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Ninja fever...
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X-Comics Weekly Roundup
Hey folks, trying something new here. The way my creativity works is like the weather. Often it's cloudy and I don't feel inspiration, but the flipside of that is a lovely day - then it just pours out of me. Well, the sun is shining.

I post whatever interests me thrice a day and I always review the flagship X-Men books, except this week there isn't one. I need to write something and feel like reviewing, so I'm going to do mini reviews of all the X books that dropped this week. Two paragraphs or three per book. Way less if I'm feeling cynical and can think of a one liner/joke. If people like it, I'll make a habit of it. Spoilers for all of them, of course. To me, my X-books!
NYX #10

I have conflicting feelings about NYX. The Hivemind wrap up this premature final issue about as admirably as can be expected, tying up loose plot threads. The Mojo hi/bye feels abrupt, but that's unavoidable when your book gets cancelled and a crossover runs through it. Each issue has had something interesting to say or show, and using all-brain Alleyne's power of common sense and communication to rally all corners of NYX in solidarity (plus Doop) to fight a big bad who sees people as units feels appropriate. The fight is whatever but it doesn't really matter. It's intentionally atypical. They win through people power and sapphic love. Sobunar has a mobile phone too! Good for them, I wonder who they call.
They win and cheer but someone's not laughing. It's fucking cousin Bilal being an obnoxious pest and calling Ms Marvel out. She unapologetically addresses him as Kamala Khan and he's stunned. Dude changes his tune by coldly advising her to never tell her parents, as it would break their hearts. It's a lot to fit into one issue, but after tying off loose ends it segues into the Kamala show ahead of her 5 Giant-Size X-Men one shots.
It's a sensible and bold ending under the circumstances, and even takes a breath to fit a 'should I tell my family?' scene with a single sentence from David and Sophie - succinctly pouring their years of secrecy and experiences into a few words. NYX took some pretty big swings and felt like the loving continuance of Krakoa's story and characters in a new world. It was really starting to cook but the time constraints are visible. NYX needed and deserved more time. I want more time with it. I trust the Hivemind with the Kamala nostalgia tour in Giant-Size X-Men History, but in a mostly drab line NYX's colour and community will be missed. For me at least, it's going to drag the curve down. I'm still hungry, and that's not on the writers. Morlocks! Cuckoos! Queers! Ideology! Arakki! Synch! Fauna! Kiden! Hellion! NYX (the clubhouse thing!) Dante (probably - we know jack shit.) A nibble is not enough and a thousand boos to Marvel's play it safe publishing practices. I appreciate the genuine efforts to go wide and include all these underrepresented things so much. I'm glad it happened but I'm wistful about what could have been.
WOLVERINE AND KITTY PRYDE #1

I think I missed the solicits for this one lol. I had no idea they dug up Claremont to write about moments in between the Ogun arc - ninjas, Japan, Kitty and Logan, Yakuza, feudalism, samurai, and a shitload of angst. It deals with the aftermath of Ogun possessing Kitty and turning her into a killing machine. She's horribly traumatized so Logan is 'helping' her with a gruelling 'training' regime. She's not enjoying it even a little bit until she saves a kid from ninjas and gets over it. I LOVE how Logan is explicitly ignoring everyone's wishes and wearing traditional Japanese garb (I think? With Claremont who fucking knows.) He sounds like a maniac weeb and basically usurps her father to his face unapologetically. Even Yukio is like 'duuuude..' It's Sensei Logan at his most ridiculous - and THAT is saying something.

Aside from the complete lack of sexualisation, it's a very Claremont book. The purple prose is quaint - even restrained and the dialogue pops. The hybridised art style definitely suits the mood while reining in Claremont's usual excesses. His pedigree from his 16 year tenure has afforded him a lot of latitude in the past. Too much. It's not explicit but I feel like someone is telling him no. Kitty is drawn as a rake thin prepubescent next to Logan's squat brutishness and Carmen's middle aged banker vibes. The women don't get a lot to do or say, but for a 2025 Claremont #1 it's worth a look if you like the characters. The narrator should shout at the characters. Maybe next issue.
Can we just not discuss Xavier for a while pls?
Carmen Pryde gets shit on even further, sandbagging the reader with fond memories of Xavier then switching it around to stating how much of a manipulative bastard he is. I enjoy him speaking his pain and not minimising how abnormal this is - tying it in to Exceptional X-Men thematically - but his impotent bitterness at having no say over his 14 year old daughter is heart-rending. Xavier and Logan are like uncaring self-justifying Gods ignoring the hatred and agency of lesser men. Astride the narrative and the world making things happen while the bozos watch from the sidelines if they're lucky. Kitty is in the lesser pantheon, denied agency and childhood while living constant danger, but still special compared to her father.
WEAPON X-MEN #3
ROGUE: THE SAVAGE LAND #4

Didn't take long to go from rejecting X-Men completely to being on multiple teams. Shocking.
Yeah I don't have a lot to say about this one, as it's Deadpool and Wolverine plus Cable fighting Nazi robots and not much else. Chamber and Thunderbird are wasted, with the latter regressing from his Krakoan arc then spending the issue getting beaten up off panel. Chamber shoots a fireball I think? I don't know why they're here, they should have just cloned Logan twice. I swear the book was about something else in the first two issues, but it's not. Cable basically kidnapped everyone except Proudstar, who they met in Latveria about to attack DOOM by himself or something. If you like gruff masculine violence and a thin plot with Deadpool pedantically lampshading the low effort, then this is your jam. No judgement, but it's not for me. The name is a bit weird too. Logan and Wade are products of Weapon X, chamber infiltrated them briefly and got a new body, but Cable and Thunderbird? No association I know of.

People seem to be enjoying this romp, but I just can't be bothered. I love Magneto but he's not at his best here. It's Rogue's story, as it's meant to be, and I don't feel like it's adding much to the original than a fresh coat of paint and a vague, slow Zaladane God plot. I know it's cynical, but remixed nostalgia doesn't excite me easily. I keep an open mind but this, the Giant-Size one shots, the Emma Frost upcoming set in the past, Wolverine and Kitty Pryde, etc. Marvel is the House of Ideas and it'd be good to see some new ones, you know? New ideas. I'm not really a webhead fan - the X-Men is my shit - but Ultimate Spider-Man #15 dropped this week and it's full to the brim with new ideas.
Maybe it's not fair to compare it to one of the best, if not the best, Marvel ongoings right now, but is this really the best we can do? I feel like these kinds of projects should be a victory lap when the current line is humming. Something special instead of one of many old stories shined up. I'm sure plenty of folks are digging it, but I can't help but look at the entire line. Don't get me wrong adjectiveless and Uncanny look like they might be kicking into gear, but we're a year and two crossovers into the reboot and there's not much there.
ASTONISHING X-MEN INFINITY COMICS
Came out last week but I have been following it. It's not really about the Krakoan diaspora and the labour market right now. It was, and the workers realised that fucking Murray was the enemy. Yay! Then Banshee the cop stopped them getting his ass. Boo! The narrative has veered off into a bit of a holding pattern until the next thing happens, but there was a partial Gen X reunion and Skin is in Banshee's castle just chilling. I'll let you know if it picks up again.
That's the week that was in X-Comics. Overall, pretty dull. It feels like there's double digit books out each week so the low number and average quality this week left me dissatisfied. NYX was a bright spot, but it just got cancelled. I've been reading the 1963 X-Men run, Bendis' Uncanny X-Men, an Ultimate Spider-Man re-read to process new information, and working on an X-Men event title prediction machine. I enjoyed doing this column - with less commitment and research required than for a full review. Hope you enjoyed reading it. ❤️
#x men#x comics#magneto#rogue#savage land#kitty pryde#wolverine#weapon x men#nyx#weekly roundup#marvel#comics
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hello i was tagged by @18minutemajor for WIP Wednesday. it is not Wednesday but i am also not a cop so . here we gooo!!!!!!! tagging my esteemed colleagues (very politely and with no pressure!!!):
@neonfretra @oensible @sorrellegiance @moregraceful @stereax
@wheelsnipecelebrini
@korshrimpski (EDIT: it won’t?? let me tag you. unless these are on separate lines <3)
what's in-progress in your life <3 writing? art? recipe? skill acquisition?
if any crafty people see this - if ANYONE sees this - and would like to join in, feel free and consider yourself tagged <3 (and tag me back so i can see your stuff!!!) link to 18minutemajor's post if yall curious :3 my VERY long wip dump + ramblings under the cut!
its christmas soon and i like to paint gifts for my friends + and i'm finally revisiting my anime/lineart/inking era (here you are K!! my lineart past, present, and future!! <3) so here are some things i've been working on/coming back to/MAY NEVER FINISH: hockey related:
this is juraj slafkovsky and his dinky little middle part which he can absolutely learn to style into something a little less dinky but never does. i am so charmed by him. i imagine he just rocks it because his pretty privilege supersedes dinky middle parts . LMAO!!

here is Sasuke from my Naruto Hockey AU. I am a little stuck on jersey mockups lol. here he is. our haunted little 1OA who is absolutely normal and regular about his captain (LOUD incorrect buzzer):

personal oc art
wanna know some puckpocketed deep lore? i've never been one to make OCs. i was just not a very creative kid tbh. spent all my time drawing sailor moon instead. i still go back to her sometimes because she is one of my favourite shapes in the WORLD!!
in my 20s i took up playing d&d because of the. uh. plague. <3 and got pretty close to having OCs!! those count right? anyway. here is my tavern-wench-turned-wizard!!! i think i painted this 2 years ago? <- put dates on your works guys it saves lives. her name is Mel (short for Melins (pronounced like melons. on account of her knockers. can you tell i never grew out of my 12 yr old booby/cock joke era?) i revisited Mel recently and have started painting her in earnest again!! :3

I briefly dated someone who was very into streetwear and fashion, and I fell down a techwear/gorpcore/cyberpunk rabbit hole for a couple days out of curiosity. i remember literally zero salient info on any of it except the broad strokes of silhouetting and Vibes. what i emerged with, however, was a ?? sorta OC?? im not sure what to call them. they dont rly have a name or gender. I did this little sheet ages ago + the aborted attempt at a portrait later:


Here are my most recent explorations (i have been doing SOOOO much art. <3) which include:
unfinished character sheet + chibi art. I played with their jacket (much more structured/square/tailored thing) and added a lotta random buckles and belts. i took textiles class years ago and have a little experience in garment construction. and i know for a fact this thing does not make any sense. it hurts me to look at a little bit LMAO so i've paused it while i go draft patterns (badly. i was never good at drafting. i think i may have to break out my scrap fabric stash and hand sew a real life mock-up. HELP!)

here is me having fun with them and imagining them as some kind of cyber-fisherman. the best part of every game is the fishing mini-game to me. i love fishing mini-games so much. I made their hair really big because i wanted them to have big unwieldy hair and the vibes told me i should add more movement to the piece aside from the fishing line. I messed with their jacket AGAIN because i can't stop thinking about what kinda jacket they'd wear. gorp-core ? idk. it sure is something!

gifts for my friends :3
back in my weeb era for real YAYYYY!!! up til now i'd been making hockey art using a zero pressure sensitivity pen brush because i simply did NOT want to deal with that. it is and has always been a barrier to me making art that uses line art. <3 easing my way back into it though!
I used to paint gifts for my friends and then get them printed into lil posters and mount them on nice backing :3 i am now ready and back to painting.
Here is my girlbestie's OC. just a rough pose sketch. i think im pretty unsatisfied with the gesture of the head/hand. i wanted to include her gun in some way. i fear i may have to rework the pose entirely <3

For the genshin girlies.. here are some of my friends fave characters.
Yelan - this one i started many holidays ago and put on the backburner because the colouring was wigging me out. you can see where i started rendering stuff + got sidetracked and started on something else (the crystal choker IM LAUGHING @ past me...)

