbolt Academy!

Wait, a second!

You only showed us the front! What’s the boosted side look like?

Now who’s excited?

Come on, Cici! Don’t keep us waiting!

Twist my leg why don’t ya?

Okay, okay, you win. Your card’s a teensy bit more awesome than mine was.

Told ya.

So Silverstream draws cards, huh? I guess she must be really excited to learn as much as she can!

Heh, guess so.

I have no idea how good this Mane will wind up being, but on paper she seems somewhat strong.

Eccentric 2 slows the opponent down nicely and helps incentivize keeping this Mane at a problem, where you definitely want her to be to get the most out of her on confront ability. Drawing cards is always good.

And the fact that she exhausts means you can make it so the opponent can’t easily send her home with a single problem faceoff.

Though the most interesting part of her is her flip condition. It’s not as easy as the Seaquestria Manes, but it’s not exactly hard either.

Especially since she doesn’t say they have to be your characters! If the opponent has two characters at her problem, you can flip her!

Yeah, that’s neat. Kind of reminds me of Rainbow Dash: Hanging Out. Though obviously way easier.

Hehe, looks like you’ve finally calmed down a little.

Honestly, I’m proud of you! I’d have thought you’d be bouncing off the walls being able to spoil an ultra rare Mane.

...ultra rare?

Well, yeah. Didn’t you notice the rar—?

They let me spoil an ultra rare? And not just any ultra rare, a Mane?

I may have made a mistake.

We’ve never had an Ultra Rare to spoil before, this is amazing! I have to go tell everypony right now! Wow!

Cici, wait! Say goodbye to—

...everypony.

Well, there she goes. Guess I can’t blame her for being enthusiastic. Silly Cloudchaser.

Well, guess that’s it for our spoilers, everypony! See you all later.

Assuming I can ever get Cloudchaser to calm down, that is!

#cloudchaser and flitter explain #cloudchaser #flitter #MLP:FiM #mlp ccg #spoilers!

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fondwitch · 7 years ago

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Gem and mineral show: details

I decided to do a separate post to talk about my experience :) it was my first one and I think it was kind of overwhelming! I was disheartened at first because I think the first couple of tables I went to had higher prices and I started to doubt that I would even find any deals.

Browsing ALL the tables is very important!

Once I had made a few laps I already could see a bunch of things that I thought the prices were fantastic on.

Also it helps that I favor the rough cut, they always seem to be lessor priced than larger tumbled or polished stones.

I had been wanting some bigger (medium bigger) display pieces for my living room but it is so easy for all the bigger items to be $60 at the LOWEST and most upwards of a $100 (I would absolutely love the extra large pieces that are $250-$500 but that’s never gonna happen!). Then my eye caught on that large amethyst cluster (to the left in the pic) and it was $30 and I was SOLD on it. It is a lil dirty and brown around the edges and not as deep purple as some but I was totally fine with that!!

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The second largest piece of amethyst I took two close up pictures of because it is SO SO LOVELY and I wish everyone could see it in person! When you can see the brown rock and then these lovely clusters of amethyst weaving everywhere in it, augh, it will take your breath away....I am utterly amazed that it was only $22.50!!

The middle three pictures are of flat slabs of idk, rock? They were just so pretty and only $1 each. In fact I got slightly emotional because I was purchasing from this older gentleman and I was spending like $7 and he had so many larger expensive, beautiful pieces of agate and yet he took the time to tell me where these flat cuttings of rock were from. Yellowstone River, Montana; Bull Canyon, Nevada; Graveyard Point, Oregon (that lighter one in the middle, it is so delicate looking and gorgeous!) he explained that another piece was petrified wood. And I was horrified to find that I was almost tearing up because there were other people and like he had no reason to bother spending time on me for $7, but like I wanted to know where they were from I just would never have asked him on my own. I thanked him profusely, and tried to quickly type out the places he was telling me on my phone. I love that man.

The bottom left is a bloodstone that I felt drawn to, there was a box of them and I kept coming back to that one bc I liked the shape. And I really wanted a piece of labrodite!! However, like I said, I am not as into the smooth, tumbled ones and then I happened on just a very few stands that had them more natural with like one or two polished sides so I grabbed one for $5 :)

The final square pic on the bottom right was in a box called OCO’s which I guess are just like small agate geodes (from what I gathered by googling it) so I bought two of those for $5 each bc they were so so pretty! I encourage you to click on that pic to see it up close on your screen! It’s got black and white feathery swirls and some reddish brown. LOVE!

A lot of the other stones I got 2 for $5 which seemed like a very good deal to me. Also, those clear quartz were a pretty big deal too bc they were only $3 a piece and they are quite big. I know I bought one on etsy that was smaller and I paid $7 for it! So I loaded up on 4 of them :D!!

Overall, it was a wonderful experience and I am looking forward to catching one more in October. I would like to have a little bit more of a shopping list next time. I would like to know ahead which stones I’m kinda looking for. But either way the one thing I really loved is that these people are passionate about it and seem to really like talking to you about their stones and answering any questions in such a friendly manner!