Ayaka - I reaaally like what i did here with the perspective + foreshortening. I don't know if the pose or expression is in-character or not, but i had fun :3 got stunlocked looking at references of genshin weapons so this is where i left off:

if you made it all the way down here hi... <3 ice hockey really cracked the ketchup bottle open for me when it comes to making art again. i love the communities i've found, and i'm inspired by every artist on here every day. thanks for being so cool + have a great day :)
#hiiii... late with starbucks (gigantic wip dump now i feel good about sharing again)#puckpainting#tag game#eye contact#the . the tag thingy for half of these aint working HELP <3
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so well, what anime have you watched and what anime songs have you added? 🙈
my god i am so sorry it took this long for me to answer this!! ya girl has been super busy and exhausted from life tbh. but i am finally back home and trying to catch up with all the things i need to do ;-; starting with this ask!
my anime watched (on a google spreadsheet lmao):
i think the total is 25! there are some that i kinda watched in passing while my sister had it on the tv and i just happened to be nearby, but for these i only count the ones that i actively paid attention to. definitely not as many as a well-versed weeb but i can no longer call myself a beginner either lmao.
i only have music from the following animes: demon slayer, my hero academia, attack on titan, jujutsu kaisen, assassination classroom, mashle, paradox live (unfortunately 😵💫). i have the opening theme of my happy marriage and the instrumental of the ending but i feel like that barely counts. some of the ones i have from demon slayer are like instrumental/characters theme covers that other people make cause i don't think the official ost is released on spotify and any osts uploaded on youtube get taken down sooner or later 😔 (mugen train i'm referring to you 😩 you didn't ask but i have so many favs from the ost [tracks 21 {tanjiro vs. enmu}-25, 27-30, 32-33 {rengoku vs. akaza}])
currently only 36 songs in my weeb playlist, but there are definitely songs i know that i just haven't saved! either cause i don't like it enough to save or cause i don't actively think about saving anime music when i initially hear it lol :") or cause it's not on spotify and i'm too lazy to download locally. i only saved a bunch of MHA stuff recently because you sent me that ask about it a while ago LMAO
i wish i could pull together my own spotify wrapped-esque graphics since this year's sucked BALLS (i heard they laid off a bunch of their staff and used ai for the wrapped this year. ugh). but for the stats themselves, looks like songs (lyrics) vs. instrumentals/themes (no lyrics) is split ~60/40. some of these songs with lyrics i would definitely forfeit for the instrumentals if were actually on spotify (e.g. some of the paralive stuff... the rapping is sooo cringe but the beats are sooo good 😭)
some of my personal no-skip themes that are in my playlist:
mashle: bling bang bang born (of course. iconic for a reason. also in my gym playlist cause of the fast tempo LMAO)
jjk: specialz, lost in paradise (the trumpet?? ugh i am gagged)
demon slayer: kizuna no kiseki (swordsmith village opening... so good this shit almost makes me cry idk why), zohakuten/hantengu theme
mha: dakara hitori ja nai, shout baby, rokutosei, flowers by asian kung fu generation INSTRUMENTAL (from that deku/rody montage scene in world heroes mission. the singing did not do it for me but the strings and the guitar by themselves?? chef's kiss. no notes. literal perfection. esp the last 2 minutes of the instrumental, with the slow buildup to the star of the show, the electric guitar?? brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectac-)
WEEB songs i listen to when i need to lock in while doing my godforsaken call reports at work (i normally work most efficiently when i have one song on loop for like an hour or so until they all get done. almost always an instrumental, even if not a weeb one lmao):
flowers instrumental - asian kung fu generation (mentioned above. truly a masterpiece of a composition) [mha]
eren zahyo - hiroyuki sawano (goat fr. in particular the last minute and a half always gets me so emotional because of the end of S2 where erwin talks about getting closer to finding out the truth. i literally search it up on youtube sometimes and watch just to feel something) [aot]
attack on d - hiroyuki sawano (the childish singing is a little weird to me but the rest of the composition is so good that i can overlook it. also this played after eren/mikasa basically confessed to each other and that moment will forever be etched into my mind. sOBS) [aot]
more than words instrumental - hitsujibungaku (literally 11/10 without the singing. i'm sorry but with the melodies and the voices "it's so bad i want to give it a zero" 😭) [jjk]
ao no sumika instrumental - tatsuya kitani (the first 10 secs always hits idk) [jjk]
uta to hibiki - hiroyuki sawano [this was from a movie called bubble. the movie itself was mid {like a watered down little mermaid essentially} but hiroyuki sawano always hits it out the park with the music]
i'm sorry, you probably never intend to receive a 25-page master thesis when you put these asks in my inbox and here i am rambling on into oblivion about my extremely particular music tastes 💀 like i'm just imagining we listen to the same song and you're like "yeah i mean i guess it's alright" meanwhile i'm over here losing my goddamn mind LMAO. i think different songs just attach to people's brains differently. but this was fun to answer and i appreciate you sending this ask! curious to know if any of my top picks are also yours!!
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I LIVE, BITCHES! Sorry for the EXTREME lack of activity on here lately. Holiday season has been rough, PLUS gaining a new hyperfixation, PLUS getting sick for Christmas (giving me even MORE free time to obsess over the new hyperfixation) ... it's been a lot. XD I'm pretty much always on Discord, though, so if we're moots and you miss me (for SOME reason LOL), you can always poke me there. DM me for the username and I gotchu. <3 So what's the new hyperfixation? I'm so VERY glad you didn't ask (cuz I'm gonna tell you anyway)!
Fun fact about me is that I was very, very, VERY invested in the Beastars universe back when Season 1 of the anime first came out. Like, to an INSANE degree. I even binge read the ENTIRE manga online (and my non-weeb ass NEVER reads manga) because I didn't have the patience to wait for the rest of the anime to know what happens. And I went ... HAAAAAARD with making OCs for Beastars, yo. You think Vizzy and all her worldbuilding is extra? Oooooo, bitch, you shoulda seen me in my hayday when people still RPed Beastars on Tumblr. XD So because I had a lot going on at the time it came out and I didn't wanna get sidetracked, I deliberately turned a blind eye to part 1 of the Final Season when it first dropped back on the 5th. Could NOT afford to get sucked back in that hard again. But, y'all ... I caved. And I'm DEEP in hell again. I'm such furry trash. LOL I was expecting to get right back on the same shit I was on before, but much to my surprise, it was an ENTIRELY new little asshole that stole my heart this time around--a certain psychotic gazelle/leopard hybrid whose named after a fruit (if you know, you know). And now I'm back on my shit, building a brand new OC. Because OF COURSE I am! She's a female binturong police officer whose "gone rogue" and made the questionable decision to go undercover to continue working on a missing person's case related to the Black Market even AFTER she got put on administrative leave. For some reason, my brain has decided that I wanna go even HARDER into the dead dove shit this time around--think like Joker and Harley Quinn but with themes of cannibalism, extreme violence, emotional/mental manipulation, and all KINDS of gnarly toxic filth. I have officially become a menace. And of course, because it's ME we're talking about, she comes with a FUCKTON of supporting characters, and I've been writing and drawing SO MUCH SHIT ... and yeah, I love this series to an unhealthy degree, send help (or, alternatively, come join me in my madness and do Beastars RP with me on Discord--enable me). So THAT'S where I've been, in a nutshell--holidays, sickness, and furry degeneracy. XD
#OOC: BehindThoseSilverEyes#Putting all my Beastars-related rambling under a readmore#To spare those who aren't interested in non-Hazbin stuff LOL#But I'm dead serious about joining me in the filth if you're brave enough to take this plot on#Melon's a fun but challenging muse to write that I know isn't for everyone#But DAMNIT do I love this unhinged weirdo so very much XD
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local elderly girl sells stickers at a japanese food festival
not gonna lie, the entire experience is very emotional to me and it's been a month but moon channel's vid essay about cool japan, and the release of smt5 vengeance (lol) inspired me

tldr: i made some stickers, got real existential about it, will keep making more c: if youd like to check them out, here's a link
ive always wanted to draw, i used to say i was gonna become a painter or a fashion designer when i grew up. none of that happened, but i did go to film school. my final project was a script for an animated short highly inspired by nbc hannibal, majora's mask (i know, it was 2016, it makes sense to me lol) and a huge loss in my life from which i havent fully recovered, 10 years later.
the point is, ive always been art adjacent but i never really drew, until i got inspired by_hannibal itself_, noel fielding, kylux (LOL) and a roommate who was who was really inspired by art youtubers like frannerd and drew around the house, so i picked up a pencil and started drawing hannigram fanart bc i was so insanely in love with that show lol i remember who i was before i drew. i spent my days reading and watching tv, bc i love stories and stuff, but i was a consumer. and once i got a job after college i felt so incredibly isolated and directionless. do i have a direction now, as i work as a """"designer""" for a company that sells a mental health app? no. but like demifiend was force fed a magatama and got demon powers (LMAO BEAR WITH ME I JUST BOUGHT SMT3 HD REMASTER), i caught the art demon (like steven zapata says). and i caught it bad. i spend my day to day rushing through my work and chores and everything so i can have enough time to draw in the evening, to do whatever, and sometimes the need is so immense i cant do anything bc im not good enough, my skills are fading, im worthless, what's the meaning of all this? so i took a chance and showed my work at an arts alley on a japanese food festival i was helping organize. mind you, i was juggling that with my 9/5, promoting the event, finishing drawings from years ago. and when i got there, nobody got it. people looked at the stickers and didnt recognize the characters, and went on to buy the stickers my friends had that were more current. it was all japanese fanart. we were there with the single purpose of baiting weebs like us lol
ive always dealt with clients, im used to this. but im used to business to business, bc sigh i am a corporate girly. and im a beginner in the demon arts of arting. i felt so ashamed people were preferring other people, that i had the audacity to think i was worth anything. but i stood there, standing still with my brain boucing off my skull wanting to leave but also enjoying the experience and hoping someone, anyone would get it. and some people did. to my surprise, jack frost was my best selling sticker, lol. jack frost, from the smt franchise, a franchise im so new to but i love so dearly. im 100% a poser, ive never finished a megaten game. but… it just speaks to me. and thats where my cool japan feelings come from bc, like i said, i was selling at a japanese food festival. people my age, from the country i come from, were exposed to dragon ball and cardcaptor sakura from birth. and learning about history and the atrocities of the japanese empire is just. who can you trust. but ive aways resonated with one thing from japan, and it's the way they portray sadness in their works. it's become a ritual since last year that i will listen to smtv's ost when im on my period bc it literally brings me back to life. no one but i know how many times ive drawn goro majima and taiga saejima bc their mere existance and their sorrow resonates with me so immensily and i dont wanna see them being sad, nor do i wanna see me being sad. it's. it's really difficult to be to admit that im from brazil, bc our country sells happiness as an export but for many, many years the most popular genre is butthurt country music, and it makes sense, you know? people dont wanna admit they're sad. and i can only imagine what it's like for regular japanese people, bc we (i) get to see their big exports of bittersweetness… i dont know, maybe other people get to see that from brazil too, i dont know. the arts in brazil, or specially where i live, it's just isnt in the cards for us. but ill keep trying, you know. and i know fanart is a hack. but im trying. despite everything and everyone wanting us (me) to work for mining/metal/oil companies, make the most money, have the least health, drink all the alcohol (but call an uber), consume, reproduce and die, i. i just wanna draw tiny people, you know. it's. not that big a deal. all this to say that yes im gonna keep drawing and making stickers and, who knows, you know. these are stickers that i wont ever find near me, or that im too broke to get them from artists/official stores, so if youre like me, here's some pdfs in case you wanna print them and stick them wherever c: ty if you got this far, this is a big ramble… but it's been years in the making and despite everything im happy about it c:
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Love Live Unit Koushien Day 1
I debated whether I wanted to bother posting about this because it's not like the old days when these events weren't accessible to foreigners. Even for those who cannot make it to Japan, anyone can just buy and watch the archive right now!
But, I still feel it's worth talking about my experience attending via the foreigner plan, for anyone actually interested in going for it someday.
My experience on the foreigner plan actually wasn't as great as it was the first time.
For Aqours 5th Live, I got a hotel with an amazing location in Tokyo (Ikebukuro!) and an arena seat for the concert (on the floor!!). I didn't end up taking it (and wished I had), but there was also even an option to pay for a shuttle bus to and from the concert as well.
This time I did not get arena. My seat was on the 2nd level, but center. So not as good, but not bad either. (My friend who was on a different plan did get arena though. I do feel like the foreigner plan generally gets fairly good seats as they know you're coming a long way for this.) The hotel though, UGH, they stuck us in Kawasaki. I mean the hotel itself was nice, but we had to take a shuttle to/from Kawasaki Station or walk 15 minutes to the nearest station, and there was no option to take a shuttle directly to the concert. They just plopped us in the middle of nowhere and said good luck weebs! If it had been my first time in Japan, I would have been super lost/stressed I think.
But we did get this:
As acrylic stand which might have been unique to the foreigner plan!!?! I didn't see it anywhere else?
We were also given the option to skip the lines and buy merch in advance.
BUT.
You could only buy it in sets. The sets had some stuff I wanted, and some I didn't. So, I sought to buy a set to sell off the things I didn't want to friends back home and line up for merch regardless to get the other things I did want...
....b...ig... mis...taaake.....
While trying to get down early for merch I had a couple mishaps along the way. The hotel shuttle wasn't running so I had to walk to the nearest train station, which was a little difficult to find. And when I did, I didn't get off when I was supposed to and ended up going in the opposite direction for a little bit AHHHHHHH
When I finally got to the arena it was 7:30am and the line was already MASSIVE. It didn't look so bad when I took the picture above, until I realized it went basically all around the arena and growing as they condensed us as much as possible. I was so mad at myself for getting there so late. It's not my first rodeo and I should know better!!
Sales actually began at 10am, but I didn't get out until 1pm. Around that time, there was an announcement on Twitter that basically advised people not to get in line if they had tickets for Day 1 and wanted to be able to see the show. Leaving the arena after the show, there were STILL tons of people in line even though it was about to close.
While I was in that line I kept thinking... All these people, all this money, and nobody spent any on SIF2!? We really couldn't save it!? Come on...
Anyway. The next day I wasn't there, but I heard they opened merch at 9am instead of 10 to try and help but I don't know if that would do much. Because wow, it was bad. According to the announcers at the show, people were even lined up the night before.
Anyway, at least nothing sold out. I got everything I wanted plus the stuff other people wanted plus I took a chance at the gatcha.
I usually try and avoid blind stuff nowadays, and if it was actually by group I probably would have avoided this altogether too. But instead, they actually put all the groups together meaning you would have a 1 in 43 chance of getting your best girl! LOL!
So I decided to do it just because, out of 43 possibilities, I couldn't help be curious who I would get...
I got Hanamaru, Shioriko, and Kinako! All characters I feel pretty similar about: Not my fav in the group, but I still like them a lot. Like, top 5! A little higher for Kinako! So, not bad.
So yeah anyway, the live was great although my feet were very sore from the merch line. It was super fun cheering on each school as they went up to bat (this was a baseball themed concert) and when it was nearing the end everyone cheered "OVERTIME!" (or rather "Extra Innings" or whatever they say in English for baseball, this was in Japanese so IDK) instead of encore haha!
At one point I cheered so hard the batteries fell out of one of my penlights, so I only had one for the last quarter. I looked all over for the backing but only found it at the end when they turned on the lights. It was in the cupholder in front of me the whole time.
I found it funny how most of the units go hard, but some of them go SO MUCH HARDER! Specifically, Saint Snow and Guilty Kiss... like DAAAAAAMN. I wasn't even on the floor and I could still feel the fire that shot up with Guilty Kiss performed. Also CYaRon, IMHO! Haha! Even though they are cutesy, the "We are CYaRon!" "I LOVE CYARON!!!" cheer during Day Day Day was deafening. Oh and also, CatChu!? They were the only other group to get fire other than Guilty Kiss. I'm embarrassed to admit that when the Liella units were initially announced, I had been mistakenly thinking the Kaleidoscore was the BiBi/Guilty Kiss type... but no, it's actually CatChu!?! HAH!
Also the encore was amazing, especially the last shuffle group. I must have damn near deafened the person next to me when they announced it. And then the big finale, seeing Aiai, aka Ruby, as center of the whole stage.... wow. WOW!
Anyway. If you want to visit Japan. If you want to see a Love Live show. You can do it. YOU CAN! It might be a little expensive to get there, and you may stumble a bit at first, but the foreigner plan is a good deal and food/other lodgings in Japan are actually really cheap. If you need any advice, please let me know! Good luck!
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Can I Make Your Ears Happy in 180 Seconds? (Final Thoughts)
I wanted to watch something quick that didn't have any strings (manga, video games) attached. Unfortunately, it ended up being this trash lol. I was intrigued by the concept of an ASMR anime because I haven't listened to a lot of ASMR personally and I really like experimental/interactive audio experiences. However, this was just a bunch of gooner bait fanservice. No nudity, but all the suggestive angles, noises, etc.
To my surprise, there were two episodes I found some genuine enjoyment out of, but they were actually the least ASMR ones of the bunch lol.
Sleazy content aside, the most disappointing part about this series is that the ASMR isn't even good. Half the time it's not even ASMR and just sounds like a normal anime. When there are attempts at ASMR they don't quite sound right. I wish they had gotten some ASMR artist to be a consultant or something. Anyways, I give it a 4 out of 10. It has about a 5 on MAL, so at least weebs have some standards!
Ep. 1
Didn't like this one bit. The concept is interesting, but it's clearly targeted towards creepy gooner types. Especially with all the close ups on the girl's chest/thighs.
I feel like the ASMR wasn't even good? I'm listening with headphones, as suggested, and it seemed like the noises weren't loud enough. Not that I'm a connoisseur or anything
The fact that you can do ASMR to yourself with one of those heads is interesting. Would that even work though? It seems kinda like tickling yourself.
Ep. 2
This one was slightly better because at least they gave the girls some sort of backstory. It's kinda creepy that she thinks this is the best way to make friends though, huh?
Her cringing herself out by saying "nya" made me chuckle.
These girls need to stop getting so hot and bothered by the simplest things oml
The ASMR was slightly better this time. The whispers were good but I could barely hear the ear picks.
Ep. 3
Setting aside the weird fanservice stuff, the ice sounds have been my favorite so far! I really like crunching on ice though, so maybe that has something to do with it...