#gem and mineral show #my experience #my first one #happy happy #mine

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kurozu501 · 7 years ago

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Fate Grand Order: Orleans

fgo spoilers to come, obviously.

I kind of like how self contained this chapter was. After the prologue with Leff and all the set up of the huge, overarching story, i liked that this one was just a simple and self contained tale of helping Jeanne save france. I kept waiting for Leff or some other enemy connected to the bigger bosses to show up and it didnt happen. Thats good for building tension, and not overusing your villains.

For the actual plot, i have to say i never thought i’d care about Marie or Amadeus as much as i ended up doing, and that i loved everything it did with Jeanne and Giles.

Right off the bat i wanted to say i was surprised by just how many servants there were. Apocrypha likes to say its “the biggest Grail War in history” with 15 servants and here fgo just is throwing them at me by the dozens. It did end up feeling like certain characters were neglected (poor chevalir, i was so interested in having interactions between them and Marie and it never happened.) (And Atalanta! insult on top of injury, not only does she get -2 lines or characterization, but the translators call her male.) but overall it was good.

Lancelot mistaking Jeanne for Arturia was a great little nod to fate zero and the way people both in and out of universe have been mistaking the two since the start of the franchise.

Now, let me talk a little about the major characters.

Marie being super gay for jeanne in her intro was cute, and i loved their friendship. i ship it. Her and Amadeus had a great asshole friendship where they would rib each other but you could tell they cared deep down. When the group split up i knew it would end badly, but still, the moment Marie offered to take George’s place i was like nooooo.

I liked that nasu subverts our expectations there as well; you think that now the creepy dude whose been hunting Marie all chapter will finally get to murder her, but instead she kicks his ass and only goes down to evil!Jeanne. i regret i didn’t use her as a support more, since i haven’t rolled her and i always picked Jeanne when given the option lmao.

With Amadeus, i initially was not fond of him thanks to the pervert jokes. The whole bit about “memorizing the sounds Mashu’s body made” was very unnecessary and gave me a very negative first impression of him. However as the relationship between him and Marie was explored i began to soften on him a bit, and i really came around to him after his talk with Mashu about humans and life.

I also liked how after Marie’s death he acted casual about the tragedy. That somehow made it sadder, when he said her bringing up the piano had actually been her way of saying goodbye (you knew from that moment!?? and you still just saw her off with a smile?? augh) and when he casually mentioned that they will likely never meet again, it was a gut punch. Don’t worry dude, im totally going to roll her so you guys can hang in Chaldea with the team.

Mashu got some small, but great development in this chapter. Her whole talk with Amadeus was fantastic for her. Definitely a scene im going to rewatch a few times. I also liked the bit at the end where she talked about Giles and how strong human emotions can have devastating consequences. By the end of the chapter you get the sense that she’s taken a step forward in growing into her role as a warrior and a person. (when she said “mashu kyrielight--deploying!” right before the final battle it made me think of gundam when they launch the mech pilots and now i cant stop imagining mashu, mobile suit pilot lmao)

With Jeanne i liked that she was humanized and explored as a character here without sticking her into a romance, compared to apocrypha where it seems like, 80% likely to have her and Sieg hook up. I especially liked her last talk with Jalter, what she said about her childhood memories and how she could understand a dark side of hers that was saddened by those memories. It was good that the narrative could at least acknowledge a possible dark side for Jeanne by the end, while also making it clear that this was not it. All her dialogue with Giles in the final battle was fantastic, and it really did a good job at making me love fate jeanne, again, without sticking her into a het romance, thankfully. Her last words to Mashu and the protagonist being cut off was cruel nasu.

With Giles this arc basically took any and all questions about him leftover from Fate Zero and answered them in style. What would happen if he got the grail? What would happen if he and Jeanne ever met again face to face? I really loved his final scenes at the end of the story. I really don’t know how accurate, if at all, it is to the real life giles de rais, but fate giles’ rage at france, god, and the world over jeanne’s death is easily the best part of his character, and its on full display here. You get a good sense of a person who turned into an unforgivable monster but was motivated at the start by a deep loss. Again, likely entirely inaccurate to the real life giles who was a creepy horrible serial killer who preyed on the vulnerable, but it worked well here.

I also loved how at the end even if Jeanne is kind to him bc of her own saintly nature, he isn’t excused by the narrative, with his last words, and Mashu’s own words at the end about all the children he murdered. It felt like the ending he would have reached if he really had met Jeanne in Fate Zero instead of Arturia.

So yeah, overall i loved this chapter! it was a good self contained story that was fun and well executed, even if it had a few too many characters it neglected. It was a good way to build up our main characters while keeping the bigger plot on the back burner while also being entertaining. If they are still going to make Fate Grand Order episodes, this ones next on the list, and im looking forward to seeing it.

#Fate Grand Order #fate series #fate grand order spoilers #Fate Zero #type moon #marie antoinette #wolfgang amadeus mozart #Mashu Kyrielite #jeanne d'arc #giles de rais #meta

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