The setup was weird lol. A girl just ~stumbles~ upon an ASMR head mic. Riiiight.
Suddenly we have a reoccurring character with this "Gekko" person texting two of the girls. Who could they be? 🤔
Ep. 4
Awkward girls bond over ASMR! Probably the most wholesome episode yet. It seems like it might be fun to do ASMR with a buddy, but the heavy breathing would be a bit much. Maybe stick to the water noises lol.
Okay, so Gekko is just the first girl's name (nickname?)
I can relate to getting stuck and being able to keep a conversation going, but that ending line where she asks how much it costs to become friends was pretty cringe. Girl, who hurt you?
Ep. 5
Lmao, Gekko's mom is a freak. I was a bit shocked to find out that was supposed to be her mom cuz she looks 12 years old, but okay #AnimeLogic.
DID SHE JUST PUT CLEANSER ON THAT EXPENSIVE MIC!? AHHHHH
I guess I could see a very lonely mom doing this kinda roleplay, but the pacifier thing was a bit much.
Ep. 6
[Insert gif of Shinji Ikari's hands here]
This episode was UNCOMFORTABLE. No thank you. Also, why are we rubbing cream all over this electronic device!?
The random puffer fish they keep cutting to keeps cracking me up. He judging.
Literally thought she was going to eat the hand cream at one point I was like "don't you dare..." Thankfully, they didn't go that far.
Ep. 7
This was probably the most degenerate episode yet even though there wasn't any physical fanservice. It's basically Kiss x Sis ASMR as one MAL commenter put it -_- I guess some people are into that so whatever. It's just a dumb fantasy.
The ASMR was pretty good in this one. I got a laugh when they were whispering random stuff like "pufferfish" and "Meiji Restoration." If this show went the comedy route and focused on bad ASMR I think it might be more entertaining.
Apparently this show has some big name VAs but I don't know my seiyuu so well...So far everyone has done a good job, but I rarely hear bad Japanese voice acting -shrug-
Ep. 8
Nice, an episode for the LADIESSSS 💖Didn't see that coming. You would think they would have a girl version of the show and a guy version since that's how things usually work in Japan. How progressive.
The "hardboiled" guy's voice was very nice (and deep) but ear cleaning again? Damn. And why is he cleaning my ears in a restaurant!? That seems very unsanitary.
The ice clinks were nice again. Imagine having a bf who supports your ASMR hobby (even though he called it weird haha)...(I don't have an ASMR hobby, but any partner being supportive of hobbies is a green flag).
Of course the dude episode is the least problematic so far. He appears to be a full grown adult and isn't making sex noises or wearing a skimpy outfit -_- (the shit women have to put up with with how we're represented, good grief).
Ep. 9
I actually loved this one! It was more ambience than ASMR, I feel, but it felt like a realistic peek at a office lady's life living in a studio apartment (glad I at least have a one bedroom because yikes...)
This girl was cute and not overly sexualized! It felt like a nice slice-of-life instead of bizarro degen stuff. Even her taking her bra off at the end there (while under the covers) felt like a realistic, non-sexy thing to do. I thought it was a nice touch.
This episode made me very glad I don't need to dress nice for work. Also, I hope she wasn't working overtime after just getting home! Poor girl 😭
What was that pepper grinder thing she was using?? That was weird. (Literally looked like she was grinding pepper onto her carpet lol)
Ep. 10
And we're back to the degen stuff! I'm not sure wtf they were going for with this one. I really really don't want sexy baby POV times, that's just...very disturbing
If I was to be super duper extra charitable I might say "well, being talked to like a baby by a mother character is soothing/comforting" but...not how they did it. The dialogue was creepy and unnatural. What was with the "babu babu" stuff? We don't go around saying "goo goo gaga" to our babies all the time? (Or maybe we do? IDK, I'm child free atm lol)
This is one of those "I must be on a watch list now" episodes of anime.
Ep. 11
This one was just boring. Still creepy, but not as creepy as the previous at least. Ain't no way that a girl would get that hot and bothered from just the sound of an electric ear pick (whatever that is)
Clearly this show was made for ear cleaning fetishists since nearly every damn episode is coming back to that. I know ear cleaning is a bigger deal in Japan than in the west. If I didn't have that knowledge I might be even more weirded out by this. I have zero memories of my ears being cleaned by my parents and when I do it to myself it's as unremarkable as blowing my nose. Do they not know that ASMR doesn't need to involve inserting stuff in the ear??
Ep. 12
More cringe waifu stuff. All the girls got together in this one to "rehearse" their ASMR. What are they rehearsing for? Who knows! They don't tell us. Perhaps they're starting a YouTube channel.
I'm pretty sure when you do whisper ASMR you're supposed to actually say stuff. Not just saying "whisper whisper" over and over.
#180-byou de Kimi no Mimi wo Shiawase ni Dekiru ka?#Can I Make Your Ears Happy in 180 Seconds?#weird anime#surely this thing doesn't have any fans on tumblr
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My thoughts after finishing manhwa sweet home
as for how bad i was addicted: enough to kill some of my sleep time even though i had to work on the next day lmao
spoilers below~
Come here after finishing the netflix series which welp got me confused but enjoyable, probably from not paying attention all the time (watched it while grinding exp in maplestory lol). I initially thought that manhwa may have covered more than the series. Turn out to be another way around and totally different at that.
well at the beginning of the story is real similar to the series (with some characters missing of course). Also some people died from different cause like the uncle who died from his own sickness in the series ended up getting killed by the muscle monster instead. Dusik’s death is also different but the feels still hits hard for both hyun and audiences…
I also like how each character has different personalities from the series, like sang-wook or hyun. Both of them are colder or more quited in the series so it’s nice to see them express more of their personalities in manhwa. Also we got to see weeb side on both hyun and hyuk lol.
Also if you are expecting hyun to spawn his signature wing on his arm, unfortunately in manhwa, he ended up with a muscle armor suit instead (which showed up for a chapter lol). Well a bunch of monsters are quite different compared to the series anyway even early phase looks different. There are also a bunch of differences in evolved monsters (neo-human in the series, ubermensch in manhwa) ubermensch’s role in manhwa is cut very short though.
As for ending, I feel like the ending of manhwa hits way harder than the series. Probably cause hyun chose to succumb just to protect jisu and hyuk did to stop hyun’s berserk (also hyuk’s monster form kinda reminds me of tak who became an ice wall which only humans can pass through) meanwhile the series ending is totally happy. i think it will bring some manhwa readers who read both sweet home and shotgun boy to tears? since in shotgun boy final chapter totally implies that hyun and hyuk will end up fighting each other at some point.
ps. wish that manhwa covers what happened after hyun came back in sweet home or after meeting gyuhwan in shotgun boy ngl but i guess i will just let my own imagination do the work~
#sweet home#Shotgun boy is also enjoyable btw though i don’t have much to write about it sry about that
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cont.
i ran out of character space so heres part 2. its off topic but i wish i had more asian friendsLOL im so serious. i kinda wish i could have other asian friends who could relate to me and share the same interests in me. some would even share the same interests as my bf just bc were both slightly weebs lolol but in a chill, not excessive way. i think thats why me and snow got along so well from the start without even meeting bc theyre my only friend who is also a nerd like that. were both foodies in our own way and were always down for asian food lol. theyre also my only “goth/emo” friend so we have the most similarities when it comes to our sense of style and like id honestly love to have like a cute goth/emo friend group. whenever i see my mutuals on ig who have those friends and they post pics im like..you guys look so cool together and im jealous lol and im jealous of the friend groups that take cute pics together fr. but yeah idk, id like to meet more asian people but how could that happen, its so specific lmao the only thing i could think of is that app but i cant just start using it without discussing it with my bf and thats what id be nervous about bc like wth i feel like its such a strange requestttt LOL and im scared of judgement so yeah. theres like a slight, slim chance hed let me. i feel like the only way hed really be down for that is if we could share the acc on our own phones. (i think im actually gonna see if thats possible). he at least wont be turned off about the opportunity of making potential friends! he barely has friends to hang out with and i feel bad that he doesnt have a true friend group to do stuff with. his best friend lives in florida (like mine), him and his close friend went separate ways in life, and his school friend is no more in the picture. so like everyone he genuinely hung out with is just unavailable & all thats left are like the little friends that arent life long, yknow. i would like for him to find people he can share the same interest with but even when he tried finding them online they didnt stick. so yeah thats been on my mind. another kinda off topic thing is how hes been bad with replying lately!!! like he’ll just fall asleep early without saying anything to meee. like I KNOW hes on his phone from the time hes eating and in bed ready to sleep. the least he could do is send me a msg!! itll be like 9pm and he disappears:( its the worst on days where im so busy at work so i barely talk to him but then once im finally out hes not always responding fast enough, so again, barely talking that day. he’ll go out to eat lately and not share what he eats with me or send msgs in general! ik it sounds extra i guess but like he can at least send me a pic of something! im always sending him pics when im out with other people and sharing with him what im experiencing and he lowkey sucks at doing that. ill literally ask him to show me pics of places hes at bc he doesnt lol idk maybe its bc i like taking pics in general. but anyways, hes been replying so slowly lately so its been bothering me and also the weed!! how he starts to go nonverbal and then knocks out early when we take edibles bc he takes an insane amount of mgs and so were just on two diff levels of high as the day goes byyy. when we were eating out that day i suddenly told him that i think he overdosed on the edibles lmaoo i couldnt keep it in any longer. he now takes 500mg of a punch bar!!!! he gets the 1000mg bar when he used to get the 250mg one. he would take 2-3 squares. then it was 3-4. hes done the whole 250 maybe multiple? times (ik at least once) now its always 500!!!! &if im being truly honesttt, i dont like it. i dont like how hes like out of commission early. i used to throw up so much from bad trips and turns out i was just taking too much lmao i would get bad motion sickness or id eat too soon/too much. so id be so out of it and i hated that feeling so much and he would be awake and fine. id eventually come back to reality & wouldnt feel sick anymore but now its like the opposite, except he doesnt wake back up!!!!!
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I did the thing the people do but on here nobody can stop me from also talking about it (link here if you want to do it yourself)
I put my current favorites at the top and my all time favorites (=the games I played in my childhood and still have strong memories about) closer to the bottom which created a nice gradient that happens to really fit my overall taste! There's serious stuff in one corner, there's straightforward brain empty fun stuff in the other and I get to like it all and everything in-between because favorites don't follow rules :)
Also: I put FF14's 5.1 in first place to symbolize YoRHa:Dark Apocalypse not Shadowbringers (because custom didn't work for me and that was the closest entry to it), FF14 as a whole is represented by the Stormblood entry (which I chose because it would make Heavensward people mad)
Also Also: I think my feelings about the first 5 are relatively well documented (Reincarnation here) so I will skip explaining those
Also Also Also: Spoilers
Xenoblade X best Wii U game (Yes, I proudly own a Wii U, that thing was great and I won't hear anybody say different q_q) I want a sequel so bad.
The way it was a fake MMO with pseudo guilds was so cool to me, it really made exploring Mira feel part of this big thing everyone was working on together and it worked really well with the character creator too. Also experiencing Sylvalum for the first time will always be one of my favorite video game moments ever. (also i have not played any other xenoblade so far)
Bravely Second In my teens I had this weird obsession with playing the second game of a series without playing the first?? I did it with FF13-2 (which I dropped because I couldn't get past a certain boss early on lol) and also with Bravely Second, but with the difference that I actually knew what BD1 was about lol (and also I had played 4 Warriors of Light before too)
I just have a lot of love for Second? I really like Ryo Supercell's soundtrack for how well it still fits with the half of Second's soundtrack that's just Revo's soundtrack again despite being so fundamentally different. Like you knew what was old content and what was new by the obviously different music, but it still fit, at least to me. Altair and Vega's Theme is still one of my favorite pieces ever. Also Magnolia.
NieR Replicant Yeah. ... ... ... Maybe I should put Drakengard 1 here-
Final Bar Line Shoutout to the DLC for making me check out SaGa!!! (also I needed some Rhythm Game in here, I love Rhythm Games but I never stick to one enough to say "Yes, That One.")
Pikmin 4 This would have been Pikmin 2 if Pikmin 4 wasn't the best game ever. The only note I have is that some of the (later) dungeons could have had more interesting bosses, but aside from that it's absolutely great.
Fire Emblem Fates [Bracing for impact] I get it. Yes. We all know the story sucks. You can stop prefacing any vaguely positive statement made about this game as if to make sure you aren't thought of as one of those weebs. No, you are a smart weeb who likes FE4 and knows that Thracia exists. You think Incest is bad (wait what is FE4 about again) and the dating sim shit is really really cringey. Also something something bad localisation, something something bottom half of Camilla's design. Kaga would be proud.
I just think it's neat. I do like dating sims (there i said it), I like a lot of the characters and their designs and I think the child units - as dumb as their explanation might be - add a tangible pay-off to developing supports between party members and it adds so much replay value too. I have played Fates more than any other FE game I own and it's mostly because I can develop the children into classes they certainly shouldn't be, like making Shiro a viable mage just because I can, who cares, and all the while I discover a new line of supports. And the fact that it's not brick hard really helps with that, I don't have to sit down and plan out every step I take only to reset once I inevitably stop thinking for a second just to do a silly little run of the game.
It might not be for you, but it certainly is for me :P
AI Somnium Files This is on here for gay reasons: In one of the earlier scenes in the game (I think before going into the mind thing for one of the first times or something? It's in that room overlooking the mind link machine) I examine a shelf in the background - as you do in games like this - and there I found Pewter's gay manga collection.
And of course I thought this is just your average japanese visual novel, this is all I get, a funny little hint - not even a straightforward confirmation - that this character is maybe gay or something. But no, him being gay is an actual plot point that's relevant to the story. And I felt so happy that this thing - which at that point was my own little inside joke every time he was on screen (haha gay pewter, don't worry i won't tell on you... also you're cute) - was actually real??
People always point to that Mizuki scene (which dont get me wrong is great in its own way!) but for me finding Pewter's gay mangas will always be the thing I will remember most about this game.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 I was so in love with DQB1 and with what they have shown of 2 in livestreams I ended up importing the japanese version because there was no telling when it was getting an overseas release. And then when it finally released here I of course also bought the translated version. What can I say, It's great! I hope they're doing a DQB3 in the future, but I kind of doubt it (sadly)
Inazuma Eleven Go 2 Chrono Stone Listen. I only played Inazuma Eleven as a joke. My little brother was really into soccer and online it was constantly advertised as "Pokémon but soccer" so I just tried it out to see if he would like it.
I ended up playing through all of the first trilogy (aside from the first game) on japanese - without understanding a single word - because I was just simply so hooked. (For anyone wondering: I definitely did this legally. There were definitely no NDS flashcards involved. The reason I didn't play Go until it finally came out in Europe was definitely not because 3DS emulation wasn't really an easily viable thing back then.)
And I loved when it went crazier with Go and the Keshins! I even would have liked Go Galaxy if it didn't force me keep the most unlikeable characters in the entire franchise around (also the Souls are a full on downgrade to Keshins and MixiMax in terms of flashiness), which is why I'm putting Chrono Stone here instead.
I'm so excited for Victory Road, even though it's bittersweet that it's going to end there... but honestly I'm just glad Level 5 gets to release another Inazuma Eleven after the past few years of hell they've been through.
Spirit Tracks Best Zelda. Moving on (choo choo)
Fur Fighters Okay, my parents bought this together with our PS2, I highly doubt they knew what this game even was about and I highly doubt you know what this game even is. It's not even necessarily good and I don't think I should have played it at the age I have played it at, but... I sincerely think it has shaped a lot of my interests in an indirect way??
Basically, the setting is just cute animals saving their children with the power of guns, that's all you need to know about it. (They're also plush toys, but I somehow didn't even really realize that as a child lol) It was dreamt up in a fever dream, but it's just really good too? I need to replay this game so bad.
There's just so much stuff from this game that randomly pops into my head that I remember fondly. There's a (secret) world that's just a house but big (chibi robo style) that I always think of when any other game does it...
And in hindsight this game is so fascinatingly big? The levels are enormous and there are so many of them? And nobody seems to ever have heard about it? It's wild.
Harvest Moon Animal Parade It was between this one or Tale of Two Towns, those two are the Harvest Moons I have spend the longest time with. I'm still sad the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons name fiasco happened and now all people know is Stardew Valley, which In My Opinion(!!!!) has the only benefit of being a PC game, most Harvest Moon games from the before times are better than it and yet nobody even acknowledges them anymore because of a good-ish indie game that's for the most part just a retro style PC version of Harvest Moon + Rune Factory.
But well, that's how the cookie crumbles. Good for him.
Pokémon Heartgold I was only allowing myself one Pokémon game and I already have Fates on this, I can't take one of the switch ones even if I would be fine with those too. I was also debating BW2 or Platinum, but then again I like all of them, I just don't like talking about it anymore because the internet has made Pokémon one of those topics that you just do not discuss in public if you want to keep your sanity.
Shoutout to Pokémon XD and Coliseum for being cool too.
Mario & Luigi RPG (entire series, but especially Partners in Time) Talk about gone to soon Q_Q My heroes. Legends. Icons. DId you know Yoko Shimomura wrote the music for this series??? It is simply iconic. I really hope with the Super Mario RPG & Paper Mario TTYD remakes on the horizon that they maybe revive/reboot this series too and give a new gameanother shot despite the flop of the remakes because this type of skill based JRPG is not only really unique but also really fucking fun and there's not really much else like it. For some reason I always thought I'm an JRPG gamer, but I have since discovered that I'm really not, I'm just a Mario & Luigi RPG gamer.
(And yes, I know AlphaDream is dead but that doesn't mean Nintendo can't just continue the franchise even just with a spiritual successor)
Paper Mario TTYD I mean, I think you know. Everybody likes TTYD. I also like all the other ones, I even thought Sticker Stars was fine even if it wasn't as good. I think this would actually be Origami King, but I haven't actually played that one myself (yet)
Speaking of which the music of Origami King is in my top3 favorite OSTs of all time and i'm not kidding about that, listen to the Autumn Mountain Battle Theme and tell me that's not some of the best shit you've ever heard - and almost every single track is like that. and don't get me started about the "joke" tracks (royal hotel pool or swan lake.) and the boss themes. and tranquil pipes teahouse. and then there's moments like the secret trans birdo affirming coffee club. it's so good, I'm so looking forward to what's coming next for Paper Mario and seeing that Nintendo seems to have revised their stance of Generics only with Wonder, the next one is probably going to be amazing.
Skyward Sword I LIKED THE MOTION CONTROLS
Rollercoaster Tycoon (I do like 3 too, I actually played that one much more, but I chose Loopy Landscapes because for some reason that expansion never worked on my pc as a child q_q I'm still yearning) Yeah. Not really much to say, I think. Except maybe that the art style of 1 and 2 is so... peculiar? Like it's so timeless it doesn't age the slightest, but it was also somehow already dated when it released? It's really beautiful in a way, but also kind of ugly. I don't know. I don't make sense. I love these games so much.
Super Mario Sunshine So many good memories, it would be wrong for me to not include it.
Yoshi's Island See above.
Mario Sports Mix I played this game (and Hoops 3 on 3) so much as a child/teen? And the music of this game is so good too. Makes me wonder what Masayoshi Soken, niche composer of Mario Sports Spin-Off Games, is doing these days.
#top 25 games#i'm not tagging these games individually#general video game thoughts#maybe i will remember to tag things with that in the future
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Of Kisses and Treasures
I meant to post this weeks ago.... Oh well lol. Here's part 2 of my 12 ship fics for 12 years of friendship project! @risingfire17-the-weeb-trash, here, you can finally share my Amuto trash on your blog lol. ❤
Posted on: AO3 Fandom: Shugo Chara! Pairing: Amuto (Amu/Ikuto) Word Count: 2,609 Rated: K+ Genre: Romance & Humor Setting: Post Shugo Chara! Doki Warning: Dubcon kissese (at first)
Disclaimer: Yes, this fic features Amuto. I am deliberately vague about their ages, so you can imagine them as closer-in-age teenagers, if you wish, but their dynamic is still inspired by canon. This fic was written out of love for my best friend, who adores this ship and has every right to. Don't like, don't read.
With that out of the way... Enjoy!
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The showdown and aftermath of the final battle against Easter was so swift and confusing that Amu Hinamori collapsed on her bed in her clothes, finding it impossible to motivate herself to change. The revelations of everything, from Dia’s reappearance to Ikuto’s freedom from the corrupted violin, to the boss’s motivations…. It was all too much!
Sitting up in bed, groggily kicking off her socks in a half-hearted effort to at least start getting ready for bed, Amu tried to wrap her mind around every major revelation.
“This is all too much for my mind to hold in….” she grumbled without thinking.
Luckily (and rather uncharacteristically), Amu’s three Guardian Characters intuitively understood her meaning. The three nodded to each other and flew to their Bearer, each with their own methods of helping her cope.
“No worries, Amu-chan! Su will go fix you a nice, warm cup of tea!” Su squeaked cheerfully. She flew out of Amu's room (Amu didn’t bother closing her door, she was so out of commission after the battle). Distantly, she wondered if her parents would notice floating ceramic tea cups and water boiling by itself, then dismissed it, remembering her parents were gone for the evening for their respective jobs, Ami in tow. Smiling wryly, Amu called out her thanks to Su.
“Also, here!” Miki helpfully presented her Bearer a notepad and pencil. “Why don’t you write down everything that we found out tonight? It’ll help with the process of understanding it all.”
“Go, go, Amu-chan! Amu-chan saved the dayyyyy!” Ran sang out in her usual fashion.
“Thanks, Ran, Miki.” Amu sighed deeply, feeling Easter’s dismantled power and her Guardian Characters’s support lift a heavy weight off her shoulders. Regardless of how confusing the night’s events were, at least it was all over. She pulled her knees up to her chest, using them as support for her notepad, and jotted down a list:
Easter’s “boss” was a seven-year-old boy, the grandchild of Ikuto and Utau’s stepfather
Said “boss” had been collecting shiny valuable jewels and demanded the Embryo because it looked interesting
Easter made countless X Eggs, tormented Ikuto, and nearly destroyed so many children’s dreams all for this petty reason. (That was something Amu could never forgive, but she mostly blamed the “boss’s” grandfather)
The “boss” (whose name was Hikaru, Amu needed to remember that) tossed away the long sought-after Embryo when its shine waned
Hikaru lost his own heart’s egg long ago and the “Embryo” they had spent the last year chasing was actually Hikaru’s heart egg, trying to return home?!
Hikaru got his heart egg back and finally cried, something he had never been allowed to do since he was a baby
Easter finally stopped all their nonsense and conceded defeat
Ran and Miki peered over Amu’s shoulder after Amu paused, pressing the eraser end of her pencil against her chin.
“That’s a lot of information to take in at once,” Miki commented dryly.
“Tell me about it,” Amu groaned, rubbing her other hand through her hair. “I feel like my head won’t stop spinning!”
Her two Guardian Characters hummed thoughtfully, then Ran gasped.
“But wait! Amu-chan! You forgot something very important!”
“Huh? I did? I’m pretty sure I got the basics, at least when it comes to Easter-rrr….”
But Amu trailed off as Ran took hold of another pencil and clumsily sketched out a large but distinct addition underneath Amu’s list.
Ikuto kissed Amu-chan!! (★^O^★)
“EHHHHHHHH?!?!”
The notepad, pencils, and Guardian Characters went flying as Amu shrieked at the top of her lungs, flailing her arms and legs. Ran and Miki squealed in alarm as they went spinning, but Amu paid them no heed, her cheeks burning as she flusteredly snatched the nearest pillow and burrowed her face into it.
“D-d-d-doesn’t count! He– he was only t-t-teasing me! Like he always does! The pervy cat! The stupid stray! That creepy jerk–!”
“Now, now, if you’re gonna insult me, at least get more creative.”
Amu froze. A shiver of horror slid down her spine. She knew that voice. She knew that voice quite, er, intimately, considering she spent many, many, embarrassingly long days holding him up in her room….
But that didn’t stop her from freaking out. She jerked up her head to glare at the object of her ire, mortification written all over her face.
“IKUTO?! Wh-what are you doing here?!”
Par of the course, Ikuto was leaning casually against her patio door, shamelessly smirking, like he owned the place! In just mere hours after gaining his long-awaited freedom, he looked healthier than he had been for months. His eyes no longer had the telltale bags underneath, and he was much steadier on his feet. In which, he was far too steady as he strode across the threshold and picked up Amu’s notepad from off the floor—
Leaping out of bed, Amu scrambled to snatch it back, but Ikuto, the cheating bastard, held it high out of reach, using his other hand to hold a flustered and angry Amu in place as she fruitlessly pushed against the palm firmly on her forehead.
“My, my….” he purred in that despicably knowing way he always did whenever he teased her. He pretended to consult the list carefully, ignoring Amu’s shrieks and groans of effort to free herself from him holding her back. “You are such a kid. One little peck on the cheek and you added it to your special list–”
“DON’T PATRONIZE ME, YOU-YOU-YOU SONUVA—”
“Ah, ah, ah, language. Do you kiss your mom with that mouth?” Ikuto was grinning openly now. If Amu had been paying attention (as if she could, through her utter humiliation!), she would have noticed that Ikuto’s eyes were surprisingly soft and tender looking down at her.
As it stood, she was too busy blushing furiously and stammering to even notice Ran and Miki in the background, consulting with Yoru, who looked thoroughly amused.
“I bet you’re glad you’re back with your Bearer, Yoru-kun,” Miki said.
“Nya! Yoru is beyoooond glad-nya!” Yoru beamed happily, looking away from watching Ikuto teasing Amu. “But other than missing Ikuto, I always knew he was okay, deep down.”
“Really? How come? You always seemed awfully worried…” Ran asked curiously, tilting her head.
“Well, ya see-nya, if Ikuto had really gone to the bad side or had given up, I would have disappeared, right? Or at least got an X on my egg. But I didn’t! Nya, I searched for Ikuto and never once felt like I was gonna disappear or anything, cuz Ikuto is a good guy-nya!” Yoru spoke with so much pride and happiness, that even Amu was temporarily distracted from her fight for her dignity.
“Really? You never gave up on Yoru, Ikuto…?”
Ikuto removed his hand from Amu’s forehead, ruffled her hair, and handed her back her notepad. He put his hands in his pockets in his usual Brooding Fashion, and spoke in a would-be nonchalant manner, but his words sent Amu’s heart racing.
“Yoru was staying with you, wasn’t he?”
Did…. did this mean what Amu thought it meant….? Did Ikuto essentially Amu with his heart—?
Shaking her head abruptly to get that thought out, Amu blustered and crossed her arms, putting on her Cool and Spicy act. “Well, I had no choice! Yoru is just like his owner, always crashing in my room without a word of consent from me!”
Ran, Miki, and Yoru sighed discontentedly. Why was Amu so stubborn?
At that moment, Su came flying up with a tray magically floating, holding several evening time snacks, a steaming teapot, and two cups, plus four miniature doll cups, no doubt borrowed from Ami’s dollhouse.
“I heard Amu screaming and a boy’s voice and thought we must have company from Ikuto-kun and Yoru-kun!” Su announced happily to the room, oblivious to Amu’s furious blush and Ran and Miki’s giggles. “Here we go! Please, have some tea, Ikuto-kun! It’s been far too long!”
“Thank you, Su-chan. You are far more reasonable than your loud-mouth owner–”
“WHO ARE YOU CALLING LOUD-MOUTH?!”
“Ugggggghhhhhh, this is getting painful….” Miki groaned, running her hands over her face. She turned to her fellow Character Guardian. “Ran, can you please do us all a favor and make Amu tell the truth?”
For a moment, Ran blinked in confusion. Then, Su, who already set down the tray while Ikuto and Amu continued bickering, joined the conversation. “Oooh, yes, Ran! I don’t believe you ever Character Changed in front of Ikuto!”
Something finally clicked into place in Ran’s head, and she gasped excitedly. “All right! Here we goooooo! Character Change from a Stubborn Girl to a Girl Who Expresses Her Feelings!”
Sure enough, Amu’s hair clip magically changed into a heart shape with a cute “popping” sound.
“Ikutooooooo, why didn’t you kiss me on the lips?! You had the perfect opportunity and you waaaaaasted it! Pleeeeeease gimme a real kiss!! Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!”
Amu danced about the room, laughing joyfully, squealing, and running over to the very visibly startled Ikuto to lean down and give him the most eager puppydog eyes in existence.
But of course, because her Character Change was with the enthusiastic Ran, despite her requests for kisses, Amu couldn’t stay still, hopping and jumping about the room, shouting out her love, squealing and spewing heart shapes everywhere.
“Amu-chan….” Miki sighed. Su could only blush and hide her face in her apron. Ran, on the other hand, was so caught up in Amu’s physical hyperactiveness that she seemed to not notice her Bearer’s exceedingly bold and shocking confession, and only continued to cheer her on.
(Yoru was busy drinking tea and munching on snacks to notice anything out of place.)
Ikuto was the first one to snap out of it. He smirked.
“If you insist,” he said in his usual smooth tone, standing up and catching Amu by the wrist and pulling her close…. and kissed her!
Ran, Miki, and Su all screamed, causing Yoru to choke on his drink.
Amu’s Character Change disappeared instantly, her eyes widening as she realized how close Ikuto’s face was to her own….
And wait….. was something…. against her mouth…..? It was warm and soft and….. Amu’s eyes fluttered closed, lost in the moment to comprehend anything alarming.
The room around them disappeared, shimmering with a thousand radiant stars and hearts. Ikuto’s arm snaked around Amu’s waist and tugged her closer. Amu felt as if her legs were filled with jelly, only held up by Ikuto’s embrace. Who knew kissing would be so….
WAIT, WHAT?! KISSING?!?!
Quickly she broke the kiss, gasping for breath. “I-I-I-Ikutooooo! How did — how dare you–?!”
Further protests were smothered by another kiss. Amu’s whole body seemed to light on fire, but in… a pleasant sort of way. She only felt that way whenever Ikuto did other things to her in the past: biting her earlobe, holding her close in bed, lifting her up bridal style…. Amu whimpered against Ikuto’s lips (against Ikuto’s lips!) and found herself clinging to him, sliding her arms up his chest and clasping behind his neck as the kiss deepened, wondering how on earth she was supposed to live on knowing what this…. this…. this adult feeling was like!
Finally, their kiss ended, and even Ikuto looked rather flushed. They stood, panting a little, gazing into each other’s eyes.
“There. You finally came back down to Earth.” Ikuto’s tone was unusually hoarse, his indigo eyes burning intensely.
“Th-thank you, I guess,” Amu gasped, feeling rather shaken by the intensity of his stare. Her knees wobbled heavily, threatening to give out any second. She clasped her hands tighter about Ikuto’s neck, longing to taste his lips again, but feeling far too flushed to do anything other than stare at the glistening moisture on his lips, knowing that she had caused that. “I— I don’t know what to say.”
“If it makes you feel better, that was my first, too.”
“Oh, was it —- EHHHHHHHHH?!”
“Well. Only if you don’t count Utau being weird last year, which I really rather not count—”
“W-W-W-W-WHOA WHOA WHOA, HOLD THE PHONE!” Amu shoved Ikuto away so hard, he toppled over one of her cushion chairs.
“Your first kiss?! YOU?! Ikuto Tsukiyomi?! Y-y-you womanizing, perverted, flirtatious—”
“Nice, insulting the guy who just kissed you within an inch of your life.”
“---- all those times!! Flirting with me! A-a-and touching me! And m-making me f-feel things–!”
“Oh, really? Do tell me more.”
“SH-SHUT UP! YOU GET MY POINT, RIGHT?! How?! HOW?! Can that possibly be your first–?!”
“Oh, just get over here,” Ikuto stood up and scooped up Amu in his arms, crossing over the room and sitting on her bed, positioning Amu so she was straddling his lap, her hands on his shoulders, looking down into his face. “Yes, you are my first real kiss, and yes, people can do other things besides kissing to know how to flirt, and I believe you are hot as hell for me right now, so why don’t you shut up and kiss me the way you want to?”
Amu didn’t think it was possible to be more shocked, or to feel her body blaze up with that pleasant fire even more so, but gazing down at this mysterious, hot (yes, she could at least admit it now, after… everything), confusing, frustrating, lonely boy, she found herself ready to find out anything.
“Ikuto…” she sighed, leaning down and meeting his lips, settling herself firmly in his lap as they expressed themselves at long last.
~
Meanwhile, Ran, Miki, Su, and Yoru left the lovebirds alone, utterly embarrassed and unsure of how to respond. They eventually settled in the living room downstairs, hovering over the coffee table by the TV.
Finally, after an uncomfortable silence, Miki spoke first. “W-well, Amu-chan is finally being, uh, honest….”
“Y-y-yeah! Amu-chan spent too long being uncertain and confused and now she’s growing into the person she wants to be! Hehe…. yeahhhh….” Ran said in a half-hearted attempt of her usual boisterous mood, but trailed off, blushing furiously.
“I think it’s so romantic, having her first kiss!” Su said happily.
(The others sweated nervously, realizing Su was the only one oblivious of just how hot and heavy those two were getting it on.)
“Ya know-nya, this is a lonnnnng time comin’,” Yoru said at last. “Ikuto has wanted to kiss Amu since the day they met.”
“EHHHHHHH?!” Amu’s three Character Guardians exclaimed, all rounding on Yoru.
“And you never told us?!”
“Imagine how much heartache we could have avoided!”
“Oh my! A kiss the day they met! How exciting!”
“Ha!” Yoru scoffed. “Like telling y’all would’ve gone over well-nya! Amu-chan,” he added thoughtfully, “Amu-chan is…. Ikuto’s treasure. The only girl for Ikuto. So he was willing to wait, no matter how long it took. It just so happened that YOUR Character Change,” he rounded on Ran, who babbled nervously, “sped things up and now Ikuto is gonna feel bad!”
“Ehhhhh?! B-b-b-but Miki told me to!”
“Yeah, cuz I expected a confession, not a make-out session!”
The three bickered and squabbled, while Su looked up towards the stairs leading to Amu’s room. Sure enough, another joined them, Dia, who had been resting in her egg during the earlier events, now looked far too pleased with herself to be anywhere near as embarrassed as the rest of them.
“What makes you look so happy, Dia?” Su asked, flying up to greet her.
Dia smiled serenely. “It’s more than just kisses going on upstairs. Amu-chan is opening her heart to Ikuto, and he, in turn, is doing the same. Her radiance is healing his heart.”
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안녕하세요, 여러분!
[Translation]: Hello, everyone!
Hah, this makes me shy lol. Please bare with me.
Anyways, welcome to the blog!
Recently, I’ve been overcome with this gut feeling that I should finally launch this blog. I’ve been writing for years now, but I’ve always been so shy with social media, expressing personal self, and showcasing writings. So, I never really had the courage to post.
But, as apart of my new years resolution, I will let it all go and express myself like how I wanted to within the last few years. I am excited, nervous, and slightly razzled by the fact that I’m really going through with this. But I am ready.
A little about what I intend to post:
This will primarily be a BTS blog. Though I love every member, the majority of my writings are y/n scenarios with Namjoon, Yoongi, or Jungkook. I have writings for everyone; however, i tend to feel more confident with my writings with the prior three boys.
I do write 18+ scenarios, so adults only!! My writings will also always be female x male, not because I am against pairings with other genders, but because that is what I am most used to writing and am more familiar with. Still, if you identify as any other, you are always welcome to read. I intend to keep this space as a strict respectful zone to all people.
Another disclaimer: I do not own BTS or anyone else I choose to incorporate in my writings. I write with them in interest as apart of a fictional story — as a face and personality that is unique to them (in real life and in a story) — but never to disrespect, alter, or manipulate to fit my or others standards. Their respect comes with the respect of anyone else.
Now for formatting, here is how I will organize my writings in post:
Title
[picture heading]
Summary: [2-4 sentences]
Theme/Tags: [EX: Highschool!AU, Non-Idol!AU, Yoongi x best friend’s sister!AU, etc.]
Rating/Disclaimer: [18+/A/Smut/S/Mature/M , Fluff/F, Angst, Romance, etc…]
Word Count: [x,xxx words]
Author’s Note: [me blabbling]
A little about me:
Hi!
You can call me Sae, if you’d like.
I am a double-major, third-year university student! I do take Korean there! It has been just about a year and a half since I started learning it, and I love it to the core. It is really such a beautiful language and culture, and I am so glad I went through with taking it. I could talk about it for hours!
As for BTS, I have been a fan since I was in 8th grade…so 2015-2016? My first ever bias was Taehyung…ofc lol. However, I have been a Yoongi bias since around 2017-ish. Bias wrecker? I bet you can’t guess…Namjoon and Jungkook. Unfortunately or fortunately (however you view it), BTS was the only group I was able to fully get into and know. I love and listen to other groups like TXT, EXO, ATEEZ, Red Velvet, TWICE, etc. But I never got fully into them to the extent I did BTS.
As for other fics or posts you might see around here, I am a hard-core weeb. So, you might see some anime character’s on here. However, with a recent off-the-bandwagon mishap since entering uni, it has been quite a while since I have even watched a show. I intend to get back into it. We will see where life takes me.
So, yeah! I hope you like what I end up posting! Feedback is always appreciated. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!
Again, I do not tolerate hate, disrespect, or anything malicious on my blog. If I suspect or if it is outwardly posted that someone intends on coming after me or anyone else on this blog, you will be reported, blocked, and otherwise removed from my page. Please remember human decency and practice being kind to others!!
Other than that, happy holidays and happy new year! 휴일 잘 즐기고 새해 복 많이 받으세요!
#newblog#fanfiction#btsfanfiction#btsfanfic#btsxreader#btsxy/n#bts x reader#bts x y/n#bts x female reader#bts fanfiction#jungkook x reader#jungkook x y/n#taehyung x reader#taehyung x y/n#jimin x reader#jimin x y/n#namjoon x reader#namjoon x y/n#hoseok x reader#hoseok x y/n#yoongi x reader#yoongi x y/n#seokjin x reader#seokjin x y/n#jungkook#taehyung#jimin#namjoon#hoseok#yoongi
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mudae is fucked up bro what the fuck has it done to me
random person rolling THE SPOT at 3 AM while I’m outside smoking
I’m gonna expose the whole system
If you don’t know how the game works, basically you can roll random characters that you can claim for yourself. You can roll 10 an hour, but can only claim once every 3 hours or so. I think that they purposefully drip feed you characters to get you addicted. There’s an algorithm. It tracks what characters are popular, and what characters it knows you like. It knows when you use the bot so it purposefully rolls characters it thinks you want based on your pattern and gives it to you like a fish goes for bait or something analogyesque
I’m checking my disablelist which lets you disable certain groups of characters with a low limit. You can optimally disable a perfect amount of characters to get the best odds at rolling a wish (A character that gets pinged if rolled and can “boost the chance” of it rolling (probably still an active detriment to you rolling because of course the algorithm doesn’t actually want you to get a like 250% bonus chance when you get max upgrades to actually be a pure random roll you’d get them all the time if they were TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN.))
I try to disable this random company’s roster but it doesn’t work because I forgor
disabling the most fucking random ass shit I could find with higher than average wg (Waifu Game (It’s cringe because this bot was made by weebs but whatever). Category where you only roll women from games. The alternatives being Husbando (fuck whoever came up with ‘husbando’) Game (hg), but also Waifu Animanga (wa) (Everything that’s not game) and husbando (seriously Fuck that guy) Animanga (ha). I was on wg because I basically completed my ha wishlist which left me with the most random characters. I was on ha for like a YEAR AND A HALF getting all the characters I wanted it took soooo long, and since ha is most of the characters I want anyway (with other people rolling wa so I can get those characters too) I basically mained that category and decided to go on break for new characters to get added (happens once in a blue moon because the mods are lazy as fuck and take like 6 weeks to sort through something that could be done in a Google Form. (jk idc about the time)) so I was about to go back to the years long struggle of completing ha
(The characters on there with the check mark are characters I was trying to get keys with. Keys are just extra rewards that give you bonus, sometimes helpful stuff if you roll a character you already own. Of course owning characters that would give high reward makes them NEVER roll so you get a bunch of shit rewards from the lowest worth card in your “harem” (more cringe).)
(The ones with nothing next to them are ones I haven’t got yet. Of course having them on here probably decreases their chance. Well no. It does help, but the point is, is that before the boost, the % chance is in the negatives. Putting it at a very low chance which sucks.)
(And the one with the X next to it is the reason I swapped to wg in the first place. I wanted to set up my perfect disablelist and wishlist to get Meow Skulls but... I lost to my literal arch nemesis who took my wish (THEY ROLLED THE SPOT)
Anyway
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Meow Skulls in question (from Fortnite)
WHAT THE FUCK THE GIF SPEEDS UP I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY BUT NO THE GIF GETS EXPONENTIALLY FASTER FOR SOME REASON WHY DOES IT DO THAT
I try to swap back to my other disablelist but I can’t remember the command
The DM I got
ok
Mudae commands aren’t done with ! you fucking IDIOT gotem qs2 my balls lol
I finally figure out how to save my currect wishlists and disablelists so I can come back to wg later
I try to clear my wishlists and disablelists to get a blank slate by loading an empty slot but that’s NOT HOW IT WORKS IDIOT
I finally manage to find the commands
I clear it all out
I’m checking my work. Finally doing what I was trying to do. But that’s where I fucked up also because why the fuck would I ever think to do this
I became self aware quickly
I remembered what I was actually trying to do
my rolls:
random thing no one cares about
random shit no one cares about
random shit no one cares about
random shit one cares about
Awesome Face (had to claim that lol epic)
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Eduardo. Nice key and I got some good kakera (the currency, commonly known as kak)
it actually kinda sucked (white ones usually give more but because the white one breaks down into multiple, you essentially get multiple kak per kak
The colors are as follows:
Purple: like 100 kak
Blue: like 150-200
Light Blue: 250-350
Yellow: 400-650
Orange: 700- 950
Red: 1050-1300
White: starts out as 3, sometimes 4 random kak crystals, upgrades to 5, sometimes 6 kak crystals (and beyond?).
Just estimates, idk the exact number
The worst roll I could get from the white is 5 purples, but blue are most common, and are 2nd worst. So basically I got 4 2nd worsts and one 3rd worst
There’s also RAINBOW kak which gives like 3.5k per grab but it’s super rare.
I’ve actually gotten it most out of everyone in my server, being FIVE
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Random shit no one cares about
Cool, another key
Random shit no one cares about
And fucking Earle Schmerle
Wait hold on let me explain
Everytime you claim a character, a message gets sent
You can customize this message.
By default it’s like “username has married charname”
But everyone moved it away from being romantic in that way, so I thought “Wouldn’t it be funny if I did the exact opposite?” and that has been my claim message to this day, which has led to some interesting screenshots
So yeah I rolled shit all
Thank Mudae algorithm
so yeah Mudae is a gambling addiction and I genuinely think it drains my mental health i hope you enjoy my journey
#mudae#the spot#spiderverse#conspiracy#the spot is sexy#wtf who tagged that you're weird#fortnite#meow skulls#i want to have sex with the spot from spiderman into the spiderverse#homestuck 2
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Edel's reaction to her allies's quirks is...
Pretty mild, when it comes to dealing with Bernadetta, but iirc when Linhardt opens their support chain with "I have a new theory about crests and relics that contradict the CoS's version" she quicky shuts him, calling his theories "meaningless blabber".
Maybe he could have discovered the real "secret" behind relics and revealed the plot!
Oh well,
The Emperor Class is so... well, when you compare it to Dimitri and Claude who can solo armies, Edel is supposed to have a lot of def and res? But it doesn't really work.
I've heard a lot of people reclass her to wyvern classes, because her canonical classes suck so much lol. Just you wait until you see the exclusive class skill, iirc, it's something that gives you res+4 when you wait.
Given what happens in the next chapter, sending the brunt of the army towards the capital while the BESF targets Cornelia is a good "decoy" tactic - but I'm pretty sure the Imperial Army sent to the capital was destroyed (since they are fighting both Rhea AND Dimitri!).
Too bad for them, I guess.
Lysithea in this route is... well, you could have expected another reaction learning that the Empire was in cahoots with the people who ruined her life and turned her siblings in, hm, whatever they were turned into before dying, but no. She's happy to be trusted by Edel, and she's going to fight Cornelia. Please ignore how she might have conflicted feelings for fighting with the Empire that used Cornelia'n'pals tech and bioweapons, or have conflicted feelings for fighting for the Empire (they are the ones who sent the "dark mages" to Ordelia, lore wise, after the Hyrm story!). That kool aid must be something really really strong!
Felix's descent to, well, "boarness" is dramatic in CF lol, it feels like he joins the Empire on an emo whim (fuck Dimitri, fuck Dad, fuck Faerghus) and now he tries way too hard not to regret it...
Granted, even if Felix's negative character development is really interesting in CF, Ingrid being here explains more or less why in 3 Nopes, the devs said "stop" and made every BL unrecruitable (save for Ashe and Mercedes), because quite frankly, it doesn't make any sense for those characters (Ingrid, Sylvain, Felix, Annette, etc etc) to ditch the Kingdom when it's being invaded. CF tries to wash it with "Byleth sensei uwu" but it doesn't cut it.
Ah, the unfamous portrait scene! CF in a nutshell, being tone deaf about what your allies and your protagonists are doing, vs the "enemy side", preparing to be invaded and fighting for their lives.
The tone deafness is even more jarring when you realise people you were supposed to be attached too died (Randolph and Ladislava?) last month, but now we're back on drawing and blushing around the avatar. For comparison, if you killed Seteth'n'Flayn, Rhea loses it (even if, as the weeb i am, I still find Inoue's performance more interesting, she's angry, she sounds broken and somehow crying?). So while Rhea is spiralling in her worst nightmare, during the exploration scene (after revealing the plan to strike down the Agarthans!), Edel draws your portrait.
Oh well, it's still not on par with Raphael's "I wonder what's for dinner" during GW's last map when he engages the final boss (I am barely exaggerating), but we're close.
The Insurrection of the Southern Church is more detailed in a book in Nopes, but basically, House Varley back then had two kids, one kid was supposed to inherit the House and the other the Ministry of Religion, Southern Church supported one over the other, one of the kids lost and the Southern Church was kicked out.
Caspar's supports with Shamir and Petra could have been much more interesting, but we're definitely not talking about death tolls in possible supports that can be unlocked in CF lol. For a good Caspar support, if you have the occasion on other PT, I'd suggest to get the one he has with Catherine (that is unavailable on CF!)
Funny to see some people apparently being resentful that Arianrhod became part of the Kingdom when it was built with Adrestia's "tech and money", especially in the route where you are set on demolishing Nabateans and the CoS, who helped create Adrestia (and gave crests to your characters!). I swear it started off as a joke, but the Adrestian Double Standard (TM) is real ^^
Indeed, Cornelia has no lines against Edel, but her end quote is directed to her, even if the lolcalisation lolcalised :
She sorts of praise Edel for having turned against them and made a plot she couldn't anticipate. I guess she's a fair player, and gives praise where it's due? Kuddos to her?
The Agarthans nuking Arianrhod is supposed to be a warning shot - but as I've said on a previous post, CF's plot armor is thicker than an atomic bunker so...
Let's say the Agarthans don't nuke the BESF at the end of the route, or don't even nuke Enbarr at the end CF, when their goal is achieved, and without the excuse of the plot armor, I really can't see why this never happened.
Oh well. Just CF things!
For the next chapter, you have two alternate endings, depending if you kill someone within a certain turncount or not. And Rhea cosplays!
Staring the Kingdom half of CF!
The standout point is obviously the interplay regarding Arianrhod. Taking it is part of a strategy to attack Fhirdiad in a pincer maneuver, but a side goal is killing Cornelia, who Edelgard and Hubert know is an Agarthan. The whole thing is cloaked in plausible deniability and doubletalk, but Arundel pretty much immediately retaliates by dropping javelins of light onto Arianrhod as a warning. Of course, Edie then proceeds to lie and claim the church did it. Woof.
As a side note, there was a lot of supports this chapter because I went to the monastery a few times and ate a bunch of meals. I don't care too much for the Black Eagles, so I didn't have too many impressions (though some pairings seem to work better than others imo), but one interesting thing is that Edelgard is... hm, more patient that I would necessarily give her credit for?
I know people say they admire her drive and determination, but given her nonsense and unfounded goals, I never really saw those as positives. However, I have to say her self-control is quite impressive. She really can keep a straight face through anything (only giving actual emotional reactions to Byleth once she's very comfortable with them) - compare to Claude quite easily losing his cool and getting defensive if something hits too close to home. But she also keeps a very even keel when dealing with the Black Eagles' "quirks." In particular, she's quite calm in regard to Bernadetta's nonsense in a way that is quite humanizing.
It's not anything deep, but I did find it interesting.
Live blogging:
Hum... the way they go "we're marching to Fhirdiad!... except we're not! we're going to Arianrhod!" really feels like they realized they needed to squeeze in at least one more chapter to pad out the route. Edelgard's promotion to Emperor class also feels very random.
In-universe, we're sending most of the army toward the capital, while our little group goes to assault a famous fortress. Somehow. How are we even reaching it...
Hubert and Edie know about Cornelia having a "weapon" (Titanus, as we see later).
Lysithea is touched at being trusted with this secret plan (as part of the strike force) and says she's now fully into Edie's cool aid. Petra likes surprise tactics. Leonie... does not. She slips up and calls it cowardly lol.
Felix insists he's totally cool with betraying his homeland and his family, he'll kill his king, his father and the goddess, you just watch... but his sword feels heavy u.u
Ingrid says she's... not cool with being a traitor everyone who ever loved her, but you see, she must because uh Byleth said so and she trust Byleth (and their C rank in lances or whatever it was).
Sylvain is thinking about Dimitri and wants to train. He's mentioned before that he's afraid he'll get killed in battle, as well as the rest of us.
Dimitri is called the Tempest King because there's nothing left in his wake, like after a storm.
Edelgard has locked herself in her room. She also painted a portrait of Byleth. Sure, ok.
120 years ago, the Southern Church in the empire "had a massive insurrection" and the bishop who participated was exiled by the emperor. Boy, the Empire sure has a lot of insurrections, huh?
Bernie has decided she wants to travel and draw pictures of (cute carnivorous) plants she sees.
Caspar's supports with Petra and Shamir both bring up his feelings of guilt about his father's and the empire's war and the human toll of that. It's... kind of something that both of them seem to mostly sidestep the issue in the end.
I think the quest to get the dark merchant to appear on this route only gives you... Brigid and bandit battalions, so the Morfis battalion being linked to it on SS was just a coincidence, I guess.
Arianrhod is a fortress city that was built about 400 years ago. It was built by the Empire (using their "money and technology") against the Kingdom, I guess during their independence war. However, the head of House Rowe betrayed the empire and sided with the kingdom, making it change hands right before its completion. It has not fallen since. It's called the Silver Maiden due to its beautiful white walls.
Cornelia brought some Titanus with her, along with dark mages and... Gwendal. She tells the Titanus(es?) to go ahead and kill Kingdom troops too.
Doesn't seem to be any special dialogue for Cornelia vs Edelgard.
Immediately after we beat up Cornelia, Arundel comes over lol. Lots of double talk between him and Edelgard but the main point is that, per the paralogue, Edelgard is beginning to act more impudently toward the Agarthans, since she is gaining more and more power and getting closer to her goal (after which, they're next on the chopping block). This includes intentionally targeting Cornelia while still maintaining deniability about how she totes didn't know Cornelia was an Agarthan mole.
btw, the fact that I know we do not have a section for fighting the Agarthans on this route is high-key ridiculous, given the buildup.
The Agarthans nuke Arianrhod as a warning, though that's uh... quite pointless, honestly. Based on Hubert's panicked reaction and Edelgard's obvious surprise, they did not know this was a thing.
However, they had previously investigated Aillel and thought it was the goddess's doing. They know better now... but that won't stop them from blaming it on the church anyway!
The scene of Edelgard calmly lying to the crew is amazing as a contrast. I haven't seen whatever equivalent there is on AM, but iirc VW had a pretty direct parallel where Claude explains stuff to the team. It had the usual Church Bad issues, but that's at least his honest perspective and not... flat lying. This route is really just lies all the way down.
#kyogre-blue#remember how she's apparently fighting against the church because they distort history? But she is doing the same right now?#if that route took itself seriously it could have been the best route of the game#like imagine a real bad ending#idk if you played Baten Kaitos#but at the midpoint of the game you have a 'twist' where it feels like the player lost#I loved it!#Rhea's descent to madness is painful to watch but moreover hear bcs#Inoue really plays the 'your actions broke her' angle#sure she's angry#but she's also desperate and upset and grieves#i remember during my only run of CF Edel in her canon class was a deadweight#maybe a i was rng screwed but Ferdie was a better tank and he had mobility#FE16
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TAG GAME: FANDOM EDITION
thanks @michellemisfit for tagging me to play!! and thanks @celestialmickey for making these tag games :>
your name: Deanna
your age: 39 🦂
your first fandom(s): the x-files was the first and oldest fandom i dabbled in by signing up for some fanfic listservs. but the first online fandom i was really deep into was Newsies (the 1992 movie)
your current fandom(s): Shameless and Dragon Age
how did you first get into fandom? i honestly cant even remember...we all had geocities websites attached by webrings and chatrooms on AIM. there may have been a forum somewhere?
how long have you been engaging with fandom spaces? 25 years I GUESS?? After newsies i went through my weeb era, i dunno if we can call anime fans of the early 2000s a fandom? And then my focus was on WOW for several years. And i was always vaguely apart of the mass effect and dragon age fandoms but when DA:I came out it totally rewired my brain.
how often do you read fanfics? not often anymore. i just dont have time to read usually. thats why i consume so much tv. i need things playing while i work and do chores.
top 3 characters from your current fandom(s): Shameless I would say Ian, Mickey, and Debbie. Dragon Age? Gosh thats rough theres so many characters...ok if we exclude the protags I would say Solas, Felassan, and Varric.
have you ever written a fic for a fandom? if so, shout it out! oh sure, i have some da:i fics on ao3 but whether or not you fuckers can find em is none of my business.
have you ever drawn fanart for a fandom? if so, drop a link! haha yup, everything is under the tag #my art
share a personal headcanon that you feel very strongly about: Solas and Pira fucked. And Mandy starts hanging out with Ian and Mickey on a regular basis after they get their own place and Terry is gone 🥰
you’re trying to convince a friend to get into your current fandom(s) with you. what episode, clip, or scene are you showing them? i have gotten THREE people into shameless so far and I did so by showing them music video edits and out of context hilarious scenes. (carl beating the shit out of the guy trying to rob captain bobs, ian chasing mickey with the dildo, mickey "killing" sammi are some of the clips i used on my husband lol) 😈
and finally, what does fandom mean to you? nerding out with people who love the same media that i love! spiraling out over metas and fics and fanart and cosplays and gifs. putting on our clown make-up every time theres a games event where new info might be announced lmao. and making friends who i get to love and keep in my pocket forever 💖
@maizzycakes @canticle-of-apotheosis @salesmain 🙃
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